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Speaker 1: he's not willing to make certain type of records right?

430
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Speaker 1: You know, so for me certain type of records, certain

431
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:50,120
Speaker 1: type of records that they feel that can crossover, that

432
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,760
Speaker 1: can you know, like I said, hit the club and

433
00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:56,520
Speaker 1: you know, everything goes crazy because it was a it

434
00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,000
Speaker 1: was in a certain way that things were done in

435
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,760
Speaker 1: order for you to be success for during that time frame.

436
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 1: And uh, I felt that there was a different path.

437
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 1: But because that path was untested, Um, you know, they

438
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:11,879
Speaker 1: won't I hear that, and I was new, so they

439
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,600
Speaker 1: was like, what are you talking about? So yeah, yeah, yeah,

440
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 1: we have to pay some bills. You know what we

441
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,160
Speaker 1: do when we paid the bills? Pass forward, fast forward.

442
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,159
Speaker 1: These commercials are long, but paid, those bills will be

443
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:25,879
Speaker 1: right back. Every champion and carry champion is to be

444
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 1: a champion, a champion and carry champion and carry chapion

445
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:33,080
Speaker 1: A champion and carry chappion and carry champion sports. And

446
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:44,200
Speaker 1: then the team making naked every champion and carry Champion

447
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,879
Speaker 1: is to be a champion. A champion, they carry champion

448
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:51,679
Speaker 1: and they champion. They carry champion and carry Champion sports.

449
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:54,439
Speaker 1: And then the team making Naked Warm welcome back. I

450
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 1: appreciate your patience and more importantly, your loyalty. Kevin Ross

451
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Speaker 1: continues on this up Naked What is your your the

452
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 1: difference between what is a club record and what your

453
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 1: sound is. How would you describe your sound and what

454
00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 1: people get when they listened to him? My sound is

455
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:16,400
Speaker 1: made for the theater. Um. I'm very clear in that

456
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 1: aspect in the sentence that um, my first tour was

457
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,560
Speaker 1: with Maxwell. I opened up for Maxwell. I was the

458
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 1: first artist that I ever opened up for ever in life.

459
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 1: So that was a preview of God showing me this

460
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,239
Speaker 1: is where, this is where I want you. And I

461
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:38,880
Speaker 1: kept asking myself because I'm a twenty five year old,

462
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,040
Speaker 1: you know, a young man at the time, and I'm like,

463
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:44,160
Speaker 1: what am I doing here? Like? Why am I open

464
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 1: up for Maxwell? Like mak It makes sense, you know,

465
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 1: And what God was trying to sell me is that

466
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:55,200
Speaker 1: eventually there will be a void and that I'm placing

467
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Speaker 1: I'm setting you in this place so that you can

468
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Speaker 1: prepare to to feel of all, to fulfill a need.

469
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 1: And so my music, um, it allows for people. I

470
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 1: make music for lovers. I make music for people who

471
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:09,959
Speaker 1: want to be loved, to feel love. And so at

472
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,119
Speaker 1: the end of the day, sometimes that doesn't allow for

473
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 1: you to be in a standing wrong or at eight.

474
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,680
Speaker 1: You know, that's the one in the desert, and there's

475
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:22,600
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with that. But for me, I desire for

476
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:25,919
Speaker 1: thousands of people to sit in a theater and to

477
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 1: enjoy a concert where they can feel good. I either Maxwell's,

478
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:32,560
Speaker 1: the Cams, the Luthers, the Whitneys, the you know, the

479
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:36,679
Speaker 1: list goes on and on. Yeah, so I mean you know,

480
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:42,160
Speaker 1: to to me, I think, I'm afraid that where music

481
00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: is going and how it's being consumed and where people

482
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:49,199
Speaker 1: are performing, that theater will become a lost art or

483
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 1: will become a loss of venue, and that I don't

484
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:56,639
Speaker 1: want to miss out on that said, she's right. I

485
00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 1: heard what she said to you. She's right, like you

486
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 1: your story. What we prefer on Naked is to tell

487
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 1: stories of people who who do the impossible, who who

488
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,920
Speaker 1: make the impossible feel like it's possible. Um, you're still

489
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 1: I knew and the fact that you didn't tell anybody

490
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 1: that you graduated from Berkeley, and my mind, I'm like,

491
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,720
Speaker 1: why not because that's your wife pop my collar, like

492
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 1: I'm you know, You're like, no, I'm good. I don't

493
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 1: need to even tell me. I'm I'm ready to pimp

494
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,920
Speaker 1: and tell everybody you know, So like I was saying,

495
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 1: and you're like, no, I don't. Like You're like you

496
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 1: don't need to know that. That to me is impressive

497
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: because we live in a world, in this social media world,

498
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 1: we have to brag about all the things we're doing.

499
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 1: And you're like, I'm outset, I'm gonna do it that.

500
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just put my head down and do it.

501
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 1: That means speaks volumes. So you're in this space opening

502
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: from Maxwell about people. That's Maxwell five years old. People

503
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 1: what God is telling you to do, and your music

504
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:02,560
Speaker 1: is different. So now, h my my question is, as

505
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:07,159
Speaker 1: you're saying, I'm working as hard as I'm working, was

506
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: there ever a point or has there been a point

507
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:11,920
Speaker 1: even when you got your start, where you thought I

508
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 1: didn't want to do this anymore, like not popping quick enough,

509
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 1: like I'm not getting my gest to I'm better than

510
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,400
Speaker 1: x O x O and X so the comparison thing,

511
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 1: and you're like, I'm on set. I don't want to

512
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 1: do this anymore. Have you ever thought that? No, I

513
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 1: think everybody around me probably thought it. Had family members

514
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: have conversation with me, and I had mentors have conversations

515
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 1: with me, and I've always told them my destiny is inevitable.

516
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 1: And so at the end of the day, I walk

517
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 1: in that um, you know, I'm here. I breathe because

518
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 1: of the fact that God wants me here, um, and

519
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,239
Speaker 1: there is a task and there's a mission for me

520
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: to fulfill. So just to recap, because I know we're

521
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 1: you know, very short for a time. But I had

522
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 1: back to minute gitis when I was ten years old,

523
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,719
Speaker 1: and so there was nothing that I could do in

524
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 1: order to help myself or to change my circumstances. So

525
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 1: at a certain point I was left defenseless or helpless

526
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 1: for that matter. I don't know, bacterial meningivas scary is

527
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 1: all get out. Yeah, yeah, So there was there was nothing.

528
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: There was nothing that I could do, and so you know,

529
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 1: I went into kind of it's like coma, and when

530
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 1: I woke up, there was doctors all around me and

531
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 1: did oh your a miracle child, you know. But I

532
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: knew that that was God and I knew that, you know,

533
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 1: before I even locked into my purpose, that He was

534
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: keeping me around for something and I order that I got.

535
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 1: I was like, there's no other reason that I have

536
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 1: been protected and covered and saved before a mission that

537
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:52,959
Speaker 1: he wants for me to fulfill that. I don't know

538
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 1: if music is the mission in totality, but it is

539
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 1: a vehicle order for me to reach it. Okay, wait,

540
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 1: but I just to repeating I don't know if music

541
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: is my mission in totality, but it's a vehicle for

542
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 1: me to reach it. I just was repeating what you

543
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 1: just said. Yeah, like just to what you just said, Yeah,

544
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: that's powerful. You don't know if it's the mission is totality,

545
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: but it's a vehicle for you to reach the mission

546
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 1: whenever your purpose is. Oh my god, I'm going to

547
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 1: take that and use that. You might you have to

548
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 1: quote you, I don't know, I don't mind. I think

549
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 1: I want to quote you, though I want to act

550
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 1: like I came up with that myself, but certain that

551
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 1: should I'm gonna put in some of my said profession

552
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 1: into what you just said me Okay, so wait, so

553
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: that folks know, tell tell me two things we're gonna

554
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 1: get into your album. But tell me about some of

555
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 1: the people that you've worked with over the years in

556
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 1: terms of being a songwriter for them. Yeah, I've been

557
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:56,240
Speaker 1: able to work with Tony Braxton, saying as w V,

558
00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 1: Dave Hollister trade songs, NICKI Minaj, Little One and Tid

559
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 1: Dollas size. Uh. I'm missing people, Johnny Gael, I'm missing people.

560
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Okay, I'm just gonna stop because I'm mad.

561
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 1: I'm I know I'm missing quite a few people and

562
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: I'm sorry and I'm sorry. Oh yeah. But also good news,

563
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 1: I have more stuff coming out. I have two records

564
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 1: on the Creed three soundtrack and they will be in

565
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: the movie. So shout out to Michael B. Jordan's shout

566
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: out to Cree three. Make sure that you you know,

567
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 1: watch it and hopefully do guys. And now you have

568
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 1: a seguel right now you what is it your single

569
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 1: right now? Is it? Is it look my Way? And

570
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 1: there was like they gave us the genesis of it

571
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: and it was about the infatuation. Tell me about this

572
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 1: latest single that you have out right now? Yes, um,

573
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: look my way. It's it's really a based on a

574
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 1: story about you have a friend that you made, you know, know,

575
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: and and you start to look at them a little

576
00:31:56,360 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 1: different and you want to explore an option, but you

577
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 1: don't know if that other person feels the same way

578
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 1: that you do. And so the song is just saying, look,

579
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 1: I gotta make you look my way. It's you know,

580
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a you know, it's a simple pleading,

581
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 1: but sometimes it could be very complicated in those situations.

582
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to put us all onto it.

583
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: First of all, I don't know nobody in my life

584
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 1: that like me didn't say nothing. Because if you're in

585
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: my life and I like you, you go here about it,

586
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be like, you're not gonna be sitting in

587
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 1: my life hanging out, will be taking up space when

588
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: I could be getting my mister, right, I'm gonna be like,

589
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 1: so what we doing? I love? Is this based on

590
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 1: a really experience or is it just what you're saying

591
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: that you know of? Oh y is very real, very real?

592
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. Wait a second, who on whose face?

593
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: Like you have someone in your life and you're like,

594
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: look my way, I'm interested or is it vice versa? No,

595
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 1: it was it was me. I got her, for sure,

596
00:32:50,520 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 1: But I got her. What happened, I achieve the mr.

597
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. But yeah, I just wanted

598
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: to you know, It's just it was a very unique

599
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 1: situation because I never thought that I would be in

600
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 1: something like that, that that I would be sitting in

601
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 1: a space where where it's like wow, like I'm I

602
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 1: really enjoyed this person's company as a friend, but um,

603
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 1: you know, these feelings are starting to change, and I

604
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: have to address this because you know, as friends, you know,

605
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: you get real transparent. You really start to tell all

606
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 1: of your business because you see you see no you know,

607
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 1: any type of like collusion or any type of like

608
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 1: anything going on. So then when something starts to occur

609
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: and feelings start to happen, like kind told this person

610
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 1: too much? Would they even be interested? Would they even

611
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 1: see me in that light in the way that I

612
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 1: see them? So I put us on to it, and

613
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: then a mission accomplished. Mission. Every champion, Andy care. Every

614
00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: champion is to be a champion, a champion, and they

615
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 1: care be chappion and carry chappion the chappion and carry

616
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 1: chappion and carry chappiraids the sports. And then the tamming

617
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 1: can make you work every chappion and carry chappions to

618
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: be a champion, the champion. They carry chappion, the Chappi

619
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Speaker 1: and they carry Chappi and they carry chappi fid sports.

620
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: And then the taming can make you work. I love you?

621
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Speaker 1: Can you give me a course? This is a quick

622
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 1: little course. Look like what's like the hook? Like? We

623
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:36,879
Speaker 1: are there? Yes, let's see you? Uh so I got

624
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:42,799
Speaker 1: on like your look my way, goose baby, it's a

625
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 1: lout in loving this, sus if it ought to cute,

626
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: gotta make your when then you see everything your hose ranks,

627
00:34:55,719 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: you wouldn't be everything you wants. Rank you with me? No? No,

628
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 1: I love it? So can I get in your business?

629
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Speaker 1: Is there happily ever after? Like? Are we just like

630
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 1: or we just had our moment and then we moved on? No? No, no,

631
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 1: that it's it's it's definitely you know, happily ever after?

632
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: Ish you know what I mean? Okay, okay, y'all look

633
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:26,319
Speaker 1: my way going ahead and listen, go ahead, download get

634
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 1: the song, because say that if you play this for someone,

635
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: you'll get the love of your life that you've been

636
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: pining for for so long. That's that's what before we go,

637
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: and since this black his stream off, I do want

638
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,719
Speaker 1: to say this and this especially this just happened and

639
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:44,799
Speaker 1: I'm super hype about it now. Currently, right now, I

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Speaker 1: am an independent R and B artist. My company is

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Speaker 1: called Our Society Music Group. I currently have two top

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Speaker 1: thirty records at R and B Radio. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: What I didn't realize until yesterday is that there has

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Speaker 1: been no independent R B artists took done this. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm the cross. You are black history. You are black history.

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Speaker 1: Like it doesn't have to be eighteen o nine, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't have to be back in the day. It is

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Speaker 1: currently happening in How does that feel to you? And

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Speaker 1: you didn't realize it because normally you I know how

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Speaker 1: that is. You're just so busy work and you're like

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Speaker 1: way to accomplish something. Well, how does that feel to

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Speaker 1: you to be black history? Um? It feels amazing. I'm

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Speaker 1: humbled by it. And the wind is bigger than me. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's for the genre and this entirety. Um. The conversation

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Speaker 1: right now R and V is that R and B

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Speaker 1: is dying or that is currently dead, and I want

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Speaker 1: to show something different. I want to show that RB

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Speaker 1: can be lucrative. R and B can be a business

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Speaker 1: not just for the majors, but in the independent platform,

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Speaker 1: and that I am very passionate about creating a blueprint

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Speaker 1: to show other R and B artists that it is

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Speaker 1: possible to thrive in the space and um to do

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Speaker 1: things that haven't been done before. And so I'm going

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Speaker 1: to continue to try to push the boundaries even when

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Speaker 1: I don't know it. What would be who would be

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Speaker 1: an ideal artist for you to work or that you

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Speaker 1: haven't worked for it yet? Oh, Stevie, Stevie wanted her

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Speaker 1: hands down. Yeah, what would you call your sound of music?

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Speaker 1: That Kevin Ross sound is? What if we had to

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Speaker 1: do a comparison? Ah, man, my sound m hm m hmm, okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: unassumingly infectious, that is my sound. You're such a lover

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Speaker 1: love a lover her I today and you mentioned Luther today.

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Speaker 1: I saw me and I said, no one has the

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Speaker 1: last name of Van Darrow said everywhere like gay you

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Speaker 1: know anybody flave with bedrooms? I didn't think that was

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Speaker 1: his last name. There are no more Vandross in the

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Speaker 1: world and if you get that last name, you must

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Speaker 1: be assigned a special thing. So Kevin Ross Vanderrault the

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Speaker 1: whole as name, aren't you right now? Ross van Dross?

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Speaker 1: That's it? Um. I'm so excited about your your journey

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Speaker 1: and I appreciate your your vision to stay focused because

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Speaker 1: like music listen may not need the totality, but it's

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Speaker 1: a vehicle to get you there. Whoa powerful powerful I

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Speaker 1: would love to have you on my TV show in

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Speaker 1: a different capacity. So we need to have you when

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Speaker 1: you're when you next time you're in l A. You

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Speaker 1: come often. Were you just here for the Grammys? Yes? Um,

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Speaker 1: but I will be back next month, next month. Yes,

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Speaker 1: let's make this happen because I need you in studio

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Speaker 1: singing and talking about all that get talk. You got

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Speaker 1: the girl? He was like, yeah, you mine, you like

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Speaker 1: and you're like, fellas, play this song, she's yours. That's it,

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Speaker 1: that's it, or whomever wants to be with whoever play

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Speaker 1: this song and it's yours. It's yours. M Kevin Ross.

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Speaker 1: I wish you the best. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: talking to me on Naked. I'm a fan. I'm a

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Speaker 1: fan I'm a fan. I'm a fan. How can people

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Speaker 1: follow you a social Make sure that you follow me

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Speaker 1: at Kevin Ross and Music that's on all music platforms

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Speaker 1: or Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, you name it, I'm on it.

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Speaker 1: You got it. We're gonna promote you. So there's no tomorrow. UM,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much. I'm so proud of you. I

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Speaker 1: don't even know you in that way, but I'm so

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Speaker 1: proud of you. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank hey. Everybody.

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Speaker 1: We have about four episodes left in this this second

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Speaker 1: season of Naked. Uh, good news, good news. We have

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Speaker 1: a third season of Naked coming. I again needs you

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Speaker 1: all to support Forward, Send to your friends, send to

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Speaker 1: your family members. Um, we're telling you important stories. We're

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Speaker 1: telling stories that you won't hear anywhere else. But more importantly,

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Speaker 1: we're telling the stories that you need so that you

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Speaker 1: know your dreams are real, invalid. I believe that. I

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Speaker 1: believe that wholeheartedly. I believe in a Kevin Ross who

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Speaker 1: knew that he had a bug for for music when

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Speaker 1: he was a kid, and he knew what his mission

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Speaker 1: would be in terms of delivering the type of music

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Speaker 1: that he should deliver. Very few people get in this business. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and notice stay true to what they have been called

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Speaker 1: to do. It is infatuation, it is um sometimes intimidation.

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Speaker 1: It is it is a collective, a collective group of

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Speaker 1: people or forces sometimes working against you that tells you

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Speaker 1: that you are not to do what you have been

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Speaker 1: called to do. But his story is one of resilience

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Speaker 1: and keeping the main thing, the main thing, and I'm

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Speaker 1: grateful that he was able to share it again. Support

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Speaker 1: Kevin Ross. Uh. You can listen to his music Kevin

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Speaker 1: Ross Music. You can also find him wherever you download

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Speaker 1: your music, Spotify, Apple, all the places where you get music. Uh.

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Speaker 1: It definitely each ag out that single. He's a special

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Speaker 1: young man and we need to support. Speaking of support,

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Speaker 1: thank you for listening. Catch us next week on Naked

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