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DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 2_ EPISODE _23_ HOST PATRICE GRIMBALL (1) · DA CREW Podcast

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  A syste All things ain't what they used to be? Where did all the
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  Blue Sky's? Book Boy as a story of the blues from the North to
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  something wells All things and what they used to be not At Wings of Transformation
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  Hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome to the Crew Podcast. I am
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  the Visionary Queen Angela and welcome to season two. I want to thank you
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  for tuning in and for all of your support throughout season one. We're back
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  off the interviews and life. Come on and enjoin us. We're ready.
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  Are you in the club? They're getting would from me and all the
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  pretty chick shall want to smile? Let me speak. Hey everyone, it's
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  another Saturday night and you are with your girl s see book gal A four
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  to three Patrece Grimble and it's another night, but I got a returning gifts
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  and y'all, all I'm gonna say is the first thing I need you to
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  do is look at the cover art on this book. I can't stop talking
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  about it. It is beautiful, a book of poetry and the key of
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  life. And I have my friends. I'm gonna let them come up and
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  introduce theirself again, because you know they they veterans, they've been here before.
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  So missus Jackson and Missus Wallace, come on up, ladies, and
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  we looking for we got one more person that she goes, hey, how
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  are you? I am excited. Well, y'all can tell us a little
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  bit about yourself, but we've got to get to this cover. I just
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  can't stop talking about the cover. So the cover, the words in the
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  book, it's as awesome as the cover. I'm gonna need y'all to go
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  ahead and get y'all little you know signatures on check and get your little New
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  York best seller sticker together. Okay, tell us a little bit about yourself.
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  I'm Cheryl Jackson and I'm one half of our writing duo. I'm the
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  older sister and that little one right there in the corner is my little sister,
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  and her name is Lawrence Wallace. Y'all, we are sisters rock and
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  ryde. Y'all noticed how she said I'm the big sister like you better not
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  forget it, So tell us rock and ryme. Now, before we talked
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  before last time, I didn't know about the rocking and ryme. Tell us
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  a little bit about that. Well, we've always had that brand. It's
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  always been synonymous with all of our books, but I just kind of just
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  started bringing it out more in the forefront because a lot of people knew about
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  Sisters Rock and Rhyme and we kind of just kind of just kind of stayed
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  in the background. But I really liked the name, and I just said,
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  okay, I wanted to kind of tie all of the books together with
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  this third book that we just released. And that's why you see the name
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  now. But we've always written all of our books. We have three,
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  they've all been under that same umbrella. Yeah, And it's sort of because
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  we had a website and that was the name of the website was Sisters Rock
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  and Ryme, And we weren't sure that if people knew that we were Sisters
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  Rock and Ryme, because you know, they know us to Cheryl Jackson and
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  you know Lawris Wallace and they know that we're sisters. They didn't know that
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  was our name. Did not know at all. When I heard it,
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  I was like, I love that title. That is also it is cute,
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  it's it sticks out there. I was like, oh, I can
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  ride so rock in rhyme. That is somebody rock in Somebody rhyme, or
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  if that's that's both of us, that that that means that you know how
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  you remember black Girls Rock? Yes, Okay, well that's what we said.
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  We we rock. We rock at rhymn. So sisters rock and ryme
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  right right. That's so slick because it's like the party is like John,
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  you should have knew that part is like so creative, and that's supposed to
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  be coming back this year. What what? What is black girls? Black
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  Girl? Really? It should it should have never went away. It should
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  have never went away. I really want to know why I went away.
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  I might have to do my research on that one. But this book is
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  beautiful, y'all. I have been raving about the art in this book and
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  I'm looking at it now and it is gorgeous. Thank you. I wish
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  that had it. I should have had it up, and I should have
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  had it so I can just post it up for you guys. There it
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  is there. It is oh even prettier in person. That can be a
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  coloring book, Yo, I'm so dead serious. I can see that being
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  the coloring book I just gave y'all whole marketing plan. I really think y'all
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  should do it. Do colored book because I love coloring books. It's one
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  of the things I use now to keep me seen. So I do coloring
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  sometimes. But I can't sleep at night. I'll get up three'clock in the
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  morning. Color. Yeah, And I think a lot of people tries feel
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  like you do because we've released books, like I said, we've you know,
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  it took us a little while to put this one out, but thankfully
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  this is the first book that we have writing together that actually went number one
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  on Amazon. So we were really really excited about that. Relations Congratulations,
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  it observes it, so you got I'm a miss. I have not read
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  the book yet, so this right here is reve new for me also,
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  and y'all to see me this excited about a book that should tell you something.
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  Okay, so tell us a little bit about the book. Okay,
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  the book is okay. Well, first I gotta go back. Okay.
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  Uh. The first book we did was in dedication to our momb and she
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  listened to spiritual spirituals all the time, so we dedicated that book her.
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  We used like the chapters were named after the spiritual music that we grew up
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  listening to. Our second book was dedicated to our dad and he was a
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  blues man, so a lot of the chapters are blue songs. This book.
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  Because a lot of people kept saying what we want to know more about
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  you, guys. We want to know more about you guys. So this
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  book was about our era. We grew up in the eighties and the nineties.
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  So when they flipped through the book, the chapters will be named after
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  the songs that we grew up listening to. Absolutely, yeah, absolutely,
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  So we did a tribute to you know, Michael Jackson, Prince and you
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  know, the Gap Band and people that we grew up with, Wham during
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  a weake me up before Your Go Go in the book, I used to
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  listen that morning that that was the song sometimes morning that is so. But
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  now the poet the poems in the book, Patrisa, they're not you know,
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  in the eighties, is their current events? Where people can you know
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  we're write in real time? Yes, right, So there's a lot of
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  issues of what we're going through today. It's just highlighted and you know the
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  songs of the eighties and the nineties. I want you to see this so
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  you will know that we're not making any of this up. I don't know.
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  Can you see it? No, we can't see it. You got
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  it too low, I got it too low. Yeah, you got to
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  bring it over this way Okay, that said the Black Condition. Oh my
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  god, right, waiting before you go go that's the that's the chapter and
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  oh my goodness, I really gotta get the book. So that's created.
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  Yeah, are songs in the past, but we are about all right now,
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  right right, So we're all we're all about bridging different We tell our
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  story through music because music is just such a part of us and it's such
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  a part of everything we have been up to this point, even with our
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  mother, with the Negro spirituals that we did with the first book, and
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  then the blue songs that were in the second book. So we said,
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  for the third book, we had to tell our stories with the music that
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  we grew up listening to. And that's what we did. Okay, okay,
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  So what was the Sheryl one of your favorite champters. Oh, I'm
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  such a fan of my sister. I mean, we kind of switched it
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  around. I usually opened up the books that we've had and I said,
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  I can't just stay in the front. I have to let her go.
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  And to me, that was brilliant. So all of her, all of
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  all of the first part of the book with her in it, that's my
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  favorite of the book. And that's the truth. Yeah loocause she signing,
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  Yes, it's my big sister. What was your's missus? H I was
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  about to say lyric it's lyricuss your favorite I have like, uh favorite section.
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  But I do have a favorite poem in the book. And my favorite
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  poem is Cheryl's poem Evolution of the Blues. I love that poem. I
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  was not expecting yet that's the I mean, I love that poem. That's
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  one of my favorite poems. And she also has one of the wind Seekers,
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  and I love that, my sister. What I love about my sister
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  writing is Sheryl is a wordsmith. And you will you will be educated,
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  and you will learn words you never heard before because this this woman, she
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  knows how to really express herself using language. And uh, I just that
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  That's one of the things I've always admire about my sister, Cheryl. My
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  sister, I'm I'm just playing however it come up, it come out.
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  But my sister, she she knows how to you know, fancy it up
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  and make it sound she says the same thing, but it sounds much better
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  when she said, and I'm not mistaken. Wasn't you a teacher somebody was
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  a teacher. Cheryl majored in English literature. I knew it had something to
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  do with with school in English. Okay, okay, okay, see I
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  remember a little things and I think lyrics. Were you the Luther vandros Fan?
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  We were both okay, okay, but I was. I majored in
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  journalism, if you remember I. I wanted to be the next Spike Lee
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  because as the heroic so I was really impressed with Spike Lee. I thought
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  he was the greatest things and sliced bread and I was gonna be the female
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  Spike Lee until I started trying to write screen please. Then I realized,
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  no, You're got gonna be the next Spike Lee. Think this beautiful book
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  and makes some what you call monologs and some logs and some things to it,
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  Like my daughter sai, mommy, you could be what you want to
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  be. And this is me, not your mommy right now. We always
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  do that all the time, people looking at me like did you say that?
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  There? I said, watch it what she says next, Well,
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  I'm gonna pack my bags and go to the mommy depot. It's me already,
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  see Alena. But I see that we have a black Diamond. She
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  says she loves that title, the evolution of the evolution of the blues.
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  So thank you, thank you, Timon. We appreciate that. So this
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  book right here you I read a synapsis and you said eighties nineties. I
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  did read that. When we were coming on and I was trying to find
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  it, we got to talk about the cover art. I can't help it.
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  It's there who created this beautiful piece. Alina Ali is the graphic artist
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  who worked with us to bring this whole cover to life. And she's a
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  wonderful uh graphic artist. This is our first time working with her, but
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  she captured everything, everything wanted the last thing. Before it was done,
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  I sent her a note. I said, you cannot put that cover out
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  and not have a big boom box on the cover. And she was like,
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  what's a boombox? Because she's young, and I said, you don't
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  know what a boombox is. She said no. So I sent her pictures
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  of what a boombox was and I said, can you do that? She
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  said absolutely, And when she did it, she sent it back to me.
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  She said, what do you think is this right? Wow? Wow?
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  Try to shoot it? And I told her is it in there?
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  Keep it right there. That's the cover. That's the cover, Black Diamond.
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  I will inbox you the link to this because you have to see this
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  cover of Close and Personal. It is beautiful, different world Cosby show.
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  It is your whole eighties and nineties lifestyle in a cover. Okay, there
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  was a guy in the background with some cross colors. It was the whole
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  thing because I was looking for this cross to come walking through the side of
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  Literally, it is beautiful. So we're gonna take a break real quick.
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  And you know, I have my questions for you, Okay, questions.
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  Just think of a different world than the characters and yourself. You guys are
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  gonna take a break and we will be right back with Missus Wallace and Missus
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  Jacket. You'll go ahead. Yeah, I like the way it's out.
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  All right, We are back. So you guys, one of my favorite
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  shows from the eighties and the nineties was a different world I can quote.
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  Okay, let me take that back. Season one I did not like,
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  but did not like. Okay, so we're here. Lisa Bonne, I
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  just and the Little White Girl Julie. I could not get that season,
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  but we got the season two oh, it was on so one of my
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  favorite shows has It's a Different World, A Different World? Okay, yes,
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  especially she said, please, baby, please, I will I'm sorry.
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  That's my girl, that's my episode. Do you know how many times
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  I rewound just that part, baby please, just to hear that man plead
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  like that girl. So we're gonna take a little side note. So they
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  had an interview with the cast of A Different World. Do you not know
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  that in the script it was ad libb girl. The man forget is mine?
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  He said, he got his mind and he and he was telling,
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  he was telling, what's that girl thinking about as me? Guy guy?
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  He was telling her to bail him out? And that's what she said,
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  I do she got and they say cut. They never did it. That
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  was a one shot deal. That's one of my favorite episodes. Me and
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  so, me and you gonna we're gonna FaceTime each other day one day a
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  zoom and we're gonna break that episode down saying that is my episode. So
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  missus Jackson, yees, who are you with character of a Different World?
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  It's close to you. Oh please, that's Whitley Gilbert. I am.
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  I am Whitley every day of the week. Yes, that's what I admit
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  that. I can admit that. Oh my god, I would have never
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  thought that. So why Whitney now hold on, sister, Why Whitney because
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  you said it first? Because my sister has all, like I told you,
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  she is a wordsmith. She's always been I don't want to say sadity,
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  but she's always had that, you know, that classy thing going.
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  I've always been. I've been I'm Don Lewis from the show. Yeah,
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  I'm Jalisa. Yeah, I'm that chick. I'm that chick. I can
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  hang in there, which I'm I'm just a regular bra. But my always
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  had that, you know, that regal kind of thing about her. I'm
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  Jalisa. I would have never thought that. I took missus Jackson. I
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  took you for Kimberly Reese and miss Wallace. I took you for Freddy for
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  Freddy. Really, I'm not as weird. I'm not as carefree, you
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  know how like worldly and carefree Freddy was, I'm not. I'm I'm a
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  home girl. I'm more like Jalsa. You know, I got a background.
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  You know it's crazy because I would have never thought bad. Really,
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  my goodness, she is right. I mean she is. She is totally
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  I mean in terms of self image and knowing who she is. Out of
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  all of the characters, she is definitely Julisa, and she can be Kimberly
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  Reeves too, but she is more. She is more to Lisa. She
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  is more Jalsa. Okay, okay, right, So I'm sorry you guys,
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  allergy is really in my eyes when we talk about the male characters in
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  the book or in do you have points that our geared towards your male characters
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  or your points just for anyone and everyone? They are for anyone and everyone.
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  But we definitely go out of our way to write poems to uplive up
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  to living and just spotlight black men because, as you know, they aren't
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  usually put in a positive right outlook. They're usually stereotyped. They're usually villain
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  you know, vilified. They're usually just made emasculated. So I really we
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  my sister and I both her more and more so than I this time around,
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  because I just kind of had my muse, I married the love of
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  my life, and so all of the poems that I wrote about men would
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  have been about him, So I didn't really just kind of generalize it like
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  I did in books one and two. This was more central. This was
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  more about him and my love for him. But we do go out of
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  our way to upli black men. We've done it in every book, in
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  every book. And as as a matter of fact, when I got done
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  with my poems, I told sherl I got to write another poem because I
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  did not write one about black men. So that's when I came up with
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  the poem called the Driven. Oh yes, get this book clean around there.
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  Okay, we'll talk about it with the mother of a twenty one year
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  old black son. I thank you for that. I truly do appreciate that.
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  Me and my son had a conversation about men having emotions, and he
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  said, Mom, men are supposed to have emotions. I said, well,
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  die right now, because it's not supposed to happen. You're a man.
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  You're entitled to have these emotions. You're entitled to express yourself. And
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  if you start to date someone that does not allow you to do that,
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  you need to no longer date that person. So that's the mother of a
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  black son. I appreciate that so much. Thank you. This drip mm
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  hmm, I'm coming you, miss Jackson. So you're thinking your point too.
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  Now, who wrote the drip? Was that? You said? That
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  was you? Correct? That was me? Right, Okay, tell me
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  a little bit about the poem the Drip. Well, okay, I came
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  up with that coin because I was driving to work one day in my car
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  and I saw his brother standing on the corner wait for his bus, and
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  I was like, wow. I was like, even, I said,
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  the black man, he don't have to do nothing. He could just stand
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  there and you could just you know, it just falls off of them.
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  Whatever it is, I said, you know, I don't know what to
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  call it. I'm just gonna call it the drip because it's you know,
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  he's just all that band was doing. Was standing there and he wasn't even
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  looking in my direction. He was looking off, and I was like,
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  look at all of a black man just right. I said, you know
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  what, we need to celebrate that they you know, they just got it.
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  They don't have to do nothing. They don't have to you know,
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  they could just be mad in their own little business, in the own little
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  world, and it's just all over them. And I just love black men.
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  I just do because they got it. They don't have to do nothing.
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  They just all they have to do is just stand there and you get
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  it. Yes, yes, and I've seen that. I've seen that.
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  I saw this lady on TikTok. Yes, I look at TikTok. Yeah,
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  I can't sleep. She was just going up to black men because they
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  had these like scowling fads on them, and she was just go up to
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  them, just polite and said, king, please smile, you're beautiful.
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  And the guys who like caught off guard and it's like, oh and the
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  smiles just became so beautiful. Thank you to One guy actually came up behind
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  her. He was like, you just don't understand how that felt when you
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  said that to me, and I appreciate it, and he bought her lunch.
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  She's like, now you don't have to do this' them know, because
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  he was saying to her, going back and forth, he said, we
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  don't have that said to us, right, And you know what, they
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  always try to say that the black woman is overlooked. But when you think
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  about it, when it comes time to hire, they kill two birds with
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  one stone. They hire a black woman because they got the minority and they
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  got a woman. But the black man is always overlooked. The black Man
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  is the lower stone of totem Pole, and I've said that for years.
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  I think that he is the lowest thing, and so we can't look for
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  other people to lift him up. We have to lift him up, yes,
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  his counterpart. It is up to us to lift him up to where
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  he should be. Yes, yes, yes, Oh that's why we're always
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  making my business to put a poem in my books about them. Yes,
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  And they does not have to seem like you're flirting with them. It does
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  not have to be like that. It can just be uplifting that man.
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  Because you know what, Patresa, I'm like you. I'm the mother of
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  a twenty three year old man and I had to I had to raise my
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  son all by myself, and I had to let him know, no,
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  you are. Maybe maybe to them you're not worth the damn, but to
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  me you are. Yes. Yeah, And if you if you raise them
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  to believe in themselves, they can they can do all kinds of things,
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  all yours of things. You just gotta you have to lift them up sometimes,
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  and that's what I try to do that in all our books, lift
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  them up. And like I told you before, I greatly appreciate it.
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  I love you for doing that. Now I missed dead. You have to
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  pick your point, so we got to drip with yours. Basically, h
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  the Evolution of the Blues. It is a historical uh poem about our place
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  in music. H paying homage to my father HM and and we grew up
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  with the blues and we love that music. And it was telling more about
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  just our background. It was talking about us eating soul food and how comforting
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  the soul food is. Just basically, all of the fine blues is our
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  culture. It is us we are. The blues came from us. And
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  how right you know, all our culture and everything is in the blues.
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  You know, they could try to imitate it and try and sing it,
• 30:53
  but they won't never get it because because they haven't lived it. They haven't
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  it's not in them, it's not it doesn't bellow from their soul the way
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  it bellows from our soul. Yes, the to me, well, my
• 31:10
  age, it's like that original storytelling that. It was always a story and
• 31:18
  m hm. You know sometimes it was my baby left me and took the
• 31:22
  kids. But they were telling you their story exactly, and it was beautiful,
• 31:30
  even though sometimes it was heartbreaking. It was beautiful the blue. And
• 31:36
  we still have juke joints down here in Charleston. They're in the backwoods.
• 31:40
  You know, you gotta go down a couple of wine and roads. But
• 31:42
  we still have me and Charlton's history. That is the story. I would
• 31:47
  love to go to one of those juke joints. I love that. And
• 31:51
  it's still frying chicken. See that's bread in the mustard I have. I
• 31:56
  have to do this just so you can kind of get a feel of what
• 32:01
  this poem is. But this is like my favorite part of it, Patrise,
• 32:06
  So you just gotta let me just do this part here. It's I
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  am shouts and chats, lost Canaan ballads, Howled upon the Moon, the
• 32:16
  birth of soulful bluegrass. I am the evolution of the blues, and that
• 32:22
  is kind of the end part of that point. I love it, Yeah,
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  I love it. The blues was that foundation that kept on going.
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  That's I think that's one of my my gripes about the color purple, because
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  they took out the gods trying to tell you something scene and I love when
• 32:42
  she was walking through that through the juke joint to get to the church.
• 32:45
  The best scene of that movie you don't want. So when you're seeing that,
• 32:52
  that's what's coming to my mind, Miss Jackson as you're talking, because
• 32:57
  that's what I'm seeing, Like you know, she can't sleep that night and
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  it's tugging at him. It was like, Yo, that's what it is.
• 33:04
  Because we always it always comes back to the blues. It always comes
• 33:09
  to yes, But look at what Look at what black music birthed. It
• 33:16
  went from gospel too, soul, come on, it went from soul to
• 33:25
  rhythm, rhythm and R and B, and then it went to country from
• 33:31
  the church and then okay, and then it spun off into the blues,
• 33:39
  and so we just have a whole Jazz was birthed, rag time was birthed.
• 33:46
  Look at all this music that we have impacted and we have, you
• 33:51
  know, and we have really really just put in in the forefront. So
• 33:54
  when you hear people like Josh Schneider making comments about Beyonce having no place in
• 34:01
  country music, he had, he sounds like a complete idiot. He sound
• 34:05
  like a food He's how you gonna tell this girl now? And not let's
• 34:09
  not mention the fact that this girl grew up in Texas. If anybody has
• 34:16
  the right to sing country music. She is a country girl. Okay,
• 34:25
  he's gonna pay for that because this that statement alone. They wait for this
• 34:30
  album to drop, So he's gonna pay for that. He made a comment
• 34:37
  about her take up them. The comment was them, they come in and
• 34:40
  they want to take over. Did she not drop that song? And it
• 34:45
  went straight to billboards number one and two. So she did that. She
• 34:49
  came in and she took over. She claimed her place on the throne.
• 34:55
  She shouldn't have had to do that, because, first of all, you
• 35:00
  wouldn't have country music if it wasn't for bluegrass, which the slaves say yes,
• 35:07
  indeed yes. So enough said mister man, who grew up in outside
• 35:17
  of New York and moved to Atlanta when he was fourteen years old, knowing
• 35:23
  so much about country music. This is crazy. So my daughter is a
• 35:30
  part of a dance group that's called the Watotoe Dance Academy here in Chalca,
• 35:36
  South Carolina, and this is their ten uere and they have this performance and
• 35:42
  it's called the Love America. It goes from Africa all to way that this
• 35:50
  is my country, taking him on a journey through music to Africa, Cuban
• 35:57
  music, whereas we actually contribute to what that too. He contribution and then
• 36:05
  they do the African attire, then they do that blues music, then they
• 36:08
  go chains brown and then they're singing. Lift every voice and sing. So
• 36:13
  it's a journey through music. And to hear you guys talk about it now,
• 36:19
  I'm physically seeing my child on this stage from African dance to blues music
• 36:25
  to R and B to now and it's like, Yo, she's taking that
• 36:30
  same journey and she doesn't even know she's reliving history. You know. Uh,
• 36:37
  black people. Uh, going back to what you touched on about the
• 36:40
  Cuban music, you know, black people actually taught Ricky Ricardo from Lucy Yeah
• 36:47
  how to sing. That's how that's how he got his start, because taught
• 36:53
  him. He was they He was the Elvis Presley of Cuba, hanging out
• 36:59
  with the black See you got his soul and stuff from us. Yeah,
• 37:05
  okay, okay, Well, since we talk about the soul, the rock,
• 37:09
  the rhyme, the point is the key of life. Y'all gotta tell
• 37:15
  us what we're gonna get this book. Y'all gotta tell us how we want
• 37:16
  to get it. You can get it right now, wherever fine books are
• 37:22
  sold online. It's right now it's on Amazon, but it is, you
• 37:27
  know, it's got distribution everywhere, so it's gonna be in Barnes and Nobles,
• 37:30
  it will be everywhere. But right now it's an Amazon on Amazon.
• 37:35
  Amazon. H yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna see if they can get this
• 37:39
  in her library. I just want to try. I just I'm gonna try.
• 37:43
  I'm try. This cover artist is, y'all. I'm sitting up people
• 37:45
  with the cover art like I'm literally sitting up. Thank you so much.
• 37:51
  It's beautiful, like it's one of those how we call it the library coffee
• 37:55
  table books, like you put that plea know, and if you touch my
• 38:00
  book you get your hands popping. But I thank you, guys, of
• 38:07
  course, for joining me again in giving me the pleasure of talking about your
• 38:13
  book Points of Life and the Key of Life. And it's given me life,
• 38:19
  and I just can't wait to read it. Thank you so much,
• 38:22
  can't wait. So I'm gonna let you, guys close out the show.
• 38:27
  Let's tell you your readers what you want to hear and what they want to
• 38:30
  hear from you, what you want to tell them. I'll let you do
• 38:32
  that, Laura, Okay, Well, I just want them, you know,
• 38:38
  to get hopefully get something, get something out of the book. We,
• 38:45
  like I said, we deal with real issues and the things that we
• 38:52
  have noticed on the news or you know, dealing with things as black women.
• 38:59
  And I think that the poems are for everyone, and we just want
• 39:02
  you to pick up a copy and please enjoy it. Don't just get the
• 39:07
  book, but please read the book. We think you will get something out
• 39:09
  of it. Sure. Wow, I was listening to my sister, and
• 39:17
  there's really nothing more to say behind that. I mean, basically, we
• 39:22
  hope you enjoy the poems. You should enjoy them. I mean, we
• 39:28
  got so much love and comfort when we were in high school and college reading
• 39:35
  great literature, black literature about our people and who we were. It inspired
• 39:40
  us so much we became writers, yes, just paying homage to those people,
• 39:47
  and it just pulled us up. And that's what we attempt to do.
• 39:51
  We want to pull up our people, and so we write books,
• 39:59
  hoping that we do that every time we release one. But Patrice, can
• 40:04
  I just say, let when we go Back to a Different World, one
• 40:07
  of my favorite episodes, and this is what really inspired me to become a
• 40:12
  writer. Was the episode when kimber fully reed, uh did the Nikki Giovanni
• 40:19
  poyn uh ego when she when she did that coin and the way she did
• 40:29
  it and the way they they expressed themselves on that episode with the aunt Jemima.
• 40:36
  Uh. You know allan that I grew up right along with a different
• 40:46
  world. That's why that show means so much to me because when they were
• 40:51
  in college, we were in college. Sheryl and I were in college and
• 40:53
  we related to that show. We loved that show. So if this book
• 40:59
  reminds people of that, thank god. You know how long it took me
• 41:04
  to know that there was not a true hell Man was like, no,
• 41:13
  that's not a real school for real. So thank you guys. So now
• 41:20
  that I know it's the e book out yet, the book drops tomorrow,
• 41:25
  so everybody sc book gal audience, please head over and support that book because
• 41:35
  it drops tomorrow. Okay, because I was I was acting that because I
• 41:38
  was gonna go ahead and get it. But I see it drops tomorrows,
• 41:42
  I'll go ahead and put in my pre order and get me a copy.
• 41:46
  There you goes right then, and once you read the book, for you
• 41:51
  gotta call us and let us know what you think. Yeah, you see,
• 41:54
  you owe me an episode of a different word. You think that plane
• 41:57
  I'm calling you wasn't name Miss Shelley. You be on the phone too,
• 42:00
  because were gonna look at your episode too. I don't know. I think
• 42:05
  together, that's another one of my girl. My son grew up with Martin.
• 42:16
  My son now stays laughing and DP I said what I said, you're
• 42:21
  looking at Martin with the dead Plumber. Come on, man, So yes,
• 42:28
  it is a sap. My son is downstairs and he looks at it
• 42:31
  now, and I just watched they bring back shows like that. But hey,
• 42:36
  well you know, I'm gonna drop this and then we can go.
• 42:39
  But you know, they commissioned Shonda Rhymes to re to redo a different World.
• 42:50
  So they look at her face. Yes, they have commissioned Shonda Rhymes
• 42:55
  to do the new different World, so clean. I'm not playing. Oh
• 43:06
  man, So we gonna see girl, We gonna see so if I know,
• 43:13
  y'all, thank you guys for joining us tonight, y'all two stinger because
• 43:16
  I gotta talk about this. Thank you guys for joining us tonight. Just
• 43:21
  another Saturday night in the books. Another book. Make sure you grab it.
• 43:25
  I'm gonna have it on my Facebook page. Matter of fact, it's
• 43:28
  all over Facebook. I've seen so many people walking and taking pictures with these
• 43:32
  books. It like, Hey, I'm gonna do mine with my See you
• 43:38
  again next Saturday night, new author, new book, goodnight everyone, Bye
• 43:45
  bye. I can't believe it. Thank you. Join us tonight. We
• 44:00
  hope you found a new book to read or a new author to explore.
• 44:07
  Join us again in two weeks for sc book gals and French Chat