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Grammy Weekend Exclusive ( Interview with Ashley Christopher, Brian Michael Cox and Jon B) · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything
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Speaker 1: and everybody.
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Speaker 2: You don't know if you don't lie about that.
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Speaker 3: Right, Hey, y'all, what's up.
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Speaker 1: It's Lauren Rosa and this is the latest with Lauren
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Speaker 1: de Rosa. This year daily Dig on all things pop culture, entertainment,
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Speaker 1: news and all of the conversations that shake the room. Baby,
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Speaker 1: So bringing some conversations to you that are going to
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Speaker 1: shake a room or two or three live from the
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Speaker 1: Grammy Weekend here in la This year's Grammys, I mean,
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Speaker 1: I mean, anytime I'm somewhere, even if it's not supposed
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Speaker 1: to be about everything black, I'm gonna make it that way.
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Speaker 1: But this year's Grammy's to me was very I'm root
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Speaker 1: for everybody black and they winning period. We had so
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Speaker 1: many different people nowmin native across categories from R and
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Speaker 1: B to hip hop to music scores with sinners. Shout
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Speaker 1: out to the Clip, shout out to Kentrick Lamar. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it just was a great year for the Grammys.
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Speaker 3: Everything.
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Speaker 1: The production of the show was great. We did a
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Speaker 1: full breakdown over at the Breakfast Club. Make sure you
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Speaker 1: guys check me out over there, but here exclusively and
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Speaker 1: only for you my podcast listeners. I have a few
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Speaker 1: interviews that I got a chance to do throughout some
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Speaker 1: of the Grammy Weekend events. So I sat down with
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Speaker 1: a woman named Ashley Christopher. Actually, Christopher owns an organization
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Speaker 1: called HBCU Week. HBCU Week is an organization that is
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Speaker 1: near and dear to my heart because they were formed
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Speaker 1: and they operate out of Wimington, Delaware. HBCU Week, owned
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Speaker 1: by Ashley Christopher, who was also for Womington, Delaware, gives
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Speaker 1: a ton of scholarships to students in need who are
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Speaker 1: trying to get to college, not just get to college,
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Speaker 1: but get through college and be successful. She has a
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Speaker 1: college fair that she does and just per year at
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Speaker 1: that college fair, they offer over two thousand acceptances to
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Speaker 1: HBCUs historically Black college and universities, and she's awarded over
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Speaker 1: twelve thousand dollars at that college fair alone, not to
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Speaker 1: talk about the forty million dollars to be able to
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Speaker 1: offer forty students one thousand dollars STEM grants that she
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Speaker 1: has outside of that fair. This program is moving, it
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Speaker 1: and shaking, and it's just one of those things that
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Speaker 1: if you go and support something, support the people that's
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Speaker 1: actually in the trenches doing it, and Ashley is boots
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Speaker 1: on the ground and not letting up. She has all
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Speaker 1: of my support and now I want to introduce her
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Speaker 1: to you guys, my lowriders. Let's listen to Ashley Christopher
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Speaker 1: from HBCU Week at the pre Grammy Brunch presented by
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Speaker 1: Brian Michael Cox, who is.
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Speaker 3: A music legend.
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Speaker 1: They did a lot to support Ashley within this event,
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Speaker 1: including raising fifty thousand dollars in less than four minutes
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Speaker 1: because Music Artists Tank was like, if we're gonna do this,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna do it.
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Speaker 3: Let's take a listen.
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Speaker 4: This is Ashley Christopher, founder and CEO of HBCU Week Foundation,
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Speaker 4: where our laser focus is to get Black students to
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Speaker 4: and through their choice HBCU with no student debt. Since
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Speaker 4: twenty seventeen, we've been able to offer more than twelve
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Speaker 4: thousand college acceptances on this spider our college Fair, and
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Speaker 4: we have raised and awarded more than one hundred and
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Speaker 4: fifty million dollars in scholarships. So stay connected. You can
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Speaker 4: find us on any social at HBCU Week or check
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Speaker 4: out the website hbcuweek dot org.
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Speaker 3: Brian Michael Cox.
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Speaker 4: His brunch actually turned twenty years old this year, so
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Speaker 4: it's very incredible to be even thought of or seen
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Speaker 4: in that way to be a part of it.
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Speaker 3: He is an HBCU alum.
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Speaker 4: We've honored him in the past at our gala, and
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Speaker 4: we partnered to expand our Arts and Entertainment scholarship. And
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Speaker 4: it was the most legendary brunch I've ever been to.
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Speaker 4: He had tank raised fifty thousand dollars for HBCU week
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Speaker 4: in four minutes. Never seen anything like this. The energy
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Speaker 4: was so crazy. They stopped at fifty thousand because that
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Speaker 4: was the scholarship goal. So he got the fifty and
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Speaker 4: stopped in four minutes. And to be in a room
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Speaker 4: so powerful, with so many executives, so many people behind
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Speaker 4: the scene, the creatives that are determining which way the
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Speaker 4: culture shifts on on any given day.
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Speaker 3: To have that support of those people.
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Speaker 4: To lean into what my little old foundation founded in Wilmington,
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Speaker 4: Delaware for kids that want to go to HBCUs like
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Speaker 4: it meant that much to them that they would challenge
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Speaker 4: each other to rise to the occasion. Fifty thousand dollars
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Speaker 4: in four minutes.
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Speaker 3: So we talk about.
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Speaker 1: That shield like because one of the things that I
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Speaker 1: love about s we see you a week is that
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Speaker 1: you keep it centered at a home in Delaware.
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Speaker 3: You bring. We had Anthony Anderson Kane for the HBCU week. Yalla,
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Speaker 3: he went to the cast bar.
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Speaker 4: He dead.
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Speaker 3: He did so crazy. It was such a crazy night.
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Speaker 1: You're bringing, I mean, a list level talent and support
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Speaker 1: from brands from company Astra Zeneca, like all these big
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Speaker 1: name companies, yes, who normally they give a little cute
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Speaker 1: little coin to like the.
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Speaker 3: Little black things here and there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but they're not You're not treated that way, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: talk about just being in. But to do that from
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Speaker 1: home base, from women's in Delaware, and like what that
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Speaker 1: says to people who feel like they gotta leave home
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Speaker 1: to figure out any.
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Speaker 2: Dream they had.
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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, you never have to leave. You never
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Speaker 4: have to leave. If you do step out, maybe temporarily,
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Speaker 4: but it's never like I must leave. Like if I
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Speaker 4: don't leave, I won't succeed. That's never gonna be it, right,
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Speaker 4: I mean for me, like I knew I had to
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Speaker 4: impact the kids in my hometown. It didn't make sense
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Speaker 4: to do it in any other place. I mean, it
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Speaker 4: could expand to there and those places like are welcome
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Speaker 4: to be included. But the purpose was for the kids
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Speaker 4: in my community that looked like me. So like, what
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Speaker 4: do I look like picking that up and taking that
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Speaker 4: away from them? I mean, it's anticipated every year now
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Speaker 4: now it was built for you, and and that's where
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Speaker 4: it's gonna stay. And I hope that that people look
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Speaker 4: at me as an example of not like oh my gosh,
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Speaker 4: like that's so amazing, but it's possible.
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Speaker 3: It's possible. You don't have to leave the boy's a
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Speaker 3: black student, you black women into a heart like this?
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Speaker 3: Is this your first gra Is this her first grammyce?
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Speaker 1: Yes?
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Speaker 3: This is your first grammyce?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is her first Grammy or uh a
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Speaker 3: Grammy weekend?
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Speaker 1: Right, So not only are you helping her to go
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Speaker 1: through college, not only is she at USC right now,
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Speaker 1: but now she's getting experience a room like this by
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Speaker 1: Prime Michael Cogs Brunch.
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Speaker 3: This is her first Grammys. What does you know?
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Speaker 1: We talk a lot about SRACU mean, but actually Christopher
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Speaker 1: D is a human being. What does your heart like
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Speaker 1: echo like you get to watch her experience all the
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Speaker 1: things like this speak.
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Speaker 4: I mean, honestly, I'm just so grateful for her. You know,
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Speaker 4: she showed up and she was prepared for the opportunity.
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Speaker 4: She was an incredible high school student, always outperformed you know,
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Speaker 4: her peers in every way, just the top of the top,
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Speaker 4: the cream of the crop. And it was an honor
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Speaker 4: to be able to support her through her choice HBCU
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Speaker 4: and it happens to be my alma mater, Howard University.
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Speaker 4: So because of our scholarship opportunity, she received the forty
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Speaker 4: thousand dollars Fozzi Scholarship, which is awarded to students who
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Speaker 4: study STEM. She graduated from Howard Debt Free and now
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Speaker 4: she's at USC pursuing her doctorate and occupational therapy, so
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Speaker 4: she'll be a doctor.
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Speaker 3: In two and a half years.
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Speaker 4: She's gone from graduating from Howard debt Free to doctor
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Speaker 4: Calebell Davis.
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Speaker 3: That's her name.
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Speaker 4: So I mean to be able to pour into that
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Speaker 4: and just be the vessel to serve as an honor.
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Speaker 4: So I never look at these opportunities or these experiences
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Speaker 4: and say, oh my gosh, look what I did. But
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Speaker 4: it's because it's not me, just a vessel just doing
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Speaker 4: what I'm told. But Kayla is just a clear opportunity
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Speaker 4: of an example for what happens when you just listen
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Speaker 4: and honor you're calling like, it's amazing, and she's one
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Speaker 4: of several hundred, like she's not like the only one.
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Speaker 3: So I'm so grateful.
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Speaker 1: Now, of course we had to hear from mister Brian
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Speaker 1: michael Cox, who Billboard just ranked one of the top
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Speaker 1: producers of the music Producer is the twenty first century
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Speaker 1: for hip hop and R and B. Brian Michael Cox
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Speaker 1: is also a HBCU graduate, so it's near and dear
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Speaker 1: to his heart too to make sure that programs like
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Speaker 1: Ashley Christopher's HBCU get the love and support that they need.
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Speaker 1: But what touched my heart the most was, I know,
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Speaker 1: coming from Delaware, being in rooms like this with people
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Speaker 1: with power and reach and finances doesn't come as easy
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Speaker 1: as it may seem or as it may sound. Because
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Speaker 1: you got me and Ashley both here together, right, So
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Speaker 1: it's amazing how he's gotten behind her program and also
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Speaker 1: just kind of walked it into the door so many
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Speaker 1: different doors to be able to be able to do
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Speaker 1: so many different things since being honored by HBCU week
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Speaker 1: by one time prior himself now talk to Brian Michael
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Speaker 1: Coxy just about his motivation to get involved in what
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Speaker 1: it's like for him as the person, as the man,
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Speaker 1: not the myth in the legend, but as the person.
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Speaker 1: What it's like for him seeing so much support being
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Speaker 1: poured into HBCUs because of a brunch in a platform.
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Speaker 5: That I mean, it's incredible for me because it's something
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Speaker 5: I've always done of I was pouring to young people,
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Speaker 5: even scholarships for my high school and things that nature.
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Speaker 5: I've always it's something that's been the center of who
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Speaker 5: I am as a person. So for me, that's it's easy.
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Speaker 5: That was you know, that was you know, I mean
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Speaker 5: like for me, it was like, let's just do it.
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Speaker 5: Like when you when you stoo up us, I'm gonna
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Speaker 5: do it. So, okay, what let's do it.
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Speaker 2: I'm at you.
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Speaker 5: You know, you said ten thousand, I'm at your ten.
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Speaker 5: And then everybody started. You know, it's it's for me.
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Speaker 5: Somebody had to pour into me in that way, right,
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Speaker 5: whether it was time, whether it was money, whether it's whatever.
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Speaker 5: Somebody had to pour into me in that way and
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Speaker 5: they did and I'm the product of that. So for me,
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Speaker 5: I don't ever take that lightly. You know what I'm saying, Well,
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Speaker 5: I think I mean I'm a product of HBCU, of HBCUs.
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Speaker 5: Both my parents went to put Through Cookman, My all
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Speaker 5: my family went to family.
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Speaker 2: I went to Clark Atlanta.
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Speaker 5: So like I'm a product of the HBCU, the journey,
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Speaker 5: the HBCU experience. So for me, I take a lot
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Speaker 5: of pride in that. So when we started, you know,
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Speaker 5: we connected and started doing things. They honored me one
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Speaker 5: year and I just felt I was I was really
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Speaker 5: really just compelled to really get involved because you know,
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Speaker 5: I'm a product of that, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 5: And I appreciate all the work that Ashley is doing
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Speaker 5: in the HBCU week team is doing.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying now taking it out of
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Speaker 1: the HBCU world, even though we were still there within
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Speaker 1: the same event. So still pre Grammy Brunch, still Brian
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Speaker 1: Michael Cox, all the things, all the people, all the fun,
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Speaker 1: all of the champagne toast and conversations. But I ran
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Speaker 1: into John b and the last time I saw him,
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Speaker 1: we had a very very extensive conversation just about R
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Speaker 1: and B from the nineties, his relationship with Babyface or
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Speaker 1: lack thereof I found out and where he's been at,
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Speaker 1: what he's been doing recently, so I had to get
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Speaker 1: the latest him and Babyface cool now or what's happening?
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Speaker 3: Sack A.
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Speaker 2: Listen peace, everybody. I'm John B. And I'm with my
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Speaker 2: girl Lauryn and Rosa. Man right here.
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Speaker 3: Hey, y'all, what's up.
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Speaker 1: It's Lauren Rosa And this is the latest with Lauren
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Speaker 1: Rosa And right now the latest is on location.
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Speaker 3: We are in la It is Grammy weekend. Actually today
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Speaker 3: is Grammy Day.
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Speaker 1: The Grammys are about to start and probably about like
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Speaker 1: the next two to three hours. We're here at Brian
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Speaker 1: Michael Cox's brunch that he does every year that is
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Speaker 1: so full of purpose sponsored by HBC You a week
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Speaker 1: shout out to Delaware.
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Speaker 3: And I'm here with John B.
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Speaker 1: The legend, the great who's joined us on the Breakfast
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Speaker 1: Club before.
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Speaker 2: He Yes, I was just with you, actually.
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Speaker 3: You were so since i've seen you last Well, what's new?
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Speaker 2: Well, I got some time off, That's what's new. I
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Speaker 2: have some time off to be able to share with
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Speaker 2: my family and we're doing some rebuilding in my studio
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Speaker 2: and things like that. But other than that, you know,
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Speaker 2: not much other than new album being out and always
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Speaker 2: on the road touring, you know. So that's what's keeping
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Speaker 2: me busy. You're gonna see me in a state near you, definitely,
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Speaker 2: because I think I start next week, you know what
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Speaker 2: I mean.
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Speaker 3: Oh, that's why I said to Okay, So, I mean,
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Speaker 3: I said, what's new? What's the latest? I should say,
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Speaker 3: we branding this out now.
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Speaker 1: The last time I saw you, and I remember you
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Speaker 1: were having a conversation with us about the fact that
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Speaker 1: Tank hopped on your album that is out now and
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Speaker 1: what that meant to you. This inspiration wise right, and
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Speaker 1: this year at the Grammys, R and B and the
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Speaker 1: legends of R and B and the legends of hip
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Speaker 1: hop have such a center stage, and you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean, like I feel like this year is our year.
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Speaker 1: Just talk about being here in the midst of all
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Speaker 1: of that. And I know Tank was here at this
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Speaker 1: event today and you.
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Speaker 2: Know, well, getting to see Tank, man, that's my brother
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Speaker 2: from another mother. I mean, he supported me so incredibly
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Speaker 2: on my album Waiting on You, you know, available right now.
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Speaker 2: It's a new album, my tenth album. He featured on
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Speaker 2: the title track Waiting On You. And to have them
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Speaker 2: feature was you know, a dream come true. I'm a
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Speaker 2: huge Tank fan, a huge influence to me, you know,
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Speaker 2: as an artist, you know, as a vocalist and as
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Speaker 2: a producer. I mean, he you know, he came in,
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Speaker 2: he put the sauce on my song. You know, he
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Speaker 2: put the extra you know, silver lining on my on
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Speaker 2: my record. So it was just incredible to have him
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Speaker 2: as a presidence on my album. And getting to see
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Speaker 2: him tonight was great as well. You know, just shake
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Speaker 2: a hand and just say thank you again, and you know,
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Speaker 2: as well as Brian Michael Cox's is his party to
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Speaker 2: honor him, so many of my colleagues and people I've
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Speaker 2: known in the business. I've been in the game thirty
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Speaker 2: years now. It's my tenth album, so this is like
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Speaker 2: extended family for me, you know. And when I say
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Speaker 2: I'm R and B, I mean I'm really R and B.
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Speaker 2: Like I'm I'm part of the R and B culture.
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Speaker 2: And this is the you know, evidently, the R and
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Speaker 2: B culture, and you know, in the United States and
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Speaker 2: in LA you know, in New York City and wherever
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Speaker 2: I need to be, you know, and I'm outside amongst
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Speaker 2: the people, my peers, my people, and I love.
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Speaker 3: That, you know, have you been paying as interested nominations
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Speaker 3: for the Grammy.
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Speaker 2: I have not paid attention.
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Speaker 1: So a big conversation right now R and B wise
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Speaker 1: is you know you have Kaylani Folded, which how do
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Speaker 1: you feel about Kaylinni Folded? I feel like it's such
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Speaker 1: a great song, like it great song.
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Speaker 2: That there it is, I mean absolutely, I think it's
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Speaker 2: a It's a great example of how you could be
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Speaker 2: melodic still and how we can think in a sense
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Speaker 2: like we used to think in the nineties or early
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Speaker 2: two thousands and and be romantic at the same time,
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Speaker 2: and you might not even be talking about being together,
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Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Because she's talking about come
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Speaker 2: get your things, you know what I mean. But at
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Speaker 2: the same time she's she's being romantic about it. So
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Speaker 2: I love the dynamic of that record and the writing
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Speaker 2: of that record, and also the vibe of that record.
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Speaker 2: I feel like the chords kind of remind me almost
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Speaker 2: of my song they don't know a little bit too.
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Speaker 2: When I hear that baseline, I'm like, I can't help
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Speaker 2: but to hear like the themes that we created in
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Speaker 2: the nineties, you know what I mean, reflected through this
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Speaker 2: new music.
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Speaker 1: Well, she worked with a lot of you know, people
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Speaker 1: ogs that created a lot of like soundless times from
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Speaker 1: your time of like what you're talking about, Like I
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Speaker 1: believe Tricky Stewart.
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Speaker 3: Was involved, and you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: Like but also to you have Leon Thomas's a lot
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Speaker 1: of Leon Thomas's songs like mud and different songs that
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Speaker 1: are in that genre for best R and B song.
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Speaker 2: But it's crazy, did you see that Thomas? I mean,
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Speaker 2: just self contained you know art is what I like
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Speaker 2: to see, you know, because I'm a self contained artist.
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Speaker 2: I wrote my records, I played my chords, you know
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Speaker 2: what I mean. You know, so when you when you're
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Speaker 2: in the DNA of your music and and it gets
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Speaker 2: you know, acknowledged like that, I think that that's that's
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Speaker 2: the greater you know, It's not about necessarily being the
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Speaker 2: focal point of the star. It's like when you're a
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Speaker 2: part of the whole project. You know, you're part of
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Speaker 2: the whole, you know, making of this thing, you know,
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Speaker 2: and that's the real honor of it. I feel like,
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Speaker 2: I know, that's what it feels like for me when
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Speaker 2: I you know, I have my records that you know,
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Speaker 2: have related to the world. The world was related to
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Speaker 2: my records. It's just really about having that connection be
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Speaker 2: like damn, you got me, you know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: And how important is it for like even just artists,
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Speaker 1: because okay, so we have Leon Thomas in a category
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Speaker 1: when it comes to R and B and RB songs.
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Speaker 3: You have Kaylani with Folded.
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Speaker 1: You have Summer Walker Heart of a Woman, which is
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Speaker 1: I put that song multiple times a day, which is
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Speaker 1: also another good song.
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Speaker 3: Right, But when I when you look behind the.
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Speaker 1: Veilve all those songs, the chemistry behind the people that
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Speaker 1: are making them with the artist, it speaks for itself.
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Speaker 1: It's very important you as an artist who you said
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Speaker 1: you're super involved in everything that you do, right, how
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Speaker 1: important is it for you know, the chemistry between the
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Speaker 1: producer and the you know, the engineer, and like, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Well that's a special, beautiful part of it is that
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Speaker 2: you know, the song is the you know, is the
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Speaker 2: equation of all of those beautiful energies being in the
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Speaker 2: room at the same time and having a you know,
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Speaker 2: a sentiment that is very similar similar. You know, they
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Speaker 2: all want to say, you know, you're all going for
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Speaker 2: the same goal, and you know, whenever you put two minds,
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Speaker 2: you know, towards something. I don't care if you're trying
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Speaker 2: to build a house, paint a wall, whatever it is,
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Speaker 2: you're gonna have a just a there's more intention in
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Speaker 2: that because there's two people that are trying for the
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Speaker 2: same thing, and sometimes you get just an incredible outcome.
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Speaker 2: Not every time, but sometimes. And then you put multiple
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Speaker 2: people in the room, you know, who all have just
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Speaker 2: the same intention, and that's just that power that goes
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Speaker 2: behind that record. Really, that's what it ends up being,
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Speaker 2: is the power behind the record, so many minds coming
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Speaker 2: together as one to make a sum you know what
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Speaker 2: I mean.
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Speaker 1: Now, I think when people think of John B and
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Speaker 1: they think of chemistry and partnership and relationship.
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Speaker 3: Obviously we go to babyface. The last time I saw you,
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Speaker 3: you were like, I don't.
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Speaker 1: Want to talk about this, but we had a conversation
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Speaker 1: and I did see that it picked up you know,
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Speaker 1: pretty far, pretty wide. Is there an update, like what
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Speaker 1: is the latest in you know that relationship with you guys,
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Speaker 1: Because I think for a lot of people, you guys
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Speaker 1: are like I tell as old as time like partnership wise,
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Speaker 1: so you want to see it be a positive whatever ending.
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Speaker 1: And I wouldn't even say ending like a positive update
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Speaker 1: or progression in this situation, is there anything new there
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Speaker 1: to share?
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Speaker 2: There's no update really other than just I feel I
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Speaker 2: feel very good about you know, the way that I've
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Speaker 2: represented our relationship because it's nothing but positive at this point,
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Speaker 2: you know what I mean. I have nothing but amazing
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Speaker 2: things to say about my man, and I don't always
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Speaker 2: have for the last thirty years, So I don't want
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Speaker 2: one moment to overshadow you know what. Thirty years has
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Speaker 2: been of longevity. So that's why I'm here to be
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Speaker 2: able to represent most of most Definitely, it's thirty years
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Speaker 2: of repping for each other, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: And when John B you know who has been you know,
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Speaker 1: iconic in the space of R and B, iconic in
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Speaker 1: the space of feel good music since at the Grammys
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Speaker 1: and twenty twenty six where R and B and hip
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Speaker 1: hop or such centerfold right, especially with like you know,
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Speaker 1: producers being in conversation from decades ago, artists being in
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Speaker 1: conversations from decades ago. What does John Be, as the
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Speaker 1: artist say to these new up and coming artists who
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Speaker 1: are not trying to get into the business but are
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Speaker 1: trying to create imprint and legacy in the business where
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Speaker 1: they can do the same thing that we're seeing eclips.
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Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean, like bring the conversation
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Speaker 1: back around because the talent is good.
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Speaker 2: Well, I will say, man, stay in your labs, stay
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Speaker 2: in your bag, get your you know, get you got
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Speaker 2: to get in there and make something from nothing, baby,
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Speaker 2: you know, don't wait for anybody to tell you it's okay,
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Speaker 2: you know, and give you the permission or give you
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Speaker 2: the inspiration. Just you got to find that that stuff
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Speaker 2: in yourself and in this beautiful world that we've been
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Speaker 2: you know, blessed to be able to exist in man.
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Speaker 2: So I would say, make something from nothing and continue
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Speaker 2: to love what it is to be able to create,
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Speaker 2: you know, just to even have a void and have
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Speaker 2: a chance to even do this, you know what I mean,
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Speaker 2: have machines, have tools, have you know, this beautiful culture
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Speaker 2: of this music. To be able to speak to your
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Speaker 2: friends and tell them what you're doing, you know what
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Speaker 2: I mean about you know what I mean. So that's
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Speaker 2: what it's so really about, is just staying grounded with
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Speaker 2: the things that got you to where you're at and
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Speaker 2: keep it in touch with that so they can have longevity.
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Speaker 2: You know for the days to come.
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Speaker 3: We love it. Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: All right, guys, So that has been another episode of
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Speaker 1: the Latest with Lauren Rosa. This has been an exclusive
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Speaker 1: conversation piece that you guys have gotten to dive into
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Speaker 1: as we headed on out to the Grammy Awards weekend
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Speaker 1: in LA for the sixty eighth Grammy Awards. I'm Laurna
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Speaker 1: Rosa and my Low Riders. I tell you, guys, every
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Speaker 3: And I appreciate y'all for that.
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Speaker 1: Every single time, every single episode, I will catch you guys,
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