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INTERVIEW: Mona Scott-Young Talks ‘Mary J. Blige Presents Be Happy,’ Love & Hip Hop, Her Legacy In Music & More · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Every day a week ago.
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Speaker 2: Click your ass up the Breakfast Club. You don't finish
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Speaker 2: for y'all done?
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Speaker 3: Warning, everybody is dj en V just hilarious. Charlamagne to God.
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Speaker 3: We are to Breakfast Club. Lola Roses here as well.
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Speaker 4: We got a special guest in the building.
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Speaker 3: Indeed, Mona Scott Young, welcome back you feeling.
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Speaker 5: Good morning on fumes. Exhausted, but so I'm mad.
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Speaker 1: You're always working, always working.
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Speaker 4: I've seen them.
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Speaker 3: Video yesterday and I don't know how true it is,
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Speaker 3: but they said love and hip hop is over.
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Speaker 6: No, well, I don't know who knows now.
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Speaker 5: There's so many changes happening over there.
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Speaker 1: I have no idea.
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Speaker 4: Okay, yes, that was your baby. That's the reason I
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Speaker 4: was asking.
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Speaker 5: No. Absolutely, but all babies grow up, they leave the nest.
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Speaker 4: That's right.
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Speaker 2: What you're doing. You're doing movies now.
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Speaker 4: Right, I am, Yes, concerts as well.
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Speaker 5: Concerts as well. I've started promoting tours. I got big
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Speaker 5: by the bug when I did Missy's tour and the
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Speaker 5: Queens of R and B. You know, so I've continued
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Speaker 5: to do that. You've been doing some radio date so
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Speaker 5: that's been fun.
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Speaker 7: You know, before TV and like before movies you were
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Speaker 7: managing artists, Like what skills from artist management translated most
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Speaker 7: directly into building the entertainment empire you have now?
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Speaker 5: I think, you know, the relationships are talent, being able
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Speaker 5: to kind of bridge that gap and getting them to
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Speaker 5: deliver on services, and just relationship management overall. You know,
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Speaker 5: that's probably the biggest skill set that I think I
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Speaker 5: bring to production.
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Speaker 4: You've been with Missy for so long.
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Speaker 3: You know, most times you don't see a manager doing
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Speaker 3: it for that long, Right, How has that relationship been
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Speaker 3: so solid for that many years?
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Speaker 5: I mean, I think it's because it's transcended work, right.
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Speaker 5: We're friends as well, and you know, we really kind
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Speaker 5: of appreciate each other on a level beyond the business,
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Speaker 5: and so there's a respect level there that I think,
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Speaker 5: you know, keeps the relationship going. Yeah, Buster two, I
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Speaker 5: mean exactly, he's going.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: And I just started working with Tyreese late in your
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Speaker 5: career because because I love adventure. You know, he's incredibly talented,
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Speaker 5: and I always say that, you know, part of my
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Speaker 5: primary directive as a manager is when I see talent
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Speaker 5: and I know that I can do something to help
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Speaker 5: bring it to fruition, you know, I want to be there.
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Speaker 2: I want to do that. And he's very very creative.
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Speaker 5: He's incredibly creative, super talented, and he's a good person, right,
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Speaker 5: So for me that's important as well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I put a lot in the life's.
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Speaker 5: Too short bucket, but he's just a good person.
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Speaker 7: So yeah, when it comes to Missy and what did
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Speaker 7: you recognize in them that the industry didn't before everybody did?
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Speaker 5: Just their sense of uniqueness right to have managed the
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Speaker 5: two of them for so many years. They are like
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Speaker 5: the Yin and Yang, you know, and and incredibly unique,
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Speaker 5: incredibly passionate and have kind of that ability to transcend time.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 5: Even taking Missy out on tour, people were so surprised
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Speaker 5: that was the first time she had ever headlined a
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Speaker 5: tour because she feels so omnipresent exactly. People are like,
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Speaker 5: wait what, And I was like, no, trust me, I
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Speaker 5: was there.
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Speaker 2: I know.
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Speaker 5: But and and Busta you know, still doing it still
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Speaker 5: hands down the best you know to ever do it
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Speaker 5: when he gets on that stage. So for me, I've
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Speaker 5: had the incredible privilege of being part of two super unique,
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Speaker 5: super special careers that are still going strong.
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Speaker 7: When you see greatness like that, right, and see what
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Speaker 7: they became. The longevity and everything. How do you even
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Speaker 7: spot that now? Like, I don't even know if that's
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Speaker 7: something that can be duplicated.
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Speaker 5: It's so crazy you say that, right, because my kids,
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Speaker 5: I'm always like, what on earth are you all going
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Speaker 5: to be listening to.
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Speaker 1: In twenty years? Right?
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Speaker 5: It's and there's something to be said for you know,
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Speaker 5: what they're enjoying now. But I do believe that the
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Speaker 5: artist development, the art form of being an entertainer right
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Speaker 5: has been lost, and that's what creates the longevity. Right now,
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Speaker 5: what you're seeing is a lot of people who are
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Speaker 5: as strong as their latest hit.
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Speaker 1: Right, you got the hot.
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Speaker 5: Record, you're popping right now, You're on fire, But what
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Speaker 5: is going to give you that staying power?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 5: Are you going to be around twenty eight thirty years
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Speaker 5: from now?
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Speaker 7: Do you ever feel like the successive reality TV it
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Speaker 7: boxed like a lot of black creatives in the one lane,
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Speaker 7: even though even though it was giving a lot of
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Speaker 7: people opportunity, it didn't necessarily give you a lane.
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Speaker 2: I guess the showcase talent, Well.
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Speaker 5: It's hard, right because I think the Internet, you know,
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Speaker 5: had a lot to do with it as well, because
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Speaker 5: it leveled the playing field for artists right before where
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Speaker 5: you had to have a major system to gain exposure.
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Speaker 5: Now the exposure was literally at your fingertips. But I
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Speaker 5: think what reality did was it again provided that same
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Speaker 5: kind of wide exposure.
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Speaker 1: It's all about.
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Speaker 5: How you positioned yourself and how you took advantage of
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Speaker 5: that platform.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 5: So, like I said, it was it's a double edged sword.
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Speaker 5: It had its good side into batside. But I think
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Speaker 5: when you didn't understand how to you know, use it
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Speaker 5: to your benefit, you allowed yourself to be pigeonholed. Because
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Speaker 5: we've seen people who were able to rock out and
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Speaker 5: move into different directions, create and take advantage of opportunities
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Speaker 5: that did not exist prior to them having that platform.
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Speaker 5: So I think it's all about you know, understanding the
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Speaker 5: business model and how to work it to your benefit.
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Speaker 4: Do you miss it at all? I'm sorry, but do
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Speaker 4: you miss that part of the game.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I still do unscripted right, But again, it's
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Speaker 5: always about evolution. When you talk about staying power, it's
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Speaker 5: about being able to take an opportunity utilize it to
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Speaker 5: catapult you to the next level. Right, So it doesn't
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Speaker 5: just apply to what I say to the talent on
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Speaker 5: the show, I've had to apply that to myself.
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Speaker 4: They criticize you a lot for Love and Hip Hop
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Speaker 4: and some of the things today. How do you take
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Speaker 4: that criticism?
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Speaker 5: I mean, everybody's got an opinion, right, people criticize you all.
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Speaker 5: You guys know who you are, You know what you're doing.
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Speaker 5: I'm not, you know, I don't live my life based
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Speaker 5: on what other people think.
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Speaker 1: So it's you know, is there any you.
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Speaker 2: Know, it's what Mona Law is long long time ago.
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Speaker 7: She gave me a call one time, you know, because
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Speaker 7: of my criticism of the show, and purpose have made
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Speaker 7: a lot of sense to me because you know, I
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Speaker 7: didn't realize. Well I'm not saying I didn't realize, but yes,
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Speaker 7: some of these people had never been on television television
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Speaker 7: before and they got opportunities that they never would have gotten.
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Speaker 2: I didn't get that platform.
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Speaker 6: And then you see a lot of them now like
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Speaker 6: you know, listen, and you provided me a catalog growing up.
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Speaker 1: That was my I was man.
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Speaker 6: Every franchise of Love and Hip Hop was except Los Angeles.
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Speaker 6: You know what was my content? Like I I that's
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Speaker 6: when I started doing just with the mess. That was
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Speaker 6: my first, jest with the mess. I used to do
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Speaker 6: it on the episodes Love and Hip Hop New York
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Speaker 6: that which I still watched the beginning New York.
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Speaker 5: And then when you asked me, how do I deal
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Speaker 5: with the criticism, it's stories like this, Right, everything has
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Speaker 5: its good side and its bad side. You have to
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Speaker 5: be prepared to take it off. I can't enjoy the
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Speaker 5: benefits of and not be prepared to deal with the
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Speaker 5: you know, perceived back wish.
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Speaker 3: You started your own network during that time, because you
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Speaker 3: had the shows, you had everything like because it could
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Speaker 3: have been your own network.
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Speaker 5: Listen what it could have shudder. I try not to
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Speaker 5: live with regret. Right, everything I do, I do it
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Speaker 5: with intentionality, and it's what's for me at that time.
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Speaker 5: I mean, there's a lot on the horizon now that
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Speaker 5: I would have never have contemplated way back then. But
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Speaker 5: you know, I take everything in stride. You still get
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Speaker 5: surprised by away, absolutely absolutely every single day I get up.
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Speaker 5: You know what I love about living life every day
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Speaker 5: is I never know what you know is around the corner,
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Speaker 5: and so I'm still excited about the things that I'm
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Speaker 5: doing now. I never thought i'd be producing tours as
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Speaker 5: much as I, you know, represented talent and went out
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Speaker 5: on tours with them, but who thought I would be
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Speaker 5: putting it together soup to nuts, right, So that allowed
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Speaker 5: me to exercise another area that I'd never thought of before, directing.
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Speaker 5: I never saw myself as a director, right, and now
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Speaker 5: moving into you know, live stage productions and features, those
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Speaker 5: are all you know, I'm still excited.
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Speaker 2: I saw.
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Speaker 1: We talked about this up here.
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Speaker 8: Matthew Knows was talking about he was on a morning
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Speaker 8: hustle and he was talking about how being a manager,
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Speaker 8: because he was black and he was male, he didn't
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Speaker 8: get the like the nods or maybe even the looks.
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Speaker 8: I forget his exact words that like Britney Spears's dad
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Speaker 8: and family got. And we brought you up because we
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Speaker 8: were listing people who were like really big music managers
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Speaker 8: and during whatever time that didn't get the they don't
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Speaker 8: get the like flowers that they share for certain things.
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Speaker 8: Do you feel like that is the reason why you
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Speaker 8: don't get that, like people don't like honor that.
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Speaker 5: I mean, if he felt that way being a male, right,
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Speaker 5: imagine being a woman, especially at the time in music
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Speaker 5: where I was, you know, when I was coming up
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Speaker 5: but again, it's a very weird thing about validation. Right
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Speaker 5: when you're looking for it from outside people, then yes,
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Speaker 5: you allow it to diminish your value or to determine,
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Speaker 5: you know, what you are deserving of. I don't know,
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Speaker 5: grateful when I get recognition. I'm grateful when I get acknowledged.
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Speaker 5: It feels good to know that, you know, my peers
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Speaker 5: appreciate the contributions.
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Speaker 1: But I'm good, you know, without that.
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Speaker 5: I don't look for that. For me, it's about the
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Speaker 5: self gratification. Like I said, every day I'm like, how
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Speaker 5: do I exercise another scale? How do I figure out
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Speaker 5: what else I'm made of today? That's where my gratification
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Speaker 5: comes from. And also looking at the talent going on
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Speaker 5: to do whatever it is that they want to do.
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Speaker 5: That for me is a tremendous you know, benefit to
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Speaker 5: what I do. When I'm able to say, oh, look
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Speaker 5: at that she started this business. You know, even hearing
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Speaker 5: what you say, that's what feels.
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Speaker 1: Good to me.
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Speaker 7: Was there a moment when you realize like managing talent
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Speaker 7: wasn't enough?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, too, Absolutely, that's when I decided to strike out
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Speaker 5: and start moaning me attendment I've been doing management with
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Speaker 5: Violator for so long, and I loved it because again
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Speaker 5: I always say in my DNA, I'm a manager at heart.
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Speaker 5: But there was something about not being able to do
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Speaker 5: everything that I you know, imagined or that I aspired
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Speaker 5: to because it was directly tied to somebody else's willingness
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Speaker 5: to get up and deliver on that service. Right, and
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Speaker 5: so you can pull people kicking and screaming only so far.
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Speaker 5: And then I realized, like, there's so much else that
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Speaker 5: I want to do that I'm capable of doing that
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Speaker 5: I haven't even you know, begun to tap into. Let
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Speaker 5: me explore that those things. And that's why for me, seamlessly,
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Speaker 5: whether it's like you know, in front of the camera,
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Speaker 5: behind the scenes, to me, it's all about just like, okay,
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Speaker 5: what else can Monna do today?
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Speaker 6: You know?
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Speaker 8: I want to It was reality with the king that
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Speaker 8: Matthew knows was I want to correct that. But question
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Speaker 8: to you, right, with all this stuff that you're doing
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Speaker 8: now in all these new spaces, would you take on
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Speaker 8: new talent as a brand new, out of nowhere talent
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Speaker 8: as a manager.
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Speaker 1: Avy talent, up and coming talent?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 5: It all depends, right, because the business is so different
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Speaker 5: now and and there are so many and to be
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Speaker 5: perfectly frank, there's a different work ethic.
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Speaker 1: With these kids coming up today. God bless them.
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Speaker 5: But you know, I'm still very much old school, very
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Speaker 5: much grind it out bottom up. And there's something about
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Speaker 5: having this instant success that I feel skips very important
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Speaker 5: steps that build long term careers. And again, I'm always
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Speaker 5: rooting to see them win, and I'd love to be
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Speaker 5: wrong about it every single time. But you know, it's difficult.
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Speaker 5: It's management. You're giving your heart and soul to someone
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Speaker 5: else's dreams, and you have to make sure that you
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Speaker 5: know your goals are aligned, your work ethic is aligned,
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Speaker 5: because it's not easy, and you spend so much time
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Speaker 5: devoted to that that you have to see the benefits
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Speaker 5: of it.
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Speaker 1: And so for me, you know, it's on a case,
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Speaker 1: my case.
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Speaker 5: I get approached all the time and I'm always like, look,
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Speaker 5: I'm happy to help you.
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Speaker 1: What else do you want to do?
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Speaker 5: Okay, I can plug this for you, I can help
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Speaker 5: you with this, but you know, not necessarily which you
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Speaker 5: Oh God, who was my toughest artists.
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Speaker 1: Over the years.
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Speaker 5: It's it's interesting. They all have their thing right, their
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Speaker 5: thing Missy. She's incredibly creative, but Missy moves and she
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Speaker 5: wants to move right, and she's not motivated by the
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Speaker 5: dollars and she's not so all of the elements have
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Speaker 5: got to be right. Bus the super big personality, so
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Speaker 5: he's always on ten for everything.
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Speaker 1: Everything is up here, you know.
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Speaker 5: And over the years it's been everybody from you know,
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Speaker 5: Fantasia to fifty and who you know I did a
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Speaker 5: TV show with. We still stay in touch. He's great,
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Speaker 5: but he's got his own challenges. You all see Fifty's
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Speaker 5: you know.
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Speaker 2: So can you make a star or as a star born?
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Speaker 5: I think what you can do is provide the right
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Speaker 5: arena for a star's talents to shine right, Surround them
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Speaker 5: in the right way, give them all the tools necessary,
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Speaker 5: be a consistent, you know, source of guidance and support.
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Speaker 5: But I don't think you can teach stardom right. But
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Speaker 5: I do believe you can have people with all the
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Speaker 5: star power in the world that never see the light
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Speaker 5: of day, or that never reach their full potential because
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Speaker 5: they don't have all those other elements around them. But no,
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Speaker 5: I don't think you can go I'm gonna make your start.
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Speaker 5: People do that, But it's not lasting. It's fleeting, right,
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Speaker 5: and it's based on whether it's that song or the
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Speaker 5: image for the moment, whatever it is that's fleeting. It's
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Speaker 5: not real true staying power.
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Speaker 7: We've seen people try to force people on folks, right,
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Speaker 7: shove it down. You a bunch of money at radio,
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Speaker 7: a bunch of money video played back in the day.
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Speaker 7: It's just like, spend a bunch of money at you know,
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Speaker 7: the screaming outlets now. But I'm like, I don't think
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Speaker 7: that works right either, people like you, they don't.
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Speaker 1: Oh, they don't.
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Speaker 5: And look like I always use Cardi B. As an example, right,
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Speaker 5: people are like, oh, you were so No, that was
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Speaker 5: just a platform I just create. You know, was able
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Speaker 5: to provide a platform. She was a star day one.
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Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. That had nothing to do
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Speaker 5: with me. All I did was ay, All I did
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Speaker 5: was provide the opportunity for that star power to have
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Speaker 5: a platform.
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Speaker 1: I have a Cardi B. Question.
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Speaker 8: I remember when she first came on A Love and
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Speaker 8: Hip Hop it was like reported but nothing was ever confirmed.
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Speaker 8: That we didn't see her for like the first episode
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Speaker 8: or so because she had to go back. She was
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Speaker 8: trying to renegotiate the contract that she was offered because
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Speaker 8: things started to blow up so much towards the time
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Speaker 8: she supposed to be on Love and Hip Hop.
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Speaker 1: Is that true?
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Speaker 5: I don't know if it was that so much. I think,
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Speaker 5: you know, she was a reluctant participant. Let's put it
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Speaker 5: that way, right. Everybody around felt like the platform was
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Speaker 5: going to be great for her and was going to
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Speaker 5: give her the exposure she.
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Speaker 1: Needed, and she was like, hmm. But I think as the.
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Speaker 5: Season went on and she understood when she saw the response.
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Speaker 5: You know, what I always credit her for was understanding that,
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Speaker 5: oh wait, I didn't do this like I should have
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Speaker 5: done it to get what I need out of it, right,
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Speaker 5: Because that's always a speech that I give going into it,
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Speaker 5: like be very clear about what you want out of this,
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Speaker 5: so that you line up those dominoes because you're gonna
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Speaker 5: give a lot in the course of this, and make
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Speaker 5: sure that you get what you need out of this situation.
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Speaker 5: And so second time around, she had more clarity, She
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Speaker 5: understood what she wanted to get out of it, She
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Speaker 5: had her music that she wanted to promote, and she
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Speaker 5: came back and what I will say, did it right?
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it worked for her because you get to
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Speaker 2: see self front on her. You completely dropped the ball right, the.
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Speaker 4: Ball on her.
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Speaker 2: You get to see that. But then also that song
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Speaker 2: forever because of the show.
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Speaker 8: Into absolutely Yep, you're getting into a podcasting now, Oh,
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Speaker 8: how do you.
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Speaker 1: Hear about that? I haven't even he that's funny. Yeah, it's.
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Speaker 5: But again, it's just everything in its own time. But yes,
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Speaker 5: that is something that I'm working on right now, kind
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Speaker 5: of gathering my thoughts and sharing them with the.
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Speaker 7: World like audio documentary or something.
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Speaker 5: Probably more in line with a podcast, because I I mean,
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Speaker 5: I don't want it to be self help in any
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Speaker 5: kind of a traditional way. I just want to be
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Speaker 5: able to share stories, you know, my experiences and talk
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Speaker 5: them through and see if there are nuggets that you
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Speaker 5: pick up along the way that help you on your journey. Yes, no,
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Speaker 5: why all right, beautiful, let's talk about it.
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Speaker 1: I love it.
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Speaker 5: Am powered, empowered, Yeah, okay, powered by the letter M.
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Speaker 7: I mean, I think people can learn a lot from
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Speaker 7: folks like you, because I don't think nobody does artists
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Speaker 7: development no more.
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Speaker 2: Nobody cares about like the curation.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely culture anymore.
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Speaker 4: I don't understand it or seen it.
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Speaker 5: Because it hasn't been around in so long. And honestly,
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Speaker 5: what I subscribe to more fully is this notion that
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Speaker 5: you know, again, we are not monolithic. There's so much
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Speaker 5: we can do, and we tend to pigeonhole ourselves and
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Speaker 5: we tend to allow ourselves to be put in a box.
16:52
Speaker 5: And so you know the idea of exploring every ounce
16:57
Speaker 5: of your potential in your lifetime. Right before you take
16:59
Speaker 5: that last bread, just challenge yourself, what else can I do?
17:02
Speaker 1: What's next? You know?
17:04
Speaker 5: So that's kind of how I'm living life, and it's
17:07
Speaker 5: just the thought process I'd love to share and see
17:09
Speaker 5: what comes of it.
17:09
Speaker 7: I think one of the things I've always liked about
17:11
Speaker 7: watching you know you as a managers like you, you've
17:13
Speaker 7: been able to balance protecting your artist creativity while still
17:17
Speaker 7: preparing them for the business realities of the industry because
17:21
Speaker 7: it is a.
17:22
Speaker 5: Business absolutely, and I appreciate that. I mean, we started
17:25
Speaker 5: out very early on, you know, being that kind of
17:28
Speaker 5: bridge to the commercial world with hip hop specifically, and
17:32
Speaker 5: I always said, like, protect this brand at all costs,
17:35
Speaker 5: because once they've chewed you up, it's like when that
17:38
Speaker 5: flavor and in that gun is done.
17:39
Speaker 1: They're going to spit you out.
17:40
Speaker 5: So you've got to make sure that you understand how
17:43
Speaker 5: to navigate the business side of this because you're not
17:45
Speaker 5: doing this for your health.
17:46
Speaker 1: Is how you earn your living.
17:47
Speaker 5: But protect that brand and protect that culture at all
17:50
Speaker 5: costs because that is your currency.
17:53
Speaker 2: You know.
17:53
Speaker 3: I want to ask about So your executive producer, Mary J.
17:56
Speaker 4: Blidge presents be Happy.
17:57
Speaker 1: Be Happy.
17:58
Speaker 2: Yes, my favorite record of time.
18:00
Speaker 4: Ah, there you go, Yeah, break that down. What is uh, Mary?
18:06
Speaker 1: It's not a documentary.
18:07
Speaker 2: Yeah.
18:08
Speaker 5: Mary has an overall deal with Lifetime where she has
18:11
Speaker 5: a number of movies that were done under this kind
18:13
Speaker 5: of music brand where they take a song title and
18:16
Speaker 5: develop a story around it.
18:18
Speaker 1: Yeah.
18:19
Speaker 5: So we are the first in her extension of her
18:22
Speaker 5: deal and the movie is called Be Happy, and of
18:24
Speaker 5: course it's centered around her hit song, but it stars
18:28
Speaker 5: Tsha Campbell, Makai Pfiffer, Russell Hornsby, and it is an
18:32
Speaker 5: incredible story about a woman of a certain age finding
18:35
Speaker 5: herself and you know, figuring out love at this stage
18:39
Speaker 5: of her life. So yeah, I think is the director
18:43
Speaker 5: Gabaret Citabay in her directorial debut, she was fantastic, right,
18:49
Speaker 5: I would look at her and go like, what do
18:51
Speaker 5: you know about being a woman of a certain age?
18:53
Speaker 1: You young?
18:54
Speaker 4: You in love?
18:55
Speaker 5: But she was so committed, so focused. She did a
18:58
Speaker 5: fantastic job and we had so much fun. Gabby is hysterical.
19:03
Speaker 5: Like when I talk about funny, I'm talking about like, okay,
19:07
Speaker 5: get back to work funny. But everyone on set we
19:10
Speaker 5: had a great time making this movie. Shout out to
19:12
Speaker 5: Cameron Ross who wrote the script. You know, young guy
19:16
Speaker 5: wrote about you know, women's experiences, and Miss pat is
19:20
Speaker 5: in the movie as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a
19:22
Speaker 5: it's a fantastic cast sky Black. Shout out to him
19:25
Speaker 5: and Zing. But yeah, we had a lot of fun
19:28
Speaker 5: making the movie and it airs the seventh on Lifetime
19:33
Speaker 5: and I'm you know, excited to see people's reaction to it.
19:35
Speaker 2: How do you decide what songs to make music for,
19:37
Speaker 2: I mean, make movies for.
19:39
Speaker 5: I think it's just about song titles that you know,
19:41
Speaker 5: you feel a story can it can come from. So
19:43
Speaker 5: we're actually developing a wheel around different song titles and stuff.
19:48
Speaker 5: But yeah, we kind of backed into this because we
19:50
Speaker 5: had a fantastic story and it was like okay, which
19:52
Speaker 5: one of Mary's songs fit.
19:54
Speaker 4: This is it?
19:55
Speaker 1: No more drama is it?
19:56
Speaker 5: You know? And we landed on beh happy because at
19:58
Speaker 5: its core, that's what the story is about, finding your happiness.
20:02
Speaker 8: Are you going to be helping Mary produce her Vegas residency?
20:06
Speaker 5: Actually no, I would love to though, that's right in
20:08
Speaker 5: line with the things that I want to do, you know,
20:10
Speaker 5: with the live stage play. But no, this was us
20:13
Speaker 5: coming together, you know, with her production company. Shout out
20:16
Speaker 5: to Milana and Bruce, her brother, the executives at her company.
20:21
Speaker 1: But yeah, this was just on the film production front.
20:23
Speaker 7: When you think about, like all the conversations you and
20:26
Speaker 7: christ Slidi probably used to have back in the day
20:28
Speaker 7: and just what hip hop could be envision stuff like this, Like, damn,
20:32
Speaker 7: all of these years later, we'll be making movies off
20:34
Speaker 7: these hip hop and R and B records.
20:36
Speaker 2: Did you see that I did?
20:38
Speaker 5: Because actually, if you think about it, right back then,
20:41
Speaker 5: we were one of the first doing those branding deals,
20:43
Speaker 5: right Tribe call Quest with Sprite Missy with you know,
20:46
Speaker 5: Rebok and Adidas. So they weren't you know, many people
20:50
Speaker 5: moving into those areas. So we always understood that we
20:53
Speaker 5: wanted to branch our artists out and actually me moving
20:56
Speaker 5: into film television was as a result of that, because
20:59
Speaker 5: what would happen is artists would get to a certain
21:01
Speaker 5: point and then a film or TV manager would move
21:04
Speaker 5: in and they co manage, right, And I was like,
21:07
Speaker 5: why do we want to co manage? First of all,
21:09
Speaker 5: they don't understand the culture, they don't know how to
21:12
Speaker 5: protect the brand, and it's more work for us to
21:15
Speaker 5: make sure at all times that they're not cannibalizing or diluting.
21:19
Speaker 1: So we need to move into this area.
21:21
Speaker 5: And yeah, we started managing our talent and that led
21:24
Speaker 5: to us producing. So that was always part of the
21:28
Speaker 5: global growth vision, you know. And what I would love
21:32
Speaker 5: to see happen is that we you know, we talk
21:35
Speaker 5: about hip hop being global, but there's still this perception that, oh,
21:38
Speaker 5: certain things don't translate overseas.
21:40
Speaker 1: And I'm like, what are you talking about.
21:42
Speaker 5: We tour overseas, you know, we're out there, so really
21:45
Speaker 5: wanting to see film specifically have the same impact for
21:50
Speaker 5: our you know, music artists transitioning as it does in
21:53
Speaker 5: the US.
21:54
Speaker 4: When do we tell the Missy story? When do you
21:55
Speaker 4: tell that story?
21:56
Speaker 3: Because you know, all these interviews have been coming out
21:59
Speaker 3: recently out of here a lot of Missy stories where
22:01
Speaker 3: it's like even with the Benjamins, right, I don't know
22:03
Speaker 3: who told the story or where that story came out
22:05
Speaker 3: and they told about I know, but I don't know
22:06
Speaker 3: where what interview was, but he talked about how she
22:08
Speaker 3: was the one. Was it where she talked about, well,
22:12
Speaker 3: she was the one that set up the Benjamins and
22:13
Speaker 3: who could rap, who should rap, and.
22:15
Speaker 1: Who should go first. Her stories writing yeah, are so
22:19
Speaker 1: crazy and so deep.
22:20
Speaker 5: It's almost like for his gum when you would see
22:24
Speaker 5: him at certain pivotal points in history. But you know,
22:27
Speaker 5: we've been approached so many times, right for the documentary,
22:31
Speaker 5: for the biopeg for you know, and we've tried to
22:33
Speaker 5: look at it different ways. But Missy's thing is like
22:36
Speaker 5: same thing with touring, right twenty something years in before
22:39
Speaker 5: she stepped foot and headlined a tour, She's like, my
22:42
Speaker 5: story's not done yet. I'm not ready to tell it.
22:45
Speaker 5: You know, it's gonna happen when I'm ready. And that's
22:47
Speaker 5: what I love about her. She is ten toes down
22:50
Speaker 5: that nothing happens until she decides it's the right time.
22:53
Speaker 8: It never even got close though, where she was entertaining
22:55
Speaker 8: at first.
22:56
Speaker 5: Na Ta Tal when I tell you, we're constantly approached
22:59
Speaker 5: by the most you know, high profile documentarians, big name directors, studios,
23:07
Speaker 5: and she's.
23:07
Speaker 1: Like, nah, we're not ready yet.
23:08
Speaker 5: Yeah, but she's been amassing that content forever, so when
23:12
Speaker 5: she finally does it, it's gonna be sick because she's
23:15
Speaker 5: documented every waking moment. So she's got an incredible archive
23:20
Speaker 5: of material.
23:22
Speaker 1: Right in terms of management.
23:25
Speaker 5: You know what, very very close because we you know,
23:28
Speaker 5: when Chris went over to def Jam to start Violator,
23:32
Speaker 5: Buster was part of leaders over at Rush, so it
23:35
Speaker 5: was Buster first and then in very short order, you know,
23:38
Speaker 5: Missy did that Gina Thompson record. I tried to get her,
23:41
Speaker 5: she was like, nah, I'm good, and then Sylvia ended
23:44
Speaker 5: up signing her by promising her her own label. That's
23:47
Speaker 5: the only reason she became an artist. She had no
23:49
Speaker 5: real desire to be an artist because she had been
23:51
Speaker 5: so like demoralized from trying it and being told she
23:55
Speaker 5: didn't fit the look and all that.
23:56
Speaker 1: She was like, I'm good, I'm a writer.
23:59
Speaker 5: So it was probably I don't know, not even a
24:01
Speaker 5: year apart, so you know, I've been and bust for
24:05
Speaker 5: a period when I left to do film and television.
24:08
Speaker 5: He was with Chris and then now he's you know,
24:11
Speaker 5: back home at moan of me because.
24:13
Speaker 2: When you see him now, like creatively, they look like siblings.
24:16
Speaker 1: All That's what I said, they're like twins.
24:18
Speaker 7: I'm like, was that a blueprint that you say, Okay,
24:20
Speaker 7: just work with Buster, so let's try it.
24:22
Speaker 5: No, they they each I mean think about Buster, even
24:25
Speaker 5: with Leaders, right, he stood out because he was so
24:28
Speaker 5: different in terms of style and.
24:30
Speaker 1: You know, both lyrically, visually, everything about him. No, it
24:34
Speaker 1: just so happened.
24:35
Speaker 5: But I think the common factor is that I get them.
24:40
Speaker 1: I understand them.
24:41
Speaker 5: I understand what makes them tick, and understand how to
24:44
Speaker 5: support their creativity, you know, and and how to manage
24:48
Speaker 5: their eclecticness.
24:52
Speaker 7: Just God, even when I think about it now you
24:54
Speaker 7: talk about leaders, Buster said, ra.
25:00
Speaker 1: Wow, exactly.
25:02
Speaker 3: How how crazy did you have to fight to get
25:04
Speaker 3: those video shots back in the day, because they were
25:07
Speaker 3: one of the ones that started those million dollars the.
25:10
Speaker 5: Bank shout out to Sylvia Ron because she was you know,
25:14
Speaker 5: and that was the beauty of having, you know, somebody
25:17
Speaker 5: like Sylvia who respected their artistry, and that came before
25:21
Speaker 5: the economics and sometimes before the business I mean, incredibly
25:25
Speaker 5: smart businesswoman of course, but I don't know, I don't
25:29
Speaker 5: remember Sylvia being able to say no to you know
25:33
Speaker 5: what I mean. So she was always really supportive of them.
25:37
Speaker 5: And yeah, they were the first to come out with
25:39
Speaker 5: a million dollar joints and yeah, Dave Myers and Hype Williams, Yeah,
25:43
Speaker 5: they were doing it big back then of each other.
25:47
Speaker 5: Then what do you mean, Yeah, you know they've done
25:52
Speaker 5: they've done stuff together, but you mean just coming together
25:55
Speaker 5: and doing one.
25:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
25:58
Speaker 5: Yeah, but they still you know, again today to this day,
26:02
Speaker 5: we went out on tour together. That was incredible. That
26:04
Speaker 5: was a full circle moment for me to have them
26:06
Speaker 5: both on stage there.
26:07
Speaker 3: What's one thing bus to ask for? Missy asked that
26:09
Speaker 3: y'all couldn't pull through if there was anything.
26:12
Speaker 1: For a video? No period. Now, let me tell you something.
26:15
Speaker 5: The funny thing when you talk about like how we've
26:18
Speaker 5: managed to stay together that long, I think that's part
26:20
Speaker 5: of it as well. They go out of their way
26:23
Speaker 5: to ask for the most outrageous, ridiculous like that tour.
26:27
Speaker 5: I look at that tour and what we were able
26:28
Speaker 5: to put on stage. I don't know if you guys
26:30
Speaker 5: saw that. That was bar none. Probably one of the
26:35
Speaker 5: defining moments in my career, right because Missy was pulling
26:39
Speaker 5: all kinds.
26:39
Speaker 1: Of crazy stuff out of her, you know, and it
26:44
Speaker 1: would be like what if we flew?
26:46
Speaker 5: You know, But that was for me incredibly gratifying just
26:50
Speaker 5: to be able to figure it out at all and
26:52
Speaker 5: to pull it off. So every night when we watched
26:55
Speaker 5: that show go up, it was like, Wow, we did that.
26:57
Speaker 2: You want could get anything? Y'all had an elephant in
27:00
Speaker 2: the goddamn.
27:00
Speaker 5: We had elephant that was not CG that was not
27:06
Speaker 5: a I, that was a real live elephant in that.
27:09
Speaker 2: Video was when he asked you for that?
27:11
Speaker 1: Where were you probably huddled fetal position in.
27:15
Speaker 5: A corner somewhere like because they used to wear me out,
27:19
Speaker 5: the two of them, back to back, going toe to
27:21
Speaker 5: toe out doing each other, one up in each other.
27:23
Speaker 1: Yeah.
27:25
Speaker 5: Video, I feel like that was like in Brooklyn, and
27:29
Speaker 5: you know, it was like a huge where it might
27:32
Speaker 5: have been a bank, like an abandoned bank, because it
27:35
Speaker 5: was this huge space.
27:36
Speaker 3: Yeaht elephantant that.
27:40
Speaker 1: Was just you know, you can rent trained animals.
27:43
Speaker 3: Yes, back in the day, you probably can't do that
27:45
Speaker 3: now you probably did elephant.
27:48
Speaker 4: Of course.
27:51
Speaker 1: I can get I can get a trained elephant.
27:54
Speaker 2: It was when you.
27:55
Speaker 7: Think about the classic piece of art y'all made, yes
27:58
Speaker 7: that has literally stood.
27:59
Speaker 5: The absolutely and to this day, I just don't know
28:05
Speaker 5: who can lay claim to the level of creativity and
28:07
Speaker 5: the things that they were able to, you know, deliver
28:10
Speaker 5: on for the audience. And that's that staying power that
28:13
Speaker 5: I talked about. People are gonna remember those.
28:15
Speaker 1: Moments, you know, they will ever see that again.
28:18
Speaker 2: Nothing like, you.
28:19
Speaker 1: Know, very different time in music.
28:21
Speaker 8: I feel like even on the reality TV side though,
28:24
Speaker 8: like the way that you found the talent the right stories,
28:27
Speaker 8: like I don't think we ever feel like that again
28:29
Speaker 8: about reality TV.
28:30
Speaker 6: It was real.
28:31
Speaker 1: It was reality.
28:33
Speaker 6: It's never scripted, don't these are real problems? Like and
28:37
Speaker 6: that's the crazy.
28:38
Speaker 5: Part, right, It was like lightning in a bottle and
28:40
Speaker 5: people thought, oh, she's making that up. She's And I'm like,
28:42
Speaker 5: y'all could think whatever you want to think, But let
28:44
Speaker 5: me tell you something. If I could make up half
28:46
Speaker 5: the stuff that went on and love and hip hop.
28:49
Speaker 1: The rhime, you can tell.
28:52
Speaker 8: Jim Jones and Chrissy alone, I feel like their story,
28:54
Speaker 8: like people today still post memes and parts of that
28:58
Speaker 8: just there.
28:58
Speaker 5: It was a death iconic and indelible time in the culture,
29:03
Speaker 5: you know. But then the crazy part is, I would
29:05
Speaker 5: say all the time, like, how do you explain that
29:07
Speaker 5: this stuff is happening when the cameras.
29:08
Speaker 1: Are not rolling?
29:09
Speaker 5: Right?
29:10
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I was not there when
29:12
Speaker 1: XYZ happened, so how do you?
29:14
Speaker 6: But you know, and the crazy thing is, this is
29:17
Speaker 6: stuff that goes on in people's real house.
29:19
Speaker 1: It's just that there's no cameras there, Like the Tara.
29:23
Speaker 5: That was actually the genesis of it, like pulling back
29:27
Speaker 5: the curtain because again, having been in management and having
29:30
Speaker 5: you know, a front row seat to a lot of
29:32
Speaker 5: those lives that were being lived, it was like, you
29:35
Speaker 5: know what, there's a whole world here that people wouldn't
29:39
Speaker 5: even believe the kind of stuff that goes on. And
29:42
Speaker 5: it was really just about pulling that curtain back. But
29:44
Speaker 5: I think a lot of people couldn't wrap their heads
29:46
Speaker 5: around it because it seems so outrageous. Half the time,
29:50
Speaker 5: Trust me, we were all sitting there like, holy craft,
29:53
Speaker 5: did that really just happen?
29:54
Speaker 7: You know?
29:55
Speaker 6: So even it was even times where you were shot
29:57
Speaker 6: and some of the stuff, Like absolutely.
30:00
Speaker 7: What were some of the people the audience things they
30:02
Speaker 7: understand about love and hip hop that they completely get wrong?
30:06
Speaker 1: Listen.
30:07
Speaker 5: It has evolved tremendously, and I think there were times
30:11
Speaker 5: later on when people felt like they wanted to add
30:14
Speaker 5: water and stir to the formula. Right, so I'm just
30:17
Speaker 5: gonna come in and do this thing that's gonna, you know,
30:20
Speaker 5: make me the meme of the day whatever. But in
30:24
Speaker 5: the beginning, where people didn't understand is that this, like
30:27
Speaker 5: we said, was really their lives and it was difficult
30:30
Speaker 5: for them. Like there were so many hours spent after
30:32
Speaker 5: a difficult scene, like you know, talking somebody through it
30:36
Speaker 5: and really helping them deal with whatever it is that
30:39
Speaker 5: they had just experienced for real on television, knowing that
30:44
Speaker 5: the whole world is going to see this thing that just.
30:45
Speaker 8: Happened to me, you know, is it true? I know
30:48
Speaker 8: I've heard Jim Jones talk about this another love and
30:50
Speaker 8: hip Hop myth that they originally it was supposed to
30:53
Speaker 8: be about him and Chrissy's life, and they developed the idea,
30:55
Speaker 8: like he says, like he created love and hip.
30:57
Speaker 5: Hop absolutely well, Listen, I talk about it openly all
30:59
Speaker 5: the time, right, when Jim Ackerman, who was the executive
31:03
Speaker 5: at VH one, came to me. Yandy was managing Jim
31:07
Speaker 5: Jones at the time. They had an idea that they
31:09
Speaker 5: had pitched which was centered around Jim that they were
31:12
Speaker 5: developing for I think two years and couldn't kind of
31:16
Speaker 5: figure out the right formula. And I think Jim was
31:18
Speaker 5: going through a lot of things at the time, and
31:20
Speaker 5: when they turned the cameras on, he just was not
31:22
Speaker 5: in a space where he wanted to do it. And
31:25
Speaker 5: so there were a couple of iterations before we landed
31:27
Speaker 5: on what people came to know is Love and Hip Hop.
31:30
Speaker 5: I mean, we tried to do something with Mama Jones
31:32
Speaker 5: and you know the dynamic between her and Chrissy and
31:36
Speaker 5: you know, so there were a couple of things that
31:37
Speaker 5: we tried, and then when it was more about these
31:42
Speaker 5: ensemble casts, it was like, well, let's spread it out,
31:44
Speaker 5: let's look at the friends, let's see who else is
31:46
Speaker 5: in the world. And I've said also, the person who
31:48
Speaker 5: came up with the name was Emily. You know, we
31:50
Speaker 5: were sitting there going through a bunch of different names,
31:53
Speaker 5: and Emily was like Love and Hip Hop and.
31:55
Speaker 1: We were all like, yeah, Yeah, that sounds great, you know.
31:59
Speaker 2: Ye Now they're gonna say, well, why didn't they get
32:02
Speaker 2: equity in it done?
32:04
Speaker 5: Because if you understand the business of television at that
32:07
Speaker 5: point in time, this was an unproven concept, right. There
32:11
Speaker 5: was nothing like it on television. Everybody was kind of
32:13
Speaker 5: locking arms and trying something. It could have been an
32:16
Speaker 5: epic fail and then you would have had one hundred
32:18
Speaker 5: percent of zero. But when you do television, it's worked
32:21
Speaker 5: for hire.
32:22
Speaker 8: Right.
32:23
Speaker 5: They were not investing money in This is the business
32:26
Speaker 5: side of things that people need, you know, to educate
32:29
Speaker 5: themselves down and understand. Nobody came to the table and
32:32
Speaker 5: said I want to fund this, I'm going to own
32:34
Speaker 5: this thing and license it.
32:37
Speaker 1: Right.
32:37
Speaker 5: This was an idea that was purchased and paid for
32:41
Speaker 5: by a network, and everyone developed it for that network.
32:46
Speaker 4: True.
32:46
Speaker 7: Yes, Well, when your legacy had discussed right like twenty
32:50
Speaker 7: years from that, what do you hope people say you
32:51
Speaker 7: changed about TV?
32:53
Speaker 2: Not just what you profited from.
32:55
Speaker 5: I don't know that I'm necessarily as interested in hearing
32:58
Speaker 5: what I changed about TV as much as I am
33:02
Speaker 5: the impact that I had on people's lives. You know,
33:05
Speaker 5: think about the number of cast members that have come
33:09
Speaker 5: through just that franchise, never mind all the other things
33:11
Speaker 5: that I've produced and the other things that I've done
33:14
Speaker 5: in my career and in my lifetime right and just
33:16
Speaker 5: knowing that in whatever shape or form and whatever scope
33:21
Speaker 5: and scale, that I had an impact on helping someone,
33:24
Speaker 5: you know, realize their dream, helping someone get one step
33:27
Speaker 5: closer to you know, their full potential, or understanding what
33:32
Speaker 5: their space is in the world and how to be
33:35
Speaker 5: in that and live it and live up to it.
33:38
Speaker 1: That's to me way more important.
33:40
Speaker 5: And again that's when you know, talk about accolades or
33:43
Speaker 5: talk about criticisms. None of that, you know, has any
33:46
Speaker 5: bearing for me because as long as I every single
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Speaker 5: day understand what my intentions are, maintain my direct relationships,
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Speaker 5: know the impact that I've had on their lives, whether
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Speaker 5: it's been publicized or not, none of that stuff, you know,
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Speaker 5: matters to me.
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Speaker 4: Ramana, We appreciate you stopping it.
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, did we talk about the movie.
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Speaker 2: Mary J.
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Speaker 5: Blige Present to Be Happy February seventh only on Lifetime?
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Speaker 1: Do you have any other movies that you're doing.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, We're developing a ton of stuff.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, some I can talk about.
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Speaker 5: Very excited to be working with Suzanne to pass the
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Speaker 5: legend right exactly.
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Speaker 1: We have several projects that we're developing.
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Speaker 5: Also a project that I have been pursuing for a
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Speaker 5: very long time. When I did my first TV show,
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Speaker 5: one of the judges on the Road to Start with
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Speaker 5: Missy Elliott was Tina Marie, and so I have been
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Speaker 5: passionate about seeing Tina Marie's story come to life. So
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Speaker 5: that is a project that I'm working on with her daughter,
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Speaker 5: Alia Rose. So yeah, I'm very excited about that. But yeah, no,
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Speaker 5: many many more things to come in the pipeline.
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Speaker 1: So well, if you need any more actresses.
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Speaker 5: Of course you are on my very short list. Addition,
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Speaker 5: absolutely very short list, and Charlamagne, I will be following
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Speaker 5: up with you on my podcast Absolutely Beautiful.
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Speaker 2: You know, I want to ask you to know you
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Speaker 2: are even proudly Haitian. Yes, right.
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Speaker 7: Do you have anybody impacted by the ending of the
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Speaker 7: TVs status, I.
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Speaker 5: Mean not directly, it's just a horrible, you know thing
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Speaker 5: that is Listen, the state of the world in general
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Speaker 5: is crazy and chaotic right now. But yeah, there's a
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Speaker 5: lot of extended family, a lot of you know, friends
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Speaker 5: who have family that is being impacted by this, but
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Speaker 5: it is, you know, part and parcel with everything that's
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Speaker 5: going on in its entirety in this world right now,
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Speaker 5: like we can't just figure, you know, look at what's
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Speaker 5: happening to Haitian Americans, look at what's happening to us
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Speaker 5: in general, like it's crazy.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, Mona Scott, we appreciate you for you.
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Speaker 3: Forget Mary j BLI Presents Be Happy premiers on the seventh,
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Speaker 3: that's this week.
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Speaker 4: Make sure you definitely check it out.
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Speaker 3: And thank you for joining us, Thank you for having
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Speaker 3: It's the Breakfast Club.
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Speaker 4: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: Hold up every.
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Speaker 1: Day I wake pack your ass up.
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Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club finished, So y'all done