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INTERVIEW: Jill Scott On Divine Timing, Honesty, Healing + New Album 'To Whom This May Concern' · The Breakfast Club

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Every day I wake picks up the breakfast club.
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  Speaker 2: You don't finish for y'all, Dune Morning, Everybody's DJ Envy,
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  Speaker 2: Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy. We are the breakfast club
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  Speaker 2: La La roses here and we got a special guest.
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  Speaker 1: In the building.
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  Speaker 3: Legend that icon has returned the blessings with her presence
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  Speaker 3: once again.
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  Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, Jill Scott is back.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome.
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  Speaker 1: How you feeling? How do you feel, miss Jill?
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  Speaker 5: Excited? Excited?
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  Speaker 1: First, I'm in a decade, ten years, That's what I hear.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir By the way.
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  Speaker 3: I love the way you release music because it feels
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  Speaker 3: like you release music when you feel like you want to,
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  Speaker 3: when the spirit moves you.
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  Speaker 1: How do you know when it's the right time to
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  Speaker 1: release music?
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  Speaker 5: Because I have too much and then I it lets
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  Speaker 5: me relax when it's not finished. I keep tweaking, touching, touching, tweaking,
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  Speaker 5: finding new flavors, seasonings, musicians, producers, and when it's done,
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  Speaker 5: it leaves me alone and then I can just listen.
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  Speaker 5: And I have so much that I could just listen to.
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  Speaker 5: I knew I was done. It was like, okay, now
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  Speaker 5: I can create so.
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  Speaker 2: People would assume that you stopped recording for a little
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  Speaker 2: bit and then you just started recording recently. But you've
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  Speaker 2: been recording this whole time.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it doesn't stop. It's gonna show up. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: what are you gonna do? So I do record, but
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  Speaker 5: I don't. I just go when I feel like it
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  Speaker 5: or for no intention, just because I have to get
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  Speaker 5: it out. Other than that, you know, it's not like
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  Speaker 5: I'm thinking about an album until it's done.
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  Speaker 3: Are you like a comedian, Like you know, comedians always
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  Speaker 3: say they got to stop and live a little life
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  Speaker 3: before they get back on the stage.
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  Speaker 1: Are you like that?
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I gotta make dinner. I gotta go grocery shopping.
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  Speaker 5: I gotta see my mom. I gotta have her put
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  Speaker 5: me in my place a little bit, you know, raise
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  Speaker 5: my kid, do stuff. Other than that, what are we
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  Speaker 5: talking about?
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  Speaker 6: I saw you talking about when you took the time
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  Speaker 6: off and how intentional you are with just being a
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  Speaker 6: mom in that time that you took off and then
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  Speaker 6: explain it to your son about like why you gotta
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  Speaker 6: get back to work and teaching him that how has
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  Speaker 6: it been down that you're back out on the road
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  Speaker 6: and you're doing all these things and getting back into
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  Speaker 6: the swing of things.
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  Speaker 5: Well, he's sixteen now, and I didn't have to explain
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  Speaker 5: anything to him. He knew he was in the studio
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  Speaker 5: with me. You know, he's the one that suggested j
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  Speaker 5: I D. He's the one that suggested Tara Wack. You know,
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  Speaker 5: he's been a part of the whole process.
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  Speaker 1: So you got to work.
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  Speaker 7: So here an R.
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  Speaker 5: He is, He is an A and R. Absolutely, We'll
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  Speaker 5: see what else he can do. Right now, he's a
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  Speaker 5: scuba diving, cross country singing, writing person.
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  Speaker 1: Thus all of that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, thus far, I'm just watching to see, you know
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  Speaker 5: what I could do. You know how I can help
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  Speaker 5: out with the thing?
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  Speaker 4: Does he know how special his mom is and how
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  Speaker 4: powerful his mom is?
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  Speaker 5: Well, he loves me, you know, like whether I do
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  Speaker 5: well or if I you know what I have or
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  Speaker 5: don't have? He he loves me. You know, we love
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  Speaker 5: each other.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're special and powerful to him in ways that
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  Speaker 3: we would never understand.
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  Speaker 1: He was mom him.
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  Speaker 5: I appreciate him, I respect him, try to help him
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  Speaker 5: in any dream that he has. And I don't even
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  Speaker 5: know what that don't even mean, I don't know. I
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  Speaker 5: don't care as long as he's happy and he can
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  Speaker 5: take care of himself financially, that matters to us. I'm straight, like,
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  Speaker 5: he's a good person, so funny, he's cool, So I'm
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  Speaker 5: glad he suggested j I D. I was. We listened
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  Speaker 5: to him, you know, like this is our music in
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  Speaker 5: the kitchen, this is what Jet and I do when
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  Speaker 5: we have time together. And he said, Mom, why don't
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  Speaker 5: you call j Id? And I was like, I don't
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  Speaker 5: know him yet and He's like, just d.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what you did.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, And it's like minutes later he texted back like
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  Speaker 5: what's up, queen? Which you want? What you want to do?
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  Speaker 5: And I was like, well, he said, send it, and
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  Speaker 5: within twenty four hours he sent his verse back.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: And when I tell you, I asked him specifically. I said,
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  Speaker 5: I need you to paint a picture with words. This
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  Speaker 5: is what I require of the MC's that I love
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  Speaker 5: and the MC's that I put on my projects. I
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  Speaker 5: need you to paint pictures less than twenty four hours
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  Speaker 5: bars you could see it, you could taste it. He
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  Speaker 5: painted brilliant. So proud of him and so happy that
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  Speaker 5: he's on my project.
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  Speaker 3: So what made you put a soul on Old to
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  Speaker 3: Nikki because I feel like Old Nicki would have been
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  Speaker 3: such a personal record to you that you want to
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  Speaker 3: keep that to yourself.
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  Speaker 1: What made you you out to a.
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  Speaker 5: Sol because Nikki Giovanni inspired writers, She inspired her inspired poets,
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  Speaker 5: and a soul is an ill emc. Absolutely, he's he's
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  Speaker 5: so thought provoking. I have to go back and listen
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  Speaker 5: again and again, and then I pull out books and
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  Speaker 5: you know, I pick up Wikipedia or whatever, you know,
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  Speaker 5: to find out exactly what he's talking about, because he's
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  Speaker 5: he's that thoughtful, he's that prolific. He's he's had quite
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  Speaker 5: a life exp experience and it represents in his writing deeply.
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  Speaker 5: So I when I did old to Nicki, She's the
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  Speaker 5: first poet that I ever found out about at school,
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  Speaker 5: black poet, black woman, and uh, it was just awesome
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  Speaker 5: to see myself on paper like that, my people, my neighborhood,
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  Speaker 5: you know, my love on paper. So when I did
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  Speaker 5: old to Nicki, she ha just passed absolute. Seemed like
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  Speaker 5: the right guy to me. I mean, he sounds great
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  Speaker 5: on him, he does sound great. Well.
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  Speaker 3: I just wanted to know the meaning because I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: that's a big complish for asol.
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  Speaker 5: Because we spent a lot of time talking, we clicked
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  Speaker 5: really easily. So we talked about the Celestine prophecy like
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  Speaker 5: within minutes of just talking to each other and moved
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  Speaker 5: on from from there. So yeah, he was the right
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  Speaker 5: person for me to choose.
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  Speaker 4: So you look so happy, like you look so glowing.
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  Speaker 2: I've been watching your rollout right. I seen you with
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  Speaker 2: a demo and I seen you do a lot of pressing.
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  Speaker 2: You just look and feel like a positive vibe.
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  Speaker 5: I feel good. I did something that I really wanted
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  Speaker 5: to do and it means a lot to me, and
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  Speaker 5: I have an opportunity to share it and perform it
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  Speaker 5: in front of people that will be looking at me
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  Speaker 5: like I look at them, and I get a chance
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  Speaker 5: to travel some more and make some money. You know.
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  Speaker 2: But you even, like, even when I see you do
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  Speaker 2: these interviews, you're blushing. It's like it's like your overly loved.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 5: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Even when you got here this morning, you were you said,
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  Speaker 2: what time do you guys get here in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: But you were smiling and happy about it, Like I
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  Speaker 2: love it, and I love.
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  Speaker 4: To see artists like that that loved the craft.
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  Speaker 2: You could tell when the artist has to do something
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  Speaker 2: for money, or when the artist has to do something
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  Speaker 2: because the label is requiring it or management required and
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  Speaker 2: then you can tell when somebody just loves putting.
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  Speaker 1: Every ten years, she doesn't do anything because the label
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  Speaker 1: wants her to difference.
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  Speaker 6: Even your rollout felt like a hug, Like I saw
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  Speaker 6: you you were from Gillian Wallow, then I saw you
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  Speaker 6: on Angie Martinez. Then eventually you started doing like you
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  Speaker 6: were posting like the letters on your Instagram kind of
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  Speaker 6: explaining the project. And I'm like, this just feels like
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  Speaker 6: I'm being ushered into like a whole new world of things.
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  Speaker 5: I have a new publicist. I think she's absolutely wonderful.
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  Speaker 5: Her name is Erica Trucker Tucker. Forgive me. I think
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  Speaker 5: she's fantastic. But we had a whole other idea, Like
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  Speaker 5: two days before we started doing the rollout. Two days
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  Speaker 5: before I just was like, hold on, hold on, hold on,
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  Speaker 5: hold on, hold on, we're talking about beautiful people. If
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  Speaker 5: we're gonna put beautiful people out as an introduction to
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  Speaker 5: the album, because really that's who I'm calling. I'm calling
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  Speaker 5: the people that that light up from the inside, you
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  Speaker 5: know that that love love, yeah, love love that are
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  Speaker 5: again financially respectful to their lives. Makes sense, okay, And
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  Speaker 5: so if that's the if that's the intention is this
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  Speaker 5: is the call out, Well, let me represent the people
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  Speaker 5: that have been so beautiful in helping me with this project.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's all been organic. I met a guy
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  Speaker 5: at a party. It was like, I'm too short, engineer,
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  Speaker 5: and I was like, I believe you.
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  Speaker 1: Record that the church is gonna be that's like part
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  Speaker 1: to a drew.
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  Speaker 6: Possibly it's the church in the education system too though, right,
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  Speaker 6: could you mentioned education in there as well?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I'm in the pharmaceutical and big pharma. Yeah you ain't,
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  Speaker 5: I know.
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  Speaker 3: If you didn't lie, and and even just the choice
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  Speaker 3: to go get too short. They come on there and
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  Speaker 3: describe pimping.
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  Speaker 5: The mentality of a pimp. What is it? So so
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  Speaker 5: we're clear, I'm not saying anything. I'm not trying to
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  Speaker 5: be mean to you. What I don't want to be
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  Speaker 5: mean to somebody for it. That's not it. This is
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  Speaker 5: what it is. This is what it is. And I
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  Speaker 5: have a thorough bread pimp to tell you, so, to
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  Speaker 5: give you all the information that you need. And this
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  Speaker 5: has been brought to you by education because I want
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  Speaker 5: you to know.
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  Speaker 1: All those records easy are hard to create.
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  Speaker 5: Easy, really easy. The musician's name is Kari Martin. I
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  Speaker 5: met him when he was like a kid at the studio.
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  Speaker 5: Now he's he played every instrument on that every instrument
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  Speaker 5: right right, Okay, he gives me this music. It feels
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  Speaker 5: like it feels like like the player's ball. It feels
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  Speaker 5: like it's pamphy, it's a felire. It's like revolutionary at
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  Speaker 5: the same time. And I was like, yeah, okay, what
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  Speaker 5: am I gonna talk about? This is what I want
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  Speaker 5: to say. I say, preacher man, what you're trying to do?
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  Speaker 5: Trying to Yeah this my name is that all you
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  Speaker 5: do when my main got squad? But you take that yo,
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  Speaker 5: and he ain't good for the people. I ain't moved.
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  Speaker 5: Where's the universities? Where's all the food for free? People?
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  Speaker 5: Can't fee the bells? But you're still riding around in
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  Speaker 5: the Coopville biggest pimp of the year.
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  Speaker 3: Huh So how when you look when somebody when you
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  Speaker 3: meet too short? What you said you met his engineer
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  Speaker 3: and I.
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  Speaker 5: Met too short at uh something. He's just a part
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  Speaker 5: of me. I don't even know when I didn't know
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  Speaker 5: Too Short hop DNA Yo. Is that what that is?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 5: Immediate breathree? Okay, that's what it is. Okay, okay. I
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  Speaker 5: don't feel too crazy. But I met his engineer at
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  Speaker 5: a party. He said, I'm a producer and I also
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  Speaker 5: I engineered for Too Short. I just believed him.
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  Speaker 4: I just believed him.
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  Speaker 5: I just believed him. So I gave him my number.
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  Speaker 5: We exchanged numbers. I called him. He sent me music,
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  Speaker 5: He sent me off of the bag and he said
• 11:00
  Speaker 5: me pressure when I say organic, like just allowing the
• 11:07
  Speaker 5: things to be what they are. I'm talking to David Banner,
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  Speaker 5: you know, that's my dude, and we're talking. He's been
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  Speaker 5: giving me music forever. He just keeps keeps the inspiration churning, right.
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  Speaker 5: So he's we're talking, and I said, I got this track.
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to feel like I wanted to feel like
• 11:26
  Speaker 5: a marching band. I wanted to feel like HBCU marching band.
• 11:30
  Speaker 5: That's what I want, That's what I want. He said,
• 11:32
  Speaker 5: why don't you call Trombone Shorty. You got his number, Yeah,
• 11:37
  Speaker 5: send it to me. I called easy. He went in
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  Speaker 5: and cut four hundred and eighty tracks. Why would you
• 11:45
  Speaker 5: do such a thing, sir, why would you do such
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  Speaker 5: a thing? And he's just like, I love you. The
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  Speaker 5: way that it's working, I couldn't have planned it. Like
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  Speaker 5: even the day that this, you know, come out, it's
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  Speaker 5: it's uh February uh thirty.
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  Speaker 4: Thirteen thirteenth yep two three two one three.
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  Speaker 5: No, February thirteenth, got it.
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  Speaker 4: I don't get it, but.
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  Speaker 5: Okay on the twenty wait, twenty six year right, twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody else in the room got it? Yes, sir, two
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  Speaker 1: thirteen thirteen times no.
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  Speaker 5: Nopeld e. It's as simple as simple could be. I
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  Speaker 5: love I call myself the Queen of grand simple things.
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  Speaker 5: Two four one in three two and six wait two
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  Speaker 5: and six eight right two four eight, Just as simple
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  Speaker 5: as can be. These are the things that I look.
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  Speaker 1: For, all things. That's all that basically I am.
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  Speaker 5: After reading the Celestine prophecies, I am driven. Am I
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  Speaker 5: am driven. It's a path I just I just follow it.
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  Speaker 5: Signs are obvious and evident. And I said, yes, whether
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  Speaker 5: whether I you know my number is four two is
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  Speaker 5: obviously so I'm always looking for a four. I'm looking
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  Speaker 5: for the right energy. And Friday the thirteenth kind of
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  Speaker 5: felt good to me. I don't know, and it's the
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  Speaker 5: day before Valentine's Day. I could have released it on
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  Speaker 5: Valentine's Day, but I like this. I'm hoping people will
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  Speaker 5: listen and and like have something to talk about.
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  Speaker 4: Most people would have stayed away from Friday to thirteenth.
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  Speaker 1: Why she playing Jason, She killing these hosts listen.
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  Speaker 3: But No, when you talk about the Celestine Prophecy, it's
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  Speaker 3: like to me, I've always seen your aura, like when
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  Speaker 3: you talk about the following, the divine like you've always
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  Speaker 3: had that divine energy, that divine presence, Like that's why
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  Speaker 3: we've always gravitated towards you.
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  Speaker 5: It's a confirmation of what I already knew. Gotcha it was.
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  Speaker 5: It was a stamp. So when I'm not reading it,
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  Speaker 5: I'm listening to it. It's just a good story, like
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  Speaker 5: like like any folklore, I would say, or Bible or
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  Speaker 5: Torah or Holy Koran. They're filled with stories that teach
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  Speaker 5: us how to live a life. And obviously you get
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  Speaker 5: to choose how you do the thing. With the Celestine Prophecy,
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  Speaker 5: it taught me that I'm already doing the things that
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  Speaker 5: I need to do, Like I always look for beauty.
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  Speaker 5: You know, no matter what situation I'm in, where is
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  Speaker 5: the beauty. It's some. There's gotta be some, And then
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  Speaker 5: you find it. The mud around your boot is rich
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  Speaker 5: and it's kind of like mushy, and something about it
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  Speaker 5: is a little satisfying. So you step into mud a
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  Speaker 5: little bit more. My boots are muddy, but my spirit
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  Speaker 5: feels good. So I follow these things. There are nine Insights.
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  Speaker 5: The studio that I was working out of has I've
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  Speaker 5: worked there many times, but it's been changed over and
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  Speaker 5: over again. That's always closing down and starting again. So
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  Speaker 5: I'm in the middle of Celestine Prophecy and I'm going
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  Speaker 5: to the studio because I've decided to take the month
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  Speaker 5: and just go every day like finish. And I'm walking
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  Speaker 5: up and I look and they put that new sign
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  Speaker 5: on the studio and it's I in C I T
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  Speaker 5: E Studios. I was like, Insights studios. Okay, okay, I'm
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  Speaker 5: headed in the right direction. Don't give up. These are
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  Speaker 5: the things that I look for, like little little signs
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  Speaker 5: that are actually really big ones. And here I am
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  Speaker 5: with you.
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  Speaker 2: That's been a while, so if everything is a signed,
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  Speaker 2: do you ever feel see a sign that says I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going in that direction. I'm not going there, or management,
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  Speaker 2: let's not do that, because that does not feel right.
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  Speaker 5: It's not as easy. It's abrupt, it's harsh, it's a
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  Speaker 5: it's a jerk back, and I haven't really no, I
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  Speaker 5: don't know how to like navigate that part yet, but
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  Speaker 5: I will. I will get I will get away. I
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  Speaker 5: will get away. I've learned that too. But when the
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  Speaker 5: spirit says no, when your whole energy says no, what
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  Speaker 5: are you doing? Don't talk to this person. I remember
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: talking to somebody at a party and I was like,
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: why are you got covid all in my face? And
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: I got COVID.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, see, girl, everything makes so much sense
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  Speaker 3: now because you know, one of my favorite records on
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  Speaker 3: the album is pay You on Tuesday, right, And it's
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: so funny because my niece had put out a tweet
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  Speaker 3: yesterday and she put af you young Black and gifted
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: get away from niggas and niggas shit asap, right, and
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: I just thought that was hilarious, and then I heard
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  Speaker 3: pay You on Tuesday. But now I'm like, oh, she's
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: staying away from the poor me energy type. I mean, now,
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: did I hear you talk about the book so much,
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, that's why she wrote that record.
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: Part of it, part of it, part of it. And
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: I know I keep saying financial, but I am really
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: over us spending and buying things that we can't afford
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  Speaker 5: for who, for what. It's so many things to do,
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  Speaker 5: to taste, to see, places, to be like. I just
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: I just don't see how it profits us to you know.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: I like nice stuff too, I really do. But I
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: buy the stuff that I can afford. And somebody else
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: was like, you could afford. You don't know what I
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: could afford, and you don't know what I want, but
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: you accurate wage I do. I do, I do. I
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: think it's a wise decision. I saved properly. I invest.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: I really want to switch out of this poverty mindset,
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: or the lacking mindset of some you know, my family,
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: break away from these things. I'm not interested in doing
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: that anymore. I want to grow and I want to
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: make a whole lot of money, like a whole lot,
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: and I'm going to do great things with it, enjoy it.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: I already do enjoy the money I have. I do
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: dope shit on the regular. I really do. It's it's
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: been so nice. Oh my god. You know my son
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: went to Tanzania to get his schoola certification that I've
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: never been.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Beautiful.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: I've never been, but he has.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Like yes, But that's the most important thing, right when
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: we get to a place where it's like none of
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: this matters. You just want your kids to be happy.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Whatever it takes to be happy.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Like I tell my daughter my son, I don't care
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: what you do. If you want to do nails, if
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: you want to do heir, if you want to do sanitation.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: As long as you're happy, life is too short.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: Joyful, happy is fleeting, joyful, joyful, look for it. That's
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: an insight as well, to constantly look for the joy.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: Taste of food, taste it feel with water. It's nice
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: and it sparks creativity.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: But I can't afford to eat that gill, and I
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: can't afford to go there the swimming that water.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: So can you loan me something quick?
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: I've learned this. If someone wants to borrow something from you,
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: you give them a job. If they do the job
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: and do the job well, then that you're showing me something.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: I'm going to give you a small reimbursement contract. I'm
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: going to say twenty five dollars a month. Fair. Yes,
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: you don't pay the twenty five dollars. I don't know
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: how when it's gonna stop. It's gonna stop if you're consistent.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: If you're consistent. If you're not consistent, you never have
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: to worry about me again. You never have to ask
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: me anything again, because this was a contract. It didn't
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: have any interest. This was respect. So I enjoy helping people,
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: but I have to see what they want. I have
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: to see what they're doing. I gotta see something. You
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: gotta show me something. Can't just tell me a dream.
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: Okay, when did you get to that point in your life?
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: Because I saw you talking to Aie Martinez about that
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: right and set in these boundaries. But then I also
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: hear you talk a lot about like you carry so
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: much for your fear for a long time because you
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: were trying to, like y'all were trying to get out
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: of the situations that you guys were in. And I
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: think that there's like a sometimes there's like this tug
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: of war of like I'm able to help, so I
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: want to help, But at the same time, I got
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: us set these boundaries. When did Jill Scott say I
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: didn't did enough. I gotta stop this now.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: Now something had to happen.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: I turned fifty and the light popped on again. Yeah,
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: that's what happened. Time creates wisdom, you know, if you're
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: paying attention. If you're not paying attention, it just creates age.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: But yeah, I've been paying attention, and I know that
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: that doesn't make me feel good to watch people do
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: things that are outside of their particular space financial space,
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: like going on a cruise. Okay, you're going on a cruise,
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: but you didn't pay the mortgage. I can't help you
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: with that. I can't And the fact that you would
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: ask me to is ridiculous. You made a choice. That
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: is your choice. It wasn't like something happened like you know,
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: the car broke down, or you know the tuition is
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: behind or it's nothing like that. And even if tuition
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: is behind, had them grades? How they doing? What activities
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: are they in? Because it's mine and I can share
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: with you as I've seen fit and deemed fit. It
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: might seem harsh, but I don't know. It feels right
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: to me. I feel better. I don't feel way down
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: by people's stuff.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's harsh.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: And also, what about when you give somebody money for mortgage,
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: but then you go see them on a cruise after
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: they just asked you.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: I didn't get invited to the crew.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: What is nigga blues to you?
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: That's his favorite song?
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: By the way, Oh.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: No, I got a lot of favorite records, but that
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: record was hit for me yesterday in a real way.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: I got a lot of favorite record on that but
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: that one really was. Okay.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: Music is medicinal. It'll hit you when you need it.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: So what do you mean by like, what what does
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: it do for you?
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Man?
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: For me, it just put things in perspective based off
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: what you're saying, because you're saying a lot of that
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: throughout the song as you're singing. But it's also it's like,
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: I don't want no more nigga blues. Stop putting your
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: problems on me. I can wake up in the morning
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: and be good, and then by the end of the
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: week I'm feeling way down. And then when you realize
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: why you're way down, it's because you're trying to help
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: everybody else with they shit.
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: I don't want no more niggas it's exhausting. Yes, it's exhausting.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: I love to inspire. I want people to do better,
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: But if they don't want it, what am I supposed
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: to do? Just keep pouring into an empty well. I
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: can't do it. The things that you do don't benefit you,
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: so why do I have to?
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Damn, that's a bar.
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: It is that it's really mentally heavy too, especially depending
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: on where you come from. Like I've your song with
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: a tier whack. It's so Philly, it's so like arts Philly.
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: I love tiar wack. But just hearing you say that
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: makes me think about like a lot of people who
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: come from like particular neighborhoods, families, whatever, that mental weight
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: we never some of us never let that go. Like
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: I used to turn fifty, I got family number sixty
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: five and plus that are like literally aging themselves because
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: they're still holding onto that.
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: I gotta do everything for everybody.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: Yes, it's not benefiting us. It's like, what are we
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: being loyal to? That line? You know, all all skin
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: folk and kim folk, not all people are your people.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: That does a search out for your people and weed
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: them out respectfully, you know, or disrespectfully. They just have
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: to go. They can't stay to take up space. A
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: girlfriend of mine had asked me about what to do.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: She said she wanted a man, and I was like,
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: maybe make some space for one a physical manifestation of
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: a dream or an idea that you want it becomes real.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: Make room in your closet, take the lamp down on
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: the other side of your bed and take the stuff
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: out of it. It might sound crazy to some, try it.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: Make space in your life for what it is that
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: you want, and you'll see it every day, the fact
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: that there's a space and watch it. Just watch, just
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: try Scianti, I love you, Okay.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: It's a lot of make space in my bank account
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: and manifesting. If that money come in, it's.
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: Another account, Get another account.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: Did your friend ever get the man?
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: Hmm, they're very happy at this stage in your life.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: What does honesty and music require that it didn't demand
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: from you when you was in like your twenties and thirties.
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: What does it require now? I don't know what it requires.
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: I know what I require.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: What do you require?
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: I require a certain amount of rest. I want to
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: be in the best venues that has the best sound.
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: I like a two bedroom or a definitely a two
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: bathroom hotel suite. Time with my people. Like my people,
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: they I've known them forever. They're like friends. They're not
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: like friends, they're the best of friends. Time with them,
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: and then I love to do my job. So it's
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: not even like I feel like I'm required to do
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: anything by anyone. I set my space. You know, I
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: said it before, I'll say it again. You work hard
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: in your twenties, you work smart in your thirties, you
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: work how you want to in your forties, you work
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: when you want to in your fifties, and you work
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: if you want to in your sixties. And I'm in
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: my how I want to phase of my life, so
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: how I want to is more than likely I will
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: be having residencies instead of running all over the country.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: Come to me, Come to me. Let me give you
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: a stage that I've created that I don't have to
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: pick up and move from space to space, you know,
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: and in you know, if I just come see me,
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: I'll let you know plenty of time, you know, so
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: that you can come and I'll create based off of
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: the space that I'm in. This is where I am now,
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: this is what I require, And then I would love
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: listening ears, people that actually listen to what's being said.
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: And the musicianship of the album, you know that part
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: like I hope to inspire bass players like crazy. I
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: hope to inspire MC's like crazy to start. I don't know,
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: telling stories, painting pictures in big grand scopes, you know.
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: So to whom this may concern requires these things. And
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: that's where I am at this point.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: The title feels like a like like a boundary and
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: a release in a way.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Why did you come up with that concern?
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: Because it's to whom this may concern. It is to
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: whom this may concern, you'll know. If it's for you,
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: you'll know. And then I thought about this because I
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: thought maybe that was limiting. I thought about this the
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: other day that I didn't understand Billie Holliday when I
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: was young. I didn't understand the tone of her voice.
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: I didn't understand the things that she was talking about.
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: I didn't get it. It's like, why didn't make such
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: a big deal about this lady? Until I got my
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: feelings hurt? And then I played Billie Holiday and I
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: was like, Oh, that's what this is, and you're relating
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: to me in this space Oh so it could be
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: the same thing for a lot of people. I don't know.
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: But to whom this make concern is for to whom
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: this may concern, well know, I can't wait to see
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: your faces.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: That makes so much sense, because, like you know, you
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: can't wait.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: I think about, like, you know, older records of yours,
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: like blessed right, and when you first heard it's a
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: good record. But when you're actually in that space, oh
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: later in life, oh my god, it just hits different.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: It just hits different.
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: You get to that point you're like, and I know,
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: and I know, do you think about.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: That when you're creating, like what?
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: I want to make sure that people understand it when
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: they're at their lowest moment, at their highest moment, at
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: that moment.
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: I don't know if I could do that to myself.
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: I try my best to be as clear as possible,
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: and I know that I speak in poet, but I
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: try my best. And then I just, you know, have
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: to release the baby, go ahead out in the world
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: and see what happens. You know. I put a lot
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: of good intentions, a lot of prayer, a lot of love,
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: a lot of hours, lots I'm into the project, so
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: this baby's been loved. I think you can hear that.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: I know I can hear it, and the people will
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: see who gravitates towards it. I'm excited to see them.
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: I really am.
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: On the I was gonna say that's on the start
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: of the album. You talk about you can't wait to
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: see the people just now. When you said it before
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: this last time, you kind of got emotional when you
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: said you can't wait to see people's faces. What is
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: that feeling that I'm like, since as you say you
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: can't wait to see the people shout for this.
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: It's a dream. It's a dream. I've seen it. I've
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: seen it every time I sing beautiful people, I just
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: see I see thousands and thousands of people like it's
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: and they're up and they're up there too as far
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: as I can see, and I and I get to
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: see these faces looking back at me. I don't know
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: how I'm going to make it through that. I'll do
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: my best, and I don't know how I'm going to
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: make it through I shay either.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: It's so different.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: Me and one of our producers were talking about the
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: record earlier because she was asking me what I was
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: one of my favorite because on the album she said.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: I say I should.
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: I was crying during the recording. Andre Harris sent me
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: the music and I was like, this is a prayer.
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: This is a prayer. Now, what shall I say to
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: my beautiful people? Man, I don't know how I'm gonna
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: ever get through that song. They'll probably have to sing
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: it for me. I just don't know. I don't know.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: I've seen you do some amazing singing when you was crying.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: I remember years years Yeah, this is twenty plus years ago.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: I seen you in Charlotte, North Carolina at the Sugar
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: Water Festival. You hit a high note so crazy, like
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: literally a tear came down your face like Denzel and Glory.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: It just sat there for a second. You didn't miss
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: a beat, So I don't think you'll miss a beat.
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: We'll see how this goes.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: On the hook of a be great, you say, I'm
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: gonna go ahead and be great? Yeah, do you have
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: times when you feel like you're not great already?
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: It's internal and it's not for anybody else's. It's not
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: for anybody else. You're great, my great, It's all great.
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. But I'm gonna do my great.
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: I'ma you know, yeah, do I have? Do I have?
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: What was the question, like, do you ever feel like
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: you have moments where you feel like you're not great already? Like,
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: because I can't, I can't imagine you have any pothet
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: syndrome ever.
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: Oh, thank you. I'm sure I feel insecure and scared
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: and all the things that human beings feel. I mean,
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: I know I do. Was there a time I didn't
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: think I was being great? I don't remember when you.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Say I'm gonna go ahead and be great. You're just talking.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: About everything and all the things. You know what I said?
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: All my life, I wanted to do good. I wanted
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: to be good. I wanted to feel free of a
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: history that made me cry and stump my stride. So
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: I changed my mind. I doubled down on believing that
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: the opinions of other people couldn't like my life or
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: determ my sight, nor wrong my rights or delay my flight.
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: I'm flying high now, up above, on the clarity of love.
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: I only get what I put into it. I spend
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: my sweet time where I deemed fit. I got one life.
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna let my glow show. Baby, Look at this
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: The embodiment of soul glow. I admit, paint my own pictures,
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: gifts on gifts, on gifts, Let the load lift, let
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: the words shift. I ain't here to live in fear
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: or just plain old exists. I'm gonna go ahead and
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: be great. So I want people to play before they
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: go in their audition. I want them to play before
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: they go in their job interview. I want them to
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: play it before they.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: Propose the test, before they take the test.
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: So much affirmations like the whole like it felt like
• 35:07
  Speaker 6: like I feel like living my life like it's golden.
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: It's like a song that you play when you want
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: to feel good too, Like that's like my go to,
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: like easy affirmation song. But when I was listening to this,
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: I'm like, you got like the first three songs. First
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: two songs are just straight out the back and then
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: you're just going off with the affirmations.
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: And other things. Is that what it is?
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: It felt?
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: I don't know if it's like it's kind of like
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: the so the opening song with is a dope shit
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: that kind of felt like a like how you was
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: like just listening to Auntie right, I felt like I
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: was sitting down and somebody was like, I'm tired of you.
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: Come here, come and have a convers let's let's really
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: talk because what's going on. It felt like that. And
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: then when we go into the second song, be Great,
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: it's like it's already there and not and told you
• 35:46
  Speaker 6: and I'm not going to tell you again. And then
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: beautiful people, it's like the people have finally got it
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: and now they like all come together and it's just
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: this big march and push back against like this. I
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: just like it's like a world phenomena, like everything's switching.
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: You can see it.
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: Yes, it just continues and continues and continues.
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: Yes, yes, so maybe it's more of a movement not affirmation.
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: Whooo, I'll take it. I'll take it. It's it's I
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: was made an auntie for a reason and I'm going
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: to do my job.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Mhmm.
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: Period.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: You know, I wonder when you do records like pressure,
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: when you do records like me for is that when
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: you do the actual record? Is that when the closure
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: comes or do you have closure before in order to
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: do the record.
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: I never thought about it. I don't know if that
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: I'm looking for closure necessarily. I need to say it.
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: I need I need it. I need to say it.
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: It is true. I need to Yeah, get it out.
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: I think that's how I feel about that. Yeah, And
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: then when I listen to it, it becomes an affirmation
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: for me because I've said it, and I was like, yeah,
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: you said that, because that's that's what it is. That's
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: exactly what it is.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you went too far. It was like, let me
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: take this out.
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: Man, many many times, many times, many times. I typically
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: write the thing before I get into the studio so
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: I can find how it feels when I get in there,
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: or I'll already know how it feels. It wasn't something
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: I don't I don't know if I necessarily went too far.
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: And be clear, I just said some ship I probably
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: shouldn't have said. I don't know. It was the right thing,
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: And when I listened to it, I'm like, yeah, that's right.
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: You know that was that was real there. But I
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: probably shouldn't have shared it.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: This album. You said you married a bitch. Yes, I
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: got pretty self exflanatory.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: I think I just needed to get to get stuff
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: out too. You know, music is healing for the artists
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: as well, supposed to be.
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: What's the moral compass with that. Is it yourself said?
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: Now?
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Is it your son?
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: Is it your homies house?
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: I haven't had that. It didn't come up. Nobody said anything.
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: You know, and my son listens to everything and we
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: talk about everything. Yeah, so it didn't come Nobody said
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: he you probably should. Nobody did not. I don't know
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: if I would agree or disagree about it. Did you
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: see how everybody's going crazy about squeezing my meat?
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: It's a song called don't Play Right.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: I don't see people going crazy?
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: Oh boy, I did.
• 38:55
  Speaker 8: They were like, squeez my meat, she said, squeeze my feet,
• 39:05
  Speaker 8: And I was like, I did.
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: At not used to that for you yet at this point,
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: it's a new generation of people who just be on Twitter.
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: I'm just I'm just confused. Maybe you all can help
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: me out here, because I would love to know. I've
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: heard lyrics.
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: That way worse slob on my knob, likeing on the cop.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: They're singing about eating ass now, Jill.
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: I heard. I heard. I listened to a lot of music,
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: And because I listened to a lot of music, I
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: was just like, what exactly is so radical about squeeze
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: my meat? But what but beside being a fan or not, Like,
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: what's radical about that. I just thought I'm missing something.
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: Probably when you sing it with yes, you know, because
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: it sounds amazing, So you might be just randomly finding
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: yourself singing it even as a guy, you know what
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: I mean.
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: I also think I think it's to like with the
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: new generation, they get it different ways.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: Like at some point at the end of the spirit
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: with me and I'll just be coming around the corner,
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: squeeze my meat.
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: You better never sing that you in the bathroom with me, bro,
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: That's all.
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: I think. It's the fact that you got to say squeeze.
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: They said it was they was deeming the big areola music.
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: I heard that too, Yeah, yeah, because basically, if you
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: don't know what to do with it, don't come over here.
• 40:33
  Speaker 7: That's the conversation. And I think it's just.
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: Right now.
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: In music, you either get stuff like that very straightfor
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: forward to the point where it's not sensual, and that
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: has always been you to be able to communicate those
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: type of things in a very unique way, right. But
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: there is a new generation of like creators and artists
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: who are listening to this and discovering your ability for
• 40:54
  Speaker 6: the first time, and they just think it's so powerful
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: and forward, and I'm like, welcome, that's all same.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: People like people like that.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: I hate people that I don't want to have to
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: I don't want to catch up with you, Okay, Like
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: we over here celebrating Jill Scott because of who Jill
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: Scott always has been. I don't have time to explain it.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: They'll get there, the greatness of Jill Scott. You know,
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: ketch up in your own.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: Time, fair enough, They'll get there time, right, I gotta
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: explain it.
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: They'll get there, life will happen, and then there all
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: be your love and ninety with so many stories to tell,
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: so many life experiences to share, so many lessons learned,
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: so much music.
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: There was a skit on here too, I forget where
• 41:36
  Speaker 6: where it like comes in at and you're like talking
• 41:38
  Speaker 6: to someone and then it goes into a song. And
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: I was hoping that we would get more of that
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: type of thing, kind of like what Jasmine Sullivan did
• 41:44
  Speaker 6: on Hotels, just because of what you said, Like, I
• 41:48
  Speaker 6: know we know so much about you, but I know
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: that there's a lot more to hear, and now that
• 41:51
  Speaker 6: I'm older, I just was like, I wonder if she'll
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: ever do that where we just get to hear her
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: talk through her like experiences of things, and then we
• 41:59
  Speaker 6: go back to the music after that.
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: Well, I don't know. I did listen to Viola Davis's book,
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: and just my god, I could listen to that woman.
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: That story was so powerful, so impactful. I think if
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: I were going to do that, it'd probably be a book.
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: You know, I have a lot of dreams.
• 42:24
  Speaker 7: Does that mean a book is getting it works or something?
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: I know a publisher if you need one.
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: You know, it's so interesting you mentioned David Banner a
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: lot to me, y'all. I don't know, y'all have similar spirits.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: I don't know, Like sometimes I hear you talking, I
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: hear David Banner, and then now I'm me and David
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: Banner sometimes that he just got But I never thought
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: about that until I've heard you mentioned him in the
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: last couple of I heard you mentioned and Matina mentioned
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: him here now, and I'm like, they're the same person
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: energy wise.
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: Thank you. We click.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Want expound.
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: Well what I say about David Banner. Hmm, he is
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: really like I said this earlier, but he's really really
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: kept me inspired sending me music, sending me music from
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: other people as well, not just himself, like not just
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: trying to get on an album, like sending me other
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: musicians stuff like that. That's a lot. That's a lack
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: of ID okay, like love that. And he's he's amazing
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: for resources as well. We buckheads often and I tell
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: him I'm not scared of you, David Banner, you know,
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: And he likes that. So where that's my brother from
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: another mother? Yep. And I think he's beautiful that part too.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: Do you think healing is louder or quieter at.
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: Fifty quieter internally but very vocal outside.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Gotcha? It shows up in the music?
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: Gotcha?
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: How are you forty seven?
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: That's it?
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Forty eighth this year, born in nineteen hundred and
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: seventy eight.
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: Baby, right there.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: But I feel the same way you feel.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: I like being, I like just growing, like, you know,
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: feeling you feel more unapologetic about who you are every
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: day and you realize how much more it is for
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: you to learn and how much that you have to unlearn.
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: The unlearning part practice practice, practice, practice practice.
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: But did you have to unlearn that was so difficult?
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: I had to unlearn doubting myself. I had to. I
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: had to learn to trust the process. I think for
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: the last few albums I had been like trying my best,
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: like try and try, and like you don't have to try.
• 45:09
  Speaker 5: You don't have to try. All you gotta do is
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: realize shout out to blau. But that's all you gotta do.
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: And that is like has freed me. And I have
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: so much. I have so much music, y'all, it's not
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: even funny within so many different categories, which is exciting
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: to me. And I don't know, I you know this one.
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: I'm here. See, I gotta stay right here because there's
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: so many things and I'm excited about them all, but
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: I have to stay right here with to whom this's
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: main concern. I put a lot of love in this thing.
• 45:50
  Speaker 5: I cannot wait for people to listen with their listening ears,
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: like actually think about the words and have conversations, and
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: I don't know by the time they get to to
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: be honest, really hope that they're in full swing. That
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: was my intention.
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: Is there a song on this album that represents a
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: boundary that you used to ignore but now you protect
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: it no matter what I'd.
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: Have to look at the song list. Can you think
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: of one?
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: Let me see you got dope, shit be great, beautiful
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: people off the back and north side, disclaim I pay
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: you on Tuesday. Pressure me for the math for universe,
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: lifting me up, don't play. To be honest right here,
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: right now, I say, sincerely, do probably me for it?
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: No pressure, no.
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: No, I love all my life. Everything gets you where
• 46:40
  Speaker 5: you're going. If I change something in what would happen?
• 46:44
  Speaker 5: Who would I be? You know? I am? I am,
• 46:47
  Speaker 5: literally baby mama. Number four four is my favorite fucking number.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 46:58
  Speaker 5: I'm always gonna find the silver line and the joy,
• 47:02
  Speaker 5: the beauty and the thing. You know. But you go
• 47:05
  Speaker 5: through stuff and that's life, and you just you know.
• 47:08
  Speaker 5: I'm on the other side of everything, which is good. Now.
• 47:12
  Speaker 5: The job is to get myself inside of everything to
• 47:18
  Speaker 5: tell the story properly on stage.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: That's what you're looking forward to the moment.
• 47:23
  Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to it. It's therapeutic, it's terrifying, so scary.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm coming to see you on VALI. I will
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: be right there, me and the wife.
• 47:34
  Speaker 5: Nice. Absolutely No, I'm feeling stuff out, so you're coming
• 47:38
  Speaker 5: to a feel out.
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: My last question when it's all said and done, What
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: does piece look like for Jill Scott? And did this
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: album bring you closer to whatever that is?
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: Life is bringing me closer to my peace and my
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: kid doing well for himself, and my mother living so
• 48:04
  Speaker 5: comfortably and she's happy. My my private my personal life,
• 48:16
  Speaker 5: it's solid. I love my home, I love my friends.
• 48:23
  Speaker 5: I have beautiful friends, y'all. You would fuck with them,
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: anybody would like. They're so so, so many levels of it.
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: It's not a lot of them, but they're powerful. I'm I'm,
• 48:38
  Speaker 5: I'm you know. I say, you say you're happy, you
• 48:41
  Speaker 5: say it joyful, and people get upset about it. I
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: feel sorry for that for you. People be upset about
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: you saying it. People are upset about other people feeling
• 48:54
  Speaker 5: joy and being happy. Yes, they do it all the time.
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: I see it. Yes, Yeah, I don't know what it is.
• 49:04
  Speaker 5: I don't care what it is. It's not my bag
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: to carry. I'm gonna let this little light of mind shine.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: And that light gonna irritate some demons and others.
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: You see what I'm That's what I'm saying. That's what
• 49:18
  Speaker 5: I'm saying. I have a force field. I put it
• 49:23
  Speaker 5: on it goes under my feet, above my head anytime
• 49:27
  Speaker 5: I think about it, or I just put my force
• 49:29
  Speaker 5: field on and I walk through my life. We're superheroes.
• 49:33
  Speaker 5: We can do really anything. We want, anything, we can imagine.
• 49:38
  Speaker 5: You just need the power to do it. The power
• 49:40
  Speaker 5: is love, The power is sincere friendships. The power is guidance.
• 49:46
  Speaker 5: My mentors outside somewhere like having that is and anybody
• 49:52
  Speaker 5: can attain it. Anybody at any time, in any state
• 49:57
  Speaker 5: of their life, can get all of the things my mentor.
• 50:02
  Speaker 5: Sometimes life will be a little stressy, stressful. She'll come
• 50:07
  Speaker 5: in swinging, swinging like like boys in the hood swinging.
• 50:11
  Speaker 5: She'll kick. It's a physical manifestation of a spiritual thing.
• 50:18
  Speaker 5: She's fighting off whatever can happen. And then she says, whoa, whoa,
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: And I love that. I'm I want to you know,
• 50:31
  Speaker 5: I'm like, damn, I really like to got everything I
• 50:36
  Speaker 5: ask for. I got everything. God, Oh my god, Oh
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: my god, oh my god. Everything. Wow, It's okay.
• 50:53
  Speaker 7: I feel that.
• 50:54
  Speaker 6: That's what I've been feeling all interview. I'm like something,
• 50:57
  Speaker 6: she there's a feeling here. I just don't know what
• 50:59
  Speaker 6: it is, but I'm so glad that you in this space.
• 51:02
  Speaker 6: You deserve it. You worked hard, ma'am for a long time.
• 51:06
  Speaker 6: You've been literally like the deal Scott my whole life.
• 51:09
  Speaker 7: I'm thirty four.
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: I just want you to know what you mean to
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: so many people like I hope you know that we
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: really love you and we value, appreciate, appreciate you, and
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: even you putting out new music means so much, like
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: this is an event, like oh my god, Jill Scott
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: putting up, putting out new music like that matters. Like
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: a lot of people that put out music, I can
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: take it to leave it. Some people put out music
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: the world stops for me, and that that is what
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: you're doing with to whom they make concern.
• 51:40
  Speaker 5: I hate to be redundant, but I'm gonna say it
• 51:44
  Speaker 5: again that in the time when Marvin Gaye was the highest,
• 51:52
  Speaker 5: there were albums that hit number one and stay number
• 51:57
  Speaker 5: one for weeks. In the time was Sha Ka Khan,
• 52:03
  Speaker 5: I Love You Wherever you are? Shaka Khan so much
• 52:08
  Speaker 5: had number five on some chart. There was some one, two, three,
• 52:14
  Speaker 5: and four that were doing way better than that. But
• 52:17
  Speaker 5: who do we remember? Who do we talk about? Who
• 52:21
  Speaker 5: do we still go see? It's you know, this thing
• 52:24
  Speaker 5: is is all secular you're gonna get. You're gonna get
• 52:27
  Speaker 5: a bunch of other things in the water as well.
• 52:31
  Speaker 5: But sometimes sometimes you get a Prince. Sometimes you get
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: a Michael Jackson. Sometimes you get a Teddy Pendergrass and
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: a Stephanie Mills and a Phyllis Hymen. Oh Lord, the list,
• 52:45
  Speaker 5: and we remember them when we carry them, and we
• 52:47
  Speaker 5: play their music in our house, and we live by
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: it and we reference it. And that's what my goal was.
• 52:55
  Speaker 5: I wanted to have a career like Frankie Beverly and
• 52:57
  Speaker 5: Mays and somebody else would be like, what what do
• 53:00
  Speaker 5: you mean Frankie Beverly and may not everybody knows them.
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: What Frankie Beverly and Mas could do twenty five years
• 53:07
  Speaker 5: without having an album is sell out an arena and
• 53:11
  Speaker 5: everybody's gonna show up in white and everybody's gonna sing
• 53:14
  Speaker 5: with all of their hearts arms in the air. That's
• 53:19
  Speaker 5: what I wanted for myself and I and I had it.
• 53:27
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna have to take a nap.
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen appreciate it so much.
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: I hope you get that nap. Yeah, you know that's divine.
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: Go get that nap.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: You deserve it, Your soul deserves it.
• 53:47
  Speaker 5: Oh my goodness, it's Jill Scott.
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: It's the Breakfast Club. Morning every day, waking Click up
• 53:58
  Speaker 4: the Breakfast Club.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: You're finished with your dut