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All Good News ( Tyler Perry's 250K Surprise and Brandy Gets a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame) · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: today we are talking about all good news the left.
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  Speaker 1: Get on into the latest. So I just actually got
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  Speaker 1: off the phone with Tyler Perry's rep, So Chantal, who
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  Speaker 1: is a publicist for Tyler Perry. They gave me a
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  Speaker 1: call today because there's a report that is circulating via
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  Speaker 1: local out of Atlanta that Tyler Perry's team in the
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars gift cards that they issued to TFA agents
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  Speaker 1: are now being rejected and are being held by higher
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  Speaker 1: ups at the airport because of protocol measures that were
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  Speaker 1: not at hereby by Tyler Perry and you know, wolves
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  Speaker 1: just around getting monetary things to TFA agents. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: was told that this reporting was completely false. So over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend, Tyler Perry and team went to the Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: airport and they gave out two hundred and fifty thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars worth of gift cards one thousand dollars a piece
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  Speaker 1: to various CAFA agents, totally two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you guys, remember we didn't cover this year on
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  Speaker 1: the podcast, but you may have seen some reports about it.
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  Speaker 1: But for those of you guys who have not out,
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  Speaker 1: refresh memory. About a week ago, Tyler Perry's team went
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  Speaker 1: to the airport with a large sum of cash and
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  Speaker 1: one of to get cash out to all the TSA
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  Speaker 1: agents who were there and working and not receiving money.
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  Speaker 1: The TFA agents are not receiving money because of the
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  Speaker 1: government shut down, which you know, as of yesterday was
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  Speaker 1: reported to not completely upcome to a stop. But basically
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  Speaker 1: some agents are reported and they've been that they've received
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  Speaker 1: some retroactive paychecks. But from the report that I've seen,
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  Speaker 1: this kind of varies depending on where the agents are based,
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  Speaker 1: and you know it's going to take some time to
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  Speaker 1: get to everybody. But they were working and not getting
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  Speaker 1: paid any money. So Tyler Perry was like, hey, let's go,
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  Speaker 1: let's get them some cash direct. When they got their
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  Speaker 1: hand off the cash, they were stopped. The reason why
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  Speaker 1: they were stopped was because they were not allowed to
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  Speaker 1: give cash on hand to any of the airport employees.
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  Speaker 1: It's just there's just rules around gifting to employee and
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  Speaker 1: TSA agents. So Tyler Ferrying team went back to the
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  Speaker 1: drawing board. I'm told that they worked with the TSA
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  Speaker 1: Assistant Federal Security Director, and they worked with them very
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  Speaker 1: closely on Thursday of last week, and what they came
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  Speaker 1: up with was a gift card process. Now, this gift
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  Speaker 1: card process made it where the TFA agents will received
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  Speaker 1: one thousand dollars it would be allowed to be received.
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  Speaker 1: So Tyler Perry's team took all of those gift cards
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  Speaker 1: up to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth, to
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  Speaker 1: this federal security director, this assistant Federal Security director, who
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  Speaker 1: then dispersed the gift cards to the TSA agent. So
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  Speaker 1: the reporting of anything other than that, I'm being told
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  Speaker 1: on the record from Tyler Perry's team, it's not true.
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  Speaker 1: Now I did just get off the phone with them,
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  Speaker 1: because I know, prior to my reporting, there were reports
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  Speaker 1: that a security director is basically holding the gift cards
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  Speaker 1: because is there's some sort of hiccup still. But Tyler
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  Speaker 1: Perry's team is completely confused. They are, you know, trying
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  Speaker 1: to get back in contact with the people that they
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  Speaker 1: worked with, but they're like, there's no way this would
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  Speaker 1: be happening because we came and did the twenty fifty
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars donation directly to that office that you know,
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  Speaker 1: people are owing as the office that is saying that
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  Speaker 1: this is not able to be dispersed. Someone would have
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  Speaker 1: given us a call and no one had so as
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  Speaker 1: of right now, exclusively, I can tell you guys that
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Perry team and Tyler Perry are telling me that
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  Speaker 1: they've been able to give out these gift cards via
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  Speaker 1: an assistant Federal security director at the Airport Atlanta. The
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  Speaker 1: Heartscrolle jacking International Airport story is developing. I'm literally waiting
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  Speaker 1: on a call back just because they wanted to call
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  Speaker 1: and just poke around because they're confused. And that happened
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  Speaker 1: last week Friday. We went through a whole weekend and
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  Speaker 1: now Monday there's a record which is very confusing because
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  Speaker 1: for what the understood, all of the gift cards were
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  Speaker 1: given on the product. So I keep you guys updated
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  Speaker 1: there now. In other good news, Oh my Gobe, Brandy,
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  Speaker 1: our girl the Lyrical Bible, okay, the Harmony Bible as
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  Speaker 1: received her star on the Hollywood Walk exactly. Job like
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  Speaker 1: this is long overdue, but I feel like she's had
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  Speaker 1: such a massive career and broken so many barriers and
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  Speaker 1: records and have a mass so much success that she
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  Speaker 1: should have been at a star on the Walk with
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  Speaker 1: FA but maybe that's just me feeling like that. But
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  Speaker 1: she received her star on the Hollywood Walk with Fan
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  Speaker 1: today in California with her family in attendance, and Eta
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  Speaker 1: Ray and Babyface spoke on her. We had and Brandy
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  Speaker 1: also spoke as well too. Left like a listen to
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  Speaker 1: Brandy accept the star and just talking about how this
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  Speaker 1: is like a dream in any days time.
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  Speaker 2: Then I was just a little girl with a big dream,
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  Speaker 2: but growing up in Hollywood made those dreams feel close
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  Speaker 2: enough to touch. Seeing the stars on the Walk of
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  Speaker 2: Fame lit something in me. It made me believe. It
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  Speaker 2: made me a firm over my own life. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: sing my way on to one of these stars.
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  Speaker 3: And I did.
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  Speaker 2: That is what makes this moment so profound for me,
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  Speaker 2: so full circle, so sacred. I am beyond grateful.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell y'all something, okay, Moesha literally was one
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  Speaker 1: of the reasons I wanted to work at television. I
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  Speaker 1: met Megan Good the other day, and I met Megan Good,
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  Speaker 1: but I saw Megan Good the other day. She came
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  Speaker 1: by the Brokast Club and I was telling her you
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  Speaker 1: on television Brandy, Gabrielle Union, like y'all were the girls,
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  Speaker 1: especially Brandy and Megan Good. Brandy, I'm trying to tell you, guys,
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  Speaker 1: I used to sit up in my room. I used
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  Speaker 1: to sit up in my room and write in my
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  Speaker 1: diary and talk to myself the same way Brandy on
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  Speaker 1: Molasha when it came in. I wanted to be Moisha.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to live in California. I wanted to go
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  Speaker 1: to school where Brandy went to school, and go hang
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  Speaker 1: out at the din and just you know, being able
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  Speaker 1: to walk in the house and say, what's up, what's
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  Speaker 1: up Uncle Frank? Like I wanted that life because it
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  Speaker 1: was what you saw on TV and it was cool.
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  Speaker 1: Like her friends were like, you know, everybody had their
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  Speaker 1: thing and he were performing and they were open mics thing.
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  Speaker 1: She would get young and trying to figure it out,
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  Speaker 1: and then she goes and becomes singer Manlla with Whitney Houston.
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  Speaker 1: Brandy has literally been a living testament of representation matters.
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  Speaker 1: Before that was like the cool thing is that? Literally
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  Speaker 1: before that was the cool thing to say. So it
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  Speaker 1: was amazing to see her get her start on the
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  Speaker 1: Walk of Fane. But it was crazy at the same
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  Speaker 1: time because she was so like in awe and like
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  Speaker 1: shocked and taking it back, and I'm like, girl, you
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  Speaker 1: would have learned about four five leven des okay you
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  Speaker 1: haven't bringing goodly inspired mini generations and not just in television,
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  Speaker 1: but also in music as well too. Less they could
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  Speaker 1: listen to Easter Ray, who spoke at the induction ceremony,
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  Speaker 1: the Walk of Fame star ceremony. I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: so fitting for Easter Ray to speak because when you
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  Speaker 1: think about representation and television and doing things your own
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  Speaker 1: way and storytelling and being you know, the black girl
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  Speaker 1: in the space who's like really a black girl and
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  Speaker 1: really rap it for us and tell the stories that
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  Speaker 1: are near and dear to our heart. The New Age
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  Speaker 1: version of what Brandy did with Milisha was Easter Rail Insecure.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a listen to eather Rail.
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  Speaker 4: The first time I saw Brandy, I had no idea
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  Speaker 4: how much I needed to see Brandy. I was in
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  Speaker 4: fourth grade when I Want to Be Down came out
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  Speaker 4: and that single was the first tape I ever bought,
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  Speaker 4: And when the Broken Hearted remix came out on the
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  Speaker 4: school bus, I was so excited, and when it came
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  Speaker 4: on in the radio. Rader came on the radio and
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  Speaker 4: I was singing it and I was sitting next to
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  Speaker 4: my crush, and he was like, who sings this song?
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  Speaker 4: And I was like Brandy proudly, and he was like,
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  Speaker 4: then let her sing it. So that was my first heartbreak.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Brandy, and so much for that. Brandy is
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  Speaker 4: a star for so many reasons, but her transition to
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  Speaker 4: acting was a game changer. While her first official role
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  Speaker 4: was Asta's daughter and Thea, it was really Moesha that
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  Speaker 4: made me understand what was possible. It was the first
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  Speaker 4: show that I'd ever seen told from an ordinary black
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  Speaker 4: teenage girl's point of view. Set in La, the same
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  Speaker 4: city I was born in, and we moved back to
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  Speaker 4: that same year it premiered. Brandy made Mosha someone I
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  Speaker 4: wanted to befriend, the girl I wanted to be. At
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  Speaker 4: a time when beauty standards on television looked nothing like us,
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  Speaker 4: Brandy was the standard.
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  Speaker 1: And then of course Babyface had to pull up. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: because don't ever forget that my girl is the vocal
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  Speaker 1: Bible period. And if you have ever heard Brandy live
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  Speaker 1: on a stage, you understand why they call her that.
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  Speaker 1: You understand it not live, but seeing Brandy perform live
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  Speaker 1: in concert with Monica on the Boy's Mind tour. I
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  Speaker 1: remember watching her on that stage being like and it's
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  Speaker 1: so effortless, Like you know sometimes the singers you see
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  Speaker 1: them sing and it's like it's like all right, like
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  Speaker 1: you know, they hang it. You can see, you can
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  Speaker 1: feel it. Brandy be hanging down and literally just be
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  Speaker 1: like jokingly like belting out of tune real quick. It's
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  Speaker 1: so effortless. Like I all the time think about whether
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  Speaker 1: talent like that like greenby Monica, you know, the girls
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  Speaker 1: of that generation lyrically, vocal, vocally, sound wise, just the
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  Speaker 1: upper echelon of celebrity that they are. If that even
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  Speaker 1: like what we I don't I don't know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things come back around. I don't know whoever gets
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  Speaker 1: there again. It was just a different time, man, Like
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  Speaker 1: Brandy was acting singing Broadway like, I don't know where
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  Speaker 1: we get back there. Let's take a listen to Babyface.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta commend the music with Brady.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so honored to be here and speak for you.
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  Speaker 3: When I think of the first time I met you,
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  Speaker 3: I think it was somewhere in nineteen ninety five, we
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  Speaker 3: were on to a Voice to Men and Babyface, and
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  Speaker 3: you opened up. You were this little girl that was
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  Speaker 3: opened up and singing I want to be down, And
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to be down with you then, because you
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  Speaker 3: were amazing the voice that I heard. I didn't know
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  Speaker 3: that so much soul and so much, so much good
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  Speaker 3: feeling could come out of someone so young. It's like
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  Speaker 3: you had already been here before. And when I finally
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  Speaker 3: got the opportunity to actually work with you on the
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  Speaker 3: Waiting to Excel project, which I have to tell you,
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  Speaker 3: when Whitney and I sat down, we went over a
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  Speaker 3: list of who we wanted to be on the album,
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  Speaker 3: and yours was the first name that came up that
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  Speaker 3: she said, I want Brandy on it. And she said because,
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  Speaker 3: and she said because you had one of the best
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  Speaker 3: voices she had ever heard. For me, you have one
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  Speaker 3: of the best voices I've ever heard. You give one
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  Speaker 3: of the best feelings I've ever heard, the soul that's
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  Speaker 3: in your voice, The way you move your voice, You're
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  Speaker 3: like an athlete. The way you can move your voice.
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  Speaker 3: No one can do it the way you do it.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody can.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Brandy, if you're listening I've been saying it forever.
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  Speaker 1: I need to play you the biopic. Okay, hey Swin,
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  Speaker 1: congrats win so incited for her. Oh my god. It
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  Speaker 1: is a goal of mine as well too. And people
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  Speaker 1: always talk about the Hollywood Walker thing. I think nowadays
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  Speaker 1: it's not as like ooh, oh my god, right the
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  Speaker 1: bit as long you're talking to because now people know that, like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: it's paid for and normally it's paid for by something,
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  Speaker 1: so like people do it when like they have movies
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  Speaker 1: coming out and the movie budget will take care of it.
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  Speaker 1: I know Brandy had Brooks my East. Brandy has her
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  Speaker 1: book Phases coming out, so I don't know if maybe
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  Speaker 1: the marketing budget around the book is making sure she
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  Speaker 1: gets her Hollywood the Walker than scar because it's a
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  Speaker 1: talking point. It's a marketing point, it's a you know,
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  Speaker 1: it gets the people going vid bringing needing that right,
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  Speaker 1: but it just puts you top of mind in the media,
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  Speaker 1: in the press, and it's just you know, something that
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  Speaker 1: just it looks great, it feels great. It's a moment
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  Speaker 1: for people to celebrate you. But it's also it's a
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  Speaker 1: great press moment. It's so positive. People didn't remember, you know,
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  Speaker 1: all of your accolades, and it funnels down to whatever
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  Speaker 1: you're going on. So Brandy has her new book Phases coming,
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  Speaker 1: and now she has a Walker fan star, and say, God,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't eleborate. They get nowhere near that market. I'm
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