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INTERVIEW: Yolanda Adams Talks New Album, Confidence, 'Perfectionism' In The Church + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 3: Morning, Everybody's j n V. Just hilarious, charlamage. The guy
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  Speaker 3: we are to Breakfast Club. Jess is still on maternity leave.
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  Speaker 3: So long the Rose is feeling in.
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  Speaker 4: And we got a special guest in the building album
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  Speaker 4: right now. Ladies and gentlemen, Yolanda Adams, welcome, Thank y'all
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  Speaker 4: for having me.
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  Speaker 2: How are you feeling this morning?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely fantastic?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, this is your fourteenth album.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is my fourteenth studio album.
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  Speaker 2: We'll go through your head when you hear.
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  Speaker 1: That, Wow, gratefulness, appreciation that I'm still doing what I do,
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  Speaker 1: and loving the fact that folks still want to hear
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  Speaker 1: what I'm doing and that is still inspires them and
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  Speaker 1: gets them going and keeps them lifted up, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, do you remember I feel?
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  Speaker 3: Do you remember putting out your first album and how
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  Speaker 3: that felt and the fact I don't know if the
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  Speaker 3: industry was ready for gospel music the.
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  Speaker 1: Way there was, Well, the industry tree wasn't ready for
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  Speaker 1: me because because I wasn't you know, I wasn't like
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  Speaker 1: your typical gospel artists. I didn't look like everybody else
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  Speaker 1: and you know, folks kind of give me flack about
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  Speaker 1: that because I didn't grow up in a place where
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  Speaker 1: we couldn't wear makeup or we couldn't wear pants. You know,
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  Speaker 1: in my house, it was cool to go to the
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  Speaker 1: skating rink with Jesus. So we went everywhere with God.
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  Speaker 1: And so there were some people who were like, well,
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  Speaker 1: you shouldn't wear that lipstick, and you shouldn't do this,
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  Speaker 1: and you shouldn't do that. And I was like, hmm, okay,
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  Speaker 1: now I'm good.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I've never understood why religious people, Christians are so judgmental.
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  Speaker 2: When the Bible says outshine, I judge.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think it's human nature when people don't understand,
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  Speaker 1: you know, other folks. Whatever. Again, it's all in the
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  Speaker 1: way you were raised. Because my parents were real cool,
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  Speaker 1: so I wasn't raised with limitations. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: my mom and dad told us that everything is possible
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  Speaker 1: for us. And so when I went into the actual
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  Speaker 1: solo part of gospel music, I was it was. It
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  Speaker 1: took me aback for a little while because I'm like, oh, oh,
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  Speaker 1: so y'all can't do all on So in order to
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  Speaker 1: be a gospel artist, you can't do this, this, this
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  Speaker 1: and that and the other. And I'm like, no, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to be that kind of gospel artist. But no,
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  Speaker 1: go ahead, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 6: I was gonna say, but whether your mom was the
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  Speaker 6: ministry of music in the church in her church, because
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  Speaker 6: I know when I go to church and my grandmother,
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  Speaker 6: you can't wear pants, you can't do certain things to
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  Speaker 6: this day, and I have to just go with that.
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  Speaker 1: Your mom's church didn't have those rooms even though we
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  Speaker 1: were Baptists. Okay, gotcha. You know, the deacons would smoke outside, so.
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  Speaker 2: Watch out.
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  Speaker 1: And it was still calling the dope back then. No,
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  Speaker 1: that's why, No, it was cigarettes.
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  Speaker 2: You know, your faith physical part of your music.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: How is your faith journey shaped not just your music,
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  Speaker 5: but just your life in general?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's everything. It's the basis of everything.
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  Speaker 1: It's the basis of my businesses, it's the basis of
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  Speaker 1: my parenthood, it's the basis of all I do. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I wake up joyful every morning because again I'm here
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  Speaker 1: and we know a lot of people within the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks you're to us that are just gone,
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  Speaker 1: you know, And it's like man to be able to
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  Speaker 1: wake up do what you love to do every single day.
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  Speaker 1: I know y'all know about that is a blessing. And
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  Speaker 1: so faith has everything to do with everything I do.
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  Speaker 2: When you were doing more on the radio that you
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  Speaker 2: used to wake up.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely it was live lib.
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  Speaker 4: Oh okay, okay, did you like did you like it
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  Speaker 4: getting up that early?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely? You know there's something that happens when the mic
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  Speaker 1: comes on and the light comes on, you realize, okay,
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  Speaker 1: you have a few seconds to inspire somebody's day. You
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  Speaker 1: have a few seconds to describe this song or describe
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  Speaker 1: this issue, you know. And so we were like, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: we had a full show. We talked about sports, we
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  Speaker 1: talked about relationships and all of that good stuff. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was three thirty in the morning, wake up, you know,
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  Speaker 1: got to be at the station at fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: How much did you play on music?
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  Speaker 1: Very little.
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't like, you know, the programmer side.
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  Speaker 1: Not even that. It was like, I want to hear
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  Speaker 1: somebody else, gotcha, because I hear me all the time.
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  Speaker 1: I've been with me the longest. So and I love
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  Speaker 1: hearing new artists. I love breaking in new artists. I
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  Speaker 1: love hearing different types of gospel music. And so we
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  Speaker 1: did a lot of that too. Do you miss the
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  Speaker 1: Red Do you miss it? I do miss it at times,
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  Speaker 1: But as you all know, when one door is finished,
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  Speaker 1: or when one season is finish, the other season begins.
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  Speaker 1: And if I was still doing radio, I couldn't do
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  Speaker 1: television and movies and soundtracks and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: So I was going to ask, you know, we're growing
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  Speaker 3: up in the church, how much pressure was that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: because being a kid growing up in the church, everything
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  Speaker 3: seemed perfect, right. They wanted everything to be perfect, and
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  Speaker 3: if it wasn't perfect, it seems like they shamed you
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  Speaker 3: back then.
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  Speaker 1: Well here's the thing, and I'm going to go back
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  Speaker 1: to my upbringing. I don't know what churches y'all went to,
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  Speaker 1: but we knew at our church we weren't perfect. So
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  Speaker 1: it was not this thing that you have to have
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  Speaker 1: it this way, you got to get it right all
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  Speaker 1: the time, because you're not going to get it right
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  Speaker 1: all the time. You know, as grown as I am now,
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  Speaker 1: I don't get it right all the time. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that's one of the misconceptions about faith and religion.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that we are perfect people. It's not that
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  Speaker 1: we're even trying to be perfect people. But what we
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  Speaker 1: are trying to do is be loving people. Yes, we're
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  Speaker 1: trying to be carrying people. We're trying to show people
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  Speaker 1: a different way of existing because I mean, and we
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  Speaker 1: we all know we live in this space now where
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  Speaker 1: everything is cancel culture. I hate this because you hate this,
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  Speaker 1: or I hate this person because you hate this person.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, can we all just get back to the
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  Speaker 1: basis of everything? Because the basis for me is for
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  Speaker 1: God so loved, so that means I'm supposed to love
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 4: And what kept you grounded? Because even going to college,
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  Speaker 4: usually the church girls would the wildness. They would have
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  Speaker 4: one that they're no longer going to leave.
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  Speaker 1: But again, here we go. I didn't. I wasn't restricted
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  Speaker 1: in anything in my life. So I went to the dances,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I hung out at the house parties and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that when I was younger, so I didn't
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  Speaker 1: have that restriction, and so when I got to college,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have to wild out because it's like, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing that odd child, please you know. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know why that happens. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's in a person to try to test the waters
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  Speaker 1: and then when they find out, oh, it ain't that wonderful,
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  Speaker 1: then they go back into their little shell.
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  Speaker 6: And it's you know about the church nowadays then, because
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  Speaker 6: you can't if you test the waters at certain churches
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  Speaker 6: and certain congregations like they almost like condemn people for
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  Speaker 6: certain things.
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  Speaker 1: Well here, and you did say certain churches, which is
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you said that, because certain churches have this,
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  Speaker 1: and certain religions have an idea that you're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be so high up here that And I've never gotten
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  Speaker 1: that whole concept of the super religious kind thing because
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have to be that. All I had to
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  Speaker 1: do was be myself, and God loved me for being myself,
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  Speaker 1: not to pretend, Yolanda, because I've never been good at pretending, so,
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  Speaker 1: you know, except when I'm acting. But I think nowadays
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  Speaker 1: the view of that comes from people who are outside
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  Speaker 1: looking in, not people inside certain churches, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: you have to be inside to experience that. And I
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  Speaker 1: know that there are some people who can make you
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  Speaker 1: feel like you're not you know, at your best, you're
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  Speaker 1: not as good as them, and stuff like I get
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  Speaker 1: that now. I'm like big old sixty three year old
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  Speaker 1: I get that now, you know, people take me why
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  Speaker 1: you wear that? Why you doing this? And why are
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  Speaker 1: you showing up here? And why you Because I'm grown,
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  Speaker 1: I do not make you feel though, because for so long.
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  Speaker 1: But but again, I mean, I will never see those people.
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  Speaker 1: I will never experience them. They will never come to
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  Speaker 1: my house, they will never come to the barbecue. So
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  Speaker 1: you can't get so emotionally attached to negativity that you
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  Speaker 1: stop being you and you stop living and you stop
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  Speaker 1: living your life the way you live your life, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like they gonna be fine because I'm fine.
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  Speaker 5: Why Why do people give you so much smoke for
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  Speaker 5: your office? Like I'm like, what is miss Adams wearing
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  Speaker 5: that looks so gravy?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't get.
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  Speaker 1: The late Great Darryl Coley said something from the stage
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  Speaker 1: one time. He said, y'all, Mackagell can't word that's real.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't you know, And I think because they well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, she listens to the music. Oh I'm you know,
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  Speaker 1: I have nothing against her. But it's like when people
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  Speaker 1: some people are uncomfortable with you being comfortable in your skin,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm extremely comfortable in my skin and I have
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  Speaker 1: been for a long long time, which is why I said,
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  Speaker 1: don't fall for the negativity, don't you know there because
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  Speaker 1: there will be so many people who applaud you yep,
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  Speaker 1: and are in your corner and want you to make
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  Speaker 1: it and want you to succeed that the two three
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  Speaker 1: or forty opposed to two million. It's like, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: hang out with the two million, that's right, rather than
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  Speaker 1: the forty.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you said something it's not as very important.
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  Speaker 5: You said you've always been comfortable in your own skin.
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  Speaker 5: When did you get to that point? Because you know,
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  Speaker 5: just the way you present esthetically, you're tall, you're beautiful.
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  Speaker 5: When you walk in the room, everybody like, oh who
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  Speaker 5: that is? I know that makes people uncomfortable. So when
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  Speaker 5: did you get comfortable me and making people uncomfortable?
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  Speaker 1: I think I think because I've always been a tall kid,
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  Speaker 1: and my parents always talked about how amazing stature and
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  Speaker 1: grace and elegance is. I think I really got a
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  Speaker 1: hold to it probably in my twenties, you know, after
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  Speaker 1: I graduated college and I had some stuff under my belt,
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  Speaker 1: and it's like, okay, yeah, I'm going to take on
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  Speaker 1: the world. And when you're taking on the world. You
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  Speaker 1: can't have that insecurity of well, how will it feel
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  Speaker 1: and how will they accept me? And how will they
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  Speaker 1: do this? How will they do them? It's like, nah,
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  Speaker 1: you got to get out there. So it was yeah,
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  Speaker 1: in my twenties.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely the depressions of the music industry exist in gospel music.
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  Speaker 5: Like when you hear these stories of all these the
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  Speaker 5: Botcher's things that happened in the music industry, does that
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  Speaker 5: exist in the gospel world.
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  Speaker 1: The debauchery part of gospel music is not something that
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  Speaker 1: I know of because I didn't participate in anything if
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  Speaker 1: there was anything going on. But the pressure to outdo
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  Speaker 1: your last project is always there, you know, and you
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  Speaker 1: know how it is. Come on, you guys are in media,
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  Speaker 1: so you know that every quarter, okay, your numbers were sowing,
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  Speaker 1: so now you got to beat this or you got
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  Speaker 1: to beat that person in Houston, or you got to
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  Speaker 1: beat this person in San Antonio. I think it's always that,
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  Speaker 1: and you have to surround yourself with management and people
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  Speaker 1: who are on your side that help you buffer that
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  Speaker 1: because somebody's urgency can be placed on you, so it's
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  Speaker 1: your urgency. But if their urgency is not your emergency,
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  Speaker 1: why are we doing this, you know, because everybody wants
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  Speaker 1: something different from you. You know, people pull at you
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  Speaker 1: for different reasons, and some of them are not authentic,
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  Speaker 1: and some of those reasons are very nefarious. You know. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to get you know, twenty million done this. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're business people in the room, and no matter what,
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  Speaker 1: even if it you know, let's talk about branding. If
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  Speaker 1: it goes against your brand, but it's a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: of money. You know, you have to be strong enough
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  Speaker 1: to say, nah, I can't do that, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: then you have to tell them, no, we're not doing that.
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  Speaker 3: Well you talking about that or were you talking about
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  Speaker 3: like people trying to take advantage of her coming up
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  Speaker 3: in the industry, stealing publishing and royalties that we hear
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  Speaker 3: from much.
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  Speaker 2: Drugs?
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  Speaker 1: Well, first of all, I don't do drugs, so I
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  Speaker 1: don't I don't get invited to the drug parties if
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  Speaker 1: there are drug parties, And I've never been a an exhibitionist,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't get invited to the freak offs and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like there. You know, no, no, no, no no,
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  Speaker 1: And so I will you know, I will say, from
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  Speaker 1: my purview, I don't know about any of that now,
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  Speaker 1: as far as publishing and royalties and all of that. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you always have somebody posing as a manager or a
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  Speaker 1: business manager trying to you know, because they see, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you're effective. You get the numbers, you know you you know,
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  Speaker 1: you could be out every single day doing something. So
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  Speaker 1: that's a cash cow right there.
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  Speaker 2: Still from a gospel artist, you've got to be going
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  Speaker 2: to Yeah, there's a lot of them going.
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  Speaker 1: People are still in in church too, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of them going, you know.
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  Speaker 4: So the new album is.
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  Speaker 5: Called Sunny Days. Yes, what is your Linda Adam's definition
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  Speaker 5: of a sunny day?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh. My definition of a sunny day is
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  Speaker 1: is a day where I feel so good about myself,
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  Speaker 1: about what I'm doing, about my purpose, and also about
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  Speaker 1: the climate of the world. You know, you have to
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  Speaker 1: be optimistic to really look at where we are right
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  Speaker 1: now and say, but there's something good that's going to
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  Speaker 1: come out of this. And so that's what I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do with this project. Because it took us four
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  Speaker 1: years to actually finish the project. We started it in
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighteen and then all of a sudden, Jimmy jam
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  Speaker 1: and Terry Lewis got busy. Donald Lawrence got busy, All
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  Speaker 1: of the producers got busy. I got busy, and then
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  Speaker 1: there was the pandemic and so that stopped a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things. And then Kingdom Business we started filming that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we had seasons one and two we had
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  Speaker 1: to film. Then all of a sudden, I'm like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right, all right, we got to get this album done.
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  Speaker 1: So it finally got done this year, and I'm just
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  Speaker 1: so really excited about that.
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  Speaker 6: So I just schedule the reason why it took like
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  Speaker 6: it was like a thirteen year break in between Becoming
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  Speaker 6: in twenty eleven and then now up.
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  Speaker 1: It was a thirteen year break between the solo projects.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, So why though, Like, why is that because there
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  Speaker 6: was so much other stuff going on between or is
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  Speaker 6: it just so busy.
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  Speaker 1: I was so busy. I was going overseas doing a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things. And then I also did several soundtracks
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  Speaker 1: to movies and television shows. We did the soundtrack and
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  Speaker 1: the music for SpongeBob on Broadway. We did a song there,
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  Speaker 1: me and my music director, Rodney East, and so things
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  Speaker 1: just got busy like that, gotcha. And you know, with
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  Speaker 1: my projects, I have to like tailor time for them
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  Speaker 1: because if I don't. It's going to be like, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be real crazy.
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  Speaker 6: You know, with non gospel artists, they go into a studio,
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  Speaker 6: maybe it's a heartbreak or like you know, they do indulging, smoking,
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  Speaker 6: drink and whatever they get them. For gospel artists, is
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  Speaker 6: it that you're like you're praying, you deep in the spirit?
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  Speaker 1: Like, where does that come from?
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  Speaker 2: For you guys?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it comes from the same experiences. Of course, we're
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  Speaker 1: not you know, getting high trying to figure out what
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  Speaker 1: God's doing. But nobody found that funny but me. From
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  Speaker 1: the earth.
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  Speaker 6: It is from the earth. Oh, I get what you
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  Speaker 6: did there. We're not getting drunk try to figure out
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  Speaker 6: what God is doing, because what got going on?
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  Speaker 5: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Urge you okay, thank you, thank you so much. No,
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  Speaker 1: it comes from the experiences that we're having in our lives.
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  Speaker 1: Because you figure, we got eight plus billion people in
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  Speaker 1: the world, so at least a million got to be
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  Speaker 1: going through what you're going through. And so if you're
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: making a business decision, if you're making a relationship decision,
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  Speaker 1: if you're making a a moving you know, geographical moving decision,
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  Speaker 1: all decisions for us, you know, we have to ask
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  Speaker 1: God Okay, is this really? Is this me?
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  Speaker 4: Or is this you?
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  Speaker 1: Or do I just want this for me? And you
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  Speaker 1: know a lot of times God said, Okay, if you
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  Speaker 1: want it for you, let's do it. You know, God
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  Speaker 1: is not yeah, because because God is not trying to
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  Speaker 1: keep you stuck. As a matter of fact, he wants
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  Speaker 1: the best for you always. And I think people have
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  Speaker 1: fashioned God in so many ways that it's confusing two
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  Speaker 1: people when they see someone, you know, like me, who
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: has this relationship with God where it's like, real cool, Hey, God,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: we're doing We're doing the breakfast club this morning. Yeah,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I know, I'll be there with you, you know that
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: kind of thing. And I believe if we would give
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: people room to grow with God, that they'll find God
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: on their own, and they'll find God is so loving
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: and so kind on their own that they don't have
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: to be pushed into Yeah, go on and do this,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Go do that. You won't have to be pushed to
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: do anything. You'll want to from the bottom of your heart.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: You want to love people, you want to share his goodness,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: you want to share a smile, you know that kind
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: of thing.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: That's interesting cause when I pray to God, I pray
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: to God to give me direction right, absolutely, and God
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: my steps absolutely. And I guess I always say I
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: want to do what God wants me to do. What
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: if I want to do something, yeah, it's like God,
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: you're gonna come with me. God might just be like, yeah,
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: go do that, Yeah, and let me and let me
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: figure it out.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: I'm own whatever happens. I'm gonna be with you regardless, absolutely,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: because you can.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: You can. Just like you cannot separate your breathing from
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: you unless you're you know, on a ventilator or something
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: like that, you can't separate God from you. Because God
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: lives inside. We always try to make him upstage, you know,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: and we say the man upstairs. We know that's you know,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: proverbial kind of talk. But God is inside. And if
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: God is inside, he's walking with me. If he's inside,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: he's talking with me. If he's inside, he really is
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: concerned about whether I you know, I make it or not,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: you know, whether I reach my goals or not. And
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: so the one thing that I have found in my
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: life that has served me so well is when there's
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: a piece that I have with any decision, then that's
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: a stamp, all right. You know, when there's turmoil. I
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: have to go back and be silent because I got
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: to listen to make sure. Okay, now you're either protecting
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: me from something or someone, and sometimes it's myself because
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I want to rush things. You know, I'm a fixer,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: the oldest of six kids. I'm a fixer. And Guy's like,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: slow down, land No, slow slow down, slow down. I'm
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: gonna give you that, but I'm gonna give it to
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: you when you're ready. And so, yeah, you got out
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: here preaching.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: You were trending about a week ago, two weeks ago. Uh, yes,
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: She's like, what happened when you were trending? When people
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: were calling you? Did you know what it was right away?
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: And did not? You did not? So what was your
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: mind thoughts when you seen what he mclein doing.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing about the video. We actually did
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: the video together. We were there on set together, and
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: you know what is Woody? I mean that's Bobby Brown
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: right right right right, So you know we know he's
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: a great artist and just all around great guy. But
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: people were talking as though.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: It was.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: The power Woody. Why is it that you, Londa is
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: you know? Because people are mad at him and you
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: know characters. Yeah, they're mad at him, so they yeah.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: And that's the thing, how do you forget that this
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: man is acting. He's not the same character in that
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: video that he is on Power.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: So what is that?
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: I didn't get that, And so my children and my
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: daughter had to explain to me, well, you know, he's
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: kind of a bad character on Power. I'm like, yeah,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: but that's just his job, you know. He as a person,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: he's a man of faith. And when they told when
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: the record company said we have Woody for the video,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: I was like, yes, because I remember the Bobby Brown Woody.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I haven't watched Power enough to know that character. I'm like,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Season one.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Our Bobby Power, Bobby was a wild boy?
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Did he freestyle that?
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Or was that queer rat?
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: And he kind of freestyled that? And then and I guess, uh,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I guess they all said, Okay, we like that? Do that?
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: You know?
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: So the video captures a lot of dancing. I love
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: to dance, so it captures a lot of different types
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: of dancing. Because I personally believe that God loves variety,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: because if he did not love variety, all of us
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: would look the same. And so we all have our
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: different things and we all have those, you know, those
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: little quirks that that make us amazing.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: Did you speak to Mathter did you speak?
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: It was like, just thank you so much, Missatles for
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: a lot of me to I'm like, what you are
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: making me cool? You are making me a cool woman
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: right now. So I appreciate it.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Why there are three different versions of Church Doors.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: There are three different churches, three different churches, three different versions,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: because we had the version for the gospel gospel audience,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: then the audience who's like me, who loves you know,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: to hear different versions and dance and stuff like that,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: and I I just thought, man, what a great song
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: to kind of hype up and give the message to
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: people that may not walk into the church doors and
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: hear this. And so that was that was our That
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: was our goal because technically church doors can be your heart.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: When you let me make it to the church doors,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I'll tell them what you've done for me. So you
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: open your heart to give your testimony about how good
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: God has been. And so again there are people who
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: will get this on the dance floor and it'll hit them,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Oh God is good, you know. So yeah, do you.
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: Feel like Jermaine Depre recently had sometime as we have
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: the audience if you want to hear, but he recently
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: said that because the younger artists aren't walking.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Through those church doors.
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah, do you feel like that is affecting music the
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: fact that you like, like you said, people may not
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: ever walk through those church doors, but it can still
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: hit them in their heart.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Is that possible or you feel like these artists need
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: to get back in church. Well, I think what he
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: meant is that the producers who are doing the producing
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: have to have that background to know how to bring
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: in the tenors, how to bring in your altes, you know,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: to make that full effective sound. We all know the
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: difference between church musicians and regular musicians who did not
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: get that training. Because here's the thing about church. Church
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: trained you because you have a uh, an audience that
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: can't go nowhere for like two three hours, and so
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: you get that on the job training that you wouldn't
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: get just you know in your basement, you know, mixing
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: and trying to do your thing, so you you learn
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: how to capture an audience. And I think that is
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: what's missing as well, because these kids don't have that
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: type of experience until they get in front of audiences,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: and most of them don't know what to do. Uh.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I watched Saturday Night Live the young lady who uh
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: had this huge song during the pandemic about you know,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: driving down the street and stuff like that, and uh
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: and and and my daughter's gonna get me because I
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: don't Huh. I'm sorry not to not share right. No,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: it was it was another young lady. No, no, no, no,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I mean during the pandemic, white artist. She had on
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: some baggy clothes and things like that. Now she made
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: a song on her computer in her room and it
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: blew up. It went viral like a billion times. They
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: immediately put her on Saturday Night Live, and it was
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: obvious that she had not had the train work. And
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: if we go back even to the Motown days and
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: the Stacks days, there was artist development.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: I don't have that anymore.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: And that's the thing that I believe Jermaine was talking
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: about as well. They do not have artist development and
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: artist development for us as people who attended church and
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: grew up in the church, we grew up in the
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: choir or either the band or something like that. You
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: had that every Sunday, every Thursday when you had rehearsals,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: you had the chance to you know, be corrected and
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: you know, and and make it right.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: And so I.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Definitely know we got to bring that artist development back. Uh.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: And then the other thing that you miss is that
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: that heart and soul, right, you can only get that
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: heart and soul when you're connected, you know. And if
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: you're not connected to your source, you will miss you know,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: you may sound amazing, but there will be this emptiness
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: that is very obvious that you know. It's like maybe
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: you need to, you know, get a little quiet, get
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: get some peace, or you know, do some yoga or
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: whatever you do.
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: Now we talked about that this one. I said the
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: same thing like everything you said, but that that that
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: that soul. I think the church is so rooted, especially
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: the Black church. It's just so rooted in community and
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: Black people fellowsh and fellow fellowshipping with each other. It's
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: just a certain soul that comes from that that I
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: think people are just missing nowadays because of the fact
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: we don't fellowship as much like I don't read social
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: media as real fellowship.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: But no, because and those you know, I'm gonna get
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: a little technical here. We're in this room. I could
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: have done this on zoom, but it wouldn't feel the same.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: It's because all of us have these energy blocks that
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: you know, we we have. It's just it's just amazing
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: how we're fearfully and wonderfully made. But trying to get
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: that same feeling on a zoom call or on uh,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: whatever yard it is and stuff like that, it's it's
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard because there's no authenticity there. You know,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: when you respond to me and you smile, I'm like, yeah,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: I'm on the right track. When you respond to me
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: and you shake your head, like on the right track.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: When you respond to me and I see that smile,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, so but you know, and
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: then I give it back.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: And so.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: For me, and I can only speak for me, I
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: like the call and response that we've grown up with.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: I also love being able to see if the message
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: is affecting the person or the congregation or you know,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: like we're going to be at the Barclay Center, so
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: that's a whole bunch of people, but you still hone
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: in on those folk that you see are getting it,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, the whole place just
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: gets electrified. But it starts with me and you and
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: you and you, and then everybody you know comes in.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I think the other thing that church does
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: as well, because we didn't have the counselors and the
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: therapists and all this stuff. You know, like you're doing
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: your program. It was our therapy growing up because you know,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: you could shout it out, you can cry it out,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: you can yes, sir it out. You know, you could
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: sing it out, you can usher it out, you know.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: But we don't have that like that anymore. And we've advanced,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: and I'm glad we've advanced because now we can see, Okay,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: this is one of the problems that we need to
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: work on in our community. What better place to start
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: it than in a place that cares about people. So
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: when you have a counselor or a therapist on staff
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: at your church, it makes it so much better for
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: people who want to come in and just talk and
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: you know, get stuff out. I believe in God ain't therapy,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely. I mean you think about if you read
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: the Bible, there are so many times where everyone that
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: did anything huge for God had to go into that
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: place and like, okay, who do I talk to? Who
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: do I counsel with and I just want people to
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: get back to the basics of fellowship with God, because
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: if you get back to the basics, you realize all
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: of the stuff that people are majoring on has nothing
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: to do with the real love of God.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: So how do you feel about bedside Baptists at Mountain
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Design zoom A.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing. There's a place for all of that,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: and that is why churches have to advance and make
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: sure that they have those things available. Now, as I
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: said before, just like I didn't come, you know, like
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: I didn't zoom with you guys, is because I wanted
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: to be physically in the room. There's just something you're
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: going to get inside the buildings that you cannot get
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: just on zoom. And and I'm going to have to
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: confess because my job takes me out most of the
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: time where I can't get back to my physical church.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: And so as soon as I am off the road, oh,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: I'm going to my church. But I again, I will
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: say thank God for the zoom, thank God for the streaming,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: but when you can get in there, because it makes
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: a huge difference.
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: I ain't caught the Holy spirit of zoom yet. I
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: watched The Podic House every Sunday.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Yes, but it's different when you're actually in the part. Yes,
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: you do. Yes, when you're watching it on I like
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: it is good, yes, But when you dead it's different.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: You can feel good, you can.
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: I wanted to know do you look at music how
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: you look at acting?
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: So there's certain music you're not going to sing because
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: you don't you don't stay it. But do you look
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: at that as acting as well?
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Like?
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: Is there parts that you say that doesn't fit my
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: quote unquote persona? But it is acting, so you're really
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: taking yourself out of your person and being somebody else?
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Like would Landa Adams ever be like a drug king
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: queen like Mary J.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Blige and Power?
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: Would you play that part?
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: Would you play certain parts that don't necessarily sit you
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: fit your persona?
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Now I wouldn't be a drug dealer or a queen pen,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: but I would I like Meaty Rolls. That's why I
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: took on Danita Jordan because although we're gospel artists and
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: family women, she's she's cutthroat and I'm the total opposite.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: You know, I let people live because I think God
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: can get you better than I can't right, you know so,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: But I would and this is this is gonna sound
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: really crazy. I would like to to do a role
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: like murder, she wrote. I'd like to be a detective
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: and see that that involves gore and that's still a
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: positive side.
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: Would you be on the other side of that? Would you.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Know what? I don't know. No one is ever asking
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: me that question.
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: What if he was killing people who were possessed by
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: the devil. There's this movie called Is about that, but
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: this guy was. They thought he was a serial killer,
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: but literally God was giving him visions and the people
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: he was killing, Oh yes, people that are killing mom
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: are terrible people, oh wow.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: And it was all rooted in his faith for God.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: I'm going to have to research that. I'm gonna have
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: to research that because I don't know if God just
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: wants you to kill people.
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: So people don't even come to you with those typers
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: like you don't have to turn down that stuff.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: They don't even come to Yeah, yeah, I don't have
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: to turn down those. But I did have to turn
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: down a record deal when I was making the transition
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: from one gospel label to you know, a secular label.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: This guy was like, yeah, we have this thing. We're
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: gonna turn you into this you know this, this mega
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: this and I'm like, okay, so how is that going
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: to be possible? Well, the first thing you're gonna have
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: to do, you're gonna have to learn how to butterfly.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, wait, can you imagine me doing the
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: butter as long as I am serious? He was serious
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: now we were in London. He was serious to the
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: praise and worship. It's going to be like you know,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be yea kind of crossover infusion whatever. I'm like,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: we never found out is.
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: Any hip hop records you ever turned down? Like somebody
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: want to want you to sing a hook of something?
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Well, you know I've done, uh the hook with Bone
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Stuck's Harmony. They did Order My Steps, they redid that.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Let me see who else? You know? I've been sampled
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: several times. Nick Cannon has done a samples when he
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: was a Nickelodeon and Disney kid. So it was you
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: are crazy and so I've done that, but I don't
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: know it's according to you know, did I?
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: I've done some stuff with Trade the Truth, done some
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: stuff with Common and who else is one more? Oh? Uh?
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: I think the truth from Philly.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, so I've done some out of the box
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: stuff I'm kind of proud of.
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: Like what you said earlier, you said you feel like
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: God can handle people better than you can.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, So can you share time with like your faith
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: might have been tested.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: All the time? Well yeah, because again I'm the oldest
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: of six kids, so I'm that protector. And for someone
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: to think that they had an advantage or could take
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: advantage of my kindness and and try to like, you know,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: and try to play me as y'all would say. You know,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: it's like bruh me and God got this. So you
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: don't think God's gonna tell me first before you try
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: to do something. And people are really surprised when you
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  Speaker 1: don't come at them the way they would come at
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  Speaker 1: you when you don't match energy, because it's like naw,
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  Speaker 1: I've learned long time ago. If you want to just
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  Speaker 1: sit back and watch God do it, sit back and
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  Speaker 1: watch God do it, because as soon as you put
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  Speaker 1: your hand in it and try to fix something, it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna mess up. And then you're gonna mess up your purpose,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna mess up your journey. And I would rather
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  Speaker 1: God say you know what. I'm so proud of you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you held on. Now I may go home and
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  Speaker 1: just yell and screen, but it's like, nah, how.
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  Speaker 2: Are you so tapped in? Because like you, I Reverend
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  Speaker 2: sexy Red. You know who sexy Red is. You know power?
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  Speaker 5: Like you know how you so tapped into everything that's
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  Speaker 5: going on. You know you made the pre statement.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I have known do priest since he was a
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  Speaker 1: little kid.
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  Speaker 6: I feel like a lot of gods, but you're not traditionally,
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  Speaker 6: like you're not the traditional gods artist. A lot of
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  Speaker 6: gospel artists and people in the world of God they
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  Speaker 6: tap out of stuff, they remove it, or they act
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  Speaker 6: likely they don't see it even though it's in front
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  Speaker 6: of them.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I get a chance, thankfully to be
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of places like the BET Awards, the
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  Speaker 1: Grammy Awards, places like that. And I mean, and you
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  Speaker 1: have to live in a box not to know current music.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a music lover, so I listen to all types
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  Speaker 1: of music because again, I have a daughter, Right, you
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  Speaker 1: listen to sexy Right? No, not at all. I know
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. I listen to a lot, but I know
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  Speaker 1: who she is because she's been on the BET Awards
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  Speaker 1: and things like that. And and for me, I listened
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  Speaker 1: to beats, I listen to words, and I love sincerity
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  Speaker 1: and music, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, And so.
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  Speaker 1: I yeah, And my daughter keeps me pretty cool. You know,
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  Speaker 1: she's twenty three, so she keeps me real cool.
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  Speaker 2: I've got two more questions for you.
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  Speaker 5: Do do you feel because of your faith and because
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  Speaker 5: you do gospel music that you get put in a box?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, they tried years ago. I mean, they really tried
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  Speaker 1: years ago. Okay, so we're gonna put you in this
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  Speaker 1: little comfortable space and blah blah blah. And I'm like, ah,
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  Speaker 1: I think we're bigger than that, because God is bigger
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  Speaker 1: than that, you know. I mean there's so many things
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  Speaker 1: that we could talk about God being bigger than I mean,
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  Speaker 1: He is ultimate. So if God is everywhere at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, blessing everyone and you know, holding the world together,
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  Speaker 1: why would I allow someone who has a small view
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  Speaker 1: of God to crush my big view of God? Knowing
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: that I've lived long enough to see the bigness and
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: the hugeness of God. So I'm telling you it started
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: when I was a teenager because I started singing and
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  Speaker 1: a choir we were going all over the country and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And then I had my first billboard song at seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: and I realized at that time, wow, I like this.
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  Speaker 1: I like doing this. And then I would see Tremaine
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  Speaker 1: Hawkins and Shirley Caesar and people like that doing it
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  Speaker 1: for a living. I'm like, Okay, God, well, however, you
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  Speaker 1: got to do that, let's do that. And and I
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: saw the kind of box they tried to put Tremaine
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  Speaker 1: in when she started singing solo aside from the Hawkins family,
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  Speaker 1: she had this amazing song. You guys are probably too
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: young to remember. She had this amazing song called fall
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Down on Me and it was talking about the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: But she had a couple of dancers and Kevin Bond,
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: who was amazing, was on one of the little piano
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: guitar things running around, you know. And it was a
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  Speaker 1: joyful song, nothing disrespectful. And they gave her grief about that,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, wow, So I've seen that happen to
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  Speaker 1: other people, and I refuse to let it happen to me.
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  Speaker 1: And I love God's timing in my life. It's always
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  Speaker 1: been about his timing and me wanting his time. Because
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: years later, I'm sitting here with the Breakfast Club discussing
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  Speaker 1: my fourteenth project, you know, But think about it, though,
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: if I had gotten mad at the producer who says, oh,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: you'll never sell more than this guy. You'll never sell
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: more than that guy because there was a whole bunch
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: of chauvinism in gospel music way back then. And instead
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: of getting like upset, you know, fighting back, I just like,
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  Speaker 1: I've taken my hands off of it and I've outsold
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  Speaker 1: those men. Some of them are gone home to be
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  Speaker 1: with the Lord and I'm still here. So I know
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: what that feels like. But I also know what it
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  Speaker 1: feels like to tell young people like a Leandria, like
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  Speaker 1: Atasha and like Kei Key Sheared and all of the
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  Speaker 1: young people who I've mentored over the years, is that
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to be anybody but you, and you
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  Speaker 1: stand your ground. If you want to sing a song
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  Speaker 1: that somebody may not agree with, you sing that song
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  Speaker 1: because somebody out there is gonna be touched by that song.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, Open my Heart is one of those songs
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  Speaker 1: that you guys have played for years, and we just
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: celebrated what twenty five, twenty six years of Opened My
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  Speaker 1: heart and I can't go anywhere in the world and
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  Speaker 1: not sing that song.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah.
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  Speaker 5: My last question is what do you see as your
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  Speaker 5: legacy in the world of gospel music, but just in
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: the world period, like when when your line Audam no
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  Speaker 5: longer sees to exist.
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  Speaker 2: What do you want people to say about Miss Adams?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I hope that people say that I inspired, encourage,
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  Speaker 1: uplifted and educated them in many aspects, not just gospel music,
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  Speaker 1: not just business, but in life, you know, because that's huge,
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  Speaker 1: And that I represented God in such a way that
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  Speaker 1: I made him so cool and so livable that there
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  Speaker 1: were no restrictions with God. Because I don't see God
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  Speaker 1: as restricted, you know, and I try to pass that
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  Speaker 1: on to everybody that I meet, you know, as you
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  Speaker 1: said before, because we are His eyes and ears and
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  Speaker 1: His body on earth. There are just certain things that
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  Speaker 1: we have to make priority. We've got to make love
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  Speaker 1: a priority. Have to Now, do I agree with everything
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  Speaker 1: that someone is doing. No, I don't agree with everything
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  Speaker 1: my family members do, but that doesn't keep me from
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: loving them. It keeps me wanting the best for them.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: And then, you know, you don't have to respond to everything.
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  Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you just got to let go and
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: let God. And I hope that when people say, hey,
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: you know Yolanda Adams, you know she's gone like, wow,
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: that woman helped me through so and so and so
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  Speaker 1: on and so that woman helped my father get through
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  Speaker 1: cancer or so and so that those are the things
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: that I want said about myself.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we love value and appreciate you, Miss Adams. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 4: What song do you want to play?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? My gosh, h play on God on God number one,
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  Speaker 1: day number one.
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  Speaker 4: And before we leave, we just add, like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: can you give us a prayer before we leave?
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  Speaker 1: I would love that.
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  Speaker 5: Lord.
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  Speaker 1: We are just so grateful and thankful that you have
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: allowed us this time to spend together. It's been so
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  Speaker 1: amazing to be with these wonderful young people who are
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  Speaker 1: doing your work on a daily basis. They make us laugh,
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  Speaker 1: they make us think, they make us want to be
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  Speaker 1: better people. And so God, I ask right now that
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  Speaker 1: you give them the desires of their heart, whatever those
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: secret desires are that they haven't told anybody, give them
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  Speaker 1: to them, and just bless their socks off God, and
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: give them more years, as many years as they want,
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  Speaker 1: but more than anything, make them grateful for this platform
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  Speaker 1: that you've given them because it changes the world. Amen.
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  Speaker 3: Amen, Amen Elanda Adams, Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for
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  Speaker 3: joining us so much.
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  Speaker 4: No problem, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Wake that
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  Speaker 4: ass up in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club.