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DLHS Hour 3 | Talking All That Jazz with Rapper and Educator Griot B · The D.L. Hughley Show

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  Speaker 1: It's the deal.
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  Speaker 2: Here can show your twenty twenty sixth edition. If you
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  Speaker 2: are going to be at the UH in Cincinnati'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: be performing at the Grand can Our Grand Conclave.
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  Speaker 3: Oh look at you.
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  Speaker 1: I did it.
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  Speaker 2: I did the Alpha Kappa Alphas. Oh that was a treat.
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  Speaker 2: I bet that was a treat. They didn't throw you
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  Speaker 2: out there right? Oh no, no, no, So watch your
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  Speaker 2: mount Joe toy.
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  Speaker 3: Did you watch your mouth?
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  Speaker 1: It was we had a good time.
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  Speaker 2: Well that means that means you had a good time.
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  Speaker 1: So, uh, I read it.
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  Speaker 2: I was reading an article and that we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: and we talked about this before. Our munitions are running
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  Speaker 2: along the types of munitions that we're using, that we're
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  Speaker 2: expending on. And almost every time we start these campaigns
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  Speaker 2: which we think are going to year results and they don't,
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  Speaker 2: there's a ceasefire.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's a pause. Do you know what they're
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  Speaker 1: doing right now?
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  Speaker 2: They are so short on some of these particular minitions
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  Speaker 2: that they let some of the bombs get through if
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  Speaker 2: they think they're not gonna if they's a civilian structure,
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  Speaker 2: or if it's the lights of life can be mitigated, they.
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  Speaker 1: Let them through.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Iron do's they let them through what has happened
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  Speaker 4: to us him right.
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  Speaker 2: And all the people that support him have happened to
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  Speaker 2: us that because people cannot admit that they're wrong, it's
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  Speaker 2: not going And this dude is everywhere. He's at the
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  Speaker 2: World Cup, he's at the NBA Finals, he's at the
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  Speaker 2: you know, the UFC fights.
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  Speaker 1: He's everywhere but handling a war.
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  Speaker 4: I was about to say, he's everywhere also, but handling
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  Speaker 4: situations in this country that I need.
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  Speaker 2: He where's the last time you saw him showing up
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  Speaker 2: to work?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: He wants all the accouterments of the president, none of
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  Speaker 2: the work. And I'm telling you, this country is is
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  Speaker 2: this country's done?
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  Speaker 4: Did you say him the correspondence done saying he's gonna
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  Speaker 4: run in twenty twenty?
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  Speaker 2: They come on, even even even Carolyn Levers, like you
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  Speaker 2: know that even she knew that it ain't gonna happen.
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  Speaker 2: Why would you want more of this? Why would you
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  Speaker 2: want more of this? Whats going well? And do you
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  Speaker 2: know so there's no so that we're not mistaken and
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  Speaker 2: we're not mistaken eighty He has the highest approval rating
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  Speaker 2: of any among Republicans, of any president in modern history.
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  Speaker 1: So there is no line of delineation. They are all in.
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  Speaker 2: This lockstep together. Everything he does they like, So this
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  Speaker 2: is all on them. So it ain't nobody pretending it
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  Speaker 2: ain't nobody. He has the highest approval rating of any
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  Speaker 2: Republican president history, So no matter what the horror we see,
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  Speaker 2: they love well.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's because they benefit from it.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm feeling let that Brandon Tatum, dude have it.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you let him have it.
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  Speaker 1: I was trying to do it a weekend, but I
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  Speaker 1: had to work that shoe booty.
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  Speaker 3: He had the nerve that cost pot put your name in.
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  Speaker 2: His mouth right, Well, he looked like he actually looked
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  Speaker 2: like a real raccoon, he really does.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I'm sick of, though, I'm just sick
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  Speaker 4: of just everything about him, him meeting with you know,
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  Speaker 4: the alleged friends.
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  Speaker 1: But you are you are.
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  Speaker 2: You are a police officer for six years and there
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  Speaker 2: was no at least a quarterier resident. You didn't do
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  Speaker 2: any detective work. You were you worked with SWAT. You're
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  Speaker 2: operating for SWAT and training officer. No, I don't see
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  Speaker 2: anything to take.
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  Speaker 3: Some public service stuff too.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, actually you were you have been a you've been
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  Speaker 2: on social media longer than you went Officer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is the d huge show.
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  Speaker 2: Jasmine is here talking all that jazz with school Yard
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  Speaker 2: Rep found school Yard Rap founder grell O B.
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  Speaker 4: Please welcome to the show cultural storyteller UH and recording
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  Speaker 4: artist Greo B.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Grio, Yes, Hey, now you going? I'm doing wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: How are you?
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  Speaker 5: I'm blessed in highly flavored.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm just amen.
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  Speaker 4: I was so excited, uh to talk to you because
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  Speaker 4: I had the wonderful opportunity to host a beautiful event
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  Speaker 4: that you had here in LA that I was just
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  Speaker 4: simply blown away by not only about the show at
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  Speaker 4: s self, but about the entire event that happened for
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  Speaker 4: the community. Talk to us about school Yard Rap. I
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  Speaker 4: know you were the founder and the CEO, but I
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  Speaker 4: saw it up close and personal. Explain it to everyone
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  Speaker 4: listening exactly what it is and what it looks like.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, definitely, Well, but first of all, thank you so
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  Speaker 5: much for being a part of that event. It was
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  Speaker 5: you know, it was really good and it meant so
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  Speaker 5: much to have your kind of experience school your rapp
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  Speaker 5: in person and also just you know, just your presence
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  Speaker 5: on stage and just who you are be a part
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  Speaker 5: of that event was very important to me. So just
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  Speaker 5: thank you so much for that. If REP is my
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  Speaker 5: is my baby, it's my mission, it's my goal, it's
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  Speaker 5: it's the move. It's all about educational entertainment, providing content
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  Speaker 5: that is not taking our schools on a daily basis,
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  Speaker 5: doing it in the way that provides students examples of
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  Speaker 5: excellence that they can aspire and achieve to be and
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  Speaker 5: in the modality that they understand, which is through media
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  Speaker 5: and music. Thank for that Schoolhouse Rock for this generation,
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  Speaker 5: schoolyard rap. It's it's my purpose in life. God's calling
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  Speaker 5: on me to preach and teach people truth and in
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  Speaker 5: doing so, you know, make people love themselves a lot
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  Speaker 5: more and love that neighbor even more.
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  Speaker 4: And what an incredible job you were doing. I saw,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I did some research before I came out,
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  Speaker 4: and I because you know, I wasn't really sure exactly
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  Speaker 4: what it was, and when I looked into it, I
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  Speaker 4: was like, how did I not know about this?
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  Speaker 3: And then to see the kids' faces.
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  Speaker 4: As they are watching what amounts to it was almost
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  Speaker 4: like a Broadway show. But how did this come to you?
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  Speaker 4: In terms of the idea to want to do it,
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  Speaker 4: because I know you're a former assistant principle and obviously
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  Speaker 4: being a rap artist or just an artist period yourself.
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  Speaker 4: How did this come to you in terms of you
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  Speaker 4: wanted to do this for the community nationwide?
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  Speaker 5: Is the goat next year to take that show that
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  Speaker 5: you saw, which is just one of our four shows
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  Speaker 5: and take it made Tom whif I really appreciate that
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  Speaker 5: Broadway comic because that's really what I'm all about, giving
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  Speaker 5: excellence in every single aspect of what we do. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: it started as an assistant principal, you know, when I
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  Speaker 5: was a teacher. Actually, one of my students challenged me
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  Speaker 5: to make a song, like he was listened to a
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  Speaker 5: song in the cafeteria, and prior to that, I really
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  Speaker 5: didn't have much tonk in class. I'm kind of teaching
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  Speaker 5: very strict how I was taught. He played a song
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  Speaker 5: and I was like, Hey, this is Basuda, this is trash.
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  Speaker 5: He said, I bet you can't do better, And from
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  Speaker 5: there I made my first ever song. I never wanted
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  Speaker 5: to be a rap artist. I never wanted to you know, rap,
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  Speaker 5: but this was kind of a way for me to
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  Speaker 5: connect to the students, and I didn't realize what would happen.
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  Speaker 5: I brought it to class and the kids went crazy.
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  Speaker 5: They loved it and they appreciate it, And I think
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  Speaker 5: it was less about the quality of the song at
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  Speaker 5: that time and more about my efforts to reach them
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  Speaker 5: in a modality and method that they understand. And our
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  Speaker 5: test scores went up through the roof that year. After
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  Speaker 5: I kept making songs and dressing up in coptunes and
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  Speaker 5: I just start having fun in class because I realized
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  Speaker 5: that when learning is fun, learning sticks, and so as
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  Speaker 5: a teacher I made that and then as an assistant principal,
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  Speaker 5: I realized my teachers knew nothing about Black history of
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  Speaker 5: slavery and segregation.
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  Speaker 4: So tell us how someone who wants to get a
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  Speaker 4: sneak peek at it? Where can they do that?
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  Speaker 5: Well, next year we're going on a nationwide tour. We're
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  Speaker 5: going to be down in Dallas, in Houston as well
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  Speaker 5: as Atlanta, and of course in Los Angeles and Oakland,
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  Speaker 5: California as well. You can go to schoolyard wrap dot
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  Speaker 5: com as in February we're going on tour. Tickets will
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  Speaker 5: start to be on sale end of August, but also
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  Speaker 5: You can go to my social media as an artists,
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  Speaker 5: the gre O B and listen to any of the
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  Speaker 5: music if you look up greob on Spotify and Apple Music,
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  Speaker 5: including our newest album Good Trouble, which is an EP
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  Speaker 5: that teaches about the history of voting rights in America
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  Speaker 5: and now African Americans achieve those voting rights. It's available
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  Speaker 5: right now on all streaming platforms. I really appreciate that,
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  Speaker 5: say Hamilton ESQ, because you know, I emptied up my
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  Speaker 5: four to one k to start this company. I didn't
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  Speaker 5: have a loan, have investors, and you know, to grow it.
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  Speaker 5: It's been consistent refinancing the company, putting more back into
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  Speaker 5: the production and production. We started our first show in
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  Speaker 5: twenty twenty three, and this is about three or four
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  Speaker 5: years of grinding four different types of shows. So the
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  Speaker 5: quality of it is exactly what I want you to see,
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  Speaker 5: because Black history deserves excellent. It doesn't deserve something, you know,
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  Speaker 5: on a small scale. Because the impact that we've had
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  Speaker 5: on this and into the world has been grand as well.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm glad.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I have to give kudos to you too.
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  Speaker 4: I have to give kudos to you too, because I
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  Speaker 4: do think now more than ever. It's so important that
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  Speaker 4: we not only know our black history, but we also
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  Speaker 4: share in teaching that because that's what's allowed us to
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  Speaker 4: last throughout all of this time, is, you know, working
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  Speaker 4: together as a community and understanding is Frankie Beverly would say,
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  Speaker 4: we are one, and I think that's so important. So
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  Speaker 4: Grill b I'm so proud of what you're doing, continued success.
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  Speaker 4: If I can ever be of any more assistance to you,
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  Speaker 4: please don't hesitate to give me a call, and you
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  Speaker 4: keep pushing and doing what you're doing because you are
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  Speaker 4: doing it.
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  Speaker 3: You're doing God's work. You're getting in good trouble and
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  Speaker 3: we love it.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am, thank you so much. When you know better,
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  Speaker 5: you do better, and when you see better, you be better.
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  Speaker 5: We never show kids examples of excellence. How can they
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  Speaker 5: aspire to be excellent? So that's what I'm all about.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe students know there, Maidan.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Griob you continued success.
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  Speaker 5: All right, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's time for what you need to know with
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  Speaker 2: the one and only Sybil Wilkes.
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  Speaker 6: It's Sybil Wilkes. That's what we need to know.
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  Speaker 7: There are a number of news reports regarding the death
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  Speaker 7: of Nolan Wells.
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  Speaker 6: One that the.
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  Speaker 7: FBI has launched an official investigation into reported threats against
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  Speaker 7: public officials and the individuals who accompanied eighteen year old
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  Speaker 7: Nolan Wells prior to his death. Meanwhile, there's a report
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  Speaker 7: that Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves publicly blamed civil rights attorney
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  Speaker 7: beIN Crump and the Reverend Al Sharpton for inciting the hostility,
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  Speaker 7: accusing them of stoking division.
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  Speaker 6: For personal gain.
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  Speaker 7: Louisiana Congressman Cleo Fields announced that he will not seek
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  Speaker 7: reelection to Congress after his majority black district was dismantled
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  Speaker 7: under a.
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  Speaker 6: Newly redrawn state map.
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  Speaker 7: Rather than pursuing another federal term or university presidency, the
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  Speaker 7: veteran Democratic lawmaker plans to run for his former Baton
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  Speaker 7: Rouge seat in the Louisiana State Senate.
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  Speaker 6: Congressman Fields pledged.
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  Speaker 7: To complete his current congressional term through January twenty twenty seven,
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  Speaker 7: while maintaining active regional constituent offices to advocate for local
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  Speaker 7: university funding.
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  Speaker 6: Civil w folks, be informed, be empowered.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so very much, Sybil Jasmine more of the
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  Speaker 2: deal Yougley shows coming right up it's the deal, yougly show.