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D. Woods Interview · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Real people, real celebrity join the Breakfast Morning. Everybody is
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  Speaker 1: DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlemagne the guy. We are the
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  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club special guests in the building. Yeah, former member
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  Speaker 1: of Danity King didn't like your favorite. You get tired
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  Speaker 1: of hand that former member of Danity King. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I am a former member of Dannity King, so I
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  Speaker 1: can't really be tired of it. I mean, but I
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  Speaker 1: do like to be called d Woods you know. But
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  Speaker 1: why didn't never invite you to the Dannity can't? You
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  Speaker 1: know what? Charlomagne, Look, I got this tea in my
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  Speaker 1: cup and we ain't about to spill it all over
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  Speaker 1: this nice control booth here. I ain't paying for none
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  Speaker 1: of this equipment in here, so we're gonna keep all
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  Speaker 1: the tea in the cup. But um, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of conversation about that whole thing, and
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  Speaker 1: I love the things that you told me. You said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, why be real with fake people? You told
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  Speaker 1: me that out your mouth you saw the other girls
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  Speaker 1: fake Charlemagne girl, you're trying to start something people. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we know we're talking about Okay, you know we're speaking
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  Speaker 1: about over here, But um, I was really excited, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to continue with my career. Um, things that I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: able to show in the group. I'm doing now, um
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  Speaker 1: expressing all of my talents. I'm a triple threat and
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  Speaker 1: I also owned my own record label, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just moving up and moving on, you know, acting, acting.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about that, because we did have Vonique
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  Speaker 1: up here the other day and she was talking about
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  Speaker 1: this independent film that she is producing, and you were
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  Speaker 1: starring in it as well, So let's talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's called Blackbirds, right, black black Okay, Okay, black birds,
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  Speaker 1: black birds. It's just well, you know black people always
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  Speaker 1: gotta put all the time you called Joe Button Joe buttons.
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  Speaker 1: It is what woods? Okay, okay, yeah, but Blackbird. It's amazing,
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  Speaker 1: an amazing film. We had a screening here in New
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  Speaker 1: York last night at the Schaumberg. Amazing response. I've seen
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  Speaker 1: the film about five times at different film festivals throughout
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  Speaker 1: last year twenty fourteen, and I will have to say
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  Speaker 1: that the New York audience was like the best audience,
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  Speaker 1: like they were into it. It centers around a young
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  Speaker 1: boy by the name of Randy Rousseau and he's coming
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  Speaker 1: to terms with his true self. He's coming to terms
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  Speaker 1: with his sexuality, and it's a conflict because he's in
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  Speaker 1: a very small, conservative religious town in Mississippi. His mother
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  Speaker 1: is played by Monique, his father's played by Isaiah Washington. Him,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm one of his friends. Yeah, preacher's daughter. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a preacher's kid, so you know, I get into some
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  Speaker 1: stuff too. Now, you live in Atlanta, so you probably
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  Speaker 1: see a lot of guys dealing with these sexual identity
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  Speaker 1: having sexual identity issues. Yes, yes, And then I've been
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  Speaker 1: in the arts my entire life. You know, I've been
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  Speaker 1: in Dan's company's theater companies. So this is not new
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  Speaker 1: to me. I've I've seen them. They've come out to
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  Speaker 1: me and I'm like, who are you coming out to
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  Speaker 1: I've been Yeah, I'm glad you are now being honest
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  Speaker 1: because now we all can be honest about it. So
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  Speaker 1: you never was in Atlanta dating the guy or not dating.
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  Speaker 1: But like the guy, I wonder why he wouldn't give
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  Speaker 1: you no rim and you're like, find out he was gatting,
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  Speaker 1: Like oh that's what, Well, that's not usually the problem.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is they do come after you, and then
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  Speaker 1: you have to have your good, good gay friend. You
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, to be like on girl. He
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  Speaker 1: was in the club last night, so he's trade. That's
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  Speaker 1: the word trade. Trade. You never heard me trade. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a nice piece of trade to some of these guys.
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  Speaker 1: These guys love me, the kids love me. Right. Please
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  Speaker 1: please please don't be trade. Please don't trade me. I
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  Speaker 1: need I need you to be one side of the other.
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  Speaker 1: When when they're trade, it's like they're trading, they're going back.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought that was like a term for like
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  Speaker 1: a hot piece of something. It means that. It means
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  Speaker 1: in the daytime they wear their wedding ring, they go
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  Speaker 1: to their wife, and at night they are at the
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  Speaker 1: club trade doing that. Dam I didn't said out the
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  Speaker 1: NiFe to trade a few times and then you wonder
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  Speaker 1: why your followers went up. But we needed to pick
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  Speaker 1: a side. How did you work with Monique? I heard
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  Speaker 1: she so hard to work with. Shut up, look at you.
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  Speaker 1: She was just here. You ain't say that to work
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  Speaker 1: with No Monique. No, Monique is so gracious, so nurturing,
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  Speaker 1: so warm and so generous. Um. I was on her show,
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  Speaker 1: The Monique Show, and it was on BT her talk show.
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  Speaker 1: She gave me a national you know, television platform immediately
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  Speaker 1: after me departing from the group, when I started wood
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  Speaker 1: Grain Entertainment and I got to perform and I had
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  Speaker 1: a you know, a couch interview, and you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: like prime real estate for an independent artist to get
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  Speaker 1: on that platform. And it was so soon after, you know,
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  Speaker 1: my whole ordeal. And she gave me such good words
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  Speaker 1: of encouragement to just keep pushing forward, to not worry
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  Speaker 1: about the bull you know what I'm saying. She was like, baby,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's not meant to be in a group. And I
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  Speaker 1: was like, okay, you know what I'm saying. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: meeting up with her again on the set um, she
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  Speaker 1: was the same way. You know, I walked in the
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  Speaker 1: first day I came to say, I walked in and
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  Speaker 1: she was in the middle of a very dramatic scene
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  Speaker 1: with her co star, um Julian Walker, and I had
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  Speaker 1: to watch her slap him in the face like ten
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  Speaker 1: times and he was taking it like a g and
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  Speaker 1: I was just like, this is intense. I want to
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  Speaker 1: go back to the hotel right my lines. But then
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  Speaker 1: as soon as they cut, you know, she you know,
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  Speaker 1: broke her baby warm hugs and everything. So she's very nurturing.
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  Speaker 1: She did like that, she got that motherly thing about her.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely like a lot of hugs and kisses. They used
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  Speaker 1: to intern I did. I did yees yeah one show,
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  Speaker 1: um I was. I was Promotion Street Team intern. But
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  Speaker 1: see I was doing too much and that's the reason
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  Speaker 1: why I got fired for being an inn. They actually
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  Speaker 1: hired me, but that didn't last very long. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of interns get fired. We haven't fired
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  Speaker 1: a lot of interns. Well you know, um Mark is
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  Speaker 1: Mark still here? Hey Mark, um and he and he
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  Speaker 1: so lovingly fired me. I didn't even realize I got fired.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, Um, I was pursuing my dream. I
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  Speaker 1: was always asking for time off. I have an audition,
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  Speaker 1: I got rehearsal. And then finally, Um, I came to him.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, Mark, I got a tour. I'm dancing
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  Speaker 1: for song and song on tour. I need to leave
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  Speaker 1: an absence and he was like, okay, Um, we'll just
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  Speaker 1: come in and we'll talk about it. And I was
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  Speaker 1: like okay, So he's when I came in. He was like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: So what we're gonna do is I'm gonna take you
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  Speaker 1: off a payroll and then UM, when you're when you're
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  Speaker 1: finished with a tour, just come back, let us know
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  Speaker 1: and we'll talk about it. And I was like, is
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  Speaker 1: that the same thing as a leave about He's never
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  Speaker 1: gonna take you off a payroll from the system. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, yeah, yeah, that's the same. I was like okay,
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  Speaker 1: and I just went right back out on my little promotions.
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  Speaker 1: Um assignment. They did not they did not take and
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  Speaker 1: then UM, I was with my coworker and they were like,
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  Speaker 1: what did he say? And I was like, well he
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  Speaker 1: said this this is They were like, girl, if you
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  Speaker 1: don't go home, he fired you. So you wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be a radio personality. I didn't. I I signed up
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  Speaker 1: for the internship because I knew I wanted to be
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  Speaker 1: on the radio. I wanted my music to be on
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  Speaker 1: the radio. So also in doing too much, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a promotions you know, intern, and then I was
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  Speaker 1: on the street team and everything. But I'm sitting in
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  Speaker 1: the sales meetings, I'm taking meetings with the music director,
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  Speaker 1: program director. I'm like walking around asking questions, like doing
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  Speaker 1: too much, Like I was taking advantage of the what
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  Speaker 1: do you do? Okay? And I was meeting all the
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  Speaker 1: personalities you know, sign up for extra you know. Oh okay,
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  Speaker 1: Well then I was doing what I was supposed to do.
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  Speaker 1: What's up with Chanelle is great? She has a new
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  Speaker 1: single I was called I Can Be Your Stripper. It
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  Speaker 1: is out now, Hey, Andy bitch parts. Yeah, whenever she
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  Speaker 1: Nell comes to new like, you know, she'd be with me.
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  Speaker 1: She ain't trying to leave money the BF they got
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  Speaker 1: going on, you know what, Charlemagne, Look, what can I
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  Speaker 1: just do her own thing? Though? You know that's what
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  Speaker 1: you gotta do. I think when you signed any label,
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  Speaker 1: everybody got to build your own buzz and keep it going. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But we were actually out with Wayne on some of
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  Speaker 1: his Sorry for the weight toward dates. So I mean
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  Speaker 1: their family and they ran and die. So I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what's really going on with that, but I just
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  Speaker 1: hope for the best because I know how it is
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  Speaker 1: breaking from a big machine. How come yell ain't never
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  Speaker 1: tried to do a group together? Me and Chanelle, we
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  Speaker 1: are a group. We're sisters to go. We're sisters. We've
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  Speaker 1: done so much together. We wore the same we were
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  Speaker 1: we were twins for a long time in our life
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  Speaker 1: because my mother just bought the same close as two
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  Speaker 1: of everything. Damn. But then I started growing taller. As
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  Speaker 1: you can see, I'm a little taller than Chanelle, right,
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  Speaker 1: so I can't wear the same stuff anymore. Why are
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  Speaker 1: you duck in the faith from Aubrey though? H he
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  Speaker 1: said you ducked to fight from all bluff fight? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Is there a fight? There's no fight? Y'all don't get
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  Speaker 1: along right all real day. I mean I don't speak
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  Speaker 1: to them, but I wouldn't say I don't get along.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't. It ain't gonna be no physical fight again.
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  Speaker 1: I've never been in ye. I never understand why you
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  Speaker 1: and don didn't have a relationship being the only black
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  Speaker 1: girls in the group. You know what I mean me either? True?
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  Speaker 1: Back on you? Do you ever still speak to Diddy? Though?
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  Speaker 1: You know what? I have not spoken to him, but
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  Speaker 1: when I heard about Revolt, I reached out to him
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  Speaker 1: because he was in Atlanta for the BT Hip Hop Awards.
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  Speaker 1: I reached out and congratulated him. You know when assistant
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  Speaker 1: and assistant assistant you got maybe he got it Revolt,
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  Speaker 1: Well he gonna hear it today, Hey, Pop black Rob?
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  Speaker 1: Who else on this list? G up? What was it. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: people that he doesn't want that's a little petty. Well whatever,
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  Speaker 1: she's not paying you, no mine, she doesn't. Well maybe
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  Speaker 1: every time I congratulate you though for you know, a
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  Speaker 1: new movie and everything that would be great. You know,
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  Speaker 1: did you audition or was it I did? I did audition?
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  Speaker 1: The story is crazy because you know, sometimes these opportunities,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's like the stars aligned and they choose you.
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  Speaker 1: So I was in LA I was, um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: auditioning for other stuff is also you know, award season,
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  Speaker 1: Grammy time, and I'm just out networking and I overheard
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  Speaker 1: another actor talking about the project and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: what are you talking about? You know, and he's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's this dad. He didn't know Monique was attached to
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  Speaker 1: the project yet, but he was like, oh yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: there's probably your role for you. You You should reach out
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  Speaker 1: to your agent. And I was like, I'm gonna do that.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Betty wish you never told you that. Did
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  Speaker 1: he get the part? It's not like they were trying
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  Speaker 1: to get the same part. Though. He didn't get it.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, God works in mysterious way, so maybe
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  Speaker 1: the only reason why he was involved in it so
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  Speaker 1: I can be involved in it. And you know, every
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  Speaker 1: time I see him in LA, I'm like thankful to
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  Speaker 1: him because you know, he gave me a little what's
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  Speaker 1: his name? His name is Jay C. Jones, What up? Jac?
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  Speaker 1: And he was also he was a cast member of
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  Speaker 1: Glee and everything. So he's doing good, He's okay. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So what else is next for you? D was, I know,
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  Speaker 1: you have your own independent label, Yeah, doing your acting,
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  Speaker 1: So what is the next big thing for you? Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's also still attached to this project Blackbird. I teamed
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  Speaker 1: up with Patrick im Polk, our director, and his production
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  Speaker 1: company Tall Skinny black Boy and UM but Specy Back
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  Speaker 1: Boy Productions. UM also another one of our producers, Keith Brown,
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  Speaker 1: and they both reached out to me and said, we
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  Speaker 1: heard you have your independent label, can we, you know,
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  Speaker 1: put the soundtrack out through your label? So yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, come on, let's do it. So the soundtrack
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  Speaker 1: will be out soon. UM. The first single is dropping
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  Speaker 1: this coming Tuesday, So go see the movie on Friday
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  Speaker 1: because it's in theaters Friday in UM New York, LA, Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco, and DC. And then UM, the first single,
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  Speaker 1: find Your Way, will be on everywhere digitally on Tuesdays.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think that? What do you think you
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  Speaker 1: gotta do to shake them? D Woods from Danny Canny,
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  Speaker 1: because you do a lot. You was in Candy's play, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Mother's Love. You're doing your acting thing, Like what do
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  Speaker 1: you when do you think people would be like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is just D Woods? I mean, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: just the more I do stuff, And you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: great that people recognize me from that. It's great that
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  Speaker 1: they were so attached to it. It's great that they
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  Speaker 1: liked what I did in that in the confines of
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  Speaker 1: that group, because like I said, I wasn't able to
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  Speaker 1: really express everything. But you know, everything comes in its
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  Speaker 1: own time. And the more I do, the more they see,
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  Speaker 1: the more they understand who d was is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in full color and you know justin Timberlake. Of course
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  Speaker 1: we don't say, oh, justin Timberlake formerly of in Sync
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  Speaker 1: because he's done so much, but you know Beyonce formerly
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  Speaker 1: a Destiny's Child. But it's just the more you do,
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  Speaker 1: the more you do, the more you build up your
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  Speaker 1: you know, what's the D stand for. It stands for duble, delicious, delicious.
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  Speaker 1: That would be a hot name if he was a guy,
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  Speaker 1: or for appointment, d Woods not a guy. But we
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you joining us well. I appreciate up here with us.
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  Speaker 1: You know well. I want you to know that I'm
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  Speaker 1: very concerned about the fact that I've been using this
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  Speaker 1: term not knowing what the hell I'm talking about the track.
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  Speaker 1: I really want you all to know that I do
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  Speaker 1: not know what I did not know what that meant. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: the more you know, the better you like a pet.
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  Speaker 1: If you knew man't do better stud you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean. I didn't know trade meant that, But now
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  Speaker 1: you know I ain't trade in places already it's the trade.
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  Speaker 1: I have no trade clause. I have a no trade
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  Speaker 1: clause in my contract. Okay, I cannot be traded. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it's the breakfast club. Good morning,