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

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