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SC BOOKGAL CHATTING WITH AUTHOR LAKENDRICK NORTHERN · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: K legs and gentlemen, I have your attention.
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  Speaker 2: Please.
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  Speaker 1: The show starts in ten line eight seven six five
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  Speaker 1: four fun.
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  Speaker 3: Cool, Hey everyone, this is your girl sci BOOKUD eight
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  Speaker 3: four three, and I am here to with you with
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  Speaker 3: another author. So remember month of June is dedicated to
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  Speaker 3: the men. It is all about the men of lit.
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  Speaker 3: And so tonight I have a great personal personal guess
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  Speaker 3: you guys. So this is his second release. His first
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  Speaker 3: release was Flowers of Eve. Okay, we talked about that one. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: that was for the ladies. Now the next book, this
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  Speaker 3: one right here, is called Born from the Streets. And y'all,
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  Speaker 3: y'all wanna talk of some gritty, real street lit. This
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  Speaker 3: is what I'm talking about. Okay, there's a part I
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  Speaker 3: can't tell y'all that just put it like this. Let's
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  Speaker 3: think of a little bit of power mix with a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of of Living Single. So in other words,
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  Speaker 3: we got that buddy group. Then we got grandma's because
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  Speaker 3: remember Living Single, how Cadijia's mom and Rejean's mom kept
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  Speaker 3: popping up. Okay, well, in this case, is not the mom,
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  Speaker 3: it's the grandma. Okay, So we're gonna mix all that
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  Speaker 3: up and we're gonna have a nice, good, strong street lit.
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  Speaker 3: That's for the fellas. Okay, I know y'all thinking, man,
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  Speaker 3: men don't read. That is a lie. That is a
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  Speaker 3: bull faced lie. Men read. They might not like to
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  Speaker 3: be seen reading, but they do read. Okay. So then
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  Speaker 3: this author and I we're going to have something coming
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  Speaker 3: out later on this summer, might be early in the hat.
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  Speaker 3: And that book is for the couples. Okay. So y'all
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  Speaker 3: know how I like to bring in Okay, he brings
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  Speaker 3: it even more. Okay. So this is a great opportunity
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  Speaker 3: for you to meet the author. Le Kendrick Northern, come
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  Speaker 3: on up and tell us a little bit about yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Like mckindrick Norman, I was born to Blyth. I'm saying
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  Speaker 2: to say, Alabama, Uh about Eliabatha the car Alabama, Like
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  Speaker 2: graduated Capital High School and for taking you know, so
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  Speaker 2: uh like I say, over five years. You know dad
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  Speaker 2: in the street. You know what I'm saying. He brought
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  Speaker 2: to a point of my life where I'm incopulated. But
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  Speaker 2: I didn't let that hold me down, hold me back.
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  Speaker 2: I kept going in the same growth develop.
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  Speaker 3: So now y'all do notice where he said he did
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  Speaker 3: not let him did not let that keep him down. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: that is so interesting because remember now this month, in
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  Speaker 3: the month of July, it's a I mean month of
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  Speaker 3: June is dedicated to the men of lit. There are
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  Speaker 3: a lot of African American males and I'm only talking
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  Speaker 3: about from where I am, who won't increase the opportunity
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  Speaker 3: of the talent that they have to use them. But
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  Speaker 3: this gentleman has all type of odds against him and
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  Speaker 3: he's able to do that. So let me ask you
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  Speaker 3: a question. How was it feeling your first book in
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  Speaker 3: your hand once you had it published?
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  Speaker 2: That's because feeling, uh, it's kind of like all the
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  Speaker 2: days and that I try to, you know, to get
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  Speaker 2: it to help the truish. I'm saying, all debry to
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  Speaker 2: actually help me, and you know, it's just all the
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  Speaker 2: fountains and years you had to climb over. You had
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  Speaker 2: to keep going. Anytime you feel it down, you just
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  Speaker 2: got to get that up and keep going. So once
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  Speaker 2: I had got in my hand, it's just like no silence,
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  Speaker 2: feeling that sensation like I did it. So basically it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't anybody dropping the book accomplishing the goal.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, see, And that that is something that you
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  Speaker 3: could patch yourself on the back foot because you actually
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  Speaker 3: accomplished that goal. So what made you can continue with
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  Speaker 3: the book Born from the Streets?
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  Speaker 2: Well, actually said a true boy on the street. Actually
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  Speaker 2: my first book.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I wrote that book uh at beginning of my puncuation
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  Speaker 2: in ninety nine when I came to prison, and uh
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  Speaker 2: files my second book. So it's pretty much it just
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  Speaker 2: it just what I had. It wasn't no particular day,
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  Speaker 2: but no ask my first book.
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  Speaker 3: All right, So we all right got all the pull
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  Speaker 3: memory stuff out the way, all right, Born from the Streets.
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  Speaker 3: I know it is not like that love romance urban
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  Speaker 3: lit that you did with Flowers of Ea. Why did
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  Speaker 3: you feel that you took this turn with this one?
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  Speaker 2: Actually, Like like I said there at the beginning of my conservation,
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  Speaker 2: I come down, Uh the literature that was read down
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  Speaker 2: here by a lot of literature. You know, that was
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  Speaker 2: a big thing down here really still is. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I had rean across It's often you know, I read
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  Speaker 2: a book I don't say no name, and I have
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  Speaker 2: read a book that you put out by another so
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  Speaker 2: well I had learned it and fell it was recaculated,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm saying, I like saying, and you kind
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  Speaker 2: of book and read his book and him on the streets.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. You know, the streets out
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  Speaker 2: of America is the same, every genevery who it's the same.
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  Speaker 2: It's just got different dynamics. Uh, this is hot move
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  Speaker 2: and just perspective when they moved in. So I said,
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  Speaker 2: I said, hey, I can tell my stuff just like
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  Speaker 2: they can tell their stuff. So I these opportunities to
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  Speaker 2: hopefully get myself out of here.
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  Speaker 3: So could you say in a way that you know,
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  Speaker 3: the writing has contribute to your your well being or
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  Speaker 3: mental well being in so many germs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can say that because all the time, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 2: my writing is kind of like a therapy. At the
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  Speaker 2: same time, reading it the therapy. But when I first
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  Speaker 2: came down, I didn't even read like, you know, stuff
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  Speaker 2: with with college and stuff like that. So if I
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  Speaker 2: read that my stuff and gaining adders and my studies
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  Speaker 2: and stuff like that. But I had written a lot
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  Speaker 2: of urban stuff, you know what I'm saying. But last
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  Speaker 2: I was reading it, I feel like, hey, man, so
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  Speaker 2: a lot of stuff it's like bats, which is cool,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. At the same time, I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to write more later, but to the ministreets and stuff,
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  Speaker 2: saying Lily twist on, you know, no one thing gonna
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  Speaker 2: have some desperations whe at one kind of keeping club,
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  Speaker 2: stick to the home.
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  Speaker 3: That makes a lot of sense because a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people will when it comes to reading. I kind of
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  Speaker 3: see that a lot of people would read what they
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  Speaker 3: watch on TV. And that is how I used to
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  Speaker 3: always get my teens. I would say, Hey, what you're
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  Speaker 3: looking at on TV literally came from a book, and
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  Speaker 3: I was like, oh no, Miss Patrie's And I'll show
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  Speaker 3: them like a script or something that I could find
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  Speaker 3: online and they'd be like, oh, okay, So I do
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  Speaker 3: understand you writing from what you know. So let me
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  Speaker 3: ask you another question here. Now, these characters in these books,
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  Speaker 3: why you bring Granny in the book? I love the
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  Speaker 3: Granny character. She was so sweet, she loved her grandson
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  Speaker 3: and I could tell her she would do anything for him.
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  Speaker 3: But why make that character a female and not a male?
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  Speaker 2: Well for one, uh, the women, the women in the world.
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  Speaker 2: It's the stings that are period, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: And the reason I did that, Like IM said, I
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  Speaker 2: like to make my you know what I'm saying, And
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  Speaker 2: I brought my passed away while I yah, yeah, my mother.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. We didn't pens a relationship
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  Speaker 2: here that this got home, man, and I just can't
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  Speaker 2: work with it. So I had to pick both captus
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  Speaker 2: up there. So you really got really to my mama.
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  Speaker 2: Mama cool, you know what I'm saying. But uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: she had the little flk got the man. They kept
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  Speaker 2: me on the road, they kept me right, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: just a hard head and kept going. So I had
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  Speaker 2: to sprinkle just a little reality in there, a little
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  Speaker 2: twist and there, you know what I'm saying. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta gotta give complis to the women, the queens
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  Speaker 2: that are.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so let's let's go there. We're saying by the
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  Speaker 3: women given amish to them when it comes to literature
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  Speaker 3: and just books in general. Why do you feel that, Well,
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  Speaker 3: let me ask you a question. Do you feel that
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  Speaker 3: the world of literature is more acceptable of a female
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  Speaker 3: or a male? Which one do you think they are more? Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we'll read your book or like, I don't know about that.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think we get more love a female
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  Speaker 3: or a male.
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  Speaker 2: Did is really really even gain that love? I think
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  Speaker 2: that beans I give my love. I can say that
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  Speaker 2: it's all about the walking uh such music, you know
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  Speaker 2: do they design? That's what what's going on. It's all
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  Speaker 2: about what your blind got it at the time of
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  Speaker 2: so depending on what the big thing is asigned eception
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  Speaker 2: is going on in society and hand the one attention
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  Speaker 2: and you put your your your attention toward day no
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  Speaker 2: matter what what uh uh h h that you are.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Yeah, I don't think it matter.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's all about catching attendance. You know what's
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  Speaker 2: going on at the time.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so let's go back to your book, Dante. How
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  Speaker 3: do you relate to Dante in this book?
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  Speaker 2: But Dante's it's a character that I feel, man because
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  Speaker 2: you know, a lot of a lot of brothers out there,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they asking of a father hip. You know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying to Asser of a home period, getting
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  Speaker 2: with so getting a part of I'm saying, it's being
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  Speaker 2: a product environment. Everybody have a saying like there's no
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  Speaker 2: such thing as being a podic bible. Basically it is
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  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, because what is you raised
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  Speaker 2: to er, it's such as you raised in. That's what
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  Speaker 2: you give out a list you may ask somebody to
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  Speaker 2: do there be there to pull your coattel and be
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  Speaker 2: your mentor or a guide or something like that. If
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  Speaker 2: you ain't got that, man, you're gonna be a father
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  Speaker 2: nobody whatever to round. That's what you is what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: So he was way up ote the book. You'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: he was having another father and a mother, and it's
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  Speaker 2: a situation. I'm gonna give it away up how how
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  Speaker 2: it happened like that, you know, and for the reason
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  Speaker 2: to see. But at the same time, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: want everybody to you here the show that he went
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  Speaker 2: to run. I got hiway coming up to the juni stage.
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  Speaker 2: And when you get older, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: So they can see like the basically the houses came
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  Speaker 2: up in the streets, you know what I'm saying, and
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  Speaker 2: then to relate to it like, hey man, I need
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  Speaker 2: that too, Hey I need that, you know I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: So that's that's that's my whole one of getting a
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  Speaker 2: character like that.
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  Speaker 3: So why not, well I don't want to give it away,
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  Speaker 3: but why not give him the ending that he desires
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  Speaker 3: because I can't give it away. You guys, there are
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  Speaker 3: so many twists and turns in this book till it's
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  Speaker 3: not funny, even to the point where somebody kills their
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  Speaker 3: right hand man. But to give him that happy ending?
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  Speaker 3: Why why do you feel that in this book he
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  Speaker 3: had to have the run? That's all I can say it.
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  Speaker 3: That's all I see you, guys, is the run. Because
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  Speaker 3: I give you this much, it's gonna be a part two.
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  Speaker 3: And you're gonna see why there's gonna be a part
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  Speaker 3: two when you read this one. But why not give
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  Speaker 3: him that happy ending? Because I so feel that you're
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  Speaker 3: about to snatch it all away from him. I so
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  Speaker 3: feel that you're about to do this in part.
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  Speaker 2: Two actually, and yes I have fart coming out. But
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  Speaker 2: at the same time, uh, getting with the days decided?
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  Speaker 2: How many people have happy ending? You know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: get our own happy ending. Once we get our own
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  Speaker 2: happy endings and relate to who's doing where we are,
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  Speaker 2: then I have the ends to be paid from our home,
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  Speaker 2: personality down destination, what we're trying to be in. Like,
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  Speaker 2: so there for you have you got to read the
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  Speaker 2: book to see you get some twist turns to go
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  Speaker 2: out to come country over life and everybody has the stage.
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  Speaker 2: They have broken the tip and it's go and development.
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  Speaker 2: You gonna run across different things and like just path
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  Speaker 2: like different people in his life that he gonna see
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  Speaker 2: different things that he didn't see the last time. You
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. So who knows?
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  Speaker 3: Mh You are correct that we have to make Can
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  Speaker 3: I make his ending? Can Can I can? Can I
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  Speaker 3: make it? Can I get if you're an ending for him?
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  Speaker 3: I really want him to be happy. I don't want Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to give away to put like.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta understand when you say you want.
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  Speaker 1: To you have.
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  Speaker 2: You got to understand that everybody they own person and
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  Speaker 2: their own character. So you gotta understand and figure out
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  Speaker 2: what to find happens, you know, because just happiness may
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  Speaker 2: be different from your happiness. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: Something to use the special game they have, some people
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  Speaker 2: have something to do physical they happen, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying. So his books back here he says for
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  Speaker 2: everything and all that, you know what I'm saying. But
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  Speaker 2: at the same time, things keep coming up, Obstacles to
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  Speaker 2: keep coming up, people turning their back up of him
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  Speaker 2: as soon as you feel like they're there, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying, And he's he's like, I'm a person
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  Speaker 2: aware he will just want to be loved. I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: At the same time, he went the streets because they're
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  Speaker 2: are gangs in the street. They can the games they
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  Speaker 2: want to, but when it comes to the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day, man, still they want.
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  Speaker 1: To be love.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So Sha Rock, do you have a Ja Rock
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  Speaker 3: in your life?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I gotta say, man, my book, my book
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  Speaker 2: is it's like I say, I try to keep it relatable.
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  Speaker 2: I try to keep the characters so where they sit
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  Speaker 2: home with the people, they can you know you through
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  Speaker 2: or whatever. But like I said, every author, every author
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  Speaker 2: the right, man, I fear that they put their characters
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  Speaker 2: in the book. So the certain person that is in
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  Speaker 2: the characters, I'm saying, they come down and explot in
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  Speaker 2: the book and something. But I'm not saying I did
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  Speaker 2: not all this stuff and just you know about the
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  Speaker 2: characteristic or something. So I kind of like give everything
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  Speaker 2: even even even not even that even every character, even
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  Speaker 2: the women. You know what I'm saying, A certain person
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  Speaker 2: that is put out it it's part of at the
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  Speaker 2: same time, just gotta find those two. It's just myself
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  Speaker 2: expressing myself.
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  Speaker 3: So what you're saying is in each one of the characters,
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  Speaker 3: there's a part of you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the lady's doing it.
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  Speaker 3: Hmmm. So let me ask this question, which one of
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  Speaker 3: your characters is the most of you?
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  Speaker 2: Gonna get that?
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  Speaker 3: Come on, you can't do that now, Which one of
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  Speaker 3: your characters is the most of you?
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  Speaker 2: Well, is the character that everybody I haven't experienced that letter.
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  Speaker 2: You can reading the book whatever, but the character that
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  Speaker 2: everybody knows the most in the beginning was done that,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. But at the end they
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  Speaker 2: bring me the book back, I'll get the same reaction
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  Speaker 2: and they talk down or they say they hate a
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  Speaker 2: man while he did Roberts. So everybody got their own
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  Speaker 2: respective But at the same time, if you look at it,
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  Speaker 2: everybody lives like that. Everybody had a mindset like that.
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  Speaker 2: But the change they see a different perspective, like nobody
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  Speaker 2: like its character.
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  Speaker 3: Well, okay, now see you saying that everybody has a
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  Speaker 3: Dante in them, and I'm trying to think, Yeah, to me,
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  Speaker 3: Dante was a fighter. Are you trying to say that.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think that Dante was a fighter in this book?
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  Speaker 3: I think through everything that he went through this book,
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  Speaker 3: he kept fighting. He never once gave up. He always
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  Speaker 3: had I would say, a ram in the bush. I
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  Speaker 3: might be wrong for seeing it like that, but or
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  Speaker 3: let's just say he always had a back, a plan,
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  Speaker 3: or he was one step ahead of what was going on.
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  Speaker 3: He was a thinker and no one knows you're thinker.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was a think that. He was a person
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  Speaker 2: that just like anybody that they have chalings, just like
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  Speaker 2: anybody else have feelings, you know what I'm saying, influenced
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  Speaker 2: just like anyone else can be influenced. And he was
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  Speaker 2: going through what you call identity craziest way, trying to
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  Speaker 2: find himself. You know, because he was in the front
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  Speaker 2: of the book. You know, he took on a characteristic
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  Speaker 2: and identity that wasn't either him, but the identity was
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  Speaker 2: moved to him in the streets. And a lot of
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  Speaker 2: times he had an identity. You gotta keep putting on
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  Speaker 2: the facade, you know what I'm saying, to keep the
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  Speaker 2: individual was trying to uphold. So everybody, I say, go
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  Speaker 2: to it, because everybody goes to the own get it
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  Speaker 2: to cross everybody themself to find them, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying. So that what he was, he went through
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  Speaker 2: a lot, That's what I'm basically saying, and.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I want that happy anything for him. In
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  Speaker 3: this book, he goes through I can't well, you said
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  Speaker 3: we can't. We can't talk about that part. Mmm. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go to the females in this book. And again
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  Speaker 3: you guys, we're talking about the book going from the Streets.
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  Speaker 3: Was this available right now on Amazons on Kindle unlimited? No,
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  Speaker 3: it's on Kindle and it is on paperback. So the
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  Speaker 3: ladies in the books, which female was your? Which female
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  Speaker 3: is more like you?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? Oh?
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Let me see my grandma.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: The character Richard that came from my my grandma, my mama,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: just watching them being kids, watching and he let the
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: loved the love with you know what I'm saying, deep guy, Yes, yes,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: that's the character water Trade. You know what I'm saying.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: But like I said, one time, became a product of
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: my environment and got into the streets, you know, out
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: of their head, laid on me. You know I'm saying.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: I say I say that.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: So let's talk about Lisa and you know, I have
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: my fun questions, So we're gonna go ahead and bring
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: those fun questions in here. Okay. If Lisa was one
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: of Lisa was a hip hop artist, and Lisa is
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: the love interest of Dante. Correct, Yeah, okay, so Lisa
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: and Dante, I'm gonna give you what I first start
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: of her. Lisa and Dante was the black love of
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Remy and Pappoos. Not. What we got now is that
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: I did a whole different thing. But I could see
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: them as Remy impact poos. Who do you see Lisa
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: and Dante.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: As I think John j V h.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Whind Am too.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Okay, I guess I'm not a big behalf be behalf
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: behind fahing, so I can't really get into Beyonce like that.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: But why them too?
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Well? One uh JV was on the street. That's how
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: the string No Yahn says. She came up in a
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: good episode or whatever. Yeah, No, she had she looks
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying to take away through history
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: along with them. Boy, you know what I'm saying. So
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: in the book kind of want to give it away. Yes,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: jar it's a wait, but it's a secret, you know
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: I'm saying. And then you got a boy friend, which
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: god that you know I'm saying, you know, it's way
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: through the stem saying that's how remen redmen and that
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: boat layer I mean actually kind of street. Yeah.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: How about Grandma? I saw Grandma as like a Loretta
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: divine type character. And Grandma's name is neither you guys,
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: So who would you say?
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: I would I don't know the lady name, but it's
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: a it's a it's a it's a mover war Room,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: war war Room or something like that. Oh lad, with
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: a little more Gang.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Twitched do so you guys, I know y'all won't remember
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: the movie war Room. That's one of his mom's favorite movie.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: So hello mom, he like, he's I'm gonna make him
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: look at forwards. Don't worry. But he said ward room,
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: So that's what I'm talking. I can see that. I
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: can see that. I can see that because she was
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: she was so about her grand baby. So I can't
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: see that. I can see that. Jay Rock, who do
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: we see as him?
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Jay Rock? Uh? He's got a hard it's got a
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: hard h.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you what about you said? Who nas? Yeah? Nas,
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I can't see him as mm.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Hmmm, no, hide in the street. Not in the street.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: But he kind of like the yoldy old all the
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: beings something uncle and put everything and there he don
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: some flash at the same time, so that I say that's.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: I was actually thinking it's funny. I would think it's
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Selo Green.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: You don't see that one.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: I get, okay now body wise not But to me,
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Jay Rock was kind of kind of flashy like he was.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: He was like.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: He would be that one that you be telling him
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: to tone it down something you didn't get that vibe. Well,
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: I'm asking the author did he get that vibe?
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: But you gotta you gotta really look at character. The
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: mother was like find things at the same time. M
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: hmmmh more mine for what's going on around him? How
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: do you know, don't think it too flashy to bring
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: on the wall?
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: So you can okay, okay, okay, So can I change that?
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: And can I say scarface?
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: I guess you could say that.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Why you doubt me with that? Yes? So let's talk
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: about you as a black male in the literary business.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: How do you feel about African American authors not being
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: able to get the representation of the Big three and
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: what I mean by the big three or the big
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: publishing house Penguin, Simon and Schulcer and the other one.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, just ran right out of my mind.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: But how do you feel about African American author is
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: not being able to break that barrier yet.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: I wanted to just stick one might be that stigma,
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: so be stereotyping our story. Ain't no difference for everybody's story.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: So they just look at them as then you know,
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: get over over too glad to this and we do that,
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. But at the same time,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: we got the same story to tell. Put myself in
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: a specific jumper. You know, I got I got Desnage
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: books coming out. I got murder Misus, you know what
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: I'm saying. So I don't cut myself on one of
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: other comb So that's one thing here. They don't think
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: we for the time.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: And you feel that versatility is a big thing when
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: it comes to being an author, or do you feel
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: that you may lose people because you're so versatile?
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: I diach you don't. I'm just speaking on myself. I
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: can't speak with no other occur. That's that's where I am.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: I don't I don't have.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Okay, would you like to continue this or will you
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: not be able to?
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: Okay, no, how about you give us a call right back.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: We can do about another fifteen minutes. How about that?
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: I okay? So I know you guys are wondering, like,
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: what is Patrice talking about? And why is she on
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: the screen by herself? And why can't we see this author?
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Well again, this author's name is Kendrick Northern right now
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: he is incocerated in the Texas Department of Corrections. Okay,
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: why would I say that? It's because I want you
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: guys as authors and this is talking to me also
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: that stop playing around? Why are we not bringing out
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: gifts south? Soh there's another opportunity while we're waiting for
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: him to call back. It's for you guys, upcoming authors illustrators,
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: because y'all mat, y'all mad too. We have a group
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: that's called the one hundred Authors to Watch for Aspiring
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: Authors magazine that is currently still accepting people. So think
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: about you being your first time writing your book and
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: having a backing of ninety nine other people that are
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: rooting you on. This is what you get. Okay, you
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: can get one on one sessions you be placed in
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: a group, or you have a group leader who you
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: can go to if you find yourself stuck, or you
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: want to get questions answered, or you're wanting to know more. Okay. Also,
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: right now we're doing a twenty one day challenge. So
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: I know y'all heard me sweating and walking for the
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: past two days. Yes, I'm a day behind, but what
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: we are doing is trying to bring awareness to ourselves
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: and it's a training so we can talk about our brands.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: So if you are wanting to be one of those authors,
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: please contact me, or you can contact Angela Thomas Smith,
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: or you can hit any one of the one hundred authors.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: We have a whole Facebook page and everything that is
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: dedicated to us and also where the public can see
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: your work. Okay, So remember you have the backing of
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: ninety nine other authors. Ask us about it, okay, so
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: we have you back sir. Hello, all right, So let's
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: go back to this and talking about being African American
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: male in a literary literary sense. Okay, what do you
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: feel is the big the biggest obstacle when it comes
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: to being an African American author male author at that.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: I think the big is im phially, you know, a
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: lot of a lot, you know. And at the same time,
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: like if you're just saying her come speaking of that chamber,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: you know, and the guys they feel like, hey don't
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: know why I want to read that. You know what
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: I'm saying, as long as you get to a sad
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: and stop saying. But what you say to realize that
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: the acanize, one of the biggest consolas of products in
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: the United States is black. You know what I'm saying,
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: were then they go broke, you know what I'm saying,
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: just to buy a product. What I'm saying, So, I mean,
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: so a lot of times if they look at its
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: black and the.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: Money Okay, okay, So do you do you see that
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: there is a a a deficit when it comes to patriots,
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: patriari patronizing African American authors.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean when you when you look at you
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: look at us as a whole. We had a struggle data,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: but to get to the head out. I like, so
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: at the same time, again, how you know, look at
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: the look at the clubs and come after the bus
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: comps ran it's big clubs and ran by American you
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: know you got you got the black pubs and company,
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: but out considering Oka at the same time, who get
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: up with the chain? You know, I was screw behind
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: and that same we always pretty this spot. It's like, hey,
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: I get enough, I'm saying, and you can have them
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: if you come with the black office. And I'm saying
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: that a top down on everything. I'm saying, as we
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: books don't need anything, and so we're gonna through a
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: whole bunch of things getting Yeah, but uh as large, willing,
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: you know, objective of what I want to do, the
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: things I want to do, thet I want to put
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: out this cover the cars stand out from and I
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: have a brand new kome out, brand new scheme that
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: I know. Ain't nobody need know what I'm saying. Watch,
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: I'm here to put this down. I'm rest their game.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, we've seen you. You you already setting yourself
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: up so when you do come home, it is already lead.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Oh you gotta do is put the icing on the cake.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Con Yeah, okay, so sometimes.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: Now hold up, now you gotta you can't eat no
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: big cake? What kind of stuff is that? I'm a biggirl.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: I gotta have iceing on the key.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll do it.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Put on.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: Now, come on, now, how you gonna give us some
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: dry cake? Don't do that now, don't do that. Not
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: the dry key.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: It's that time. I deal with my bulls. Get it
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: from everybody else. I try to ship myself and stand
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: out from everybody else. I'm saying, everybody else said a
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: little too much into that. You know what I'm saying.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: I put it in for when it comes back. You
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. You don't need dice, you don't have.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Okay, Okay. So now as we're winding it down, telling
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: us what you can't expect from you and how we
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: can follow you on your social media, just give us
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: what we call the rundown.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Well, like I said, I got side from leave out,
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: I got boss from the street shock. You know, uh,
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: like I shit out, upcoming project, different treats. You know
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying. It's a Rodica h I have another
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: instadis book How He Goes By. I got to Cheers,
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: a book from the Face. I got a bread the
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: ridge we call favor of Blood. You know what I'm saying.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: And I'm not I'm not just trying to get out
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: there for everything. God damn flooded, you know, but I'm
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: working on taking my step at the time. We get
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: these things to come the same time. Get us on Instagram, Facebook,
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: a Blue Sky. You know what I'm saying. You know,
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: get a shot out and support. Like I said, go
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: on Amazon and go cap it.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: All right, So you heard what he said. You can
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: find his books on Blue Sky Amazon. You can find
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: his books on Amazon, but he could be found on
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: Facebook and Blue Sky. And if you're looking at the
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: bottom right down there, you can see it. And we're
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: trying to I'm trying to do the raffle, all right.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: So if you're paying attention and you're watching this, we're
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: going to be giving away two copies are born from
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: the streets. But you have to watch this podcast to
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: get this secret word. Okay, the secret word is going
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: to appear at the bottom. Okay. You will have until
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: Friday to log onto his Facebook posts or in box
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: him to see word. Now, in order to inbox him
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: the secret word, you gotta be his friend on Facebook.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: So look at them link at the bottom. Remember to
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: find him on Facebook. It's le Kendrick Northey. Okay, go there,
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: friend to him and send us a secret word. Okay,
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: So if you are ready, I'm gonna let him count
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: it down five to one and then a secret word
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: that's gonna scroll at the bottom until we finish. Okay,
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: So I'll let you count it down for me, mister Northern,
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: starting from five and into that one. Once you say one,
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: the word appear at the bottom. So go ahead for me.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: Three true? What all right?
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: If you're looking at the bottom, you see the secret word?
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: Send that secret word to his inbox on Facebook under
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: le Kendrick Norton. Okay, So, because he is currently where
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: he is, I will do the drawing live on Friday.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: How about me and you will go live Friday night
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: at eight o'clock. Well, no, we're not gonna do eight
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: o'clock because I Am not going to interrupt my podcast
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: sister show. So let's say nine o'clock Friday night, Me
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: and le Kendrick will jump on Facebook on se book
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: gall In French Chad or Arbitree springball Ill. Let you
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: guys know which one and we will choose the winner.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: So what do you guys have to do? First? You
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: have to find him on Facebook under Kendrick Norton. Become
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: his friend in box him The Cold Secret Bird is
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: at the bottom of the screen, and then tune in
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: Friday night at nine o'clock. How about that, le Kendrick does.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: That's not good to you, all right, So, you guys,
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: we would like to thank you mister Nordland for being
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: with us tonight. This has been a great show, you guys.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: I did not want to give out much of this
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: book because this is a juicy one. This is a
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: great book. I have three reviewers right now that's checking
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: out this and the other people to have copies. Okay,
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: look ahead, the book's so good, it's sitting where he
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: is right now, got people reading it. So why don't
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: y'all go ahead and grab a copy. Okay, again, thank
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: you miss Nordland for joining us tonight. You guys, there's
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: another Tuesday Night in the book. Remember all books, Remember,
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: you can read any Bookay, I'm kind of tongue to us,
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: and I'm excited about this gip with y'all. Don't remember, sir.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: Remember there's no such thing as an old book because
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: not all books have been read by anyone. You guys,
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: have a great night. Hey bye.