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Breakfast Club Classic: Jill Scott Talks Writing Mature Lyrics, Making ‘Big Areola Music’ And More · The Breakfast Club

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