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Gospel Artist, Titus Showers talks his journey AND new SINGLE ”SAVE US”.#titusshowers #gospelmusic · The Demia Avery Show

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talents hello hello hello everyone this
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is deia Avery of the deia Avery show and
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we have a special treat here for you
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today and I couldn't be more honored
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listen this critically acclaimed gospel
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artist began his musical career
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alongside his siblings and formed the
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group called the showers they would go
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on to win numerous Awards including
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Stellar Award nominations since then he
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has created an equally amazing solo
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career as the track it's going to be all
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right featuring Jermaine Dolly became a
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billboard gospel chart topper he's
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worked with and collaborate collaborated
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with some of gospel's most prominent
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Heavy Hitters such as Fred Hammond and
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he's currently has a hit new single out
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entitled save us please welcome singer
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songwriter producer the very gifted
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Titus showers hello hello thanks for
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having me what a
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blessing you're so welcome I'm so
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excited to have you on today I can't
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believe that um you even had the time to
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even you know just step in and and and
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talk to us today so I thank you so much
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well first of all thanks for having me I
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apologize for my torness I was busy
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taking care of my my grandson who have
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um a flu bug and definitely so I'm just
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honored to be with you today thanks
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again for being patient with me oh
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you're so welcome that flu bug is a trip
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because this weather is crazy it's like
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up and down and 40s and 50s and then 70s
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and you don't know what to wear what to
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do right right right so you got to be
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careful in all that you do and make sure
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we protect ourselves at all times that's
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right that's right so I'm g go ahead and
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just get started listen you have had
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such a well-rounded career so far and
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it's only fair to start at a little bit
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at the beginning so I know that you
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started with your siblings so tell us a
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little bit what it was like working with
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them and recording music with them it
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was a blessing from God man what a
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humble beginning we all come from man my
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father asked the Lord to bless him with
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a singer so it started with my oldest
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sister and and it will definitely
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continue to um transition to each and
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every one of us as my parents continue
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to be fruitful and multiply you know um
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my dad is the pastor and he believe in
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being proof with multiply because it's
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10 of us and I always like to say that
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I'm five I'm number five everybody's
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favorite and the Lord continue to bless
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us and give us all of the wonderful Accu
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ways that we can accumulate on the
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journey working for him and we always
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reminded that as long as we're working
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for him he will Pro provide for us he
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will supply our needs he will give us
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the desires of our heart so we continue
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to remain humble unto him and and I'm
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honored to have their support as I
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transition to the solo artist in 18 and
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now the Lord has me on the track of you
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know receiving different accolades as a
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solo artist and I'm just excited about
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all that the Lord is doing and it all
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comes from humble beginnings I love that
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now I just heard you say t of y'all so
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let's let's explore that a little bit so
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T y' so did you were you guys fighting
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over like who's gonna do the lead this
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time's we had a couple of buding of
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heads but in the beginning it always was
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Regina and Bobby my oldest brother they
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were the seasoned vocalist so we waited
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our turn and we we chopped in on certain
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moments where we could implement our
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vocals until we became seasoned enough
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and definitely um just definitely
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trained enough to to lead Sons publicly
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you know we would lead songs at the
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youth choir and stuff and then we would
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change keys but that was vitally
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important not to do when you're leaving
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the song so we definitely have to wait
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our turn and and in due season that came
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and and now Look What the Lord Has
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Done do you miss it at all do you miss
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singing with your sibling absolutely
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miss I miss a lot but you know we always
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um we always get together once a year um
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here in Louisiana there's um the big
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jazz festivals and we are always um
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special guests on that main stage and
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we're able to come together and sing
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together um for the main stages each and
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every year so we definitely always um
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reunite you know per se but we don't
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travel as much as you know because I'm
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now the solo artist and and they are
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here taking care of business I love it I
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love it now how has that transition has
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been like coming from your siblings and
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then going into your solo career did you
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ever did you struggle with that at all
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or was it just you know it's just
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something that just well this is you
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know this is natural this is how it's
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going to how it's going to go well
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definitely it was a um struggle in the
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beginning because you know I was on the
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road by myself by myself when I was used
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to being on the road with my sisters and
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brothers so it was definitely a learning
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experience but I'm well um um SE in that
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area now I've can um phone home to my
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wife when I get lonely as much you know
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you know and she would travel with me on
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some engagements and my manager is
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always on the road with me to
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accommodate me so um I don't miss it um
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as much as I I did in the beginning you
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know you have to get used to things
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because that's the transition that the
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Lord had me on yes ma'am yeah now with
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with you being solo now you have a a lot
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of things come with that and I think a
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lot of people don't know that you have
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to stay grounded because you you know
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you got some singles out there that
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people love and and people out there you
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know tit the showers and this and that
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and how do you stay how do you stay
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grounded especially with like the
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demands of of the public life and and
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your career you know what I mean how do
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you stay grounded well it's always been
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um humbled and reminded of who you're
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working for um you you never want to get
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too high you know in this industry
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because God will bring you down you
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always be reminded of that and that way
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you you won't become arrogant and you
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won't um become the guy that no one
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wants to be around or no one wants to
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work with so you remain humble because
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you know who you're working for and you
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know that it can be taken away from you
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in a moment in the blinking of an eye so
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um you don't want that to happen to you
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so it's my advice to you is to remain
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humble and always give honor to God and
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and definitely follow the um the way of
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life that it should be and you're right
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about that and he will take you down and
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he'll let you know in a
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minute absolutely don't play with him
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he's the
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man that's right now your music is of
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course it's gospel but it does have
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elements of like you know like soul and
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and RB like today's you know trendy do
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you find it hard to balance all of that
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in your music well um I don't really
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find it hard because I grew up pretty
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much a PK and I really just stay focused
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on you know the gospel aspect of it even
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though it's enticing to cross over it's
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very enticing yeah and it pays well to
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cross over so but I remain humbled and
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steadfast in the area that the Lord have
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me in because I know that he's getting
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the glory out of my gift and he's giving
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me something that he wants me to use for
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his honor and for his glory no slight to
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anyone who has crossed over but because
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so many amazing artists come from the
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church and went over to you know R&B or
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went over to another general of music I
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just wanted to stay rooted and grounded
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in this area because I know that you
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know my father on Earth which is my dad
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he will be happy and of course you know
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I glorify God um who who will definitely
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get the glory out of all that I do so I
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remain yeah because some music today you
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know you you you you listening you
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glorify then you like open you know you
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bouncing a little bit like you're
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bouncing a little too much wait hold on
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right you got to be reminded and those
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those things happen you know you got a
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time and a place for everything you know
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I listen to um great R&B music I'm a Joe
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fan Joe is my favorite singer to go to
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to learn a real you know so I like I
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like the beyonces of the world you know
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I even listen to The Hip Hop I love the
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artwork that Kendrick painted for the
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Super Bowl you know I I learned from
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different music but I definitely remain
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rooted and grounded in the area that I'm
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in I love that now I have a question I
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don't think I've ever asked this
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question before and I and the only
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reason why I'm asking is because in my
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former life I used to I used to sing We
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back in the day okay okay yeah so as an
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artist and I won't even say a gospel
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artist but just an artist period do you
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find yourself like more creative or more
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free I should say um in the studio or
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live wow so you're more free live
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because studio is more of a um a
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condensed atmosphere where you have to
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present Perfection you know live you you
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want to um present Perfection but it's
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impossible for any of us to be perfect
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but we definitely practice enough there
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where what you don't see as a mistake we
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know it's a mistake um because we can
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cover it up we have ship that's where
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that kicks in live so it's nothing like
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being live but you can always fix
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anything whether you record it live
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whether you record it in the studio you
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can always go back and correct it or you
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can add some autot tunes to it but you
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can't add autot Tunes in public you
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can't Milly vanil anyone in public so
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that's
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right so it's definitely um the
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Perfection happens more in the studio
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and and live you get some hiccups that
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probably you may not know about because
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we are professionals and we know how to
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cover up on it you know yeah and not
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only do you get you get the hiccups but
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you you ever like you're singing live
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and you so into it and you do something
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you didn't even think you knew how to do
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yes you you do things that like impress
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yourself I was on stage in hunsville
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Alabama at an event man and I was just
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you know it just some nice you feel like
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you have it it's like Steph Curry don't
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hit 73 point
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every night Brun don't give you a triple
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triple double every night but some
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nights he come out he just have it going
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on a vocal is um that's what happens you
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know you just feel good and and those
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moments occur and you want you love to
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take advantage of those moments that's
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right that's right and then I guess too
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you have the you know you have the
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feedback of of the audience and stuff
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like that so that gets you you know that
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keeps you going and stuff like that that
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blood boiling gives you extra you know
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career you see that one person vibing
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with you in the audience that's the
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person you connect with and that that
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keeps and gives you strength and keeps
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you going on in your U ministry as you
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go before the people I love it I love it
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now I heard you mention question great
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question I love
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that now I heard you mention Joe is one
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of is one of your favorites who are some
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of your other musical influences would
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you say wow um so you know R&B's
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definitely Joe you know I just love his
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ability um I was in junior high I used
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to try to sing Joe rips man and I was
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like man I got it and I would go home
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and show off to my big brother that I
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learned this song you know of course you
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grew up on the new editions of the world
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you know all of the great vocals but I
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was always you know you know even the
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boys boys the men those guys really
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could sing um but I was a gospel guy
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johnp ke is the goat Pastor John P ke
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absolutely yeah I tell people I missed
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the whole new edition era because I was
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on John P music you know
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yeah you know the John P ke of the world
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of FR Hammond of the world um the vocal
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abilities of guys like zakari cartez um
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I really I really love listening to male
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singers because I learn more from male
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singers than I do from female singers
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because you know I don't have the range
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of a female so I listen to people that
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you know I have the range of and I learn
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from from a lot of men who who show
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different Showmanship that I can use in
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my craft and perfecting it so um I'm a
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fan of lots of male vocalists um in
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today's society those
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in I know you did like I know you worked
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with Fred Hammond and stuff like that
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how was that for you so I would imagine
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you must be a commission a commission uh
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fan
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absolutely I'm a whole commission fan
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grew up on that music so you know it was
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a blessing to work with Uncle Fred man
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just learning that you know the same
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things that I go into the studio and do
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he does it as well and he taught me how
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to do certain things even how to perfect
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My Craft um away from um the music um
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people want to know your your lifestyle
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you know me and my my wife of two years
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we we put some social media content out
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and people love it and you know we're in
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the process of doing a radio show and
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then um different doors will open from
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that because you Knowle Fred say you
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always want to show um your lifestyle
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give people something that they can
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attest to they don't just want to know
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the the perfect guy on stage they want
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to know the guy off stage as well you
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know they want to know do you struggle
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yes I struggle they want to know do you
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get upset yes you know how's your family
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like the children your mother and father
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so um open them into that aspect of life
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and that will also GA even new listeners
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to your music so um it was a blessing
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just hearing that from a person such as
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um his caliber and um you know I'm just
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humble to be able to um pick up my phone
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and call guys such as Pastor ke Pastor
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um Uncle Fred and all of these amazing
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or and I'm tit of showers so you know a
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humbling experience you know yeah love
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it love it so if you could like how
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would you say that you use your platform
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to to minister to to other people
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through your
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music um I definitely try to be
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relatable um because that's vitally
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important because everyone is going
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through something everyone have good
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days everyone have bad days but at the
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end of the day um God is still God and
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he can fix anything he specialized in
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the impossible and he can do what no
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other power can do so my music reminds
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everyone of that um that God is is is
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still God at the end of the day and if
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you turn your problems and situation
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over to him he will work it out for you
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so that's how I encourage my my my
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viewers on my social media platform
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and even through music I want to be
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relatable yeah does your music ever
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minister to you always if it don't
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minister to me I can't minister to the
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people and so it has to be able to
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minister to myself first and definitely
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have to be scripture base whereas you
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know it has to tell the truth no adding
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to the scripture and no taking away from
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the scripture because you know my dad
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would call me out on it he's a
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theologian of the Gospel so if something
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that's not lined up um with the word of
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God he would say ah son I don't know you
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might need to change this and I'm like
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yes sir so he's one of my first
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listeners so so I know that I'm telling
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the truth you know yeah now okay so I
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have a I have a odd question ask well I
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don't know how odd it is I'm just nosy
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like that so if you're ever going
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through some some Pro some kind of
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problem or up or down ups and downs
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or is there particular song that you go
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to to to minister yourself whether it be
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your song or somebody else's song song
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is there a particular song that you go
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to absolutely um Travis has this great
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record that everyone loves it's called
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um you made a way you know um um when
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our backs was against the wall and it
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looked like it was over lord you stepped
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in right on time and made a way so those
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type of Records always minister to my
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life because I love to get in my car and
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let my emotions out I don't like to so
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much let it out you know in front of
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everyone I love to listen to great music
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even if I'm going through heartbroke God
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put on some um some all that I am is a
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man love with
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you yeah you know I put on some Jo I put
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you know if I want to sing to my wife I
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put on some you know different music
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that brings emotion to me you know so
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I'm a I'm an emotional guy that that
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express it that expresses it to himself
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and then I can relate to other people so
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I have certain songs that that's my
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go-to so everyone does you know what is
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it about the car though because every
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everybody had you know everybody when
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they going through something they they
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sit in the car for about thir minutes
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it's something about the ride it's a
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blessing to take a ride and listen to
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great music and um you know with these
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earphones these days in time too I can
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just um sit in the restroom or or go in
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my secret closet and listen to it and
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and cry I remember one time when we
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first me and my wife first got married
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um cardi came out with zardi came out
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with a great record and whenever a
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record comes out and it ministers to me
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I keep it on repeat and I just look back
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over my life and and I was crying and
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she came in her to check on me I was
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like man I'm just in the spirit you know
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it's like yeah moments occur just hits
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me and I love those moments because I
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can reflect I can also release but I can
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also be reminded that help is on the way
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and the helper is already there and his
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name is Jesus amen that's that's how I
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do it all right so tell us about your
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new single uh savus tell us about that
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how did that come about absolutely it's
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an afro be record very um catered to the
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Nigerian um people over there in Nigeria
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our producer who produced it is from
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Nigeria his name is me um and I'm so ex
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excited about the record we created it
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in Philadelphia in April of 23 um the
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record was um guttering some great great
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um cultural um experiences for a lot of
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people they danc to it as well and he
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was like bro not many gospel orders have
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records that cater um to my to my um
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culture and to my you know to my country
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and would you be um um would you be
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interested in doing something um that
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can um G her more attention overseas I
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was like man yes I want to go to your
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country and we want to make it happen
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and um we created the record in the
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studio with the producer man um Jeremy
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Boyd Out of Philly and I was excited um
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to even Minister those words because
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it's powerful words because we need
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saving like never before and only Jesus
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can really do that you know we can't
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depend on the government we can't depend
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on family and friends at all times but
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we always can depend on him and um and
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we can't never get weary in waiting on
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him because he always show up on time
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that's right that's right now are there
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any um other projects that you have
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coming up after save us or is there
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album coming out after this the album is
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ready to be released to the world so
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we're releasing some singles in the dsps
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um for the people to stream and purchase
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right now so we're on our um this will
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be the second um record from the album
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the album is complete and um we're
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getting ready to release the album we're
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going to work with the pr team Mr Eric
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we're g to work with my my label and
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come up with a date where we can um um
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release the whole album I have great
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records on it I'm excited about it um a
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record entitled we made it and the album
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is entitled we made it um it speaks
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about you know um my mom who went
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through um 15 surgeries of partial liver
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transplant and how the Lord brought her
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through all of that um you know it just
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speaks about that testimony and it's an
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emotional record and everyone can relate
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to anything that happened to your life
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you made it out of you know he woke us
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up this this morning we made it to see a
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new day so it's very applicable song to
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everyone you know and I'm excited to
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share with the world this great album of
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content creation that was done I'm
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excited about it and I can't wait for
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the world to hear it I love it I love it
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so where can everybody go to to to get
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the music because we wna we want to buy
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it we don't want to just talk about it
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we want to buy it so you can always go
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to all of your um listening um playlist
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um type in my name Titus shs and my
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music is ailable if you want to follow
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me on my social media platforms at am
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tius showers I have links available that
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lead you straight to my music it leads
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you to my manager contact so I can come
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and minister to your city to your town I
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look forward to it I'm I'm not a high
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and mighty guy I'm I'm humble because
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I'm reminded of who I've worked before
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and I look forward to just sharing my
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gift and interacting with each and every
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one of you who share my gift with the
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people of God all over the world that's
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right now I have one last question for
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you
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if you could if Titus showers could work
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with anybody he's he's ever dreamed of
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working living or not living who who
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would have have been who would have wow
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wow wow wow wow wow you know um Jesus
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Christ so I work with my My Goats so I I
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I can't say John Pei I can't say uncle
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Fred you know so I would love to work
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with you
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know um man and then you got to think
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about Michael Jacks oh my God you put
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some
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hard hard well well it's not really hard
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because you know those guys are very
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instrumental to me you know um the
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Michael Jackson of the world so let's
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just say Mike since you said living or
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dead let's just say Michael Jackson yes
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ma'am it would have been nice because I
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don't think he would have been nice if
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he had did like a gospel
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collaboration right right that would
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have been
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and look at all the messages he already
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have in his songs that's right just
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imagine messages that can be relatable
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to um everyone all over the world so you
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know I you know that that would have
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been magical you know that's right I
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might need the sample something then are
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you right there you go they okay that's
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a money maker right there yeah I'm a
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sample something we're gonna make that
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work yes ma'am right guys well Titus
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thank you so much for joining me today
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it has been an absolute pleasure oh
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you're so welcome you're so welcome and
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anytime you want to come back you want
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to share anything or you just want to
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chop it up with me please do come back
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uh we love having you here and if you
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have anything else to share make sure
23:43
you just come back we got you on here at
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the demier AY show okay again thanks so
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much and excuse my torness and um I
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really appreciate you thank you so much
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for um receiving me and allowing me to
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be with you today and um excusing the
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call from my my grandson cuz he's in my
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arms right now and um he's resting so
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thank you so much well you're so welcome
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all right guys we are out of here and
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we'll see you later and next time on the
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Dem