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“SC BOOKGAL & friends” | EVERY TUESDAY 8PM EST LIVE ON DA CREW PODCAST| · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Luke lukk ck ck.
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  Speaker 2: Luke lukelegs and gentlemen, may I have your attention please?
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  Speaker 1: I wanna turt. I just wanna tell you I want homoe.
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  Speaker 3: So everybody brown, you're trying to make it out so cool,
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  Speaker 3: The people want to get back paper.
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  Speaker 5: What they don't know is when you go home and get.
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  Speaker 3: A high con door, many hit the phone and what
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  Speaker 3: it takes me your home?
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  Speaker 4: Don't distl the next time you get to just tell
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  Speaker 4: them told.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, everyone, this is your girl. Sci book out eight
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  Speaker 5: eighty four three, and it is after Tuesday night, So
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  Speaker 5: you guys, you gotta bring you a new author, right,
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  Speaker 5: So you guys. The craziest thing about this author, I
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  Speaker 5: was already following him on TikTok, right, he had already
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  Speaker 5: signed up for the date of tonight. So I'm scrolling
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  Speaker 5: through TikTok and I'm like, you know, checking out books
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  Speaker 5: and authors, and his story just stood out to me.
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  Speaker 5: Is like the fact that he was like, look, I'm
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  Speaker 5: gonna keep on making a due with the dude, and
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna make a name myself. And I'm like, why
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  Speaker 5: does this man look familiar? And then I look at
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  Speaker 5: my candle that oh he gonna be on my show.
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  Speaker 5: So let me go ahead and just follow him again.
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  Speaker 5: Make sure I have it on all my platforms and
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  Speaker 5: you'll see his information at the bottom. But I am
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  Speaker 5: bringing up off their cold and it's not C you
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  Speaker 5: got it is K. Come on up, come on up, hey.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, how are you.
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  Speaker 5: So you guys? We might have a little technical difficulties.
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  Speaker 5: Y'all bear with us because you know you got to
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  Speaker 5: make it.
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  Speaker 6: Do with it too.
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  Speaker 5: So can you hear me?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 2: The music?
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  Speaker 4: I hear the music.
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  Speaker 5: Music, wonder why hold on to me? Take it out
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  Speaker 5: and bring you to another screen.
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  Speaker 4: So here you now you hear me?
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  Speaker 5: Now?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Awesome. So welcome to sc book, gals and friends, and
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  Speaker 5: I thank you for being with me tonight. How are you?
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing good? How you doing? I'm good?
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  Speaker 5: So before we go any father, please tell us a
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  Speaker 5: little bit about yourself.
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  Speaker 4: I go by author Cole.
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  Speaker 1: I am.
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  Speaker 6: He I call myself a writer. I don't want to
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  Speaker 6: box myself in because I'm not limited to just one genre.
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  Speaker 6: But I am a Clurksfield, Tendessee native, so I'm putting
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  Speaker 6: on for my city always, and this year I've published
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  Speaker 6: thirteen books so far, with the plan to publish one
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  Speaker 6: more before the end of the year.
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  Speaker 5: Hold them now, I mean, you got about three weeks.
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  Speaker 5: You got something you're about to bring out in three weeks.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm always writing what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 5: So what made you want to become a writer?
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  Speaker 6: I mean I very first started writing like poetry music
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  Speaker 6: as a kid because I was in a juvenile facility
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  Speaker 6: growing up, so I kind of needed something to like release,
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  Speaker 6: So of course I got as an angry kid, I
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  Speaker 6: put it in music first, and then that kind of
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  Speaker 6: I kind of expressed myself through poetry. But when it
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  Speaker 6: comes to books, I was incarcerated in and out honestly
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  Speaker 6: all the way till twenty twenty two. But in twenty
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  Speaker 6: fifteen I was down like serving more on my twenty
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  Speaker 6: three year sentence, and we only had a limited number
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  Speaker 6: of books by black authors and other inmates around me.
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  Speaker 6: We felt like the true streets wasn't really presented in
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  Speaker 6: those books like if they was there was like a
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  Speaker 6: far fetched way or wasn't really like our story. So
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  Speaker 6: like we were sitting around talking about some of them
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  Speaker 6: one day and I was like, man, I could do better,
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  Speaker 6: and they challenged me to do that. So I went
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  Speaker 6: to my cell that night and I started working on
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  Speaker 6: my very first book, called The Bottom, and I just
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  Speaker 6: went I just based the story off the things I experience,
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  Speaker 6: like being in the street life. I just applied it
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  Speaker 6: to it, and like stuff plays in my head like
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  Speaker 6: a movie or like a TV show, So I literally just.
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  Speaker 4: Daydream it out and write it down in the way
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  Speaker 4: that I hear it or see it.
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  Speaker 6: So I had a homeboy who came to my cell
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  Speaker 6: the next day and like back then, I used to
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  Speaker 6: write it and kind of like grab the typewriter and
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  Speaker 6: type it up or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: So he was pulling off the typewriter and reading it.
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  Speaker 4: He was like, man, this shit dope.
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  Speaker 6: So at that time, I'm thinking like he just playing
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  Speaker 6: because like we like to like boost people's heads up
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  Speaker 6: when we locked up, like we might hear somebody wrapping,
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  Speaker 6: but like, yeah you got all bars, or like see
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  Speaker 6: him hooping, be like yeah you the coders hoo. Whoever,
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  Speaker 6: like just on some playing shit, so I ain't really
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  Speaker 6: believe them. But the next day I knew. I knew
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  Speaker 6: everybody was like coming to my cell trying to pay
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  Speaker 6: me noodles and bags of coffee to read it, you
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  Speaker 6: know what I'm saying. So I kind of just kept
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  Speaker 6: going from there.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, So did you publish your books while you weren't
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  Speaker 5: across to read it or did you wait until you
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  Speaker 5: got it? Nah?
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  Speaker 4: I stacked him up.
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  Speaker 6: H I wrote thirty three books while I was locked
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  Speaker 6: up during that eight year bid right there. So once
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  Speaker 6: I got out, though I had, I was gone from
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  Speaker 6: the street so long that I focused on like my
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  Speaker 6: parole stuff I had to do because I went to
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  Speaker 6: a halfway house at first when I got out, so
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  Speaker 6: I didn't have like access to stuff. And then I
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  Speaker 6: wanted to work on, like my relationship with my kids
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  Speaker 6: since I missed so much time, had to focus on
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  Speaker 6: getting a job. So I just started publishing this year.
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  Speaker 6: I believe January something was when I first put out
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  Speaker 6: my first book this year.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, so how hard is it? Well, let's back up.
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  Speaker 5: Let's back up, because this question is in my mind mine.
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  Speaker 5: Do you want to be called an author or would
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  Speaker 5: you rather be called a writer?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm a writer, honestly.
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  Speaker 6: I guess there are term of be an author obamba
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  Speaker 6: writer though, like I like all things that deal with
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  Speaker 6: expression and whether it's music or like I was in
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  Speaker 6: playwright too.
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  Speaker 4: I was a playwriter.
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  Speaker 6: I had plays published while I was incarcerated, because I
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  Speaker 6: mean I learned how to write comedy plays that were
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  Speaker 6: done on live stages.
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  Speaker 4: While I was behind the fence, you know. So there's
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  Speaker 4: no limit to what I can do.
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  Speaker 6: If I can, if I could put a story or
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  Speaker 6: bring entertainment in it, then I'm gonna write it.
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  Speaker 5: So oh wow. So I mean that wasn't anything that
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  Speaker 5: was in your way. You just kept going and plugging through.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I had to.
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  Speaker 6: I had to keep out my occupied you know, in there,
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  Speaker 6: like when I first got locked up, like I was
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  Speaker 6: with the prison politics. You know, I was still heavily
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  Speaker 6: involved in a game, and like those the politics went
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  Speaker 6: on when I first got there. But it was a
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  Speaker 6: phone call with my daughter that I had where I
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  Speaker 6: heard that she was stealing and then I asked her
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  Speaker 6: why she was stealing, and she was like, so I
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  Speaker 6: could be in there with you, so after I got
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  Speaker 6: off the phone that day, I told everybody I'm done
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  Speaker 6: with that shit, you know, and I just locked in.
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  Speaker 6: I knew I needed something to still release, you know
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  Speaker 6: what I'm saying. So I was like, well, I'm not
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  Speaker 6: gonna be in the streets, but I'm gonna live them
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  Speaker 6: out in these stories though, So I just started writing
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  Speaker 6: the stories to escape the prison.
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  Speaker 4: Stood.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, I can see how that can change it.
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  Speaker 4: I really do.
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  Speaker 5: But this cover, because we're about to bring up this book,
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  Speaker 5: cup and y'all know me, y'all know I'm a book
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  Speaker 5: cover girl. If you cover tracks me, it's going to
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  Speaker 5: go in there be readless. So first of all, how
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  Speaker 5: did you pronounce the title? I do not want to
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  Speaker 5: butcher it.
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  Speaker 4: I'll do Katie Mile mhm.
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  Speaker 6: Well, the cover is done by Telena. That's my go
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  Speaker 6: to lady right now probably forever. She'll get onto me.
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  Speaker 4: But when I wrote this, I wrote this this year,
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  Speaker 4: right So when I came out, I was like, I want.
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  Speaker 6: To put a book out every month. And I had
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  Speaker 6: Tasha Marie, who is like my only ARC reader that
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  Speaker 6: I have. I sent her all my stories before I
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  Speaker 6: publish him, and she was like, you should do a motorcycle.
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  Speaker 6: Uh no, she's the expecting book wrecks on TikTok Tasha
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  Speaker 6: Marie on Facebook.
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  Speaker 4: Uh just like I call her. She like my family.
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  Speaker 6: So she was like, you should do a book about
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  Speaker 6: Moorcycle Club. And I don't like doing I don't like
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  Speaker 6: writing stuff that I'm not experienced with, you know. So
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  Speaker 6: I was hesitant, but I was like, Okay, I'll challenge myself.
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  Speaker 4: I'll do it. And at that time, all I knew
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  Speaker 4: was like the biker.
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  Speaker 6: Boys, sons and anarchy and the Mayans. That's the only
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  Speaker 6: Mortcycle stuff I knew. But at the time when I
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  Speaker 6: started writing it, I had like some stuff going on
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  Speaker 6: with people close to me, you know, like where I
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  Speaker 6: felt like they was like betrayed, betraying me or whatever
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  Speaker 6: and didn't really want.
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  Speaker 4: To see me, you know, shine or anything.
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  Speaker 6: So I was like, well, I'm gonna just write this
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  Speaker 6: character Deuce, where he got people against him, you know
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  Speaker 6: what I'm saying. So he's the leader of the Ducati mob,
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  Speaker 6: but he's got snakes in his ranks. He's and it
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  Speaker 6: seems like the whole city is against him because Deuce
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  Speaker 6: isn't like other street dudes, like he doesn't want to
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  Speaker 6: make his come up by selling dope. He does it
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  Speaker 6: by like heist, you know, he's a jack boy whatever
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  Speaker 6: I would say. So the people and the crew don't
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  Speaker 6: like that because they want fast money. They feel like
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  Speaker 6: they'll get faster money from the dope game or wherever.
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  Speaker 6: But he's highly against it because his parents. He feels
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  Speaker 6: his parents' downfall was the dope. He had a mother
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  Speaker 6: who overdose, saying, he had a father who went to
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  Speaker 6: prison and end up getting killed behind the dope game.
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  Speaker 6: So that's not his thing and he won't do it,
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  Speaker 6: and he has to fight against all these crews and
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  Speaker 6: stuff because he won't allow it to happen in his state.
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  Speaker 6: Like he's not letting nothing get distributed through his state.
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  Speaker 6: So it's really other crews coming at him and the
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  Speaker 6: people in his own ranks coming at him, you know
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  Speaker 6: that he don't even know about.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I wasn't sure what the outcome would be.
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  Speaker 6: I just I just carried it the same way that
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  Speaker 6: I did my other books, like I put all the
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  Speaker 6: authenticity in there, you know, because at the same time,
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  Speaker 6: even though I don't I've never been in a moorcycle,
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  Speaker 6: prow or whatever. I've been in the game, so I
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  Speaker 6: know how that operate. So I just applied those experiences
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  Speaker 6: in life to doce, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: And then I used dou Katie Mob to address situations
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  Speaker 6: in the book community. So if something was going on
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  Speaker 6: at the time, now I'm writing it, I'm gonna talk
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  Speaker 6: about it in there, you know, because this is my
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  Speaker 6: platform to express myself through my writing, So people gonna
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  Speaker 6: know how I feel about a situation. And I wanted
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  Speaker 6: it to be like I wrote it like a TV show,
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  Speaker 6: so it's short, you know, novella's that play like like
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  Speaker 6: TV episodes in the head So.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, okay, how did you come up with Dakati? Where
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  Speaker 5: where did that come from? That's very unique?
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  Speaker 6: So like, like, even though I've never been on more Crew,
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  Speaker 6: my favorite motorcycle is the Dukati. I don't know how
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  Speaker 6: pronounce the name, but like a pangara, I know to
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  Speaker 6: start with a peak, you know. So that's my favorite bike,
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  Speaker 6: and red and black is my favorite color. So it
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  Speaker 6: was kind of easy, honestly, just to come up with
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  Speaker 6: the Dukatti Mob squad pretty much.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, okay, you guys, I am so sorry, but just
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  Speaker 5: it's kicking my nerves so I was keep on moving
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  Speaker 5: and I was trying to hide him. And it's like, so,
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  Speaker 5: how did you feel when you publish your first book.
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  Speaker 4: I felt.
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  Speaker 6: I felt green, you know, because I ain't know what
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  Speaker 6: I was doing, like very when I first published it
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  Speaker 6: too the streets, it was it was an eight y ten.
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  Speaker 6: It wasn't like formatted, I guess correctly, and I mean
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  Speaker 6: it was just I mean, you could see my inexperience
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  Speaker 6: in it. But at the same time, I felt good
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  Speaker 6: because I'm like, for me, it was alreadysed success to
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  Speaker 6: me because no matter who read it or not, my
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  Speaker 6: goal when I got out of prison was that I
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  Speaker 6: was going to do something with all the books I
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  Speaker 6: wrote while I was in there, so putting it, publishing it,
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  Speaker 6: regardless if it gainered, garnered any traction or anything, I
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  Speaker 6: already felt the success like I did something because I
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  Speaker 6: didn't do it for nothing, you know, so the work
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  Speaker 6: I did in prison.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't go to waste at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, you just said so much that I commend you
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  Speaker 5: because a lot of people will be highly upset that
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  Speaker 5: it didn't take any traction, and it's like they'll give up,
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  Speaker 5: but you kept on pounding and you are you say,
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  Speaker 5: thirteen books.
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  Speaker 4: In yes this year?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, six of them are Six of them are the
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  Speaker 6: thirty three I wrote, but all the rest are our
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  Speaker 6: new stuff.
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  Speaker 4: So are you going to go.
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  Speaker 5: Back and you know, release some of those ones that
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  Speaker 5: you have sitting in there?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? Yeah, they're all stacked up in the closets.
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  Speaker 6: So, like, I tried to grab two of them and
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  Speaker 6: type them up, because that's all I mean, this is
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  Speaker 6: how they all look, you know, their on pen and
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  Speaker 6: papers is what I do. So I'll write all my
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: stories on paper first, and then now it's just me
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  Speaker 6: typing them up, you know.
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  Speaker 4: But then I'll get inspired to do something else.
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  Speaker 6: So then I'm working on, Like I got five things
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  Speaker 6: I'm working on right now because I'm just inspired by
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  Speaker 6: different things every day, you know. But I try to
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  Speaker 6: work on my old stuff too because I do want
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  Speaker 6: to get all of them out, you know. And I
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  Speaker 6: got people that be like, well, let me type them
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  Speaker 6: for you.
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  Speaker 4: Nah.
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  Speaker 6: That's like my that's my process right there. When I
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  Speaker 6: get to go back and look at them, I could
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  Speaker 6: add stuff in or like take stuff out.
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  Speaker 4: Whatever.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, okay, So do you see your growth? How does
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  Speaker 5: it feel to actually see the growth from book one
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  Speaker 5: to book thirteen.
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  Speaker 4: I definitely see the growth.
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  Speaker 6: That's why I tell people I don't really care too
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  Speaker 6: much to change anything like in my first books that
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  Speaker 6: I wrote, because I want people to see how I've
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  Speaker 6: grown as a writer, you know what I'm saying. So
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  Speaker 6: if you've picked up New to the Streets or the
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  Speaker 6: Bottom and you read those, but then you come over
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  Speaker 6: here to do Scotti Mob or Love, you see I'm
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  Speaker 6: very different from where I started at because I've learned
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  Speaker 6: as I went and new experiences have happened to make
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  Speaker 6: the stories better, you know. So it definitely, I mean
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  Speaker 6: I like it. It's not something I can see myself
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  Speaker 6: not doing.
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  Speaker 5: You know. Okay, So I don't think you remember or
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  Speaker 5: you might have that I told you. We have these
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  Speaker 5: fun questions that always has to deal with music and.
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  Speaker 4: Acting.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, okay, my friend, let's start here. You mean, what
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  Speaker 5: is your favorite character in Ducatti Mob?
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  Speaker 4: Your favorite Deuce?
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  Speaker 5: Okay? So Deuce is an old school rapper.
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  Speaker 4: Who would he be?
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  Speaker 5: And why.
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  Speaker 4: A school? I say Nas? Because Nas?
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  Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, Nas came out like he's from the streets,
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  Speaker 6: but he got a message, you know, for the world
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  Speaker 6: and induces from the streets, saying like, regardless of what
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  Speaker 6: he do, he has like good intentions for people. You know,
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  Speaker 6: he's not a person that's he's not honoring or like grimy,
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  Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. So I feel like Nas
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  Speaker 6: is that type of rapper from back in the day,
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  Speaker 6: you know, like you don't hear nas and scandals and
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  Speaker 6: stuff like that.
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  Speaker 4: Like he's a genuine dude, you know what.
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  Speaker 5: You are totally right, because I am the only time
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  Speaker 5: I've ever heard of them being in and then it
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  Speaker 5: wasn't even the scandals divorce. Other than that, it's like
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  Speaker 5: everybody gets the doors. Okay, So I understand that there
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  Speaker 5: is the character by the name of Stormy in this book. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: tell us a little bit about Stormy.
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  Speaker 4: Oh that bad?
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  Speaker 6: So Stormy like explaining right, because everybody that knows me
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  Speaker 6: in the book community like they don't want to be
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  Speaker 6: a character in my book, you know.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: So Stormy is on like she's a friend, like she's
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: my people go on TikTok.
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: But like we had like a back and forth, you know,
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: I was like I want to throw you in the book,
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: and she challenged me, and I was like, I'm gonna
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: make you the character that don't nobody like, I'm gonna
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: make you the worst character in the book, you know.
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: And she she's like, well pretty much bed like called
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: me out. So I wrote Stormy thinking about like my
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: honor as baby mama. Everybody knows the story of my
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: big mama that snitched on me, you know what I'm saying.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: So I thought about her out through her and her,
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: I just thought about, like the the worst.
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: Woman I could think about doing the most honoring shit,
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying, to do like multiple dudes though,
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. She a manipulator. She thinks
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: she a puppet master, you know, and and it catches
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: up with her. So yeah, that's Stormy.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: Remind me to never leave a bad review. I would
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: not want to be in them.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: I don't even don't. I don't check reviews and nothing.
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: It usually be like the people who like and dukai
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: my six, Like I went after the people that had
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: something to say about black Romance book fits, and like five,
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: it was the public situation pulling out the books, the
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: book event going on, you know how they pulled their sponsorship,
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. Like four, what four was
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: about the the white lady who stole the idea of
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: the bookmark person, you know what I'm saying, And then
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: and then try to act like she didn't. You know
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: what I'm saying. So I checked issues in the book community.
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: I don't play about authors. I don't play about if
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: they talk about Jacque well j. I don't play about
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: my goat.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. So I'm gonna I'm gonna
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: talk bad. They're gonna be a chapter.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: Okay, he said it's gonna be a chapter. So now
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: we got Stormy. What actress would please Stormy?
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: And why?
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: Oh, it definitely gotta be one that character people hate
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: all the time.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: I say, no, I don't know, ain't but the one
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: from Daddy's Little Girls, the mama Tasha or what she's Tasha?
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: And why did I get married and stuff? Realma's yeah,
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: her real name is Tasha though, yeah her. But this
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: is definitely Stormy, cause man, she's she's terrible. She play
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: a villain perfectly, you know what I'm saying. Like I
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: hated her so much and they little Girls, and I
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: hate the way like she'd be talking back to Marcus
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: and and all that.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: Like she's she's perfect, you know.
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: So Tasha Smith. All right, so you know how Lifetime
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: is on this new thing. They like to meet books
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: in the movies, right. They picked up your book and said,
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: you know what, we can't do this, but we're gonna
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: give this the black channel, all black. Who would you want? Two? No,
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: let's back this up. What would be the title track
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: for your book? To copy?
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Mom? The title track? The title track?
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: And I've made playlists for it too, so it's like, uh, hum,
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: it would be a Wayne song though, that for sure.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: Uh A little.
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: I would have not thought that. I would have never
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: thought you would have said, a.
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: Little wing, Yeah, it's gonna be a it's gonna be
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: a probably probably have some music because because.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: Just wanted his money. Man, he just wanted his money.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: Okay, so now we said little wind, I would have
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: I would have thought the song between him and what's
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: the one who does him in t pain? Whether they
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: got moneys, win got money? Yes, I would have thought, now.
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: Nah, that's too that's too powerful, and what if it one?
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: How some music would have been a block aside.
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: Oh okay, I can see that all right. So now
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: we have your title track, we have your actor, your actress.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: But you know what they said. You know what, because
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: they adore your story and they see you they want
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: others to see. Who would you give the opportunity of
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: playing you in a biopic.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: Plan? Oh dang, playing me is crazy.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: I don't know nobody that could get with this pr
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: my fact probably Bruh from Well he ain't light enough,
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: you know?
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah, because you know I'm light skinned. But I was
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: gonna say brother from the Ghost the Power Ghost series.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: Uh, Mary j blind Son?
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: Your blind son? Okay? Which one are you talking about?
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: The one from South Carolina?
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Do you hear me?
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: Yes? I can hear you Power Book two? So yes,
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: s'all know. I like to look up. I Keith that
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: having little I'm right here. Ah can you hear me? Okay,
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: so I he's gonna come back up.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: I think he's talking about here.
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: Okay, are you talking about Woody McLean.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: Thee Yeah, the dark Skin went definitely not Tyreek.
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  Speaker 2: He's a mom.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: You didn't like Tyreek?
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: No, I don't take him serious as nothing.
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: He's not a He's not nobody else see as a
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: killer or no a strong mind to run nothing.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: He's just the hurt little boy that he ain't get
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: time with his daddy.
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: Oh you know what, I never thought of it that way.
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: I thought he was trying.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: Of course they were given the narrative that he was
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: trying to step in the role of his father. So
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: that's what I was thinking.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Can't be spoon fed and try to step into their life?
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: Why you do that way? Don't do that way?
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: But that's all he is.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: I can't see what he So we got your theme song,
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: We got your actress, your actress, yeah, actor, your actress,
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: the person who is going to play you. But you
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: now have to write your biopic with your favorite author
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: or your mentor. Who would that be? And how has they?
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: How have they? How would they contribute to your journey
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: as an author writer.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: It's funny because everybody know who I'm gonna say.
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna say Joaquell j because when I so like
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: when I first started, you know, I'm gonna say, she's
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: the one that like gave me the opportunity, my very
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: first opportunity, you know, like to be president, like one
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: of her events, and just like just when I was
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: on a zoom with her, like my very first zoom
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: with her, she gave me like advice, you know what
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: I'm saying, like, and she ain't have to do that,
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: and like I just kind of to getting ran, you know.
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: So and then like just to look at how long
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: she's been in it, you know, writing eleven years, and
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: like just her after reading the Dell Got All series
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: and stuff, I could see like the vision like that
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: she has because like I feel like I kind of
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: have close to the same thing, you know what I'm
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: saying of seeing my characters and how I play them out,
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: and it's just dope, like to know that, like she's
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: one of the first.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: People that gave me the opportunity or whatever.
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: So and then she gave me more advice at the
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: event that we just had in Augusta, you know, the
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: family first Fire always just back in October.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: So just knowing that she will go out her way to.
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: Tell me like what I need to do, you know,
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: get on to me when I need to tighten up,
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: that's definitely shaped me.
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: So, so give us some down of your catalog.
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna say New to the Streets because that's the
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: first one I published this year, and that is like, uh,
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: that's that's some people favorite series. The New to the streets,
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: hardest streets, still in the streets. My favorite book isn't
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: out yet. I tell people that all the time. I
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: haven't put it out yet because I won't wait till
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: i'm higher up. But if you need a quick read
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: to like just know my style, then it would be
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: Ducatti Mob because they're they're quick.
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: Novella's uh and it's season one is complete.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Right now, so.
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: Mhm m.
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: M yeah, to be part of Cole's crew. But I'll be.
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: Let's see, I'm not like it's a lot, like I know.
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: I got the Melanin Ball in February out in Vegas.
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: I have let In Local in a part of Mississippi
• 32:32
  Speaker 6: I want to mispronounce it.
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: Then I have the.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: Chocolate City Lit Fest in d C. That's in April.
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: Then Made Black Romance Book Fest June. I have the
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: Repio City in Dayton, Ohio. July have thees Lit City
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: book Fest, another job Quill event in New York.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Uh. I have.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: Books on the Ground in Houston in November and Bookmark
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: Kerr also with.
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: H mm hmm, yeah, I'm definitely looking forward to that one.
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: All of my social no matter if it's TikTok, Facebook,
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: uh threads, anything is.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: Gonna be author Coed k O L D. Please don't
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: spell it with us. See, don't do that. Yeah, don't disrespect.
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: What the scene. Don't do If you look at the
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: bottom of the screen, you see all the information of
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: his right there at the bottom. We gonna let you
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: close it out. Tell us what would you like to
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: say to your new readers, your old readers, your up
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: and coming readers.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: What would you like to say any readers?
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: I just asked, y'all give me a chance to earn
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: your readership. My mantra is now trying to be your
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: favorite if I ain't already. But if you want stories
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: that's gonna read like movies or TV shows, I mean
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: every review I believe has said I do that, that
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: is my style, then I believe you'll enjoy my books
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: because it'll give you that chance to get lost from
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: the bullshit we got going on in the world and
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: escape into into what I built for you.
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: And that's the reason why a lot of people read
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: is just to escape. I know that's one of the
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: reasons why I read. So I would like to thank
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: you for being with us tonight after Cole, thanks, thank you,
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: you guys, guess what y'all got to make sure that
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: if you've read his books, and you know we have
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: the little awards coming up, the SCA Book Gal and
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: Aspiring Author of Award that's coming up, make sure you
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: nominate your favorite in all the category you have until
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: Christmas Day. I'm pretty sure the cole might be in
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: one of y'all listens, so y'all make sure y'all go
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: ahead and vote him in. Also, remember we're coming back
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: season four. Okay. I am now getting all my information
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: together so I can present it to you guys in
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: the beginning of February. You might even show little segments
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: throughout your January and tell you how you can book
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: your interview here with me sc Book Gal. What else
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: do we have going on? That's about all we got
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: going on you guys. I want you to enjoy your
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: holidays for me.