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INTERVIEW: MAJOR. Talks Faith, Purpose & Music, Grammys, Beyoncé, Chadwick Boseman, Spirituality + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Every day a week ago. Up the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 2: You don't finished for y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Done morning.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody is the DJ Envy just hilarious. Charlamagne the God.
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  Speaker 3: We are the breakfast Club. Law la Rosa is here.
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  Speaker 3: We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed
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  Speaker 3: you got the brother major Head.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome man, this is an honor. Thank y'all for having me. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm on cloud three MILLI morning to you.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know that Lauren's be you pasted at your church.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, listen you pastor listen.
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  Speaker 2: I was not you. Why are you lying about that?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 4: No, no, when I saw when I said, I saw
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  Speaker 4: her face and when I started seeing her right, so
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, I've seen her before, and she did indeed
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  Speaker 4: go to the church. I used to be the worship
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  Speaker 4: leader at one church in l a pastor Tory Roberts, and.
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  Speaker 5: That's when they actually used to be at the church preaching.
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  Speaker 5: Like like now they're like all these different places.
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  Speaker 6: But all these different places there at the Potter's House
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  Speaker 6: on Sunday, all the different places.
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  Speaker 5: I know, it's you know what I mean though, like
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  Speaker 5: I mean like they were, it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was.
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  Speaker 5: I mean they still had they said a lot going
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  Speaker 5: on because I remember he did the Gucci's wedding at
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  Speaker 5: that time to and I was like, oh, shoot, that's
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  Speaker 5: a pastor from the church. I just started going. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: but pastors are rate that he sometimes when you go there.
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  Speaker 5: Now it's other pastors that will step in.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It used to you would never miss him if you
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  Speaker 5: went to church on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there was. There was a time. But it's grown.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, when you build and grow, you gotta
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  Speaker 4: kind of have folks standing there right there.
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  Speaker 2: At the body House every Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, absolutely there. I'm loving seeing what's happening there. Potter's
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  Speaker 4: House has been really supportive of my movement.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I ask you, the last.
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  Speaker 6: Time I saw you, you were singing at Macari Seller's wedding. Yes,
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  Speaker 6: and Bishop Jakes was, uh, what do you call that about?
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  Speaker 6: To say, passed the wedding, he officiated, differ wedding. He
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  Speaker 6: officiated the weding.
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  Speaker 2: What's the relationship.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, Well, Bakari is a brother of mine. That I
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  Speaker 4: he's our mutual well brother. We actually I met years
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  Speaker 4: ago on a panel for the n Double a CP
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  Speaker 4: shout out to the n double A CP. They're still
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  Speaker 4: relevant doing the good work for our people. But we
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  Speaker 4: were on a panel as meet him, Joe Taka Edie
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  Speaker 4: and Brittany Pacneck Cunningham, and we just connected and we
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  Speaker 4: literally just said, you know, we're going to help each
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  Speaker 4: other along the way.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. He had his vow renewal. He invited me.
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  Speaker 4: I also know Bishop, you know from you know a
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  Speaker 4: lot of the work that I've done. But it was
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  Speaker 4: a really beautiful time man, and he he pulled out
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  Speaker 4: all the stops shout out to shout out to the family.
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  Speaker 2: He definitely did. I actually we was talk about the
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  Speaker 2: conections between you and Bishop.
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  Speaker 4: Oh Bishop, Yeah, okay, well well Bishop has supported me.
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  Speaker 4: I actually saw you remember at the birthday party.
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  Speaker 1: It's sixty fifty and did he was there?
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  Speaker 2: He was?
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  Speaker 1: Did he was there? Listen.
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  Speaker 4: I will say this. I will say this. It was
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  Speaker 4: no funny business. And so it sucks that a picture
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  Speaker 4: can lead to all that crazy, but like I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it was great energy. Did he clearly sees him as
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  Speaker 4: a father and it was you see the respecting real time,
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  Speaker 4: but it was it was wild because I'm like, Lord,
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  Speaker 4: I hope none of those pictures come looking like I
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  Speaker 4: didne did something, But.
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  Speaker 1: Nah, it's it's love.
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  Speaker 4: Bishop had to sing uh for sisterly Tyson tribute before
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  Speaker 4: she passed away at the Megafest, and Bishop just said, Yo,
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  Speaker 4: there's a there's something on your life. There's an annointing
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  Speaker 4: on your life. Uh, stay locked, I got you. I'll
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  Speaker 4: support you. His family has supported me, and it's just
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  Speaker 4: it's just been consistent.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, from a great person, I know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's he's really a legit good person. And I
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  Speaker 4: think because we've had so many experiences seeing the church
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  Speaker 4: from the humanity side of things, mishandled a lot of things,
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  Speaker 4: we just automatically just assume his success must be a scheme.
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  Speaker 4: But he's really sincere, like he shows up for people,
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  Speaker 4: he respects people.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's it's real. And I think you know that.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. I love the Bishop.
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  Speaker 6: I love all of them Bishop, you know, Bishop Jakes,
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  Speaker 6: and Pata Patisara.
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  Speaker 2: Like I call him the first family of Faith.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: I get it.
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  Speaker 1: I get it. Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 6: You know one thing I like about your music, It
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  Speaker 6: always centers purpose and positivity, how intentional hope exactly. That's
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  Speaker 6: probably hope dealer, How intentional have you had to be
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  Speaker 6: about protecting your spirit and message in an industry that
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  Speaker 6: just seems like it rewards the bullshit.
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  Speaker 1: For man, it's it's I live in an anomaly.
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  Speaker 4: Like I studied music, you know, I've really studied. I've
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  Speaker 4: been to performing art schools. The shout out to the HSPVA.
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  Speaker 4: That's the same high school as Beyonce, Robert glasper Brian
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  Speaker 4: Michael Cox. I did an intensive at Julliardo did Berkeley
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  Speaker 4: College of Music. So I'm versatile in what I've studied.
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  Speaker 4: But I have found success in the most peculiar ways
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  Speaker 4: because his journey it does celebrate the salacious, it celebrates
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  Speaker 4: the negative. It celebrates like just to disrespectful specific to
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  Speaker 4: our culture, what they allow to thrive in our culture,
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  Speaker 4: which is really wild how that works. But I've just
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  Speaker 4: kind of just been committed to the assignment that I
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  Speaker 4: think on my life is to amplify hope. I define
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  Speaker 4: hope as hope is not the denial of reality. It's
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  Speaker 4: the commitment to believe greater is on the other side
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  Speaker 4: of it.
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  Speaker 1: Hope is not.
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  Speaker 4: Pretending struggle and circumstance aren't real. Because one thing life
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  Speaker 4: is going to do is life with or without our permission.
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  Speaker 4: And so what hope does is it keeps us anchored
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  Speaker 4: in this thing called the promise from the promise keeper,
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  Speaker 4: and it delivers every time. And so that's just what
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  Speaker 4: I've been committed to. It's been difficult to stay on
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  Speaker 4: that because people like want to put people against each other.
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  Speaker 4: I remember when Why I Love You my song this
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  Speaker 4: is why I Love you?
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  Speaker 1: Just in case, oh no, I know the song.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, but that song changed my life and I was
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  Speaker 4: just singing my producer Harmony, we made this love letter
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  Speaker 4: to God. It's a love letter to God, and love
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  Speaker 4: wrote me back to help people really understand how to
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  Speaker 4: do this love thing on earth. But they started saying
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  Speaker 4: I was bringing back classic R and B, and so
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  Speaker 4: then it was like this responsibility to try to keep
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  Speaker 4: up with R and B. But I don't have the
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  Speaker 4: typical R and B language, choiedboy. I'm a church boy,
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  Speaker 4: you know. So it was it's been interesting, but I've
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  Speaker 4: stayed steady with it, and I'm living better than I've
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  Speaker 4: ever lived before.
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  Speaker 6: So what would you say to people, you know, when
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  Speaker 6: they hear the term hope dealing? It's funny we just had.
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  Speaker 6: You know, Jill Scott here, she has a name on
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  Speaker 6: her album with Too Short. I can't remember the name
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  Speaker 6: of it right now, but it's literally talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 6: all of these people who pimp different sectors of our society,
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  Speaker 6: from church to education to the pharmaceutical companies. So when
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  Speaker 6: they hear the term hope dealer, what do you say
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  Speaker 6: to people who feel like people in the with that
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  Speaker 6: do gospel just peddling hope.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, Hope is powerful. Hope ain't ever canceled. It's necessary.
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  Speaker 4: It's a disruptor, it's an anchor, and I think anybody
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  Speaker 4: that's in the business of doing it, and I love
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  Speaker 4: what the Breakfast Club has evolved into because that's actually
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  Speaker 4: what y'all are doing in just the way that you
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  Speaker 4: do it. Hope does not have to have a three
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  Speaker 4: piece suit and you know, or a big church hat.
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  Speaker 4: Like it's just amplifying that there's better than this. On
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  Speaker 4: the other side, you I just read a quote that
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  Speaker 4: you made. You said, if you're building something that only
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  Speaker 4: benefits you, it's not big enough. That's hope. That's given
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  Speaker 4: hope to the people. That's that's amplifying this thing that
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  Speaker 4: there's room for all of us to win. And so
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  Speaker 4: my thing is if you're locked in that you're doing
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  Speaker 4: a good work, be it the Four Walls or not
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  Speaker 4: of the church, You're doing the work that God put
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  Speaker 4: us on this earth to do. Sometimes you're gonna be
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  Speaker 4: one of the few voices amplifying it. But it's powerful.
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  Speaker 4: One thing you say my name in most rooms, it's
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  Speaker 4: gonna be respected. They're gonna say, yeah, he's a good dude,
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  Speaker 4: because I've just been committed to it. But it sucks
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  Speaker 4: as an independent artist because it's it ain't cheap. So
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  Speaker 4: it's like it's easier if I didn't do the hope,
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  Speaker 4: you know, from a surface level, but I know at
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  Speaker 4: the end of the day, I gotta I gotta deal
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  Speaker 4: with you know, if God says well done, and I'm
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  Speaker 4: trying to get to the to the heaven.
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  Speaker 3: Now, your record is almost ten years old. Ten bro,
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  Speaker 3: did you ever when you recorded that record? Did you
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  Speaker 3: know what it was when I first recorded? So let
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  Speaker 3: me give you there's two two two spaces. I'm on
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  Speaker 3: the web series before it hit for me, before my
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  Speaker 3: life changed, because Why I Love You changed my life.
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  Speaker 3: It's a low budget web series, The Brother of Kevil
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  Speaker 3: on stage.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's been here.
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  Speaker 4: Jason Fredericks, who he recently passed away of cancer.
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  Speaker 1: He yeah, beautiful, beautiful dude.
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  Speaker 4: He They said, we had sandwiches and I've been high,
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  Speaker 4: made this all my life.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't come from a whole.
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  Speaker 4: Lot of money. Just it's just in me for some reason.
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  Speaker 4: I don't like sandwiches that are just basic, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Bo man.
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  Speaker 1: So they said what what kind of sound? Which do
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  Speaker 1: you want? Major?
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  Speaker 4: And I said, you know, my guy Joel Quinn is
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  Speaker 4: playing lullaby music on this holding room that we're doing
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  Speaker 4: on the piano, and I.
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  Speaker 1: Said, chicken salad sandwich.
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  Speaker 4: I want a chicken salad sandwich because I'm hungry.
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  Speaker 1: And they're filming it. They're filming it and it goes
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  Speaker 1: viral and at that time viral was about a thousand views.
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  Speaker 1: I was killing me.
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  Speaker 4: And so my producer, Harmony Samuels hits me and says, yo,
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  Speaker 4: where'd you get that song?
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  Speaker 1: And I said it just came to me. Man. He
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  Speaker 1: said it's a hit.
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  Speaker 4: I said, I know, right, We're gonna pitch it like
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  Speaker 4: the Chick fil A or something like. I think that
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  Speaker 4: would be crazy. And he said, no, take it down
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  Speaker 4: and come to the studio. There's a love song in that,
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  Speaker 4: and I at this time didn't have like a real
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  Speaker 4: love experience to write about. I had my heart broken,
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  Speaker 4: but I didn't have nothing that was just solid, and
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  Speaker 4: so I was like, I mean, my Mama and God
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  Speaker 4: have been the most consistent, and he says, write about God,
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  Speaker 4: and so literally the download was like, I have a
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  Speaker 4: bunch of stuff to talk about that and the what
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  Speaker 4: I understand about love agape, that love that still chooses
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  Speaker 4: you anyway, regardless of the crazy, is the understanding that
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  Speaker 4: I think we all need to take in.
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  Speaker 1: Our experiences of love.
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  Speaker 4: And so when I wrote that song, I literally was
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  Speaker 4: hoping that it would succeed because I'm like, yo, if
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  Speaker 4: this gets marketed, it it can make some noise. And
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  Speaker 4: sure enough, it took off. We first million on YouTube
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  Speaker 4: streams for the video, and it literally goes viral every
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  Speaker 4: other month. It's one hundred and seventy five million on YouTube.
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  Speaker 4: Along Stevie Wonders said, you know, I believe this will
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  Speaker 4: be the wedding love song for years to come. I'm like, yo,
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  Speaker 4: it's Stevie's saad. You know we got sound.
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  Speaker 1: You feel me?
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  Speaker 6: I tell you one thing, man, This is why you
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  Speaker 6: can never ever let people demonize chicken when a black
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  Speaker 6: man hungry and want some goddamn chickens happen, not letting
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  Speaker 6: them make chicken and negative stereotype for us.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of the day, you know, chickens out sandwich?
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  Speaker 1: Did you ever get that sandwich? I actually wasn't. Let
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  Speaker 1: it hits different.
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  Speaker 4: So when like I go places and they have like food,
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  Speaker 4: like if they cater and chicken salad, I'm like, I.
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  Speaker 1: See you got I see what you. Army's.
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  Speaker 4: Army's had it on the menu one day and that
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  Speaker 4: that was the one thing I got from Arby's.
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  Speaker 1: Armies. Do better.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, but listen, I got so high bos like I
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  Speaker 4: see you, I see you guys, you're coming through. But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's uh that song alone. You see the weddings you're
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  Speaker 4: you know, DJing. We've done a couple of weddings that
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  Speaker 4: you play that. It's like it's so much love and
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  Speaker 4: you know this love week right now. So I'm about to,
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  Speaker 4: you know, go to chick fil a and get all
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  Speaker 4: the chicken nuggets.
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  Speaker 1: I won't not because I'm hungry.
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  Speaker 5: Because I can afford it, you know, So yeah, when
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  Speaker 5: you recorded the song like so, because I never knew
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  Speaker 5: that it was a gospel like a song for God.
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  Speaker 4: It was a love letter to God, and Love wrote
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  Speaker 4: me back to help people understand how to do this
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  Speaker 4: love thing on earth at t Heaven. So it wasn't
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  Speaker 4: necessarily intended to just be gospel. It was like, it's inspirational.
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  Speaker 4: I believe that life is meant to be shared. These
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  Speaker 4: intersections that we exist weren't meant to be divided like that.
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  Speaker 4: And I want to give people healthy perspective on this
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  Speaker 4: love thing to not run in another direction thinking that
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  Speaker 4: this function is proper.
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  Speaker 1: Love got because that's not what it is.
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  Speaker 5: Because I realized in the lyrics. I went and looked
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  Speaker 5: once you said that, and I'm like, you don't ever
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  Speaker 5: say the word God.
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  Speaker 1: Love is God.
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  Speaker 4: And so I'm helping people understand that, and it's it's wild.
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  Speaker 4: It's wild, like there's babies that were made from that song.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't never thought I had songs.
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  Speaker 4: That people would be like this, you made this, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, nah, that that ain't mine. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: me and the wife for trying, but then we ain't
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  Speaker 4: had one yet and so so yeah, but it's it's
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  Speaker 4: it's it's really dope.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I love your name Major, and that's that's actually your name.
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  Speaker 1: That's my real name. My mama named me Major. Uh.
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  Speaker 4: She prayed that I make a major impact on the world.
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  Speaker 4: And I hated it growing up. I hated it because
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  Speaker 4: it was different. H major major, minor, major, pain major,
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  Speaker 4: like every single joke. Yeah, so they'll say, right, it's
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  Speaker 4: you can. We can say that now because we're mature.
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  Speaker 4: But colonel, you know, you know, listen, listen. I hated it.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, yo, but I get to college. I
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  Speaker 4: had this dream, no pun Doctor Martin Luther King told
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  Speaker 4: me what I did for love, peace and civil rights,
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  Speaker 4: you will do for love and hope. I woke up
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  Speaker 4: and literally it was like own it, lean in. This
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  Speaker 4: is the assignment. So I'm doing it one song at
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  Speaker 4: a time. I got my new one for the Wind
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  Speaker 4: to encourage people that it all works together for the wind.
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  Speaker 1: You saw that happen for you.
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  Speaker 4: You know, one minute you're doing this and then guy said, no,
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  Speaker 4: stay ready because I got you. I heard the prayers,
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  Speaker 4: I heard the promise, I caught the tears.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, and you.
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  Speaker 6: Said Major, the reminder of a death in you. I
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  Speaker 6: heard you say that before, that your name is a
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  Speaker 6: reminder of your destiny.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, when it's spoken like it's a wild thing. My
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  Speaker 4: guy himI Uh from He's Uh. He's a jeweler with
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  Speaker 4: Jason of Beverly Hills. He actually reminded me, he says,
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  Speaker 4: your mama, your mom knew because she actually let me
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  Speaker 4: tell you, like she considered abortion when she got pregnant
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  Speaker 4: with me, because she got pregnant with me in college.
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  Speaker 1: She was embarrassed he had already had my brother out
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  Speaker 1: of wedlock.
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  Speaker 4: And on her way to the abortion clinic, the tire
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: went flat, and so she goes back, and at that time,
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  Speaker 4: you had to get appointments. It's not as easy as
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  Speaker 4: it is now, which I still think is necessary. Don't
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  Speaker 4: make it so easy that people can flagrantly live. But
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  Speaker 4: I do think the option should be left to the people.
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  Speaker 4: But she ends up coming back on her way back
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  Speaker 4: because she was just feeling judged her own internal and
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  Speaker 4: the tire busted in nearly the same spot. A different
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: tire busted in nearly the same spot, and so she
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  Speaker 4: was like, God, if I have this kid, and if
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  Speaker 4: I name a major, I pray to he makes a
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  Speaker 4: major impact.
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  Speaker 1: So it's this is a prayer in real time. Yeah, wow, Yeah, what's.
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  Speaker 6: The moment in your career where you truly felt yourself
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  Speaker 6: stepping into that knee.
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  Speaker 4: Right now on the breakfast club? Like you said, gentleman,
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  Speaker 4: it's major on the breakfast club. I've been praying for
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  Speaker 4: this moment to sit with y'all. I admire y'all so much,
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  Speaker 4: but no, I think from I've always been major. I
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  Speaker 4: shift spaces that I'm in, and I think we all
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: have that ability when we lean into our authentic self. I,
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: you know, used to just be like, why am I
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: so different?
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: And it's just like, yo, that's the superpower, you know.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: So I'm just showing up as me man like I
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: could follow the models that have already been done. But
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: at the end of the day, I think we were
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: each created to be an answer to a specific need
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: in the earth. So if we're chasing down trends and
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: chasing down the stuff that's already been done, we're chasing
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: down already answered needs, leaving the one we were.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Assigned to unanswered.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: And that's why most a lot of folks feel unfulfilled
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: in life because we're chasing down stuff that's already been handled.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: It's like lock into what you do, Hey, nobody do
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: radio like y'all. There's only one Charlemagne, is only one
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: dj MV, there's only one law, and there's only one jests.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: There's only one lock into that, and the way will
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: be made. It ain't gonna be easy all the time,
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: but it'll be made now.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: You also wrote open letters to the Grammys.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Did why? Why was that important? Uh? I'll say this first.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: I'm very active.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: With the Recording Academy, which is the institution that houses
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: the Grammys.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: I have a lot of respect and love for the
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Recording Academy, But while it has made a lot of progress,
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: it still has a lot of work to do. There's
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: an issue with the screening committees that has impacted me
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: and artists like me that kind of sit in these
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: margins like what we.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Talk break it down because a lot of people don't
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: know how yeah, so they got to put they don't
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: know what category to put you.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, So when you submit, which is called artist's intent,
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: when you submit to a particular category. So my situation
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: to what you were saying, envy, is I admitted my categories,
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: my song, I Prayed for You, which had tremendous success
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: last year in gospel, specifically from Billboard to so much success.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: I submitted it to gospel because that's where it was celebrated.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: I submitted my new EP, the Hope Dealer Sessions, available
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: everywhere zoom Man, Hope Dealer Sessions motivational mixtape, right right
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: right capture that that's good.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: But I submitted that.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: To Spoken Word, and the screening committees moved them out
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: of both gospel to and put it in CCM, which
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: is more of a white facing genre of Christian music,
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: And they moved my project, My Hope Dealers, to R
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: and B. I know the difference, ain't crazy. Artists intent
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: should be respected and should be the dominating determinant, and
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: I just wanted to challenge the system.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I talked to executive leaders.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: I respect Harvey, I respect everybody in the space, but
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: it left me out of disadvantage. I didn't have a
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: shot at getting, you know, even considered anymore because people
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: aren't looking for me in the categories I don't belong in.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: You said that it left you at a financial and
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: a creative disadvantage. Creative, but what's the financial disadvantage? That
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: you could talk about.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: So they so for many people, and this, this needs
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: this will help a lot of folks that think it's
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: just simple you put something out and it works.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: You actually have to market your stuff.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: You have to promote it, and it costs a lot
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: of money to promote and be competitive. And so as
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: an independent artist who has I've gone platinum, that's not
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: normal for independent artists that have never been.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Signed to a major label.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Shout out to Empiring Ghazi for supporting supporting me from
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: the jump. But I'm completely independent. So every dollar that
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: I spend, I feel it in real time. It's not
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: in advance, and I get something back, you know. And
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: I got worked that out later. So when we did
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: the campaign, I'm on promo tours, I'm on radio, tammeron
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Hall had me on twice.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm putting it work.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: And then only to find out on the first day
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: of voting, when it's too late to move anything, that
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: I'm in the wrong category or in a category I
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: didn't submit to. That hurts because now I got to
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: try to backtrack or rebound to get people to move
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: and change, but they're not thinking about that's so that's
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: what I'm speaking to as far as the finance, and
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: it's expensive. Just the energy, the bandwidth of trying to
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: show up every single time when systems, machines are hard
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: to fight up against.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: That's that's tough work.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Did you receive any pushbacks speaking of the machine and
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: the system.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: Well, I noticed some folks went silent on me that
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: I thought would be loud. I got, you know, certain
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: messages personally where you know, some significant voices were like,
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: I'm proud of you for using your voice, and I'm like, yeah,
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: you say that. You don't if you say it, I
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: won't look like I'm always crying by myself. But a
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: bunch of other artists came to me and said it.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: But I've reached out. I have a meeting, a follow
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: up meeting with the head of awards, just to because
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: I'm advocating for a lot of people that are in
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: these margins. It's We're not black, people are not a monolith.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: It's not just R and B, gospel, jazz and rap.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Like we literally are the blueprint, the golden print of
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: what American music in all of its facets exists, rock
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: and roll, all that. So when we show up in
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: those spaces. Just know that we're showing up in the
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: spaces and we're qualified. We don't have to keep trying
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: to convince you to accept us in something that we
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: helped inspire. And so I think what has happened is
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: we are else as a culture has kind of accepted
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: that just as what it is, and we don't always
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: fight against it when we have an opportunity to be
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: the difference. Se Lo Green is not your average hip
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: hop artist or R and B singer. You get what
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: I'm saying, Gary Clark Jr. John Baptiste, These are folks
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: that exist different spaces. Beyonce when she wanted to go country,
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: we see what it was. So my thing is, I'm
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: advocating for everybody. It's not just me, but I feel it.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: So I'm gonna speak up, and you know, y'all pray
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: for me, just you know, support me. You didn't go
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: to high school with be No no No, She's a
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: few years ahead of me. I went to the same
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: middle and high school, Wels middle school, uh and and
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: high school LaToya Luckett shout out to tall of them.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: But yeah, they're they're they're a little older than me,
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: but killing it. Nonetheless, Beyonce remember major from six Flags Astroworld,
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: I'm a saying on air. I went to the Grammys
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: and it was two Grammys ago, and I told it
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: took a lot for me to go up to say
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: hey to her because everybody, even Meryl Street, was trying
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: to get her attention.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I'm like, Beyonce is literally Beyonce.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: I went up to her and shout out to Johnny
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: Nunia as he was gonna take pictures of the moment,
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: and uh, you know those in between the segments, they're quick,
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: so you got to talk fast. So I'm like, hey, Beyonce,
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you remember a major from Houston.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: And She's like looking at me, okay, and I'm like, okay,
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: so I got the song. This is why everybody the
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: places I didn't even get to finish a song.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Like okay. And so I go back and sit down.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: I'm sitting with Stevie Wonder his wife Tamika, and she's like,
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: how did it go? I said, Beyonce don't know me,
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: And so I called Angie BN saying, I'm like, Hotel B,
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: I'm not crazy. I'm the same. I'm a little major
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: from you know that I know Angie, Mama, Tina. I
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: know all of them. I just haven't seen Beyonce in
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: person since then, so maybe this moment.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Why did you just say Houston.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: And I forgot?
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: You forgot?
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: What's going Listen? Listen, listen, listen, It's Beyonce, Beyonce. I would,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: I would.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: I'm good with starting with the song I should have started,
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: should would have done different, but it was it was, bro.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: My mind was like, I got to say the right things.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: So I'm like, you know, I'm a major from from Houston.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: I'm thinking Houston.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Major, like your major host a major exactly. And man, man, you.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Probably think she met memes trying.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: To pieces together.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: This is why I'm hot.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: And she was like, okay to play everybody, and I'm like,
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: I'll be back Johnny over somewhere else. You know how
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: fast Johnny will He like, he'll call your name and
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: I'm like, Johnny, nowhere to be found.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: And so but he made a picture. What Bro?
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: I didn't even get the picture, but bro, how about this.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: I did get an optic that looked like we were
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: really talking. Somebody, some stand posted the footage between us
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: as we were talking, and it looks like she's having
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: a serious conversation about three seconds long, and it looked
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: like we're having a deep conversation. People like I see
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: you major and I'm like yeah, but they don't know.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: They don't know she was looking for Julie.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Juliet. You'll see him in the picture looking at.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: Me, like.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Make it funny. He did the same thing when he
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: met Prince the same exact day. It stutters, you know,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: it's I love too, But Prince is different for.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: You because of the because of what let me he said, Prince.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: What you say the Prince?
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, let me tell you this.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: To say.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: First of all, when we were at the old.
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: Radio station, yes you know, we were doing radio and
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: somebody just randomly you mind you was six o'clock and
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: somebody's like princes in the building were like Prince yeah,
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: like Prince, Prince yeah. Why would There's no way princes
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: up here. So we put this, put everything in automation,
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: and as soon as we opened the door to go
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: walk in the hall, he walks by with two random
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: white women, old white women like yo. He was the
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: nicest guy. He came over and shake everybody's hand. But
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: I was just like I grew up Jehovah witness too.
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: That's what he said, he what's up?
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: How you doing? I grew up Jehovah? Like that wasn't that.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: People think I can't stand these these these couch and and.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Keyboard pulleys, say, well, if I was, I would do this.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: You don't know what you're doing. Prince was like what
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: because you know what your prince didn't.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: He really didn't seem real.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: It's very surreal.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: The first time I met met Oprah, shout out to
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: open who, by the way, ended up calling me on
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: my phone.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: It's wild.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: Just stay ready, beautiful people, Just stay ready because life
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: just comes at you and literally the opportunity you've been
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: praying for will unfold in the way God chooses. But
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: like I remember meeting Oprah and there h Arnold, the
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: photographer was like, Oprah, me Grammy nominated major, and she's
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: like she comes up to me and she wasn't doing
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: any more interviews, but she was willing to, you know,
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: at the moment with me and she she stands there
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: and the only thing I could say, I said you're
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: Oprah and she said I am. I said I'm major,
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: and she said you are So I just flipped it
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: and said Oprah said you are major. So when you
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: see that quote, it just know that's how I really went.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: But fast forward, you just you get stumped, stump acting
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: like you you don't get nervous in front of like that,
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: like what have you gotten it?
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Who have nobody?
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: There's only been that literally just happened with me and
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: just got well.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Jill has an aura. Yes, that will leave you stuck.
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: She because I was going to be like, Hi, nice
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: to meet you, Lauren. Before I can say thing, she
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: was like Lauren, I was like, yeah, that's me.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: Hi.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: It caught me up guard, like, oh, my wife had
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: a cause that's my wife's favorite wife is dope.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: By the way, my white.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Favorite artist is Jill's gotten there.
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: The first time we ever met Jill, she was like,
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: oh my god, that's jills got And when you know,
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: when they're they're talking and my wife is telling her
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: what her music means to her, told my wife.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Cried, right, But that's that's different than strugg you know
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: what I mean.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: It's it's both. It is star struck, it's it's it's
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: both of it. It's like you meet your heroes in
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: real time and y'all are now like, is that Chadwick.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: That I'm about?
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's really dope. But you meet your heroes like
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: in real time. When you step do the work, you
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: eventually become a part of the company. And the thing
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: is it's dope to revere them and to honor them
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: and respect them, but also know that you're occupying the
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: space too, because that section of the Grammarys.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: That wasn't just you know you y'all been right? Have
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: you been before? Oh?
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: We you know what?
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: No?
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: I went once, but I was sitting like up in
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: a suite and the second time I gave my tickets
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: to get.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Your sweets suck. They're so freaking far away.
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: You get all the good food, but it's like you're
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: so far away from the feeling.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: But that section is a special section.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: I was, you know Stevie's Stevie's wife had me at
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: her table and it's just it's like, we just got
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: to understand occupy the space life puts you in, you
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: know what I mean?
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Right, that's it.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: Thank you for making I I'm like occupied in space. Life,
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: Life settled given you.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Yes, God has put you, Nigga, you belong word up.
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: What was the last text that Chadwick Bides SENTDS because
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: I saw you say that, a text that he sent
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: before he died, inspired the whole project.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Chadwick is a special soul. Was a special soul.
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: UH. On April fourth, twenty twenty, in the middle of
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: the pandemic, Chad sent a text message to a group
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: of us asking us to pray for the hope of
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: the world. He says, this pandemic has basically thrown people
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: into a sea of hopelessness, where like people are going
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: through they don't know if they're gonna make it more.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: More of the issue is the anxiety of how we're
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: going to get out versus the actual situation at hand.
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: And he's saying that's what's crippling people. He said this bar,
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: and I'm gonna say it because it's poetic, but there's
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: a bar, he says. The plague was asked why it
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: had killed so many. The plague responded, I only killed
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: one hundred. The thousands that died died from the fear
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: of me. Wow, it's hope that makes a difference. Most
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: of the time, our sickness lingers on because we're plagued
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: by wondering when.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: We gonna get better, not I am gonna get better.
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: The mindset, the whole mindset that immediately I started writing
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: from that thing started happening.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: I did a song called I Prayed for You, which
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: I ended up releasing. A few years later, I did
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: a major hope project with Motivations. He passes away four
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: months later. I didn't realize. I knew he was sick,
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: but I didn't know to what degree. I'm a part
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: of the circle that, you know, thanks to his best friend,
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: Logan Coles and Siman and all of them, but I'm
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: not knowing that he's dealing with cancer. This man could
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: have focused only on himself with what he had, and
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: it would have made sense. But he literally had the
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: audacity to hope for the world. And that's when it
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: reminded me, you got work to do, bro, while you
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: can breathe on your own, while you can do this thing,
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: lock in this hope work is real.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: And so that's what.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: Inspired the Hope Dealer sessions out. Now, hold your card up,
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: Hold your card up.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: I got okay, got you.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: A lot of people to get that right, right, right,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: right right. But that's what inspired it. But Chadwick.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: Literally was a you y'all interviewed him like you know,
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: his aura, it's like a grounded aura of like.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: I belong and and this moment is not going to
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: be a wasted moment. That's what he taught me.
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: Don't waste the moments, like if you're gonna get called
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: up on the stage, don't waste the moments. I should
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: have took that advice when you know, I saw Beyonce,
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: I should have started with HSBA to high school.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: But was very he had a very regal, royal presence.
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: And you know, even when you think about him now,
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: it's just like you know he you know, God, everything
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: happened why he's supposed to happen. But that is one
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: that really feels like it got cut short, like we
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: didn't see.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: But he for What's what's wild is we say that
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: because of age and because of potential that we see.
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: But if you think about it, he did some of
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: the biggest work in a short amount of time. That
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: is iconic work. It's not stuff you forget about. Forty two,
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: Jackie Robinson, Black Panther, all this stuff. We had a
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  Speaker 4: funny moment I remember when he was prepared for Black Panther.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: We were watching a documentary about the Black Panthers, and
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: he was just and he's real quiet. He's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I'm studying for you know, the Black Panthers. And I'm like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: so you're doing another one of those movies. And he's
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: like he's like, yeah, I had no idea. That's how
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: grounded he was that the Black Panther he was talking
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: about was this big Marvel movie.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking it's about the Black Panthers because he was Thurgod.
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  Speaker 4: Marshall, you know, all this other stuff, and he lived
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  Speaker 4: this huge life in a span of forty two years.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with you, but what I mean is not
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  Speaker 2: the work him, the person, like the wisdom that he would,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 4: I think I think it's still it still needs to
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: be said, like it's not a guarantee that our years
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: will be two one hundred. It's not a guarantee that
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: our years will be the sixty. There are some kids
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: that have died it five and the impact that they made.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: We live for assignment feeling.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Envy. You are literally living out assignment.
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  Speaker 4: Your experience with your wife, what y'all overcame is assignment
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  Speaker 4: to show people how you rebound in integrity, the work
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: that y'all have done. You flipping this from just being
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: about gossip or whatever to really being a platform of responsibility.
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  Speaker 1: That's assignment.
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  Speaker 4: You may go tomorrow, God forbid, you may go tomorrow,
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: but what you've done is twenty lifetimes worth of stuff,
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: what y'all have done. And so when it sucks because
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: you take a friend away, you take a big brother away.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: But the man lived, He lived well. He didn't wait.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: I tried to joke with him.
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  Speaker 4: He would He'll be like, that's funny, and I'm like,
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: but everybody else is dying hysterically, and he's exacted. He
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: helped me with my James Brown moves for one of
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: my shows, and it usually we can see think back
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  Speaker 4: like if you had time with him, you're like, this
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: man lived.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't wasted.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: It wasn't like man, if only he had a few
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: more years, he would have been this that man lived.
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: What's crazy is April fourth when he sent the text
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: is this is a parallel.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: That's crazy. April fourth, when he sent the text to me.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: That was this. That's the same day that doctor King
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: passed away April fourth. In history, he passed away on
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: August twenty eighth. Chadwick passed away on August twenty eighth.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: That's the same day that Doctor King gave the I
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: Have a Dream speech. It's these parallels where that's not
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: just happenstance, that's the vine orchestration. It's the vine that
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: I would be included in this group text. This dude
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: does not text, and he sexting from an android. I
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: hate group text with androids, but I answered and responded
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: to a group text with androids, and I'm gonna tell
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: you it shout out to all of you with an android.
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: But it's disrespectful that you cannot leave the conversation when
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: it gets out of hand because androids mess up.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: You know. You know what I'm saying.
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: It's the family groupes too, and they talk about just
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: saying random stuff.
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: My wife is an androider, but I still love her.
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: But I don't know why I went off on that tangent.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, he lived, like.
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, just live exactly what happened with Beyonce. Your words
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: be yeah yeah, just be yeah yeah yeah.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Chadwick lived. No androids, Chadwick.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: Had an Android, and he still was the greatest to
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: do what he does. And and I think y'all for
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: honoring him the way that y'all have and have and you.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Did South Carolina all day many.
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: That too, just literally, you're doing it too, just literally
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: of course, correcting the narrative of what comes out of
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: the South, what comes out of the country.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean, Like we belong to and
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: it's and it's it's a it's a beautiful thing.
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 1: I've lived an interesting life.
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: I'm I've lived an interesting life. I'm still at it.
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: But his life inspired me to be intentional with every
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: bit of it.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you a question. It's my final question.
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: Right when you look forward, not just musically but personally,
• 39:46
  Speaker 6: what kind of man do you want the next chapter
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: of Major to represent.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: I want my legacy to be he gives what he lives.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: He lives what he gives.
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: It's enough of just talking and saying all this stuff
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: for the clicks and all this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Live it.
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  Speaker 4: If you're about it, be about it. I want to
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: help as many people as I can. That's why when
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: you said, if what you're building only benefits you, it's
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: not big enough. I want to help as many people
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: as I can. I have you'd be surprised how many
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: careers I've supported. I've helped so many people. I would
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: love for people to give back. So when you kept
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: your word on I got you. That meant everything to me.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: I'm just.
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: I'm not perfect. I'm a good hearted person. I love everybody,
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: and I want everybody to know hope he ever canceled.
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: I'm seeing the visual now. I spent some time with
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: Reverend Jackson, and I'm saying this now in the event
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: that I just feel that his days are you know,
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: I was blessed to have some time with Reverend Jackson
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: a couple months ago, and I was holding his hand
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: in the hospital room and he wasn't saying much, but
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: I said, Rev, I'm keeping this hope alive. I'm locked
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: in on this whole thing. And the first words that
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: he said, NonStop and he stood up, keep hope alive,
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: Keep hope alive. And he's saying is gasping over and
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: over and over. Gigi Dixon was there, his wife was there,
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: and I'm like, God, this moment, you set this up
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: because this work is not in vain, man, this work.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Is not in vain.
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: And I know sometimes I'm by myself trying to amplify
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: this hope, looking like the corn ball that wants to
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: push this thing, but I know it works. People are hurting.
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: I'm an impath. Too many people need this stuff, and
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: so I'm gonna give it and I'm gonna live it
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: to the best of my ability. Thank y'all for making
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: time for me.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 42:22
  Speaker 6: Go get the whole sessions, man, The sessions are out
• 42:25
  Speaker 6: right now by my side, major man.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: Follow him at now that's major, and go to now
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: that'smajor dot Com.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, it's major. Thank you. Breakfast Club, Good morning
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: every day a week ago up Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 4: Finish.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: Y'all done it.