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Q Parker Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: My next guest is in the studio with me. I
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Speaker 1: always love it when you come in. He's a husband, father, singer, songwriter, actor,
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Speaker 1: in philanthropists he has gathered. He has garnered many awards
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Speaker 1: and honors since entering the music business in including a
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Speaker 1: Grammy Award, MTV Video Music Award, to multi platinum albums
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Speaker 1: and one platinum album and to Go albums. He's in
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Speaker 1: studio to talk about Q Parker Productions, Q Parker Legacy Foundation,
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Speaker 1: the Bridge Project and to shift into music with a purpose.
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Speaker 1: Please work with the money making conversation. Q Parker, what's
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Speaker 1: going on? Thank you nephew. When before we got on
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Speaker 1: and go look at it man, I hope you don't
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Speaker 1: think you just just saw me for a short term.
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Speaker 1: You're gone off. This is not a one off and
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Speaker 1: that's important. Uh. I'm from Houston, Texas. I'm originally from there.
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Speaker 1: I moved here to Atlanta in two thousand seven and
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Speaker 1: my headquarters is in Atlanta, so you have access to
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Speaker 1: years qualifying I'm here. You know one of us. Now.
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Speaker 1: I drove by the game on Sunday and I saw
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Speaker 1: I didn't know that many black people went to the
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Speaker 1: Atlanta Factor game. I was. I was actually stunned that way.
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Speaker 1: This is a black game. This is feeling like I
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Speaker 1: was an HCU game black people, and so I know
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Speaker 1: about the Atlanta. Now let's talk about you, your career,
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Speaker 1: your brand. That you said shift in music, talk about
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Speaker 1: that first, because that's that's that's that's really your base. Okay.
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Speaker 1: Shifting music simply means connecting with your purpose and understanding that, uh,
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Speaker 1: your gift will make room for you. And I've been
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Speaker 1: able to be in the music entertainment industry for over
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Speaker 1: twenty years and to now make music that is going
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Speaker 1: to impact people in a more positive way, you know.
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Speaker 1: Being a teenager myself with my group members, we made
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Speaker 1: songs that just we're you know, real life situations, um relationships,
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Speaker 1: fantasies at some time. However, now understanding that I have
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Speaker 1: generation that's behind me looking and watching every step, I'm
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Speaker 1: very very connected to our young man and the youth
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Speaker 1: men's movement, and so everything that I do, I want
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Speaker 1: to make sure that my son who is fifteen years old,
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Speaker 1: as well as this next generation are fully fully equipped
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Speaker 1: um to be able to sustain themselves. And one of
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Speaker 1: the most influential pieces of information is music and so
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Speaker 1: all the music that I make, I wanted to be uplifting, empowering,
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Speaker 1: UM and fill with a lot of love and passion.
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Speaker 1: Are we talking I want to say, are we talking
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Speaker 1: gospel inspirational? Well, I just say that it's inspirational, Okay.
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Speaker 1: I grew up in the church, so that's always a
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Speaker 1: part of um. And so no matter where I go,
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Speaker 1: even when we were doing when I was doing the
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Speaker 1: R and B stuff with my group, there were always
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Speaker 1: a gospel inspirational field in all of the one to
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Speaker 1: Well music, no matter what it was. So that's always
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Speaker 1: a part of me. But today my music is I
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Speaker 1: would just corn it as it's it's on my heart.
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Speaker 1: It's the gift that God put inside of me. So
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Speaker 1: sometimes it may come out as a love song, it
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Speaker 1: may come out as a full gospel song, but then
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Speaker 1: it may just come out as something that's just inspiring individuals.
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Speaker 1: It's really interesting. I know that I'm still living a life,
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Speaker 1: and my life is changing every day, and people always
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Speaker 1: marvel at how I'm able to reinvent myself. You know,
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Speaker 1: a lot of people call me a renaissance man because
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Speaker 1: I am able to do a lot of things simultaneously.
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Speaker 1: And I do them well. I put focus on each one.
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Speaker 1: I don't just do things just to be doing things.
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at a renaissance man here, I'm looking at
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Speaker 1: a multitasking individual. When did that just start to evolve
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Speaker 1: into your into your being? Q Parker when I was
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Speaker 1: seventeen years old. Uh. I Sometimes I call Puff Puffy
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Speaker 1: a prophet because the very first words you heard from
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Speaker 1: any One twelve song was I thought, I told you
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Speaker 1: that we won't stop. And I don't know if he
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Speaker 1: realized what he planted. However, that has been my motto.
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Speaker 1: You know, um, the grind continues, it doesn't stop. I
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Speaker 1: believe that. You know, God has blessed me with many talents,
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Speaker 1: and I'd be a fool to just focus on just one.
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Speaker 1: And a lot of times when you do that, people
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Speaker 1: will try to box you in, and so when they
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Speaker 1: see you in other fastest, they'll say, well, aren't you
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Speaker 1: just a single guy? That's what you think, That's what
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Speaker 1: they want you to be. That's what people wanted to
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Speaker 1: have a comfort zone to communicate with. You know that
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Speaker 1: when your celebrity, when you reach a certain status, people
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Speaker 1: they have to they have to give up a certain
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Speaker 1: energy to come talk to you now based on the
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Speaker 1: energy that they know. Now when you start veering out there,
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Speaker 1: that's a whole new lane of information they gotta learned about.
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Speaker 1: It makes them uncomfortable sometimes absolutely, and so know that
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Speaker 1: the negativity is really tied to them trying to approach you.
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Speaker 1: So you have to realize that that's a that's a
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Speaker 1: plus anti MICUs because you really want your brand to
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Speaker 1: be exposed. What people understand that you're not limited what
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Speaker 1: you're talking about right now cannot And that's why I
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Speaker 1: was when I was just going through your website. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna talk about that in a minute. But when I
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Speaker 1: was when I was just evaluating you and they was
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Speaker 1: talking about bringing you on the show. It reminds me
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Speaker 1: a lot of me because of the fact that I
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Speaker 1: was a real talented dude. Couldn't sing that I'm not
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Speaker 1: gonna go down that lane. It's it's deep, but it
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Speaker 1: would never come out of you. It would never ever
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Speaker 1: come out. And the thing about this that because it's
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Speaker 1: like when you when you have a when you when
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Speaker 1: you're successful in the lane. I was a stand up,
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Speaker 1: very successful and so you're a very successful sinker. So
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Speaker 1: you there's an intimidation. There's a but alone what you
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Speaker 1: are doing, the things that you are doing now, you
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Speaker 1: were doing when you were singing, like you said, you alone.
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Speaker 1: You've been in the business. When is at one point
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Speaker 1: you said, I know I can do this except me
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Speaker 1: for who I am. I'm going out there. A lot
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Speaker 1: of times you don't really fully engage with yourself until
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Speaker 1: there are some trials and there are some storms. And
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Speaker 1: about seven years ago, the the most trying time in
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Speaker 1: my life and then my family's life, really really set
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Speaker 1: me down and I had to really look at myself
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Speaker 1: and assessed the man that I was looking at in
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Speaker 1: the mirror, and I had to have some really tough
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Speaker 1: conversations like who are you? What are you gonna stand for?
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Speaker 1: Are you ready to really accept the responsibility that God
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Speaker 1: has called you to be a father, a husband, and
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Speaker 1: a leader and really tap into your true purpose, not
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Speaker 1: just the gift, but what's really really inside a UQ.
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Speaker 1: What what is your legacy going to say? Is it
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Speaker 1: just going to stop at you know, he's a member
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Speaker 1: of one twelve and the Grammys, or what is it
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Speaker 1: going to say? And at that moment, I realized, now
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Speaker 1: I need to turn the chapter I need to turn
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Speaker 1: the page not only fight for my family back and
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Speaker 1: fight for my marriage, but also set a new foundation
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Speaker 1: of who is this real? Q Parker And see I've
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Speaker 1: I have been just giving them maybe a small percentage musically.
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Speaker 1: But then now I'm so excited because I get to say,
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Speaker 1: in addition to the records and the music, he's also
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Speaker 1: a philanthropy. See also he's also an actor, He's also
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Speaker 1: an entrepreneur. He's also this, this, this, this, this, It
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Speaker 1: makes you feel good. It's very exciting because I now
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Speaker 1: get to really operate fully at optimum level and not
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Speaker 1: just a portion. We know what this is would really
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Speaker 1: excites you. You you're feel in control. See See the
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Speaker 1: thing about it is that it was a successful stand
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Speaker 1: up comic I was only based on I had to
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Speaker 1: go into a club to perform. Right. When you're an entrepreneur,
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Speaker 1: you can sit down, you can plan, you can get
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Speaker 1: the right people around you playing a strategy, and you
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Speaker 1: can move forward and you can see your work changing,
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Speaker 1: even if it's just one person. It don't have to
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Speaker 1: you just changing one person. Then one person becomes two
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Speaker 1: people in three and four or five. It's not ten
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Speaker 1: thousand people. Five dred people see that that that's that's
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Speaker 1: a whole scale that involves a lot of people who
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Speaker 1: have to make a judgment call on whether you can
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Speaker 1: perform that task of drawing those people. You're entering into
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Speaker 1: a lane where it says to you that, hey, man,
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Speaker 1: I want to make a change. I want to make
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Speaker 1: a change and a difference. And and my my manager
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Speaker 1: and my partner and I we always talk about one
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Speaker 1: at the time. There you go. You we focus on
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Speaker 1: just completing our task for today, and by the end
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Speaker 1: of the week we can look back and say, wow,
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Speaker 1: look at all we have a consciousness. So if you
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Speaker 1: think about that, what happens after a month? Absolutely as
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Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely so. So you're based in Atlanta. How much
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Speaker 1: do you travel now? Wow? Still travel quite a bit.
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Speaker 1: Not as much as when I was very active in
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Speaker 1: the group, but I still do enough. Because there's different
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Speaker 1: facets of que Parker. There's cute Parker the artist, because
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Speaker 1: I still do stuff as a solo artist. Absolutely, I
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Speaker 1: do theater, TV and film, but also as an entrepreneur,
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Speaker 1: as a philanthropist. I now have a production company, so
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Speaker 1: we're gonna be starting filming very very soon. So okay,
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Speaker 1: we'll have a nice account at Delta. Okay, cool, Well,
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Speaker 1: I gotta start you. They know me when they wave.
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Speaker 1: They asked me about the cakes and stuff because I'm
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Speaker 1: a baker, so they be trying where those cakes, you know.
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Speaker 1: And so that's why I know we're gonna get together
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Speaker 1: in a very good way. But I want to I
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Speaker 1: want to say some of the questions to our next
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Speaker 1: break because I want to talk about more about the
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Speaker 1: que Que Parker productions, the bridge project. I want to
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Speaker 1: talk about this. There was a couple of things I
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Speaker 1: found on your site about the the the ladies, uh,
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Speaker 1: the U the let go down here call it Caroline
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Speaker 1: with que Parker. Okay, got that a night with my
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Speaker 1: lady benefit story. Okay, Then we want to talk about
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Speaker 1: the father and son runch. See we got a lot
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Speaker 1: of talk not to talk about come on back. See
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Speaker 1: see he didn't know. See that wasn't nobody that nobody
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Speaker 1: put that in. I respect that though, because a lot
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Speaker 1: of times people will just asked for an interview and
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Speaker 1: then they'll no, no, no, no, you here, Because Rashan
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Speaker 1: McDonald appreciate that we're waited on you. But we're back
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Speaker 1: with more money making conversation. Got his crew in the
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Speaker 1: back the photos and we got me pictures taken off.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad I had a good suit on the day.
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Speaker 1: I just Rashan McDonald And you're listening to Money Making Conversations,
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Speaker 1: Que Parker, Que Parker Productions, Que Parker Legacy, The Bridge
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Speaker 1: Bridge Project. Let's start with Parker Productions, Mondy Making Conversations,
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Speaker 1: a show about entrepreneurs, about entertainment, so you blend both.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Q Parker Productions. I mean, I am
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Speaker 1: an avid movie and TV fanatic man. I'll get stuck
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Speaker 1: on a series for like two weeks straight. So I
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Speaker 1: came up with this project called The Bridge Project, and
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Speaker 1: we'll talk a little bit about that. But the Bridge
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Speaker 1: Project is three layers. It's a music piece, it's a documentary.
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Speaker 1: There's also a feature film, and so Que Parker Productions
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Speaker 1: will be this will be my first feature film that
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Speaker 1: we will produce. It's entire or Rescue Me and it
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Speaker 1: talks about a young man who goes through the trials
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Speaker 1: is basically my life story. UM is in a group
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Speaker 1: and loses it is at the brink of losing his
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Speaker 1: familys tragedy, tragedy and redemption and asked to just fight
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Speaker 1: to just regain his family, reclaim his family back, and
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Speaker 1: it just takes you through just what their roller coaster
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Speaker 1: uh is uh? And like I said that, it's totally
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Speaker 1: I did the fives with the Q Parker story. So
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Speaker 1: this is my way of subliminally telling my features in
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Speaker 1: the story. Okay, is it is it an age range
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Speaker 1: over there or it's just you just talking about on
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Speaker 1: the present day. Well, no, so it would be it
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Speaker 1: would would it would go back to my childhood and
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Speaker 1: really showed what that was like. But then also it
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Speaker 1: just kind of go through the progression of shave off
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Speaker 1: the whatever takest do all that takes a little transition period.
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Speaker 1: Got you just look first, now, don't mess around. No
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Speaker 1: facing that first, No facing that eighteen year old handline.
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Speaker 1: This look first. I always remember this look first. Don't
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Speaker 1: mess up now, don't best of them. I remember I
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Speaker 1: did Jason's lyric and they grew a beard for the
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Speaker 1: for the role I played made Fast Freddy and Jason's
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Speaker 1: lyric and crackhead tap dance, and so they messed around,
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Speaker 1: it messed around. They shade my beard. They guy would
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Speaker 1: who shape the period? We gotta shoot that first, he
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Speaker 1: was doing good at first. You're doing good at first,
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Speaker 1: So I know it's all about continuity when you're doing
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Speaker 1: productions and stuff like that. So we're excited about that
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Speaker 1: with this is the first of many UH film projects
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Speaker 1: that we will be producing, so we're excited about that.
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Speaker 1: You know, it was some fun things on your website.
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Speaker 1: Everybody should go to your website. Tell everybody about your
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Speaker 1: webs Cue Parker Legacy Foundation dot org. Okay, now, it
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Speaker 1: was some things that were going through. There was like
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Speaker 1: caroling with Que Parker's an evening annual Starpa holiday their
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Speaker 1: dedicated entertaining and celebrating seniors. So the Cue Parker Legacy
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Speaker 1: Foundation was established five years ago. And because of so
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Speaker 1: everything is first of all, how can they find out
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Speaker 1: about it? I went to the website's posting your social media.
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Speaker 1: So the website is que Parker Legacy Foundation dot org.
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Speaker 1: Social media is Que Parker Legacy Foundation on all platforms
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Speaker 1: and so everything that um you see about Que Parker,
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Speaker 1: it really comes from story right right right Because of
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Speaker 1: me going through those trials, I saw how it affected
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Speaker 1: every aspect of my family. UM, and so when I
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Speaker 1: decided that I wanted to give back, and I understood
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Speaker 1: that my life was about serving and that was the
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Speaker 1: way I was going to repay all the many blessing
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Speaker 1: that I've been I wanted to serve. And so the
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Speaker 1: QPL Left Foundation we make sure our mission is to
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Speaker 1: impact every level of the family. So we have programs
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Speaker 1: for men which is Brothers United of Atlanta, for women's
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Speaker 1: Sisters United of Atlanta, for couples in Relationship which is
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Speaker 1: Couples United of Atlanta. We have a youth summer camp
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Speaker 1: program and after school program which is a Youth United
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Speaker 1: of Atlanta. And then for the seniors, were doing the
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Speaker 1: event a yearly ran out of Fingers number five is
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Speaker 1: for the singers, and and every year around then during
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Speaker 1: the Christmas holiday, I gather a lot of my musical
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Speaker 1: friends q Parkery friends and we do a caroling event
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Speaker 1: for about five hundred singers in in Atlanta. Okay, it's
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Speaker 1: in one location, one location, five hundred plus senior citizens
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Speaker 1: and myself and my other celebrity m entertainers. We've seen
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Speaker 1: Christmas carols and just have a catered event for our
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Speaker 1: our seniors. Okay, I heard the word cater Okay, now
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Speaker 1: you know I'm an award winning baker. Okay, I'm an
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Speaker 1: award winning baker now, bam. Okay, So I can't let
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Speaker 1: you walk out of this room. What I said, I'm
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Speaker 1: a deliverer some Rashaan McDonald perfect bake to this event.
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Speaker 1: All that need is to date. Just tell me, okay,
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Speaker 1: write that down. Team give the location. Don't don't give
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Speaker 1: at the location yet. Man, Okay, we're gonna We're gonna
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Speaker 1: we don't let them know what's happening. We're gonna do
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Speaker 1: that now. I'm a promotion guy, and we're gonna post
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Speaker 1: this on social media. Let's do it's coming. I'm like,
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Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do is men, you're gonna get together again.
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Speaker 1: I'll be holdings and pies with you. Pass so so.
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Speaker 1: So that's that's one event, which which is great. Rashawn
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Speaker 1: is already in the event. My skill set, by talents,
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Speaker 1: my blessings are gonna come your way because your blessing
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Speaker 1: came our way. I love gonna help out people who
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Speaker 1: are off the time during that period all forgotten man,
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Speaker 1: and you know that about And that's the reason why
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Speaker 1: I am so committed to UH specifically targeting our seniors.
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Speaker 1: And we're really strict on it to the point where
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Speaker 1: if you can't, like if you are not a senior,
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Speaker 1: you really can't have access. Because we want the seniors
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Speaker 1: to feel so special, like it's red carpet, It's like
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Speaker 1: pop Rozzie. You know. Photography, photographers everywhere, videographers everywhere, man
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Speaker 1: photo boost because I want them to leave with with
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Speaker 1: a memorable idea of what the Q. Parker Legacy Foundation
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Speaker 1: did specifically for them. Okay, now let's go this one.
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Speaker 1: I really night A Night with my lady benefit sore right, So,
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Speaker 1: Couples United of Atlanta, which is our relationship leg of
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Speaker 1: the organizations, we have this event. It's an annual event,
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Speaker 1: A Night with my lady and I go back to
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Speaker 1: my story. My wife and I were going through difficult
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Speaker 1: hotels and all I wanted was to get back in
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Speaker 1: the house because I was kicked out of the house.
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Speaker 1: All I wanted to do was get back in the
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Speaker 1: house and just have a night with my lady. And
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Speaker 1: so uh, in creating this event, it gives couples an
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Speaker 1: opportunity to have a date night. You know, we get
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Speaker 1: so inundated with our hustle and bustle and talking about
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Speaker 1: not happy to just date. So you know, the men
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Speaker 1: get it's a formal event. Men get tuxas tux on
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Speaker 1: and the ladies get their ball gowns and kasagis and
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Speaker 1: all of that and just come out and have a wonderful,
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Speaker 1: wonderful night of love. Now, what we do is we
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Speaker 1: honor couples in specific fields that are in our city.
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Speaker 1: So it could be a couple doing great things and
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Speaker 1: ministry and education and in the in the health field,
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Speaker 1: in physical fitness, all of those elements we like to
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Speaker 1: just shine on, you know, the citizens of Atlanta. Now,
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Speaker 1: these ideas that I'm talking about, are they just dreams
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Speaker 1: that you had or you work to check out with
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Speaker 1: your team and you say, what what whatever close to
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Speaker 1: your brand that we should impact, Because that's really what
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about. This is your brand being extended. So
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Speaker 1: I've talked about I've talked about the the Q Parker Caroline,
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Speaker 1: we talked about the My Ladiest Benefits Sore. Right now
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Speaker 1: we'll talk about the father and son because you said
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Speaker 1: you have a fifteen year olds, so this is really
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Speaker 1: close to you. Absolutely, let's talk about the brunch. So
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Speaker 1: the brunch is it's this father's son sand Cofa brunch
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Speaker 1: and it's an opportunity for Santa explain that sand Kofa
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Speaker 1: is Africa for just reach back, give, reached back and
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Speaker 1: grabb making an opportunity for the next generation behind. That's
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Speaker 1: why they when you look at the logo, the bird
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Speaker 1: is looking backwards, it's like, I'm not gonna leave you
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Speaker 1: back and I have to thank you. You gotta have
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Speaker 1: a great team, man, I have a great team sitting
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Speaker 1: in the room, just like the bird. Gotta look back now,
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Speaker 1: bird flying flying, looking back and he's starring. But you're
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Speaker 1: looking back now. Can that bird like soaring leaving everybody?
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Speaker 1: We can't. So it's it's an opportunity for fathers to
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Speaker 1: come out with their signs, or even uncles um with
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Speaker 1: their nephews, or even if there's just a man in
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Speaker 1: his neighborhood who sees that a young man is without
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Speaker 1: a male male figure in his life. This is an
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Speaker 1: opportunity to it for you. Then they just come in
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Speaker 1: Rome and man, we just love on each other man
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Speaker 1: because I believe that as men, one of the first
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Speaker 1: things we miss out on is affirming each other. We
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Speaker 1: look to women a lot of time to tell us
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Speaker 1: how great we are and how how we are just this.
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Speaker 1: But I think the very first line is I gotta
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Speaker 1: know that my brother appreciates me, which is why Brothers
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Speaker 1: United of Atlanta is very very dear to me, man,
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Speaker 1: because we want everybody to know every man. I had
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Speaker 1: to know that you're not on an island on your
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Speaker 1: on your own man, And no matter what you've gone through,
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Speaker 1: there's another brother that looks just like you, has a
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Speaker 1: similar story, and who can really relate to what you're
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Speaker 1: going through. Man. So all of these things are just
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Speaker 1: very very passionate to me, which in this this male
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Speaker 1: piece really is is just look at my notes. I
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Speaker 1: can't believe you just looked at my notes that then
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Speaker 1: I wanted to ask that to think gonna he's gonna
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Speaker 1: look down and get going. And that male piece and
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Speaker 1: see you want to said that, and the mail piece
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Speaker 1: I used to have been smoothed, but you look down
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Speaker 1: with oh, we're gonna talk about that, and the mail piece.
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Speaker 1: You know, let me tell you something so funny. Right
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Speaker 1: growing up and media training, right right, the rule number
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Speaker 1: one is always go in with a mission and get
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Speaker 1: out what you want to get out. And so if
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Speaker 1: you've got three minutes, you gotta have one loan run
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Speaker 1: on sentence and just get all your information in it, right,
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Speaker 1: And so before you stop me, I gotta say and
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Speaker 1: but wrapping up, we got a minute left wrapping up there. Okay.
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Speaker 1: The Bridge Project, Um, that is something that is is
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Speaker 1: so impactful to me, is going to impact the world.
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Speaker 1: It's an all male project that is going to blend
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Speaker 1: the world of gospel and the urban mainstream. So many
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Speaker 1: times there's this divide between these two genres specifically, and um,
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Speaker 1: this project is going to alleviate. That's going to show
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Speaker 1: that these worlds can coexist and that they are one
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Speaker 1: and the same day. They support each other one, they
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Speaker 1: are influenced by each other. They have the same demographics.
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Speaker 1: And so imagine your most notable gospel male singers and
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Speaker 1: your most notable R and B male singers together on
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Speaker 1: one project. And so they are fifty five men representing
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Speaker 1: And when you said Jason's Lyrics, the last time something
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Speaker 1: like this happened was on the Jason's Lyrics soundtrack where
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Speaker 1: they had a song called you will know that I'm
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Speaker 1: in that video. I'm in that video. Fast Freddy is
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Speaker 1: in that video. I know man. Yes, Okay, So the
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Speaker 1: So the beauty about this one is never have there
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Speaker 1: been a blending of gospel and R and B and
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Speaker 1: so we have all you will know we are the
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Speaker 1: world on this Bridge project called I Need You that
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Speaker 1: has forty three men representing and then the remaining songs
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Speaker 1: on the album are duo's a Gospel guy and an
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Speaker 1: R and B guy. So the Bridge Project will be
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Speaker 1: out next month The Bridge Project Official Bridge Project on
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Speaker 1: all social media, Official Bridge Pricing. Man, I appreciate you
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Speaker 1: my man, your family and I love you man, I know,
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Speaker 1: I know, I know. I want to do something for you. Man.
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Speaker 1: Rather we gotta do all fair because I gotta go.
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Speaker 1: There's me some music and I want to I want
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Speaker 1: to sing on one of your intros. Okay, cool, I
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