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Uplift: Singer is dedicated to uplifting underserved communities of color. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 2: Roller.
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  Speaker 1: My guest represents the word independent. He is a masterful
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  Speaker 1: architect of soul music has continuously ascended the ranks of
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  Speaker 1: artistic brilliance, especially his live performances. That's my boy. I'm
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  Speaker 1: about to introduce you. The Grammy winner and full time
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  Speaker 1: Grammy nominated phenomenon. Isn't just a singer. He's a platinum songwriter,
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  Speaker 1: a passionate health and human rights activist. Please welcome to
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  Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation Masterclass. Raheem DeVaughn. You know what I'm saying, It's.
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  Speaker 2: A lot, a lot, It's a lot. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Let's let's let's talk about you. The word independent all right.
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  Speaker 1: What does that mean when I say that to you? Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Man, I think for me, it's being self made, you know,
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  Speaker 3: definitely listen to the voice of God at all times
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  Speaker 3: and trusting that voice, that intuition, being a risk taker,
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  Speaker 3: you know, uh, a hard worker. You know, it's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of sleepless nights.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And it's and it's constantly you know, it's constantly investing
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  Speaker 3: in yourself, you know what I mean. In some cases
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  Speaker 3: sometimes you have to take uh, you know, five steps
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  Speaker 3: back and take you know, twenty leaps forward, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, yeah, you know it's it's it's it's not
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  Speaker 3: for the it's not for the week.
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  Speaker 1: Right. It's because in twenty nineteen, Yeah, you were crowned
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  Speaker 1: the number one independent artists on radio in twenty eighteen. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: when that came about. Because I want you to explain,
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  Speaker 1: because a lot of people hear the word independent. They
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  Speaker 1: are by labels, they're a by streaming. The business has
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  Speaker 1: changed so much in the last twenty five thirty years,
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  Speaker 1: and the word independent used to be like a flag
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  Speaker 1: for oh, he's not he's not gonna make any money.
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  Speaker 1: But that game has changed. Social media, YouTube and all
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  Speaker 1: that tell about to educate the young people who trying
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  Speaker 1: to get in the business how being independent has been
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  Speaker 1: actually beneficial to you and other people could do it too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, for me, it's been about again, it's
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  Speaker 3: been about ownership, and we talk about you know, your
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  Speaker 3: master's and creative control. It's not so much to be
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  Speaker 3: a control freak, but it's more it's more about the
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  Speaker 3: legacy that you're building. You know, you spend these hard
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  Speaker 3: nights in the studio and create create this this content,
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  Speaker 3: these records, these songs that are impactful. You know that
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  Speaker 3: that people take their first dance to, can see their
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  Speaker 3: first child, that type of thing. And you know, there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of money still in publishing and licensing and
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  Speaker 3: sinking and things of that nature. So the more control
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  Speaker 3: you have over your content and the ownership, the better,
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  Speaker 3: you know, right, you know, if you I think the
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  Speaker 3: main thing, you know, as an independent artist, as long
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  Speaker 3: as as long as you can afford yourself the means
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  Speaker 3: to have a you know, marketing and promotional budget. If
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  Speaker 3: you if you're able to provide that for yourself, then
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  Speaker 3: you actually are functioning, whether you know it or not,
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  Speaker 3: as an artist, you are independent, You are functioning. Label
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  Speaker 3: you know, you're you're you know what you renumbany. You're
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  Speaker 3: an entrepreneur, your corporation, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And that's important because in the era that we're living now.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm older than you, and I met you
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  Speaker 1: when I was managing Steve Harvey Steve Harry Morning Show.
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  Speaker 1: And at that time, you know, you're that's like roughly
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, two thousand and five, two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and seven, eight in the twentieth anniversary, because that's when
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  Speaker 1: I first started hearing your sound and dragging you up
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  Speaker 1: to the radio station. Every time I came to DC,
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  Speaker 1: I was called you. You said, I'm hey, brother, get your.
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  Speaker 2: Butt up here and get.
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  Speaker 1: It because you know what you you know, I like
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  Speaker 1: to believe I was a mentor and just it. Let
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  Speaker 1: you understand that there are twenty four hours in that clock.
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  Speaker 1: Take advantage of every hour. Talk about that work ethic
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  Speaker 1: that you have.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely you know, you know some days my day may start,
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  Speaker 3: my day may end at six am and then.
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  Speaker 2: Start again at twelve noon.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if that's the goal, and you know, and
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  Speaker 3: the things that need to be accomplished, you know during
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  Speaker 3: that day, you know, it's again it's about it's about ownership.
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  Speaker 3: It's about time management. I think it's another very important thing,
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  Speaker 3: you know, being on time for things, you know, being
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  Speaker 3: respectful one another's time. Time is the most valuable thing
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  Speaker 3: that we have, you know, and I do believe from
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  Speaker 3: the time that we're born, were running out of it,
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  Speaker 3: so you got to use it.
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  Speaker 1: Was there you go now live performances. So I'll be
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  Speaker 1: remissed if I don't allow you to talk about your band,
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  Speaker 1: because you're not out there by yourself like Frankie Beverly
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  Speaker 1: in May you know what I'm saying, And so talk
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  Speaker 1: about your band, talk about the components of what makes
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  Speaker 1: your live performance is so successful.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: The unit that I have right now, for the most part,
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  Speaker 3: they're very you know that they're young.
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  Speaker 2: It's like fresh, you know, fresh at the.
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  Speaker 3: Game, and you know, and I'm hard. I'm hard on
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  Speaker 3: the musicians, you know, but I'm hard on myself, you
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  Speaker 3: know what I mean. I like to think that I'm
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  Speaker 3: my best and my worst critic at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: You know, one of my favorite friends is Tanya.
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  Speaker 2: Nola Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, And like Walter here.
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  Speaker 1: She just did a big session on cs X about
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  Speaker 1: forty seven. I was proud of her. How did that
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  Speaker 1: relations come about? You know, she took because we talk
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  Speaker 1: all the time. She's an entrepreneur because she is one
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  Speaker 1: of the largest daycare men in Texas, but she's also
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  Speaker 1: as her own label that's independent. But she also is
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  Speaker 1: a performing artist, so this is not a lonely club.
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  Speaker 3: That so yeah, so we met. We met myself in time.
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  Speaker 3: We met through a mutual producer friend, Corey Mo. You know,
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  Speaker 3: initially started out as as as me being hired to
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  Speaker 3: come in and you know, work for higher things, coming
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  Speaker 3: in and write it right tune and the feature on
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  Speaker 3: the record. And you know, I had I had already
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  Speaker 3: done my research on Tanya and knew that she was
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  Speaker 3: bossed up, self made, you know, the whole.
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  Speaker 2: So that's right up my alley, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And once we connected, you know, Corey had expressed early
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  Speaker 3: that that interested in, saying like, hey man, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: a manager, and I know you're not either, but I
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  Speaker 3: think I think, you know, this would be a great
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  Speaker 3: artist for you connect with and mentor too, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and and and the relationship just really started from there.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: We we we met on the first video shoot, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, I had already, like I said, done my
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  Speaker 3: homework on her, and I was keen on coming in
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  Speaker 3: and not only you know, showing showing her what I
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  Speaker 3: know about the business and what I've learned and tools
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  Speaker 3: that I know, you know, fix to the trade that
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  Speaker 3: I've learned, but also keen on just saying like, let's
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  Speaker 3: let's focus on instead of giving you a record, let's
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  Speaker 3: focus on creating a sound.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Let's create.
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  Speaker 3: A Let's create a sound, Let's create an image, Let's
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  Speaker 3: create a vibe, and uh, you know, quick learner. And man,
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  Speaker 3: she's you know, she's ran off with the ball man,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm extremely excited for her. You know, we're wrapping
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  Speaker 3: up the finishing touches of what would be I guess
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  Speaker 3: like her first uh you know, her first album or
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  Speaker 3: EP by you know, I like to call them projects
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  Speaker 3: these days.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm really, I'm really, I'm really happy for her. Cool.
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  Speaker 4: You know, this industry, you know is dominated by hip hop. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: hip hop, you know, Drake and Kendrick Ramar dominating with
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  Speaker 4: their beef and performing at the super Bowl halftime talk
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  Speaker 4: about the music, you know, like one of the things
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  Speaker 4: and one of the major roles I played when I
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  Speaker 4: was with Steve Harvey on the Morning show, was making
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  Speaker 4: sure R and B had a voice in this industry, maintain.
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  Speaker 1: The respect that it should be receiving. What is radio
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  Speaker 1: like today for the R and B sound?
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  Speaker 3: You know, let me just say this first and foremost
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  Speaker 3: radio still matters. Yes, you know, it will always matter,
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  Speaker 3: you know now being part of radio understand, don't jump
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  Speaker 3: the gun.
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: So it's still you know radio Still, radio still matters,
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  Speaker 3: you know, uh uh, it serves a purpose.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I think that there are way that obviously we're in
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  Speaker 3: We're in an era in the age now of music
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  Speaker 3: and creativity where there's way more artists than there is space,
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  Speaker 3: right Uh, you know, which which creates uh you know,
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  Speaker 3: new platforms, your show, Uh you know, uh Front Porch,
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  Speaker 3: which which my little nephew Nucci's doing, you know back
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  Speaker 3: in d C. You know, you know, like the music
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  Speaker 3: for me, you know, the artistry for me, the work
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  Speaker 3: that I put in, the penmanship, the thought that I
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  Speaker 3: put into you know, making a record that you know
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  Speaker 3: uplifts our people up, up lifts women. You know that
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  Speaker 3: that's a constant decision to do, you know, and because
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  Speaker 3: of those things, you know, other opportunities have have have
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  Speaker 3: come my way. You know what I mean, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 3: as a as a as a love of hip hop,
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  Speaker 3: as a love of all genre music. It's like understanding
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  Speaker 3: that you know, you know what what you what they
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  Speaker 3: say you are what you eat, sir. You know you
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  Speaker 3: are what you ingest and digest and you know and
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  Speaker 3: and whatnot. So I just try to, uh to use
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  Speaker 3: my platform as not not always to edit, to to
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  Speaker 3: to entertain, but to educate and and and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I call it eduitainment, right, you know, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: try to.
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  Speaker 2: We try to.
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  Speaker 3: I try to show that that how you can do
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  Speaker 3: that as well, you know, in the music. But I
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  Speaker 3: think I think that R and B is A is
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  Speaker 3: A is a live and well you know, I think
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  Speaker 3: the soul music is alive and well, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: and although the machine is still the machine, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and it's still very useful, radio still still very useful. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: it's not your only means for how you.
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  Speaker 2: Get to continue to absorb the music.
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  Speaker 3: Now you have all these different platforms and streaming platforms
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  Speaker 3: and uh, you know, and content creators that that you
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  Speaker 3: can utilize to expose the world to your music.
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  Speaker 1: It is the question here like you're an independent yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because we are these record labels out here and they
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  Speaker 1: going in there shop the music to the local program
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  Speaker 1: directors who control the music being played on your local
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  Speaker 1: favorite radio station out there. How do you get your
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  Speaker 1: records on traditional free radio?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, you reach out, you know now, I
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  Speaker 3: mean with technology, you can live, you can pretty much
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  Speaker 3: you can chat GBT, right, you know, you know, figure
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  Speaker 3: out connecting the dots, you know, and it's it's really
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  Speaker 3: establishing relationships right right.
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  Speaker 2: I think when you I think where you really understand
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  Speaker 2: the relationships, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, one thing that will never change is is uh
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  Speaker 3: is relationships, you know. And a lot of times I
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  Speaker 3: go in you know, I don't I don't go into
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  Speaker 3: the meeting, you know, talking about what I need. I
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  Speaker 3: try to go find out what what's needed first and
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  Speaker 3: how and how I can be utilized, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: that type of thing. And uh, you know, I think
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  Speaker 3: with radio, Uh, it's the same, it's the same approach.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Uh that there are they are cast that
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  Speaker 3: are still out here breaking records, you know absolutely, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I would say start with the DJs. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: feel like I feel like the you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, the DJ.
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  Speaker 3: The DJ's matter, DJ is still matter, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean, some of my some of my close friends
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  Speaker 3: you know, Uh are you know Kenny Dope and Louis Vega,
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  Speaker 3: DJ Jazzy Jeff, DJ Terry Hunter out of Chicago. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know DJ's DJs, all of your local DJs, your
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  Speaker 3: mix show DJs, your your coalition of DJs. Like DJ's matters,
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  Speaker 3: they stay tapped in with the DJs.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely cool when when you're looking at you because he's
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  Speaker 1: about to jump ahead and talk about radio and his
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  Speaker 1: new role in radio. But let's let's talk about back
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  Speaker 1: in the day when you and I were we met, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I saw a young person who loved the aspect
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  Speaker 1: of sitting down behind a microphone. That's one thing I
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  Speaker 1: noticed you. You had no problem talking on a mic.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Was that a love for you radio period?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, It's something that I've always wanted to do, at
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  Speaker 3: least for the last like twenty twenty five years. I
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  Speaker 3: was always fascinated you know, uh, coming, coming, coming, you know,
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  Speaker 3: sitting down with you guys, sitting down with Steve, you know, going,
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  Speaker 3: going to sit down with Tom Joyner. I was always
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  Speaker 3: fascinated with with with what they did on the other
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  Speaker 3: side of it. You know, I grew up listening to radio.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I grew up listening to h U R.
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  Speaker 3: You know, primarily that was the station of choice, you know,
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  Speaker 3: riding with my mom's.
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  Speaker 1: And d Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Howard University, Yeah, how the Meccan in ninety
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  Speaker 3: six point three, you know, to be exact, Yeah, So
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  Speaker 3: I grew up, you know, I grew up listening to
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  Speaker 3: listening to h U ARE you know, as far as
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  Speaker 3: I can remember, you know, the Daily Drum, yes, which
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  Speaker 3: is still was just still prevalent, uh, you know and
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  Speaker 3: needed till this day, one of the longest running number
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  Speaker 3: one you know segments in radio.
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  Speaker 2: You know. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: So I again, I just grew up listening to it,
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  Speaker 3: and I always was fascinated with it, and said, and
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  Speaker 3: I felt like, you know, that's something like I was
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  Speaker 3: told myself, I could do that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's that.
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  Speaker 1: Why why did you think you could do that? Right?
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  Speaker 3: I just I just felt like, you know, being being
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  Speaker 3: a student of the music, you know, being a student
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  Speaker 3: of the culture. Uh, and then understanding like you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's the changing of the guards, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Uh, not so much. I don't look at
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  Speaker 3: it so much as being necessarily a gatekeeper, being a
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  Speaker 3: condouant for for the culture, you know, and as somebody
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  Speaker 3: who's out here, you know, supporting you know, I support
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  Speaker 3: a lot, not just the Titian Knolas of the world,
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  Speaker 3: but there's so many artists, you know, my even my
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  Speaker 3: peers who've been in this game that have never received
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  Speaker 3: the roses that they deserve.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's one of the things that I you know, that
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  Speaker 3: that I said, you know, if and when I'm ever
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  Speaker 3: in position, you know, this is a way for me
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  Speaker 3: to keep the torch burning of the culture that I love,
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  Speaker 3: you know, R and B and soul music.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely Quadstorm, Yeah, what when was your introduction to Quadstorm
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  Speaker 1: and how did it impact you? That's what you're now
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  Speaker 1: hosting at w u R ninety six four and three
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  Speaker 1: in Washington, d c It's so surreal.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I grew up listening to Melvin Lindsay. Not
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  Speaker 3: if you were Washingtonian, you know you're in You're in DC, Maryland,
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  Speaker 3: Northern Virginia. It was just it was it was the
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  Speaker 3: late night you know, it's the Bible, it you know,
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  Speaker 3: it was written that this is what this is what
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  Speaker 3: we do from you know, from from from seven seven
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  Speaker 3: thirty to midnight, you know, my day Monday through Friday,
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  Speaker 3: you know, so it was I just remember hearing the records,
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  Speaker 3: you know that I love that. I grew up on
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  Speaker 3: the Marvin Gaye Earth Winding Fire. You know, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of Phillis hymen. Uh, you know, Luther and Melvin, Melvin
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  Speaker 3: used to go in. I discovered them, a lot of
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  Speaker 3: these artists, you know, for the first time, you know,
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  Speaker 3: listening to the Choirt Storm, listening to Melvin Lindsey, so
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  Speaker 3: to be, you know, almost some fifty years later, Be,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Be Be the new face and radio you know,
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  Speaker 3: the voice and personality you know for the original Choir Storm.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's been an honor.
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  Speaker 3: I'm still I'm still I'm still I'm still a semi virgins,
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  Speaker 3: you know, still getting my feet wet and you know
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  Speaker 3: I just.
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  Speaker 1: Been but it was an opportunity you pursue, you pursue
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  Speaker 1: to be the host.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, storm absolutely absolutely, you know not what do
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  Speaker 3: they say? You know when you ask or when you
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  Speaker 3: pray for it, be very descriptive in your prayers. And uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know I always say, I always say that God
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  Speaker 3: has a sense of humans.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: Because if you know, there's many other opportunities that I
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  Speaker 3: applied for in radio, you know, filling in and things
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  Speaker 3: of that nature.
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  Speaker 2: But to but to be at hu Are just feel
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  Speaker 2: so surreal.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta hit you your your your top three songs
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  Speaker 1: if you you sat down on Quadstone and you had
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: to say program director because you know your program director.
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  Speaker 1: These are the list I want you to play. What's
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: your what is Raheem Duba?
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, I'm to three?
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  Speaker 3: I'm it's given uh uh average white band, a love
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: of your own? Probably go I probably I probably go
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  Speaker 3: with the with the Alia record like one in a million.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 2: If you're gonna go, I we're gonna go. If we're
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: gonna go eighties. I wanna go, I wanna go. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we wanna go eighties.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we gotta go with one of the greatest
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  Speaker 3: artists and records of all time to thriller album, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And I would go with like Lady in My Life.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, okay, okay, let me take my three. Let
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  Speaker 1: me tell you my three. Let me my three, Let
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: me tell my three. My three will be uh uh
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: let me see. Uh gotta be an o J song.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, cry together, Okay.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Crying and crying the whole time, Okay. And then I
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  Speaker 1: then I go, uh. Then I go with uh, I
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: gotta go rough a little bit with with with Teddy Pendergred.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, you know, turn them off, turn.
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  Speaker 1: Them out, and then and then then I wrap it
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  Speaker 1: up with a little uh, a little lot Iley Brothers.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds sound Hello.
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  Speaker 5: Here, Hello, Welcome back to the Money Making Conversations Masterclass
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  Speaker 5: hosted by Rashaan McDonald.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we talked about music. We talking to being
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: an independent artist. Yeah, we talk about do you know,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: establishing your brain your DC board new host Quair Storm
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: a dream gig for you. Now, let's talk about the
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: foundation that I wouldn't say the human side, but the
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: philanthropy side. And a lot of people don't get to
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: know about you and your foundation talk about the importance
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: of your foundation.
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  Speaker 3: So my foundation, the Love Life Foundation, has been you know,
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: established since twenty thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Some of our major initiatives currently are you know, the
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: partnership that I have personal partnership that I have with
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  Speaker 3: Gilliad Sciences, you know, to to you know, further my
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: efforts to fight HIV and AIDS.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: You know, I've had similar partners in the past.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: That we that we've worked with, you know, doing a
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: holiday annual holiday concert you know, back in DC Raheemed
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Divine and Friends, which we're looking to probably bring back
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: at some point and the near future, you know, doing
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Queen for a Day, spa takeovers, and our efforts to
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  Speaker 3: fight domestic violence, you know, and and to bring that
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  Speaker 3: to the forefront and have that be a conversation not
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  Speaker 3: just with men and women, but children as well, you know,
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: with the best of violence being such a prevalent thing.
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  Speaker 3: Eight thing related to community, you know to you know
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  Speaker 3: is you know, the Love Life Foundation allows me to
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  Speaker 3: keep a pulse on community, uh, to go into these
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  Speaker 3: different cities that that support me, you know, that buy
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: a ticket or sell out a show.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: And we don't just run off with the bag.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we like to stick around after the show
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  Speaker 3: or to come in town early and just do community
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  Speaker 3: work and touch to people and you know, and get
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: a pulse for what's going on you know city, the
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: city and and the woes and you know, things that
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: we that we that that I can be impactful, impactful
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  Speaker 3: on or to use my voice, you know, as I
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: said to like Edutain, you know, right, let me ask you.
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  Speaker 1: This because, like I said, there's a journey where you
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: start seeing things of what I can do. Because like
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and five, we're about to celebrate twenty years
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: or the first one and that this year. Then it
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: took you about eight years before you establish your foundation. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what were you seeing along the way? You went, I
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: gotta do this, I gotta make time, Yeah for the
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  Speaker 1: Love Life Foundation.
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  Speaker 3: Well always I was always I realized, you know it,
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  Speaker 3: just I just had the epiphany one day. It wasn't
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  Speaker 3: until I till I till till I received the key
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  Speaker 3: to the city and you know in in d C.
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  Speaker 3: And you know proclamation, did I realized the impact that
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  Speaker 3: I had made, you know, on on my city in particular.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: You know, I've always been the guy that you could call,
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: but whether whether you waited til the last minute to call,
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: or somebody flaked or or I was the first person
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: you called, you know, I was being the guy that
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: you could kind of call locally to do things. And
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: then I started to notice that it was happening nashally
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: as well. So you know, when I when I received
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: you know, when I received the proclamation and you know,
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: they made it officially rahiem DVN day.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: You know, in the district of Columbia, I felt it
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: was a premature thing, and I was thankful for that.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: I was thankful, but I was I was you know,
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: I was a bit in shock. And you know if
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: that really put the battery in my back to say,
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  Speaker 3: you know, for a city that's given me so much
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: and that I poured into, you know, uh, let's start
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: the foundation. And it's really you know, it gives me
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: more opportunities to say, you know, and and and decide
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: and support the things that I want to support, you
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: know directly as well.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Well. You know, it's really important. So that's that's the philanthropy. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you were impacted a lot of women through your whole
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: foundation just recently talk about that. I think like fifty.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so shout out to Gilead Sciences.
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  Speaker 3: Last year I toured with with with the Incomparable Incomparable
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  Speaker 3: lettercy Uh yeah, for the Good for the Good Life
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  Speaker 3: tour right on Fire. Yeah, she stayed Lets stays on fire,
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: right on schedule. In fact, she's you know, she's about
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: to go on a tour with Marsha Ambrosius. I think
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: that I think they're just getting started or about to start. Ironically,
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: last year this time, we were on tour together.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: We started in the month of March and went all
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  Speaker 3: the way through the month of uh, like mid mid April.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I was apro by Gilead for my work that I
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  Speaker 3: have done previously involving HIV and AIDS, and they told me,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the demo that they were trying to reach,
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: and we felt like it was just like a great
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  Speaker 3: partnership and I was able to do uh these thirty
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  Speaker 3: plus dates.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And they set a goal, they said they didn't wanted
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  Speaker 3: to reach over thirty thousand women, you know, within thirty days.
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  Speaker 2: And we were able to touch.
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  Speaker 3: Fifty thousand, you know, letting them know the new statistics
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  Speaker 3: and how black women and girls are being affected by
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  Speaker 3: HIV and AIDS here and you know in in in
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: the country here, you know, and it's been it's been,
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  Speaker 3: it's been great. You know, they've they've been a great partner,
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  Speaker 3: spending over you know, twelve million dollars with their with
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: their PACE program. You know, also letting let it, letting
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: women and men know about you know, prep and and
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: preventative measures. You know, so you know, education is key,
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: of course, getting tested regularly and you know, and and
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: and and and breaking and breaking down the barrier is
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: of all the things that you know, uh, that people
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: may think you can't happen to them.
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  Speaker 5: Back to you.
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  Speaker 1: Like you've written in this interview, you've written that word
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  Speaker 1: consistently about the educating, whether it's through music, through your foundation,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: through the the having a career as an independent person.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Education plays a role in your success story. Now let's
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: talk about the business man. Okay, the entrepreneur, we're talking
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: about that. But now you've got this new tour bus,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: tour bus, come talk about this and why you need
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: a tour But you.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Know, it's it's it's it's an investment. You know.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: I think one of the biggest expenses that you know,
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: we have as artists is like traveling.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: And you know what I mean. So again, you know,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: it's a it's a it's a just for.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: You absolutely, absolutely, you know, be able to move around
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: a lot more that we look I look forward to
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: getting you know, getting getting getting on the road and
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: and and and and further my you know, my community work,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: you know, being able to touch some of these these cities,
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: in these in these in these towns that we haven't
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: been able to go to.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: You know, but.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: That's that's what your life is now. Man, you feel
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: like you're in control of your life. Well, you know
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: we can say that, but I guess understanding there's a
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: direction in your life.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, you know this.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: It's the highest source, you know, you know, the creator, God,
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: God is in control. You know, uh, but but but
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: but but I'm more intuitive to listening to the whispers
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: and intuition when when he say go this way, my child,
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: do this, Oh hold on, take it, take way.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Wait.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Wait, it's not it's not it's not time yet, you
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: know it's not you know, it's not time.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: For syndication, right, you know what I mean?
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: You know, you know so I think you know a
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: lot of times, you know what's been what's been a
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: major key to my success, you know overall and definitely
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: as of late, it's just understanding, you know, far, far
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: too many times we we we we focused on what
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: we don't have, but we're so busy chasing what we
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: don't have, we don't recognize what's like right in front
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: of us, the opportunities in the right in front of us,
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: you know, and you know, and I you know when
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: I when I'm on h U R, you know, I
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: constantly you know, I always close out my show saying that,
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: you know, use the gift of time, decision, free will
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: in one another.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: You know, those are the greatest gifts given.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: You know, from the time we're born, you know, we're
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: running out of time, uh.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: The gift of decision and free will.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: From the time you wake up in the morning to
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: the time you go to sleep, you have all these
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: decisions that you that you can make, you can decide,
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: you can sell, you can decide to get up, go
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: out and go get it, you know, be lazy rather
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Netflix and chill whatever, whatever your vibe is you. You know,
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: you can you alterally decide what it is you want
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: to do with your time and your day. And I
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: think one of the most the third greatest gift you know,
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: in no particular order, is the gift of one another,
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: you know, the gift of people, relationships, you know, cult
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: of how you cultivate the you know, uh, you know,
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: how you respect one another, your word being your bond,
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: and and all of these things you know, and these
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: values and it's and you know, all roads have all
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: these things have led me to where I am now,
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: you know, And I think that you know, if that
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: was anything, if any advice you know that I would give,
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: you know, any artists or any dreamer creative out there.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: It is to you know, if you respect those.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Things, the gift of time, the gift of decision, and
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: gift of one another. Uh, there's nothing really that you
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: can't achieve, achieve or obtained, you know.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: It's the art of It's for me, it's the art.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Of knowing, Like you know you I don't, I don't.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: I don't believe and I don't I don't I don't
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: believe it. I know it like I know God exists.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: You know, I don't have to believe that, Like I know.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: God exists.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: I'm an example of that, your example of all examples
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: of that, you know.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: So it's the art of knowing.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: My brother. I'm glad you came down.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: From d C.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: Thank you live in studio or I take this opportunity
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: to say thank you for being you and what you've
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: done for us in the platform and for the game
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: and for the culture, and congratulations on all you're doing
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: as well.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I thank you, brother. Thank you for having no money
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