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Roxanne Shanté Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: this episode hip hop's first female rap legend. Radio host
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Speaker 1: Please welcome to Money Making Conversation Roxane Chantey. Well, thank you,
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Speaker 1: thank you. I love that intro. Well, first of all,
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Speaker 1: let's let's just talk about this is what I know,
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Speaker 1: you know, you know your individual. I saw the Netflix
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Speaker 1: movie Roxane, Roxanne, and now you're doing this show Unsung, Okay,
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Speaker 1: and the now you know, when they do movies, they
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Speaker 1: kind of change stuff around so they can make the
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Speaker 1: storyline fit or man bellish it or may underseil certain
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Speaker 1: things in that movie. You know, your mom role in
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Speaker 1: the movie or kicked out. But what I did take
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Speaker 1: away from that movie between the ages of fifteen and eighteen,
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Speaker 1: you led a pretty full life. Absolutely, And what we
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Speaker 1: did actually with the movie is that we kind of
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Speaker 1: took things out of it because we weren't ready. You
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Speaker 1: weren't sure if the world was really ready for Rock
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Speaker 1: sand Chante, I want to say, um uncensored. So what
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Speaker 1: we what we did was we act because we wanted
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Speaker 1: to make sure that the movie was going to be
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Speaker 1: a movie where parents, especially fathers, were going to be
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Speaker 1: able to sit down and watch it with their daughters.
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Speaker 1: So there were certain aspects of the movie things that
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Speaker 1: we took out, but we did not add anything to
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Speaker 1: it because the Rock sand Shante life definitely doesn't need
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Speaker 1: any additive It is definitely great it on its own. So, um,
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Speaker 1: everything you see is everything that you saw in the
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Speaker 1: movie was factual. There was no Um, we didn't add
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Speaker 1: anything for any dramatic effect. Um, you know, it's just
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Speaker 1: how it was. And people look at the movie and say, like,
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Speaker 1: you survived that, but you're still standing, You're still smiling.
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Speaker 1: You know. I have a radio show daily on Serious
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Speaker 1: Exam which is called to Have a Nice Day, where
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Speaker 1: I'm literally just trying to make sure that the world
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Speaker 1: has a nice day or at least get a chance
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Speaker 1: to laugh at least once, to forget their problems and
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Speaker 1: things that are going on, and to be able to
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Speaker 1: do that. I'm able to do that because there's a
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Speaker 1: certain resilience that are in us that allows us to say, Okay,
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Speaker 1: you know what, these are my problems, this is what
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Speaker 1: I went through. But I've also learned how to direct
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Speaker 1: the anger for those that it needs to be directed towards.
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Speaker 1: And it led me to live just a happy life.
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Speaker 1: Well you have a great life, you know. I always
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Speaker 1: I always say that, you know, I come from the
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Speaker 1: inner city and there are some things that happened to
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Speaker 1: me and as I grew up that you know, it
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Speaker 1: might not be apable to the average person in the conversation,
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Speaker 1: but it didn't damage me. It's part of my Story's
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Speaker 1: part of who I am today. I learned. I always
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Speaker 1: tell people, you know, you learn free mistakes. You know,
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Speaker 1: you know, if you learn from it, it doesn't become
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Speaker 1: an error in your life. And so so there was
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Speaker 1: there there was some funny, fun characters in the movie,
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Speaker 1: like the young lady who your your your hype lady
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Speaker 1: that was a real person. Yes, absolutely, best friend Katrina,
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Speaker 1: Yes absolutely, And I think I think everyone needs to
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Speaker 1: have one of those in their life. You need to
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Speaker 1: have that person who can give you that extra hype
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Speaker 1: that you need when you're unable to hype yourself, because
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Speaker 1: you know there's some days now when we sit back
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Speaker 1: and we can't seem to get a jump, and then
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Speaker 1: you have that one phone call, that one person that'd
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Speaker 1: be like you better get up and get out there
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Speaker 1: to get on something. You know, Look what's going on
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Speaker 1: in life. Look how you live, you know, because other
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Speaker 1: people can see the value in your situation when you can't.
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Speaker 1: You know that that's what I love the character because
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Speaker 1: from so so, when did your relationship with her start?
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Speaker 1: We're talking to U Rock sand Chte. You're talking about
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Speaker 1: the movie Rock sand Rock, saying that aired on Netflix.
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Speaker 1: That came out of thinking, Uh, it's a great compelling movie.
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Speaker 1: Soon as as soon as you book for the show,
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Speaker 1: I want to watch it again. I gotta I gotta
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Speaker 1: got a shop at my rocks and Rocks sand Information
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Speaker 1: and uh gave me coming on this show, stumbling and
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Speaker 1: so and so. You know, you know, you were just
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Speaker 1: born in a great era for rap, you know, and
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Speaker 1: and the fact that you were so respected, how did
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Speaker 1: that come about? Because you are a female and you know,
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Speaker 1: if we all know this is everything is male dominant.
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Speaker 1: You know, you know women can't compete with me. They
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Speaker 1: could physically mentally, you know, socially, and then here you
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Speaker 1: are challenging status quo. Check us through that little journey
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Speaker 1: with your little rapper, your little your little hype master
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Speaker 1: right there with you. Well, I think what it is
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Speaker 1: is that having the ability to be able to freestyle
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Speaker 1: with is something that not everyone is able to do
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Speaker 1: where you can literally just sit down and rhyme throughout life.
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Speaker 1: And when I say being able to rhyn through our lives,
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Speaker 1: that means just being able to walk through the house
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Speaker 1: and rund about the things that you see, or watching
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Speaker 1: certain television shows and being able to rhyme about those
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Speaker 1: or just being able to put words together, um so effortlessly,
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Speaker 1: effortlessly with rhyming ability. It just worked out pretty good.
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Speaker 1: So it allows me to be a great battle rapper
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Speaker 1: because it allowed me to be able to talk about
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Speaker 1: whatever somebody had on. Now, having a hype person is
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Speaker 1: the person that makes sure that the crowd comes along
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Speaker 1: to see what you're doing. Because you don't want to
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Speaker 1: have a great battle and it's only three of you there,
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Speaker 1: you know, too may walk away and say you didn't win,
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Speaker 1: didn't you know, So you need to have a large
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Speaker 1: crowd if you're gonna do what you're doing, right. If
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Speaker 1: you're gonna show up, you got to show up and
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Speaker 1: show out. And I come from a family of women
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Speaker 1: that have always been able to do that, from when
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Speaker 1: my mom and my aunts would enter into dance contests,
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Speaker 1: and they would enter into dance contests pretending like they
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Speaker 1: didn't practice all week. You know, they just show up
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Speaker 1: and make it seem like that's just something they came
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Speaker 1: up with, knowing that that something that they did while
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Speaker 1: they were in a club, or we're gonna go to
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Speaker 1: a barbecue, or we're gonna go here. So it was
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Speaker 1: always it's coming from a family that was willing to
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Speaker 1: show up and show out. So I was never afraid
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Speaker 1: of a crowd, which I think is like, um rule
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Speaker 1: number one is, if you want to be an entertainer,
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Speaker 1: you can't be afraid of a crowd, whether there for
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Speaker 1: you or against you, you cannot be afraid of a crowd.
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Speaker 1: And UM, I was able to do that. Now. You know,
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Speaker 1: when you talk about the journey when you first started
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Speaker 1: going out, and uh, tell us about the neighborhood you
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Speaker 1: grew up in. Give us that, give us the surroundings
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Speaker 1: of the environment that you grew up in Okay, Well,
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Speaker 1: I grew up in I grew up in Queen's Bridge
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Speaker 1: Public Housing, which is the largest housing project in the world.
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Speaker 1: And it was like a city. I grew up actually
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Speaker 1: in a city where a city inside of a city,
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Speaker 1: where you didn't have to go outside of the projects
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Speaker 1: for anything. You know, everything that you needed was their schools,
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Speaker 1: medical clinic, the stores, the sneaker stores, fish markets, fruit stands.
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Speaker 1: Everything was inside of my pro including a pool and
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Speaker 1: a park. Now we've always had a multimillion dollar you
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Speaker 1: from our project, apartment windows, which is now the apartments
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Speaker 1: that people are paying millions of dollars for. But we
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Speaker 1: saw the value in that. So I never really knew
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Speaker 1: that I was in a in a hood, you know,
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Speaker 1: you know what. I just didn't seem like we had
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Speaker 1: our own train station. So all the things that everyone
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Speaker 1: inspired to have we had in the project. And it
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Speaker 1: was very family orientated. So it was a very large
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Speaker 1: family um housing project, which I think is the reason
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Speaker 1: why it was so successful and still standing because there
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Speaker 1: were families. They were people who were really related to
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Speaker 1: each other, you know, families with sixteen children, families with
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Speaker 1: ten children, families with eleven children. So because of that,
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Speaker 1: you know, they literally took over the projects and so
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Speaker 1: we didn't have a lot of problems where a lot
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Speaker 1: of other housing projects had that. But when you go
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Speaker 1: out to travel and you bring your neighbors with you,
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Speaker 1: you have thirty thousand neighbors, you know, when people stay
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Speaker 1: like okay, well, you know, you show up and you perform,
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Speaker 1: and they said, well, you know you're gonna have some
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Speaker 1: people from your neighborhood come. You gotta be like, no,
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Speaker 1: I can't. And they'd be like, well why, he was, like,
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Speaker 1: can't invite my whole neighborhood. Where some people grew up
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Speaker 1: on a block, you know, you got ten people off
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Speaker 1: your block. You took ten thousand on one block. So
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Speaker 1: it was just different, you know, for that, but it
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Speaker 1: was a blessing, and it was one of the reasons
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Speaker 1: why I was able to walk with no fear going
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Speaker 1: into places because no matter where he went, there was
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Speaker 1: always somebody from Queensbridge there. And that is a true story.
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Speaker 1: Whether I was in Germany, it would be somebody who
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Speaker 1: went in the army from Queensbridge who went in the
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Speaker 1: army and they was in Germany showed up at the show.
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Speaker 1: You know, So it was just a blessing to be
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Speaker 1: born where I was born, especially to be born to
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Speaker 1: who I was born to, you know, having such a great,
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Speaker 1: strong mom, someone who was no nonsense alone played that role. Girl,
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Speaker 1: Oh you killed it. Then she killed and you even
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Speaker 1: think about it, is that, you know, I grew up
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Speaker 1: in the household where you were able to use for
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Speaker 1: fanny as an expression. You know, now you couldn't just
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Speaker 1: remember the first time I heard my grandmother use foul language.
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Speaker 1: want to say, like, it came out of her mouth
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Speaker 1: And I was like, you know what, I can't wait
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Speaker 1: to sing that song. I love it. I love you know.
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Speaker 1: Let's let's let's go back to your mom. The Nia
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Speaker 1: Long played the role. You know, she was a strong
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Speaker 1: lady in the in the movie series. You know, she
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Speaker 1: and and she's just a single mom, just trying to
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Speaker 1: give the best life for her daughters, and but she
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Speaker 1: out in your life now, that message of staying in school,
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Speaker 1: get an education. It's all good, but get an education.
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Speaker 1: You better than this, right. Well, the thing about it
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Speaker 1: things that were not available to them that she felt
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Speaker 1: Even though we grew up together inside of Queen's Bridge
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Speaker 1: projects and where most children went to public school, which
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Speaker 1: us become bust children, which means we were bust out
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Speaker 1: of the neighborhood into other schools. And though there was
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Speaker 1: our own personal difficulties with doing that, because you know,
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Speaker 1: know what, the world is a lot bigger than Queen's Bridge,
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Speaker 1: And so for me it was always very very important
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Speaker 1: now you just laid it out there. Actually, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm not a guy who would put sentences together like that,
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Speaker 1: you know, but you just articulated this and they just stopped. Though, Jill,
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Speaker 1: I don't like you. You You know what I'm saying. You know,
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Speaker 1: Because they ain't gonna apple, it ain't gonna happen. But
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Speaker 1: thank you. I like the way you put that. Maybe
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Speaker 1: I do. But I mean I've also been tapped on
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Speaker 1: And I was like, you think so, and he was like,
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Speaker 1: I know so, and I'm gonna make it happen. And
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Speaker 1: it nonchalanes, no problem. You know, you got my number.
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Speaker 1: he had me come in for an air check. And
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Speaker 1: thought I had did something wrong. And the lady came
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Speaker 1: been in radio for over twenty years. I've never had
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Speaker 1: first try. She said, listen, if they don't hire you,
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Speaker 1: I got a whole bunch of other places that will.
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Speaker 1: So we started laughing about it, and then the next thing,
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Speaker 1: you know, we started having a nice day. Oh my goodness.
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Speaker 1: How did the name come about? How did the name
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Speaker 1: come about? Well, it came from the fact that, you know,
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Speaker 1: I don't hold any animosity. I'm a I'm a very
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Speaker 1: pleasant person when people meet me. Of course, we all
19:58
Speaker 1: have our sides. That knew if I'm in a battle
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Speaker 1: that you know, I stopping you right there. You're so
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Speaker 1: funny to me because I could tell you you're sweet,
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Speaker 1: You're nice, you know, bless you. Uh God is good.
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Speaker 1: But boy, they get you in the right kitchen standing
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Speaker 1: next to the right knife, it's gonna comes. You're gonna
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Speaker 1: pick it up and throwing at them. You or something else,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna bust. Wh That's the that's the beauty of
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Speaker 1: your personality. I you know, I'm gon tall. I got
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Speaker 1: six sisters and and and and just talking to you,
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Speaker 1: you know, I could just see myself just laughing and
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Speaker 1: punch you on the shoulder, and you call a little fool,
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Speaker 1: I'm calling you stupid and hugging each other and crying
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Speaker 1: at the same time. That's that's a that's a that's
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Speaker 1: a blessing. I'm just telling you that. To be able
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Speaker 1: to be that friendly but that engaging at the same time,
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Speaker 1: that's that's that's that's your gifts. That's one of your gifts.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. You know it's because I love people, and
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Speaker 1: I know that there's gonna always be a time where
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Speaker 1: everyone is not gonna love you and everyone is not
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Speaker 1: gonna like you. But you don't have to give them
21:06
Speaker 1: a reason to do that. You know that just leave
21:08
Speaker 1: it on them to feel their own way. But I
21:11
Speaker 1: don't add anything to it for that to be the case.
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Speaker 1: I just like for everyone to have a nice day.
21:16
Speaker 1: I feel like there's so much going on in the world,
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Speaker 1: and I've had so many I've had so many sad days.
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Speaker 1: But the main thing is, you know, I know what
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Speaker 1: it is to want to have a nice day, because
21:27
Speaker 1: I know what it is for people to try to
21:29
Speaker 1: make you not have a nice day. Okay, cool. Now,
21:31
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the our interviews talking about that,
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Speaker 1: I said, well, did they add anything that they drop anything, Rashan,
21:37
Speaker 1: You said, Rashan, look, uh, we kind of kind of
21:40
Speaker 1: kind of tamed it down so you know, parents can
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Speaker 1: watch with their kids and get a learning lesson out
21:45
Speaker 1: of this. Great great acting were received on Netflix. Now
21:51
Speaker 1: Unsung calls you walk us through that whole process. Well,
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Speaker 1: I had already appeared. The reason how the way I
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Speaker 1: had got an Unsung with because I had appeared on
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Speaker 1: so many Unsung and had so many for everyone. You know,
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Speaker 1: they were like, hold on, did you have other son?
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Speaker 1: And I was like no. And then with the movie
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Speaker 1: and then with the radio station. You know, we weren't
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Speaker 1: even sure if I was Unsung or if I was
22:20
Speaker 1: singing again right right? They said, listen, we think that
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Speaker 1: it's your time to have an Unsung, And I said
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Speaker 1: absolutely because I'm a huge fan of the show and
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Speaker 1: I've always thought that in order to get out of
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Speaker 1: certain information, because I love the approach that it took.
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Speaker 1: So I said, yeah, I'll definitely do it, and so
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Speaker 1: that's how we came up with me being able to
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Speaker 1: do my own Unsung. Now, with that being said, talk
22:46
Speaker 1: about what big what role did you play and putting
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Speaker 1: it together? Do you have any saying it? Did you
22:51
Speaker 1: have any producing powers in it? Or you just wanted
22:54
Speaker 1: to make sure that they said we're gonna go in
22:56
Speaker 1: this direction, you said, no, go in this direction. How
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Speaker 1: to what role did you playing their actual production or
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Speaker 1: put together the creative process. Well, for the creative process
23:05
Speaker 1: of Unsung, they pretty much have their producers how they
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Speaker 1: would like for it to look. I think when people
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Speaker 1: say that they may be and I'm not sure if
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Speaker 1: I've ever heard anyone say this, but for people to
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Speaker 1: say that they may be unhappy with their Unsung, that
23:17
Speaker 1: meant that they were unhappy with their life. That meant
23:20
Speaker 1: that there were certain aspects of their life. Maybe they
23:22
Speaker 1: chose not to reveal the Roxy and Schante stories. An
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Speaker 1: open book, I just tell everybody that you gotta make
23:27
Speaker 1: sure you read something else before you read mine, because
23:30
Speaker 1: it shouldn't be the only book that you read, because
23:33
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some things in there that you need
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Speaker 1: to know about. And so I just went to them
23:38
Speaker 1: with you know, it's an open heart, open mind, open spirit,
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Speaker 1: and was like, okay, come on, let's do it. And
23:43
Speaker 1: they were like, well, let's talk about this. I said, okay, fine.
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Speaker 1: And if you notice, in my unsung I really allowed
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Speaker 1: others to tell the story and then gave my opinion
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Speaker 1: on their version of the story. I don't think many
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Speaker 1: other unsungs did that. I felt like it wasn't no
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Speaker 1: need for me to say, why did this for this one? Instead,
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Speaker 1: it may be that person who says what I did
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Speaker 1: from them, or I did say this person did that
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Speaker 1: to me, the one else said, look what happened to her?
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Speaker 1: And you know, because I stoo, I've always lived life.
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Speaker 1: I've never taken things and carried them with me. That's
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Speaker 1: why I'm able to travel, so, you know, travel so
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Speaker 1: much because I have every luggage. I can travel absolutely absolutely.
24:22
Speaker 1: Here's the fun part about my interview with you and
24:25
Speaker 1: uh and just the information you're giving everybody is that,
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Speaker 1: first of all, you're very honest. Look, I'm not over
24:32
Speaker 1: here trying to sugarcoat this is this is my story.
24:34
Speaker 1: I can tell you a darker story. I can tell
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Speaker 1: you this story whichever you want to sit down here, okay,
24:39
Speaker 1: but what I'm not gonna do is brag about what
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Speaker 1: I've comelised. But that's where that's why you're a legend. See,
24:43
Speaker 1: a legend can that when you're a legend, Rock sand see,
24:47
Speaker 1: other people can tell their story about you. You go, yeah,
24:50
Speaker 1: that's right. But that's how it really happened. Now, there
24:53
Speaker 1: were two very prominent names that popped up in your movie,
24:58
Speaker 1: Rock sand Rock said, uh Is Marquis, Yes and yes,
25:05
Speaker 1: tell us about both. Those relationships started with Bis Markey.
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Speaker 1: My relationship with this this is my brother, beyond brother,
25:14
Speaker 1: if you can even give someone that title. We've traveled together.
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Speaker 1: He was the first person to say to me, listen,
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Speaker 1: don't you know we're gonna be stars. He's gonna be
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Speaker 1: big stars. Yeah, you know, let's just get it and
25:28
Speaker 1: do these battles. He was like, no, it's gonna be
25:31
Speaker 1: bigger than this. You watch, and I told him, I said, well, listen,
25:34
Speaker 1: my stage is your stage. So as with everyone that
25:38
Speaker 1: was in the Juice crew, they all started off as
25:40
Speaker 1: like my DJ first, but it wasn't like I wanted
25:43
Speaker 1: them to be my DJ as seeing him as a
25:45
Speaker 1: support and then oh, yeah, you're gonna be my DJ,
25:47
Speaker 1: and it's no. I wanted them to be my DJ
25:49
Speaker 1: so I could get them on the stage and then
25:52
Speaker 1: I'd switched places with them during my show and let
25:55
Speaker 1: them perform. And then I'm standing behind the turntables. I'm
25:58
Speaker 1: not doing nothing, but I'm standing behind and making it
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Speaker 1: like I'm doing so this way they would be able
26:05
Speaker 1: to have the same platform. I've never had a problem
26:07
Speaker 1: with sharing my platform because anyone, you know, all I
26:10
Speaker 1: say is that when you come on board, you come
26:13
Speaker 1: on board and bring your best, you know, don't just
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Speaker 1: come up here just to do it. Because I never
26:17
Speaker 1: wanted anybody to feel like, well, you know what, it's
26:20
Speaker 1: just the rock sand chantey thing and not take it seriously.
26:24
Speaker 1: And even to get to the point of nas you know,
26:27
Speaker 1: I told now, I's like you you're great you know.
26:30
Speaker 1: So now listen, you come back when you got everything together,
26:33
Speaker 1: because why come out and do some little rhymes that
26:37
Speaker 1: don't even represent you know, how knowledgeable you are, you
26:40
Speaker 1: know how smart you are, how brilliant you are, how
26:42
Speaker 1: intelligent you are. And so the next thing, you know,
26:45
Speaker 1: he came back and he was nasty nas and how
26:48
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, awesome. Now you know it's it's you know,
26:54
Speaker 1: you are a you know, like I said, in my life,
26:57
Speaker 1: I'm always paying it forward. I'm always uh step it
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Speaker 1: out of my comfort zone and telling people how great
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Speaker 1: they can be and pushing them forward. And and it's
27:06
Speaker 1: paying back to me for me in my life right now.
27:09
Speaker 1: And I was just doing it. And I tend to
27:11
Speaker 1: believe that's part of your natural personality too. No matter
27:14
Speaker 1: well you're doing good and bad in your life, I
27:16
Speaker 1: feel you always have something good to say when you
27:19
Speaker 1: to somebody who deserves to hear it or need to
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Speaker 1: hear it. Correct. Yes, absolutely, I am definitely a person
27:26
Speaker 1: who will always point out the positive in people and
27:29
Speaker 1: give them that push. I stop, I feed the homeless. Um.
27:33
Speaker 1: If I'm going, I could be on my way going
27:35
Speaker 1: to have a dinner, and if there's someone outside and
27:37
Speaker 1: they said that they're hungry. I'll go inside, purchase them
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Speaker 1: and dinner, bring it outside to them before I even
27:42
Speaker 1: sit down and get comfortable and have my own dinner,
27:45
Speaker 1: because I know what it's like to to look at
27:48
Speaker 1: those who have and you don't have and wish you had,
27:51
Speaker 1: And then you say, well, you know what, when I
27:53
Speaker 1: get in that position, I'm never gonna be selfish like them.
27:56
Speaker 1: I'm never going to be that way. And I stick
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Speaker 1: to that, and and that's that's the way I lived
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Speaker 1: my life to know that all the things that I
28:03
Speaker 1: said when I was younger, all the things that I
28:05
Speaker 1: said when I was in the streets, all the things
28:07
Speaker 1: when I said when I was boosting the stores, when
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Speaker 1: I was by myself, that I made sure to be
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Speaker 1: able to once I was in a position to make
28:14
Speaker 1: sure that everyone was good. And sometimes that's even to
28:17
Speaker 1: a fault because you're so busy sharing and people are
28:20
Speaker 1: so busy stealing that you don't even realize that that's
28:23
Speaker 1: what's happening. Right now. Here's the interesting thing about you,
28:26
Speaker 1: because in the movie, you know it ends with that
28:30
Speaker 1: moment with os, but we all know that you pursued
28:33
Speaker 1: educated with the college and pursued higher education. How did
28:36
Speaker 1: they come out with did you pay for your your
28:38
Speaker 1: college education? How was that? How is that funding alone
28:41
Speaker 1: the way? And how many years to take you to
28:43
Speaker 1: go through that process? Well, what it was was that
28:46
Speaker 1: I started off as a great keynote speakers. I'm sure
28:50
Speaker 1: that you can tell from how I speak now that
28:53
Speaker 1: um I was wanted and a lot of universities to
28:56
Speaker 1: come out and I would speak on the fact of
28:59
Speaker 1: pursuing higher education. During that time, the record company was
29:03
Speaker 1: supposed to pay for my my education and it got
29:07
Speaker 1: to a point where they were no longer paying for it.
29:10
Speaker 1: So anyone that has been in school or has went
29:13
Speaker 1: through that, you know what it is to get that
29:15
Speaker 1: dreadful call to the bursto's office when they tell you
29:18
Speaker 1: that you know your school has not been paid for
29:20
Speaker 1: up until this point, then you have then you have
29:23
Speaker 1: to leave school. And as I was leaving, I remember
29:26
Speaker 1: speaking with one of my professors and they were like,
29:28
Speaker 1: you know, you need to go and speak about this
29:30
Speaker 1: out into the world. And so I became a keynote speaker.
29:34
Speaker 1: Us the moniker of Dr Roxing and Chantay started there. Wow,
29:41
Speaker 1: so you they were they were they were paying for
29:42
Speaker 1: your education and it is just stopped? Yes, And did
29:46
Speaker 1: you did you follow up on that? Why did they stop?
29:49
Speaker 1: Or did you you just forget that. I'm just gonna
29:51
Speaker 1: handle it myself exactly. And I was like, you know,
29:54
Speaker 1: and there's certain things that you know, your single mom,
29:56
Speaker 1: you're out here, you're trying to make things happen, and
29:59
Speaker 1: you're a able to continue with it. So you pick
30:03
Speaker 1: up whatever it is that you're able to do, and
30:05
Speaker 1: you're able to pursue from it. But I do say
30:08
Speaker 1: this much as I say to anyone that is listening,
30:10
Speaker 1: that I definitely support everyone to go as far in
30:16
Speaker 1: their education as possible. Higher education is a must. Having
30:20
Speaker 1: a degree to a certain extent is what it does
30:23
Speaker 1: is it allows and opens up doors for you. When
30:25
Speaker 1: I get the chance to because now I have been
30:27
Speaker 1: blessed so much to have so many things on my plate,
30:30
Speaker 1: I would love to go back and pursue my education
30:33
Speaker 1: because that's something that I've always wanted to do. Wow,
30:37
Speaker 1: you know, I'd say the same thing I tell people that,
30:40
Speaker 1: you know, when I came out of high school, I
30:42
Speaker 1: wanted to be a forklift driver, and I became a
30:45
Speaker 1: four flive driver and then I dropped the box on
30:48
Speaker 1: the guy's hand and broke it and they fired me.
30:49
Speaker 1: So that was the end of my forklift driving career.
30:52
Speaker 1: And then I walked from campus and uh at the
30:55
Speaker 1: University of Houston and saw some things that mostly the
30:59
Speaker 1: nice looking lay needs and I went, that's that I
31:01
Speaker 1: need to go to college. And college changed my life.
31:04
Speaker 1: You know that. That's whatever drug me, whatever drags you
31:07
Speaker 1: on campus, let it pull you, let it pull you,
31:09
Speaker 1: let it pull you to that, to that and I
31:11
Speaker 1: ain't in my education, that's what and it pulled me
31:14
Speaker 1: on there. And uh seven years later my degree is
31:16
Speaker 1: in mathematics, was in mathematics, and uh, I say it
31:19
Speaker 1: is because one thing about away tell people about education.
31:22
Speaker 1: They can't repull your degree. I can't. Nobody come and go,
31:24
Speaker 1: you know we're gonna take that off. There were no
31:26
Speaker 1: they can't do that. That's that's the beauty of education,
31:28
Speaker 1: my minders and sociology. And it changed my life. So
31:31
Speaker 1: Roxanne Sante this uh this uh Sunday. Uh you're starting
31:35
Speaker 1: and uh starting for the first time because you've always
31:39
Speaker 1: been on that song. Finally is about you, it's your game.
31:42
Speaker 1: Finally Finally, you know you should like post it to say,
31:46
Speaker 1: you know, people go in my own one. You know
31:48
Speaker 1: this is about men and the family, about me. So
31:52
Speaker 1: but your gifts are so so so amazed and you
31:55
Speaker 1: you deserve the ability to speak, You deserve to have
31:58
Speaker 1: your own radio show. But what I am join the
32:00
Speaker 1: most about is that you have a balanced life. And
32:03
Speaker 1: that's something I preach about on this show. Having that
32:05
Speaker 1: balanced life. Talk to us about that. Oh. One thing
32:08
Speaker 1: that you have to do is that in life you
32:10
Speaker 1: must have balance. You also have to understand balance that
32:13
Speaker 1: you're gonna have good days, You're gonna have bad days,
32:15
Speaker 1: but you need to make sure that you don't let
32:17
Speaker 1: your bad days overwhelm the possibility of you enjoying your
32:21
Speaker 1: good days. For me, I have great balance. I have
32:23
Speaker 1: I have a husband who enjoys the things that I enjoy.
32:27
Speaker 1: We watch a lot of boxing and we go to
32:29
Speaker 1: a lot of boxing matches. Um. We also know that
32:33
Speaker 1: we are pillars in the community, so we do a
32:35
Speaker 1: lot of giving back. We make sure we do that.
32:37
Speaker 1: My children. You know, I have a boy and a girl,
32:40
Speaker 1: and um, I'm able to spend enough time with both
32:43
Speaker 1: of them for them to understand the balance between the two,
32:47
Speaker 1: and um, the only thing I don't have this balance,
32:49
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be perfectly honest with you and the
32:51
Speaker 1: listeners is my diet. But I'm damn sure working on that. Well,
32:56
Speaker 1: where are my friend? You know, your your beauty, your
32:59
Speaker 1: personality and uh, because I my wife screaming about that too,
33:02
Speaker 1: So you're not the only one out there screaming about
33:04
Speaker 1: I got issues. I got food issues, I got eating issues.
33:07
Speaker 1: But more important, you know, your fluidity and your ability
33:12
Speaker 1: to communicate is amazing. I could do opin. I could
33:17
Speaker 1: just listen to you talk a lot, a lot, and
33:20
Speaker 1: you should. You should probably do some storytellers, put some
33:23
Speaker 1: audiobooks out there because you got it going on. Plus
33:26
Speaker 1: you should be doing someone doing force over as well,
33:28
Speaker 1: because you got you got skilled, you gotta you got
33:30
Speaker 1: a blessing that everybody needs to hear. Common Comma can't
33:33
Speaker 1: be doing them all. Comma can't do all of them.
33:36
Speaker 1: There's always time and there's always future for me to
33:38
Speaker 1: do all of those things. And I thank you, I
33:40
Speaker 1: appreciate you. We're listening to the girl Roxane Chante. Uh.
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