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Kirk Franklin, Kel Mitchell, Grant Aldrich & Diishan Imira · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: has been affected my life for over twenty six years.
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Speaker 1: Um say twenty six years, because twenty team marks his
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Speaker 1: twenty six year music. I remember when he released a
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Speaker 1: single call While We Sing, that changed the landscape of
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Speaker 1: gospel music. His little story about that, I remember Steve harveing,
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Speaker 1: I were so a lot of concert in Houston, Texas
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Speaker 1: is at the music hall see see the four thousand
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Speaker 1: and I played two songs. Steve said, why do you
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Speaker 1: playing music start the show? I played, Uh, this song
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Speaker 1: called While We Sing? See so you playing gospel music
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Speaker 1: before we start a comedy show? As I dude, I
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Speaker 1: just I gotta play this song. This is my song.
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Speaker 1: This song had affected me in a way that opened
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Speaker 1: my eyes because I was I was in transition with
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Speaker 1: my life and to hear this music um from this
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Speaker 1: young man out of the four worth of Dallas area,
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Speaker 1: just changed the landscape. His album remained at number one
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Speaker 1: on Billboard Top Gospel for four to two weeks. He
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Speaker 1: was the first Gospel of Music artists an album to
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Speaker 1: sell over one million units. He's a Gospel of musician, songwriter,
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Speaker 1: choir director, and arthur. He's known for leading urban contemporary
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Speaker 1: gospel choirs such as The Family, God's Property and One
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Speaker 1: Nation Crew, and it's won multiple awards, including fourteen Grammy Awards.
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Speaker 1: Variety dubbed him as the reigning king of urban gospel.
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Speaker 1: Please welcome to money making conversations, my man, Kurt Franklin.
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Speaker 1: What's going on? Family? You know? The thing that I
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Speaker 1: like about you is that I figured like I love
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Speaker 1: because I've been able to watch you grow as a husband,
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Speaker 1: a friend, uh, uh, an ambassador, UH, spokesperson. I've seen
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Speaker 1: you uh because it sees a lot of people don't
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Speaker 1: know that UH with Steve and I. Steve is the
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Speaker 1: host celebration of Gospel and b T I was writing
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Speaker 1: produce it. So for thirteen years I got that. I
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Speaker 1: got the joy watching Kurt Franklin the formal stage. Wow wow.
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Speaker 1: And in that thirteen years because that that show helped
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Speaker 1: transform the landscape of gospel music. At Steve Harvey, which
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Speaker 1: who wasn't wasn't a typical guy to be associated with gospel,
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Speaker 1: so he brought an audience that wouldn't normally come to gospel.
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Speaker 1: And then you guys did your theme from a uh.
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Speaker 1: It was like it was like the Grammys version of
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Speaker 1: UH or BT Awards. Yeah, yeah, yeah, man, yeah, man.
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Speaker 1: And you know, if it was transformed, if it changed
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Speaker 1: the trajectory of the genre, because what it did is
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Speaker 1: that they gave a visual introduction to a lot of
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Speaker 1: the people that uh, a lot of people in mainstream
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Speaker 1: may have just heard the music, but they didn't really
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Speaker 1: know who the people were. And so to be able
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Speaker 1: to now have a platform where people can see who
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Speaker 1: these people are and can be connected to what is
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Speaker 1: that they're doing at a deeper level, that's a very
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Speaker 1: powerful thing. And so Celebration of Gospel was very transformative,
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Speaker 1: and that you were transformative, and that Steve was transformative
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Speaker 1: and at it. So you know, those those were the
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Speaker 1: beginnings foundations of a revolution that kind of happened within
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Speaker 1: the genre. But we can say that about Celebration of Gospel,
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Speaker 1: but you started it way back then with why we
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Speaker 1: sing that money? How did how did that telling the truth?
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Speaker 1: Now tell the truth? Because you know, you know, Irban
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Speaker 1: Irban music was like, you know, you had Osley Brothers
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Speaker 1: O Jays, and then then they started playing your song
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Speaker 1: and they started playing on a regular basis on these
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Speaker 1: hot R and B station. Your song wasn't regulated to
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Speaker 1: just Sunday music. Why do you think what's it timing?
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Speaker 1: Or was it just the words of that song? You know?
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Speaker 1: If I can be very candid and and and I
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Speaker 1: know there's no human science that can regulate this statement
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Speaker 1: or can you know, say, to try to prove uh,
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Speaker 1: this type of theory. This is a theory that is
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Speaker 1: seen with invisible eye, and uh, and I trusted with
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Speaker 1: invisible hand. I believe that it was just God's grace,
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Speaker 1: you know. And and I know it's hard to quantify
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Speaker 1: that in in a platform that is all about returns
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Speaker 1: and dividends and so when they were not able to
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Speaker 1: always do that when we talk about the supernatural. But
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Speaker 1: I still believe in it, and I believe that there's
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Speaker 1: been a foundation of my life to think about it. Bro,
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Speaker 1: you're talking about somebody that does gospel music, have been
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Speaker 1: doing it for twenty six years? How I've been doing it?
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Speaker 1: And I can't say. You know, people out said that
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Speaker 1: the dope singers, you know, and I am learning around
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Speaker 1: bounce around on stage, and you know that ain't number
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Speaker 1: just you know, got as amazing grace because they don't
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Speaker 1: make no sin. It makes sense. It makes sense because
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Speaker 1: you make me, you make me emotional, you make me
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Speaker 1: uh feel good, you make me you inspire me with
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Speaker 1: your music. You make me uh step back and take
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Speaker 1: hold of what's happening in my life with your music. Um,
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Speaker 1: just an amazing combination of styles. Uh. I've asked him
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Speaker 1: to appear on the TV shows like Sister Sister with me,
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Speaker 1: so I asked, I asked him go on tour with
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Speaker 1: me with Steve Harvey, which was unprecedented, and uh, because
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Speaker 1: that's his brand and there was Steve Harvey's brand. And
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Speaker 1: then uh, I asked him to open up the Neighborhood
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Speaker 1: Awards in Las Vegas with me and he never said no,
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Speaker 1: yes sir, yes sir, And I never will never will
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Speaker 1: you know? Because because I remember I thinking, I went
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Speaker 1: to Kirk. I said, Kirk, I said, could you could
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Speaker 1: you do the Neighborhood Awards? A lot of people to
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Speaker 1: Neighborhood Awards was an awards Solder Stephen how I did
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Speaker 1: in Las Vegas for sixteen years, which sold a lot
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Speaker 1: everywhere to recognized that the stars in our community. It's
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Speaker 1: an amazing uh production of quality and sixteen years, seven
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Speaker 1: or sixteen years. And I said, I said, Kirk, could
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Speaker 1: you could you open up with melodies from heaven. He said,
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Speaker 1: melodies from heaven. I said, man, melodies from heaven. Rained
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Speaker 1: down on me, run down on me, take me in
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Speaker 1: your arms and hold me close. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah wow.
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Speaker 1: So man, I'm just very grateful for those moments. So
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Speaker 1: those are really life subsiding moments for my career. Man.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I'm just very glad to be, you know,
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Speaker 1: still around and you know, even doing it with a
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Speaker 1: new music now. So it's really a blessing. We know
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Speaker 1: it's a blessing because when he says the word because
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Speaker 1: he said family when he said my name I'm from
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Speaker 1: and uh, what's our family? And he used that when
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Speaker 1: he says that, because when we used to do the
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Speaker 1: celebration of Gospel, you, Steve and I we've been our
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Speaker 1: trailer and then Kurt come on, knock on the door,
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Speaker 1: he come on in. He said, wasn't a family, it
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Speaker 1: was it was like talking to a younger brother because
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Speaker 1: he's younger than me. And Steven telling Steve too, and
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Speaker 1: he said, I got some advice something and were looking
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Speaker 1: at him, you know, because because it's like it's like
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Speaker 1: it's like walking into a church, you know, because we were.
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Speaker 1: We were very respectful of the environment that we were
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Speaker 1: walking into. When you went into the gospel arena, that's
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Speaker 1: not our arena. We're performers, were entertainers, and guess what
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Speaker 1: we cussed and so and so when we walked in there,
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Speaker 1: we had to remember that. And so when he would
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Speaker 1: come into our trailer, it all put up, the calls
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Speaker 1: put up there with that Kurt coming in. Kurt, y'all
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Speaker 1: stop it, when y'all stop it, stop it? And and
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Speaker 1: and and he would ask for advice. And I remember
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Speaker 1: when he when they when they when they had the
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Speaker 1: opportunity to put together the the Tool with him, Marvin
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Speaker 1: Stath and uh who's there? Uh yeah, with with Oh
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Speaker 1: my god, that was a great tour they put together.
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Speaker 1: You know, he came in out trailer talking about that,
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Speaker 1: what do you think? What do you think about this songs?
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Speaker 1: He would songs that he would hit song. He asked us,
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Speaker 1: what do you think about this song? What do you
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Speaker 1: think about this song? And Steve had he for music.
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Speaker 1: And he knew that Steve had an ear from music.
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Speaker 1: I give him that he could hear a song and
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Speaker 1: he knew words and and Kirk respected that. But what
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Speaker 1: we respected most was that he is just a regular guy.
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Speaker 1: And I don't think I don't think that. I say
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Speaker 1: that and all honestly because being in the music with
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Speaker 1: twenty few years, there's so many trends and so many
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Speaker 1: up his downs, and so many people say your music,
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Speaker 1: your genre is done, you won't make it. And he's
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Speaker 1: always now I wouldn't even say the word evolved. He's
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Speaker 1: just performed. He's just been Kurt Franklin. And that's a
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Speaker 1: special quality. Brother. Thank you, that's very humbling that that
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Speaker 1: that is her humbling coming from you. And and I'm
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Speaker 1: just glad to be here on the show and letting
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Speaker 1: people know that, you know, I'm still trying to do it,
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Speaker 1: still trying to make that difference, and uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm still doing it even with the new music You
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Speaker 1: Loan Live Love album and Love Theory, the new single,
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Speaker 1: and you know, I'm just just very thankful that very thankful.
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Speaker 1: Sunday's Best. Sunday Best comes back on BT June and
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Speaker 1: the host is the one and only Kurk frank They
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Speaker 1: asked you to come back. Why did you come back
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Speaker 1: and host Sunday Best? Well, you know, I've been in
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Speaker 1: talks with them over the last year year, so you know,
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Speaker 1: it's it was definitely a a you know, this conversation
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Speaker 1: that was ongoing for for about the last year or so.
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Speaker 1: You know, like like I never lost contact with with BT.
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Speaker 1: You know, they they were going through their transitions. You know,
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Speaker 1: there was something that they went through as a company,
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Speaker 1: and so you know, um, you know, sometimes you gotta
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Speaker 1: have the right people in the room. Of course that
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Speaker 1: you know that very well. You know that you can
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Speaker 1: have the right idea but the wrong people in the room,
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Speaker 1: you know, or you're gonna have the right people in
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Speaker 1: the room and have the wrong idea. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: So it kind of goes both ways. And so uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, God and his sovereign timing you know, made
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Speaker 1: it where you know, it just worked out at the
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Speaker 1: right time. And so yeah, new new production, new production
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Speaker 1: company knew uh level that I think that people are
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Speaker 1: going to be very very very excited about. I think
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Speaker 1: people are going to be extremely sad about this new season. Okay,
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Speaker 1: they have judges on the show. Are the judges knew
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Speaker 1: or who are the judges this year? Um, the new
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Speaker 1: judges are gonna be Kelly Price, the incredible Kelly Price
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Speaker 1: worka Campbell and now this young buck named Jonathan McReynolds
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Speaker 1: who's a new face in dust of music and he's
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Speaker 1: a beast. I love that. I love that. I love
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Speaker 1: that line up. But first of all, I love the
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Speaker 1: ft you got Kelly Price because it brings again, like
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Speaker 1: what Steve, it brings up another audience to you. You
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Speaker 1: know you're not you're not in the pocket of the
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Speaker 1: same voice. That's hot. That's pretty hot. Now your tour now,
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Speaker 1: you don't go ahead now, your tour will long live
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Speaker 1: now that the tours are presently on tour right now,
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Speaker 1: and they started as they started July level. That's the
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Speaker 1: start day from the tour level. Man, it's gonna be
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Speaker 1: an incredible tour man. And I'm and I'm giving people
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Speaker 1: all the music. I'm giving them the old music music.
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Speaker 1: So when they come, they're gonna get the s Kurl
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Speaker 1: Kirk Franklin, They're gonna get the pros colors, Kirk Franklin,
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Speaker 1: they get not Kirk Franklin. And then they're gonna get
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Speaker 1: the Kirk. They got his teeth thinks with a visilne
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Speaker 1: Kirk Franklin. So so I can do I smile, So
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Speaker 1: you know it's gonna be all see what are you
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Speaker 1: talking about? You need to go Google. I smiled the
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Speaker 1: video and that's what you're talking about right there. I
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Speaker 1: smile because that's that That video was important for us
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Speaker 1: because you know, he came to us and said, I'm
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Speaker 1: doing this video with Shaun shooting in the Atlanta Man
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Speaker 1: and and we were running ideas because a lot of
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Speaker 1: things about the relationship that I have with Kirker's that
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Speaker 1: we would do celebration of gospel and then we go
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Speaker 1: all gonn either Cape Mandolini late at night, by twelve
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Speaker 1: thirty one o'clock in the morning. But Kurt, you know
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Speaker 1: allow me to be a part of it. Okay, Bro,
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Speaker 1: Moneymaking Conversations. My man cal Mitchell. Hello, Kale. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: way back to Steve Harvey sitcom, sitcom that way back.
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Speaker 1: What I'm saying there was only show doing the guests appearance.
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Speaker 1: Him and his boy King was on the show doing
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Speaker 1: guest appear and every thing I remember about him man
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Speaker 1: first of all polite. Secondly, uh, just naturally gifted. And
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Speaker 1: we was on the sideline just naturally funny. It's just
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Speaker 1: and I always felt that he he knew he was talented,
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Speaker 1: but didn't know how to wrap all you know, I said,
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Speaker 1: wrap your arms around all that talent and and and
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Speaker 1: I always knew that that that if he ever figures
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Speaker 1: it out, which he has figured out throughout this, you
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Speaker 1: don't have a critics long not figured it out. But
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Speaker 1: when you look at him as a as a talent,
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Speaker 1: and and and and the and the journey is taken.
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Speaker 1: And seeing it when I first met him on Steve Show,
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Speaker 1: and and and and watching the growth of him, Well,
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Speaker 1: we're uh the journey and we're gonna talk about the
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32:16
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36:56
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Speaker 1: Sean Emira, Hello and thank you for having me. I
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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Cool. I really do your California and uh
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Speaker 1: good your mind? Telling me? What's your educational background, your
43:54
Speaker 1: little history before we start talking about Yeah, I was
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Speaker 1: born and raised in Oakland, Um. I went to high
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Speaker 1: So I'm an alum of HBCU. She's a Hampton grad
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Speaker 1: let's go. Yeah. So I, UM, I got really interested
44:22
Speaker 1: in UM. You know, I wanted to travel when I
44:26
Speaker 1: got to college, or I've always just sort of wanted to.
44:29
Speaker 1: I've been curious about the world. So UM, you know,
44:32
Speaker 1: sophomore year I traveled. I went to Japan for for
44:34
Speaker 1: six months. I studied abroad there. Ended up doing the
44:37
Speaker 1: same thing again the next year in Spain. When I
44:40
Speaker 1: after I graduated, I moved to China. UM and then
44:45
Speaker 1: and we can get into you know, what I was
44:47
Speaker 1: doing over there later. But then education wise, I ended
44:51
Speaker 1: up going back to school. I did an NBA at
44:54
Speaker 1: Georgia State in Atlanta, UM in between two thousand and
44:58
Speaker 1: eight and two thousand and ten. In So, now, when
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Speaker 1: you went to those different places, did you, ah, you
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Speaker 1: experienced the culture? Did you learn the language? I did.
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Speaker 1: I was in China for a year and a half straight,
45:14
Speaker 1: and then for the next several years, I would be
45:16
Speaker 1: going back in China, back and forth to China, probably
45:19
Speaker 1: every every couple two to three months. I was going
45:22
Speaker 1: back and forth to China, UM and so I learned
45:25
Speaker 1: a great deal both Mandarin at the time. Um, you
45:29
Speaker 1: know it's it's it's worn off a little bit since then,
45:31
Speaker 1: but I still can I stick it. I still can
45:33
Speaker 1: get around. Oh good, good devil. This what what you know?
45:36
Speaker 1: I always like to explore new opportunities. That's a new
45:39
Speaker 1: opportunity from a social and a lifestyle standpoint. What what if?
45:43
Speaker 1: What did you learn from that experience? Because you know
45:45
Speaker 1: that when we go out and travel, did you are
45:48
Speaker 1: an African American male and so there are perceptions about us,
45:52
Speaker 1: uh in different parts of the country. I know I've
45:54
Speaker 1: experienced that. So were there any perceptions that you had
45:57
Speaker 1: to overcome you had to deal with in your travels? Um,
46:02
Speaker 1: there were definitely definitely a lot of you know, perceptions
46:05
Speaker 1: that people had or misconceptions. I mean in China at
46:08
Speaker 1: the time and I got in two thousand three, Um,
46:12
Speaker 1: there was hardly I was. I went to the city
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Speaker 1: called shen Jen, which is now like a super popping city. Um,
46:18
Speaker 1: you know, at the time, it was about four million
46:20
Speaker 1: people there. Now I think there's like fifteen million people.
46:23
Speaker 1: So just in the past you know, ten years, it's
46:26
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's grown quite a bit, but there was
46:29
Speaker 1: hardly any foreigners there at all, um, let alone had
46:33
Speaker 1: they ever seen any any black people, you know. So uh,
46:37
Speaker 1: you know, I had students were you know, I taught
46:40
Speaker 1: English there for a little while, and students to run
46:42
Speaker 1: up to me and try to touch my my skin
46:45
Speaker 1: and if they're rubbed off, you know, and they called
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46:51
Speaker 1: had people there who just straight up didn't believe that
46:53
Speaker 1: I came from America because they're from what they understood
46:58
Speaker 1: of the world, and they don't they didn't get a
47:00
Speaker 1: lot of they don't get a lot of the media
47:03
Speaker 1: and the images that everybody else gets America is white
47:06
Speaker 1: people in America is the land of white people in
47:09
Speaker 1: blond hair and blue eyes. Um. And so they just
47:13
Speaker 1: didn't even believe that there were black people there, let
47:16
Speaker 1: alone all of the intricacies of like, you know, the
47:21
Speaker 1: history of African Americans in in America. So um. You know,
47:25
Speaker 1: people tended to think I was either from you know,
47:28
Speaker 1: Africa or you know, or or India or something like that.
47:32
Speaker 1: And then they had certain you know, they had certain perceptions, um,
47:37
Speaker 1: of of those countries, um, which weren't always so good right,
47:44
Speaker 1: they think they think America is the land of the white,
47:47
Speaker 1: then you you also have to think that that that
47:49
Speaker 1: there was a backwards view of Africa, you know, very
47:53
Speaker 1: backwards ignorance, slavery, poverty, violence, you know, exactly need to
48:00
Speaker 1: be also they're I'm sure they're aware of the slave
48:03
Speaker 1: slavery too. So so all those negative things dominated Joe present.
48:07
Speaker 1: So you are you are a torch bearer there? Um, yeah,
48:12
Speaker 1: I mean it was it was you know, it definitely
48:15
Speaker 1: felt very you know, pioneering to be out there. That
48:17
Speaker 1: was hardly as I said, hardly any other foreigners there was.
48:22
Speaker 1: You know, there was about three or four other black
48:24
Speaker 1: people that I met when I was out there, you know,
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Speaker 1: in the city of four million people, and we all
48:30
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48:34
Speaker 1: you find them? Now? Well, you know, there would be
48:37
Speaker 1: certain places in the city where only you know, only
48:40
Speaker 1: were like foreigners would go to these barns, restaurants or
48:44
Speaker 1: whatever we're foreigners would convene so they could you know,
48:48
Speaker 1: um and you know, they would just be a random
48:52
Speaker 1: black person in there and we were just connect and
48:55
Speaker 1: be like, hey, you go, what are you doing here?
49:00
Speaker 1: You know? So UM. Yeah, it was crazy. It was crazy,
49:05
Speaker 1: but it was you know, it ended up being one
49:07
Speaker 1: of the most transformative, UM and informative periods of my life.
49:13
Speaker 1: You know, I learned a lot about myself. I learned
49:16
Speaker 1: a lot about what I was capable of. UM. You know,
49:20
Speaker 1: I learned a lot about you know, it put into
49:23
Speaker 1: context where I came from the country that I came from, UM,
49:28
Speaker 1: and what was going on outside of America, you know,
49:32
Speaker 1: and that America wasn't the center of the world UM
49:36
Speaker 1: and uh. And I grew tremendously from that, and it
49:39
Speaker 1: became you know, China just became sort of the platform
49:42
Speaker 1: from which all of my my business and entrepreneurial endeavors
49:46
Speaker 1: kind of sprang from relationships there. I made amazing relationships there,
49:54
Speaker 1: um you know, and and also learned how to navigate
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Speaker 1: UM sourcing products uh. You know, so I went to
50:04
Speaker 1: hundreds of factories UM figured out you know, the first
50:09
Speaker 1: thing I started importing from China because I just wanted
50:13
Speaker 1: to make some money were like sneakers, And so I
50:16
Speaker 1: saw they had sneakers out there, and I started buying
50:18
Speaker 1: them and sending them back home, and through that process
50:21
Speaker 1: learned all about you know, shipping from from China and
50:25
Speaker 1: freight forwarding and customs and tariffs and UH and all that,
50:30
Speaker 1: and learn how to negotiate with with the Chinese and
50:35
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50:40
Speaker 1: and figure out you know quality control and who to
50:42
Speaker 1: trust who not to trust. UM. It was an incredible
50:47
Speaker 1: It was an incredible UM educational experience. You knew the
50:51
Speaker 1: language as well. Well. I learned it as I went.
50:55
Speaker 1: I'll just just sales for you and can other people
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Speaker 1: around the country or is it localized in the open
51:00
Speaker 1: in area? So UM. So the hairstylus are we've we've
51:05
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51:09
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51:31
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51:43
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51:47
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51:50
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51:54
Speaker 1: there's stars and reviews. And then if you choose any
51:58
Speaker 1: one of those stylists, maybe will pay for you to
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52:50
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52:53
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52:57
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