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Rushion Interviews the Grammy-nominated Jazz Duo, Marcus and Jean Baylor, of The Baylor Project · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My first guest. It's gonna be a long speech now
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  Speaker 1: because they got a lot of things happening on money
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  Speaker 1: making conversations. Masterclass or Grammy nominated Jazz Duel for their
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  Speaker 1: album The Bailor Project Generations. It's their second album. Generations,
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  Speaker 1: released in twenty one, earned the duel its first in
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  Speaker 1: double a CP Image Award win for Outstanding Jazz Album
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  Speaker 1: Vocal and it's fourth Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album.
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  Speaker 1: That's Generation and Generation. If you hadn't heard, there's a
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  Speaker 1: cultural anthology routing in everyday life. I listened to it
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  Speaker 1: all the time because I have like a forty five
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  Speaker 1: minute ride. A lot of times come to the station
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  Speaker 1: that traffic Atlanta just be building up, and so I
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  Speaker 1: just dropped in Generations, And guess what, I don't worry
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  Speaker 1: about traffic or nothing. I should enjoy my ride. Generations
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  Speaker 1: when they've dropped, became the number one Jazz vocal album
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  Speaker 1: on Jazz Week Radio charts, and the stand out song
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  Speaker 1: We Swing the Cipher was named among MPRS Music one
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  Speaker 1: hundred Best Songs of twenty when they won. It gets
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  Speaker 1: even better now because they're on the call, they're waiting
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  Speaker 1: for me. We have this upcoming big event. Maybe you've
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  Speaker 1: heard about it on w c OK the Jazz Music Award.
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  Speaker 1: Marcus and Gene of the Bailor Project have three nominations,
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  Speaker 1: Best Mainstream Album, Best Vocal Performance, and Best Dual Group
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  Speaker 1: of Big Band. Please welcome to my five year anniversary
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  Speaker 1: money Making Conversation, master Class celebration, Marcus and Jane Baylor.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, now, come on now. Oh I love it, man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so happy we talked about this because we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: drop another damn on there. They don't know why we're
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  Speaker 1: happy over everything. But first of all, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: the first time we were doing the Jazz Music Awards
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  Speaker 1: w c OKA, doing it over carb Energy Center October
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  Speaker 1: twenty second, to get three Best Mainstream Album, Best Vocal Performance,
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  Speaker 1: and this is fans reaching out and industry leaders reaching
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  Speaker 1: out Best Duo Group of Big Band. Okay, I'm a
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  Speaker 1: stark because I got two and I got Marcus and Genes.
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  Speaker 1: So ladies, first, Gene, tell me about how you feel
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  Speaker 1: about this. We feel amazing, we're excited, we're honored, we're
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  Speaker 1: blessed to be a part of the first average Jazz
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  Speaker 1: Music Awards. That's highlighting jazz um and we're just like
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  Speaker 1: thrilled to not only have been considered for three nominations,
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  Speaker 1: but also the part of the live performance. Uh, that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna happen. Oh, she's gonna she's gonna drop it before
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  Speaker 1: you even talk, Marcus. That's how she do, That's how
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  Speaker 1: you do. It's a celebration. We were donna make it
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  Speaker 1: do the Hey, Marcus, you know when you when you
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  Speaker 1: when you when we talked, you know, one of the
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  Speaker 1: beauty of your you were so inspiring because you understood
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  Speaker 1: and not saying Gene didn't. But you know, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people don't get the fact about amount of hard
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  Speaker 1: work that you have to engage yourself in to pursue
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  Speaker 1: your dream and also sometimes your dream changes, and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people to understand do you have to sometimes
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  Speaker 1: be fluid and go off track to get back on
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  Speaker 1: your dreams because you didn't start with the Beata project.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you St. Louis doing your own things. So
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  Speaker 1: can you tell us the the significance of a show
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  Speaker 1: like the Jazz Music Awards being a national platform being
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  Speaker 1: hopefully one day our vision that w c OK has
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  Speaker 1: to become our version of the Grammys. Our version of
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  Speaker 1: the Billboard Awards, our version of all these great award
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  Speaker 1: shows out there, and it's based in Atlanta. Tell us
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  Speaker 1: about their emotional take on the Jazz Music Awards, Well,
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  Speaker 1: what's amazing about it is, first of all, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: speak that y'all are the first in terms of that
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  Speaker 1: I've seen in my time of doing this on the level,
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  Speaker 1: and you all are leaders in this, and so it's
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  Speaker 1: such an honor to be a part of this, whether
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  Speaker 1: it was the first year, the second, third, or fourth
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  Speaker 1: or fifth year, it's celebrating music that's born in our coach,
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  Speaker 1: that's rooted in our culture and in our history as
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  Speaker 1: a people, as Black people in this country. But of course,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the music stretches abroad and stretches through throughout
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  Speaker 1: the whole entire world, but it was birth in the
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  Speaker 1: black community, and so I'm just excited about that. And
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  Speaker 1: it's given love to all the different sizes of jazz music,
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  Speaker 1: straight ahead smooth jazz, and I'm sure over the years
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  Speaker 1: it's going to continue to keep expanding and just embracing
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  Speaker 1: as like you all are doing and just embracing the
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  Speaker 1: music as a whole. And I and we just love
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  Speaker 1: this because it's on the level and it's bringing in
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  Speaker 1: some of the greatest artists in the world. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: we're honored. We'll be right back with more Money Making
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  Speaker 1: Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now, let's return to Money
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  Speaker 1: Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. Well, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: honor is mine because of the fact that you know,
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  Speaker 1: on this anniversary, I wanted to bring in people who
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  Speaker 1: hit home for me and and and you too. When
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  Speaker 1: you came on my show, it was kind of like family.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm I'm one of those guys who know I'm
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  Speaker 1: a jazz I find jazz, you know, and because jass
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  Speaker 1: doesn't always find me because I don't know where to go,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'll be listening to great music and go, wow,
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  Speaker 1: what is that? And that's why I found your music.
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  Speaker 1: Like black Board that's my song, you know, Blackboards my song?
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  Speaker 1: You know that that that's my song. J That's my
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  Speaker 1: song black Board that's on that's on that Generation's album.
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  Speaker 1: If y'all don't know, like I told y'all when I'm
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  Speaker 1: driving the w C. Okay, every Tuesday, I put on
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  Speaker 1: my song my my Drop, my Pandora generations and I'm good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm good all the way in and so when I
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  Speaker 1: when I look at that, and then we go over
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  Speaker 1: to Gene because you dropped it. Anyway, we might want
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  Speaker 1: to tell the world that opening opening the Jazz Music
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  Speaker 1: Awards will not only be the Bailor Project starring Marcus
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  Speaker 1: and Gene, is gonna also be jaz me a Horn
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  Speaker 1: and Diana reads. Talk to me first, come on, come on,
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  Speaker 1: come on, gee, talk to me. Said you said you
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  Speaker 1: just gonna get out there and throw out a little
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  Speaker 1: nugget before I even talk to Marcus. Tell us about
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  Speaker 1: jumping on that stage because because you know something, Marcus,
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  Speaker 1: I love her, but you know she tried to jump
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  Speaker 1: in front of you and get the last wing on
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  Speaker 1: on fried Chicken. What I'm saying, that's up? No, I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at that. No, I'm looking at that fried chicken wings.
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  Speaker 1: She go over there, how you doing with Sean and
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  Speaker 1: get reached for it? And Jesus tell us about that
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  Speaker 1: performance being the opening act for the Jazz Music Awards,
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  Speaker 1: which take place at the carb Energy Center October twenty second. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know the beauty of being because y'all gonna be
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  Speaker 1: busy nominations. I'm I don't know the score, but I
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  Speaker 1: like to believe, you know, so love gonna be shown
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  Speaker 1: in the nominations too. But y'all, y'all. Stepping on that
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  Speaker 1: stage is hosted by a girl, d Deep Bridgewater. She's
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  Speaker 1: one of the hosts. It's been announced for the Jazz
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  Speaker 1: Music Awards. So but it's all about introducing that first act.
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  Speaker 1: We swing, give us a little people who don't know
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  Speaker 1: about what we see. Why is that it's that beat,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that cotton club to come into hall and
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  Speaker 1: beat that beat, then make it just rock side by
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  Speaker 1: side and snap your fingers, snap your fingers, snap your fingers. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you come with Jane flour Is yours. We swing.
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  Speaker 1: I think you dropped the Obama me because I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know we were opening. So that's so dope, and I
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  Speaker 1: think it's a great way to perfect way to open. Like, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is Jazz Awards and we swing. Swing is you know,
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  Speaker 1: the answence of jazz music's foundational It's um one of
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  Speaker 1: them things where you know, sometimes sometimes we we move
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  Speaker 1: in and out of it and away from it, but
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  Speaker 1: we always come back to it. So I'm honored to
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  Speaker 1: have um a legacy artist, UM like Diane Reeves join
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  Speaker 1: us and just Mia who is like our baby sister.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Killing the game Um three
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  Speaker 1: different generations, which really represents the album that it was
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  Speaker 1: featured on generation. So UM, you know, we're just looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to it. We we and UM. I believe or
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  Speaker 1: and Evans is gonna be there. I believe he gonna
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna help us swing it about it there. We
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  Speaker 1: have to throw his name in there because oor and
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  Speaker 1: Evans is the person he's one of the nominees. But
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  Speaker 1: he introduced me to Jane. That's how I met Jane. Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right now, and I used to get all personal.
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  Speaker 1: Now I gotta slide up to the mic now. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you know St. Louis meet New Jersey. You know St. Louis,
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  Speaker 1: Missouri meet New Jersey. Okay, Mitt west mes East Coast. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: So we're gonna be so on that stage. You know
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  Speaker 1: the interesting thing about it when when we we we
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  Speaker 1: spoke and I'm gonna tell you all something it was
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  Speaker 1: it was it was because you don't know. I gotta
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  Speaker 1: I'm blessed to have a podcast and as uh in
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  Speaker 1: UM real popular and when your interview, I'm gonna just
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  Speaker 1: be honest with you. When your interview aired on my podcast,
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  Speaker 1: it was in the first quarter. It was the top
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  Speaker 1: downloaded interview on my podcast. I kid you, not kid
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  Speaker 1: you not so and so that let me know that
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  Speaker 1: a lot of my fan base or into jazz and so,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, you know, jazz is such a relaxing sound.
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  Speaker 1: And so I told my staff and they said, Richard,
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  Speaker 1: and I said, uh, they said that the Bailor Project
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  Speaker 1: interviews your top download for the quarter. I knew it.
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  Speaker 1: I knew it jumped up when the interview when you dropped,
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  Speaker 1: because what I do is when it airs on w
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  Speaker 1: c Okay, the following week, I aired on my national
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  Speaker 1: podcast and Chid, yeah, I went crazy. Everybody love the
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  Speaker 1: Baby Project. That is crazy. Thank you. That's good. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's awesome. Thank you so much. I gotta speak to truth.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass
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  Speaker 1: with Rashan McDonald. Now, let's return to Money Making Conversations
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  Speaker 1: Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. When you when you look at
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  Speaker 1: the you know because then in the interview, Marcus, you
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  Speaker 1: dropped so many nuggets in the second half of that
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  Speaker 1: interview by life by not giving up, by motivation and
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  Speaker 1: and also realizing that, like I said earlier, just because
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  Speaker 1: you have a dream doesn't mean that you when when
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  Speaker 1: you hit a detour that you give up on it.
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  Speaker 1: And if you give up on it, you know, makes
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  Speaker 1: you understand you have people around you that can pull
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  Speaker 1: you back to your dream. And you you spoke like that,
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  Speaker 1: and I've never heard that. And I think a lot
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  Speaker 1: of our listeners, not only World World world fans of
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  Speaker 1: the music and became fans of the Bailor Project, which
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  Speaker 1: stars Marcus and Gene. Of course you know what is
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  Speaker 1: that driving force and keeps you focused and and also
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  Speaker 1: drop some nuggets on what what not only who you
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  Speaker 1: are and but also what you guys represent as a couple. Wow. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'll start off by saying it's as far as I mean,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, just being you know, really being able
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  Speaker 1: to just really keep your focus and like I'll be
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  Speaker 1: honest with you, like even right now, as as we've
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  Speaker 1: been blessed to be successful in different areas, something is
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  Speaker 1: constantly reminded me, even just living everyday life on social media,
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  Speaker 1: because you can see so many people doing great things
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  Speaker 1: but I even started a mantra that I would say
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  Speaker 1: to myself, focus the Bella project, Focus the bell of project. Jack,
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  Speaker 1: focused the Bella project, because I'll see so many outside
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  Speaker 1: things and you start looking at oh man, I want
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  Speaker 1: to do that. Oh man, I think we should do that. No,
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  Speaker 1: study on your path and on your journey, because I'm
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  Speaker 1: realizing that all these things will come in due time.
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  Speaker 1: And just like even just to throw just even a
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  Speaker 1: crazy plug, like while we're on our I think we
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  Speaker 1: we we spoke to you first quarter and right after
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  Speaker 1: that was the Grammys. We were completely drained. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what you call staying on your path and on your journey.
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  Speaker 1: We get called for this. We got called for this gig,
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  Speaker 1: to a private gig, which is was for three nights,
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  Speaker 1: um three nights. They literally built a jazz club just
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  Speaker 1: for us to play and and I'm thinking to myself, bad,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so tired, And they said, no, we want to
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  Speaker 1: style you guys. We want to do this and do that.
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  Speaker 1: It's a whole another world that we never was exposed to.
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  Speaker 1: We show up to this place and it's the most
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  Speaker 1: amazing jazz club built just for us, to say, only
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  Speaker 1: for them to tear it down when we finish that.
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  Speaker 1: We ever seen something said, you know, you guys need
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  Speaker 1: to record this because you never know. All I have
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  Speaker 1: to tell you is that we recorded this, uh particular
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  Speaker 1: particular three nights and within two or three months flipped
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  Speaker 1: a live album end up coming out, which is just
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  Speaker 1: dropped three weeks ago, called lies at Apparatus, And of
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  Speaker 1: course I'm giving the plug, but I'm just saying all
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  Speaker 1: that to say, when you stay on your path and
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  Speaker 1: on your journey, certain things just come your way that
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  Speaker 1: you just would never think. And there's something else. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we wanted to talk to you make next year again
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  Speaker 1: because that's something else that we just did it last
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  Speaker 1: week that I can't believe what just happened, but we
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  Speaker 1: can't sar that now. So I'm just saying it's important
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  Speaker 1: to stay focused on your path and on your journey.
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  Speaker 1: That is extremely, extremely important because it keeps you to
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  Speaker 1: half you almost got a half tunnel vision, especially with
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  Speaker 1: so much happening right now in the world social media
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  Speaker 1: and you know, and all these things. And then last thing,
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  Speaker 1: I'll say, get around people. Get around people that are
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  Speaker 1: that that that that that that pushes you like for instance,
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  Speaker 1: one last day out of all this, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you heard of the Emmy Award winning Adam Blackstone
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  Speaker 1: just dropped the brand new album called Legacy. Do you
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  Speaker 1: know we literally just recorded that session about three weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how we made it happen. The album
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  Speaker 1: just dropped. A set niece was last night and this
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  Speaker 1: album is like, it is amazing. It's who's Who're on
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  Speaker 1: there all the way from Kurt Franklin to Mary Mary
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  Speaker 1: to Jasmine Sullivan too. I mean, you name it, Who's
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  Speaker 1: who Queen Latifa and we're featured on the track on
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  Speaker 1: this album, the Beila Project. Uh Older, what's his name?
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  Speaker 1: Leslie is a Leslie Older? Yes? So yes, So I
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  Speaker 1: just say that to say and I'm anna transition is
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  Speaker 1: over to the wife because I can go all day
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  Speaker 1: on this on the married couple's baby. What do you
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  Speaker 1: have to say? A question? Question? I'm I'm chasing market.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta go, man, you know, I got I got,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta locked this down. Man again, I want to
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  Speaker 1: bring you all back so Jeane can talk because the
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  Speaker 1: gene I'll talk to you last us I realized you
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  Speaker 1: probably it was prepared to I'll talk her this time,
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  Speaker 1: but again, but again, he's telling the truth to just dropped.
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  Speaker 1: The Evening Live apparatus is out now, you gotta check
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  Speaker 1: it out. But what I want to do is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just shouting out my celebration. I want to come
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  Speaker 1: back to another forty five minute interview with you guys
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  Speaker 1: next month so we can sit down and talk before
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  Speaker 1: the the the Jazz Music Awards, which just October twenty second.
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  Speaker 1: I do want to congratulate you on the three nominations.
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  Speaker 1: I want to congratulate you and taking the time to
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  Speaker 1: be the opening act for the Jazz Music Awards again
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  Speaker 1: October twenty second. Stay blessed and we're gonna talk soon.
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  Speaker 1: But remember, I want you all to come back on
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  Speaker 1: the air with me. We're gonna do video, and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do a video, gonna op everything October next month
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  Speaker 1: for forty five minutes. Is that a deal? Yeah? And
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  Speaker 1: we're coming down there to the Atlanta to eat some
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  Speaker 1: chicken with you. So I'm gonna I'm gonna work out
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  Speaker 1: so we can do that absolutely, and I can still
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  Speaker 1: look good in the outfit for the world of Chicken.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to slutty Vegan, I love you, Thank
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  Speaker 1: you all for coming on the show. The Baylor Project
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  Speaker 1: opening act for this year's Jazz Music Award October Twitter
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  Speaker 1: Second cop injud your Center. Come on, y'all,