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Mali Music Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: It's about music, y'all. He's reaching fans across R and B,
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Speaker 1: hip hop, gospel, urban contemporary platforms. He's garner recognition from
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Speaker 1: the Grammys with nominations, delivered powerful performances on numerous stages
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Speaker 1: from the BT Awards to American Island. He's on the
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Speaker 1: show to day to talk about many of his ventures,
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Speaker 1: including the release of his new single let Go Please
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Speaker 1: Welcome the money making Conversations for the very first time,
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Speaker 1: three times Grammy nominated artists songwriter and musician Molly Music,
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Speaker 1: Hey mother, they got I have to set you up. Man.
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Speaker 1: You know when when you're on my show for the
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Speaker 1: first time, I let you know I got love, I
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Speaker 1: got respect for you, and I'm about to catch the
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Speaker 1: love from the free pro line like, hey man, how
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Speaker 1: you doing that? I've done really good? Right now where
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Speaker 1: you where you're sitting there talking to me, talking to
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Speaker 1: me at I'm in Los Angeles right now, cooling off
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Speaker 1: and getting my bones rested back up from shooting a
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Speaker 1: video yesterday in Nashville with Jonathan McReynolds. Awesome, awesome. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I was in l A. In fact, I was in
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Speaker 1: like Friday. You know that a city was still morning
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Speaker 1: the passing of Kobe. You know that man, it was crazy.
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Speaker 1: You know, just hasn't left and left, you know, it
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Speaker 1: just stays. It's crazy. It's really crazy because you know,
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Speaker 1: the busses in front of them say rest in peace, Kobe,
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Speaker 1: when you're dry by every every every billboard is available
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Speaker 1: that hasn't been bought. It's been flipped out to some
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Speaker 1: type of commentary about what this young man did. And
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Speaker 1: then when I you know, I only only bring that
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Speaker 1: up because you move your music, and because I listened
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Speaker 1: to your new cut let go and then and then
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Speaker 1: I went back, and I stepped back and listened to
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Speaker 1: some of your earlier cuts. And you you're a storyteller,
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Speaker 1: but your stories also tap into emotions that anything is possible,
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Speaker 1: you know, And where did that come from? Because I
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Speaker 1: looked at your background, your your Phoenix boy, You're born
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Speaker 1: in Phoenix. Okay, that's that's hot, hot desert over there.
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Speaker 1: And then you grew up in the in the southern South.
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Speaker 1: Good food Savannah, Georgia. Talk to me about that. Well, yeah,
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Speaker 1: my mom being in the military and uh before it's
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Speaker 1: just a pleasure to be on the show. Thank you
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Speaker 1: so much. I'm already such a fan. And the cultivation
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Speaker 1: and the fertile lives and that you bring into the
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Speaker 1: young and old minds. I really appreciate it. I'm glad
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Speaker 1: to be a part of this. Thank you. Um. But yeah, Phoenix, Arizona,
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Speaker 1: and you know that on a flight straightway to my grandmother,
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Speaker 1: great grandmother Rose Lax, and she had a church name
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Speaker 1: Loving Faith. She operated under the for stalk, which I
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Speaker 1: didn't really understand the depth of until really later. You know,
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Speaker 1: because you have preachers, pastors, teachers, healers, you have many
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Speaker 1: different sections inside of it. But it's a gift and
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Speaker 1: a rare thing when somebody embodies many of them with humility.
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Speaker 1: That was a lady who kind of raised me and
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Speaker 1: also who kind of broke me in, so she saw
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Speaker 1: the gift to me early. I'm I tell the story
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Speaker 1: to my family all the time. I'm six or seven
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Speaker 1: years old, shaking in front of her congregation by her
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Speaker 1: commanded me to come up there, and I'm crying and
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Speaker 1: my sisters and cousins getting tired of like boy, just
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Speaker 1: come on, and I'll cry and I'm looking at her
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Speaker 1: like can I get down, and she'll say no, just
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Speaker 1: say no, and then she'll give me the mi like
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Speaker 1: you ready, and I'll go into this song and I'll
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Speaker 1: sing I still have joy, Still have joy to all
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Speaker 1: the things I've been too, still have joy and you know,
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Speaker 1: and then I'll get finished, thinking that she'll be proud
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Speaker 1: and it's just say sing it one more time with feeling.
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Speaker 1: And I think that that's kind of what change, because
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Speaker 1: by the time I would finish singing it again, I
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Speaker 1: would open up my eyes and it wouldn't be a
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Speaker 1: dry in the room. Mom would be crying. Mom, my
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Speaker 1: sisters and my cousins would be paying attention and proud
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Speaker 1: of me, and that was something that would come out.
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Speaker 1: So she just always taught me to get over that
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Speaker 1: fear and let me know that it wasn't real. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't gonna do nothing but stopped me and uh and
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Speaker 1: and me breaking through that and sing it was really good.
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Speaker 1: My mom identified that gift early, and they cultivated it
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Speaker 1: and caught it, caught it quick, and I was able
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Speaker 1: to get busy early. Man. Well, you know, it's really
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Speaker 1: interesting because I had a very early church experience. I
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Speaker 1: was seven years old, and you know, they called me
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Speaker 1: to the front of the church. You know, I remember
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Speaker 1: the church, Sunlight Baptist Church. That's the church right at
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Speaker 1: the corner, you know it, because it's like trauma. They
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Speaker 1: called me up there and and I couldn't sing, so
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Speaker 1: I can only talk. And I remember I told him that,
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Speaker 1: I just said, I want to be a place where
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Speaker 1: you can change my life, because if you change my life,
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Speaker 1: I can make somebody else life better. And then they went,
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Speaker 1: did this come from a seven year old boy? All?
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Speaker 1: I'm just speaking? I was just speaking. I would just
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Speaker 1: speaking and um. But but nlike you, I didn't have
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Speaker 1: mentors that kept me straight. You know. I just went
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Speaker 1: out into the world just learning on the fly. And
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Speaker 1: I learned on the fly and and and nothing wrong
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Speaker 1: with the path that I've taken, because I've done nothing wrong.
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Speaker 1: But but what I hear is your storytelling is these mentors,
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Speaker 1: these these people who these important values that females put
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Speaker 1: into your life. That gave you a soul or suftness
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Speaker 1: to be able to share with us do music. Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: and it was also a lesson inside of it too.
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Speaker 1: You say mentors, I say like gatekeepers, and these are
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Speaker 1: people who kind of helped me through, like um, get
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Speaker 1: through certain access points. You know, I'm on top of it.
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Speaker 1: There was was a vicarious blessing inside of me that
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Speaker 1: they didn't want to see tainted, thwart it, exploited are
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Speaker 1: are used negatively, So there was kind of responsibility on
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Speaker 1: people around me to protect me. Um. I guess in
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Speaker 1: them too actually with me doing it young, so they
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Speaker 1: kind of took it upon themselves. The hard part was
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Speaker 1: getting over and passed when that's when that security and
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Speaker 1: counsel and mentor ship was done. When I was actually
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Speaker 1: at the at the end of that, and that the
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Speaker 1: cusps and the precipice of what was actually supposed to
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Speaker 1: happen with me. It's kind of like everybody, if they're blessed,
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Speaker 1: you get reared from like you know, going into school
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Speaker 1: and when you graduate to twelfth grade, but then when
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Speaker 1: you go on your own, that's actually the beginning of
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Speaker 1: your responsive life. You get what I'm saying, So all
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Speaker 1: the all the things that you were saying were really good,
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Speaker 1: but I never got nothing done and I never actually
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Speaker 1: made no real money because those were the people who
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Speaker 1: were actually the minds over it. So they were kind
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Speaker 1: of caught the fish right before it fell into my mouth,
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Speaker 1: you get what I mean. And the only thing that
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Speaker 1: I was getting at that time is what was dispensed
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Speaker 1: to me. That right there made me very eager to
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Speaker 1: get out there and learn the things that I needed
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Speaker 1: to myself. That taught me the contractual information that I
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Speaker 1: needed to know to find why they were so driven
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Speaker 1: to do what they were doing and to make more
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Speaker 1: we couldn't operate and fear. We know, it's really interesting
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Speaker 1: just hearing your voice and hearing that tone, and you know,
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Speaker 1: because um, I like the listen to music, especially artists
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Speaker 1: I've never heard before in the dark, because I always
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Speaker 1: like to just be in a dark space, because I
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Speaker 1: don't want visuals to interfere with the with the lyrics.
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Speaker 1: Because it really people do that. They realized that, you know,
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Speaker 1: music is really powerful, you know, you know, and and
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Speaker 1: it moves me to tears, you know, it can move
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Speaker 1: me to laughter, it can move me to understand and
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Speaker 1: and then I then I then I start going to
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Speaker 1: do your bio and I'm going your influences sam cooking,
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Speaker 1: your influences old and oldest reading. I'm going like what
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Speaker 1: this young board, nobody? This is what this young board?
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Speaker 1: Nobody that Molly music? What you know about old this
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Speaker 1: come on now saying well, I always loved music, and
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Speaker 1: and I was blessed to come up in like a
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Speaker 1: hip hop era and um and also I was like
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Speaker 1: classically influence on piano. So there was a version of
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Speaker 1: my piano playing when my soul was just happy, when
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Speaker 1: I'm out there slapping doing what I moaned. And then
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Speaker 1: that was a version that came when I would be
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Speaker 1: able to implement and showpin and different things that would
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Speaker 1: give me techniques that would bring class and flare. Then
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Speaker 1: church runs will start to turning, the jazz runs, and
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Speaker 1: then art tatum would start to come out of it,
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Speaker 1: and then there will be these different tones. Like so
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Speaker 1: if I would do things on the piano, the people
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Speaker 1: that would hear it mentors before me, say boy, you
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Speaker 1: need to listen to this, And that's how I got
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Speaker 1: turned onto it. But one of the biggest things was,
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Speaker 1: like I said, coming up in the hip hop Era,
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Speaker 1: all of these samples. Everything was sample crazy like, and
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Speaker 1: I would be the one that will look and want
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Speaker 1: to hear the original song, so I would. So there
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Speaker 1: would these type of artists that would get sample consistently,
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Speaker 1: and those would be the ones that went. That's how
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Speaker 1: I got really big on James Brown, really big on
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Speaker 1: Ray Charles, really big on Arista My Hellia, you know,
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Speaker 1: and just started going back and then as I was
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Speaker 1: looking compare, there will be no black singers that would
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Speaker 1: have that type of electrifying sect for people now, and
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Speaker 1: I wanted to replicate that. And what I did, well,
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Speaker 1: you know the thing I love about, you know, not
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Speaker 1: He was right at the beginning of what I'm trying
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Speaker 1: what was going on, but you know, man, because you know,
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Speaker 1: year these brothers going in there saying I gotta have this,
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Speaker 1: I want my rights, I want my I want all
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Speaker 1: back to me, or that percentage isn't enough because they
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Speaker 1: know they could just stop playing your music right there.
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Speaker 1: You know, that's when Paola was blatant back then and
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Speaker 1: then and then and to hear you, I just got
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Speaker 1: and and what it excites me? You said, I know
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Speaker 1: I can only describe. You know, I'm a I'm a
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Speaker 1: visual communicator, but you have the emotional you have the journey.
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Speaker 1: Mr Music talked to us about why did you do
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Speaker 1: the song this song let Go? Right, Well, I'm really
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Speaker 1: excited about the song let Go. I feel like it
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Speaker 1: is a necessary part um. My last album, The Transition
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Speaker 1: of Molley Music I was released the end of two thousands,
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Speaker 1: and um I was really I was wanting to release
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Speaker 1: another album once. I didn't want to in the circumstances
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Speaker 1: I was in at the time. I was with Sony
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Speaker 1: the Way of by Storm, with Mark Pitts and m
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Speaker 1: those guys over there whoever to help me with the
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Speaker 1: initial album Molly is um. But there was some understanding issues,
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Speaker 1: or some release issues, or just some conflictual things that
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Speaker 1: was going on that I didn't want to destroy my career,
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Speaker 1: on my future, on my opportunity. There was some love
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Speaker 1: and some understanding there too, so we had to do
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Speaker 1: some things I had to let go there. That turned
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Speaker 1: into a lot of business and you know, legal stuff
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Speaker 1: that was going on. And as I was coming out, UM,
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Speaker 1: I recognized in order to get back into the groove.
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Speaker 1: I needed to heal first. I needed to extract all
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Speaker 1: the things that I had um brought in to get
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Speaker 1: where I was. For example, we may see a movie
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Speaker 1: where there's a person who goes to war and and
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Speaker 1: there's a mindset or a level of uh, just a
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Speaker 1: heightened attention stand that they need for their own lives
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Speaker 1: to keeping their head on the swivel in a sense.
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Speaker 1: But once you come back to a place of peace,
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Speaker 1: you have to relearn and readapt peace techniques and and
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Speaker 1: you know, not not fixing your gun, not sharpening your sword,
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Speaker 1: not looking over your shoulder recognizing that it's there. So
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Speaker 1: the let go represents that Um, the fact that you know, Molly,
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Speaker 1: you're out, know you've made it. God has given you success.
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Speaker 1: Don't be Um. You don't be a prisoner in your mind,
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Speaker 1: even though you were cast it into prison. You know,
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Speaker 1: don't be um murderer in your mind, even though God
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Speaker 1: gave you, you know, the head of your enemies, you know,
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Speaker 1: for you to get to where you are. You know,
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Speaker 1: don't be Um. Anything negative inside of your mind got
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Speaker 1: equipped you to get where you are now. It's something
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Speaker 1: for you to shake those things off and stand as
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Speaker 1: a king and champion and the representation that God will
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Speaker 1: have me to be. In order to do that, I
18:30
Speaker 1: had to be honest about the things that I had
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Speaker 1: accumulated going up. And it was just very candid and cool.
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Speaker 1: Like in the verse, I say, it's just the force
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Speaker 1: of the habit. It's right in my way, so I
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Speaker 1: grab it. It's right in my way, so I passed.
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Speaker 1: It's right at the boss saw a blasted. It's a
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Speaker 1: classic attack, like an addict all of the time, gotta
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Speaker 1: have it. It's right in my way as I passed,
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Speaker 1: you know, and I'm talking about all of the temptations
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Speaker 1: and all of the reasons why I wouldn't want to
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Speaker 1: go forward. But it luckily and beautifully lands in the
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Speaker 1: phrase right to the altar to cast it on the
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Speaker 1: shoulders of my Lord and all things. That's where I
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Speaker 1: find deliverance, and I believe that all people can get
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Speaker 1: a chance to be set free, because you can't make
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Speaker 1: any money making decisions with bad things on your mind,
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Speaker 1: especially like guilt, anxiety, haste, fear. Got to be clear headed.
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Speaker 1: You know. It's really a great here in your the
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Speaker 1: honesty and uh of your tone. You know, I I'm
19:21
Speaker 1: you know, Steve Harry and I started on a radio
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Speaker 1: hip hop and RB in Houston, Houston, Los Angeles and
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Speaker 1: two thousands, and uh we've met many artists over the years.
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Speaker 1: And and so one of the key artists that we
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Speaker 1: met early on was Anthony Hamilton. Another story, tell another story.
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Speaker 1: Charlene is one of my all time great songs, one
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Speaker 1: of my favorites too. Absolutely, and then move forward and
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Speaker 1: my money making conversation platform. I've come to be introduced
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Speaker 1: to my man, Travis Green, and then my boy looked crazy,
19:53
Speaker 1: you know, so to see see see, that's that's you,
19:56
Speaker 1: my man, in the sense that y'all coming forward music
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Speaker 1: that's taking the older generation and bringing us down, you know,
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Speaker 1: bringing us down, you know, because what happens is we
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Speaker 1: got to accept the fact we can't keep listening to
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Speaker 1: old music. We can't listen to keep listening to old jays.
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Speaker 1: And it's hard not to keep listening to No. No.
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Speaker 1: This is what I'm saying, is that because they won't
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Speaker 1: allow them make any new music. You know what I'm saying. Uh,
20:20
Speaker 1: you know, they won't, they won't, they won't. The industry
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Speaker 1: plays it like that, you know, they go, hey, you
20:24
Speaker 1: can't make no more music. Nobody want They'll tell you
20:26
Speaker 1: don't nobody want to listen to your music. We will
20:28
Speaker 1: keep playing your old music, and so so when we
20:31
Speaker 1: have tality individuals like yourself, and I mentioned some earlier,
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Speaker 1: but this interview is about you know that your journey
20:38
Speaker 1: is important because it provides a support system for somebody
20:42
Speaker 1: like me to continue to enjoy new music, continue to
20:45
Speaker 1: be emotionally attached to something that can motivate me and
20:48
Speaker 1: get me out of my bed. M I think about
20:52
Speaker 1: um to communicate to that as well. If there's somebody
20:56
Speaker 1: that's left out, then I don't know if you did
20:57
Speaker 1: it did enough job in the music. So a song
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Speaker 1: on my album called Molly. On the album Molly is
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Speaker 1: called heavy Love that really I feel resonates with all
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Speaker 1: the generations just from the first note, the first flap
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Speaker 1: to the end, I feel, you know, from Age to
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Speaker 1: Age of Gold is another song and the name beautiful,
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Speaker 1: and I feel that's the same thing. And I looked
21:17
Speaker 1: to do a lot of those, um you know, tell
21:19
Speaker 1: those stories. It's a song on the transition of Molly name.
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Speaker 1: You should sit down for this, which is what came
21:24
Speaker 1: out of me in the studio in London when I
21:26
Speaker 1: got the phone call that I lost my father from
21:28
Speaker 1: the doctor and it was a really cool moment and
21:32
Speaker 1: I was just linking with Anthony Hamilton's on Grammy Weeks.
21:36
Speaker 1: I went up to the c a a party has
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Speaker 1: a difficulty at the door, and he the one that
21:41
Speaker 1: got me in. So you know, it's really cool that
21:43
Speaker 1: you would say that, and to speak to the honesty
21:46
Speaker 1: coming from coming from the church and coming from the
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Speaker 1: heart of love. I always looked forward to meeting a
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Speaker 1: person that probably would come at living forgot like I'm
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Speaker 1: doing now. I guess I always look to do it,
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Speaker 1: but I never saw it. I always would see people
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Speaker 1: take the responsibility to dress God up. They would take
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Speaker 1: they would think that He would be not good, so
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Speaker 1: they would put a tie on it or or put
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Speaker 1: a wash rag on the things that I would want
22:15
Speaker 1: to see on them to be able to identify with them,
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Speaker 1: which would give God more glory. So instead of going
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Speaker 1: forward and living a double life, they categorize me as
22:25
Speaker 1: an R and B or a hip hop or a
22:27
Speaker 1: slash neo gospel somebody, not just gospel. Just because I
22:31
Speaker 1: will not succumb to leading mebons of people to believe
22:35
Speaker 1: that I live a life that I do not, or
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Speaker 1: or that I'm interested in things that I am not,
22:41
Speaker 1: or are not interested in things. So it's not about that.
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Speaker 1: To God be the glory. And I trust that God
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Speaker 1: is big enough to get the glory, and he doesn't
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Speaker 1: need me lying to get bolt. So his goodness, if
22:53
Speaker 1: it works on me, then it can work on other people.
22:56
Speaker 1: And his goodness, it's gonna work on my bad He's
22:59
Speaker 1: gonna fix my my, my hurt. He's gonna he's gonna
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Speaker 1: bring um, he's gonna heal my my pains, He's gonna
23:05
Speaker 1: heal my mind. In order for him to be the
23:08
Speaker 1: same instrumental guard that he is in everyone else's life,
23:10
Speaker 1: I need to have my own version of anxiety, my
23:13
Speaker 1: own versions of fears, my own versions of hesitations. And
23:17
Speaker 1: once I bring them to him, and he can not
23:19
Speaker 1: only be a good guy in my mouth, but a
23:21
Speaker 1: good guy in my life. I can have receipts from
23:23
Speaker 1: the time for me yielding to him recently, like I
23:27
Speaker 1: just got off my knees about this and he answered it.
23:30
Speaker 1: That couple with wealth and success is unstoppable. Love it,
23:36
Speaker 1: Love it. Now you are I'm on the phone with
23:39
Speaker 1: a man. He's influenced by Sam Cook and Oders Reading.
23:42
Speaker 1: He's three time Grammy nominated artists, songwriting musician. And now
23:46
Speaker 1: let's talk about the because we kind of dipped it in
23:48
Speaker 1: in a little bit. We was talking about what Dame
23:49
Speaker 1: James Brown was doing, and Sam Cook was down and
23:52
Speaker 1: Rachel and many other artists use the CEO of your
23:55
Speaker 1: own business or cares enterprises. Tell me why you started that,
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Speaker 1: what is the focus of your business. Well, I'm really
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Speaker 1: excited about Gave Food because it's a dream come true
24:06
Speaker 1: for me. I was the young boy getting in trouble
24:09
Speaker 1: in school for doodling with my production company symbol when
24:13
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be taking spelling class notes or something.
24:17
Speaker 1: So I always was anticipating being a house that could
24:20
Speaker 1: deliver a specific type of content to the world. As
24:25
Speaker 1: I was coming up, I had to recognize that I
24:28
Speaker 1: was willing to partner and move and negotiate things, and
24:32
Speaker 1: you know where, I would be lending portions of percentages
24:35
Speaker 1: of myself two partners and companies in order to get
24:38
Speaker 1: an opportunity to advance. But if you offer a good portion,
24:43
Speaker 1: it could be very difficult to get off of that
24:45
Speaker 1: so um. I never intended on being an artist, but
24:51
Speaker 1: I was glad to open up my mouth to be
24:53
Speaker 1: able to show my colleagues and other artists who were
24:56
Speaker 1: scared that it could actually happen. So I just kind
24:59
Speaker 1: of was the brave one when the more talented people
25:02
Speaker 1: were just more afraid. So I'm like, man, if you
25:04
Speaker 1: just do this, and I would do it and it'll happen.
25:07
Speaker 1: So that so bravery and or just confidence you know
25:12
Speaker 1: that what you have as good as a is a
25:14
Speaker 1: big deal as well. But artists like my sister and
25:18
Speaker 1: KP and people who are come in contact with Kristen Mason,
25:23
Speaker 1: Angelina Shari, Artists like Travis Green who who would be
25:28
Speaker 1: coming up under the tutelage of mentoring of what we
25:31
Speaker 1: would be doing in Savannah, Georgia, as well, John Den
25:34
Speaker 1: mc reynolds as we would be touring in Chicago, Tasha
25:37
Speaker 1: Cobbs who would be connected with us in the certain
25:39
Speaker 1: of what we were doing. Dion Kipping, who would be
25:42
Speaker 1: connected inside of the surge of for what we're doing.
25:44
Speaker 1: He was the first person that traveled me from Savannah,
25:47
Speaker 1: Georgia and my full band up to his surprise birthday
25:50
Speaker 1: party in Connecticut, where I met youthful praise and and
25:54
Speaker 1: those guys, and I just started to trickle up to
25:56
Speaker 1: Hezekaya Walker, Donna Lawrence. My life just completely changed, you know,
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Speaker 1: just from this honesty and this walk. So I'm excited
26:04
Speaker 1: about all of it and just really want to encourage
26:06
Speaker 1: everybody to get to that point of openness and forwardness
26:10
Speaker 1: inside of what they're doing. But there was only so
26:12
Speaker 1: much that I could do because I did not earn
26:14
Speaker 1: enough to be able to impact my own life to
26:18
Speaker 1: be able to help anyone else. So I had to
26:21
Speaker 1: find out where the money was going, Why was I
26:24
Speaker 1: valuable to companies, How did I accumulate wealth? And could
26:28
Speaker 1: I apply that to my own self. Once I recognized
26:32
Speaker 1: that I could, I needed to attain ownership a game
26:35
Speaker 1: of what it was that was achieving. Lending was for
26:37
Speaker 1: me clear the name, you know. Now, I put it
26:40
Speaker 1: inside of a house that houses k approved. I will
26:44
Speaker 1: be flagshipping as money music. But it's not about me.
26:47
Speaker 1: It's proof that we can do it. And there's a
26:49
Speaker 1: way that my colleagues and partners and artists and creators
26:53
Speaker 1: can come that we can kind of shortcut a lot
26:56
Speaker 1: of the roundabout ways of searching for the right place.
26:59
Speaker 1: If it's have been beautiful, inspired by God, spirit breathed,
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Speaker 1: and you have a plan, we can do something with it.
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Speaker 1: And that's why I built k Approved to be able
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Speaker 1: to to create another developmental area where people could be
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Speaker 1: UH recorded, put out, have an opportunity to make mistakes
27:24
Speaker 1: in the community of people of love that loved them,
27:27
Speaker 1: and we can create successful UH artists that do different
27:31
Speaker 1: types of music, creators that do different types of visuals,
27:36
Speaker 1: and photographers who shoot different types of pictures. I can't
27:40
Speaker 1: change the culture if I can't influence it, and I
27:42
Speaker 1: needed to influence it from my house that I owned. Awesome.
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Speaker 1: All I know is this my friend. You're special. I
27:50
Speaker 1: like you, said ra Sean got I gotta do my homework.
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Speaker 1: I gotta go back to Molly Is. I gotta listen
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Speaker 1: Walking Shoes, gotta listen to A Gotta listened to Johnny
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Speaker 1: you will not do to me? Molly, Mr Molly Music,
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Speaker 1: you let you know I believe in you, and I
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Speaker 1: let you know how much I believe in you. I
28:19
Speaker 1: said some names to you by artists that you just
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