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Will Downing is an R&B Singer know as Prince of Sophisticated Soul, "Nothing Has Ever Felt Like This," "A Million Ways," and "Sorry I" · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: trooper as as as they say has a sultry voice?
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Speaker 1: Is what has a voice that I don't have? By
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Speaker 1: the way, my next guest is Will Downing, with a
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Speaker 1: career expands thirty or two years in the music business
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Speaker 1: and twenty three albums to his credit. The Prince of
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Speaker 1: Sophisticated Soul has a repertoire that consists of signature interpretations
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Speaker 1: of R and B classics like I Go Crazy, Wishing
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Speaker 1: on the Star and I Try with original hits A
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Speaker 1: Million Ways Sorry I and the show stopping duet with
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Speaker 1: Rachel Farrell. Nothing has ever felt like this. Will is
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Speaker 1: discussing his release of his latest music project, So Many
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Speaker 1: Good Die Young, a moving and powerful tribute song and video,
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Speaker 1: as well as current events such as being an artist
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Speaker 1: in the pandemic, coping with work stoppage, hosting this popular
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Speaker 1: making Conversation. I've seen it many times on stage in Houston,
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Speaker 1: Texas at the Arena Theater. My man Will Donnie, How
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Speaker 1: you doing pretty good, my friend? Pretty good? I mentioned
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Speaker 1: that I mentioned I threw back some history on you
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Speaker 1: the Houston, Texas That's why I'm born and raised. Many
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Speaker 1: times I've seen you in concert at the Arena theater.
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Speaker 1: Tell everybody what the arena theater is and some of
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Speaker 1: the complications that it presents for a performer like you. Well, uh,
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Speaker 1: first and foremost good to see you. I always loved
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Speaker 1: playing in the Houston area. In Houston, I mean I
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Speaker 1: think I started my first show there was that like Rockefellers. Man, Yeah, wow,
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Speaker 1: for I know exactly. Oh yeah, I just looked this way. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: my mind of works a little bit. I know exactly. Rockefellers.
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Speaker 1: There you go. Yeah. Yeah. But the Arena theater, for
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Speaker 1: those who don't know, it's a theater in the round.
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Speaker 1: It's one of the few that still exists in the
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Speaker 1: in the country. Uh, there's one in New York, and
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Speaker 1: I think maybe the Arena might be the only. There's
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Speaker 1: another one and and Arizona. But what I was gonna
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Speaker 1: say is a theater, it's a it's a stage that rotates,
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Speaker 1: so it rotates very slowly, so when you're performing, it's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: there's that lady. Is that lady again? Is that lady?
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Speaker 1: So it's a rotating stage teach about three thousand people. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: and you have to entertain because basically you have to
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Speaker 1: kind of cater to everyone. It's not like you're looking
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Speaker 1: at them, you know, head on. It's like you gotta
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Speaker 1: turn around and look this way, to look this way
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Speaker 1: and try to make everyone engage. So it's it's a
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Speaker 1: it's an interesting concept. But if you're a good entertainer, uh,
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Speaker 1: it's it's a perfect you know setting, absolutely well. You
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Speaker 1: know when we were talking about your career and that
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Speaker 1: being a singer and that you in the time, I
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Speaker 1: don't know what you consider the times we are living
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Speaker 1: in right now with the pandemic and with the social
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Speaker 1: unrest that's going about. Because I want to get to
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Speaker 1: your song so many Good Die Young and includes some
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Speaker 1: social unrest conversation and that in that tremendous song. Where
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Speaker 1: is it as an artists emotionally? Where are you at
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Speaker 1: right now? Will Downing? Well, you know what I think
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Speaker 1: that as artists and I can speak for some of
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Speaker 1: my other artists friends because we talk often. It's a
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Speaker 1: roller coaster ride, you know. Um, you know, we were
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Speaker 1: riding high for a long time. I mean, you know,
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Speaker 1: work was plentiful, and then all of a sudden in March,
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Speaker 1: this thing just sort of hit and most of us
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Speaker 1: were kind of thinking like, oh, you know, we'll be
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Speaker 1: out of work for maybe a month or so, you know,
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Speaker 1: and then we'll get back and here we are and
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Speaker 1: you know, November and even the horizon, you know that
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Speaker 1: that light at the end of the tunnel, it's very dim,
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Speaker 1: So you know, we're looking at you know, probably you know,
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Speaker 1: the mid part of one before we get back to work.
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Speaker 1: So in the meantime, you know, we have to make
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Speaker 1: do with what we have and find a new way.
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Speaker 1: Has been challenging for something interesting for us. So when
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Speaker 1: you say, because look, a lot of people look at
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Speaker 1: a singer, doesn't realize a singer or performer like you're
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Speaker 1: you're an entrepreneur. You're a business person, and so when
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Speaker 1: you're looking at the business, you have to put together
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Speaker 1: a budget and other people depend on your your touring,
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Speaker 1: your revenue that you bring to the table. Like I said,
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Speaker 1: we all expected it to be as well as I
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm an entrepreneur own the business and the
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Speaker 1: line of George, I have employees that look to me
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Speaker 1: to deliver a paycheck at least twice a month when
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Speaker 1: they expected to pay their own personal bills. And so
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Speaker 1: when they when they told us to shut down for
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Speaker 1: two months, I thought, like, you up. And maybe we've
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Speaker 1: been back up and running. But then when all the
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Speaker 1: advertising industry said, hey, we're gonna go away for the
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Speaker 1: second quarter and then the third quarter, and then we
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Speaker 1: look now when we see the pandemic is spiking again.
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Speaker 1: You know, we're over a hundred and fifty cases per day.
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Speaker 1: So that's what you're saying, is that when it looks
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Speaker 1: like it may be a potential to get turned around
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Speaker 1: and live venues start opening back up and featuring consistent,
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Speaker 1: there are some venues out there to open, but it's
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Speaker 1: inconsistent because of the fact that all people willing are
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Speaker 1: comfortable to go back into arenas. Because right now the
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Speaker 1: movie industry is dying because people are not comfortable with
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Speaker 1: going into movie theaters. So what do you think is
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Speaker 1: the big push that's gonna make a difference. Is the vaccine?
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Speaker 1: All you think a conference zone with people accept the
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Speaker 1: responsibility of wearing masks, Well, I think it's a combination
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Speaker 1: of both, and unfortunately, uh, you know, people of color
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Speaker 1: have been used as guinea pigs for you know, these
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Speaker 1: vaccines in the past, and it hasn't really worked out
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Speaker 1: well for us. So I'm assuming that a lot of
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Speaker 1: folks are sort of like, you know, I think I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna wait, you know, and and see what happens soon,
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Speaker 1: you know, other folks, and and see how this you know,
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Speaker 1: see how this vaccine works. So um. And then plus
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Speaker 1: you know, for my demographic, you know, our demographic is
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Speaker 1: slightly older. Um that you don't have to yeah, get
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Speaker 1: out of there. We know we will. But you're telling
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Speaker 1: the truth, you know, because I'm gonna tell you when
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Speaker 1: when when the uh pandemic hit in Atlanta, Georgia, eight
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Speaker 1: out of the ten cases that were in the hospital
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Speaker 1: or African Americans. And so that is why when I
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Speaker 1: look at it, the whole situation right now, you know,
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Speaker 1: that's where Donald Trump was out there campaigning. They didn't
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Speaker 1: want to say it, but they know who has been affecting.
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Speaker 1: Its affecting people of color, people over sixty five. And
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Speaker 1: that wasn't his base, and so so he was just
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Speaker 1: out there flaunting it. Again his base can get COVID nineteen,
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Speaker 1: but not like at the risk of like we can
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Speaker 1: get it. And I said, we mean people of color,
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Speaker 1: African Americans, especially when you say eight out of ten cases.
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Speaker 1: So they all know from a standpoint that you know,
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Speaker 1: that's why that that the minority community when I include
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Speaker 1: the minority, including the Latinos. But this is our audience,
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Speaker 1: and so you know our audience dollars already stretched anyway
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Speaker 1: will and so when you have us having to deal
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Speaker 1: with you know, uh no stimulus package, uh venues that
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Speaker 1: are not available for us to perform in. When I
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Speaker 1: say us, you know, I book venues. I booked talent.
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Speaker 1: I've been a talent myself as a stand up comic,
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Speaker 1: So I know what it takes and what it what
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Speaker 1: it means when you go out there with these venues opportunities,
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Speaker 1: venue opportunity, you make a difference when you used to
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Speaker 1: come in to Houston because that venue was open and
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Speaker 1: then people work through ticket booth, people did the ticket
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Speaker 1: you know, did soul drinks. And so you are like
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Speaker 1: a machine and you are a revenue generator not only
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Speaker 1: for the for yourself personally for the city of Houston.
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Speaker 1: You know, you flew into town. You know, you had
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Speaker 1: car service, hotel, so you know, I don't know if
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Speaker 1: you look at yourself at that perspective. So as you
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Speaker 1: go from town to town, you're just moving. You just
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Speaker 1: bringing your little revenue generating behind from each city, and
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Speaker 1: you're making a difference in the community. And that's not
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Speaker 1: happening anymore. And that's a really big deal. Do you
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Speaker 1: recog responsibility, Yeah, there's certainly a domino theory that you
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Speaker 1: know that you're speaking you know, um, as you said,
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Speaker 1: you know, I have eight employees that you know, eight
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Speaker 1: folks that travel with me, so band members who rely
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Speaker 1: on me in some cases not exclusively to to feed
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Speaker 1: their family, because musicians kind of jumped from you know,
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Speaker 1: artists to artists. Uh, and they make it work in
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Speaker 1: their calendar somehow so that no one gets screwed. You know.
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Speaker 1: So if I'm performing, you know, more than likely there's
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Speaker 1: someone that they're working with is not hitting at the
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Speaker 1: same time or the same uh, same same weekend, so
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Speaker 1: we can get the same folks. So needless to say,
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Speaker 1: eight or nine people I employed, uh, and they you know,
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Speaker 1: when this thing hit, they were looking at me like,
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Speaker 1: you know, hey, you want to take this chance, and
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Speaker 1: as you just said, you know, this disproportionately hits our community.
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Speaker 1: And as I was saying earlier, the age demo for us,
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Speaker 1: if even if they did open up the venues, now,
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Speaker 1: if a lot of the people that come to my
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Speaker 1: concerts check off all those boxes, you know, hot blood
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Speaker 1: pressure of a certain age, uh, you know, had pre
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Speaker 1: existing uh conditions. So if someone were to come through
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Speaker 1: the arena theater to come see me, and if someone sneeze,
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Speaker 1: people would be running up them aisle to get the
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Speaker 1: freak out and not to mention the potential loss, will
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Speaker 1: you might be running off the stage. I might be
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Speaker 1: running sneeze good night. Yeah, I mean it's just a
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Speaker 1: risk that uh right now, uh is I don't think
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Speaker 1: that's a smart thing to do. Um. I think everyone
10:33
Speaker 1: just has to be patient, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: I know we've been patient for some time, and yes
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Speaker 1: we are. It looks like we are going into some
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Speaker 1: form of a second lockdown. But even with that, I mean,
10:43
Speaker 1: you're nothing without your health. You know, you gotta you
10:48
Speaker 1: gotta be patients. Just take your time. Well, I want
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Speaker 1: to I want to shift gears and go to the
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Speaker 1: new inspirational single. So many good Die Young. You know,
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Speaker 1: I think that we were really really stunned by the
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Speaker 1: death of Kobe and his daughter g Gi this year.
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Speaker 1: I think the world was stunned. Uh you know, from
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Speaker 1: have a daughter, so I was affected emotionally because I
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Speaker 1: know how much of my daughter means to me. And
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Speaker 1: he died with his daughter, and she was kind of
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Speaker 1: like his his his his female version of him. You know,
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Speaker 1: she played basketball, so she loved her daddy, you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Not saying the other daughters didn't love
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Speaker 1: him either, But but so many people and I starwed
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Speaker 1: and I saw the video and I looked at it
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Speaker 1: again and includes a lot of individuals that you know,
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Speaker 1: when I realized that a Leah she died when she
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Speaker 1: was twenty two, I forgot about it that she was
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Speaker 1: that young and Tupac was twenty five, I was wow,
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Speaker 1: you know, and you know you have Whitney Houston. But
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Speaker 1: before I jumped too early into us, just talk about
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Speaker 1: walk us through the steps of that song coming about
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Speaker 1: so many Good Die Young. It was released November eleven,
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Speaker 1: and one of the main reasons we are interviewing you
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Speaker 1: today is to let people know about that song and
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Speaker 1: get the word out and people start downloading and start
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Speaker 1: living with it and yeah, yeah, well, thank you very much.
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Speaker 1: Um once again. The song is entitled so Many Good
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Speaker 1: Die Young, and the inspiration for it was, I'm working
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Speaker 1: with one of my band members. We've been doing the
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Speaker 1: last my four or five records together, and we were
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Speaker 1: doing this record and I just said, you know, we
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Speaker 1: need something with a little bit more substance, that we're
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Speaker 1: missing a song. You know, I've pretty much been recording
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Speaker 1: an album since we've been off and you know, and
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Speaker 1: listening to what we've had, I said, man, we you know,
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Speaker 1: we got all the dance stuff, we got all the
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Speaker 1: you know, we got all the love songs. I said,
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Speaker 1: we need a song of substance. He said, I'm working
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Speaker 1: on something right now. That's um, It's it's sad, he said,
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Speaker 1: but it's a beautiful song. Is that you want to
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Speaker 1: hear it? I just started on it and he started
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Speaker 1: playing me so Many Good Die Young, and together we
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Speaker 1: forgotten we were talking about. And when I'm feeling the video,
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Speaker 1: when I was watching it and listening to the song,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's a lot of things going on in there,
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Speaker 1: you know, like I said, you know, because you know,
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Speaker 1: we have Kobe in there where Chadwick you know his
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Speaker 1: his untimely death. You know, we have Marvin Gaye, you
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Speaker 1: uh Malcolm Max and then you had a Tupacket in there,
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Speaker 1: in there, Brianna Taylor's in there, so and and and
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Speaker 1: and putting it in the inspiring layers together, because that's
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Speaker 1: a lot of different things going on there. You know,
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Speaker 1: when you have something with Michael Jackson and printing there,
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Speaker 1: you know, you could have went all all Luther and
17:35
Speaker 1: Ross is in there. And so I've seen this video
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Speaker 1: several times as well, so I could I could just
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Speaker 1: start rattling off, you know, my boy, and I saw
17:42
Speaker 1: Gerald leaverte I almost and Sean I took a seatback
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Speaker 1: because Gerald's death was a shocker to Gerald Leverte uh
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Speaker 1: and so when I when I look, when it could
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Speaker 1: have been all music. Okay, because you have Witney and
17:54
Speaker 1: and Leillah, what made you start crossing genres as far
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Speaker 1: as you know, because Chadwick and Kobe Kobe sports, Chadwick
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Speaker 1: When did you start saying, you know something, I gonna
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Speaker 1: include everybody. I have to make sure this message goes
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Speaker 1: across board and I'm not gonna make it just a
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Speaker 1: celebrity driven piece. Well I decided to do that because
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Speaker 1: all of these people really meant something to the world
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Speaker 1: and change the world. I mean, no one, you know,
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Speaker 1: the average person didn't know who George Floyd was. And
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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, the world is looking at
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Speaker 1: the TV and they're saying this officer with his knee
18:44
Speaker 1: on his neck, and all of a sudden people around
18:47
Speaker 1: the world got it, like, Okay, you know, maybe maybe
18:51
Speaker 1: we are leaning a little bit too hard on people
18:54
Speaker 1: of color. You know. It made the world pay attention.
18:57
Speaker 1: They had demonstrations around the world. So it changed. It
19:01
Speaker 1: changed all about thinking the numbers eight, four or six
19:05
Speaker 1: in the time eight minutes and forty six seconds, all
19:08
Speaker 1: of a sudden means something to everyone around the world.
19:11
Speaker 1: It will almost be as iconic as nine a left.
19:14
Speaker 1: You know. So when you think of something like that,
19:17
Speaker 1: that's big and you need to speak on that and
19:19
Speaker 1: let people know. And you know, and and it's funny
19:22
Speaker 1: in the video and it's not funny. But in the video,
19:25
Speaker 1: I put um the officer, you know, I put his
19:28
Speaker 1: picture in the video, and some and some people commented, say, everybody,
19:31
Speaker 1: you put the space. It's like, I never want you
19:33
Speaker 1: to forget how this young man passed away. It was
19:36
Speaker 1: not of natural cause. You know, I always want you
19:39
Speaker 1: to as young folks say, stay woke. I want you
19:41
Speaker 1: to stay awake, stay woke, you know, keep your eyes open.
19:45
Speaker 1: This man took this young man's life at this early age,
19:48
Speaker 1: but in a in a warp sort of a way,
19:50
Speaker 1: he's become a martyr, you know, because now people are awake.
19:53
Speaker 1: Every time they see that, they're kind of like, you know,
19:55
Speaker 1: maybe they'll they'll treat people that don't look like them
19:58
Speaker 1: a little differently, you know, and they're wake up and
20:00
Speaker 1: kind of maybe I should give this person an opportunity.
20:03
Speaker 1: Maybe I shouldn't be so nasty, Maybe I shouldn't you
20:05
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Let's treat each other a little
20:07
Speaker 1: bit more fairly. So you know that that's why I
20:09
Speaker 1: left that in there. So everyone that's on that video
20:12
Speaker 1: has changed the world in some sort of a way,
20:15
Speaker 1: right from a musical standpoint, from an acting stand from
20:19
Speaker 1: from a I think Kobe from a from a parentee standpoint,
20:22
Speaker 1: as well as a sports figure, you know, Hall of
20:24
Speaker 1: Fame career that he had with the l A Lakers.
20:27
Speaker 1: But like I said, you know that's why I was
20:29
Speaker 1: really you know, uh towards B I. G. And and
20:31
Speaker 1: you you really got a lot of people in this
20:34
Speaker 1: in this in this video, and it really uh took
20:38
Speaker 1: me down memory lane. And also like when you go
20:41
Speaker 1: from louther you go to Tupac, go to towards and
20:44
Speaker 1: then when you look at some of me, there's tragic
20:46
Speaker 1: because you know, Tupac was killed you know, by drive
20:50
Speaker 1: by situation. Same thing with Tors B I G. So
20:53
Speaker 1: a lot of these individuals were victimize and Marvin Gaye
20:56
Speaker 1: was killed by his brother. So a lot of the
20:58
Speaker 1: individual victimized by circumstances that that that they didn't even
21:02
Speaker 1: see coming. Uh, didn't even have control of. It wasn't
21:06
Speaker 1: natural causes, you know, you know, we know that live
21:09
Speaker 1: was through a plane crash and so that's that they
21:12
Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to live their lives to the
21:15
Speaker 1: to the fullest because they all died young. And that's
21:17
Speaker 1: the name of the song. So many good die young
21:20
Speaker 1: that right now you can see it on YouTube. Uh.
21:23
Speaker 1: It was released November eleven. I'm putting in my news
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21:42
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21:46
Speaker 1: about the song and I'm not gonna take up too
21:48
Speaker 1: much of your time. Oh no, no. First of all, well,
21:50
Speaker 1: first of all, will you know your family help money
21:52
Speaker 1: Making Conversations that it's my family because I want to
21:55
Speaker 1: talk about more about your greatest accomplishments and because you
21:58
Speaker 1: know the thing about it, and you create relationships and
22:01
Speaker 1: you know the value relationships. And I created this platform
22:04
Speaker 1: because of the fact that I wanted individuals to come
22:06
Speaker 1: on here and talk about their music, but also talk
22:08
Speaker 1: about their career, to talk about their brands. Because you
22:11
Speaker 1: are iconic in this industry, you let icon there's longevity
22:15
Speaker 1: tied to your success. So I'm just let you know.
22:21
Speaker 1: People always say that, you know, everybody wants to be
22:23
Speaker 1: a singer. It's hard man to come into the city
22:26
Speaker 1: and convince somebody to take food off their table and
22:30
Speaker 1: go buy a ticket to come see you. That's a gift.
22:34
Speaker 1: That's it's true. Man. My my father, uh he passed
22:39
Speaker 1: away five years ago. When I told him, you know,
22:42
Speaker 1: many many, many many years ago, that this is what
22:44
Speaker 1: I wanted to do for a living. One of the
22:46
Speaker 1: first things that came out of his face for you know, well,
22:48
Speaker 1: you know, everybody can sing, everybody can dance, everybody can
22:52
Speaker 1: play sports. What makes you special? What makes you think
22:54
Speaker 1: people mud spend their hard earned money to come and
22:57
Speaker 1: see you? And you know, so me there and I
23:01
Speaker 1: laugh about it now, but back that he was very serious.
23:03
Speaker 1: And I remember as I was coming up, I started
23:06
Speaker 1: out in the clubs um like around New York and
23:09
Speaker 1: he would come and he'd come to like, you know,
23:11
Speaker 1: two or three hundred seed there, and you know, he
23:13
Speaker 1: kind of got it then, and I was like, you know, yeah,
23:15
Speaker 1: this is cool. And then one time I played Carnegie
23:18
Speaker 1: Hall and he came to Carnegie Hall and he's like, well,
23:21
Speaker 1: you know what, who else is on the show? I'm like,
23:25
Speaker 1: I said, no, no, Dad, it's just me? Is it?
23:28
Speaker 1: Were you telling me all these people I come to
23:31
Speaker 1: see you? I said, yeah, so you just need here
23:35
Speaker 1: and your mom waa come to fill some seats. I'm like, no, no, no, no,
23:37
Speaker 1: I said, Dad, I think it's sold up to come
23:41
Speaker 1: see you say yeah, So I can see him from
23:46
Speaker 1: the stage. So I come walking out on stage and
23:48
Speaker 1: my father does this. It is the funniest thing ever.
23:52
Speaker 1: I see him and I started singing and people are applauding,
23:55
Speaker 1: and he's doing this. He's looking back in the audience. Yeah,
24:03
Speaker 1: like ye see him, So like, Dad, I'm gonna kill you.
24:10
Speaker 1: But it was it was the moment that he kind
24:12
Speaker 1: of got it, you know, you know, iding the money
24:15
Speaker 1: and people were singing along and he's like, okay, well,
24:18
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, I guess, you know, I guess you
24:20
Speaker 1: are kind of doing absolutely because the same way My
24:24
Speaker 1: father was the same way because I did stand up comedy.
24:27
Speaker 1: So he didn't he didn't even remotely understand how that
24:30
Speaker 1: was gonna be a possible success turn for me. And
24:33
Speaker 1: it wasn't. And I bought a club and uh, Houston,
24:36
Speaker 1: Texas in two and so um. He came in and
24:40
Speaker 1: he looked around. He said, this you and he walked
24:43
Speaker 1: into the room. We see about three fifty people. It
24:45
Speaker 1: was sold out. People as a line outside the door
24:47
Speaker 1: where people couldn't get in to see me. He said,
24:51
Speaker 1: they come here to see you. So I know exactly
24:53
Speaker 1: when you take a person who is blue collar, true
24:56
Speaker 1: and true. Okay, entertainment is you know back there that
25:00
Speaker 1: Sam with David J. You know what I'm saying, that
25:01
Speaker 1: was that was Pearl Bailey, you know to him, you
25:04
Speaker 1: know that was that was? That was the stall and
25:05
Speaker 1: that you know that King Cole dude, his ball, his
25:10
Speaker 1: boy to be a Cornegan Hall, This wife country here
25:13
Speaker 1: and now his wife folks call, I know exactly where
25:15
Speaker 1: it was that now, and that's if anybody knows Carnegie
25:18
Speaker 1: Hall is in Manhattan, it's one of the you know,
25:21
Speaker 1: the classic venues. Man, it's one of the venues when
25:24
Speaker 1: you started making it in this business. You know. You know,
25:27
Speaker 1: you play Carnegie Hall, you know, then you play like
25:30
Speaker 1: you get really big, play you know, play their Masterson
25:33
Speaker 1: Square Guard, play any place like the Fox, any of
25:37
Speaker 1: the Fox theaters, you know, and you sell all those
25:40
Speaker 1: bad boys. Your career is on fine wine Lane right there. Yeah, yeah,
25:47
Speaker 1: you're saying something. So it was. It was an Hall
25:50
Speaker 1: moment and it's and it's also good to know that
25:52
Speaker 1: people do you know, spend their hard earned money to
25:55
Speaker 1: come see you, you know, and it's it's tough out there,
25:57
Speaker 1: you know, and and you know people have responded stabilities,
26:00
Speaker 1: they have children, they have bills, you know, and for
26:03
Speaker 1: someone to kind of say, I'm gonna take my money
26:06
Speaker 1: and go see this person, right, you know, that means
26:09
Speaker 1: a lot. Well, my whole thing that, like I said,
26:12
Speaker 1: what you're taking the time to come on money making conversation,
26:14
Speaker 1: Will is that you know, your your brand is like
26:17
Speaker 1: I said, you know you're so humble, but believe me
26:21
Speaker 1: when I hear I try. You know, you know you're
26:24
Speaker 1: sitting on that stool. I can see that video, right
26:26
Speaker 1: now you know you're sitting on that stood that black
26:29
Speaker 1: and white. But this bar do you remember too even
26:32
Speaker 1: remember too much? Well, I can't sing, but I can
26:41
Speaker 1: be you though, you know what I'm saying. I can
26:43
Speaker 1: imagine myself being you because of the fact that your gifts,
26:48
Speaker 1: your talent, man, you're you. You've given us a sound
26:51
Speaker 1: that relaxes me. You know what I'm saying that that
26:54
Speaker 1: makes me feel good about the tomorrow. And that's all
26:57
Speaker 1: that we ask And your song and you know so
27:00
Speaker 1: many good die young. It's really about a song about tomorrow.
27:03
Speaker 1: Like you said, you know, never never look to today
27:07
Speaker 1: and say I can do it tomorrow, do it today
27:09
Speaker 1: if you can do it today today, And that's what
27:12
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27:14
Speaker 1: putting it together again, came I November Loving I'm putting
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27:20
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27:23
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27:25
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27:27
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27:29
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27:31
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27:33
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27:45
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27:56
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