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Ooh, boy, you're looking like you like what you see.
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Won't you come over and check up on it? I'ma
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let you work up on it. Ladies, let him check
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up on it. Watch it while he check up on it.
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Tip it, pop it, twerk it, stuff. Check on me tonight.
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If you got it, flaunt it. Boy, I know you
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want it.
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While I turn around, you watch me check up on it.
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Who you watching me check it? You can see it
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in your face. You take it, it's blazing.
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You watch me in amazement. You can look at it
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as long as you don't grab it. If you don't
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go bragging, I'ma let you have it. You might think
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I'm teasing, but I ain't got no reason. Sure that
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I can't please you, but first I gotta read you.
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Take it, XT.
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No if.
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You got it everybody welcome back to the blackest show
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about nothing I-M-X-D, a.k.a.
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The Chuck D of homosexuality, a.k.a. homo without a pause, a.k.a.
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the gay F-E-Y, cause nigga, we all got pain, a.k.a. Magnificent, a.k.a. Hoesha, a.k.a. Mr. Is-That-Your-Car,
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the S-K-8, a.k.a. your auntie's favorite auntie, a.k.a. Mr. Swingload.
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chariot aka the black gay mod and then there's mod
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aka handsome and hellacious as fuck handsome and hellacious as
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fuck aka dank Mitchell cause I stay on Saturn aka
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the black Linda Richmond is like butter and we're on
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the spook aka the gay Mary Poppins cause I'm perfectly
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perfect in every way aka homa la flor tanta amor
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aka Iyana Faxant A.K.A. Barbra Streisand. People, people who need people. A.K.A. Mr.
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19% because every day should have 19% of me. A.K.A. Mr.
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I'm lost without a coin. A.K.A. I'm everyone, I'm everyone,
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my baby. A.K.A. Shirley the Drag Queen. A.K.A. Star because
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I bring me. A.K.A. Zoran Gay Dami because I get
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shit done. A.K.A. Once. Twice. Three times a baddie. A.K.A. Mr.
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DD4L because I'm the baddest heffa on the floor. A.K.A.
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Oil Tycoon True Paul Charles. A.K.A. Mr. Never Eat a
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Corn Dog on a Nude Beach. A.K.A.
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I'm a chain.
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A.K.A. Michelle because my man got two jobs. And A.K.A. Mr.
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Fuck Ice.
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I love it. I'm Jade.
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A.K.A.
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FBA Youngboy, a.k.a. Return of the Jedi, a.k.a. Nigga's Sister Friend, NSF, a.k.a.
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Mercury in Retro.
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Jade, a.k.a.
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Johnna Luia, a.k.a.
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Negative Helga, a.k.a. David Ruffin's Lighter, a.k.a. Ill Nigga Alert,
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Ill Nigga Alert, a.k.a. Hey, kitty nigga, I pull triggers.
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If you walk up on.
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Me, nigga, you gon' see, a.k.a. We're all born naked
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and the rest is hagged.
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A.K.A.
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Damn Big Bro, were you dropping some heat? Niggas thought
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she was pregnant.
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A.K.A.
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Big Red.
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A.K.A.
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Me and you, your daddy and your cousin too.
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A.K.A.
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Can you take me higher?
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A.K.A.
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The Black Beverly Goldberg.
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A.K.A.
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The Mary Jane Mami.
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A.K.A.
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Jade de Todos Hades.
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A.K.A.
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La Señorita Problematica Favorita. A.K.A. Sweet Jay Jones.
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A.K.A.
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Gersela. Keep singing!
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A.K.A.
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The Princess of Pan-Africanism.
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A.K.A.
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Kathy Bakes.
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A.K.A.
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Big Mama of Bruce the Place, a.k.a. Negative 19% because
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nobody needs any of me, a.k.a.
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The Black Mrs. Frizzle, a.k.a. Noah's Former Landlord, a.k.a.
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Katniss Cunt because I am hunting these niggas, a.k.a.
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Carnitas Bay, a.k.a.
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Jedificent. A.K.A.
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The Doobie Sister. A.K.A. One A Masterpiece. Two A Three Hoochies.
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A.K.A.
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Mother Sauce.
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A.K.A.
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Sardine Sargento.
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A.K.A.
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Lady Dramaine. Because it's just me and my pussy.
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A.K.A.
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Jade. What is she good for? Absolutely nothing.
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And welcome back to the blackest show about nothing hello
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um it is jayteenth everybody happy birthday jade happy birthday
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thank you so much uh the day you're listening also
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it's a big day um You know, around the world. Hey, hey, hey.
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I don't like that she had my birthday. I'm tired
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of it. I've done it enough. For the last 25 years.
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I will say.
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Let me stop.
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Yeah, you had. But it's crazy that it's like 25 years.
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There's a reason why we're doing this. All this episode
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will make sense. But yeah.
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Um.
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You know, Glitter came out. Yes, it did. Blueprint. Mm-hmm.
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Ooh, 50 Cent, too.
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Didn't he drop an album? Maybe. Let me see. But yeah,
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big day. Also, in all seriousness, if you are a
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victim of the tragedies of 9-11, you know, peace goes
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out to you and your families. Yes. But today we
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are celebrating Jade and Noah, actually.
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Yes. Okay.
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So if I may, before we like get into all
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of our conversation, because I have much to tell you.
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So the premise of this episode, right?
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Last year I turned 40 and we did, you know,
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40 life lessons that we've learned.
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You know, some serious, some unserious.
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Yeah.
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And this year, we were like, you know, XD was like,
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how do you want to record and celebrate JT?
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And I said, okay, let me think about this.
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Nobody wants to listen to me clean my stove. So
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I said, you know what? Noah turned 13 this year.
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And given how disgusting everybody is, I don't do a
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lot of her on the internet. You know what I'm saying? Like, yes,
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you all have seen her. I'm not one of, I
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don't put a heart.
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Over her face.
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No shade. Just don't post the baby. But, I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry. I ain't saying no.
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But, I don't, you know, and I'm also not good
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with all of that. You know, it's like a combo
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of things. So I said, she turned 13. That was
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a big year for her. And 13 is a big
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year in general. And so how do I want to
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celebrate my birthday this year? I was like, let's honor
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where we were at 13. and what was going on
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in the world when we were 13. We were 13
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in different years, but also similar years. So, you know,
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there will be some crossover, but for the most part,
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you know, there will be some difference. You know, just
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like how we do. We'll see some music that came out.
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I was 13. In 1998, I was 13. So, you know,
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we'll talk about 98, and we'll talk about 99, 2000. And, yeah,
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I think that's going to be a good time. And
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then maybe we'll do a little A quick see where
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Noah is compared to where we were.
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Yeah.
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I think that's great. Now that you know what we're doing,
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how was your week and things? Chaotic.
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Chaotic, nigga.
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Oh, no.
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Well, I mean, you know, good things, bad things. Shout out.
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Okay, I call her my auntie in crime. Shout out
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to one of my best homegirls, Chanel. I also call
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her Chanelionaire.
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I don't name Chanel anymore. Right?
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That's like a.
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Hold on.
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Okay, thank you. No, we don't have any Chanel's anymore.
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Not even the non-binaries are naming themselves Chanel. What's gifts?
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What's the tea?
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And also, if you work as a barista, I need
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y'all to.
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Maybe y'all need to get together and do a practice
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session or whatever. Because there is no world where you
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look at that name and call somebody channel.
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But anyway, I digress.
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Ain't no fucking world, nigga.
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But somehow they made it happen. But Chanel, my auntie
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in crime.
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So you all know how important it is for me
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to preserve recipes through culture, right?
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So, I've always done cookouts.
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No matter whether I have a sliver of space or not,
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we'll go to the park, we'll do it on my stoop.
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But I've always had cookouts.
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Thanksgiving, you already know, I've been hosting Thanksgiving for like
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20 years now.
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Did a good fish fry this year, I told you all.
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That....
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I still impact myself on the back from that. And
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we just did, so it was just Labor Day or whatever.
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And we had just had a busy weekend before. There
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was a lot going on.
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So we were like, do we want to throw something
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on the grill? And we were like, let's just play
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it by ear and see how we feel. We'll touch
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base on Saturday.
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So Saturday we decide, yes, okay, on Monday we're going
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to throw some things on the grill, but we're not
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going to do too much. Neither one of us will
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make a potato salad or or a pot of baked
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beans or anything like that. We're just going to, you know,
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grab some meat, season it up, throw it on the grill.
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Of course, that's not what happened because Sunday dinner I
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made habichuelas. So I said, well, I'll just multiply how
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much I make and then I'll just bring habichuelas and
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then meat and stuff, right?
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But we went to the park, set up our station.
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Had all this chicken, burgers, hot dogs, hot links, you know,
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some sides, some beans. The kids were playing. It was
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Mad Kids. You know, the adults was over here having
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a little puff. We had bottles of wine. The police
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was right there. They wasn't bothering us. We was at
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Tompkins Park. Von King, but Tompkins Park.
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Yeah, it's not Tompkins. Yeah, I know what you mean.
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Bam Shep.
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Yes.
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And then at the end of the day, we both
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had to legit physically high five each other. We was like, bitch,
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we are really preserving the recipe. She was like, I
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appreciate you being my partner in this. And I was like, no,
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you my auntie in crime. Because Chanel is one person
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who stays tried and true to black auntiedom.
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You know what I'm saying? Of the days that we've
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always known. And that's us.
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We'd be drinking our pink panties. and talking shit and
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cooking shit.
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That's titled like pink pussy and things.
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She's a tinge classier, but she is ghetto Barbie. We
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do call her ghetto Barbie too. So Chanel's like the
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most fabulous.
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Nigga you'll ever meet. She's a tourist, effortlessly. So she
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likes to be comfortable in her space. So when you
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walk in her apartment, it feels like you are in
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a nigga French apartment. You know, it's a couture mart
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everywhere and it's all clean.
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She does. You know what I'm saying?
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She got movie posters framed everywhere, beautiful ones. She got
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Carmen and, you know, like good classic ones.
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And she just, she's just a fucking fan.
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Yeah.
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She pulls out the glass fair for whatever we drinking.
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Like she got glassware to match. You think she live
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in a mansion by the way she hosts.
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And she just.
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Makes you feel, you know, comfortable and at home. And,
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you know, that's my jam too, just in a bit
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of a different way. And so when we come together,
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it's really beautiful. And, We had to pat ourselves on
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the back for, you know what I'm saying, just keeping
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things going, keeping tradition going in that way.
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That was a good part.
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And then this morning. Not the morning of my birthday,
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as you all know.
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This is today as you are listening to this. But
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the day we recorded. So.
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It's chaos a little bit in the morning.
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I've been playing the jazz and it's helping, but then
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sometimes things just go amok. Tristan thought he was grabbing
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a lighter.
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Off of my dresser.
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Oh, okay.
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You know, we like to do a little morning incense.
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This nigga grabbed my pepper spray.
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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
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And maced the house do you hear me like all.
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Right welcome to another video this is the self-defense challenge
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that we're gonna do this is the lineup of pepper
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sprays um we have already sprayed me with the fox.
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5.3 so.
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It's like pandemonium for a second.
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I'm like I'm in the kitchen trying to hurry up
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and do breakfast and lunch.
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And Noah.
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And then I'm like, what is happening right now? And
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I run to the back. And Tristan, I hear him hacking.
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And I was like, what is he like? I thought
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this was a lighter. I was like, my mace.
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I was like, you're going to kill us all.
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Where is Trill? She's very sensitive. And so I'm like.
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Then I got food on the stove, food in the
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fucking toaster oven. I'm trying to do so. I run
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back into the kitchen. You know I hate running water, okay?
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The water's running, everything's sizzling.
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Like, it was.
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And fucking Bobby Humphries is playing the flute from the speaker.
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We're all.
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No one goes in to brush their teeth. And all
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I hear is.
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Oh, my God.
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Oh, my God. It was bed love in my house
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this morning. So.
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That happened this week too.
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Oh my God.
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And yeah, I think that's enough to share with you
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for now.
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Oh, I also ate those sex positive biracial flaming Cheetos.
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I had them for the first time.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The non-binary ones.
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Oh, no.
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I'm sorry. Oh, the naked ones.
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Yes, they're sex positive biracial flaming Cheetos is what I
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called them.
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah. They're interesting. They're not bad. They're just interesting.
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I was.
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More pleasantly surprised than I thought I would be when
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I bit it. So I said, these Cheetos have a
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black mother.
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Yes.
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I'm just kidding, guys. Pull your wedgies out. Anyway, what's
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up with you? What was your week like? What was happening?
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My week was quiet. Chris is out of town for work.
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Which is funny because... I mean, it's public, I could say.
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Chris Rogers edits Law Roach's YouTube channel. Go subscribe to
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Law Roach's YouTube channel. Yes.
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Oh, I didn't know it was public. I wasn't sure.
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Oh, yeah, because the credits are at the end. So
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it says Chris Rogers Studios at the end. But yeah.
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And I say this because Law went viral. this is
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in defense of law i hate so i big fan
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um but i uh there was a ball and there's
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this clip of like law reading somebody on the on
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the panel and uh chris rogers isn't there like filming
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like you can see him there but um it's so
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interesting when people like Try to posture themselves up to like, okay,
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for example, so Law called out this boy, Milan Christopher.
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Okay.
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Remember from Love and Hip Hop? Oh, yeah. Wasn't he
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a little messy?
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Yep. Okay.
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That wasn't the long head one. That was the wide
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head one.
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Correct.
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Yes.
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Okay.
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Yes, he was messy.
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Okay, continue. Yeah, he's, yeah, he's big mess, big, big mess.
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Okay.
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And so, Law called out, you know, his effect on
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the runway, saying, like, hey, this isn't what you said
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it was supposed to be.
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Oh.
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And so they got into it back and forth, and
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so then, like, Milan goes on, like, a tirade on, like, Bigo,
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which is, like, it's like a lot, it's like Twitch
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for f * * *, and I say that. I
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saved that on purpose. Okay. You know how you talk
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about butch queens and t-shirts that don't fit?
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Here's the thing.
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It's just that type of energy.
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And it has nothing to do with like, it has
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nothing to do with expression or any of those things.
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You just look like a big baby. And that is
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very bad.
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But anywho, he's going on this tirade about like, well,
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I got like, I bought this. I bought this in
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because he was a Schiaparelli. And it was just like, DK.
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And it was just like, did you not just see
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when Law took this dress off of a Schiaparelli like
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at the show?
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Yeah.
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Took this and then flew on a jet to give
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it to our Lord and Savior Zendaya.
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Oh, no.
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You know what I mean? It's hard to compete when
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you don't compare.
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You know what I mean?
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Yeah. And I and I say that with, with love.
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Yeah.
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You say that with vigor and venom.
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But as far as me, um, it's been, you know,
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quiet around the homestead. I've got a lot of, um,
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cleaning done and organizing. Cause you know, when husbands and
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things are around, they consume space.
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Oh my God. It's like, yeah, it's, It's a woman's dream.
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You know, we're just two women capable of independence.
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Yeah.
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What does quiet on the creek mean?
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I couldn't tell you, but just because I'm assuming that
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you're keeping it on the low, like a sneaky link
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type of situation.
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Oh, I guess you're right. Yeah, that does make sense.
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Uh-huh.
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Because apparently there was a a gathering of DL men
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and they called it Quiet on the Creek after the
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song came out and I was like well girls I
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don't think.
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Well when you brand it I'm trying to at this
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point is this kink play like I'm playing DL but
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I'm really you know what I'm saying and listen I
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know the origins of why people feel like they have.
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To do that Sure.
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But again, if you're going to brand some shit, y'all
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got flyers. Like, you can't.
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Yeah, you can't. That don't go.
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That is not down or low.
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No, not at all.
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It's down.
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That is out and up. Right.
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It's up and stuck.
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Yeah.
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What else happened?
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Oh.
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I'm trying to think what else happened to me this week.
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Remember when you forced me to watch the Cheetah Girls? Yes.
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Yeah, but I.
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No, that's what it still stands.
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So when you forced me to watch the Cheetah Girls,
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remember my report back to you was, why is Raven-Symoné biracial?
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And I reflected on that.
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That came to my head when I was like, oh,
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he had me watch that show. And I asked him
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why that girl, why they made her biracial. And then
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he told me she made herself biracial because it's her movie.
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And it just, see, this shit, all of these little
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like floating conversations are not, this is not new. This
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girl called herself an American. She said, I am not
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an African American. I am an American.
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I am from every continent in Africa. No, you're fine.
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Here's the thing. A lot of people are under the
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impression that Raven is mixed herself, but she is not. Why?
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Because she's light-skinned? Let me tell you. Blackness is a spectrum.
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It's a range.
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I'm just saying, if you Google them, I know she
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lost her father not too long ago, but he is very,
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very a colored man. Negro. He looked like he was
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in the time.
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Ah.
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And his mama looked like one of y'all's mamas. We
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know her. When you look at her, oh, yeah, that's
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my auntie. It's like that image. Yes, very much so.
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And she's from Atlanta. Mark said it best.
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When you're such a young.
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Child star from a baby on.
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She was in our lives at three.
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Yes, she was. On the Cosby show. And then to
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Disney and then all over the things. And, you know,
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the 90s definitely operated off of this, you know, how
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white can you be to get put on, you know,
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that kind of thing. And so, or they didn't make
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things about race because at that time it wasn't, you know.
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No, but remember how they made every black daddy on
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sitcoms Republican.
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Yeah.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. So, yeah, she's raised by studios who indoctrinated that
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stuff into her. But I also believe that it's a
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choice that people make to stay in that.
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Yeah.
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And if that's where she feels comfortable being, then so
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be it. But I do find it interesting where we
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have somebody very similar like Zendaya, who is very black
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and is biracial.
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Yeah.
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She's a biracial girl. She's biracial. She's a biracial girl.
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She's a biracial girl. The one who has changed my world.
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She was the one.
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Yeah.
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Compared to Raven, who is not biracial. Yeah. And she
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gave herself. She kayfabed her biracial family in the Cheetah Girls.
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I mean, clearly she didn't write it. But it's almost
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like she believed her storyline.
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Child, they made her biracial.
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She made herself biracial and named herself Galleria because it
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was exotic.
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Yeah. Lynn Whitfield, her mama, and this Latino man.
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And that crimped ponytail.
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Girl power. I mean, you know, Whitney Houston could only
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do so much. She said, I'm producing this and I'm
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just making sure the vocals are right. And making sure
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y'all don't tune.
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Here are the fundadas. That's it. Whitney Houston didn't have
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anything to do with those choices. That was a proud
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black lady.
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Speaking of Cheetah Girls, do you not, in 9-11, why
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were they performing the finale? Why were they performing at
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Ground Zero?
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Was that in the first one?
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Yeah.
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That's the only one I saw. at the very end
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oh my god was that supposed to be ground zero.
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Yeah what year did the cheetah girls come out uh
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oh four or five maybe I don't know you gotta
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do the googles let me.
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See anyway Also, we don't know what kind of anti-black
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rhetoric her mother, her family might be.
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Spitting to her.
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But also, we don't know if she's resisting that. It
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could be, you know, who knows? The shit is, all
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I know is, like, I'm ready for her to go away.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Like, I... Yeah, I want her to leave us alone.
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That's... I was like, all right, we've done enough.
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2003.
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There you go. Galleria... Garibaldi.
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Anyway, let's pay some bills to get to getting. Yeah.
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Thank you for tuning in each and every week. We
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It's freer than YouTube. Subscribe to our YouTube as well.
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And we'll be back with more Jaden XD on JT.
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Hit it.
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After these messages, we'll be right back.
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Welcome to the CNN special report, Being 13, Inside the
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Secret World of Teens. I'm Anderson DeRogatis. Cell phones and
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social media have revolutionized the way we live. But how
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has plugging in changed the way your kids are growing up?
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And we're back. So, we're traveling back in time to 98, 99,
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and 99 and 2000. Where we're celebrating.
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Our 13th birthdays and our 13th years. on this gorgeous
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planet that we've destroyed. I came with visual aids.
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Listen, you are better than me in these projects, so
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00:28:24.539 --> 00:28:26.589
I'm very excited to see your visuals.
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00:28:27.789 --> 00:28:31.150
Well, I turned 13 in 99. Okay. And that was
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a special time in in music and in media and stuff.
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00:28:43.930 --> 00:28:46.410
But the cool thing is that I have all my
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CDs from when I was 13.
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You are now entering the Party Zone, a new 36-song
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collection of today's hottest dance tracks.
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Oh my God. Where did you get that? It was
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at your mother's house.
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00:29:13.690 --> 00:29:20.359
No. Um, I've always kept it with me. Um, and
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00:29:20.740 --> 00:29:26.059
when I, yeah, I've always kept it with me along
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with my MP3s from high school as well. I still
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00:29:29.160 --> 00:29:30.640
have all those here on my computer.
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00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:32.990
Oh, that's incredible. That's incredible.
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00:29:33.549 --> 00:29:37.559
Um, um, Friends of mine kept this in storage when
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I moved and to LA and they brought it here
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00:29:40.460 --> 00:29:44.839
or when I have yeah whenever I've moved I gave
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it to a friend that kept it and then they're
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00:29:46.240 --> 00:29:48.079
like they brought it to me or I've gotten got
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00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:50.880
it but yeah oh everything in here.
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What a fucking time capsule.
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Yeah and I want to start with something that's super
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important And it engages how we do music and podcasting now.
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So when I was a kid.
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When I was a young warthog.
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When I was a young warthog.
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Very nice.
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00:30:22.039 --> 00:30:26.869
I'm sorry. I wanted this album so bad. Destiny's Child,
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The Writing's on the Wall, right? And my mother would
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not buy it for me. We was at Walmart. And
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I think she was trying to, like, make me be
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a boy.
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Yeah.
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And she was like, why are you with all these girls? But,
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you know, and at the time.
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Because I used to be.
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Preview the album. Because I used to be. So, like. So,
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remember at the time, you could listen to the album
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in the store. Because they had headphones.
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Yes. Which was disgusting.
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In hindsight, gross.
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No, every time. My mother, wet ones. You listen to the...
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You go to Sam Goody, take some wet ones.
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Yeah, but the point is, I listened to it. I
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was like, fine, whatever. My mother was like, no, I'm
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not getting you that. But she probably didn't have the
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money or anything, so I wasn't thinking about that. So
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I was like, fine, I'll find another issue. So you
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00:31:17.210 --> 00:31:23.559
also know what was founded in 1999? What? Napster. So
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I remember me and my cousin, I had a computer.
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I was like, she was like, well, have you heard
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00:31:31.869 --> 00:31:33.509
of this Napster? And I was like, I heard it
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about on the news. So I went in and downloaded Napster.
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And my first song I ever downloaded on my computer
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was Dusty's Child, Jumpin' Jumpin'..
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Ladies, leave your man at home.
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The club is full of ballers and their puck is
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full grown.
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And all you fellas leave your girl with her friends.
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Cause it's 1130 and the club is jumping, jumping. We
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say you got it, girl.
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Yeah, it's true. You got it, man.
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Ladies, leave your man at home. The club is full
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of ballers and their puck is full grown.
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That, you know, changed the world as we know it.
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I have the album that Korn was pissed at about
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it streaming or being pirated. Remember, they went on the
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tirade about Napster, and that's what got them shut down.
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Oh, freak on a leash.
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It's in here. I got it. In issues.
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Oh, my God. Something takes a part of me.
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You and I were meant to be.
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00:32:42.400 --> 00:32:46.269
We got to watch music videos again. Oh yeah, that's
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a good accompaniment. Okay, let's see. Where do I want
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to go? Where do I want to go?
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All of these have stories and.
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Do we want to do an album? Do we want
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to be a song?
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What's interesting is that I have my yearbook in here
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somewhere from when that... I just could have time to
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go look for it.
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We've mentioned this moment in history before, but one of
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the greatest hip hop duos of our time, Outkast, dropped
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one of my personal favorite Outkast albums, which is Equipment I.
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00:33:36.130 --> 00:33:43.130
And Equipment I also houses one of my favorite Outkast songs.
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Of my, which is, uh, Spodeo de Dupulicious and Liberation.
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There's a fine line between love and hate.
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You see.
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But there was a moment where the, the, uh, black
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history that we have always learned, it really, it really
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showed us how it wasn't too far removed in time
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because they also had a song called Rosa Parks. In
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Rosa Parks, Rosa Parks was not pleased with her name
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being used with this filth. And so therefore, she sued them.
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I don't... Did she win?
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I don't think so.
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Or was it settled? Let's see.
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Rosa Parks was outcast. Oh, yeah.
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They settled in 05 with an undisclosed cash amount and
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an agreement to promote her legacy.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yep. You remember that episode of Southside? Did you ever
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watch Southside?
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Mm-hmm.
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With... They were like, fuck Rosa. And then that was
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the episode.
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With the lady.
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Wait, was she bought that house on site when she
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was at work?
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And the lady lived in it?
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Yeah, and the old lady was there. They're sticking the
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dogs on me. They're sticking the dogs on me.
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Southside was so stupid and so funny.
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I'm so sad they didn't go longer.
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I was sick of that bitch. I don't like her.
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No way. I was like, what did Rosa.
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Do to you?
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Listen, from our day, nigga, you know there be beef
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in the.
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I want to know.
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You know what I'm saying?
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If I know them half is over and the Black
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Lives Matter movement.
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Was scrapping, I.
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Know it was tussling. Because... Down to the civil rights.
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What was the show that we used to have with
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the clay people fighting on MTV?
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00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:13.139
Celebrity Deathmatch.
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00:36:13.420 --> 00:36:29.480
Imagine they did a DeRay versus Sean King.
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00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:30.539
But yes.
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I'm not touching that one. But yeah.
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Um.
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Oh, lighten up, please.
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00:36:36.630 --> 00:36:39.710
You know, they won a Grammy for Rosa Parks in 99.
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That too bad.
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00:36:40.570 --> 00:36:42.780
Yes, they did. But yes, they did.
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They agreed to work with Rosa and the Raymond Parks
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Institute for self-development and creating educational programs about the life
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of Rosa Parks. So as long as they did that,
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then she was fine.
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What else happened when you were 13?
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When we were young. You know, a couple of movies
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that people still reference to this day came out in 98.
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You know, I was 13, so that tells you where
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the sense of humor was.
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Go ahead.
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00:37:25.869 --> 00:37:29.980
We will call the movie, which I think did end
653
00:37:30.019 --> 00:37:34.920
up being an adult pornographic film, but Saving Ryan's Privates.
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00:37:35.500 --> 00:37:39.659
But the movie Saving Private Ryan came out in 1998.
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So that's what was going on.
656
00:37:41.059 --> 00:37:44.699
Saving Private is porn. Yeah.
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00:37:44.739 --> 00:37:50.159
That's so funny because Yuri was watching the first because
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you know you have to get through the beginning of
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Saving Private Ryan because it's a very dramatic and sad opening.
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He was watching it.
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He was like Can I be honest? Never seen it.
662
00:38:03.679 --> 00:38:08.019
I didn't expect you to see it. No. It was
663
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me talking to the audience, not necessarily you.
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00:38:10.760 --> 00:38:13.219
Speaking of Raven-Symoné, you know what else happened when Dr.
665
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Dolittle came out?
666
00:38:16.869 --> 00:38:23.429
Oh. Was she green in that too? Was Eddie not black?
667
00:38:23.449 --> 00:38:35.449
No. what's going on what is all this.
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I don't know you know tell a friend looks like
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they need to talk to a doctor doc our butts
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hurt yeah I um you know a lot of my
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00:38:52.260 --> 00:38:58.690
gay awakening happened when I was 13 so I've always
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told the story about when D'Angelo's Untitled came out and
673
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I was 13 and blah, blah, blah. But I don't
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think I've ever told the story of what happened before that.
675
00:39:11.679 --> 00:39:14.500
That was my true gay awakening. Well, not really, but
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00:39:14.539 --> 00:39:18.960
it was my black gay awakening. Okay. Because before that,
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I always say that, you know, this is about to
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00:39:24.579 --> 00:39:27.340
sound very controversial. I'm about to step on a lot
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of toes. Oh, Jesus Christ. I believe gay men are, they're,
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00:39:37.449 --> 00:39:43.570
how they find their objects of attraction is rooted in
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how they're socialized in gay world. So I say this as, like,
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if you're introduced to gay as being a white thing,
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I think that oftentimes, and I say that as, like,
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with traditional white prides or white gay porn, and at
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the time, for me, it was, like, Will & Grace or, like,
686
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those type of, that type of media. We didn't have
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black gay media at the time. So you kind of
688
00:40:15.539 --> 00:40:23.949
tended to lean towards I assumed that you would find
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more attraction to whiteness in gay as opposed to black gayness.
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I say all this to say my mother, on New
691
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Year's Eve, my mother went to church. Because at the time,
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she had got saved again. It was a lot going on.
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She got saved.
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Yeah so she went and i was like well i'm
695
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gonna stay at home because i i had like campaign
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i was like i'm 13 i was very much tiffany
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evans i'm grown now but it was more so like
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like i as a latchkey child like well now i'm
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00:41:06.760 --> 00:41:08.739
13 now i know i i won't burn down the
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house with a hot pocket you know what i mean
701
00:41:10.380 --> 00:41:12.159
so you can go and do what you think and
702
00:41:12.179 --> 00:41:14.110
my grandmother was like i'm retired so i'm going to
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00:41:14.150 --> 00:41:16.329
bed so she did her own thing that's about the
704
00:41:16.349 --> 00:41:22.670
time So that night, I watched the first four episodes
705
00:41:23.030 --> 00:41:28.989
on Showtime of Queer as Folk. And the American version.
706
00:41:29.659 --> 00:41:32.820
And it was interesting because I was like, oh, this
707
00:41:32.900 --> 00:41:39.639
is what gay is. And I knew that... I knew
708
00:41:39.719 --> 00:41:43.280
I wasn't into girls like that. I knew from a
709
00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:45.900
very young age, I was like, I like boys. But
710
00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:48.780
it was more of like a... oh, this is confirmed
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00:41:48.820 --> 00:41:52.610
like a Don King perm that I like boys. And
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00:41:52.719 --> 00:41:58.030
then when I saw D'Angelo, I was like, oh, I
713
00:41:58.250 --> 00:42:22.639
know I love that. Okay. That I know. But yeah,
714
00:42:23.019 --> 00:42:26.019
I think, yeah, it's important that my gay awakening was
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when I turned 13.
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Your gay awakening.
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Gay awakening. There you go.
718
00:42:31.980 --> 00:42:38.460
My gay awakening happened at 13. You know, at 13,
719
00:42:40.539 --> 00:42:42.500
you know, we fought in school.
720
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Like, I didn't fight a lot because I just didn't
721
00:42:45.340 --> 00:42:48.030
have beef with people like that. But then when it
722
00:42:48.090 --> 00:42:51.300
was up, it was like, you know, up. So I
723
00:42:51.900 --> 00:42:56.739
think I told you about this girl who called my sister.
724
00:42:56.960 --> 00:42:58.659
She was trying to pick on my sister and I
725
00:42:58.719 --> 00:43:03.420
wasn't having it. So her mother, you know, wasn't incarcerated.
726
00:43:04.300 --> 00:43:07.400
And she did general, you know, your mother shit. It
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00:43:07.420 --> 00:43:09.460
was always in your mother something that I realized that
728
00:43:09.500 --> 00:43:14.860
got me in a fight. Now that I reflect on it,
729
00:43:14.889 --> 00:43:17.760
I'm like, damn, that was my first fight too. Because
730
00:43:17.820 --> 00:43:20.280
I hit below the belt because the girl said, a general,
731
00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:22.440
your mother something. And I said, your mother rings up
732
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my mother's groceries.
733
00:43:23.400 --> 00:43:27.010
And then it was, you know, she was ready. A
734
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mother worked at the supermarket.
735
00:43:28.309 --> 00:43:31.250
So this particular girl, you know, we all knew I
736
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was cool enough with her or whatever. And she's picking
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00:43:35.429 --> 00:43:37.829
on my sister. So I was like, all right, you
738
00:43:37.849 --> 00:43:40.130
need to chill. And she was like, I don't know
739
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why your mama named her sister.
740
00:43:42.170 --> 00:43:45.170
It's named your sister Paige. Like, I don't know why
741
00:43:45.230 --> 00:43:46.170
she named her Paige.
742
00:43:47.570 --> 00:43:49.690
That sounds like something a crackhead would do.
743
00:43:50.329 --> 00:43:52.090
Just ignorant shit. Kid shit.
744
00:43:52.130 --> 00:43:55.369
You know what I'm saying? And I was like, but
745
00:43:55.389 --> 00:43:58.829
my mother's around. And your mother is eating box lunch
746
00:43:59.010 --> 00:44:02.570
in prison. And it was, and we fought.
747
00:44:02.730 --> 00:44:05.360
Yeah, I would have fought you too.
748
00:44:05.369 --> 00:44:07.670
Yeah. I mean, listen, I would have fought me too.
749
00:44:07.809 --> 00:44:12.159
And also, don't instigate. I didn't bother you, girl. You
750
00:44:12.179 --> 00:44:14.380
should have left my sister alone.
751
00:44:14.699 --> 00:44:14.980
Yeah.
752
00:44:16.389 --> 00:44:22.010
But, you know, with that particular fight, you know, and
753
00:44:22.590 --> 00:44:24.969
it was again, it was the 90s. So we were
754
00:44:25.570 --> 00:44:29.190
saying reckless things. Would I now talk about somebody's mother
755
00:44:29.230 --> 00:44:36.690
being incarcerated? Probably if they was coming at me crazy. But,
756
00:44:36.969 --> 00:44:38.320
you know, do I have a wider lid?
757
00:44:38.409 --> 00:44:38.679
Sure.
758
00:44:40.139 --> 00:44:41.559
Your mama's got an afro with.
759
00:44:41.460 --> 00:44:41.820
A dick strap.
760
00:44:41.860 --> 00:44:44.559
Your mama's got an afro with a dick strap.
761
00:44:44.699 --> 00:44:47.150
I said, your mama's got an afro with a dick strap.
762
00:44:47.210 --> 00:44:49.389
Your mama, your mama, your mama.
763
00:44:51.289 --> 00:44:56.300
Your mama got snakes for teeth. Is there a submission
764
00:44:56.320 --> 00:44:58.800
of empathy? Yes. You're also responsible for yourself, bitch.
765
00:44:58.820 --> 00:44:59.320
Swear up.
766
00:44:59.900 --> 00:45:04.840
So, you know, with that particular fight there, I knew
767
00:45:04.860 --> 00:45:06.969
the girl was going to, I knew the girl was
768
00:45:06.989 --> 00:45:08.690
going to want to fight.
769
00:45:08.730 --> 00:45:09.250
We all knew.
770
00:45:09.309 --> 00:45:10.750
That was when my mother tried to send me to
771
00:45:10.789 --> 00:45:13.590
school with a lime squeezer. And again, this is before
772
00:45:13.610 --> 00:45:15.510
they got cute when you could buy them at HomeGoods
773
00:45:15.550 --> 00:45:17.449
and they were literally lemon and lime colored.
774
00:45:17.780 --> 00:45:20.960
This is when they were still. And I was like, girl,
775
00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:25.440
I'm not... Hit it in the head with this. I
776
00:45:25.440 --> 00:45:29.360
was like, I don't want to join her mother. So.
777
00:45:30.179 --> 00:45:32.619
Yeah, yeah, because that's a song.
778
00:45:33.980 --> 00:45:37.579
And I remember being at home and my mom was like,
779
00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:39.610
all right, let's fight. And I was like, what? And
780
00:45:39.650 --> 00:45:41.909
she was like, no, let's go. Take your shoes off.
781
00:45:42.090 --> 00:45:44.550
She was like, let's go here in the living room. Like,
782
00:45:44.590 --> 00:45:45.469
we got to practice.
783
00:45:45.489 --> 00:45:46.590
So.
784
00:45:48.530 --> 00:45:50.579
We're in the living room and my mother is like
785
00:45:50.659 --> 00:45:52.380
squaring up with me because she was like, no, this
786
00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:53.860
bitch is going to try to fight you. You need
787
00:45:53.900 --> 00:45:56.079
to be ready. And I was like, but I can fight. Like,
788
00:45:56.099 --> 00:45:59.719
you know, I can't. And she's like, but she's ignorant.
789
00:45:59.800 --> 00:46:05.960
So it was so problematic. So, so we squared up
790
00:46:06.019 --> 00:46:08.119
in a living room. That's when my mother also really
791
00:46:08.159 --> 00:46:10.559
discovered my strength. And she was like, Oh no.
792
00:46:10.579 --> 00:46:17.539
Okay. The next day, you know, I'm in the hallway and, And.
793
00:46:17.559 --> 00:46:22.110
I see somebody barreling toward me like an eighth grade
794
00:46:22.409 --> 00:46:26.489
Miss Sophia. Or was that ninth grade? That might have
795
00:46:26.510 --> 00:46:29.710
been ninth grade. Anyway, this girl is barreling toward... No,
796
00:46:29.750 --> 00:46:32.880
it was eighth grade. She's barreling towards me. I was like,
797
00:46:32.900 --> 00:46:33.400
here you go.
798
00:46:33.840 --> 00:46:36.199
I dropped all my shit. I flicked my earrings off.
799
00:46:38.320 --> 00:46:41.480
Real fast. I flicked my earrings off. I dropped my shit.
800
00:46:41.519 --> 00:46:44.619
And I was like... All right. And we fought. It
801
00:46:44.960 --> 00:46:45.969
was just like, all right.
802
00:46:46.090 --> 00:46:49.949
And what I did that night after fighting my mother
803
00:46:49.969 --> 00:46:52.710
in the living room is I was in my room
804
00:46:52.769 --> 00:46:54.449
playing It's Dark and Hell is Hot.
805
00:46:54.820 --> 00:46:58.159
Uh-oh.
806
00:47:15.980 --> 00:47:20.329
Get at me, dawg. So....
807
00:47:21.699 --> 00:47:29.260
So, yes. There was an album that came out that year.
808
00:47:29.659 --> 00:47:33.460
And that's one of the memories associated with said album.
809
00:47:35.559 --> 00:47:36.400
So, yeah.
810
00:47:36.420 --> 00:47:39.360
DMX's Get at me, dawg. Found on it is dark
811
00:47:39.429 --> 00:47:41.210
and hell is hot. Which I also used to... Like,
812
00:47:41.250 --> 00:47:42.869
how Kia said she used to get in trouble for.
813
00:47:44.360 --> 00:47:47.030
For her and her homegirl singing in the hallway and
814
00:47:47.190 --> 00:47:50.849
they'd be like, and the other one would just keep singing.
815
00:47:51.889 --> 00:47:52.429
I would get in.
816
00:47:52.429 --> 00:47:55.929
Trouble for running around the hallway randomly screaming out, it's
817
00:47:55.989 --> 00:48:00.639
dark and hell is hot. So that also was my
818
00:48:00.699 --> 00:48:03.340
motivation when I had to fight this girl.
819
00:48:05.519 --> 00:48:07.760
And you know, I did what needed to be done.
820
00:48:08.179 --> 00:48:10.550
Thank you, Earl. Rest well.
821
00:48:14.570 --> 00:48:23.619
Well, speaking of fighting, WWF SmackDown debuted in 99.
822
00:48:23.619 --> 00:48:23.739
Oh.
823
00:48:23.760 --> 00:48:28.119
Well, you have to respect any man that can climb
824
00:48:28.139 --> 00:48:29.780
the top of his profession.
825
00:48:29.989 --> 00:48:32.730
But the route that Triple H has taken has been
826
00:48:32.789 --> 00:48:34.190
somewhat dubious, to.
827
00:48:34.090 --> 00:48:35.030
Say the least, King.
828
00:48:37.929 --> 00:48:42.219
You know, normally I would come out here. Yeah, um...
829
00:48:42.820 --> 00:48:47.460
Oddly enough, Jim Cornette commentated the very first episode of SmackDown.
830
00:48:48.900 --> 00:48:52.639
If you don't know, SmackDown is now part of WWE, obviously.
831
00:48:52.800 --> 00:49:00.170
And this comes on every Friday. Wrestling at that time,
832
00:49:00.230 --> 00:49:02.130
I know I talk about it, but wrestling at that
833
00:49:02.170 --> 00:49:05.309
time was very magical. Because it was everywhere. It was
834
00:49:05.369 --> 00:49:08.190
the Attitude Era. So you had Stone Cold.
835
00:49:07.989 --> 00:49:11.369
And The Rock. Yes, yeah.
836
00:49:11.369 --> 00:49:14.590
Even niggas who did not watch wrestling watched wrestling and
837
00:49:14.590 --> 00:49:15.210
knew who.
838
00:49:15.019 --> 00:49:17.610
Stone Cold was and definitely knew who The Rock was.
839
00:49:17.610 --> 00:49:20.380
Do you smell what The Rock is cooking? All of that.
840
00:49:21.079 --> 00:49:27.179
Everybody was saying Jabroni and Rudy Poo Candy. All the
841
00:49:27.199 --> 00:49:30.940
shit that The Rock was saying. I remember I remember
842
00:49:30.960 --> 00:49:41.369
because my cousin after my aunt passed away, my cousin
843
00:49:41.389 --> 00:49:43.110
lived with me for a long time, for a little while.
844
00:49:43.949 --> 00:49:47.289
And so, uh, that was our bonding thing. So like,
845
00:49:47.510 --> 00:49:50.510
he went to his dad's house, but, uh, on Fridays
846
00:49:50.550 --> 00:49:54.110
he would come and that was our bonding thing. Cause he,
847
00:49:54.969 --> 00:49:56.760
you know, it was like, he was like my brother.
848
00:49:57.099 --> 00:50:02.139
So that's what we, um, we did. And I, we can't, I,
849
00:50:02.219 --> 00:50:04.099
not we can't, like, I recall that now it's like,
850
00:50:04.719 --> 00:50:06.960
although that was a sad time, it was also a
851
00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:12.789
very fun time. Like, like, grieving his mother so young,
852
00:50:12.869 --> 00:50:17.179
but also, like, us having a closer relationship, too, because
853
00:50:17.199 --> 00:50:20.440
of the fact that, you know, like, while we're living together,
854
00:50:20.639 --> 00:50:25.539
we gotta make this work. And, you know, big mama, grandma,
855
00:50:25.619 --> 00:50:27.760
she don't like it when niggas fight in the house,
856
00:50:27.880 --> 00:50:29.699
so you don't have to figure it out and get along.
857
00:50:30.570 --> 00:50:32.409
Which is what we did, and we found common ground
858
00:50:32.449 --> 00:50:38.130
in wrestling and music. Like, you know.
859
00:50:39.150 --> 00:50:41.090
I'm trying to think if we fought in front of
860
00:50:41.139 --> 00:50:41.860
my grandmother.
861
00:50:41.880 --> 00:50:46.340
Like cousin time is so important. And especially when you're
862
00:50:46.360 --> 00:50:50.019
like the teenage, like 13 and stuff, because then it's like, yeah,
863
00:50:50.039 --> 00:50:51.820
when you're a kid, you get into mischief. But now
864
00:50:51.880 --> 00:50:54.659
you get into like mischief, but kind of grown mischief.
865
00:50:54.679 --> 00:50:57.699
So then you like prepare yourself for the teenage years.
866
00:50:57.739 --> 00:51:01.300
And sadly, it's a part of a time where you're
867
00:51:01.460 --> 00:51:02.800
kind of going to grow apart.
868
00:51:03.039 --> 00:51:05.940
Yeah. Because you start to really become your own people.
869
00:51:07.010 --> 00:51:09.889
Yeah, but I know around 13, 14, I remember that's
870
00:51:09.909 --> 00:51:15.610
when I was locked in with my cousins. Especially because
871
00:51:16.219 --> 00:51:18.360
a lot of them are older and they're about to
872
00:51:18.400 --> 00:51:22.500
graduate in things like 99 and 2000. So I was like,
873
00:51:22.539 --> 00:51:24.900
you know, we locked in because I want to.
874
00:51:26.480 --> 00:51:29.389
And I told you how much we, like this past
875
00:51:29.409 --> 00:51:31.750
time I was in Cleveland, you know, was one of
876
00:51:31.769 --> 00:51:35.409
the first times that we like all. You know, got together,
877
00:51:35.469 --> 00:51:38.269
people traveled in, and it was.
878
00:51:38.789 --> 00:51:40.090
Yeah, yes.
879
00:51:40.309 --> 00:51:44.809
And we are all very different people now. You know,
880
00:51:44.829 --> 00:51:48.900
I think about... I have a cousin who... We were...
881
00:51:49.099 --> 00:51:49.599
We did not.
882
00:51:49.860 --> 00:51:52.900
I did not watch wrestling. Some of my other cousins did.
883
00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:55.420
But we wrestled.
884
00:51:57.019 --> 00:51:58.059
We, like, fought.
885
00:51:58.500 --> 00:51:59.639
And it was.
886
00:52:00.559 --> 00:52:03.559
It was disrespectful, and it was ugly and nasty. My
887
00:52:03.599 --> 00:52:06.730
cousins would wrestle me down, and I told you, sometimes
888
00:52:06.750 --> 00:52:13.030
they would fart on my head. Then we grew a bond,
889
00:52:14.050 --> 00:52:16.719
and now we're all very close, but then we're also,
890
00:52:17.110 --> 00:52:18.750
certain conversations.
891
00:52:18.139 --> 00:52:21.820
Come up, and you're like, oh, we're very different.
892
00:52:22.039 --> 00:52:24.780
We've gone very different directions in life.
893
00:52:25.380 --> 00:52:29.329
You're transphobic. And I am the complete opposite of that.
894
00:52:29.909 --> 00:52:32.610
We have had very real conversations, to the point where
895
00:52:32.650 --> 00:52:36.429
Noah has chimed in on conversations and been like, you
896
00:52:36.449 --> 00:52:37.429
sound stupid.
897
00:52:38.510 --> 00:52:43.989
You know? But anyway, that was a tangent. Cousin time,
898
00:52:44.030 --> 00:52:47.110
so important. But then you become.
899
00:52:46.800 --> 00:52:50.139
Your own people.
900
00:52:50.920 --> 00:52:53.079
You know, I don't know if you ever tried to
901
00:52:53.760 --> 00:52:57.510
make fetch happen when you were 13, like, create your
902
00:52:57.750 --> 00:53:04.170
own slang or whatever you know and I have always
903
00:53:04.250 --> 00:53:07.489
been the.
904
00:53:06.050 --> 00:53:11.920
Person that I am and so you know I realize I.
905
00:53:13.960 --> 00:53:16.880
Like when people are proud of themselves right but when
906
00:53:17.019 --> 00:53:20.619
but then there's a fine line between like really like
907
00:53:21.000 --> 00:53:24.179
giving yourself that credit like I really fucking did that
908
00:53:24.360 --> 00:53:27.849
and then you know This is you smelling your own parts.
909
00:53:28.030 --> 00:53:28.780
You know what I mean?
910
00:53:29.280 --> 00:53:32.059
And so when niggas would do that, when they would
911
00:53:32.079 --> 00:53:36.280
get too braggy, my favorite thing to do would be
912
00:53:36.300 --> 00:53:36.940
like massing.
913
00:53:41.940 --> 00:53:46.340
And I remember my mother.
914
00:53:49.389 --> 00:53:52.269
My mother was like, what does that mean? Why do
915
00:53:52.289 --> 00:54:05.000
you keep saying that? And I went out. And I
916
00:54:05.039 --> 00:54:07.139
eventually threw out.
917
00:54:07.159 --> 00:54:16.170
What are you doing? Nothing. Niggas start getting too cocky.
918
00:54:16.230 --> 00:54:18.360
Manson, look at you, removing your old ribs.
919
00:54:19.380 --> 00:54:24.579
That's hella dark.
920
00:54:25.360 --> 00:54:29.840
To suck your own. That's so funny.
921
00:54:30.530 --> 00:54:34.969
Somebody... When did this happen? Hold on.
922
00:54:36.150 --> 00:54:37.750
What, the Manson rumor?
923
00:54:37.989 --> 00:54:40.030
No, I'm about to tell you. Okay, this happened in 97.
924
00:54:40.030 --> 00:54:45.929
Because I... A story... I sparked a story on blue
925
00:54:45.949 --> 00:54:49.030
sky and memory, just like your story just sparked a memory.
926
00:54:49.070 --> 00:54:51.630
Let me just get that out the way first. So yes,
927
00:54:51.829 --> 00:54:55.199
I did try to make fetch happen. Me and my
928
00:54:55.239 --> 00:54:59.579
best friend, Jennifer, this was a long, we did this
929
00:54:59.619 --> 00:55:03.599
for like two years from eighth grade to like 10th
930
00:55:03.639 --> 00:55:10.750
grade for two years. We had a binder, multiple binders
931
00:55:11.690 --> 00:55:18.400
full of pickup lines, uh, That she and I thought of. Oh.
932
00:55:23.539 --> 00:55:27.239
Just real stupid, like... Are your legs tight? And then
933
00:55:27.300 --> 00:55:30.820
I remember we used to... Never Been Kissed came out.
934
00:55:31.019 --> 00:55:34.619
And so, like, we tried to make Rufus, like, a thing. Like,
935
00:55:34.679 --> 00:55:36.449
that is so cool. That is so Rufus.
936
00:55:36.780 --> 00:55:44.530
Oh, man. She's doing well. She's a teacher.
937
00:55:44.550 --> 00:55:46.630
I love that.
938
00:55:46.829 --> 00:55:51.590
I love that. Yeah.
939
00:55:51.929 --> 00:55:53.010
But, yeah.
940
00:55:53.420 --> 00:55:58.440
Oh, so, on Blue Sky, someone was talking about they
941
00:55:58.460 --> 00:56:02.380
wanted a pair of Nike Cortez's. And I was like.
942
00:56:02.400 --> 00:56:03.380
That's my jam.
943
00:56:03.679 --> 00:56:04.489
Storng!
944
00:56:05.630 --> 00:56:07.460
So, you know, I went to a.
945
00:56:07.769 --> 00:56:10.130
Oh, different Manson. I was talking about Maryland.
946
00:56:11.809 --> 00:56:19.099
Again, dark. But, no, so, like, I went to a
947
00:56:19.559 --> 00:56:23.659
school where we had to wear uniforms. Because apparently in
948
00:56:23.699 --> 00:56:25.940
the east side, they were trying to combat gang violence.
949
00:56:25.980 --> 00:56:31.570
But I was like, okay, girl. I mean, there were... Yeah. Whatever. Anywho.
950
00:56:32.809 --> 00:56:37.969
It was gang time. We could choose whatever shoes we wanted, though. So,
951
00:56:38.150 --> 00:56:42.469
at the time, Cortez's were in. And so, also, Bay Area. And,
952
00:56:42.670 --> 00:56:44.429
you know, it's like, okay, yes, I want a pair
953
00:56:44.449 --> 00:56:47.050
of Cortez's. So, I remember I begged my mother. I
954
00:56:47.050 --> 00:56:52.880
was like, mommy, can I get these shoes? Now, looking back,
955
00:56:52.920 --> 00:56:54.960
and I've tried them on, I'm like, my feet would
956
00:56:54.980 --> 00:56:56.940
have looked so ridiculous in these because I have really
957
00:56:56.980 --> 00:56:59.380
big feet. But I wanted them or whatever. And I
958
00:56:59.400 --> 00:57:02.099
remember my mother ordered them from the Sears catalog. Okay.
959
00:57:02.599 --> 00:57:04.800
And she was like, you know, she worked for Sears.
960
00:57:04.820 --> 00:57:07.019
They had a discount. And at the time, that's where
961
00:57:07.039 --> 00:57:11.739
you got stuff. You know? They came in. And I
962
00:57:11.760 --> 00:57:13.559
was like, ooh, this is nice. You want to know
963
00:57:13.579 --> 00:57:18.480
what happened the day they came to my house? The
964
00:57:18.539 --> 00:57:19.400
Heaven's Gate.
965
00:57:20.949 --> 00:57:24.789
Massacre thing where all 40 of them niggas were just
966
00:57:24.909 --> 00:57:30.130
posted dead in cortez's fresh fresca cortez's.
967
00:57:29.710 --> 00:57:31.429
We begin tonight with a good deal more than we
968
00:57:31.449 --> 00:57:33.590
knew yesterday about what so many people are now calling
969
00:57:33.610 --> 00:57:37.150
the heavens gate cult investigators in san diego this afternoon
970
00:57:37.190 --> 00:57:40.610
said they've now notified the vast majority of families that
971
00:57:40.769 --> 00:57:43.949
one of their relatives committed suicide with other cult members
972
00:57:43.989 --> 00:57:44.550
this week.
973
00:57:45.420 --> 00:57:49.059
My mother was like, you can't wear these. With the napkins. Yeah,
974
00:57:49.119 --> 00:57:52.000
with the dinner napkins from Hungry Hunter. Nope.
975
00:57:53.829 --> 00:57:55.590
Why that white man took all those people down to
976
00:57:55.610 --> 00:57:57.829
Guyana to do that?
977
00:57:58.329 --> 00:58:00.969
Why you had to go taint their land with some shit?
978
00:58:01.550 --> 00:58:04.670
I mean, not that, you know.
979
00:58:04.909 --> 00:58:07.059
That's another story about cult leaders, how they have to
980
00:58:07.099 --> 00:58:13.940
go to a typical brown place or typically brown place. Like,
981
00:58:14.019 --> 00:58:17.800
there's this show called, when Viceland used to exist, called,
982
00:58:17.820 --> 00:58:21.000
I think it was Farmland, and they tried to build
983
00:58:21.039 --> 00:58:23.840
their own utopia society. And by they, I mean whites.
984
00:58:24.360 --> 00:58:29.800
But it was in Costa Rica. It's always Costa Rica, Guyana, Oregon.
985
00:58:30.300 --> 00:58:31.050
You know what I'm saying?
986
00:58:31.119 --> 00:58:35.250
There's no uncharted land or unincorporated land in the world, so.
987
00:58:36.190 --> 00:58:37.710
You taking over somebody's shit.
988
00:58:38.650 --> 00:58:38.909
Yeah.
989
00:58:39.650 --> 00:58:41.269
Taking your evil to their land.
990
00:58:42.230 --> 00:58:42.389
Um.
991
00:58:45.519 --> 00:58:46.719
But anyway, yeah, that was my story.
992
00:58:47.480 --> 00:58:50.760
That was.
993
00:58:50.780 --> 00:58:52.980
Oh, I might have told this story before, too, but
994
00:58:53.019 --> 00:58:58.909
this was 1998. So, you know, we could make the
995
00:58:58.969 --> 00:59:00.809
most out of an apartment, honey. So I told you,
996
00:59:00.849 --> 00:59:07.050
I had house parties. And my dad would DJ. And,
997
00:59:07.469 --> 00:59:09.849
you know, again, I was the only 13-year-old recording.
998
00:59:10.440 --> 00:59:16.659
Like dip. You know what I'm saying? I was like,
999
00:59:16.719 --> 00:59:17.559
I'll make a dip.
1000
00:59:22.820 --> 00:59:25.679
And we would clear the furniture and niggas would dance
1001
00:59:25.699 --> 00:59:30.420
in the living room. And so, um, It was very
1002
00:59:30.519 --> 00:59:36.380
like Negro high school musical one year when No Scrubs
1003
00:59:36.440 --> 00:59:36.980
was out.
1004
00:59:37.420 --> 00:59:40.820
And then Sporty Thieves released No Pigeons.
1005
00:59:41.500 --> 00:59:45.250
And while we was bumping and grinding and shaking and
1006
00:59:45.269 --> 00:59:47.710
having slow dancing and having a good time, we did
1007
00:59:47.750 --> 00:59:52.130
do a girls versus boys, No Pigeons versus Sporty Thieves,
1008
00:59:52.889 --> 00:59:57.099
No Pigeons versus No Scrubs. And that is like a
1009
00:59:57.199 --> 01:00:02.079
really fun... Like, staple memory. And that's what I do
1010
01:00:02.619 --> 01:00:06.650
as I was talking about Noah. While I think there
1011
01:00:06.670 --> 01:00:11.349
were certain aspects, as I'm reflecting on myself being 13
1012
01:00:11.349 --> 01:00:16.889
and her being 13, I feel like we were.
1013
01:00:18.329 --> 01:00:22.349
For all intents and purposes, faster. You know what I'm saying?
1014
01:00:23.719 --> 01:00:26.760
Even though they have way more exposure to stuff online,
1015
01:00:26.960 --> 01:00:27.960
I feel like we.
1016
01:00:30.030 --> 01:00:31.050
were doing more.
1017
01:00:31.070 --> 01:00:38.239
Yeah, the children don't have sex now. Statistically, they don't.
1018
01:00:38.440 --> 01:00:39.760
And I don't mean children.
1019
01:00:39.800 --> 01:00:40.119
Yes.
1020
01:00:40.280 --> 01:00:42.019
No, no, no. I know what you mean, but they don't.
1021
01:00:43.039 --> 01:00:45.940
They do, but they don't. Like, it's not, like....
1022
01:00:48.820 --> 01:00:54.880
I think it's because of the fact that people, human
1023
01:00:54.920 --> 01:00:58.159
nature is to react off of things that are taboo, right? So, like,
1024
01:00:59.030 --> 01:01:02.579
Since there was... It feels like we were sneaking around
1025
01:01:02.639 --> 01:01:04.480
and shit, right? For the longest time. But now that
1026
01:01:04.500 --> 01:01:12.340
you have all these apps and television shows and things
1027
01:01:12.440 --> 01:01:14.739
or all this stuff, I'd be like, well, I don't
1028
01:01:14.780 --> 01:01:18.880
really need to sneak in. Or there's no allure in
1029
01:01:20.570 --> 01:01:23.449
the build-up to it because it's there already.
1030
01:01:24.030 --> 01:01:25.929
I agree with you. I was thinking about that. I
1031
01:01:25.949 --> 01:01:33.969
was like, I think, A... A lot more people had, respectfully,
1032
01:01:35.750 --> 01:01:44.019
were affected by the toxic part of church culture, right?
1033
01:01:44.500 --> 01:01:44.980
Sure.
1034
01:01:46.320 --> 01:01:48.719
Do people still go to church? Absolutely. You know what
1035
01:01:48.760 --> 01:01:52.340
I'm saying? Absolutely, people still go to church. I think.
1036
01:01:55.320 --> 01:01:59.389
People were going maybe a tinge more, and also- those
1037
01:02:00.090 --> 01:02:05.239
different indoctrinations were placed upon and respectability things were placed
1038
01:02:05.340 --> 01:02:09.059
upon kids more to the point where, like you said,
1039
01:02:09.099 --> 01:02:10.900
then they felt like they rebelled.
1040
01:02:10.940 --> 01:02:13.039
They had to sneak. Now we're talking to our kids
1041
01:02:13.079 --> 01:02:15.400
and we're like, you're going to have urges. When you do,
1042
01:02:15.460 --> 01:02:20.079
it's very natural. You know what I'm saying? And they're like,
1043
01:02:21.000 --> 01:02:26.059
I want to play Roblox. So, you know, not to
1044
01:02:26.099 --> 01:02:29.050
say that science is not science, but also....
1045
01:02:30.309 --> 01:02:33.449
I think we're creating safer spaces for them where then
1046
01:02:33.489 --> 01:02:37.920
they don't, not everybody obviously, but they maybe don't feel
1047
01:02:37.960 --> 01:02:38.980
the need to do that.
1048
01:02:39.860 --> 01:02:42.420
And I don't know. I could be completely off kilter.
1049
01:02:42.559 --> 01:02:48.880
I just noticed that these kids at 13 feel more kiddish.
1050
01:02:49.139 --> 01:02:50.489
And I know they got dirty.
1051
01:02:50.239 --> 01:02:52.710
Little nasty mouths amongst themselves. I hear Noah and her
1052
01:02:52.730 --> 01:02:56.849
friends too. They're mostly just cursing. But they're cursing playing Roblox.
1053
01:02:57.489 --> 01:02:58.139
You know what I mean?
1054
01:02:58.199 --> 01:02:58.610
Yeah.
1055
01:02:59.010 --> 01:03:02.090
Yeah, yeah. It's like there's still some of this innocence
1056
01:03:02.150 --> 01:03:06.090
that's with them. Yeah. Which is... I appreciate. Now, the
1057
01:03:06.250 --> 01:03:09.449
outlaw teenager is 17 and up. I don't know what
1058
01:03:09.469 --> 01:03:13.789
the fuck's going on. But... It's also a different time.
1059
01:03:14.510 --> 01:03:15.670
But I.
1060
01:03:16.210 --> 01:03:20.760
Yeah. I think at 13, there was still some innocence there. Yeah.
1061
01:03:20.780 --> 01:03:26.670
I just... There was a lot more of a rebellion
1062
01:03:27.489 --> 01:03:37.039
because the world was a little bit more conservative back then.
1063
01:03:37.300 --> 01:03:37.980
Let's take a break.
1064
01:03:38.159 --> 01:03:38.960
Yeah.
1065
01:03:38.980 --> 01:03:44.079
And we'll be back with more Jade and XD. Hit it!
1066
01:03:45.019 --> 01:03:48.460
After these messages, we'll be right back.
1067
01:03:53.809 --> 01:03:56.909
Do you know the secret language they're speaking to each
1068
01:03:56.929 --> 01:04:00.619
other that they don't want their parents or teachers to
1069
01:04:00.679 --> 01:04:05.300
understand we spent the last two years looking for answers
1070
01:04:05.360 --> 01:04:08.780
in our first of its kind investigation we want to.
1071
01:04:08.800 --> 01:04:16.969
Warn you what we found and we're back we're talking
1072
01:04:17.050 --> 01:04:19.510
about where we were when we were.
1073
01:04:19.389 --> 01:04:26.500
13 um So this shit right here came out. Love Jokes.
1074
01:04:27.800 --> 01:04:29.619
Oh, did that come out? That came out in 99?
1075
01:04:29.599 --> 01:04:29.840
Mm-hmm.
1076
01:04:31.489 --> 01:04:32.070
Oh, shit.
1077
01:04:34.389 --> 01:04:35.710
Negro, what are you doing here?
1078
01:04:36.030 --> 01:04:36.949
Let me buy you dinner.
1079
01:04:37.789 --> 01:04:40.070
Okay, the Billy Dee thing is a little played out,
1080
01:04:40.090 --> 01:04:42.050
but I will give you 10 cool points.
1081
01:04:41.829 --> 01:04:42.809
For nostalgia's sake.
1082
01:04:44.949 --> 01:04:50.039
I am not trying to meet another man. Um, you know...
1083
01:04:50.900 --> 01:04:54.989
It was like the rise of... Oh, excuse me, 97.
1084
01:04:54.989 --> 01:04:58.170
Why did I say that? Why do I feel like
1085
01:04:58.190 --> 01:05:02.110
this came out in 99? Well, either way, I remember
1086
01:05:02.449 --> 01:05:05.030
this came to TV in 99.
1087
01:05:05.030 --> 01:05:07.639
Okay, I was like, I didn't... 97, right? Yeah, this
1088
01:05:07.659 --> 01:05:09.000
came out in 97.
1089
01:05:09.000 --> 01:05:10.570
It came to TV in 99. And I remember because I.
1090
01:05:17.150 --> 01:05:19.909
How I saw Love Jones I did not see Love
1091
01:05:19.929 --> 01:05:23.530
Jones in the movie theater because I was what 11
1092
01:05:23.530 --> 01:05:27.989
I saw it on television because I was recording the
1093
01:05:28.030 --> 01:05:32.730
Simpsons used to have marathons on UPN and I used
1094
01:05:32.769 --> 01:05:36.690
to tape them because back then DVR didn't exist and
1095
01:05:37.070 --> 01:05:41.329
neither did TiVo so I loved the Simpsons at the
1096
01:05:41.369 --> 01:05:43.550
time so I was like okay let me record this
1097
01:05:43.590 --> 01:05:46.300
so I can have my I guess that is I
1098
01:05:46.320 --> 01:05:49.860
could watch TV while I played my Game Boy or whatever.
1099
01:05:52.820 --> 01:05:58.610
And for whatever reason, I accidentally recorded this movie. What
1100
01:05:58.650 --> 01:06:01.510
I tell you, I think my origin for this hate,
1101
01:06:02.170 --> 01:06:05.449
my hate, the origin story for my hate for this
1102
01:06:05.489 --> 01:06:08.849
movie started because I accidentally recorded the wrong thing. And
1103
01:06:12.409 --> 01:06:14.250
then I watched the shit for real, for real.
1104
01:06:15.539 --> 01:06:18.280
Oh, see, I feel like Love Jones might be part.
1105
01:06:18.300 --> 01:06:21.260
R.P. Cassandra Wilson, though. She's on this soundtrack because she
1106
01:06:21.280 --> 01:06:22.670
passed away the other day.
1107
01:06:24.059 --> 01:06:25.199
Oh, I did not know that.
1108
01:06:26.340 --> 01:06:32.519
Yeah, at 70. Not 80, 70.
1109
01:06:33.139 --> 01:06:38.630
I saw Love Jones on VHS, obviously, when I wasn't
1110
01:06:38.650 --> 01:06:39.599
supposed to be watching it.
1111
01:06:41.969 --> 01:06:42.730
And of course, I.
1112
01:06:43.090 --> 01:06:46.869
Think Outside of certain just growing up things, I think
1113
01:06:47.190 --> 01:06:52.030
Love Jones was probably part of what shaped my, you know, hotepism,
1114
01:06:52.769 --> 01:06:56.269
you know, adjacent start.
1115
01:06:56.769 --> 01:07:01.369
Because I was like, oh, this is so romantic. You
1116
01:07:01.389 --> 01:07:03.289
know what I'm saying?
1117
01:07:04.349 --> 01:07:06.769
And, you know, niggas writing poems and shit. It's like, oh,
1118
01:07:06.789 --> 01:07:09.010
then I start having niggas write me poems. I told you,
1119
01:07:09.090 --> 01:07:10.309
one day I'm going to pull it out of that box.
1120
01:07:11.039 --> 01:07:13.480
where that nigga told me to keep rocking the shows
1121
01:07:13.519 --> 01:07:16.289
with my pretty toes and called me his whiz.
1122
01:07:18.329 --> 01:07:23.530
But anyway, so another thing that happened.
1123
01:07:24.590 --> 01:07:28.250
In 98 was a movie was released. It was one
1124
01:07:28.269 --> 01:07:31.389
of the top 10 movies, I think, of 98. And
1125
01:07:31.949 --> 01:07:38.280
the concept was like, ugh, then. But now it's our reality.
1126
01:07:38.440 --> 01:07:42.880
And that is the Truman Show. Starring Jim Carrey.
1127
01:07:43.909 --> 01:07:47.619
Coming to you now from the largest studio ever constructed,
1128
01:07:47.980 --> 01:07:49.659
it's the Truman Show!
1129
01:07:49.920 --> 01:07:50.699
Yeah!
1130
01:07:52.820 --> 01:07:55.099
Good morning! Good morning! Oh, and in case I don't
1131
01:07:55.159 --> 01:08:00.019
see you, good afternoon, good evening, and good night. The
1132
01:08:00.059 --> 01:08:03.920
precursor to Big Brother and the precursor to Love Island.
1133
01:08:05.019 --> 01:08:11.480
And social media in general. Just like the constant and
1134
01:08:11.500 --> 01:08:12.239
flock cameras.
1135
01:08:12.719 --> 01:08:13.780
Fucking military.
1136
01:08:13.800 --> 01:08:20.260
We haven't talked about flock here. I find it interesting
1137
01:08:21.180 --> 01:08:27.659
that this is the one time I have seen community
1138
01:08:27.699 --> 01:08:33.630
groundswell for people being against this. Like, you know, normally...
1139
01:08:38.170 --> 01:08:40.939
As we've seen in the last few months, if not
1140
01:08:40.979 --> 01:08:44.659
year or so, we've seen that other minority groups really
1141
01:08:44.760 --> 01:08:48.920
lack in their ability to protest. They are rather ineffective
1142
01:08:48.979 --> 01:08:51.880
in their messaging and affecting and getting the word out
1143
01:08:51.960 --> 01:08:55.250
and affecting, ineffective, excuse me, at all of these things
1144
01:08:55.310 --> 01:09:01.899
surrounding protests. Yeah. However... over the last few weeks, I've
1145
01:09:01.939 --> 01:09:06.760
watched on the news that other minority groups, specifically whites,
1146
01:09:07.439 --> 01:09:10.060
do not like being surveilled.
1147
01:09:10.649 --> 01:09:12.170
Baby, let me tell you.
1148
01:09:12.189 --> 01:09:16.289
They do not like being watched. Watched.
1149
01:09:17.890 --> 01:09:21.409
No, and the ones who voted for this shit are
1150
01:09:21.449 --> 01:09:23.270
the ones who don't like being watched. So I was
1151
01:09:23.310 --> 01:09:27.050
on the phone with my home girl in Texas, and
1152
01:09:27.090 --> 01:09:29.210
she was talking about, she was like, baby, when I
1153
01:09:29.250 --> 01:09:36.109
tell you these white people are going up, they are
1154
01:09:36.350 --> 01:09:38.989
fighting to get rid of these flock cameras. She said
1155
01:09:39.140 --> 01:09:43.779
one thing they don't like to do is be surveilled.
1156
01:09:43.840 --> 01:09:45.439
They don't want nobody in their business.
1157
01:09:46.460 --> 01:09:48.579
And I'm like, well, then maybe you shouldn't be a
1158
01:09:48.640 --> 01:09:51.460
fucking idiot and pay attention to what the fuck you vote.
1159
01:09:51.239 --> 01:09:52.000
For, perhaps.
1160
01:09:53.239 --> 01:09:53.619
Right.
1161
01:09:53.859 --> 01:09:56.600
And so I've noticed that these folks have like this
1162
01:09:56.760 --> 01:09:59.399
one man has gone so far. He was like, well,
1163
01:09:59.539 --> 01:10:02.689
I heard that we you canceled the contract. So why
1164
01:10:02.699 --> 01:10:05.470
are these cameras still up? So he went around and
1165
01:10:05.510 --> 01:10:07.909
took down the cameras. He was like, well, y'all don't
1166
01:10:07.930 --> 01:10:09.529
have a contract with them. So why are they still up?
1167
01:10:10.250 --> 01:10:11.689
I know y'all busy. I did it for you.
1168
01:10:12.010 --> 01:10:15.510
NBC affiliate Care 11 reporting cities across Minnesota say the
1169
01:10:15.529 --> 01:10:20.649
surveillance cameras are targets stolen, damaged or vandalized in recent months.
1170
01:10:20.869 --> 01:10:22.609
We have six cameras or only two of them are
1171
01:10:22.670 --> 01:10:23.210
active right now.
1172
01:10:23.310 --> 01:10:25.420
Four have been damaged at different points in time.
1173
01:10:25.640 --> 01:10:28.340
And even a candidate for Congress in Tennessee.
1174
01:10:28.760 --> 01:10:31.220
I'm not mad at it.
1175
01:10:31.300 --> 01:10:36.890
I just find it very interesting that, you know, it's
1176
01:10:36.970 --> 01:10:42.329
also indicative of how people feel. Don't know what they're
1177
01:10:42.390 --> 01:10:49.100
voting for. They just vote for racism. They vote for
1178
01:10:49.159 --> 01:10:53.199
what sounds good. Or they glaze over. Or they be like,
1179
01:10:53.239 --> 01:10:55.199
I don't know. I'm just going to say yes because blah, blah, blah.
1180
01:10:55.220 --> 01:10:59.350
Because so-and-so endorses it. Or I know that blacks don't
1181
01:10:59.409 --> 01:11:01.739
want it. So I'm going to do it.
1182
01:11:01.869 --> 01:11:06.260
Yep. Mostly that. It's going to affect the blacks. So
1183
01:11:06.300 --> 01:11:07.579
let me go ahead and make sure.
1184
01:11:07.600 --> 01:11:11.880
Whatever's going to disenfranchise the blacks even more is what
1185
01:11:11.899 --> 01:11:16.819
I'm voting for. And that's their mindset. That's their mindset.
1186
01:11:16.920 --> 01:11:20.680
But yeah, the Truman Show came out in 98. And
1187
01:11:21.060 --> 01:11:26.460
that constant surveillance is something that is... It's scary and
1188
01:11:26.500 --> 01:11:29.359
it's also not foreign to us now at this point.
1189
01:11:30.850 --> 01:11:34.180
No, it's not. Because... You know, in 99, The Matrix
1190
01:11:34.220 --> 01:11:41.279
came out, right? Yes. Which I watched recently. Have you
1191
01:11:41.310 --> 01:11:42.949
ever watched The Matrix, fool?
1192
01:11:43.149 --> 01:11:45.970
Yes, I've watched The Matrix. I know you didn't think
1193
01:11:46.029 --> 01:11:47.149
I actually did, but I did.
1194
01:11:48.289 --> 01:11:57.590
Okay. I have to check in. It is very, like
1195
01:11:57.609 --> 01:12:02.060
you said, it's not too far-fetched. When you look at
1196
01:12:02.100 --> 01:12:05.029
it from 25 years ago, there's a couple of things
1197
01:12:05.069 --> 01:12:09.729
that are my, especially now with the advent of AI, like,
1198
01:12:10.369 --> 01:12:15.390
anything is possible. And so I'm like, I would love
1199
01:12:15.449 --> 01:12:17.829
the fact if we actually were in a simulation. That
1200
01:12:17.869 --> 01:12:19.380
means somebody could put a stop to it.
1201
01:12:20.590 --> 01:12:25.960
Like, push the button, motherfucker. Take the key out. Goddamn.
1202
01:12:26.000 --> 01:12:29.680
Like, turn on the McAfee or Norton antivirus.
1203
01:12:29.720 --> 01:12:30.000
Please.
1204
01:12:30.020 --> 01:12:34.930
You know what I mean? Please. That means that gives
1205
01:12:34.970 --> 01:12:36.409
me hope, you know.
1206
01:12:36.550 --> 01:12:39.310
But I halfway.
1207
01:12:39.050 --> 01:12:41.270
Think we are living in a simulation and halfway don't.
1208
01:12:42.180 --> 01:12:45.420
You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if
1209
01:12:45.460 --> 01:12:46.979
you're awake or still dreaming?
1210
01:12:47.000 --> 01:12:50.159
All the time. It's called mescaline.
1211
01:12:50.840 --> 01:12:51.960
It's the only way to fly.
1212
01:12:53.220 --> 01:12:55.119
Hey, look, it just sounds to me like, you know,
1213
01:12:55.140 --> 01:12:56.239
you need to unplug, man.
1214
01:12:57.090 --> 01:12:59.829
Yeah, like, this is, I always say, this is God's
1215
01:12:59.890 --> 01:13:07.060
worst Sim save ever. You know how, like, on The Sims, like,
1216
01:13:07.100 --> 01:13:09.600
you can just leave, like, it going, and you just forget, like,
1217
01:13:09.619 --> 01:13:12.300
you go make Kate, like, macaroni and cheese, and then, like,
1218
01:13:12.359 --> 01:13:14.279
every sudden, like, it's, like, a thousand things.
1219
01:13:14.420 --> 01:13:15.619
And they're just.
1220
01:13:15.680 --> 01:13:20.939
Yeah. That's what it feels like. God just left the.
1221
01:13:20.819 --> 01:13:21.420
Sims 4 on.
1222
01:13:21.779 --> 01:13:23.340
Oh, my God.
1223
01:13:23.380 --> 01:13:24.359
Like, what are you doing?
1224
01:13:24.380 --> 01:13:25.739
I went to go play Minecraft.
1225
01:13:25.800 --> 01:13:27.220
What are you doing?
1226
01:13:27.340 --> 01:13:31.649
Yeah. Like, what is happening? None of this feels real. Oh,
1227
01:13:31.699 --> 01:13:33.029
my God. No, it does not.
1228
01:13:33.670 --> 01:13:34.949
I'm sorry.
1229
01:13:35.649 --> 01:13:37.750
I was looking. So, I was looking through this. This
1230
01:13:37.829 --> 01:13:42.539
is the Mary album, the first one. What's the first one?
1231
01:13:42.590 --> 01:13:47.989
It came out in 99. Well, the Mary, because... Let
1232
01:13:48.010 --> 01:13:52.909
me explain. Okay, all right. Sorry. So, there's the Mary album,
1233
01:13:53.609 --> 01:13:57.640
and then she has Mary 2, which is the one
1234
01:13:57.680 --> 01:13:59.779
that has crispy chicken on it. Okay.
1235
01:14:00.520 --> 01:14:01.760
That's on an album.
1236
01:14:02.279 --> 01:14:02.760
Yeah, it is.
1237
01:14:02.819 --> 01:14:05.680
Well, the song is not crispy chicken, but it's what
1238
01:14:05.720 --> 01:14:06.180
she used.
1239
01:14:06.300 --> 01:14:08.699
Why'd they stop making them apples and then fake noodles?
1240
01:14:09.020 --> 01:14:10.760
Sorry, keep going. I love them.
1241
01:14:11.029 --> 01:14:12.109
I know. What happened?
1242
01:14:12.130 --> 01:14:15.789
Gooey, gooey, rich and chewy inside. Golden, flaky, tender, kicky outside.
1243
01:14:15.829 --> 01:14:18.460
Wrap the inside in the outside with a good darn tootin'.
1244
01:14:18.329 --> 01:14:20.970
Doing the big, fig, new neck. It's the tricky part.
1245
01:14:24.079 --> 01:14:25.479
That just made me so happy.
1246
01:14:26.539 --> 01:14:31.340
Yes, I love a fig Newton. But I got this.
1247
01:14:32.300 --> 01:14:35.229
I was reading through this because liner notes are important, right?
1248
01:14:35.289 --> 01:14:36.729
Yes, yes, yes, for sure.
1249
01:14:36.829 --> 01:14:39.590
And I laughed because she said, For all my supporters,
1250
01:14:39.609 --> 01:14:41.289
for all the people who appreciate my work, look out
1251
01:14:41.329 --> 01:14:44.140
for Mary, Volume 2, coming in the new millennium. So
1252
01:14:44.159 --> 01:14:47.960
she didn't lie. It just came out like 15 years later.
1253
01:14:47.979 --> 01:14:50.699
What's up?
1254
01:14:51.800 --> 01:14:54.239
Well, I mean, I'm calling to holler at you about
1255
01:14:54.260 --> 01:14:57.020
this My Life 2 album. I mean, it would never
1256
01:14:57.060 --> 01:14:59.250
be complete without you. And I just want to know,
1257
01:14:59.470 --> 01:15:03.670
you know, how you feeling about me even doing a sequel.
1258
01:15:03.689 --> 01:15:06.569
I mean, because we did so much together, did the
1259
01:15:06.630 --> 01:15:09.279
first My Life album and We changed a lot of lives.
1260
01:15:09.859 --> 01:15:12.699
The new millennium was such a thing. Like, that was
1261
01:15:12.779 --> 01:15:17.020
such a... Everything was in the new millennium.
1262
01:15:17.039 --> 01:15:21.859
Uh-huh. In the new millennium. Like Y2K.
1263
01:15:22.060 --> 01:15:25.609
Yeah, and our clothes reflected that. Everything was silver. It
1264
01:15:25.649 --> 01:15:27.050
had silver accents on it.
1265
01:15:27.289 --> 01:15:27.550
Whoa!
1266
01:15:28.069 --> 01:15:28.710
Silver rights.
1267
01:15:29.989 --> 01:15:36.829
Hello, soldier. What a time.
1268
01:15:37.329 --> 01:15:42.590
Anyway. What's next? Is it my turn or your turn? Oh, no.
1269
01:15:42.630 --> 01:15:43.449
I did Truman Show.
1270
01:15:45.149 --> 01:15:45.590
I just did Mary.
1271
01:15:45.609 --> 01:15:50.649
Oh, you just did Mary. Should I go music? Let's
1272
01:15:50.689 --> 01:15:56.739
go music. What else came out in 98? What else came?
1273
01:15:57.539 --> 01:15:57.680
Oh.
1274
01:16:00.100 --> 01:16:03.189
Okay. You have talked. We know how you feel about
1275
01:16:03.239 --> 01:16:05.189
Unplugged and all the things. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
1276
01:16:07.449 --> 01:16:10.350
How did you feel about the miseducation of Lauryn Hill
1277
01:16:10.510 --> 01:16:12.130
when it originally came out?
1278
01:16:12.149 --> 01:16:15.300
Because it came out in 98.
1279
01:16:15.779 --> 01:16:18.420
Now everyone knows who she is, but her solo project
1280
01:16:18.479 --> 01:16:19.739
very nearly didn't happen.
1281
01:16:20.899 --> 01:16:22.819
I never sat down and was like, I've got to
1282
01:16:22.840 --> 01:16:26.489
do my own solo record. I think I started writing
1283
01:16:26.529 --> 01:16:27.630
and producing for other people.
1284
01:16:27.649 --> 01:16:29.430
I had written this song for Rita Franklin and.
1285
01:16:29.470 --> 01:16:33.720
For CeCe Wines. I'm trying not to confuse my feelings
1286
01:16:33.760 --> 01:16:35.960
with how I feel about it now compared to what
1287
01:16:36.000 --> 01:16:40.069
I felt about it then. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. I will say,
1288
01:16:40.779 --> 01:16:42.770
I truly, I really love that album.
1289
01:16:42.789 --> 01:16:43.970
Okay.
1290
01:16:44.310 --> 01:16:49.409
The Miseducation. I will say, and I know this, I'm
1291
01:16:49.449 --> 01:16:52.850
hearing myself now, why is there so much talking in between?
1292
01:16:54.430 --> 01:16:55.949
Because she was introspective.
1293
01:16:56.170 --> 01:17:00.119
I remember it was the the concept, she was at
1294
01:17:00.159 --> 01:17:03.079
a school and they were talking about learning and what
1295
01:17:03.119 --> 01:17:05.039
love and whatever the fuck. I was like, all right,
1296
01:17:05.579 --> 01:17:08.380
I get it, but get to the music, okay? Sometimes
1297
01:17:08.399 --> 01:17:11.039
I don't need all the bon chiche, okay?
1298
01:17:11.100 --> 01:17:12.520
I just need to get to the track.
1299
01:17:14.229 --> 01:17:18.949
Like, you know, like, in concept albums where it's, like, always, like, a, like,
1300
01:17:19.210 --> 01:17:22.789
what's that Kendrick Lamar album? Um, Good, Good, Mad, Mad.
1301
01:17:22.829 --> 01:17:25.149
Good Kid, Mad City? Oh, with the interludes?
1302
01:17:25.189 --> 01:17:27.960
And it's, like, a bunch of, yeah, it's, like, This
1303
01:17:28.020 --> 01:17:28.600
is great.
1304
01:17:28.619 --> 01:17:30.239
I love those interludes.
1305
01:17:30.460 --> 01:17:34.939
I just need to get to the track, you know? Like,
1306
01:17:35.239 --> 01:17:39.409
I respect it for the... I respect it, like, that's
1307
01:17:39.470 --> 01:17:42.130
the art that you're presenting and that's the full body
1308
01:17:42.149 --> 01:17:43.369
of work. Cool.
1309
01:17:43.710 --> 01:17:43.970
Right.
1310
01:17:44.010 --> 01:17:45.289
But I only need to get through that once.
1311
01:17:45.829 --> 01:17:48.420
I feel like we got the experience. You know what
1312
01:17:48.460 --> 01:17:51.239
I mean? Like, I feel like we used to get experiences,
1313
01:17:51.800 --> 01:17:54.199
whereas now we just get, like.
1314
01:17:55.529 --> 01:17:58.770
I got Everything is Everything, the single.
1315
01:17:59.350 --> 01:18:01.670
Everything is everything.
1316
01:18:01.770 --> 01:18:03.050
It comes with the remix.
1317
01:18:03.649 --> 01:18:06.510
What is meant to be will be.
1318
01:18:06.770 --> 01:18:08.909
What is meant to be will be.
1319
01:18:09.229 --> 01:18:13.479
After winter, March comes spring.
1320
01:18:13.489 --> 01:18:17.640
Change will come about.
1321
01:18:18.079 --> 01:18:20.520
Nigga, this has nothing to do with 13 or 1998. Stevie, okay.
1322
01:18:24.060 --> 01:18:29.119
songs in the key of life the tour was just
1323
01:18:29.199 --> 01:18:32.470
announced okay now remember stevie did songs in the key
1324
01:18:32.489 --> 01:18:34.609
of life tour maybe.
1325
01:18:34.390 --> 01:18:36.750
About a few years ago oh a.
1326
01:18:36.750 --> 01:18:39.630
Little over a decade ago at least because me and
1327
01:18:39.649 --> 01:18:44.350
tristan went maybe it was like 2015 right incredible now
1328
01:18:44.390 --> 01:18:46.510
what i did notice because you know my phone was
1329
01:18:46.569 --> 01:18:49.750
ping ping ping ping ping Everybody sending me the announcement.
1330
01:18:49.829 --> 01:18:52.069
I'm like, you niggas know I saw it, and you
1331
01:18:52.130 --> 01:18:54.310
know I'm trying to go, even though it's the same
1332
01:18:54.350 --> 01:18:57.340
day as the Lil' Kim concert. But anyway, I'll have
1333
01:18:57.399 --> 01:19:01.840
to see Stevie again over Lil' Kim, unfortunately. I saw
1334
01:19:01.859 --> 01:19:05.079
Lil' Kim perform alongside Ellie, and that was magical enough.
1335
01:19:09.600 --> 01:19:16.289
The wording is very interesting. Stevie presents the songs in
1336
01:19:16.350 --> 01:19:21.989
a Key of Life performances. So I personally think that
1337
01:19:22.010 --> 01:19:25.409
this is not a Stevie concert. We'll probably get some
1338
01:19:25.909 --> 01:19:29.529
Stevie woven through. He's clearly going to be there. But
1339
01:19:29.630 --> 01:19:34.079
I don't think this is a Stevie Wonder concert.
1340
01:19:36.140 --> 01:19:38.659
Well, not with that wording.
1341
01:19:39.210 --> 01:19:40.770
Yeah, it's very interesting.
1342
01:19:41.810 --> 01:19:46.449
It's giving, like, we're celebrating this album.
1343
01:19:46.850 --> 01:19:47.189
Yes.
1344
01:19:48.109 --> 01:19:52.960
Which, I mean, I, yes, we should celebrate it, but
1345
01:19:52.979 --> 01:19:57.720
I'm also like, I, huh. But why wouldn't you announce
1346
01:19:57.779 --> 01:20:00.909
that or make that very clear, announce who is the
1347
01:20:01.930 --> 01:20:05.239
people doing it? Or does he have his own, like....
1348
01:20:06.260 --> 01:20:09.850
Listen, the last Stevie concert that me and Crystal went to, well,
1349
01:20:09.890 --> 01:20:10.310
he did.
1350
01:20:10.359 --> 01:20:15.430
He had a bevy of singing heifers, including Aisha. And
1351
01:20:15.529 --> 01:20:19.770
he had an orchestra, and he had all of these accompaniments.
1352
01:20:21.189 --> 01:20:22.289
But he still was there, though.
1353
01:20:22.310 --> 01:20:24.229
But he still was there, and it was his concert.
1354
01:20:24.529 --> 01:20:26.890
But there was all these accompaniments, you know, to carry
1355
01:20:26.909 --> 01:20:30.829
it along, because he's of a particular age now. Stevie
1356
01:20:30.890 --> 01:20:45.470
Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life tour. Anniversary tour. Anyway,
1357
01:20:45.949 --> 01:20:48.170
I just had to tell you that. But I think
1358
01:20:48.229 --> 01:20:49.909
it's your turn because I did Lauryn Hill.
1359
01:20:53.970 --> 01:20:56.449
Can you do me a favor now that you got
1360
01:20:56.489 --> 01:20:57.989
your Google machine out?
1361
01:20:58.250 --> 01:20:58.630
What's that?
1362
01:20:59.170 --> 01:21:03.909
Can you see when Songs in A Minor, the album,
1363
01:21:03.949 --> 01:21:13.039
came out? 2001. Really? Mm-hmm.
1364
01:21:13.600 --> 01:21:14.220
That makes sense.
1365
01:21:15.520 --> 01:21:18.140
I thought 2000.
1366
01:21:18.380 --> 01:21:22.939
June 01, actually. That's so crazy.
1367
01:21:23.500 --> 01:21:26.399
I was living my best teenage life at that point,
1368
01:21:26.479 --> 01:21:29.720
and I know that because this actually tracks because I
1369
01:21:29.760 --> 01:21:31.239
had all the Alicia Keys braids.
1370
01:21:31.319 --> 01:21:32.920
I had the shits that came to the front with
1371
01:21:32.939 --> 01:21:35.560
the beads at the end. Like I had all the braids.
1372
01:21:35.739 --> 01:21:38.699
My homegirl braided. She would practice on my head. It
1373
01:21:38.739 --> 01:21:41.140
kept me from having to do my hair. It was fantastic.
1374
01:21:41.300 --> 01:21:43.819
And so I had all the Alicia Keys braids around
1375
01:21:43.840 --> 01:21:45.479
that time. That's when I, you know, I was going
1376
01:21:45.500 --> 01:21:46.180
to parties.
1377
01:21:46.239 --> 01:21:49.289
Like I was like, I was living my good teenage
1378
01:21:50.109 --> 01:21:52.489
life at that time. So that makes sense that it
1379
01:21:52.510 --> 01:21:58.310
came out in 01. That had fallen on it, right? Yeah,
1380
01:21:58.329 --> 01:21:59.029
that had fallen.
1381
01:21:59.739 --> 01:22:03.659
I think I'm jealous of your girlfriend.
1382
01:22:06.319 --> 01:22:11.710
I can tell you what really came out in 99. What? R.I.P.
1383
01:22:11.750 --> 01:22:18.430
to this diva. Angie Stone. Black Diamond. And I remember
1384
01:22:18.449 --> 01:22:23.460
I got this off the strings. of the fact that
1385
01:22:23.520 --> 01:22:25.300
she was on an episode of Moesha.
1386
01:22:25.600 --> 01:22:28.479
Angie Stone, hi, I love your music. Thank you so much,
1387
01:22:28.500 --> 01:22:31.000
it's always a pleasure. Angie, we have got to get
1388
01:22:31.020 --> 01:22:33.859
to the radio station by 3.30. All right, so nice
1389
01:22:33.899 --> 01:22:35.899
meeting you. Thank you. Q, I'll get up with you later,
1390
01:22:35.930 --> 01:22:36.159
all right?
1391
01:22:36.189 --> 01:22:36.649
No doubt.
1392
01:22:36.659 --> 01:22:39.569
All right, peace. Angie, girl, did Q tell you that
1393
01:22:39.689 --> 01:22:41.989
I used to be a dancer? Uh-huh, for real, girl,
1394
01:22:42.010 --> 01:22:42.670
so I'll try.
1395
01:22:45.210 --> 01:22:46.590
I had never heard of her music.
1396
01:22:46.609 --> 01:22:47.710
Not Moesha Beach.
1397
01:22:47.729 --> 01:22:51.510
I know. So, like, I forget what the episode was.
1398
01:22:51.989 --> 01:22:54.239
But she came in. I don't even think she sang.
1399
01:22:54.319 --> 01:22:57.380
Maybe she did as she sang Sunshine. But I remember
1400
01:22:57.500 --> 01:22:59.619
I had never seen the music video before or anything.
1401
01:23:00.340 --> 01:23:03.060
And I remember she came in looking like Miss Swan
1402
01:23:03.699 --> 01:23:07.010
from The Wiz. And I was like, you know what?
1403
01:23:09.250 --> 01:23:15.369
I might be into this lady. And I remember going on.
1404
01:23:17.630 --> 01:23:22.829
I bought this off half.com. that's when eBay had a
1405
01:23:22.949 --> 01:23:25.529
site where like you could just instead of auctioning stuff
1406
01:23:25.550 --> 01:23:27.800
you could buy that I remember buying this and Hot
1407
01:23:27.859 --> 01:23:30.399
Coco which is another album I'll talk about that came
1408
01:23:30.439 --> 01:23:36.939
out in 99 but you know it's so crazy to
1409
01:23:37.020 --> 01:23:40.149
say that you know cause remember Angie had that video
1410
01:23:40.430 --> 01:23:42.869
I just wanna dispel the nasty rumors that I am
1411
01:23:42.930 --> 01:23:45.689
not dead cheers that's.
1412
01:23:45.149 --> 01:23:49.909
So bad I know nasty rumors.
1413
01:23:51.520 --> 01:23:51.659
Mm-hmm.
1414
01:23:52.159 --> 01:23:55.199
Yes. I loved this album, Angie Stone.
1415
01:23:55.880 --> 01:23:59.460
Now, I'm going to tell you what came out in 98.
1416
01:23:59.460 --> 01:24:00.470
Still haven't seen it.
1417
01:24:00.680 --> 01:24:05.079
Glad I haven't. It feels like Melba. What's that shit
1418
01:24:05.100 --> 01:24:10.670
y'all be buying? Oh, Ezekiel Toast. I think you maybe
1419
01:24:10.689 --> 01:24:11.109
mentioned it.
1420
01:24:11.109 --> 01:24:11.350
Please.
1421
01:24:11.449 --> 01:24:21.010
I'm joking. That is white lesbian bread.
1422
01:24:21.029 --> 01:24:21.189
It is.
1423
01:24:21.250 --> 01:24:22.550
It's like nomad bread.
1424
01:24:22.630 --> 01:24:24.229
Like, you know, we live.
1425
01:24:24.270 --> 01:24:25.489
Like, what do you mean?
1426
01:24:25.729 --> 01:24:33.710
We have a tiny home. But Shakespeare in Love. Ezekiel.
1427
01:24:33.770 --> 01:24:35.430
Oh, with Gwyneth Side. Exactly.
1428
01:24:35.449 --> 01:24:40.829
With Gwyneth Side, with Blin Affect. All of them are
1429
01:24:40.890 --> 01:24:41.569
in it. That's what I said.
1430
01:24:41.609 --> 01:24:45.909
The Ezekiel toast of the cast. I never saw Shakespeare
1431
01:24:45.970 --> 01:24:50.560
in Love, but... At this point, I obviously will never
1432
01:24:50.619 --> 01:24:52.659
see Shakespeare in Love. It's a movie I never was
1433
01:24:52.739 --> 01:24:53.659
drawn to go look at.
1434
01:24:54.119 --> 01:24:55.409
Did you watch it?
1435
01:24:57.819 --> 01:25:02.159
I probably did in that time, but I can't tell
1436
01:25:02.199 --> 01:25:04.189
you what it's about now. Let's see.
1437
01:25:04.210 --> 01:25:09.590
Oh, they really did. Oh, okay.
1438
01:25:09.689 --> 01:25:13.770
See, I thought this was some Romeo and Juliet shit.
1439
01:25:13.810 --> 01:25:16.270
Remember when they tried to make Romeo and Juliet modern?
1440
01:25:21.109 --> 01:25:28.020
Why did thou draw on among these heartless hinds? Turn thee, Pamphylia,
1441
01:25:30.239 --> 01:25:31.739
and look upon thy death.
1442
01:25:33.350 --> 01:25:38.170
Yeah, with John Leguizamo and Harold Pernaut. Yeah, and Leo
1443
01:25:38.210 --> 01:25:39.649
de I date children.
1444
01:25:40.369 --> 01:25:43.770
Oh, my God. Leonardo DiCaprio, outside of the fact that
1445
01:25:43.789 --> 01:25:45.470
you're gross. I thought he.
1446
01:25:45.430 --> 01:25:50.319
Was gay for the longest. What happened in booking? Remember when... Okay.
1447
01:25:50.340 --> 01:25:50.579
Okay.
1448
01:25:52.090 --> 01:25:57.970
We might need to end soon. Okay, call me... My bad.
1449
01:25:58.010 --> 01:26:00.529
Walk with me. Do you remember at the time, like,
1450
01:26:00.550 --> 01:26:03.949
especially in the 90s, where, like, this is how... Oh,
1451
01:26:03.989 --> 01:26:06.489
my gosh. Now I'm having a thing about this because
1452
01:26:06.529 --> 01:26:08.899
I know men are nasty, and that's why it happened
1453
01:26:08.939 --> 01:26:11.359
this way. But did you notice that there was a
1454
01:26:11.399 --> 01:26:13.640
lot of, like, white boys who were, like, billed, like,
1455
01:26:13.680 --> 01:26:19.439
kind of, like, queer? Like, or, like, very gay? No, like, no,
1456
01:26:19.460 --> 01:26:22.720
it's true because I... I was watching, because you know
1457
01:26:22.880 --> 01:26:28.680
the new challenges, NSYNC's, they're doing the NSYNC routine. And
1458
01:26:28.699 --> 01:26:30.020
I've seen all the little black boys. I'm like, oh,
1459
01:26:30.039 --> 01:26:32.260
this is nice. They're dancing. But I went to go
1460
01:26:32.319 --> 01:26:38.130
watch the actual video. And I was like, this is very, like, queer, like, coded.
1461
01:26:38.149 --> 01:26:42.649
And I'm like, and I think about, like, Jonathan Taylor Thomas.
1462
01:26:42.729 --> 01:26:48.350
I think about, like... Leonardo DiCaprio for a while. They
1463
01:26:48.430 --> 01:26:49.909
were all kind of like- I'm going to tell you
1464
01:26:49.930 --> 01:26:52.840
what I think it is. Filled as very feminine, twinkie.
1465
01:26:52.859 --> 01:26:55.279
I'm going to tell you what I think it is.
1466
01:26:56.319 --> 01:26:59.640
It may be dark, and I could be completely- I'm
1467
01:26:59.659 --> 01:27:02.220
not going to say it's not based on anything. But
1468
01:27:05.649 --> 01:27:09.350
the same way that they sexualized- Britney Spears' Baby One
1469
01:27:09.369 --> 01:27:11.789
More Time came out in 98 as well, by the way.
1470
01:27:12.750 --> 01:27:15.689
The same way they sexualized her and how they always
1471
01:27:15.750 --> 01:27:19.180
do with that schoolgirl look and all of that, which
1472
01:27:19.270 --> 01:27:26.199
I fucking hate it. I think that was the equivalent
1473
01:27:26.279 --> 01:27:30.899
of that. And all them nasty execs, you know what
1474
01:27:30.939 --> 01:27:34.789
I'm saying? If they wasn't nasty execs to the young ladies,
1475
01:27:34.829 --> 01:27:37.289
they was nasty execs to the young men.
1476
01:27:38.170 --> 01:27:40.850
And everybody in between. I don't know what you identify
1477
01:27:40.890 --> 01:27:46.649
as now. And so I feel like bringing all the
1478
01:27:46.659 --> 01:27:51.590
Jonathan Taylor's and the little waif, you know what I'm saying?
1479
01:27:51.630 --> 01:27:56.149
But like making them this quote unquote sex symbols was
1480
01:27:56.869 --> 01:28:00.420
some sort of like, I don't know, pipeline situation.
1481
01:28:01.260 --> 01:28:04.319
I feel like that's just what my adult brain is
1482
01:28:04.340 --> 01:28:06.760
telling me because you crackers are sick.
1483
01:28:07.000 --> 01:28:13.739
You cracker men, y'all are nasty. You all are nasty, nasty,
1484
01:28:13.800 --> 01:28:17.859
nasty and demonic. Like I rarely call people. No, y'all
1485
01:28:17.930 --> 01:28:24.289
are true life, nasty, demonic monsters. Anyway, I'm not going
1486
01:28:24.310 --> 01:28:27.069
to go down that right now. Um, but that's what
1487
01:28:27.109 --> 01:28:27.619
I think that was.
1488
01:28:27.630 --> 01:28:29.810
I have one last thing. I have one last thing
1489
01:28:29.840 --> 01:28:31.579
before we go. It's a very positive thing.
1490
01:28:31.729 --> 01:28:33.289
Let me find a good thing.
1491
01:28:34.399 --> 01:28:41.000
When I was 13 years old, I went to the
1492
01:28:41.039 --> 01:28:46.560
San Jose Jazz Festival and I heard two people perform
1493
01:28:46.619 --> 01:28:51.890
for the first time. They performed live. One of them
1494
01:28:52.270 --> 01:28:55.489
was a local artist. Her name was Guapole.
1495
01:28:56.470 --> 01:28:57.909
Oh, yes!
1496
01:28:57.930 --> 01:28:58.130
Yes!
1497
01:28:59.489 --> 01:29:07.180
And another was a local artist. She's from Berkeley or Emeryville. Lettucey.
1498
01:29:08.460 --> 01:29:13.079
And so, Lettucey, very first album. People think it's this,
1499
01:29:13.119 --> 01:29:16.859
but this was her unreleased first album that's on streaming
1500
01:29:16.890 --> 01:29:21.649
called Soul Singer. One word. Uh-huh. And it's when she
1501
01:29:21.689 --> 01:29:23.970
was with, because she used to go by Lettucey and Anabade,
1502
01:29:24.010 --> 01:29:28.369
because Anabade was the band. And I got to tell her,
1503
01:29:29.909 --> 01:29:33.989
um years later uh at a release party for um
1504
01:29:36.720 --> 01:29:40.439
lost and found and she was singing she does this
1505
01:29:40.460 --> 01:29:42.539
thing called church and the juke joint where it's very
1506
01:29:42.579 --> 01:29:46.659
spiritual experience and i got to tell her i was
1507
01:29:46.699 --> 01:29:48.850
like this you meant so much to me when i
1508
01:29:48.869 --> 01:29:52.640
bought this for me when she was like I wish
1509
01:29:52.659 --> 01:29:54.090
she would have brought it because I would have signed it.
1510
01:29:54.350 --> 01:29:55.949
Oh, I love that.
1511
01:29:56.289 --> 01:29:58.789
In the future, but yeah. She was very sweet and
1512
01:29:58.829 --> 01:30:01.930
very kind, and I will always support this singing-ass singer.
1513
01:30:02.109 --> 01:30:06.289
Lettucey, if you ever hear this, you got to find
1514
01:30:06.430 --> 01:30:09.359
XD and sign his... It's a copy of Soul Single,
1515
01:30:09.420 --> 01:30:09.819
one word.
1516
01:30:09.960 --> 01:30:10.579
Yeah.
1517
01:30:10.699 --> 01:30:11.939
That's how you know.
1518
01:30:12.159 --> 01:30:13.159
You be like, that's a.
1519
01:30:13.159 --> 01:30:14.060
Fan, nigga.
1520
01:30:14.100 --> 01:30:17.670
That's somebody who been riding with me.
1521
01:30:17.689 --> 01:30:20.470
I was telling that out of the back of my camera.
1522
01:30:20.489 --> 01:30:22.329
You know what I'm saying?
1523
01:30:22.409 --> 01:30:24.050
I think that's beautiful.
1524
01:30:38.170 --> 01:30:42.779
Yeah, it's her and oddly this white woman. Sarah Bareilles.
1525
01:30:43.520 --> 01:30:50.159
I have Sarah Bareilles' autograph. I saw her. She opened
1526
01:30:50.260 --> 01:30:53.659
for Maroon 5 when nobody knew who Maroon 5 was
1527
01:30:53.819 --> 01:30:54.199
at the time.
1528
01:30:54.220 --> 01:30:54.899
Wait, what's her name?
1529
01:30:56.010 --> 01:30:56.590
Sarah Bareilles.
1530
01:30:57.210 --> 01:30:59.390
I think... Okay, wait.
1531
01:30:59.850 --> 01:31:02.449
I want to write you a love song because you
1532
01:31:02.770 --> 01:31:03.430
asked for it.
1533
01:31:03.430 --> 01:31:07.689
I think I went to that show because.
1534
01:31:10.630 --> 01:31:12.670
So I want to say Maroon 5 was my first
1535
01:31:12.729 --> 01:31:13.649
white concert.
1536
01:31:15.369 --> 01:31:16.680
I want to say it was mine too.
1537
01:31:17.550 --> 01:31:21.659
And it was one of like three. But I think
1538
01:31:21.699 --> 01:31:24.640
it was my first. I was like, no, I like that.
1539
01:31:24.659 --> 01:31:25.859
Because she opened for them.
1540
01:31:25.880 --> 01:31:28.779
Yeah, because it was this, love. That song came out.
1541
01:31:28.800 --> 01:31:31.390
It was like, yes, jam, bop. I like that.
1542
01:31:31.810 --> 01:31:36.229
It was around the time American Idol was a thing. Yeah.
1543
01:31:36.489 --> 01:31:40.050
I went to this concert and I saw American Idol
1544
01:31:40.170 --> 01:31:43.109
on tour. It was either 2001 or 2002. One of them.
1545
01:31:43.140 --> 01:31:52.750
That's funny to me. But yeah, I'm sorry, 2003. Either way,
1546
01:31:52.770 --> 01:31:56.329
but yeah, that was my... My last thing was Lettucey. Okay.
1547
01:31:56.810 --> 01:32:00.529
I'll end with some, you know, strong, capable black women.
1548
01:32:03.100 --> 01:32:03.960
And Kelly Price.
1549
01:32:03.979 --> 01:32:04.779
So.
1550
01:32:05.079 --> 01:32:09.159
You know, in 98, we got... We got.
1551
01:32:14.449 --> 01:32:17.510
We got this auntie era where everybody put on their
1552
01:32:17.630 --> 01:32:18.210
own suit.
1553
01:32:18.310 --> 01:32:18.909
Exactly.
1554
01:32:18.949 --> 01:32:19.689
A turtleneck.
1555
01:32:19.989 --> 01:32:22.189
You know what I'm saying? A nasty knee-high boot.
1556
01:32:22.529 --> 01:32:23.029
You know what I'm saying?
1557
01:32:23.069 --> 01:32:25.289
They was wearing black and fur coats. And they was like,
1558
01:32:25.670 --> 01:32:28.409
I'm popping out. I'm showing niggas. You know what I'm saying?
1559
01:32:28.689 --> 01:32:31.060
I'm in my new era, but I'm not less hot.
1560
01:32:31.529 --> 01:32:34.060
All of that kind of stuff. And we got a
1561
01:32:34.300 --> 01:32:37.279
trio of women. Greats.
1562
01:32:37.939 --> 01:32:39.239
Okay? This album.
1563
01:32:39.479 --> 01:32:45.340
And one particular song that came from... 1998 of that
1564
01:32:45.460 --> 01:32:51.100
time was the Heartbreak Hotel with Faith Evans, Whitney Houston,
1565
01:32:51.500 --> 01:32:55.500
and Kelly Price. Strong, black, capable women. Right here.
1566
01:32:55.560 --> 01:32:55.819
Yes.
1567
01:32:55.840 --> 01:33:20.050
Heartbreak Hotel. You say you'd be here by night. Instead,
1568
01:33:20.149 --> 01:33:27.979
you took your time. You have anything to call me boy. See,
1569
01:33:28.020 --> 01:33:30.479
we don't even have ad-libs like that now. We don't
1570
01:33:30.500 --> 01:33:32.579
even get a boy. You know what I'm saying? We
1571
01:33:32.619 --> 01:33:35.979
don't even like... She loved.
1572
01:33:35.399 --> 01:33:36.500
Putting a boy in a song.
1573
01:33:36.539 --> 01:33:38.050
She did love putting a boy in a song. But
1574
01:33:38.090 --> 01:33:40.449
I just feel like we had the greatest ad-lib era. Yeah.
1575
01:33:43.609 --> 01:33:50.010
Songs don't lend themselves to have ad-libs now. They're so... Short.
1576
01:33:50.229 --> 01:33:55.989
Oddly regimented and short, but they're very... There's a specific
1577
01:33:56.029 --> 01:34:01.569
structure pattern that is very rigid, where if you listen to,
1578
01:34:01.850 --> 01:34:05.279
especially music from the 70s, like Earth, Wind & Fire
1579
01:34:05.300 --> 01:34:13.180
and Stevie, they're so expansive and so... limitless seeming if
1580
01:34:13.220 --> 01:34:16.659
that makes sense.
1581
01:34:15.260 --> 01:34:19.939
If you're not fucking flying mentally while that plays and
1582
01:34:19.960 --> 01:34:23.600
then you don't fly nigga you don't.
1583
01:34:23.500 --> 01:34:27.100
Immediately start floating like I'm not getting that from Heart
1584
01:34:27.140 --> 01:34:29.279
of a Woman from Summer Walker you know what I
1585
01:34:29.300 --> 01:34:30.699
mean like I'm not getting.
1586
01:34:30.399 --> 01:34:33.380
That no they're not doing that like they once upon
1587
01:34:33.420 --> 01:34:36.199
a time did they're just not nobody is making you
1588
01:34:36.270 --> 01:34:38.149
feel ethereal you.
1589
01:34:38.069 --> 01:34:42.770
Know what I'm saying like I feel like Earth, Wind
1590
01:34:42.859 --> 01:34:47.170
& Fire is like musical cocaine. You know what I mean?
1591
01:34:48.069 --> 01:34:50.359
Like immediately. Yeah.
1592
01:34:51.779 --> 01:34:55.340
So. Yeah.
1593
01:34:55.359 --> 01:34:59.779
But 13 was, is such an important and pivotal year.
1594
01:35:00.460 --> 01:35:03.819
And I love how it's not just like, these are
1595
01:35:03.859 --> 01:35:07.840
the best songs, but they're songs that like invoke memory.
1596
01:35:08.319 --> 01:35:10.920
And I think at this point, You know.
1597
01:35:11.899 --> 01:35:14.300
Whitney brought out a good point when we were talking
1598
01:35:14.319 --> 01:35:17.649
the other day. She was like, you know, kids even
1599
01:35:17.689 --> 01:35:20.149
have moments of nostalgia, right? Especially when they get to
1600
01:35:20.189 --> 01:35:23.010
a certain point, like 13. And you're like, hold on,
1601
01:35:23.029 --> 01:35:27.010
hold on, hold on. Keep racking up the memories now.
1602
01:35:27.689 --> 01:35:31.079
Because then you're really going to need that nostalgia at
1603
01:35:31.119 --> 01:35:33.979
a certain period of your life. And I think this
1604
01:35:34.060 --> 01:35:36.180
is when we can start reflecting. And I love that
1605
01:35:36.220 --> 01:35:39.840
we can take. You know, certain pop culture references. I
1606
01:35:40.060 --> 01:35:42.640
love that you have that, especially since all my shit
1607
01:35:42.680 --> 01:35:43.439
got stolen.
1608
01:35:44.279 --> 01:35:47.779
I love that you have that. But I love the reflection.
1609
01:35:47.840 --> 01:35:53.619
All my DVDs got ganked, but these are my babies.
1610
01:35:53.939 --> 01:35:56.390
I even have Cassidy in here. That's crazy.
1611
01:35:59.250 --> 01:36:02.569
What they called me, C-A-S-S. I'm telling you, that boy
1612
01:36:02.609 --> 01:36:03.810
was a good battle rapper.
1613
01:36:04.430 --> 01:36:07.329
I thought he was the second thing, okay?
1614
01:36:07.949 --> 01:36:09.090
That's like my brother-in-law.
1615
01:36:09.130 --> 01:36:12.149
When I first met Tristan and my brother-in-law, he said
1616
01:36:12.210 --> 01:36:13.760
Lloyd Binks was the second coming.
1617
01:36:13.840 --> 01:36:15.000
And I said, you know.
1618
01:36:15.020 --> 01:36:18.060
I thought that at one point, too. Don't I have
1619
01:36:18.100 --> 01:36:22.180
Gunna in here? I haven't. I do.
1620
01:36:22.760 --> 01:36:24.399
We did think Lloyd Binks might have done a little
1621
01:36:24.420 --> 01:36:29.109
bit more, but you couldn't look at it. That is
1622
01:36:29.189 --> 01:36:30.069
a time capsule.
1623
01:36:30.210 --> 01:36:33.310
That is a literal time capsule.
1624
01:36:33.489 --> 01:36:40.260
Not just that, but your whole little zip up. What
1625
01:36:40.300 --> 01:36:41.210
a range you have, too.
1626
01:36:41.220 --> 01:36:44.819
I know, the Times capsule. Oh, yeah, because I have....
1627
01:36:48.159 --> 01:36:50.250
That's when I met him. That's before he started, you know,
1628
01:36:50.270 --> 01:36:52.069
performing like he is now with those knees.
1629
01:36:53.149 --> 01:36:54.029
With those knees, yeah.
1630
01:36:54.109 --> 01:36:54.909
In those jeans.
1631
01:36:55.010 --> 01:37:00.170
I've never seen... In those jeans. In those knees, nigga, damn.
1632
01:37:00.210 --> 01:37:03.970
But he be performing in those jeans. In those jeans.
1633
01:37:03.989 --> 01:37:07.329
I feel like I could throw this away now. Um,
1634
01:37:07.510 --> 01:37:09.829
I have Brad McKnight back at one album. I feel
1635
01:37:09.850 --> 01:37:11.010
like I could burn that now.
1636
01:37:13.810 --> 01:37:16.800
Yes, but it's not really teaching.
1637
01:37:17.460 --> 01:37:23.000
You notice you're like, this is before BXD before XD.
1638
01:37:23.939 --> 01:37:25.600
Yeah. Before XD.
1639
01:37:25.859 --> 01:37:26.880
Nah, 13 was fun.
1640
01:37:26.920 --> 01:37:29.640
And I hope that I'm creating these memories for Noah,
1641
01:37:29.779 --> 01:37:32.439
or at least like she's making her own, you know
1642
01:37:32.460 --> 01:37:34.140
what I'm saying? Now she's going to the store with
1643
01:37:34.189 --> 01:37:37.760
her cousins and, You know, when we go to the park,
1644
01:37:37.800 --> 01:37:40.960
they run into the deli. And it's just, I want
1645
01:37:41.000 --> 01:37:42.600
her to be able to have those two. And I'm
1646
01:37:42.640 --> 01:37:46.479
excited to hear how she reflects on her memories when
1647
01:37:46.520 --> 01:37:47.239
she gets older.
1648
01:37:47.359 --> 01:37:51.430
And like how we have colored her childhood, but like
1649
01:37:52.149 --> 01:37:54.989
from her perspective. So I'm excited to see that.
1650
01:37:57.149 --> 01:38:01.310
Well, happy birthday, Jade. Thank you. It's a wonderful day
1651
01:38:01.329 --> 01:38:07.149
of June 18th. You all should go celebrate. And we'll
1652
01:38:07.189 --> 01:38:09.729
see you all down to the Patreon next time.
1653
01:38:10.229 --> 01:38:11.079
Bye. Ta-ta.