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D-Nice and Tisha Campbell stopped by Sway In The Morning for an uplifting and culture-packed conversation celebrating music, community, and the holiday spirit. The duo discussed their long-standing impact on entertainment, the power of live music, and what fans can expect from their upcoming holiday concert, “A Merry CQ Christmas.”
Presented by D-Nice and hosted by Tisha Campbell, A Merry CQ Christmas brings together legendary artists and fan favorites for an unforgettable night of music and celebration at Newark Symphony Hall on December 19th.
🎤 Performing acts include:
• Morris Day
• Next
• YG Marley
• Kenny Burns
• Shirley Jones
• Chubb Rock
• Koffee Brown
• Plus more surprise guests
📍 Venue: Newark Symphony Hall
📅 Date: December 19
🎟 Tickets: Available now at newarksymphonyhall.com
This Sway In The Morning interview highlights the vision behind the concert, the importance of Black music and joy during the holidays, and why this show is set to be a must-see end-of-year event.
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We're all living in our dreams right now, working in our passions. And when you hear all those names, we were
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talking about this earlier, that are a part of a Merry CQ Christmas. This is something that your grandmother could go
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to, your mother could go to, and you could bring your kids. And I'm going to
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do something special right now. I want you all to go to new york symphony.com,
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get your tickets because they will sell out. But honestly, Heather, we got the
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architects here and I'm just looking at the accolades. And this is why you get SiriusXM. Where else are you going to
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get this tandem on one show? I'm just going to read off some of the accolades. I wrote them down, Heather, before
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they came here, man. I I had to. First of all, this man is completely became
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the world's therapist back in 2020 when he created Club Quarantine. It was the
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most surreal thing for me to watch him all the time, knowing that this is my friend. This is somebody I know have
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been doing this way before the world had discovered him. This is somebody who's always been true to his passions,
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whether it was photography, whether it was producing, whether it was MCing. And the same was true when it came to his
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DJing. And so when you reach certain heights, DJing becomes more than just about techniques and learning a style.
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You it becomes a way of communication. And the reason why we all felt great whenever we saw him, we felt safe
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whenever we saw him is because of the vibrations he created by mixing and
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blending music that came from his heart. And we could feel the authenticity. Club
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Quarantine became legendary, ladies and gentlemen. Millions of views.
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Come on, man. This man has since performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Apollo. He's done it all. I
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read it earlier. 2020 TW 2020 Webbby Award, the honorary BET recipient of the
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Shine a Light Award, the NAACP award, Entertainer of the Year, the Ascot Voice of Culture Award, the Homie Award, we
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give them in hip hop. Ladies and gentlemen, the one and only D.
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[Applause]
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I say it every time she comes here. Yes. One of the first crushes I ever had.
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You always say it and you remind her every single time and let us know and you put on that button-down shirt every
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time. HB, my crush coming. I don't know what you talking about. Any other time we get the t-shirt sway, but when Tisha
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comes, the button down comes out. The buttons start popping and the heat start flowing. And
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I never notice I'm noticing. There you go. I'm real single right now.
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I'll be your road manager playing with me. Okay.
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But I often say uh see we family now but I can still have my childhood crush. You
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can't take that away from me. Uh one of the most outstanding host
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Yes. that you're ever going to meet is Tisha. Uh Tesha Campbell. When you start
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co-hosting the Soul Train Awards, you did that for years. Um, you really showed people the extent of your talent.
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I call you a quadruple plus. Oh, wow. Threat because I don't know how to say
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at the quadruple. I know. That's true. That's all there is. That's all there is.
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I don't I don't know, man. But from um Martin to my wife and kids, um all the
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different accolades you received, all the different projects you've done, uh NAACP award have the beef for
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outstanding actress in a comedy series, BET comedy award, outstanding lead actress in a comedy series, independent
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spirit award nominee, uh multiple NAACP image award nominations, NAACP Image
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Award nominations across the board for my wife and kids, for Rita Rocks, and she's here today and she's going to
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hosting a Merry CQ Christmas and her comedy is tremendous. I love watching her on Instagram. I love how she
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integrates her family in her skits and it's all so natural and funny. And I want to I want to thank you, Tisha,
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because anytime I ever seen anything you've done, you like Dice, you've made me feel
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good. You made me feel great about myself and I enjoy that at this stage in my life. That's all I look for in this
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stage in my life. And I just got off of FaceTime with Tisha's mom and she said, "Sweigh, I love you. Come over anytime."
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God,
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what's up, boo? You know, we got Tracy from New York.
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Always good seeing Kani. Torch Keani DB. What is What's the
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origin story of this tandem? We've known each other since the '9s.
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Really? Yeah. Really? Yeah. We've kn like like us. We've known each other since the '9s, but then
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what happened? I feel like you've just always been there. Like we've always been around and I saw him
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at a club and then we just kind of we linked up and I'mma tell you like my
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whole new journey with like doing standup is because of DN. Because of DN. Oh, damn. She her earring
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popped up. Lost my earring. Yeah, that's the excitement though. excitement. You see this [ __ ] disappeared, rolled away.
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Yeah. You know, no, but it's because of him. When we did um when we did uh um club quarantine at the Kennedy Center,
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we did a full weekend. So, we had one night of comedy, one night of um you know,
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club quarantine hypn then we had praise and worship on Sunday all at the Kennedy Center Opera House um for a full
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weekend. So, when I I called Tisha, I was like I was on my way anyway. I was coming I
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was coming just to support him and uh he called me and was like my host fell out.
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Would you Yeah. would you host? And she said absolutely. Yeah. I was but then but then
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what made you ask her to host? Wait wait wait wait after that. He goes Yeah. So it's it's the comedy. I
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was like yeah I could bring people up. Sure. No problem. Who's performing? Sher Shepard, Michael Chay, uh Chris Spencer,
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Zab, like a bunch of amazing Oh, Gina Yasher, big huge comedians. And then he
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was like, "Yeah, do 15 minutes before." I was like, "Huh?" Wow. Threw you in there. Threw me in there.
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And look, look, that's what you're doing now. But by the time I got off stage, I had an agent. Yes. Literally agent. I mean, you didn't have
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an agent when you started? Not a stand-up agent. Okay. And so she was in the audience. Yeah. She was in an audience
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and she she called Chris and I'm coming off for my first 15 and Chris says yo this my agent she want
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to represent you and I was like what and that's how it started all because of
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this guy right here. Yo man, this is God something I was scared to do my whole life.
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Something you were scared to do and he helped. He was the conduit. Yes. God used the knife for that. Do y'all
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find it fascinating like um we've been promoting my partner King Tech and I are doing a big event Sunday. Okay. Uh
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called for the culture. We're going to honor Large Professor Supernatural Ken Swift and original original rock
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steady crew, Crooked Eye and Raz because we want to do it nice, right? Because we it's out of our
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pockets. And when we put the call to action out, everybody came forward and wanted to
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participate even Heather B, which is hard to do. Hold on. But it helped.
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Wait, wait, wait. I don't see my text. Did he hit you? He didn't. No. No. Well, I was going to invite you Sunday.
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All right. Uh, I didn't want you to work. You know, nights always got you working.
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I didn't want you to work. But, but one thing I realized that brought me joy is we were
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chasing the rabbit coming up, you know, we was and we didn't always know what was ahead
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of us, especially in acting, right? DJing, photography, being in hip-hop.
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Now, we're at a place where we could we we bring the rabbit. We are the rabbit. And to know that my
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influence or my relationships, Heather's relationships, your relationships, her
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relationships can create something like this Christmas concert that you're doing
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that we could combine resources. That's right. We're combining resources, bro. I'm getting emotional hear you speaking
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about this, you know, and how and the importance of um of all of those relationships, you know, when you when
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you actually think about who I am to the core. I'm I'm truly a hip-hop guy obviously, you know, and by the time,
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you know, I was 21 years old, they said I was old school, right? So, I had to find a way and find a way
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doing things that I loved. So, the only reason why I'm able to be here now DJing is because no one wanted me to rap back
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then and it and and thought that I was old school at 21 and and now at 55, they
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think that I'm 45. You know what I mean? They should have given me those 10 years back then,
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right? That's true. No, but it's it's a blessing to to be able to have incredible friends. And
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it's not even just about our our CQ show. Like I'm really friends with Tisha. You know what I mean? Like we really
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check on each other. You know, we've had Thanksgiving dinner together. You know, like it's Let me see my invite.
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I know. You better look. Yeah. No, but it's it's beautiful to be here doing what we love, man.
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It's It's great, man. We're talking about December 19th, a merry cq Christmas. I'm coming home.
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Okay. Tisha's coming home. Day going to be there next. Y Marley, Kenny Burns,
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Shirley Jones, Chub Rock, uh Coffee Brown, and more. Tisha, how does what
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we're talking about cuz people look at folks in entertainment um as we're something different like we're
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like bad people. Bad people. Yeah. Everybody's Yeah. No. Yeah. You know, well, with him it's in the it's in the
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name D Nice. He's really a nice guy. He's really a nice person.
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He's a nice person. But so are you. But I think why I think you're so brave is people, you are figuring it out. You've
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been figuring it out in front of us. Yes. Right. Most of us will hide until we
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figure it out and then we'll present what that that that outcome is. Yeah. Why I think that's so brave and
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courageous is that you don't have to be an entertainment to figure it out. But
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by Tesha Campbell, who you seen on every height showing you that look, I'm working this thing out. That means you
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can too. You could be a MTA driver. You could be a uh whatever it is you may do. You
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might work in maintenance. You might be a painter. Yeah. And and you trying to figure something else out.
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Yeah. You can do it at any stage in your life. What have you learned about yourself in this process?
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In the process of which part? Just in general from the time I started.
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Yeah. Like you didn't start as a you were comical but you didn't do standup. No, no, no. I I didn't do and and I
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wasn't a comedian either. So I had to figure that out. I literally started doing drama first. I came from the
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theater and I I studied Stannislovski method and Udah Hogan and all of the
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things. But um I had to fall into and I had to figure it out because I had to
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feed my family. And I think that was the greatest motivation for everything was
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nothing was for me. Nothing was for myself. Everything was to help for the
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betterment of everybody else. Like I told you guys the story about me went in a car. And by the way, I was 5 years old
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and it was at North Symphony Hall. So this will be the first place. This is I don't I didn't tell you this.
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No, you didn't tell me. This is the first place I ever performed at in a professional setting was Symphony Hall.
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So I'm literally going home into the first place I've ever performed
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professional. So when he called me I was like hell
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yeah. I mean I couldn't do Newark without Tisha. I didn't even reach out to
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anybody else in terms of like the other artists. I was like coming home. I was like Tish I'm doing Newark
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Symphony Hall. Can you rock with me? He didn't even say we're like
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the R off. No, that was it. How big is this? You're from Jersey. Like to see all of these people
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congregating for the a Merry CQ Christmas December 19th. So you have to look at it almost like
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Newark Symphony Hall is the Apollo of Jersey. Okay. Right. Before it was the
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performing arts center and all of these fabulous places. New Symphony Hall was right there in the bricks in the heart
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of the city with Dr. Jay's was down the street and vimar bear burgers all of the y no that's how
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it's been a staple right tisha it's been right I'm telling you it's been a staple market
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broaden market it's been a staple right there and so to have this come back to
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the city something like this featuring a lot of Jersey artists by the way I think it's incredible but what I wanted to
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touch back on too su is the power of relationships because you and I were talking about that earlier and I was
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saying to Sway Hey, Derek and I have known each other since we were 18 and I think Yeah. on tour together.
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Yeah. Started out Derek is a founding member of Boogie Down Productions. I came on because Chris was my music
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mentor. And when I say like 18, we were on tour buses together. We were in going
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to shows, go back to the hotel, get back on the tour bus. I remember when Derek was a solo. I remember them saying
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self-destruction that they were using D Nice's version of self-destruction. His re his version of it. I didn't even know
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that there were like two versions of a song. It was there was my version was the only one. Well, that's that but that's what I'm
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saying. Like people didn't know that about him because he was DJ, you know,
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but there was a producer going on inside of that as well. And so every all the
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ups and downs that the music industry throws at you and and the entertainment industry as well to see people connect.
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Every time I see Derek, I be like, "We still here." That's our running joke. Like, "We still here. We still here.
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We don't take it for granted. We don't take it for granted." I want to shout out Rebecca Foster who works very
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closely with Derek who was my roommate on the road back at that time because
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Yeah, she was my roommate. How long I've known Becky? Oh my god. because KS1 was married to Miss Melody. So, they were together in
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the room and then there was a bunch of guys and then Rebecca and I were the only other two females. So, we were
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roommates together. This I'm going back to 1990, you know what I mean? So, to
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sit here going into 2026 and could look Tisha in the face cuz every time we
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always saw each other, we gave each other sister hugs. Not even having known each other since 19. Just I feel you
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sis. Yeah. And to be able to pick up the phone and call these two or see these two at any time and go, I see what you doing. I
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love you. I'm happy. Happy new It means a lot. Nurture your relationships, y'all. For
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everybody who's seeing this and hearing this, nurture your relationships. It's more valuable than any plaque, check, or
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anything in the world because those are not always consistent, but the good relationships are. I always say money is not my god, and it
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never was. And so the only thing that I have for for me that I can say nobody
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could take away were the relationships that I fostered. I was good to people and people are good to me.
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And so I I keep fostering those types of relationships and they're really
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important like absolutely absolutely you remember the good people and keep God in it. I'm telling you too.
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I I I moved to LA in 2020 the end of 2017 I mean the end of 2018 going into
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2019 because I wanted to get out of DJing. 2020 was supposed to be my last
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year of DJing and I was moving into film and television production. Like that was my goal. That's why I was out here.
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Didn't have family like that out here. And then God had a totally different plan. The world stopped. I I I was quitting
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DJing because I didn't think that people showed enough love to to DJs, to black DJs, to urban DJs, to hip-hop
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DJs. We weren't on those stages. We weren't on those We weren't playing the Hollywood Bowl. We weren't doing that
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stuff. So, I just had enough of it. And I was like, "All right, I'm out of here. I'm good. This is it."
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And then a few months later, my whole life changed based on DJing where now I was able to get on those
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stages. I played Carnegie. I sold out the Hollywood Bowl. We sold out [ __ ] the Walt Disney Concert Hall. You know what
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I mean? Matter of fact, we sold out Carnegie twice. You better tell them something. D Knight. What I'm talking about.
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But was DJing your first love? That was Was that all? DJing was my first love. Yeah. DJing was
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But I wasn't a party DJ, right? I was KRS's DJ. So I played the 10 songs
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that we were performing. DJing. I owe this all to Q-Tip and Mark Ronson.
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Oh my god. because no one was inviting me out to their parties. And then they had this party in New York City called
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Authentic [ __ ] you know, and it was at a place called Table 50 on Broadway. And it was a little small place, hell,
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probably around 75 people. And Tip invited me out. He was the only artist that really invited me out to anything.
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Like nobody was even reaching out. And I went and I stood in front of the DJ booth and I could not believe that they
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were playing what they were playing. Like cuz I wasn't going to parties. So to be in a party with all of these young
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people and and Mark Ronson is playing Brand Nubians and Tip got on playing
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James Brown and everyone's in there dancing. I was I called Chris Lighty up at 2:00 in the morning like I think I
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want to DJ and and Chris said, "Are you sure you want to get back into this
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because they are animals now?" And I was like, "Yeah, I think that's what I want to do." I felt it. And so to
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to have been that person to see where I am now like I don't I don't open up for anyone
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anymore. I am my own I'm my own artist, you know, and and it's a beautiful feeling. And
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it's a beautiful feeling to be able to share these stages with my family. Everyone that I've done these shows
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with, these aren't people that I just randomly reached out to. These are the songs that that got the
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world through a dark time. It really did. That's the music. We were playing Morris Day, but we were also playing Ari Linux,
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you know what I mean? Like when they all reach out to me like, "Hey, let me get on that show." You know, and I'm like, you know, it's it's a beautiful feeling
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knowing that we can all do this together. Amen. And we're healing we're healing the world together. Healing the world.
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I was a healing. Another another first that um that he doesn't know about is that the very
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first pilot of a sitcom multi- camera that I've ever did was with Morris Day.
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That's crazy. Oh my god, Tisha. You're You're better than Kevin Bacon.
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My gosh. Yes. Tisha got a story with everybody. I didn't realize that. It was Rob Reiner and Castle Rock and it
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was the first pilot of a of a multi- camera that I had ever gotten. So that
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was the first comedy piece I had ever gotten. Wow. Wow. I love it. Morris Day. He had his own pilot.
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I want to see your oneperson show on Broadway. It's coming. It's coming. That's why I'm
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doing standup. Oh, okay. I'm doing standup because my ultimate goal is to be like Whoopi Goldberg and
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to do a onew woman show on Broadway. That's going to happen. That's it's already happening. I feel like that's in
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the process already 26. There you go. And then and then you guys, I just
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finished two days ago my book on autism. Wow.
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I wrote it myself. I didn't even have a ghostriter. my editor. I had a book editor, but not a ghost
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writer. I should have had a ghost writer cuz this [ __ ] was hard. But I told you, right? This [ __ ] is hard. Get a ghost
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writer. Get a ghost writer. But I had a an amazing book editor and I'm with Harper Collins and they really
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believe in this and I really think I could help a lot of people and so it's coming out in the fall. So anyway, just
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finished two days back. This is May I mention it? She's a awesome mother. So we going to celebrate in
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There you go. New York is taking place a Merry CQ Christmas. It's a concert by Dice hosted by Tisha Campbell at the New
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York Symphony Hall December 19. Go to new york symphony.com. It's Friday. Yeah, that's Friday. Is that Friday?
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The 19th. Friday. Yes. We got Kenny Burns. We got Morris Chestnut. I mean Morris Chestnut. Morris
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Day. Look at you. I see where your mind is. No, I wasn't at Morris Chestnut's ass. That's my boy. All right. So more day we
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have uh next YG Marley Jaheen
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Chub Rock I love Chub man's Shirley Jones of the Jones girl.
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Oh my god. She going to kill it. Brown coffee brown it too.
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We are going to have an amazing Christmas and we want to celebrate with y'all. We We made it through this year.
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Amen. We made it through this year. We need to celebrate. I didn't even tell you who else we have. Who? We have KG from Naughty by Nature
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because Kay produced most of those records. That's why Rebecca and I were very specific and strategic about who we
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booked because we also wanted it to feel like Jersey. Yeah. So K. So Kay is going to come out and
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rock with me. You know, I'm excited about K going to drop. Is he going to throw
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the um all Glocks down instrument on? It's right. Would you go find yourself
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taking it back to your rap game? KG too is somebody who's under
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acknowledged his contribution to music next like so many people. We got people
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on the phone lines. 8887423345. Citizens, give these amazing spirits a
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call. Give us a call now. We got Jay from Ohio on the line. Jay, what's good? What's up, Jay?
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Hey, what's up? What's up? Hey, what's up, Heather? What's up? Hey. Hey, teacher. You only I can say you go girl.
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You've been doing this a long time, okay? And I'm so proud of you. I I've been watching you from House Party,
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girl. Man, I see I see some of the old stuff. One day I was looking at the movie. I'm like, damn, she was in that.
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You've been killing me, girl. I ain't going to lie. Um I want your flowers. I want to tell you keep doing what
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you're doing. And I want you I want you to be make keep being amazing. Okay? And D nice.
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All I can say is my name is D Nice. My name is D Nice. You've been you've been killing that [ __ ] for so long, man.
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and you like then you reinvented yourself and came back even harder. So that's what you know I'm in my 50s too.
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So when you could reinvent yourself and come back and kill it 10 times harder
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than you did the first time from the 80s to all the way this 2025 about to be 26 and you still on top man. Listen, I'm
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got to give you flowers. Keep doing what you doing. Y'all stay on top. And um
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girl, I'm so proud of you. I just I love you. I think you're the best. And um keep
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doing what you doing for real. I appreciate that. We appreciate that. Hey Jay, you uh you a citizen, brother.
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We appreciate you, man. Tracy G, you wanted to chime in? I got to, man. I got to especially for
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you two. D Miss Campbell,
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we love you so freaking much. And when you were talking about like nurturing relationships through all of these
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decades and it made me think because you guys are household names, you guys have
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been able to reinvent yourself in so many ways and be celebrated for all of those ways. But does it create any
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hesitancy with new friendships at this stage in your career? Because oftent
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times when you hear about success it's like okay the circles get tighter, no new friends. But there are still people
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within society that can deposit beauty into your world, you know, who can also
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be um extensions of who you guys currently are and reflect your spirit.
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So, I'm just wondering like how do what are the boundaries and the green flags
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and maybe the red flags that help you determine if a friendship is right in
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2025 and beyond? Well, I can say for me, um, look, if
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this if this stage of my life and the success that I've been having, uh, was based on me having like a hit record or
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a hit TV show or hit movie, yeah, then I probably would, you know, kind of abide by like the whole no new friends. But
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because this happened, because it was all based on community, based on love,
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based on being vulnerable in front of a camera, you know, I was at home by myself for like half of the year, you
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know, playing music. Um, when when I meet people, all they want to do is to
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share the amount of love that they felt that I gave them throughout throughout the years playing the music. So, I don't
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I don't subscribe to no new friends. I want all the friends that I can have as long as people are coming with good good
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intentions and and you can actually tell, you know, I feel like I I can read energy pretty well and I can tell when
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it's something that's super authentic, you know, and I I I love these relationships that I have and I love the
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new ones that I have, you know. It's it's been great and I'm I want to keep building. Well,
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I got a different story to tell. You already know. already know.
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Let me tell you, listen, my circle has gotten so small,
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even smaller. My whole entire life, I think my sense of discernment was never
26:07
the best, you know, because I was always the fixer. I was always coming and wanting
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to take care of every single person and never putting myself first. And for the
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first time in my life, I'm actually putting myself first. And so that made my circle even smaller. And I'm okay
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with it. Amen. You know what I mean? Like I don't I have enough acquaintances
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to the point where, you know, I have workrelated acquaintances. I have mommy,
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you know, related acquaintances. But friendship friendships, you know, Tasha,
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she therea. What up, T? you know, it gets smaller and smaller
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and I I lean on the ones that I truly truly know from, you know, back in the
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day. Like, you know, Tasha. Yeah. Um, who else? Oh. Oh. Oh, Tasha.
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There you That's dope, though. You know. No, but it's good. like it for
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the first time, I'm actually learning how to have discernment and I'm learning how to push out the the the bad and not
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invite them into my space. And so, um, I have Dice, I have
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Jennifer, I have, you know, um, I have a small group, Danny, and, um,
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just it's a smaller smaller group. My my Thanksgiving dinner this year was four
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people. Amen. M I usually cooked for like 30 to 50. Yes, that's a dope Thanksgiving cuz
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it was so dope. Yeah, I know. That was I had to have Heather was at mine. So, and you know cuz you tricked me. Uh-oh. What
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happened? He promised luxury. Tisha, he told me we were going to this beautiful
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place that he rented in Oakland Hills. And so I heard hills and I thought it was like Beverly Hills. And so I was all
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excited. I packed up me and my husband. You had you got your gown on. It was red
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bean and he sent me to a farm. What? What? It was a ranch. But it was nice. That's
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great. Yeah. What are you talking about? Horse, wild boar. Oh no. Horses, goats, sheep, roosters,
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cockadoo. Yo, let me tell you, Horus, can you describe the scene when you would wake up in the morning and you
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looked out the window of that amazing farmhouse I had?
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But you would wake up, look out the window and see what all peace, man. It's peaceful. Very,
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very peaceful. Of course, from the hood, it was shut. It was peaceful.
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No, I ain't seen nothing but [ __ ] No, I ain't never seen no [ __ ] doom,
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son. nothing but he promised me luxury and that's what I
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got you. I never went out the house, Tisha. I stayed in the kitchen for 3 days
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and cooked. I was like, why are you taking this city girl from Jersey? Oh my god.
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It was bonding. It was a trap. It was a word. It was difficult. It was great, man. Um, look, we got a
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lot of people. I want to take a couple of these calls on mine. And listen, you in for a treat. D Nice has um
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gracefully, graciously agreed to do a set cuz you know we we always be like I
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be almost scared to ask him cuz I asked him so much like hey D you think you could you know that's D nice and I used
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to be at table 50. Yep. Yep. Table 50 was the vibe used to go me and Rich would come Rich nice and come out and hang out with
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y'all and I so I saw that evolution to hear that story. So D nice is going to get on the turntables. We got Ray from
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Compton. Ray, what up Ray? What up, Ray? What up, fam? How y'all doing this
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morning? What's good here? Hey, hey, hey. Ray got that energy. He got that energy. Ray live.
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Hey, brother. Brother D. Nice. I don't know if you remember when uh I just heard your story, but I was on the
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Capitol Jazz cruise ship with you when you moved from uh New York to LA and we had that conversation on the uh
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back side of the York. Yes, sir. I just want to I know exactly who you are.
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I just want to give you a shout out. Give you a shout out, man. And keep
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doing what you're doing. Oh, yeah. We had a ball. We had a ball. Yeah, that was that was great. Oh, yeah.
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Yeah. Slick Rick. Yeah, it was nice. We had a great time. But I just wanted to call you and give
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you a shout out, man. I'm here in LA, too. So, you keep doing your thing, man. I appreciate you. I came club quarantine
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was a beautiful thing, man. That was a beautiful thing. And I went out me and my wife
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Me and my wife went to the uh club quarantine out at Hollywood Bowl that you did. We we enjoyed it.
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Come on now. Wow, man. Thank you, brother. Thank you. Thank you for calling and just sharing that story.
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But I do remember you. I remember being on on that cruise with you and the fact that you see you've seen a
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certain part of my evolution. Wow. Yeah, you told me.
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Yep. Yeah. You told me about that uh that you said your last day sitting in your apartment uh when you got ready to leave
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to come to California. Yep. That was that was great, man. And had some tears, man. I never lived
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anywhere else outside of like the New York area. Yeah, that's exactly what you told me. You said you cried that day and you had
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Yep. I I sat on that floor in tears like, "Wow, I'm really doing this. I'm moving to LA with no family." Yo, stop
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getting me emotional, bro. I'm about to tear up in here right now. Guess what? But guess what? You jumped off that
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cliff and God guided you to where he wanted you to be. Come on, man. Hey, Ray, you're a
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citizen, brother. That's why I'm on in. Yo, I was going to say it's so beautiful being able to watch my friend up on that
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Hollywood Bowl stage where so many people have graced that stage and
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there's my friend DJing. Like it's just amazing to see.
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Thank you, sis. It is. It's my pro, man. All right, I'm going to take one more, man, so we can let him DJ Q from
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Delaware. Start crying. Yeah. Hey, cute. Somebody give D9 some tissue. Good,
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man. We We got a good Oh, yo, we got a toast. We got that cute, what's on your mind?
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Yep. So, I I first want to thank y'all for, you know, letting me on the air. I
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love the show. Appreciate what y'all do. I mean, thank you. I I enjoy it. I gotta I gotta listen to
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y'all every day. So, first of all, I want to say that. But, wow. And Tisha, I want to just say thank you
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for everything you did for the culture cuz you was like that model girlfriend, you know, growing up.
32:53
Thank you. Like how you carried yourself and and we believed that there was no difference between you and Gina, like you were one
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and the same. So, I want to thank you for that. Yeah. And be nice, you know. Thank you
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for for being able Yeah. D nice. Thank you for for doing what you wanted to do, making beats and
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rhymes. Like you was doing it for Kanye before Kanye. Pete Rock before Pete
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Rock. And you know, keep doing your thing. Like, yo, you know, we always remember who Dice
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is. You know what I mean? So, doing what you doing, bro. I appreciate that.
33:29
I never heard that put in though. That was great. Q cuz you know the
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Diamond D large professor all the producers that are also MC's but you were doing that. I was doing that. Most
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people didn't know that I Jack of Spades my beat. I'm still number one. My philosophy like I was doing a lot of
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stuff. I just didn't have any credit because we I was young. We didn't know what credit was. And Derek and and you did this beat.
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Yeah. I found this sample in in London. What? You know what I'm saying? Like and this this was like
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this was the intro for our for the tour that we were on. Uh-huh. I did the beat on the tour bus and then
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they needed a a song for I'm going to get you sucker and then we ended up using this track.
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And if you remember the end of the movie, he comes on at the end of the set when he he's there holding. But I was
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going to say about um D Nice as well that I think too a lot of people don't
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realize he was a teen idol as well. That's right. And so they had LL, right?
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Then it was special ed and and Dice Nice, you know. So, I never thought about that.
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But no, it's it's he was a team idol. I've been, you know, right on that. All right.
34:40
Yo, I'm not going to front. I saw a picture from right on. I had I had a I had on the sleeveless t-shirt, but wait,
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with the jacket with half my shoulder on. Yo.
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Yo, but you were, bro. And it's like I don't think people realize that. So when you
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say 21, because people were fanning over you at 12 and 13, they feel like they
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had like 10 years in their mind. So that's what happened, right? But that's but you were a teen idol. And
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it's that's very rare air, especially in hip-hop because it was L was the mold,
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right? And then here come, you know, special ed. I got it made. And here come D Nice. What?
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My name is D. D Nice. But all the girls call me Derek. Derek. He did that line. Yes. The girls
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call me Derek. Derek is one of those names. You know what I mean? Either Hoopa or all the girls like
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you know Derek. You know what I mean? You know Derek from what block.
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Oh my god. Say it again. Act it out again. Thank you for saying act it out again.
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Acted out again. You know Derek. That's great. That's true man. the best morning for
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sure. All right, but you know, we we got to point these things out. I think it's important. When I look at y'all, I
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promise you, man, it's it's it's just a bright sunshine. You know, and I I see so much history
36:08
and I see so much future. Look what they're doing now. Y'all make sure you join December 19th at a Merry
36:14
CQ Christmas. It's on a Friday. Let's get lit. Come on. Let's go. Yes. If I might fly to I got to I might
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fly to you. You don't even know yet. my time back cuz you know we relocated out here. So, well, you know, me and King
36:28
Tech were already here. Um, but now we're primarily here, but I I think I'mma fly back for that one.
36:34
Yo, it's going to be it's going to be Can I get backstage? Our guest. Okay, good. Our guest
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Rebecca, you hear this? Hey, Rebecca. Yo, listen. Beta, thank you. We going to
36:45
let D nice do his thing. You all right with that, D? Yeah, we got to toast it up though. Oh, yeah. You're right. Oh, Drock.
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I came bearing gifts, bro. What is this you brought? This is a beautiful bottle, by the way. Yes. Yes. Thank you, man.
36:59
This is a beautiful bottle. You designed this bottle? No, no, no, no. I wish I did, man. Okay. Okay. No, no, no. We have an amazing team,
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man. And it's called the uh it's a conac called Martinale. And um we have a great team, Donnie
37:11
Wahberg and I, two of the partners in this. And um yeah, and it's it's you know, not to just sell you on it, but
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you know, it's aged already seven to 10 years. So, we've been This is a whole vibe and we're gonna have We're gonna
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try it out a little bit. I feel like I have to talk like this. You take a sip of that. Well, yeah. I've already been sipping
37:28
since they sat down. She came with the with the ice and everything. Yo, I've already been sipping, you know,
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and this is really nice. You notice no slur speech. I've been going since the time they sat down. Kind of aggressive.
37:38
It's very smooth. It's very smooth. And uh Swear, you have one as well. Can you pass that down?
37:44
Tisha, can I drink out your cup? Oh, wow. Dry off. Do you have
37:49
Are you you single? Very. Okay, we can talk like that.
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Yeah, that's why I [ __ ] with you. That's
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cheers. Okay, you can drink out my
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man. Here's to many more. And here's to nourishing those relationships. Love you, too. I love you so much. So proud of you,
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man. Proud of you as well. Still here. We still here. We still here. We still here. We still
38:22
here, baby. We still here. We still here, baby. Every day at 5 a.m. We still here,
38:28
man. Let's go. We Yo, citizens, you're up for a good No, it is really smooth. It's good. And we part of the first
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batch, man. This is a good lot to be a part of. Refreshing. Yeah, man. We got something special.
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Again, it's called once again, what's it called? Martin Gale. This is what you want for your holiday season. Yes.
38:46
Seemed like this would go good with eggnog. Oh, it would go really good in eggnog. Really good in coffee. Really good with
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some Bailey. Yeah. This is nice. Be nice. Thank you, man. That's Yeah. Um I want the bottle that's not open.
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Yes. Thank you. Great. I appreciate you. All right. Um listen, um thank you guys.
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Can I still play a set, man? Yes. I got to at least get 15 in, man. I know we've been talking. You got 30? No.
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Oh, I still got 30. You got 30. Oh, I got your What are you talking about? Oh, we about
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to dance in here. We about to dance. All right. Okay. So, I'm I'm going to let you get set up. Be nice is up next.