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GOAPELE Talks New Single "Time Heals", New Album "COLOURS" & 20 Years of "CLOSER" | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Aug 22, 2023
R&B Legend and Bay Area Queen Goapele stopped by Sway In The Morning to celebrate 20 years of her breakout album Closer, and her new upcoming album COLOURS.
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[Applause]
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yes the idea of ownership and the
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tradition of from the region that she
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was shaped and molded in
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Northern California the bay area where
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we take our own proprietorship we've
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always done that in the music business
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you look at labels like sick with it or
0:18
75 girls and I could continue to list
0:21
them whether it's E40 rbl Posse rapping
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Forte the loonies are too short or MC
0:28
Hammer with busted records that's
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something or swaying Tech with all City
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Records I had to throw that in there HB
0:34
because we moved units if you were part
0:37
of the history you're not throwing it in
0:38
you're just telling the truth I'm just
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telling the truth and I was there you
0:43
know and so when I see my sister I call
0:45
her royalty r b royalty of Northern
0:48
California give her a round of applause
0:50
you got to think when her first album
0:52
came out
0:53
closer and um
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2001.
0:58
this is the same year Alicia Keys
1:01
released her album I remember this
1:03
because I met with Clive Davis and he
1:05
played me songs in a minor this is the
1:08
same year that Janet Jackson released
1:10
all for you uh this is the same year
1:13
that Mary J Blige released No More Drama
1:16
it's this this is all Michael Jackson
1:18
Invincible all of these things came out
1:20
yeah this all of these things came out
1:23
the same gear that you first stepped out
1:26
on the scene even Usher's 8701 was out
1:30
that same year
1:31
isn't that amazing that's the same here
1:34
your first album came out that is
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amazing you have it right I I have a
1:39
history all wrong because I'm saying 20
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years I guess um it's a little longer it
1:43
might be 22. yeah it might be and you
1:46
look the same way you did 22 years ago
1:49
and you still sustaining and you've only
1:51
grown and blossomed and made us
1:53
extremely proud and you brought a lot of
1:55
attention to the Bay Area and I want to
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commend you for that and welcome her
1:59
back to the show
2:07
[Applause]
2:11
he got that MacArthur maze project right
2:15
yes sir yes sir so what's up with that
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it's it's amazing man this is great we
2:20
are doing a lot of things and uh it's
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out y'all can go stream it right now at
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MacArthur maze it's everywhere bro it's
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it's real dope D sharp also is the
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official DJ for
2:32
the Golden State Warriors
2:38
when I'm making though when I think of
2:41
Goapele one of the things that I think
2:43
you've done extremely well is that
2:45
you've always managed to collaborate
2:48
with other Bay Area artists so whether
2:50
it was hieroglyphics whether it was Zion
2:53
eye whether it was E40 you know uh and
2:57
perhaps MacArthur maze that's something
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you've always done yeah
3:02
um and even I mean because when I first
3:04
started performing I was singing over
3:06
hip-hop tracks that my at my brother's
3:09
parties DJ nemanian
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you know what I mean and it was like
3:14
it's a it's a built-in crowd it was like
3:16
you want to get up and do a song and it
3:18
was just like okay I'll sing over this
3:20
You Know instrumental and
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um so that was kind of how I came into
3:25
it and then singing Hooks and
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collaborating with you know pep love and
3:31
casual and souls and that ended up
3:34
turning into you know a business thing
3:37
them helping us with distribution when
3:40
we were just starting skyblaze and they
3:42
wanted to support us doing our
3:45
independent thing and
3:48
um I've been so proud like what you said
3:50
of that lineage of how we can build our
3:54
own thing and sell units and I feel like
3:58
it's been a empowering Foundation that I
4:02
can like still be here independently
4:05
come on you know yes you did it the
4:07
whole time independent Yes except for
4:10
the second album change it all I worked
4:12
with Sony okay you know and that was
4:16
helpful too honestly I don't even regret
4:18
that because it did help exposure wise I
4:21
got tour support I got to go to so many
4:23
cities that I you know would have been a
4:25
little harder because you know it can be
4:29
um humbling as an independent artist and
4:32
you have to be really creative with how
4:36
to break through the noise and
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um but the most important thing is I
4:42
just wanted to be authentic and I didn't
4:45
I wanted to
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um be able to do the music that I felt
4:50
and not think of marketing first so we
4:52
were like if we can just build it and
4:55
just build
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um a fan base you know the demand will
5:01
be there and I can just keep putting out
5:03
music so that's been before and after
5:04
that's amazing so what I think of you
5:06
now with skyblaze right yeah I think of
5:10
people like Queen Latifah yeah right
5:13
with uh Flavor Unit you know there's a
5:16
lot of women out here who are Executives
5:18
in the music business and you just don't
5:21
hear about it she's amazing I didn't
5:23
even know she was managing and
5:25
everything yeah what yeah their offices
5:28
were literally four blocks away from my
5:30
house in Jersey City New Jersey they've
5:32
rented out and bought an attire they
5:34
bought an Old Firehouse piece to her and
5:36
shot Kim wow they had an Old Firehouse
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Latifah's mom
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um rest in power Miss Owens and shot Kim
5:43
and shot Kim's Brothers yeah and you at
5:46
any given day on Bay Street in Jersey
5:47
City New Jersey down by Morgan right off
5:49
of the boulevard there you would just
5:51
see Apache resting power trench
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everybody
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was under that Flavor Unit umbrella D
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nice everybody yeah yeah and that was
6:02
independent right it was in well they
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had a job
6:05
initially but you think about what grew
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out of that there was films and
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television Latifah was doing Living
6:10
Single in the movies and every it was
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just beautiful to see yeah you know yeah
6:15
because I had already be
6:17
um impressed with just how she's evolved
6:22
through her career yes but I didn't know
6:25
she was also you know on the behind in
6:29
the in the business
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yeah so that skyblaze 23-3
6:43
you see what I mean like there's more
6:46
appreciate she's like no well it's more
6:47
to the picture that meets the eye yeah
6:49
and that's what helps make it it enabled
6:52
you to make the music the way you wanted
6:54
to make it yeah all of these years which
6:57
has been important but I think we too as
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Bay Area
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um as as your constituents if you will
7:04
should recognize and we have to start
7:06
recognizing our impact you are royalty
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and I think I might have told you this
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last time I saw you but you every time I
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tell you go stop sway you royalty
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yeah
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no this is
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he is spitting pure facts when I
7:28
introduce her to shows I say the queen
7:31
of the Bay Area I say the beautiful miss
7:33
Goapele like the queen of like you are
7:35
the queen she has put us on the map and
7:38
the music in the closer is standing like
7:41
you talk about all the people who have
7:42
sampled and used closer from Drake to
7:45
her like it's amazing like it's just
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etched in stone
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take it you ain't got to say nothing no
7:52
it's surreal because you know like I
7:55
used to tune into you and King Tech you
7:58
know I don't know like junior high high
8:01
school I don't know you were probably in
8:02
college I was in high school
8:05
[Laughter]
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the thing is but the thing is when you
8:15
were starting it felt like this secret
8:18
underground special Community like we're
8:22
gonna tune in at you know 11 or midnight
8:26
and hear all the new [ __ ] and hear hip
8:29
hop and you didn't really get to hear
8:31
that it's like a odd thing for people to
8:33
think of that you didn't hear hip hop on
8:35
the radio you got a trip it really is
8:38
I'm like was I imagining this you know
8:40
but it was really amazing and just like
8:45
how you've been authentic for all these
8:49
years and
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um consistent but
8:54
hip hop is worldwide you know what I
8:56
mean that is just like grown but it's
8:59
like you're like a agrita damn thank you
9:03
I'm gonna take that too yeah give her
9:05
around she's such a songwriter yeah
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let me I'll be remiss if I didn't
9:15
mention this she has a new single time
9:18
heals it's from her upcoming album
9:20
colors uh
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c-o-l-o-u-r-s and it's independent Tracy
9:25
you want to jump in yeah you
9:27
don't believe thinking about how closer
9:29
is such a tremendous time
9:32
hit you know and it's over 20 years old
9:35
but it feels Like You released it
9:36
yesterday
9:38
um it makes me think I was on Tick Tock
9:40
perusing and I saw someone who went to a
9:43
major concert that's happening right now
9:45
tour and one of their complaints was
9:48
they weren't able to sing along to some
9:50
of their favorite songs because said
9:52
artists did different Renditions of it
9:55
oh and sometimes that's the case for
9:58
some fans other fans are very open to it
10:00
for you because the art doesn't just
10:03
belong to you once it's out yeah it does
10:06
in a way belong to the fans like how do
10:08
you feel about that for especially for a
10:10
song like closer would you do it every
10:13
single time the same way it's a balance
10:15
I think in the first like five years I
10:20
was kind of like oh maybe I won't do
10:22
what this said or may you know what I
10:24
mean every now and honestly I can
10:26
probably count how many times I've
10:28
performed and not
10:30
done it because I am a artist and I want
10:35
to do stuff that's interesting to me but
10:37
I am also an Entertainer and I want for
10:40
people to come to the show and want to
10:41
come back and I want you to feel like
10:43
you heard what you came to hear right
10:45
sometimes we'll like remix the end and
10:48
sometimes we've done like a little bit
10:50
different versions but a lot of the live
10:53
performance part to me is like I want to
10:56
feel the energy right you know what I
10:58
mean like you want to feel the energy
10:59
when you're watching the show but I want
11:01
the energy exchange so if that's not
11:03
happening I'm gonna shift it up so that
11:06
we can get there so then Define what's
11:08
your personal definition of artist
11:10
versus Entertainer
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well I for me as an artist it's just
11:16
like I just need to keep being creative
11:20
period and I'm gonna write some stuff
11:23
that will never see the light of day you
11:25
know and record some stuff that you know
11:28
who knows what I'm gonna get it all out
11:31
of my system and I think that
11:34
um I don't know I have a good team
11:37
around me we're gonna filter through but
11:39
I also experiment with songs and see
11:42
like what's kind of catching or or
11:45
what's not and I think that part is like
11:49
a little bit the Entertainer I mean that
11:51
like
11:52
I I care about that but as an artist
11:56
like I could never do it just for the
11:59
entertainment part would make me feel
12:01
empty because the art is for you that's
12:04
I feel like that's the focus and
12:05
entertainment is for others yeah yeah
12:08
like the artist is the singer-songwriter
12:10
I mean you know what I mean and like
12:12
that I want to do it in a different way
12:15
and even like with this album colors
12:17
like I want it to be a sensory
12:18
experience that I'm bringing in candles
12:22
that go with songs because I wanted to
12:24
just move mix the media and working with
12:27
a visual artist so you're doing bundles
12:29
again yeah
12:32
so you get the song in a specific candle
12:36
yeah that correlates with the song it's
12:39
limited edition candles
12:41
really
12:43
really that part won't be for everybody
12:45
but for people that get it really early
12:47
because
12:49
smell is so important in presentation
12:52
and colors and and all of that and so
12:55
there's like colors and scents that go
12:58
with the different songs like the neck
13:00
the next single is going to be purple
13:02
that's like all about that that song is
13:06
called Purple is the scent lavender no
13:08
it's not excuse me I know you would
13:12
think so but I I tell you I sampled like
13:17
probably a couple hundred smells wow
13:21
from different small businesses to find
13:24
what felt like it resonated with the
13:27
music not just the color and like the
13:30
vibe of it is more of like this Ood kind
13:34
of
13:35
um okay then yeah until y'all didn't
13:37
bring no candles
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[Music]
13:59
okay this is amazing though we'll talk
14:01
more about the album and I want to give
14:04
highlight to you know when I look at
14:07
um you mentioned change it uh change it
14:09
all think of breaker Dawn all the
14:11
different projects you did we I want to
14:13
hear about the our the musicians that
14:15
you've worked with along the way I'm
14:17
gonna take these calls um because you've
14:19
done really well at creating your own
14:21
signature sound what I like about you is
14:23
I don't feel like you reach
14:25
you know aim and you're comfortable
14:28
where you are you don't have to be on
14:30
every big award show stage though it
14:32
would be great it would be great if they
14:34
invite me I I mean you'll go yeah I
14:37
would go okay all right well [ __ ]
14:40
somebody invite her
14:42
yeah
14:45
but what I do feel like is I can't I
14:50
can't compete I've just never been one
14:53
of those people like a talent show type
14:55
of person like I'm gonna out sing this
14:57
person and I'm gonna I feel like the
15:01
only way I could do it is just stay in
15:03
my Lane so I'm influenced by all kinds
15:05
of different people but it's gonna sound
15:07
different on me you know what I mean
15:09
like even like I was sung in a James
15:11
Brown Band when I was
15:14
um at Berkeley College of Music but it's
15:17
in my mind you know I was singing like
15:19
James Brown but it's like it was really
15:22
like the influence turned into play
15:32
yes and it doesn't sound like James
15:34
Brown but if you really listen close
15:36
it's like the way that's how I deliver
15:39
it it's just gonna be in a different
15:41
more mellow kind of way and
15:46
um I just feel like we can only be our
15:48
own best selves like if I try and
15:51
compare myself and yeah all of that yeah
15:54
it's just gonna make me
15:57
unhappy yeah I love that cooperatives
16:00
here I'm gonna take a few calls as soon
16:01
as I said you would come in the phone
16:02
lines yeah I was going to add to that
16:04
just a little bit and man says I'm so
16:06
happy you here wow man you gave her a
16:09
high five
16:11
no we talked earlier but I'm happy that
16:15
you're here and I'm happy for you and I
16:16
think for those that know because that
16:18
was actually going to be my question
16:20
like as we celebrate hip-hop 50 you hear
16:23
a lot of people coming out and saying I
16:24
don't feel like this is being
16:26
representative this is showing enough
16:27
love and what about Florida and what
16:29
about Texas and what about this and what
16:31
about that and when sway asked that
16:33
that's what I was thinking about you
16:34
because I feel like I don't hear your
16:36
name enough or see you enough in these
16:39
big platforms however what I can attest
16:42
to go out places every time your name
16:45
comes up people like yup oh yeah she's
16:49
still alive and I think that's what you
16:51
rest in and you've been so brilliant at
16:53
doing like the people love you you know
16:56
what I mean like Community loves you
16:58
your village loves you and you can step
17:00
in any one of those Arenas at any time
17:02
and represent who you are so keep it
17:04
going I appreciate that I appreciate
17:06
that you got a lot of callers yeah the
17:10
people in here
17:11
um let's go to Mississippi uh Daryl is
17:14
on the line D what up how you doing hey
17:16
Darrell
17:18
what up this is amazing
17:22
amazing
17:28
my words are all jumbled I'm in tears
17:31
here I'm feeling like a little girl
17:37
let your lady out you better work dude
17:41
[Music]
17:52
wow I appreciate you reach oh my God you
17:57
don't know oh my God
18:01
her husband's here
18:06
hey hey what's up baby that whole song
18:10
is your affirmations
18:13
for the date man you don't know how you
18:16
motivate me inspire me and I'm trying to
18:19
inspire others as I speak
18:27
no not but honestly hey she deserves
18:33
two million miles say for driving uh
18:36
banquet that's closer to my dreams
18:48
got to say your name his name Daryl go
18:51
ahead Daryl thank you so much I
18:53
appreciate you
19:14
my man
19:16
DB you want to say something yeah um
19:19
there was a song
19:20
called different that you did with most
19:22
deaf and you were just talking about
19:23
songs that either don't come out or
19:25
maybe leak or whatever and I know as an
19:26
independent artist sometimes it's hard
19:28
to keep uh uh a lookout for everything
19:30
like that that hits the internet without
19:31
your permission and things like that so
19:33
how have you adjusted to try to keep you
19:35
know a watch over your own content
19:37
leaking the internet or anything like
19:38
that that you didn't want to come out
19:40
that's a great question I don't even
19:43
have a good answer what I want to say
19:45
yeah different I did on the change it
19:49
all album and Bedrock produced it from
19:52
the Bay Area he's amazing we've been
19:55
working together on this new project and
19:58
um I did a version with Clyde Carson and
20:02
then most death was in town I love Mos
20:06
Def I think he's one of y'all Queen Bay
20:09
is one of my favorite artists just true
20:13
artists and
20:15
um we got to work together and I think
20:17
it was kind of
20:18
at the end of my deal and kind of slip
20:23
through the cracks so we haven't got to
20:26
we never got to put it out officially
20:28
and I actually want to do a project
20:30
that's just like about collaborations
20:33
you know what I mean and some of the
20:34
stuff that never came out and some of
20:36
the folks that I've been wanting to work
20:38
with because I've gone back and listened
20:40
to it and I feel like it stands a test
20:42
of time because he's just dope on it
20:44
let's play it right now Goapele is here
20:50
wait a minute who ended up with
20:53
everybody
20:57
Co-op players here we're celebrating 20
21:00
plus years of Independence yeah who can
21:03
say that wow you saw his mural so check
21:06
this out did you see the mural
21:09
it's mural man oh gosh
21:12
[Music]
21:13
the black man is gone
21:16
[Music]
21:30
oh gosh
21:32
[Music]
21:40
uh you want to release I know there's a
21:43
distribution company called video
21:45
yes yes that was just recently bought by
21:48
another Bay Area Mogul yeah by the name
21:51
of Larry Jackson who has his billion
21:54
dollar company called gamma yes and I
21:58
heard that that song potentially with
22:01
most death can be released through your
22:04
video relationship oh you're making
22:06
dreams come true this is it yeah
22:09
yes yes we're we're working with them
22:13
they're gonna put out
22:14
um colors so the skyblaze is working
22:16
with them and
22:18
look you're about to make this happen
22:20
with the different most deaf thing work
22:22
work we're gonna
22:24
figure it all out I'm getting
22:26
re-inspired with new and old material
22:29
why not I mean that that
22:31
um Yasin Bay track he was most deaf when
22:34
he recorded it yes and then he
22:36
transformed into Yasin Bay
22:40
um is amazing he's an amazing artist and
22:42
y'all sound amazing together I love the
22:44
whole idea of a collaborative uh project
22:46
that you would do yeah and we've done a
22:49
bunch of shows together and you know
22:51
like just great Energy Great energy and
22:54
you talked about a song called Purple
22:56
yes and that's on the colors album right
22:59
before the next single it's the next
23:01
single who did you work with
23:03
um on the colors album because I know
23:06
you worked with a lot of people on the
23:07
single time Hills so who who are you and
23:09
are these the same producers you work
23:11
with throughout your career well okay so
23:14
for purple
23:16
um Bedrock produced it okay from the Bay
23:18
Area and he's kind of like throughout
23:20
the album and then I got to work with
23:24
some of the musicians that I've been
23:25
working with honestly probably almost
23:28
the whole time Errol Cooney we do a lot
23:30
of songwriting together
23:33
um Eric Smith wow
23:36
um Mike tiger and then like on time
23:39
heals I also got to work with Chris Dave
23:41
and Derek Hodge and
23:46
um Keon Harold they all been on this
23:48
show yeah yeah I mean they're all
23:51
legends and that was one of my goals
23:55
this time is like I just I want to have
23:57
an album where I get to work with all of
23:59
my favorite musicians you know and
24:02
sometimes I get kind of timid to reach
24:04
out to people but I was like I'm just
24:05
going to reach out to people I did this
24:07
over the pandemic like we were literally
24:10
sending each other files like I had a
24:14
studio in my closet you know what I mean
24:17
recording myself some of the time and it
24:21
would be like okay I'm gonna send this
24:23
to you and then you put drums on it and
24:26
send it back here and then send it to
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this person and the goal was like but
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it's gonna sound like a song at the end
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of the day and you know by the end of
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the project it was like where you know
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we could all be some of us could be in
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the same room and I could be in a normal
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studio and we could put finishing
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touches but it really was like a by any
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means
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necessary let's just take this time you
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know nobody was touring so they were
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like okay yeah you know I can work on it
24:56
right now and get it back to you and
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um
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so that was like one of the blessings I
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feel like that came out that came out of
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the pandemic right yeah yeah oh that's
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incredible and if you played the stock
25:09
market you could have been blessed in
25:11
other ways too come on
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yeah me and King Tech did all right I
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wish Goapele was here yesterday with
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John Baptiste
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like this
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let me tell you how Full Circle though
25:27
the first time I went to New Orleans
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before I even
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had music out honestly I probably had a
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um an EP but this is like before
25:38
skyblaze okay I got invited by his
25:41
family to sing because they were doing
25:45
this Cuban South African New Orleans
25:49
connection wow and if you know you know
25:52
people might think it's kind of weird
25:53
but it's cool
25:57
yes with the Jazz in that diaspora and
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he
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he was in I mean I'm telling you this is
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he's like a teenager yeah and I was
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playing with his little brother that was
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playing on keys he was like 14 years old
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wow and I was like
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okay I don't even understand what's
26:17
happening but it was amazing we were at
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Tipitina's
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wow yes man shout out to tempatina and
26:26
his and and I knew his family was
26:28
legendary and just to see him like
26:32
wow the success and the light yes
26:39
he's like nobody's taking my joy he's
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it's it's beautiful
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and your album is called colors
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[Music]
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the light he was just around this time
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yesterday and if you're around Friday
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he's doing a show at Brooklyn still
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Friday and we brought a bunch of
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Independent Artists up yesterday to jam
27:05
with him yes and he invited him to come
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out Friday I want to shock the world
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because I'm going on Friday New York for
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a few more days
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I wanted you guys to come to my show too
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I was in the I was giving suede his
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flowers and everything he didn't come
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here turn the music down
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a great conversation
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[Music]
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I got your back you know what it is we
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talked you said you go I'm gonna be in
27:43
town I said I'm coming Wednesday yeah
27:46
and I get Tuesday and Thursday on tax
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mixed up the whole time I'm thinking I
27:51
might even towards people yeah those not
27:54
prescriptions he just wear those because
27:56
they got a label on them
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I was gonna call you in the morning
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[Laughter]
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um this song since we're talking colors
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purple why purple
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purple just okay the TR before I started
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singing on it I just heard the track and
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it was so vibey and all I could see was
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purple and it just seemed like a hazy
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purple and it was giving me Prince Vibes
28:29
and it was like whatever I write needs
28:31
to go with that Vibe okay and so let's
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see what you wrote we got a clip of it
28:37
can we play it yeah please all right
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nobody's heard this first time ever
28:41
exclusive exclusive
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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far away
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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just trying to make sense
29:56
hmm
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okay
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[Applause]
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right to type a lyrics that a man wanna
30:16
hear yeah like you say the type of stuff
30:20
in your songs that I hope a woman will
30:22
say to me okay so you get turned on
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oh
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there's tight women over here
30:37
and let me just say something because I
30:40
always try and be subtle about my lyrics
30:42
he was trying to be subtle about about
30:45
the compliment about the research and I
30:47
appreciate that because sometimes like I
30:49
feel like when I was coming up sometimes
30:51
I'd hear
30:53
female artists and the lyrics I was like
30:56
I don't know if they're written by men
30:58
sometimes they are yeah but they just
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sounded I was like that's not exactly
31:04
what I want to say like sometimes I'd
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even gravitate towards like you know
31:09
Prince and D'Angelo like different male
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artists just because it's like
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I want to give and take I don't want to
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just be like you know what I mean so
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um I appreciate that you yeah just just
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talk about time heals the new single
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what's what's the the in the first verse
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what's the first thing you say
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um in the first verse I'm saying Jesus
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um
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Time Heals okay thank you
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you've been working she's been working
31:45
all week y'all forgive her she live in
31:48
the bay she got contact
31:51
can't remember nothing mirror man
31:57
okay here we go by the way
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[Music]
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before
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[Music]
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when the ghost from the past
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[Music]
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falling in love right now
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came to mind with this song that like a
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golden kind of like to burnt orange
32:53
really yeah because it makes me feel
32:55
like spring during you know these lyrics
32:58
are like being renewed yeah and and I'm
33:01
surrounded by gold too it is about it is
33:04
kind of that color and I have this
33:07
candle scent and it's called Golden hour
33:08
because it's like you know the golden
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hour and it's kind of like
33:12
nostalgic like the days ending it's kind
33:15
of sad but it's also peaceful yeah you
33:18
know and there's some resolve to it and
33:20
so that's just
33:22
what I felt like with that so man Time
33:25
Heals all things and I felt some way
33:28
before right I'm paraphrasing
33:31
way before hey and then you can slowly
33:35
feel it shifting at my core
33:38
scars fade away and the ghosts from the
33:41
past don't haunt me anymore the storm
33:44
and rain washed away the pain that I
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endured and I really felt like one day
33:49
it was just it was pouring rain in La
33:52
which is unusual except for this past
33:54
year and I was reflecting on um
34:00
the death of a family member that felt
34:03
so it was just so hard when it first
34:07
happened and it was just like you know
34:10
what though like it's all right today
34:13
and kind of everything is like that like
34:17
it might not make sense at the moment
34:19
and it might seem
34:21
crazy and hectic and everything but if
34:24
you just do the work and keep on your
34:27
path like it's Gonna Get Easier
34:30
God bless you all right amen thank you
34:32
man Goapele is here let me take one or
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two more
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um you got a thousand calls okay we're
34:39
gonna go fast citizens here we go all
34:42
right uh let's go to Cali rhyme what do
34:44
you want to say to Guapo all right go
34:45
ahead man Hey Ron Hey good morning good
34:48
morning oh man Goapele thank you so much
34:51
I appreciate you I just want to like
34:53
bless you because 20 years ago August
34:56
2nd 2003 I used your Closer song to the
35:02
love of my life walking up the aisle and
35:04
that was a beautiful experience and um I
35:08
keep getting goosebumps every time I
35:09
hear your song because I remember that
35:11
day with that so
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um first time caller Tracy G torch had a
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billion
35:20
sisters appreciate you thank you
35:23
[Music]
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get a celebration with your first time
35:27
no we wanted to give a shout out to his
35:29
wife too what's his wife what's your
35:31
wife's name Ryan Yes Eleanor yes I'm not
35:35
sure she's listening but uh her birthday
35:37
is coming up on Saturday so we gonna
35:39
make it happen
35:41
hey support maybe you should pay play
35:43
Play Time Heals for for the birthday
35:47
almost deaf all right it's available now
35:50
on all dsps all right brother you're a
35:52
super citizen man in the morning okay
35:54
let's take them to Philadelphia uh no
35:56
hold up we're going to go to uh
35:58
Baltimore what Baltimore we got Jason go
36:01
ahead Jay what you want to say
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it
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hey um first of all I'd like to thank
36:06
her for following her craft and
36:07
continuing her passion because just like
36:09
the last caller closer was actually part
36:12
of my wedding and when I hear it it
36:13
reminds me of why I got married and the
36:16
reasons why I'm so happy and thank all
36:18
of you guys for having her there today
36:19
and shout out to Heather B because I
36:21
just now grabbed my wife some Billy some
36:23
of that Billy thank you wow thank you
36:26
brother God bless
36:28
yeah man y'all really make everybody
36:30
bees better by doing what y'all do
36:32
everybody appreciate y'all God bless you
36:34
Jake we appreciate you man yes you're a
36:37
citizen this way in the morning so it's
36:38
so crazy I didn't realize this was such
36:40
a big
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um Union song my friend Andrea Hill my
36:44
sister she was like HB I love her she's
36:46
singing my friends Val renewal and was
36:49
like an angel I was like what's your
36:51
friend's name she said Kimberly Chandler
36:52
so oh yeah yes I didn't realize you
36:56
would you this was such a union song
36:58
That's So Dope yeah that's incredible
37:00
it's incredible that compliment he said
37:02
every time he hears that song it reminds
37:05
of him of why he loved his wife
37:11
no you're right okay we Sorry sway
37:29
yeah man just go get Goapele songs
37:32
ladies and just memorize her lyrics
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[Laughter]
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yeah
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[Music]
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your journey is has been amazing and I
38:26
truly feel like you haven't even made it
38:28
to halftime yet with you out what you're
38:31
setting out to do we've been in this for
38:33
a minute you know and um this minute is
38:37
just as important as fresh as exciting
38:41
um as mysterious as your first minute
38:43
wow
38:45
okay keep that in mind and treat it like
38:49
that your energy you will always have
38:51
people who will gravitate towards your
38:53
heart yes your energy it's not just what
38:55
you write and what you're seeing and
38:57
what you how you present yourself is all
38:59
of it accumulatively is why we're all
39:02
attracted to what it is you do as an
39:03
artist so congratulations your Bay Area
39:06
royalty
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[Applause]
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and I was like
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hey we were having breakfast at toast
39:19
yeah and when you walked up I said to
39:22
you you're legendary yeah embrace it and
39:25
you was oh yeah no no no you ain't got
39:27
to say I'll say it you know and if I
39:30
don't know your brother would be saying
39:32
it too because he walks around with
39:34
picket signs my sister's legendary
39:37
that's right
39:41
and napping not too long ago and and uh
39:47
you got to get on them
39:51
I wasn't there at that when I was the
39:53
one the year before I was having fomo
39:56
because I was looking at everybody there
39:58
it looks incredible amazing it was
40:00
incredible Robert Glasper salute to him
40:02
I'm gonna be a part of next year's yes
40:04
so I'm coming through Rob was like how
40:07
can we get you involved I said too late
40:09
now I'm already there
40:12
such a music Community is like just the
40:16
most phenomenally talented people but
40:20
it's Community yeah right it's Community
40:22
it's tribe yes it's tribe and people
40:25
take care of themselves and people will
40:26
be performing for decades to come yeah
40:29
because of this thing that he has
40:31
started Goapele we love you thank you
40:33
for coming through I love you thank you
40:35
the new single is Time Heals we're gonna
40:37
play that
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