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In this special SiriusXM Town Hall, Sway Calloway, Heather B, and Tracy G welcome the incomparable Jill Scott for a raw and authentic conversation. The neo-soul icon opens up about her return to Philadelphia, the different "selves" she balances as a mother and businesswoman, and shares a gritty, untold story from her childhood in North Philly that reveals her survival instincts. Jill breaks down the creative process behind her latest music, discussing the emotional depth of "Beautiful People" and the self-affirming power of "Pressure."
The energy hits a new level when Sway highlights her ability to rap, leading to a discussion about her collaboration with the legendary DJ Premier and Tierra Whack on the track "North Side." Jill Scott recites lyrics that showcase her incredible pen game, validating Sway's claim that she is spitting bars better than many current rappers. From the influence of her son on her sound to the spiritual significance of "Ase," this interview offers an unprecedented look into the mind of a musical genius.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Jill Scott Interview Introduction
02:30 - Jill Scott Personal Growth
06:00 - Jill Scott Self-Discipline Journey
10:20 - Jill Scott New Music Project
10:55 - Album Introduction Segment
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All right, ladies and gentlemen, I think
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the time has started. Can we make some
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noise to make sure the room is here in
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effect?
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>> Yes, we can. [cheering]
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>> Yes, we can.
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>> We we we we actually, first of all, I go
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by the name of Sway. Sitting to the left
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of me is the illustrious Heather B. And
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sitting to the left of her is the
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marvelous, the one and only Tracy G.
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Please
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>> here from SiriusXM.
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>> Uh, welcome to SiriusXM. to whom it may
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concern town hall featuring the one and
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only the legendary Jill Scott.
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>> Come on now. [cheering] Come on.
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>> And I Heather, I'm just reading some of
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these accolades if I may. Heather,
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>> read the accolades.
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>> Okay. All right. Threetime Grammy Award
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winner. Crazy. Uh, man, listen. She got
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multiple Billboard R&B chart topping
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albums, right? 17 Grammy nominations,
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multiple NAACP image [snorts] awards,
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Soul Train Music Award winner, BET
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Awards, and BET Honors recipient honored
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by Billboard Women in Music. one of the
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defining voices of the neo soul
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movement. One of the defining voices of
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this era we are in here today. When you
1:04
think of Ella Fitzgerald, uh when you
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think of Artha Franklin, when you think
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of Whitney Houston, when you think of
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Phyllis Heyman, you got to put her in
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that lineage. Give it up for the
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legendary Philadelphia's own. GIVE IT UP
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FOR JILL SCOTT.
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[cheering]
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[applause]
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HAS [cheering and applause]
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[cheering]
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to hold this
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[applause and cheering] up.
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[applause]
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I take them
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>> sit right here.
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>> You like them?
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>> Now, we brought you this, too, but we
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didn't have no glasses. [laughter]
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[cheering]
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>> Here, Jill. We going to have you sit
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right there.
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>> Drink that. I would drink that.
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>> You would, right?
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>> You hear that, Dion? Give it up for Dion
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Summers over here at our program.
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[applause and cheering]
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>> You got that, Dion? Thank you.
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>> She says she'll drink it.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Okay.
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>> It's a celebration.
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>> All right. We good. We good.
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>> Okay. Give it up for Jill, y'all.
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Everybody in the room, give it up for
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[cheering] Jill. [applause]
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>> And this new project, I I I will have to
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say, if I may take a moment, Heather B.
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>> Do it. Uh when um who is Jill Scott
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first came out
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>> and back in 2000
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um I happened to be in Philly a lot
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>> during that time um working with the
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good fellas over at Touch of Jazz
2:54
>> you know uh brother was Vidal Carver you
2:58
know Carvin uh Ivan um James Poiser was
3:02
over there with Access Music Group uh
3:04
Victor Dupplay that's right you know
3:06
Jazzy Jeff everybody was in that studio
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like music soul child was there, right?
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>> Vronome.
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>> All right. Yes.
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>> Kendrick was there. U it was so many
3:16
people working out of that studio. And
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at that time, who is Jill Scott was a
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phenomenon. It was the perfect roll out.
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>> People didn't know what that meant. Who
3:26
was Jill Scott? We thought Gil Scott,
3:28
right?
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>> And and now we're talking maybe 26 years
3:33
later. Do y'all know who Jill Scott is?
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[applause]
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>> [laughter]
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>> Jill, do you know who Jill Scott is
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>> today?
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>> Yes.
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>> Today, I mean, tomorrow's different. Who
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knows what's going to happen.
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>> Um, I think I have my character under
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wraps now.
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>> I needed to go home to Philly.
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>> There's something about going home where
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uh people are just so warm. Just warm.
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Hey, Jill.
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>> [laughter]
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>> you know, and it's it's like it's like
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all that love and energy and pride all
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at the same time. And I just I just
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needed to go home and I wanted to be
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around my folk.
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>> And it just felt good.
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>> And it um it it that part I know that
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part.
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>> I know her.
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>> The the child in me, the curiosity in
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me, the learner in me. Um and I like my
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sweet self. I like it. It's my favorite.
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That's my favorite self. Mh.
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>> So that part of me I get like I I got
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her.
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>> Yeah. So that's thus far, you know, I I
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know these things to be true.
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>> Okay.
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>> Yeah.
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>> I like my sweet self.
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>> My sweet self.
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>> Yeah. [laughter]
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>> How many selves do you have, Jill? Okay.
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>> How many?
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>> A lot. I'm a mother. I'm a
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businesswoman. [clears throat]
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I'm a writer. Um I uh I'm a
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philanthropist. Um that's different.
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It's a different head game. Um, there's
5:05
a lot that I do like just as a human
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being
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>> and I switch hats all the time. You
5:11
know, I like this hat, but tomorrow
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might be another hat
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>> and another one and another one. Um, so
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yeah, you know, there's there's
5:18
different versions. There's versions I
5:20
don't let out
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>> ever
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>> that I would literally do whatever I
5:24
have to do not to let that version out
5:27
cuz that version wants to go to jail.
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>> I was wondering, is that a sacred
5:32
version? Is that a Pandora's box
5:34
version?
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>> No, that's the version that hit that
5:36
dude in the head. That Tyler Perry movie
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[laughter] that
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>> I got that version, too.
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>> That's that version. That's what it is.
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It's It's that North Philly in me.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Uh cuz there are times when you have to
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survive
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>> and it's not going to be pretty
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>> and it scare you how how dark you could
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possibly go.
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>> So, those are the things that I'm like,
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I will do whatever I have to do not to
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go there. But Jill, when she scares me,
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>> when did you learn that? Because I think
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we all have to learn how to either hide
6:08
that person, control that self. Like
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when was there a moment? Was there
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industry personal? When did you learn
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that?
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>> You guys, you're not ready. Um,
6:23
years ago, I Yeah, years ago, I was in
6:26
the I was in the third grade. That's
6:28
when I found out. Um, there was a boy
6:31
who although boys like to play catch a
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girl get a girl
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>> and I didn't like that cuz my mom had
6:36
gotten my clothes from the thrift store
6:38
and she had ironed them and she made me
6:40
look so nice and I had dimes in my
6:42
loafers. I didn't want that. No dirty
6:44
boy jumping on me, humping on me. I
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didn't, you know,
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>> and I would always run for real for real
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like ass and elbow. I'm out of here. I
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didn't run to the dead end and be like,
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"Oh no, stop."
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No, I ran. Well, one day I was uh
7:01
getting a rope together, you know, after
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you um play rope. And I was getting a
7:05
rope together and the boy jumped on me.
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He jumped on me. He jumped on me so hard
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he jumped on my shoulders
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>> and he was like humping the back of my
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neck.
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>> Wow. Okay.
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>> All of that was traumatic.
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>> Before I understood, I had pulled him
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over my head. He fell to the ground. I
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lifted his face and I bit his chin off.
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>> I know. [clears throat]
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>> We weren't ready for that.
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>> I know. You did warn us, right?
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>> I know.
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>> Yeah.
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>> I'm sorry. [laughter]
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But you had gone too far.
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>> And the fact that it it all happened so
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fluidly,
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>> I knew that that I was in danger of
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putting myself in somebody's box.
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>> Yeah.
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>> If I didn't watch that.
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>> So often times I took the long way home
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so I didn't have to fight those girls.
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often times I took um a a a bus and a
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and a train and a to avoid the things
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that I knew were going to happen in
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certain parts of the city.
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>> I went to girls high. Girls high is an
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academic plus school. Um at girls high
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girls were known for being attractive
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and there were girls from other schools
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that like hated us.
8:31
>> Hate them [ __ ] They hated us. So, if
8:34
you had a girl's high jacket on or a
8:36
button or anything like that, like you
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could I've saw them stab a girl in the
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throat
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>> and throw her on the train tracks.
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>> Yeah, I saw I saw one of those girls
8:47
grab a guy. It was this man on the
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train. It's like, "Leave that girl
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alone, man." They beat that man almost
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to death
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>> and I had to slide out. You know what I
8:56
mean? Like to survive.
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>> Yeah. So there is a there is that
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survival portion of myself that I'm just
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like
9:07
>> I think that was that was absolutely the
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moment. And then my mom switched me out
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of the school, took me to another school
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where they had air condition and carpet
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on the floors.
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>> It was a nice lunch lady that was sneak
9:20
me lunch.
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>> Um I had an English teacher who gave me
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Nikki Giovani.
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>> Wow.
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>> You know what I mean?
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>> What an English round of applause for
9:29
[laughter]
9:31
for that educator. Yeah,
9:34
>> this is this is as as real as I could
9:37
possibly be with anyone. This is what 53
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looks like. Come on. This is what it
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feels like.
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>> It's It's You gain wisdom with age.
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>> Yes.
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>> And it's worth the trip.
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>> Absolutely.
9:53
>> I know. I was like, we're like, "Oh, I
9:54
don't want to get old." No, you really
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do.
9:57
>> You really, really do. And it's Get a
10:00
mentor if you don't have one. Find
10:03
somebody older to kick it with. They've
10:05
got so many good stories. So many ways
10:08
to check you real fast. Like, ow, I
10:10
ain't see that coming. You know,
10:11
[laughter]
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>> but check you and help you and guide
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you, you know? That's that's a part of
10:17
of this who this Jill Scott is.
10:19
>> I love this is beautiful right here.
10:21
Jill Scott to whom it may concern is the
10:24
project. And I I want to get into the
10:26
beautiful u people song, right? And
10:30
when I got the project early. Do you
10:32
anybody else have the project?
10:34
[laughter]
10:35
>> Me and Tracy. Me and Tracy present.
10:37
>> All right. I got the project and I was
10:39
telling Jill earlier that it was I I put
10:42
it I put it in my headphones and I you
10:44
know I was listening because I needed to
10:46
prep and immediately from the first song
10:50
I stopped prepping.
10:51
>> Yes.
10:52
>> I kept listening.
10:54
>> Put the notes down. All of that. Let me
10:56
just hear this out. And then the second
10:58
song came on that in the sequence I had
11:00
it was be great with trombone shorty
11:03
right and then beautiful people came on
11:06
I said Jill talking to me
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>> she got me feeling good this is medicine
11:11
right now this is intentional she's
11:14
talking at us
11:15
>> she's talking to all of us when you hear
11:17
this song beautiful people
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>> tell me you not taking it personal
11:21
>> and me and him didn't talk I saw her
11:24
before she came in and I had to just
11:26
grab her in the hallway He and I did not
11:28
talk. I didn't know he said this to you,
11:30
Jill.
11:31
>> You're going to make me cry.
11:33
>> You said that.
11:34
>> Hold that.
11:35
>> And I have that problem cuz Heather
11:36
always says stuff that I say first.
11:39
>> But [laughter]
11:40
you lying.
11:42
>> No, but in all seriousness,
11:43
>> I did not know he said this to you.
11:45
>> The blend of the intangible that happens
11:49
when you combine music and melodies and
11:53
one of the most powerful lyricists.
11:55
>> Yes. uh with a pen and that that v those
11:58
vocals
11:59
>> create something I don't even think
12:01
>> you intend all the time. So I want to
12:03
play this song. We're going to play a
12:04
few songs from the album.
12:06
>> I got permission to do it.
12:07
>> You know, we're going to play it from my
12:09
link. All right. And then we're going to
12:11
allow y'all to jump in and ask
12:12
questions, too. But I want to say thank
12:14
you Jill for this project and long
12:16
awaited project. Well worth the wait.
12:19
Beautiful people to whom it may concern.
12:22
Here's Jill Scott.
12:23
>> Yeah. Come on, beautiful people. Come
12:25
on. Come on, man.
12:28
>> Yo, let's talk. Jill, we got you a cup
12:29
right there.
12:30
>> I'm going to tell you how I feel. I feel
12:31
like I feel like you're talking about it
12:34
too strong. Like, yeah, a little bit. A
12:36
little bit.
12:37
>> Okay, speak on that.
12:38
>> Because it it I want people to have the
12:40
opportunity to discover all the things
12:42
and all the feelings for themselves.
12:44
>> Okay.
12:44
>> Like, you got it. I see it.
12:46
>> You already shining. This was the look I
12:49
was hoping for. And I see it on you
12:51
both.
12:52
This the whole this the look.
12:53
>> That's the look.
12:54
>> This the look.
12:55
>> Okay. So,
12:56
>> the fact that you said I listened to it
12:58
three times and you said I listened to
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it three times and the young lady
13:02
upstairs she said I listened to it three
13:03
times and I was like
13:05
>> back to back. [laughter]
13:08
>> You know like Yes. But Jill, let me say
13:12
this to you too.
13:14
So beautiful people struck a cord with
13:17
me for one reason, but then somehow
13:20
pressure
13:22
um came on. It's a whole other vibe
13:24
>> and and what I you know, we've been in
13:27
this for a minute, right? All we're
13:29
blessed to be able to have been this for
13:30
a minute. But pressure reminded me
13:34
through the grace of God that I am
13:35
enough.
13:37
>> I'm enough. Nobody has to hide me.
13:41
If they do, then that's not my problem.
13:44
That's your problem. Somebody hiding you
13:47
and keeping you secret and and and and
13:49
and making me feel like I need to be
13:51
something, somebody somewhere else other
13:53
than I'm [clears throat] enough. I'm
13:55
enough. And pressure. That's what caused
13:58
me to go back and listen to it again and
14:01
again. That was my three times when
14:03
pressure came on. I was like, nah, sis
14:05
went crazy. Yeah,
14:06
>> she went crazy because she went through
14:09
that thing that sometimes we all go
14:11
through that you you you not comfortable
14:15
to talk about only God like you can only
14:18
talk to God about that kind of thing. So
14:21
I think when you say you see it on us,
14:23
it's because the light went off.
14:25
>> Yes.
14:26
>> The light went off, sis. And you you did
14:29
something for us women who think we know
14:32
or were we at the age of knowing and you
14:34
realize, oh [ __ ] I really didn't know.
14:37
>> You know, for men who going to hear
14:39
pressure and say,
14:41
>> I was wrong. I'm blowing it.
14:43
>> I'm blowing it. I owe her an apology.
14:45
>> I owe myself an apology.
14:47
>> I owe myself an apology for not
14:50
listening.
14:51
>> For not just taking the time out to
14:53
listen.
14:53
>> For not seeing it,
14:54
>> for not seeing. Not not enjoying it,
14:56
>> taking advantage of it.
14:57
>> Why?
14:58
>> Abusing it.
14:59
>> Huh?
15:00
>> Acting like you too cocky. Like it's
15:02
another It ain't another one of me
15:04
around the corner. How about that?
15:06
Anywhere.
15:06
>> I'm enough.
15:07
>> Yep.
15:07
>> So that's what you see on us. Like we
15:10
just we love you, sis. And you did it.
15:13
>> You did it. Let us celebrate.
15:15
>> All right. Let us celebrate you, sis.
15:17
>> Pressure is fire. Truly it's fire.
15:20
[applause]
15:22
>> Pressure is incredible.
15:26
>> [cheering]
15:27
>> Yes. [laughter]
15:29
Come on. That was awesome.
15:31
>> That was great. To whom this may concern
15:34
is the project. So much pressure
15:38
to be like that.
15:41
>> How did you even find that pocket?
15:43
[laughter]
15:44
>> The I met a guy at a party. I met a I
15:48
got met a guy at a party. He was like,
15:49
"Yo, I'm um two shorts engineer." And I
15:53
was like, "Okay." Because you know how
15:54
well LA is like that. Like I'm so and
15:57
so's cousin. [laughter] I'm like, "I'm
16:00
I'm Tracy cousin." You know what I mean?
16:03
So he's like, "Yeah, I'm I'm too short
16:05
to engineer." And I was like, "Okay." He
16:06
was like, "I make music, too." I was
16:08
like, "You do?" He said, "Yep."
16:12
>> I said, "Send it to me." Like, you know,
16:15
I've learned now that if somebody wants
16:18
something from you, you give them a job.
16:20
if they do the job, then maybe you can
16:23
consider hiring them or giving them what
16:25
they want, but you can't get something
16:27
for nothing. So, I was like, "Send me
16:29
some music." Sent it that night. I was
16:32
like, "Oo, this guy is amazing." He
16:35
showed up with pressure.
16:37
>> Wow.
16:37
>> He showed up with Off of the Back.
16:39
>> Off of the Back is incredible, too.
16:42
>> Yes, it is. And they're so different.
16:44
>> Uhhuh.
16:45
>> Wow.
16:46
>> Yeah. And I I just I don't know. I had
16:49
the words for know I had the melody for
16:51
off in the back for like two months
16:53
before a word came.
16:56
>> It kind of works like that for me. I get
16:58
little bits and pieces. I get I get a
17:01
line or two. I'll get a melody and then
17:03
I have to wait
17:05
>> and then I'll fall asleep [laughter]
17:08
and I was like, "Oh." And then I got to
17:10
catch it because it goes so fast. If you
17:12
don't catch it, you got to be obedient
17:14
to your craft. you must
17:16
>> because it it you know it's a a gift not
17:18
a given it it'll leave you the whole
17:21
damn thing like oh that was great
17:23
>> still in the bed you don't know how it
17:25
went [laughter]
17:26
like at all
17:28
>> so I get little bits and pieces like
17:29
that and then um
17:32
>> Adam Blackstone I shared it with him
17:34
>> you know shout out to Adam Blackstone is
17:38
the musical director for all of this
17:41
industry like for real for real he is
17:43
that
17:44
from Jersey, Emmys, Tony's,
17:46
>> Adams from Jersey.
17:47
>> Yes.
17:48
>> Super Bowl.
17:49
>> Yeah. Super Bowl, everything.
17:50
>> I'll give her careful.
17:51
>> Wait. Where was Short's engineer that
17:53
gave you the song from Pressure? Where
17:55
was he from? [clears throat]
17:56
>> He's I He's from Oakland.
17:59
>> Thank [laughter] you. Thank go ahead,
18:01
Jill. We
18:02
>> His name is His name is VT Tolen, by the
18:04
way, who ended up um we worked together
18:07
to mix the album as well, cuz his ear is
18:10
like that,
18:11
>> you know. Um, but that's kind of how it
18:13
works. It's like little bits and pieces
18:15
at a time. So, it takes time.
18:18
>> Yeah.
18:18
>> They're like, "Why? When is it ready?
18:21
[laughter]
18:21
>> I like I'm cutting wood." Yeah.
18:24
>> I got to cut the wood.
18:26
>> I got to bring it back to the cabin.
18:29
>> I got to [laughter]
18:31
start a fire
18:33
with some twigs.
18:35
>> It might take 10 or 11 years, right?
18:37
>> It might take It might take what it
18:39
takes.
18:39
>> Yeah. Yeah. It might take what it takes.
18:41
I was gone too because um I I had some
18:45
important really really really important
18:48
I have one kid one
18:50
>> and this boy
18:52
is six he's 16 now
18:56
>> you know he was seven he's 16 now
18:59
>> and that was it it seemed real
19:01
interesting time to be a boy.
19:03
>> Huh?
19:04
>> I should watch this.
19:07
>> I should be around for this. I should
19:08
listen to this.
19:10
>> I should I I should be here for this.
19:13
So, you know, we did that.
19:14
>> Good.
19:15
>> And um I really like him.
19:18
>> Good. That's That's an honest thing to
19:20
say cuz you may not always like the kid,
19:22
>> right? I really really like him.
19:25
>> Yeah.
19:25
>> Um I appreciate him. I respect him. He
19:28
gave me great ideas. He told me to call
19:30
J.
19:32
>> J. He said call J.
19:34
>> And I was like h cuz we had been
19:36
listening to him. We had been listening
19:38
to him in the kitchen. It didn't occur
19:40
to me like who to call and he said it
19:42
and I was like duh, you know, like um he
19:45
gave me um baby don't play with it. He
19:49
gave me that.
19:50
>> He said he said uh hey mom I feel like
19:53
you should be probably be like
19:54
[laughter] uh baby don't play with it. I
19:58
was like it. He's like
20:01
baby don't play with it. Baby don't play
20:04
with it. I was like, "Okay, [laughter]
20:06
I'll do that. I'll do what you said."
20:08
>> And every time I do what he says,
20:11
>> like it works out
20:12
>> cuz he's that guy, you know?
20:15
>> He's born April 20th at 420
20:18
>> to the sounds of I Got It made by
20:19
Special Ed.
20:20
>> There you go. Come on.
20:21
>> I'm the highest numero uno.
20:24
>> I'm not a Puerto Rican, but I'm speaking
20:26
so that you know exactly.
20:28
>> Yes.
20:29
>> So, I'm looking at his timing. I'm
20:31
looking at what the music he's born to.
20:34
I'm looking at the fact that he listens
20:35
to Muddy Waters as well as Griselda and
20:38
I'm like, you know what?
20:40
>> That's dope.
20:42
>> Let me let me cook.
20:43
>> Yeah, let me cook
20:44
>> cuz it's all the time I have.
20:45
>> Yeah.
20:46
>> You know what I mean?
20:47
>> Yeah.
20:48
>> And luckily the music is waited
20:50
>> and it was maturing
20:52
>> and um showing up.
20:54
>> Yeah,
20:54
>> there it is.
20:55
>> Yeah.
20:56
>> And you built a house that we all can
20:57
live in forever.
20:58
>> I want that.
20:59
>> So, thank you the time for doing that.
21:02
>> Thank you. You're so nourishing. You
21:04
feel like home.
21:05
>> Thank you.
21:05
>> Like conversation with you feels like
21:07
home. Music with you feels like home.
21:10
And I think the time is exceptional,
21:12
too, because you're like rebranding
21:15
Valentine's Day in a way
21:17
>> really.
21:17
>> Because the way I see it, it's like um
21:20
you remind us that love extends beyond
21:23
the carnal.
21:25
>> Love extends beyond something singular.
21:28
Um it's not just a women's day. You
21:32
speak so much about love to and from
21:35
community.
21:36
>> Community that's in the flesh and in the
21:39
spirit. And like the way that you kicked
21:41
it off with um be great.
21:44
>> Yeah.
21:45
>> Which is such an affirmation
21:48
>> to your son to us to yourself. Mhm.
21:52
[laughter]
21:53
And there was a line where I was like,
21:55
hm, where you spoke about, and if if you
21:58
listen quickly, you might miss it, but
22:00
if you sit with it, it will really start
22:02
staring at you. Where you say something
22:05
to the effect of fears that you let go
22:08
of
22:09
>> that are no longer like holding you?
22:12
What What was your last fear, if you
22:14
don't mind sharing, that you let go of
22:17
that you conquered?
22:20
>> This one. Hm.
22:22
I was scared to give you my baby.
22:26
>> I worked so hard on it. Thought so much
22:28
about it. Like what happens, you know,
22:32
if I give this this body of work to
22:34
folks and they don't appreciate it for
22:36
what it really really is?
22:39
And
22:41
that's where to whoop this May concern
22:42
came from
22:44
>> because I was like, okay, I've got to
22:45
find peace with it. I can't let it sit
22:47
here. It's for people. Do I know who
22:50
they are? I won't know until I see them.
22:53
>> I won't know until then. So, the title
22:56
to whom this may concern and it gave me
22:59
some freedom, you know, that I could
23:02
release it and and believe that this
23:04
baby is going to do what it's intended
23:07
to do.
23:09
>> So, releasing an album, that's my latest
23:13
fear conquered.
23:15
>> Yeah.
23:16
>> Be great. I love it. Jill Scott, be
23:18
great. Sirius XM.
23:21
>> Oh
23:21
>> yeah, man. Be great. Y'all like that?
23:24
[cheering] Y'all like that, right?
23:26
[applause]
23:27
>> Trombone Shorty. We We got to give
23:29
reverence to Trombone Shorty. Can Can
23:32
you please talk about that that
23:33
collaboration?
23:34
>> That song has been a lot of things and
23:36
it ended up being like a a H.B.CU
23:39
marching band song. It had been a lot of
23:42
things cuz I love the lyrics, but
23:45
something wasn't coming together all my
23:47
life. I wanted to do good. I wanted to
23:48
be good. I wanted to be free of a
23:51
history that made me cry and stumped my
23:53
stride. So, I changed my mind. I doubled
23:55
down on believing that the opinions of
23:58
other people couldn't light my light or
24:00
nor deter my sight nor wrong my rights
24:03
or delay my flight. I'm flying high now
24:06
up above on the clarity of love. I only
24:10
get what I put into it. I spend my sweet
24:12
time where I deem fit. I got one life.
24:15
I'mma let my glow show. Baby, look at
24:18
this. The embodiment of soul glow. I
24:21
admit. Paint my own pictures. Gifts on.
24:24
Gifts on gifts. Let the load lift. Let
24:27
the word shift. I ain't here to live in
24:30
fear or just plain old exist.
24:33
>> I'mma go ahead
24:35
>> and be great. [cheering]
24:38
>> Why not? [applause]
24:41
>> It was the why not for me cuz you could
24:43
have just stopped it at I'm going to go
24:44
ahead and be great. But you added the
24:46
why not
24:47
>> and it was like
24:49
>> why not?
24:50
>> Why not?
24:50
>> I want to toast to that that can drink.
24:53
[laughter]
24:53
>> Can we toast that verse? Okay. Hey,
24:55
let's talk.
24:55
>> Why not?
24:56
>> Oh, somebody put ice in my champagne.
24:58
No, I love it.
24:59
>> Okay. [laughter]
25:00
All right.
25:01
>> I was going to meet in my meet in the
25:03
eye, friend. Okay.
25:06
>> Meet me in the eye. Blessings.
25:07
Blessings. Blessings. Blessings.
25:10
>> Sal.
25:12
>> We ain't got this to y'all, you know.
25:14
[laughter]
25:15
If you bothered by this, to whom this
25:17
may concern,
25:20
>> don't don't worry about it. Don't worry
25:21
about Let's get some of you guys some
25:24
questions. Let's do that. Right.
25:26
>> We got some We could do that. Janelle.
25:28
Okay. One second. What's that question?
25:30
>> She said she point Get on that mic. Get
25:32
on that mic. Get on that mic.
25:33
>> Janelle is in Yeah, you she been hand
25:36
the mic to him.
25:36
>> Hand the mic to Okay.
25:37
>> Colani.
25:38
>> All right. It's a serious XM town hall
25:40
with the one and only Jill Scott. Say
25:42
your name and where you from. Well, I'm
25:44
Kevin and I definitely got to shout out
25:45
my wife, Maine. We from Jersey.
25:49
Jersey. [laughter]
25:50
>> Um, first off, just going to say thank
25:52
you um for trusting us with your baby
25:55
because to come out and give of yourself
25:57
the way that you always do and have done
25:58
in the past, I was in high school, you
26:00
know, when the first album came out and
26:02
I know what it did for us back then. So,
26:04
even listening to you on the way here
26:06
today, I was just like, man, she's
26:08
blessing us again. So, thank you so much
26:09
for the gift. Um, but I've been watching
26:12
you and as much as you've sitting there
26:13
and you've grown over the last few
26:15
years, even having a child, I know what
26:16
that's like. Um, where do you go when
26:19
you uh let your lyrics flow, when the
26:21
music hits you, when the beat drop a
26:23
certain way? Cuz even sitting here, you
26:24
listen to yourself on playback and you
26:26
can see the mood and the atmosphere that
26:28
we have, but where do you go when you
26:29
hear yourself knowing that you've
26:30
accomplished this goal?
26:34
>> You'd be proud of your husband for that
26:35
question. All right,
26:36
>> that was a good [laughter] question.
26:38
>> Embarrass you, right? Okay.
26:41
That's her friend.
26:43
>> Yeah, you can tell.
26:44
>> I see that.
26:45
>> I love that.
26:47
>> I see that. Yes, y'all.
26:50
>> I love it. [laughter]
26:52
I love it. I love it. Where do I go?
26:56
Where? Where? When do you mean? Cuz I go
26:59
a place on stage. I go a place in my
27:02
like in my bathroom. Um I go a place on
27:05
on walks. Like what's specific? mentally
27:10
because right now listening to you I'm
27:11
looking at you and I can hear your beat
27:13
dropping and then I hear your lyrics and
27:15
they go. So the question more so it's
27:17
like where do you go in your mind
27:18
mentally um that emotional state that
27:20
that draw down as you're going through
27:22
listening to your
27:28
>> where do I go
27:30
where do I go mentally when I listen to
27:32
my own music?
27:33
>> Yes.
27:34
>> I look at music like it's medicine.
27:37
So, it it depends on what I'm needing.
27:41
You know, if I I feel a little lonely, I
27:44
might listen to Missing You. Um, if I I
27:48
feel a little discouraged, I might
27:49
listen to Golden. Um, it it it all
27:52
depends on how I I feel. Um, and then
27:55
that is it's medicinal, so I I'll feel
27:58
better and then that'll typically spark
28:00
other music that I listen to. Um,
28:03
I I hope that's answering your question
28:05
because as good as it is, it also feels
28:08
slightly vague and I'm and and I want to
28:11
answer the best way I can.
28:13
>> No, you did very well.
28:15
>> Okay. [laughter]
28:16
>> Okay. Thank you.
28:18
>> I love the show.
28:19
>> I love that.
28:20
>> Anybody else in that front row? Janelle,
28:23
by the way, give it up for Janelle.
28:24
She's one of our producers, programmers,
28:27
one of our executives [cheering] here.
28:28
[applause] There she goes. Come on.
28:31
She's the boss. Who got the mic?
28:33
>> It's people outside too now.
28:35
>> Yeah. What's up y'all? Outside. What up?
28:37
>> Hi friends.
28:40
>> Beautiful black people.
28:43
>> Go ahead.
28:44
>> Hello Joe.
28:46
>> Hi. [laughter]
28:48
>> I just I more so wanted to say thank you
28:50
for inspiring me um to hear music
28:54
differently. M
28:55
>> when I first heard you at uh I believe
28:58
it was 12 years old,
28:59
>> you sang a long walk at the Soul Train
29:01
Awards
29:02
>> and I'll never forget how you commanded
29:04
the stage with just the band and you
29:07
>> that changed the way I felt about music
29:09
and how I heard it at such a young age.
29:12
>> I dug into the jazz crates. I dug into
29:14
the neo soul crates of that time
29:16
>> and I said, you know, I'mma just um
29:18
apply for performing arts school and got
29:20
in
29:21
>> just because of that Who is Jill Scott
29:23
album wanting me to just further do
29:25
music. So, I just wanted to say thank
29:27
you. I love you and appreciate you for
29:28
so many years. I'll continue doing so
29:31
>> as a black man in this world. You give
29:32
us hope
29:33
>> with the brother song, you know, that
29:35
you made for us.
29:37
>> Thank you for that. I love you. Thank
29:38
you.
29:39
>> My privilege. [applause]
29:41
>> I mean, that's what you want. Thank you
29:43
so much for sharing that. I mean, that's
29:45
what you want. I think anyway, you know,
29:48
I know what it seems like. I know it
29:51
seems like like so many people want fame
29:55
for a reason I can't quite grasp yet,
29:59
but um there is something about being an
30:02
artist and putting your blood and your
30:06
tears and your fears and your
30:09
revelations
30:11
>> in in the craft in the work
30:14
>> is something so gratifying about it.
30:16
>> Yes,
30:16
>> it was what I was called to do. So, I'm
30:19
really happy that I continue to do it.
30:22
Um, and it it it has funded some
30:25
beautiful [ __ ]
30:27
>> Like really officially beautiful. My kid
30:31
went to Tanzania last summer to get his
30:33
scuba certification. Come on.
30:36
>> All the way out. [laughter] That was a
30:38
>> Come on,
30:39
>> gangster. Come on.
30:41
>> I was like, "Yeah, you go ahead and do
30:43
that." You know what I [laughter] mean?
30:46
But at the same time, you know, we have
30:48
to be smart about our finances and we
30:50
can't be foolish, you know, we just
30:51
can't,
30:52
>> you know. So, and knowing that streaming
30:56
is nice to to see,
30:58
>> but it doesn't pay us
31:00
>> anything. Yeah.
31:01
>> Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. So, it's
31:04
important to have a stage presence
31:07
to create a show that people will want
31:10
to come to over and over and over again
31:12
like a Frankie Beverly and Mazize like a
31:15
B Midler,
31:16
>> you know, like a Patty Leel,
31:19
>> like a Shaka Khan, you know, it's
31:22
longevity is the goal.
31:24
>> Everything else is real fickle, right?
31:26
>> You know, fame is fickle and and money
31:28
is fickle, too.
31:30
>> Yeah. So, I would I would love to give
31:33
you that. Think about the long term.
31:36
>> Yeah. You don't have to do everything
31:38
all at once, right?
31:39
>> But if you like live with it and know
31:42
your goal, what you want, you'll get it.
31:44
>> I'm working on music now. So, that's
31:46
perfect.
31:47
>> There you go.
31:47
>> You'll get it.
31:49
>> Awesome.
31:50
>> I'm working on music now.
31:51
>> She producing.
31:52
>> That advice is is I'm going to keep
31:54
that. Live with that. Breathe in that.
31:57
Sit with that. Thank you.
31:58
>> Okay.
31:59
>> Yeah. Think what do you want? If you
32:00
want fame, I mean, that's quick and
32:02
easy, you know. If you want a legacy,
32:05
longevity, you know, a way to take care
32:07
of your family and yourself, you know,
32:09
for a long long long long time,
32:11
[laughter] you know, that's probably the
32:13
way to do it
32:14
>> to heal people as well, you know,
32:17
>> that portion.
32:18
>> Yeah,
32:18
>> that portion.
32:19
>> All right. Thank you, man. I appreciate
32:21
you.
32:22
>> Yeah, man. Blessings, too. We only got
32:25
>> this part right now is just everything.
32:27
>> Yeah. I'm just I love looking out in my
32:29
reflection. This is what I hope for.
32:31
>> Yeah.
32:32
>> This is what I hope for. Like beautiful
32:34
people live, y'all. [snorts]
32:36
>> Yeah.
32:37
>> It's always been thousands. It's always
32:39
been thousands and thousands as far as I
32:41
can see. And they're up there, too. It's
32:43
always been that
32:45
>> a
32:47
man.
32:48
>> Another one.
32:50
>> I'm not even sure how I'm ever going to
32:52
get through a
32:54
>> I don't even know. I cried when I sang
32:55
it.
32:56
>> Yeah. you know, you you're going to hear
32:58
horse and you're going to hear some rasp
33:00
and um in that particular song because I
33:02
was sobbing.
33:04
>> And I tried to do it over
33:07
>> and my my my wonderful friend and
33:10
producer uh Carvin Higgins was like, "If
33:12
you touch it, I will punch you
33:14
[laughter] in
33:16
>> your chest." Yes.
33:18
>> Wow.
33:19
>> He's also my cousin, by the way. Yeah.
33:22
He's my biological cousin.
33:23
>> My love. That's my brethren.
33:24
>> Ain't he awesome? He's a He's a His pen
33:27
game is incredible. He done written a
33:29
lot of hits for a lot of people, right?
33:31
He's a great father. Yeah. Tell send my
33:33
love.
33:34
>> Great friend and a great cousin.
33:35
>> Okay. Uh I I want to do this. The
33:37
producer just walked in who, by the way,
33:40
wanted to be able to play the Lift Me Up
33:42
song because of the Go-Go beat that's
33:44
underneath it. And GoGo selling 50 uh
33:47
celebrating it 50 year anniversary.
33:49
She's from DC and she really loved that
33:52
song. So, I want to make sure we mention
33:53
that. Right. That's Janelle. Hey
33:55
Janelle.
33:56
>> Hi.
33:56
>> Okay. Say what up to Janelle. So, what
33:58
we got going on here?
33:59
>> We [snorts] got another question.
34:01
>> Okay.
34:02
>> Oh my god, I'm nervous.
34:04
>> You're okay.
34:05
>> But these are for you, beautiful. I
34:07
wanted to present that to you.
34:10
>> Hopefully, [applause and cheering] I get
34:10
a picture with you later. They took our
34:12
phones, but I love you very much from
34:16
everything that you've done. But my
34:18
question is, um, what is something that
34:22
you want to do that you haven't done?
34:24
because you've done so much. You act,
34:27
sing, everything like
34:28
>> Yes.
34:29
>> I would just love to know something that
34:31
you want to do that you haven't done.
34:34
>> I
34:34
>> and I love you so much.
34:36
>> You are my wife, my debutc. [laughter]
34:40
>> Okay, you just got your mic taken.
34:43
>> Happy Valentine's Day. [laughter]
34:46
>> I'll see you in a little bit.
34:48
>> Early proposal.
34:48
>> Got to shoot your shot.
34:51
>> You better LOSE YOURSELF.
34:57
>> [laughter]
35:01
>> JILL SAYS [ __ ] [laughter]
35:05
>> Um the one thing there's plenty I
35:08
haven't done. Um
35:13
I I It's funny because you kind of don't
35:16
want to say the thing until you have it
35:17
in your hand. Yes.
35:19
>> Um I'm I'm working on a few things that
35:22
scare me
35:24
>> and uh I'm excited about that.
35:27
>> Um
35:28
>> thank you. Thank you.
35:31
>> Get I pray they have more time to be
35:34
able to do these things.
35:36
>> Um you'll see. And guess what?
35:39
>> You going to get really shitty sharp for
35:41
it, too. You going to get dressed up
35:44
>> all the way. Dressed up. This is not
35:46
really [laughter]
35:48
I wasn't judging your your I wasn't
35:51
doing that. I'm just saying that I know
35:53
that I want to see my people um my
35:55
beautiful people. They to be specific,
35:59
they don't have a race. They don't have
36:02
a gender.
36:03
>> They don't they don't have a um a
36:07
particular kind of account financially.
36:10
>> Um beautiful people are warm. They are
36:13
loving from the inside. They glow. They
36:16
share, they listen, they laugh,
36:19
>> they they cry when need to, you know,
36:22
um, and they're sincere in their ways.
36:25
Those are the beautiful beautiful
36:26
people. They have a work ethic,
36:28
>> they they like to earn theirs. It means
36:30
something to them,
36:32
>> you know. Those are my beautiful people.
36:34
>> All right.
36:34
>> Um, so I just want to see you dressed
36:36
up. That's all. That's selfishly. I want
36:38
you to get super gor.
36:41
>> There it is.
36:41
>> I want to see it. I want to see it. One
36:44
of the things, you know, we Jill from
36:46
Jill comes from a hip-hop
36:49
>> generation from the culture, right? And
36:51
one of the things I noticed on this
36:53
album, Jill, is you you I don't know if
36:55
it was intentional on purpose.
36:58
>> Um, but I felt like you were making it
37:00
not not that you have to audition to
37:02
prove yourself, but you were making it
37:04
known that you a hyena behind the mic,
37:08
[laughter]
37:09
>> right? bars rapping with Two Short,
37:12
rapping with J, rapping with AB Soul.
37:15
You did the thing with Conway, Chanel
37:17
Pearls, I think it was called.
37:18
>> Chanel Pearls.
37:19
>> Yeah, that was incredible. And Conway
37:21
the machine is one of the illst.
37:23
>> But you got a song on this project with
37:25
Tiarra Wack, right?
37:27
>> Yes.
37:28
>> Um that's called North Side and it's
37:30
produced by the legendary DJ Premiere.
37:34
>> Right.
37:35
>> Oh my gosh. To me, that's Jill saying,
37:38
"Don't count me out when y'all having
37:39
these discussions." [laughter]
37:42
>> You making
37:42
>> I'm not gonna say it, but I'm running
37:44
circles around some of these people in
37:46
your top 10. [laughter]
37:48
>> She ain't got to say it. I'll say it,
37:50
but they
37:51
>> Can you say it again?
37:52
>> Yeah, she's running circles. She's
37:54
running circles around your top 10. And
37:57
if you want to if you [laughter] want to
37:58
contest what I say, bring it.
38:01
>> All right. They stay chatting about my
38:04
body on IG. Say I'm a mean [ __ ] I'm
38:07
going Illuminati.
38:10
>> But you ain't nowhere around here. When
38:12
I write these songs, when I light my
38:14
spliff,
38:15
>> when I raise my son, atone for my sins,
38:19
>> when I stack my papes, when I deal with
38:21
these men, none of them could ever be
38:24
me. J I L L S C O T T in the place to
38:28
be. Nor Philly, baby.
38:31
>> Come on, man.
38:33
I swear you GOT TURNED OFF. [laughter]
38:36
>> I GOT I GOT HOT father by the cars. You
38:39
know that's the sexiest thing is a woman
38:41
who can spit bars. Who got bars in here?
38:44
>> I ain't no Heather B.
38:45
>> Okay. [laughter]
38:47
[applause and cheering]
38:49
>> I I was so I was telling Jill in the
38:51
hallway um before she came in when she
38:53
was coming in like I heard that song and
38:56
I literally called Premiere today. I was
38:58
like y'all are crazy. Like y'all are
39:01
crazy. What was that session like? I
39:03
heard Premiere talking. How did How did
39:05
Tiara Wack come about? Like I was I was
39:08
trying to bring him here tonight. Like
39:10
you don't even understand what I was
39:12
doing. No, when you literally call him.
39:13
My phone is in there. I would call him
39:15
right now. I was trying to drag him here
39:17
tonight because I the genius of what
39:19
y'all did was just so crazy. Jill, how
39:22
did it come about? He said you're his
39:24
honey bunny, by the way.
39:25
>> I know. [laughter]
39:27
I know.
39:29
I bit him. Um, oh, he played the track.
39:34
>> I came to the studio because I met him
39:36
in Japan of all places.
39:38
>> I met him in Japan looking at fans and
39:40
it was DJ Premier. He was like, "Hey,
39:42
Joe." [laughter]
39:44
>> And I was like, "Oh, snap. It's DJ
39:46
Premiere. I love you."
39:50
I used to leave like when when I was in
39:52
college, I would leave every room I
39:54
left. Like if I had friends, I would
39:56
always say the same thing. Peace out.
39:58
Peace out, Premier. take me out with the
39:59
fat [laughter]
40:01
and leave every time. That was my That
40:04
was my jam. So, here we are. I'm talking
40:05
to DJ Premier. He gives me this track
40:07
>> and I was like, I can't I can't I don't
40:09
There's no singing on that. I don't
40:11
think there's singing on that. Nope,
40:13
there's no singing.
40:15
>> What must be done?
40:17
>> What must be done? I don't I won't I
40:19
don't mind yodelling if it's the right
40:21
thing to do. What must be done to in
40:24
order to tell the story to to get the
40:27
feeling across?
40:28
>> Yeah. So when I Jet said, "Mom, call
40:31
Tiara whack."
40:32
>> Wow.
40:33
>> This dude,
40:34
>> he's an ANR guy.
40:35
>> He's something.
40:37
>> This dude was like, "Call Ti." I was
40:38
like, "I don't know." Tier wet. He's
40:40
like, "Mom, DM her. [laughter]
40:44
>> You tell Scott,
40:45
>> right? That's what he said." So I did. I
40:49
DM'd him. I DM'd um J like Jet taught me
40:53
what to do [laughter]
40:55
cuz I'm like I don't even I don't know
40:57
them. I don't know anybody. He's like,
40:58
"Mom." Anyway, um [laughter]
41:02
I um I I did my part. I did my first
41:05
verse. It's a Thursday and I left my
41:08
blues in the back of the second drawer
41:09
in my nightstand.
41:11
>> I've been What do I say? It's a th If I
41:13
don't do the voice, I can't do I can't
41:15
do the rap.
41:15
>> You spit hard. You
41:16
>> I know. Like what?
41:17
>> It's It's real Philly.
41:19
>> Yes. Yeah. And I
41:22
[laughter]
41:23
>> It's a Thursday and I left my blues in
41:25
the back of the second drawer in my
41:27
nightstand. I'm too busy giving sounds.
41:30
Paprika, you take my my Oh, I'm so high
41:33
listening to Primo Vision. I add a whole
41:35
woman of grace in every color, every
41:39
>> Let's listen to it. Come on, man.
41:46
>> We [cheering] got a HYENA UP IN HERE.
41:51
>> [laughter]
41:52
>> HEY JILL, YOU GOT TO COME. You got to
41:53
come on the show and spit some bars. Y
41:56
>> I would love to.
41:57
>> Would you?
41:58
>> I would love to.
41:59
>> A guys, I SEE YOU LATER.
42:01
>> [laughter]
42:04
>> ON HIS WAY OUT.
42:06
>> BUT, you know, before I know we only got
42:08
so much time, but one of the things I
42:10
wanted to ask you about was the the
42:11
cover art um to the album um that I I
42:17
just thought was so powerful what we're
42:19
used to seeing in your past discoraphy
42:22
pictures of you, right? It'll be a
42:24
picture of you maybe as a kid or we
42:26
we'll see a image of you. This image is
42:30
this this beautiful pronounced um
42:32
African woman, right? Look like a queen,
42:35
an African queen who has these messages
42:38
written all over uh all over her body.
42:41
And I want to get to the messages, but I
42:43
want to know who is she and what made
42:46
you choose this cover art?
42:49
>> She
42:53
she represents how I see myself on the
42:56
inside.
42:58
So yes, she looks like an African queen,
43:01
but she also looks like a black girl
43:04
from Jersey, and she looks like a
43:07
servant, and she looks like a healer,
43:09
and she looks like a warrior, and she
43:11
looks like um a mother, and she looks
43:14
like someone who nurtures, you know, and
43:17
and and grows stuff out the ground, too.
43:21
>> Um and that's what I am. I'm all of the
43:24
things and I think we all are. Uh I
43:27
wanted the album because it it is free
43:31
in so many ways. I wanted to express
43:35
what that looked like and I look for
43:38
representative representatives. I mean I
43:40
I found some art. I'd been looking for
43:43
quite some time and my homeboy Pete,
43:44
shout out to my [ __ ] Pete, [laughter]
43:48
he hit me up and he he was gave me a
43:51
list of artists that were on Instagram,
43:53
me and his Instagram and DMing.
43:56
>> Yeah.
43:56
>> You know what I'm saying? Like I'm using
43:57
the thing. I need I need to use the
43:59
thing.
44:00
>> So, um, Mr. Lovejoy,
44:03
>> Marcelus Lovejoy, I I saw that work and
44:06
I was like, there she is.
44:08
>> Wow.
44:09
>> There she is.
44:10
>> Wow.
44:12
And I was so happy to see her. I called
44:14
him, text, well, DM'd him
44:16
>> and he was like, "What?" I was like,
44:17
"Yeah." He was like, "What?" I was like,
44:19
"For real." He was like, "No way." I was
44:21
like, "For real?" Like, [laughter] "Can
44:23
you call me? Call you. Call me."
44:25
>> You know, so um he he allowed me to use
44:28
his work.
44:30
>> And um he is a ambassador to other
44:34
artists as well. So if you happen to
44:37
follow Marcela's Love Joy, he's going to
44:39
share other artists as well. And I
44:40
thought that was really good. The music,
44:43
this album is art. Yeah, it is. This is
44:46
the way I see it. Like every song is is
44:49
hanging on the wall, you know. You turn
44:52
a corner, it's another, you know, um
44:54
exhibit. You turn another is another
44:56
one,
44:57
>> you know. Um layers, flavors, textures,
45:01
colors. That's that's what this is for
45:03
me.
45:03
>> What was also smart with to me what you
45:06
did what I love people don't read as
45:08
much anymore. I would say and the way
45:11
you rolled this out on Instagram on IG
45:14
acknowledging the people who you work
45:16
with I thought was beautiful and such a
45:18
beautiful acknowledgement because there
45:20
aren't lying alerts anymore so people
45:22
don't get to read the CDs or the back of
45:24
the album but you made us engaged with
45:27
the people involved with the project. I
45:29
thought that was so kind of you with the
45:31
people that you worked with. I don't I
45:32
know it was intentional but it was
45:34
beautiful too.
45:35
>> Thank you. That is my intention.
45:38
I'm at this place where I only want to
45:39
do the things I want to do and I only
45:41
want to do it how I want to do it.
45:43
>> And I figured that that this is this is
45:45
the time for me to to to act
45:46
accordingly,
45:47
>> right?
45:48
>> Um I thought we had a whole other
45:50
concept of how to drop the album. Maybe
45:52
two days or three days before that. I
45:54
was like the song is called Beautiful
45:57
People. Let me thank the beautiful
45:59
people that were involved in this album.
46:01
And they came from different directions.
46:03
I didn't see anybody coming. I you know
46:05
I just didn't. and here they were
46:08
creating with me. Like what a beautiful
46:10
thing that kind of camaraderie. I was I
46:12
just loved it so much.
46:14
>> So yeah, let's just thank everybody
46:16
because I do miss albums and I do miss
46:19
reading line of notes.
46:21
>> Like it's like when you ate your cereal,
46:23
>> you know what I'm saying? You just like
46:24
reading the same thing, [laughter]
46:27
>> doing the same puzzle over and over like
46:30
>> Yeah.
46:32
Um I want to if you don't mind conclude
46:35
this with the final song not the final
46:37
song uh and not in this finality but to
46:40
play today uh being a
46:44
>> and um [clears throat]
46:47
>> yeah that's you know I I come from a
46:49
family of um who are deeply rooted in
46:51
spirituality predating Christianity and
46:55
so when I hear that word from folks it
46:58
lights me up in a whole another life and
47:02
you made a song titled that, right? What
47:05
does that mean to you? Why why did you
47:07
make this song?
47:09
>> I've been saying the same thing since
47:12
2000.
47:12
>> Mhm.
47:14
>> Revelations 3:17 and a long walk and so
47:17
are 31:18
47:19
are are the same. They're the same.
47:22
They both speak of humility
47:26
>> in a different way,
47:28
>> but it's both humility.
47:30
A was something that that came into my
47:33
life uh at Freedom Theater
47:36
>> that we used to sing this little song
47:39
a
47:41
>> and
47:43
that never left. Mhm.
47:45
>> Um,
47:48
and the when I heard the music that
47:50
Andre Harris produced,
47:53
it said,
47:56
"This is a prayer."
47:59
And I was like, "Okay."
48:03
So, I started to pray.
48:06
I see you. You got love on the brain.
48:10
It's all in your hands. It's all in your
48:12
veins.
48:14
In every part of you,
48:17
in every molecule,
48:20
I see you wiggling your toes in the
48:22
rain. Joyful freedom. It belongs to you.
48:26
You know it's true. You look, you act,
48:30
you smile through and through. A
48:34
>> a means.
48:38
Oh, tell them what a means.
48:41
It's okay.
48:42
>> Take your time with it. Take [snorts]
48:44
your time.
48:44
>> A mean. Amen. They all mean the same
48:50
exact thing. I'm still saying the same
48:52
exact thing. I'm just learning how to
48:56
express it differently. Um, and I hope
48:59
you figure that out what I'm saying to
49:01
you. Um,
49:04
and so shall it be. And so shall it be.
49:07
>> Yes.
49:08
>> And so shall it be.
49:10
>> Yep. It's not the last song on the
49:12
album. Yeah,
49:13
>> we we went back and forth about that and
49:16
I didn't do that because
49:17
>> um fungi Lafia means hello and welcome
49:20
>> and I put it close to the end because I
49:23
want to start over.
49:24
>> I want you to come back to it again.
49:27
>> You know, I didn't even in the last note
49:29
of the album, I didn't want to land. I
49:32
wanted to leave you in midair
49:35
>> to create a void on the planet
49:38
>> that
49:38
>> and you have to start over again.
49:41
>> I've thought about everything. Yes,
49:43
>> I really did.
49:45
>> I really did.
49:47
[sighs]
49:49
>> Jill Scott, give it up for Jill Scott.
49:52
>> Come on now. [cheering]
49:55
to whom this may concern.
49:58
>> Give yourselves a round of applause to
50:00
Siri town hall.
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