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Mashonda Gives Her Top Qualities In A Man, New Single "Forbidden Fruit" & The Note To Self Gallery
Jul 13, 2022
Mashonda stopped by Sway In The Morning to celebrate her new single "Forbidden Fruit" and talked about her latest work curating art the Note To Self Gallery of emerging female artists.
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Mashonda Gives Her Top Qualities In A Man, New Single "Forbidden Fruit" & The ArtLeadHER Gallery
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and that's where that conversation
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starts
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that sultry silky smooth succulent voice
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you heard right there
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never mind the messaging that was on
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point but did you hear the tone of that
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voice
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you might recognize it from girl's best
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friend if i dig in my crates you may
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remember that voice on maybe perhaps
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that particular you remember that song
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right richness absolutely okay it could
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have been um
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so many ways you could recognize this
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voice
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listen baby
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i'm going way way way but
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i'm going way way back she's been
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responsible for pinning a lot of great
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music for a lot of great artists
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throughout her career uh she's become a
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critically acclaimed author
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tapping in on the subject matter that
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affects us all in our community but we
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very seldom talk about it blended
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families
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we just kind of walk along the way and
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deal with whatever we have to deal with
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she's been very open about her own past
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and her relationships with the legendary
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swiss beats and all the great things
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that they've been able to produce
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including the kid
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together
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i watched her over the quarantine tracy
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g i watched her become this super
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curator of art and i was like a fine art
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song yeah i knew she had an eye for
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valuables before before that before
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colby right
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um and so she continues to shine and she
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does it independently and now she's back
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you know this woman has pinned a lot of
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great songs has
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sang a lot of great songs has made her
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mark overseas internationally and now
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she's back she had a thirst to get back
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in the studio and what she's done for
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others mike muse yes she said why not do
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it for myself there you have it she
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needed to express something and
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text messaging didn't do it tracy no
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don't fulfill the desire man
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so she wrote a song called forbidden
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fruit
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and in it she says it tastes like honey
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and water
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welcome her back to the show michonne
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this is what you had waiting for you in
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this studio
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why did i know you would say that line
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cause listen
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every song needs a hook
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that's what they teach you in the game
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right rich you work with track masters
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you you saw me shonda when she was still
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a member of a group early early on
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earlier called desert desert
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remember that of course i mean it was so
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interesting because i always saw you as
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a creative person but you always was a
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little ahead of everybody else so even
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having that name desert rose it was just
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it always stuck out because you never
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think of a rose growing in the desert
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and you see these pretty girls but
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they're doing like rugged music but
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still melodic at the same time
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early before most even caught on to that
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and so you know loki y'all were the
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reason why we created the lore oh my god
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did you know that i did not know that
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so desert rose i got that that name came
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to me because i'm from harlem
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right but i'm also super feminine and i
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love you know dressing up and and being
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a rose but i'm also from harlem so we
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know what that means right um
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god that was that's amazing that was a
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long time ago yeah yeah do you reflect
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back on your career at all much or you
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just keep moving forward i'm such a
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forward
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moving person that
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i forget i forget a lot of the records
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i've done
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um and when i hear them i'm like oh
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i wrote that or i sang that
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but for me i think that's how that's
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just how i operate
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and it works for me but it's also always
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refreshing to hear something that i've
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done like 10 almost 20 years ago
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and just have like that proud moment
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what song is that had had that effect on
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you most that you
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worked on
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you know what's crazy um
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the honey i see you song
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that we just played
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that record was a freestyle that i
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literally like got in the studio one day
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probably in like two thousand
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four or five
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and i was like i just wanna i just wanna
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play with this buster song you know like
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get me the instrumental i'm gonna just
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write a quick freestyle and record it
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and we had a studio at that time so i
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could do stuff like that easily
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in 2021 my son walked in my room and he
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was like ma you're viral on tick-tock
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and i was like what is that what does
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that even mean
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and
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he was like he sent me the link and i
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was like oh my god like there are
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millions and millions and millions of
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people from all over the world
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interacting with this song that it's
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just a freestyle and i did it when i was
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a kid
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and that just like
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inspired me so much to like
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figure out this new way that music works
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yeah
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um
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i didn't make any money on that though
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because it was a freestyle but if if it
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was my publishing i would be so paid by
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that right now because
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it blew up so
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it inspired me also to go and remake it
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so i did remake it that's what you guys
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just played okay and that did really
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well
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so it's it's i mean i feel like
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songwriters are so underrated but you
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know we
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we really do create the foundation
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for everything when when you got your
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warning was it warner chapel music that
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was your first publishing bill right
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that was 1997
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1997. did you
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have a see publishing is a great way
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where a lot of people have stole from us
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absolutely right especially hip-hop
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artists and r b artists did you
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understand publishing at that time when
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you signed it yeah i had somebody sit me
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down and um go over it but what i didn't
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know
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was that i was pretty much signing
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my life away for fifty thousand dollars
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um
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and at the time i mean fifty thousand
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still sounds like a lot but when you
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know right
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but when you are assigned to someone to
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a company for over
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damn near 20 years it's like okay i want
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my freedom
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so i had to fight i thought i got out of
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it recently okay congratulations thank
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you so i own all my publishing again
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thank you
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congratulations yeah i didn't understand
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and so i do recommend for artists and
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writers to sit down with a lawyer and
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have them really
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explain what all those terms mean okay
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so yeah
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um
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so
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will you say it tastes like honey and
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water here you go
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um at some point did that lyric
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should i take that literally
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yes because that's something that was
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said to me
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oh
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it comes with our seats
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honey and water yo that's wow raw honey
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you know when i put that in the song i
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was like i'm gonna catch some heat for
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this but it's all good was that
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flattering though is that flattering
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when someone says that yeah yeah right
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tastes like honey and water
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somebody made me some tea
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[Laughter]
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forbidden fruit is such a great we had a
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whole conversation about forbidden fruit
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this morning yeah
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what makes fruit forbidden what makes it
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forbidden right um
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is anything forbidden about you
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forbidden
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i don't
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think so
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i think that um
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what inspired that record was that
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we treat the conversation of sex and all
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the
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the beautiful things about it as a taboo
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right like
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the conversation may be really
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uncomfortable for some people
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when it's
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clearly the most natural thing humans
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can do
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so i wanted to to write a song that
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celebrates that
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makes it conversational
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for the man and the woman um it can be
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you know
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two women it could it can go either way
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you want it to yeah um
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and really just i feel like r b has lost
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that
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that finesse where you can say the
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nastiest yes and the sweetest
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sweetest
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and that's forbidden fruit i agree wow
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you should say the nasty
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thank you for saying that cause if i say
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it it sounds different coming from a man
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right for real you can say the nasty as
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as sweet as it want to be like i
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don't want to sing about my my i
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don't want to just say the word like i
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want to put some sweet adjectives on it
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no make it mysterious and yeah what's it
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like machanda honey and water
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let your mind do the rest of the
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figuring out so that michonda what do
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you because we already know from your
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lyrics what is really extra popping
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about you but what would be your request
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in terms of a man and a lot of citizens
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were asking earlier when we said that
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you were coming through is she single
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they wanted that confirmed the
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relationship status so i feel like the
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the world the hip-hop r b the the blogs
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the websites they think i've been single
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since my divorce i'm so super private i
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don't post i won't post
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um i barely talk like sometimes people
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could tell if there's a guy with me from
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the way the photo is
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but i just prefer privacy
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um
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the ep though it's called note to self
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and they're five records
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four of them are actually
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um i call them
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audio documents of relationships that
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i've been in over the past five years
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um situations ooh sorry situations that
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that's averaging them one a year
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something like that
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it could be situations
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um but for me i guess the ideal
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man
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would he be by bi-coastal
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i wouldn't mind okay long-distance
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relationships work well okay for me okay
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um
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definitely someone who is
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confident
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humble
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respectful
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transparent
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meaning that the communication is really
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good
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um
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you know
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loving just nurturing i i like all the
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things but i do think what trumps it is
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someone that
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is going to support me and allow me to
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support them and we can really move as a
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unit
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that was beautiful she just described
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a lot of women
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believe that if you were to date someone
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in entertainment and not to say that's
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someone you would have your eye on but
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folks would think you know you being of
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a certain status that this man would
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have to come and like match your fly but
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a lot of women who feel like
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the man that's out there who has
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everything you would have to let him
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get a couple permission slips
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oh i'm not giving permission slips okay
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but that's why i'm still single okay
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because i'm really happy
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on my own i'm really happy
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having
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interactions and um dating or you know
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coming together and separating
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and building but when like
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i don't want to say my patience is low
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but i do have kind of a low tolerance
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for
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people that aren't
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i guess the best way to put it is
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um people that can't see their
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and that aren't willing to work on it
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right like
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that's most men
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and i'm not saying i don't have we
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all have but you have to call
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yourself out like i'm not gonna call you
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out i have one son
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and i'm gonna call him out i'm not
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calling a grown man out like if you
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can't see that what you just did was
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up
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i'm not gonna pull you aside and be like
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yo you're not teaching them i'm not
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teaching anybody right now i did that
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way too much
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and my days for teaching men are over
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that's your red flag that's yeah and
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that's another thing you got to pay
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attention to those flags
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give me another one just in
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case i mean it's easy it's like just
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think of it like
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what i want that to be done to me
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i'll tell you a red flag i had once we
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got all jumping in on this conversation
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um i was going out with someone and uh
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distinctly remember
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um going out for a meal
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and the person came and it was a
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waitress that was serving us and asking
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us what did we want and i noticed that
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the person would not make eye contact
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with the waitress that's rude oh my gosh
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it was so it was bothering me so much
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because i'm total opposite right and so
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the waitress asking what do you want the
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person won't even look up when they were
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ordered
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and then if the waitress unfortunately
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got something wrong and the person went
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off on the waitress never looked at the
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waitress
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i didn't know if i should say anything
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or not uh but i eventually did say
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anything hey what's did you did you have
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a problem with that person you know
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because i actually used to do that as a
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living right
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so what what made your energy go go that
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way uh they didn't really have it they
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didn't realize they did it oh my god
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that was a red flag for me yeah i never
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went out with that person again mm-hmm
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just because of the way they treated
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someone else it's a big thing yeah and
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that's another thing i pay attention to
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how people treat their family yep how
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they treat their friends how they talk
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about other people
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you know it's it's we are who we are at
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this age yes it is true indeed no
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there's no teaching someone to change
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people have to change on their own so
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let's do this mishonda hanging out i
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like where this conversation is going
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but shonda brought a gift
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yo ty get this gift right here for me if
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you don't mind man i know you over there
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feeling guilty because
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she's naming your personality yeah y'all
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got this right here okay let's pop this
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bottle and then we're going to play
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forbidden fruit and open up these phone
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lines and let mike and ridge and
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everybody jump in on this conversation
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eight eight eight seven four two three
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three four five
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you go out like on island dates you know
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of course
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do you swing
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forbidden fruit it's a new song by
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mashanda is out right now on all dsps
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she is
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an exceptional songwriter singer
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producer
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author mother
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single woman
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[Applause]
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most important yo shonda you got you got
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a game like a guy though well the game
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not with any negative connotation but
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you know the the the type of precautions
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you take in how you date is how we
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usually think for the wrong reasons but
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you you're doing it for the right
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reasons so what do you mean by the wrong
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rules right what are you doing you know
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we kind of keep well
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thank you that was a blanket statement
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a lot of my apprehension is back in the
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day
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my precautionary measures was because i
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wasn't being straightforward perhaps
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right
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and i didn't want my business out there
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to mess up my other business
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out there
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now i don't have the mental capacity to
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do that kind of
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musical chairs and juggling i once did
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it takes a lot of energy yeah um you you
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ever step out on a relationship no you
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mean like cheat yeah nah i don't do that
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okay is that why you have loyalty on
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your hand like this this is loyalty for
16:27
myself okay yeah this is self-loyalty i
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had to remind myself that i need to be
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loyal to me first
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okay all right wow you got that nice
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calming voice uh michonder sean's on the
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line
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sean say hi to michonda hey sean hi
16:46
what's going on shonda how you doing
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oh i am blessed i am blessed what's
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going on
16:52
what up sam the whole team i love y'all
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i got i gotta shave j45 for y'all listen
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um i wanted to unpack that line that uh
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tastes like honey and water um
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are you saying like it's something
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that's sweet but it's also something
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that you need like water in your life
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you know what i mean is that what you're
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saying because i think that's beautiful
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well yep it could be that too
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see that was told to her sean so she
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don't really
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but you can interpret it that's the
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beauty of ours
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okay okay well then that's how i'm
17:25
taking it i like i like that line tastes
17:26
like onion water i'm gonna use that
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pure pure and sweet
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sweet i like that okay rich you want to
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jump in here and say something to my
17:34
shonda yeah
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well listen michonne and i this is like
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brother sister for so many years it's so
17:39
been so um and i'm gonna talk a little
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bit about music just because you know
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you make so much music from the pastel
17:46
now um
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what what is a song
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that was
17:52
big a hit that you wish you wrote
17:57
someone else's song someone else's song
17:59
that you just loved so much that you
18:01
wish you wrote it
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probably um
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i i mean every time it comes on i get
18:06
excited probably ali is one in a million
18:09
yeah if i wrote that you won't be able
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to tell me nothing
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nothing such a brilliant record
18:15
especially for the time that it came out
18:17
it was way ahead of its time yes
18:20
so yeah who were those artists out at
18:22
the time when you when you first came
18:24
out who what's class were you considered
18:26
a part of
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well um you mean when i first started
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like really writing those those big
18:31
records
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so that was um
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2000
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the the era was i'd say 99 to probably
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like 2004. so that's maya maya i wrote
18:45
best of me with maya
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incredible record yeah
18:51
i wrote the money for records
18:53
um
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i mean
18:57
faith evan and faith evans and mary were
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doing their thing really big
19:02
during that time but i didn't write any
19:04
of those i wish i did
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um
19:09
it was such a good time for r b though
19:11
like
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there were so many good songs
19:15
during that era has your writing process
19:17
changed totally yeah from what to what
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um for more fun and bubbly to to this
19:24
yeah yeah you know i grew up i lived
19:27
lots of life so
19:29
things have changed boy oh boy yeah yeah
19:34
the truth about me huh
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right
19:37
right you know it's and it's good you
19:39
have to evolve you have to evolve right
19:42
um
19:42
and you you're evolving on your own
19:44
terms totally which which um which is
19:47
dope
19:48
to me mike muse yeah you said something
19:50
earlier michonne i'm curious about that
19:52
you said that you know tick tock when
19:53
your son came in told you you went viral
19:55
and you said something that really said
19:57
out to me you said it was good
19:59
to see people experience that song
20:01
i'm just curious now as you jump back in
20:04
uh now that you got inspired again to
20:06
jump back in i feel like the music
20:07
industry is changes now almost every
20:09
year the business of it how people
20:11
experience it
20:12
what is your thought process is as you
20:14
are shaping this this project this ep
20:16
and you're about to build on more like
20:18
how are you thinking about it now is it
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intimidating it is intimidating i'm like
20:24
i don't want to do um reels and tick
20:27
tocks
20:29
i'm being forced and so
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it's like that's what you have to do to
20:33
um to gain engagement
20:36
everything is numbers like you want to
20:38
see your likes they want to see your
20:40
streams
20:41
and that's just not my world so i'm
20:44
still trying to wrap my head around it
20:45
and that's why i create music because i
20:47
love to
20:48
i don't look at the numbers if they like
20:50
it they like it if they don't that's
20:52
fine
20:53
um
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but i know i love it you know i know i
20:57
really love it and i love creating i
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just i love sharing it
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i'm
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it's it's also um
21:07
it's easy to just become i guess
21:10
unmotivated and uninspired when numbers
21:13
aren't going your way right
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and i think a lot of artists struggle
21:16
with that right oh yeah the vanity
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metrics
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and i'm not here for any of those
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that part yeah that's that's that's um
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that ain't in your wheelhouse right i'm
21:28
curious there's a movement going on
21:29
right now with the artists taking back
21:31
their copyright and their masters right
21:32
i'm thinking about sierra right now she
21:34
took back her own she owns all of her
21:35
masters you owning your own publishing
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as a reset think about what prince said
21:40
and prince says that the reason why he
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fought so hard was allowed in the
21:43
freedom of how its platform and how he
21:45
wants to release his music
21:47
owning your own publishing now
21:49
does that give you the freedom in spite
21:51
of what they're looking for right now in
21:52
terms of metrics and likes owning your
21:54
own publishing does that balance out the
21:57
need for all these new mechanisms of
21:59
music i think the freedom definitely
22:02
allows you to have control over your
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legacy
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which is i think the most important
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um
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i mean you don't need labels anymore
22:11
right and a lot of artists artists know
22:13
that so
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they do everything independently which
22:16
also is challenging you know because it
22:19
all falls back on you which i'm learning
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so
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you also have to have money to create
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and market
22:27
which is another
22:28
another issue or challenge but you have
22:32
cr you have control you don't have
22:33
somebody telling you well you got to go
22:35
do this and you have to go do that or
22:37
you know we can't put out this record
22:38
you can put out whatever you want
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um
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the music industry is just completely
22:45
different yeah very different it's a
22:46
whole new world
22:49
i'm sorry i'm a huge art enthusiast um
22:52
in the nft space and stuff and i know
22:53
that you've been curating art have you
22:55
considered using you know now that you
22:57
have your publishing and own what you
22:59
have create have you considered
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releasing in an nft space
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i
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played in nfts for a little bit i'm not
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it's not really my my platform i'm more
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more um
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visual art more uh you know actual i
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like canvas i like to hang work
23:19
on the wall i love i love painters and i
23:22
love photographers so i work
23:24
mostly with with that form
23:27
um but i i would totally be down to do
23:30
like nft for a video or album cover
23:33
um
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i think they're fun i don't i don't
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understand them
23:39
as much yet
23:41
because it's not what i it's not what
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i'm playing
23:44
but you know we'll just see we'll see
23:47
where it goes
23:48
michonde's here we talking about our new
23:50
song it's called forbidden fruit
23:55
what would you um
23:57
what's your what's your stance you've
23:58
been married before what's your stance
23:59
on marriage now is that something you
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see for yourself yeah i love marriage
24:03
marriage is great when it's great
24:05
okay yeah
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um i i got married really young you know
24:09
i got married when i was 25. i didn't
24:11
know who i was he didn't know who he was
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we
24:15
were babies and we were heavy in the
24:18
midst of the music industry so there
24:20
were a lot of distractions and
24:23
um but now as a grown woman it's like
24:26
totally yeah oh yeah what is it about
24:28
marriage because so many people makes
24:30
them shudder
24:31
what is it about for you that makes you
24:33
soften up there's um there's like a
24:35
security there's like you know you have
24:38
your person i like having my person you
24:40
know um
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and
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there's just like uh
24:45
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24:47
you can go home
24:48
and that person's there you got to like
24:50
the person yeah
24:53
more important
24:57
like you could love somebody and not
24:59
like them yeah you have to really like
25:01
the person
25:02
so that's why it's taking me time
25:04
because i'm not i want to like you a lot
25:07
you could love somebody but not like
25:09
yeah yeah especially family members
25:14
yeah can you learn to like them though
25:17
then you i don't know about the learning
25:20
you know i feel like it's um
25:23
it's a natural thing
25:25
because usually usually when you have to
25:26
learn to like something you can also
25:28
learn to unlike it
25:30
or or naturally just not really like it
25:33
i don't know yeah there's a lot of work
25:35
that goes into the maintenance of it now
25:37
i'm curious have you even when it comes
25:39
to relationships but this first came to
25:41
mind off mike muse just thinking about
25:43
how all the technology changes
25:45
how are you able to decipher
25:48
when you should be moving outside of
25:50
your comfort zone and when this is a
25:52
scenario when you should be honoring
25:54
your standards
25:56
so the comfort zone thing is really big
25:58
for me because i can tell when i'm
26:01
getting
26:02
bored
26:04
and that's usually all right you have to
26:06
do something new you have to do
26:08
something that
26:10
you've never done that that's
26:12
uncomfortable
26:13
um
26:15
and that that's also what happens with
26:17
this project because i was you know not
26:20
to say i was getting bored with with
26:21
what i was doing career-wise but i was
26:23
like
26:25
it's not going to be comfortable things
26:26
are different you're older now no one
26:28
you know some people remember you but
26:30
this generation they don't know who you
26:32
are
26:33
they might not accept you they might but
26:35
you never know so that's uncomfortable
26:38
but you just have to you just have to do
26:40
what would you i'm also a really deep
26:42
feeler you have to do what feels good
26:44
absolutely well we've learned that this
26:46
generation has accepted you you've
26:48
already been viral on tic toc so
26:50
congratulations
26:52
thank you generation
26:54
so we've learned that merchandise needs
26:57
constant growth yes or she'll get bored
26:59
and that's why we have note to self
27:01
as this project that's coming out when
27:04
the ep drops the second week of
27:07
september second week of september we we
27:09
learned that she has to like you and not
27:12
just love you right round of applause
27:14
for that absolutely
27:16
we learned that you see we'll do a
27:18
island getaway with you and she will and
27:20
nobody has to know because
27:22
she's not going and if i like you i'll
27:24
take you on the island
27:31
take notes i like that you do that you
27:33
would treat you would take care of the
27:35
trip of course i've done that for a
27:37
special occasion or just for like
27:38
spontaneity if i want to go away and i'm
27:40
like hey you want to join yeah
27:43
is that is that flight in hotel
27:46
well it's usually just the hotel like if
27:49
i'm already in the situation of the
27:51
hotel
27:55
if you want to join fly out and meet me
27:57
[Music]
27:59
for anything because you already got the
28:00
hotel so it all works out that works out
28:03
and you get yourself there food
28:06
yeah possibly yeah yeah she's bringing
28:08
the honey in water man chill out
28:12
you're right
28:16
and that's the other thing we learned
28:17
maybe the most important thing we
28:19
learned
28:21
is that it tastes like honey and water
28:23
but listen
28:25
with monogamy okay
28:27
with monogamy and loyalty yes right to
28:29
herself package yes indeed and so that
28:31
what else would we learn how long before
28:33
you introduce somebody to your son
28:35
very long
28:37
very long over a year
28:39
oh about
28:40
probably
28:41
probably eight months yeah yeah yeah
28:44
yeah i agree with that that's how i i
28:46
have a daughter so i you just can't play
28:48
plus she's going to peel you apart
28:49
anyway they older now so they're going
28:51
to not play yeah yeah i see he's a
28:54
talented guy thank you very talented yes
28:57
he is incredible thank you so much all
28:59
right so what else did we cook you cook
29:01
i could tell you good so we learned a
29:03
lot about michonda
29:05
i have a question about some art okay
29:08
who is your favorite artist right now
29:10
you're famous your favorite painter
29:11
right now of the new not like the
29:13
basquiats because of course we love the
29:15
basquiats and we love those guys
29:17
um
29:21
you like sue thai i believe right
29:24
um
29:25
i
29:26
have never worked with sue
29:28
um
29:29
i
29:31
have so many though gosh like who who
29:34
would you hang right now
29:36
uh in in your studio in your new
29:39
recording studio who would be the first
29:40
you would hang
29:42
i would totally hang kehande
29:47
gorgeous work
29:48
yes incredible work milton bowen are you
29:51
familiar he's out of oakland
29:53
get get i'm gonna shoot you something
29:57
that's a curator by the name of kelly
30:00
pascale
30:01
hunter
30:02
okay up in oakland who has she was the
30:05
first person
30:06
this is the irony of this first person
30:08
ever talked to me about art was her back
30:10
in the 90s she had a gallery in jack
30:13
london square in oakland where i'm from
30:14
second person was swiss we sat on a
30:16
plane for five hours i think he might
30:18
have just been getting into it and
30:20
that's all he talked about and then from
30:22
there
30:23
well i was like
30:25
five hours
30:27
the whole plane ride right sounds
30:29
accurate
30:30
but i was very enlightened but milton
30:32
bowen is an artist out of oakland who's
30:34
done a lot of i'll send it to you okay
30:37
he should definitely be uh be uh around
30:39
michonder
30:41
honey and water all right um
30:43
i want to thank you for coming
30:46
this way
30:47
oh my god i'm joking with you melissa
30:50
you got a great project going thank you
30:52
we love when you come up here you made
30:54
it
30:54
see how easy that was yes
30:57
not going to keep me out not at all so i
30:59
say we pop this bottle let's do it let's
31:01
go yes
31:02
come let's celebrate this new single
31:04
okay forbidden fruit available
31:06
everywhere let's play the new single
31:08
again man let's play the news
31:10
all right and then i'm gonna pop this
31:12
bottle and we're gonna end the show with
31:13
the new single rich how can they work uh
31:15
reach you uh on instagram and twitter
31:18
the a r room the letter a the letter n
31:20
the letter r the word room and be sure
31:23
to go to our instagram we have a brunch
31:25
that we're getting ready to do uh well
31:27
my nephew's doing a brunch and i'm gonna
31:29
be there and it's gonna be their third
31:31
one it's a gala you wear like fancy
31:34
sneakers and you dress up and it's okay
31:36
and it's hot it's banging i've seen it's
31:38
all over instagram you got to check it
31:39
out okay so go to our instagram go to
31:41
the a room instagram cheers um the
31:43
letter a the letter and the letter all
31:45
the word room
31:46
nice
31:47
and send us new music please okay mike
31:50
mules yo assistant hit me up at i am
31:52
mike muse m u s and sam e on twitter and
31:55
instagram yes what can they find on your
31:57
instagram mike hey
31:59
go check out my reel that just posted so
32:01
you can see the 100 year celebration of
32:03
my fraternity kappa alpha psi
32:05
sigma chapter anniversary it's all there
32:08
congratulations thank you michael the
32:10
host thank you yes he was yes citizens
32:13
find me on twitter instagram it's tracy
32:15
g i t s t r a c y g love ya
32:19
hey michonda how can they find you you
32:21
can find me at mishonda to freya m a s h
32:25
o n d a t i f r e r e and for the art
32:29
you can go to art leader at
32:32
a r t l e a d h e r on instagram
32:36
beautiful all right i need mocked up and
32:38
then yes also make sure you follow
32:40
heather b maybe she'll be posting some
32:42
behind the scenes from her vacay at the
32:44
happy hour whb on twitter and instagram
32:47
not if she's like meshonda she don't
32:49
post something
32:52
nobody has to know
32:54
where can i fly you
32:55
i'm at real sway across the board make
32:57
sure you go to sways universe you can
32:58
catch all these interviews and go on
33:01
demand here at siriusxm and here's the
33:03
toast to mashanda yeah
33:06
cheers cheers
33:11
and all the amazing things that she's
33:13
doing yes and and just having a great
33:16
pulse on life congratulations absolutely
33:18
absolutely
33:20
and on that note we're going in with her
33:21
new single and we have nothing
33:24
left to say
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