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MICHAEL BIVINS Talks new Documentary 'The Hustle of @617MikeBiv' on ALLBLK | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Aug 24, 2023
The entertainment industry has been home to a handful of creative geniuses who have paved their way to success with sheer talent, vision, and hard work. One such name that has dominated the music industry for decades is Michael Bivins, who rose to fame as one of the founding members of the legendary groups, New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe. Recently, the documentary called The Hustle of @617MikeBiv has shed light on the life of this Grammy award-winning artist, showcasing his journey from a kid in the Orchard Park Projects of Roxbury to becoming a remarkable icon in the music industry.
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MICHAEL BIVINS Talks new Documentary 'The Hustle of @617MikeBiv' on ALLBLK | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
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one of the most important pieces ever
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made in the history of our music is
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amongst us let's keep the appliance
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going this is one of the real ones this
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is one of the real stories
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this is a story of a highly spirited man
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that have impacted that has impacted
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influenced Generations
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generations of Youth from across the
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world when you find out his story and
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how far he came in his journey to get to
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where he is today
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you will be thoroughly inspired the new
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documentary is called the hustle of at
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617 Mike Bill premieres tomorrow on the
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all black Network
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[Applause]
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listen Heather I I would love for you to
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jump in um with this as well
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when I look at this man I see a
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reflection of myself
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we would have went to the same high
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school I'm sure and I grew up in Boston
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but I grew up in Oakland and the way he
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grew up and you learn about Orchard Park
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and and these projects that he grew up
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it was in Mission Hill or Mission Park
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we filmed the mission you filmed in
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Mission Hill uh-huh and when you learned
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the story of this young man who had a
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dream of being a basketball player or
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you know a young man who really found
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and locked into his talents and was able
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to excel he was a local hero you know
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this man had a destiny that was
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preordained for him rather it was going
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to happen through basketball or whether
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it was going to happen through music
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this man was destined to be great he was
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destined to change people's lives you
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don't believe me asking other Bad
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Creation if you don't believe me axmc
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brains if you don't believe me ask Boys
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to Men ask Boys to Men how many lives he
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changed ask BBD acts New Edition and so
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seeing him make this documentary having
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now we love this guy we talk about it
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when he don't have a documentary family
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we speak on his accomplishments when he
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ain't even here friend because he's
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important to our lives he's been in the
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soundtrack of my life yes since 1983
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damn it 30 years ago y'all better leave
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me alone
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but yo stay young with it you look good
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okay
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[Laughter]
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I'm still here Mike I still got my
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shoulders
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go man you talk about him being a mogul
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right because you have to mention that
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yeah before so many people took on that
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title
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um you have to go to Biv you have to you
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have to recognize what he did very early
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in the game aim which to me allowed so
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many of us in hip-hop and our peers and
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whatnot to sort of follow his blueprint
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yeah you know and when you think about
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how super duper young everybody was
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doing that having this title of Mogul
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CEO starting labels really doing it it's
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incredible that he was able to sustain
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that but in my opinion okay the biggest
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uh thing to me about Biv is no matter
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what circles you go into and you mention
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his name
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every single person will go Ah that's my
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God yeah and I think that speaks volumes
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you can't buy that you can't train that
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you can't teach that that is something
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that comes from the heart God bless you
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friend yeah God bless you I heard it
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goes in your house big boy I love it
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tell us I said what's good absolutely
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Michael Michael Bivens is with us y'all
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big round of applies man Mike man we
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could do an inter we could do a two-hour
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long intro on you I could keep talking
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you know when when this was booked I
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didn't I didn't even look at this like
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an interview yeah sorry I I mean we're
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all friends and family
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you know and I just feel like friends
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and family get together for holidays
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we're just getting together for a
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holiday for the doc you know last time I
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was here I was with my group and he was
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flowering Ronnie with his stuff and
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Ralph and everything I just think that
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sometimes families should get together
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make time for each other so I'm just
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here to enjoy this studio and follow
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y'all's League there you go Michael said
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well since you on that then cool let me
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drop all my notes here and you know what
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Mike I thought my man Travis from Del
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Frisco's yes one of the top restaurants
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in the country yeah I said Travis
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Michael Bivins is coming today we gotta
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do something special and so my man
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brought y'all some food to eat Boston we
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are in the building Travis from the one
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of the biggest restaurants I'm not sure
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if it's the top building or the number
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two number two what are y'all in the
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country right now number one grossing
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sales restaurant in the country in 2019.
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you better stop playing crazy did you
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compliment his pocket square and title
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bro
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he didn't come undressed he came ready
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for business yes it looks good what kind
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of feast did you bring for these kings
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that came by way of Boston man we
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brought them some of our uh crab cakes
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lobster mac and cheese threw in some
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dessert wow now there's something a
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little extra on the side that you guys
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can have a little later
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sippy sippy I got extra for Michael
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y'all don't think that's y'all food over
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like that's our food
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because you'll do that
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what he'll go put the napkin on his neck
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and go home let's go I did this for
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y'all
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you know Mike we wanted to make it
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special man Travis thank you for doing
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this let's go travel thank you yeah you
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know the crazy thing I heard y'all
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talking my man from Boston name is
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Travis yeah yeah so we got two traps
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Travis and I'm Gonna Keep it going this
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my man zodiac fish grease from Queens
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what up that's my man Rico Anderson from
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DC and that's my man traffic from Boston
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recall look like he up to something Mike
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what's up with Rico man
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he's got his hat cocked I don't know
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maybe because the command does won the
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game the other night I don't know I got
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one in huh yeah but let me think Travis
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hey Travis is leaving if you ever come
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to New York try out Del Frisco's man
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thank you save your money right
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downstairs 49th and six all right cool
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man got y'all some crab cakes hey Mike
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thank you when I look at this doc look
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man
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like growing up in with Orchard Park is
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is that yeah yeah
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um man it looked like fun I know the
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stigma is is hard it's yeah you know
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it's challenges and but look like y'all
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have fun as kids we we did and and think
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about our projects we had two halves
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okay I'm saying so I lived on the first
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half Bobby Ricky and Ralph lived on the
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second but we met in the gym and the one
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thing about op was is that if you wasn't
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from the project you had to come get
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someone to walk you through our project
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okay you know what I mean it stood its
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ground in the OG's in the projects we
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would um you know look up to them they
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would take care of us as shorties as you
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can see in the Doc Griffin Leroy and I
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just had the pleasure of them having a
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lot of Big Brothers you know only have
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one sibling my sister Tanya yeah older
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so people I play ball with and move
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through the projects with everyone just
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took me and as a little brother and so I
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always felt like if I was on my side of
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the project or their side of the project
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I was good wow man uh you talk about
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your sister Tanya one of the things I
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noticed
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is that your whole family is producing
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you you directed this yes you brought
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everybody on board yes I I yeah man yeah
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um my wife is an executive producer with
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um Fish Grease Rico's music supervisor
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um Yvonne is I've been here producer
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Brooke Payne and then for my mother and
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my sister I feel like they um
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they helped me become who I am and they
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don't really like the spot like like my
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family's not all over social media my
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mom don't care about you no mom is so
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gangster I had to I had to kind of like
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bribe her to do the interview so I put a
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girlfriends and stuff with her I saw
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that just to make her comfortable right
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yeah and with my sisters feel like
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they've been producing my life and
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holding me down and then my kids
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I wanted my kids when they got older and
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they have their kids that they say this
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is your granddad this is our story and
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you know when we were younger you know
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your grandpa put our name on this doc so
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this is a part of our family heritage I
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love that the other thing um
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that I notice is that you will raise by
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surrounded by really
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really solid black women you know uh
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your sister your mother I looked at that
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you know I was looking at who was around
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you your aunt right talk about that man
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how you think that shaped emoted you to
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who you are today well you know when I
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go to dinner I got five in my crib my
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aunt my mom my sister I'm usually the
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only guy at the table with a and my
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cousin and mate with a table of nine
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women so I have a tendency to be
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protective of them but what I also
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learned about women is they help you
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become a better man you know okay and so
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this is interesting you know bro had
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that when I did the doc what I said to
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everybody is I want all women to be the
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interviewers
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um there's no male interview I just
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pulled footage that I've done with
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Stephen Hill whatever boom boom boom but
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like Heather she's doing the interview
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big less you know Yvonne I was like I
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wanted the black men to see how powerful
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a woman speaks to you how she pulls an
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answer out of you how she moves the room
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so in my doc it's nothing but female
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interviewers yeah do you want to speak
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to that well first of all I was honored
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I mean let's just start there and I
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think it's going back to kind of what
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drama was saying about work and doing
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work you we were I was blessed to sit
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down with Mike and and Bobby and Ron and
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Rick for for SiriusXM fly and I was just
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talking to them we were just having a
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conversation and and Mike had hit me
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sometime later and was like you know it
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was the conversation that
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um that you had with us I'd been paying
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attention to you in the conversation you
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had with us that kind of just I saw
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something and I wanted to bring women in
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anyway I've been working on this idea
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and I was like my gosh you know you just
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coming in your natural state and you're
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doing what you love to do and you're
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just being honest and truthful and
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hoping the exchange is the same yeah and
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I had I was honored to do it but what I
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would ask you Mike is that I knew how
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long you'd been working on this from the
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time you called me right you know yeah
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and and where it is now and to see how
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beautiful it is and all the work that in
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it at any point did you get frustrated
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and if so can you speak to some of the
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folks out there right now who may be
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trying to write their book tell their
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story put a company together you know
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did I get frustrated y'all
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it started started after the black
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Godfather
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I say this story all the time I saw that
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on Netflix Clarence was in my building
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with my godfather Gerald and I just
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wanted to be in that dock I I my
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feelings was hurt I couldn't get one
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question and I seen a lot of other
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people who didn't work at Motown getting
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it and it just bothered me because I was
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the Young Gun soaking up Clarence R.I.P
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soaking up Gerald both are gone and I
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felt like I have stories nobody got and
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so I said well that was so inspiring I
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see myself kind of like Clarence I'm
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just gonna go do my own thing hide the
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camera crew bad audio but we got some
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really good emotional footage out of
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that first day in July 2018. then we got
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better and got a better crew we kept
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moving and moving and moving and then I
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realized that um I didn't have a
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blueprint to the doc I'm just filming yo
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can I do interview you can I interview
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you and so once I got there I couldn't
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even put a synopsis together to go to uh
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um Network at the time because I didn't
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have it mapped out then I got all this
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old archive footage so I said you know
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what let me just take my time and then
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boom Bobby came out A and E I'm like
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damn you know then somebody else came
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like damn I'm moving slow and fish is
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like no calm down bro when the show time
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is your time then we started getting
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better
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yeah that's beautiful you know we
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started getting better so I'm in the
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editing room I'm sending you Clips yo
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what you think you're like okay I watch
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it after Sunday dinner
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you put you on hold too on Minecraft
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so I'm trying to engage people that are
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proud of it so you can see your
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contribution right bro and then I
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realized I got something
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forget trying to write something just
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tell it as it is so I went in
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chronological order of my life yeah yeah
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from 68 through New Edition BBD beat bip
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10 boom boom my wife my kids and then I
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realized I could go from 68 all the way
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up to 2022 and then I said you know what
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we're here
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and then I said guess what let's get our
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Curtis Mayfield on and we started
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working on the soundtrack too right wow
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got the soundtrack oh no listen bro
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honestly this to me might be the best
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album I put together because I put those
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other albums together just young and not
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knowing when you say to me to me because
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I'm scoring okay the rest of the records
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were just written not necessary about
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the artist they're just singing a hit
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record but these songs pertain to the
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story yeah so it's like Curtis Mayfield
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scoring Superfly okay okay
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that's why when you watch the doc I'm
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driving I'm trying to get my Curtis on
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I'm on my super Florida and I'm like you
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know what this is when movies was movies
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so that's why I took so long we had to
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do the doc right and we had to do the um
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soundtrack right yeah that took five
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years yeah and I'm just yeah I'm always
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curious about mindset when you just feel
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like things you're on hold everything is
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hurry up and wait how do you stay you
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know focused and gung-ho about it
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because it's easy to get discouraged and
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deterred well you know another thing too
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right I I didn't really think and you
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know being very truthful I didn't think
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a network
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was going to understand the story I want
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to tell
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right they wanted me to tell them about
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how me and this one in the group get
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down and our problem like money I'm
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tired of that story yeah that story is
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not bet what I want to tell you is about
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my love for ball how God redirected me
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to music how I hooked up with Eric B and
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Run DMC and Jam Master J and EPMD and I
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moved through hip hop Nas how I help
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bring fashion how I help bring celebrity
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basketball game to the game how I found
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talented kids and gave them an
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opportunity how I went for my artist to
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Executive length to flip side of the
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business I went back to Boston stay
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there never left go back all the time in
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the airport and say what can I do for my
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city now I got a public park with my
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name on come on man come on I didn't
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know
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I didn't think they thought that was
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going to be a story because I don't know
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if they wanted to be strung out yeah I
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didn't know if they wanted me to tell
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them yeah I was dead broke and I'm
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knocking on doors looking for a meal
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which people go through but I didn't
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have that story I didn't pull up on
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someone and put a guide up on them and
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said run it I don't know that story I
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know cats that do that but I ain't in
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that right my story is something that's
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uplifting a kid that ended up in
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something that he didn't really
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understand but learned his way and ended
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up with two stars on the Hollywood
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Boulevard his name is Michael Bivins
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y'all you know you his name is Michael
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Bivins Biff 10 his name is Michael
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Bivins
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you know you know you do something big
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when grown men show up to work and they
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wear t-shirts of your merch I don't know
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if you know this DB but man he got on a
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BB that's the torture but I knew he was
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right when I was in the hallway and I
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was listening to the music
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yeah come on I heard you bro there's
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something I wanted to ask you too
16:50
because I'm a big fan of Eddie Murphy
16:51
and he did the film uh Metro in 1997 and
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there was a lot of new edition music in
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there the remix so you don't have to
16:56
worry with Missy which I loved and then
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the movie ended with um feels so good to
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be back how did you guys get so involved
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in that soundtrack well we didn't but if
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you notice do you know what any
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heartbreak video was shot at in the
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islands no Eddie Murphy's house that was
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Eddie Murphy's
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it looked like an island
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any heartbreak video not still in love
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any heartbreak when we're on the mopeds
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yeah Heavy D's in the video that's Eddie
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Murphy's house do you know who the
17:27
director was no Malcolm Jamal Warner
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so Eddie Eddie has been around us for
17:35
years so we used to go over his house
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and shoot pool and he would just talk to
17:40
us and he just always would tell us Yelp
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man it don't matter how many records
17:44
y'all pull out long as y'all keep
17:45
packing them in that's how y'all gonna
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win
17:48
that was his advice so him putting stuff
17:51
in the movie is just him being the fan
17:53
and always like a you know a consultant
17:55
to the wisdom because he would come to
17:57
the show and sit right on the side of
17:59
the stage
18:00
Eddie was like a big fan him and Johnny
18:02
would make sure he's straight and we go
18:03
up to the house and one day he opened
18:06
his doors and say shoot the video here
18:07
that way I could see it go down so
18:09
shouts daddy Eddie Murphy y'all didn't
18:11
record no music he was singing Back Then
18:16
good for Saturday night boxing Keenan
18:19
and Dwayne Wayman and Arsenio like that
18:22
was the house you go over Saturday
18:24
around La time would be six which is
18:27
nine east coast and you eat and sit in
18:29
the living room and man he had to Chef
18:31
everything man he's flying you could
18:33
just show up or did you have to text
18:35
Eddie well you had to come through the
18:36
gate okay
18:56
he was building his house okay but you
18:59
know I knew D and I was just like wow
19:01
this is amazing they all kind of had
19:03
their big houses beside each other and
19:06
it was it was inspiring so the answer to
19:08
your question we didn't have nothing to
19:09
do with it see this is why when you say
19:11
Clarence Avant this is why you you like
19:14
that you know because you tell a story
19:15
of introducing you brought Michael
19:17
Jordan Michael Jackson and Michael
19:20
Bivins together no
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no no
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Mike Mike
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and it was all your plot yo man I just
19:31
used my relationship bro man I met Mike
19:34
at the what's that East Rutherford Arena
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right right yeah back when it was
19:38
Brendan you know see that's that joke
19:41
helped me out there right so I'm sitting
19:43
half court right bro I'm at the um table
19:46
with the uh you know the newspaper
19:48
people be yeah and I'm watching the game
19:50
and he looked at me said I got something
19:52
for you when it went down boof he came
19:56
down you like that I ain't no Mike from
19:58
nothing he just did a dunk for me during
20:00
the live game right oh really that was
20:02
in a live game he's playing the Nets man
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right I ain't no Michael nowhere and I'm
20:09
like oh snap so after the game he sent
20:12
somebody to come get me I go in the
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hallway and he said take my number
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I took Mike's number I went back to
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Boston I'm living with my mom
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I'm in there having a [ __ ] with my man
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Tony and I'm feeling myself and I'm
20:24
about to call Mike call him on the phone
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this one I caught him on the you know
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got him yo what up Mike what's up Mike
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Bivens he's in the Carphone I said how
20:32
you doing man I'm just calling to say hi
20:34
he said what's your size I said I think
20:37
of the Empire it was a small Cinema
20:38
what's your sneaker size size eight
20:41
two days later I had the ones and the
20:44
all-white sweatsuit then I threw it up
20:47
in the house and I'm jumping around and
20:49
you know I'm feeling myself and then we
20:51
do all-star weekend and when he's
20:53
talking to press he would always call me
20:55
over what up little man and we're
20:57
talking man I'm souped I got Michael
21:00
Jordan that's my name Jordan yo so when
21:02
he was filming the commercial
21:05
I said ABC I need to look like a boss I
21:08
just walked down there boom boom boom yo
21:11
Mike who is it it's Mike Bivens can't
21:14
you see we playing cards I'm like no
21:16
Mike the door is shut
21:19
so I I go you know he said give me a
21:21
minute and then the dude opened the door
21:23
he's doing this they playing at the
21:25
table I said man you know let's go meet
21:26
ABC
21:28
he said come back in 15. I leave bro I'm
21:30
back 14 30 14 31 14 36 and then in the
21:35
dark you see it I walk him up there I
21:37
ask him about Mike he didn't meet Mike I
21:39
cut a deal with the photographer and I
21:41
got this beautiful picture I had in my
21:43
house for years of me standing in the
21:47
middle I'm hitting up with the B boy I
21:50
got Jordan to the left Mike to my right
21:52
now here's the moral of this story
21:55
all this time I thought I was going to
21:58
the league at least that was my
21:59
aspiration then you know Bob and Rick
22:02
and Ralph helped me dance and you know
22:04
Ryan helped me with my Cadence then I
22:06
went to the right I went into music and
22:09
then Boys to Men happened ABC so I'm at
22:11
the height of my life height of my
22:13
career everything is beautiful and I
22:15
felt like that day God wanted to step in
22:18
he wanted to say there's something about
22:20
what you're doing and something about
22:22
that I helped you do and now that you've
22:25
been following my footsteps here's a
22:27
picture I'm gonna put the greatest in
22:29
music and the greatest in basketball and
22:32
I'm gonna put your two loves together
22:34
and piece you in the middle
22:36
Michael Bivens is his name next oh my
22:40
gosh
22:41
pricey
22:47
but you know what I want to cuddle
22:50
backwards a bit from when you were
22:52
sharing you know an artist that now is
22:54
flipping into an executive because
22:57
oftentimes when you're a kid you can
22:58
spot natural Talent you know you can
23:00
experiment with your voice and be like
23:02
oh my gosh I'm five I know that I can
23:04
sing you know you can find out through
23:06
playing in the playground oh snap I'm
23:09
very athletic and then folks can invest
23:11
in that but it's rare that as a child
23:14
you can see I can become an entrepreneur
23:17
you know what I mean that you have
23:18
business Acumen can you speak about how
23:21
easy or not so easy that side of the
23:24
game came to you maybe mention some of
23:26
those who helped to shape you well I
23:28
might mention some names you might not
23:30
be aware of but my first business lesson
23:34
was by Nobby Walters
23:37
okay
23:40
Norby had the Slick hair dude controlled
23:45
all of the talent that did the concerts
23:47
and you know every agent worked on the
23:50
Norby you know I'm being talked like
23:52
this you know Long Island type guy yeah
23:55
so
23:56
being around him he took to me and he
24:00
helped me understand
24:02
the other side of the business now
24:04
granted I'm 14. I'm listening to how
24:07
things really go and I'm listening on
24:10
how you talk to Nobby and what you
24:13
listen to what Norby says and how you
24:15
follow the rules so for me
24:18
I learned business and
24:20
how you um
24:23
go about things in a calming way how you
24:27
go about moving people along and helping
24:30
things get to where you gotta go and
24:32
learning from the forefathers on the
24:34
rules to do the rules not to do and what
24:37
to look out for so I'm 14 15 trying to
24:40
make sense of all of this then I go to
24:42
Gerald and I find myself sponging stuff
24:46
and then one day you just look in the
24:48
mirror and you say you know what in this
24:50
problem that I have where did I hear
24:52
this before
24:54
you see what I'm saying and I got so
24:56
many things to pull from and I've been
24:58
on the Long Island side of life I don't
25:01
have been on the south central side of
25:02
life and I'm gonna know what your
25:04
Parkside in life so for me
25:07
I was in some rooms and situations that
25:10
I know people would have peed in their
25:12
pants you understand the same and so
25:15
even in my doc I didn't even want to
25:18
touch all of that because I know people
25:19
wouldn't have probably believed it you
25:22
understand that's an example yeah I'm
25:24
not going to tell it now either but just
25:27
being in those situations and trying to
25:30
protect my group look at it this way
25:32
no lawyer got us out of stuff
25:36
no manager got us out of stuff a 15 year
25:39
old got a shot of stuff
25:41
wow you understand so the meetings that
25:45
needed to be had and to say can we you
25:48
know can we walk our way can we settle
25:50
our differences can we do this and do
25:52
that nobody did that
25:54
I took that responsibility
25:56
all the way to Steve rifkin's father
25:59
Julie very honorable guy one line answer
26:03
this is the call this is the deal and
26:06
that's that there's no conversation so
26:09
just moving and all of that it it gives
26:11
you a texture
26:13
that um you just know how to move so
26:15
anybody Young making it up it's just
26:18
good to kind of get up onto somebody
26:20
don't try to be like them but just take
26:23
some vital Jews that you could hold on
26:25
to and just know how to use them
26:27
basically that's it Michael Bivens is
26:29
his name come on man
26:31
I know we got a raffle real quick
26:34
you do something really amazing with the
26:36
boys club in Boston can you speak to
26:38
that
26:39
um I do something with the Roxbury y
26:42
Orchard Park neighborhood center the
26:44
boys club has been there when I was
26:45
younger yeah
26:47
um I'm not in there as much but um what
26:49
we do in the city is we we do all of the
26:52
community centers yeah we um we we try
26:54
to do a bouncy barbecue day this past
26:57
July but due to the uh City and uh
27:01
different events going on we couldn't do
27:03
it but my thing is like what you say for
27:06
the artists to the kids I I feel like
27:07
the kids are the future
27:09
and I just feel good to know that um if
27:13
it's just something for them to eat a
27:15
t-shirt bouncy barbecue a field day to
27:18
pay for their buses to go to Six Flags
27:20
anything you could do to show these kids
27:24
that um somebody cares because when I
27:26
was little tiny Archibald kid yeah he
27:29
gave me Converse sneakers ML car kid you
27:32
know Magic Johnson kid and I try to put
27:36
myself again in those shoes and say let
27:38
me just be like them yeah you know and
27:40
that's the sports side and the get back
27:42
side and my city is good to me yeah you
27:45
know when I do my adventure it's packed
27:47
I don't charge them nothing I don't
27:49
think I've ever had an event in Boston
27:51
where I made somebody pay that's right
27:54
right I've never I've never I've never I
27:57
always felt like
27:58
the person that sits outside the store
28:01
on the stoop you might not pay him no
28:03
mind her no mind because they just look
28:05
like they're not doing too well but they
28:08
know what corner to tell you not to go
28:09
down yeah right so when I do my events
28:12
and I'm going up in the store I'm like
28:14
yo Harry you know we getting down at the
28:16
park Mike I'm there
28:17
it feels good to see all walks of life
28:20
want to come to the event not just the
28:22
Fly Girl or the fly guy but the guy
28:24
there that could save you from being in
28:26
danger the streets the streets fish yeah
28:29
be packed you know so that that's that's
28:31
what it is and the kids in Boston
28:33
because
28:35
if I don't do it I don't know who else
28:37
is going to do it yeah I don't wait on
28:39
nobody else
28:41
one last thing in the dock and this is
28:44
not one we got a thousand things we
28:46
could talk about you did a really great
28:47
job you and the team with the doc
28:49
um like I said I I watch I know Mike Biz
28:52
since 83 before he knew me I knew Mike I
28:56
like Mike you know I mean Mike found
28:58
this Lane in the whole thing you know
29:00
what I mean it wasn't so defined what
29:02
his role was going to be but but he was
29:04
prominent in his role somehow he figured
29:06
that out but I thought it was a great
29:08
compliment when I saw Jay-Z in that
29:11
concert footage that you posted in the
29:13
middle of a concert oh man saw you in a
29:16
crowd yo I felt it bro and he
29:18
acknowledged things that you've been
29:20
doing I don't even think people knew you
29:22
were doing at that time yo man let me
29:24
say this man what they call it fan
29:26
moment yeah right so I'm near me tribe
29:29
my cousin to me I'm short so I'm
29:31
standing in the chair I can't see it and
29:33
I'm like yo so I'm looking you know he's
29:36
four four four you know what I mean bro
29:38
he's 444 and I'm like this my dude I
29:41
dislike you I like a lot of things about
29:43
you I like Emery I like their whole crew
29:45
the whole Cruise though yeah so out of
29:47
nowhere right since yo yo yo Mike Bev
29:52
I think I'm looking around like he's me
29:55
right then I look about the screen right
29:58
bro he's like yo yo yo Mike Bev man
30:00
don't don't think we didn't recognize
30:03
your uh contribution to this music [ __ ]
30:05
man you was the first putting cash on
30:09
in the Boston Garden sold out show crazy
30:12
I just fell back like this
30:14
I trapped like hold up bro hold up
30:17
you're gonna fall right right bro I just
30:21
wrote back like this I said so traffic
30:25
like stop talking to me yo how did he
30:28
see me
30:29
you know like did he see me he's like yo
30:32
bro he talked to you I'm watching the
30:33
show right this show the another dude of
30:37
my DP
30:38
he happened to take his phone out and
30:41
film that what they call that the
30:43
Jumbotron right yeah that's how I got
30:46
the footage oh my God right but in
30:49
closing let me say this so where we at
30:51
Ron we in our clearances right you know
30:54
what that's like yeah yo yo
30:56
I sent it and I'm going to Mike and I'm
30:58
coming back to Jay stay with me okay so
31:01
they like yo we gotta get the clearances
31:02
to turn in the dark so we we call Larry
31:06
over Adam Air Jordan
31:09
he sent it to the people that's over
31:11
Mike I get the footage from TNT I want
31:13
to use with me and Mike shooting pool my
31:16
brother if I say 24 hours I could be
31:19
lying cleared Michael Jordan cleared
31:22
first one out of the I did a whole
31:25
lineup in that doc out of here Stay With
31:28
Me
31:29
then we going and going are sending
31:31
those people coming through TNT came
31:33
through everyone's coming through I'm
31:35
like I'm running around my palm just
31:37
sweating I'm like this is unbelievable
31:38
right and nobody's hitting me with
31:41
nothing
31:41
I'm just getting clear clear clear clear
31:43
clear July 4th I'm dealing with Desiree
31:48
and Jay's attorney he's the last one and
31:51
I'm like Dee I really need this he's the
31:53
last she said Mike Holt type sent to the
31:56
paperwork July 4th from swimming in the
31:59
back with Nine-Nine Mike look at your
32:01
email
32:03
came through on a holiday Jay signed it
32:06
on the 4th of July say no lies
32:10
my God
32:11
[Applause]
32:14
I think I hit bestie I said yo he came
32:18
so I screenshotted it and I
32:20
screenshotted Mike and I said to myself
32:23
you know it's interesting to start off
32:26
with Mike to end with Jay and everyone
32:28
in between who's just as important but
32:30
it means a lot
32:32
when someone lets you use their likeness
32:35
you could shoot anybody but for them to
32:38
say go ahead for 17 seconds you got that
32:41
I I don't I don't know too many people
32:43
that's just going to agree with you to
32:45
let you do what you want to do with
32:47
their likeness and I don't know too many
32:50
documentaries old boys been in how many
32:52
you think he's been there none
32:56
I mean his own yeah
33:01
let's go to Mike though right how many
33:04
times you seen Mike before last dance
33:06
rarely so we in this shooting pool right
33:10
he mad as hell cause he don't like to
33:12
lose yeah you got it you know I got shot
33:14
oh he was hot you could have missed that
33:16
shot you brought me every name under the
33:18
shots almost like you was on the court
33:20
yes yes I caught the real Michael Jordan
33:23
one name one name no no I'm not doing
33:26
that
33:27
when I told the story in the dark I
33:30
described it how we talked I said no no
33:32
what'd I say we I said I said take that
33:34
out you know we can't do that to Mike
33:35
can't do that right but what's so crazy
33:38
we was um and I like we're going over
33:40
time it's like a basketball
33:46
okay so we shooting pool out of lines of
33:48
mornings thing I'm working for TNT so
33:51
I'm gonna face
33:52
of TNT the first year at nba.com is um
33:56
online yeah so in 2008 nba.com came to
34:00
life
34:01
TNT didn't have uh uh uh like a person
34:04
to rev up the whole online so if you was
34:07
in New Orleans 2008 and hit nba.com it's
34:11
my picture
34:12
I'm doing all the interviews that
34:14
weekend and part of the first event was
34:16
me and Dave Levy the I'm president of
34:19
TNT playing a two on two pool game with
34:22
Chris Paul and Michael Jordan so that
34:24
was a two on two game but it's the
34:26
Alonzo Morning eight ball thing and Dave
34:29
was like yo we gotta get him you know
34:30
Mike walks in all the ladies just
34:32
screaming I was like damn that's Ralph
34:34
I'm like looking
34:36
I was like
34:39
you know right you know when you younger
34:42
the girls
34:44
you just sit there you extra brushing
34:46
your waves and [ __ ] be like she don't
34:48
notice my [ __ ] in a minute this little
34:51
slim [ __ ] and [ __ ] you know whatever I
34:55
love Rizzo so you know he comes in I'm
34:58
like damn and listen y'all it was ten
35:01
table sis
35:03
everybody left every other game and came
35:07
to that one game we had about 300 people
35:10
watching wow wow it up it was like you
35:13
know sweaty Palm on you know everything
35:15
is like oh [ __ ] and Dave you know he's
35:18
just happy because of the tension he's a
35:19
behind the scenes guy and we playing the
35:22
game man and um we got him he was so mad
35:26
I had to play Mike again
35:30
outside the rules one on one because he
35:33
couldn't leave he didn't want to leave
35:35
he wanted my ass is that why y'all
35:38
played the one you want one more again
35:39
he ain't had nothing man Dave's moving
35:42
on to the next round so Mike was so hot
35:44
we had to get it again and then he beat
35:47
me and then he was happy
35:50
because Yvonne didn't we cut out him
35:52
dancing to poison he's doing the poison
35:54
I was like Mike what type of dance is
35:56
Daddy's doing some [ __ ] he was dancing
35:58
smoking this cigar and then I was like
36:01
you know what king well deserved and
36:03
then that became a five minute
36:06
special before the All-Star game
36:09
Saturday that's how I got the footage
36:10
they filmed everything chopped it up I
36:13
narrated it until at seven o'clock that
36:15
Saturday they played it for five minutes
36:17
entirely that was like a dream come true
36:19
yo listen Michael Bivens is his name the
36:23
hustle of at 617 Mike Bibb premieres
36:26
tomorrow all black AMC networks check it
36:30
out make sure y'all check it out on
36:31
Encore run will be on WE tv Thursday
36:34
October the 5th
36:36
yes
36:38
I just want to say to my partners you
36:40
know zodiac who's been doing videos with
36:43
Classic Conference classic concept thank
36:45
you for putting the battery in my pack
36:47
to be this director you know I learned
36:49
everything for you behind the camera bro
36:51
and what you do for South Side what you
36:54
did for Lionel Ralph McDaniels man you
36:56
did for me and um I'm just happy that
37:00
you're a part of me because you made it
37:01
comfortable and to Rico you know you're
37:04
like my Dr Dre you've been with me since
37:06
East Coast family man I never have to
37:09
worry about a mix music something being
37:12
on time I think he did a hell of a job
37:14
of scoring the documentary man and you
37:16
know we going into 20 30 years of this
37:18
man and I just love you because you've
37:20
been here with me I never had to worry
37:21
about music and to tribe you know we 617
37:25
boys all day seven you know what I mean
37:27
we represent the being in t Vaughn
37:30
she cut the deal that got me to WE TV
37:34
and thank you for just believing in me
37:38
because you knew the cause that wasn't
37:41
being returned we knew we wasn't going
37:43
to get a Network's money so I bankrolled
37:46
it myself you licensed the deal so when
37:48
I go home
37:49
this documentary is the first thing I
37:53
ever owned I'm still fighting to get my
37:55
masters thank you wow Jesus
38:02
what do you call fishing Travis y'all
38:04
good dudes man almost could have swore
38:06
y'all grew up in Oakland
38:09
Michael Bivins we love you man I'm so
38:13
happy you came up today man I slept well
38:15
last night knowing I was going to speak
38:17
with you today I'm so proud of you
38:18
you've been an inspiration to me my
38:20
partner King Tech all of these guys that
38:22
came out of Oakland y'all put that first
38:24
album out in 83 bro yes yes and I would
38:27
say this to your family you have a safe
38:29
trip home and the next New Edition
38:31
concert you're gonna get a picture in
38:32
the dressing room so be beautiful make
38:35
sure you put it in your living room all
38:36
six members is coming your way all right
38:38
that's family man thank you and Mike
38:42
she's an attorney so you can't go back
38:44
on your word no
38:45
listen that ain't that ain't a clause
38:48
that's a red line there you go hey man
38:50
hey shout out to Michael Bivins fish
38:53
congratulations Rico Travis
38:55
congratulations Yvonne congratulations
38:57
the whole team congratulations to hustle
39:00
of 617 at 617 Mike Viv what a perfect
39:03
title on all black also you can see it
39:06
on WE tv Thursday August October the 5th
39:12
thank you
39:14
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