Salaam Remi’s MuseZeum: A Hub for Fine Art and Digital Collectibles | SWAY’S UNIVERSE

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[Applause]
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I think this man personifies what
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culture is all about through the vehicle
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of Music since the early days of Curtis
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blow playing keyboards as a young lad
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this man came into the game it's always
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been humble about his own always been
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low-key about it but he's been staunched
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about it after being Tracy when I mean
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by stun she's been a total supporter of
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the culture and good music it's always
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been about music with him you can't trap
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him in any genre that's not what he does
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man he crosses all genres he's worked
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with artists from all areas from all
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walks of life this man to me
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um I don't know he keeps me inspired by
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the way he keeps Reinventing his ability
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to create not just for himself but for
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others you know Tracy you mentioned Amy
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Winehouse oh man I'm big of a fan you
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are of Amy Winehouse to the maximum
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injured Spirit okay
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um the list goes on MooMoo fresh is
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somebody I'm a big fan of Spragga bands
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and somebody I'm a big fan of Chronixx
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you know the list goes on the Fuji's
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have to be you
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Moses case Jennifer Hudson the list goes
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on and on and on crazy I know he just he
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gets tired of hearing it because he
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lived it you know but I'm really proud
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to have my brother I consider him a
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brother you know last time I saw him
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stepped out in lower Manhattan off of
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Orchid Street to visit his um
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installation midnight at Museum and you
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spell museum like news
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m-u-s-e-zim and this is just this um
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this concept that he's come up with that
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is really Forward Thinking
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um dealing with web 3 technology and
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it's a way to kind of reinvent artists
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who otherwise in some cases aren't being
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tapped into and he's providing not only
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that but revenue streams as he secures
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their legacy with artwork that he
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created with his own hands you know
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multimedia art that he started creating
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I want to say during the pandemic uh he
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picked up this
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um this craft and now he's moving it
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Forward May 4th Thursday if you're in
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the tri-state area make sure you go to
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Legacy NYC from 7 to 10 p.m there'll be
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beverages free beverages uh Jade
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champagne they be coming through every
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time you know last time I went I came
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down there with Esso and Rich nice was
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down there with us as well black thought
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came through uh who else was there stick
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man from dead press was that right M1
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from
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come on Angie came through it was a it
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was a celebration of what he's doing I
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want to bring him back to the show he's
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no stranger give it up for Salon Remy
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was he drinking did you get a drink
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Clank Clank they didn't have no green
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juice
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they would have had green juice not
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everybody drinking alcohol come to the
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Miami Museum for that we got all the
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fresh juices y'all got the fresh juices
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in Miami man you got to do that in New
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York this is where the health is
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depreciating here in New York brother
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then you got a preserve it so long in
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Miami you getting there like from tree
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to cup like in you know yeah yeah yeah
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okay the pit stops ain't no pit stops
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exactly I'm super fresh I want to talk
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about midnight at Museum the series that
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you're doing May 4th don't forget if
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you're in the tri-state area go to
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Legacy at NYC but before I do I read
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something that troubled me
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and I wanted to get some clarity on it I
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read that you are retiring from music
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yeah
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um so basically I retired my career as a
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producer on my 50th birthday last year
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just as something I felt like I needed
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to do
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um my entire adult life I've been you
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know a producer I've been doing it since
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I was 14 years old and I wanted to say
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okay after 36 years in when do I get a
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chance to pause that and focus on other
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aspects of my life and by me saying like
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this isn't my job anymore because you
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know life is a producer is nice but it's
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really a service job you're at the beck
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and call of different artists whatever
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they want to get done it's not like I'm
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making myself more important most of the
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time you wouldn't know I made a record
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unless the artist said the name said my
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name in The Record there's only one time
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it happened and I wasn't there when the
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mixes I would have taken it out so after
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having 36 years of service you know that
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sounds like something for a pension
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right so 36 years of service of doing
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that I just decided I wanted to pause it
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it was a decision I made when I was 30
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that when I was 50. I was just gonna let
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that part of it go so I still create in
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different ways but I just wanted to not
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be tied to the studio because when I'm
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in it and that passion is there you know
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you can hear it through the work that
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I've done and also through the artists
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that I've ended up working with and
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helping them find their passion but I
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decided I wanted to take another role so
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I've retired from being a producer or
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being able to be hired you cannot hire
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me I can't hire you no no price you
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could if you wanted to do something you
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do it but just do it for love if I'm
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going to do it but there's no hiring me
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there's no I hired this person I have to
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make a beat I have to hope you did it I
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have to help somebody promotes it I have
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to help somebody gives me a publishing
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deal there's no hiring what's the value
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the personal value in that just being
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able to say you can't hire me how does
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that feel I mean that's definitely part
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of it but it's also you know
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understanding value versus money and you
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know I've had a lot of things this whole
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year you know I haven't watched
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television or even looked at YouTube
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probably this whole year but I've been
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having a lot of things where close
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friends of mine some that have money
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they've lost their closest person or
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some people who was stressing about
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money they also passed away from the
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stress of money and I had to look at it
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and say there's a lot more value to life
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and my value is me being able to give
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everybody a proper conversation the
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value that I really gave to all the
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artists that I worked with was our
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conversations turned into audio form so
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to me the value that I'm able to leave
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here you know in existing in the rest of
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my life is not even about just making
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beats it's about conversations that now
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Inspire somebody else to do something
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different amen
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can you speak to um I know I'm just
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curious too you worked on a lot of
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different projects which ones were some
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of your most personal transformative
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projects that you walked out of and went
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wow
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um you know what like every story has a
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song
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um when I came in y'all were playing
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Major look by Nas
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um that song happened at a time when
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there was a lot of tension and a lot of
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things going on you know I was in
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bereavement nozzles and bereavement you
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know his mama just passed he was also at
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odds with my New York radio Giants who
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are also my closest friends
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um you know things would just happening
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it was the end of a beef that's that in
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the third and Nas even though that track
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had all that aggression in it he still
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let the music defuse all attention so
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when I hear it everybody else is like
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hip-hop I'm doing this that a third but
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remember hip-hop came out of time what
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after blackouts we were finding ways
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where we had less opportunities to Now
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find a way to make something of it and
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you know we created out of what wasn't
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nothing supposedly and made it into what
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it needed to be I've heard that song and
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I think about all the pressure and how
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many ways it could have gone wrong and
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how many ways it went brighter than
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right so I just um hear that and that's
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definitely a special moment to me you
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know if I had to think of one off top
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just because it was supposed black on
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purpose
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um
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I I interpreted it as a response to some
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social unrest that was happening at the
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time
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um are there other projects or songs you
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worked on that you can recall that were
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direct response to social unrest in the
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past
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um
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I mean to me you know still all of it
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then when people think about Amy
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Winehouse records or Jasmine Sullivan
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records that's personal unrest that I
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was like yo express yourself and then
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you know I found myself putting chord
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changes to people's problems and that
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was what that was at that time but I
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felt like black on purpose for me
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um you know no matter what I've done in
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life at that time
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it didn't make a difference I was a
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large black man and a large black man
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outside the store was George Floyd Eric
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Garner or me it didn't make a difference
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what I'd done outside of that and I felt
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like I needed to know the album cover
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looks like an ID of a man that doesn't
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know where he's from maybe I have your
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Aruba blood Etc so it was like me
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putting my whole entire if you don't
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know anything else about me as a person
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this is where it is it goes from going
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up yonder to African music to Jazz to
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hip-hop
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to everything I was feeling at that time
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it's also Malcolm X that ends with
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Sandra Bland that was like my it was
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almost my Swan Song in that way of how I
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felt about passionately I made the whole
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album of the tear in my eye because
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there was so much going on between covet
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losing people
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then on top of that you know just it was
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uncomfortable I didn't feel comfortable
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walking outside my house and at the end
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of the day I felt like I was being um
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you couldn't touch me because I was
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inside my Fortress and that was there
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but you know a lot of people were dying
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of covert et cetera during that year and
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then at the same time you couldn't touch
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me because you know I am who I am but
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emotionally what was happening was
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getting to me and the only way to fix
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your physical and your emotional is the
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spiritual so at this point I'm actually
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the spirit that embodies
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the body of the person named Shalom who
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was writing the rest of the life so
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Salam can do whatever he wants to do
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well I wonder I love the space that
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you're in Salam especially that you
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recognize that you're a spirit who's in
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the driver's seat of this body
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um there are a lot of artists especially
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when they're first starting out
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understanding their craft and when
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they're writing music it can be very
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much on the surface or if it's just like
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braggadocious and I know for a lot of
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folks just in general it can be
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difficult
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um taking the plunge within yourself
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what are some like
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um exercises maybe you can share for
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artists so that they can start
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um being more comfortable with
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vulnerability that you utilize in the
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studio
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I mean it's a thing where there's times
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when NASA called me a psychologist that
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knows how to make music too yeah
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um ultimately is having conversations I
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mean I just ask people questions because
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for me you know I had a job my job was
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the company wants to figure out how is
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this going to work and then the artist
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is trying to figure out how they're
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going to express themselves and for me
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having a space where it was safe it's
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like well the label is going to think
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this night no no we're not talking to
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them it's just me and you talking right
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this is an A to B conversation you're
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providing your lyrical melodical aspects
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of it and I'm supporting whatever those
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things are but first I have to ask you
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21 Questions that's 50 would say to
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figure out who you are I almost saw it
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like speed dating I had to figure out
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what about this person was oh something
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that everybody could relate to and at
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the same time figure out what about them
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is absolutely unique that I wouldn't
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figure out unless I had this
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conversation and then make an audio form
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of it so I just be sitting there asking
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questions so what's your favorite song
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oh what's your favorite Stevie Wonder
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song and in my mind I'm putting in the
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basket though you like that song okay
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you like this song okay this is that and
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then I'm figuring out
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because I'm a student of music and
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creativity how to make them more
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comfortable with being themselves like
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the biggest thing that can happen for
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any artist is for them to get paid for
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being who they are right like cardi B
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you cannot stop her from being who she
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is at any given moment she's going to
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give you 10 ad-libs that you could chop
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up into 10 songs because she's who she
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is and that to me is the gift that
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really most of the artists that I've
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worked with I've helped them find
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whether it was the fujis whether it was
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Miguel or those different people where
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they didn't feel like I had to be
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something or act to be something in
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order to make my record I actually was
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able to just say what I thought you know
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the first sessions with Jasmine Sullivan
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Whose Line cygous and bears that we did
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then they said oh there has to be no
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money that's the first session that was
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the first one
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I mean we worked together when she was
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on job but our first session for her
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like you know early album yeah it was um
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we did Line Cycles in business live a
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lie and then label wanted her to cover a
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song There's a song I did on Nas and
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some streets of cyber album War that
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Keon Bryson written there's a wall going
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on and Peter Edge really wanted her to
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cover the song So to appease him she did
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Cover the song and did a whole Aretha
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Franklin flip on it and we have that but
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it never came out because what she wrote
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on her own without any songwriters they
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realized lions tigers and bears wait a
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minute she's a better writer than anyone
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else so most of the artists that I
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really work with even if people think
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they can't right they become a writer
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that day because I'm like say what you
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want to say right so who are you nah you
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could say I can say that yeah say
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exactly like that yeah and then I
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allowed them to be themselves and then
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you hear something in the music that you
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wouldn't hear otherwise and that's
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really like a it's almost like an
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unboxing process and then once you know
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who you are
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then keep running with it yeah that's
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really what I do with artists but most
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of all when you can just say what you
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really think you know and then filter it
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later because that's what an artist
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that's almost like um Intimacy in the
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true way as far as just being able to
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tell the truth and not have to put on
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who you are if you have a bunch of
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friends and you can't say what you
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really think around them then you're
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kind of not being a friend to yourself
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which artist do you feel like has done
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that for you
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in terms of questions that have helped
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you to realize more of Who You Are
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hmm that's a good one you know what
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happens
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um
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a lot of times I would always say I was
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a mirror when I was working with
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somebody and they'd be like well you did
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this I'm like no I just showed you what
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you said yeah you hear what you just
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said that's your chorus did you hear
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what you just did that's your goal right
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there and in my process recently you
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know talking to different artists uh
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Terry Walker pick up Terry Walker in the
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UK I talked to her almost every day word
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that's my ace and I talk to a whole lot
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and she actually said stuff to me that I
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said to her 15 years ago and I'm like
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okay cool recently also even when I was
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doing you know my recent thing with
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Museum I hit J Cole and I was like yo
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this is what I'm doing to stand in the
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third and then he hit me like okay cool
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but what's your brand name like where's
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your one name like dude you're doing the
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supreme or next you know being able to
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get into it yet but this is what you're
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doing is something so special what's the
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name and it took me back to something I
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said to him so it was a point when I
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think his second album is about to drop
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so I work with J Cole yeah and he's
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always you know done different records
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but then a lot of times he'd use those
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verses on other records outside of
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whatever we work with but songs never
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really came out except for all I wanted
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you and come through and share with
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Miguel right but in general you know we
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still had a um
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great creative conversation and that's
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really what it's about and when I was
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doing that coal
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um
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he played me a beat one time I was like
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that's crazy if you put you and Kendrick
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on it and
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put a crazy title on it that'd be crazy
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and he looked at me and said what does
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the title make a difference and I was
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like oh I got two girls that want to
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meet you one name is Mary and one name
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is Peaches which one you want me first
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where's peaches at exactly so so he said
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that's good I want me and I was like all
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right cool so that's what this title
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makes a difference so this is uh 10
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years later ten years later oh my gosh
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we were just talking about titles right
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right so 10 years later now when I'm
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doing what I'm doing I'm showing them I
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got this oh I got this line he looked at
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it he's like yo so what's the name of
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your thing so basically all this and say
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J Cole gave me back my own medicine
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which was necessary you know what I'm
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saying and that's really how it works
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out the same thing happens when I speak
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to NAS he tells me back stuff that we
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said so we're helping each other and
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that's all of each other and that's what
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community is you know what I'm saying
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that's where you can have a reflection
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so sometimes I look at somebody and I'll
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say hey I think you should this this and
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this and then 10 minutes later I have to
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say also I think I should just because I
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have to turn around that mirror but you
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a lot of times you don't get a chance to
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do that when you're just hustling all
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the time you need time to reflect and
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the pandemic's been great for me like
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that I was was able to do my self you
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know DNA reflection family tree asked
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the questions and nobody wanted to ask
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my grandfather's name is Sugar
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everybody's like oh yeah sugar I'm like
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yeah sugar yeah his granddad's name was
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no he's sitting on the property I'm
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like oh he's sugar cane boy that took
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the sugar cane up to the top of the hill
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to the Sugar Factory oh oh and his son's
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never thought of that they just thought
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they pop some smooth
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took them into their 70s of me sitting
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here going but what was his job he cut
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the sugar cane and took it up the hill
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on the donkey cart
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sugar
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but my point is like just being able to
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look at my family tree with a human
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perspective yeah and being able to look
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at myself and then really figure out
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what we're doing Salon Remy is here man
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we're gonna open up these phone lines
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too we're going to talk about midnight
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at Museum
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the spirit of Salam is here yep okay
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888-742-3345 okay four five the spirit
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of Salon Remy
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it's in here we're celebrating if you're
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the tri-state area
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he's doing a concert series midnight at
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Museum news films so it's different
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levels to that okay speak to that so
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museum is my overall brand that I'm
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doing I have a flagship space in Miami
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and Wynwood on 2032 Northwest 2nd area
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let's go I have a 3 000 square foot
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building in Wynwood like murals wrapped
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the building uh sell your cruise Slick
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Rick Marvin Gaye super cat D nice
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D'Angelo it's a sight to see in itself
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and then Museum in itself as a concept
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in the space is my creative Studio it's
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basically the brand that Cole inspired
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me to name that was colon super cat
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super cat actually said don't put me in
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the museum and I was like what like
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because you know Jamaicans they have
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things they want to put them in a
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gallery
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my picture in the gallery he said Museum
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and I thought I said wait a minute he
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said no well I know you were and I was
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like Museum so museum for the me is that
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but Museum basically over as a concept
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you know if you go to a gallery a normal
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Art Gallery the gallery is actually
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getting 40 50 sometimes of people's work
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and then the photographer or artist I
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have to be able to put something up what
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I realized during the pandemic is those
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a lot of people who were not able to
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benefit from their name and likeness
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that had pictures selling in galleries
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that didn't make sense so on my personal
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journey to start doing art and I started
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just doing spray paint all I was kicking
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it with one of my homegirls Sheena who
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does art and I was like yo I think I
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should do something she's like yeah go
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ahead and do it so I started doing spray
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paint and watching YouTube and epoxy and
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all this stuff then I realized I could
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mix pictures into it I could mix uh Nas
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into the Fuji's or Rakim or Justice or
18:49
many people big up justice or everybody
18:51
that I was a fan of into the spray paint
18:54
epoxy art and then when I was like okay
18:56
what am I gonna do with it then I said
18:58
wait a minute I have to find a way to
19:00
pay the people in the pictures yes so I
19:02
went to the Bob Marley estate who are
19:04
working on different projects with and
19:06
I'm tight with you know Stephen Marley
19:07
and most of the Molly uh Offspring and
19:10
then also to Marvin Gaye estate who I
19:12
was working on playing their Marvin Gaye
19:14
remixes and things over the last set of
19:15
years and I said just for your name and
19:17
likeness
19:26
so what I did was I made the art and I
19:29
said cool Noah for your name and
19:31
likeness what would you be happy with
19:32
yeah as far as for that so basically we
19:36
came up to 40 and how it works is that
19:38
anybody that's in my museum ecosystem
19:42
because it's not even just art if
19:45
sway takes a picture of Heather and that
19:47
goes into a piece of art that goes into
19:49
my ecosystem then Heather gets the same
19:51
thing Bob Marley and Marvin Gaye get and
19:53
you get approval rights over it so this
19:56
didn't happen unless rest in peace Jane
19:58
gay approved it right and known the gay
20:00
approved it that's so fair too it is and
20:03
it's just pretty much it's almost like
20:04
how I would sample and have five
20:05
different songs within it different
20:07
people's IP this person's photographed
20:09
this person's illustration this person's
20:11
likeness was most important to me and
20:13
now when we put together one piece as I
20:15
have right now a piece on that has a
20:18
photograph that Ricky Powell took of
20:19
rock him and then some spray paint and
20:21
things that I've done around it well
20:23
ultimately the reality is that if Rakim
20:26
has to like it and approve it and say
20:28
this is good and then Ricky Powell
20:30
because I'm using his photograph has to
20:31
be a part of it and it's an ecosystem
20:33
where I'm putting things together and
20:35
out of every one of one art piece which
20:37
most of them also have a whole art box
20:39
thing I've been doing where I actually
20:40
have speakers built into every art piece
20:42
which is something you have to see
20:43
because people seen pictures of it but
20:45
until you stand in front of it and
20:47
realize this picture is actually giving
20:48
you all this energy sonically because I
20:50
tuned it like Studio speakers
20:53
then we also have an addition one of a
20:56
hundred pieces that come off of it so
20:58
what sway is wearing this white hoodie
21:00
with this picture on it this one will
21:01
only be a hundred of those he said he
21:03
got the first one do you think that's
21:04
true he was in the first 20. okay
21:07
definitely in the first one I think the
21:08
first one well he said the first 20 that
21:10
could be the numbers
21:12
but I'm wearing the first one of this
21:15
one of course the piece and actually you
21:17
know we have them available so now
21:19
Museum because it's in Miami but I'm
21:21
coming up here makes no sense for me to
21:23
be in New York because everybody's still
21:24
please I invite all of you all to come
21:27
down to yes 98 Orchard Street I'm near
21:29
May 1st to May 7th doing a pop-up
21:31
because people that know me all my life
21:33
Chuck cell I was there last night what
21:35
you doing I don't understand where's
21:36
your truck
21:37
what are you doing also it's open now
21:40
you said something started yesterday
21:42
started yesterday yeah I got all the
21:44
pieces up there got it all put up and
21:46
I'm in town this week mainly saying I
21:48
want everybody to pull up because it's
21:49
something to see it's something to
21:51
experience and also from back to Cole's
21:53
point this museum is like almost like
21:55
the official version of supreme
21:57
supported by us because you're getting
21:58
the gallery Space by what you're doing
22:00
and I'm also bringing up new artists
22:02
Justin waddlington Brittany and Baum you
22:05
know many other artists El Comba who's
22:07
actually Momo Fresh's father he has a
22:09
couple pieces in the space Oh wow my
22:11
ecosystem is not just about what I make
22:13
it's about how many other people can
22:15
benefit just like my studio helped me
22:17
get certain artists on yes I helped
22:19
produce the Fuji's first records but
22:20
Wyclef produced Destiny Child's first
22:22
hit and Destiny's Child and it's how I'm
22:25
paying it forward so I'm looking at this
22:27
like I might only do this art for a
22:29
little while but this ecosystem that I'm
22:31
creating continues to push it forward
22:33
and it's like I planted many trees
22:34
during the pandemic I planted 63 trees I
22:37
might not eat the fruit or feel the
22:39
shade from the trees but somebody will
22:40
amen and that's basically the energy
22:42
that I'm moving on right now so museum
22:43
is that of all in the midnight at Museum
22:46
concert series ended up with me having
22:48
Rock him in Miami for an unveiling of
22:51
his art pieces and then we also did a
22:54
concert with Rakim and Grand Puba kind
22:55
of bringing that energy back around the
22:57
same thing happens when I did a
22:59
conversation with Rakim Rakim now
23:01
benefits from that conversation
23:02
perpetuity
23:04
it's ready for display there was a
23:05
conversation between two people like a
23:06
song Oh the concerts if that concert
23:08
goes and streams online Rakim gets paid
23:11
again football gets played again for
23:13
whatever happens so it's really amazing
23:15
just letting it through because I don't
23:17
have to be a middleman because I'm a
23:18
Creator and given the creativity back um
23:21
to everyone else and then using the
23:22
blockchain to make sure everybody gets
23:23
paid in perpetuity because we you know
23:26
we we want to be analog people but we
23:28
also want our money digitally and quick
23:29
not snail mails in seven to ten days and
23:32
foolishness your preview of the future
23:33
yeah well we have Styles P here talking
23:36
about web three spaces two of him and
23:39
Baron Davis and how it can benefit us
23:40
and that's how people could find this
23:42
art too definitely definitely museum
23:48
www.museum.io is the space right now and
23:51
it's just continue to develop I'm on the
23:53
iPhone one portion of showing everyone
23:54
to it but it just keeps going deeper and
23:56
deeper the main thing I like you to come
23:58
to the portal pop-up like I said 98
24:00
Orchard Street this week in New York but
24:02
then when you're in Miami just pull up
24:03
and if I'm not open at that moment
24:06
scan the QR code in the world still take
24:08
you somewhere there you go Man Salon
24:10
Remy the spirit
24:12
man this is amazing man so let me ask
24:15
you this back to the music a lot of
24:17
people been selling uh publishing is
24:19
that something you would consider
24:21
I decided not to do it I mean so also at
24:24
that 50 basically I made a plan for 45
24:25
that um I was at Sony for five years
24:28
from 40 to 45 2017 2012 2017. and I
24:33
looked at it and I was thinking to
24:35
myself after I understood even more of
24:37
the inner workings of the music business
24:38
how valuable
24:41
um owning your copyrights were and
24:44
working for the great Doug Morris for
24:45
five years he said something to me one
24:47
day he said salaam look I sold the same
24:50
song on 45
24:52
LP 8-track
24:55
CD
24:56
streaming or YouTube no I'm gonna make
24:58
Vivo so it's even better and streaming
25:00
but it's the same song that we've owned
25:02
the whole time if it's the top 10 songs
25:04
of sway's Life sway is going to find
25:06
different ways of listening do you ever
25:08
notice when you play your parents
25:09
favorite music you don't have to play
25:10
out of speaker they can hear it on
25:11
YouTube and hear a little bit of it and
25:13
they're just happy like oh and that was
25:15
the song it might be in another language
25:16
they're emotionally connected to it and
25:18
what's happened is when people are
25:20
emotionally connected to music those
25:22
songs are like their intellectual
25:24
property that continue to get played
25:26
over and over and when I got to my 50th
25:29
birthday I actually have a picture of
25:30
where I was I was in Barbados
25:33
um on the beach all right and I sat
25:35
there and I looked up and I was like
25:37
basically you know what if I got this
25:39
far and I didn't sell it and I made my
25:43
life still in a great place and I was
25:45
just sitting here going and I actually
25:46
can afford to buy the spot on the beach
25:48
yeah I'm good so I decided to spin the
25:51
block one more time to show everybody
25:52
else how I was able to do that without
25:54
selling it and by helping people make
25:56
more money for name a likeness hopefully
25:58
that will slow them down from selling
26:00
this Evergreen catalog in the catalog
26:03
game I'm going to break it down for a
26:04
lot of people I have a company called
26:05
analog metaverse where I'm actually
26:06
helping other states know my analog
26:09
metaverse company also represents not
26:11
only myself but the late Crown late
26:14
great Crown Prince of Reggae Dennis
26:15
Brown uh the soul siren of the South
26:18
Miss Betty right it's the state wow I'm
26:22
also represent Bobby Digital Dixon who
26:25
did most of the reggae Sizzler you know
26:27
them ball for Shabba like just all the
26:29
songs that continue to pop off
26:31
um and sell your cruises to stay with me
26:34
helping them doing a lot of stuff but
26:36
really the goal is to show people how
26:39
much value they have in this stuff so
26:41
that they don't sell it as quickly and
26:44
really when it comes down to it the
26:45
reason why people are buying it now it's
26:47
almost like buying a mortgage on a house
26:49
okay if I give you this money 200
26:52
million dollars for this mortgage on
26:54
this house the reality is that I might
26:56
not get that back but I just wrote off
26:58
200 million dollars but over that next
27:00
30 Years the value might be 500 million
27:04
yeah and now I just paid into something
27:06
that's valuable down the road well if I
27:08
have songs two of the biggest songs that
27:09
I'm able to retire on now are here comes
27:12
the high step enthusia line which both
27:14
came out 95 96. if these songs are still
27:18
playing 25 years later
27:20
is that 25 yeah 25 years later that
27:23
heavily then what are they going to be
27:24
in another 20 years they're still stuck
27:26
in somebody's head all the way down the
27:28
road continue to make money in
27:30
different ways if I maintain that then
27:33
now I'll have money in the long run from
27:34
it but if people take the money now and
27:37
you don't do anything with it then you
27:39
know I'm saying so the whole goal is if
27:41
you can keep your Evergreen catalog
27:42
especially your songs will make a
27:44
difference don't get caught with the
27:45
trigger just taking the money now but
27:47
some people you know they're getting the
27:48
money and they're doing the right thing
27:49
with it but as we know some people get
27:51
the money with it and then somebody gets
27:53
it in their hand that didn't work for it
27:54
and they throw it to the win so it's
27:56
kind of like you know the opposite of it
27:58
but no I'm not really my catalog's not
28:00
really for sale
28:03
[Applause]
28:04
[Music]
28:05
once again tell people how they can find
28:08
out more about it
28:09
um Museum
28:12
www.museum dot IO and then also online
28:16
at MUSC dot z e u m or just follow me
28:21
anywhere that's the long Remy I'm all
28:23
over the place and I said my BIOS is
28:25
what I'm doing now this is the brand
28:27
that I'm rocking with concerts
28:28
conversations unveilings and um just a
28:32
portal back down to just having
28:33
something that's being done properly for
28:35
the right reasons with the right people
28:37
I love it brother I appreciate you man
28:39
always making a note to come visit us
28:41
yep for sure always yeah man you always
28:44
make a note to come visit us are we
28:45
missing anything before you go
28:48
um I think that's mainly it you know the
28:50
Midnight Museum concert series
28:53
um the next one is Big Daddy Kane on
28:55
June 10th Amy at the band show so what
28:59
up Kane Mega Big Daddy Kane Rock cam you
29:01
know there'll be other artists there'll
29:03
be other genres it's just gonna continue
29:04
to pull up and I'm just stepping into it
29:07
with the right energy the right purpose
29:09
the right heart with it and you know to
29:10
be a VIP in all spaces to be a part of
29:13
the um as you have the citizens yeah I
29:15
have the patrons of the museum who are
29:17
coming in to actually participate in
29:19
this ecosystem and also I'm looking for
29:21
more you know up and coming creatives to
29:24
now get a chance to connect with their
29:26
icons rather than and then a bootlegging
29:28
yeah creativity so you know doing that
29:31
coming up you know we have new future
29:32
stuff with just ice with Big Daddy Kane
29:36
with um
29:37
so many artists like you know let's just
29:39
continue to go Faith Evans
29:41
um it's just non-stop and I'm excited to
29:43
just keep showing people what it is and
29:45
giving them all this information because
29:46
this information is right it's what you
29:48
do with it when you move towards the
29:50
West Coast let me know oh we going there
29:53
I'm on a swaying Tech piece man we got
29:56
to do a swaying Tech art piece If It
29:59
Moves the spirit
30:01
and the thing is you know as you see it
30:04
and now you understand what's going on
30:06
with it no we definitely need that yeah
30:08
capture that image because the thing is
30:09
the way I look at images it has to move
30:12
you even if you don't know who the
30:13
person is yeah so if you look at
30:15
something and you just like it and you
30:16
don't even know who that is but you just
30:18
like the image then it means something
30:19
so it's just capturing that that little
30:22
thing like to me same thing with my
30:24
songs if you had to know I made the song
30:25
to like it then I didn't do my job there
30:27
you go man I just feel it I had to
30:29
capture you and then you go wait a
30:30
minute what happened on this now you
30:32
read the label and realize we're saying
30:33
it but the ingredients had to be you
30:35
know giving you the right frequency off
30:37
the top and that's what your music does
30:39
before you go I know we got another
30:40
guest Jazzy's coming up
30:42
um do you feel are you concerned about
30:44
uh this AI technology that we're
30:46
starting to see
30:48
um just really duplicate artists voices
30:50
obviously not to the T but it's been
30:53
enough where a few you know a few songs
30:56
have made impact and what are your
30:58
thoughts on that
30:59
um I think you know at the end of the
31:01
day there was a point when the music
31:03
industry could have bought Napster and
31:06
could have controlled mp3s and streaming
31:08
early out but they didn't do it because
31:10
they let the technology scare them that
31:12
the technology might be smarter than
31:14
whatever there was a time when the
31:16
drummer was mad at the drum machine you
31:18
know hey what's this guy this is going
31:20
to be a machine and you know this is not
31:21
a real drummer I have a lot of feel Etc
31:24
the technology of course of what we're
31:26
seeing is way deeper than what we've
31:28
been shown right so somebody could
31:30
actually do this a long time ago
31:32
um the reality is that no I don't think
31:34
you should you should just figure out
31:36
how you're still gonna keep your analog
31:37
self within the place that's metaverse I
31:39
want to get paid digitally quickly but I
31:41
don't necessarily want to live only a
31:43
digital life at the end of the day I
31:45
want to turn around and still keep it
31:47
going so there's going to be something
31:48
that the AI won't be able to do but also
31:50
I can use the AI to do stuff I don't
31:52
want to do
31:53
you know what I'm saying talk to people
31:55
I don't like how about that
31:56
[Laughter]
32:00
ask a question you know people I don't
32:03
like.com and then I actually pulled
32:05
myself and went somewhere else like hey
32:08
okay I love that man that's AI is a
32:11
great no tool for that there's a lot of
32:12
people that don't deserve this energy in
32:14
this real conversation absolutely
32:16
brother Salon Remy the spirit y'all he's
32:19
just a vessel at least speaking to the
32:22
spirit this is amazing work you're doing
32:24
um anytime man you're more than welcome
32:26
to come up here and uh keep us posted on
32:28
everything all right for sure all right
32:31
I owe you for the hoodies
32:34
I got you

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