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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
01:22 - Stephanie Mills Crush on Sway
04:12 - Early Career and The Wiz
09:24 - Legends Supporting Stephanie Mills
11:18 - Keeping Her Voice in Shape
12:49 - Importance of Pleasing Yourself
18:29 - Listener Love for Stephanie Mills
22:13 - Relationship with Michael Jackson
23:18 - Last Caller: Sam from Alabama
26:14 - Flowers from Sway
27:42 - New Song "Jam" by Stephanie Mills
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let's clap it
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up we live give a round of applause clap
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it up what we doing
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here what are we doing
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here only we are all
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privileged we are all blessed talk to
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him SW we are all highly favored and
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cover again say it say it say it this is
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exceptional clap it up man clap it
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up we got a icon we got a juggernaut to
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be in her presence is a
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blessing are you kidding me ladies and
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gentlemen the Grammy Award Tony Award
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NAACP image Awards American Music Awards
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just the name a
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few the first to play Dorothy on
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Broadway ladies and gentlemen my gosh
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stop playing with me we ain't playing
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that was in 1975 we in 2024 she's at the
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top of her gang say so Hades town on
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Broadway you heard her voice yes how
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succulent it
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is you had use the word you heard her
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voice I a't used succulent in a long
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time I usually don't use that on there
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either that was that that dancing that
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got you we was dancing right when the
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song was playing and she backed it up on
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me girl you look good on your back
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that we danced earlier years years years
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years ago you yes huh I need to hear
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that I was a I kind of had a crush on
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him but he wasn't giving me no love what
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he wasn't giving you Riv I didn't know
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that your Stephanie Mills I
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know I didn't pick that up you didn't
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pick that up you didn't I didn't pick up
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what you put down I was very subtle how
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did you tell me so in case it happens
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again he stuttering and [ __ ] INE it
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happens you don't want to miss the wait
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a second let's let everybody know now s
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ain't coming to work
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tomorrow he going to faint as soon as
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you leave
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tonight wait hold up we got the iconic
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Stephanie Mills is in here I did not
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know that that was the younger me right
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that was the younger you had dreads I
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had theck and I was so attracted to that
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really yes this is the '90s this is no
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this the 2000 okay MTV days I was at MTV
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but I was at high 97 yeah but I was
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working at high 97 too and they had a
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party yep and I had I had a bunch of
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jobs back there I think yes you did I
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could have afforded you back then I
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don't know
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it ain't tricking if you got it it's
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different now St we'll be going to the
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corner store to get shut up really yes
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how did you what did you do like the
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well I first of all I danced with you
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okay I remember that yeah you know do
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you remember what song was playing I
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don't know I can't remember what's that
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touchy Philly no you weren't you were
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very
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respectful see
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hether hey I'm not like that now Steph
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you're not like that now I'm a little
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different now Steph I let the locks
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go he's a
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wolf you look you look amazing by the
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way first of all let me say this I did
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not know that but I'm extremely I
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couldn't be more flattered in my life
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for to hear Stephanie Mill say that to
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me absolutely I wouldn't have never Hey
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listen had I known I'm almost glad I
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didn't know cuz I might have messed it
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up back then really yeah I was yeah was
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you were cuz you had all the stuff going
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on and there were a lot of women on you
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okay
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Steph I believe it I mean at a party
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there were a lot you know you didn't
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have to there were a lot of women coming
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up to you so damn
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[ __ ] this is wasn't wasn't the way I
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expected
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this yeah he he want me and Tracy to
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leave lowkey right word this about turn
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to a date that's an interview I know
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right bam jeez I wish I had L I don't
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know how I would have handled that
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Stephanie Mills but I would have walked
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through it
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though I don't know what have came out
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the other side but I would have
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definitely walked through it but I'm
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honored to have you on this show big
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round of applause you your life and your
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career yes your life and your career has
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been such an inspiration and it's
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interesting cuz you you what I was
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telling people you're from Brooklyn I'm
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from Brooklyn born in Grace in Brooklyn
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and you grew up in the same neighborhood
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as like Big Daddy Kane yes JayZ JayZ all
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of these guys right did you see them on
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the come up did you you weren't around
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them at all no and I didn't know
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anything really about hip-hop and I
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didn't hang out you know I've I grew up
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in theater and my mother traveled with
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me till I was like 23 24 wow so I worked
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and came home so you didn't party at all
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not really I've never been a partyer
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uhhuh and I and even when I would go to
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the party I always knew when to leave
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that's a good thing to know we've been
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hearing a lot of people say that no when
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to leave you got to know when to leave
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the party Denzel said that recently yes
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you got to know when to leave how can
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you tell when it's time to leave when
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people start taking off their clothes oh
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oh [ __ ]
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okay it's real simple sway I ain't been
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at the party long
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enough you know when it start it starts
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to get a little shady you know later and
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people start drinking and you have you
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just have to know you know was that hard
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for you though because you were so young
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you signed a record deal at 15 right at
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15 you signed your first GI she signed a
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record deal at 15 is
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noral you you did you did The Whiz at 17
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I did The Whiz at 17 yes but I was on
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Broadway at 11 Maggie Flynn with the
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late uh Jack Cassidy and Shirley Jones
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and we ran for nine months at the anti
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theater the an- theater doesn't exist
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anymore but you know I started off in
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theater my sister was in the Negro uh uh
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uh oh what is it called The Negro
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Ensemble company the Negro Ensemble
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company and I did one act uh plays there
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with her you know cuz my sister was an
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actress way before I was it goes deeper
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than that at what age did you first do
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to Apollo oh my God I did the Apollo at
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10 10 or N I did The Amateur hour
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wow and I and I won six weeks in a row
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six weeks Stephanie Mills that's what
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led to the record deal right you were
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discovered on Apollo and and then that
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led to a record deal and is that how you
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got to The Whiz Ken Harper was a DJ on
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am record AM radio and he heard my
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record I guess they played it and they
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asked me to come down but I didn't want
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to go and audition for The Whiz cuz I
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had auditioned for a lot of things that
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I didn't get so I didn't think I was
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going to get it but my mom made me go
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wow your mom made you salute to your mom
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say her name what's her name Christine
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Christine did that come on did you have
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um cuz we talk about this now in
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entertainment like folks really suffer
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from you know mental health challenges
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and being in entertainment you get told
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a lot no you get a lot of doors shut in
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your face yes uh I wouldn't imagine
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there was therapy for that back then
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like how did you cope with it I started
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therapy when I was 35 okay cuz at the
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height of my career I was the most
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unhappy you know everybody coming at you
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and telling you this and I was always
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being told uh you're too short you're
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too dark you're not pretty enough that
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was constantly told to me I couldn't
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sing I couldn't do this I couldn't do
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that but I had a strong mother and I had
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the kind of attitude as that I'll show
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you you think I can't I'll show you I've
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always had that kind of attitude because
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of my mother my mother was very very
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strong wow and even going back to the
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Wiz you had a a lot of hate mail yes
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that came your way because of that time
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oh yes yes I mean even Clive bonds from
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The New York Times said my breast was
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too big and that Judy gin come out of
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her grave and slap me what so he put
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that in the in the in in article yes in
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the New York they hated us oh my God
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they hated when you say us they hated
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the black the black cast how dare you do
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something that's you know way better
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than what we
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did I'm sorry yeah we I I did get I
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received a lot of hate mail a lot of
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hate mail yeah wow we don't hear about
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those stories no you don't you don't wow
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and so was it did you were you ever in
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danger did you ever get a sense that
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they threaten the play that you know no
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but one time I came off stage and there
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was a man in my
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bathroom you know like I came off stage
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doing intermission again like Katie's
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town you know with me doing darthy I was
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on stage the entire time so when I came
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off stage for intermission there was a
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man in my in my uh bathroom did did
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y'all mop him up and SP my brothers took
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care of they took care that guy brother
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are four cuz my brothers were always at
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the at the theater at that time so yeah
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I want to ask you um and I want to stay
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on that about some theater Legends like
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Sherman himley Ben verine yeah Ben
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verine I live in the same building now
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with Ben verine we live we're we're
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neighbors Ben's been on this show yes I
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love Ben I I love Ben Bine really yes
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did these people watch over you at that
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time cuz he was so young I was so young
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Ben was in Pippen uhhuh and so I would
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go visit him in between shows you know
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my sister liked uh Ben at the time and I
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think they had like a little thing but
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um Ben uh uh uh Lena horn Lena horn wow
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wow wow wow Ella Fitzgerald come on
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Pearl biley and I got gifts from all of
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them wow Robert gilion Robert gilon uh
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Jackie Kennedy and and Caroline a lot of
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people came through there Jackie Kennedy
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from the Kennedy family yes Jackie
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Kennedy Onasis Onasis came to see you
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but some idiot who wrote an article said
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that you weren't worthy of the role I
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wasn't worth yeah they said that I
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wasn't worthy of the role yeah BR way
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y'all get so critiqued yeah oh my god do
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we get critique I mean even do in Hades
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town uh it's a beast to do but it's a
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wonderful wonderful show and I was so
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determined to learn all those words and
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to do what I wanted to do and I'm glad
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that I've always wanted to come back to
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Broadway people always say why did it
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take you so long but my recording career
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took off so I started making more albums
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touring and everything so I didn't pay
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that much attention to my Broadway but
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I'm glad to be back in another Tony
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awardwinning show because the whiz won
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seven yeah Hades has won
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eight and they've been on Broadway for 5
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years so I feel like I'm in great
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company you're in great company
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Stephanie Mills is here you just got
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such a glow about you it's I'm staring
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at you like I'm looking at a paint and
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even like your speaking voice sounds
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like a scene in Broadway yeah really how
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do you how do you keep manage the
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tonality of your voice and just keep it
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in good shape I uh sleep a lot I get a
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lot of rest sleep is my best friend I
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don't really drink I just started like
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having liquor when I was in my 60s and
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I'm 67 what what made you I wouldn't
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have guessed that by the way you
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wouldn't no I would even put an age on
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you sway if you blew your chance back in
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the 90s I mean my God getting
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uncomfortable gosh I'm over him watch
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sway are you married no I'm not I'm
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single you live with someone I don't
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live with anyone live with myself oh
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okay good that's good to know a penous
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in Harlem he has a
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penthouse you need that to be known well
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I'm listen if we going to go there [ __ ]
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you I got to sit here with you and work
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I might as well help
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right come on step I'm trying to help
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he's they're trying to help you he's a
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humble guy what I will say he's a very
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he's he's a cancer so very humble and
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you know emotionally intelligent yeah so
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he's not going to tell you that
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emotionally
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intelligent that was some new so so you
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have to take me to lunch or to dinner
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while I'm here how long you here till
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October oh that that'll happen okay all
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right we'll figure it out we've been
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communicating anyway
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right that's
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good when you saying the
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song moving right
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along when you sing the song I feel good
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all
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over let's just pause for that moment
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right there I know a lot of times when
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people act they got a pull from
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somewhere you know they might even
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borrow characteristic traits from
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somebody they knew when people sing they
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got to focus on a moment or a person or
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something sometimes it helps them bring
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out the lyrics the the passion in the
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song yeah when you sing that song that's
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such a tremendous song to me what were
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you thinking was it just mechanical for
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you or did you have any inspiration
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behind how you plan to sing
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it I like to tell a story that's why me
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doing Hades town is perfect for me
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because I'm the narrator and telling the
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story through the play and I really love
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that so I like telling a story and I
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feel like if I believe the song and it's
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believable to me it's going to be
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believable to everybody else I remember
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um Bill Cosby saying one time if you
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please yourself you can please everybody
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else if you please your you could please
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everybody but if you try to please
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everybody else you ain't pleasing nobody
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but if you please yourself you're bound
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to please it's guarantee you please
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someone else here's Stephanie Mills Sway
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in the
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Morning Standing Ovation damn it
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absolutely Standing
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Ovation absolutely Standing
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Ovation is up in here absolutely you
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have to we have to celebrate you yeah
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this is Haley's
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Comet once in a lifetime will you see
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Haley's comment that's true once in a
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lifetime I get it I understand the value
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see to me people with voices like yours
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isn't just making hit songs and hit
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records tones are healing yes right when
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you hit the right frequencies those
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tones are healing yes when I listen to
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this song and I go back at that time
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when it first came out and how this song
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I've utilized to make me feel good over
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and over again so even in this room as
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we're playing it we all feel good all
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over all over so I recognize with this
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is you were having sent you're a vessel
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right you're conduit and you're feeding
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us with all this good energy and
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vibration we want to celebrate you
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Stephanie Mills Round of Applause for
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Stephanie Mills it has to be said there
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not a lot of us the music business
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doesn't allow all the time for artists
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to be celebrated celebrated yeah no not
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at all that's why so many of us uh on
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drugs they can't handle the rejection
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even though they're they're huge and
15:47
making a lot of money their life is very
15:49
sad because it's still rejection you're
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still not being respected for what
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you've done they want to put you back to
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square a when you've had a full career
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MH you know they want to disrespect you
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so we don't always get the respect that
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we need yeah or that we want we would
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like to have all that you deserve that
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we deserve deserve Stephanie Mills she's
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on Broadway right now if you come into
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New York if you're in the tri state area
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Hades town is playing on Broadway right
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now so good good it's a Heather you saw
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it yeah I saw Hades town but I you saw
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who Andre the shields no I didn't see
16:26
Andre lilus White she was amazing and I
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was thinking to myself when sway told us
16:31
your role in this when I was watching
16:34
Miss White I thought to myself wow she's
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narrating this but her energy is so
16:41
powerful I Can't Take My Eyes Off of her
16:44
right like even though there's so much
16:45
going it's Broadway there's so much
16:47
going on and when sway said that you're
16:50
stepping into the role of the narrator
16:52
Miss heres I thought to myself this is
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genius yeah because to sway's point
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people can't take their eyes off of you
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they like I remember the whiz I remember
17:03
every single thing that you've done and
17:05
people may comment first on your sides
17:08
but you're so powerful and there's this
17:10
energy that comes from you it's not
17:12
about the narration it's the power the
17:15
power the power and the energy that
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comes walk with that you walk with and
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this is perfect for you like I'm excited
17:22
I will go see this now again to to see
17:24
you absolutely it's a great it's a great
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play anyway but I mean it's Stephanie
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Mills you you I but we have someone we
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have Jordan Fisher we have Maya we have
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YOLO uh we have uh uh help me out
17:40
Phillip uh and we have some and the cast
17:43
is just wonderful and I'm G have a great
17:45
that's beautiful I didn't know I was
17:47
happy to find out that um you have
17:49
stepped into this role and it it makes
17:51
so much sense now because it's such a
17:53
vital part of the play you know it's the
17:56
Greek mythology and it's a love story
17:58
yeah so we tell it again and again and
18:00
again and I didn't know that much about
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the so I read about it before they
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offered cuz this part was just offered
18:06
to me I didn't I didn't seek it out or
18:09
anything they just offered it to me and
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I said i' never seen the play and they
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flew me to New York and I saw it and I
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said yeah I'll I'll do it what a way to
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get a job yeah wow Stephanie Mills this
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is awesome we got a lot of people on the
18:23
phone lines uh I want to take a few I
18:25
know you guys only got a few minutes but
18:27
damn it they've been waiting a long time
18:29
so all right so Nicole is on the line
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from Chicago n what's up Nico what's up
18:34
Nicole hey family oh miss Mills I just
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want to give you your flowers I love you
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so much my mother took me to see you
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when you came to Chicago to perform at
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the Regal theater with The Whispers that
18:48
was my first concert in life and I have
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loved you ever since thank you so much
18:55
thank you thank you wow I'm in my kit in
18:59
tears just remembering that beautiful
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moment with my mother I'm a I'm an only
19:04
child and my mother is deceased no tears
19:07
though happy tears just that that was my
19:10
first beautiful experience of going to a
19:12
concert with my mother that helped me to
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like really have a love for music so I'm
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not going to hold you I just want to say
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I love you and you deserve dozens of
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bouquet of roses that is your flowers
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Miss Mills you are beautiful thank you
19:29
thank you I love you back Nicole I'm yes
19:34
Nicole celebrate that Nicole let that
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out blow that out your chest you got to
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do
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that yes Nicole you a citizen way the
19:45
morning girl Nico to your mom as well
19:47
may she rest in peace let's go to Dallas
19:50
we got M on the line from Dallas M hey
19:53
hey hey hey family hey family oh my gosh
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Miss Mills you are a treasure sway you
19:59
were right she's a vessel this took me
20:02
back I saw you when I was 7 years old
20:06
our school took a field trip when you
20:08
did The Whiz wow and I was seven and I
20:12
was so enamored by you that I made my
20:15
mother buy that album I play that album
20:18
every day after school wow I mean and my
20:24
favorite be a lion and I would just sing
20:26
sing sing sing that song fav
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wait which
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one stand strong and tall you're the
20:35
bravest of them all if on
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Courage you must call then just keep on
20:43
trying and trying and trying you're a
20:48
liar in your own way be a
20:53
lion oh my
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God yes that my
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my go that just happened just sitting
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down sitting down that was nothing
21:04
subscription gets you m you're a citizen
21:06
thank thank you so much you I love you
21:10
back wow everybody is this is what it's
21:12
about medicine is in Philly what you
21:14
want to say real quick name is medicine
21:16
name hey hello hello I was just I just
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want to say real quick uh you know I've
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been listening to you for a long time
21:23
I'm in I'm in Philadelphia now but I was
21:25
in New Hampshire yeah when I was a kid
21:27
and I was uh they were um playing your
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stuff on the radio at the at the club
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and everything and I was just like man
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you know this is this is what it is and
21:37
you know because I was up you know up
21:39
there instead of down here and so it was
21:41
like it was a little bit different but
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they was loving you up there they were
21:45
loving you and the and the the DJ was
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playing you like it was like it was
21:49
going out of style I I'm I'm just
21:50
telling you everybody loves you and I'm
21:53
just so happy you getting your your your
21:55
flowers right now because I've been
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waiting to hear back from you I saw you
21:59
on something real just a little while
22:00
ago and I was like man where has she
22:03
been that's what I was thinking cuz you
22:05
know they just don't celebrate you never
22:06
say anything about you I'm so happy and
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I'm really happy that Sway and Heather
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and all of y'all are doing it today yeah
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thank you very much hey where you at now
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I'm sorry he's in Philly I'm in I'm in
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Philly right now yeah W you drive W you
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drive up and watch ha's Town show your
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appreciation where where's it where's it
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at now Broadway Broadway
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oh okay on 48th right here across the
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street from SiriusXM right get the good
22:34
seats too honey I didn't know y'all was
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there see I'm not I'm not from here
22:37
originally so I didn't know you were
22:38
there but you in Philadelphia now so you
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can get in the car and drive up to
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that's right that's right absolutely all
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right all right do you're a super
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citizen Brother Sam I'm going let you be
22:49
the last caller go ahead what you like
22:50
to say sam he's in Birmingham Alabama
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Alabama Sam Sam you there yeah I'm here
22:59
this what I want to say about that that
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movie The Whiz didn't get his PO without
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her singing e on down the road a that's
23:08
why it didn't do well at the it didn't
23:10
do well at the movie because of that she
23:13
was supposed to play Da in the movie so
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I I love you to death thank you thank
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you well Quincy Jones ended up did
23:21
Quincy Quincy Jones ended up doing the
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the music but I'm a fan of Diana Ross so
23:26
I wasn't I wasn't I wasn't I always
23:29
thought I always thought it was politics
23:31
who actually got that ro oh absolutely
23:33
it was absolutely was I knew it was Sam
23:37
let her tell tell it Sam he B it up
23:40
there and he G finish Sam let her tell
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it you know Diana got whatever she
23:45
wanted back then you know and and Barry
23:47
they really uh campaigned for her to do
23:49
it so and certain and I was just a young
23:53
on Broadway you know I hadn't really
23:55
didn't have music out or anything and
23:57
and her and M would come and see the
23:59
show all the time and I stayed with
24:02
Michael on Sutton Place when he was
24:04
doing the whz movie what do you mean you
24:06
stayed with him I I stayed with him we
24:10
were friends oh friends oh okay all
24:12
right all right I'm sorry I was just kid
24:14
is that going to deter you swe I don't
24:15
know man I mean she talking about Mike
24:19
n did y'all date you and Mike back then
24:23
back then yeah but we were kids you know
24:25
we were kids and you know we were
24:27
friends and M but I would go to the set
24:30
with him at the at the whz and I'd see
24:33
Diana and Ted W who was my my line on
24:36
stage and uh what's the other guy uh
24:39
nipy
24:41
nip Russ nip Russell say hustle Russell
24:46
Russ yeah so I saw a lot of it being
24:49
filmed wow back then what
24:52
do I know you worked around a lot of
24:55
brilliant people yes right and being
24:57
around Michael and included yes what do
24:59
these brilliant people have in
25:02
common basically they're very
25:05
shy Teddy you know I worked with Teddy
25:09
um Felicia Rashad was in The Whiz she
25:13
was underst study for glender Michael
25:16
was very shy very uh but they they're
25:21
creative creative people think on a
25:23
whole another you know I was had a
25:25
chance to be around Prince you know they
25:27
just think on a whole wavelength it's a
25:30
different wavelength you know it's like
25:33
I'm a huge fan of Rihanna and I could
25:35
definitely just see and relate to her
25:37
she thinks on a whole another but she's
25:39
so real everybody can relate to her you
25:42
know but uh tapped into a different fre
25:45
yeah they're tapped into a different you
25:46
see that in Rihanna I see it in Rihanna
25:49
wow she's just like she's just who she
25:52
is and you either deal with it or you
25:54
don't and I like people like that oh yes
25:58
yes I like people like that you like
26:00
deal with me or you don't yes I like
26:02
Round of Applause for that love
26:04
that Stephanie Mills is here man
26:08
unfortunately we have to uh conclude
26:11
conclude and start planning for our
26:12
lunch date so exactly okay you you
26:15
better ask somebody okay all right I
26:18
know exactly where I'mma take you too
26:23
okay can't wait for that recap we got to
26:25
tell everybody though to pull up pull up
26:27
pull up
26:30
Off Broadway come see her I mean on on
26:33
Broadway that's my West Coast like right
26:35
there on Broadway now what when you're
26:37
telling people they're citizen they're
26:38
citizen of this show oh can I be a CTI
26:42
movement yes this movement you're part
26:43
of the movement okay Stephanie
26:46
Mills you are a special a very special
26:50
citizen of sway in the
26:52
morning man so special um that sway text
26:57
me
26:59
and said I want to give Stephanie
27:02
something now this is before we heard
27:04
about dancing and everything like this
27:06
and I was like okay what do you want to
27:09
give her I want to give her something
27:10
special so I didn't know you was going
27:12
to say all of this prior to but I kid
27:14
you not this is a gift from sway he
27:17
wanted to make sure you had flowers yes
27:21
he wanted to literally FL I know
27:24
Stephanie I did my
27:26
research and he literally I kept them in
27:28
water so until you got here this morning
27:30
I can dump it out for you but literally
27:32
these are yours from s come on the star
27:35
the star should always get flowers he
27:38
wanted to make sure you have flowers
27:39
Stephanie Mill citizens and she got a
27:42
brand new song Jam it's called jam and
27:45
it's it's produced by uh rayu and it has
27:48
MC light on it and Juggy fresh and
27:50
that's available people it's available
27:52
they can stream it and everything it's
27:53
available now in fact rayu is up here I
27:56
hope I see him when I
28:01
that R the that's my God yes keep
28:03
singing I will okay I will see you soon
28:07
okay you got to come see Hades town I
28:09
promise y'all got to come yes absolutely
28:11
absolutely promise in the week all right
28:14
okay W
28:16
sway man you really happy I want to talk
28:19
him you going talk to me what you say
28:22
I'm thirsty on purpose that's what you
28:24
got to be come on with intent okay step
28:28
Steph Mills the legend thank you love
28:30
you okay I appreciate you thank you
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