S03 E16: Interview & Music with Detroit Rising Star, J. Brown

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ABOUT J. BROWN: figuratively set to the rhythmic pace of its infamous, steady-grinding automobile factories, while its streets are legendary and well-known the world over for the hyper-creative and musically fertile atmosphere that gave birth to Motown, Detroit continues to be a music capital of feel-good, contemporary music that ultimately proves timeless. The list of iconic names that have catapulted and captivated from the Motor City seems infinite…more than a few simply known by one name. Typifying the old saying “something in the water,” singer/songwriter J. BROWN – though generationally removed from the Gordy company’s then revolutionary melding of contemporary R&B and pop – has paid his dues and persevered in bringing those time proven musical values into the new music era with his recently released and, long-in-the-making solo debut EP. With music firmly in his blood and armed with tunnel-vision focus on following his passion of making music from the heart, J. BROWN delivers a dose of straight-up R&B – some with subtle pop and 90s throwback influences – to a music generation largely devoid of truly soulful and impassioned music.

Consequently, the recent breakthrough of J’s sunny-vibed, easy-bumpin’ “Sunrise Sunset” and "Moon" on Billboard’s Adult R&B chart is the culmination of years spent honing his craft and holding true to his dream of bringing back passionate music. The youngest of five children born to a preacher and musically ambitious mother, J’s life-long musical journey predictably began in the church when a mere eight-year old’s musical interests were unleashed by singing with the choir every Sunday morning. Though his personal music influences as a youngster included the likes of Usher, Jay-Z, Jimi Hendrix, Nas and Sting, it turns out the only direct Motown connection comes through his initial musical inspiration, his Mom. “She was initially signed to Motown back in the day,” J explains; “she and my aunt had a situation with Motown. Smokey Robinson actually signed them, and then my Mom got pregnant with my older brother. That pretty much finished that deal. So it all pretty much started for me with my Mom, with all of her experiences and what she did as far as pursuing her dream inspired me.” While exposed to the classical music his Mom regularly played at home, grade school found young J nurturing his acting and vocal skills in a local theater group, which afforded him the opportunity to sing the national anthem at Pistons and Lions games, as well as perform for then President Clinton multiple times. Beyond the laidback, feel-good vibes of “Sunrise Sunset, Moon and Hopelessly In Love,” music listeners are set to discover J. BROWN’s silky-smooth, old school-reminiscent vocals amidst a refreshingly clean, straight-up R&B sound with touches of pop, hip-hop and rock. “The majority of the songs definitely fall into the straight-up R&B feel,” he says of his forthcoming debut EP. “Some things have a little pop influence, but the majority of it is straight R&B with that old-school feel.

You might think of Babyface, Mint Condition, Bell Biv Devoe, New Edition, Jon B or maybe a little Jaheim when you hear it. I just hear a combination of so many different artists when I go back and listen to my music. I don’t have to use Auto-Tune on a record; I can sing on the spot without any technology just like the old cats did. Capturing that “old school feel” and bringing it back was actually my objective.” JBROWN VIBE FOREVER YOURS J. BROWN

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If you'll turn your speakers up, you got your rocking wave,

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Nicky Marie. I'll be there, Joe.

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Welcome back to Nick Murray Radio. I'm your host, Nicki Marie.

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Thank you so much for joining me for another show

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where we have individuals here who are credibly affecting change

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in their communities or around the world. My next guest

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says he is here to keep real R and B alive.

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Jay Brown is a singer songwriter, and in twenty twenty,

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Jay Brown celebrated the milestone of landing his second top

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ten Billboard R and B single with the song Moon,

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which we're going to play at the end of the show,

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so stick around. From his debut EP, Forever Yours. This

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marked his third top fifteen Billboard R and B single.

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Welcome to the show, Jay Broom.

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Thank you. I appreciate you for having me. Yes, how

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are you?

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Everything is good. Celebrated a great Mother's Day weekend. It

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was amazing.

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In any of the clubs that you know, man, so

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I hope it was a blessing, prosperous.

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Yes, yes, yes, I mean, I know you are the

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romantic guy, and I'm pretty sure you took care of business.

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I mean, you know, I guess I probably sent over

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a dozen roses to different people.

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So yeah, I.

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Could I could see.

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I could see that, you know, originally from Detroit, your

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younger years in church. You know, God bless everybody out there.

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You know, we got to remember where we came from.

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So let's let's get into a little bit of that.

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Your younger years and how you know, singing in the

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choir has really changed your career and your thought process

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of music.

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Okay, so in another years I grew up, I mean

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when my father was a pastor, so naturally, you know,

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preach your kids. We for some strange reason, we all

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have the ability to sing. But my dad, I would

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frequently walk, you know, throughout the house sing got some

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music all the time, of course at church, and so

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it pretty much started in church, and then from there

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it kind of progressing to me after pursuing it. So yeah,

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like talent shows and things of that nature at your

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age and just kind of you know, trying to figure

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out if I really.

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Wanted to do it.

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So obviously I did consider it Yeah, were.

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You the bad sneaky preacher's kid?

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What do you gotta de fine like, we gotta you know,

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what do you mean by bad sneaky?

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Like?

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So I grew up in the church, and you know,

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we did a couple of things that probably shouldn't have

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been done.

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Okay, I know what you mean.

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So traditionally, yeah, PK is known with being bad kids.

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I give you honestly, now, I know what you're alluding to.

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No, yeah, I was. I was really bad.

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I was always fighting and getting in trouble. So that's yeah,

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that's true.

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Ye see, I knew it. No, But now here we are,

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you know, fast forward, and you know, with the singing

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songwriting part of it, how important is it for you

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to have the ability to do both, to be able

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to sing and write.

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I think it's I think it's extremely imperative because you know,

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it's one thing to sing someone else's.

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Creation, but if you can figure out how to create

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your own material by incorporating, you know, whatever.

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Previous experiences you had in life or present experiences, I

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think it makes it a thousand times better because you

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personalize it, you know, Yeah, it's your actual experiences versus someone.

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Else's you know, well, I actually encourage people to do it.

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So that so that leads me to my question about

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your ability to write some of these songs. They sound

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like love songs, and I was just wondering if there's

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anyone in particular that you're you know, thinking about when

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you're writing, or is it just things that you see?

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No, you know, I actually it's no one in particular.

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I was in a relationship, but she cheated on me. Whatever,

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that's another story, but it is what it is.

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It's a blessing, you know, the way I look at it,

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But no one in particular. I kind of just create

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these stories.

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Of how I.

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How I feel certain relationships or relationships in general should

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kind of, you know, go from a frammatical standpoint.

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I think that, you know, relationships should be about.

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Love, when unfortunately, in some cases they are so things

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that I kind of want to you know, live from,

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you know, in terms of my own experience or other

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people's experiences. You know, I just talk about those things,

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you know, things that are near and dear to my heart,

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like treating women right fall in love and focusing primarily

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on that woman and that woman alone. So these are

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all things that I actually feel, and I just try

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to put it out there to the masters so people

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can kind of incorporate that to their relationships.

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Yeah, anyone ever said that you sound like somebody?

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Yeah?

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Oddly enough, Yeah, yeah, I've heard. I'm like someone was like, oh,

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I think this is like twenty teen. Someone's called into

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the radio station and in Detroit and I was up there.

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She's like, oh, I just heard I just saw your

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music video one on six in part. Oh my god,

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I love so much, but why do you sound like

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Chris Brown? I'm like, what, hey, Chris Brown, Like, we

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sound nothing alike, but whatever, I mean, I've gotten Trey songs.

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I'm like, what, like, I think I have my own

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sound sound like anyone?

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Well, I mean so, I guess it's kind of like

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a gift in a way if somebody sounds really good,

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like somebody saying that, oh, you sound like this person

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because you have a song. And I was just actually

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listening to it and I can't pull it up, but

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I was just listening to the song and I was like, wow,

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he sounds a little bit like like Ralph taking me

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back to New Edition days.

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That's a first I gotta ask rap. I know, I

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got a call him if he agrees. Once you tell

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me with this song is.

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I'm gonna pull it? I'm gonna pull it up. But

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who are some of the music artists that you feel

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have influenced you to keep going with your own music?

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Babyface because he's created such timeless music, such unforgettable music,

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even you know, ah in the present. You know, he's

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just a phenomenal artist, man. So that's like the main person.

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Of course, I've looked up to like a lot of

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the greats like Aretha Franklin and Stevie and Marvin Gaye,

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Sam Cook, Donny Hathaway. There's so many people, but Babyface

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would have to be.

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Yeah, that guy, that guy, Like I love Babyface, like

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for real. So I'm a weird way.

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No, I'm assuming you watch versus Teddy Rally and Babyface.

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Yeah, I love Teddy Rolly too, but he was on

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he was on one that day.

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I don't know what's going on with Teddy, but he

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can do that because he's like a king in his

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own right, you know, so he can get a look

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of that kind of stuff.

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So are there any artists right now that you would

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want to collab with Babyface?

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Besides Babyface, Art Lennox, like Lucky Day, Sola Girl, m

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a bunch of other people.

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No, there's one more person. It's like on the tip

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of my tongue. Can even oh Lauren Hill, Oh oh,

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my bad Kabad and Jill Scott.

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Well okay, So if everybody who's tuning in you go

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to Jay Brown music only dot com. There is a

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song called Forever Yours that one I don't know, my favorite, your.

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Sun shining the poor. I just want to love you

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till the end of time.

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I swear.

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Good thought that make be standing in a rockey exchanging

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his files for the world to see. So much love

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in head to night, so much love, like a common life,

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so much love in head to night.

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My heart's fall so baby, baby, baby Connor win me.

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So you don't think a little bit of ralphers in that.

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Just a little bit, No, not even remotely.

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So it's just me.

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Yes's just you. I don't hear. But I like Ralph Man. Yeah,

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All right, you got to take me back to this

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performance for Bill Clinton, former president. Oh yeah, and what

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that experience was.

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Like, that's pretty cool. It was for a black history program.

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I was, Oh, how old that was maybe maybe twelve.

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it was with the choir. So this this youth theory

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I was in by the name of Mosaic Youth Theater

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of Detroit, and we were probably the baddest choir in

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the history of Detroit.

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And we were all kids. It was just the way we.

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Bad badest meaning good meaning good yeahation persons.

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Yeah, but we were like, I mean phenomenal, like and

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I led the who was it was I want Jesus

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to walk with me?

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It was that. It was that and the way we

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did it shout out like director.

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He we came oto like these oohs and all.

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These crazy intricate harmonies and I started off and like

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after like the first verse, he was standing up the

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entire time and then he didn't cry. So I ain't

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gonna say that, but afterwards when we took our picture

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with him, he was like, I just want to tell

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you that you really did something to my spirit and

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I want you to keep going and keep going because

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you are something specially you really are.

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You are really showingthing fish.

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Yeah, and that was that wow, And you were like

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I did not have no.

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Right, right, I mean, for the president to say something

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like that, I was just like, that's not but but

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the spirit was really moving in that building that day.

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Man, that song really did some people. Man, right.

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I could just imagine, you know, Bill coming over with

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his saxophone helping out.

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That'd be crazy because he's actually a phenomenal saxophone player.

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I remember. So take me back to the moment where

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you were like, Okay, I need to do this music thing,

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like I really serious.

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So I had a record deal prior to me actually

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saying that I could pursue this, like legitimately pursue it

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because I was actually in a group. I was in

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a group from my very first record, Heal, and that

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was with White Left John. And of course in the group,

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you know you can kind of like you know, I'm

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not gonna say, not stand out, but you can come.

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I don't know, you canna have crutches like other people

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to kind of depend on versus you depending on yourself.

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So in a group I was, I was confident with

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solo wise, I was like, nah, man, I know I

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could sing it.

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I was like I can't.

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You know, I can't mess with this.

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You see, people get booed and stuff. You watch the

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Apollo you're like, nah, man, it's too much. But undergrad

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my homegirl Naishi rest in peace to her. She signed

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me up for the Talent Show. And at my school,

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at my university, they are notorious the booming people. It

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doesn't matter who you are. They boot Charlie Murphy. They

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boo boo and study their boot.

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So many people.

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Man, yes, resting piece of Charlie. So she signed me

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up for it.

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I performed dedicated the show to her because she passed

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away a day before the Talent Show, which was really

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in her dorm room, which is really bizarre. And so

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I dedicated to m the first portion of like.

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The Talent Show to her. And uh, that was that

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moment I knew like I could pursue this.

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Solo because everyone and everyone, they all were on their feet,

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the girls were on their knees crying. It was insane

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and people talk about it to this day, all my

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frat brothers, my sores that everybody still talk about this

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so great.

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It was.

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It was.

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It threw me off. It threw me off. I'm gonna

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tell you, it threw me completely off.

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That had to be like a confidence booster and.

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That No, it wasn't because it was just it was

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just one now.

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It was just one of those moments, like, man, I

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can't believe that people were actually feeling me this much.

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It was really like strange in a good way and

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not expected.

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was kind of like man's still in disbelief.

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A soul artist, and I said, Okay, I could do this,

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but that moment was that defining moment that I could

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actually perform in for all these people by myself.

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Yeah, that's crazy. I was ten years old when I

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did a talent show. But it was really like lip

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singing and dancing. It wasn't like that. It was Mary J. Blige,

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Real Love and myself and one of my friends was dancing,

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but we were just so you know, we were feeling it.

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So we were just kind of singing and dancing at

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the same time.

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But never to take me back to it. Give me,

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give me a little tune. That's my favorite song.

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Told me that on the next.

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That's that record. So you're so you're a singer?

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Well, I come from a long list of singers and

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songwriters and different talented people that are in this family.

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Shout out to my cousin Ashi in consequence. But you know,

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when you think of music, you think of like the

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old music, like the throwback Marvin Gay Luther.

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Oh yeah, we can't a man Luther. We can't forget

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about Luther. I can't forget about the great Luther.

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But you know, the music of of now with this

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new generation, like you know, trap music and all this

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other stuff, how how do you keep yourself original throughout

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the shift, you know, evolving and everybody trying to play

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catch up?

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You know, well, I think it all just comes down

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to you staying true to yourself. I don't want to

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conform to what has become the norm, so to speak.

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Although a lot of like you said, a lot of

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people have, you know, to kind of like, you know,

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I don't know, play catch up and stay relevant.

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You feel like you have to just be something that

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you obviously aren't.

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But for me, it's just like I grew up on

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love music, soul music, gospel, classical and that kind of stuff.

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Just it's hard to shake that, you know, Like it's

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hard to shake. It's hard to shake something that feels

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so good, and that's obviously right.

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So I just.

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Do what I know best, and which is R and B.

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You know, I can't. I'm not gonna sing on any trap.

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Records because that is science a major disaster, unfortunately.

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So so I think two years ago it was like

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this whole vote, who is the king of R and B?

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King you R and B is baby Face?

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Okay, done, squash baby face, nothing.

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More, that's right, no one else, all right, so we

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got no jobee. I'll tell you that.

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We gotta we gotta get into your your single, uh Moon,

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So I want you to take us to that and

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where I guess your music is streaming everywhere right now?

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Right yeah, yeah, So for all of you that are

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actually tuning in or will be tuning in or uh,

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my new single Vibe is out, which.

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Is the number fifteen record in the country on the

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R and B bill Work charts.

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Thanks.

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So it's love with the Bullets, so it could easily

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be at number ten or nine within a matter of

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a few days.

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This is a song we're about to get into right now,

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is Vive I mean Moon, which was my song prior

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to this one was my last single made the top

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two on the R and B Billboard charts. So all

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my music is available on all digital platforms you know, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Spotify,

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Apple Music, Google Play, anything that you have on your device,

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your mobile device. Chances are I'm on there.

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So just type in J one J not the number one,

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but just the letter J dot.

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Brown A little short that which is me to see

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all my music, my EP forever yours. My Instagram is

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Jay Brown Music. Only follow me, I'll follow you back.

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I'm a cool cat, just trying to make it happen.

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Yeah, we're getting into moon right now. Though. Well.

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I appreciate you for being here. I appreciate everybody for

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tuning in, stick around for the video and any other

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last words you want to say before you head out.

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I just want to say, man, y'all who are watching,

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be encouraged. Don't give up.

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Y'all support this queen man, Nicky Maurice. She's doing something.

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She's she's a queen who's lobby to exhiling in her lanes.

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And y'all make sure y'all support this queen. Keep the

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movement going.

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Man, Support black people, support black businesses.

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Let's go love it. Thank you.

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You want to take time, do what you gotta do,

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ease your mind.

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I believe me and you.

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I'd rather go mine.

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Then see you won't go away and kiss your lips again?

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I tell you.

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Then let me take you to the moment when fin.

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On the start, my son, want to pro.

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You'll off me.

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In the world to you?

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Cake enough for you?

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Love can't enough?

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Cake enough, can't it enough? Cankey enough?

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Not?

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Can't it enough? Cankey enough?

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I can enough?

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Your love can't enough?

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Cankey enough?

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Can't enough? Cankey enough?

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Can't enough?

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Cankey cake in enough?

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You'll love anytime with you.

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It's on my mind.

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Nothing comes before you, not even a time. Okay, all

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I have inside.

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Will never die.

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If the probody in the day, I won't you buy

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my side?

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Oh as five guess coming on the stoves s son, son, cleay,

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you're the.

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Love me in the world.

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King your love King enough cake Oh no, King enough

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king enough, knek enough your.

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Enough cake of sat.

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Cake.

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Maybe you're not you're not in love you for the

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rest of a life, for the rest of a life,

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and let me take with.

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Love nice. I love that record. Shout out to Jay

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Brown Thank you everyone for listening to Nicki Marie Radio.

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I will be back next week, same time, same place.

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You know what it is.

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You can follow me on Instagram and all social media

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platforms at Nicki Marie Underscore Radio. Until next time, Be well,

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stay blessed. They carry yourselves.

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Care bab, spin on my time, but you ride, but

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you left you stay up benn Bab, but you bab,

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do you know a ride which you know what the

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