From Seat Filler to Stellar Award Winner w/ Vashawn Mitchell

This weeks guest went from seat-filler at the Stellar Awards to six-time Stellar Award winner, songwriter and worship leader VaShawn Mitchell has truly lived the testimony behind his music. In this soul-stirring conversation with the creator of “Nobody Greater” we unpack the journey, the lessons, and the faith that keeps him grounded.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Calling all my sweeties to the forefront.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm your host, Christo and this is the Keeping Positive
Sweetish Show.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Welcome back Sweeties.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
This season, we are talking about impact, not the number
of likes or the number of followers, but that deep
down legacy level of impact that leads with pure intention,
the intention that changes lives, that shifts rooms and plant
seeds and breaks generational curses. Because it's one thing to
be seen, but it's another thing to make an impact

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and leave a lasting legacy. Today's guest is someone whose
voice has literally shifted atmospheres and lifted spirits around the world.
He is a worship leader, a songwriter, a visionary, and
the man behind some of the most powerful anthems in
gospel music. For nobody greater to turn it around for me.
But Sean Mitchell doesn't just sing. He ministers, and whether

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you've heard him in the pews or on your playlist
or during a moment when you needed to be reminded
of who you are, you felt his impact.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
His family.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Please give a warm welcome to for Sean Mitchell. What's
going on.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
For Sean, Glad to be here.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Happy to have you.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
When the team said that we were going to have
you on. I was so excited. I love your music,
so I was super excited to sit down and talk
to you. We never met since our first time, so
we get to know each other to night. Absolutely, Yes,
So tell me a little about you started the church.
You are from Chicago, born and raised Chicago, left the
South Side for Sunny La.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Tell me that journey and how you got there.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
So you know, growing up in Chicago, I was always
around gospel music. Yes, you know, Opportunity Walker to Thomas
with Thomas Wiffield and all the great skill who have
been through there. I became attract to gods some music
at an early age. It's something I wanted to do,
but I didn't know if I was good enough to
be honest, really, yeah, so why when I was younger,
So many others did it better than me, But I said,

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I didn't know my lane, so I was trying to
be everybody else.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
I didn't know who I was, So it took me
a while.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
Studying the industry and studying how to write and write
a song and how to deliver a song.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
I don't run like some of the people. I don't
do all.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
These things, so I had to find my lane, and
it took me a while to find my lane. But
once I found it, you know, I begin to not
only hear from God, but like mastering my own lane,
you know, and not compare myself to nobody else. So
it took me a while, but I finally got there.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Well, you got there. You definitely got there.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
It's funny you said that because you sound like me.
When I talked to my manager Wes, He's always pushed
me to do music.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
I can get into guy, get in the studio, and
I have this.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
I guess it would be an insecurity when it comes
to scene because I don't run like everybody does, and.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
I want to, but my voice just doesn't do it,
and I'm like, why can I do that?

Speaker 2 (02:41):
So like even taking voice lessons and trying to find
ways to do it in my own way, but now
finding my own lane. Like you said, it's funny, I've
never heard anybody else say that. I felt the same way.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
It was the best thing to do when I found
my own lane. I can only compare myself to me,
and that became the easiest path in this music industry.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Absolutely. So you became a minister at the age of twenty.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yeah, I mean, well, I minised the music at the
age of twenty.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
That minister of music.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
At the age of twenty, What like, what was it
like taking that on at such a young age, because
that's that's still pretty young.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
Yeah, I wasn't ready. I actually I wrote it a
little book and said I wasn't ready. That's what it's called.
I was about nineteen and going on twenty, and the
Ministry Music had been fired, and now me and the
pastor was on the escalator going somewhere. He said, can
you talk it to me the department? I said, yeah,
I didn't know what I was doing. I've never done
it before. All I know is I could teach a
song and I could write a song. So basically that
was the beginning of me learning. So I quickly became

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the sun and student to many mentors because at twenty
I did not know what I was doing and I
did not want to touch what was God's incorrectly. So
you know, I was able to get up onto some
great mentors at the time, and I believe if it
wasn't for them, probably would have would not have made it. Yeah,
because it was a big task to take. You know,
the church was about five thousand strong, three locations, four choirs,

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three praise teams.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
It was yeah, some thinking it.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Is like a church like I grew up in with
like maybe like one hundred members and like minus of
music is like a pretty easy job. But no, this
was that's a big undertaking. Yeah at twenty years old. Wow,
So what were some of the roadblocks and things that
you had to learn along the way when you got
into that role.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
Well, one of them, and I'm probably get in trouble
for playing, is that the pastor was a musician. Oh
and he's you know, fingering. Yeah, So basically we often
clashed because I wanted to do the new school and
he had to learn the old school. That was the
one of the biggest roadblocks that I believe I overcame
once I got to know him and he got to

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know me as well. That we kind of walked together
for ten years, you know together but also taking on
as the minister music of a church who had a
legacy of music already, so I felt like I was
stepped in some big shoes absolutely that were hard to feel.
So it was time, like I said before, to kind
of create my own lane. So ten years later, when
I left. Those who came behind me had to step

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in my shoes, and.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
Those shoes at that time.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
At that time, absolutely I can imagine that being a
big task.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
You talked about mentors that helped you make it.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Who are some of the people that you looked up
to and that helped guide you through that season?

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Definitely. Byron Cage.

Speaker 4 (05:24):
At the time, Byron Cage was the minister music of
New Birth Atlanta. Yeah, he's also our ministry music of
Pull Gospel as well. At the same time, Yeah, I
was under Full Gospel, So I learned from him, and
then Kathy Taylor Brown or Kathy Taylor out of Houston,
Texas at the time, she was a great person to
learn up under as well, and they took them under

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their wing. And actually it's the reason why I actually
end up leaving Chicago years later, because he recommendmentted me
for a position somewhere else, And that was the beginning
of my career and the beginning of Nobody Greater.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Once I took that step to say.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yes, yeah, well let's talk about Nobody Greater.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
When you did that song, did you have any idea
of how big it was gonna be? We played it
before we started rolling and everybody here knows the song.
Did you imagine that it would be that big and
take you to all the places it's taken you?

Speaker 3 (06:11):
I had no clue.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
Basically I was I was recording what what what? I
what I heard God's say, you know, and and the
things that I want to be too deep. But at
the time, somebody else was supposed to record the song.
Just I know it was supposed to be for me
and to recorded. Yeah, somebody was supposed to record the song,
and I asked for it, and the writers the writer
was like, well, I write.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
Something else for you. I was like, okay, cool, so okay.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
So, but two weeks before the recording, they got a
call that the other other label wanted all the published
and all this of that, and if you're from my Lena,
you know uncle Maurice col Pepper. Uncle Maurice said give
me to Sean. He wanted to record it anyway, and
basically Darius foke. That's when he gave us the version
of Nobody Greater that recorded two weeks before the recording
recorded that night.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
I didn't know it would do with it.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
It did, but it felt different that night as we
released the sound, you know, and and I tell people
all around the world that I'm glad God chose me
to carry a sound that's bigger than me because of
the sound that people sing all over the world, different languages,
different cultures.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
It changed atmospheres. I could never do that.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
It just chose me to carry it to Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
And I love that, you know that, because sometimes I feel,
especially in this Christian culture, we forget that it's not
about us, you know. And I love that you haven't
lost sight of that, because I can imagine just even
the exposure of traveling the world and hear it in
different languages, you can sometimes forget.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
It's easy to get caught up in like, oh my God,
I did this.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
I did this, But understand no, I'm just a vessel
and this is God.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
That's amazing.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
I would love to like I can't imagine like the
energy and the spirit in that room that night, it was.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
It was something I will always remember.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
Yeah, And I recorded many times before that, right, but
this one night, this one song changed my career, changed
my life.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
It changed my reach.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yes, yeah, in.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
Seven minutes basically like it shifted the atmosphere. But it
also answered the prayer that I've been praying for a
long time. A lot of people don't know that. Right
before I recorded Nobody Greater a year before that, I
was a seat filler at Stell Awards and the seat
fiellers where you sending somebody see till they coming. So
but that year Richard small Wood sing on the second

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half of the show and he never came back out,
so I sat in his seat the whole night.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
So I was giving a glimpse of what will happened
for me a year and a half later, I want
to do it. I had my own seat, my own
little face on that and.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
Did you take a picture I did. Yeah, take that moment.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
And just just to go from a seat filler to
a six time winner in two years, God was proving himself.
You know absolutely what I said and what I showed
you will come to pass, but when you're ready for it.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yes, when I wanted I wasn't ready.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
Isn't it.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
I would have took God to the wrong places. I
know it.

Speaker 4 (08:53):
When I wanted it, I wasn't ready. But I'm glad
he did it for me when I was ready.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Take me to that journey and what that was like
from going from c Fieller to six time winner after that,
what what are these like?

Speaker 1 (09:05):
What did it feel like?

Speaker 2 (09:06):
Did you ever have like imposter syndrome or like, wait,
is this really happening right now?

Speaker 1 (09:10):
Like I was just filling in a seat two years ago?

Speaker 2 (09:14):
What was that that time like in that transformation like
for you?

Speaker 4 (09:16):
You know what? It was surreal even sitting in the show,
because know where I come from and understanding that I
served my way up, I didn't see my way up.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
So basically.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
I served my pastor, I served my fellowship, I served
my my people, and and and God honored that. It
was still surreal to see that, not that we do
this forwards, right, but to see that the people I
looked up to, the people I followed, and Linda Adams
and Dona mon Clerk and leaving cc wings and and
then uh, they're all saying for Sean Mitchell.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
It was it was really crazy.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
And then for my Artist of the Year award was
given by CCS, so you know, almost lost it, almost
lost it, but it was surreal.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
Drag me up to the stage like.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
Oh my god, that's that's a video clip I look
at all the time, just me doing like this. But
but yeah, It was sur real, but it was definitely
great that those and at that time I wouldn't even
consider my peers. People say that my peers, but at
that time, I consided those who paved the way. Yes,
those who I've walked behind, who I've walked after?

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, who said You're next?

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Who you studied? Say you study the great Like those
are the greats? You know? You name Elanda and Donnie
and CC.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
I was Alabasta Box is like one of my favorite
songs of hers and my mom used to play it
all the time growing up.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
And it wasn't until probably.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
Maybe two or three years ago I played it again
or it came up on the playlist and I was
in my bathroom.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
I just started bawling because now that I've lived, I
understand you weren't there. Now he found me.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
I don't turn the show, and because.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
My God it you know, and and it's funny. It's like,
just live long enough and you'll understand the goodness of God.
And so to have those greats be the ones calling
your name and giving you that award, I know that
was a beautiful moment. Yeah, speaking of award shows, we
just had the BT Awards. I was there last week
and there's a big uproar in the Christian community. Don't

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take that deep breath about glow really down pretendency. So
I love me some glow, get a glow. I love her.
But she won her and Kirk one that the Gospel
Song of the Year award, and even she was like
what I think everybody was, look confused, But so much
of the Christian gospel music community has spoken out about it.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
What are your thoughts on that?

Speaker 2 (11:43):
And how I do like the way that we've bridged
the gap between secular and gospel music because what it
does is I think we all pretty much are rooted
from the church, and when people go secular route or
go to the gospel route and then they come together,
it reminds the secular of you know what I'm saying,
the foundation, you know.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
So it's a way to bridge that gap. But how
do you feel about.

Speaker 4 (12:03):
I think we should continue to break bridge the gap.
I don't blame Gloriala, not one bit. Gloria Hallelujah, uh,
not one bit. I believe that, you know, because of
the criteria she was was due to win, because of
you know, how she ended up on the ballot, and
things of that sort. I will say something else that

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others won't say, is that I think, as a protector
of gospel genre in the name of doctor Bobby Jones,
we have to kind of create some type of of
of family atmosphere that positions what is gospel and then
what is urban gospel, orbavorary gospel, so we can have

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those keep the bridging the gap, but also don't delete
gospel that keep. It's probably one of the first times
I want to say, I think Yolanda received it, Kirk Donnie.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
It's not like it happened all the time.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
I don't want to be the beginning of a deleting
the gospel artists from you know.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
I feel that, Yeah, that's so true. And I love
all types of music, you know. As I continue to
grow in my faith, I do try to pay attention
to what I'm listening to listening to because it can
stir up things in me that I may be trying to.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
Get rid of, you know. So I try to be
mindful of the music that I take in.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
But I support all creatives, you know, and I champion them.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
So I get it.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
But it's I got so many phone calls the next
day from like people, my peers in the gospel.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
I know you what I said.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Right that bath you took was so funny.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
He was like, We've just been talking about this like
all week, and it's really it's to me, it's really
eye open it for us that if we're going to
have gatekeepers of gospel, we don't have those who want
to preserve gospel music, then now it's the right time
to have a conversation to say, you know, what is gospel,
what is contemporary gospel? What is hip hop gospel? Realistically?
To be honest, this is a bet these hip hop show. Yes,

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let's be very clear at the end of the day,
can we have a conversation about how do we maintain
the sanctity of this music and these artists, but also
embraced where we're going with dots as well.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Yeah, no, that's so true.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
You have sold out, showed shows, traveled the world. I
want to know one moment that just sticks it. Maybe
a few moments if you want to share, that stick
out to you that were like, oh my goodness, as
you travel the world and you look around these these
venues and you're like, this is a packed house. What
are some of those moments that you can share that

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you hold close to you.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
I'll never forget. I was in New.

Speaker 4 (14:39):
Mexico, beautiful city, beautiful. Yeah, but we was at the
stadium stadium, Yeah, the stadium. I was like, oh, yeah,
I'm just going to the stadium, just my first time
ever in New Mexico.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
First time.

Speaker 4 (14:50):
I get to sound check and I see all these seats,
you know, and you know, I'm thinking some people may
show up, they may not shure we roll up that night.
It was me and CC wingstead up and literally two
hundred thousand people.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
My goodness, what singing with me?

Speaker 4 (15:04):
Nobody a gread it before I sing in another language, right,
understood the spirit behind the songs. Yeah, and that's probably
the most memorable one. I've been to many other places,
but that time to just see people who don't actually
all speak English, yes, but understand the spirit.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
Yeah, it was. It was absolutely amazing. I never forget it.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
I love that. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
The spirit is universal, like everybody, Yeah, no matter what language.
And that's why he says, until everyone knows has heard
of my name and knows about me, that's when I'll
come back, Because, like it is, it's something that everybody
can understand no matter where you come from, what language
you speak.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
What is something about you that people would be surprised
if you told them?

Speaker 4 (15:47):
I don't know what social media now, you know what,
people don't really realize that I'm really introvert.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
Ish me too. I'm the biggest introvert extrovert.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
You'll ever meet.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
It.

Speaker 4 (15:58):
So after everything is over and I'm done whatever, I
enjoy going on my solo moments or in my car
but myself, or just cutting the TV off, just having
me moments and me time.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Because it takes a lot. And people say Because'm a score, yo,
I don't.

Speaker 4 (16:11):
Really get signs like that, but it takes a lot
to just just just get me back so that I
can do this, so that I can do this in
a pure way.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
So it takes a lot.

Speaker 4 (16:20):
So I think watching me on social media, watching me
out there, you wouldn't believe that as I said.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
It, But yeah, I think as creators, that is our outlet.
That's our way to like get it, get all the
energy out. But like inside our homes and our safe spaces,
it's complete.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
Like I'm quiet, Like I need that time, Like.

Speaker 4 (16:39):
I love hiking and stuff because it's like my me time. Yes, atmosphere,
you know the environment, all that me and the environment,
it's refueling it is.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
Yeah, no, for sure, that's so good. So you have
a new song out Make Way. You are bridging the gap.
You're blending hip hop, R and B everything into this album.
Tell me what made you want to try to kind
of like tap into those different genres.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
So I've been in LA for like the last five
or six years now, and some of my friends, A
lot of people don't know we're with Sunday Service. So
a lot of them were from Chicago, from Houston. We're
in friends for We got together and I specifically said,
you know, I know who I am, but I know
where got me just going. So I want to create
a sound that still stays true to who I am,

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but can go where it's going, you know, or do
my purpose. So we got together in the room and
basically I took me out of the room and was
able to listen to the different writers in the room
with me and different producers, and we came up with
this concept. And anyone who really knows me know that
most of my songs come from my grandmother. So my
grandmother passed a few years ago. But she used to

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always say.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
You know, he's a way maker. And so we got
in the.

Speaker 4 (17:55):
Room and was like, here, gonna make away, make away,
you make it. And that's how it all started. And
then the first came from there and all that. And
I believe that even though it has these different tones
of R and B, tones of hip hop, tones of this,
the message still remains Jesus.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
And that's what it was all about for me.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
I love that. I love that.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
How do you feel that that it's like even like
going in between different genres, how do you feel like
that's impacting the Christian community and the gospel genre.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
I think it's it's great.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
It's taking and I said, you know him to say,
it's like taking Jesus to places that we can't really
always take him in our box of church.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
And let me just say that.

Speaker 4 (18:32):
And I looked at some other shows, right, even even
even the show, even a BG show, most artists have
a choired behind them or something that they're doing. Everyone
is embracing this gospel sound beyond the four walls.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Of the church.

Speaker 4 (18:43):
And we speak excited because it's taking gospel to mainstream
and it's reminding people that Everyone needs inspiration.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
That's what gospels. Everyone needs inspiration. And I'm excited looking
for it, looking for it.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Everyone is looking for hope. They're looking for that source
of inspiration. That's so true, That is so true. You
have a lad with the great of Donni mclerk and
Jaquelin Carr actually did a movie with her.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
She's so freaking talented. Love her.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
How do you know when you hear a song, do
you hear the voice like that's Jacquelin, I need to
call her, or this is Donnie. How do you know,
like this is the person for this song and it's right.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
So I love to hear this, right. So I started
out as a songwriter. I didn't really think I could
sing all the way back in the day. So I
can write a song, right, but I could write a
song for other people. I can hear that voice or
hear them say something, and I'm writing a song for him.
So you know, I did a song with Israel before,
I've done this song with you know, just Fantasia and
her mom and all this over the years.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
Because I heard them before. I heard them basically.

Speaker 4 (19:39):
And just luckily, and I thank God for this favors
that when I called them. Everyone always say yes, yeah,
always sy yes. But being a songwriter who hears, I
think it's been my superpower, you know, beyond singing anything else.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
And I always say I'm a songwriter first.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
I love that. I love that.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
With all your success, how has that shifted the way
that you create music?

Speaker 1 (20:02):
From going from that first album to now? How has
it shifted?

Speaker 4 (20:06):
So I've been doing music now, even the first off,
I'll go back to my church. I've been doing music
for over about thirty years now right as I've written
some of the some of the greatest church songs and songs.
So now where I'm now is that I want to
embrace sounds and present new writers. So the music I'm
working on now, like I didn't write one hundred percent,
I wrote, you know, fifty percent, yeah, yeah and down

(20:30):
giving a chance. But it's also stretching me, you know,
so we're helping each other.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
I'm actually recording EP right now and I probably wrote
fifty percent of it wanted to writers. This is the
first time getting a placement. Wow, And I'm excited because I've
always been like that bridge for other artists in some
type of way, and I can't stop it. Like, yeah,
always kinda been that bridge to kind of help other
artists in summery.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
You have a foundation on the Gospel Heritage Foundation. Is
that a big part of the reason why fifty of
the songs were written by other people?

Speaker 1 (21:00):
I love that what made you decide to create that foundation?

Speaker 3 (21:04):
So I actually took on the foundation from someone else.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
Doctor Tree Harrison started over twenty five years ago, and
it's a place that I used to go shit and
learn about the industry.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
Right.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
A lot of people, you know, wanted to go think
at musicals, but I was in the classes about publishing,
you know, a class about songwriting, how to present your
song to the right artist. So I believe that where
we're going now and the new industry as it continues
to change, there has to still be an educational platform,
not only industry but ministry leaders as well. So that's
that's my heart for those who are in the industry,

(21:39):
in the ministry. I wanted to take over Gospel Heritage.
I can help bridge that gap in that generation. And
I went back to school maybe maybe seven years ago
to get my degree in music business and Entertainment business
so that I'm not just having a conversation you know
I have the knowledge to back it up and that
I don't know, I can call my professors because and

(22:00):
it's just changing so fast. And we used to just
sing a song in church and become famous. Then we
go out there right right now. It is that you
got to understand streams. You have to understand how streams
go to dollars. You have to understand it's a lot
more to it that you know. If we don't share
it with those artists coming up, they're gonna stay lost
in the stream of streams.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
So we have to share it.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
Yeah, I love that information is key and I don't
believe in gate heaving.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
And one of the themes of this season is impact.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
That's the main theme is just how can we after
every episode, what impacts are we leaving on our audience?
When you think about your career, in the state that
you are now, what is the impact that you're trying
to make in the world.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
You know what?

Speaker 4 (22:36):
I believe that many may not remember my name right,
but the songs that I've produced, written and song will
live forever, absolutely, and that's more important than my name
being remembered. That twenty years from now, somebody's pulling up,
nobody great here or my works are surreal or trouble
don't last all ways, and they're still being inspired and

(22:57):
encouraged because that's what this journey should be about. That
we leave, we leave a sound that have long life.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Absolutely, and you're doing that.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
You're doing that if like if somebody doesn't know you
sing you played that, like I want to know that song? Yeah,
Like who is that? Like that your music? Definitely everybody
knows it. They know and they know your day too.
So don't think that it's so good. Gosp music is
not just an art, it's a ministry. I feel like
even speaking about just a state of music now, I

(23:27):
feel like it's losing that. It's becoming more of the
art and people forgetting about the ministry. What is something
that you do to make sure that, like every time
you're writing or singing it for sometimes you got different
people in the room, they maybe trying to take it
one way, and you're like, no, we got to make
sure we still keeping the gospel in it. How do
you do that and balance that in the studio?

Speaker 3 (23:48):
You know, actually it starts before the studio.

Speaker 4 (23:49):
You know, it's very important that we still or I
still have a meditation time, my friend time that that
I can not allow everything in all the time, because
sometimes we will try to create something off of something
else without it being in a spiritual place right, And
I don't ever want to do that. So it starts

(24:10):
in our prayer time and medication time and just being
focused on and sure of who I am. You know,
you know I did this new song right, but it's
still true to who I am. You're donna see me
rapping because I know I can't rap, you know what
I'm saying, you know, but you know I leave it
for others. But I still want to stay true to
who I am and not neglect the call what I
was giving.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah, you spoke about your grandmother being the source of
your inspiration behind your songs.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
You lost your grandmother.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
How did you channel that grief in creating chapter X Wow?

Speaker 4 (24:41):
Well therapy first? Yeah, I needed it, I know. And
as much as we love God, right when those people
we love are taken from us, we still question him.
And as as spiritual as I am and as much
church as I've had, I still question God why now?
And And my grandmother was like my mother was a

(25:03):
teenageer when she had me so I used to go
to work with my grandmother. I was on a hit
while she was working and think that story. So that's
that's that's us. And and God didn't let me get
there in time before she transitioned, and I was upset
with him for a while, so I needed I went
to therapy. And but one thing that the therapist brought

(25:24):
back to my remembrance is that the doctor said, but Sean,
her heart just stopped. She didn't feel no pain, she
didn't run, no things. And the thing that her and
I have a discussion, she said, I don't be on no machines.
I won't be nobody, you know. So everything that she
wanted is just her heart just stopped, no pain. And

(25:44):
I believe that channeling all of that channeling from grief
to to to overcoming it, knowing that the feelings will
always be there, but you just get stronger daily. So
the chapter asked us about getting stronger daily. That's why
the whole song, you will see the goodness in the
Land of the Living, right. That don't mean it's gonna
be today, right, but you're going to see it as

(26:05):
long as you live.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
So that's that's so good. I love that. I love
that you went to therapy.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
I love that as a Christian you were allowed to
feel your emotions, you know, because sometimes you're not.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
We say you're not supposed to question God, you know, but.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
You you allowed yourself to feel what you were feeling
in that moment. And then you went to therapy. As
a black man in this society where you guys had
the weight of the world on your shoulders, were there
moments where you were carrying it or this might have
say a shan, you need to go talk to somebody,
or did you just do that yourself?

Speaker 4 (26:35):
So both I was carrying it. It was COVID going on.
It was so many things at the same time. We
wasn't traveling as much. I was in my head. You know,
we're doing virtual services from the house, so it's like
all that was me in my house and and and
so yeah, it was all me for a while. I
actually was watching uh somebody ministry online. They're talking about

(26:58):
how they had an in house brief therapist right and
started talking about what they do and think that sort.
So I ended up you know, that was actually my
inspiration to oh, this is what you need because I
found myself in this bubble, and I felt like there
was no way out right, so I had to So
it was both there and I had to help myself
get out. And I believe that even to this day,
therapy was probably the best because you know, you know,

(27:20):
unlock some other stuff too.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
But it started off with greeed that it went to life.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
So but I do believe that it is majorly important
for African American males who have come up, especially in
urban cities like Chicago like me. You know, my father
was not around, you know, my mom was a teenager.
And then when I did meet my father, he was
I was thirty five. He was about to pass from cancer,
and I'm like, you want to meet me down now,
you know what I'm saying. People know me on TV,

(27:45):
you know. So I went through all that and didn't
know that I still was processing that.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
Yes, that was underneath the grief, right, It was a lot.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
It was.

Speaker 4 (27:53):
So I sit here a whole person because of therapy,
and I believe that it only gets even better as
long as we continue to pour into ourselves to fill
ourselves up again, especially those who are in ministry who
always pouring out.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
Right.

Speaker 4 (28:07):
God gives you something to pour out That's why he said,
if you lift to him up, he'll do the drawing.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
But that means that we got to be filled up
as well.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Absolutely, what do you do to fill your cup?

Speaker 3 (28:16):
Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (28:17):
Definitely spend time with God, right, vacation, vacation. You know
I said this way is that you got to come
apart before you come apart. Right with all that we do,
I think I was talking about earlier. You know we
have church now, but we have no longer one services,
three services, five locations. You know you singing five times?

(28:37):
You know, just come apart before you come apart. And
also always find something for you daily that could be
like just become the gym. Some people go golfing, some
people play basketball, whatever that is. It is a lifetime

(28:59):
gift to yourself because we can work every day for
everybody else. Answer everybody calls, that's right, I text, get
everybody Instagram.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
But what are you doing for you every day? Keeps
you on the right path?

Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yeah, that's so good. What is some things I know?

Speaker 3 (29:11):
For me?

Speaker 2 (29:12):
Like you said, when you go to therapy, it starts
with the thing that you're feeling initially, but then it
the onion layers. Just keep peeling back and you're like, WHOA,
I didn't know that was there. What's something that maybe
you can share with us that you learned about yourself
during that time that you may have suppressed so far
back that you're like, wait, I didn't even realize this
was still impagsing me today as an adult.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (29:32):
I shared it before and I don't mind sharing it again.
Is that I was living in fake forgiveness, right. My God,
my biological father, who you know, had me, he lived
two blocks away, never spoke to me all my life.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
I rode past the house several years. I never knew
it right.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
And when I met him, because I'm such a Nonsalan person,
you know, he had dodgs and all that, I said,
he was trying to explain to me why he didn't
I said, actually stopped him. I said, I don't want
to know that. I said, because I'm gad. I didn't
have a sixteen year old father anyway. So I was
being so strong. Yeah, I was actually covering my weakness.
So from that day for he lived for about seven

(30:11):
more years, and I thought I forgave him, But the
more I got to know him, the more that forgiveness
was fake. So I had to actually deal with that
and deal with how do you heal from what you
thought you covered?

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah, yes, I know, like crazy enough, I know exactly
what you mean.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
That's the real thing.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
I never looked at it like that, but that's real
faking forgiveness because we were like I'm fine, I'm good,
like I'm good, you know, and you really not really not,
Oh my goodness, in the moments that you maybe weren't
sure about, like what's next. You know, as artists, we're entrepreneurs,
and it can be up and down. There's ebbs and flows.

(30:50):
What is a scripture or a quote or affirmation that
just kind of brought you back to peace and like
it's gonna be okay.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
It's funny because it's the first scripture I ever learned.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
I was in the Easter play when I was a kid,
and my scripture was I can do all things through
Christ that strength.

Speaker 3 (31:07):
That was my first scripture.

Speaker 4 (31:08):
But I find myself going back to that scripture at
all times because it does get hard. Entrepreneur artists, I
want to stay tuned in my ministry, but I own masters,
I own this or that. I got to do these deals,
and it gets a little muggy sometimes, but we have
to always stay true to where our strength comes from.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
And that's what it's really about.

Speaker 4 (31:25):
I remember the scripture, but it's like, I have to
know where my strength comes from. So when I'm sitting
in a meeting, if it's a business meeting, I'm stronger
than y'all because I know, you know, if I'm writing songs,
I'm bringing my strength with me.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yeah, So that's all things I love that.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
I love that you play a huge role behind the
scenes for a lot of artists, mentoring Tashakavs, Leonard, who's
actually been on our show, Anthony Brown. What is it
like being a mentor and pouring into other artists?

Speaker 3 (31:51):
You know what, I think I inherited that.

Speaker 4 (31:55):
Leonard and Anthony Brown were friends of mine and I
saw something in them that that.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
The world just needed.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
You know.

Speaker 4 (32:01):
It's not that they're doing nothing different, never done before.
They just needed the push.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (32:06):
So in producing Tasha Cobs project, you know, we even
became even closer.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
I was executive producer Ethny Brown.

Speaker 4 (32:12):
We became maybe closer, but it's mainly because it was
great to mentor them and still be the person they
call that that mentor but it was greater to see
that I will have something to do with the next
generation of gospel too, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
You know, at a lot.

Speaker 4 (32:27):
Of us try to be in it for ourselves, but
I think if we're not so selfish, we're able to
pour into where gospel is going.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
It would take nothing away from where we are.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
And that's what anything, that's what anything.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
I think a lot of times we do we start
it's like me, me, me, me me, But helping other people
takes nothing away from what you have going on.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
That is so True's room for everybody.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
Speaking of the next generation, if there's any advice that
you could possibly give someone who has gifts that they
really haven't tapped into or they're unsure how to go
about it, what advice would you give someone? You know?

Speaker 4 (32:59):
What I would say, number one, know who you are
in God, you know, and then number one two find
out your assignment on the earth, right, because as you
walk out your assignment on the earth, you define success,
it don't define you.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
So that's that's I would start there.

Speaker 4 (33:14):
Because we have so many people, even myself, that try
to be everybody else, you know, But if the day
that I became very secure and who God called me
to be and what I'm supposed to be doing here. Yes,
I was able to even when I don't want to work,
and when I do, when I when I when I
go to the church it's ten people, and when it's
one hundred people, when it's a thousand, I know that
I am fulfilling what I'm called to this earth to do.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
Yes, yeah, And that can get money when when you're
in a space like we are as celebrities and people
who are livelihood thrives off of people, you know, so
like when you're not, when them numbers in that algorithm,
algorithm in you like.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Algorithm, it becomes like it can you play with your mind?

Speaker 2 (33:53):
But when you know your assignment on the earth, it
doesn't matter if it's one.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Yeah, yeah, you.

Speaker 4 (33:59):
Know it won't always be one. But I want, Yeah,
I think I want to know how would you honor
the one? How would you handle the one? Before I
can trust you with thousands? Yes, how would you handle
the one?

Speaker 3 (34:09):
You know?

Speaker 4 (34:09):
And we don't think about that. We all want the
main stage, but a lot of a lot of how
I got here was a lot of non main stage moments.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
Same, Yeah, you know.

Speaker 4 (34:21):
Yeah, so I appreciate the main stage even more. Yes,
I don't have to close out, don't you know whenever
you put me up first third whatever? Is that I
appreciate the main stage because I've had some non main
stage moments for a long time.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
Yeah, you said something that reminded me of a red
carpet I was. I think it was be Hip Hop
Awards and I was going and my manager at the
time was pulling me. She's like, we gotta go, we
gotta go in this young girl she was a reporter.
She's like, Chrystals, I please interview? Can I please interview?

Speaker 1 (34:47):
And she was like, we gotta get down here. Thing.
It was like wallow, like big, like activation.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
We had to get to and she was pulling me
away and like I stopped.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
My manager like hold on. I was like, let me go.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
I said, I need to tell I'm coming back to her,
and I said, because I remember what it was like
with nobody didn't want to talk to me.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
When my publicist would go and say, hey, I.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Have Christopher and Hazlet from Tyler Perry's sisters and they're like, oh, well,
we're waiting on a bigger It was a bigger name.
I remember what that felt like, and it didn't feel good.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
It did not feel good.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
So I was like, I'm going to go do this
Andy because I have a time slot, but I'm going
to come.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
Back and talk to you.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
And the young lady ended up like she wanted to
be an actor, ended up paying for her acting school.
Like it was somebody that God pulled me back because
it was something that I needed to do.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
The assignment on the Earth.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
Yeah, So it was like one of those things where
you have to remember what it was like not to
be on the main stage, remember what it was like
when people didn't want to talk to you, and make
sure you honor those people that do, even if it
is what you think is a no name or a
low outlet. We're like, is anybody ever go see this?

Speaker 1 (35:46):
They need that? Yeah, something you.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
Never know why they're called you back. That's how you
said that was so good.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
I had no idea. I had no idea, and I'm
really big on like fore and back. You know.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
That's one thing I did learn from Tyler is that
you always when you're up, you make sure you're pulling
people up with you. Like we had somebody on the
other day, and he's like, if your business starts to
ends with you, it's not big enough. Like what are
you doing because you're not bringing nobody else up with you?

Speaker 4 (36:10):
You know, the responsibility to also to pull them up
even if they don't reciprocate it. Oh yeah, not on you,
that's not on you.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
Oh I don't want to help nobody else on motor.
I said, you're going to cut your blessings.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
Yep, And that's exactly what.

Speaker 3 (36:28):
If God called you to pull them up, you put
them up. They may not ever do it.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
That No, seriously, that's so true. And I was guilty
of that too, Get out my business. I was guilty
of like heartening my heart when I didn't feel like
the energy was being reciprocated. You didn't have to do
what I did for you back, but it was just
like you. You just wanted to feel appreciated, you know,
and sometimes you're not gonna get that. Sometimes they're not

(36:52):
going to help you back in return, you know, when
they're in a position to and you have to be.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
Okay with that.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
You had that so true Street saying about business, right,
that's right, speaking important to other people. Why is it
so important support back you talk about we live in
your industry is about poor and poor and poor and porn.
But why do you feel like it's so important to
pour back into the next generation.

Speaker 4 (37:17):
Well, in anything we do, if we don't point the
next generation, uh, then we're not equipping them, yeah, you know,
like they should be, you know, so we're just throwing
them out there, right, That's what That's what I say,
And that's why I like, and I have to admit this,
like social media maybe with stars and you know, quickness
and things of that sort, but they didn't go through
uh or experience some of the things that we could

(37:39):
have shared, you know, and so by trying they get
to the roadblocks and all that. We always feel guilty
that we could have shared uh or at least help
with the experience of the next generation. I think a
lot of that is because most of us have become,
like I said, too selfish, thinking that someone is going
to surpass them, or that they're supposed to pass it.

(38:00):
The Bible says greater works, shure they do, you know
what I'm saying. So basically, if you did great, they're
gonna do great work. And then the ones out there
gonn do greater, great greater. Yeah, and it's okay because
it really it really God was supposed to be mainstream today.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
That wasn't ten years ago, you know.

Speaker 4 (38:14):
And if we understand the pouring of that takes us
as a whole, you know, and not just gospel, take
any industry.

Speaker 3 (38:21):
The pouring of it takes us as a whole. To
the next place, we'll do it.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
More right, Absolutely, I love that.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
When it comes to business and how you said, you
said it from the foundation you were learning about the
business as you navigated this business.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
What are some hard lessons that you've had to learn?

Speaker 4 (38:39):
Read your own contracts. How many attorneys you have have
them show you what everything means. You know, I signed
something years ago that gave away all my publishing.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
What accident.

Speaker 4 (38:52):
Yeah, my attorney gave it to me, went through everything
and didn't see the fine print that it was publishing
one hundred percent. Luckily, you know, I signed the short deal,
so when I got to a few hundred thousand units,
they want to give me the loan form. So I
negotiated all my publishing back right and honest to buy
my masters and other stuff. But just understanding that that

(39:14):
could have went a whole other way. After all these years.
It's just you know, that's part of the reason why
I went back to school. I don't want to be attorney,
you know, any attorney, but I want to understand what
we're talking about. You have a very educated conversation. Not
you telling me what it is. I want to understand
what what it is. Yeah, you know, So I just
I just educate yourself on the industry, you know, educate
yourself on anything that you want to be a part
of that.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
I'm the same way, Like we have literally my contract,
we have the lawyer line by line, Okay, what does
this mean? Like we're going through it so I know
there's no mistake about it.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
I know what I'm signing for.

Speaker 4 (39:45):
That's let's talking to the artists. The other day, He's like, yeah,
I'm out of my deal. The just had like two options.
I said, you know, the option not to talk about it.
I'm not talking about it. But I had explained it.
What an option is. I mean they can they can
exercuite their option. Yes, So he didn't he didn't know that,
and not saying in a bad way means that we
just should understand what we're shigning, what we get into

(40:07):
and how to maneuver to the best of our nights.
You know, we don't have attorneys, but we should really
know what.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
We're shining for sure.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
For sure, and a lot of people just like, oh,
I'll just have somebody to read over because attorney everything costs,
you know, but you'll pay the cost in the long
run if you don't, so just pay them the money, please.

Speaker 1 (40:24):
That's so true.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
If you could collabor with anybody who is your dream collaboration,
and it could be more than one.

Speaker 4 (40:32):
Person to Okay, it'd be to write to tembulance tracks
and have Brandy singing.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
Crazy, crazy crazy.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
Oh my goodness, it's gonna happen. It will definitely happen.
It will definitely happen. Do you see yourself or do
you have your own record label? You do? Okay, I'm
gonna ask you. Do you see yourself starting your own?
But you already have?

Speaker 4 (40:55):
So I have, well what we call the label today,
I have an infront with the deal with another label
for music services.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
So basically I've been on my own for.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
How long?

Speaker 4 (41:09):
For since two thousand and seventeen, okay, yeah, okay, but
I've always been I'd like to share this, especially with
artists watching. I've always been a revenue shared artist since
nobody greated not points artists, so basically explain that. So
most people who signed a deal back in the day,
they were getting points on the keep records so like
and some of those points on producer Right. Well, from

(41:32):
the time I signed a contract for the Nobody created project,
it was a percentage of the revenue, the net income.

Speaker 3 (41:38):
So basically I've always signed those type of deals.

Speaker 4 (41:40):
So even when those deals were over, the new deals
are still like sixty forty seventy thirty of.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
The net right, Okay, that's smart because a lot of Yeah,
that's something I haven't really learned, and I do want
to learn more.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
About that as I get into music.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
Is the points I remember back in the day when
I was doing music, all I hear was points, points,
points like you get this many points on the song.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
But I never really understood what that meant.

Speaker 4 (42:01):
If we still have those point deals with streaming, we
wouldn't we would.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
Oh my goodness, streaming, Like how has that? I know
everybody says like artists don't really make the money that
they used to make.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
You make you have to go work for it.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
You got to go do the live touring to really
recoup and get the money for the most part. How
has streaming impacted the gospel industry?

Speaker 3 (42:22):
Yes and no.

Speaker 4 (42:22):
I'm gonna say yes or no because I'm a master owner.
Uh streaming, Uh is it makes I would say it
makes money in my sleep.

Speaker 3 (42:37):
New songs.

Speaker 4 (42:38):
Definitely, you have to kind of get the traction on it,
and it only pays, like you know, so much.

Speaker 3 (42:42):
For I mean thousands of all that.

Speaker 4 (42:45):
But if you're you're you are smart about it is
that you have to have your every platform. You have
to make sure that it is encoded the right way
and that sort it can still make sense. Yeah, it
has impacted the gospel industry, not not as much as
people consume it more than ever greatly, But for your
new artists who are trying to get out whatever, the

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space for them is not as open. Right, It's there,
you know, put that misic out, but now how do
we find it? But you get to it because you
only got so many top teams. And then because the
industry is still I don't know if I'm becoming activist
or not, it's still putting Christian gospel in the same
plate like you're at Apple Music. Some of our stats

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are yeah, a little bit.

Speaker 3 (43:33):
So you'll be number one in gospel on the Apple chart.

Speaker 4 (43:36):
You're number twenty nine because you're in the midst of
the Christian gospel chart.

Speaker 3 (43:40):
So there's a reason for them doing it.

Speaker 4 (43:41):
But it's our platform is a little bit more diluted
than it was before I started anything else.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
I know exactly what you're talking about because I go
always go to like the Christian part on Apple Music,
and then you have like a gospel workout playlist and
you have a Christian workout playlist, and I'm like, oh,
I gets two different things. But then you look at
the hop songs and it's.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
Got it. I got it all right.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
So we normally do like this or that game on
the show, and today we're gonna switch it up.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
But Sean is with me.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
In the hot seat to see if I remember some hymnals.
There's been a long time, so we're gonna see, all right,
what you got it?

Speaker 3 (44:17):
Okay, So it's not on here.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
Oh Lord, tis so sweet to trust in Jesus.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
Just to take him at this word.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
You better sing it, just to rest upon his promise.
I do not remember the song.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
Just all right, We're going nothing. All right, that's good,
that's all right. Cool At the cross.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
At the cross where I first saw that different one,
that's all the light and the burdens of my heart
road away.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
It was there by faith.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
I received my side and I am happy.

Speaker 3 (45:08):
That's how we do it, all right, all right, I'm
gonna make you proud.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
All right, Let's say the shoes Jesus is mine.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Oh what a fall taste of glory divine you finished air, salvation.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
Purchased by God.

Speaker 4 (45:34):
Going up and be reading this is that?

Speaker 1 (45:40):
This is my story. This is my story.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
This is my song, raising my safe.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
Beyond all the day long? Is that the right note?
This is my bye? Sorry, This is my song raising
my save all the day is a duet coming on me?

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Me me met.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
Y'all be beating? All right? All right?

Speaker 1 (46:22):
Okay, one more more, Yeah, one more.

Speaker 4 (46:24):
Let's I don't know if I know all the rest
of this one to help you out?

Speaker 1 (46:29):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (46:31):
What can watch away my sins?

Speaker 1 (46:35):
Nothing but the blood I know, the love Gesus. What
can make me oh again?

Speaker 2 (46:44):
Nothing but the blood of Geezus, white as snow name,
I know nothing but the blood of Geeesus. All the
church raised in it all right, last one, let's do

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one work that was one?

Speaker 1 (47:08):
All right, it's not out here, okay, just a little bit,
all right, let's do it. Okay, Jesus.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
I'll never forget what you've done for me, Jesus. I'll
never forget.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
How you said me, Jesus. I'll never forget how you
bron me.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
Jesus. I'll never forget.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
No, No, all right, that's good. I don't remember that.

Speaker 4 (47:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
I was raised Methodist, yes, so like I know the
amazing grace and the some of them, but like, yeah,
I was raised Methodist a right, so me not old, Jus,
I know this one min Oh cry, wow, I need

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to go up.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
Now, called dude, not past me.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
I'm calling you, yay, yeah, all out.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
Say yeah my uble cry. Oh that's real. Mm hm
there's some days like that. Wow. No, that's that hard call.
Don't pass me by, Lord, got not calling on you. Mhm. Okay,

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we need to say back to some hymnals. That's good.
I donna have to pull my hymlo book out. Thank
you so much.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
I've thoroughly enjoyed our conversation. Please tell our audience how
they can keep up with you. Where they can download
your new album all the things.

Speaker 4 (48:56):
Absolutely dot com, met, your Facebook, Me, your Instagram, but
Sha Mitchell sometimes on Snapchat. It's all Butshan Mitchell music
available streaming everywhere you stream your music.

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Check it out. The new song make Away. It's making Away.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
Yes, let's get into it. Make sure you gotta download
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Speaker 1 (49:15):
When you go on the road, we would love to
support you. Yes, thank you so much. I appreciate it.
I love this. It's a great conversation.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
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