LaDell Beamon & Montell Jones

Heal the Hood Foundation of Memphis is hosting a Docu-Music Film Screening says CEO LaDell Beamon on The Bev Johnson Show on WDIA Radio.

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wow wow wow wow wow wow wow. Good afternoon, and welcome back to

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the second half of the Bab JohnsonShow. Here at w d i A.
It is a Tuesday, May thirtieth, twenty twenty three. Enjoy this
fabulous state today. I'm excited formy guests and I haven't seen him my
boys. Been a while when theCOVID kid, we didn't see anybody,
but I am so glad he's here. Mister Lidell Beaman, who is the

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Executive d Well CEO executive director ofthe Hill the Hood Foundation, the Dell
was our brother. Hey, missPHEB Johnson, the queen in the building.
How you doing, brother, I'mdoing really good, excited to be
here. Always put a smile onher face. Get me just feeling good.
So I'm great. It's amazing.I'm so glad you are here today.

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And for our listeners who just don'tknow Lidell and one of my last
callers, lovely those she was talkingabout these nonprofits. But tell us tell
our listeners about the Heal the HoodFoundation. You know, I always have
to have a disclaimer because so whenwe say heal the hoodhood is a suffix
at the end of the words likebrotherhood and motherhood, fatherhood preached to neighborhood.

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We all have a hood, soit doesn't matter you know. So
what we do is that we usethe arts to be able to reach kids
and be able to engage them.And so the arts is one of the
seven Mountains of influence, and sowhen you think about it, a lot
of people are influenced by the arts, what they hear, what they see,
and so we use those programmings togo into schools. We reach a
little bit over five hundred thousand kidssince two thousand and five. We've been

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doing this since two thousand and five, two thousand and five, and I
know for true that you you havebeen doing a wonderful, wonderful job with
your foundation. And I was tellingLowland who called in, and she says,
they get this line said, ishow I said. If they don't
get money, the foundations can't runand they can't stay abreast. They can't

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help because they depend on people tohelp them out. And I love what
you've been trying to do, Liddellall the time to help our young people
in this city. Tell our listenerswho may not even have heard of healthhood.
You know, we work with alot of people to think about us
is that when we go into schools, when we do it's call the wake

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up tours. We're actually able touse the arts to get kids out of
gangs, to get them engaged.We've had kids to literally turn in their
guns after school. We've had kidsthat were supposed to kill somebody on the
weekend for gang initiations to stop whatthey're doing, to talk to their guidance
counsel so they can come and talkto us about getting them out. And
it's been so much of that thatgoes on. I know it's so much

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in the media that depicts negative storiesstuff that is going on, but people,
if you just imagine how much morestuff would be happening if you didn't
have people that were engaging these kids. It would be a lot more kids
that in the street. So werun after school programs Monday through Thursday.
We're busy literally six days a weekbecause we're touring on Fridays and we're mentoring
at the Hickory Ridge Mall. Sowe have an open door policy to any

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young person or parent that needs thatassistance, who wants to come and be
a part of the experience. Listento what Ladell said. He said,
I like that open door policy becauseLadell, I get tired of people saying
there's nothing out there for kids todo. Stop saying that, absolutely,

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you know what, Ladell stop becausethere is some things for young people to
do, but we have to getthem in the mindset of wanting to do
absolutely, because you know, wetake these kids to the latest rap concerts
that are talking about all this craziness, and we take them to the long
lines at the Nike factory to getus shoes and Jordans, but we bypass

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churches and programs and things that reallygive kids an opportunity to benefit. And
the very things that we're passing upto do something superficial that we really don't
need. That's what we want tosupport. And so we're looking at,
you know, how many kids thatwe can actually be able to help this
summer. We're looking at kids allaround the year, how many kids we
can be able to engage. Butwe need the parents to get actively involved

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in the process of taking their childto the next level. That's the reason
why my mom used to always whenI was coming up, and even when
it came down to reading, mymom used to have me read to her
every night before she went before shewent to bed, and so there to
me it's no excuse for kids tobe walking around with New Jordans on their
feet and the literate and you know, so we have to get involved and

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engaged in these parents lives and wehave to get involved with these kids.
And so we have a three GMmodel where we reached the grandparents because the
grandparents are younger now. Yes,parents has been thirty two years old.
Yes, And I'm like, howdoes that happen? But it's generational generations
of the mother getting pregnant at theearly age. Then here it is the
door to getting pregnant at the earlyage and the next thing you know,

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you're thirty two year old to yeold as a grandmother. And so we
have to reach every generation. Andso that's what we have programs that reaches
every generation. I know one timethat you and I'm sure it's your dream
to you're gonna build this whole thing. How is that coming, lidell and
tell our listeners what your dream is. We were gifted seven point zero two

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acres of land and it was justa blessing. This long testimony, but
it was a blessing that a companyout of New York gave us property here
in the city of Memphis when manypeople that we were big for years in
the city wouldn't even do it.And so we just saw a fit that
that God just blessed us and wewere able to open that door. And
so it's called the Hero Empowerment Center. We have our own animated comic book

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series. And so what we decidedto do take characters to look like us
and build a facility to look justlike what you see in Walt Disney bought
to the City of Memphis. LikeUniversal Studios Planet here in Memphis, that's
an arts based micro city that hasyou can imagine whatever you can imagine in
Disney, That's what we're going tohave in that facility. And you know,
we have people like Robert Towns andKen and Ivery Wains, Michael jo

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White, celebrities that have been herein the city of Memphis with us.
They really want to lend their talentsto seeing this come out of the ground.
And so it's one hundred and fortymillion dollars building and we've been meeting
with the governor. We did thatabout two weeks ago, and just really
getting with people that want to bea part of this and see it can
be built by the city by blackpeople from the city. When you look

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at a hundred dollars from everybody inthe city of Memphis will have their building
breaking ground in the next couple ofmonths. And we've been pushing it out
here for the longest. But it'sstrange how will complain about the problem,
but we will not put a dimeon the solution. And so that is
the hardest thing in the city isto be able to break the mentality of
the people who are saying we wantsomething done, but at the same time,

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your won't and your action for therewon't to be accomplished ain't lining up.
And so we gotta dig into ourhearts and say, if we want
these kids to stop din in thesestreets, we have to do more than
just protesting. Years ago, weused to be able to protest and stuff
we get done, But now protestinghas become cliche. It's like it's pop's
pop and we had our phones outtaking pictures of the social marches and all

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this stuff going on. But atthe end of the day, when we
leave the social marches three thousand blackpeople, nobody is putting the dime to
build facilities for these kids. Andso we got to think about something that's
wrong with it. Yeah, andand and as we every day and then
we know someone's dying, a youngperson is and they're getting younger and younger.

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But and I agree with you.We have to put our money where
our mouths are. You know,we talk a lot of stuff, but
to help and you want to getthis thing done, but you you need
need need help. Low again foundations. You all have to get money to
stay open. But because it takesmoney. If you have a building,

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you gotta pay the light bill,you gotta do this. Absolutely, you
have to do all those things aswell. Nobody ever complains about paying a
ticket to go into the grizzly game. You notice it. Nobody the NBA
needs to be doing more for usout here. What but that those are
the organizations that we're putting tons andtons of money in. And when you
stop and think about it, nobodycomplains about that. But you complain when

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a not for profits is we needten dollars to help feed our kids.
And so we have to really beable to break the programming that is happening
that says that there should be novalue placed into not for profits and it
should be because We're not designed tomake money for people, but we are
in need of funding to be ableto service the people, and that's what

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we're looking at. Yeah, inthe passing you you name some of the
Hollywood celebrities that have helped you andthen in the past, I know Master
P helped you a lot. Absolutely, that's a Percy Towns introduced me the
Master P years and years ago andwe were touring and that's what really Percy
Towns was reporting everything to Master Pelewhat we were doing, and he was

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looking for a not for profit thatwas trustworthy to be able to connect with
Master Peer because a lot of timesthese celebrities don't want to be used and
abused by different people in the cityand explore it and so connected with us
for our celebrity basketball games and we'vebeen running ever since. And he did
that because he saw what we weredoing with the kids with the wake up
tours, and that was with nomoney. We were doing wake up tours
for free three four years. Wedidn't even know that the show that the

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school system would give you money toactually do these things, and so we
would pack up our equipment, ourgear, our own personal stuff and just
going to the schools and reaching thosekids until the point that we got up
to about fifty thousand kids at thatpoint. The first two years we did
fifty thousand kids, and that wasfrom two thousand and five to two thousand
and seven, and from then wejust blew. And from then Master Pele

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saw what we were doing and wantedto become a part of what we're doing.
And that's the reason why we've beenable to reach so many stars.
When I love it, Natasha Hilljust posted a picture of a chabadu and
Timark the last time we were withyou. Yes, yes, yeah,
you're right, we were in theother studios. Yes, ma'am and so
and so they're a part there,they were, they're a part of Chabad.

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Just passed yea God blessed so acouple of years ago. And you
know, it's important for us toreally be able to the celebrities that wanted
to invest in these kids. It'simportant for us to use that energy to
really be to get these kids offthe street. So there are some celebrities
that have saying I'm tired of thelifestyle that I'm living. I'm tired of
seeing what Hollywood is putting out herefor these kids, and I want to

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make a difference. And so thoseare the ones that we love to connect
with the stars to say we wantto help you guys. Has it I
want to go back and you talkedabout some of the kids that you've helped
and who've left gangs. Has it? Has it been hardly Dell to get
their attention to to put them onthe right track, because because I keep

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thinking that you you have these kidsout here doing all this, but it's
it's a it's a mindset. It'sa choice. We have to tell you,
there are choices we make. Isit hard? You know what?
It wasn't so hard in the beginningbecause you know, we because when we
knew when we got out there withcertain celebrities and we got out there with
our program, our formula to beable to reach the kids, they were

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just looking for an alternative and wewere able to provide it. But then
as time start progressing, you getto this time where people um and and
this is the Bell Johnson social showside And I know we can be realistic,
but you know, in the citywhere you're getting awards for you know,
pimping, and you're getting awards fordegrading music, and those kids look

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at them and they're like, waita minute, you know, we can
get out here and do all ofthe same stuff and we'll get the love
and accolades. Because if you putsomething positive on social media, you'll probably
get about fifteen twenty likes. Butif you get out here with a gun
or you're doing something negative, allof a sudden, you would come to
talk of the nation. And kidsare looking for or that attention, and
so that's what makes it a littlebit more complicated when you have kids and

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celebrities that are being celebrated for doingwhat's wrong versus doing what's right. And
so now when you're coming in withprograms and say hey, let's get over
here and do the right thing,the first thing that they want to do
in our studios is they want tocome in and start cussing and talking about
guns and the brading women. Andwe have to say, wait a minute,
we're going to teach you the game, but you can't do that here,
right because we're trying to heal thehood, not kill the hood.

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Yes, yes, yes, andso and so it was a challenge and
it becomes challenging only when we haveto keep competing against the system awarding people
for what's wrong versus what's right.I want I wanted to go back.
And since we had the pandemic thedell did it put a strain on you
all? Were you all still ableto continue the work that you had started

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before the pandemic hit? It wasit was a strain because the kids that
were contacting us on social media.We were using social media for a minute,
okay, able to reach out tothe kids, and then all of
a sudden, the kids started seeingthey were going through mental depression, they
were they were thinking about suicide,and so it had to go beyond just
the Internet. And so what wedid we said, look, put on

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your mask, we're gonna have sanitizers, and we're gonna open back up the
facility. And we did that.Doing the pandemic, we were allowed to
bring kids in to deal with themental issues and the trauma that was going
on through COVID And now here weare years later, and we're still going
and suffering from symptoms and what happenedfrom mental illness from COVID AND's and it's

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crazy because it's affected us in away that we probably would have never thought
of any disease or pandemic in thepast. You know, it's really affected
us. But the kids, wewere able to recover and grab them,
and if we didn't, if wedidn't grab some of those kids, they
were already talking about committing suicide.But if we didn't grab some of those
kids during that time, they wouldhave, you know, to taking their

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lives because they didn't know what itwas like to be put in a prison
because of a pandemic. And that'sreally really what it was at home,
scared, terrified, not being ableto go outside of the cage, and
the world change, you know,during that time, and so we have
to really deal with what happened postpandemic. We have to deal with what
happened post print pandemic, because itwas a lot of stuff that happened doing

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Yeah. Yeah, if you've justtuned in this afternoon, we are talking
with Ladell Bemon. He is Isay, he's the CEO of Heal the
Hood doing good work. We're gonnatalk about some exciting news Ladell, and
it introduce our other guests in here. If you have a question or two
four Ladell this day, we inviteyou to call five three five nine to

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three four two five three five ninethree four two one eight hundred and five
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to w d I AGE. You'relistening to the Queen of Talk on w

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d I A. Here's the You'relistening to the Bev Johnson Show. Here's

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Bev Johnson and I'm talking with myfriend in here today, Ladelle Beaman,
the CEO of Heal the Hood.And Ladelle, I know you got some
excite. You always have exciting newsfor me. Tell us about your exciting
news. You know what, thelast time the we were in here,
we were in here with Chabadou andthe last Dragon Timok and and so,

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and that was just such an amazingexperience for us. But Shabbadou ended up
passing away before we could actually dosomething very very powerful for the city.
And so with that being said,we have a project that's finally getting ready
to to break around tomorrow at theMalco Powerhouse downtown and uh, it's the
red carpet screening of the it's calledto Get Down Tribute to Shabba Doo and

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about effect, Miss Bell Johnson,you even make an appearance in there.
What. Yes, we had todo it man, the last time that
we were here. And it's solegendary, how you know, And it's
it's just it's amazing that footage thatwe have gathered when Shabbadou was alive,
and it's things that no one hasever heard or seen of before. And

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we put together this amazing opus andI'm very excited about it. Larry Dotson
is in there. It's it's somany people boob Mitchell because we really had
an opportunity to influence a lot ofpeople and to really get some things moving
with his project. Dancers and alltypes of things. Uh, it's in
this amazing project. So it's goingto be a red carpet um shendig for
us at the Malco Powerhouse downtown tomorrowsix red carpets says six o'clock and the

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screening will happen at seven o'clock PM. And it is going to be jam
packed. Okay. Now, nowto do people have to is there an
admission? Is their calls for tocoming to see the It is free of
charge. Yes, man. Wewanted to really make this available to the
public because when you see it,Uh, this is the first time anything

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like this has ever been done.It's a it's called a docu music film.
A gentleman right next to me,mister Muntel Jones, came up with
that title for the film project becauseit just encompassed so much. We had
dancing inside of it. It's asinging, dancing humanity at the same time.
It's a film, but it's butit's amazing what was put together.

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And so the lineage of Shabbado isgoing to be kicked off in Memphis tomorrow,
and so we're so excited with whatwe have planning is coming after that.
I want to ask me. I'vebeen having mister Jones fall out up
in here, but you are somethingamazing. Tell you something you can.
You hear you on the radio,but when you see you, it's a

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whole other Let y'all know right now, the whole nother level when you hold
the level. Mister Joe's I likeyou already because I've been having him fall
out, y'all. But how sohow you you you get involved with Ladell
on this project? Who don't getinvolved in the Dell's around That's what you

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said that I'm originally from Kansas City. Okay. So when I came here
and I got introduced to Ladell throughRashauna Buchanan with this um, he started
talking about this project of what ofwhat we could do with Chabad and we
got on a zoom callarship but Chabad, I got talking with him, and
then he got the call on usand talking with about different projects. And

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when he passed, we were like, okay, what are we gonna do?
So he called me, say,I got an idea. Why don't
we put together this project. Itwas supposed to be just a dance project,
but when Ladelle showed it to me, I was like, this is
data, this is a movie,this is a waitment, this is a
music docu document. And I wasmessing with it and I left it alone.

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This kid over here goes home threedays called me coach. I wrote
it, wrote what he wrote awhole script. Wow. I'm like,
wait a minute, I was justtalking. And that's what happened, you
know what happened when it came together. And then I ended up being a
director for the project, and thenand then the editor of the project,

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and all these things of me andhim getting together and making these things happen.
So that's what happened though. Thisguy over here, Yeah, he's
amazing. He's amazing. So soLadell Sol. So you all can't call
it a docum music docum music film, yeah, because in music film,
because what we had to do,you know, uh, and just being
totally transparent, you know, andputting this project together. You know,

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we wanted to be able to chevit. Who had a lot of plans,
and so we wanted to He wantedto introduce our kids in Memphis to the
twenty twenty four Olympics because street danceis being added to the twenty twenty four
Olympics. Yes, man, wewe knew it before it started breaking and
so we were like, okay,And he wanted to get our kids prepared

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in Memphis because there's a lot ofgreat dancers in Memphis, but to really
be able to take them to thatOlympic level, knowing that this was coming
down the pike. And so nowin twenty twenty four, street dance is
going to be in the Olympics.It's an Olympic sport just like gymnastics,
and so we have the opportunity hereto train these kids in Chavidu he was
like, okay, um, Iwant to be able to do this here

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in Memphis. And it was theconnections when you see because in the Breaking
movie, Larry Dotson's Freak Show wasin there, so you have Memphis already
infused inside of the Breaking films,and so it's it's so much that the
project talks about that we didn't evenrecognize what's happening in the city of Memphis,
but it was existing in the moviesalready, and so it was a

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natural progression for Shabbatoo to come inand connect. And so he wanted to
really his lineage to say I wantto leave my culture, and you'll hear
him in the movie say he wantsto invest his cultural capital that he's collected
from dancing with Madonna, choreographing,doing stuff with Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie,
all these amazing people all over theworld. He wanted to place it

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right here in Memphis to take thelast leg of his life to the next
level. And so he passed beforethat could happen. And so it was
only natural for us and our integrityto say, we have to do what
Shabbadoo wanted us to do. Andso that's what this is about, really
giving kids and Memphis an opportunity tocome right off the streets and be able
to go right into the Olympics andpowerful. Wow, I didn't know that

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is that is simply fabulous, yes, ma'am so, and you all will
be able to help these young peoplewho do that dancing to be able to
get into the Olympics, yes man, and to be able to add the
next level to it, you know, because I think you know we have
jooking here in Memphis, ye badlyand all that, but we know the
criteria for what they're going to belooking for. So they're looking for gymnastics

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and all these different things that arebeing fused into one. And so it's
hard training, but at the sametime, it's a discipline. And so
these kids that probably can't go tothe NBA and shoot a basketball or won't
make these other teams, at leastyou can. You can come right off
the streets and cultivate your dance.And so it doesn't matter if you were
a crack dealer, a drug dealer, doesn't matter what background you came from.

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The discipline of the art transforms yourlife because you have to be disciplined
forward and so that's the reason whywe're excited. So if so, if
you're running in the streets and youknow, and you have an opportunity to
do something different, and that's whatwe tell a lot of the gang leaders.
If you really you said, you'reshowing love for the young people.
If you get love, give thema pass and let them do something creative
with their life. And a lotof the guys are the ogs. They

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say, okay, you know,if they're going to do something with their
lives, have edit. And sothis is what that creates, something that
is national, something that is globalwith the Olympics. But this Get Down
project is going to show you thetravel in the journey that we took to
get there. Yeah, how longhow long is the film about about Iron?
Ten minutes? Okay? In andout, in and out? Yeah,

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yes, so so you all tookwell, Dale, I guess when
Chapado was here in other other partsof of of of Hill and Hill to
put all that together like different piecesor you know what did you it's actually
it's it's it's different scenes, okay, and ideas like when they talk about
crimes. So we had to createsome things. Oh, Okay, yeah,

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yea to embed inside us system gotyou to explain it. And it's
a story. It's a story toldand the way Ladell wrote it, it's
a story told from beginning to end. It's putting those parts together. Fortunately
all makes sense. And to comeback around to what Schabad was wanting to
do, oh City, But youhear him, but you hear him telling

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himself though, because you'll see himat Royal Studios. This is stuff that's
never been seen before. Wow,so you never been you will see him
at Royal Studios. You'll see himup here with you. You'll see him,
you know, teaching the kids,you know all this stuff that is
happening. It was, It happensat a real time, and there's a
progression of it, and then there'sa there's an element of it. When
we wrote a song, the songis called to Get Down, and Chabado

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actually named the song. This wasthe crazy thing about it. I was
I called myself saying I'm on thephone with a legend and I'm talking to
a legend. So I said,let me do something special for him.
So I got with Ray Nelson,went into the studio recorded this song and
uh, and then I sent itto Shabba Doo and he was like,
this is amazing, and we wereon a zoom meeting. He said this
amazing. He said, well,look, I can come to Memphis and
we can direct this and uh,and I can get some dancers in Memphis

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that we could do this and doHe said, all we have to do
is get the guy who's singing onthe song. He said, then we
can make it happen. I said, well, I'm the one that's singing
on the song. He said whatand he he was. He said,
I'm shocked, but I'm pleasantly shocked. And so he was gonna come here
and direct and all this good stuff. And when he passed, it was
so many other things that were goingon. But Muntela entered the equation and

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we were having these massive conversations.So Muntell steps up to stepping the shoes
of Shabba due to direct this project. And so it was about bringing all
these dancers together, bringing all thesedifferent people together. Natasha clay Hill there
was our project manager. She wasyou know, when we were scouting,
she was going everywhere calling up thesedancers, tearing Gary Tearry Nora with the

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Memphis grizzlies, grabbing her dances,grabbing dancers from here and putting all of
this together. And so a lotof times when when a project folds out,
you know, like what we're doing, it takes a lot of people
a man passed hour to be ableto put this together. So, uh,
we had a long list of criticsand thank you all in the movie
because we're just grateful, you know, even for a land settler with the
film commission opening up a door forus to really be able to do this.

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You and Moving Services, who's asponsor of their Uh doctor Old Farrell's
shoemaker, who's a sponsor that reallyhelped us to be able to put this
together and capture some stuff. Sowe're excited. Oh and Nike got to
shout out Nike, you know,for really being able to give us some
funding to initially get this thing kickedoff. So we're excited. That sounds
good and so this is going well. Before I ask that question, so

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people who come to see it,and you hope young people and even adults,
what do you hope that they getfrom this? Wow, you're gonna
asker. I really, you know, it's a legacy because inside of it.
There's a message and you're gonna hearShabbadoo speaking as you never heard them
speak before, in different elements,and what he went through the string to

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be an African American and growing upin Chicago and the Cabrina Green projects and
what it took to get him out. And it's crazy because the very thing
that we have been using as aformula to get kids out of gangs in
Memphis was the very formula that heproved worked. I grew up in South
Memphis my whole life, and sopeople were on America's most wanted that lived

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on the same street that I was. And so how did I make it
out? It was an arts.It was a clarinet being put in my
hand in the sixth grade, watchingBenny Goodman on PBS and me going from
South Memphis to Colonial Creative and PerformingArts to go into Overton cap of Creative
and Performing Arts, and my mindexpanded. And Bishop Brandon Porter said some
powerful He said, once a person'smind has been expanded, it can no

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longer be reduced to his former state. And so that's what happens when the
arts gets involved. Sabadu knew thatformula and that's what he wanted to gift
our people with. And so thattrajectory, we wanted people to be able
to leave and say, wait aminute, if he did he did it,
there's something inside of me to goingto be activated. And so this
film is gonna do this. It'sgonna it's gonna bring about emotions, but

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at the same time, it's gonnabring about celebration. Oh, I like
it. I like it. Also, this is the first time that's his
life has ever been brought to thescreen in this way. It's never been
brought this way at all. Thisis the first time in his in his
life. Wow, that we wereable to do that. Yeah. Yeah,
for him, life continues on.That's the greatest thing as his dream,

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his goals will be able to beto actually move on and grow because
and here, like he says,you can hear but it's not locking and
popping right Memphis. That's something forsure, Memphis doesn't do right. But
we can make those things happen becausewe're tied into like the soul trained dancer,
the original soul trained dancers. Weare tied into that whole system,

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that whole Don Cornelius soul trained thing. We're come into that whole system to
help out if needed, to getthe proper training. Yes, we can
get the proper people for that.So goes those those days are here.
So so tomorrow night, ladell tellour listeners about this. I like this
docu music film. Yeah, showup down there, you know, go

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online, and I'm gonna tell youbecause seats are going going fast. It's
only a few more lessine go onlineand this in uh wwws three ws.
I don't know if you we useit anymore. But ht H Memphis dot
org. Ht H Memphis dot org. And uh, he don't get old.
That's okay, bad he didn't getold. That's all right, that's
all right. You're still here.Yeah, and they and they click on

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click on the get down in rsVP in your spots. It's gonna be
fantastic of come out with your breakingyour converse so you can wear that.
You can wear where if you wantto, you know, look like chavit.
We're gonna have pictures on the redcarpet. We're gonna be photographing.
We got to get down T shirts. It's gonna be available if you want
to wear your formal stuff. That'scool. Too, But we're gonna have

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a good time because a lot oftimes, we as African Americans need to
see ourselves in a different light,and right now in Memphis, this is
needed. I'm tired of seeing usbeing on the news every day for killing
and all this stuff. It's timefor us to change the narrative. And
so we're asking people to go tothat site, come out, be a
part of this. This is apart of our kickoff for Operations Safe Summer
as well too, and so thisbleeds right into everything that we're gonna be

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doing for the summer that's gonna bepowerful and creative, and they can go
to that website get information about Hialthe Hood too as well. Right absolutely,
our celebrity game that's coming up,All Star Game, the camps that
we're doing for the kids. Evenwe have some movie projects that we're doing
this summer, and so if weget your kids, We're we have our
own African American series called Hood Fables. So instead of Jack and the bean

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Stock, we got Lero in theTurner Green Pitch and all the stories happened
in Memphis. We love that wedon't have Huntling Grilla. We got Huntsello
and Gertrude our head. So andso we're filming that new movie this summer.
We did Little Rid in a screenthat had a soul out of Premiere
last in the follow last year.So shout out to Tanya Lawrence and people

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that worked on that, to MikaChamberliss, Tim George Dizzey Clark. Just
we roll with a team all thetime of this, constantly moving to do
these things and make it happen,and everybody has the same heart. So
we're just excited, you know.So shout out to our Hja's team,
Uh, Miriam Graham, Betina Hunt, Natasha clay Hill, you know aj
you know all of our people becauseand I say that with passion, because

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they're working behind the scenes. Swittentoo, you know. So I'm excited
about really being there to take ourteam to the next level and having mister
Jungle Slide here. I don't knowif you knew that this is the art
the artist from Jungle Slide, theline dance, you know, Montell Jones
in the building. So I'm excited. Wow, Wow, I'm listening to
I'm gonna listen to I love this, I love this and again and I

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save our listeners who are listening,don't tell me there's nothing to do for
kids. This young man here,he has built his life around helping kids.
Mister Jones, heal the hood goingon. There's something Ladell has something
for them to do this summer.Absolutely a whole lot, a whole lot.

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So again, you have to goonline to get your seat Ladell,
yes, ma'am ht H Memphis dotOrg. Yes, ma'am. Click on,
click on the get down, getdown that picture and click on it.
It's gonna be fantastic. What now? What time does this start?
The red carpet Red carpet starts atsix o'clock. In the film screens at
seven o'clock seven OClO. You canget it's just like a regular movie.

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You're gonna be able to get yourpopcorner. Okay, okay, good stuff
and a great interviews, great pictures, but you're gonna leave with inspired.
Last question, will you all beable to show this in other places or
around the country screening or thinking aboutgoing out there to take it where Schapperdoo
was or absolutely his his his sonv sean um he's he's alive and will

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as a matter of fact, hecame up to the station with us not
too long ago. But the thingabout it is is that we want to
be able to get it into differentmarkets, but we want people to really
pick up and understand where he wasgoing, okay, because that's because a
lot of times when people pass it'slike that's it right exactly. But we're
like, um, the film isgoing to tell you this is where we're

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going with it. He passed usa beton and we're it's our responsibility to
keep it moving. And so Ibelieve Heaven is going to rejoice you know
when yeah, when you see thisproject and he'll be he'll be smiling like
he used to always with us.I love it, I love it,
I love it, And mister Jones, go tell Jones last words you like
to say to our listeners. Thisday they prayed up and love on each

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other. Yeah, thank you forthat. Yeah, loadal Biman, you
know I love you. Last wordsyou like to say to our listeners.
I just want to say being encouragedthroughout the summer. It's a lot of
stuff that is going on, andyeah, we do know it's a lot
of negative stuff, but you know, you have to speak up, stand
up, and stand out. Andso that's what it's going to require.
You know, we understand and theroot word of understand and stand and so

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if you understand, you should standup for something. You know what's going
on, you understand it, standup. I got you, I got
you. I'll be checking in withyou this summer, come back to let
us know old some other things sowe can get our young people doing some
positive things. And you all haveit. Yes, and I can't wait
see this documentary too. I say, okay, and thank you all for

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being here. I appreciate you,y'all. Stay saved, yes man,
Thank you callers, thank you listenersfor joining us this day on the Beth
Johnson Show. We do, wereally do appreciate you. So until tomorrow,
please be saved. Keep for coolahead, y'all, and don't let

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anyone still your joy until tomorrow onbeb Johnson and y'all Keith the Faith.
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