September 14, 2023 • 61 mins
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Your shoe will go live in fiveseconds four three two one love Hope Radio.
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But we have mother somehow we dineto a spot. Now we're a
man striking the flame. Where dowe go from? Be only leaving in
the sky, letting in? Saytell him big, Hi, wanna go
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high? Take me higher, takeme higher, take me higher. Wanna
go higher and go higher, andgo higher and go higher. Wanda,
phone home, take me home,take me home, take me home.
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Hey, hey, hey you guys. Yes, yes, and yes we
maybe I can hear another Thursday.That's right, we're on. We are
on Thursdays from here on out,from six o'clock to about seven pm,
maybe eight sometimes you know, we'llfigure it out. But welcome back to
twenty twenty vision. Yes, yes, yes, yes, I'm excited as
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always because I am in my happyplace, my happy space, and uh
I have a wonder some wonderful guests. As always, I always bring you
guys the best, and like Isay, I can't help because all my
friends are dope. So anyway,today, before we get started, you
guys know how I like to do. I want to give my shout out.
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First of all, I want tocontinuously forever and for always, shout
out my son Joshua Bruce, whois permeating through the universe as we speak
and shedding a lot of love andlight to us all all of his loved
ones, his brothers, his mommy, his children, his friends, his
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producers, his loved ones. Youknow, shout out to Joshua Bruce.
Okay, and also I want toshout out the Comedy Awards Show. I
went, Yes, Uh what wasthat day did I go? Tuesday?
What day did I go? Whatday did I go to these Comedy Awards?
Tuesday? Tuesday? Okay, soTuesday I went to the Comedy Awards
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Show? And uh, what isit called? Because I'm losing my mom.
Comics rock, comedy, comics,comics rock, what else? Comics
rock tour, Comics rock tour,it I know, but it was the
awards show. It was comics,Uh, comics rock Awards Show. I
gotta get this right because this doesn'teven sound right coming on my mouth right
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now. But anyway, Hope Flood, she was our gracious, gracious host
and producer of the show. Wehad an awesome and amazing time. I
got to grace the stage. Igot to sing her favorite song by me
called No Regrets. It just becamelike her favorite song, which last Thursday.
So she said, girl, comesing that song for me. So
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I did and had a wonderful time. They honored Dale hugely, U Lunel,
Kim Cole's, Kim Whitley, JoeTory, Buddy Lewis. It was
so many in the house. Idon't want to forget anybody. It was
so many, many, wonderful,amazing, Chris Spencer, Speedy, it
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was so many. My god,it was like a class reunion. Uh
what's her name, Laura? What'sher uh? Uh, Miss Laura?
She was there, Dad. Itwas so many. It was so many.
But anyway, we had an amazing, amazing time. But you know,
let me stop trying to talk aboutit, and let's show a little
video from the night of the Stress. Now you want the feeling, you
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know, ass get it to me. I give it. Hi. My
name is Amy or the Songstress,and I'm here at the Comics Rock Convention.
We're at their war ceremony and todayI have the pleasure of opening up
for this major awards here at onecelebrating phenomenal, legendary but comedians living legends
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like Dale Hughley, Lunel and OmarGooding. So many people to make produced
by Hope Blood. I am soexcited to be here today. I'm not
here on twenty twen Vision business,but you know, twenty twenty Vision is
back on our Thursday. Hope Bloodcame by a last Thursday at Thursday,
filled our hearts with laughter and inreturn, I'm coming here to see no
regrets. I then the building,twenty twenty Vision is in the building.
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Shout out to cheaply beds, bigrook baby, Eduard La Grants, shout
out, and you know what,stay focused, love like and like my
baby night time, and let mefix my ground like dominos. Yeah,
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just going down my feet off theground elevated. You feel so when you
hear my sound and lies all right? Yeah, that was just a little
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highlight real of the things that wenton that night. I had a wonderful
time. I'll be showing that onall of my pages, you know,
from here on out. But youcan always go back and watch it again
on YouTube or Facebook, because rightnow we are live. Hello Facebook,
lad, Hello YouTube lad, HelloTwitter, Hello ig Behind the scenes,
nosies, how how are how youguys doing anyway? So you guys can
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go back and watch that at anytime. But you know what, let's
get to those TikTok videos cause wegot a lot of content to show today.
So let's get to those TikTok videos. Let's take a look at California.
It's just brad all I got overthe food eod so hellooo how did
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they even go out? Yeah?I need me so oh my wow,
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oh my god. The story isempty. If you have not been following
what's going on in La Every storeis getting robbed, every single one.
Look at this thirty to fifty people. My thing is who is organizing this?
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Thirty to fifty people going in atone time? Here's the group checked
what apple? You guys want?Thirty to fifty people pulling up to rob
store. That is not a coincidence. Everybody wearing black, everybody's in sync,
everybody is working together. They hada strategic plan to rob these stores.
This is just one. If youcould check the internet right now,
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all these stores are getting robbing LaLouis, Vatons, everywhere, just everywhere.
They're getting hit. But the thingis people who are robbing them,
they're growing in volume. What thehell can you possibly do when this thirty
to fifty seventy sixty people running intothe mall stealing everything. What is going
on? It's a oh right,So I showed that one just because I
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wanted to talk about it. Iremember, like, uh foosed about a
month or two months ago, theyhad you know, passed the law in
California that they're not coming out foranything that's not you know, any non
violent crimes, any fevery or breakins or entering uh in California, they're
not gonna come out. They're notgonna take it serious. And you know,
people are getting a slap on thewrist for it, you know,
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if anything. And so since then, it's like been this wave of crime.
And then they've been like the mob, like a mob of people going
into these stores robbing like what Imean they had an assembly line too,
what do you mean? Okay,So you didn't when they first in the
store, they they were, uh, there was the one guy that were
going back to grab everything. Thenhe would put it in the court and
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the other dude would grab the court, push it out to the dude of
the god push it out the door. And didn't see that. I saw
it, but I didn't. Yeah, they had assembly line going on,
mapped it out that it's got real. I feel like the uh you know,
the mom and pop shops, theboutiques, the private owned you know,
uh companies. I think they're reallygonna suffer the worst. It's not
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gonna be the big corporate you knowwhat, what do you think? Uh?
Well, I think it's just gettingout of an Actually, yeah,
something need to be doing fast forsure. And so I mean, is
this is this a you guys thinkthis is our answer to defund the cops?
Like what do you do you think? Well? Uh, I mean,
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because they're saying like, we'll justyou know, I think it's just
they're just trying to smack them inthe face with something. You know,
you mean, smack who in theface the police? You know. So,
since y'are not coming out to nonviolent crimes, we're gonna go in
here with no guns. We're gonnaput a mask on, We're not gonna
harass anybody. We're just gonna takeyour stuff. Do you think the the
mob robbings, you think they're theanswer to the police. I don't think
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it's an answer to it. Ithink they're just taking advantage of Hey,
the police is not coming. That'sthat's just the bottom line. The police
is not coming. And if ifit's thirty to sixty of us brenda up
in her, the people who workin her that they're only getting paid seventeen
eighteen thousand dollar, they're not goingto rest their life of this. Yeah,
I understand, So I concur andyeah, yeah, well I don't
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know. I feel like, likeyou said, we have to do something
about it. We have to figureit out. Sometimes we have to police
ourselves, you know. Yeah,yeah, and protect ourselves. It's time
for everybody to get it. Well, did I say that you're almost city?
You're almost city? Say? Okay, next TikTok video tell me,
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oh, I'm sorry. Who wasresponsible for that one? Uh aj aj
King underscore? Bishop, okay ajKing underscore, Bishop, shout out to
you. Thank you for submitting thatone. Uh next p please I told
let motherfucker I was alpha, butI didn't tell him. I surrounded myself
with generals. These weren't soldiers.These were generals. Surround myself with intellectual
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good people, long time friends,no new people. Oh my god,
I like I like that one.I like that one too, she said,
no new friends. I man,I I did adapt that philosophy for
a minute, the no new friendphilosophy. But I find well, me
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personally, I had to get ridof a lot of old friends, and
so the new ones are kind ofmore welcome now in my life at this
point in time. But I amsurrounded by generals. Don't get it twisted,
you know for sure, Uh,you got some new friends, ty,
whoa, whoa? I got morefrom new friends. And you're are
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you open to meeting new friends?Yeah? Yeah, I think you know,
new friends could be a breath offresh air. Yeah yeah, okay,
I think so. I think shewas being in it more in uh
a way of you know how peopleare to hang out and kick it,
you know, no new friends likethat, because that's where all the all
the all the ruggets starts up,you know, hanging out just kicking it.
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You know, that's that's the nonew friends like I don't know she
kicking it? Do you think shekicking it? You think she's still hanging
out and kicking it. That's whatThat's what she meant, No new friends.
I'm not kicking it no more.I'm not hanging out no more.
All right, Okay, I cango for that. Yeah. Well,
what we got next? Tony bitoh bonfire Oh you wanted to say that,
totally wanted to say that. Sayit louder well, bonafide boss bitches
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a bonafid boss bitches up in here. Okay, shout out to you guys,
Vona fire boss bitches. I loveit all right, Well we got
next. They thought they were clothed. That one was quick. But did
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you see that it was the aliencup or whatever cloth? Oh? Oh
yeah, when I was walking acrosshe was hanging out a turb could I
don't know. That's what That's whatI want to talk about, Like you
know, Facebook land YouTube. Didy'all see that? Like, I don't
know. I don't know. Idon't know if that's is it the dome
that we're in under or is itthe aliens? For real? What's going
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on? I'm gonna say this withOkay, you gotta understand. You know
what a green screen is, rightbecause you've got green screens and you also
got blue screens. You know,the sky is completely blue and you can
reflect anything off of the sky.You know what I'm saying. If you
got a big enough projector you canyou can reflect anything off of It's just
like he was in a green screen. Okay, but I mean it looked
real, right, Tony, Whatyou think you ever seen? No,
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this is his wheelhouse. That's whyI'm saying. You heard of the blue
screen, right, yeah, becauseyou can do the same thing with blue
screens. Paranormal activity is his wheelhouse. So what do you think? I
mean, unless they prove it wrong, wrong, Yeah, huh, unless
they prove it wrong. I don'tdisbelieve or believe either way. Okay,
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Okay. The recording looks real,yes, like life recording. So I
mean, yeah, yeah, youthink it's real? Okay, it could
be. I'm just ready to seethem. I personally haven't seen one yet.
Have you seen one? To me? Have you seen yet? You
did see the UF see, Ihaven't seen either, a lot of people
around me have. I'm ready.Let's go, I mean, ay,
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I'm ready. I don't think they'rehere. I don't think they're here to
hurt us or do anything. Ithink these little et ones that they're showing
us, I think they've been here. Those are old. You. Have
you guys seen the little in Mexico? Yeah, the little et skeletons that
they're showing us. Yeah, they'rethey've been here. They're showing us some
old foot I want to see thereal the real deal. I want to
see it, and I want totalk, you know, I want to
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commune. Yeah, you know,I wanta have a good time. Okay,
all right, you guys, withoutfurther ado, let's get into the
show. First of all, Iwant to speak to our co host that
I told you that's going to behanging out with us for the next few
weeks. It's our special guest bythe name of Edward la Grand. That's
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that's his, uh, one ofhis. It's my government, that's his
government, that's his that's his namename. We'll refer to him as many
other names throughout the time that he'svisiting with us during these weeks for the
show. But as of right now, we're gonna talk to mister EdWay.
There. Can we talk to Edward? He's here, okay, uh jokes.
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So last time we were here,you were telling us that you you
served in the military. You weretelling us that you got into music because
of your mother, and you weresaying that you just had a natural knack
for it, a love for it. I was saying that you're great at
it. You also do production,you also do engineering, uh, film
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videography and uh yeah you talk.You can write scripts? You write scripts?
Yeah, I can write scripts.You got some books? I got
one hundred and eighty nine books thatI wrote. Yes she did. Yes,
she just needs a publishing Yes shedid. So in a perfect world,
what would Edwild want to do withall of that talent that he has.
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It's the media company, okay,production company. I was a media
company, and you know, Iwould want to get these books publishing like
a sap. That would be thefirst thing I do. You know,
the music is a past when Iwould love to get the music down,
you know, but a forefront wouldbe uh, you know, just getting
the media company and production company offthe ground and getting these books publish because
I think these books gonna help alot of people. You don't, Okay,
it's real life, you know.Uh what do you mean? How
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do you mean? I don't.I don't. I wouldn't say that it's
religious. It's it's spiritual, youknow, just you know, uh for
those who are on a spiritual journey, you know, like just just I'm
not gonna say I'm a guru atit or anything. Just from my own
life experiences, coming from my backgroundand things that I've been through in life.
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Uh, I feel like it wouldhelp people in a similar walk.
Okay, so you know everybody's walk. It's the different. It's different,
but it's similar. You know,you have those those uh you know,
you got the hard life, yougot the good life, you you got
the uh you have, uh thelife of individuals who have uh have the
street life, you know, thenyou they got the the dope life,
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you know, selling drugs, andthen you got you know where I come
from. I come from my bodyguardbackground. So it's a you know,
it's a different it's a transition fromall of those things, even in the
military. But I think those thebooks that I wrote would help in a
lot of different areas because it's helpso from U. So you were able
to take a spiritual uh journey.Okay, oh my god. So it's
a spiritual journey through all those walksof life that you mentioned, m and
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and and and and it's the thethe spirit that this guiding guiding you through
it, you know. So it'sit's just a these series of books what
you call him a kind of ablueprint to UH life. I wouldn't call
it a blueprint. I would callit a you know what, Yeah,
I will call it a blueprint.Okay, yeah, I will call it
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a blueprint. Well, as Isay, we're gonna dig in your story
throughout the uh the rest of theseweeks. But just you know, thank
you for stopping in sharing with us, sharing your journey with us. You're
compelling story. It gets deeper.They got to hold on today chairs.
But today we have a special guestand we can't wait to celebrate him.
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And you know, he celebrates us, so we can't can't wait to give
back to him in celebration. SoI want you to get on this train
with me and au co host thisthing and help me interview our brother over
here. Yeah, okay, good, good, Okay, Now let's get
into this interview without further ado.We wanted to introduce you to tai Wo
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Adulla. Yes, he is thefounder and the president of the AFRO Awards.
He is a Nigerian born entertainment executiveand filmmaker. He is the CEO
of I Do or Do a TagProduction, I'll do a tie, I'll
do a tish I love that.Thank you. I'll do a tag thank
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you for you know, showing mehow to pronounce it. But it's beautiful.
I'll do a TAGE Beautiful Productions EntertainmentIncorporated. And I'll do a Tige
nonprofit foundation and it's based right herein Los Angeles, California. You have
a wonderful, prestigious award show comingup called AFRO Awards, and I am
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so glad you are here today totalk with us about it, the celebration
and how you were able to celebrateus and give back to the community.
And thank you so much for beinghere. You guys give a warm welcome
to Taiwo. I duella. Thankyou said it right? Oh my god.
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So before we get into the show, we want to know something about
you. We want you to tellus all about you. Obviously you're from
Nigeria. Well I'm tired, willdo all. I'm a twin Oh wow,
yeah, I twin twin babo.Now I didn't know that that wasn't
in yet. Okay when when whenyou hit taiwa, it means twin in
Nigeria means twins. Yeah yeah,okay, so okay, that's my new
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word. I'm gonna say it.I'm gonna be saying your name a lot
from now on. That's cool.Well, I'm trying with do all life,
ni Joan Bond filmmaker. I mean, being the industries is thirty two
years. Okay. You know whenI was in college, it was ninety
one. You know, this youngboy that I wanted to just be into
entertainment. Yea. Then back thenwe used to watch Stop Doggy Dog and
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you see I'm a body lah yeah, not to you by nature. Yeah.
Then we're so crazy about everything aboutAmerica. Yeah yeah, So I
said, damn, this is whereI want to be. And then what
do you want to do? Movies? Music, entertainment? Okay, I
said, anymore coming to America,I want something like that. Then you
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look about the music water, sothese two things, I mean, you
just had to be in America andwhat's it. Then I said, I
know I'm gonna end up in Americaand I'm gonna live in Los Angeles,
you know, And the dreams startedfrom then, you know, I started
walking with some colleagues training getting intoit. On til ninety seven, I
made my first movie as a producer, director, actor, writer, and
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I was a break through from thatday to the date, it's all been
well that I've lost color of projectsI've done. So what what year did
you get When did you get here? Well, I started a Colorado film
school in two thousand and fourteen.Then I was still going back and forth.
Okay, then I decided to comeback here finally in two thousand and
seventeen. So yeah, it's time. Wow wow. So you get home,
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you get home, after you gothome, after come off from Yeah,
you know, I mean I travelwith a lot like I go to
almost for the country because I oncelive in Europe, I live in UK,
and now I'm finally in America.I really want to read where you
always wanted to be. So,you know, I watching you're exactly right
kind of being in uh in Nigeriaor Nigeria, watching what we do over
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here over here in the United States. And I've I've traveled a bit myself,
and I noticed that everywhere I've gonethat's there. Everyone's watching us,
and especially La you know, andthey're watching us. And so obviously you
were influenced enough to actually come hereand jump in. So now now that
you've been here and now that you'vebeen creating film and actually this awards show?
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Is it? Is it everything youdreamed of? It? Is it?
Is? It? Is? It? Is there a nostalgia there or
what was it like to just divein and actually get here to LA and
just start working okay after the dreamof being a great entertainer. Yes,
At the same time, I wouldbe like, these people are great people,
They've been doing a lot. Howdo they we give back to these
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people? How do we give themtheir flowers? So the dream came back
there, But I was like,I'm said the young man, it's just
a dream. Yeah, I neverknow if it's gonna come through or not,
but I know it's gonna come through. So twenty more years ago,
I said I want to have myown award in Los Angeles. I don't
know it's gonna come, but I'llkeep walking towards. Yeah. So when
you see me travel to Europe,it was just like a step from me.
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I would I wouldn't think it outthere. I'm gonna stay because I
know where I wanted to go whenI was in UK. The same thing.
I want some great award like theBFI. I'm pretties from me suit
to the award. I mean oneof the first African I won one of
the awards there, and I waslike, whoa, I keep telling them
this is not where I want tobe, right, I'm still going for
her, you know. So untilwhen I came to start in America to
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the outherand and fourteen a color outof film school, and I went back
and I said, I mean,yeah, I've I've gained this thing to
the point where I think I shouldmove down finally and chase my dream.
And then I moved here into Iwas seventeen. I was in Colorado.
But then I said, I'm notgonna come to a little without with I'll
prepare. You know, you can'tjust come to eight there and start coming
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up like a pup or start walkingup the street. I got to come
with the project. So I decidedto make my first movie in America right
there in Colorado called Ilu or IloAmerica, which is Land of America.
And that movie had the screen everywhereshut down, most of the cities and
all of that. Want some bigand a great awards and first it was
and all of that. So whenI'm moving here, I said, yes,
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two dreams I got making a moviein Hollywood and giving up the deciety
of them from in two thousand nineteen, I tried starting off where it was
like, where is it gonna comefrom? I was just getting me to
ask you that was next question?Where did all this funding come from?
You know? So I started strugglingand struggling and struggling, and like before
I shot my first movie when Iwas in Colorado, I have to say
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one of my property back home andNigeria because I said, what the house
doing that when I'm here? Yeah, and I needed some funded to kick
up the stuff. Now that's dedication. So I sold it off. Then
I hit it the first project.And now when I got to you in
two dollars nineteen, it was likeit's a lot of money. Were you
gonna get two and fifty thousand dollarsto do? And I watch your just
like that was gonna give it toyou. They don't see, they don't
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know what you've been doing before.Now I said, okay, I'll keep
out of it. Then unfortunately COVIDnineteen strike and then everything went down.
Yeah, so everything the dream wasthat, Yeah, I had to do
some side job, you know,doing care giving, you know, trying
to make sure a million and outof that. So last year was like
the COVID nineteen was getting away.Yeah, and some I that was constantly
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came back alive. You know,they would have to move on to Vegas
and all of the stuff. Ithink this is gonna walk. And I
just had to go for credit cards. I got some partners. I say,
you know what, let's do this. Can you just trust me with
your credit card? We'll pay back. And that was how we started the
last year. And that's wait aminute, who did you ask? Can
you just trust me with your creditcard? I have a couple of friends,
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friends, great friends, friends,So you knew when when when she
was saying she had soldiers she hador what she say she had her around
her general general? Yeah, Igot generous and and and these are not
new friends. These are these arepeople that you know, we've been seen,
but I see they share the sameviture. Yes, and like I
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said, all they say this Icannot do with all Might team. Yeah,
Might team made me. It's everything. Nolui Day, one of my
best man, what's his name newOlui Day? Shout him out again?
Knew out? Or Louis Day?Yes you know that. Yeah, now
fields you see that then Fatima MuhammedFatima and lots of them. You know
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when you shout out Katina, yeah, you when you when you talking about
say I want to do this,I'm like, okay, I got your
back. Yes, no funding yetwe're just going we unders do it.
And then you know, we wejust had to put their heads together and
like, let's still doing I'm trying. It's trash for y'all to like,
ah, it's you know, togetherfunding, but we knew the future is
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that and the future is good.And then it's a Lady of love,
you know. And then we justyou know, and here we are the
second edition Manifestation. That's it.Yeah, So he's in your wheelhouse in
regards to shooting films. Yeah,I mean and having to galvanize and get
the funds for the for the thefilm. So did you go to film
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school here or yeah? I amthe fact that the film school back in
Africa and kay I studied at callabout the film school? Okay, how
was that? Well? That wasthat was beautiful. In fact, that
was where I can find that.Yes, that can be a standard American
filmmaga Okay, because then I hadn'twork with they standards. You know,
I have to do everything the waythey do it here. What would do
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back in Africa is a little bitnot too strong like the way it is
here. Everything yet is detailed,so everything was the industry standard standish.
So you come in here letting this, start doing it how to do it,
and then you know, say,yes, I produced a film,
I mean one of my short film. Then what's like the best? I
guess what I had to work with? This green screen? What's my green
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screen? I was like, Iwanted to try something extra dinwal that I've
not been doing. So yeah,I did a big time seeing green screen
and it was like the best.Yeah, if you, if you,
if you got a good, goodeditor, they knows how to work the
green screen. Oh man, itlooks exactly. It looks like you're right
there. That was it, andI said, wow, I have arrived.
So so this was your first film, this was my film from yeah,
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yeah, yeah, yeah, that'sbeautiful. Well, you know,
we have a little bit of avideo that we put together for you,
just the oh mysh video to yourwork and to your show. So we're
gonna show the people what you've beenup to. Oh I let you see
I'd love to see that. WhenI with you time Fly. When I
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be along with you, time Fly, keep taking away he time Fly,
Think I wanna save with you timeFly, and I'm getta play with you
time Fly. When I be alongwith you, time Fly, keep taking
away Fly. Think I wanna savewith you time Fly, and I didn't
play with you. Can't say timeflies. When you're having fun, I
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say more my gloves, I actlike I do what I do. Nothing
good ever seems to light precious morning, can't get on back, never know
it times so in times prest bewin the time, like the time and
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get your shine. Beati, staylike the last one. Find no one
not fight. Someone treat you allright? Could it be you in might?
When I'm with you time Fly.When I be alone with you,
time Fly, keep taking away timeFly. Think I wanna save with you
time Fly, and I get toplay with June time Fly. When I
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be alone with you time Fly,keep taking away on Fly. Think I
wanna save with you time Fly,and I get to play with you,
he say, time Fly. Whenyou're in the right, I say my
time, Ain't I mother Scots?Mothering joyant company isn't enough if we turn
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into us. That's a fly.I never know it times. So in
times prest be white the time likea time and get your shine. Bet
he stay like last one, findthe one to find someone treat you all
right? It could it be you? It might When a time fly.
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When I be alone with you,time fly, keep taking away head,
time Fly, think I wanna savewith you Time Fly. Then I'm gonna
plame with you time Fly. WhenI be alone with you, time Fly,
keep taking away head, time Fly, think, I want to save
with you Time fly them and toplay with you. First week has fo
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somehow it time to spot. Nowwe're a match, striking the plane.
Where do we come? He onlyleave it in the sky. What did
you say? He lit? Hi? I wanna go high? Take me
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home, Take me home, takeme hid. Wanna go high. Let's
go higher. Let's go higher.Let's go higher. I wanna go high.
Take me hime, take me Hi, take me high, wanna go
high, Let's go high, Let'sgo hid. I got I love that.
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I love that all you. Congratulations, Thank you, cheers to you.
You know a successful show. Youknow we got water today, So
cheers to you and a successful show. And like we said, thank you
for honoring us. I want totalk a little more about the uh show
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itself. You know, I wasable to see the honorees man so many
honories that you have, like wow, how did you how did that happen?
And tell us more and tell ussomething about it. Yeah, like
I said, Uh, my team, I like my backbone, you know,
decide the fact that I ain't knowa couple of people. Yes,
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you know, my team will say, you know what, that's this guy
that has been giving back to thesociety, that's been doing, that's been
up and doing. Check him offand will you check him all? Be
like wow, this person has donea lot for the committee, it doesn't
lot for the you know people.So he decides to be rewarded, and
like we started doing a selection,you know, people bringing nomination and check
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it out and be short this personhow school WHEI in the water and you
know, gradually all of us cometogether as a team and then figure that
out and then how our selections.Yes, yes, I want to read
the press release that went out toall of the media outlets and even in
my show. So here we arethe second annual AFRO Awards celebrating Humanitarian Excellence,
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Hollywood, California. The prestigious secondannual AFRO Awards to is set to
grace the iconic Director's Guild of Americaon September the sixteenth, twenty twenty three.
Once again, this remarkable event hostedby Septemius the Great. Uh,
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let me see Messiah? Is itmassa massia taveras Anna Marie or lou and
funk La gok am I saying thatLago Ka promises to be a night filled
with glitz, glamour and inspiration.Again that data is September the sixteenth,
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twenty twenty three. The red carpetstarts at five thirty for everyone that needs
to walk and grace the Red carpet, and it ends at seven. But
the location is the Director's Guild ofAmerica, Hollywood, California. Yet again,
congratulations on your show. It's gonnabe a wonderful, spectacular event.
Yea, thank you. So walkus through a night at this at this
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extravaganza, Walk us through at night. What's gonna happen? First, what's
gonna happen? In the middle ofwhat's gonna happen? Last? Okay,
we're gonna start with we have aprevent show like a welcome show, a
party, put a little comfraend fashionshow and a Garland night just happening tomorrow.
Oh wow at Calabasa's man Shot.You know. Yeah, it's gonna
be a big one. That's gonnabe the introduction, but people can connect.
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Yes, and a Saturday, we'regonna start up with the red Coppet.
It's gonna be really glinket in Glunds. People are really looking forward to
that part. Yeah, I said, the Maiding edition it was crazy.
We have a lot a lot ofpeople, celebrities, you know. The
coppet was was beautiful. Okay,so everybody's looking forward to the second one
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again. Then by seven o'clock theshow stopped on the door. You know,
everybody we got out of performances.Different kind of performer again, artists
from Africare. We have the Micotartists, we have some try to showing
up these, we have some culturalyou know, we are beautiful thing that
I'm gonna keep until when you seeit on Saturday. So and then we
reward everybody that we needed to reward, you know, make them give your
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speech, you know how they feeland all of that. Then after then
we have a beautiful in them endof the old show, which is gonna
be after party. Okay, sowhat's gonna you know, So that's giving
brief but that sounds wonderful. Okay, and so now tell us about the
actual nominees. We I know,we get to see them all going across
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the screen, but uh, I'msorry, the honor is so uh,
tell us a little bit about someof the honorees that are being honored tonight,
Okay, Saturday night. Okay,I'll say I'll say I'll start with
someone like I'll start with someone likeLawson. It'll be instance that, you
know, the Mather that's giving alot of the society. It's done a
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lot for people, It's pushed alot. You know, he met the
industry has generation of generations that aredoing greatly. How can such persons need
to be you know? No,so we have so let's beyonces. We
have we haven't we have? Wehave the mayor of Los Angeles, the
mayor of Los Angeles, what's hisname? No, we don't know about
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caring Ba Iron, Lady caranba Okay, you know I've been, I've been,
I've known her when she was acongresswoman, and she's been doing a
lot and then I know when she'strying to be like I want to be
the mayor, when the election thatwas going on and the black female,
she's going through all of that andeventually coming out great. And ever since
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she came in, you know,we've seen a lot of adwork and changes
coming to you know, the selling, this counting, so she just has
to be that's congratulations, congratulations,heyst tell me please, please and please?
Okay, and who else I saw? I think I saw nineteen Keys
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on there, and he's like oneof my favorites. So well, nineteen
Keys. Everybody can tell about himbecause it ben seeing what he's been doing.
Okay Lee and all of that.So the moment my Tim says nine,
think are like, oh, Imean we're not gonna miss that.
Yeah, shout out nineteen kids.You then, uh uh Jason Lee.
Yeah, Jason Lee. Yes,congratulations Jason Lee. Beautiful guy doing a
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lot of stuff and all of that. We have. I think we have
lots of them. Oh my god, I think it was over thirty.
No, we have about twenty sixof them. Okay, twenty six of
them. Yeah, we we wewe have doctor Obin. Oh yeah,
doctor Olban, that's one of myfavorites. Shout out to you. Yeah
we have I'm I'm a washing teamthe people. Okay, awards we have.
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We have the King from Nigeria,one of the biggest. Congratulations.
This is huge. I'm so excited. Yeah, I gotta come, I
gotta be I gotta be there forsure. We also have a chiefs in
America. But he's the man behindthe energy changing you know, we are
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not switching to the energy saving systemsand all of that. Okay, he's
like the energy owner of Group Holdings. Wow, he's also going to be
honored. Okay, that's beautiful.We have not Telling the Beast. Now
we have fiel We's Brooks Feels uhField worst book. I'm gonna look it
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up. Okay, we gonna checkin real quick. No, not at
this moment. But I'm just spectralsolutions and spectral solutions okay, okay,
yeah, yeah, we we wehad that. We have one of the
young keys start that it's breaking out. It's big. You know, it's
called it, you know said theKhaki takes is huge, you know,
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all the Disney movies. It beingeverywhere what's his name, you know,
saying it okay, you know,yeah, we we didn't want it to
be like it's just only for adults. We want to see your own you
know, coming out, breaking outfrom the system too. And you know
that's that's another one that we have. We have. It's O Kenny.
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We have to rec to rec ismy man. That's another great guy there.
Okay. We we we have abouttwenty sixth Yes, a lot of
honorees. Ye, yes, congratulationsto you all. It's so many to
name. But you know what,twenty twenty Vision wants to shout you out
and give a huge congratulations to allthe honorees. You deserve it. You
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deserve it as you deserve it.And we think, uh, we thank
God for Taywo for doing this forus. And this is amazing. It's
only the second one and it's thisthis big. It's huge, Yeah,
because basically the the vision is heavy. Like I remember when I was back
in Africa, when we do ourhours, the whole African comes, even
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people from a married to come.Yeah. This part African People Film Festival,
sitting down people to make and thatwas like last year. In the
middle of the show, we haveto award it. Are youk Bible?
The man behind are you? Yeah? The man beyond the mind behind part
African Film Festival because for thirty threeyears okay, so you know people like
that. I've been seeing what they'vebeen doing the last thirty two years.
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So we just got to make surethat we you know, we have one
and a couple of people you knowlike that, and this is an unnot
thing that would keep going instead ofpeople that people have been kept on the
under the cape. We're gonna discoverthem. We're gonna give them their flower.
Like you've been doing a lot.Yeah. Yeah. So so do
you work with your twin Yeah,we we do some things I like sometime.
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But you know, he's small.On the other side, I'm I'm
on the on the stiment side.I'm like, I'm like the man that
want to be everywhere, just thecalm guy. Okay. So he's on
the executive side and you're on theentertainment side, or he's behind the scenes.
Okay, okay, okay, buthe is a part of this.
Oh okay, wow, wow.And what's his name? Kenney Kenny?
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Kenny Kenny, Yeah, okay,okay, shout out you Kenny Twin tywo
two, who came out first?Who's oldest? I'll look at you.
I know that you're the front runner. Do we have any callers or any
chatters today? Kimberly Chapel says sheloves the show. What's her name,
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Kimberly Chapel. Oh, she saysshe loves the show. You know Kimberly
Kimberly. Oh, Kimberly Chapel.I think, I think, I think,
I think it's almost sure. Imay know her. I may know
her, but she's she's on Facebook. Yeah, ok, Chrispeel, thanks
Kimberly for tuning in. We appreciateyou, guys. Any callers, toney
right, not not right now?That call in number? Let me see
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it's five six three nine nine ninethree six nine six. Any questions,
you know, any inquiries. Theyprobably want to know where they can get
tickets to this great extravagance. Yeah, well we decided to let to sell
ticket this come long. Oh okay. We made it strictly invitation invitational,
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which means you must know somebody,to know something about somebody before you can
can't get to the event. Becausewe want to make it classic. You
don't just want people to say,hey, because I have a sister,
by the tickets, so I haveright to come, and some people that
do not decide to come to thatkind of event our sister. Yeah,
So we make it like strictly byin potation. Okay, okay, exclusive,
So if I go, somebody thatknow me can come, because I
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know you're not gonna come with somebodythat does not walk to coming to you,
right right right, yes, yes, okay. So is it a
plus one one one one or isit guest list? You can say,
oh, I have ten guests,good people. Blah blah blah. You
said that, Yeah, you saidthat. I said that. Tyldwala said
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that my guest list could be tenpeople. Y'all hear that. This worldwide
web said that. That's so exciting. Thank you, thank you so much
for coming and sharing this with us. Saturday is the big event, and
then tomorrow is the you said,the red carpet Fashion show party Garland.
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Yes, where's that? Where's thatone going to be? Same places?
Oh, Calabasa's matching. You didn'tsay that, you know, we didn't.
We didn't disclose the address to everybody. I can't, but we just
people that we want to exclusive.You know, you get to you know,
you get to I get that.Yeah, I feel that. What
time's everything jumping off on Friday fifemorrow? Yeah yeah yeah five people? You
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are you are invited. I saidto you, you apply, that's it.
Okay. So anyone, anybody youwould like to shout out for helping
you, helping you put these thingstogether. I know you said you had
a strong team. Say their names, put them in the air. We
appreciate them too, and we understandthat without a team, things wouldn't go
like a well oiled machine. Sogo ahead and shout out your team.
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Okay, what I have a lotof them, but the basic one,
the main one. I start withNwa or Luji day man, that's my
mom right there. That's like mybackbone. Is a strong man. I
like catching a field shit. Shit'swonderful, pure person. Put him into
the world. You gotta go thereright Yeah. And I have Fati my
(47:43):
Muhammad ship. Yeah. You knowwhen it comes from I said, man,
I'm stuck. I need some funding. She'd be like, okay,
I'll see what to do about it. You know, I love that I
have queen'all. I have alot of a lot of them because so
many people are really vacuuming. Butyou know, I can't keep mentioning it
all the name yeah yeah, butI mean the team and people around me.
I appreciate all of'em. Yeah,all my team. Appreciate you all.
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Thank you right there right there onthe camera, all my team.
I appreciate you, all all mysupport as thank you so much. Thank
you, thank you, thank you. Keep my hand clapte. So I
know you have this fee just drivingas are coming up over the weekend.
But any what's next after that?Any film? Any more films can that
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we can look forward to. Whatdo you have going on? Okay?
Basically I have one big project,a big movie called King of California.
We should be feeling me by theend of the year next year. That's
coming. Then we have about twothat we're unreleased. We're still going to
see them as we're going to youknow, like film festivals. A yes,
which is one. The first oneis in lou America, which means
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the land of America. Okay,okay, I'm just doing what. Then
we have another one called Dreaming ofAmerica that is yet to be really,
so after those two then we getto the big one, which is the
King of Color. Okay, yeah, alright, alright, so I love
it. I love it, andso you'll be casting for that one too,
Okay, Okay, the is therea website or somewhere that someone can
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go one would want to go ifthey were trying to get ahold take time
comes I push it out. Butdefinitely my website, it's wych dot com.
Okay. Definitely AFRO Awards is wwdots Afro Awards do quark okay dot
org. Okay, So we're gonnawe're gonna find that and put that up
there for the people in a fewminutes. But right now, we have
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a little commercial that we would liketo show we are with our sponsors,
Tasties. We are gonna be kickingoff our late night with twenty twenty Vision
on the twenty first of September,and we're gonna bring you comedians and artists
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and it's gonna be us on thelate night. You know, we get
a little naughty late night, youknow. So we're gonna kick it off
at Tasties Lounge, and uh,right now, we just have a little
commercial from our sponsors played out fromme Tony, I know your time.
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You're the type that flies. Yeah. Yeah, we're gonna get your website
up there. So you know thisthis is this uh, this episode I
called it? Uh what did Icall it? The Honoring the honorees?
What did I call this episode?Tony? What did I call this episode?
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You called it Honorary Ambassadors of Greatness? Honorary and ambassadors of greatness.
That's what I called this episode.Shout out to you, honorary ambas ambassadors
of greatness, and shout out toyou, mister Edward said, shout out
to you, honorary honorary Ambassadors ofGreatness. I think this is that's appropriate
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for this episode. And so Ithink we have a song that would kind
of fit into this whole theme ofambassadors of greatness. Yes, what do
we do? Count? Blessing,we count, blessing, we count blessing
without further ado, I'm count,I'm count blessed, count countless, count
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blessing, countless, countless, countcountless, count countless, countless, Gun,
I'm blessed. Simple morning, I'llpick up no more stressing court,
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you have to sign my life nomore. What I learn him stressing and
missing neck and vindictive black got himstressing, stressing the man. You try
to tell him, but he saysthe bills, never listening. Wicked demons
in the ear used the system toget him. I'm ashore to every court,
all my kids. I'm get him. Get the Lord on my horn,
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no handy sick of time to getheat and siss professional person. The
rest of getting persons person count blessing, Yeah, the blessing new blessings replicate.
Used to fear for our pusson withthe super dost get a clod in
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the scheme. But think the locals. We need supt. Yes, we
are counting blessings over here. Blessedto have uh tywau Idwala in the house.
Blessed to have him honoring the legends, the living legends, giving everybody
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their flowers right now. That's rightup my alley. I love doing that.
And uh just just just blessed.Blessed to be in the building with
ed Wad la grant. That wasyour song, yes, but that that
wasn't at wad. That was whowas at Chief Louis bad which took out
Louie bag chief. Going back togay he he popped his head out every
time everything and then front Yeah forthe microphone in front of them young clop
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Hey. Yeah, well at therisk of sounder or being redundant. Yeah,
what was the inspiration beyond that song? Uh? Honestly, Uh,
I had just got shot. Ohand I had died in the hospital.
Oh my god, dude, andthey had to give me, uh eight
points of blood. Oh my god. Uh. I was laying there and
you know, they thought I wasdead. I popped up and I set
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up, and you know, sothe nurse after how long, I mean
how long I was? I wasover like six seven minutes, sixty seven
minutes. Her nurse walked in andas she was walking in, I popped
up and set up, and shesaid, you're supposed to be dead,
and I said, I rebuke you. Come on, give me the phone
so I can call my mom.Come on exactly. Yeah. So they
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I called my mother and I waslike, they want to do a blood
transfusion, but I don't trust nobodyin her. She was like, just
let him do a baby. Iwas like, all right, So,
yeah, I wrote that song layingon the couch. I just can that's
a that's another Yeah, that's athat's a it's it's it's a deep story.
But yeah, I just uh,I just woke up on her on
the death bed and God, youknow, he's likely not right now.
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And it actually wasn't your death bed, and it wasn't it was it was
a blessing, you know. SoGod is good all the time. Yeah,
that's the reason for that song.We praise God. Yeah, praise
God. We're glad you woke upto write that song. Yeah, you
gotta bring you gotta go over andcome back and tell about it, tell
us about it. Witness witness tous, so we'll know the love,
life and light is over there.But when it when it's not your time,
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you still got work to do.Yeah, I'll tell you what I
her. Uh it's called uh transmutation. M come on, talk about it.
Uh. Transmutation is uh, it'sit's it's it's when the spirit is
uh, the the the wh It'swhen the Holy Spirit is doing things.
(55:15):
You know. So it's it's calledtransmutation. Can't really get too deep into
because I that's a right job.Imo'll be going down there. Yeah,
like, but trans look up transmutation. It's it's, it's, it's it's
it's energy. It's it's where youtake the more or less sexual energy and
you used to be creative with it, you know what I'm saying. So
(55:37):
it's it's it's it's all in apart of transmutation. Okay, yea,
yeah, so it's it's it.It hasn't about to do with the game
gang and you know, and andthe positive and the negative energies and how
to take the negative energy and curbbirded into positive energy. How you take
negative negative energies like that situation.It was a negative situation where I took
it and you know, gratitude toto to the most high and then that
(55:57):
a song came. All right,that's transmutation. All right, yeah,
I'd like the song. I'm gladyou made it. Thank you, thank
you, counting blessons, we countingbleasans high. I love the song.
Thank you, thank you, thankyou, thank you, thank you,
thank you. Yeah. Yeah,for sure. Well it's come down to
those last few minutes of the show. I would like it if you guys
could, if you could leave thepeople with any last comment, is any
words of wisdom or advise anyone thatwants to come from you know, Nigeria
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and come here and actually start theirown film production company and start an award
show anything that you can give tothe people. What would you tell him,
I'll say, everybody has a dream, m but you just had to
look towards your dream, walk hardand keep on it. You definitely get
that. Uh huh right, Iconcur and what what are your handles?
(56:46):
Where can they uh find you?Okay, well, my possible under i
Taiwo or Dualla that's the first one. Well AFRO Award, it's gonna be
Afro about twenty twenty three. Andthe last one of my company is do
I touch I'll say, all right, okay, all right you guys.
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And then it's also at the bottomof the screen. You know, you
want to get in touch with himand with Tywo and Phil and see what
he's doing, what he's up to, and follow his wonderful journey from all
the way from Nigeria to Los Angeles. It is a compelling story. I
have to have you back so youcan finish telling us. I'm sure there's
more that we can dig into,but we just wanted to shine a light
(57:29):
on this major event that you're doingover the weekend. We wanted to,
you know, get people aware ofwhat's going on. And again we wanted
to give you your flowers as well. Oh thank you so thank you for
coming. And I'm excited. Iappreciate it. This is your kickoff to
your extravaganza. Got it. Thankyou for covering. Thank you? Okay,
(57:51):
and any last comments that you wantto leave the people with that why
uh yeah, you know, creators, anybody who's out there creative kind of
like he said, you know,you gotta dream. You know, you
gotta use all the energy, eventhe negative energy, and and and and
fall forward. Don't fall backwards.Come on, fall forward. At least
(58:13):
you're still going forward, you know. Then that's yourself off. Get up
and try again. That's it.Keep going good, go all right?
I like that fall forward. Myacting coach in Atlanta, uh used to
say that fall forward, that washis whole theme for the whole for the
whole class. Grill sawd you callit steal forward progress. Well, you
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guys, this has been another episodeof twenty twenty Vision. And again my
name is Amri the song Stress,and the message is what it always is,
love, life and light. Youguys, we might as well celebrate
one another. We might as well, celebrate each other. We can't wait
for anyone else to do it.It's okay to to to recognize yourself.
It's okay to wake up every morningand look in a mirror and tell yourself
(58:58):
that you are a winner. Lookat the mirror and tell yourself, I
am strong, I am prosperous,I am everything. That's okay. We
don't need permission to love and celebrateourselves, because that's where it starts.
The love starts from within, andthen you can spread it to everyone else
again. My name is a Mirrorthe songstress, and you can find me
(59:20):
on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora anywhereyou like to listen, and also Instagram,
YouTube, Facebook, anywhere you wantto look and remember. Stay focused,
nor regret, nort nor regret.Let me fix my crown baby like
(59:45):
dominoes. Yeah, it's going down, my feet off the ground, elevated.
You feel so when you help mysound and lie so the why you
like a red line that gonna neverchange and you sh no, why merge
(01:00:13):
into the other lady, I'm gettingup, I'm my next nor regrets making
hisses a reeth flass eggs. I'mgetting up, so next seconds sack guess
mother highs. So you know I'mblass. Ye, I'm getting my sex.
(01:00:37):
Non regrets, making hisses a reethflass, I'm get it. Take
seconds, sack guest five highs,so you know I'm blacks. Don't regret,
don't regret, don't regret. I'mso tatty. Maybe yeah, turned
(01:01:05):
on and tuned into that frequency.Gring love light and healing in my and
chin hear a major difference in theseminor melody. Hey my, don't know
why. Familiar faces and strange placesthey don't ever change. Uh know why
(01:01:30):
I'm merged into the other lad.I'm getting in club some my necks.
No regrets, making hiss of breath
Your shoe will go live in fiveseconds four three two one love Hope Radio.
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But we have mother somehow we dineto a spot. Now we're a
man striking the flame. Where dowe go from? Be only leaving in
the sky, letting in? Saytell him big, Hi, wanna go
(00:48):
high? Take me higher, takeme higher, take me higher. Wanna
go higher and go higher, andgo higher and go higher. Wanda,
phone home, take me home,take me home, take me home.
(01:08):
Hey, hey, hey you guys. Yes, yes, and yes we
maybe I can hear another Thursday.That's right, we're on. We are
on Thursdays from here on out,from six o'clock to about seven pm,
maybe eight sometimes you know, we'llfigure it out. But welcome back to
twenty twenty vision. Yes, yes, yes, yes, I'm excited as
(01:37):
always because I am in my happyplace, my happy space, and uh
I have a wonder some wonderful guests. As always, I always bring you
guys the best, and like Isay, I can't help because all my
friends are dope. So anyway,today, before we get started, you
guys know how I like to do. I want to give my shout out.
(02:00):
First of all, I want tocontinuously forever and for always, shout
out my son Joshua Bruce, whois permeating through the universe as we speak
and shedding a lot of love andlight to us all all of his loved
ones, his brothers, his mommy, his children, his friends, his
(02:22):
producers, his loved ones. Youknow, shout out to Joshua Bruce.
Okay, and also I want toshout out the Comedy Awards Show. I
went, Yes, Uh what wasthat day did I go? Tuesday?
What day did I go? Whatday did I go to these Comedy Awards?
Tuesday? Tuesday? Okay, soTuesday I went to the Comedy Awards
(02:46):
Show? And uh, what isit called? Because I'm losing my mom.
Comics rock, comedy, comics,comics rock, what else? Comics
rock tour, Comics rock tour,it I know, but it was the
awards show. It was comics,Uh, comics rock Awards Show. I
gotta get this right because this doesn'teven sound right coming on my mouth right
(03:08):
now. But anyway, Hope Flood, she was our gracious, gracious host
and producer of the show. Wehad an awesome and amazing time. I
got to grace the stage. Igot to sing her favorite song by me
called No Regrets. It just becamelike her favorite song, which last Thursday.
So she said, girl, comesing that song for me. So
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I did and had a wonderful time. They honored Dale hugely, U Lunel,
Kim Cole's, Kim Whitley, JoeTory, Buddy Lewis. It was
so many in the house. Idon't want to forget anybody. It was
so many, many, wonderful,amazing, Chris Spencer, Speedy, it
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was so many. My god,it was like a class reunion. Uh
what's her name, Laura? What'sher uh? Uh, Miss Laura?
She was there, Dad. Itwas so many. It was so many.
But anyway, we had an amazing, amazing time. But you know,
let me stop trying to talk aboutit, and let's show a little
video from the night of the Stress. Now you want the feeling, you
(04:35):
know, ass get it to me. I give it. Hi. My
name is Amy or the Songstress,and I'm here at the Comics Rock Convention.
We're at their war ceremony and todayI have the pleasure of opening up
for this major awards here at onecelebrating phenomenal, legendary but comedians living legends
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like Dale Hughley, Lunel and OmarGooding. So many people to make produced
by Hope Blood. I am soexcited to be here today. I'm not
here on twenty twen Vision business,but you know, twenty twenty Vision is
back on our Thursday. Hope Bloodcame by a last Thursday at Thursday,
filled our hearts with laughter and inreturn, I'm coming here to see no
regrets. I then the building,twenty twenty Vision is in the building.
(05:20):
Shout out to cheaply beds, bigrook baby, Eduard La Grants, shout
out, and you know what,stay focused, love like and like my
baby night time, and let mefix my ground like dominos. Yeah,
(06:33):
just going down my feet off theground elevated. You feel so when you
hear my sound and lies all right? Yeah, that was just a little
(07:09):
highlight real of the things that wenton that night. I had a wonderful
time. I'll be showing that onall of my pages, you know,
from here on out. But youcan always go back and watch it again
on YouTube or Facebook, because rightnow we are live. Hello Facebook,
lad, Hello YouTube lad, HelloTwitter, Hello ig Behind the scenes,
nosies, how how are how youguys doing anyway? So you guys can
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go back and watch that at anytime. But you know what, let's
get to those TikTok videos cause wegot a lot of content to show today.
So let's get to those TikTok videos. Let's take a look at California.
It's just brad all I got overthe food eod so hellooo how did
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they even go out? Yeah?I need me so oh my wow,
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oh my god. The story isempty. If you have not been following
what's going on in La Every storeis getting robbed, every single one.
Look at this thirty to fifty people. My thing is who is organizing this?
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Thirty to fifty people going in atone time? Here's the group checked
what apple? You guys want?Thirty to fifty people pulling up to rob
store. That is not a coincidence. Everybody wearing black, everybody's in sync,
everybody is working together. They hada strategic plan to rob these stores.
This is just one. If youcould check the internet right now,
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all these stores are getting robbing LaLouis, Vatons, everywhere, just everywhere.
They're getting hit. But the thingis people who are robbing them,
they're growing in volume. What thehell can you possibly do when this thirty
to fifty seventy sixty people running intothe mall stealing everything. What is going
on? It's a oh right,So I showed that one just because I
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wanted to talk about it. Iremember, like, uh foosed about a
month or two months ago, theyhad you know, passed the law in
California that they're not coming out foranything that's not you know, any non
violent crimes, any fevery or breakins or entering uh in California, they're
not gonna come out. They're notgonna take it serious. And you know,
people are getting a slap on thewrist for it, you know,
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if anything. And so since then, it's like been this wave of crime.
And then they've been like the mob, like a mob of people going
into these stores robbing like what Imean they had an assembly line too,
what do you mean? Okay,So you didn't when they first in the
store, they they were, uh, there was the one guy that were
going back to grab everything. Thenhe would put it in the court and
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the other dude would grab the court, push it out to the dude of
the god push it out the door. And didn't see that. I saw
it, but I didn't. Yeah, they had assembly line going on,
mapped it out that it's got real. I feel like the uh you know,
the mom and pop shops, theboutiques, the private owned you know,
uh companies. I think they're reallygonna suffer the worst. It's not
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gonna be the big corporate you knowwhat, what do you think? Uh?
Well, I think it's just gettingout of an Actually, yeah,
something need to be doing fast forsure. And so I mean, is
this is this a you guys thinkthis is our answer to defund the cops?
Like what do you do you think? Well? Uh, I mean,
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because they're saying like, we'll justyou know, I think it's just
they're just trying to smack them inthe face with something. You know,
you mean, smack who in theface the police? You know. So,
since y'are not coming out to nonviolent crimes, we're gonna go in
here with no guns. We're gonnaput a mask on, We're not gonna
harass anybody. We're just gonna takeyour stuff. Do you think the the
mob robbings, you think they're theanswer to the police. I don't think
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it's an answer to it. Ithink they're just taking advantage of Hey,
the police is not coming. That'sthat's just the bottom line. The police
is not coming. And if ifit's thirty to sixty of us brenda up
in her, the people who workin her that they're only getting paid seventeen
eighteen thousand dollar, they're not goingto rest their life of this. Yeah,
I understand, So I concur andyeah, yeah, well I don't
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know. I feel like, likeyou said, we have to do something
about it. We have to figureit out. Sometimes we have to police
ourselves, you know. Yeah,yeah, and protect ourselves. It's time
for everybody to get it. Well, did I say that you're almost city?
You're almost city? Say? Okay, next TikTok video tell me,
(12:35):
oh, I'm sorry. Who wasresponsible for that one? Uh aj aj
King underscore? Bishop, okay ajKing underscore, Bishop, shout out to
you. Thank you for submitting thatone. Uh next p please I told
let motherfucker I was alpha, butI didn't tell him. I surrounded myself
with generals. These weren't soldiers.These were generals. Surround myself with intellectual
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good people, long time friends,no new people. Oh my god,
I like I like that one.I like that one too, she said,
no new friends. I man,I I did adapt that philosophy for
a minute, the no new friendphilosophy. But I find well, me
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personally, I had to get ridof a lot of old friends, and
so the new ones are kind ofmore welcome now in my life at this
point in time. But I amsurrounded by generals. Don't get it twisted,
you know for sure, Uh,you got some new friends, ty,
whoa, whoa? I got morefrom new friends. And you're are
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you open to meeting new friends?Yeah? Yeah, I think you know,
new friends could be a breath offresh air. Yeah yeah, okay,
I think so. I think shewas being in it more in uh
a way of you know how peopleare to hang out and kick it,
you know, no new friends likethat, because that's where all the all
the all the ruggets starts up,you know, hanging out just kicking it.
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You know, that's that's the nonew friends like I don't know she
kicking it? Do you think shekicking it? You think she's still hanging
out and kicking it. That's whatThat's what she meant, No new friends.
I'm not kicking it no more.I'm not hanging out no more.
All right, Okay, I cango for that. Yeah. Well,
what we got next? Tony bitoh bonfire Oh you wanted to say that,
totally wanted to say that. Sayit louder well, bonafide boss bitches
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a bonafid boss bitches up in here. Okay, shout out to you guys,
Vona fire boss bitches. I loveit all right, Well we got
next. They thought they were clothed. That one was quick. But did
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you see that it was the aliencup or whatever cloth? Oh? Oh
yeah, when I was walking acrosshe was hanging out a turb could I
don't know. That's what That's whatI want to talk about, Like you
know, Facebook land YouTube. Didy'all see that? Like, I don't
know. I don't know. Idon't know if that's is it the dome
that we're in under or is itthe aliens? For real? What's going
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on? I'm gonna say this withOkay, you gotta understand. You know
what a green screen is, rightbecause you've got green screens and you also
got blue screens. You know,the sky is completely blue and you can
reflect anything off of the sky.You know what I'm saying. If you
got a big enough projector you canyou can reflect anything off of It's just
like he was in a green screen. Okay, but I mean it looked
real, right, Tony, Whatyou think you ever seen? No,
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this is his wheelhouse. That's whyI'm saying. You heard of the blue
screen, right, yeah, becauseyou can do the same thing with blue
screens. Paranormal activity is his wheelhouse. So what do you think? I
mean, unless they prove it wrong, wrong, Yeah, huh, unless
they prove it wrong. I don'tdisbelieve or believe either way. Okay,
(15:56):
Okay. The recording looks real,yes, like life recording. So I
mean, yeah, yeah, youthink it's real? Okay, it could
be. I'm just ready to seethem. I personally haven't seen one yet.
Have you seen one? To me? Have you seen yet? You
did see the UF see, Ihaven't seen either, a lot of people
around me have. I'm ready.Let's go, I mean, ay,
(16:18):
I'm ready. I don't think they'rehere. I don't think they're here to
hurt us or do anything. Ithink these little et ones that they're showing
us, I think they've been here. Those are old. You. Have
you guys seen the little in Mexico? Yeah, the little et skeletons that
they're showing us. Yeah, they'rethey've been here. They're showing us some
old foot I want to see thereal the real deal. I want to
see it, and I want totalk, you know, I want to
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commune. Yeah, you know,I wanta have a good time. Okay,
all right, you guys, withoutfurther ado, let's get into the
show. First of all, Iwant to speak to our co host that
I told you that's going to behanging out with us for the next few
weeks. It's our special guest bythe name of Edward la Grand. That's
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that's his, uh, one ofhis. It's my government, that's his
government, that's his that's his namename. We'll refer to him as many
other names throughout the time that he'svisiting with us during these weeks for the
show. But as of right now, we're gonna talk to mister EdWay.
There. Can we talk to Edward? He's here, okay, uh jokes.
(17:29):
So last time we were here,you were telling us that you you
served in the military. You weretelling us that you got into music because
of your mother, and you weresaying that you just had a natural knack
for it, a love for it. I was saying that you're great at
it. You also do production,you also do engineering, uh, film
(17:56):
videography and uh yeah you talk.You can write scripts? You write scripts?
Yeah, I can write scripts.You got some books? I got
one hundred and eighty nine books thatI wrote. Yes she did. Yes,
she just needs a publishing Yes shedid. So in a perfect world,
what would Edwild want to do withall of that talent that he has.
(18:17):
It's the media company, okay,production company. I was a media
company, and you know, Iwould want to get these books publishing like
a sap. That would be thefirst thing I do. You know,
the music is a past when Iwould love to get the music down,
you know, but a forefront wouldbe uh, you know, just getting
the media company and production company offthe ground and getting these books publish because
I think these books gonna help alot of people. You don't, Okay,
it's real life, you know.Uh what do you mean? How
(18:38):
do you mean? I don't.I don't. I wouldn't say that it's
religious. It's it's spiritual, youknow, just you know, uh for
those who are on a spiritual journey, you know, like just just I'm
not gonna say I'm a guru atit or anything. Just from my own
life experiences, coming from my backgroundand things that I've been through in life.
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Uh, I feel like it wouldhelp people in a similar walk.
Okay, so you know everybody's walk. It's the different. It's different,
but it's similar. You know,you have those those uh you know,
you got the hard life, yougot the good life, you you got
the uh you have, uh thelife of individuals who have uh have the
street life, you know, thenyou they got the the dope life,
(19:21):
you know, selling drugs, andthen you got you know where I come
from. I come from my bodyguardbackground. So it's a you know,
it's a different it's a transition fromall of those things, even in the
military. But I think those thebooks that I wrote would help in a
lot of different areas because it's helpso from U. So you were able
to take a spiritual uh journey.Okay, oh my god. So it's
a spiritual journey through all those walksof life that you mentioned, m and
(19:44):
and and and and it's the thethe spirit that this guiding guiding you through
it, you know. So it'sit's just a these series of books what
you call him a kind of ablueprint to UH life. I wouldn't call
it a blueprint. I would callit a you know what, Yeah,
I will call it a blueprint.Okay, yeah, I will call it
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a blueprint. Well, as Isay, we're gonna dig in your story
throughout the uh the rest of theseweeks. But just you know, thank
you for stopping in sharing with us, sharing your journey with us. You're
compelling story. It gets deeper.They got to hold on today chairs.
But today we have a special guestand we can't wait to celebrate him.
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And you know, he celebrates us, so we can't can't wait to give
back to him in celebration. SoI want you to get on this train
with me and au co host thisthing and help me interview our brother over
here. Yeah, okay, good, good, Okay, Now let's get
into this interview without further ado.We wanted to introduce you to tai Wo
(20:48):
Adulla. Yes, he is thefounder and the president of the AFRO Awards.
He is a Nigerian born entertainment executiveand filmmaker. He is the CEO
of I Do or Do a TagProduction, I'll do a tie, I'll
do a tish I love that.Thank you. I'll do a tag thank
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you for you know, showing mehow to pronounce it. But it's beautiful.
I'll do a TAGE Beautiful Productions EntertainmentIncorporated. And I'll do a Tige
nonprofit foundation and it's based right herein Los Angeles, California. You have
a wonderful, prestigious award show comingup called AFRO Awards, and I am
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so glad you are here today totalk with us about it, the celebration
and how you were able to celebrateus and give back to the community.
And thank you so much for beinghere. You guys give a warm welcome
to Taiwo. I duella. Thankyou said it right? Oh my god.
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So before we get into the show, we want to know something about
you. We want you to tellus all about you. Obviously you're from
Nigeria. Well I'm tired, willdo all. I'm a twin Oh wow,
yeah, I twin twin babo.Now I didn't know that that wasn't
in yet. Okay when when whenyou hit taiwa, it means twin in
Nigeria means twins. Yeah yeah,okay, so okay, that's my new
(22:18):
word. I'm gonna say it.I'm gonna be saying your name a lot
from now on. That's cool.Well, I'm trying with do all life,
ni Joan Bond filmmaker. I mean, being the industries is thirty two
years. Okay. You know whenI was in college, it was ninety
one. You know, this youngboy that I wanted to just be into
entertainment. Yea. Then back thenwe used to watch Stop Doggy Dog and
(22:41):
you see I'm a body lah yeah, not to you by nature. Yeah.
Then we're so crazy about everything aboutAmerica. Yeah yeah, So I
said, damn, this is whereI want to be. And then what
do you want to do? Movies? Music, entertainment? Okay, I
said, anymore coming to America,I want something like that. Then you
(23:03):
look about the music water, sothese two things, I mean, you
just had to be in America andwhat's it. Then I said, I
know I'm gonna end up in Americaand I'm gonna live in Los Angeles,
you know, And the dreams startedfrom then, you know, I started
walking with some colleagues training getting intoit. On til ninety seven, I
made my first movie as a producer, director, actor, writer, and
(23:26):
I was a break through from thatday to the date, it's all been
well that I've lost color of projectsI've done. So what what year did
you get When did you get here? Well, I started a Colorado film
school in two thousand and fourteen.Then I was still going back and forth.
Okay, then I decided to comeback here finally in two thousand and
seventeen. So yeah, it's time. Wow wow. So you get home,
(23:48):
you get home, after you gothome, after come off from Yeah,
you know, I mean I travelwith a lot like I go to
almost for the country because I oncelive in Europe, I live in UK,
and now I'm finally in America.I really want to read where you
always wanted to be. So,you know, I watching you're exactly right
kind of being in uh in Nigeriaor Nigeria, watching what we do over
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here over here in the United States. And I've I've traveled a bit myself,
and I noticed that everywhere I've gonethat's there. Everyone's watching us,
and especially La you know, andthey're watching us. And so obviously you
were influenced enough to actually come hereand jump in. So now now that
you've been here and now that you'vebeen creating film and actually this awards show?
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Is it? Is it everything youdreamed of? It? Is it?
Is? It? Is? It? Is there a nostalgia there or
what was it like to just divein and actually get here to LA and
just start working okay after the dreamof being a great entertainer. Yes,
At the same time, I wouldbe like, these people are great people,
They've been doing a lot. Howdo they we give back to these
(24:59):
people? How do we give themtheir flowers? So the dream came back
there, But I was like,I'm said the young man, it's just
a dream. Yeah, I neverknow if it's gonna come through or not,
but I know it's gonna come through. So twenty more years ago,
I said I want to have myown award in Los Angeles. I don't
know it's gonna come, but I'llkeep walking towards. Yeah. So when
you see me travel to Europe,it was just like a step from me.
(25:23):
I would I wouldn't think it outthere. I'm gonna stay because I
know where I wanted to go whenI was in UK. The same thing.
I want some great award like theBFI. I'm pretties from me suit
to the award. I mean oneof the first African I won one of
the awards there, and I waslike, whoa, I keep telling them
this is not where I want tobe, right, I'm still going for
her, you know. So untilwhen I came to start in America to
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the outherand and fourteen a color outof film school, and I went back
and I said, I mean,yeah, I've I've gained this thing to
the point where I think I shouldmove down finally and chase my dream.
And then I moved here into Iwas seventeen. I was in Colorado.
But then I said, I'm notgonna come to a little without with I'll
prepare. You know, you can'tjust come to eight there and start coming
(26:07):
up like a pup or start walkingup the street. I got to come
with the project. So I decidedto make my first movie in America right
there in Colorado called Ilu or IloAmerica, which is Land of America.
And that movie had the screen everywhereshut down, most of the cities and
all of that. Want some bigand a great awards and first it was
and all of that. So whenI'm moving here, I said, yes,
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two dreams I got making a moviein Hollywood and giving up the deciety
of them from in two thousand nineteen, I tried starting off where it was
like, where is it gonna comefrom? I was just getting me to
ask you that was next question?Where did all this funding come from?
You know? So I started strugglingand struggling and struggling, and like before
I shot my first movie when Iwas in Colorado, I have to say
(26:52):
one of my property back home andNigeria because I said, what the house
doing that when I'm here? Yeah, and I needed some funded to kick
up the stuff. Now that's dedication. So I sold it off. Then
I hit it the first project.And now when I got to you in
two dollars nineteen, it was likeit's a lot of money. Were you
gonna get two and fifty thousand dollarsto do? And I watch your just
like that was gonna give it toyou. They don't see, they don't
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know what you've been doing before.Now I said, okay, I'll keep
out of it. Then unfortunately COVIDnineteen strike and then everything went down.
Yeah, so everything the dream wasthat, Yeah, I had to do
some side job, you know,doing care giving, you know, trying
to make sure a million and outof that. So last year was like
the COVID nineteen was getting away.Yeah, and some I that was constantly
(27:38):
came back alive. You know,they would have to move on to Vegas
and all of the stuff. Ithink this is gonna walk. And I
just had to go for credit cards. I got some partners. I say,
you know what, let's do this. Can you just trust me with
your credit card? We'll pay back. And that was how we started the
last year. And that's wait aminute, who did you ask? Can
you just trust me with your creditcard? I have a couple of friends,
(28:02):
friends, great friends, friends,So you knew when when when she
was saying she had soldiers she hador what she say she had her around
her general general? Yeah, Igot generous and and and these are not
new friends. These are these arepeople that you know, we've been seen,
but I see they share the sameviture. Yes, and like I
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said, all they say this Icannot do with all Might team. Yeah,
Might team made me. It's everything. Nolui Day, one of my
best man, what's his name newOlui Day? Shout him out again?
Knew out? Or Louis Day?Yes you know that. Yeah, now
fields you see that then Fatima MuhammedFatima and lots of them. You know
(28:45):
when you shout out Katina, yeah, you when you when you talking about
say I want to do this,I'm like, okay, I got your
back. Yes, no funding yetwe're just going we unders do it.
And then you know, we wejust had to put their heads together and
like, let's still doing I'm trying. It's trash for y'all to like,
ah, it's you know, togetherfunding, but we knew the future is
(29:06):
that and the future is good.And then it's a Lady of love,
you know. And then we justyou know, and here we are the
second edition Manifestation. That's it.Yeah, So he's in your wheelhouse in
regards to shooting films. Yeah,I mean and having to galvanize and get
the funds for the for the thefilm. So did you go to film
(29:29):
school here or yeah? I amthe fact that the film school back in
Africa and kay I studied at callabout the film school? Okay, how
was that? Well? That wasthat was beautiful. In fact, that
was where I can find that.Yes, that can be a standard American
filmmaga Okay, because then I hadn'twork with they standards. You know,
I have to do everything the waythey do it here. What would do
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back in Africa is a little bitnot too strong like the way it is
here. Everything yet is detailed,so everything was the industry standard standish.
So you come in here letting this, start doing it how to do it,
and then you know, say,yes, I produced a film,
I mean one of my short film. Then what's like the best? I
guess what I had to work with? This green screen? What's my green
(30:11):
screen? I was like, Iwanted to try something extra dinwal that I've
not been doing. So yeah,I did a big time seeing green screen
and it was like the best.Yeah, if you, if you,
if you got a good, goodeditor, they knows how to work the
green screen. Oh man, itlooks exactly. It looks like you're right
there. That was it, andI said, wow, I have arrived.
So so this was your first film, this was my film from yeah,
(30:33):
yeah, yeah, yeah, that'sbeautiful. Well, you know,
we have a little bit of avideo that we put together for you,
just the oh mysh video to yourwork and to your show. So we're
gonna show the people what you've beenup to. Oh I let you see
I'd love to see that. WhenI with you time Fly. When I
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be along with you, time Fly, keep taking away he time Fly,
Think I wanna save with you timeFly, and I'm getta play with you
time Fly. When I be alongwith you, time Fly, keep taking
away Fly. Think I wanna savewith you time Fly, and I didn't
play with you. Can't say timeflies. When you're having fun, I
(31:33):
say more my gloves, I actlike I do what I do. Nothing
good ever seems to light precious morning, can't get on back, never know
it times so in times prest bewin the time, like the time and
(31:53):
get your shine. Beati, staylike the last one. Find no one
not fight. Someone treat you allright? Could it be you in might?
When I'm with you time Fly.When I be alone with you,
time Fly, keep taking away timeFly. Think I wanna save with you
time Fly, and I get toplay with June time Fly. When I
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be alone with you time Fly,keep taking away on Fly. Think I
wanna save with you time Fly,and I get to play with you,
he say, time Fly. Whenyou're in the right, I say my
time, Ain't I mother Scots?Mothering joyant company isn't enough if we turn
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into us. That's a fly.I never know it times. So in
times prest be white the time likea time and get your shine. Bet
he stay like last one, findthe one to find someone treat you all
right? It could it be you? It might When a time fly.
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When I be alone with you,time fly, keep taking away head,
time Fly, think I wanna savewith you Time Fly. Then I'm gonna
plame with you time Fly. WhenI be alone with you, time Fly,
keep taking away head, time Fly, think, I want to save
with you Time fly them and toplay with you. First week has fo
(33:47):
somehow it time to spot. Nowwe're a match, striking the plane.
Where do we come? He onlyleave it in the sky. What did
you say? He lit? Hi? I wanna go high? Take me
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home, Take me home, takeme hid. Wanna go high. Let's
go higher. Let's go higher.Let's go higher. I wanna go high.
Take me hime, take me Hi, take me high, wanna go
high, Let's go high, Let'sgo hid. I got I love that.
(34:39):
I love that all you. Congratulations, Thank you, cheers to you.
You know a successful show. Youknow we got water today, So
cheers to you and a successful show. And like we said, thank you
for honoring us. I want totalk a little more about the uh show
(35:00):
itself. You know, I wasable to see the honorees man so many
honories that you have, like wow, how did you how did that happen?
And tell us more and tell ussomething about it. Yeah, like
I said, Uh, my team, I like my backbone, you know,
decide the fact that I ain't knowa couple of people. Yes,
(35:21):
you know, my team will say, you know what, that's this guy
that has been giving back to thesociety, that's been doing, that's been
up and doing. Check him offand will you check him all? Be
like wow, this person has donea lot for the committee, it doesn't
lot for the you know people.So he decides to be rewarded, and
like we started doing a selection,you know, people bringing nomination and check
(35:43):
it out and be short this personhow school WHEI in the water and you
know, gradually all of us cometogether as a team and then figure that
out and then how our selections.Yes, yes, I want to read
the press release that went out toall of the media outlets and even in
my show. So here we arethe second annual AFRO Awards celebrating Humanitarian Excellence,
(36:07):
Hollywood, California. The prestigious secondannual AFRO Awards to is set to
grace the iconic Director's Guild of Americaon September the sixteenth, twenty twenty three.
Once again, this remarkable event hostedby Septemius the Great. Uh,
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let me see Messiah? Is itmassa massia taveras Anna Marie or lou and
funk La gok am I saying thatLago Ka promises to be a night filled
with glitz, glamour and inspiration.Again that data is September the sixteenth,
(36:49):
twenty twenty three. The red carpetstarts at five thirty for everyone that needs
to walk and grace the Red carpet, and it ends at seven. But
the location is the Director's Guild ofAmerica, Hollywood, California. Yet again,
congratulations on your show. It's gonnabe a wonderful, spectacular event.
Yea, thank you. So walkus through a night at this at this
(37:14):
extravaganza, Walk us through at night. What's gonna happen? First, what's
gonna happen? In the middle ofwhat's gonna happen? Last? Okay,
we're gonna start with we have aprevent show like a welcome show, a
party, put a little comfraend fashionshow and a Garland night just happening tomorrow.
Oh wow at Calabasa's man Shot.You know. Yeah, it's gonna
be a big one. That's gonnabe the introduction, but people can connect.
(37:37):
Yes, and a Saturday, we'regonna start up with the red Coppet.
It's gonna be really glinket in Glunds. People are really looking forward to
that part. Yeah, I said, the Maiding edition it was crazy.
We have a lot a lot ofpeople, celebrities, you know. The
coppet was was beautiful. Okay,so everybody's looking forward to the second one
(38:00):
again. Then by seven o'clock theshow stopped on the door. You know,
everybody we got out of performances.Different kind of performer again, artists
from Africare. We have the Micotartists, we have some try to showing
up these, we have some culturalyou know, we are beautiful thing that
I'm gonna keep until when you seeit on Saturday. So and then we
reward everybody that we needed to reward, you know, make them give your
(38:22):
speech, you know how they feeland all of that. Then after then
we have a beautiful in them endof the old show, which is gonna
be after party. Okay, sowhat's gonna you know, So that's giving
brief but that sounds wonderful. Okay, and so now tell us about the
actual nominees. We I know,we get to see them all going across
(38:43):
the screen, but uh, I'msorry, the honor is so uh,
tell us a little bit about someof the honorees that are being honored tonight,
Okay, Saturday night. Okay,I'll say I'll say I'll start with
someone like I'll start with someone likeLawson. It'll be instance that, you
know, the Mather that's giving alot of the society. It's done a
(39:04):
lot for people, It's pushed alot. You know, he met the
industry has generation of generations that aredoing greatly. How can such persons need
to be you know? No,so we have so let's beyonces. We
have we haven't we have? Wehave the mayor of Los Angeles, the
mayor of Los Angeles, what's hisname? No, we don't know about
(39:30):
caring Ba Iron, Lady caranba Okay, you know I've been, I've been,
I've known her when she was acongresswoman, and she's been doing a
lot and then I know when she'strying to be like I want to be
the mayor, when the election thatwas going on and the black female,
she's going through all of that andeventually coming out great. And ever since
(39:52):
she came in, you know,we've seen a lot of adwork and changes
coming to you know, the selling, this counting, so she just has
to be that's congratulations, congratulations,heyst tell me please, please and please?
Okay, and who else I saw? I think I saw nineteen Keys
(40:12):
on there, and he's like oneof my favorites. So well, nineteen
Keys. Everybody can tell about himbecause it ben seeing what he's been doing.
Okay Lee and all of that.So the moment my Tim says nine,
think are like, oh, Imean we're not gonna miss that.
Yeah, shout out nineteen kids.You then, uh uh Jason Lee.
Yeah, Jason Lee. Yes,congratulations Jason Lee. Beautiful guy doing a
(40:37):
lot of stuff and all of that. We have. I think we have
lots of them. Oh my god, I think it was over thirty.
No, we have about twenty sixof them. Okay, twenty six of
them. Yeah, we we wewe have doctor Obin. Oh yeah,
doctor Olban, that's one of myfavorites. Shout out to you. Yeah
we have I'm I'm a washing teamthe people. Okay, awards we have.
(41:05):
We have the King from Nigeria,one of the biggest. Congratulations.
This is huge. I'm so excited. Yeah, I gotta come, I
gotta be I gotta be there forsure. We also have a chiefs in
America. But he's the man behindthe energy changing you know, we are
(41:27):
not switching to the energy saving systemsand all of that. Okay, he's
like the energy owner of Group Holdings. Wow, he's also going to be
honored. Okay, that's beautiful.We have not Telling the Beast. Now
we have fiel We's Brooks Feels uhField worst book. I'm gonna look it
(41:47):
up. Okay, we gonna checkin real quick. No, not at
this moment. But I'm just spectralsolutions and spectral solutions okay, okay,
yeah, yeah, we we wehad that. We have one of the
young keys start that it's breaking out. It's big. You know, it's
called it, you know said theKhaki takes is huge, you know,
(42:07):
all the Disney movies. It beingeverywhere what's his name, you know,
saying it okay, you know,yeah, we we didn't want it to
be like it's just only for adults. We want to see your own you
know, coming out, breaking outfrom the system too. And you know
that's that's another one that we have. We have. It's O Kenny.
(42:30):
We have to rec to rec ismy man. That's another great guy there.
Okay. We we we have abouttwenty sixth Yes, a lot of
honorees. Ye, yes, congratulationsto you all. It's so many to
name. But you know what,twenty twenty Vision wants to shout you out
and give a huge congratulations to allthe honorees. You deserve it. You
(42:52):
deserve it as you deserve it.And we think, uh, we thank
God for Taywo for doing this forus. And this is amazing. It's
only the second one and it's thisthis big. It's huge, Yeah,
because basically the the vision is heavy. Like I remember when I was back
in Africa, when we do ourhours, the whole African comes, even
(43:14):
people from a married to come.Yeah. This part African People Film Festival,
sitting down people to make and thatwas like last year. In the
middle of the show, we haveto award it. Are youk Bible?
The man behind are you? Yeah? The man beyond the mind behind part
African Film Festival because for thirty threeyears okay, so you know people like
that. I've been seeing what they'vebeen doing the last thirty two years.
(43:36):
So we just got to make surethat we you know, we have one
and a couple of people you knowlike that, and this is an unnot
thing that would keep going instead ofpeople that people have been kept on the
under the cape. We're gonna discoverthem. We're gonna give them their flower.
Like you've been doing a lot.Yeah. Yeah. So so do
you work with your twin Yeah,we we do some things I like sometime.
(43:58):
But you know, he's small.On the other side, I'm I'm
on the on the stiment side.I'm like, I'm like the man that
want to be everywhere, just thecalm guy. Okay. So he's on
the executive side and you're on theentertainment side, or he's behind the scenes.
Okay, okay, okay, buthe is a part of this.
Oh okay, wow, wow.And what's his name? Kenney Kenny?
(44:20):
Kenny Kenny, Yeah, okay,okay, shout out you Kenny Twin tywo
two, who came out first?Who's oldest? I'll look at you.
I know that you're the front runner. Do we have any callers or any
chatters today? Kimberly Chapel says sheloves the show. What's her name,
(44:43):
Kimberly Chapel. Oh, she saysshe loves the show. You know Kimberly
Kimberly. Oh, Kimberly Chapel.I think, I think, I think,
I think it's almost sure. Imay know her. I may know
her, but she's she's on Facebook. Yeah, ok, Chrispeel, thanks
Kimberly for tuning in. We appreciateyou, guys. Any callers, toney
right, not not right now?That call in number? Let me see
(45:04):
it's five six three nine nine ninethree six nine six. Any questions,
you know, any inquiries. Theyprobably want to know where they can get
tickets to this great extravagance. Yeah, well we decided to let to sell
ticket this come long. Oh okay. We made it strictly invitation invitational,
(45:27):
which means you must know somebody,to know something about somebody before you can
can't get to the event. Becausewe want to make it classic. You
don't just want people to say,hey, because I have a sister,
by the tickets, so I haveright to come, and some people that
do not decide to come to thatkind of event our sister. Yeah,
So we make it like strictly byin potation. Okay, okay, exclusive,
So if I go, somebody thatknow me can come, because I
(45:52):
know you're not gonna come with somebodythat does not walk to coming to you,
right right right, yes, yes, okay. So is it a
plus one one one one or isit guest list? You can say,
oh, I have ten guests,good people. Blah blah blah. You
said that, Yeah, you saidthat. I said that. Tyldwala said
(46:14):
that my guest list could be tenpeople. Y'all hear that. This worldwide
web said that. That's so exciting. Thank you, thank you so much
for coming and sharing this with us. Saturday is the big event, and
then tomorrow is the you said,the red carpet Fashion show party Garland.
(46:35):
Yes, where's that? Where's thatone going to be? Same places?
Oh, Calabasa's matching. You didn'tsay that, you know, we didn't.
We didn't disclose the address to everybody. I can't, but we just
people that we want to exclusive.You know, you get to you know,
you get to I get that.Yeah, I feel that. What
time's everything jumping off on Friday fifemorrow? Yeah yeah yeah five people? You
(47:00):
are you are invited. I saidto you, you apply, that's it.
Okay. So anyone, anybody youwould like to shout out for helping
you, helping you put these thingstogether. I know you said you had
a strong team. Say their names, put them in the air. We
appreciate them too, and we understandthat without a team, things wouldn't go
like a well oiled machine. Sogo ahead and shout out your team.
(47:22):
Okay, what I have a lotof them, but the basic one,
the main one. I start withNwa or Luji day man, that's my
mom right there. That's like mybackbone. Is a strong man. I
like catching a field shit. Shit'swonderful, pure person. Put him into
the world. You gotta go thereright Yeah. And I have Fati my
(47:43):
Muhammad ship. Yeah. You knowwhen it comes from I said, man,
I'm stuck. I need some funding. She'd be like, okay,
I'll see what to do about it. You know, I love that I
have queen'all. I have alot of a lot of them because so
many people are really vacuuming. Butyou know, I can't keep mentioning it
all the name yeah yeah, butI mean the team and people around me.
I appreciate all of'em. Yeah,all my team. Appreciate you all.
(48:05):
Thank you right there right there onthe camera, all my team.
I appreciate you, all all mysupport as thank you so much. Thank
you, thank you, thank you. Keep my hand clapte. So I
know you have this fee just drivingas are coming up over the weekend.
But any what's next after that?Any film? Any more films can that
(48:28):
we can look forward to. Whatdo you have going on? Okay?
Basically I have one big project,a big movie called King of California.
We should be feeling me by theend of the year next year. That's
coming. Then we have about twothat we're unreleased. We're still going to
see them as we're going to youknow, like film festivals. A yes,
which is one. The first oneis in lou America, which means
(48:49):
the land of America. Okay,okay, I'm just doing what. Then
we have another one called Dreaming ofAmerica that is yet to be really,
so after those two then we getto the big one, which is the
King of Color. Okay, yeah, alright, alright, so I love
it. I love it, andso you'll be casting for that one too,
Okay, Okay, the is therea website or somewhere that someone can
(49:10):
go one would want to go ifthey were trying to get ahold take time
comes I push it out. Butdefinitely my website, it's wych dot com.
Okay. Definitely AFRO Awards is wwdots Afro Awards do quark okay dot
org. Okay, So we're gonnawe're gonna find that and put that up
there for the people in a fewminutes. But right now, we have
(49:31):
a little commercial that we would liketo show we are with our sponsors,
Tasties. We are gonna be kickingoff our late night with twenty twenty Vision
on the twenty first of September,and we're gonna bring you comedians and artists
(49:52):
and it's gonna be us on thelate night. You know, we get
a little naughty late night, youknow. So we're gonna kick it off
at Tasties Lounge, and uh,right now, we just have a little
commercial from our sponsors played out fromme Tony, I know your time.
(50:20):
You're the type that flies. Yeah. Yeah, we're gonna get your website
up there. So you know thisthis is this uh, this episode I
called it? Uh what did Icall it? The Honoring the honorees?
What did I call this episode?Tony? What did I call this episode?
(50:45):
You called it Honorary Ambassadors of Greatness? Honorary and ambassadors of greatness.
That's what I called this episode.Shout out to you, honorary ambas ambassadors
of greatness, and shout out toyou, mister Edward said, shout out
to you, honorary honorary Ambassadors ofGreatness. I think this is that's appropriate
(51:06):
for this episode. And so Ithink we have a song that would kind
of fit into this whole theme ofambassadors of greatness. Yes, what do
we do? Count? Blessing,we count, blessing, we count blessing
without further ado, I'm count,I'm count blessed, count countless, count
(51:42):
blessing, countless, countless, countcountless, count countless, countless, Gun,
I'm blessed. Simple morning, I'llpick up no more stressing court,
(52:02):
you have to sign my life nomore. What I learn him stressing and
missing neck and vindictive black got himstressing, stressing the man. You try
to tell him, but he saysthe bills, never listening. Wicked demons
in the ear used the system toget him. I'm ashore to every court,
all my kids. I'm get him. Get the Lord on my horn,
(52:22):
no handy sick of time to getheat and siss professional person. The
rest of getting persons person count blessing, Yeah, the blessing new blessings replicate.
Used to fear for our pusson withthe super dost get a clod in
(52:45):
the scheme. But think the locals. We need supt. Yes, we
are counting blessings over here. Blessedto have uh tywau Idwala in the house.
Blessed to have him honoring the legends, the living legends, giving everybody
(53:06):
their flowers right now. That's rightup my alley. I love doing that.
And uh just just just blessed.Blessed to be in the building with
ed Wad la grant. That wasyour song, yes, but that that
wasn't at wad. That was whowas at Chief Louis bad which took out
Louie bag chief. Going back togay he he popped his head out every
time everything and then front Yeah forthe microphone in front of them young clop
(53:28):
Hey. Yeah, well at therisk of sounder or being redundant. Yeah,
what was the inspiration beyond that song? Uh? Honestly, Uh,
I had just got shot. Ohand I had died in the hospital.
Oh my god, dude, andthey had to give me, uh eight
points of blood. Oh my god. Uh. I was laying there and
you know, they thought I wasdead. I popped up and I set
(53:49):
up, and you know, sothe nurse after how long, I mean
how long I was? I wasover like six seven minutes, sixty seven
minutes. Her nurse walked in andas she was walking in, I popped
up and set up, and shesaid, you're supposed to be dead,
and I said, I rebuke you. Come on, give me the phone
so I can call my mom.Come on exactly. Yeah. So they
(54:12):
I called my mother and I waslike, they want to do a blood
transfusion, but I don't trust nobodyin her. She was like, just
let him do a baby. Iwas like, all right, So,
yeah, I wrote that song layingon the couch. I just can that's
a that's another Yeah, that's athat's a it's it's it's a deep story.
But yeah, I just uh,I just woke up on her on
the death bed and God, youknow, he's likely not right now.
(54:35):
And it actually wasn't your death bed, and it wasn't it was it was
a blessing, you know. SoGod is good all the time. Yeah,
that's the reason for that song.We praise God. Yeah, praise
God. We're glad you woke upto write that song. Yeah, you
gotta bring you gotta go over andcome back and tell about it, tell
us about it. Witness witness tous, so we'll know the love,
life and light is over there.But when it when it's not your time,
(54:55):
you still got work to do.Yeah, I'll tell you what I
her. Uh it's called uh transmutation. M come on, talk about it.
Uh. Transmutation is uh, it'sit's it's it's when the spirit is
uh, the the the wh It'swhen the Holy Spirit is doing things.
(55:15):
You know. So it's it's calledtransmutation. Can't really get too deep into
because I that's a right job.Imo'll be going down there. Yeah,
like, but trans look up transmutation. It's it's, it's, it's it's
it's energy. It's it's where youtake the more or less sexual energy and
you used to be creative with it, you know what I'm saying. So
(55:37):
it's it's it's it's all in apart of transmutation. Okay, yea,
yeah, so it's it's it.It hasn't about to do with the game
gang and you know, and andthe positive and the negative energies and how
to take the negative energy and curbbirded into positive energy. How you take
negative negative energies like that situation.It was a negative situation where I took
it and you know, gratitude toto to the most high and then that
(55:57):
a song came. All right,that's transmutation. All right, yeah,
I'd like the song. I'm gladyou made it. Thank you, thank
you, counting blessons, we countingbleasans high. I love the song.
Thank you, thank you, thankyou, thank you, thank you,
thank you. Yeah. Yeah,for sure. Well it's come down to
those last few minutes of the show. I would like it if you guys
could, if you could leave thepeople with any last comment, is any
words of wisdom or advise anyone thatwants to come from you know, Nigeria
(56:22):
and come here and actually start theirown film production company and start an award
show anything that you can give tothe people. What would you tell him,
I'll say, everybody has a dream, m but you just had to
look towards your dream, walk hardand keep on it. You definitely get
that. Uh huh right, Iconcur and what what are your handles?
(56:46):
Where can they uh find you?Okay, well, my possible under i
Taiwo or Dualla that's the first one. Well AFRO Award, it's gonna be
Afro about twenty twenty three. Andthe last one of my company is do
I touch I'll say, all right, okay, all right you guys.
(57:06):
And then it's also at the bottomof the screen. You know, you
want to get in touch with himand with Tywo and Phil and see what
he's doing, what he's up to, and follow his wonderful journey from all
the way from Nigeria to Los Angeles. It is a compelling story. I
have to have you back so youcan finish telling us. I'm sure there's
more that we can dig into,but we just wanted to shine a light
(57:29):
on this major event that you're doingover the weekend. We wanted to,
you know, get people aware ofwhat's going on. And again we wanted
to give you your flowers as well. Oh thank you so thank you for
coming. And I'm excited. Iappreciate it. This is your kickoff to
your extravaganza. Got it. Thankyou for covering. Thank you? Okay,
(57:51):
and any last comments that you wantto leave the people with that why
uh yeah, you know, creators, anybody who's out there creative kind of
like he said, you know,you gotta dream. You know, you
gotta use all the energy, eventhe negative energy, and and and and
fall forward. Don't fall backwards.Come on, fall forward. At least
(58:13):
you're still going forward, you know. Then that's yourself off. Get up
and try again. That's it.Keep going good, go all right?
I like that fall forward. Myacting coach in Atlanta, uh used to
say that fall forward, that washis whole theme for the whole for the
whole class. Grill sawd you callit steal forward progress. Well, you
(58:34):
guys, this has been another episodeof twenty twenty Vision. And again my
name is Amri the song Stress,and the message is what it always is,
love, life and light. Youguys, we might as well celebrate
one another. We might as well, celebrate each other. We can't wait
for anyone else to do it.It's okay to to to recognize yourself.
It's okay to wake up every morningand look in a mirror and tell yourself
(58:58):
that you are a winner. Lookat the mirror and tell yourself, I
am strong, I am prosperous,I am everything. That's okay. We
don't need permission to love and celebrateourselves, because that's where it starts.
The love starts from within, andthen you can spread it to everyone else
again. My name is a Mirrorthe songstress, and you can find me
(59:20):
on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora anywhereyou like to listen, and also Instagram,
YouTube, Facebook, anywhere you wantto look and remember. Stay focused,
nor regret, nort nor regret.Let me fix my crown baby like
(59:45):
dominoes. Yeah, it's going down, my feet off the ground, elevated.
You feel so when you help mysound and lie so the why you
like a red line that gonna neverchange and you sh no, why merge
(01:00:13):
into the other lady, I'm gettingup, I'm my next nor regrets making
hisses a reeth flass eggs. I'mgetting up, so next seconds sack guess
mother highs. So you know I'mblass. Ye, I'm getting my sex.
(01:00:37):
Non regrets, making hisses a reethflass, I'm get it. Take
seconds, sack guest five highs,so you know I'm blacks. Don't regret,
don't regret, don't regret. I'mso tatty. Maybe yeah, turned
(01:01:05):
on and tuned into that frequency.Gring love light and healing in my and
chin hear a major difference in theseminor melody. Hey my, don't know
why. Familiar faces and strange placesthey don't ever change. Uh know why
(01:01:30):
I'm merged into the other lad.I'm getting in club some my necks.
No regrets, making hiss of breath
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