September 25, 2024 • 61 mins
Michael Steven-Paul, also known as Mikey Jay, is a multi-faceted talent hailing from the Southeast Bronx section of New York City. His rich cultural background is a blend of Native American and Trinidadian heritage.
Mikey Jay's career spans various domains including mainstream music, film, and community activism, making him a true definition of a mogul. He is not only a Grammy-nominated music producer and recording artist but also an accomplished actor, film producer, and director.
Notably, Mikey Jay has ventured into the fashion industry as a clothing line owner and is actively involved in civil and fathers' rights advocacy. His philanthropic efforts are evident through his community activism, demonstrating a deep commitment to societal improvement.
His diverse talents and proactive engagement in multiple arenas highlight his multifaceted career and dedication to making a significant impact both within and beyond the entertainment industry.
Mikey Jay's career spans various domains including mainstream music, film, and community activism, making him a true definition of a mogul. He is not only a Grammy-nominated music producer and recording artist but also an accomplished actor, film producer, and director.
Notably, Mikey Jay has ventured into the fashion industry as a clothing line owner and is actively involved in civil and fathers' rights advocacy. His philanthropic efforts are evident through his community activism, demonstrating a deep commitment to societal improvement.
His diverse talents and proactive engagement in multiple arenas highlight his multifaceted career and dedication to making a significant impact both within and beyond the entertainment industry.
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Speaker 3 (03:15):
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Speaker 6 (03:20):
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Jesus Christ. Amen, Amen, Amen, I tell you we have
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we do this. We have uplifting, inspiring a guest on
this platform just to take God's people a little higher
and just to know that we are just ordinary people
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that go through all the tests and trials and tribulations.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
That life has given to us.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
But we know that in God there is a rich,
rich testimony and today will be no different. We are
bringing to you a wonderful man by the name of
Michael Stephen Hall yes Aka, and we are going to
go with the Mickey j as he says a film director.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
He is a film creator. He is an artist, He
is a rapper.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
He is a two time Grammy nominee, Hello Recording Artists,
thirteen Music Awards, forty seven Honor Awards, Like we would
go on and on and on and on about this
amazing man who first gives God all the glory, but
we just want to give him this, but there's just
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so much.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
To talk about. We definitely go up to bring this
guest on back, but we you know we will do that.
We will bring him back, but I would.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Love to introduce to most. If you don't know him
for yourself, you get to.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Know him on tonight. We want to bring Michael Stephen,
paul A K, Nickey, Jay Nick you in the house.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
How you knowing it's but it's cool, mikey J. I'm
so sorry.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
That's all right, that's all right.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Just blame it to my ownness, my season Satanists, thank
you so much for correcting me.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
But we, you know, we just want to actually know
so much about it.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
There's so much to know about you, and and and again.
My listeners is all tuned in just to see just
how good God has been using you on in your
life and the blessings that you've been bestowing about people
that know you. But I always ask this first question,
you know, how did it begin for you?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
How did it start?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
You've got so many platforms, How did it.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Begin for you? Well, it actually started for me a
long time ago. I would say, wow, back in two
thousand and five musically, that's when I really started to
pursuing my music career. Better yet, my music career pursued me.
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And I say that to say that, you know, well,
we all have our shortcomings, and it's set me allow
myself to follow God's path and allow God's process to work.
I followed the path that I wanted to follow. So
it took a a little a little bit of some
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trials and tribulations, but at the end of the day,
I finally got on the path I was. So that
been on and my music career took off from there.
I told when Wims when she was doing her when
she did her first film, starting Robin Gibbings and Kiky
Palmer playing the young the Young Robin, and then from
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there I started producing other artists such as Wow, Bone Crusher. Well,
Bone Crush came out later, so I'll say back then
I was producing triplesas from Tevin Squad, uh Cuban Link
and quite a few other people. But then two thousand
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and seventh rolled around and I started producing from the
Cole Ray, Bone Crusher brand, Page, the Last Boy Scout,
from Buster Ron, Flipmall, squad Camp, and many other artists
and putting out my own my own albums and mixtapes
that were becoming very successful. Became very successful through the
management of Mickey Benson and Flex Scorpio Corbera Rest in
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Peace from Tevis Squad. So I was under that management
it and I was up at Ilol Makers while the
company they owned and they were booking agents for every
booking agent you could possibly think of, from r Kelly
to to Usher, the Chris Brown, I mean, you name it.
Iloomakers was definitely a force to be reckoned with on
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the on on that scale, and then Mickey Benzi gave
my own office up in Jersey and Bloomfield, New Jersey
within the company, while Flex Phelix or FLEs to brother
he was in Miami at the time, so they had
to run their office is from both from two different cities,
two different states, and I ended up producing more and
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more artists. Then my mixtape did very well. My album
started doing great, ended up a hot ninety seven mixtapes
and start touring all over the country and I just
had a great, great run. And then from there, I
was judge treatat Friday in two thousand and seven, two
thousand and eight, and in twenty ten, preat soth Friday
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was a segment of one of Us to the Park
on BT, a very very successful segment for them, and
then it just went from there. I became BT's Rapped
Cities producing Artists of the Week and Stylespeed from the
group The Lots. The Lots did my interview, so it
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just my carig just went from there. It just really
went from there music wise, music wise, and it's been
the music wise, it's still a blessing. I was able
to work with Burt Podell on my team, Burt Padell,
I mean, in the studio, with Sting, Kelly Clarkson and
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so many other people. And I earned two Grammy nominations,
a whole bunch of different music awards, and I've been
honored over over fifty times, you know, for my music
and now my films. I'm on one hundred and something
our magazine covers that I never even paid for, never
had to pay to play for my music and pay
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for an interview, getting paid for this interview. So those
are the That's how you know it's organic and natural.
When when you know you've earned it and you didn't
have to pay for it, when it's not organic.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
Yes, well that's a blessing because you know, that's the
way I feel about this platform. It shouldn't be a
thing where you should be charging people. I give people
copies of the interviews and everything, and that's usually taboo,
but you know, I feel like it's a win win,
right when you glorifying God and you're speaking about the
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many levels that God has taken you in your journey.
You know what I'm saying, It's only right that I
give you a piece of your story what you already
know about. Why would I keep that captive and put
a price tag to it?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
You know, just not where God placed my heart.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
So I truly appreciate you for being on His platform.
You've had so much accolades and wonderful things that have
happened for you, and I must say.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
That that's a rarity.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
You know, like you you started with this rap game
and you got into like the people and the names
and stuff that you're you're mentioning. Oftentimes, I know it
ain't nothing but God, because it don't even linked up together.
And you know what I'm saying, Like sting and rap mean,
come on, you get them different world Listen, you putting
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them worlds together. And I'm trying to tell you that's
not a norm.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
God had his hand on.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
You from day one, you know what I'm saying, because
there's no way those worlds would mix like that. Often
times it does happen, but not oftentimes, you know, So
you know, praise God for what you allowing Him to
just use you to go into the highways and the
byeways and do the things that you're doing, especially in.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
The rap game.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
That that's that's beautiful to hear that that you're so
multi talented and dash with your craft.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Everybody's not that crafty.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
And I have to ask you that, like what did
it take for you to go from point A as
a hip hop artist to you know, rubbing like elbows
with stinging people like that?
Speaker 3 (12:23):
That that's that's amazing.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
So you know, the listener's got to get a piece
of that.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
How did that happen?
Speaker 6 (12:30):
Like what do you think?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah, what do you think? Where'd that come from?
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Because you know that.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Wasn't the norm back back in the day. That wasn't
the norm.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Well, actually, if you think about it, one DNC work
with Aerosmith and and and so many others. That's that.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
I know that.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I know that, but not it's not no no thing
that just drops into your to your lap. You know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
That's something that yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Ain't getting that. I don't care.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
You know what I'm saying. Run DMC is just another
it's another animal when to come down to that kind
of movement, you know what I'm saying. And again he
was a pastor right he was he was after so
I know God had everything to do with that thing.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
What where?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
What do you think.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
That?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah? I grew up with my mother's with my mother
as my music inspiration. She she would listen to everything
from music, and I mean like Dolly Parton and Roger
and the and the Neville Brothers, litwn she listen. She
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listened to the B bops, she listened to. So I
grew up with an eclectic ear, you know, eclectic ear,
cletic soul from from from reggae to to to saw
someone I ain't gave but you have to to even
Bollywood music. My mother listened to everything, you know, if
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it look my mother had a United Nations household. If
it sounded good and she liked it, she played it,
she listened to it. Yay. To be honest, hip hop
rap music was the was the last thing I got
to listen to, you know. And the first rap record
I fell in love with was Karris One. My philosophy
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when I went through he shot the music real right
two minutes from where we lived at as far as
as far as projects in the Bronx. The My my
ear has always been in tuned, and I've I've always
loved rock music from Mega Depth to Nirvana to Ozzy
Osbourne to Rob Zombie, to rock and roll to hard
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rock where the White Snake and and and Kiss and
the and many other hey, hey, even Sheryl Crowe, you know.
So I listened to everything, and I'm as a music producer.
I produced every and anything of any genre. So to
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work with Sting, to work with Kelly Clarson, it wasn't
it was really to work with Sting was even like
really a milestone for me. Kelly clost really had just
had came out with the America After American, I don't
know all that, so working with Sting was more of
a milestone for me at that time. And it was
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like it was like really not starstruck, but more of
a of a of an icon who I grew up
listening to ended up allowed me to work on his
music along with his other producers so as well as
himself because he's a producer himself. So it was just
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it wasn't a feeling. It was just a feeling of Wow,
I'm in the studio with Sting. It wasn't like, you know,
I'm gonna jump out the window with no parachute. You
mean he coffee or hey, I go get from Jolly donut.
And now it wasn't nothing like that. It was just
it was just an honor for me to be in
the studio.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
No and I and I really know that that to
be the truth. I mean, to be in the presence
of someone just so amazing musically, you know, I know
it had to be a wonderful feet and and and
I don't have been a nervous wreck, but I I
That's why I asked you where it came from, because
I know it had to come back from from from
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your past or something that had reached out to you
in a different kind of way.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
And and Mama did that just like my mom.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
You know, they used to clean and they be playing
all kind of music. So I understand what you said.
I used to listen to.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Issa Hayes and and all kind of That's how I got.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Introduced to Mahelia Jackson and all that just from Mama
just cleaning and playing that great music, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
So that's that's why I said, I know it had
to come from somewhere. It came before run DMC.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I knew.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I knew it.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
It had to become before that because you you just
so versed and so versatile with the people that you're naming,
you know, and like I said, they don't even come
together like Kelly Clarks, you know, rap like Kelly Clock.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
I'll be going and and stinking.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
So it just I had to ask you that question
as to where it came from, because that's a toll order.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
That's a toll order. You've been with the best.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
You've been with the best. We'll be here all day
trying to name who hu wu. But in going and
and and going from platform to platform, what do you
feel is your chemistry? What what is it that you
do when you go from one project to the next
project on a music level that you might be taking
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into your directing level as far as being a film creator.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I would wow. So basically, So basically the question is
how do I call it the two or mess together?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (18:02):
From one level to another? You know, it's one thing
to be here, but how did you graduate from plateau
to plateau? What what tool did you use to get there?
You know, because that's.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I got you. So basically, what levels that I have
to go through to transcend to where I'm at now
with the films. So basically, I've always been a been
in love with cinema, and I mean from the First
Alien to Star Wars and Superman, you know, and other films.
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And I grew up in far As Projects, Sixty Fishtreet, Trinity, Ave,
Bronx New York and my mom, you know, she bought
me every toy you could possibly think of because I
love action figures and I love comic books growing up
and even to this day, I still love action figures
and comic books. So I would take my action figures
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like the Transformers or Gi Joe's down downstairs in front
of the building and portray as if I was making
a film, and I would have them fight each other
in the bushes or the grass and stuff like that.
So my imagination has always been there for cinema because
I love cinema, And as time progressed, I never see
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myself becoming a director or a film producer because at
the end of the day, I never knew them type
of terminologies, you know, I just knew I loved what
I was doing as a kid, and I never thought
I would actually be making film. I never I never
once even thought, now we all have dreams and aspirations
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of doing something, but you know, coming from from where
I come from, them dreams and aspirations, can you know,
die off pretty quick, pretty quickly when all you see
is whether it's violent or you don't see a way
to anything better, you know, So fast forward twenty twenty four.
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I look back on my life and I'm like, wow,
I went from break dancing, djaying, rapping, producing, rapping again,
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to touring, being signed to fe major labels, I mean,
you name it, to where I'm at now as a
music as a film producer, film director, a writer, an actor,
and so much more even a consultant and an investor
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and everything else within the film industry. So it really
did take level. And I decided in twenty thirteen to
chase that dream, to chase that dream and tackle that goal.
And I did my first TIOOM and it was called
Time Out and it was bad. It was it was
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awfully good. It was awful because everything it was like
twenty minutes ill prepared. We just it was the It
was like the the Gorilla shoot of all Gorilla shoot
because the first two WEE movie. But it was funny.
It was funny. It was. It was very funny. And
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that's one thing about me. I never I would never
ever put my nose in the air as if I'm
the biggest thing since sliced bread, when I know that
even my first tilm, my crack at it wasn't good.
But I give anybody they eat for effort and one
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hundred points for that because it takes it takes a
lot to get up, get some camera equipment, get the
right people with you to just say, hey, you know what,
let's go make a film. A lot of people are
still home trying to figure it out. That's why I
don't like to utilize the word trying to people who
are trying or not even attempting to really get out
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there and do it. If you're trying to do something,
you're not really just dragging your feet. You're not moving
along with you, with with with life. And now that
it's twenty twenty four and I look at everything that
I've that I have out that's colored, that's coming out
from my new Christmas film, A Christmas Loss, a Christmas Found,
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color Blind, Heathen Keyving, Cuffs, and other films that I
have coming out this year. Not to mention what I'm
going to be working on this year, and now that
I'm editing all my stuff, I'm editing all my stuff.
I'm going to be editing my film Hopeless Romantic and
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put out a director's cut my editor, who's my senior editor.
He did a great job of Hopeless Romantic and even
my previous music videos and my movie trailers. But at
this point, I, instead of me, you know, being over
his shoulder and all that as the music, as the
film editing, supervisored supervisor editor, I said, you know what,
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let me alleviate a lot of stuff off of his
workload and let me buckle myself down because it's been
thirteen and a half years since I edited, and when
I look at this stuff that I've been doing, I'm like,
did I even fall? Did I even fall off the bike?
So it's just a blessing.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yeah, you're blessed.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
So now you're a blessing. You really are amazing. But
I'm glad you said something because you touched on something.
You know a lot of folks you know, so don't don't.
As a child, you play with dolls, you do that
kind of thing. So it's just it's amazing. To hear
you say that, because there's folk out there that, you know, oftentimes,
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when we get to be adults, right, we stop playing
with dolls, you know what I'm saying, We because.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
That's not the adult thing to do, you know.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
And I know there's a lot of people that you know,
select common books and do those kind of things even
in adulthood, but they kind of hide behind the scenes,
you know. And you know, I'm so glad you said
that because oftentimes people don't look at that as you
can take that kind of behavior.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
From your youth and bring it it full, you know, throttle.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Into your adulthood, you know what I'm saying, and make
it work for you.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
You know.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
So I truly appreciate that because people, you know, society
will convince you that, you know that when you become adult,
you have to do adult things right, you go. You
gotta put childish stuff away, you know, and become that adult,
you know what I'm saying. But I so thank you
for saying that, because a lot of times people don't
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lean on that, that that little child and them the
things that they enjoyed in their youth to bring it
to full you know, adulthood and be able to utilize
it for something bigger and something greater, because that's what
people don't understand, you know, how it begins. That's why
I start my my show with asking how did it
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start for you? Because it starts from those those those
times of being in your mother's atmosphere and being introduced
to all that music and then being able to play
with your Gi Joe Dalls and different things. You know,
that is what made you who you have, not become
you have now become as an adult. And folks, you know,
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sometimes they don't look at that. They don't put that
thing together, you know what I'm saying, So I am.
I'm sure you're going to say the same, you know,
encourage the listeners, you know that to.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Embrace what you love because the things that you love.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
Is what takes you from plateau to plateau to one
level to the next level. And that's pretty much what
I hear with what you're saying. You know, it took
that that wonderful beginning of what your childhood was about
and brought you to this platform where you're at as
a wonderful anointed man who is truly about the career
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that he loves and oftentimes people don't are not able
to say that, Mike, Seriously. Oftentimes they're not able to
say that I I you know, I was not really
into the teaching thing, right, But you go through things because.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
You have to get a job, because you have a child,
you know, and now, and then then you try to
get picked back up what you love doing. You know,
I'm not saying I love.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Teaching, but it wasn't like my love for singing for music,
you know.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
What I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
And sometimes like people just like I got to be
this adult now, I got this child, I got this,
I got that, you know, adult things, and they kind
of forget what they love, you know what I'm saying,
and they don't embrace that thing. So it's really vital
what you're saying to the listeners. And I just so
thank you for being transparent, because you know, the average
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joint gonna go on talking about the dolls they played with,
you know what I'm saying as a youth, and how
it bridged the gap and became this this mega thing
that you love to do in the arts, you know,
So thank you, thank you for that. I mean that
that's a blessing. With all the accolades and everything that
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you have been doing. You know what I'm saying, What
would be your advice? Especially we had that big pandemic,
we went.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Through that storm and now we're here.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
What would be your advice to people that are starting
out and they want to, you know, get into the
uh you know feel what would your suggestion be to them?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
First the foremost, I would say, you have to put
God in Yahweh and the moss is the most important
spiritual aspect of them in your life. Nothing happens without
the most high and creator, especially if if if you're
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looking for the positive of the advestment of your life.
So when it comes to whether it's the music industry
or the film industry, you have to you have to pray,
you have to have your faith, you have to you
have to really act upon what you really want to do?
Speaker 6 (28:49):
What what?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
What? What is your mission? Where you're looking to be at?
Why do you want to be involved in the film
industry or the music industry? What is your goal? So
I would say this to everyone out there, never take
no for an answer. One no will lead to a
million yesss. Keep going, don't give up, don't lay down
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for no one. Always keep your head on swivel, stay positive,
stay preyed up, and whatever you do there to be different.
Do not follow the trend, become the trend. Do not
fall for the banana and the tailpipe. Don't be around
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dark energy, don't be around dark people. I'm not talking
skin tone. You just you really have to come with
stories that are not of the same. Everything looks the same.
My Christmas film does not look like something or Hallmark
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at all. Mike Christmas film doesn't look like a typical
black Christmas film. It doesn't. My films don't look like
don't sound like anyone else's stuff that's out there. I'm
not in competition. Don't be in competition with anyone. Be
in competition with yourself. Keep with yourself. Compete with yourself
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to be better. Compete with yourself to become great. When
you compete with others, you're stagnant in your process of growth.
Do what you do for you and not for no
one else except for your little kids. That you have
your little kids around. If your kids have grown, live
your life, live your dream, do what you do for you.
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Don't walk in no one else's shoes but your own.
Don't try to live in anyone else's skin but your own.
Don't speak anything ill of anyone, because at the end
of the day, when you speak with a slivering tongue,
you just end up biting itself and people the same way.
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You want to be treated genuinely, wholeheartedly, with respect, yes,
with love, because at the end of the day, the
only celebrity I know is yeah, weigh Jesus Christ. And
so when you act like you're bigger than Christ, that's
a problem. When you act like you're bigger than the
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most high that's a problem. When you act like you're
bigger than anybody on a highway with a sign that says,
can you feed me, that's a problem. Ain't There's no
one bigger than anyone on this planet. Just because I
may have more success or more money than someone doesn't
make me above them, hm, Because when I treat them
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as if I'm above them, I'm actually lowering who I
am and I become below. Yes, yes, listeners out there,
I was born on Christmas Day. I'm a Capricorn. I've
had people hate on me. I've had my share of disbelievers,
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and they sayers and everything else you can think of.
You're gonna face it how you react to it. It's
how it will end. God will give you the assignment
of putting haters in front of you to see how
you're gonna react. So let her hate to hate because
they ain't doing nothing but volunteering non conversation for the devil.
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That's not God's work. That's not the work of Yahweh.
A hater's going to hate because that's what they do.
They're creatures of habit or lot of times out of ten,
they may just hate because you're doing what they really
wanted to do and you're great at it, and they
never the steps that you've taken to progress to that level.
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Your nyna be a naysayers, will always be a nay sayers,
because at the end of the day, what does a
name say you do? They doubt, team doesn't doubt, Yahweh,
doesn't doubt. Your heart doesn't doubt. Your family will doubt,
your so called friends and our associates with doubt. But
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anyone that truly believes in you, man, woman, young child,
or teenagers first in believe, they says they will not disbelievers.
Let them disbelieve because at the end of the day,
the only one that needs to believe is yourself and
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the man upstairs the most high. Yahweh. Don't not want
to take your power. Don't not any want to take
your power. If anyone has ever taken your power, you
take it back nine times out of ten, And a
lot of us have given people our power, would not
even just unconsciously not knowing we did it. And then
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you got to snap back into reality. Did I really
give them my power for that quick second? You know?
Take your power back? See anybody, anyone looking to take
someone's power is weak. Why would you need someone else's
power to survive? Why would you need to power for strength?
I don't need to take anyone power for strength because
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I got loved. I got the love of God. I
got the love in the most power that way. I
got the love of my fiance and my son. For
anyone trying to take your power, and the and and
and and and the words of the street, they suck
is And God is such a free mm hm.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Whoo.
Speaker 6 (34:54):
He was amazing that that to man's preaching preaching. You
definitely opening this church all tonight. You know, most folk
figure that you're supposed to be in the church house.
But I'm here to tell you didn't have church tonight
is definitely put the doctor ordered.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
You know, I be very I'd be very honest and transparent.
I'm not religious. I don't believe in religion. Religion is
made by man believe. I believe in the spirit of
the Most High of Yahweh. And I don't follow religion.
I follow spirituality. I follow I follow the energy. And
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when I tell you that I stopped going to church
when I saw how people was treating people in church,
talking bad about people, judging them, breaking every commandment that
God told you not to break, That's when I judge.
That's when I envy. That's when I covidd that Nabor's
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wife all these things, and that's not talk about the
seven deadly sins though envy, hate, jealousy, And the funny
thing is I didn't grow up in church. How do
I know about all these things? Because at one point
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I didn't know the Most High. I knew of the
Most High, I didn't know the most High. I got
to know the Most High a long time ago while
sitting in a four by six. On numerous occasions, I
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had to visit a four by six, But at the
end of the day I did not let society dictate
to me my future and or my present. I was
given a book of different passages by Bela Ray, my wife,
and when I read that book she gave me, it
just really really open my eyes. Okay, so this is
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what God feels like, This is what the most high
feels like. So I had to decide to set my
life straight, get it together, and go full steam ahead
in the music industry and allow the process to play
yourself out and that God take the whill, that God
fight my battles. You want to tell you that I
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had to stay away from the the physical building the church.
I had to stay away from that for the Kingdom
of Gods within thyself. Church is the heart, not a
physical temple. Church is the heart.
Speaker 6 (37:45):
Well, you know what the temple They say with the temple,
you know, the temple is us.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
We are the church, you know, and it starts.
Speaker 6 (37:55):
You know, I've had those those conversations. You know, you
need the church home, and I'm saying, you know, everywhere
I go is my church. Jesus didn't, so I know
it must be the right thing.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
You know.
Speaker 6 (38:10):
That was what was placed on me to do, to
go beyond the four walls. And minister, and let people
know what saith the Lord, because everybody ain't coming into
the church, aside from the neglect, sometimes oftentimes from the
church house. But some folks just ain't coming. So what
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do we do. We sit in the church and wait
for them to come. And know, you go and you fellowship,
you know, you go and you you you are evangelized,
right and and I truly believe in that. I believe
in that, you know, and I'm with you. Religion is
not about a religious thing. It's about your relationship with
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God and how it plays into your life because everybody
these life is different, everybody's journey is different.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
So praise God to you saying this.
Speaker 6 (39:07):
That's why I said you preaching, you preaching, you know.
And most would be like, well, yeah, you gotta have
this title in that title, but God gave you those
words to minister.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
I know.
Speaker 6 (39:19):
It blessed my heart just now, you know. So I
thank you for allowing God to use you to be
that vessel to break through to the listeners and the
and the name sayers that may be listening and.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Doubting you know that yes, our God is real, you know.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
And I just thank you just for being that platform
on today's show, because this is what it's about. It's
about the test that we go through that take us
from one test to the to our testimony.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
You know.
Speaker 6 (39:53):
And I'm a believer, and they're taken back with the
devil stole. I just did a performance and I sang
all a bunch of secular stuff, but I put the
Lord in it.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
I took back with.
Speaker 6 (40:04):
The devil in the music ministry that the devil has
been trying to take. And I keep saying that that
is uh God given. You know that I must do that.
You know, and most people playing, oh what's she going
out there? She's singing, you know, Gladys Knight song b B.
But you know, they gonna always say something. But that's
the ministry that God is birthing within me. That not
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that I don't do original stuff, but it was just
placed on my heart for that particular event for me,
this minister song that had been uh made famous in
the R and B room, you know, and and and
and and give it to God's people, give it to it.
He said, give it to them, and it was received.
So you know, oftentimes He will use us in all
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kinds of different ways, you know, and and I just
thank you for everything that you're saying on today. You,
like I said, you got your your rap music and
and all that wonderfulness you've got, You got your films
that you're debuting. At this time, I have to ask,
so the listeners can reach out to you, where can
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they find your information? Where can they find all your
wonderful works that God has blessed you with so that
they can purchase or whatever? Go see it, you know,
whatever you have for them. Listeners are definitely interested.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Oh wow, well sure. The first place I would like
everybody they can reach me at is go to my
official film page and please subscribe. Please subscribe. It's any
A A FG, and any, which is my son's middle name,
is spelled A I g n E and then a FG.
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The algorithm is so official that once you put in
AI g n E you'll see AFG somewhere along that line.
And if you don't, just put in a F G.
My Instagram is mikey J NYC, m MI k E
y j A y and y E n y C.
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And then you can also reach me at Lord Michael
Stephen Paul. Now, just to clarify something, Lord is not
calling myself the Messiah or a Lord of God. No.
Number tenth December tenth was I was honored in Suffoln,
Virginia at the Black Men Rock Image Awards, and I
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was presented with the Filmmaker of the Year Award, and
I was also officially afforded the title of Lordship. So
if you're if you ever watch shows like Bridgeton or
anything like that, I'm an official lord now. So that's
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why you'll see Lord Michael Stephen Paul out there in
December eighth, since you're on that, I was honored by
the White House. I received the Lifetime Presidential Achievement Award
along with the White belar Ray. So you can definitely
go to Lord Michael Stephen Paul on Instagram, mikey J
n YC on Instagram, and then on Instagram. We also
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have for all the actors all the that that would
like to partake on my journey. It's a I G
Any Film Group and the other one is natty Wood
Films n A T I w O O D Films.
Those are my Instagram pages. You can check out my
work there or even you can even check it out
(43:39):
on any of my other pages. My TikTok is mikey
j NYC or I believe mikey J See. It's either one.
And you can also email for any actor or actress
actresses out there and the musicians gospel, rock, pop, whatever
you do. I'm accepting music right now for all my
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projects that's coming out this year. The email address is
ai g n E Film Group at gmail dot com.
Attention Music department for any actors or actresses out there
that's looking to be cast, whether you have experience or not.
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Even if you have experience, I'm going to train you
and coach and direct you for what I do. The
email address once again for that is AI GNY Film
Casting and you'll put your contact information which will be
a direct phone number. If you have management representation, we
will need their contact number as well. We will also
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acquire photos. If you have photos great. If you don't
have a professional photos, shoot email us anyway. If you
have a real or monologue and all that as well.
And hopefully I'm not missing anything, but please look out
for my film Hopeless Romantic. You can watch it for
free right now on my YouTube channel at aign e AFG.
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Hopeless Romantic is two hours and change I've gotten great
reviews on it. You can check that out. And I've
got other November fifteenth, A Christmas Loss to Christmas Found
will be released November. November twenty first will be my
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movie color Blind, and then he even comes out December first,
and my TV series t O n Y Top of
New York will be screened next month. So look follow
me so you can get all the information on where
I'm touring, all my stuff for the theatric who's screening
premieres red Carpets, And I look forward to hand from y'all.
Speaker 6 (45:56):
Praise God, Praise God, wonderful man. Yes, and we at
the agency go be doing some stuff together real soon.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
So I'm I'm I'm looking forward to doing the master class.
So you know, I got other cities that want me
to come and do a master class about music, about film.
My master class is a little bit different because at
the end of the day, I don't just sit there
and and just do a Q and A. You know,
I definitely get gems and jewels the most importantly. Anyone
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that wants to do any anything outside of the master
class that I do, I'm gonna teach him etiquette. I'm
gonna teach him mannerisms. I'm gonna teach him set etiquette.
I'm gonna teach him interview etiquete and interview mannerisms. There's
a whole lot that goes with just being an actor
or being a musician. So anybody looking for any kind
of consultation, any anything like that, serious inquiries only, you
(46:54):
can definitely email a I g Any Film Group at
gmail dot com Attention Bookings and we go from there.
And I really appreciate you for having me.
Speaker 6 (47:10):
Oh man, my pleasure. You've been a blessing on this
platform on today. I'm just so google God got that
you chosen to come on this platform. You know, with
all your time, I know you busy, you know what
I'm saying, But I just bless God that you found
that time to come on and bless the listeners. Listeners,
you've been blessed by this anointed.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
Man of God.
Speaker 6 (47:33):
You know, just just thank you for being all that
you are to the community. That means a lot to
me because it's about bridging the gap and helping one
community to become a better community.
Speaker 3 (47:48):
And that's what I'm.
Speaker 6 (47:49):
Hearing with you, That's what I heard from you the
first time we spoke, and that's the reason why I
welcome you and in my camp any day, because you
know what it means to be that man of God,
you know that role model. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (48:03):
And it ain't often times you hear that with a man, right,
or we were women.
Speaker 6 (48:07):
We like to bash y'all a bit, but you know.
Speaker 3 (48:10):
Thank God for standing up, rising up and making a
statement on today and what it is to be a
real man of God. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (48:21):
Can I say something, yes, you can.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
Can I say thank you? Thank you? So I want
to piggyback off what you said. You know, a lot,
a lot of a lot of times you see people media,
media chasing right, and if it's outstairs, out there, people
will bash you. They will bash us as black men.
They will degrade us, they will criticize us, they would
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ridicule us, but not knowing what the real story is,
they just go off the first thing they hear. So
I came up with this new moniker, this new phrase
a long time ago. It's not new, but it may
be new to y'all. And I always say people will
make love to a lie and f for truths. Now,
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just let that sink in because that's the way the world,
especially in our own community. A lot of people will
never know that I'm a benefactor for three schools in
the Bronx. They will never know how many people I seed,
or how many I've done toy drives since two thousand.
I've been doing toy drives for twenty years. Never asked
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for a red scent from the government from toys r
Us Marshall, I mean, you name it, adopt gud.
Speaker 6 (49:37):
I do.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
I contentally do things that only those who are privy
to the information will know. I don't call NBC News,
ABC hate or my publicists and them, they don't contact them.
People hate come out, you know, Michael C. Lapaul, Mikey
j He giving out this this turkey for Thanksgiving or
whatever they came. Know the reason why I don't need
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media because it's coming from the heart. And if it's
coming from the heart, I don't need media for that.
Whether God allows me to enter the gates of heaven
or not, I know what I did from the heart.
I don't do it to be put in God's good graces.
You don't have to perform and act for God to
know that your heart is pure So I just want
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everybody to know that when you do, when you're out
there doing good, continue to do good because that's what
you do. Don't do it for brownie points, don't do
it for clout, do it because that's who you are.
Speaker 6 (50:37):
Yes, yes, you got you gotta be a man who
stands up for what is truth and what is right.
And and again that that is a blessing. Uh, you
don't often time hear about it. So it's a blessing
and very refreshing should I say to hear it on
this platform with you on today, and I just thank
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you for allowing God to use you mighty to encourage
women single mother. I'm a single mother. So it's a
blessing to hear a man speak on terms of what
he needs to be doing and what it takes to
be that role model for the youth because they're our future, right,
So just give me a fact of hearing you and
what you're saying. It means everything you know or being
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out everything.
Speaker 1 (51:22):
And since you're speaking about the women and just in
life general. Look, there were twelve apostles. They were all felons.
All twelve apostles were felons. Do not allow society to
dictate your future, your present, and who you are. Because
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the Twelve Apostles can roll around with Jesus Christ with
your way spreading positivity and changing their lives, that means
society didn't do their job in breaking them. Remember when
people in the society are trying to degrade you, ridicule you,
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and criticize you, think of the Twelve Apostles, apostles in
Jesus Christ, and don't allow these apostles, these false prophets,
these people telling you that you need to be holier
than I thou. It's false. You don't need to be
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just be yourself. Like I said, God is sucker free.
But that's for the women. To the women out there,
you know, I need all my women to really really
give yourself some flowers for being single parents. And let
me say this to the women out there. If you're
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a single parent by default, let me say that again,
if you are a single woman, I mean a single
parent by default, give yourself some flowers for doing the thing,
for making this happen. It wasn't your fault if that
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man walked away for his own reasons that you had
nothing to do with, because he was selfish, he was lame,
he was a clown, and he walked away. Give yourself
around the applause of being a great mother and the
father's substitute. The women out there, the women out there
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who are pushing our men out the home, who want
to allow the man in the home because they want
to live their best life, being selfish to your children
that you know that you should never have had. I
need you to make a change because we're losing our
black youth at an alarming rate, as in higher alarming
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ready as before and all there's no pink coach, drugs, prostitution.
Speaker 6 (54:04):
The sheet helps them, Lord, help them, Lord, you name it,
name Jesus.
Speaker 1 (54:10):
So whether you want that man in your life or
not allow that man to be in that child or
your children's life, especially if you was a good man. Yes, Wood,
it's not about you. It's about them youth out there.
Yes Wood, Our children are lost and they need their parents,
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along with the most high yahweh to guide them back
on that path, to light that path up for them,
get them kids out of that darkness. We need our
black community to be the village again. Yes, you need
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our Black community to be the village again. We are
no longer a village. We no longer have leaders. Our
chaft is not a leader anymore. Jesse Jackson's not leader anymore.
We don't have real black Malcolm Messrs anymore, Martin Luther
King's mega EVAs. All we have is minisuluis Farrakhan, and
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he cannot fight this problem in our communities by hisself.
Let's stop disrespecting one another, back and forth, back and
forth down in our black men and our black women. No,
we are we are a black royalty, yes, and we
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are treating one another like peasants. We are royalty and
we're walking around and treating each other like peasants. We
need to get back on track. We need the village
to be the village, not the sewage. Amen.
Speaker 6 (56:00):
That's a word. That's a word. Right there, Listeners, you've
been blessed.
Speaker 1 (56:05):
You know.
Speaker 6 (56:05):
Usually we end in prayer, but that was enough right there.
We just had our prayer and and and calling out
to everyone to just be all that you can be,
you know, and and be the best that you can be.
And I just bless you for speaking life to the
listeners and myself, you know, just giving kudos to the women,
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many women that had to stand up and and and
just put that daddy title. And and you know, even
though they say no, you ain't no father, brother, we
had to do what we had to do save the Lord.
We had to take care of our kids, and we
went into the trenches and we did what we needed
to do, you know. And for that I thank you
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as a man to give all these women that are
struggling and have struggled, their their their flowers while they
yet can smell them. So I just appreciate you, Michael
for coming on today. Our time is up, but I
just want to again bless.
Speaker 1 (57:06):
You for being here.
Speaker 6 (57:07):
This is an open door policy, my brother. Please come
on back. If you want to know more about this
wonderful man, come on my Facebook page. You know where
I'm at, Paulabrion dot com. Come on, just be on
all my platforms, my Instagram page and you can learn
so much more about this wonderful man. And he's given
you all his information, you know. Come to my channel
(57:30):
on Spotify if you need to re listen to this
wonderful interview. And again, bless you, bless you so much
for today. God bless you Michael for coming on today
and blessing them and listening you and he's on my word.
Speaker 1 (57:43):
I'm gonna send you some of the cast interview as well.
Speaker 6 (57:47):
Thank you so much. I truly appreciate God bless and
thank you God bless you Positive Power twenty one for
bringing us back on another amazing Tuesday at nine pm
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God, Bless you, God, bless you. This is Paula Brion, Yes,
the Diva for Christ. And you know on this platform
that we do every Tuesday at nine pm Eastern Standard time,
we do nothing before we go to the Throne of God,
and today will be no different. Father God, I just
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form that you gave to me to deliver to your people,
to deliver the goodness of all the amazing music people
and authors and all the beautiful guests that you've bestowed
on this particular platform, and we just want to lift
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come on at nine pm Eastern, Standytown. Father God, I
just asked that you would allow the people to hear
what God is doing in this wonderful, wonderful Man of God.
He is so amazing, and we again always try to
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uplift your people, Lord on this platform so that they
cannot see us, but hear everything that you are doing,
from the test to the testimonies that these wonderful guests
bestow upon the listeners your people, the God have your way,
and thank you again for allowing me to see another Tuesday,
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to be able to bring this remarkable platform for your
people to lift you up higher. And every time we
come on, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, we say
thank you to the Lord.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Jesus Christ. Have mercy, Have mercy on all of us.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Father God, just have your way through the highways and
the byeways. Those that are traveling home. Allow them to
be safe on today. Allow this platform to be a
blessing if they're in there in their cars listening to
this radio show. Father God, I just asked that you
would have your way in the loving name above all names,
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Jesus Christ. Amen, Amen, Amen, I tell you we have
a wonderful show plan for you on this evening and
we do this. We have uplifting, inspiring a guest on
this platform just to take God's people a little higher
and just to know that we are just ordinary people
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that go through all the tests and trials and tribulations.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
That life has given to us.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
But we know that in God there is a rich,
rich testimony and today will be no different. We are
bringing to you a wonderful man by the name of
Michael Stephen Hall yes Aka, and we are going to
go with the Mickey j as he says a film director.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
He is a film creator. He is an artist, He
is a rapper.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
He is a two time Grammy nominee, Hello Recording Artists,
thirteen Music Awards, forty seven Honor Awards, Like we would
go on and on and on and on about this
amazing man who first gives God all the glory, but
we just want to give him this, but there's just
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so much.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
To talk about. We definitely go up to bring this
guest on back, but we you know we will do that.
We will bring him back, but I would.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Love to introduce to most. If you don't know him
for yourself, you get to.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Know him on tonight. We want to bring Michael Stephen,
paul A K, Nickey, Jay Nick you in the house.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
How you knowing it's but it's cool, mikey J. I'm
so sorry.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
That's all right, that's all right.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Just blame it to my ownness, my season Satanists, thank
you so much for correcting me.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
But we, you know, we just want to actually know
so much about it.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
There's so much to know about you, and and and again.
My listeners is all tuned in just to see just
how good God has been using you on in your
life and the blessings that you've been bestowing about people
that know you. But I always ask this first question,
you know, how did it begin for you?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
How did it start?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
You've got so many platforms, How did it.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Begin for you? Well, it actually started for me a
long time ago. I would say, wow, back in two
thousand and five musically, that's when I really started to
pursuing my music career. Better yet, my music career pursued me.
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And I say that to say that, you know, well,
we all have our shortcomings, and it's set me allow
myself to follow God's path and allow God's process to work.
I followed the path that I wanted to follow. So
it took a a little a little bit of some
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trials and tribulations, but at the end of the day,
I finally got on the path I was. So that
been on and my music career took off from there.
I told when Wims when she was doing her when
she did her first film, starting Robin Gibbings and Kiky
Palmer playing the young the Young Robin, and then from
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there I started producing other artists such as Wow, Bone Crusher. Well,
Bone Crush came out later, so I'll say back then
I was producing triplesas from Tevin Squad, uh Cuban Link
and quite a few other people. But then two thousand
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and seventh rolled around and I started producing from the
Cole Ray, Bone Crusher brand, Page, the Last Boy Scout,
from Buster Ron, Flipmall, squad Camp, and many other artists
and putting out my own my own albums and mixtapes
that were becoming very successful. Became very successful through the
management of Mickey Benson and Flex Scorpio Corbera Rest in
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Peace from Tevis Squad. So I was under that management
it and I was up at Ilol Makers while the
company they owned and they were booking agents for every
booking agent you could possibly think of, from r Kelly
to to Usher, the Chris Brown, I mean, you name it.
Iloomakers was definitely a force to be reckoned with on
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the on on that scale, and then Mickey Benzi gave
my own office up in Jersey and Bloomfield, New Jersey
within the company, while Flex Phelix or FLEs to brother
he was in Miami at the time, so they had
to run their office is from both from two different cities,
two different states, and I ended up producing more and
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more artists. Then my mixtape did very well. My album
started doing great, ended up a hot ninety seven mixtapes
and start touring all over the country and I just
had a great, great run. And then from there, I
was judge treatat Friday in two thousand and seven, two
thousand and eight, and in twenty ten, preat soth Friday
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was a segment of one of Us to the Park
on BT, a very very successful segment for them, and
then it just went from there. I became BT's Rapped
Cities producing Artists of the Week and Stylespeed from the
group The Lots. The Lots did my interview, so it
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just my carig just went from there. It just really
went from there music wise, music wise, and it's been
the music wise, it's still a blessing. I was able
to work with Burt Podell on my team, Burt Padell,
I mean, in the studio, with Sting, Kelly Clarkson and
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so many other people. And I earned two Grammy nominations,
a whole bunch of different music awards, and I've been
honored over over fifty times, you know, for my music
and now my films. I'm on one hundred and something
our magazine covers that I never even paid for, never
had to pay to play for my music and pay
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for an interview, getting paid for this interview. So those
are the That's how you know it's organic and natural.
When when you know you've earned it and you didn't
have to pay for it, when it's not organic.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
Yes, well that's a blessing because you know, that's the
way I feel about this platform. It shouldn't be a
thing where you should be charging people. I give people
copies of the interviews and everything, and that's usually taboo,
but you know, I feel like it's a win win,
right when you glorifying God and you're speaking about the
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many levels that God has taken you in your journey.
You know what I'm saying, It's only right that I
give you a piece of your story what you already
know about. Why would I keep that captive and put
a price tag to it?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
You know, just not where God placed my heart.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
So I truly appreciate you for being on His platform.
You've had so much accolades and wonderful things that have
happened for you, and I must say.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
That that's a rarity.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
You know, like you you started with this rap game
and you got into like the people and the names
and stuff that you're you're mentioning. Oftentimes, I know it
ain't nothing but God, because it don't even linked up together.
And you know what I'm saying, Like sting and rap mean,
come on, you get them different world Listen, you putting
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them worlds together. And I'm trying to tell you that's
not a norm.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
God had his hand on.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
You from day one, you know what I'm saying, because
there's no way those worlds would mix like that. Often
times it does happen, but not oftentimes, you know, So
you know, praise God for what you allowing Him to
just use you to go into the highways and the
byeways and do the things that you're doing, especially in.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
The rap game.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
That that's that's beautiful to hear that that you're so
multi talented and dash with your craft.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Everybody's not that crafty.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
And I have to ask you that, like what did
it take for you to go from point A as
a hip hop artist to you know, rubbing like elbows
with stinging people like that?
Speaker 3 (12:23):
That that's that's amazing.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
So you know, the listener's got to get a piece
of that.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
How did that happen?
Speaker 6 (12:30):
Like what do you think?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah, what do you think? Where'd that come from?
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Because you know that.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Wasn't the norm back back in the day. That wasn't
the norm.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Well, actually, if you think about it, one DNC work
with Aerosmith and and and so many others. That's that.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
I know that.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I know that, but not it's not no no thing
that just drops into your to your lap. You know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
That's something that yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Ain't getting that. I don't care.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
You know what I'm saying. Run DMC is just another
it's another animal when to come down to that kind
of movement, you know what I'm saying. And again he
was a pastor right he was he was after so
I know God had everything to do with that thing.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
What where?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
What do you think.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
That?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah? I grew up with my mother's with my mother
as my music inspiration. She she would listen to everything
from music, and I mean like Dolly Parton and Roger
and the and the Neville Brothers, litwn she listen. She
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listened to the B bops, she listened to. So I
grew up with an eclectic ear, you know, eclectic ear,
cletic soul from from from reggae to to to saw
someone I ain't gave but you have to to even
Bollywood music. My mother listened to everything, you know, if
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it look my mother had a United Nations household. If
it sounded good and she liked it, she played it,
she listened to it. Yay. To be honest, hip hop
rap music was the was the last thing I got
to listen to, you know. And the first rap record
I fell in love with was Karris One. My philosophy
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when I went through he shot the music real right
two minutes from where we lived at as far as
as far as projects in the Bronx. The My my
ear has always been in tuned, and I've I've always
loved rock music from Mega Depth to Nirvana to Ozzy
Osbourne to Rob Zombie, to rock and roll to hard
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rock where the White Snake and and and Kiss and
the and many other hey, hey, even Sheryl Crowe, you know.
So I listened to everything, and I'm as a music producer.
I produced every and anything of any genre. So to
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work with Sting, to work with Kelly Clarson, it wasn't
it was really to work with Sting was even like
really a milestone for me. Kelly clost really had just
had came out with the America After American, I don't
know all that, so working with Sting was more of
a milestone for me at that time. And it was
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like it was like really not starstruck, but more of
a of a of an icon who I grew up
listening to ended up allowed me to work on his
music along with his other producers so as well as
himself because he's a producer himself. So it was just
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it wasn't a feeling. It was just a feeling of Wow,
I'm in the studio with Sting. It wasn't like, you know,
I'm gonna jump out the window with no parachute. You
mean he coffee or hey, I go get from Jolly donut.
And now it wasn't nothing like that. It was just
it was just an honor for me to be in
the studio.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
No and I and I really know that that to
be the truth. I mean, to be in the presence
of someone just so amazing musically, you know, I know
it had to be a wonderful feet and and and
I don't have been a nervous wreck, but I I
That's why I asked you where it came from, because
I know it had to come back from from from
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your past or something that had reached out to you
in a different kind of way.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
And and Mama did that just like my mom.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
You know, they used to clean and they be playing
all kind of music. So I understand what you said.
I used to listen to.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Issa Hayes and and all kind of That's how I got.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Introduced to Mahelia Jackson and all that just from Mama
just cleaning and playing that great music, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
So that's that's why I said, I know it had
to come from somewhere. It came before run DMC.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I knew.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I knew it.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
It had to become before that because you you just
so versed and so versatile with the people that you're naming,
you know, and like I said, they don't even come
together like Kelly Clarks, you know, rap like Kelly Clock.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
I'll be going and and stinking.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
So it just I had to ask you that question
as to where it came from, because that's a toll order.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
That's a toll order. You've been with the best.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
You've been with the best. We'll be here all day
trying to name who hu wu. But in going and
and and going from platform to platform, what do you
feel is your chemistry? What what is it that you
do when you go from one project to the next
project on a music level that you might be taking
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into your directing level as far as being a film creator.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I would wow. So basically, So basically the question is
how do I call it the two or mess together?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (18:02):
From one level to another? You know, it's one thing
to be here, but how did you graduate from plateau
to plateau? What what tool did you use to get there?
You know, because that's.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I got you. So basically, what levels that I have
to go through to transcend to where I'm at now
with the films. So basically, I've always been a been
in love with cinema, and I mean from the First
Alien to Star Wars and Superman, you know, and other films.
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And I grew up in far As Projects, Sixty Fishtreet, Trinity, Ave,
Bronx New York and my mom, you know, she bought
me every toy you could possibly think of because I
love action figures and I love comic books growing up
and even to this day, I still love action figures
and comic books. So I would take my action figures
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like the Transformers or Gi Joe's down downstairs in front
of the building and portray as if I was making
a film, and I would have them fight each other
in the bushes or the grass and stuff like that.
So my imagination has always been there for cinema because
I love cinema, And as time progressed, I never see
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myself becoming a director or a film producer because at
the end of the day, I never knew them type
of terminologies, you know, I just knew I loved what
I was doing as a kid, and I never thought
I would actually be making film. I never I never
once even thought, now we all have dreams and aspirations
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of doing something, but you know, coming from from where
I come from, them dreams and aspirations, can you know,
die off pretty quick, pretty quickly when all you see
is whether it's violent or you don't see a way
to anything better, you know, So fast forward twenty twenty four.
(20:14):
I look back on my life and I'm like, wow,
I went from break dancing, djaying, rapping, producing, rapping again,
(20:34):
to touring, being signed to fe major labels, I mean,
you name it, to where I'm at now as a
music as a film producer, film director, a writer, an actor,
and so much more even a consultant and an investor
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and everything else within the film industry. So it really
did take level. And I decided in twenty thirteen to
chase that dream, to chase that dream and tackle that goal.
And I did my first TIOOM and it was called
Time Out and it was bad. It was it was
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awfully good. It was awful because everything it was like
twenty minutes ill prepared. We just it was the It
was like the the Gorilla shoot of all Gorilla shoot
because the first two WEE movie. But it was funny.
It was funny. It was. It was very funny. And
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that's one thing about me. I never I would never
ever put my nose in the air as if I'm
the biggest thing since sliced bread, when I know that
even my first tilm, my crack at it wasn't good.
But I give anybody they eat for effort and one
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hundred points for that because it takes it takes a
lot to get up, get some camera equipment, get the
right people with you to just say, hey, you know what,
let's go make a film. A lot of people are
still home trying to figure it out. That's why I
don't like to utilize the word trying to people who
are trying or not even attempting to really get out
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there and do it. If you're trying to do something,
you're not really just dragging your feet. You're not moving
along with you, with with with life. And now that
it's twenty twenty four and I look at everything that
I've that I have out that's colored, that's coming out
from my new Christmas film, A Christmas Loss, a Christmas Found,
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color Blind, Heathen Keyving, Cuffs, and other films that I
have coming out this year. Not to mention what I'm
going to be working on this year, and now that
I'm editing all my stuff, I'm editing all my stuff.
I'm going to be editing my film Hopeless Romantic and
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put out a director's cut my editor, who's my senior editor.
He did a great job of Hopeless Romantic and even
my previous music videos and my movie trailers. But at
this point, I, instead of me, you know, being over
his shoulder and all that as the music, as the
film editing, supervisored supervisor editor, I said, you know what,
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let me alleviate a lot of stuff off of his
workload and let me buckle myself down because it's been
thirteen and a half years since I edited, and when
I look at this stuff that I've been doing, I'm like,
did I even fall? Did I even fall off the bike?
So it's just a blessing.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yeah, you're blessed.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
So now you're a blessing. You really are amazing. But
I'm glad you said something because you touched on something.
You know a lot of folks you know, so don't don't.
As a child, you play with dolls, you do that
kind of thing. So it's just it's amazing. To hear
you say that, because there's folk out there that, you know, oftentimes,
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when we get to be adults, right, we stop playing
with dolls, you know what I'm saying, We because.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
That's not the adult thing to do, you know.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
And I know there's a lot of people that you know,
select common books and do those kind of things even
in adulthood, but they kind of hide behind the scenes,
you know. And you know, I'm so glad you said
that because oftentimes people don't look at that as you
can take that kind of behavior.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
From your youth and bring it it full, you know, throttle.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Into your adulthood, you know what I'm saying, and make
it work for you.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
You know.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
So I truly appreciate that because people, you know, society
will convince you that, you know that when you become adult,
you have to do adult things right, you go. You
gotta put childish stuff away, you know, and become that adult,
you know what I'm saying. But I so thank you
for saying that, because a lot of times people don't
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lean on that, that that little child and them the
things that they enjoyed in their youth to bring it
to full you know, adulthood and be able to utilize
it for something bigger and something greater, because that's what
people don't understand, you know, how it begins. That's why
I start my my show with asking how did it
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start for you? Because it starts from those those those
times of being in your mother's atmosphere and being introduced
to all that music and then being able to play
with your Gi Joe Dalls and different things. You know,
that is what made you who you have, not become
you have now become as an adult. And folks, you know,
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sometimes they don't look at that. They don't put that
thing together, you know what I'm saying, So I am.
I'm sure you're going to say the same, you know,
encourage the listeners, you know that to.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Embrace what you love because the things that you love.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
Is what takes you from plateau to plateau to one
level to the next level. And that's pretty much what
I hear with what you're saying. You know, it took
that that wonderful beginning of what your childhood was about
and brought you to this platform where you're at as
a wonderful anointed man who is truly about the career
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that he loves and oftentimes people don't are not able
to say that, Mike, Seriously. Oftentimes they're not able to
say that I I you know, I was not really
into the teaching thing, right, But you go through things because.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
You have to get a job, because you have a child,
you know, and now, and then then you try to
get picked back up what you love doing. You know,
I'm not saying I love.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Teaching, but it wasn't like my love for singing for music,
you know.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
What I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
And sometimes like people just like I got to be
this adult now, I got this child, I got this,
I got that, you know, adult things, and they kind
of forget what they love, you know what I'm saying,
and they don't embrace that thing. So it's really vital
what you're saying to the listeners. And I just so
thank you for being transparent, because you know, the average
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joint gonna go on talking about the dolls they played with,
you know what I'm saying as a youth, and how
it bridged the gap and became this this mega thing
that you love to do in the arts, you know,
So thank you, thank you for that. I mean that
that's a blessing. With all the accolades and everything that
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you have been doing. You know what I'm saying, What
would be your advice? Especially we had that big pandemic,
we went.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Through that storm and now we're here.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
What would be your advice to people that are starting
out and they want to, you know, get into the
uh you know feel what would your suggestion be to them?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
First the foremost, I would say, you have to put
God in Yahweh and the moss is the most important
spiritual aspect of them in your life. Nothing happens without
the most high and creator, especially if if if you're
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looking for the positive of the advestment of your life.
So when it comes to whether it's the music industry
or the film industry, you have to you have to pray,
you have to have your faith, you have to you
have to really act upon what you really want to do?
Speaker 6 (28:49):
What what?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
What? What is your mission? Where you're looking to be at?
Why do you want to be involved in the film
industry or the music industry? What is your goal? So
I would say this to everyone out there, never take
no for an answer. One no will lead to a
million yesss. Keep going, don't give up, don't lay down
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for no one. Always keep your head on swivel, stay positive,
stay preyed up, and whatever you do there to be different.
Do not follow the trend, become the trend. Do not
fall for the banana and the tailpipe. Don't be around
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dark energy, don't be around dark people. I'm not talking
skin tone. You just you really have to come with
stories that are not of the same. Everything looks the same.
My Christmas film does not look like something or Hallmark
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at all. Mike Christmas film doesn't look like a typical
black Christmas film. It doesn't. My films don't look like
don't sound like anyone else's stuff that's out there. I'm
not in competition. Don't be in competition with anyone. Be
in competition with yourself. Keep with yourself. Compete with yourself
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to be better. Compete with yourself to become great. When
you compete with others, you're stagnant in your process of growth.
Do what you do for you and not for no
one else except for your little kids. That you have
your little kids around. If your kids have grown, live
your life, live your dream, do what you do for you.
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Don't walk in no one else's shoes but your own.
Don't try to live in anyone else's skin but your own.
Don't speak anything ill of anyone, because at the end
of the day, when you speak with a slivering tongue,
you just end up biting itself and people the same way.
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You want to be treated genuinely, wholeheartedly, with respect, yes,
with love, because at the end of the day, the
only celebrity I know is yeah, weigh Jesus Christ. And
so when you act like you're bigger than Christ, that's
a problem. When you act like you're bigger than the
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most high that's a problem. When you act like you're
bigger than anybody on a highway with a sign that says,
can you feed me, that's a problem. Ain't There's no
one bigger than anyone on this planet. Just because I
may have more success or more money than someone doesn't
make me above them, hm, Because when I treat them
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as if I'm above them, I'm actually lowering who I
am and I become below. Yes, yes, listeners out there,
I was born on Christmas Day. I'm a Capricorn. I've
had people hate on me. I've had my share of disbelievers,
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and they sayers and everything else you can think of.
You're gonna face it how you react to it. It's
how it will end. God will give you the assignment
of putting haters in front of you to see how
you're gonna react. So let her hate to hate because
they ain't doing nothing but volunteering non conversation for the devil.
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That's not God's work. That's not the work of Yahweh.
A hater's going to hate because that's what they do.
They're creatures of habit or lot of times out of ten,
they may just hate because you're doing what they really
wanted to do and you're great at it, and they
never the steps that you've taken to progress to that level.
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Your nyna be a naysayers, will always be a nay sayers,
because at the end of the day, what does a
name say you do? They doubt, team doesn't doubt, Yahweh,
doesn't doubt. Your heart doesn't doubt. Your family will doubt,
your so called friends and our associates with doubt. But
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anyone that truly believes in you, man, woman, young child,
or teenagers first in believe, they says they will not disbelievers.
Let them disbelieve because at the end of the day,
the only one that needs to believe is yourself and
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the man upstairs the most high. Yahweh. Don't not want
to take your power. Don't not any want to take
your power. If anyone has ever taken your power, you
take it back nine times out of ten, And a
lot of us have given people our power, would not
even just unconsciously not knowing we did it. And then
(34:07):
you got to snap back into reality. Did I really
give them my power for that quick second? You know?
Take your power back? See anybody, anyone looking to take
someone's power is weak. Why would you need someone else's
power to survive? Why would you need to power for strength?
I don't need to take anyone power for strength because
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I got loved. I got the love of God. I
got the love in the most power that way. I
got the love of my fiance and my son. For
anyone trying to take your power, and the and and
and and and the words of the street, they suck
is And God is such a free mm hm.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Whoo.
Speaker 6 (34:54):
He was amazing that that to man's preaching preaching. You
definitely opening this church all tonight. You know, most folk
figure that you're supposed to be in the church house.
But I'm here to tell you didn't have church tonight
is definitely put the doctor ordered.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
You know, I be very I'd be very honest and transparent.
I'm not religious. I don't believe in religion. Religion is
made by man believe. I believe in the spirit of
the Most High of Yahweh. And I don't follow religion.
I follow spirituality. I follow I follow the energy. And
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when I tell you that I stopped going to church
when I saw how people was treating people in church,
talking bad about people, judging them, breaking every commandment that
God told you not to break, That's when I judge.
That's when I envy. That's when I covidd that Nabor's
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wife all these things, and that's not talk about the
seven deadly sins though envy, hate, jealousy, And the funny
thing is I didn't grow up in church. How do
I know about all these things? Because at one point
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I didn't know the Most High. I knew of the
Most High, I didn't know the most High. I got
to know the Most High a long time ago while
sitting in a four by six. On numerous occasions, I
(36:38):
had to visit a four by six, But at the
end of the day I did not let society dictate
to me my future and or my present. I was
given a book of different passages by Bela Ray, my wife,
and when I read that book she gave me, it
just really really open my eyes. Okay, so this is
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what God feels like, This is what the most high
feels like. So I had to decide to set my
life straight, get it together, and go full steam ahead
in the music industry and allow the process to play
yourself out and that God take the whill, that God
fight my battles. You want to tell you that I
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had to stay away from the the physical building the church.
I had to stay away from that for the Kingdom
of Gods within thyself. Church is the heart, not a
physical temple. Church is the heart.
Speaker 6 (37:45):
Well, you know what the temple They say with the temple,
you know, the temple is us.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
We are the church, you know, and it starts.
Speaker 6 (37:55):
You know, I've had those those conversations. You know, you
need the church home, and I'm saying, you know, everywhere
I go is my church. Jesus didn't, so I know
it must be the right thing.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
You know.
Speaker 6 (38:10):
That was what was placed on me to do, to
go beyond the four walls. And minister, and let people
know what saith the Lord, because everybody ain't coming into
the church, aside from the neglect, sometimes oftentimes from the
church house. But some folks just ain't coming. So what
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do we do. We sit in the church and wait
for them to come. And know, you go and you fellowship,
you know, you go and you you you are evangelized,
right and and I truly believe in that. I believe
in that, you know, and I'm with you. Religion is
not about a religious thing. It's about your relationship with
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God and how it plays into your life because everybody
these life is different, everybody's journey is different.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
So praise God to you saying this.
Speaker 6 (39:07):
That's why I said you preaching, you preaching, you know.
And most would be like, well, yeah, you gotta have
this title in that title, but God gave you those
words to minister.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
I know.
Speaker 6 (39:19):
It blessed my heart just now, you know. So I
thank you for allowing God to use you to be
that vessel to break through to the listeners and the
and the name sayers that may be listening and.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Doubting you know that yes, our God is real, you know.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
And I just thank you just for being that platform
on today's show, because this is what it's about. It's
about the test that we go through that take us
from one test to the to our testimony.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
You know.
Speaker 6 (39:53):
And I'm a believer, and they're taken back with the
devil stole. I just did a performance and I sang
all a bunch of secular stuff, but I put the
Lord in it.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
I took back with.
Speaker 6 (40:04):
The devil in the music ministry that the devil has
been trying to take. And I keep saying that that
is uh God given. You know that I must do that.
You know, and most people playing, oh what's she going
out there? She's singing, you know, Gladys Knight song b B.
But you know, they gonna always say something. But that's
the ministry that God is birthing within me. That not
(40:26):
that I don't do original stuff, but it was just
placed on my heart for that particular event for me,
this minister song that had been uh made famous in
the R and B room, you know, and and and
and and give it to God's people, give it to it.
He said, give it to them, and it was received.
So you know, oftentimes He will use us in all
(40:48):
kinds of different ways, you know, and and I just
thank you for everything that you're saying on today. You,
like I said, you got your your rap music and
and all that wonderfulness you've got, You got your films
that you're debuting. At this time, I have to ask,
so the listeners can reach out to you, where can
(41:10):
they find your information? Where can they find all your
wonderful works that God has blessed you with so that
they can purchase or whatever? Go see it, you know,
whatever you have for them. Listeners are definitely interested.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Oh wow, well sure. The first place I would like
everybody they can reach me at is go to my
official film page and please subscribe. Please subscribe. It's any
A A FG, and any, which is my son's middle name,
is spelled A I g n E and then a FG.
(41:50):
The algorithm is so official that once you put in
AI g n E you'll see AFG somewhere along that line.
And if you don't, just put in a F G.
My Instagram is mikey J NYC, m MI k E
y j A y and y E n y C.
(42:11):
And then you can also reach me at Lord Michael
Stephen Paul. Now, just to clarify something, Lord is not
calling myself the Messiah or a Lord of God. No.
Number tenth December tenth was I was honored in Suffoln,
Virginia at the Black Men Rock Image Awards, and I
(42:35):
was presented with the Filmmaker of the Year Award, and
I was also officially afforded the title of Lordship. So
if you're if you ever watch shows like Bridgeton or
anything like that, I'm an official lord now. So that's
(42:55):
why you'll see Lord Michael Stephen Paul out there in
December eighth, since you're on that, I was honored by
the White House. I received the Lifetime Presidential Achievement Award
along with the White belar Ray. So you can definitely
go to Lord Michael Stephen Paul on Instagram, mikey J
n YC on Instagram, and then on Instagram. We also
(43:17):
have for all the actors all the that that would
like to partake on my journey. It's a I G
Any Film Group and the other one is natty Wood
Films n A T I w O O D Films.
Those are my Instagram pages. You can check out my
work there or even you can even check it out
(43:39):
on any of my other pages. My TikTok is mikey
j NYC or I believe mikey J See. It's either one.
And you can also email for any actor or actress
actresses out there and the musicians gospel, rock, pop, whatever
you do. I'm accepting music right now for all my
(44:02):
projects that's coming out this year. The email address is
ai g n E Film Group at gmail dot com.
Attention Music department for any actors or actresses out there
that's looking to be cast, whether you have experience or not.
(44:23):
Even if you have experience, I'm going to train you
and coach and direct you for what I do. The
email address once again for that is AI GNY Film
Casting and you'll put your contact information which will be
a direct phone number. If you have management representation, we
will need their contact number as well. We will also
(44:46):
acquire photos. If you have photos great. If you don't
have a professional photos, shoot email us anyway. If you
have a real or monologue and all that as well.
And hopefully I'm not missing anything, but please look out
for my film Hopeless Romantic. You can watch it for
free right now on my YouTube channel at aign e AFG.
(45:11):
Hopeless Romantic is two hours and change I've gotten great
reviews on it. You can check that out. And I've
got other November fifteenth, A Christmas Loss to Christmas Found
will be released November. November twenty first will be my
(45:32):
movie color Blind, and then he even comes out December first,
and my TV series t O n Y Top of
New York will be screened next month. So look follow
me so you can get all the information on where
I'm touring, all my stuff for the theatric who's screening
premieres red Carpets, And I look forward to hand from y'all.
Speaker 6 (45:56):
Praise God, Praise God, wonderful man. Yes, and we at
the agency go be doing some stuff together real soon.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
So I'm I'm I'm looking forward to doing the master class.
So you know, I got other cities that want me
to come and do a master class about music, about film.
My master class is a little bit different because at
the end of the day, I don't just sit there
and and just do a Q and A. You know,
I definitely get gems and jewels the most importantly. Anyone
(46:30):
that wants to do any anything outside of the master
class that I do, I'm gonna teach him etiquette. I'm
gonna teach him mannerisms. I'm gonna teach him set etiquette.
I'm gonna teach him interview etiquete and interview mannerisms. There's
a whole lot that goes with just being an actor
or being a musician. So anybody looking for any kind
of consultation, any anything like that, serious inquiries only, you
(46:54):
can definitely email a I g Any Film Group at
gmail dot com Attention Bookings and we go from there.
And I really appreciate you for having me.
Speaker 6 (47:10):
Oh man, my pleasure. You've been a blessing on this
platform on today. I'm just so google God got that
you chosen to come on this platform. You know, with
all your time, I know you busy, you know what
I'm saying, But I just bless God that you found
that time to come on and bless the listeners. Listeners,
you've been blessed by this anointed.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
Man of God.
Speaker 6 (47:33):
You know, just just thank you for being all that
you are to the community. That means a lot to
me because it's about bridging the gap and helping one
community to become a better community.
Speaker 3 (47:48):
And that's what I'm.
Speaker 6 (47:49):
Hearing with you, That's what I heard from you the
first time we spoke, and that's the reason why I
welcome you and in my camp any day, because you
know what it means to be that man of God,
you know that role model. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (48:03):
And it ain't often times you hear that with a man, right,
or we were women.
Speaker 6 (48:07):
We like to bash y'all a bit, but you know.
Speaker 3 (48:10):
Thank God for standing up, rising up and making a
statement on today and what it is to be a
real man of God. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (48:21):
Can I say something, yes, you can.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
Can I say thank you? Thank you? So I want
to piggyback off what you said. You know, a lot,
a lot of a lot of times you see people media,
media chasing right, and if it's outstairs, out there, people
will bash you. They will bash us as black men.
They will degrade us, they will criticize us, they would
(48:43):
ridicule us, but not knowing what the real story is,
they just go off the first thing they hear. So
I came up with this new moniker, this new phrase
a long time ago. It's not new, but it may
be new to y'all. And I always say people will
make love to a lie and f for truths. Now,
(49:09):
just let that sink in because that's the way the world,
especially in our own community. A lot of people will
never know that I'm a benefactor for three schools in
the Bronx. They will never know how many people I seed,
or how many I've done toy drives since two thousand.
I've been doing toy drives for twenty years. Never asked
(49:30):
for a red scent from the government from toys r
Us Marshall, I mean, you name it, adopt gud.
Speaker 6 (49:37):
I do.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
I contentally do things that only those who are privy
to the information will know. I don't call NBC News,
ABC hate or my publicists and them, they don't contact them.
People hate come out, you know, Michael C. Lapaul, Mikey
j He giving out this this turkey for Thanksgiving or
whatever they came. Know the reason why I don't need
(49:59):
media because it's coming from the heart. And if it's
coming from the heart, I don't need media for that.
Whether God allows me to enter the gates of heaven
or not, I know what I did from the heart.
I don't do it to be put in God's good graces.
You don't have to perform and act for God to
know that your heart is pure So I just want
(50:22):
everybody to know that when you do, when you're out
there doing good, continue to do good because that's what
you do. Don't do it for brownie points, don't do
it for clout, do it because that's who you are.
Speaker 6 (50:37):
Yes, yes, you got you gotta be a man who
stands up for what is truth and what is right.
And and again that that is a blessing. Uh, you
don't often time hear about it. So it's a blessing
and very refreshing should I say to hear it on
this platform with you on today, and I just thank
(50:57):
you for allowing God to use you mighty to encourage
women single mother. I'm a single mother. So it's a
blessing to hear a man speak on terms of what
he needs to be doing and what it takes to
be that role model for the youth because they're our future, right,
So just give me a fact of hearing you and
what you're saying. It means everything you know or being
(51:19):
out everything.
Speaker 1 (51:22):
And since you're speaking about the women and just in
life general. Look, there were twelve apostles. They were all felons.
All twelve apostles were felons. Do not allow society to
dictate your future, your present, and who you are. Because
(51:45):
the Twelve Apostles can roll around with Jesus Christ with
your way spreading positivity and changing their lives, that means
society didn't do their job in breaking them. Remember when
people in the society are trying to degrade you, ridicule you,
(52:06):
and criticize you, think of the Twelve Apostles, apostles in
Jesus Christ, and don't allow these apostles, these false prophets,
these people telling you that you need to be holier
than I thou. It's false. You don't need to be
(52:27):
just be yourself. Like I said, God is sucker free.
But that's for the women. To the women out there,
you know, I need all my women to really really
give yourself some flowers for being single parents. And let
me say this to the women out there. If you're
(52:48):
a single parent by default, let me say that again,
if you are a single woman, I mean a single
parent by default, give yourself some flowers for doing the thing,
for making this happen. It wasn't your fault if that
(53:09):
man walked away for his own reasons that you had
nothing to do with, because he was selfish, he was lame,
he was a clown, and he walked away. Give yourself
around the applause of being a great mother and the
father's substitute. The women out there, the women out there
(53:31):
who are pushing our men out the home, who want
to allow the man in the home because they want
to live their best life, being selfish to your children
that you know that you should never have had. I
need you to make a change because we're losing our
black youth at an alarming rate, as in higher alarming
(53:55):
ready as before and all there's no pink coach, drugs, prostitution.
Speaker 6 (54:04):
The sheet helps them, Lord, help them, Lord, you name it,
name Jesus.
Speaker 1 (54:10):
So whether you want that man in your life or
not allow that man to be in that child or
your children's life, especially if you was a good man. Yes, Wood,
it's not about you. It's about them youth out there.
Yes Wood, Our children are lost and they need their parents,
(54:34):
along with the most high yahweh to guide them back
on that path, to light that path up for them,
get them kids out of that darkness. We need our
black community to be the village again. Yes, you need
(54:55):
our Black community to be the village again. We are
no longer a village. We no longer have leaders. Our
chaft is not a leader anymore. Jesse Jackson's not leader anymore.
We don't have real black Malcolm Messrs anymore, Martin Luther
King's mega EVAs. All we have is minisuluis Farrakhan, and
(55:19):
he cannot fight this problem in our communities by hisself.
Let's stop disrespecting one another, back and forth, back and
forth down in our black men and our black women. No,
we are we are a black royalty, yes, and we
(55:41):
are treating one another like peasants. We are royalty and
we're walking around and treating each other like peasants. We
need to get back on track. We need the village
to be the village, not the sewage. Amen.
Speaker 6 (56:00):
That's a word. That's a word. Right there, Listeners, you've
been blessed.
Speaker 1 (56:05):
You know.
Speaker 6 (56:05):
Usually we end in prayer, but that was enough right there.
We just had our prayer and and and calling out
to everyone to just be all that you can be,
you know, and and be the best that you can be.
And I just bless you for speaking life to the
listeners and myself, you know, just giving kudos to the women,
(56:28):
many women that had to stand up and and and
just put that daddy title. And and you know, even
though they say no, you ain't no father, brother, we
had to do what we had to do save the Lord.
We had to take care of our kids, and we
went into the trenches and we did what we needed
to do, you know. And for that I thank you
(56:49):
as a man to give all these women that are
struggling and have struggled, their their their flowers while they
yet can smell them. So I just appreciate you, Michael
for coming on today. Our time is up, but I
just want to again bless.
Speaker 1 (57:06):
You for being here.
Speaker 6 (57:07):
This is an open door policy, my brother. Please come
on back. If you want to know more about this
wonderful man, come on my Facebook page. You know where
I'm at, Paulabrion dot com. Come on, just be on
all my platforms, my Instagram page and you can learn
so much more about this wonderful man. And he's given
you all his information, you know. Come to my channel
(57:30):
on Spotify if you need to re listen to this
wonderful interview. And again, bless you, bless you so much
for today. God bless you Michael for coming on today
and blessing them and listening you and he's on my word.
Speaker 1 (57:43):
I'm gonna send you some of the cast interview as well.
Speaker 6 (57:47):
Thank you so much. I truly appreciate God bless and
thank you God bless you Positive Power twenty one for
bringing us back on another amazing Tuesday at nine pm
Eastern Standard time. The testimony, God bless.
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Speaker 3 (58:57):
Then the time.
Speaker 2 (59:01):
You are listening to this testimony with host qulibrion Ak
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Speaker 3 (59:09):
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For, it's the finely inspired vessel appointed and anointed for
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Speaker 6 (59:18):
Such as this.
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