June 17, 2024 • 27 mins
Tyrik Wynn sits down with Gospel Artist Deitrick Haddon to talk about his new album One Night in California, reality TV, family, gospel music, touring and so much more.
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What to do. Guys. It'styreeq Win on your Home for twenty four
to seven news, the Black InformationNetwork on iHeartRadio. Appreciate y'all so much
tuning in. We got an amazingguest in the studio today. We got
the beat you're hatting man's going on, Tyreek. How are you feeling?
Man? I can't call it.They working men, They working from sun
up to sundown. Man trying toget the word out. Oh yeah,
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yeah, he gotta put in thatwork though. You got to put in
work. Artists don't put in work, no more likely like we used to.
You know what I'm saying. Wehide behind social media, but it's
people that made you who you are. You gotta remember you got to go
touch to people. Every campaign thatany presidential candidate is on, they start
with people kissing babies, hugging folksand going into the businesses. And we
got to go back to that.Yeah, not as that's definitely factual,
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especially like now since we out thepandemic. You know what I'm saying,
outside were outside, We were wewere in scared too, behind everything.
Man asking there, but we outman, and we really out. Everybody's
on tour and people are a lotof artists, like all of y'all is
on going on tours. Man,we're just snatching everybody's money. Man,
take everybody. But people look,but they're going, they're going. They
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they lets you know how powerful themusic industry is. Uh, and people
want it. They want a goodshow. Yeah. Now, I was
like, why you think every likeliterally everybody is going on tour. Now.
It's the season, man, it'sthe season because we went through a
season where nobody could tour. Allthe promoters weren't making money because that's how
they make the money. The promotersweren't making the money, the artists weren't
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making the money, and so nowwe got to make up for lost time.
So everybody's on tour. Now.The problem is who where are you
going? If Ddrich's on tour,ties on tour just for Fred's Kirks,
the Clark Sis is doing double tourswith Fred, it's like, where do
you go? So it's and we'repulling from the same group of people.
When it comes to the gospel musicindustry, it's the same group. So
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we got to be careful of thatabout oversaturating and overdoing it. But it's
a wonderful thing because we get tomake that money. You make the most
of your money, the bulk ofyour money through touring and doing shows.
So that's a wonderful thing. Yeahman, So let's le's talk about this
tour man. So this is inpartnership with McDonald's A shaller yes, in
this tour. So they don't payfor all the tickets. That's what it's
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free. Okay, there's no excuse. But man, they've been standing around
the building all the way down.They've been coming. Okay, shout out
to all even okay see. Ithought okay see would be kind of light.
Yeah. Man, they packed thatthing out. You know Texas.
They will come out in Texas.But okay see, man, they don't
get a lot of gospel concerts.That's why I'm saying, okay see,
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shout out to okay see. Butthey show love and they showed us that
they want more gospel artists to come. So yeah, it's a beautiful thing.
I love that, man. Sowhat's some cities y'all to hit so
far? So we did we didhelp me lawd. We did Houston,
we did Dallas, We did Birmingham, which was crazy. Birmingham Alabama.
We did okay, see, andwe started out in Nashville and we did
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about so far, about seven dates, okay, seven dates out of the
thirty that we have to do,so I guess it's twenty something left.
Yeah, yeah, twenty three left. Yeah. Yeah, I'm looking at
the schedule. Now. I seewe got ATL on June twenty ninethe el
okay, yeah, so yeah,I see we got ATL. Then I
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see we got shot Town on thenight June nineteenth, Shi Town. We
got favorite city, one of myfavorite cities. Yeah, Aten was the
top. ATL. Y'all always showedme love. Ahl always showed me love.
I feel like a lot of artistslike performing at ATL because I feel
wet. It's a lot of us. Yeah, and our fans are there,
so you know, it's a wonderfulthing. Y'all. Y'all know how
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to come outside and pay for aticket. Yeah, of course. Man,
So talk about so talk about thisnew album. One Night in California.
One Night in California is my bestalbum period. And that's hard to
say. I know, I knowit's a stretch because I got a lot
of records out there, but Ican say this is there's something different about
this because I approached it more likea mixtape, and so I'm just saying
what's really on my heart. I'mnot trying to be correct and be damn
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it's around with these political people andreligious people. I'm just I'm just saying
what's really on my heart, man, And so I'm feeling this one.
You know, when I make arecord, I ride around for a good
like three or four months, man, just listening to the music to make
sure that I'm getting the same feelingevery time I listen to it. That's
very important as a part of deliveringto you a great record, man.
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You got to get that feeling.And if I can get blessed over and
over again just listening and sonically Iwas right, and you know, the
vocals are there and everything. Iknow that when it hits your house and
when you get it, when youplay it on the radio, it's going
to be incredible. So the problemis my family have to deal with that.
Every time I get in the cardown, I'm playing Okay, when
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is this song coming out? Dyou just reallysic? So we could be
done with it, you know,But that's what they have to do.
They have to listen to all themusic once we do it, because I
run it by my family. Igot a twelve year old, got a
ten year old, got eight yearold. I run it by them,
then my wife. You know,so they got they they're the ones.
They're my gauge to see if thesongs are good or not. Yeah,
that's pretty cool, man. Ialways like when artists talk about the process
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and how they, you know,get to a certain point and create music
and stuff like that. Can youtell me what does it take to make
a good song? Well, yougot to be clear and on purpose with
what you're trying to convey and whoyou're talking to and how you're going to
corral that audience together on your hook. Your hook is what hooks everybody in
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to pull them together to sing ittogether. If you can get everybody singing
and dancing together. The hook couldbe the beat, it could be the
melody, it could be the lyric. And once you hook them in,
you got a great song. Youknow. And I think a lot of
songs that are inspired by what's goingon in the culture, it works.
It works like a lot of Ithink the reason why a lot of drinks
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and Kendrick Lamar songs are popping rightnow because we all into the beef the
disc you know, like who gonnawin? You know what I'm saying.
The time they're hooking us in withthese you know, yeah, you know
what I'm saying. Your life.You know, kids are going in so
now we all they see walking upthere, you know, and he gotta
looked, you know so, Butit's all inspired by a real beef that's
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going on between two rappers. Yeah, yeah, man, I'm glad.
I'm glad that you mentioned that.And so can you tell me has there
been a time when you've been creatingmusic and you came up with some and
you was like, I ain't reallyfeeling that, let me move in another
direction. Oh, that's all thetime. You know, you got to
make sure you got to be honestwith yourself. That's one thing of being
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a great producer. You got tobe honest with yourself. And everything that
you do is not just great.You can't do that because it's not.
But the songs that you know thatreally touch you, and then you run
it by your people that really willtell you the truth, your soundboards,
your people that will tell you.Man, that's that's crazy though. That's
what you're saying, right, thereis powerful. I love that beat.
You need people that's going to reallyknow music that's around you that can help
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you gauge what's good or not.And I'm to be honest with you exactly,
but I can't say if you're agreat producer and great songwriter, uh,
it's not. It doesn't necessarily meanthat the music is not good that
you just did. Maybe you haveto piece another piece to something else and
say that archive that for something,and you'll find yourself being able to pull
from something that you were we're goingto do but it didn't work. But
it worked for this beat, Itworked for this hook, this melody you
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know got you okay? Yeah?Pretty pretty cool man? And I want
to I want to ask you this. So I noticed your fashion is interesting,
right, and I like because yougot the hat you got on?
Yeah, So can you tell mewhere you get your inspiration for your fashion?
Man? Movies, I watch alot of movies. Uh the culture,
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you know, like where I'm fromfrom Detroit. You know, you
know, we're very independent, verybold colors, but very flamboyant. That's
what Detroit is known for. Ifyou go all the way back to the
Gators, the Purple Gators, YellowGators, the green you know that.
That's uh, it's a Detroit thing. I think Detroit was the first to
really do I'm talking back in theday. Okay, well the whole fingerwave,
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uh hairstyle and the pompador. Thenit went to New York. Detroit
was a trendsetter, uh city.In music when it comes to motown contemporary
got some music and in fashion.People don't give Detroit the credit and it
deserves. But there are a lotof people. I get my style from
just watching my uncles and them.Man, just the role the block be
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crazy. They want pimps, butthey just had a certain day. They
didn't mind wearing fitted you know,jump soup with the you know they was
crazy. You're like, man,he cool traveling and he got women like.
The ladies love it, you knowwhat I'm saying. So you know
what they like, and that's whatwe're rocking. Absolutely, and they ain't
about what you think what they goton, if that looked funny, whatever,
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they rocking it and it's working.You see all the women flocking to
them. You're like, Okay,we're gonna do that. I need that.
Yeah, you want that same attention. You know, So that's a
that's a man, glad you sharedthat. So talking about doing gospel music,
right, why did you? Obviouslyyou know at first you decided you
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want to be an artist, Butwhy did you decide to do gospel?
It's a calling, man, It'sa calling. Sometimes I question myself that
I ask myself the same question,why did I decide to do this to
fight with these people? The religiouspeople? Everything I do. They got
a problem with what I'm wearing.They got a problem with what I'm saying.
They got a problem with what I'mdoing just being a human being.
That's the toughest audience to have.When people say things like he trying to
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be a rock start all this stuff. It bothers me to the core because
if I wanted to, I couldhave done it. I turned down four
major record deals for one deal Isigned with Arista. The deal was signed
the night and the Holy Spirit toldme you can't go back there to that
studio. Tim and Bob. Y'allknow Tim and Bob from Slow Down.
I just want to get how longdid they get that? In those days
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they were producing my album, wehad like fifteen songs done if you call
Tim right now, he'll tell you. I learn how to really produce with
Dietrich right. And so we gotus a deal with arist with them with
the production company out of Detroit.Signed the deal that night. I said,
I'm never going back to that studiobecause something hit me. And when
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I called the producer after we hadsigned the next day, she said,
she said something told me that boyhas more to say. She just cried,
broke down on the phone. Shecould have said, Ni, I
got can't can I say that onit? She could have said. She
could have said, I got yousigned. We finally got this half million
dollar deal, and you're gonna dothat. I got Tim and Bob.
I got Tony Rich. Y'all rememberTony Rich? What was says nobody,
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No, that's my friend. Theywere producing my album before then. When
that happened, they all left,came out here to Atlanta and they all
got deals, and Tim, Timand Bob would call me every year religiously.
This is a true story, bro, Indeed, we got you a
deal. I'm sitting right here withLa Red Bro. I just played them
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are demos. You can get onthe plane right now. I said,
y'all, going to hell y'all doingall that. I said, Man,
I'm singing for the Lord. Ihad that mindset. I was very religious.
So that was one time. Anothertime, shout out to the met
Gudriy, you know the Met Gudery. He was over Columbia Records Division of
Columbia Records. When I first cameout, went out to LA. I
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was shopping a deal for my group, perfect piece. But I had produced
the songs, wrote the songs,arranged the songs, led the vocals and
everything. So when I played itfor him, he said, who wrote
that? I said, I wroteit? He said who produced it?
I said, I produced? Whoarranged it? Sir? I said,
I did it? Who's that singingthis part? In that part? I
says me. He said, yougot a deal? Wow, he said,
before you leave, you have thecontract. My manager, Larry Baker
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was right there. He was liked, you got a deal. And I
told him I can't do the deal. I'm sitting in the Columbia Records true
story. Can't do the deal.He said why, I said, cause
I came up here to shop formy group. Now for me, they
trusted me to come back with adeal for them. Yeah, and I
couldn't go back to my friend.These are my brothers. Yeah, and
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say, I mean, I gotthe deal. I'm gonna go before y'all
and I'm gonna do this. Theyain't gonna hear that, man. So
but my manager loyalty. Yes,my old manager, Larry Becker called me
maybe a year ago. He said, d that was the worst decision I
ever let you make. He said, I'll let you walk out of Columbia
Records, man, when they wereoffering you a deal. Yeah, he
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said, that got to be thedumbest decision I've ever made as the manager.
I said, no, you dustnot have the dumbest decision. I
said, look at all the livesthat's been touched, Yeah, through gospel
music exactly. You know what I'msaying. You get past all the religious
stuff and the drama of all that, but lives have been touched through my
music down through the years, andso we got to give respect to that.
Yeah, that's good man. Andhey, when you I mean,
when you sing it for the lawyer, you can't go wrong. You can't
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go wrong, man, because yourreward is in heaven. Exactly. You
know what I'm saying that it's biggerthan just money and stuff. Down here
is about touching lives and if youcan, what's a greater reward? Man?
When I hear testimonies like this,Man, I ran into a guy
who was twenty five year vet.He was in a wheelchair for whatever happened
to him, and his wife wasstanding there talking to me with him,
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he said. But he was standingstrong. He said, Man, you
don't know. I wanted to commitsuicide. The day I wanted to commit
suicide, your song I Need YourHelp from your Revealed album played, and
I decided not to kill myself.He said, to look at me now
I'm walking. He had a bigold truck full of food feeding hungry.
This is a twenty five year vet. Bro. I met a guy in
DC City, will tell you he'sright there, he said. Man,
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I was on crack cocaine, hesaid, and I started to change my
life. I was trying to wingmyself out of it, he said.
I had a bad day, hesaid. I stopped in my car.
He said it was a fork inthe road. If I go left,
I go back to get the crack. If I go right, I'm going
back. I'm pressing forward. Hesaid. Your song changed man from the
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Lost and Found record played. Hesaid, from that point on, he
said, I'm ten years clean.He said, that's why came to their
listening party to meet you and tellyou face to face that your music has
changed my life. That's great.So what's what's greater than that? A
grammar is greater than that? No, no, no, no no no
no. A record to say yougot a secular record? Deal, No,
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no, that right there? Savinglives, man, is the most
important thing. And that's why wesing gospel music and now. And people
don't get a twisted even though Ilike fashion, I love style, that's
that's just me. But my purposebehind all this is to reach people,
man, reach young people, touchlives, stop them in their tracks,
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say something, sing something with somuch conviction that at the moment they need
to make a decision, it makethem make the right decision. Yeah,
that's the power of the gospel.That's amazing. Man. When you when
you hear those testimonies, how howdoes that make you feel personally? Like
it's not been in vain and likeyour work. You've been putting in work
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and you're you're doing what you're callto do and it's not about how many
followers you have. It's not abouthow many awards you have. It's about
that right there. That's the assignmentto touch lives, man, to pull
people together, you know, pullthem in when the enemy is trying to
tell them to do something else.You right there, God's using your voice,
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your song to help people. Yeah, and you talked about his testimony,
but just imagine the ones you ain'theard yet. You know you're not
gonna hear all of them. AndI had to be and I was on
the road. I had to beon the road to meet these people to
even ever hear that, you knowwhat I'm saying. And so that's why
I'm telling artists, get out there, man, and meet your people.
See out there, they've heard yoursong. Never would have made it.
They heard your song worth it orwhatever song that is. And at the
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right moment, God used your songto help somebody, but you would never
meet them if you're hiding behind socialmedia and just promoting on that way.
You got to go out and touchpeople. Yeah, that's important, man.
Yeah, I love that you mentionedthat. I think think a lot
of artists need to start doing that. I don't know how we left it,
man, that's how I started.Yeah, I was on an I
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did a road trip before my tour. The tour started last week, but
the week before I went on theroad trip, we went to help Me
City. We went to We startedout in Charlotte, North Carolina. We
went to Raleigh, then we wentto Rocky Mountain. We went from Rocky
Mount to Salisbury, Maryland, andthen we went to Virginia Beach. Then
we went to Baltimore, DC.We ended up some kind of way in
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New York. But that whole run, I was doing a listening party for
all my supporters and playing the musicfor the first time and seeing how they
feel about or whatever. And that'show I met these people. They were
telling me all kinds of testimonies,man, and they were saying artists don't
won't do this. Southsbury, Marylandsaid they've never had a gospel artist come
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through. The radio announcer there.All the people said, we don't have
you the first gospel artist that evercame and did a listening party for us,
making history. I said, areyou serious? Yeah, that's crazy.
Out all these years on all thesegospel artists, they said, you're
the first one to come. Tellthem to come here. They got fans
here. I'm looking at this lineof people. Yeah that love gospel music,
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but we just don't go wow.Yeah. Got to get gotta get
out there. Got to reach thecommunity. Man, that's important. That's
the bottom line. Good advice,yes, sir, for sure. Man,
So talking to what you how doyou like? How did you like?
Knowing? Reality TV? For meis good because I'm very open,
I'm very transparent. I think realitythe root word is real. I like
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to keep it one hundred, keepit real. So it didn't bother me.
But it's very intrusive, very Thecameras are everywhere, and a lot
of people that are introverts, andlike, you know, I had to
consider my wife. She's not abig fan of it. Yeah, people
in my family they're not a bigfan of that, but they rolling with
me because that's what we're doing.Okay, okay, cameras rolling to os.
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Can you have them turned off fora minute. You know, it's
very intrusive, so you got tobe ready for something like that. But
the scrutiny that you get for everythingthat you say or on a show like
Preachers of La for two weeks,it's a wave of just attacks for any
if you because especially if you're stronglyopinionated like me, you know, I'll
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say something like, man, shackingain't even in the Bible. Why are
you talking to me about shacking?Yeah, so all the religious people say,
he's saying shacking is okay. Andthen the wave of Dietrich having is
trying to deceive people to make themthink they can fornicate. And that's a
whole lie. I told you theconcept of shocking, the principle of shocking
is not in the Bible. Whatyou really want to know is am I
fornicating? You want to deal withthe sin? And I would have told
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you, yes, sir, I'mhaving sex, got the show forth and
I'm trying to work through it.I will tell you that. So I
was telling them. But that's whatyou have to deal with with the religious
community, because they go heavy onevery little thing they do. Yeah,
especially like when you're in that spaceand stuff. They looking at you constantly
and they sometimes they waiting on youto mess up. Wait you wait something
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man. I wrote it on mynew album one out of California, song
called Without You, I said,I can see the wolves standing by waiting
for me to mess up. Justone time. I need you, Lord,
I need you. That record iscrazy to listen to without her.
Yeah, they standing by, Theywait one time for me to have a
human moment. Just be regular.Yeah, they gonna take that and run
with it and crucify you and tryto justify you. Never sing it again.
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It's horrible, man, it is. That's how they do. Man,
it's unfortunate. But just be likethat. But it has nothing to
do with Jesus. Because when theybrought that woman caught in the act of
adultery, she was having sex,no telling what position she was in,
and when they saw her, theysnatched her up. They snatched her up,
and the Bible says caught in theact of adultery, which means she
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was in the act. They snatchedher up and brought up before Jesus naked.
Look at her. We caught herdoing whatever she was doing. What
you got to say about that?Yeah, Jesus looked around, covering her
up, rolled in the sand andsaid, ye, this without seeing go
ahead and stone, you'd be thefirst one to do it. They all
had to put the stones down andwalk away. See that moment was really
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about them Jesus showing them the waythey are. How you handling people that
make mistakes, because you got mistakestoo, But look how you're gonna treat
her, how you're gonna do herlike that. When you got your own
issues, you may have been ableto pull some you know, time together
not doing it, maybe a monthor two or a year. But look
at you. Look how you're handlingand it's the same way we're mishandling people
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that make mistakes. We don't givepeople the same grace that we're asking for.
We gotta change that, man,Yeah, definitely gotta Yeah, definitely
got to. You got me onpreaching river, you got to. But
not an audience getting some out ofit, though, Yes, But that's
important, touching more lives like that'shey, that's what we've been talking about,
Touching lives and reaching the people.Man, Yeah, that's that's what
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it's all about. And then talkingabout the Bible and stuff. I do
want to ask you, how doyou for people out there who you know,
who may be Christian and stuff,but they may not necessarily understand the
relationship portion of it. How doyou how do you develop a good,
powerful relationship with God? You gotto be. God can do great things,
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build something great with raw material.It's going to be who you are.
There's a scripture in the Bible wheretwo men went to pray and one
man said, Hey, I doall these rituals and fasting and praying,
I am worthy of an audience withyou. You know he was. He
came very arrogant because he said Ido everything right. He was very pompous.
A man who was a center,who was a centurion guard, he
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just said, have mercy on me. Hit his chest, he said,
have mercy on me. Lord.I'm not worthy of this moment, but
have mercy on me. The Biblesaid that man who hit his chest and
said Lord, have mercy on me, came away justified and having heard his
prayer. The other one disregarded itbecause he came arrogant. You know what
I'm saying, And it's just aboutbeing humble and being real, being raw,
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being as authentic as you can becausewe're dealing with God here. We're
dealing with the one who created usall. When you see us, he
see everything, the skeletal system,the nervous system, the everything, the
brain, the nuwant. He createdit all. So he's not looking at
the character that you've created. Justthrow away the mask when you deal with
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God and be really who you areand say God, here I am.
That's how I do every day.All right, what we're working on the
day. I just felt like cussingsomebody out yesterday. We're gonna work.
We gotta work on that. Somaybe today I'm gonna do better. I'm
gonna try my best one the opportunityto present itself for me to do the
right thing or have the right thoughtstowards this situation. With your help,
Lord, I'm gonna do better,and then it happens. Man, you
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get better and better as you go. But don't get arrogant, because you
just one mess up away from beingright back in that place. So there's
no reason for anybody to judge anybody, anybody to be arrogant because we're all
in this thing called the flesh.Ain't nothing we can do about it,
and sometimes it shows up when youleast suspect it. So do Yeah,
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we all got the moments, man, Oh yeah, it is what it
is, you know. Yeah,Man, I definitely appreciate you for sharing
that, and hopefully the audience isable to learn a little something from that.
But I definitely appreciate you so muchfor coming on. Man, this
has been great. I do wantto ask you this, right so,
we got Father's Day coming up,that's gonna be next month. I want
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to ask you, you got somekids, what talk about? Can you
talk a little bit about fatherhood andhow important and how beautiful fatherhood is.
I think it's wonderful. Man.It's the greatest thing that ever happened to
me in my life being a father. You know, I was a late
bloomer when it comes to that.I had my first child when I was
thirty eight until now my daughter's twelve, and she's growing up fast. He's
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tall too, so it's gonna belike a supermodel or something like that.
But they're all very aggressive, progressive, they're very they got all the attributes
that I have, the fashion,they've already done their studios, their songs,
they're ready to drop their singles thissummer, Denver and Destin, and
it's just a wonderful thing to It'salmost like I'm able to live my life
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all over again, my youth allover again. I see myself and all
three of them, you know,and it's the best thing in the world
man, to see them grow andto come into who they are individually.
And I get joy just making sureI'm there even though I'm on tour.
I fly home every top of theweek, so on Sundays, I fly
home, I'm there Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and then I'm head back
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towards the weekend to do the tour, to do the show. And it's
very important to me because I hadthat in my life. I had my
father was there, Bishop Hadden,he was there. It was nine of
us. We were like the Bradybunch, and he took care of us.
He taught us how to work hardand share and just be family,
you know. And so I alwayswanted that for my life, you know,
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and so God has given it tome. Blessing man, and shout
out to all the fathers that arestanding up and raising your family and teaching
your family how to be great andcontribute something great in this world. That's
amazing man. Yeah, I definitelyapplaud you for that, because I know
it has to sometimes. It canprobably be tough, you know, doing
you know, doing your career andthen of course still being a family man.
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Yeah. Yeah, money worked thebeautiful thing about technology. Is they're
right with you all day, Likewhen I'm going between interviews and things like
that, but they're on the FaceTime, they're texting family, text threads,
all the stuff they tell me aboutwhat happened in school. Do you know?
So technology is wonderful. I cameup when there was no technology like
that. M hm. Can youbelieve that there was no cell phone?
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There was no no, no.We had beepers, yeah, pagers rather
you know my parents, I waslike, what is a beeper? Like?
They was they would be that wasa big deal about Oh man,
that was a big deal. Man. That was that was progressive. That
was like, hey, we're goinginto you could paid somebody, get the
numbers, see who to page,and you go straight to the payphone,
put the quarter in you can callthem. Yeah, I ain't know nothing
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about it. I'm twenty three.I ain't nothing. You don't know nothing
about that, man, or dialin the phone? Those you know little
I've seen. My great grandma gotone of those, so I used it
one time. I was like,I can't do that. JPS, no
GPS, No, you can't followwhere they are, no location sharing,
none of that stuff. Man,just you had to trust that they would
be there at the time they saidthey would be there. Mama said,
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you're picking us up at Fox.I don't know how y'all did that.
I don't know to this day either. I'm like, all the world did
we survive with how the GPS orways? Can you believe that? But
I rely on it? Yeah?So, but yeah, man, this
has been great. Congratulations everything yougot going on. Man, definitely appreciate
you so much for coming in.And guys that where can people check out
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You're downloading your stream will be abirthday gift to me. So thank you
so much in advance. That's amazingman. Like I said, definitely appreciate
it. Appreciate you so much tocome in and guys appreciate y'all so much
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tuning in. We got an amazingguest in the studio today. We got
the beat you're hatting man's going on, Tyreek. How are you feeling?
Man? I can't call it.They working men, They working from sun
up to sundown. Man trying toget the word out. Oh yeah,
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yeah, he gotta put in thatwork though. You got to put in
work. Artists don't put in work, no more likely like we used to.
You know what I'm saying. Wehide behind social media, but it's
people that made you who you are. You gotta remember you got to go
touch to people. Every campaign thatany presidential candidate is on, they start
with people kissing babies, hugging folksand going into the businesses. And we
got to go back to that.Yeah, not as that's definitely factual,
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especially like now since we out thepandemic. You know what I'm saying,
outside were outside, We were wewere in scared too, behind everything.
Man asking there, but we outman, and we really out. Everybody's
on tour and people are a lotof artists, like all of y'all is
on going on tours. Man,we're just snatching everybody's money. Man,
take everybody. But people look,but they're going, they're going. They
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they lets you know how powerful themusic industry is. Uh, and people
want it. They want a goodshow. Yeah. Now, I was
like, why you think every likeliterally everybody is going on tour. Now.
It's the season, man, it'sthe season because we went through a
season where nobody could tour. Allthe promoters weren't making money because that's how
they make the money. The promotersweren't making the money, the artists weren't
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making the money, and so nowwe got to make up for lost time.
So everybody's on tour. Now.The problem is who where are you
going? If Ddrich's on tour,ties on tour just for Fred's Kirks,
the Clark Sis is doing double tourswith Fred, it's like, where do
you go? So it's and we'repulling from the same group of people.
When it comes to the gospel musicindustry, it's the same group. So
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we got to be careful of thatabout oversaturating and overdoing it. But it's
a wonderful thing because we get tomake that money. You make the most
of your money, the bulk ofyour money through touring and doing shows.
So that's a wonderful thing. Yeahman, So let's le's talk about this
tour man. So this is inpartnership with McDonald's A shaller yes, in
this tour. So they don't payfor all the tickets. That's what it's
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free. Okay, there's no excuse. But man, they've been standing around
the building all the way down.They've been coming. Okay, shout out
to all even okay see. Ithought okay see would be kind of light.
Yeah. Man, they packed thatthing out. You know Texas.
They will come out in Texas.But okay see, man, they don't
get a lot of gospel concerts.That's why I'm saying, okay see,
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shout out to okay see. Butthey show love and they showed us that
they want more gospel artists to come. So yeah, it's a beautiful thing.
I love that, man. Sowhat's some cities y'all to hit so
far? So we did we didhelp me lawd. We did Houston,
we did Dallas, We did Birmingham, which was crazy. Birmingham Alabama.
We did okay, see, andwe started out in Nashville and we did
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about so far, about seven dates, okay, seven dates out of the
thirty that we have to do,so I guess it's twenty something left.
Yeah, yeah, twenty three left. Yeah. Yeah, I'm looking at
the schedule. Now. I seewe got ATL on June twenty ninethe el
okay, yeah, so yeah,I see we got ATL. Then I
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see we got shot Town on thenight June nineteenth, Shi Town. We
got favorite city, one of myfavorite cities. Yeah, Aten was the
top. ATL. Y'all always showedme love. Ahl always showed me love.
I feel like a lot of artistslike performing at ATL because I feel
wet. It's a lot of us. Yeah, and our fans are there,
so you know, it's a wonderfulthing. Y'all. Y'all know how
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to come outside and pay for aticket. Yeah, of course. Man,
So talk about so talk about thisnew album. One Night in California.
One Night in California is my bestalbum period. And that's hard to
say. I know, I knowit's a stretch because I got a lot
of records out there, but Ican say this is there's something different about
this because I approached it more likea mixtape, and so I'm just saying
what's really on my heart. I'mnot trying to be correct and be damn
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it's around with these political people andreligious people. I'm just I'm just saying
what's really on my heart, man, And so I'm feeling this one.
You know, when I make arecord, I ride around for a good
like three or four months, man, just listening to the music to make
sure that I'm getting the same feelingevery time I listen to it. That's
very important as a part of deliveringto you a great record, man.
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You got to get that feeling.And if I can get blessed over and
over again just listening and sonically Iwas right, and you know, the
vocals are there and everything. Iknow that when it hits your house and
when you get it, when youplay it on the radio, it's going
to be incredible. So the problemis my family have to deal with that.
Every time I get in the cardown, I'm playing Okay, when
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is this song coming out? Dyou just reallysic? So we could be
done with it, you know,But that's what they have to do.
They have to listen to all themusic once we do it, because I
run it by my family. Igot a twelve year old, got a
ten year old, got eight yearold. I run it by them,
then my wife. You know,so they got they they're the ones.
They're my gauge to see if thesongs are good or not. Yeah,
that's pretty cool, man. Ialways like when artists talk about the process
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and how they, you know,get to a certain point and create music
and stuff like that. Can youtell me what does it take to make
a good song? Well, yougot to be clear and on purpose with
what you're trying to convey and whoyou're talking to and how you're going to
corral that audience together on your hook. Your hook is what hooks everybody in
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to pull them together to sing ittogether. If you can get everybody singing
and dancing together. The hook couldbe the beat, it could be the
melody, it could be the lyric. And once you hook them in,
you got a great song. Youknow. And I think a lot of
songs that are inspired by what's goingon in the culture, it works.
It works like a lot of Ithink the reason why a lot of drinks
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and Kendrick Lamar songs are popping rightnow because we all into the beef the
disc you know, like who gonnawin? You know what I'm saying.
The time they're hooking us in withthese you know, yeah, you know
what I'm saying. Your life.You know, kids are going in so
now we all they see walking upthere, you know, and he gotta
looked, you know so, Butit's all inspired by a real beef that's
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going on between two rappers. Yeah, yeah, man, I'm glad.
I'm glad that you mentioned that.And so can you tell me has there
been a time when you've been creatingmusic and you came up with some and
you was like, I ain't reallyfeeling that, let me move in another
direction. Oh, that's all thetime. You know, you got to
make sure you got to be honestwith yourself. That's one thing of being
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a great producer. You got tobe honest with yourself. And everything that
you do is not just great.You can't do that because it's not.
But the songs that you know thatreally touch you, and then you run
it by your people that really willtell you the truth, your soundboards,
your people that will tell you.Man, that's that's crazy though. That's
what you're saying, right, thereis powerful. I love that beat.
You need people that's going to reallyknow music that's around you that can help
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you gauge what's good or not.And I'm to be honest with you exactly,
but I can't say if you're agreat producer and great songwriter, uh,
it's not. It doesn't necessarily meanthat the music is not good that
you just did. Maybe you haveto piece another piece to something else and
say that archive that for something,and you'll find yourself being able to pull
from something that you were we're goingto do but it didn't work. But
it worked for this beat, Itworked for this hook, this melody you
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know got you okay? Yeah?Pretty pretty cool man? And I want
to I want to ask you this. So I noticed your fashion is interesting,
right, and I like because yougot the hat you got on?
Yeah, So can you tell mewhere you get your inspiration for your fashion?
Man? Movies, I watch alot of movies. Uh the culture,
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you know, like where I'm fromfrom Detroit. You know, you
know, we're very independent, verybold colors, but very flamboyant. That's
what Detroit is known for. Ifyou go all the way back to the
Gators, the Purple Gators, YellowGators, the green you know that.
That's uh, it's a Detroit thing. I think Detroit was the first to
really do I'm talking back in theday. Okay, well the whole fingerwave,
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uh hairstyle and the pompador. Thenit went to New York. Detroit
was a trendsetter, uh city.In music when it comes to motown contemporary
got some music and in fashion.People don't give Detroit the credit and it
deserves. But there are a lotof people. I get my style from
just watching my uncles and them.Man, just the role the block be
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crazy. They want pimps, butthey just had a certain day. They
didn't mind wearing fitted you know,jump soup with the you know they was
crazy. You're like, man,he cool traveling and he got women like.
The ladies love it, you knowwhat I'm saying. So you know
what they like, and that's whatwe're rocking. Absolutely, and they ain't
about what you think what they goton, if that looked funny, whatever,
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they rocking it and it's working.You see all the women flocking to
them. You're like, Okay,we're gonna do that. I need that.
Yeah, you want that same attention. You know, So that's a
that's a man, glad you sharedthat. So talking about doing gospel music,
right, why did you? Obviouslyyou know at first you decided you
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want to be an artist, Butwhy did you decide to do gospel?
It's a calling, man, It'sa calling. Sometimes I question myself that
I ask myself the same question,why did I decide to do this to
fight with these people? The religiouspeople? Everything I do. They got
a problem with what I'm wearing.They got a problem with what I'm saying.
They got a problem with what I'mdoing just being a human being.
That's the toughest audience to have.When people say things like he trying to
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be a rock start all this stuff. It bothers me to the core because
if I wanted to, I couldhave done it. I turned down four
major record deals for one deal Isigned with Arista. The deal was signed
the night and the Holy Spirit toldme you can't go back there to that
studio. Tim and Bob. Y'allknow Tim and Bob from Slow Down.
I just want to get how longdid they get that? In those days
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they were producing my album, wehad like fifteen songs done if you call
Tim right now, he'll tell you. I learn how to really produce with
Dietrich right. And so we gotus a deal with arist with them with
the production company out of Detroit.Signed the deal that night. I said,
I'm never going back to that studiobecause something hit me. And when
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I called the producer after we hadsigned the next day, she said,
she said something told me that boyhas more to say. She just cried,
broke down on the phone. Shecould have said, Ni, I
got can't can I say that onit? She could have said. She
could have said, I got yousigned. We finally got this half million
dollar deal, and you're gonna dothat. I got Tim and Bob.
I got Tony Rich. Y'all rememberTony Rich? What was says nobody,
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No, that's my friend. Theywere producing my album before then. When
that happened, they all left,came out here to Atlanta and they all
got deals, and Tim, Timand Bob would call me every year religiously.
This is a true story, bro, Indeed, we got you a
deal. I'm sitting right here withLa Red Bro. I just played them
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are demos. You can get onthe plane right now. I said,
y'all, going to hell y'all doingall that. I said, Man,
I'm singing for the Lord. Ihad that mindset. I was very religious.
So that was one time. Anothertime, shout out to the met
Gudriy, you know the Met Gudery. He was over Columbia Records Division of
Columbia Records. When I first cameout, went out to LA. I
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was shopping a deal for my group, perfect piece. But I had produced
the songs, wrote the songs,arranged the songs, led the vocals and
everything. So when I played itfor him, he said, who wrote
that? I said, I wroteit? He said who produced it?
I said, I produced? Whoarranged it? Sir? I said,
I did it? Who's that singingthis part? In that part? I
says me. He said, yougot a deal? Wow, he said,
before you leave, you have thecontract. My manager, Larry Baker
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was right there. He was liked, you got a deal. And I
told him I can't do the deal. I'm sitting in the Columbia Records true
story. Can't do the deal.He said why, I said, cause
I came up here to shop formy group. Now for me, they
trusted me to come back with adeal for them. Yeah, and I
couldn't go back to my friend.These are my brothers. Yeah, and
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say, I mean, I gotthe deal. I'm gonna go before y'all
and I'm gonna do this. Theyain't gonna hear that, man. So
but my manager loyalty. Yes,my old manager, Larry Becker called me
maybe a year ago. He said, d that was the worst decision I
ever let you make. He said, I'll let you walk out of Columbia
Records, man, when they wereoffering you a deal. Yeah, he
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said, that got to be thedumbest decision I've ever made as the manager.
I said, no, you dustnot have the dumbest decision. I
said, look at all the livesthat's been touched, Yeah, through gospel
music exactly. You know what I'msaying. You get past all the religious
stuff and the drama of all that, but lives have been touched through my
music down through the years, andso we got to give respect to that.
Yeah, that's good man. Andhey, when you I mean,
when you sing it for the lawyer, you can't go wrong. You can't
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go wrong, man, because yourreward is in heaven. Exactly. You
know what I'm saying that it's biggerthan just money and stuff. Down here
is about touching lives and if youcan, what's a greater reward? Man?
When I hear testimonies like this,Man, I ran into a guy
who was twenty five year vet.He was in a wheelchair for whatever happened
to him, and his wife wasstanding there talking to me with him,
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he said. But he was standingstrong. He said, Man, you
don't know. I wanted to commitsuicide. The day I wanted to commit
suicide, your song I Need YourHelp from your Revealed album played, and
I decided not to kill myself.He said, to look at me now
I'm walking. He had a bigold truck full of food feeding hungry.
This is a twenty five year vet. Bro. I met a guy in
DC City, will tell you he'sright there, he said. Man,
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I was on crack cocaine, hesaid, and I started to change my
life. I was trying to wingmyself out of it, he said.
I had a bad day, hesaid. I stopped in my car.
He said it was a fork inthe road. If I go left,
I go back to get the crack. If I go right, I'm going
back. I'm pressing forward. Hesaid. Your song changed man from the
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Lost and Found record played. Hesaid, from that point on, he
said, I'm ten years clean.He said, that's why came to their
listening party to meet you and tellyou face to face that your music has
changed my life. That's great.So what's what's greater than that? A
grammar is greater than that? No, no, no, no no no
no. A record to say yougot a secular record? Deal, No,
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no, that right there? Savinglives, man, is the most
important thing. And that's why wesing gospel music and now. And people
don't get a twisted even though Ilike fashion, I love style, that's
that's just me. But my purposebehind all this is to reach people,
man, reach young people, touchlives, stop them in their tracks,
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say something, sing something with somuch conviction that at the moment they need
to make a decision, it makethem make the right decision. Yeah,
that's the power of the gospel.That's amazing. Man. When you when
you hear those testimonies, how howdoes that make you feel personally? Like
it's not been in vain and likeyour work. You've been putting in work
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and you're you're doing what you're callto do and it's not about how many
followers you have. It's not abouthow many awards you have. It's about
that right there. That's the assignmentto touch lives, man, to pull
people together, you know, pullthem in when the enemy is trying to
tell them to do something else.You right there, God's using your voice,
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your song to help people. Yeah, and you talked about his testimony,
but just imagine the ones you ain'theard yet. You know you're not
gonna hear all of them. AndI had to be and I was on
the road. I had to beon the road to meet these people to
even ever hear that, you knowwhat I'm saying. And so that's why
I'm telling artists, get out there, man, and meet your people.
See out there, they've heard yoursong. Never would have made it.
They heard your song worth it orwhatever song that is. And at the
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right moment, God used your songto help somebody, but you would never
meet them if you're hiding behind socialmedia and just promoting on that way.
You got to go out and touchpeople. Yeah, that's important, man.
Yeah, I love that you mentionedthat. I think think a lot
of artists need to start doing that. I don't know how we left it,
man, that's how I started.Yeah, I was on an I
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did a road trip before my tour. The tour started last week, but
the week before I went on theroad trip, we went to help Me
City. We went to We startedout in Charlotte, North Carolina. We
went to Raleigh, then we wentto Rocky Mountain. We went from Rocky
Mount to Salisbury, Maryland, andthen we went to Virginia Beach. Then
we went to Baltimore, DC.We ended up some kind of way in
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New York. But that whole run, I was doing a listening party for
all my supporters and playing the musicfor the first time and seeing how they
feel about or whatever. And that'show I met these people. They were
telling me all kinds of testimonies,man, and they were saying artists don't
won't do this. Southsbury, Marylandsaid they've never had a gospel artist come
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through. The radio announcer there.All the people said, we don't have
you the first gospel artist that evercame and did a listening party for us,
making history. I said, areyou serious? Yeah, that's crazy.
Out all these years on all thesegospel artists, they said, you're
the first one to come. Tellthem to come here. They got fans
here. I'm looking at this lineof people. Yeah that love gospel music,
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but we just don't go wow.Yeah. Got to get gotta get
out there. Got to reach thecommunity. Man, that's important. That's
the bottom line. Good advice,yes, sir, for sure. Man,
So talking to what you how doyou like? How did you like?
Knowing? Reality TV? For meis good because I'm very open,
I'm very transparent. I think realitythe root word is real. I like
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to keep it one hundred, keepit real. So it didn't bother me.
But it's very intrusive, very Thecameras are everywhere, and a lot
of people that are introverts, andlike, you know, I had to
consider my wife. She's not abig fan of it. Yeah, people
in my family they're not a bigfan of that, but they rolling with
me because that's what we're doing.Okay, okay, cameras rolling to os.
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Can you have them turned off fora minute. You know, it's
very intrusive, so you got tobe ready for something like that. But
the scrutiny that you get for everythingthat you say or on a show like
Preachers of La for two weeks,it's a wave of just attacks for any
if you because especially if you're stronglyopinionated like me, you know, I'll
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say something like, man, shackingain't even in the Bible. Why are
you talking to me about shacking?Yeah, so all the religious people say,
he's saying shacking is okay. Andthen the wave of Dietrich having is
trying to deceive people to make themthink they can fornicate. And that's a
whole lie. I told you theconcept of shocking, the principle of shocking
is not in the Bible. Whatyou really want to know is am I
fornicating? You want to deal withthe sin? And I would have told
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you, yes, sir, I'mhaving sex, got the show forth and
I'm trying to work through it.I will tell you that. So I
was telling them. But that's whatyou have to deal with with the religious
community, because they go heavy onevery little thing they do. Yeah,
especially like when you're in that spaceand stuff. They looking at you constantly
and they sometimes they waiting on youto mess up. Wait you wait something
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man. I wrote it on mynew album one out of California, song
called Without You, I said,I can see the wolves standing by waiting
for me to mess up. Justone time. I need you, Lord,
I need you. That record iscrazy to listen to without her.
Yeah, they standing by, Theywait one time for me to have a
human moment. Just be regular.Yeah, they gonna take that and run
with it and crucify you and tryto justify you. Never sing it again.
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It's horrible, man, it is. That's how they do. Man,
it's unfortunate. But just be likethat. But it has nothing to
do with Jesus. Because when theybrought that woman caught in the act of
adultery, she was having sex,no telling what position she was in,
and when they saw her, theysnatched her up. They snatched her up,
and the Bible says caught in theact of adultery, which means she
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was in the act. They snatchedher up and brought up before Jesus naked.
Look at her. We caught herdoing whatever she was doing. What
you got to say about that?Yeah, Jesus looked around, covering her
up, rolled in the sand andsaid, ye, this without seeing go
ahead and stone, you'd be thefirst one to do it. They all
had to put the stones down andwalk away. See that moment was really
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about them Jesus showing them the waythey are. How you handling people that
make mistakes, because you got mistakestoo, But look how you're gonna treat
her, how you're gonna do herlike that. When you got your own
issues, you may have been ableto pull some you know, time together
not doing it, maybe a monthor two or a year. But look
at you. Look how you're handlingand it's the same way we're mishandling people
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that make mistakes. We don't givepeople the same grace that we're asking for.
We gotta change that, man,Yeah, definitely gotta Yeah, definitely
got to. You got me onpreaching river, you got to. But
not an audience getting some out ofit, though, Yes, But that's
important, touching more lives like that'shey, that's what we've been talking about,
Touching lives and reaching the people.Man, Yeah, that's that's what
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it's all about. And then talkingabout the Bible and stuff. I do
want to ask you, how doyou for people out there who you know,
who may be Christian and stuff,but they may not necessarily understand the
relationship portion of it. How doyou how do you develop a good,
powerful relationship with God? You gotto be. God can do great things,
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build something great with raw material.It's going to be who you are.
There's a scripture in the Bible wheretwo men went to pray and one
man said, Hey, I doall these rituals and fasting and praying,
I am worthy of an audience withyou. You know he was. He
came very arrogant because he said Ido everything right. He was very pompous.
A man who was a center,who was a centurion guard, he
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just said, have mercy on me. Hit his chest, he said,
have mercy on me. Lord.I'm not worthy of this moment, but
have mercy on me. The Biblesaid that man who hit his chest and
said Lord, have mercy on me, came away justified and having heard his
prayer. The other one disregarded itbecause he came arrogant. You know what
I'm saying, And it's just aboutbeing humble and being real, being raw,
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being as authentic as you can becausewe're dealing with God here. We're
dealing with the one who created usall. When you see us, he
see everything, the skeletal system,the nervous system, the everything, the
brain, the nuwant. He createdit all. So he's not looking at
the character that you've created. Justthrow away the mask when you deal with
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God and be really who you areand say God, here I am.
That's how I do every day.All right, what we're working on the
day. I just felt like cussingsomebody out yesterday. We're gonna work.
We gotta work on that. Somaybe today I'm gonna do better. I'm
gonna try my best one the opportunityto present itself for me to do the
right thing or have the right thoughtstowards this situation. With your help,
Lord, I'm gonna do better,and then it happens. Man, you
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get better and better as you go. But don't get arrogant, because you
just one mess up away from beingright back in that place. So there's
no reason for anybody to judge anybody, anybody to be arrogant because we're all
in this thing called the flesh.Ain't nothing we can do about it,
and sometimes it shows up when youleast suspect it. So do Yeah,
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we all got the moments, man, Oh yeah, it is what it
is, you know. Yeah,Man, I definitely appreciate you for sharing
that, and hopefully the audience isable to learn a little something from that.
But I definitely appreciate you so muchfor coming on. Man, this
has been great. I do wantto ask you this, right so,
we got Father's Day coming up,that's gonna be next month. I want
(23:26):
to ask you, you got somekids, what talk about? Can you
talk a little bit about fatherhood andhow important and how beautiful fatherhood is.
I think it's wonderful. Man.It's the greatest thing that ever happened to
me in my life being a father. You know, I was a late
bloomer when it comes to that.I had my first child when I was
thirty eight until now my daughter's twelve, and she's growing up fast. He's
(23:51):
tall too, so it's gonna belike a supermodel or something like that.
But they're all very aggressive, progressive, they're very they got all the attributes
that I have, the fashion,they've already done their studios, their songs,
they're ready to drop their singles thissummer, Denver and Destin, and
it's just a wonderful thing to It'salmost like I'm able to live my life
(24:12):
all over again, my youth allover again. I see myself and all
three of them, you know,and it's the best thing in the world
man, to see them grow andto come into who they are individually.
And I get joy just making sureI'm there even though I'm on tour.
I fly home every top of theweek, so on Sundays, I fly
home, I'm there Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and then I'm head back
(24:34):
towards the weekend to do the tour, to do the show. And it's
very important to me because I hadthat in my life. I had my
father was there, Bishop Hadden,he was there. It was nine of
us. We were like the Bradybunch, and he took care of us.
He taught us how to work hardand share and just be family,
you know. And so I alwayswanted that for my life, you know,
(24:56):
and so God has given it tome. Blessing man, and shout
out to all the fathers that arestanding up and raising your family and teaching
your family how to be great andcontribute something great in this world. That's
amazing man. Yeah, I definitelyapplaud you for that, because I know
it has to sometimes. It canprobably be tough, you know, doing
you know, doing your career andthen of course still being a family man.
(25:19):
Yeah. Yeah, money worked thebeautiful thing about technology. Is they're
right with you all day, Likewhen I'm going between interviews and things like
that, but they're on the FaceTime, they're texting family, text threads,
all the stuff they tell me aboutwhat happened in school. Do you know?
So technology is wonderful. I cameup when there was no technology like
that. M hm. Can youbelieve that there was no cell phone?
(25:41):
There was no no, no.We had beepers, yeah, pagers rather
you know my parents, I waslike, what is a beeper? Like?
They was they would be that wasa big deal about Oh man,
that was a big deal. Man. That was that was progressive. That
was like, hey, we're goinginto you could paid somebody, get the
numbers, see who to page,and you go straight to the payphone,
put the quarter in you can callthem. Yeah, I ain't know nothing
(26:03):
about it. I'm twenty three.I ain't nothing. You don't know nothing
about that, man, or dialin the phone? Those you know little
I've seen. My great grandma gotone of those, so I used it
one time. I was like,I can't do that. JPS, no
GPS, No, you can't followwhere they are, no location sharing,
none of that stuff. Man,just you had to trust that they would
be there at the time they saidthey would be there. Mama said,
(26:25):
you're picking us up at Fox.I don't know how y'all did that.
I don't know to this day either. I'm like, all the world did
we survive with how the GPS orways? Can you believe that? But
I rely on it? Yeah?So, but yeah, man, this
has been great. Congratulations everything yougot going on. Man, definitely appreciate
you so much for coming in.And guys that where can people check out
(26:48):
the tour dates and get tickets?Go to I got Away tour dot com.
I got away tour dot com andget your free ticket for the next
tour date. But you can alsofollow me on d Hattie and blue check
the d Hattie d h A dd Y Dietrich hatting on Facebook on x
Dietrich having got the blue check thereyou can't miss me and all the wonderful
things. Also, you can downloadmy brand new album on my birthday.
(27:11):
You're downloading your stream will be abirthday gift to me. So thank you
so much in advance. That's amazingman. Like I said, definitely appreciate
it. Appreciate you so much tocome in and guys appreciate y'all so much
for tuning in. Make sure y'allstay tuned into the Black Information Network on
your home for twenty four to sevennews, peace Out, Peace
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