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give you your flowers literally and
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figuratively there you go so your career
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your journey all that you contributed to
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the soundtrack of our lives we wanted to
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give you real flowers come on thank you
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amazing yeah because you really were the
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soundtrack when I think about you it's
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so interesting like sophomore college
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mike right now is amazed that I'm
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sitting next to you you were the
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soundtrack of my summer internship that
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I did in Motorola in Phoenix Arizona and
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me and my intern crew we listened and
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rocked out to you so hard during that
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time period and so I would have never
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imagined during that time period that
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I'll be interviewing next to you on Sway
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in the morning and so I'm blown away
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sophomore College Mike is blown away but
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when you walked in you had energy I
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didn't expect um it was very pleasant
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and very centered and grounded i felt
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and I wasn't expecting that ago no just
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now oh and so I'm just I'm just
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wondering what is keeping you so
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grounded and so centered uh you have
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such joy that is coming out of you
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alignment God's source that's really it
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at the end of day end of the day being
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grateful for every waking day a lot of
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people that I grew up with are not here
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anymore you know and rest in peace to
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Ananda Lewis who was early part of my
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career at BET's teen summit in 97
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and um I just give gratitude every day
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because I ever expected for the journey
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to uh withstand the test of time but
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also I'm just getting started and um
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just grateful grateful for the love for
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the support for those that are
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consistently believing in me and the
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vision and have held my hand on this
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independent journey as well because it's
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not easy and the supporters out there
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you know we're grown folks now
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we are grown and and life is changing
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the world is changing and to witness all
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of those changes um and still be solid
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and and grounded that's success because
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I heard you talking about it earlier and
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I've managed to define that myself and
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it looks a little different than some
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others definitions of success um bigger
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is not always better and I've I've had
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that uh projection over me for a long
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time because I come from the major label
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system but this independent journey has
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truly been educational so it's so many
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things it's grateful for life grateful
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for my family still being here you know
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and so many uh victories small wins yeah
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yeah i love that yeah man to give it up
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for Maya I I appreciate you coming in
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um the information I I want people to
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really I look back at some of your
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interviews and um I I take notes
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sometimes because the way you live your
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life um and the way what Mike said is
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you show up grounded she showed up by
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herself this morning tracy but not cuz I
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don't walk alone like face to face says
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and also not everybody's awake at 6:00
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a.m oh whatever maya we got to work too
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all right i'm still on East Coast time i
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let my team sleep right now after a
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crazy week yeah i appreciate you though
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give it up for Maya let's keep
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supporting her she's independent now
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face to face is one of the songs give it
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to you is another one of the songs maya
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thank you for always showing up i
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appreciate you truly appreciate the
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support and the love good to see you
