"There Is No VIP Because We’re All VIP" (w/ Brian Henry)

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really excited about Mr Brian Henry coming in. I ran across him probably like when I first moved out to l a probably a year and a half after maybe, and I met him through his to him DJ and before I spoke to him, and I was like, wow, I got to get to know this brother. Then I found out that his mother had transition transition from breast cancer, you know, the same as my mother. And I was like you. Then I found out he was part of the community, and I'm like, oh, it's a black brother

from the East Coast. It's beautiful and I know he's down with manifestation. So I am extremely excited to have him here. And it's just a testament to say that you can manifest things. You gotta believe in yourself and you gotta stay focused. So man, we we're gonna have a lot to talk about, and I'm hoping this conversation is going to inspire you. Yeah, all right, girl, thank and thank you so much for being here and supporting me on my dreams. I appreciate you. Get your vitem

right with me and get excited about you. I got Brian Henry in the studio. I mean, now, let me tell you this. You heard me say this before he got in here, that I met him probably like a year after I moved to LA I met him at the an event. Uh Nathan Williams. I don't know if it was a native son of it. I don't know if he had it then, but and I remember in mill Whooperkin was a it was at Nory House New House, and I was with my friend and this president was

home the turn tables. I mean he was hitting in the pocket like every single time, like you don't all the time catch that? And you know what I'm saying, and you know I'm a nineties girl, So he was getting the R and beat and I was like, who is this? And then um, I even I introduced myself to you. And then some time after that I became intrigued. I don't know if you told me then or you gave a shout out, but then I learned that your mother had transitioned with breast cancer. And then that touched

me because my mother had transition with breast canst. Like damn. Then um timas went on, I run into you yours fast forward, So then I heard about you, and then I'm friends with Blue and I saw her podcast and I saw you being more vocal about being in the community. I was like, who is this man? I need him? Then fast forward, but were almost like ten years. I saw you at the Roosevelt for djon at the CP image Wars. Yes, yes, they had me saying in a CP that's funny. I was a president of my collegiate

chapter and one of the undergrad a CP. Yeah, I was telling me, you gotta say a a CP and for a whole long long time, right, it's all good, And I was I was too shy to say anything. If we were at coaching, I don't know because I'm being weird. So we're at coaching. I know why because people expect that with your ascension that you change, and some people do. And I think if you rise and you change the core who you all, that that who you are that rise doesn't it crashes, you know, true?

And so people expect that when they see you in different positions that you're gonna act different. It's like nah, and I was saying it's late. I was like, he's probably tired. I didn't want to go through the whole thing like oh I have, but I was like, yeah, I enjoyed your set. So then I saw your yok and I was like, I'm getting him ran outside the club. That's when I was like boom and I was like yes, and I was like I know I was gonna meet this man podcast. Yeah, so I gave a little bit,

but how would you introduce her? Tell the people who you are? Um, I'm Brian Henry. I'm originally from Baltimore, Maryland. Uh. I love long walks in the park. You know what I'm saying. No, I um my musical maestro. I love music. Music is my heartbeat, you know. I think it's a It's a function of my mission here on on planet Earth to bring people to their highest awareness of who

they are. You know what I mean? I love that because music what is the vibration and we're all spiritual beings, like you're vibrating as higher you know what I mean, to relieve you from stress and attention that you may experience on your day to day walk and you know, give you a sense of empowerment. You know, it's more than just it's more than just partying. It's it's really creating community, allowing us to be together and look to our left, look all right, and realized that we're nothing

different from one another. Wow, Because you know, I guess you think about party. Your dancing is just like um A smile, emotions. You can feel it. I don't have to know exactly what's in your mind or what you're listening to. I can feel you or you or in other environments like where you may otherwise walk by the streams who want and may not say hello. When you're in a in a in an environment where there's music going, you know people that you would otherwise not speak to you.

You make eye contact, you smile, you connect because you both are on that wave, that frequency that the music is taking you to. I'm not even checking for guys right now, but you are so damn fine. Are you talking to me like that? Like? Why are you talking like that? I'm trying to focus what you're saying, and I'm kid, I'm like doing listen with your beautiful stuff as well. Thank you so much. Now I'm up here. I gotta get money. You're crazy. Wait, okay, so I

love what you said. Did you know that you wanted to always be a DJ? Like? How did that come to MANX? I think I knew since I was like four or five how much I was in love with music, but it wasn't necessarily something that was encouraged or supported, so I fought against it. So then I got to ask you, when did you fall in love with music?

When the first time I knew I was in love with music is actually when my dad popped my Janet Jackson control cassette tape back in the day, day day, and I was the most evil little four or five year old walking around arms folded, upset, mad, dumping around the house just like looking at it like I was not giving my dad no attention. I was mad. And at that point, I think that's the that's the earliest recollection I have in terms of like how much music

meant to me? Like you popped and he didn't. It wasn't on purpose, but I was pissed as a kid, you know, So like what are you thinking? Like you were into singame? No, I never I knew I could never sing. God knew what gets to give me? Because I was saying I'd be a mess. I was getting up there and just moved in it will be yeah, you know. But I do believe I've been gifted with certain certain you know, problems within music because I wouldn't abuse it. You know again, it really is a gift

to bring us together. Yeah, and until you are if I sing, I'd probably be singing draws off three. So were you always teaching? Like how did you did? You sound like an interesting path? Like I don't know, people tell you how to be a d J. Get out there, they don't at all and all I know for sure

that you know. So I was like twelve thirteen, and I would take my dad's stereo and plug it up to tell of it and like get the R C A cables and I'm like recording, uh, Donnie Simpson on BJ video Soul and like trying to make my own little mix tapes with listening to difference between Donnie between videos so and then rap City, like I would hear different stuff that I would, you know, and then okay, I'm a recorded here, that a posit there, and then I'm through this track or this I don't like this

video posit, you know, Like that's how my first like mixtapes, if you will you know what I mean, doing it like that, and then you know, then fast forward when the Nashta era you've downloading music? Why are you making that sound so old? You know what I mean? You know, I ain't new that some true to this? Hello somebody, somebody Hello? And so yeah, I used to make I used to make little mix tapes on the computer. And so I asked my dad to like, yo, like, I

want to get some DJ equipment. So he took me to like three or four pawn shops and we couldn't find it fund any you know what I mean. He's like, it's okay, Hey, don't matter because my son of Michael, you know, damn DJ Anyway, what I was literally like twelve thirteen. I was crushed, like like literally crushed. And it took me years to understand why. I don't only think he understand why he said that at the time.

I mean on his level, he looked at it from a standpoint like my son's going to college and he's gonna do this and do do Uh. So he went into the military, you know, I mean, And so my parents had me super young. Yeah, they were eighteen. You know. My mom had me between her junior year and senior of high school and my dad had just finished high school. And so he went off to basic training while she

was finishing school. And when she finished school. Uh, they he he had finished his basic training, and we we moved to Germany, and I was a military brand, Like I hopped all over the place, you know what I'm saying. Um, And I think because he made such that big sacrifice to get us out of Baltimore at an early age, he didn't see the trajector of me going into anything that was going to be potentially unstable. And his brother was a DJ. You know, my uncle Robert was a DJ,

big DJ in Baltimore. Uncle, and he just got my He didn't want me to go that path. You know what I'm saying. Uncle got into trouble completely unrelated to DJ and and he just didn't want me. I think that's what that's what that's what it really was. But he can never really articulate that, you know, So then he was like, no, you can't be a DJ. And he were like, I'm gonna do it anywhere. We're like, no, I'm gonna do this. No I didn't. I did. I didn't do it at all. Like I didn't start DJAN

until like four years after college. What did you do it? What did you study at college? I was an economics major. I was economics major. I interned and worked on Wall Street. Come on left Bryant eddied abroad in London, you know, studying economics. I was like, I was very much that on that straight and narrow path. Like I had done a summer program at Harvard Business School. I was preparing to go to the path of going to business school and going to be doing you know, in the world

of finance. But I hated it. I hated it. I hated it. I hated it, you know, and worked corporate job for after college, and eventually they relocated me here to l A and I got to be around so many dynamic people who were pursuing their dreams at different levels of education, who some people didn't go to college, but they were wildly successful because they were aligned with their gifts. And that's what I got to learn about

being in l A. You know. I mean, people look at it from the glitz and glam and the things that you know, if you see on TV. But it wasn't about that. It was like, I would see the people who were behind the scenes, We're making the people in front of camera, you know, look amazing, And I just saw different aspects of entertainment. I'm like, well, I'm making good men at this corver job that I hate,

you know, doing something that makes me miserable. Then imagine if I put all of my injury to something I love. And so one day I pieced out what I just pieced out. Yeah, I started practicing Buddhism, and that's what shifted everything from me, you know, literally Buddhism like looking Tina, turn in on your m I ran through somebody at a party out here in l A on the rooftop

with a Honey Collective party. Shout out to Monica Paine, shout out to e Q, shout out to Rashida Shelley, ohto this collective of four beautiful, dynamic women of color here in Los Angeles who would host these parties. They were called the Honey Collective. And I went up to DJ EQ. Was funny. She was like, I think I'm at DJ EQ. I was like, yeah, I want to DVDJ.

She's like, you ain't gonna be no DJ today. And I thought she was rude at the moment, But as a DJ now I get it because somebody come up, you tell they want to be a DJ, is like, what I'm trying to spend these records? Get up, you know. But it was they were she and the other lady, Rashida and EQ with the DJs at the collective, and Monica and Shelley with a host, and they just had their finger on the pulse of all things dynamic in

the black cultural space here in Los Angeles. And it was the first party as I was introduced to out here, and I was like, Yo, this is just such a vibe and it's just that the combination of vibing with them on the weekends and then hating the corporate job throughout the week. And I met somebody at one of their parties. He said, brother, you're going through something. You don't know what, I mean, what you're talking about. He's like,

now you're going through something liked or whatever. Same party, like a month later he said it. I'm like, yeah, I'm and he uh, he said yeah, I want to tell you about this, And so he sent me a clip of Tina Turner talking on Larry King Live about Buddhism and I picked the phone to me like, bro, I've ben't want to know about this my whole life because I didn't understand what it was. But I was like, whatever it was was powerful enough to get her away

from Ike. And so I was just in a just I was in a bad relationship, bad job, hating life, you know what I mean. I was just like, let me, let me just go to a meeting. And so what I learned is not your d not your holdin' get killed means I devote myself to the mystic law of cause and effect through vibration and sound. When you devote yourself to the law a law, it's a universal law.

It's like gravity. You don't necessarily understand gravity, but you know that your feet are planned it on this ground. You know, um, you know it's missed because you can't see it. You know, you know, it's sometimes defies mental comprehension. But like I said, that's a universal law like anything else, like a law of cause and effect. And when I learned that I am the car is and not the effect of things that happened to me, that means that

I am a co conspirator like I am. It's things that I'm doing, saying, thinking ways of being that are contributing to the effects that are taking place in my life. Taking accountability. So that's exactly what it was like. It taught me. It's a spiritual practice that taught me how to take accountability for the things that are going on and not just point the finger as to why things

aren't this or that or that, you know. And so I got to see myself a lot more clearly, and I realized cannot see yeah, And I realized I was choosing to be a lesser version of myself because I was moving out of fear, and the fear was what was keeping me in this corporate job every day. That mean, what does it mean to be moving in fear? Meaning that you're knowing. I knew that I was capable of more, but I was afraid of other people's opinions. I was afraid of being broke. I was afraid of falling on

my face and embarrassing myself. I was afraid of, you know, things just not working out. But that's not faith. Faith and fear cannot exist on the same plane. And so I was I realized I was choosing that's I was choosing fear, and so I had to make a different choice.

And when I made a different choice, funny funny if I was chanting at the Buddha Center and sent out here in Los Angeles, and I met Herbie Hancockie up there leading and get he up there at seven thirty in the morning, just chatting his behind off, and I was like, I gotta talk to him. I gotta talk to him. And you know, after the session was over, I briefly talked to him. I was just like, whoa how did you in your era, you know, convince your parents or convince people around you that you needed to

be a musician. He told me a brief story, you know how he was almost failing out of all his classes, but he got sees at the last minute his studies, but he was putting so much focus onto you know, like a syphony or orchestra or some type of musical group that he was with at the time. And he explained that at that moment, because he was able to successfully still graduate, that he told himself he would never deny himself again and that poor all of his in

energy into his craft. He wasn't trying to be He was like an electrical engine, mieror mat or something completely, you know, it just wasn't on the field of music per se. And he said, if you're serious about this, young man, you'll take lessons. Every great musician from Quincy Jones to Beyonce to still to this day, they take lessons. You go take lessons. And that day I walked out of Buddha Center and UH called up Scratch DJ Academy here in Los Angeles and I signed up to DJ school.

What yea, So were you in DJ school as well as you're still working in corporate America or did you relinquish it? So that's the funny little story. Um. I took a six week DJ course where we met once a week and then we had you know, you could come in and practice hours and and and shout out to my professor's uh DJ Hopper and Chock from the beat junkies, you know what I mean. I learned so much from both of them while I was taking those classes. But I took a six week course and then I

quit my job. Did you have money? So I had a little bit of money, say not a lot, but but I came in signing up for the next six week course and I told him all like, yeah, you know, I'm being fulls on D. I'm gonna be celebrity J. That's great, that's great, Like I said, yeah, I quit my job. There's like what I said, Yeah, I quit my job, like you did what? And they knew I was at a corporate opportunity. So they literally stopped class and pulled me outside and like you did what now?

They said, no, no no, no, you understand this is hard, Like this is not a one, two, three ys easy like this people take years and every amount to Uh, you know you're saying you want to be celebrities. A lot of people want to do that, you know what I mean? Like you need to go back and ask for your job, you need you need to spend more time and this. Then you've just taken a one class and think you're ready to be a DJ. I said, yeah, I heard you, but now already quit. It's too late,

already for the two weeks in, it's done. I'm here, let's go. And they looked at me like, yo, he is insane. But I think if I didn't go to that level of extreme, then I wouldn't have I wouldn't have done it. Yeah. Mr Harvey always says you'll never know if your parasut would open unless you jump, and you'll never know if you can fly until you jump until so I want you to be real real. Did it ever get low? How low did it get? What did that know? Does it mean like did you have

a car when you on the bus? Were you able to eat? How low? How? Really? Because I don't think people really understand and really talk about it, like I'm in a moment right now. I had a little moment. I took two buses to get here. This damn there two hours. You should call me. I could scoop right, but you know, it's just a testament of how far are you gonna go? So how far are you going? How far did you go? How far? How low did

it go? How low did it go? I mean, there were moments when I had this gig and it paid three hundred dollars a week. My rent was a thousand, so so three week, that's two hundred dollars for the My rent was a thousand, and I still had to pay for groceries. You didn't get your food stamps. I don't know I was els for food stamps then, ain't ain't tell me, you know what I mean? But I still for that extra two llars. When the extra I had to pay for gas, for utilities, for you know, food.

Like that's how tight it got at certain moments. You know what I'm saying. Thank God, my friends, wasn't one thing. Shout up my best friend. My best friend should need a castle. Castle's kaden. She is dynamic, you know what I mean. She's incredible. Archipro negro face here in Los Angeles. Um she specialized in Creole cuisine. You know, and she's from the Rolands, so she don't play. She's out here. But you want to come on, we can definitely have

a come on, get your vitamin day back. But one thing, one thing she always says, as long as we owe each other money will never be broken. And I thought that was the craziest thing. But what she means, it's like how we've been able to circulate money within our friendship circle when we respectively have have had our low financial moments. You know what I'm saying, She you borrow off thousand dollars, I ballars, she give it back, She give it back next you know. You know, can I

borrow it? You know? And and that's how we've in our low moments as fellow entrepreneurs. And I say, and that's why I say it's Arentipo Negro ship, because we do as black people, we do things a little differently when we're going out to our dreams. We don't come from trust funds and lineage of folks who have, you know, oodles and oodles of money in the bank. You can just sit up here to you figure out what you're gonna do. Here's your car, here's your home. No, you

can do this summer apprenticeship and this could be free. No, no, we don't come from that. So entreprene negro ship mean, sometimes we need to borrow from our respective friends and family within the community in order for our dreams to come to fruition, you know what I mean. So it got low in those moments, but it never got too crazy because I had my best friends around me who got it, who supported me through the journey, and you knew them from out here or from back home, back

back in Atlanta. We went to college against she graduate from Spell graduates more House. My other best friend, Tay you know I'm saying. He started off with Morris Brown and he's and then when Morris Round shut down, he took a break off and then transferred to go to film school out here, and so he actually led the

pack coming out here. Now he's an incredible producer. He's produced everything from The Money's VMA performance last year to videos for Cardi Ba's Up, Big Sean's I Don't With You, Um City Girls performances, like when when Kanye did the performance at the Hollywood Bowl. He's a producer for that. Like He's done so many incredible things. But again, he's

another one who's been in the trenches. In the trenches absolutely and that's what every I think everything is sweet, you know, I mean people were not shooting in the gym. You know they see the moments the end ACP Image awards, are you on television or doing different things, and those are all great. But the thing, the moments I'm most fond of is when we have nothing, because that's what you have to figure out your yess, when you really had to say how bad do you wantause it's easy, Okay,

that's not comfortable. In a lot of people, they try to be so comfortable. You want to be relaxed. It's like, that's not how it works. You've missed your blessing trying to be comfortable. M h my trainer and Latige shout out to Latife for all him training. He says, magical things happened outside your comfort zone. It does shows you what you're made of. And it's like, yo, let's keeping getting uncomfortable, Like it's not going to be great, Like I'll be in a gym die when I walk go

so and I'm like, yes, so let's grow. So that had to be something you were already stressed out about the fact of what you needed to do so much so that you said, let me, you know, check out the temple. Then you feel like you got your home. And then the brothers that's in it to teach you about your drinks to be like open up the pearly gates. They like waiting a minute, brother, Then you actually experience whatever those downs. So then when what happened when it started,

you know, when they start going up? Um, I read something that said you have to make spiritual claims to money. You know what I mean, Money, just like anything else, is an energetic frequency. And if you always have a mindset that believes that, if you have a impoverished mindset, and that was shore shows up in your space, you know, I mean, and and we it's the it's the little things that we do. I can't afford that, Oh that's too much, or I don't know how I'm gonna pay

for that. It's those little things that we say that create our reality when it comes down to our relationship with finances. Um, you know I put in work. You know, I put in work in terms of DJ and backyard barbecues. You know what I'm saying. The kinsonatas, the high school proms, the weddings, the weddings, the weddings, your mama's sixtieth birthday party, sixty fifth birthday party. I remember, I drove all the way to the Bay, my first out of town gig.

I was so happy. I drove all ways to the Bay from l A for five bucks, all my equipment stuff to my tutor silver two thousand, one hundred corps to dj A fiftieth wedding anniversary. It's amazingly beautiful couple from base here in Los Angeles day for some reason, decided to celebrate there there. And they're in their seventies. So you know, I'm playing Aretha Francoin, Chubby Checker, do

to twist. I'm playing like literally old school, not old school, old old school man, you know what I mean, because I really wanted it. I'm saying, um, putting, putting the work in all those respective environments, you know, dealing with a few clubmotors who don't want to pay you, all other stuff. You didn't just get to a point where I just I just turned a corner and decided, like I just want to do this at a different level. So I'm gonna do it a little differently. You know,

I'm a dress a little differently. I'm gonna stand up a little diferent. I'm a craft and curative email, just like this is a business. And so that was what I realized, is like, that's why I wasn't. I'm thankful, even though I resented my pops in terms of him not encouraging me to pursue music at an earlier point. Um, I'm thankful that I had a business acumen and structure that stepped in with me into the creative world because that is when the when the corner turned, when I

was able to merge those two worlds together. You know, I mean you got the extra polish. I um, I guess we don't have to come back there, because I remember I would see on Instagram and I don't know if it was at your old department, but you you said djil or something and there you had the stairway. So that was dope. It's so crazy because they just they were tearing down that building last week. You gotta

you shall recreate that with that space. Yeah, like at the next block party event, and that could be like a photo moment. It could those who know no, you know, we used to do graffiti. So back to how even how the block party got started. My boy Tay, he had a four car parking lot behind his building on the corner of Hawser and Venice in at Miss City.

That's right down the stream of me. And the beautiful thing about it because it was on the corner, there was this big brick wall that kind of encapsulated the space and separated it from the main street. And so we were back there one day We're looking around and so there was there was this venue that I want to host my birthday party at. It's like, yeah, you can come through. We'd love to have you. You know, you bring a great crowd, but don't play no trap.

I'm like, excuse me. They're like, yeah, you can play like More nine, you know, early nineties hip hop, but don't play trapp And I'm like, I'm not even a trap DJ, you know what I'm saying. But if I want to play some bands and make a dance back, then that's a problem. Like, yeah, no, we don't want that. So I'm like, y'all want my money. You want the money. Actually that my that you want my people, you want

the money. We're gonna drink bringing here, but you don't want us, and some of us it's trapped as I like, nah, you know, I'm not I'm not having that, you know what I mean. So instead of doing it with that particular venue, we decided to host the party behind my boys building, and that's how the block party was formed, being His Block Party. It's called be His Black Party because it was my birthday. And so it started back there and its crib and then it just it just

grew from there. Okay, so we're about to We're about to come back real quick because we're gonna talk about being in block party. Um, because a lot of people say, like you're gonna get gay straight. Everybody partying at one was just having a good time and everyone in between and a lot of spaces you don't get that. And I can imagine it's a testament just to your journey as far as being the army brack. You've seen so

many cultures, you've been exposed. It's like a chameleon. Put me in the room and I'll be there all right, y'all. You know I got Bryan here being here. We're gonna talk about that. We're also gonna talk about how his involvement with the l g B t q I A plus community, as well as we're gonna talk about some white colonialism and the effects of All right, y'all, we'll be right back. Hey, what's up l day? Okay, listen, I told you we were got my back. I told

you I had Mr Brian Henry in the studio with me. Um. We had a conversation. He said, can I tell them what you said to me? You sure, No, go ahead, No, No, We're look, we're gonna we're gonna keep it between you. And after the COO so we left off, you were talking about how you started with the block party, and you said it was a matter of creating your own lane, creating your own space. So then after the venue was like, no, y'all went to you. You said, your boys backyard. He

had a parking lot behind this building. Then he hand the yard. It was all asphalt and then so then what happened? I was it? So No, we just grew it start out to fifty the next year, three fifty four hundred. It just kept growing, and we would always go to the police station and they were like, listen, in private property, you do what you want to you're good as long as nobody complaining. And I think the fourth year we did it. For the fourth time, we did it um L A P d S in a helicopter.

What that point, we had reached like five plus people behind behind the building and we were at capacity and all the neighbors cool because they're be doing these loud kids and years in the neighborhood. But it was just one new neighbor who's not with it. Oh is that back there in the legal cabaret? And uh, he called the police on us in the helicopter. They sent the chopper and that chopper flew across around that party and being that light down you know what I mean, And

it was the blessing of it. It was like and so it was a perfect time in the end the party, and I'm like, man, that's the way to end the party. It was kind of fire Like I thought, Oh, it was cool. Had no idea that that took it to the next level. The next time we did it, we doubled inside are you serious? Yes, more than double. We had twelve plus people at the next event, from five hundreds something to like twelve hunt or something, and it was like it was crazy it was crazy. It's always

to the point. Now our most recent event in l A we had you know, and even that the sponsors up on there, the little bars, even that was an increase of seven hund people from last year we day, and I'm like, it continues to grow, and that's I think it's a testament to the experience we provide. Yeah, because you said, you say nobody's were all VP no one, No one is v I P. Because we're all v I P. I tell people, look to your left, look

here right. It's just like church, say hello to your neighbor. Straight, gay, black, green, blue, lesbian, transgender. We don't we don't care. Honestly, we want you to come as yourself. But we and it's not that we don't care if that's a part of your identity. We don't care because time of us having a good time. We're gonna have a good time because we came here to enjoy the music. We tell all the DJs who were blessed to hear play, do not come up here

and give us the same old soundtrack. You know what I'm saying, And swags from allows the Black Party, Uh, we we love a knock if but but you can do that home before I let go. We've already let go. And those are all amazing songs anymore, we are not holding on, you know what I mean? Like, those are all amazing songs for our community, but we hear them at every single event. So I tell him, digging your bag, give me that KNAA mixed with Marvin Gaye with a

splash of you know, Marvin Sap up in there. You know what I mean, Like, give us something that you would listen to if you were at home. And quest Lave said give me what you give me your give me your soul, give me, give me something. I was gonna say, let me just stop giving me something, let me do let me just stop right there. Um, that's dope sale. And I think that was something because I

think I've been to two of your block parties. I went to the one last year and then before that may have been a couple of years ago or no. Your part is how many years? As man? You said, seven we've been doing this and the pandemic year also seven years. I was right, yeah, wow, come on, holler, what do you um? One thing that I I think that that really stood out to me is because I love the diversity with the crowd. He was like everybody

getting everything on and that whole thing. It's like not being divert divisive, divisive, And I feel like one thing that you said that was so interesting is you talked about showing up as yourself, Like what does that mean? Especially now? I think you know my experience when I learned that going out into nightlife spaces is intimidating to a lot of people. You know, women feel like, Okay, I gotta have a certain hell on or my dress has to be a certain fit. Guys feel like I

have spent thousands of dollars on bottle service. And that's why, you know what I'm saying, Like you know, they it creates an environment of a having to have nots in nightlife scene. And I thought that was just in l A. But I've learned as in major cities across the country. And to me, if it separates us, then it's not love. You know what I'm saying. Music is love music and joins.

Music brings us together. So we created a space where there's no sections, there's no v I P, there's no guest list, you know, I mean, we did away with all the things that give a hierarchy of separation with the nightlife experiences, and we we love doing outdoors. It's something about the freedom of having the stars that you can look up at, the moon, you can look up at while also hearing music that just such a soul on fire. Release your wiggle you know what I mean.

And I mean if you've caught uh Mr Ryan Harme on Instagram with social media, you know he gets it down't do don't and the fits be so damn flying. Thank you appreciate it? Oh you know you said getting the wiggles all. I can only imagine that release that people feel, that release of joy, that peace, and what it does mentally. How would you say? Because I really feel like our gifts are passion, are essentially to feed ourselves.

Like I'm always here to inspire, like that's my thing, but not like I don't love you, Like I'm not trying to inspire you. But I'm speaking to myself and therefore I feel like I can give to my overflows so it flows to someone else. Can you tell me how your music, how you DJ and fees you? Yeah? I mean, And that's as I said, a beautiful question because when I was trying to get put on. I was trying to get on, if you will, in the earlier stages of my career, like you gotta play Top forty.

The Top fourty was just cold for like, play music that's appealing to the ears of Caucasian people. And you know, I love all music, you know what I'm saying. You know I love music from all genres. But you know, I was showing up in a way with my gift that wasn't serving me, So I don't think it was of really any value to anyone else. It's not until I stepped away and it was like, you know, what is what makes me dance? What makes me feel good?

Like what music and and and that's kind of my rubric or my like barometer when I'm preparing a set. If I'm dancing to it at the crib, I know you're gonna have a time because to your point, it's feeding me first. You know, it's putting my air mask on forward first before I can, you know, put the mask on someone else. And he's almost like you have to recognize your feeling. I was just saying the other day, I was on my bike on my weight to my trainer,

and I was. I was just you know, giggling to myself, and I was like, oh my gosh, I think I'm falling in love with myself. I never I never thought about it. I mean people say love yourself, but never really like like what does that really mean? And I'm winding, I'm like, well, what does that really look like on? And what it looks like to me is about the boundaries that I'm setting. And I noticed I was loving

on me because I was geeking on myself. You know, you crushing on somebody and you start playing back the things they said, like oh that was cute, and just the things that I'm saying and how I'm showing up. I was like, what that was, flower, Oh that's dope, just replaying and I was like, I was geeking on my thinglf and you know, it just came to a realization of just when you think about how to connect with somebody and how to recognize it when you see it,

is that you have to show up as that. So you saying, like, yo, me playing my music and my home and if I'm dancing, it's going to feed somebody else. I'm so grateful that you made space of yourself because I don't think a lot of people make space and

I still have. I still have challenges with that, like I ain't gonna front, you know what I mean, because the busier you get, the more there's demands on my time, you know what I mean, um or you know it's it becomes more challenging to carve out for those boundaries to stay in place, you know what I'm saying. Because I love people. I'm I'm the most extra extra bert, you know what I'm saying. I genuinely am recharged when it comes down to being with my people, you know

what I mean. But I also you know, I'm a cancer. I do like to go back into my cancer all day long. Yeah, you know, so you'll just be feeling. I do feel I mean, but I've learned that my feelings are a superpower in the sense that, like I don't I listened to more how I feel now than just simply words because words were created in the human evolution to express how we feel. But so often we use our words for any and everything. But at this point, you know, you know what something, say what you doing

right now? Say go ahead inside of it. Words were and during our evolution as human beings, words were created. Language was created for us to express how we feel, but so often we use words for any and everything else, but to express how we feel. So I've learned, you know, to tap into more how I feel as as my barometer, Like where the ro left? Do I go right? I heard you say something? You know what I mean? That

third eye get open like okay, you know. And that's not to say that I'm out here looking for anyone with malicious intent. I just I've learned to and it's been a journey, but I've learned to trust myself. Oh yeah, it's been a journey. Oh my drop that's my drop mover, because there's so much weight with that, because that's moving in confidence, that's trust in each process. That's taking a chance on yourself, that's believing yourself, that's allowing yourself to

be vulnerable. That's everything that you are. And if you aren't who you say you are, then who are you trying to be? Somebody else? But everybody else has already taken So how does it make you feel being a DJ, having your parties all inclusive and people already want to label you as the king of the l g B t Q plus community. Is that was that a lot of weight. That's a lot of damn pressure. I don't think they labeled me of that because that's not that

would be inaccurate. You know, come on, talk about it. If anything labeled me as someone who loves come on everybody, which I do, you know what I'm saying, Um, and that ain't even know cuntry country, feel good type of thing, like I genuinely, like I said, because I'm such an extroverted personality, I love all people. My dad being in the military gave me exposures to different cultures at a

very early age. Just living in Germany for three years, Hawaii for three years, you know, different parts of the country. It taught me that at the end of the day, everybody blees read and everybody wants love, you know what I'm saying. So that's why it's important for me as relations to this this access to music, to make sure that music is speaking to all people, you know what

I mean. So the events that our host and my team host, it is welcoming, like I said, to to straight people, folks with an LGBT community, black people, white people, Asian specific island there you know, Hispanic, Latino it's welcoming to all people. As long as you come in and expect to get fed and you're gonna, you know, dance, then that's what that's what it's all about. And so I've heard you say the association of being a community of healers. What does that mean? So that that does

go back to the LGBTQ space. Um, you know what you want to you want to you want to ask a good question via a good question. Listen, I didn't ask him the question. I'm doing my job. Now let's see if you go answer. Oh, go ahead, ask it again, ask for me. I just want the people. I just want to be just talking. And I think it's real. It's just real. It's a lot of pressure as real. I want to know, I damn it, I want to know.

So what I've come to learn, you know, shout out to Bishop Yvette Flounder, you know, out of City of Refuge Church in the San Francisco Bay area. He's a lesbian uh pastor minister, someone who is you know, within

the spiritual realm of of of healing. So I did a cruise a few years ago and she had a session on the cruise where she was just talking about the LGBT community and it's black LGBT community and the historical value of it and where we are and how we stand today and how black folks look at you know, gay folks now versus historically how they folks were viewed. And she explained that colonialism is what messed up this perception. You know, I mean, she's like, what does the word

gay mean? It means happy, It means at the root of it meets happy, you know, I mean, she's you know, and when white folks were coming into our countries, our country, coming to coming to Africa, you know what I'm saying, they were looking the colonizers coming into and saying like, well, who is this person of power, who is the highest

regarded in this community? It tended to be someone who had a various centric look, you know what I mean, who might have a bonet and those might have makeup on, might have all these these feathers and this and this and that and that, you know what I mean. And that person tended to be someone who was lesbian, gay, transgender, what have you. You know, I mean, someone someone within that realm, but in our community and our culture, with

within our tribes, that person was well regarded. This is the person that you I'm serious as a heart attack. This is the person who was the seer, the healer, the sayer. This is the person who you would bring your child to to bless your child upon birth. This is the person that if you were depressed within the community, you go to this person, they will help give you a healing. This person was the medicine doctor. This person has so many respective roles within the community and it

was held to a high esteem. But just like anything else you know, with within our community and how we view ourselves, that was something that became demonic because they were they were looking to strip us of our power. You know what I'm saying. I heard Dr David Jones. He said he doesn't like to use the word yet

he prefers saying gender loving, and it makes sense. Okay, I just want to answer to you know what I'm saying, because if you if you okay, working out wheking out your powerful, I'm going to demonize this particular person within the community. You know what I'm saying, Just like we were stripped of our spiritual practices and everything, you know, everything then became Christianity. Christian Christianity, Well, what were our spiritual practices projects? And that's no disrespect to anyone who

was appreciated you talking my language. You know, there's completely no disrespect. You know, there's there's I simply believe there's a myriad of different ways for you to align spiritually, for you to fall into a space of alignment. The scriptual says, it goes by many names, but you're trying

to define it don't even make sense exactly. So you you you take that to the next level, in which when we when we were put on slaveships, and we were you know, then taking over into different parts of you know, the Caribbean and and and the America's and in order to make sure that black men stay in line, you know what I mean, they had the process called

breaking the buck. And what they would do is shackle us up in the public square, you know, and and and and literally rape you in public you know, I mean the master, that the white master, raping this black man to to sodomizing him in order to make him to strip him off his power and doing so in front of his wife, his kids, etcetera, etcetera. So so much of the perception that gay is evil, or that

it's wrong, is all the other things. Because the way that it was, it was demonstrated on display and used as a sense of control or isolation. It was it was inflicted on us in a sense of trauma, you know what I mean. And it's something that's still within the Black community, is still something that we are healing from, you know what I mean. So when you understand the historical context of it, it puts a different spin on it,

you know what I mean. Like black men, black women, no one chooses to wake up the day and say I'm gonna I'm gonna be the butt end of a joke, I'm gonna feel less than today, I'm going to allow people to think less of me because of my sexuality. I'm gonna choose this, and everybody's gonna treat me bad and curse me on and beat me. I'm gonna get my ass beat every day because I want to choose that.

No one chooses that, you know what I mean, Just like you don't choose the color of your eyes, just like you don't choose any characteristic within how you show up. You know what I'm saying. But again, there's just a lot of there's a lot of room for the ignorance to be diminished within our community. And my goal is to simply speak on it. But then because a lot of why do you say, speak on it like that?

Because for a lot of us are afraid to speak on it or aren't aware of what the roots of it and why why why Black folks as whole are just some uncomfortable with the conversation. Why do you feel like we're uncomfortable and you're afraid to speak on it? Because because because we've been old for so many years that you know, if you aren't straight, you're going to hell. So who whatever wants to put themselves in that box? Yeah? Who wants to put themselves in a box? Why wouldn't

you want choose that? So? How you did you hear about them? Don't say Gabriel yeah down in Florida? Yeah, how do you feel about that? I think it's ridiculous. I think it's just like you know, it's just like the right for him to choose being removed from my country, certain things that are just going to reverse. But I think that's why it's more important that we be vocal about it so that every human has equal rights period. You know what I'm saying. And it's so interesting that

people are talking all representation they've seen. I want my child to be recognized, but you have a child that identifies with something and they can't even see it. They can't even recognize it. Like, and I'm understanding now as I'm embracing my sexuality more, as I'm working on how i want to show up how important it is for the community. I can feel the breath leaving out of my lungs right now, but I gotta do it because if God is gonna put it on me or whatever,

here it is. But I'm just realized, not realizing. I I didn't realize that I was talking to some friends and I was talking about me being in eighth grade and I was embarrassing to dance with my girlfriend and I had to watch her dance with some of the guy and I didn't even I'm just regurgitating the story and they're like, oh my god. The next thing I know, I'm getting all emotional and stuff, and I'm just like, Wow, you don't even realize, like somebody that you can love

and care about. Whatever love was that eighth grade, it probably was everything. I mean, I get it, but that restriction and then we wonder why people have stress, why they're anxious, and at the anxiety all of this stuff. Anytime you've been lessing yourself, you know your soul is like crumbling on the inside. You know what I'm saying.

And the goal I think here while we're here on this earth is to understand what our mission is and to let that soul glow like for real, you can't do so if you're un in the thumb of any type of oppression, you know what I'm saying, Like, and it's just to cover up. And that's like with vitamin D, it's like, Okay, how are we gonna share the light? Yeah, you need the light, You need that Vitamin D, come on, come on. And understanding that with the like it's gonna

shed it on the good and the bed. Because if we want to be better and we want to do better, we have to be able to see better, whether it's seeing going through meditation, whether it's going out to a party and connecting with people at the be Hered block party. We just got to get through the point of what you said, how you started out making the space, making the space for people to show up. So it's really appreciative. I'm glad we did talk because I didn't even know

that it's all love. I mean, I mean it blew my mind, you know, for me to think less of myself because of some colonizer and what they did to my people and how that has been you know, the trauma of that and how that's been passed on the nerve me like I can't fulfill my mission on this earth if I'm worried about who thinks I'm less than because of how I was born. And here's the thing I've been telling um, I realized, like my my dream is on the line right now. Like I left my job.

I was the digital content producer for the Steve rvy Wanning Show, and I left my job there, but thank god, you know the way guy shows, I'm step coming to the same building. And what I've realized is that I'm like, okay, getting more comfortable with my podcast, making sure I'm sharing. It's like I know what God promised me. I know I wouldn't have this vision I have. Sometimes I'll be thinking like why is all of this on me? Like

why do I feel like I gotta risk everything? Because if I try to be what I say is normal of doing something that goes with the crowd. I don't know what what it was. You know what I'm saying, saying, if I had to go this wrong with my dream and I'm on the street, God, I'm not trying to speak that, Oh Heavenly Father, No, But what I'm saying is is that whatever the angst could be in it. But just like you said, when I was created, everything,

every piece was such as that. And if I have these desires as bad as I knowingly want, I'm gonna have to show up as dawn. It's not all accused the leg or here's the piece. Now, all of this work together. Um So for the fact that you're creating the space and and you saying the community healer is God dog, thank you. And that's the value that I want more of us to be aware of. You know what I'm saying, Like, there's an intrinsic value and just who you are period Again, I think that's part of

our mission to identify what that is. But in order for us to do so, we have to remove you know, representation matters, and we have to remove ourselves from spaces that aren't safe, aren't welcoming or or try to treat us as less than and if we once we remove ourselves, we have to create that. And that's what it being in a block party comes in now. Another thing I saw on social media and I was like, I just

gotta give a shout out to you. Um you're talking about how you manifested and you Djur coach teller Juvon. I met him when I first moved on. I met him with a billionaire p A who used to be my neighbor. Set the front. He was right, we were you wait a minute, hold on, So you stayed off a duz Yes in city? Yeah, yeah, I was upstairus was. I was in that SA building. Okay. So with the Trevors the it's Trevor's the younger guy and his dad. I think Trevor Jr. But these are the owners. Oh

I know. Okay, I didn't know them specifically, but billionaires. Wrong. I stayed in there after that after when he left out, and that's how I knew him, and I would go to his you know, he had in the little house and I even saw him build out his thing. And then Julian, when I were connecting the moment then when I saw you on on Instagram and you were talking about the story of these bracelets, and I don't want to say I want you to say how happened? That's

the crazy about it. So that's another thing I've learned about being just in alignment is that you can't worry about when something's going to show up. Like often times the things that we want escape us because we are not of the same vibrational frequency of the thing. You have to you have to you have to embote it, you have to be it. You can't just want it. You have to be it, you know what I'm saying.

And I and I ever remind myself that even now for the next stages of things that I want, you know, I have to be it, you know what I mean. But I was trying to take a different approach to being it then. So I went to Coachella for the first time, and I was just enamored with it, you know what I'm saying. You know, Farrell put on an amazing performances. Should give a tutorial to people on how to put on a performance when it comes down to no skips, seamless energy by like, he's incredible with that.

But obviously he's a producer. Um Outcast is performing and so the Coachella band was on my wrist and I and I made a like a like a promise to myself. I was like, I'm not cutting these coach, I'm not cutting this Coachella band off until I perform at Coachella. Right cool Year one, Go year to go year three, Go year four, Go year five. I had five years of bands on my was funky because I'll be washing. You know what I'm saying is Mr Clee No, But

that's the crazing about it. I would wash these cloth bands on my wrists as if they were a part of my body, and people asking like the things don't stay and things. I'm like, no, just like you're getting the shot with you. I'm in there washing and they represent like an open of source. And I was like, I'm going to wear these. And two, I perform at the festival, and I was beginning to get really frustrated with myself, like why aren't you there yet? It's four years,

it's five years now, Like why haven't you performed? Even with the afro punk adding an afro punk band on there? And Divine I think was in Bali at the time and somehow were just super Hella lay here, but it's early there and we got on the phone and we were talking about it, and I was just like, I think there's something, Um, I think this is there's something going on with me wearing these. He was like, of course is because you're attached anything that you want, you

have to you have to detach from it. You can't be so attached. You have to be it. But you can't be attached right listen, because we're not gonna go the stay right, stay right here, um. And he said, although it's light on your wrists, the weight of those bands will increase the weight in time before this manifest and it was like it was literally like what did

he just say to me? That's a bomb moment. And I go from five years people making jokes, people asking me, people, even year one when I had it on, I met um, I met three stacks. I met three Stacks at the Hollywood Bowl and I came up, I came up to three thousand. I was walking by him and I was so excited. I turned around and I punched him and I just like I said, Oh, my bad, my bad, bro, my bad, my bad. He's like, yo, I said, you don't like dressed my favorite artist? I did yoga with him?

Did you You're gonna introduce himself? But I know who you are, right, he is my favorite artist. When people actually like when you fall in love with hip hop or when you falling I fell in love with hip hop on on on a t L's their second album. You know what I'm saying. Wills are still you know what I mean? Like, that's so that whole album anyway, I said, bro, can I get a picture? He's like yes and no. I'm like, what do you mean, like

a true Gemini? Yes and though he said no because if I give you a picture and everyone's gonna see it and everybody's gonna swing, get a photo. Yes, because if you find me after show, I'll take a picture with you. I was like, all right, cool. So I found him at the show behind back back and stage, figured it out and m it was Jenelle Monees performance that she was she was performing at the Bowl sure

if I'm sure. If she was performing someone else, I don't remember, but we had backstage because it was Janelle performing, and I ran him to him again, didn't punch him this time, and like, Bro, you don't understand you're my favorite artist. I said, I'm so thankful you and Big Boy wrapping back together and y'all performed the Coachella. I've been wearing this Coachella band, he said, Nicole, what you've

been doing? What? Hey? Man, you see this? Man? He didn't been wearing this band, says, oh man, you're cool with me. Man, I can't believe this this band on. I said, do you understand like you've inspired me? Like I want to perform at coach Olla like you did. I'm aware of this until he's like, you are you crazy? You're definitely getting this picture and we took a photo.

You know what I'm saying. But fast forward five six years later, I'm still not performing a coach Olla And so the moment I had a conversation with Javine, I cut them off that night, you know, I mean I cut him off because I realized I was too attached. You know, you have to release anything that you want. You have to release and give it time to manifest. And it's not about the thing that you get, the thing that you want, the thing that you want. I

want this, I want that. I want to be there it's about who you become on the journey towards that thing, because these moments are fleeting. You know what I'm saying. You're on that stage as an hour you you with these these celebrities. They're not my friends, you know what I'm saying. They are clients. There are people I'm blessed to perform for or with, you know what I mean. And then that's at the moment is done. But it's like who who did you become um en route to

that moment? Were you more kind? Were you more compassionate? Were you more giving? You know what I'm saying, And and to yourself first before other people, and then to other people, you know what I mean. And so I think that's what happened, Like I started being nicer to myself. I stopped beating myself up as much. I allowed myself to show up as Brian and play the music that Brian wants to hear. I stopped trying to people please all the time. I stopped being concerned about what people thought.

And it's that if you like me and all these other things, And that's what happened between me cutting those bands off and then fast forward getting a call like you want perform at the first one. I'm like, what do you mean weekend too? We got the stage you want. And the crazy thing about it, how that even came about. I called to get someone else's job. It was this incredible, credible God Juice. He did all of our visuals at

the Being Black Party one. And what made that Black Party so dynamic is that we were on three days from governor Governor Gavin Newsom allowing us to even have parties. Wow, he like said, it was okay, they have parties on the fifteen. We had the Black Party in the eighteen. But crazy about it again, just following my spirit. I knew it was gonna happen, and I knew it was gonna happen around Juneteenth weekend, so we have been planning

for months. But we got the green light on the fifteen and had the party on the eighteen, and it was perfect. But at any rate, um Juice was doing all the visuals on screen, the l a ed boards. We were whoop. And so we call them this year asking him like, Yo, you did such an incredible job. What would look like for you to do this again? Like sure, I would love to, Like you know, oh, by the way you want to. You wanna play what you're doing weekend to each other. I'm like, I'm not

even going to each other this year. The first year, I wasn't going. Also over it, you know what I mean? You want to play? I'm like, what do you mean? He's like, Oh, I run the stage. I've been running the stage. I coach other for the last ten years. What what and you just now saying something? He said, I saw what you did your Black Party. I know you'd be great on that stage. What And it just it just blew my mind because you don't. It's inconspicuous

ways in which things manifest. We think things are linear. We think if I do A, then I do be, then it's going to equal. See. No, it doesn't happen that way, you know what I'm saying. And I'm so busy wanted to be on Coachella stage, not understanding that it was more important for to create value on the block party stage for my community, you know what I'm saying, Like, that's what I learned from that. Like you you want to you want to go be so so up here.

You need to be you need to be grounded, you need to be right here with your people. So that's how that's how Coachella manifested. Just before you got here, somebody came in the studio. They're like, wow, you know, gave me compliments. I've been working out. I released a lot of weight right before he's released the jiggle. But he came in. He was like, oh wow. He was like, um, fast forward basically the same thing you said. He said, well, I'm surprised. Ain't got you doing more what you mean?

And I made space to receive because I don't you know, And I said, well, because I said, Dawn, don't let the ego respond. I said, well, I'm here. I got vited me. I said, this is my own thing. He said, well, what I mean by that is on FM. I said, what's built, And I'm trusting the process because it's the same thing we talked about saving ourselves so that it can flourish on the overflow. Because now that I got this platform to do this, this is open the door so that you see what I do. But you have

to show up for yourself and it's confidence annoying. And then what I heard stellar above it all is that your blessing came forgiven to someone else. The prime example of what we talked about lifting while we climb. That's exactly and and I and that it's it was just it just blew my mind, you know what I mean. Like, and so Juice is flying with us to New York in two weeks to do all the visuals for the Black Party as we make our debut in Brooklyn. Wow. Man,

And so that's where things are just like wow. You know, you just don't know where your blessing is going to come from, you know what I mean. So if you had to give somebody some advice on manifest manifestation or awaiting blessings, what would you say? Either horrible? Be kind to yourself and just continue to put energy into what that thing is. Be mindful of your thoughts, thoughts of things, you know what I mean, Do your best to to

reprogram yourself beyond your limitations. Yeah. And and and be patient because I'm very much in this in a harvest season right now, you know, I'm I'm preparing we're taking the Block Party to New York for the first time. A week before that, I'm blessed to spend an Afro punk you know what I mean. And I went I went to afro punk back in and got a skateboard. The skateboarders on my wall. It kind of the same thing. I was like, I'm I'm gonna play Afropoto, I'm gonna

play afropoint. That was one of the Yeah, it was one of the verses too. I didn't know how it was going to happen, but the same thing it was. It was those those those creators of the festival saw what I was doing. I'll hear you. Saw what the team is doing. It ain't just me, it's the team. Like shot shout out to the lead, shout out to Davon, shout out to Nadia, Malachi, Lamar, Felicia, Listen, it's a team. You know what I'm saying it is It is definitely team.

But what makes us dope is that everyone is in their own bag. Everyone is in their lane, in your bags, and they're adding their respective gifts to this melting pot that we have. That's the block party. And then lets you know, like you're not in competition on anybody and not compenis like you're giving what you're giving. That's the same thing I tell Jerrmia as we're building this, I was like, I want to make sure that you get

something out of this. I once sure you're growing because I'm not the only one that's feeding or even like wearing this together. Yeah, man, So how do you make sure your your soul is fair? How you make sure you get your vitamin d mm hmmm. I'm learning now to see myself in a different way of like I said before, making space and staying uh uh disciplined. For me, working out like that means the world to me because I feel like that's another way that I'm loving myself

so uncomfortably. But I'm transforming and I find that it's happening with over new mind. Also, I went through a period of a lot of prony. Oh uh, just things gotta let go and I am I talked about boundaries one thing that I have really taking the stands, and I'm like, I'm about damn proud of you doing the non negotiable when it comes down to communication. What does

that look like? Being honest and what that means authentic of whatever it is that you feel and giving me space so that I can show up authentically as well. Because it's like, whilere we what are we fronting for? Whether if it's a friend an intimate relationship and opportunity. Let's be transparent to communicate. I don't have to take anything from me. I'm not trying to take anything from you, but I know that's what gives me peace. Um, Jeremiah said, we got to go because we can talk all day.

I know we'll hold on. Let me just get this vital chest. He's okay. So I want to tell you something. This is divided chess, and in this vide a chest, we have some terms in here, terms that are related to your career, your life, anything. Now I always give the example like if you there was a term in here, so if you play basketball, it might be pivot, right, you know, pivot is literally a movement. But then also like you made a correlation and saying how we pivot

in life? So we got the fields. You're ready to do the deal. Usually do three, but we can do one. We'll see how you flow. You tell me how you feel. You feel like you want to water? All right? Yes, you heard it, okay, one one at a time. Okay, So when I read it, then I you gotta say it out loud. Then you take them in it and then you tell us what it is. What it means, what it means, What it means to me, Okay, we

the culture. That's kind of perfect for me. What that means is that, you know so so for so long we as black folks in this country have been made to feel like we are less than. But the truth of the matter is we are. We are the Alpha and the omega. We are so incredibly dynamic and powerful and capable. We have built this country. You know, I'm saying we are overwhelmingly intelligent, overwhelmingly just just talented. We the culture. We are the culture. We set the tone.

We set that we set the tones beyond just trends, you know what I mean. I like that inclusive. Yeah, shout out to we the culture. Shout out to Michelle over there a matter, you know, I mean, it has a dynamic program. Were the coach? I know, it's checking out your bad video. You were like, I know, I work out a lot, but what do I do when I relax? Let me show you some of my life. Here he is on the boat to be here working out doing all the great things. That shows us a

balanced life. And I was like, cool, I'm not a stalker. I had to do my research. I mean, I'll give it away. I heard the hell out of salt and pepper. Catch up, pick it up, all right? Vision Mariah Carr and vision of love. Um, the vision that you know God has blessed you with everyone is not gonna see.

And I think that's why it's it's it's so important for you stay rooted in your respective faith, your respective walk, and to be grounded and knowing that we're spiritual beings first and too deeply deeply in your own unique way with this meditation, yoga, channing, praying, whatever, to align with that so that you can have clear vision and you're not expected for someone else to see it, because sometimes we fresh ten were going for our dreams because you

don't get it. You don't get the vision was given to you, honey boom, it wasn't given to your man's And then you know what I mean. They're what's the vision? Admission for their life is completely different. So stay connected so your vision could be clear. Catching the greater the vision, the greater the boy, last one, last one ready like a salt shaker. Coacheller, we gotta do a different are talking about Coacheller bonus round. These were made specifically for

me manifestation very similar, you know what I mean? Like as I mentioned earlier, you know, just be patient with yourself during the process and just give all your energy towards what it is and realize that you have to be it. You have to be as actors if you are and if you are religious, what do they say, faith without works is dead? You know, you do not You do not catch somebody saying they want to apple

tree and planting the seed of a peach. Actually, nor do you find somebody planning the seed and catching the next day to see if it's there. You're trust in the process, and that's that's a that's a great point about manifestation. I was always, like I said a few missical, I'm in a season of harvest. But it took for me to be patient to just know that the seeds had been planted. And I was so impatient, so overwhelmingly impatient, to the point again I'm getting frustrated and beating myself up.

Why are you this? And why are you that? And why are this and why that? But you don't. You don't get anywhere by being unkind to yourself. You just be grumpy, right man? Yeah? Anybody, Yeah, manifests lightly likely said it and forget it. Just keep working towards it, but setting and forget it. Catch it all right? So, um, we're closing out. I'm fed man, This is great. Appreciate that, man.

So is there anything you want to tell the people about any future projects personal professional that you want people to be aware of? What should we look out? Are you always gonna be a DJ? Do you do you have a vision to evolved as something else? Or is there another venture you want to go after? Absolutely, I'm I'm in the process. You know. My musical interests are are great. You know, I've loved to do music supervision for film and television and video games. At a certain point,

I would love to score film. I would love to produce, you know, I mean to really get in my producer back and create music from this musical vision that I've had for a long time. And so I believe those are something next steps that you'll see in addition to DJ kind And if people want to check out the

block party, we can. We can find information at b hand block Party, at b h e N block Party on all social and you can follow me on social at its I T S Brian B. R I n Henry at all on all the all the social media's all of it. And you gotta remember when you go up and you go check out the block party, you ain't even gotta worry about somebody trying to flex doing too much. It always a special section for somebody else. Guess guess what we all v I P. I love

it right, that's it. Well, thank you so much. I appreciate you, and I appreciate you for listening. I know we got all of my business listening. I know you didn't learn some more stuff about No, I ain't even mind you, but you know, we gotta be who we say we want to be, and I understand what you know what's next? So with that being said, would you like to sit in this scene? Would you like to

talk to me? Well, I want you to email me, shoot me an email over at Vitamin d at dawn day Speaks dot com because I'd love to talk to or perhaps you may have an idea about the show. I want to hear from you as well. And you know I do my vitaminto advice letters. Now you know, I'm gonna keep it real with shell because I love you. And what do I say if you want to be better and you want to do better, you have to

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