Join hosts Dave and Len for another engaging edition of Newz and Trendz. In this episode, we celebrate the remarkable journey of An'Letreece, the powerhouse vocalist of Best Kept Soul, as the band marks its 15th anniversary. Ann shares her inspiring story from her roots in singing to her evolution into a leading entertainer, balancing her career with motherhood, and the sacrifices that paved her path to success.
Discover the dynamics behind Best Kept Soul's enduring popularity and the upcoming 15th-anniversary celebration, dubbed the "Fantastic Voyage."
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Ann also discusses her exciting plans for original music, while reflecting on her influences and the support system that has propelled her career.
Plus, dive into insightful discussions on recent election aftermath, societal issues, and some light-hearted yet revealing conversations about favorite female vocalists of today.
Don't miss this episode, which is full of inspiration, laughter, and a glimpse into the world of a band that continues to captivate audiences far and wide.
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00:00:12 --> 00:00:20 All right, y'all, get ready for another edition of News and Trends with your host, Dave and Lynn.
00:00:30 --> 00:00:33 Welcome, welcome, welcome to News and Trends with Dave and Lynn.
00:00:34 --> 00:00:38 This is your one of your hosts, Mr. David Coker, proprietor of Dave Martin King,
00:00:38 --> 00:00:44 promoter, event planner, all around good guy hanging out with my partner Mr.
00:00:45 --> 00:00:51 Leonard Young and we are now part of the MBG podcast network so definitely check
00:00:51 --> 00:00:52 that out what's going on Leonard?
00:00:53 --> 00:00:58 Hey Dave everything is good this is Leonard Young CEO of National Black Guide
00:00:58 --> 00:01:03 DelawareBlack.com Black Media Specialist All Around Good Guy how's it going Dave?
00:01:04 --> 00:01:07 Man I can't call it it's it's a
00:01:07 --> 00:01:11 wonderful day in the neighborhood as they say right yeah yeah
00:01:11 --> 00:01:14 that's what that's what it's that's what it's all about you know
00:01:14 --> 00:01:17 man it's kind of crazy because man this
00:01:17 --> 00:01:21 weather is really off the chain you know one day you come out of the short sleeves
00:01:21 --> 00:01:26 the next day you might know i know it's great i have a winter jacket or well
00:01:26 --> 00:01:31 you know it's funny like down uh southern delaware i think two days ago it rained
00:01:31 --> 00:01:37 for the first time in 45 days like when i talk about all our grass is dead it's dry and dusty,
00:01:38 --> 00:01:40 so you know we're definitely looking forward to that little
00:01:40 --> 00:01:43 bit of rain you got yeah no they and
00:01:43 --> 00:01:47 they said that rain that we got a couple days ago is just
00:01:47 --> 00:01:49 like half a percent or one percent of what's
00:01:49 --> 00:01:54 no wow you know yeah so i mean if even though it rained a lot because it rained
00:01:54 --> 00:01:58 a lot up here too but you're down there you're down there on the plantation
00:01:58 --> 00:02:05 man you know so you know darn darn and you know so that's what's going on everything
00:02:05 --> 00:02:08 else good with you yeah i mean Everything else is good. No complaints.
00:02:09 --> 00:02:12 My son's football team, they went undefeated for the season.
00:02:12 --> 00:02:15 So now they're going into the playoffs. They went undefeated against us.
00:02:15 --> 00:02:17 So they won undefeated last year too, right? Yep.
00:02:18 --> 00:02:23 And last year they won the state championship. So we'll see how they do this year.
00:02:23 --> 00:02:26 Okay. Okay. Two years in a row. Okay. All right.
00:02:27 --> 00:02:30 So, you know, Dave, let me tell you what I remember about the playoffs last
00:02:30 --> 00:02:32 year more than anything else.
00:02:33 --> 00:02:38 What's that? how cold it was on those Friday nights between like seven and 10 o'clock at night.
00:02:39 --> 00:02:42 I mean, freezing. So I'm definitely not looking forward to that.
00:02:43 --> 00:02:46 You know, you got to do what you got to do. Yeah. That weather,
00:02:46 --> 00:02:49 when that weather changed up on football season, it really changes.
00:02:49 --> 00:02:52 Oh yeah. Believe me, I know, I know all about it. Believe me.
00:02:53 --> 00:02:55 So, well, that's, that's good.
00:02:56 --> 00:02:58 Congratulations to that's Caravelle, right? Yep.
00:02:59 --> 00:03:02 Okay. All right. All right. Congratulations to them.
00:03:03 --> 00:03:07 All right. Well, I tell you, you know, we also got to say congratulations to
00:03:07 --> 00:03:10 our Eagles for beating up on those Cowboys too.
00:03:13 --> 00:03:22 Or I guess put the thumbs down on you Dave I figured they would she said loser.
00:03:26 --> 00:03:31 Yeah well anyway the Cowboys were losers that day but I ain't going to comment
00:03:31 --> 00:03:35 about that but you know we ain't just going to say fly eagles fly and we get
00:03:35 --> 00:03:40 ready to take down the commanders next so that's all I got to say So, all right.
00:03:41 --> 00:03:45 Well, speaking of guests, you know, we're going to just get right to this because
00:03:45 --> 00:03:48 they got a lot to say without saying anything in the background there.
00:03:49 --> 00:03:53 But why don't you tell us about who we have on today?
00:03:53 --> 00:03:57 Sure, Dave. So today our guest is Miss Ann Latrice.
00:03:57 --> 00:04:04 She is a multi-million business, a multi-million business manager by day, entertainer by night.
00:04:04 --> 00:04:11 She's award-winning vocalist and Latrice, and she started her career as a songwriter
00:04:11 --> 00:04:13 working for a production company in Philadelphia.
00:04:14 --> 00:04:18 She has always had a passion to sing, but never took it seriously.
00:04:18 --> 00:04:23 Now, in our mid-20s, she started going to local bars, participating in karaoke
00:04:23 --> 00:04:26 and winning numerous competitions.
00:04:26 --> 00:04:33 She began to make a name for herself, formerly Miss Ann, linked up with Tracy
00:04:33 --> 00:04:37 A, who told Daryl Howard about some hot new talent.
00:04:37 --> 00:04:42 She met with Daryl and then wife, Ja'Kyra, about joining their band,
00:04:43 --> 00:04:45 Best Kept Soul, and the rest is history.
00:04:46 --> 00:04:51 Ann Latrice had been the lead singer for Best Kept Soul going on 15 years.
00:04:51 --> 00:04:56 One of the hottest bands in the tri-state area, winning awards such as the Delaware
00:04:56 --> 00:05:00 Black Awards for Best Live Band and Best Vocalist.
00:05:01 --> 00:05:06 And she was recently named Delaware's Best or Best Kept Soul was recently named
00:05:06 --> 00:05:09 Delaware's Best Live Band.
00:05:09 --> 00:05:14 They have also shared the stage and been opening acts for performers such as
00:05:14 --> 00:05:20 Eric Roberson, Little Moe, Bow Wow, Drew Hill, Jaguar Wright,
00:05:20 --> 00:05:24 Kiki Wyatt, Carol Riddick, and Luke James, to name a few.
00:05:25 --> 00:05:28 Best Kept Soul has performed in the U.S. and abroad.
00:05:29 --> 00:05:34 Most Rican accolades have been performing on the 2024 Soul Train Cruise and
00:05:34 --> 00:05:37 making a return appearance for 2025.
00:05:38 --> 00:05:44 Ann Latrice is currently working on an original music that will debut in 2025.
00:05:45 --> 00:05:49 So without further ado, we'd like to welcome you to the show. Hello.
00:05:50 --> 00:05:56 The queen is here. Yes. Yes. She's in the building, y'all. She's in the building.
00:05:56 --> 00:06:00 Nice camera action. That's right. And I apologize.
00:06:00 --> 00:06:04 I made a mistake. And I think I said Miss Ann prior, but now I know it's Ann Latrice.
00:06:05 --> 00:06:08 It's okay. Yep. So we will make that correction.
00:06:08 --> 00:06:11 But so it's the same person, Leonard.
00:06:12 --> 00:06:16 It's really not. It's really not. Oh, Beyonce and Sasha Pierce.
00:06:17 --> 00:06:19 Yeah. You know, you have to evolve.
00:06:21 --> 00:06:26 Right. OK, you definitely have done that. So I guess to get started,
00:06:26 --> 00:06:29 you know, I know a lot of people will probably know you best from being the
00:06:29 --> 00:06:31 lead vocalist for Best Kept Soul.
00:06:31 --> 00:06:36 And, you know, I know that you said that you kind of ran into Tracy A.
00:06:37 --> 00:06:42 Now, when you ran into her, where exactly were you when I guess she spotted you?
00:06:43 --> 00:06:46 And, you know, how did that connection start out?
00:06:46 --> 00:06:52 Well, I guess I was going to different karaoke events hosted by DJ KG,
00:06:52 --> 00:06:56 who's been around for the longest time and shout out to him.
00:06:57 --> 00:07:03 But I met Kyra. I met Kyra at Shades of Blue along with Tracy A.
00:07:04 --> 00:07:09 And Tracy A back then, you know, Tracy A and A-Less was like a poppin' live band.
00:07:09 --> 00:07:12 I didn't know anything about live bands at that moment. but you
00:07:12 --> 00:07:16 know i i always enjoyed music so i would go check her band out and she would
00:07:16 --> 00:07:20 come to karaoke and she would hear me sing and she's like you need to do something
00:07:20 --> 00:07:24 with this like you know i mean not just karaoke and i'm just like i mean i don't
00:07:24 --> 00:07:31 know you know so i was at french quarter i'm naming a lot of places i'm not even around right i know.
00:07:35 --> 00:07:40 And that night they did a competition they had a female singer and a male singer winner,
00:07:40 --> 00:07:44 and that was the night I actually met City who we became you know singing partners
00:07:44 --> 00:07:49 um he won for the male and I won for the female and that was the night that
00:07:49 --> 00:07:51 I got introduced to Boogie Daryl Howard.
00:07:52 --> 00:07:55 And he was like I thought he was trying to hit on
00:07:55 --> 00:08:00 me at first you know I'm a best woman you know yeah but he
00:08:00 --> 00:08:02 was like no I'm this is legit like I have a band I'm like I
00:08:02 --> 00:08:05 don't know anything about live bands but you know I I'll try
00:08:05 --> 00:08:08 it out and I met with them at the rehearsal that Wednesday
00:08:08 --> 00:08:12 and Lamont's basement and now I'm
00:08:12 --> 00:08:15 here now when when you started out
00:08:15 --> 00:08:19 did you feel like was there a like a big
00:08:19 --> 00:08:21 transition from going to you know
00:08:21 --> 00:08:24 let's say doing karaoke to perform with
00:08:24 --> 00:08:27 the band like what was there ever a point when you're performing
00:08:27 --> 00:08:30 with the band where it's like oh man like I don't know if I could do it I'm
00:08:30 --> 00:08:33 used to doing my own thing well I will say
00:08:33 --> 00:08:36 in the beginning the crutch was see with
00:08:36 --> 00:08:39 karaoke you're performing to a track so you're familiar with
00:08:39 --> 00:08:42 the track right so with a live band they can.
00:08:42 --> 00:08:45 Do different variations of that
00:08:45 --> 00:08:48 track you know so i never
00:08:48 --> 00:08:51 get joe shields the drummer he was like you gotta come in on
00:08:51 --> 00:08:54 the one and i'm like what the hell is the one like
00:08:54 --> 00:08:57 they all sound the same to me i just ready to start
00:08:57 --> 00:09:00 the song like he's like teaching me about the timing of
00:09:00 --> 00:09:03 coming in on time for the song you know so that
00:09:03 --> 00:09:06 was like a big thing for me in the very beginning and also
00:09:06 --> 00:09:09 my first couple performances like I always knew
00:09:09 --> 00:09:14 I could sing but it's a difference between singing and entertaining right because
00:09:14 --> 00:09:18 nobody wants to see you just stand there look pretty and sing you know you got
00:09:18 --> 00:09:24 to keep me engaged so my first couple shows the mic stand was my crutch I would
00:09:24 --> 00:09:27 not move from in front of that thing I would stand And I would hold it so tight.
00:09:28 --> 00:09:32 And eventually I started, you know, warming up and coming into my own comfort
00:09:32 --> 00:09:33 zone when it came to the stage.
00:09:34 --> 00:09:36 So gotcha. It was definitely some adjusting.
00:09:37 --> 00:09:41 Yeah. And like take it back a little bit farther. You know, where where did
00:09:41 --> 00:09:43 that passion from singing come from?
00:09:44 --> 00:09:48 Well, I have a lot of singers in my family. My mother, she sang.
00:09:49 --> 00:09:52 She opened up for like James Ingram, Chaka Khan.
00:09:53 --> 00:09:58 She lived in Ohio at the time, in Akron. And then on my father's side,
00:09:58 --> 00:10:06 my grandmother, my dad, four of my aunts, they all are like church background and sing.
00:10:06 --> 00:10:11 And so I get it honestly I never had any like vocal training I did I was in
00:10:11 --> 00:10:14 chorus and stuff when I was growing up but as far as like a vocal coach like
00:10:14 --> 00:10:20 anything of that nature I never had any of that it was all by ear I don't read
00:10:20 --> 00:10:25 music but I can mimic and I can create from that so,
00:10:25 --> 00:10:30 that's just it's been a while my mom will say I was singing since I was probably two.
00:10:31 --> 00:10:34 Now does like I feel
00:10:34 --> 00:10:38 like I remember your family's always been very supportive of
00:10:38 --> 00:10:43 you know your singing when you look back now and you kind of look at let's say
00:10:43 --> 00:10:48 when you first started with best kept soul you know are are you kind of proud
00:10:48 --> 00:10:54 of the journey that you've come on oh man proud is an understatement I will
00:10:54 --> 00:10:58 say like I said in the very beginning, I have smaller kids.
00:10:58 --> 00:11:02 My children now are in their 20s. So you can imagine 15 years ago, they were a lot smaller.
00:11:03 --> 00:11:08 So it was like a lot of sacrifices, a lot of leaving them with my mom or whoever,
00:11:08 --> 00:11:11 just to go out and be seen and heard.
00:11:13 --> 00:11:17 I still work for McDonald's, but I was working for a different owner operator at the time.
00:11:17 --> 00:11:21 And I worked for him for like seven years and I never
00:11:21 --> 00:11:24 requested any days off anything and i mean
00:11:24 --> 00:11:27 you get two days off in a week what's hard with me saying i need these two days
00:11:27 --> 00:11:29 off right so it became an
00:11:29 --> 00:11:33 issue when the band started you know progressing a little more after
00:11:33 --> 00:11:36 about a year or so and so i go
00:11:36 --> 00:11:39 to work one morning and they sit me down there like yeah well
00:11:39 --> 00:11:42 we feel like you're going in a different direction than the company there's
00:11:42 --> 00:11:45 no way you can run a multi-million dollar business and
00:11:45 --> 00:11:48 have a singing career so i ultimately lost
00:11:48 --> 00:11:52 a job my first year with best kept sold okay so
00:11:52 --> 00:11:55 we talk about sacrifice right yeah at that
00:11:55 --> 00:11:59 point i could have said you know forget this i'm not i'm not doing this but
00:11:59 --> 00:12:05 it was that right there that made me want to prove a point sure and i actually
00:12:05 --> 00:12:10 got to prove that point a little later so it worked out so like now when we
00:12:10 --> 00:12:14 talk about sacrifice too you You know, I always think about and, you know,
00:12:14 --> 00:12:17 for any entrepreneur and basically you're you're like an entrepreneur,
00:12:17 --> 00:12:21 too, because you're probably always working, always trying to perfect your craft.
00:12:22 --> 00:12:25 What type of sacrifices have you had to make? And, you know,
00:12:25 --> 00:12:28 I think Dave and I, you know, we both have kids.
00:12:28 --> 00:12:31 And one of the things I always think about is when I felt like I was really
00:12:31 --> 00:12:36 trying to hustle, you know, I felt like, you know, my kids, not to say they
00:12:36 --> 00:12:40 suffered, but, you know, you, you kind of have to make choices and smart choices.
00:12:40 --> 00:12:44 And I know with Best Kept Soul, you know, a lot of your events are probably
00:12:44 --> 00:12:48 on the weekends, you're traveling, you know, how, how hard was it to kind of
00:12:48 --> 00:12:51 get adjusted to that, you know, entertainer schedule?
00:12:52 --> 00:12:55 It was, like I said, it was a little trying in the beginning.
00:12:55 --> 00:12:56 I'm a single mother, of course.
00:12:57 --> 00:13:03 So, you know, just making sure that I had the proper people in place to be there for my children.
00:13:03 --> 00:13:08 I shout out to my best friend, Paula, who was like the second mother to my kids.
00:13:08 --> 00:13:12 Like she was sacrificed and she would stay behind and make sure they were good.
00:13:12 --> 00:13:18 So the village really stepped up in my, you know, and it helped me out a lot.
00:13:18 --> 00:13:21 At one point in time, my children went and lived in Tennessee with my sister for like a year.
00:13:22 --> 00:13:27 So when I say my family really did what they said they were going to do,
00:13:27 --> 00:13:28 they did what they said they wanted to do.
00:13:29 --> 00:13:31 Gotcha. You know, and it's funny you say it because, you know,
00:13:31 --> 00:13:36 I remember we had Lamont on and he was on, I don't know, a couple months ago.
00:13:37 --> 00:13:40 Well, yeah, a couple. Yeah. So he was on a while ago.
00:13:41 --> 00:13:44 And, you know, one of my biggest questions, and I think it's a testament to
00:13:44 --> 00:13:48 y'all consistency, but in kind of like in your bio.
00:13:48 --> 00:13:51 So you've been the lead singer for 15 years for Best Kept Soul,
00:13:51 --> 00:13:52 which I'm like, damn, that's a long time.
00:13:53 --> 00:13:56 But, you know, on top of that, you know, like how do you.
00:13:57 --> 00:14:02 How do you stay on top for so long? Because, you know, like I always think about
00:14:02 --> 00:14:06 what Best Kept Soul came out 15 years ago. They were hot. People knew them and loved them.
00:14:06 --> 00:14:10 And like still to this day, you know, you say Best Kept Soul.
00:14:10 --> 00:14:15 Everyone knows who it is. You know, the events are still, you know,
00:14:15 --> 00:14:17 packed, you know, still popular.
00:14:17 --> 00:14:21 You know, how like how does I guess Best Kept Soul collectively,
00:14:22 --> 00:14:26 you know, I mean, to be honest, how do you all stay on top for 15 years?
00:14:26 --> 00:14:28 I ask that question often.
00:14:30 --> 00:14:35 It's like, they're not tired of us yet. Like, I'm tired of me. No, it's the people.
00:14:35 --> 00:14:40 Like, when I look at emails coming in and I see somebody saying,
00:14:40 --> 00:14:43 are you available May something of 2027?
00:14:43 --> 00:14:45 Like, you know what I mean? And we're in 2024.
00:14:46 --> 00:14:51 And I'm just like, the people see us being together that long.
00:14:51 --> 00:14:56 You know what I'm saying? and it's been the consistency of the people because
00:14:56 --> 00:15:01 I think we connect with our audience a lot and we're really relatable and that
00:15:01 --> 00:15:05 I think kind of sets us apart because as a band, we're a family.
00:15:05 --> 00:15:10 I always say we're family. We have our moments. We argue, we fuss, we fight.
00:15:10 --> 00:15:14 But at the end of the day, we come to the round table and we make it right.
00:15:14 --> 00:15:20 So I would say that makes us relatable to the people that we are hired by,
00:15:20 --> 00:15:21 that we are performing for.
00:15:22 --> 00:15:27 Anybody knows me i get on the mic i talk trash like you know i'm saying i'm
00:15:27 --> 00:15:32 practicing my comedy routine right now y'all don't be surprised if i use y'all
00:15:32 --> 00:15:40 a little bit but uh yeah hey hey hey um you use dave as much as you want go ahead use him up now.
00:15:41 --> 00:15:45 I know you talked about that you're currently working on some original music.
00:15:45 --> 00:15:46 Can you kind of tell us about that?
00:15:47 --> 00:15:53 Yeah, long time coming. Like I said in my bio, I started as a writer for a production company.
00:15:55 --> 00:15:58 And my passion for writing had went away for a little while.
00:15:58 --> 00:16:01 And I guess with doing a lot of performances and stuff, it's easier to learn
00:16:01 --> 00:16:04 somebody else's song and sing that and call it a day.
00:16:04 --> 00:16:11 But it comes a point in time where we're out here and we're glorifying everybody else's songs.
00:16:11 --> 00:16:14 You know right make it in our business to
00:16:14 --> 00:16:17 make these songs sound good in comparison to the artists
00:16:17 --> 00:16:19 but i got to the point where you
00:16:19 --> 00:16:22 know when i'm performing for people i want them to sing the lyrics
00:16:22 --> 00:16:26 to my songs you know i want to see them dancing
00:16:26 --> 00:16:29 and you know mouthing whatever i'm singing from my
00:16:29 --> 00:16:34 words so that's where the original stuff is coming into play right now we did
00:16:34 --> 00:16:38 release something a while ago one of my original tracks on my day on our little
00:16:38 --> 00:16:43 cd that we had and along with one of the ones lamont wrote called thrill me
00:16:43 --> 00:16:46 but right now it's just like,
00:16:47 --> 00:16:50 it's the the writing creativity is at
00:16:50 --> 00:16:56 full throttle so i have a keyboardist now that he he's making my melodies and
00:16:56 --> 00:17:02 stuff i have a song right now called mutual i have a song called uh lies like
00:17:02 --> 00:17:08 it's a lot of songs that i have already in my arsenal but i'm just ready to let it out All right.
00:17:08 --> 00:17:12 And then my last question, this is something I just always want to know personally.
00:17:13 --> 00:17:15 What is your wildest?
00:17:15 --> 00:17:20 Performance moments. So, you know, you're performing and you see something in
00:17:20 --> 00:17:23 the audience, you see something in the crowd and you'd be like, God damn.
00:17:23 --> 00:17:28 Or, you know, you know, just, just something that may not say throw you off
00:17:28 --> 00:17:31 your game, but just something you're like, man, did that just happen?
00:17:32 --> 00:17:38 Man, I have shades on when I'm on the stage for people because I never know,
00:17:38 --> 00:17:40 I never want people to know what I'm looking at directly.
00:17:40 --> 00:17:44 And you, you will be surprised at some of the things that you see.
00:17:44 --> 00:17:49 I won't say this was like doing a performance, but we performed one time in
00:17:49 --> 00:17:55 Westchester for a client and it was a man's birthday and he was a pastor.
00:17:55 --> 00:18:01 So we get done and we go on break and the wife gets up and she speaks so beautifully
00:18:01 --> 00:18:04 about her husband, you know, before they bring him up.
00:18:04 --> 00:18:07 So the husband gets up and he's like, well,
00:18:07 --> 00:18:10 where's the girl that was singing because i was ready to throw my drawers at
00:18:10 --> 00:18:18 her like excuse me sir like what that's what you thought of in that moment right
00:18:18 --> 00:18:20 right of all the things he could have said,
00:18:23 --> 00:18:28 he wanted to throw his drawers off stage he wanted to throw his rolls well well
00:18:28 --> 00:18:33 i mean it's probably better he said it than did it so you know you know that
00:18:33 --> 00:18:34 that might have been a little Oh,
00:18:35 --> 00:18:38 wait, how long, how long ago was this? How long ago was this?
00:18:38 --> 00:18:40 Man, this was years ago.
00:18:41 --> 00:18:45 Okay. I was gonna say, so this was, this was before our news and translator.
00:18:45 --> 00:18:48 We, he would have been one of our stories at one point. Right, right.
00:18:50 --> 00:18:52 He would have been like that pastor in New York,
00:18:53 --> 00:19:00 oh yeah yeah money from the lady yeah wow yeah oh that's that's a whole not
00:19:00 --> 00:19:06 or or the pastor we almost talked about last week that wanted to the milk thing oh jesus.
00:19:09 --> 00:19:14 So the pastors are making news now they're making
00:19:14 --> 00:19:17 a lot of news today's pastors ain't
00:19:17 --> 00:19:19 like yesterday's pastors no no they're not
00:19:19 --> 00:19:23 they they're well today's church ain't like yesterday's
00:19:23 --> 00:19:27 church so the pastor has to change too i know it's not
00:19:27 --> 00:19:30 it's a whole different world now man gospel music
00:19:30 --> 00:19:33 gospel music is not you know
00:19:33 --> 00:19:36 when they took i told linda this before when they
00:19:36 --> 00:19:39 took the sesame street song and made
00:19:39 --> 00:19:42 it into a song called victory can
00:19:42 --> 00:19:46 you show me how to get the victory i was like what did they
00:19:46 --> 00:19:49 just take the sesame street song and change it into a gospel song
00:19:49 --> 00:19:55 that's when you know that things are different these days because we're in a
00:19:55 --> 00:19:59 different world right now we definitely are so yeah it makes you question who
00:19:59 --> 00:20:03 are they really trying to appeal to like i know to get the centers and stuff
00:20:03 --> 00:20:08 but y'all stretching it yeah yeah definitely they're trying and get the money.
00:20:09 --> 00:20:14 The money. Now, hold on, but we're not talking about Deacon Dave because,
00:20:14 --> 00:20:17 you know, Deacon Dave is good. Yeah, yeah.
00:20:17 --> 00:20:20 Well, no, I mean, Dave, you're a deacon at the church, so, I mean,
00:20:20 --> 00:20:23 we're not talking about you, but, you know.
00:20:23 --> 00:20:26 Yes, we are. Yes, we are.
00:20:28 --> 00:20:32 Anyway, that's my partner always, I do so shade at me all the time,
00:20:32 --> 00:20:34 but that's a whole other story right there.
00:20:35 --> 00:20:38 But anyway, anyway, are you finished sir
00:20:38 --> 00:20:41 uh yes that was my last one
00:20:41 --> 00:20:45 more question okay all right well
00:20:45 --> 00:20:49 since we're on the subject of church and everything um let's go back let's go
00:20:49 --> 00:20:55 back to you know your roots because i know you got church roots and of course
00:20:55 --> 00:21:01 i know you know you talked about your family and you talked about your your you know having.
00:21:02 --> 00:21:08 Well singing was definitely a part of your roots and because of your family i know your mother,
00:21:08 --> 00:21:11 sang and but then you know you have
00:21:11 --> 00:21:14 that other side of the family that also think because i know a few
00:21:14 --> 00:21:17 of them by the way so you know i know a few of them and
00:21:17 --> 00:21:21 so is church still a base
00:21:21 --> 00:21:24 for you when it comes to singing is that still something
00:21:24 --> 00:21:26 that you love to do because i know you and i did that
00:21:26 --> 00:21:29 show once before where you came and did
00:21:29 --> 00:21:32 a gospel show and you killed it I ain't
00:21:32 --> 00:21:35 gonna lie you really did you killed it during that show is that
00:21:35 --> 00:21:43 still a big part of you that that gospel background well I'll say like I won't
00:21:43 --> 00:21:48 say like gospel was a huge background when I speak on like my dad's side of
00:21:48 --> 00:21:53 family like they are like church folks like when I went there it was church you You know,
00:21:54 --> 00:21:59 my mother and them, like they did church, but it wasn't like a mandatory thing.
00:21:59 --> 00:22:04 With my grandmother and my step-grandmother, we would go to her church a lot.
00:22:04 --> 00:22:08 So I wouldn't say that I was like base root in church because that would be a lot.
00:22:09 --> 00:22:15 But I do know how to give back to when I need to give back and be thankful for
00:22:15 --> 00:22:17 which my talents do come from.
00:22:17 --> 00:22:20 So when i do a gospel show or something that's
00:22:20 --> 00:22:23 why you still feel the passion and the conviction because it
00:22:23 --> 00:22:26 is you know i mean it is just that it's something that's
00:22:26 --> 00:22:29 embedded in me but yeah it's not something that i
00:22:29 --> 00:22:32 grew up on every sunday i didn't go
00:22:32 --> 00:22:35 to bible study every wednesday i didn't go to night service
00:22:35 --> 00:22:37 i didn't go to everybody's service i didn't go to children's like
00:22:37 --> 00:22:44 you know i mean it wasn't that right okay all right okay well let me let me
00:22:44 --> 00:22:49 ask this we're gonna go back a little bit back down memory lane like we did
00:22:49 --> 00:22:55 this with lamont lennon and i both talked about when we first saw best kept soul.
00:22:57 --> 00:22:58 Linda, you said it was the same
00:22:58 --> 00:23:02 time. Was that the same time as when I called them at your award show?
00:23:02 --> 00:23:09 So I'm not sure. So the first time that I saw them is I think I was kind of working.
00:23:09 --> 00:23:12 Well, not really working, but I was kind of helping Cynthia Tire.
00:23:12 --> 00:23:18 And that's when she was, you know, I can't, uh, Crystal Room, Crystal Ballroom.
00:23:19 --> 00:23:25 And she was connected with Daryl. And, you know, me and Daryl became cool.
00:23:25 --> 00:23:29 So, you know, of course, you know, and I mean, if you hang around Cynthia,
00:23:29 --> 00:23:33 you're going to hang around all the artists, you know, like that's Cynthia.
00:23:34 --> 00:23:43 Yeah. So. So I, I think I met Daryl and then actually I knew Lamont via Hope Rose.
00:23:43 --> 00:23:47 So even before Cynthia Hope
00:23:47 --> 00:23:50 Rose started a it was like a networking that's where
00:23:50 --> 00:23:53 I met Lamont he was doing commercialized and then
00:23:53 --> 00:23:56 he transitioned into the band so I believe
00:23:56 --> 00:23:59 I met them there I didn't I don't
00:23:59 --> 00:24:02 think I met Miss Anne or Anne Latrice until
00:24:02 --> 00:24:05 the Delaware Black because I feel like that was the first time I saw I was like
00:24:05 --> 00:24:11 who that yeah yeah yeah yeah and it's funny i think that's that's actually the
00:24:11 --> 00:24:16 first time i had ever seen best kept soul was at that award show which was your
00:24:16 --> 00:24:20 second delaware black award show you guys were forming out there in the.
00:24:28 --> 00:24:31 One of the bands i was working with the full effect band at
00:24:31 --> 00:24:35 that time and they were nominated for award for best
00:24:35 --> 00:24:38 band and i just
00:24:38 --> 00:24:43 remember going out into the lobby and i was like well who's this band out here
00:24:43 --> 00:24:51 and i didn't go ahead well at that time i was not a part of the band so when
00:24:51 --> 00:24:57 i met boogie the band had already been together for a few months so whatever that award show was that,
00:25:00 --> 00:25:03 January, that's when I had gotten in contact and met Boogie and stuff.
00:25:03 --> 00:25:06 Because when he presented it to me, he was like, I have a band.
00:25:06 --> 00:25:08 We've only been together for a couple months.
00:25:08 --> 00:25:11 We're just trying to fit some pieces together and make it make sense.
00:25:11 --> 00:25:13 So who you saw that night?
00:25:15 --> 00:25:19 No, you saw Kyra, Phil Joseph.
00:25:20 --> 00:25:23 Yeah, Phil Joseph was with them. Yes. Yeah, and City was there.
00:25:24 --> 00:25:25 City looked so different then.
00:25:27 --> 00:25:30 I'll show you i remember city i remember city coppers
00:25:30 --> 00:25:33 met city when he was with right you know he i
00:25:33 --> 00:25:36 got introduced to city before he even started
00:25:36 --> 00:25:39 playing with um brian parr i met him through brian
00:25:39 --> 00:25:42 parr but i didn't know i didn't know you wasn't there that night that's true
00:25:42 --> 00:25:47 no i wasn't there that night no okay all right so but that was the first time
00:25:47 --> 00:25:52 i called best kept gold was that night and yeah they they had a different lineup
00:25:52 --> 00:25:55 at that time but they still were you know a very good group at that time.
00:25:56 --> 00:25:57 I was like, well, I had never heard of him.
00:25:58 --> 00:26:02 And then the next time I saw him, I noticed the lineup had changed, you know, because.
00:26:04 --> 00:26:06 I think it was later on that I saw him, and that's when I saw you.
00:26:06 --> 00:26:10 I do remember you were there that night. You and Kyra were the leads that night.
00:26:10 --> 00:26:15 And I was like, okay, all right, they got a good sound. I really like them.
00:26:15 --> 00:26:16 And I started following you.
00:26:16 --> 00:26:21 And then, of course, Front Stage Friday, when over at the Blue Parrot,
00:26:21 --> 00:26:25 I started going, Cynthia was like, you need to come over to the Blue Parrot
00:26:25 --> 00:26:28 and start checking out things over at the Blue Parrot. Because that's when I met.
00:26:28 --> 00:26:35 I actually started really getting to know you guys and Tracy and everybody else
00:26:35 --> 00:26:36 that was coming through there at that time.
00:26:37 --> 00:26:40 John, Coley, and all of them, you know, to the max.
00:26:40 --> 00:26:43 That's where everybody was saying. That was a great time, by the way.
00:26:43 --> 00:26:45 It really was. It really was.
00:26:45 --> 00:26:51 And, like, again, I give Cynthia a shout-out because she really showed me a lot.
00:26:51 --> 00:26:54 Like you said, you hang out with Cynthia, you're going to hang out with every
00:26:54 --> 00:26:59 star that she knows. Right, right. And she's not a stingy woman, you know.
00:26:59 --> 00:27:04 She will help you. And even to this day, I talk to Cynthia a lot.
00:27:04 --> 00:27:09 And I just went to Baltimore like a month ago or so with her and did a show
00:27:09 --> 00:27:11 for this guy that she has a contact with.
00:27:12 --> 00:27:16 She always like is always looking out, always checking on me,
00:27:16 --> 00:27:17 making sure everything is good with me.
00:27:18 --> 00:27:22 Like a second mom, really, to me, like and her and my mom have conversations.
00:27:22 --> 00:27:27 So always shout out Cynthia because she's always there helping me in my career.
00:27:27 --> 00:27:30 So I always make sure I give her a shout out.
00:27:30 --> 00:27:35 Well, that's one thing that's important because we find that a lot of people,
00:27:36 --> 00:27:40 especially when they are on the come up or they've come up already,
00:27:41 --> 00:27:45 who seem to forget about those people along the way.
00:27:45 --> 00:27:49 And I love since this show has started, you have name dropped the number of
00:27:49 --> 00:27:54 people that have helped you to get to where you are now.
00:27:54 --> 00:27:59 And that's a big, big thing because, you know, you don't hear that too often
00:27:59 --> 00:28:04 anymore. or everybody's me, me, me, and never talk about how they became me.
00:28:05 --> 00:28:08 And I like the fact that you're doing that during this show.
00:28:08 --> 00:28:14 Yeah, I think it's important to pay homage to people that, you know,
00:28:14 --> 00:28:16 have found a not robbery to help you.
00:28:16 --> 00:28:21 Because like I tell people all the time, it's so many different lanes in this
00:28:21 --> 00:28:22 industry that people can take and do.
00:28:23 --> 00:28:27 You can eat, I can eat. I'm never worried about anybody.
00:28:28 --> 00:28:31 What my platform is if i can
00:28:31 --> 00:28:34 help somebody else i'm gonna do it i know delaware
00:28:34 --> 00:28:36 is like that crab in a
00:28:36 --> 00:28:39 barrel mentality and nobody wants to help anybody
00:28:39 --> 00:28:43 because when i show you what i'm doing and you're going to come try to steal
00:28:43 --> 00:28:48 it you can't take what's for me just like i can't take what's for you if it's
00:28:48 --> 00:28:53 meant to be it's gonna happen period so if i can help somebody they want to
00:28:53 --> 00:28:56 sing my microphone is always open my stage is always open i tell people that
00:28:56 --> 00:28:58 all the time I'm never stingy.
00:28:59 --> 00:29:03 And I like the fact that, you know, you'll still go out there and still do karaoke.
00:29:04 --> 00:29:08 You know, you'll still do all of that kind of stuff. People still get to hear
00:29:08 --> 00:29:13 you, you know, you never forget about that part of who you are. That's great.
00:29:13 --> 00:29:21 That's great. Tell me about, you know, we're in the process of the 15 year anniversary.
00:29:21 --> 00:29:24 So before we even talk about what you guys
00:29:24 --> 00:29:27 have coming up tell me about since
00:29:27 --> 00:29:30 you've been with the group how the
00:29:30 --> 00:29:35 transitions from all the different people that have been a part of best kept
00:29:35 --> 00:29:41 soul has been for you and how your your group has been able to maintain with
00:29:41 --> 00:29:48 all the transitions that have happened over the years and still be the super group that you are,
00:29:48 --> 00:29:51 Like I stated earlier, I think it starts with the foundation,
00:29:51 --> 00:29:54 regardless of how many different people or players, you know,
00:29:54 --> 00:29:56 move around. You have to have a base.
00:29:57 --> 00:30:01 And one of the things about a base is you need to have communication.
00:30:01 --> 00:30:04 I think a lot of things happen in a lot of bands and situations,
00:30:05 --> 00:30:06 the communication dies.
00:30:06 --> 00:30:09 And then you have somebody that's mad at somebody. They don't even know why
00:30:09 --> 00:30:12 they're mad at that person. But guess what? Now we can't get together.
00:30:12 --> 00:30:16 And now your band that you have potential for now is to the wayside because
00:30:16 --> 00:30:18 nobody wants to talk about it.
00:30:19 --> 00:30:23 And that's why I say we're, we're family. Like every day is not a bed of roses.
00:30:24 --> 00:30:31 I think Lamont quit 15 times in the past month, but it's just,
00:30:31 --> 00:30:34 it's just about being real, being open, being honest.
00:30:34 --> 00:30:39 And when new people are transitioning out, make sure they understand the premise of what we're here for.
00:30:39 --> 00:30:42 You know we i it
00:30:42 --> 00:30:45 is funny because i call it the chitlin circuit you know back
00:30:45 --> 00:30:48 in the day you would have your your sweet i mean not sweet daddy's
00:30:48 --> 00:30:51 shades of blue sugs that used to be
00:30:51 --> 00:30:56 on fourth street and wilson's lounge you know i mean everybody was in that same
00:30:56 --> 00:31:01 circuit so you know i mean you interacted with everybody and if you don't remember
00:31:01 --> 00:31:06 where you come from and how things started when you was making $40 for a person
00:31:06 --> 00:31:08 singing three, four hours in a bar.
00:31:09 --> 00:31:14 Yeah. You got to remember that stuff. You know what I mean? Keep yourself humble
00:31:14 --> 00:31:16 because you never know when it's going to stop.
00:31:16 --> 00:31:19 But it's like the merry-go-round right now. It's like, we can't get off this
00:31:19 --> 00:31:21 merry-go-round. I don't want to get off of it.
00:31:22 --> 00:31:26 Right. Right. Right. You know, but I think it's just like being open and honest
00:31:26 --> 00:31:30 and having communication throughout as things transition.
00:31:30 --> 00:31:33 Everybody has to go through an evolution period.
00:31:34 --> 00:31:38 Well, that's true. Everybody does have to go through that and that's what makes
00:31:38 --> 00:31:43 the journey even sweeter when you get to where you need to be.
00:31:45 --> 00:31:48 Tell me this with new music coming out and you
00:31:48 --> 00:31:51 guys i know you guys have worked had some original music out
00:31:51 --> 00:31:54 there in the past and so forth and you guys have
00:31:54 --> 00:31:57 done pretty well with that original music and with
00:31:57 --> 00:32:01 new music coming out now are you gonna because we're
00:32:01 --> 00:32:05 in a different day and time now when it comes to becoming famous
00:32:05 --> 00:32:08 and and and getting your music out there and
00:32:08 --> 00:32:11 so forth with the internet and social media and
00:32:11 --> 00:32:15 so forth you know you got people becoming big time
00:32:15 --> 00:32:18 you know entertainers because they're
00:32:18 --> 00:32:22 putting their music out on tick tock and they're doing videos and so forth or
00:32:22 --> 00:32:28 you know on instagram or some of the other services out there are you guys looking
00:32:28 --> 00:32:35 to lean that way about putting your music out on social media and especially
00:32:35 --> 00:32:37 with the new music that you guys have coming out?
00:32:38 --> 00:32:43 Are you guys looking to do that to try to get more traction as far as a national
00:32:43 --> 00:32:46 audience is concerned? What are you thinking?
00:32:46 --> 00:32:50 Definitely going to use the different platforms to stream music,
00:32:50 --> 00:32:55 like, you know, your TikTok, your Spotify, Apple Music, things of that nature.
00:32:55 --> 00:33:01 But what I'll say is, I think I'm at the point where I just want them to do original music.
00:33:01 --> 00:33:07 I don't see myself being this big star, to be honest. it's like.
00:33:08 --> 00:33:14 I think I'll get anxiety to be honest. It's like right now, I'm not a huge star,
00:33:15 --> 00:33:16 but I'm known. You know what I'm saying?
00:33:17 --> 00:33:21 And I said, I'm going to write a song talking about don't bother me when I'm
00:33:21 --> 00:33:23 in Walmart buying tampons. Like, because that's what happens.
00:33:24 --> 00:33:28 You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm a regular person. Just when you, like, people go crazy.
00:33:28 --> 00:33:33 I just like, so I don't think I can handle being that big of a person.
00:33:33 --> 00:33:38 I'm fine in this realm. and if I'm busy can get out there and they can touch
00:33:38 --> 00:33:41 other people then that's what it's for right if somebody happens to hear it
00:33:41 --> 00:33:44 and wants to run with it so be it but that's not what I'm looking for to be
00:33:44 --> 00:33:49 honest okay so we get we can't look forward to seeing you on Jimmy Fallon or
00:33:49 --> 00:33:52 something like that I mean listen,
00:33:53 --> 00:33:59 God's plan is God's plan it's meant to happen it'll happen but what I feel and
00:33:59 --> 00:34:06 foresee is like I don't know if I could be up there I like my D-Berry's right here Okay. Sorry. Okay.
00:34:07 --> 00:34:15 Well, it's been 15 years and you guys, you guys, you know, done a lot in 15 years.
00:34:16 --> 00:34:19 I know I was fortunate enough to hang out with you guys for a little bit and
00:34:19 --> 00:34:23 always will be attached to you guys at some point, you know,
00:34:23 --> 00:34:26 some way because I'm, you know, always going to be a fan. So.
00:34:27 --> 00:34:30 But now you're going to celebrate 15 years.
00:34:31 --> 00:34:35 Tell us about, tell us about this big, big event that you guys got coming up.
00:34:36 --> 00:34:39 Yeah, absolutely. So I will say this. So the reason why we stopped talking to
00:34:39 --> 00:34:42 Dave, because Deacon Dave stole some money. No, I'm just kidding.
00:34:44 --> 00:34:47 Tell the truth. Shame the devil. Go ahead. Go ahead, Ann Latrice.
00:34:48 --> 00:34:51 I paid you not to say anything about that. Yeah.
00:34:52 --> 00:34:56 You ain't paying no yeah you ain't
00:34:56 --> 00:34:59 paying no she ain't paying no anyway anyway
00:34:59 --> 00:35:02 we'll move past that so go ahead okay i'm sorry
00:35:02 --> 00:35:05 we can edit that part not no no no no
00:35:05 --> 00:35:09 no no no letter it is what
00:35:09 --> 00:35:19 it is but um anyway go ahead so 15 years wow it's been a long time so i know
00:35:19 --> 00:35:24 right and the The anniversary gathering started off as just the conversation
00:35:24 --> 00:35:26 that Lamont and I were having, like, we should really do something.
00:35:27 --> 00:35:32 And that was, like, in January. And then we actually started sitting down and formulating things.
00:35:33 --> 00:35:39 Shout out to Montrell, because Montrell Ward has really been an influential piece in this. Okay.
00:35:39 --> 00:35:42 Because we didn't know where to start, what direction to go in.
00:35:42 --> 00:35:46 And she has been our coordinator throughout this whole thing. Okay.
00:35:47 --> 00:35:50 A lot of different ideas bounced around. We've seen a lot of different places.
00:35:50 --> 00:35:52 And then we just settled on what we were going to do.
00:35:52 --> 00:35:58 So the 23rd of this month at the Dahlia, which is a new shot little venue that's
00:35:58 --> 00:36:02 on Jessup Street on the north side of Wilmington, two floors.
00:36:02 --> 00:36:06 It has a capacity of thing about 500 people. We're really trying to get 500
00:36:06 --> 00:36:09 people in there. I think we're at three right now.
00:36:09 --> 00:36:11 So we're close to.
00:36:12 --> 00:36:17 So if we could get that just just to see the outpouring of people,
00:36:17 --> 00:36:19 just making sure as soon as the tickets went on sale.
00:36:20 --> 00:36:23 They were like table, table, table, table.
00:36:23 --> 00:36:26 Like, you know what I mean? So that was a beautiful thing to see.
00:36:27 --> 00:36:29 But like I said, it's like a gala type event.
00:36:29 --> 00:36:32 It will be, the colors are black and gold.
00:36:32 --> 00:36:37 And we have a lot of different things going on that evening from karaoke DJ
00:36:37 --> 00:36:40 to a regular DJ with the 360 camera.
00:36:41 --> 00:36:45 We have special guests coming through that will perform like Fred Reed.
00:36:45 --> 00:36:47 City's going to make an appearance later.
00:36:48 --> 00:36:54 Aziz and Naila will be making a performance. Ross Mustafa, everybody knows Ross,
00:36:54 --> 00:36:55 you know, coming through.
00:36:56 --> 00:36:58 Then we have a house band that'll play for them.
00:36:58 --> 00:37:02 We're actually going to do also like a Q&A segment for the band.
00:37:02 --> 00:37:06 So people had any questions that they've been dying to ask, you know,
00:37:07 --> 00:37:10 nothing too strange, too strange, you know. Right, right.
00:37:11 --> 00:37:18 Don't ask something stupid now. But, you know, just because we gig so much and
00:37:18 --> 00:37:23 it's really work, that night will be an opportunity for us to engage with people,
00:37:23 --> 00:37:27 take pictures, you know, just really commemorate and have a good time.
00:37:27 --> 00:37:33 We'll have videos playing over the years of, you know, the best kept soul evolution, as I call it.
00:37:34 --> 00:37:37 I have to talk to Lamont because of some videos he's not allowed to play and
00:37:37 --> 00:37:38 I got to screen them first.
00:37:39 --> 00:37:42 Because I always say in the beginning those beginning
00:37:42 --> 00:37:45 footages y'all could trash that because I was not in the
00:37:45 --> 00:37:50 trees you haven't evolved
00:37:50 --> 00:37:55 yet right yeah and you know and then we'll close out the evening with a performance
00:37:55 --> 00:38:00 by us we have like I said a lot of different things we have vendors of course
00:38:00 --> 00:38:07 the bar set up with Erica with craft cocktails yes yeah I'm name dropping y'all So,
00:38:07 --> 00:38:09 yeah, I better get some recognition for this.
00:38:10 --> 00:38:13 Yeah, that's right. When y'all out there, business is done. Yeah, that's right.
00:38:14 --> 00:38:16 Food, bionics, catering.
00:38:17 --> 00:38:22 It's just, it's a lot. It's a fun-filled, very thought-out evening.
00:38:23 --> 00:38:26 By us doing the Soul Train Cruise, it gave us the idea to, like,
00:38:26 --> 00:38:32 have, since we have two floors to utilize, just having something going on at each moment.
00:38:32 --> 00:38:35 So, you could be upstairs, you could be downstairs. Wherever you're at,
00:38:35 --> 00:38:38 there's something going to be going on at all points in time of the evening.
00:38:39 --> 00:38:43 It's definitely something to look forward for. The tickets right now are $30.
00:38:43 --> 00:38:48 If you don't want any of the heavy hors d'oeuvres that will be served, that ticket is $50.
00:38:49 --> 00:38:54 I think we're nearing $50 ticket sales ending, which I think is the 16th of this month.
00:38:56 --> 00:38:58 Eventbrite is a place to get tickets.
00:38:58 --> 00:39:02 You can just look up Best Kept Soul Fantastic Voyage on Eventbrite.
00:39:02 --> 00:39:05 Also, we have physical tickets. You can contact myself
00:39:05 --> 00:39:08 or Lamont or really any member of the band
00:39:08 --> 00:39:11 if you want a physical ticket and you know we can make
00:39:11 --> 00:39:14 sure we get that to you but this is
00:39:14 --> 00:39:17 the event that you don't want to read about on facebook you don't
00:39:17 --> 00:39:20 want to see somebody else's video shout out to leonard because
00:39:20 --> 00:39:24 we did just see your sponsorship so thank you so much you're welcome you're
00:39:24 --> 00:39:31 welcome yeah and i i i believe uh deacon dave i have a sponsorship too so he
00:39:31 --> 00:39:36 he's not blessed y'all okay because i was about to say you know i get the emails
00:39:36 --> 00:39:39 and I did not see Dave Coker come up as a person that bought no ticket.
00:39:42 --> 00:39:47 Oh, wow. Wow. Yeah. That money you stole from us, you can use that.
00:39:54 --> 00:40:00 I love her. I love her. You know, let it be her. We go at it all the time. We go at it all the time.
00:40:00 --> 00:40:04 Dave, Dave, I thought I knew you.
00:40:04 --> 00:40:07 You need to make this right. You need to make this right, Dave.
00:40:08 --> 00:40:10 You need to make it right. Yes, absolutely.
00:40:11 --> 00:40:15 I'll get with you later. Okay? I ain't going to answer the phone.
00:40:15 --> 00:40:16 You ain't going to answer the phone.
00:40:18 --> 00:40:24 Did I just hear Dave say that if somebody comes right now and he's going to
00:40:24 --> 00:40:26 purchase two tickets for them? Is that what I just heard?
00:40:27 --> 00:40:31 I could have swore I just heard that. Look, let me tell you this, Ann.
00:40:32 --> 00:40:35 No, no, no. Don't say what it is.
00:40:36 --> 00:40:40 It's not about Leonard. It's not about Leonard. I'm going to go get the money
00:40:40 --> 00:40:43 from Leonard and we'll take care of that. Well, Leonard did his part and I saw
00:40:43 --> 00:40:45 that. I still haven't seen it.
00:40:45 --> 00:40:49 Leonard didn't include my name on the sponsorship. I don't know why he didn't do that.
00:40:49 --> 00:40:54 I don't know why he didn't do that. But anyway, we'll talk about that.
00:40:55 --> 00:41:00 I'll probably put my wife on there. You know, me and her. I had to do a problem.
00:41:02 --> 00:41:05 And I want to say congratulations, Leonard, to you and your wife.
00:41:05 --> 00:41:09 Because that campground that y'all have down there is, is ridiculous.
00:41:09 --> 00:41:12 Oh, thank you. Like when we did that, we did that event.
00:41:12 --> 00:41:18 I was just like so blown away because first off is black owned and that right
00:41:18 --> 00:41:23 there is, you know, top notch and it's top notch. You know, you guys are really
00:41:23 --> 00:41:26 doing your thing out there. Well, kind of like I tell Dave, you know.
00:41:27 --> 00:41:30 We hear a lot of compliments, but I can guarantee you during the week,
00:41:31 --> 00:41:36 I'm running around like Kunta Kinte, picking up trash, leaves, everything.
00:41:36 --> 00:41:40 And I've invited Dave to come down and help me do some work.
00:41:40 --> 00:41:41 And I've not seen it. Oh, he's not.
00:41:42 --> 00:41:47 No, no, no, no, because he's not going to pay me to do the work that he needs
00:41:47 --> 00:41:50 me to do. So, you know, but I've been down there.
00:41:50 --> 00:41:55 I do go down there. I do go down there. So, but he, you know,
00:41:55 --> 00:42:00 one thing we can say, you know, we're talking to you because,
00:42:00 --> 00:42:05 you know, you guys have made it and you guys have been consistent all this time.
00:42:05 --> 00:42:09 And your platform is awesome.
00:42:09 --> 00:42:12 And just like with Leonard, you know, think about it, you know,
00:42:13 --> 00:42:16 go back to the Delaware Black Awards and all the awards, especially you guys
00:42:16 --> 00:42:19 won quite a few awards through there and so forth.
00:42:19 --> 00:42:26 And going back to the very beginning, Best Kept Soul all the way up until now.
00:42:26 --> 00:42:29 And, you know, Leonard has always been, you know, and Delaware Black has always
00:42:29 --> 00:42:31 been a part of that as well.
00:42:31 --> 00:42:35 So, you know, you guys kind of come full circle when it comes to this thing.
00:42:36 --> 00:42:41 And that's good because, you know, when you look at it, you guys have kind of
00:42:41 --> 00:42:44 been interlocked with each other, you know, all this time.
00:42:44 --> 00:42:48 And your success and Leonard's success has happened around the same time.
00:42:49 --> 00:42:52 If you look at it yeah you know what i mean
00:42:52 --> 00:42:55 it's funny because when i did the math and i'm like okay 15
00:42:55 --> 00:42:58 years that's 2009 well first
00:42:58 --> 00:43:03 that makes me feel old as hell yeah right delawareblack.com
00:43:03 --> 00:43:05 started in 2006 yeah in
00:43:05 --> 00:43:09 2006 and i was like god damn i was like in two years that's
00:43:09 --> 00:43:12 about to be a 20th in fact i'm well i
00:43:12 --> 00:43:16 had to get with dave to plan the delawareblack.com 20th
00:43:16 --> 00:43:20 but best kept soul has been a big part of what we did in the beginning because
00:43:20 --> 00:43:25 to be honest like i've i came to a lot of the events and of course if you're
00:43:25 --> 00:43:29 around cynthia you just gotta be around music period so yeah yeah you know so
00:43:29 --> 00:43:32 i mean but you know even when i look back at best kept soul.
00:43:33 --> 00:43:37 I'll say the last couple years delawareblack.com fell off but best kept soul
00:43:37 --> 00:43:43 had really been like a train and really just chugging through the years and
00:43:43 --> 00:43:48 you know they just as popular as they were in 2009, 2010,
00:43:48 --> 00:43:54 they're even more popular in 2024, which is really a testament to,
00:43:54 --> 00:43:58 you know, Ann Latrice and how much of an entertainer you are.
00:43:58 --> 00:44:04 You know, Lamont, the band members. As a matter of fact, while you're saying
00:44:04 --> 00:44:08 that and while we're talking about it, why don't you tell us who Best Kept Soul are?
00:44:09 --> 00:44:12 Get the names of the band members so everybody can hear that right quick.
00:44:12 --> 00:44:17 Absolutely. So on keyboard, we have John Icaro on keys.
00:44:18 --> 00:44:23 Right now, our drummer is Varnell Mincy, a.k.a. Duder.
00:44:23 --> 00:44:27 Then we have Jerome Yancey, Robe, on bass.
00:44:27 --> 00:44:35 Lamont the villain on lead guitar and then on vocals is myself and Latrice and
00:44:35 --> 00:44:40 then we have Dwayne DJ DC vocals as he wants to call himself yeah,
00:44:41 --> 00:44:46 you get a little ahead of yourself someday oh my god.
00:44:48 --> 00:44:55 But I mean we're just a six piece unit and we come with an entourage,
00:44:56 --> 00:44:59 right and this lineup has been together now
00:44:59 --> 00:45:02 for how long now we this with
00:45:02 --> 00:45:05 Dwayne I think Dwayne's on his eighth year with
00:45:05 --> 00:45:11 us wow and it seems it seems like yesterday I promise you it's like when we
00:45:11 --> 00:45:15 sit and do the math like it's been eight years but you know before Dwayne I
00:45:15 --> 00:45:21 was doing it by myself for about two yeah right um because I was at the city
00:45:21 --> 00:45:25 yeah city moved to Atlanta and Kyra, she was focusing on home and kids.
00:45:27 --> 00:45:34 You know, Dwayne was you know, I was the person that brought Dwayne to you guys.
00:45:34 --> 00:45:35 You know that, right? I remember.
00:45:37 --> 00:45:40 Why did y'all bring him to me? No, I'm just kidding.
00:45:41 --> 00:45:45 No, because within that two years really, in that two years of me being by myself,
00:45:45 --> 00:45:49 I think that's what strengthened me and
00:45:49 --> 00:45:52 really brought me to where i am right now you
00:45:52 --> 00:45:55 handled it you handled i did i i really did and
00:45:55 --> 00:45:58 you know that that was a test because right then and
00:45:58 --> 00:46:01 there we could have stopped you know what i'm saying but it
00:46:01 --> 00:46:06 wasn't god's will for that to happen like i pushed through the guys pushed through
00:46:06 --> 00:46:11 it was some rough nights some nights but at the end of the day when the purpose
00:46:11 --> 00:46:15 is is supposed to be then we're just gonna make it happen so right that's right
00:46:15 --> 00:46:20 well you and you and duane though you guys are funny together.
00:46:21 --> 00:46:26 But you guys really play off each other very well, too. You guys have very unique singing styles.
00:46:27 --> 00:46:32 But you guys really kill it out there on the floor. I think that's what makes people.
00:46:33 --> 00:46:37 I guess the evolution since over the last eight years is really because of,
00:46:37 --> 00:46:43 you know, I mean, not any shade to the musicians because the musicians are great, top notch.
00:46:44 --> 00:46:48 But you guys chemistry on the on the floor is really awesome.
00:46:49 --> 00:46:51 Right. You know, because the musicians, they play the music.
00:46:51 --> 00:46:53 The singer is the storyteller.
00:46:53 --> 00:46:58 Like I have to convey these words and make people understand and feel my if
00:46:58 --> 00:47:03 I haven't made you sing, dance, laugh or cry by the end of the night that I haven't done much.
00:47:03 --> 00:47:07 Yeah yep yep that's right and that's what i that's what i thrive for every time
00:47:07 --> 00:47:11 i i step foot on a stage every time i sing i'm nervous before i start i don't
00:47:11 --> 00:47:13 care if i've done a venue a thousand times
00:47:14 --> 00:47:19 i don't care if somebody has seen me for the thousands at one time i am internally nervous,
00:47:20 --> 00:47:24 and i get out there and i do what i need to do okay all
00:47:24 --> 00:47:27 right cool yeah well we know you do it too because you
00:47:27 --> 00:47:30 do it well so all right let's do
00:47:30 --> 00:47:33 this why don't you tell us we know you got the we
00:47:33 --> 00:47:36 know we got the anniversary coming up why don't you
00:47:36 --> 00:47:41 tell us about anything else you got going on and then how people can contact
00:47:41 --> 00:47:46 you through your social media or anything else you want to give out right now
00:47:46 --> 00:47:51 we are kind of quiet for this month because we are gearing up for the anniversary
00:47:51 --> 00:47:55 try not to be any places local where people can see us for less.
00:47:57 --> 00:48:02 I knew where you were going i knew where you were going we just did some private
00:48:02 --> 00:48:07 events in the beginning of the month i know friday we're down salisbury at brew
00:48:07 --> 00:48:11 river which is always a time shout out to salisbury they love us so much down
00:48:11 --> 00:48:14 there i love it down there probably trying to look for a home down there to
00:48:14 --> 00:48:16 be honest as much as we're there,
00:48:17 --> 00:48:22 okay yeah we're there a lot on the lower part every month it's once a month right,
00:48:23 --> 00:48:26 yeah and not just that like we're down there in cambridge area
00:48:26 --> 00:48:29 a lot so we got a nice
00:48:29 --> 00:48:32 fan base down there which is phenomenal phenomenal
00:48:32 --> 00:48:38 i know we did an event down there at one of their big convention centers and
00:48:38 --> 00:48:42 they do this thing where they have like dinner and and a band and the first
00:48:42 --> 00:48:45 time we were there no i do they've been doing this for years but when we were
00:48:45 --> 00:48:49 there for the first time was the first time they ever sold this place out oh
00:48:49 --> 00:48:51 wow and i think it held like five six hundred,
00:48:52 --> 00:48:58 people you know and yeah so down there our fan base is ridiculous not to take
00:48:58 --> 00:49:01 away from anything up here because you guys are amazing but y'all step your
00:49:01 --> 00:49:02 game up no i'm just playing.
00:49:04 --> 00:49:07 Well hey uh and latrice is fine listen to
00:49:07 --> 00:49:10 that i'm like damn we need to do that for the campground like yeah
00:49:10 --> 00:49:14 well here um after this event i guess i'll talk to either you or lamont and
00:49:14 --> 00:49:19 just try you know see what we can do because we we need some sellouts every
00:49:19 --> 00:49:23 month like y'all be doing for saltbury and we're a little bit closer yeah absolutely
00:49:23 --> 00:49:28 like you say you know we have phone call away all you gotta do is link up and
00:49:28 --> 00:49:29 we'll make it happen absolutely.
00:49:32 --> 00:49:34 And did you want anybody to contact you on
00:49:34 --> 00:49:37 your social media pages or did you oh yeah i'm not hidden
00:49:37 --> 00:49:40 i'm very easy to find i'm ann latrice on
00:49:40 --> 00:49:46 facebook instagram twitter a-n-l-e-t-r-e-e-c-e some
00:49:46 --> 00:49:53 people spell it l-a-t no it's l-e-t-r-e-e-c-e and then also you can find me
00:49:53 --> 00:49:57 under the best kept soul best kept soul supporters best kept soul on facebook
00:49:57 --> 00:50:02 instagram twitter and our website www.bestkepsoul.com.
00:50:02 --> 00:50:03 Great, great.
00:50:04 --> 00:50:08 All right. So what we're going to do now, we're going to kind of transition
00:50:08 --> 00:50:10 to our other part of this show.
00:50:10 --> 00:50:15 We're going to have you hang out with us for a little bit just so we can get
00:50:15 --> 00:50:18 your thoughts on a couple of things that we're going to talk about.
00:50:20 --> 00:50:23 So we got a couple of stories that we want to talk about.
00:50:23 --> 00:50:26 And Leonard, I'm going to change this up a little bit i
00:50:26 --> 00:50:30 want to hold the first thing that you
00:50:30 --> 00:50:32 have there i'm going to hold that till later on i'll bring
00:50:32 --> 00:50:35 that up just before dave's corner let's go to uh
00:50:35 --> 00:50:38 let's go to this the story here
00:50:38 --> 00:50:46 we just got through the election last week and we we we came on last weekend
00:50:46 --> 00:50:52 and did our uh our election recap we we had a lot to say you know so but we
00:50:52 --> 00:50:57 did that last week but And there's been some aftermath,
00:50:57 --> 00:51:02 of course, as far as what, you know, the results of the election was last week.
00:51:02 --> 00:51:09 So what I came across, I came across this story that I just wanted to get your guys' opinion on.
00:51:10 --> 00:51:15 And, you know, I'm going to put these glasses on because this font is crazy on this thing.
00:51:16 --> 00:51:23 So, okay, but it's racist text messages threaten Black students nationwide after Trump wins.
00:51:24 --> 00:51:28 So I'm going to read a little bit of this. It said, News One can confirm the
00:51:28 --> 00:51:31 messages have been sent to Black students all over the country,
00:51:31 --> 00:51:35 as one of our writers was also sent to threatening text.
00:51:35 --> 00:51:41 Black students at the University of Alabama have reported receiving racist text
00:51:41 --> 00:51:47 messages after Donald Trump's presidential election win, an incident that seems
00:51:47 --> 00:51:50 to be turning into a nationwide threat.
00:51:51 --> 00:51:55 It said Black UA students have been receiving racial threats from a slew of
00:51:55 --> 00:51:56 anonymous phone numbers.
00:51:56 --> 00:52:01 The numbers feature area codes inside and outside the state,
00:52:01 --> 00:52:06 making it difficult to trace. One of the messages said the recipient had been
00:52:06 --> 00:52:09 selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation.
00:52:10 --> 00:52:14 Be ready at 1 p.m. sharp with your belongings.
00:52:14 --> 00:52:18 Our executive slaves will come, get you in a brown van.
00:52:19 --> 00:52:24 Be prepared to be searched down once you enter the plantation.
00:52:24 --> 00:52:30 You are in Plantation Group C. Good day, the racist text read.
00:52:30 --> 00:52:33 Parents and students and include including
00:52:33 --> 00:52:36 those who received the text expressed fear and
00:52:36 --> 00:52:40 dismay about the messages Arletta McCall
00:52:40 --> 00:52:45 the mother of Elise a freshman at UA said her daughter skipped classes on Wednesday
00:52:45 --> 00:52:51 because she feared for safety and that as a parent the text meant made her feel
00:52:51 --> 00:52:57 uneasy disappointed and unsafe she also said that she didn't know how the sender
00:52:57 --> 00:52:59 knew so much about her daughter,
00:53:00 --> 00:53:03 including her phone number and the fact that she was black.
00:53:03 --> 00:53:08 Other students have received the text that it felt like a joke at first,
00:53:08 --> 00:53:12 but that feeling quickly became fear and stress.
00:53:12 --> 00:53:19 All right. So with that being said, what are your guys' thoughts about what
00:53:19 --> 00:53:22 I just read and what you just heard?
00:53:22 --> 00:53:26 Now, this school is not the only school because there's been some HBCU schools
00:53:26 --> 00:53:30 that have also received these type of text messages.
00:53:30 --> 00:53:37 And let's start with you first. What's your thought about everything that's
00:53:37 --> 00:53:43 happened since the election and these type of threats that people are receiving, especially students?
00:53:44 --> 00:53:50 I will say more or less, we live in an AI-influenced world today.
00:53:50 --> 00:53:56 Today yeah and it's not shocking that somebody knows you're black to be honest
00:53:56 --> 00:54:00 with all these different ais when you when you fill out something on your phone
00:54:00 --> 00:54:05 it asks your you know your ethnicity and all that so therefore these things
00:54:05 --> 00:54:07 are being tracked somewhere okay.
00:54:08 --> 00:54:11 I don't get into politics. I really
00:54:11 --> 00:54:14 don't because nobody cared to hear my views on them. So I stay away.
00:54:15 --> 00:54:21 You know, it's a racy, typical, you know what I mean? It's a racy topic at times.
00:54:21 --> 00:54:29 But I just think there shouldn't be any surprise as to what's going on right now, to be honest.
00:54:30 --> 00:54:34 I don't feel as though that's going to happen. You know, I mean,
00:54:35 --> 00:54:36 you're going to willingly get in the van.
00:54:36 --> 00:54:39 Like i mean things have to occur in
00:54:39 --> 00:54:42 order for it to happen you know i mean you're not just you know
00:54:42 --> 00:54:46 i mean like ai guys ai i'm
00:54:46 --> 00:54:49 sorry and it's not in the hbcus you
00:54:49 --> 00:54:52 know the majority black anyway so of course they're going to
00:54:52 --> 00:54:55 target what they need to target and they're going to it's going to scare you
00:54:55 --> 00:54:58 that's the whole tactic is to scare you but i
00:54:58 --> 00:55:01 believe in a higher power so i don't worry about stuff like that to
00:55:01 --> 00:55:05 be honest that's just me all right all right leonard what's your thought on
00:55:05 --> 00:55:09 it so i mean overall first i i thought it was just crazy you know it's funny
00:55:09 --> 00:55:13 like when i heard about the first one i think i heard it like happening washington
00:55:13 --> 00:55:18 dc some black people getting the text messages then i heard like tennessee then
00:55:18 --> 00:55:20 alabama then texas florida.
00:55:21 --> 00:55:24 So you know like in my mind first of all
00:55:24 --> 00:55:27 you know i'm just trying to think of okay how is
00:55:27 --> 00:55:30 somebody sending a mass text to all these people you
00:55:30 --> 00:55:33 know where do they get their information from you know
00:55:33 --> 00:55:36 is this a government you know person is
00:55:36 --> 00:55:41 this you know are these hackers i read one article and it made it sound like
00:55:41 --> 00:55:46 you know people who had black sounding names got them like keisha you know you
00:55:46 --> 00:55:50 know names like that and i mean it don't make a lot of sense to me but it's
00:55:50 --> 00:55:55 like you know it's almost like you know how can this really happen and.
00:55:56 --> 00:56:01 So I think when I was reading, they identified the text message company that
00:56:01 --> 00:56:06 these messages came from or like, you know, the service that it originated from.
00:56:06 --> 00:56:13 And, you know, it also makes me think, you know, how is it maybe legal or,
00:56:13 --> 00:56:20 you know, responsible to allow people to do anonymous things through your service?
00:56:20 --> 00:56:25 So it's kind of like, you know, if this text message service allows people to
00:56:25 --> 00:56:30 anonymous anonymously send out racist or bullying text messages,
00:56:30 --> 00:56:34 then they they should really be held live, you know.
00:56:34 --> 00:56:39 So, I mean, you know, it's kind of hard to say, kind of like Miss Ann Latrice said.
00:56:39 --> 00:56:43 But, you know, I think it's one of the things, too, where, you know,
00:56:43 --> 00:56:48 we have to just recognize that this is something that's trying to trigger us.
00:56:48 --> 00:56:54 And you know like she said like i know for sure ain't no brown van coming around
00:56:54 --> 00:56:57 here to pick me up at one o'clock to take me to the plantation to pick cotton
00:56:57 --> 00:57:01 you know so but i will say too,
00:57:01 --> 00:57:06 there were also high school and middle school students have received it and
00:57:06 --> 00:57:11 you know hopefully it's not too traumatizing for them dave in our area i did
00:57:11 --> 00:57:15 read that some middle school students in the suburbs of Pennsylvania.
00:57:16 --> 00:57:20 I'm sorry, suburbs of Philadelphia, they received text messages.
00:57:20 --> 00:57:25 And I found out some of my nieces also received messages similar.
00:57:25 --> 00:57:28 So, I mean, it's disturbing, but
00:57:28 --> 00:57:34 hopefully the FBI catches that person and makes their name face public.
00:57:35 --> 00:57:40 But it's just as disturbing as while the whole election's going on,
00:57:40 --> 00:57:43 the text message you're receiving from people you don't know oh my goodness
00:57:43 --> 00:57:51 like so to me it's all the same you know what i'm saying let me ask you did
00:57:51 --> 00:57:54 did you get the aggressive text messages too,
00:57:55 --> 00:57:59 yes like it's like why are you looking at your phone like who because who are
00:57:59 --> 00:58:09 you like they call you by your first name they do but but they they so i was
00:58:09 --> 00:58:12 gonna say and one time i posted in my story. I couldn't believe it.
00:58:12 --> 00:58:16 But I got this text message and it said it was all caps too,
00:58:16 --> 00:58:17 like they were yelling at me.
00:58:17 --> 00:58:22 And it said, we asked you seven times who you were voting for and you did not
00:58:22 --> 00:58:24 tell us you were voting for Kamala.
00:58:24 --> 00:58:27 We need you to let us know immediately who you're voting for.
00:58:27 --> 00:58:30 And it almost makes you want to curse at the phone like, who are you talking to?
00:58:30 --> 00:58:34 But it's like, I mean, but no, I mean, I do agree.
00:58:35 --> 00:58:37 Those texts were obnoxious and.
00:58:38 --> 00:58:41 If these government officials are going to spam us like that,
00:58:41 --> 00:58:43 I don't have faith in nobody.
00:58:44 --> 00:58:47 Yeah, because you guys, look at over the years. Years ago, did you have any
00:58:47 --> 00:58:49 of these issues with your phone? No, no.
00:58:50 --> 00:58:53 We live in an AI computer world.
00:58:53 --> 00:58:58 This is what's going on. Right. This is what you fear now. You better fear for
00:58:58 --> 00:59:00 the future, for real real. Yeah, yeah.
00:59:01 --> 00:59:03 And real quick, I was just going to say, the funniest thing is,
00:59:04 --> 00:59:05 I don't know if you have an iPhone.
00:59:05 --> 00:59:09 I know Dave does. i'll get a message and it'll
00:59:09 --> 00:59:12 say this is kamala and then like
00:59:12 --> 00:59:14 in the part where it tells you like who's sending the message will
00:59:14 --> 00:59:19 say emily so i text emily back and i was like emily like why are you messaging
00:59:19 --> 00:59:25 me and she's like huh and i mean i never replied after that but yeah yeah and
00:59:25 --> 00:59:29 that's when you look at these type of threats and everything when you think
00:59:29 --> 00:59:33 about it and and it's funny because Dan said exactly where I was going to go with this,
00:59:34 --> 00:59:41 was that it's got to be some of the same people or maybe they're selling the
00:59:41 --> 00:59:42 information or whatever.
00:59:42 --> 00:59:46 Those people that were sending those text messages as far as voting and everything
00:59:46 --> 00:59:52 or who you're voting for, that type of thing, that information has to come from those same sources.
00:59:52 --> 00:59:56 It has to be, you know, for them to have our numbers and all of that kind of stuff.
00:59:56 --> 01:00:00 Yes it's the AI world and so forth Leonard and I have been talking about AI
01:00:00 --> 01:00:08 just about every other week you know so because AI is taking over everything and it's really scary.
01:00:09 --> 01:00:14 We just have to be careful. Hopefully none of this stuff is really legit and
01:00:14 --> 01:00:21 that people aren't being pushed in the vans or taken to places and told that, you know,
01:00:21 --> 01:00:26 they have to do this or they have to do that because that's really not going to end well.
01:00:26 --> 01:00:29 It really is not going to end well, people, if that kind of happens.
01:00:30 --> 01:00:33 Well, what I have to realize right now, too, is we're not our ancestors.
01:00:34 --> 01:00:37 You know, we have a lot more resources, like a lot.
01:00:38 --> 01:00:42 We're not them. that's not going to happen sorry no no
01:00:42 --> 01:00:44 yeah that's what i'm saying it's not going to end well people
01:00:44 --> 01:00:47 start doing that because people will get taken out
01:00:47 --> 01:00:51 definitely i can tell you that for sure so all right
01:00:51 --> 01:00:55 well we're going to move on to our next story i think you got that one right
01:00:55 --> 01:00:59 you go to that one yeah so um the next story is something that i've been hearing
01:00:59 --> 01:01:03 a lot about on the internet but i've never seen the pictures but this one is
01:01:03 --> 01:01:08 talking about a um a black mother who she wasn't forced,
01:01:08 --> 01:01:11 but she did it just to prove a point.
01:01:11 --> 01:01:17 But she took a DNA test after people said that her daughter was not really her
01:01:17 --> 01:01:19 daughter. I'm not sure you heard about this story.
01:01:20 --> 01:01:23 So long story short, this happened, I believe, in Georgia.
01:01:24 --> 01:01:27 There's a black lady and she's married to a white man.
01:01:28 --> 01:01:32 And they have two, I believe, two biracial sons.
01:01:32 --> 01:01:34 And, You know, of course, the sons kind of look like, you know,
01:01:34 --> 01:01:36 I guess typical mixed children.
01:01:37 --> 01:01:44 But then she also has a daughter where she had the IVF and this daughter who is about two.
01:01:45 --> 01:01:50 And this daughter looks white. Her skin is completely white.
01:01:51 --> 01:01:55 Her hair is, you know, blind. I wish I could say she had blue eyes,
01:01:55 --> 01:01:56 but it looks like she had brown eyes.
01:01:57 --> 01:01:59 So the mother was saying that.
01:02:00 --> 01:02:07 Often when she goes places with a daughter that she gets a lot of inappropriate comments.
01:02:07 --> 01:02:11 So people will start eavesdropping on her and the daughter's conversation,
01:02:12 --> 01:02:13 trying to figure out what's going on.
01:02:14 --> 01:02:18 People will say things like, oh, are you the nanny?
01:02:18 --> 01:02:22 You know, what what are you doing with that white baby? You know, who are you?
01:02:22 --> 01:02:26 So she'd been accused so much that
01:02:26 --> 01:02:29 she felt the need to get a dna test just to prove to
01:02:29 --> 01:02:33 be able to prove to people in the public that that was her daughter now
01:02:33 --> 01:02:38 i'm assuming this is an alias for the daughter but the article references the
01:02:38 --> 01:02:46 daughter's name as pudge pudge i'm not sure why yeah pudge pudge so but you
01:02:46 --> 01:02:52 know long story short if well for anyone listening and you know when you get a chance,
01:02:52 --> 01:02:57 just take a look at the picture because the daughter is definitely 100% white looking.
01:02:58 --> 01:03:02 And, you know, this lady has gone through a lot, you know, a lot of,
01:03:02 --> 01:03:06 she received a lot of online hate, a lot of online criticism.
01:03:07 --> 01:03:13 So I'm not sure if either of you have ever, you know, seen parents that don't
01:03:13 --> 01:03:15 look like their children. Oh, you said you have?
01:03:15 --> 01:03:19 Oh yeah yeah yeah definitely yeah yeah so
01:03:19 --> 01:03:21 i mean you know i i think this is something that she's going through
01:03:21 --> 01:03:24 but you know it's a shame that she's been getting a lot of hate
01:03:24 --> 01:03:27 for this just because and i mean to be honest i can't lie
01:03:27 --> 01:03:32 when i saw the picture i i never would have put it together and and even with
01:03:32 --> 01:03:37 hearing she got the dna test i still want to put it together but and i'm not
01:03:37 --> 01:03:43 sure if you have any experience with maybe people you know who have been you
01:03:43 --> 01:03:47 know maybe their kids don't look like the parents, parents don't look like the kids,
01:03:47 --> 01:03:50 and they catch a certain amount of heat for it.
01:03:51 --> 01:03:56 I'll say, first of all, I'm not, if I know I pushed the baby up out of here.
01:03:57 --> 01:03:59 I was thinking the big thing. I was thinking the big thing.
01:04:00 --> 01:04:02 You know what I'm going to show you? I'm going to show you the stretch mark
01:04:02 --> 01:04:05 right here. I'm going to show you how this, I grew this.
01:04:05 --> 01:04:09 Anyway, but you know, it reminds, it's a movie and I thank my mom for always
01:04:09 --> 01:04:11 making us watch certain things.
01:04:11 --> 01:04:15 It's a movie called Imitation of Life. Oh, I knew you were going there.
01:04:15 --> 01:04:18 I knew you were going there. And this is like the same scenario.
01:04:19 --> 01:04:22 The lady, she was black. black she had a daughter by
01:04:22 --> 01:04:25 a white guy but the daughter resembled the dad he was
01:04:25 --> 01:04:28 she was very fair-skinned very white you know and people
01:04:28 --> 01:04:31 thought the mom was the nanny and this that and the third and the girl
01:04:31 --> 01:04:34 like kind of shunned away from her mom you know taking a
01:04:34 --> 01:04:37 different route of the story but she shunned away from mom because she didn't
01:04:37 --> 01:04:40 want to be known as that's being her mom and her mom was black but
01:04:40 --> 01:04:44 it just immediately took me to that movie but
01:04:44 --> 01:04:47 like i said i'm there's no way i'm not proving
01:04:47 --> 01:04:50 anything to anybody yeah it's a lot of people that
01:04:50 --> 01:04:53 sit behind this computer here and go just like this twitter fingers
01:04:53 --> 01:04:56 that that's all they do and that's all they're good for you know
01:04:56 --> 01:04:59 what i'm saying so what you eat don't
01:04:59 --> 01:05:02 make me poop so i ain't got time for you that's how i see things
01:05:02 --> 01:05:06 like i'm not proving anything to anybody and i haven't known any friends that
01:05:06 --> 01:05:10 had any issues like that but this right here is ridiculous that is she even
01:05:10 --> 01:05:14 took it as far as to get a dna test because guess what people still gonna talk
01:05:14 --> 01:05:19 oh yeah you're gonna keep put the DNA test in their face like your arm won't
01:05:19 --> 01:05:21 get tired like let them talk.
01:05:23 --> 01:05:26 Yeah I don't I don't understand why she felt
01:05:26 --> 01:05:32 that she had to do the DNA test because even with having that proof that that
01:05:32 --> 01:05:37 child is yours people still gonna talk people still gonna say the same thing
01:05:37 --> 01:05:40 I mean you can't what you gonna carry that around you gonna have a tattoo on
01:05:40 --> 01:05:45 your chest or something saying hey this child is mine it proves it on the DNA test
01:05:46 --> 01:05:50 you know you're gonna go you're gonna be like a slave you're gonna carry your papers ask free.
01:05:51 --> 01:05:57 I know i know that it just makes no sense that's that's the insecure that's
01:05:57 --> 01:06:01 you know she might have some insecurities she might have it might be a number
01:06:01 --> 01:06:06 of things going on with her that she felt that she had to do that but you know most of us,
01:06:07 --> 01:06:09 you know, that's our child. We ain't going to, we, you know,
01:06:09 --> 01:06:11 nobody's going to be able to tell us that ain't our child.
01:06:12 --> 01:06:15 That's our child. Even in that movie, The Invitational Life,
01:06:15 --> 01:06:19 my mom made me watch that movie when I was five years old. I'll never forget it.
01:06:19 --> 01:06:25 And that movie, even in that movie, even after that young lady tried not to,
01:06:25 --> 01:06:29 you know, tried to deny her mother and try to act like she didn't know her mother,
01:06:29 --> 01:06:32 that mother still loved her and still claimed her, you know?
01:06:32 --> 01:06:36 So So there's no way you could tell me that this is not my child.
01:06:36 --> 01:06:44 And I'm not going out and getting papers, DNA tests to prove it if I know that's my child. Yeah, no way.
01:06:44 --> 01:06:48 So, Dave, you said you've seen the movie, right?
01:06:48 --> 01:06:52 Yeah. So I'm sure, you know, there are two versions. So I know you've seen the black and white.
01:06:54 --> 01:07:00 Mine was in color. Mine was in color. We are not the same.
01:07:01 --> 01:07:04 I saw both versions yes yes yes
01:07:04 --> 01:07:07 yes yeah the original i saw
01:07:07 --> 01:07:10 the original one because yes like i said i saw it when
01:07:10 --> 01:07:13 i was like five years old my mom made us watch that
01:07:13 --> 01:07:17 movie man yes and that's the only movie that i can watch today that i still
01:07:17 --> 01:07:22 cry like everybody cries everybody everybody cries when you look at that movie
01:07:22 --> 01:07:26 if you watch that whole movie and you feel the pain that that mother has yeah
01:07:26 --> 01:07:30 you're gonna cry you're gonna cry leonard you never seen it No, I'm not.
01:07:31 --> 01:07:37 Oh, you need to see it. Look for the one. It's Imitation of Life with Lana Turner and Juanita.
01:07:38 --> 01:07:41 He ain't going to watch it. He ain't going to watch it. I might.
01:07:42 --> 01:07:45 Ain't no telling. You heard him, right? They,
01:07:46 --> 01:07:53 Never mind. I'm not even going to say the year. I'm like, Jesus. Oh, damn. TV was out.
01:07:54 --> 01:07:59 What y'all watching that? Yeah, anyway. You know, you people don't like to watch
01:07:59 --> 01:08:01 black and white movies. That's the problem.
01:08:01 --> 01:08:04 You know, so you don't have to watch the black and white. I know.
01:08:05 --> 01:08:06 Yeah, watch the one in color, you know.
01:08:07 --> 01:08:12 All right. Anyway, go to it. I was going to say, it looks like the one in color came out 2000.
01:08:13 --> 01:08:16 Is this 2014? No. Sorry, that's the wrong one. No, no.
01:08:18 --> 01:08:23 The one in color came out in the 60s, I think, or 70s, right?
01:08:24 --> 01:08:27 Yes, it's still older. Yeah, 54, something like that.
01:08:27 --> 01:08:32 Yeah. Well, that was the original, right? Yeah, the original. I see it here.
01:08:33 --> 01:08:36 Okay. All right. Make sure you watch it, Leonard. Okay? All right.
01:08:36 --> 01:08:39 I'll check it out. Anyway. All right.
01:08:41 --> 01:08:44 Leonard, you're crazy. All right. this last
01:08:44 --> 01:08:50 this last story this last thing i want to ask you guys opinion about so i don't
01:08:50 --> 01:08:54 know if you can see this screen i'm going to read i'm going to read the list
01:08:54 --> 01:08:59 here but and especially with you both of you guys but especially and i want
01:08:59 --> 01:09:01 to get your opinion of this i listed,
01:09:02 --> 01:09:05 the group female singers that are
01:09:05 --> 01:09:12 you know pretty well known now i'm not going back too far you know but now okay
01:09:12 --> 01:09:19 and i want you to tell me i want both of you to tell me your favorite six out
01:09:19 --> 01:09:23 of this group okay all right so.
01:09:24 --> 01:09:28 We got Chloe, I kind of split them up, Chloe and Hallie.
01:09:28 --> 01:09:36 We got Ari Lennox, Norman Lee, Jennifer Hudson, SZA, Summer Walker,
01:09:37 --> 01:09:42 Doja Cat, LMA, is it LMA? Yeah, LMA.
01:09:43 --> 01:09:50 Her, Jaheen Aiko, Lizzo, and Jasmine Sullivan.
01:09:51 --> 01:09:54 Okay. so that's those are
01:09:54 --> 01:09:56 your choices those are some of the well some of
01:09:56 --> 01:10:01 them what i'm looking at says beyond you didn't say beyonce alicia keys oh yeah
01:10:01 --> 01:10:06 leonard left oh leonard you left some of the names off man hold on i should
01:10:06 --> 01:10:11 have known not to trust you okay you left some of the names off okay they they
01:10:11 --> 01:10:16 they they're right on here you you messed it well well they cut off my mind okay i see it now. Okay.
01:10:16 --> 01:10:21 Beyonce, Alisa Keyes, Kalani, what are the other ones? Okay. Okay.
01:10:22 --> 01:10:24 All right. So give me your top six out of that group.
01:10:25 --> 01:10:29 And you can go by numbers. You can go by numbers. If you want to go from top
01:10:29 --> 01:10:31 to bottom or bottom to top.
01:10:32 --> 01:10:33 I'll go top to bottom.
01:10:34 --> 01:10:38 Okay, go ahead. I'm going to go with Jasmine Sullivan at the top.
01:10:39 --> 01:10:43 I'm going to... I had a feeling you would say that, by the way.
01:10:44 --> 01:10:47 I don't see Kiki Wyatt on here. I think she should have been on there.
01:10:47 --> 01:10:50 No, no, no. I didn't put Kiki on there. No, no, no.
01:10:51 --> 01:10:57 Because we're talking about vocals. Yeah, but I'm talking about everything else.
01:10:57 --> 01:10:58 Her vocals can't be denied.
01:10:59 --> 01:11:02 Okay, you're right. You're right. You're right. So if you want to put her on your list, you can.
01:11:03 --> 01:11:08 Yeah, she's on my list. So I got Jasmine. I got Kiki. I take Jennifer Hudson as well.
01:11:09 --> 01:11:13 Alicia Keys has always been one of my picks only because I feel as though she
01:11:13 --> 01:11:15 was so underrated when she first came out.
01:11:16 --> 01:11:20 I'll go with her okay and
01:11:20 --> 01:11:27 i like scissor not for her vocals but just for her music okay wait hold on so
01:11:27 --> 01:11:32 who's your number one my number one is jasmine jasmine okay all right jasmine's
01:11:32 --> 01:11:38 number one okay yeah okay all right all right that's pretty eclectic group okay all right,
01:11:39 --> 01:11:43 let's see what leonard says go ahead leonard all right in no particular order
01:11:43 --> 01:11:48 yeah i knew you're gonna say that okay so i'm gonna go beyonce.
01:11:52 --> 01:12:02 So beyonce scissor alicia keys janea aiko jasmine sullivan so i mean that right
01:12:02 --> 01:12:05 there's my five and i may say,
01:12:08 --> 01:12:11 that right there in fact i'm like happy to five,
01:12:13 --> 01:12:18 this is what i do i mean i'm saying you're talking about my favorite like i
01:12:18 --> 01:12:22 like i i can't pick favorites from non-favorites you know i mean okay all right
01:12:22 --> 01:12:26 all right whatever okay there you go all right dave let's see who you got all
01:12:26 --> 01:12:30 right no lizzo her come on definitely,
01:12:32 --> 01:12:35 How are you going to name my group? How are you going to name my group?
01:12:36 --> 01:12:40 Don't let you're six name. No, no, no. Not by six.
01:12:41 --> 01:12:44 But, okay, I'm going to go from bottom to top.
01:12:45 --> 01:12:50 And believe it or not, Lizzo is number six for me. And I'm going to say this. I called it.
01:12:51 --> 01:12:57 I'm going to say this. Lizzo has, Lizzo can sing. And I like her passion about her singing.
01:12:58 --> 01:13:01 Okay? Even though she has all the other stuff going on. But I like it.
01:13:02 --> 01:13:05 And scratching your head. That's all I got to say. She's scratching your head.
01:13:06 --> 01:13:11 Yeah, I know. But anyway, I just said it, okay? Okay. My number five was her.
01:13:12 --> 01:13:14 Number four was Beyonce.
01:13:15 --> 01:13:19 Number three was Jasmine Solomon.
01:13:20 --> 01:13:25 Number two was Alicia Keys. And my number one, because I just think when this
01:13:25 --> 01:13:28 girl sings, nobody can sing with her. Jennifer Hudson.
01:13:29 --> 01:13:38 That's my group okay now see i'm proplexed when it comes to beyonce because i like the old beyonce,
01:13:38 --> 01:13:41 yeah i don't like the new music i'll be honest with you i like
01:13:41 --> 01:13:44 the old beyonce too yes so that and i i
01:13:44 --> 01:13:49 always felt that beyonce was overrated because to
01:13:49 --> 01:13:52 me kelly is a great singer but she just never got recognized because she was
01:13:52 --> 01:13:57 in a group where beyonce was the star you feel what i'm saying but i just think
01:13:57 --> 01:14:02 beyonce is way overrated and i don't know i'll probably have to sacrifice a
01:14:02 --> 01:14:08 goat after i say that because it's beyonce but the internet hearing right.
01:14:09 --> 01:14:12 Even on top of that her dad was a manager so
01:14:12 --> 01:14:15 of course of course beyonce gonna shine well i
01:14:15 --> 01:14:22 mean nothing else her earlier years like when she sings when she sings regular
01:14:22 --> 01:14:28 songs instead of the stuff that she does now i think she can hold her own but
01:14:28 --> 01:14:34 a lot of she's become so commercialized now it's you know and she's looking for,
01:14:35 --> 01:14:38 you know the stuff i mean the whole country album thing
01:14:38 --> 01:14:41 was interesting to me because those country
01:14:41 --> 01:14:45 folks saw right through what she was trying to do and you
01:14:45 --> 01:14:48 know she wasn't she wasn't nominated for any awards or any
01:14:48 --> 01:14:51 of that stuff because they knew what she was doing it was a money grab for her
01:14:51 --> 01:14:57 you know so but i have her on my list because she she can sing when she wants
01:14:57 --> 01:15:03 to but my favorite on that list and i love jasmine solomon too so i that girl
01:15:03 --> 01:15:05 has so much talent she really does,
01:15:06 --> 01:15:10 but jennifer hudson i could sit there and listen to jennifer hudson there all
01:15:10 --> 01:15:17 day long i really can't so so that's my number one so and and latrice is on
01:15:17 --> 01:15:20 my list too he's number seven don't try to butter me up.
01:15:22 --> 01:15:28 She's number seven she's number seven major top 70 list leave me alone Dave,
01:15:30 --> 01:15:34 Ann said you put Lizzo above her. She said that's a no-no. Yeah!
01:15:35 --> 01:15:39 She better go play her. Wait, hold on. You don't like Lizzo?
01:15:40 --> 01:15:43 I didn't say I didn't like her, but I don't see it. I don't consider...
01:15:44 --> 01:15:48 Her vocals don't do it for me. Her vocals don't do it for you.
01:15:48 --> 01:15:51 Okay. No, her vocals don't do it. I thought she had a powerful voice.
01:15:52 --> 01:15:55 You know, I mean... Yeah, okay.
01:15:56 --> 01:15:59 Okay when you when you have a list right in front of
01:15:59 --> 01:16:02 me and you have singers on that list lizzo doesn't
01:16:02 --> 01:16:05 qualify okay well hold on
01:16:05 --> 01:16:10 so and with that said who are your favorite let's let's say your favorite five
01:16:10 --> 01:16:15 singers oh i already know where this is you are first up dave you know me who's
01:16:15 --> 01:16:23 my number one i already know i already know with the houston is number one good with the Then,
01:16:24 --> 01:16:26 I mean, you got Aretha Franklin, of course.
01:16:26 --> 01:16:30 I even put Tina Marie on there, to be honest. Wow, that's my favorite,
01:16:31 --> 01:16:33 by the way. And then there's...
01:16:34 --> 01:16:37 Jesus that anita baker you can't like
01:16:37 --> 01:16:40 anything anita baker sings our songs are just
01:16:40 --> 01:16:43 so melodic and just takes you somewhere so
01:16:43 --> 01:16:46 i'll definitely go anita baker i'll only
01:16:46 --> 01:16:50 give you four i really like when i think of phenomenal singers
01:16:50 --> 01:16:54 that's that's where i'm stuck but nobody's
01:16:54 --> 01:16:56 gonna ever stop whitney whitney is my no it's always gonna
01:16:56 --> 01:17:00 be with you you know because i'm posting
01:17:00 --> 01:17:05 in my story i put whitney music to it i already
01:17:05 --> 01:17:09 know i already know that's her thing yeah that's whitney and
01:17:09 --> 01:17:13 nobody sings like her i mean you know she does look first of all they tell you
01:17:13 --> 01:17:19 if you're a singer and you attempt to sing whitney you better be able to sing
01:17:19 --> 01:17:28 right don't do it if you can't sing because you're going to a quick story so when i did my debut show.
01:17:28 --> 01:17:31 I did like a Miss Ann debut show with Best Kept Soul.
01:17:31 --> 01:17:34 And that was at the French Quarter. And this is, like I said,
01:17:34 --> 01:17:40 I'm still learning bands and I want to sing all the big songs. Right?
01:17:40 --> 01:17:45 Now, mind you, this is at the end of the night and I picked these 10 big powerhouse
01:17:45 --> 01:17:48 songs to sing and I Will Always Love You was my last song to sing.
01:17:49 --> 01:17:53 Why did I do that? This is how you learn. Wow.
01:17:54 --> 01:17:58 It's the difference between singing karaoke and singing with a band.
01:17:59 --> 01:18:01 I think I sounded like DMX.
01:18:02 --> 01:18:06 Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:18:06 --> 01:18:09 And I want to say it's a video out there somewhere that I'm still trying to
01:18:09 --> 01:18:10 find in Berlin. Oh, Lord.
01:18:14 --> 01:18:22 But that was a learning process. Okay. Yeah, we already know where that was going, so. Yeah.
01:18:24 --> 01:18:28 Lessons learned. There you go. There you go. All right.
01:18:28 --> 01:18:35 Well, that brings us to our last part of the show, which is Leonard's favorite part of the show.
01:18:35 --> 01:18:38 It's called Dave's Corner. It's Leonard's favorite part of the show, though.
01:18:39 --> 01:18:44 This is where we ask philosophical questions. Everybody, we always have our
01:18:44 --> 01:18:48 guests answer and, you know, give your answers to this question.
01:18:49 --> 01:18:50 So the Dave's question is,
01:18:51 --> 01:18:57 What are three things that you've done that people will remember you about,
01:18:57 --> 01:19:01 which you could say will be your legacy when you're gone?
01:19:02 --> 01:19:04 Let's start with you, Anne.
01:19:05 --> 01:19:10 I'll say at the top, my three sons, my amazing children.
01:19:11 --> 01:19:16 They are exceptional young men. I think I did pretty well.
01:19:16 --> 01:19:22 Never been in the system. You know, I refuse to let them fall into that category
01:19:22 --> 01:19:25 of, you know, a typical black male standard.
01:19:25 --> 01:19:29 So that's one thing that I'm very proud of with the help of the village, of course.
01:19:30 --> 01:19:37 I will say known for utilizing my platform for good and to help others grow.
01:19:39 --> 01:19:45 And I would just say my work ethic altogether, which resonates through my children as well.
01:19:45 --> 01:19:50 So it's something that I'll continue to live on because they see when how I'm
01:19:50 --> 01:19:54 determined to work and make things work and, you know, get to where I need to
01:19:54 --> 01:19:59 be and just put forth that good work mentality and let that speak for itself.
01:19:59 --> 01:20:03 So my kids, my platform usage and work ethic.
01:20:04 --> 01:20:10 OK, that's good. That's good. All right. Leonard, your answer to that question. Sure.
01:20:10 --> 01:20:15 So for me, I feel like kind of like Ann said, my number one would probably be my kids.
01:20:15 --> 01:20:21 You know, just hopefully I set that legacy where, you know, they know they don't
01:20:21 --> 01:20:23 give a damn about nothing right now. That's for damn sure.
01:20:24 --> 01:20:29 But hopefully later when, you know, when when they think about stuff,
01:20:29 --> 01:20:31 you know, that would be that legacy.
01:20:32 --> 01:20:36 Also i probably say delawareblack.com just
01:20:36 --> 01:20:39 because it's going on 20 years and it's been a
01:20:39 --> 01:20:41 long time and a lot of stuff we tried to do was
01:20:41 --> 01:20:45 stuff that people weren't doing at the time and then
01:20:45 --> 01:20:51 the last thing i think would just be you know not being afraid to try different
01:20:51 --> 01:20:55 stuff you know i think as an entrepreneur a lot of people always try to you
01:20:55 --> 01:21:01 know cram into the same lane and you know i I feel like what a lot of what I've
01:21:01 --> 01:21:04 done or tried to do is just different.
01:21:04 --> 01:21:07 I don't know. Maybe my mind thinks different on some stuff, but,
01:21:07 --> 01:21:12 you know, I just never wanted to do the same thing everyone else did or does.
01:21:14 --> 01:21:18 All right. Yep. David, David, what about you? What are three things that you've
01:21:18 --> 01:21:25 done that people will remember you and or your legacy when you are gone? Feeling money.
01:21:27 --> 01:21:31 I'm sorry. I have to rent.
01:21:32 --> 01:21:37 Hopefully people won't know that. But, you know, you keep saying it through
01:21:37 --> 01:21:39 the show, but that's a whole different story.
01:21:39 --> 01:21:41 We got to edit that part, Leonard. Anyway. Right.
01:21:42 --> 01:21:46 No. And of course, all of us said that the very first thing that you guys said
01:21:46 --> 01:21:50 is the very first thing I'm going to say, too, is being a father and my children,
01:21:50 --> 01:21:57 you know, being especially being able to see them all become very successful in what they do.
01:21:57 --> 01:22:01 And just knowing that I had something to do with that. And, you know,
01:22:02 --> 01:22:06 you know, the fact that they allow, you know, that I would say God allowed me
01:22:06 --> 01:22:08 to be their father. I'm gonna put it that way.
01:22:09 --> 01:22:18 So that's one thing. Another thing is having the chance to be a promoter, event planner,
01:22:19 --> 01:22:23 and be in marketing and so forth and getting a chance to meet so many different
01:22:23 --> 01:22:26 people and work with so many different people,
01:22:27 --> 01:22:34 people like our guests that we have on tonight and Best Kept Soul and being
01:22:34 --> 01:22:39 able to have a relationship with them and be able to work with them for the years that I did.
01:22:39 --> 01:22:42 And also, you know, people like
01:22:42 --> 01:22:47 people like Tracy and Cynthia and all the people that Ann has mentioned.
01:22:47 --> 01:22:50 Of course, I have relationships with them as well.
01:22:50 --> 01:22:54 You know, you know, Ann and Leonard, you know, all of you guys,
01:22:54 --> 01:23:00 you know, being able, all of that came about is because of being in that promotions
01:23:00 --> 01:23:06 and event planning thing that, you know, got me interlocked with everybody.
01:23:06 --> 01:23:10 So that is something that I will hold near and dear.
01:23:10 --> 01:23:12 Also, the last thing would be.
01:23:14 --> 01:23:20 Being in a position to be a leader and to be able to, you know, just have,
01:23:20 --> 01:23:26 be a mentor to people and be able to help people when they need help in certain
01:23:26 --> 01:23:32 areas and just being there for them when they need guidance and so forth.
01:23:32 --> 01:23:37 I've been fortunate enough to be put in that position, you know,
01:23:37 --> 01:23:43 and helping people in those kind of ways. And I really appreciate the fact that
01:23:43 --> 01:23:46 people look to me in that in that respect.
01:23:46 --> 01:23:48 And I hope that, you know, when
01:23:48 --> 01:23:52 I'm not here anymore, that those are the things that people talk about.
01:23:53 --> 01:23:58 And, you know, hopefully that my children, you know, when people have a conversation
01:23:58 --> 01:24:01 with my children, they said, well, your father was this. Your father was that.
01:24:01 --> 01:24:05 And they'll forgive me for stealing the money that he's mentioning.
01:24:05 --> 01:24:08 And you know so so
01:24:08 --> 01:24:11 but that's those are my things there those are
01:24:11 --> 01:24:14 the things that i will say those is
01:24:14 --> 01:24:20 that's it right there all right so thank you guys for answering that question
01:24:20 --> 01:24:26 for me and so ann we're going to give you another chance to talk about the event
01:24:26 --> 01:24:32 here before we sign off talk about the big event coming up the 15-year anniversary
01:24:32 --> 01:24:34 go ahead and and talk about it again.
01:24:36 --> 01:24:38 Absolutely so the event of the year is going to
01:24:38 --> 01:24:41 be bigger than new year's trust me november the
01:24:41 --> 01:24:47 23rd at the dahlia best kept soul is bringing you their 15 year anniversary
01:24:47 --> 01:24:51 entitled the fantastic voyage which dave still hasn't gotten a ticket for but
01:24:51 --> 01:24:57 i'm best kept soul warranty what are you talking about see that's why you're
01:24:57 --> 01:25:01 anyway okay anyway you're you're you're stealing my time sir.
01:25:03 --> 01:25:06 Oh and it's at the dahlia that's on jessup 1601
01:25:06 --> 01:25:09 jessup street on the north side of wilmington the event
01:25:09 --> 01:25:16 will be held between 7 and 11 p.m it's a fun-filled night vendors food good
01:25:16 --> 01:25:21 folks good music a lot of good times come dressed in your black and gold and
01:25:21 --> 01:25:25 be ready to have a good time with best kept soul let me ask a question and is
01:25:25 --> 01:25:28 that across from is that across from,
01:25:29 --> 01:25:31 No, no, no, no. No.
01:25:33 --> 01:25:38 So if you're going, coming out of downtown Wilmington, like you're going on to the north side.
01:25:38 --> 01:25:42 Yeah. Like, you know, a Reed's refuge is. Right. Right. So, you know,
01:25:42 --> 01:25:44 when you get to that point, there's Reed's refuge.
01:25:44 --> 01:25:49 You got to go off to this side, but you can't go to the, to the left because it's a one way street.
01:25:49 --> 01:25:54 Yeah. If you look to the left before you go up to Reed's Refuge,
01:25:54 --> 01:26:00 it's a building that sits down in like a little valley area and it sits off that water.
01:26:01 --> 01:26:07 Yeah, okay. I'm trying to remember. It's hidden. It's a black gate.
01:26:07 --> 01:26:09 You can't get in there unless you know somebody that knows somebody.
01:26:09 --> 01:26:10 Like, it's kept so old. Right.
01:26:13 --> 01:26:17 Didn't something used to be there before? I think it's... I don't know.
01:26:18 --> 01:26:22 I don't know. I don't know. But it's like this big open space.
01:26:22 --> 01:26:24 It's an art gallery she has there now.
01:26:25 --> 01:26:30 But she opens up the event space for gatherings and all that good stuff.
01:26:30 --> 01:26:33 So and who is this off well i think
01:26:33 --> 01:26:36 her name is aaron okay i can't remember her
01:26:36 --> 01:26:39 last name all right okay i was
01:26:39 --> 01:26:43 just trying to give people because a lot of people know i've mentioned it to
01:26:43 --> 01:26:47 a couple people where is it i mean you know where where in that area because
01:26:47 --> 01:26:51 everybody was trying to figure out you know where it was so yeah because you
01:26:51 --> 01:26:58 have you have ai children the AI Nemoirs Children's Clinic on Jessup Street. Right, right.
01:26:59 --> 01:27:03 So if you're coming off Pine Street and coming like you're going back downtown
01:27:03 --> 01:27:08 Wilmington, you're going to pass the AI Children's Clinic, which is going to
01:27:08 --> 01:27:12 be on your left-hand side, and on the right is when you'll see the Dahlia.
01:27:13 --> 01:27:18 Okay. Once you pass the Nemoirs. Okay, I think I know where you're talking about.
01:27:18 --> 01:27:22 I was thinking it was over there by but no, it's not over that way. Okay.
01:27:22 --> 01:27:25 No, you went too far. yeah okay all
01:27:25 --> 01:27:29 right okay cool cool all right and you
01:27:29 --> 01:27:33 want to mention your social media pages and stuff again sure
01:27:33 --> 01:27:36 so you can find me on facebook instagram twitter at
01:27:36 --> 01:27:43 ann latrice that's a n l e t r e e c e and also under the band page best kept
01:27:43 --> 01:27:48 soul best kept soul supporters on facebook and best kept soul on instagram and
01:27:48 --> 01:27:53 twitter www.bestkepsoul.com if you want to book this and you want any information,
01:27:53 --> 01:27:55 feel free to reach out to the band.
01:27:56 --> 01:27:59 Okay. All right. Well, there you have it, folks.
01:28:00 --> 01:28:06 We had the diva herself on, hanging out with us tonight. And hopefully you guys
01:28:06 --> 01:28:09 will go out and get your tickets and everything for this big event with Best
01:28:09 --> 01:28:13 Kept Solo and all the things that they had planned for that particular night.
01:28:14 --> 01:28:17 And just continue to support them, continue to support her.
01:28:18 --> 01:28:23 And because, believe me, you guys won't be disappointed if you're ever out to
01:28:23 --> 01:28:25 see Best Kept Solo perform.
01:28:25 --> 01:28:30 And also if you're ever in the house and in the trees perform.
01:28:30 --> 01:28:33 You know so leonard anything you
01:28:33 --> 01:28:35 want to say before we sign off last thing i want to say you
01:28:35 --> 01:28:38 know i just want to thank you for coming on the show dave and
01:28:38 --> 01:28:41 i are excited to be there dave said he's going to sponsor
01:28:41 --> 01:28:45 too so we can't wait to see what that looks like but you know just prior we
01:28:45 --> 01:28:50 just want to say congratulations on 15 years we know that is no easy feat and
01:28:50 --> 01:28:56 y'all are still at the top so i'm i'm looking forward to a great event thank
01:28:56 --> 01:29:01 you thank you so much i know it's It's going to be the event of the year, I'm sure,
01:29:01 --> 01:29:05 because y'all have been talking about it since the beginning of the year. Yeah.
01:29:06 --> 01:29:10 It's been a lot of planning. Like I said, hats off to Lamont because,
01:29:10 --> 01:29:13 you know, Lamont's a pretty cut-and-dry kind of guy.
01:29:13 --> 01:29:18 It was up to him, right, by being in their jeans and a beard and saying happy 15 years, you know?
01:29:18 --> 01:29:21 Yeah, that's him. Yeah, that's him. Yeah, that's right.
01:29:22 --> 01:29:26 Well, I know if Montreal is involved, it's going to be a nice event.
01:29:26 --> 01:29:32 So that's great. yeah so all right guys well that's our show for tonight we
01:29:32 --> 01:29:36 want to thank you for taking the time to hang out with us as you usually do
01:29:36 --> 01:29:43 this time every tuesday and we look forward to talking to you guys again next week at this time,
01:29:48 --> 01:29:55 join us next week for another edition of news and trends with your host dave and lynn.
01:29:55 --> 01:30:10 Music.
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