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Speaker 1With your host styles Year . So we're back again . I'm learning how to say hello . All right , I'm not that good at it yet , but I'm learning , I'm getting it . But hello Greetings . You know , if you're driving , keep your eyes on the road . If you're just waking up , put some pep in your step . You're probably late . You know , let other good shit Shout outs to sdot . She's not with us today , but she will be back . You know . We've made a couple of reels actually about her coming back . I'm glad I didn't post them because I'll be like yo , this nigga is lying , but yeah , she'll be back .
Speaker 1So , ladies , and gents , this week , this week , this week , this week , we're going to talk about some of my hidden talents . One specifically I am a poet . I am sensitive , but sensitive in a lot of different ways like sensitive , angry because I will punch you in your face , and I'm also sensitive , like I try to tear too . I do shit like that . I do shit like that . So we're going to start this off now . This is a poetry episode . So if poetry is not your thing , I'm not mad at you . I'm not . I'm really not . I'm glad that you even gave me , you know , the first minute and 33 seconds of your day today . But if it's not your thing , come back and see us next week , but I will let you know . This is what we have in store .
Speaker 1Our guest is my poetry superhero , all right , and we will be playing some poetry , some pieces and shit like that . All right , sensitive dog . So we're going to start off with it . It's funny because now I got to find the buttons and whatnot , because we had an argument over , not an argument . We had a debate over what we were going to play , all right , and of course I won out . So let me play this for y'all real quick . That's not what I was trying to do . See , hold on , that was the other thing , me being unprepared . I don't fucked up everything too , because I recorded the shit , of course late , because that's what I do , and fuck it , let's get into it .
Speaker 4Normally I don't have to listen to music to provoke some type of emotion , to track a specific concept , but you , you sing songs with your thoughts , leaving me to simply add the words in the descriptive format , hoping to accurately trust the visuals when I'm speaking about you . So here goes everything .
Speaker 1I had plans of laying in between sheets , have sleep , enjoying your company , wasting the day away just listening to you breathing . I was holding on to dreams that were making the exit . As I try to paint pictures with words , using broad strokes , of what I wanted life to be , to the point of conceptualizing floor plans , mapping out the square footage of time , I'm prepared to knock down a few walls for you .
Speaker 5And as .
Speaker 1I squeeze you tighter . The natural thing to do would be to exhale I instead frozen place . I wanted to stay in this moment and still and still was the only way I knew how to hold on to it . Do you still feel ?
Speaker 5me , do you still feel ?
Speaker 1me . This was ten years in the making . I've made so many moves without you since then , and since then I've expanded by means of multiplication , forcing me to divide my time and provide . Yes , I've become a father since then . Do you still feel me ? This was the maturation process that missed us on the first go around . This time , sex takes a backseat to holding hands , giving us a chance to become fully engulfed in the scenery being created with the passage of time , and I'm grateful , even though the process is often painful . Let me explain . There was a strain of refrain from offering the truth about why men lie , trying to see what was impossible to see . So I created opposite truths , so called calling myself , trying to hold on to it .
Speaker 5Pretty soon I've got to go , but the sooner I leave , the sooner I can come home . Do you still feel me ?
Speaker 1Don't disconnect and in retrospect now seeing those skewed views were terribly dysfunctional . Now my overstating of you floats on beautiful narratives , never offering apologies , instead reversing lies , filling gaps that often left space between you and I . Alright , so check it out If y'all still hanging out after that . Thank you , I appreciate you . You have any kind words ? I got an empty hat over here , told some coins in my hat Cash app is Nah , I'm fucking with you , but if you're still around , I greatly appreciate you . Alright , now let's get to the real fuckery .
Speaker 4I used to be in love with this bitch . They me and J . They'll fuck with her no more now . I'll fuck with Tango Ray , tango Ray .
Speaker 5Hey yo , what's up , man ? Do we need two shots , two shots . It's a combo . Dany , take me away .
Speaker 1Okay , some things happen in the background that you guys will never know about , because , well , I guess you will , because I'm about to tell you anyway . We had some technical difficulties and then you had to stop the shit and chop the shit , so it sounded a little off just because I chopped the shit and I put it together . But anyway , listen , today I have a goodie . I've been chasing my poetic superhero for a hundred years . She recently dropped a book . I had the absolute fucking privilege when I say privilege , I mean privilege , like white privilege of actually being in the book , like it was my birthright .
Speaker 5Not white privilege .
Speaker 1I am in this book . Amazing , insane . Author . A pen game is crazy . Not saying that you thought that my pen game was crazy , that's if you stuck around past the last segment . But a pen game is amazing and me . What I do is I have a knack of sticking around people at it doing 10 times better than me , right , and then they warm up to the kid and they're like oh , you come here and I'm like no , I'm not that good .
Speaker 1And they're like no , you're , you're right . And I'm like all right , fuck it , let me just go stand over there and let some of their you know expertise and things that they do so well , rub off on me . But anyway , we have Kyoko today with us today . How are you ?
Speaker 6Peace . I'm well , how are you ?
Speaker 1I'm good man , you sound real aggressive from New York .
Speaker 6No , no , not at all .
Speaker 1All right , I'm like , just show me your feet . You got 10 zone . What are we doing ?
Speaker 6No , never that .
Speaker 1Okay , um , kyoko , and I go back some ways . My book came out in 09 . Was it on nine ?
Speaker 6Um , I don't know . I think so . It's been a long time . It's been well over 10 years .
Speaker 1So yeah , we , we , we , okay , and we've been writing together ever since Um , maybe not as of recent . It's been like you know you write your thing . I'm gonna write my thing over here . You know you can write your thing , but anyway , no , a pen game is crazy , all right , so we're going to go through the normal stuff before we even getting what we supposed to be getting into . What are you drinking , miss ?
Speaker 6I am drinking tea , herbal tea , so this is one of my favorites um because it's sweet , but it's also good for you , so it's a combination of mullin .
Speaker 1Oh , you really gonna . You , you're gonna stir , you're gonna stir that , so I can hear you , yeah , yeah , yeah , you're gonna stir it , yeah absolutely , I mean this one is only like three ingredients .
Speaker 6It's a mullin leaf , which is good for congestion , immunity , mucus , and we're about to use a system , even if you don't have it . It kind of helps balance out your system . And then elderberry , which everybody knows . Elderberry is also good for immunity and I have ginger cloves and honey . That's it Okay .
Speaker 1How much honey , though , cause like I can't drink it , it tastes like grass .
Speaker 6Uh , you put it to your liking so that's like half a bottle for me . Yeah , no yeah .
Speaker 1So what I do is just get the tea and just pour it in a honey bottle . I'm good from there , you know , and I'm being my usual closet alcoholic self . I am drinking screwball peanut butter whiskey . There was like a corner left . I had it for a year , though .
Speaker 6That looks like a lot more than a corner .
Speaker 1It wasn't . It was nice . Now it was melted ice , so now it's a little bit more volume . It added volume .
Speaker 6Yeah , let it be the reason .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah , whatever , don't start . So this is what we're going to do . We're going to jump right into into um . I need to start calling this up , maybe the lightning round or something like that , but now somebody already has it . But we'll do something . You ready , I'm ready , you sure ?
Speaker 6I don't know , I understand , I'm ready .
Speaker 1So listen your explanations and you know , you know , you've known me long enough to know that I don't like the backstory . So keep , keep doing shit short . We write in a book with your explanation , or whatever .
Speaker 6That's funny .
Speaker 1So you ready , I'm ready , all right , cool Text call or FaceTime Call . Why ?
Speaker 6It's more personal .
Speaker 1That's some real old school shit . All right , shoot your shot of chilling the cut . I can answer that for you , but go .
Speaker 6A little bit of both , but usually chilling the cut .
Speaker 1Chilling the cut and cock me bro . All right Black movies Queen and slim , or if being still be , but look usually .
Speaker 6Queen and slim but I didn't even finish . I mean , it didn't even matter , I don't even . It doesn't even matter what comes next . Queen and slim is Yo what . What's the third choice ? If Bill Street could talk , no , queen and slim .
Speaker 1I mean , I'm with it , I'm not mad at any of these . Well , actually , maybe I'm mad at the photograph . You know , it's definitely , definitely on my list . I mean , out of the three , it would probably be number three . But one day somebody's going to come on this show and say if Bill Street could talk , and that's going to be the topic of conversation for the rest of the show .
Speaker 6I mean Bill Street is good , but Queen , yeah , queen and slim for me .
Speaker 1Oh , whatever . Anyway , moving on , what's your song ? What's your song for the season of your life ?
Speaker 6Oh , let's see Forever by Sir Rock .
Speaker 1Okay , how's it go For real ? I mean , you're going to stop naming songs that I've never fucking heard before .
Speaker 6Well , if you don't know who Sir Rock is and you're from New York , you need to go sit in the corner .
Speaker 1The only Sir Rock we know is the motherfucking licking and puffy on there .
Speaker 6Wow , you need to be ashamed then .
Speaker 1I am , I am , and you won't embarrass me on my show .
Speaker 6All right , yeah , go ahead .
Speaker 1Go ahead .
When you're commute to work , what do you listen to ?
Speaker 6What's on my mood . If I'm angry , it's thug music , all right . If I'm trying to stay in a nice mellow , positive , it's a neo soul or conscious rap , like Sir Rock .
Speaker 1Okay , who's your favorite gangster rapper Like , if you all right , give me a song . Okay , go ahead , give me a song .
Speaker 6Hit them up . Two pot yes .
Speaker 1What the fuck is the off button Can't even I'm about to lock .
Speaker 6Well , you asked Okay , all right , so we yeah , nah , real shit .
Speaker 1Two pot could probably I'll get a ticket . I can't listen to shit like that on the way to work and I do have pretty bad role and I don't have bad role . I had this conversation with my son the other day about role rates . I don't have bad role rates . It's not bad . That's all of the conversation . Anyway , I do , you do , I do , I do , I do , I do , I do , I do , I do , I do .
Speaker 6I do , I do , I do , I do I do , I , do , I do . I do . I do , I do , I do , you do I do so when I really get angry , I'm five-four , and when I get mad and people are driving crazy around me , I play ludicrous move .
Speaker 1Bitch , get out the way , there we go .
Speaker 6Yep , yep , put it on and it makes me drive even crazier . But I decided to stop that because you know , out here they act a fool , they will shoot you .
Speaker 1All right . And when she says out there people , she's talking about ATMs , she's in Atlanta . Nah , isn't Atlanta ? You and Georgia ? Yes , You're in Atlanta .
Speaker 6I'm in Atlanta and there's , yeah , some bona fide pools out here , so you know .
Speaker 4Yeah , that's what's , sad .
Speaker 1They'll hit you just because Okay . All right , safety first , safety first . What drink do you start brunch off with ?
Speaker 6To be honest with you water or tea , that's it .
Speaker 1Water or tea . Okay , I don't know what kind of holistic brunches you're having , but I'm here for it , fuck .
Speaker 6You get a glass of tea . Don't try and play me .
Speaker 1That's a fact . Yeah , it's water or tea , that's it . You got some frankincense and all of that going with it .
Speaker 5But you know what ?
Speaker 1What I'm just saying . You got real Erica bad doers just now .
Speaker 6That's all day , every day .
Speaker 1I ain't nothing wrong with it . All right , this is the part where you're going to name a song . Well , actually name the artist of the title of a song that I'm about to give you All right , probably about to fill it .
Speaker 6Okay , let's go .
Speaker 1And I'm judging you on this too .
Speaker 6You should judge me , because I can't guarantee you that I'm going to get it right .
Speaker 1Okay , mahogany .
Speaker 6Um , um . Diana Ross no . Billie Holiday Okay , you got one more time . All right , I was about to say Billie Williams yeah . Because , I'm taking a movie Mahogany .
Speaker 1With a Jerry Curler , without which one ?
Speaker 6That's so funny .
Speaker 1You got one more .
Speaker 6Oh , I don't know , I give up .
Speaker 1Eric B Rockham .
Speaker 6First of all , let me tell you something you didn't even say genre .
Speaker 1Okay , you didn't ask either .
Speaker 6You didn't ask because you thought you had to shit in the bag .
Speaker 1So you didn't ask .
Speaker 6You know what I'm going to tell you ? Listen , I'm going to tell you welcome to the store .
Speaker 1I'm going to tell you it's $4.99 . Right . After I ring it up after I ring it up , it's going to be $5.36 . You'll be like you didn't tell me about the tax . What the fuck .
Speaker 6You didn't ask , you knew it was $4.99 . No , no , that's different .
Speaker 1How .
Speaker 6That's different , all right .
Speaker 1So , ladies and gentlemen , rock Kim is our favorite artist of all time . He is . I know which is why I was surprised that you didn't get it All right , relax , relax , yes , because I'm big at old school .
Speaker 6You're right , that's my hip hop husband right there .
Speaker 1There you go , got pictures and all of that . That's right Relax .
Speaker 6OK , all right , You're right , let me bring it back .
Speaker 1Yeah , all right , smiling over there , my cheeks hurt . Are you a talk or a listener ?
Speaker 6A little bit of both , but mostly a listener .
Speaker 1Copy If you could live in any sitcom , which would it be ?
Speaker 6Hmm , Martin .
Speaker 1OK , you know what ? It's funny because I said that on a couple of episodes back when , yes , me too , me too , I would definitely live it more in , for sure , for sure , because that was a good time .
Speaker 6That was a good time , absolutely .
Speaker 1OK , what's in the trunk of your car right now ?
Speaker 6Oh shit , let's see the tarp that goes over my back seat for the dog , so he doesn't get hair all over my back seat . What kind of dog do you have ? He's a pit named Zeus .
Speaker 1A pit named Zeus , all right . Very appropriate Keep going .
Speaker 5What else is that ?
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah , security , let me see .
Speaker 6Some jumper cables a toolkit some oil , yes , Some cleaning supplies , paper towels and a foldable chair .
Speaker 1A foldable chair . I need one of those . Actually , I need two of those . I had an idea for a podcast , but , yeah , moving forward . Ok , that's it All right . All right , and , ladies and gentlemen , she is eating on camera , but we're not recording this . But this is the thing , though . You see how close that mic is to you . Yeah , there we go . If you hiccup , I hear it .
Speaker 6OK , I'm sorry .
Speaker 1And you're chewing right now . I'm just going to mute you , oh that's so good .
Speaker 4I'm sorry .
Speaker 6Hey Kendall .
Speaker 1All right . What childish things do you do as an adult ?
Speaker 6I play in the rain .
Speaker 1Yeah , that is lightweight childish my favorite things to do .
Speaker 6I love it ? Yeah , absolutely , and it's summertime right now . It's still hot outside , so when it rains the sun is still out . I go outside and I run in the rain . Run in the rain or just yeah , or just spin around in it , jump in puddles the whole night .
Speaker 1OK , anybody ever call the cops .
Speaker 6Never .
Speaker 1OK , I'm just wondering . I'm just wondering .
Speaker 6They probably envy me .
Speaker 1Listen , you will be somebody's TikTok real or something in a second . I promise you that that's funny , I promise you that . So this one is a lightning rod . Well , it can be a lightning rod . I know it's been not a raging debate , but a debate nonetheless . And what's the average cost of a first date for you , through your eyes , your lens ?
Speaker 6The average cost Shit , and we're talking about the price of food today . I don't know , I don't know , but surely it's probably over $100 around , or $100 if it's just two Right right , this is not Hold on , let me let me um offer some clarity . This isn't the price is right , it's not .
Speaker 1you're going to get close to the price and then you know we'll go over .
Speaker 6I know that I'm thinking about where it depends on where this first date is . Yeah , but all right . So let me let me make it easy for you , right , let me make it easy for you , yeah , absolutely .
Speaker 1A gentleman . He's not a poet , because poets , you know , eat other poets alive . We just don't , it , just doesn't , doesn't , doesn't mesh . Um , a gentleman approach yes , going to take you out on a day . You Kyoko today and she spells a . She spells today T-O-D-A-E . All right , so in case you are looking for us , not T-O-D-A-Y . You know we're black , we do shit different , but um and she's a poet so she's thinking , you know eight levels above whatever we're thinking .
Speaker 1But this is the thing If somebody's taking you out , though what secretly , which won't be a secret after you tell us is like the budget for a date of good time , first date doesn't have to be continuous , like , for instance , he doesn't have to spend a million dollars every time , but on that first initial date , oh , I'm going to tear you up . I'm looking at your face right now . I'm going to let you have it , go ahead .
Speaker 6Let me tell you something because Tell me something .
Speaker 1Five Wars of Bill .
Speaker 6Because , oh shit , because I'm a little different , you know , like , uh , jewelry and roses don't impress me .
Speaker 4Right .
Speaker 6So I like uh connection and conversation . So trying to spend money on me and take me to the fanciest restaurant is nothing that's going to pique my interest .
Speaker 4Right .
Speaker 6It's not fun to me , so I like finding conversation . You could take me somewhere to make me laugh , so it would be low key . It would have to be different than trying to take me to the fanciest , best , most expensive restaurant .
Speaker 1That's not what I'm interested in , so you're interested in the creativity behind it .
Speaker 6Yes .
Speaker 1See you lucky . You definitely talked your way out of that one because I was going to let you have it . I was going to hand it to you as soon as you put a number on it . I was going to let you have it .
Speaker 6I mean , that's the truth .
Speaker 1OK , I'm with it . I'm with it If I get dressed up to go out .
Speaker 6you know , I hope it's fun I understand , I don't even like the way you said that you ready , so I'm moving on .
Speaker 5Main course , it's time to eat . What's on your mind ?
Speaker 1So this is the thing . We already got your name . You know , oh , your profession . What do you do for a living ? If you don't mind me asking , I'm a high school teacher . There we go . All right , just wanted to , you know , put that out there .
Speaker 6And a lot of tissue and a lot of tissue .
Speaker 1What else could you do ? A lot of shit .
Speaker 6That's true All right . So when I'm in the salon I'm a lot of tissue , but I also create and sell jewelry . And then my day job is a special education teacher for high school students . I do special education and I do Genet 9 through 12 .
Speaker 1English and one of the things we talk about giving back . That's giving back Like that's giving back out of conversation today about what we're willing to do to , I guess , change society with regards to their views on certain things . You know , and it all starts with us from within and I ask the person well , what are you willing to do ? Right , because that person didn't . Anyway , I'm not even going to do that , because then got enough motherfuckers mad at me .
Speaker 4All right .
Speaker 1What we're going to do right now is play a piece from Kyoko . All right , she's going to let you know Not even so much as let you know , but you're going to hear how heavy this sister is .
Speaker 6His voice sounds like freedom , unbridled sounds that ignite flames of self-awareness , without the pangs of fear Asphyxiating doubts . Because courage boldly sits near and shatters glass houses that shelter secrets of its victims buried deep beneath this footgear , all while saving souls from the solace . Because he too was once the prey before his voice rang clear Sword above the clouds in opposition to the devil's delicately designed sphere , then promulgated deliverance without the lack of waiting ears , as if a sage returning to the present from the past of many yesteryears . I want him to speak to me , I want him to sing for me , I want him to read to me .
Speaker 6Im pregnant me with his words until my heart beats , beats in tandem , yet in sync , endlessly nourishing my vessel from the inside out with the embryo of his speech .
Speaker 6Until his vibrations touch the tips of each nerve's ending within my system , it gives birth at knowledge's peak . How astounding that , with just one breath , he exhaled life and manifested wisdom from within my womb with the precision that others can only seek . How magnificent that his phonics feel like fire and force times mass , so that the omission of distance between us is simply unmatched . Because his voice deletes the space between misunderstandings . When his lips began to impart and linguistics leak life onto bodies , like canvases that leak colors onto bodies of art . His speech leaves me speechless . Yet in want of wanting that craving to hear him never speak less so he can continue to fondle my ears and leave its drums intentionally finessed Through sounds that leave lessons for me to feed on and words that touch the inside of my torso for me to glean on . And Even when his vessel is absent from before me in its physical form , his voice has left vestiges of its power for us to live on .
Speaker 1You said his phonics feels like fire . Now , if I'm not a poet , well , I'm not thinking on a different level and we're on a date and that comes on . I'm getting up from the table and politely excusing myself . I'm not fucking with you .
Speaker 1You will not you will not mind . Fuck me , we're not , I'm out of here . I Am out of here . Listen , that was amazing . Thank you , that was amazing . This is why I think that we've had a lot of clashes whereby I'll write something and you'll be like yo , that's so crazy , and I'll be like you're bugging . You're bugging his fun . It's felt like fire . Yeah , that's gonna be somebody's tattoo in a minute . Oh , that is that's crazy . What inspired you to start writing poetry ?
Speaker 6I Mean , I started writing at the age of 10 and it was Simply , I mean , there was nothing major , was really just an outlet , that's all it was . But you know , as you grow and you get older , you go through different phases of life , and so , as I went through different phases of life , my poetry Changed , you know , it involved into something different . And so the very first time that I saw a deaf poetry champ I was is mesmerized by the way that it was delivered . So it was a different introduction , yes , to poetry all in itself than just , you know , writing poetry to express yourself as an outlet . So you still express yourself as an outlet .
Speaker 6But then it gave me an idea of you know what I'm saying . I can play around with these words differently , right , and then speak them in a way that is not just gonna touch the people when they read it , but it's gonna touch the people when they hear it as well , right . And so I mean , simply put , it was just a means of expression in an outlet . And then , you know , like I said , as I got older , it just changed . Those things in my life changed , that's all
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Speaker 1I hear you and I , to be honest with you , my start , or actually yeah . I don't know , I guess it was a rap because every you know , growing up everybody wanted to be a rapper . You know , um , at least if you're , if you're 40 plus old , you want to stay where . I'm coming from with that everybody wanted to be a rapper .
Speaker 6Right , I said , and now to know ? Now is nothing .
Speaker 1You just grab a phone . You're a rapper . When I was coming up , you know they had a and all this other bullshit , so there were a lot of gatekeepers when I was growing up . Now there's no gatekeepers and you just turn your phone on your rapper .
Speaker 4But um , yeah .
Speaker 1That poetry . Jim definitely did it for me . That was a turning point for me , you know , especially when most steps actually started hosting . That was it , and you know most that was from Brooklyn , um , and now I was like , wow , so you can , you can spit poetry and still be cool . So of course , the rhyme books went into garbage and I was like I'm not gonna rhyme anymore . Fuck the beat , we're gonna do it . Do it this way . What's your favorite , johnny write about ?
Speaker 6Life , love and healing .
Speaker 1Okay , I got two out of the three Okay .
Speaker 6I mean life , and love covers everything . There we go the good and it covers the bad . So , you know you got 10,000 aspect , aspects of life . And then you have so many different facets of love that you can cover so right about life . I mean you can hit on every corner .
Speaker 1No , it's a fact , especially if you talk to a specific segment in society . I was gonna ask you something else In terms of because you know , they don't know because we haven't talked about it , but you recently dropped a book . Yes , what's the name of the book ? Emotional emotional and walk me through the book .
Speaker 6All right . So emotional is Designed to take the reader on an emotional roller coaster . So it is all about the highs and lows of relationships , Raw intimacy and love .
Speaker 5Intimacy isn't what are we doing ?
Speaker 1What the fuck is that mean ? Is that cold ?
Speaker 5I .
Speaker 4Got us that I did .
Speaker 1What are we doing ?
Speaker 6Hey , when I say the highs and lows of raw intimacy , that means I'm not sugarcoating anything in the book . So it's the soft , special places of intimacy , and then you know it's the wrong side of the track of intimacy . You know that old saying too much of a good thing is never good .
Speaker 1No , so it has prostitution in it too .
Speaker 6Oh my god , I cannot . It's the good and the bad . All right , it's the good and the bad . I'm trying to tell you .
Speaker 4Yes .
Speaker 6You don't feel something when you read this . Check your pulse listen .
Speaker 1I Think the thing for me is that I'm gonna enjoy the read one , not only because I'm in it , but because of the way that you express yourself when you do write it down , because how we met was we met online and there was a poetry site called GS poetry .
Speaker 5Whereby you know you can read other people's stuff .
Speaker 1They can read just stuff you can read it , you know and then they had this whole thing . When you know top poet of the day and stuff like that , you could do collaboration .
Speaker 1I miss GS poetry . I do too . It was . It was a good time . It was a . It was a good time , anyway , back when I was for the streets but , um , the pin got me in a lot of trouble . Um , anyway , outside of that , because this isn't about me , this is about you Um , okay , and , and it was so crazy about this whole thing is and I'm starting to coin the phrase what's so crazy , because that's just what I do . But what's so crazy about this whole thing is that I remember Going back like this book has been in the works for years , yeah , for years , like I wrote my book . You were talking about writing a book . You started writing a book . We had a conversation about publishing . You know things like that . So I definitely want to give you your flowers for seeing it through .
Speaker 6You know what ? Um , I am glad that I did not finish it back then , because it has been in transition and in the process for several years . But you know what ? Um , my process for writing Is what happened with this book . So , at different phases of life , there's different poems in here . So I can tell you I mean , I have poems in here from like the 90s that I wrote all the way up until 2023 . It's so when you read the book , it reads like a story . You know what I'm saying , because they're placed strategically right .
Speaker 6So there are little bitty Narratives in between the poems . That makes it read like they are all connected from one point to another . So I I'm glad that I did not try and finish it then , because it wouldn't have been what it is now right , you know it's so crazy .
Speaker 1See , there we go again . What's so crazy ? Like for three whole seasons it was boom . That was my shit , I so boom now .
Speaker 4It was like you know so crazy .
Speaker 1But anyway , what is so crazy , yeah , is that , um , my book , slow sipping it . Um , it was about the . It was the maturation of a relationship and it read as such . So it was the beginning of the relationship . You know the . The escalated to the middle of the relationship and the sexual part of the relationship . Literally these are the sections and it you know um the build up to it and the ultimate end or continuation of the relationship at the end of the book . So when you told me about your book , I was like damn , I can't wait .
Speaker 6Listen , I gotta say this . Okay , so you know what I bought your book . First of all , people , I've been a hairstylist for many , many years . I was doing that before I even became an educator , and so when I bought styles as well , there's this poem in there called wash insect . So I was doing here back then as well .
Speaker 1I read that piece as I was in the salon doing some hair and I'm sitting there thinking to myself I want to wash and say I I was , yeah , I was uh , and it was crazy because I grew up around a bunch of females so I would get like inspiration from shit like that . You know when I went , well , when I was dating back . Then you go out on a date or you look at somebody's hands , um , and you like , oh , you need a feeling , like you need a feeling . Then how you know about that shit ? How do you know about a feeling I'm like group around a bunch of females and then I actually just started putting that in the pieces and stuff like that got to a whole heap of trouble , but anyway , moving on .
Speaker 6I need you to record that .
Speaker 1What um wash insect ?
Speaker 6Yes .
Speaker 1I have to find it . I have to . Oh , it's in the book .
Speaker 4It's in the book .
Speaker 1Yeah , I gotta find the book . Anyway , um , let me see . Okay , so , as far as the creative process is for you know you writing and stuff like that , I know my creative process is a little bit different and you and I have had I don't want to say argument . Well , yeah , I guess , don't fuck that . We've had arguments , especially like trying to do like collaborations and stuff like that . So when we're doing collaborations and stuff like that , I I would write faster Than you , you know , and you would need time to fold it . For me , all I would need is a song . You throw a song on and I'm already there .
Speaker 1What's your creative process .
Speaker 6I don't have a process , I write off of inspiration . I'm glad that you said that because now I really want to fight you . I mean , you know what I'm saying .
Speaker 1No , I don't know what you're saying . What you're saying ?
Speaker 6Okay , okay . When I say I write off of inspiration , I mean I have to be inspired , something has to trigger me to write . So it's either something that has happened in my life or something that I have felt that I'll write about , or if it's something that I have seen happen to somebody else someone that's going through something that they don't have a word .
Speaker 6So I'm going to speak for them in terms of process , meaning like , do I have to be in a corner ? Do I have to have music playing ? You know , I could be listening to a song and it trigger any emotion in me and that may cause me to write , and sometimes I'll start a piece and put it down and not pick it up for , you know , a couple of days or a couple of months , when I do , I'll do it .
Speaker 1I'm glad you touched on that because , you know I was coming to get that .
Speaker 6I mean , hey , let me tell you something . There have been other times . There was this one time I was sitting at the red light and just automatically thought about something . I wrote an entire piece on the back of a receipt in the car , finished it before the light even turned green .
Speaker 4Crazy , you know what I'm saying .
Speaker 6Sometimes I can be in the shower and I'll be listening to a song . One line will give me an entire poem . You know , what I'm saying . So there is no process . It's based on inspiration . I guess I have something specific in mind that I know I want to write about . You know what I'm saying . That . I'll sit down and I'll just . I'll just pin it out , you know , as it comes to me . So , that's it All right , fuck it .
Speaker 1I'm going to tell the people about how you would hit my phone . You'd be like you know what ? I think we need to write something . I'm like , all right , cool , what are we going to write ? And then you'll be like , um , I don't know , send me something . And I'm like , just give me and me , I'm the same way . I would need something , like I always want to write , I always want to write . I'm never in , I'm I'm not always in the mood to write , if that makes sense , right .
Speaker 1So I don't have the inspiration to write , but I always am ready to pen something , just so I can step back and be like then . Who wrote that ?
Speaker 6But I'm like , just give me a word or a line statement , I'm not even going to do this shit right now .
Speaker 1Is this what you do ? Yeah ?
Speaker 6Yeah , come on now . You know that's a do not , don't try and frown for people . I just needed like one word or a line or something , that's it . That's all I need is the right word or the right phrase to you know , trigger me off and I got it .
Speaker 1Okay , I'm not even fucking with you right now , I'm going to move on .
Speaker 6That's right .
Speaker 1And you know what For the podcast is out there that do follow me . It's kind of like trying to , you know , trying to sit down with your favorite podcast , and that person just keeps rescheduling and shit like that , you know . But they always want to do something but they just keep rescheduling . So that's kind of like me .
Speaker 6Oh , wait a minute , new York , Wait a minute . People do not let this brother fool you . Okay , he is tough to deal with . Okay , you are hard to handle . Sometimes he is not a good patient . Let me use some stylist's lingo it's like the kid that comes to sit in your styling chair that wants to look nice and get their hair done , but they're tender headed so they're going to give you a hard time . That's not even cool .
Speaker 1I don't like it .
Speaker 6Oh , my God , okay All right .
Speaker 1So yeah , move them right along . And that's not the case Everybody . Because if she , you know what , you might say that because , like , for instance , if I'm like yo , keoko , let's collab , I want to do blah , blah , blah , blah , you're like , well what ? Do you want ? To write about , and then I'll tell you what I want to write about . I'll send you over to Stanza , right .
Speaker 5Yeah .
Speaker 1And then I got to wait three four days .
Speaker 5But hold on , hold on .
Speaker 1But then you'll send me the response to that Stanza , and then I'll send you something right back and then wait for five or six days . You get what I'm saying . So that's what my patients are talking about .
Speaker 6Let me tell you something . He has done that to me before as well , so stop it , and then there are times . Yeah , but that was just me being petty , though , oh okay , well , I'm glad , I'm glad I don't know You're right , you're going to make me wait . Hey , you know what I'm saying . I don't write on demand , All right , it's just when it comes to me . I write when I feel it .
Speaker 1And we're going to start writing collabs on high-coos .
Speaker 6I have several high-coos .
Speaker 1Yeah , I know Good Anyway . So have you ever performed poetry in front of an audience ?
Speaker 6Yes , I have .
Speaker 1Okay , and if so , what you have ? You know , I'm reading off the paper . If so how did it feel ?
Speaker 6Nervous , nervous For the very first one . I got up there one time and forgot my entire piece once . I looked at the crowd but I didn't get off of that stage until I completed it . You know Other times that felt great .
Speaker 1It felt amazing . You memorized it or did you read from a paper or a book ?
Speaker 6I've done both . I've done both . I've done all three before . Okay Memorized , I've read from my phone before and I've also had my journal with me .
Speaker 4Hmm .
Speaker 1No problem , had my journal with me . Yeah , not your poetry book .
Speaker 6Not your moral notebook .
Speaker 3Your journal . Oh , okay , you know what ? Not as the book .
Speaker 4The book of life .
Speaker 6That's the way you are surrounded control .
Speaker 1Okay , all right , here we go . And I think that this is one of the questions I was waiting for . How do you deal with writer's block or periods of creative drought ?
Speaker 6Well , let's see here I either wait till it passes or I do what a friend suggested . The very first time I had writer's block this is actually in the book . You guys , the very first time I had writer's block I could not write . And I had a friend a guy friend of mine and he was like write about your writer's block , a simple solution I never thought of and I did . So I started writing about having writer's block and before I was finished it turned into an entire poem and from there it was gone .
Speaker 1Crazy .
So write about the things that are bothering you at the moment , to kind of generate other thoughts and emotions and feelings , and before you know it , you are already writing . Or I play music or I run . That's a release for me . You know more . Dance In a rain .
Speaker 1Forgot about the rain . Don't forget the rain Anywhere . Anywhere . Have to pop up on somebody's TikTok , I promise you All right . Are there any particular places or environments that inspire your poetry , Like if you popped up anywhere and you was like you know what . This is a good space to write in , Like I need to you know . I don't know your method now . I've never actually been the type to actually write down a poem . I started writing poems back when Blackberries were cool and I used to type everything on my Blackberry . I promise you .
Speaker 5Well , I don't think that I've written .
Speaker 1Damn , I don't think , to be honest with you . Okay , so on both hands and I have well over a thousand pieces on both hands I've probably written . I can count how many poems I've actually written down .
Speaker 6So I still have two backpacks full of nothing but writings on paper From way back when .
Speaker 1Now , well , I have a stack of printed out pieces that are about half your height .
Speaker 6Yeah , nah , it's uh , I mean they're so old . The paper is a different color now . You know what I'm saying . From way back when like that , and so I can see the transition of how my writing has changed from way back when to now .
Speaker 1And you keep them safe , of course .
Speaker 6Absolutely Okay Because that's important .
Speaker 1Yeah , that's important . Now for now I'm getting , we're going to talk to the poets out there , right , and I'm still the shit . This is a poetry class for me because I freestyle everything . I'm not to the point where I could tell you you know different structures and stuff like that . From an educated standpoint , I can guess that's about it . But do you prefer writing in a specific poetic form or structure or do you enjoy experimenting with different styles ?
Speaker 6I absolutely enjoy experimenting .
Speaker 1Okay , and then I would assume that , like spoken word is always an experiment , right , unless your cadence changes and when you cadence . I mean you're always playing with something Pause .
Speaker 6Yeah , so that's funny .
Speaker 1Yeah , I know you get on my nerves .
Speaker 6Oh my gosh , you're crazy . Yeah , so my pieces , they all have different voices , so I believe that some of them are meant to be read and some of them are meant to be recited . Oh Right , so you want to recite the spoken word pieces to a crowd ? You can read some of the other ones that are not meant to be performed , which is essentially what spoken word is . It's just performance poetry , but I love it . They have different voices depending on what the topic is . So you know , you can write an angry poem and you're going to read it or deliver it a little bit differently than you would . Something that's about love , you know , or something that's about healing , or something that's about trust . So , yeah , they take on different forms , you know . Okay .
Speaker 4Okay .
Speaker 1All right and yeah , because I'll be honest with you . For me , yeah , when I started writing , I always wanted to be a spoken word artist , but I could never memorize my pieces . It's like I would write them , I'd marry them and divorce them right after I'm done . Like as soon as I put a period at the end of whatever piece that I wrote is we're getting divorced , and well , I'm not a performer .
Speaker 6I will say that I'm not a performer . I write a lot more than I perform , but I do like interacting with other people . I do like to see that somebody has been touched by something . That I say because now I know , because it's all about the lessons , you know what I'm saying for me and so you know I just I really enjoy that part of it to see someone else can leave or walk out of there , come up to you and be like you know what I felt , like that before or that really touched me or that inspired me or I feel your pain .
Speaker 6You know what I'm saying Now . You know whatever it is that you just spoke is relatable and somebody is going to leave their full .
Speaker 1Yeah , like his findings , felt like fire .
Speaker 5Absolutely . These brothers is in trouble .
Speaker 1You sit down , think you about to have a regular conversation , and she's like , like , like a fucking poetic X-man . Let me tell you something .
Speaker 6I wrote this one piece . You're crazy . I wrote this one piece and there's only one small part in it . It's super small , but in that piece I heard your voice . It's because you're from New York . That's what it is . All this is not about New York . People , people , all right , but everybody from New York has that same tone , especially in bravado . Yeah , absolutely All right . It's a certain flavor that New York has that I heard in this particular part . So I'm like you know what , if I ever record this piece , I mean , mr Stiles , to just read this one part that's designed for somebody from New York .
Speaker 1You know it's crazy . I have a piece called Brooklyn , him , my Domina , and him is spelled H-Y-M-N Right and I've always wanted , like a female , to come and rewrite the my Domina , because Domina . Of course I spelled with a H-E-R at the end , but I always wanted a female to come in and do that , but not just write it . I wanted it to be like a spoken word piece . You know , and my dream is basically to do a spoken word album . To be honest with you , and just to say that .
Speaker 1I did it . It's not even a thing of you know to do it , to go on any type of accolades or whatever , but I really want to do something like that , hey .
Speaker 6what are you waiting on ? Do it .
Speaker 1I'm waiting on it to stop playing with me because what happens is no stop . But then you know what . It's harder than you think . It's not as easy as just like all right , cool , I'm going to go do blah , blah , blah because you get a producer . But then you know the producer these niggas is TikTok producers , so they at home mixing it up , they can complete a beat , but they can't really . It's not one of those things where I'm going to spit the piece and he's going to work around the piece and then where you know it has like different , like cracks and crevices that he can dive into , pause and then , you know , do his thing . It's not like that at all . It's kind of like this is the beat . Here is the beat . I'm like no , we got to be able to craft this from beginning to end .
Speaker 6You know I'm going to send that piece to you , and or when you read it in the book , right ? You'll know exactly what part is it's called write me , rhyme me , define me .
Speaker 1Okay , no man , yeah , okay , I can't wait in my book is here , it's just somewhere else . And I'm mad that it's somewhere else . I need to have it in my head . And the last question for the segment , basically , is you know what role does poetry play in your life currently ?
Speaker 4Like how does it ?
Speaker 1I would assume that it's part of you .
Speaker 6It is . I mean , honestly , everything is poetry to me , and that's a line that I use often Everything is poetry because it is , I mean , in its purest form . Poetry is just a means of expression , and so when I say everything is poetry , it literally is , because you can use poetry to express any feeling , whether it is high , low and different , in any area of life . You may not know how to , but there's someone out there that does , and so everything is poetry to me , including politics .
Speaker 1Wow Okay , I mean yeah can't leave it out right , right Church and state All right , so I can write about that too . Yeah , so this is the thing in closing .
Yes , let's talk about where we can get your book .
Speaker 6All right , so the book is available on Amazon . So if you go to Amazon Books and then type in Emotional by today T O D A E , the book is there . You can find me on Facebook and TikTok , as well as Instagram at Keoko K I Y O K O underscore today T O D A E . I'm on all three platforms as Keoko today and if you want to sign copy , find me on one of those three platforms and shoot me a message . Otherwise , just find me on Instagram . That's it .
Speaker 1I'll just grab the book and enjoy the book .
Speaker 6Absolutely . Please grab the book .
Speaker 4Please , please , grab the book and enjoy the book .
Speaker 6You see , yo , that's crazy , yeah , the book .
Speaker 1And I'm looking at , I'm staring at the screen , people for those , not you know whatever . But yeah , okay , so fire cover , fire cover . You know , did you lose your mind when you got to first ? Nah , fuck it . Did you lose your mind when you got to proof ? Forget the finished copy .
Speaker 6I was excited to get approved , to see the very first Right I lost my ever living fucking mind when I got my proof .
Speaker 4I was like wait a minute .
Speaker 1It was cause you got to hold it , you know , and for me what I did was and then we'll definitely close out the segment but for me what I did was I literally created that book from cover to cover , on my own cause . I have a graphic designers background .
Speaker 1And I had a , and I also had like a print background , cause I sold print on Walt Street , so it was like all right , so I understood both sides of it . And then , of course , you know the melanin of my skin . I had to basically save all of my bread , so I couldn't afford to do it any other way but that way . So when I got that proof , though , I almost dropped a fucking tear , like almost dropped a tear just to hold it . You know it's like giving birth to a child , but I'm a guy .
Speaker 6Yeah . I dig it . I self-published and the process was difficult because I was maneuvering it all on my own and it took probably a couple of months for me to learn how to do everything Right . But I'll tell you , this is the bomb . So there are images in there and in color , right , cause I write and dream in color . So why not put those images in color in the book as well , and you'll love it .
Speaker 1All right , you have any advice for any of these young budding poets out there .
Speaker 6Don't keep . Whatever it is you feel inside , put it all out on the paper If you can't speak to anybody else . Poetry does not have to run . Okay , you can free burst it . That means it doesn't have to have a specific pattern . You don't have to be like whoever is hot right now poets or lyricists or whatever . Just be you and express you the way that you feel that you need to , in a way that you want to . Cause so many times people compare themselves to the next person . I want to write like them , or I want my poetry to sound like that , but then you lose the essence of you . So it's one thing if you're learning from all those people Like I love Gil Scott Herron , one of the old ones . Absolutely , I love .
Speaker 6Bill Williams , do you know what I'm ? Saying Absolutely . And I love Stoney Patterson , you know what I'm saying Some of the new ones , but I don't want to sound like them . I want to sound like me . I can learn new words from them and nuances and all of these different things , cadence and flexion , but I want to sound like me . So I mean , do you keep writing , don't be afraid . If you are , do it anyway .
Speaker 2That's it . Bay night , sexy nights and good food , All right .
Speaker 1So we've reached the segment that all of my guests I'm lying , 95% of my guests tend to fuck it up . They do , they do . No matter what I say on this piece of paper , I always get something other than that , and 95 , right , so this keeps me out of the fire , cause . Then , if somebody hits me like yo Staz , you always , but you're not part of the night , you always , but you're not part of the 95 . I'm talking about the other 95 . But 95% of the time , you know , I stump them with this one . All right , but with you . What I'm going to do , though , is actually give you a little motivation . All right , cause it is poetry night .
Speaker 3I want to make love to you tonight . I feel like our opportunity has presented itself again , and I don't want us to miss out on it twice . Look , I know that this is a bit much , but I was just hoping that you would say yes .
Speaker 1So this is that I'm not afraid to hold your hand in public , the confirmation of the manifestation of maturity , flaunting the connection that I had prior to , one that my former self even committed to inside , committed to a sudden . Not allow my selfish overtures to masquerade as an affinity of affection . It's blessings being able to stare in the mirror and give my flaws the recognition that they deserve . I need to fix what I can see and embrace the fact that your acceptance is conditional and taking steps in a positive direction is the one and only condition . So , for love's sake , we want desire to fall into the category of infinity and we need want , and desire was infinitely beyond our means , which is why love is the bottomless pit . As close as you think you are , we all heard when we think we physically achieved it . Just let it be . In truth , the only requires is acknowledgement . I love you .
Speaker 3I've been in love with you from the first day I saw you .
Speaker 5Why did it take you so long to say that ? Because I was scared . I'm heart-headed .
Speaker 1All right , so boom , that was your inspiration . Please don't fuck it up . Please don't fuck it up .
Speaker 6You are really something else .
Speaker 1Listen , I ditched you the ball under the basket . This is layup Go .
Speaker 6Oh , is that what we're doing ?
Speaker 1Yeah , I don't even like the long pause .
Speaker 6Yeah , cause I mean you threw me off .
Speaker 1How could I ?
Speaker 6Okay , be quiet . The first time I heard him speak it was if this poet put his arms around me , with words piercing through my soul , without that monotonous dialect , but that he'd induced vibration . And still , through his rhetoric he gives me an eargasm , triggering something like an orgasm , and I can feel his words captivating , make love to me mentally , touching me repeatedly , reminding me just why poetry moves me . He dissects and defines , creating passages and verses and rhymes that'll leave you breathless and sometimes , before you realize it , you're dressed less . And I can tell by the expressions he's touching you like he's touching me repeatedly mentally . He's a bright , young soul searching for peace to unfold unknowingly , helping lost souls to find their own voice in home . And in the midst of his poetic verbal kiss , we await for him to bless us in his native song tones , patiently , until his lips part . And I'm entangled consciously , because again he's touching me mentally . So don't stop .
Speaker 1See , ladies and gentlemen , that's the type of shit that makes me want to throw my pen out the window , but then I'll even write it . You know , with a fucking pen I don't write the shit down , so I'd have to throw my iPad out the window . That's expensive , so we're not doing that . However , all right , so you didn't disappoint . That was great , that was amazing .
Speaker 6Thank you , that was , that was amazing . Put me on the spot . Put me on the spot that was simple and unprepared , but thank you .
Speaker 1You read that from the book or from one of your journal , your journal , you know what you know what .
Speaker 6I'm not going to do that with you .
Speaker 1I'm just asking what do you come from ? You came from the journal .
Speaker 6Both . That one is actually in the book , but it's in my journal as well .
Speaker 1OK , then you know what you should have read one of the chunks that I know me , but now , because I don't have . I can't , I don't have my piece , my part of it .
Speaker 6Oh man , why do you not memorize your stuff ?
Speaker 1Because it's written down . I did say I was lazy . I need you to pay attention .
Speaker 6So , people , what he's trying to say is that we should have read one of the pieces that we wrote together .
Speaker 4Right .
Speaker 6But since somebody you cannot memorize their stuff , then he's like cool , you want me to read it for you ?
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah , because I know you sent me you had sent me what was it ? It wasn't a deal . You sent me an instant message . It was a message right and I think you sent me like my piece and was like yo , can I put this in the book ? And I was like , yeah , go ahead . And I spent like 10 minutes reading and rereading that shit . Like yo , this shit is fire . Anyway , go ahead . I'm sorry .
Speaker 6Yeah , I'll do a short one , and this is not a spoken word piece , this is one that is meant to be read . But you guys , will you get the book ? Pay attention to the storyline .
Speaker 1Am I in this ?
Speaker 6one In this form yeah , yeah , this is one of the collapse . It's a short one Copy yeah , because I know what the time frame is , and so forth .
Speaker 1What you mean a time frame . That's the second time somebody said that to me today .
Speaker 6We had , we were on a side .
Speaker 1OK , ok , ok , this is CPT we hear CPT .
Speaker 6Ok , all right . Well , this is called . Love isn't a metaphor . Listen , if we happen to fall , I hope it's together and make forever injury free , chest compressions being the only burden . Hurdles stand erect because we cleared them . Heart beats I can hear them , the constant want to live , the coincidences that we survive in tandem . Growth is measured by breaths . Our transparent words expose what's left . So love isn't a metaphor . After all , it's a resident resting comfortably on my consciousness . Message received . But what if forever never comes ? I'd much rather bask in the present moment of the fearless and emotionally free , that space where time restraints cease and hearts merge , with minds like silhouettes dancing between kinetically inclined sheets , where pulses run acutely concurrent by evading potent pieces of what the world deems burning burdens , yet unremittingly still learning how to just be organically , we Allowing us to take up residence where oxygen and energy meet Into mixing of each other's physical and spiritual being , proving with a constancy that which affirms your original statement concrete that love really isn't just a metaphor , after all .
Speaker 1I think I added another stanza to that and you left it out .
Speaker 6No , but if you did you know it can always be in part two .
Speaker 1Yeah , because I'm sitting here feeling a little salty yeah .
Speaker 6I did . You wrote the first half . I would have read it better .
Speaker 1I'm fucking with you . You know what . I'm sitting here . I'm saying like , which part did I write ? The first one , I know , because when you got to the second one and you got real wordy , I was like yeah , I don't use those words .
Speaker 4I don't use those like .
Speaker 1That's not me . No , but this is the thing . No , and this , ladies and gentlemen , this is why , ladies and gentlemen , this is why you I guess one of the lessons in life is you always want to be with someone , or have someone in your circle , or have a complete circle of people that are doing so much better than you , but always willing to be a student , because if you're not , you know you're moving in slow motion , or possibly even moving in reverse . You know , this is not a game of freeze tag . You can always , always , you know , make yourself better , and I wasn't afraid to do that with poetry , which is why , you know , kiyoko , today , I'll start to use your government . Anyway , kiyoko today and I have remained friends to this day .
Speaker 1Yeah , and I'm again , like I said , blessings , and I'm happy that you actually , you know , got to put that book out . I'm thrilled to have been a part of the process , from the beginning , you know , from the inception of the thought itself , you know , all the way through to the actual printing of the book , you know . So , congratulations on that . I can't wait for part two , even though I didn't read part one yet . Yeah , and I can't wait to get the book . Put the book in my hands , yeah .
Speaker 6So part two . Let me tell you guys one thing so my name is Kiyoko today , but I write up under both names . So emotional is written up under today , and book two will be written up under Kiyoko . So depending on what the content in is , then I write up under either my first or my second name . So that's how that's how that works . So second book will be by Kiyoko , but book one is by today .
Speaker 1Fire . Yeah , I can't even fire Five desert .
Speaker 2I hope you guys enjoyed your meal . Can I get you something off of our desert menu ?
Speaker 1I think that we pretty much like covered like everything that was supposed to be in this section in the previous sections , but I do want to thank everybody that stuck around for this . I don't give a fuck if it took you three or four listens to actually get to this part . Thank you , you know , I appreciate it . I also want to take two seconds to thank everybody for making this such an amazing fucking season for myself and Shadra . Like , this has been a phenomenal season , right . So we're in where , like what ? Seven episodes , who knows when this one comes out ? This one actually be out on Monday Can't even date this shit because , depending on when , you anyway that whole thing had to stop myself from a tangent .
Speaker 1I want to let . I want to basically thank you guys from the bottom of my heart and I'm talking about podcasts that have stuck by me and watched the growth of people that have hit me up on the side . You know , and of course , you will remain nameless because you don't do it for that . You know you don't do it for me to name who's actually hitting me and shit like it's not what we do . So grown men and grown women business . I appreciate it . I appreciate it . Ok , klorenga guys , thank you Thank you so much for watching KJ .
Speaker 1Oh , thank you man , Thank you everyone xo .
We will continue at night and tea drinking people .
Speaker 5They think everything is natural . Oh my gosh , you know what ? What ?
Speaker 1Oh , kyoko , thank you for coming through . Thank you for putting up with me over these years . I know I'm a difficult friend . I've lost a lot of friends . I've lost a few good friends . You know , and that might be petty me talking right now , but I feel like I'm blessed to actually have you stick around and be the person that you've been to me over these years . I definitely appreciate it . Oh , thank you for having me , I enjoyed it .
Speaker 1And oh and fellas , fellas , fellas , don't play yourself and think that you're going to take out an expensive dinner and not have any conversation , Because the words that she uses in these pieces she also puts them shits , in the regular sentences . So if you're , not ready , you better get ready , and that's the thing about being a poet . That's a whole other conversation and probably another conversation for a male poet . I need to . Oh , I spoke to Lowkey . Well , you probably don't know Lowkey , but he's from GS as well . But I spoke to him the other day .
Speaker 1I'm trying to get that brother to come on to . He doesn't write anymore but you know it's . Gs was a very tightly knit community .
Speaker 4You know , tightly knit .
Speaker 1Anywho , you got anything for me .
Speaker 6I mean not unless you want me to take you out with another piece outside of that .
Speaker 1I don't know , but if you call for , that mic one more time yeah , because you out here got me .
Speaker 6I'm sorry , because I'm like trying to sneak eat fruit over here . I'm saying but we're all that fucking .
Speaker 1Oh the iron nice and the vitamins and shit . I don't even understand why you call for him right now , because it's cold .
Speaker 6It's like drinking a milkshake that's really cold and then you know it makes you it . Just I don't know Cold stuff makes me do that .
Speaker 1And I'm upset at myself .
Speaker 6You're trying to like sneak fruit over here .
Speaker 1I'm mad for even letting you get that one off . Like , how did I even cut you off a long time ago with that ? You see me , I'm like yeah , talking about this is my favorite . Yeah , whatever . Yes one last piece . Mama , go ahead , do your thing . Floors . Only because you're dropping a book , do your thing , All right , let me clear my throat . You want to do that and you will make me play . All right , can you mute ?
Speaker 4your mic when you clear your throat , unless it's still swelling .
Speaker 6I was trying to be funny that time . I'm sorry . Yes , I can mute my mic when I do that again . I really put that one in there for you just to be aggy , because you are harping on me .
Speaker 5All right , go ahead .
Speaker 6All right . So this one is called Poetry is Power , since it's a whole poetry event . Right , then ? I think that it's necessary that we do this one For the younger ones that are listening . The one thing that I like to tell anybody from any generation is to know that your voice holds power . So don't use , excuse me , if you don't use it , you will lose it . All right , absolutely .
Speaker 4Want to grow on .
Poetry is power and we are the vessels that deliver love , life and lessons in the form of dialectical expressions , possessing the ability to influence and lay mental tracks , like prehistoric impressions . And I'm not talking about the hyped up studio sessions that promote materialism and premature sex , and rather it's a verbal revolution and it's a message to the youth , then a bearing witness to the truth . Then we are the vessels . Poetry is power because we can raise our voices as one strength and one entity , instead of gunplay where my child plays and you can see why this gets the best of me because with words we breathe life in thee .
Speaker 6Poetry is power and we are the vessels . See , we use word play to help release and help relieve pain , like Martin did with cries of let freedom reign and Harriet did with Negro spirituals that help deliver slaves . Poetry is power and we do it without being loyal to the game . Instead , we instill knowledge in sons and daughters to help ward off prey and strengthen the midst of madness , to keep undertakers from making headstones for another black grave . So why is this an endless journey from which I can't refrain ? It's because poetry is power and we are the vessels that deliver love , life and lessons in the form of dialectical expressions . We use our tongues as lyrically correct , righteous weapons , so ain't no need to keep stressing , just incline your ears and receive these blessings , because we are the vessels and poetry is power .
Speaker 5Staying alive , staying alive , staying alive .