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SPEAKER_02 0:37

Okay. Oh, yeah, my light coming in there. Like you turn it the other way.

SPEAKER_00 3:04

I bet you don't fit it like I put the snow for the bee, I bet you can't do it like me.

SPEAKER_01 3:13

I'm about to build with the swamp. I'm about to shang with the stars. I'm about to do it for guns. I'm about to do a football. I'm about to do it for raw. I'm about to pull up a gun. Look at what? Look up like this violence step on the gas and I'm gonna take over the swamp. I'm about to take off the sight.

SPEAKER_02 3:31

But I'm just even a girl.

SPEAKER_01 3:32

Like the thing, but I do not have to go better.

SPEAKER_02 3:42

Or I'm ready, I'm ready.

SPEAKER_01 3:47

You can't be mean some possible topics on the track. I'm gonna stop it, must stop it because you're not an obvious obstacle. Of course, I'm gonna tell the topic. Okay, session, just second.

SPEAKER_06 3:56

I'm really into conscious music a lot, so I love like conscious music. She was asking me some of the people, and then I came back and thought about it. I was like, yo, I should have told him Toby. Not I should have told him. It's a lot of people I didn't even think about saying. I know you probably know about them though. And I when I listened to your show the other day, that was fire. It was a couple songs. I was like, yo, what crazy?

SPEAKER_02 4:19

Oh yeah, I'm gonna bring I'm gonna bring some vibes. Like, you know, yeah, it was got them all over.

SPEAKER_04 4:25

Uh DMV, uh West Coast, East Coast, South, Midwest, West. You know, we we we do a good change over there. So, you know, it ain't just music, but we, you know, we're tapping everything. I'm tapping it. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_06 4:40

Well, thank you so much for having me on, man. We've been talking for a long time. So just the fact that this is actually coming together now is amazing. Like you sent me people over, you know, you always supporting. So this was a necessity, more so than an honor. You know what I'm saying? Like both of them, but still, you know.

SPEAKER_04 5:02

Yeah, yeah, you've been you've been doing your thing for a minute. I like, I've been seeing, you know, you've been making moves, you've been been out there in the A, you know, doing your thing with the spoken word and all that. And I'm like, you know, it's an honor for me to, you know, be able to have this platform to give you to just, you know, let you do your thing. So like, you know, we're gonna let you do some spoken word. You know what I'm saying? I'm gonna do a little, you know, a little talking to you. This ain't no smut interview, so you, you know what I'm saying? I ain't gonna with the bullying.

SPEAKER_06 5:31

I ain't worried, I ain't got much smut to worry about, so I'm good.

SPEAKER_04 5:35

Yes, we're smoking our stuff like, hey, you know what I'm saying? Back in your 20 something, yo, but X, Y, Z. Like, oh no, I'm like, I ain't no, nah. So this, and it this ain't no, no, no, kind of situation like that. This this real chill vibe. We gonna, we're gonna, you know, ask you some questions, we're gonna freestyle it, let you do a couple little uh pieces. So uh shout outs.

SPEAKER_06 6:01

Did you know how many you might want? Because it's gonna, you know, it'll determine my order if I know, you know what I'm saying? Because I put we put a lot to the side for you now. We put a lot to the side, so you just, you know, let me know what you need.

SPEAKER_04 6:13

So I can I can take the so you got like an hour and some change. So I I took it up, you know, because I know how how you know things go. But like you want to do, you know, how many pieces you got? You know, we throw it that way. After that, you can talk about what they what they mean to you, stuff like that.

SPEAKER_06 6:28

I mean, whatever. We're just gonna go with the flow. We're gonna go. And we'll just right, we're just gonna go with the flow and how many we get out in between the music and the interviewing, then that's what we gonna do.

SPEAKER_04 6:37

Yeah, you know, so I ain't gonna cut you off. I'm gonna let you do your thing, let you talk to your to your supporters out here. You know, uh every every day, like I said, I learned, I learned with doing these interviews, I learn a lot about everybody, you know, that a lot of people don't might not know. So sometimes we stereotype a lot of artists for everybody, and they like, oh, just because whatever then we hear them, and we like, oh, well, you know, that's their music, but they they wrote their life stories as a powerful story. So this this is the platform to give people to, you know, let people know the real you, you know. Thank you.

SPEAKER_06 7:17

I appreciate that. And that's why I know it's gonna be a vibe. So, you know what I'm saying? Like, you know. So how how is how is life vaping? Do I need to go off the camera to vape? Or you know what I'm saying? We can do it, we can do it all. We can do it all. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 7:31

Now long as you ain't doing no lines, we good.

SPEAKER_06 7:34

Yeah, yeah, no, no. I mean, I quit that I quit doing those about 25 years ago, so I'm good. The only lines I do now is writing, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_04 7:44

Hey, hey, so yo, you you wanna have you wanna have your drink, you wanna blow your blow your uh your bait, whatever? I'm I'm cool with it, you know what I'm saying. Thank you. I don't drink, but thank you at the green and just judge little show, you know what I'm saying? Uh now I don't, you know, you you talk, you know, I I know anything about, you know, no criminal stuff, like, you know, because I'm like, hey, you know, don't don't I don't want no yo so-and-so dead boy. Nah, I was all up on it.

SPEAKER_06 8:12

I ain't I ain't got no stories like that either. Are we safe over here?

SPEAKER_04 8:16

Oh, hey, I like I like people because people get comfortable when they start talking, and I feel like, hey, yo, uh now you're going down the wrong road.

SPEAKER_06 8:24

Hold up.

SPEAKER_04 8:24

I be like, let's play a song real quick, you know what I'm saying? So, but yeah, you know, people get comfortable because they want to talk. You know, I I'm cool with it, you know. This not a judgmental place, you know. We just, you know, this different vibe, we just talk. But like I said, I got a script sometimes. I don't even go off the script, so it's just here to just keep me keep me uh on the on the on the same page.

SPEAKER_06 8:48

So Sounds good, bro.

SPEAKER_04 8:50

So we got so we we got your your your manager, Miss Brooks. Is this she's your manager? She is. All right, we you and my we we let her uh do a little uh so people can know who she is.

SPEAKER_02 9:03

Do you mind? All right, we gonna I'm you know, I like throwing people uh out there, so let's let's let's talk about you.

SPEAKER_04 9:11

What what she does, what part you play with with uh with with Miss uh topic, you know what I'm saying? So we can we can figure out, you know, where you come in at because you know, you know, I I I know her for a minute, but when you came off like, hey, she got management, I was like, oh, okay, we're doing a big thing now. So, you know, I always want to talk to the manager to the team to see where, you know, where where where they staying at with him, you know, so we're gonna let you do your thing.

SPEAKER_09 9:37

Good afternoon, good night, good evening, all that. We all on the same time. Can you hear me?

SPEAKER_04 9:43

No, no, no, no, I'm from two hours behind.

SPEAKER_09 9:45

Are you?

SPEAKER_04 9:46

No, I'm messing with you.

SPEAKER_09 9:48

Well, here we are right now anyway.

SPEAKER_02 9:49

Popi, I know Poppy's really sleep right now, so it's okay. This is pre-recorded. We didn't tear you that part. All right.

SPEAKER_04 9:59

So, so we're gonna let you talk about, you know, what you do, uh, what you bring to the table, you know, who who you are, so you know, people can also know, you know, how to tap in what you was wearing.

SPEAKER_09 10:09

Well, my name is Kimberly Brooks, better known as Coastal Sunflower. And first of all, this is an honor. She's been telling me about you for a long time, and we finally got this. The time is always perfect. Timing's always perfect. So this is the time for your show is amazing. We're so honored, and we're so just so much gratitude for you to put us on this platform. And we've just been watching and just loving everything that you've done, and we're gonna learn from you and borrow some things from you sometimes. And and you can come and borrow some things from us on the corner, but that's it. I just manage her. That's the thing for all things, which is really it's a beautiful learning experience because, of course, you know, Poppy pours. That's what she does. She pours in and she pulls out the best in you. That's her goal all the time when she gets up in the morning at four o'clock in the morning. It's just let's go, you know, even the things that goes on in her life. She always puts that on a back burner to understand what you're doing and what she's all about people being successful, which is, you know, I do that in my life too. You know, I work at a boys behavior center and my whole family from the time I can remember anything, you know, that was our goal to help somebody every day. And so this is just an extension of that. And we're just trying to, I'm learning as much, I'm learning on the job. She's fired me like seven times today. Oh, oh. Yeah. And I'm just not leaving because, you know, she don't understand. I'm not going nowhere. So when you said the incriminating stuff, I hate I got my face on here because it's, you know, sometimes I don't be able to talk about it.

SPEAKER_04 11:38

No, you know. So I ain't even like that. I'm gonna leave that one alone for another day. Yeah. Uh but it's that you were working on as well, or what do you see?

SPEAKER_09 11:49

Yes, I have our company is Coastal Sunflower, our our total body company. I'm here in Florida based and on the farm, and everything that you see, everything we talk about is all natural from our head to our toe. You know, it starts with cleansing of your mind, and then the body follows backwards. Sometimes, sometimes you have to clean your body first, and the things that go into your body helps your mind. So that's what we're all about. You know, we have products for men and women. She's hands-on with that, and she makes sure that, you know, we collab in everything. I mean, just everything is this, that, pull, that. You know, we have animals, she's all about nature and hugging trees and stuff. This is her for real. This is what's so funny. This is really her. And it's just like she's pulled the best out of me. You might can't tell, but I'm just not, I'm a behind-the-scenes person. I'm just not like the person that pushes, pushes. And so she's pushed me to do some things that I wouldn't normally have had the courage to do, you know. And so now it's just like when you just, you know, we're privileged. That's what it is. That's our our next thing that we got going on. And it's just all about, you know, that word is taken for some other thing sometimes. We're reclaiming that word because it's a privilege for us to be here. It's a privilege for us to be in community and connection. And let's go. I'm just ready. I'm excited about the things she got going on. I mean, we're just booking, booking, booking. And Mr. Miller, if you know somewhere you can plug her in, you know, you on a racer. So whenever you say we got to go, we're going where you say go, because for a long time you have been a person who has watched her career and you have supported her career. And so we have a lot of trust in people that are foundational people, and we feel like you're a foundational piece. So we just want to thank you and your platform for having us.

SPEAKER_04 13:30

All right, I appreciate that. Uh, one other thing before I say anything else, where can they find your products at online or if you want to if they buy one person for you?

SPEAKER_09 13:39

We have a website and everything is coastal sunflower body scrubs. It's TikTok, it's Poppy's Poppy's page, my page. Uh everything is coastal sunflower body scrubs. You look up uh uh PPC, you look up Poppy's Portrait Corner, I'm a sponsor on there, and y'all, she makes me pay. Uh we're in negotiation about that because you know, she she believes in everybody doing what they're supposed to do. So anything, everything is coastal sunflower body scrubs, and just plug in. And I'm telling you, from the very first time you use it, when I first got in connection with her, she was like, you know, be, I don't do all that girly scrubbing and rubbing and all that, but the product was made for guys first because I have a son and I have 14 guys' sons. So they told me, mommy, make something for us because girls have everything. So it's fruits and berries. I have chattanooga whiskey, blackberry peach bourbon, things like that since that are in so they're unisex, pineapple mango. And so, hey, that's how it started. So if the girls start liking it too, and guys need to scrub too, and you guys need to take care of head to toe, your beard oil. We have everything for everybody. So from we have a babyline now.

SPEAKER_02 14:48

Shampoo.

SPEAKER_09 14:49

Shampoo. We just partner with yes, we yeah, tea. We had because she's she does the teas before she comes on, and she's like, B, can you? I don't know what she thinks. I gotta imagine one down here sometimes, but she comes up with these ideas. She's like, I need tea, I need edible tea. What can we do? So things just falling, falling blessings for us because now we have a place here where the goats are, and it's an edible poppy farm. And the guy was gonna just mow them down like a week before. And so it just when this we speak things, it comes about. And so on our farm where the goats are, he was literally gonna mow them down because he didn't know his wife's like, well, let Kimberly and Poppy see these before you mow them down. So we dry the teas, everything is there, and now we're partnered with Kitty City Daycare in Atlanta, and we have a kid's line. So hey, we get them from the cradle all the way that way. So everybody can family. All right. All right, now I know I know who to tell you. Even when I come down there or um Yeah, because I see you got a little thing going on, you need to one time. It's gonna take one time, and I promise you, one time. Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 15:55

If you say, if you say they don't try, all right, all right. Okay, cool. All right, so we're about to get started. You know, we're gonna talk to to to assist right here. Okay. Gonna do some, you know, some spoken word for y'all. If y'all haven't heard her, make sure y'all you tune in on you know Wednesday night. So you already this is your boy AD, and we are locked in the Pusha Independent Radio Show where we bring the dopest artists, the realest conversations, and the raw, unfiltered talent around the world. Today I got a tremendous special guest for y'all coming straight out of the angle. We're talking about a poet, a creative voice, a woman who doesn't just touch the mic. She sets the whole stage on fire. Now, I want y'all to listen for real, because this is this isn't just somebody who just decided to try portion. This is the purpose, this is her passion. This is a voice that's been building since the age of eight. I want you to share the tip of this now. So, and when she finally stepped to the mic in 2022, she's never looked back. Got a by strength, love, a powerful adventure, too blessed, too stressed. She's turned her story into impact and her pain and a purpose. She's a creator of Poppy Portia Corner, going live every Wednesday at 8 p.m. Building a movement, uplifting the culture, and bringing real vibes to the people every single week. I want to introduce y'all to Miss Keynote. We're gonna let you say we're gonna let you do your thing. So I'm about to ask, pretty much is gonna start us off. You know, where does your love of poet poetry come at at the age of eight?

SPEAKER_06 17:40

Lack of communication. That was my way to communicate. It was my way to just, you know, get things out. I mean, that's how it started. I just always had a love for writing and reading. So poetry. It was just normal.

SPEAKER_04 17:55

All right, all right. So what was young keynotes writing about back then?

SPEAKER_06 18:03

I think my first poem that I kind of remember myself writing was I love myself because I'm me. Right. And for some reason I can almost remember the whole thing, but it was teenage me writing that piece and trying to prove to the world that no matter what you think about me, I'm me and I know who I am. I identify with who I am and I love it just for being myself. And I I always remember that piece sticking out as the first piece that I really remember that I wrote, but I also wrote for a teen newspaper. So that was another outlet that allowed me to give back to the community and different things like that.

SPEAKER_04 18:45

So, okay.

SPEAKER_06 18:47

Now my question is, do you have a piece that we I actually don't, but I can remember a good bit of it, honestly. It went something like um, I love myself because I'm me, striving to be all I can be. Not because someone else wants me to. I have to prove myself to me, not to you. See, somebody's always trying to change me, but only I can change me to any shape or form I want to be. I have the mentality of an 18-year-old. That's about all I remember. I tried to rewrite it one day, but I it's just, it was, yeah, it didn't, it didn't come out the same, but I remembered that part of it. So um that part was a pushing for me just in hearing younger me already identifying with who I knew I was supposed to be.

SPEAKER_04 19:37

Well, you still remember, so you, you know, you still you still got the producers in that file that I've been seeing for for years. So what made you come back to the mic in 2022?

SPEAKER_06 19:46

That was my first time actually stepping to the mic. My writing was just for me. I might have read to my mom, you know, a couple family members or something like that. But other than that, it was just my secret place, my place of writing. And what happened was is that when my mom got sick, she told me, don't let my words die. And actually on the way to the hospital, I was I was working on my EP at the time. And I was letting her listen to it. And I was like, mom, while we on the way down here, listen to this. And she stopped me, you know, before I got ready to take her in. And she looked at me and she said, you know, by my real name, she said, um, whatever you do, don't let your words die.

SPEAKER_02 20:27

Right.

SPEAKER_06 20:28

And it sparked something else in me. So when she left me, which was in 22, I went to my first open mic.

SPEAKER_04 20:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 20:37

And I've been going ever since. I just I found a passion, my heart, my my hands, my everything just felt like this is where I was supposed to be, and I finally was home.

SPEAKER_04 20:53

So let so you said you got an EP, let's talk about this EP then.

SPEAKER_06 20:57

I didn't finish it. I actually, I actually didn't finish it because I was going through a really the transition at the time. I was excited about it, but my mom was sick for a while. So me taking her to the hospital that day, that went on for months. So everything in life got put on the back burner. But this was also how I birthed Poppy's poetry car. Because before I went, you know, I went to that open mic, but I didn't want to always go out to the public and be uncomfortable in a comfortable situation. You get what I'm saying? Like comfortable with my poetry, but uncomfortable because I didn't know anybody. I was new to the mic. I didn't really, I didn't know myself as a poet or what I wanted to really put out or project to the world. I just needed to get out there. So I sat down one day and I drew up the plans for Poppy's poetry corner. And it was through my grief because in mourning her, I got really busy. Really busy mentally, physically, emotionally. It was just busy be, keep my Myself busy. And so Poppy's Poetry Corner was birthed through that. And we've been going strong for four seasons now.

SPEAKER_04 22:09

So what keeps you going? What do you look for when you have poets on your show?

SPEAKER_06 22:17

Just community. Just building community. And more than anything, this is my way of keeping her words alive. Don't let your words die. It doesn't, she didn't tell me how to do it. She just said, don't let it die. Poetry was the way that I chose to do it, but also through hosting, also through uplifting, also through motivational reels. It was just, I just kicked in and the motivational reels really started because me talking to myself. I had to go to work while my mom was in the hospital. I had to, you know, take care of her house. I had to do certain things. So I had to talk to myself every day just to get myself to leave the hospital, just to get myself to, you know, move through life. So I started, you know, doing motivation for me. But then people was like, yo, we heard you this morning. You you got us all piped up. You need to start putting that out to the world. And, you know, some mornings that would be through my tears. It would be through the yelling, the frustration, the, you know, it would be a lot going on. So, you know, I was just able to, you know, get it out. And it turned into all of this, and it's just been such a blessing.

SPEAKER_04 23:27

Yeah, I like I like what you're doing. Uh I like that. That's where you give poets uh uh MCs, you give them opportunities to showcase their their gifts and talents. I guess by you having a show just like I do, is there points that like you get discouraged that, like, let's say somebody reaches out and says, hey, you be like, hey, you want to be on the show and then like they supposed to show, but they don't. Does stuff like that get you discouraged, or do you just keep moving on with it?

SPEAKER_06 23:55

I'm I'm on my let's go. So just because one person can't make it, I might have three or four other people that bless me. You know, season one was the hardest season. Nobody knew who I was. Who was keynotes? You know, who's Poppy? And what is Poppy's Pointry Corner? And so a lot of people was like, oh, you can't, you know, because I don't know what, you know, or or something like that. So just, you know, I got a lot of no's. Let's just say that. You know what I'm saying? But for every no that I got, I went double time and I got yeses. You know what I mean? So it was just the whole, you know, like again, for everybody who's ever touched down on Poppy's Poetry Corner, they bless me more so than I could ever say that I've ever blessed them. So I have a platform, but my platform wouldn't be anything without the blessing of people coming over and giving me their energy. So of course, when I'm on the corner, I'm gonna give that energy back. I'm already extra, like, you know, I'm drilled. So they even call me caffeine. You know, even right now, I'm telling myself to, you know, calm down because I'm, you know, I'm you know, so it's like, so it's like, you know, even with that, you know, I feel like energy feeds energy. And even if I have somebody that comes in the room that's not on my energy, guess what? By the time they leave Pope's Poetry Corner, they're gonna feel me. You know what I'm saying? They're gonna feel the energy that I want them to have so that, you know, they know it's all love, whether they feeling down, whether they're happy. If you're happy, I want you 10 times happier than what you were when you came in. If you down, then I want you, you know, from where you were. So it's just all about us just staying in community and building a really strong community around the arts, not just poetry. It's about arts itself. They're taking arts out of schools. Our kids don't have the outlets that we had growing up. So arts are important. Being able to express ourselves in whatever form that looks like is important. So that's why the corner is so important. It's, you know, and that's why I named it the corner. Because when I was growing up, we couldn't leave off the corner. You know what I'm saying? Like we had to go to the end of the street. Everybody met on the end of the street. We heard all the good music. You know, the first store I went to by myself was the corner store, you know. So I got a lot of knowledge on the corner. But the corner also has a bad representation. So I wanted to give it a flip side. We pushed the best uncut dopness on Poppy's poetry corner. And it comes in different strands. However, your strand is, just know we pricked up and we is in there, no ditty. Hold on. You know what I'm saying? But you know, we we we we pushing that strand of whatever your energy is, because it's only one you, and and nobody else can make your strand. So just come and be authentically yourself, however, that looks for you. And that's why I feel like the love has been reciprocated so much, is because it's just, you know, however you come, we we it's like the church for real. The doors are open however you coming, you know what I'm saying? So it's just, yeah. So I hope I answered your question now.

SPEAKER_04 27:17

Yeah, you did. I always just like to ask the second part because I know through all the no's, I know there's people that come back and say, hey, you know, I see that you got you got this platform now, and you got not just indie poets, but you you pulling people that are known poets out here. Like, how does it feel when other people who didn't support you at first come back and then want to be a part of what you do? Do you accept those or do you keep it?

SPEAKER_06 27:47

If if you asked to come on the corner, newbies, people who are vets, the corner is open. I don't, I don't hold that against anybody because it could have been any reason that they said no. They could have had something going on in life. It didn't have to be just because they didn't know who I was or what the corner was. You know what I'm saying? Maybe they needed more details. Maybe they needed to see how it's gonna go a little bit before they put their name out there. Your name is your everything. You know what I'm saying? Your brand. You know, so if that is the case, then I would, whatever it is, whatever made you say yes, I'm still gonna look at it as the same blessing that I looked at it as when you answered me back. Because what about those messages that never got answered back from people that I sent to, like, yo, you'll be on the corner and then I get nothing. You know what I'm saying? So, you know, so you, you know, again, I just have an attitude of gratitude for the small things, and that's how I move through life. Just a big attitude of gratitude. You know what I'm saying? Like the gas price is low. I'm like, yeah, attitude of gratitude. I'm like, you looking at my videos, you see, I'll be at shell a little, you know, and people be like, yo, she's talking about the gas. So what? That's cool. You know what I'm saying? Dinner came to me tonight. I'm thankful for the coup. You know, I'm just thankful for because I've just lost so much on this journey. So when you lose a lot, you realize that somebody ain't have the opportunity to do this today. Whatever it is that you're doing, somebody didn't have that opportunity. So you better take this time and just be happy for what you have.

SPEAKER_04 29:28

By you saying it, like uh, I'm thinking about, you know, legacy building. Like, what legacy do you want to leave when, you know, when when it when that time is called to be like, hey, what what effect did she leave when she was here? So what do you what do you want to leave at that time?

SPEAKER_06 29:48

I often think about that. So that's why I move in the energy in the way that I move, because I feel like everything that I'm doing right now is putting my footprints in the sand. I just, I want people to just know me for who I am and how my story came about. You know, like through through mostly, sometimes you gotta go through it to get to it. But I got to it. No matter what it was, I just want people to understand that let's go is really a movement.

SPEAKER_04 30:20

I love that. So I noticed you have yourself on at 8 p.m. Why, why, uh, why is that special to you at that time?

SPEAKER_06 30:32

So I didn't realize it when I transitioned. We used to be at nine. And the reason that we used to be at nine is because, you know, sometimes the show got a little wrong. So I didn't really want the kids. I wanted, you know, the adults to be able to enjoy the show with the kids in bed. And, you know, I have kids as well. So football practice, just different things went on, right? So the universe changed my timing. And when it changed my timing, I had to go to eight. And when I think about it, eight is the circle of life.

SPEAKER_03 31:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 31:03

Eight is infinity, eight is the day my mama passed away. Eight is like eight just holds so many different things, but mostly because it's the circle of life. I have eight kids. My great eight, I call them. You know what I'm saying? So eight is just a very significant number for me, but when you look at the eight, it's continuous energy. So that's what I am. No matter how the energy comes, it ain't always happy, but it's energy.

SPEAKER_04 31:34

Gotcha. I see that you've been nominated every year. So have you won anymore? That's the first one in. Uh, what does it feel like to be be in that spot that that people are noticing the work that you're doing?

SPEAKER_06 31:50

We actually haven't won yet. The voting is actually going on right now. I don't even know if we're nominated for this year yet. So, but somebody will let me know if we get nominated, I'm sure. And what does it feel like to be nominated? Um, wow, I'm on a list with people who have been doing this for 25, 30 years that I know of. So that right there by itself is a win to me. You know, somebody fussed at me a couple years ago. They said, you're not even pushing your vote. And I told them, because I already won. What do you mean? I'm on the list. You know what I'm saying? They like, but yeah, you can't really win though if you push it. Just being put on uh the list with, you know, people like of that caliber was enough for me.

SPEAKER_04 32:43

All right, so we're gonna we're gonna take a little break from the questions. I'm gonna let you get into a couple little spoken word pieces. I won't you just let me know what what they mean to you? And we're gonna we're gonna let you let you we're gonna spotlight you. I mean, we've been spotlight you, but definitely gonna put that put that sign on you right now.

SPEAKER_06 33:02

All right, sound good. So this piece right here, I actually wrote this piece not too long ago. And for the sake of the show, we're gonna call it end moment. I like a lot of boondocks. So, you know, sometimes you have those moments, right? But then you have to ask yourself in this society that we live in right now, is that moment worth it? And who is really that? Because this doesn't make you that. You could be the other and still be. You know what I'm saying? So that's how this piece came about.

SPEAKER_02 33:35

So let's get into it. All right. I throw a rope. Most put it around their neck loose.

SPEAKER_06 33:47

So I cut them loose, knowing them the shit, so I stay on my shoe fly. Don't bother me. You see, ignorance irritates me quick. That's why my pen right, so I don't throw a left. Always willing to drop knowledge so you knew. Trash. Not having principle to be a student. See, you're one of those adults who end up on supervision because you couldn't see what was being done to our community. And communicate to get unity now we trapped. With spirits on every corner, not counting the unalived. Not counting the unalived. Evidence of not counting the unalived, evidence of all the wars we fought over the years, including the leaders, you know, the ones having the habit of taking people places where they wouldn't have won alone. Get me, big leader. If nobody but herself, but who will stand with me? Or will you continue to be one of those ones who end up under spreadsheet, no XL, being extra, extra. But most will never read all about it, never making the paper. And most of the time, that's what it's about. Paper. But now you whitewash, like they took their time to clean your final destination. I mean how it starts to disappear the more it's walked over, but that's just another day living in the hood. So you quickly forget the remnants of splatter of brain matter while they're too trained to use theirs, able to watch a human die like it made perfect sense. Only think about white matters, be time after time, same tragic end, because there's nothing more scarier than a non-medalin mofo who's uncomfortable. You have to learn to protect by serving customer care. Or not to offend. But by now, it shouldn't take yellow tape for you to see passion, the bruised ego can twicken in life, changing everybody around you. So tell me, was that one stop worth an end moment?

SPEAKER_02 36:01

And who's the end? And that's my piece. Wow.

SPEAKER_04 36:11

I don't know what to say, you know. I I I I I heard I I heard you uh a while ago. But I hear you now. I'm like, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm I'm I'm feeling that. Let's talk about that though. What what does the the piece that you just you just did, what does it mean to you?

SPEAKER_06 36:29

I feel like it's a warning. I feel like that sometimes when we get pulled over or when we're in certain situations, we don't think before we act. And sometimes those actions will lead, not they they will hurt us, of course, but you have to think about the people that may be at home. Maybe the your loved ones. So sometimes just taking a second to think about your reaction or just being quiet will stop or defuse a situation before it turns into something else. And I feel like a lot of us never take that opportunity to just think about, you know, our actions before we take them.

SPEAKER_04 37:14

Wow, because yeah, because I'm I'm an irrational thinker. So to hear that, I needed to hear that. Because, you know, sometimes we we look at what people do and we like, you know, we want to go put hands on them. But like is it worth what you're gonna lose to do that? Even though you're gonna feel good at and at that moment, but you know, I I I'm starting to realize that sometimes things are not always worth it, you know, because sometimes people gonna get what what they what's gonna what they're gonna get. So, you know, that that that really resonated with me at this moment. Uh I I don't have I don't have no words, pieces.

SPEAKER_06 37:54

I appreciate it. And and slow down. Sometimes just, you know, I I I it took me a while to learn that sometimes being quiet and hushing is needed.

SPEAKER_04 38:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 38:06

Sometimes, you know, a lot of even with prayer, let's just take that. A lot of people pray. A lot of people ask and for stuff. But you never just take a second to be quiet and listen. Be silent. Listen and silent are the same, rearranged. Sometimes you just gotta do that.

SPEAKER_04 38:26

All right, so so what you what you got next? What you got next for me?

SPEAKER_06 38:30

All right, so we decided to dove into a family piece. I'm big into music. That's why another reason why this show was like, yeah, man, my man's been, you know what I mean, rocking, and he he does the music. And so because I'm big into music, I have a lot of musical pieces. I might not do them a lot, but I have them. So this piece right here is I've been going through a lot for the last four years. Not just the loss of my parents, and I mean both parents in the last four years, but also fighting to hold on to legacy, fighting to hold on to things that my parents worked hard for. You know what I'm saying? Because as my people and my community, we don't necessarily know how to leave our kids stuff when we pass on. We go about it kind of the wrong way. So the kid ends up paying for the things that we might have didn't pay for. You know what I'm saying? So in this piece, I was really frustrated. I won't say that I was in a dark place, but I needed to write myself out of a place before I went there.

SPEAKER_02 39:44

Um, so this is I wanna go outside. I wanna go outside.

SPEAKER_06 39:58

In the rain. It may sound crazy. But maybe then I feel some relief from this storm that's been brewing inside. Thoughts rising like flood waters, emotions crashing all at once. See, they say a lot gets passed down from your parents. I just pray genetics ain't my only inheritance. Because my family tree, it ain't looking so great. Too much sweetness, see, sugar cane been dripping for generations. Now I know to check the numbers. But what about the other things left unbalanced or balances yet to be paid? Life scales aren't fixed. Positive flashes and bright bursts, but negative hit like lightning, quick, loud, burning. Balance is the key, right? Mine still works. To doors that hold the same locks for over 20 years, but now just a shell of what they used to be like my wing. She paved the way, but somehow I gotta pay just to own the street. Maybe the fresh air will help. So nobody can see the pain leaking out my eyes. Tears disguised as raindrops, so I don't have to explain the storm. I want you to tell me what to do. But if you were here, I wouldn't need advice. Face close, meet and my balance. So why does it feel like it's raining more and more? Little showers through my day reminding me that I'm still grieving, still healing, and I don't even like getting wet. Not like this. I'm drenched, cold, shivering. The more the anger builds, and yet the rain feels good running down my skin. It feels like comfort, like warm hands on a cold back reaching places I can't. Maybe I don't need the sun right now. Maybe I just need the rain to remind me I can still feel everything and survive it. So let's fight. Like, I wanna go outside in the rain. It may seem crazy. But I need to get outside.

SPEAKER_02 42:24

And that's my peace.

SPEAKER_04 42:27

Alright. Hey yo, hey yo, you you you you really touching touching the soul today.

SPEAKER_02 42:32

Thank you.

SPEAKER_04 42:33

You know, because I I you know, we all deal with grief. I lost an artist two years ago. Webd three. So she was the first person I managed. She got sick and and all that, and I still deal with her some days because uh and because it's you know, she was the first one that, you know, I managed and technically everything I'm doing now. It's been a been like kind of like she should be here, but I'm doing stuff that we talk about that she's not able to experience. And so some days have those days like, dang, you know, I wish she was here.

SPEAKER_06 43:08

Um she is. She's right there with you every step of the way, believe that.

SPEAKER_04 43:13

But you hitting on all notes, you know, you I I I ain't never had nobody the energy baby almost shed a tear. But you know what I'm saying? So, so, you know, you know, that that's a lot. So, but uh I, you know, you you you hit you hitting on all cylinders, uh, and even with these energies, like I tell everybody, sometimes I get ones that's supposed to show up and they don't. I had to realize that they they those probably weren't the ones that I was supposed to have, but the ones that come through that drop some nuggets, even even I'm a humble person, so you just grounded.

SPEAKER_06 43:57

It's it's lower than, or you know, if you look at the Up the definition, you know, that but that's a whole nother conversation because we use a lot of words that aren't designed for us. Um, so but anyway, go ahead.

SPEAKER_04 44:11

Yeah, so so like you know, I I I sit there and just to be able to to have people that come through that, you know, I learned something from that that make me like, hey, these guys are are awesome to come through to share stories. And it's like I learned something. And I I I've done pretty much 19 interviews in in the last month. So to sit here and and like, hey, I've I've learned that it's because you singing whatever, you you rap about whatever. People still have real life that they're actually doing real stuff with their life, just because you know, you know, I do a song and I'm I'm I'm talking about shooting up everybody, and you know, but I'm out here, you know, I'm loving my family, I'm taking care of my community. I feel like pretty much even mainstream needs to also do have a moment where they do this as well. These kids out here are are looking even if they got examples at home, they're still looking for examples. And you know, they they listen to the music and and like I tell people all the time, some of these people out here, they live in the life, and some of them ain't living a life. Like some of them they telling on me, you, and everybody in the videos, and and they and people in the video looking at my like, you know, like, yeah, you know, he the one shot them down the street, you know.

SPEAKER_03 45:30

Right. You weren't supposed to say that, bro. Like, what would you do?

SPEAKER_04 45:33

Exactly. What was that? It's it's like it's 20 dudes in there with guns in the back, you know, and all that stuff. They looking around, I'm like, yo, you can't can't do that. But like, you know, with people how they are, and and especially kids D, they are more impressionable of what they see. So that's I feel like a lot of artists need to like tell the real story. Like, so that these kids know, like, hey, they ain't just have my hair doing whatever, because it's some that's went to college. It's some that were that have businesses. There's there's one thing that's even though you know we acting crazy on in videos and stuff, but actually doing doing real stuff out here.

SPEAKER_06 46:11

So big facts, I I I definitely agree with you, but and and I I had to learn that as well. We are definitely not our kids' biggest influence. As much as we want to be, they feel like we don't understand them anyway. So with that being said, that's why I'm very particular about, you know, you have to you have to uh know who your kids are friends with.

SPEAKER_04 46:33

Right, sure.

SPEAKER_06 46:34

You know, and it was cool around my house because it was so many kids, the kids all piled up because I had all the kids anyway. So it's nothing like sitting back and being able to just watch how your kids deal with their friends. You find out what kind of kids you really have when you do that. That's why I tell people, people, you know, like I used to have like associates to be like, oh, all the kids at your house, I went alone all day. I got them children, I always run to my house, eating all my food, and I be like, yo, I love it. You know what I'm saying? Because at the end of the day, I know mine's a safe. And if nothing else, I can also help parent their friends so that, you know what I'm saying? And I can sit back and listen to those conversations that they're having that they think nobody's listening to. You'll find out what kind of kid you're really raising just by doing that. You ain't gotta go through their phones, you ain't gotta, you know, but I do that too. But you don't, you're not gonna find the truth. They're gonna release everything. Everything is full before you even really get to a break. If you woke up on those conversations or drop them off somewhere and then show back up 20 minutes later and sit somewhere and just look and see what's going on. You'll really see what kind of kids you have. And to me, that's really the involvement that we have to be a community again. You know, these kids, I see, you know, when I'm at the football field or different places that we go, I see so many kids that don't even care about cursing in front of adults anymore. They walking around firing it off, firing it off, firing it off. You know, but and the adults sitting there. I'm not that. I am definitely not that. I'm looking at you like, yo, and I'm cursing when I say it that. You gotta watch your mouth, you don't see me over there. And then let them say something else. No, go get your parents. Where your people's that, because I don't even want to argue with you. Where your people you out here embarrassing. Go get them so I can tell them how you over here acting. And then they get real calm real fast. Because either they're there with a coach, they're there with a beast, something, you know what I'm saying, most of the time. Or just have a simple conversation with them if you get a group of kids by themselves. Simple conversations with kids will go so far. Why you why you talking like that? What you got going on? You know what I'm saying? That you see all these adults out here and you don't care how you carry it yourself or you don't have enough respect to hold that down. Because if we can hear you over here, you disrespectful. You know, like even with my kids, I let them do what they do. When the basketball goes down at the end of the street, they boys. But if I can hear you when I'm sitting on my porch, you being disrespectful. And you owe me some money ass and push-ups. Come on with it, because I'm that I'm following you up. Come on up here. Everybody doesn't push-ups. Y'all gonna learn. No, you'll learn today. Like you're gonna respect, but my kids are those kids too. Yeah, they're gonna say something because they know how we're coming. So they're gonna be like, hey, yo, man, you're gonna have to watch your mouth, but they're gonna tell me you can't come over here no more. So if you want to keep coming over here, bro, you let her hear one more time. I'm telling you how she is. I be listening.

SPEAKER_04 49:39

You know what I'm saying? You know, but yeah, so they're a little different than when you know we grew up. You say a little?

SPEAKER_02 49:47

Did you say a little?

SPEAKER_04 49:48

Yeah, I did. I would and some of it, I blame grandparents too, because like my mom, I I love my mom and dad to death. My mom was speak first, ask questions later. Now she got older and and she's like, oh well, you know, my my daughter said something to her. I said, What you do? She's like, Oh, you know, I just, you know, I just I ain't say nothing to her. I just was like, whatever, just go in your room. I don't want to deal with you. I said, Mom, I said, come on now. I said, Did that be me? I said, she said, yeah, that was different though. I said, Y'all kids were different when y'all grew up. You we you we were tough. Like these kids now you beat them and they like beat me. You can't beat them no more.

SPEAKER_02 50:28

You can't beat them no more.

SPEAKER_04 50:30

And and you beat them, and and they like whatever you like now, it it's something with the phone, I don't, I don't know what it is, but you take the phone, they you you don't took their life. I seen kids fight their parents on the phones because parents want to take the phone, and I'm like, you're like, look, like, you know, I didn't, you know, we got in trouble when I was younger. She you took the you took the Nintendo's, it's the Sagans, and we was we was creative. We would, you know, you know, ball up some paper, make, make, you do whatever, you know.

SPEAKER_06 51:01

Smit balls. No, I was I mean, you're right, though. You you're right. But you know, as as grandparents, I think their job is to spoil them. So they ain't looking at it like when they was raising us anyway. They like, yo, that's your problem for real, for real. What you gonna do to her? I told you what she said. So you gonna go in there and hang with that or not? Because I'm not the bad guy. I'm I'm the one she's gonna love on. Um, that's what I found like with my mom, uh at least dealing with my kids anyway. She was more so come tell me instead of, you know. But, you know, on the other hand, today, I'm still that parent, though. I'll strip your whole room down. You don't own that.

SPEAKER_09 51:40

She's a uh daycare owner right there. That's the owner of uh Kitty City, so right there. She's tapping in from Atlanta, and we just wanted to say we ain't going and she has she's opened her second location, and she's a young entrepreneur that's doing her thing. She has one location and she's about to open another one and she's been.

SPEAKER_06 52:00

It's in forest part. She got one in Gorbill, she got one in forest.

SPEAKER_04 52:03

I'll do this though, because if you're cool with it, I'm gonna let I'm gonna let her tell me about what she got going on. If you cool with it.

SPEAKER_06 52:10

What you mean if I'm cool? It's all family. What I told you, community bills.

SPEAKER_04 52:14

All right, so we're gonna let we're gonna let Jay uh. We're gonna let Jay talk about what she does in the community as well. So, you know, we down there, even if I'm down there in the A, you know, I got family down there as well. So, you know, they ain't got kids, but you know, say they know people who got kids.

SPEAKER_09 52:34

Well, she's about to do a twenty, she's doing a 24-hour thing too, a nighttime thing. So if you want to go out or do whatever, I'll let her tell you that. But oh, she covered it all.

SPEAKER_02 52:43

All right.

SPEAKER_08 52:45

Hello, how are you? So the name of my daycare is Kitty City Daycare. I have one location in Douglasville. I'm opening the second location in Forest Park. So our grand opening is April 19th. We are 24 hours. Um, we open on Saturdays as well. I've been in business eight years. It'll be eight years in October this year. So I started in home. So I will be keeping my in-home as well, and I'm opening a center next week.

SPEAKER_02 53:15

So yeah. You muted. Mutated, you muted. I knew I was waiting on Poppy to say she loves.

SPEAKER_03 53:28

I was reading, I was reading.

SPEAKER_06 53:31

He was on my show.

SPEAKER_03 53:32

Like, I was waiting too. She likes this. She can't wait when you mutated.

SPEAKER_09 53:38

So I thought she was about to, you were being really polite.

SPEAKER_02 53:43

I was reading the piece.

SPEAKER_06 53:44

I was going over my piece, actually, so I didn't realize he was mutating until I didn't hear nothing. And then my eyes turned like, um, yeah, but if I had a called it, you know I would have did it.

SPEAKER_04 53:55

Yeah, all right. So I want to know, because you you uh where is your how is your patience with dealing with kids and and parents that like you you go and you tell them, hey, the kid doing whatever, and they like, nah, not my kid.

SPEAKER_08 54:12

So I'm a mother of five. So I've always been one of those that have always, I'm like Poppy. Everybody has always been at my house, kids and everything. So I have very good patients. People say that all the time. Like, how do you do it? You have five kids of your own. I love kids. I love what I do. I do have a special relationship with all my parents. They know Miss J don't play the radio. I can't tell people how to raise their kids, but I can tell you what won't happen at Kitty City. Because I have some kids that are three that curse. They know I don't play the radio here. So when they go home and mom and dad saying such and such word, they be like, don't say that. Miss J say that's a bad word. Because they know I don't play the radio. I do have suspension policies, even daycare. So if you can't control it, then it'll hurt you in your pockets when you have to stay at home to keep your own child because you can't go to work because you don't have nobody to keep your kid. So either you're gonna correct it or you keep them at home. It's it's your call. But I don't tolerate that. Because I don't, I just don't, because I don't like other kids to have to pick up other children's bad mistakes and then they take it home and they like, but where do you find that at? Oh, I learned that at Miss J's. Oh no, we we're not gonna do that. So I correct it. And if you can't correct it, then we'll just have to let them go. I love all kids, but I just I don't run my business like that. So yeah.

SPEAKER_09 55:37

Good. I think I think kids like structure. I think kids like structure because sometimes, you know, kids perform better most of a lot of the times, better with different people. But and and they like when you have boundaries and they like when you have rules and expectations. And for the last couple days, since uh keynote is gonna be MCing at Miss J's Daycare. We're excited. So we've been kind of in home, we've been doing the spy cam on her and seeing how she's moving and things she's doing. And she she she disciplines with a lot of love and a lot of conversations because I've seen that the things have she's talked, she takes them to the side and she's talked to them, and she really knows her families, and so she decides, you know, she she's so tuned in with the kids. Sometimes it's your parents aren't working, somebody lost a job, or your mom's grandmother, your grandmother's sick or whatever. So she takes them aside, and she might have it as a punishment, but from what I've seen, they like spending time with Miss J. They sometimes they act up so they can get that personal time, and then you have to realize that a lot of times the kids don't get that individual time, and they know Miss J's gonna take them aside and they're gonna hang out. So I just think the message in those type of things with like we were talking about community and going back to the raising how everybody in the neighborhood used to raise the kids, that's basically how she sets it up, you know, and she she does a lot of things and she does a lot of things out of her own pocket and to help a lot of parents if I've seen that, you know, might not be able to financially meet the things that, you know, because she doesn't have a lot of help. This is the thing we, you know, when we're women business owners and sometimes black and brown community owners, we don't get the the monies and we don't get the funding and we don't get the support. So we're trying to just really love on her and just show her now with our foundations that we're having, that me and keynotes are we're doing with our companies, and we're gonna just try to, we can't go big, but we can go small, you know. So, you know, before it's time for Christmas and things like that, you can always adopt a adopt a school. And so we're wanting people to adopt Kitty City, you know, with the economy we're in, you know, you just gotta keep it real, you know, with bless them with some groceries sometimes and bless them with because she makes in-home snacks. And sometimes, you know, underfunded communities, they don't have the the dinners that we think they should have, or they're not able to have the fresh fruit. So if you have a company or something like that where you can donate it to her, I know 100% this lady, she puts it where it's supposed to go. And like I said, because she uses a lot of her own funding. And we as, you know, our people, we've been raised to do that. The foundation that we have in our family, we always used to do that anyway. But she has all colors and all types of uh kids in her in her daycare, from what we've seen. And one thing that we don't do on our platform, you know, this is how me and keynotes got hooked up because she's like, I want to see the farm. If you got goats, I want to see what's happened, how you taking this fruit off the tree. You know, we do a lot of investigations because I'm like, what up? And then, you know, how what do you mean? You want to see, you know, if you say it's all natural, I need to see that we're literally doing all that. So we want to be able to have people that have have confidence in what we're seeing, and we want to pop partner with you guys too, since we're on your platform now and reaching out to let people know because she is in Georgia. But the things that you would donate, blankets and financially or whatever, it's going to where she says it's gonna go to because that's how she's built her reputation in the community. You know, and so we just we're just honored that, you know, we've we've partnered with her and we have to start small, but we have to understand that, like we were saying about the kids, that's they they mostly do what you they see done. It's not pretty much what you say, or you know, when I was a kid, this, this, and whatever, they don't know nothing about that. You know, they have a stroke if you, like you said, you take TV or they can't have their remote or their things, they have no clue about the things that were going on before, you know. So, and I and I'm gonna jump in because I want to stop keynotes too because she'll do this a lot. You have to see, hey, she don't like when people talk about her. This is why I keep popping in and out because a lot of things like that. That's why I like her.

SPEAKER_04 59:41

She likes me.

SPEAKER_09 59:42

People do the same thing. Yeah, do she and I and and right, she does not like when people put the spotlight on her and she's working better at it, you know, because I've threatened a lot of she has to pay me a dollar now. And that's how you're gonna get her. You have to, if she gets a financial, if it's a financial cause to it, she might listen to it. So when she when she prepares these poems and the things like when she came here to Florida, we're in that's where the farm is, it's in the Titusville, and you guys, you know, rockets went off from here. And that's what they do. They launch here. And, you know, one of my little trivia questions, if you go back and say what she wanted to be when she was little, that's one of the things she wanted to be. And so she didn't ever, she didn't know exactly because they were at another location when she was growing up. So she didn't know what happened here. But I knew what happened here. She didn't know about the rockets, and she didn't know, she thought it was when you say Florida, whatever, you don't know because Titusville was built for the Space Center. So really, when they say Cape Canaveral, that's us. You know, that's just the big name that they use. But literally, she'll tell you the farm shakes when the rockets go off. We're that close. I mean, it's it's just like amazing and great. So we did the things. Yeah, we we did the things, and when you meet people that have a spirit of connection and kindness to the universe, you you hear people always say that in your vibe. I get so sick of hearing the vibe and the connection. You know, we don't hear for real. Everybody, oh, your energy's bad and your synergy. No, y'all have no clue. These are things you gotta see. But when you live that life and that's what you get up in the morning and you intentionally put those things forward, and that's what she does. So, one of the surprises when she got here, like I said, she didn't know. She does water beach, blah, blah, blah. She's freaking out. She does all that. And she has made tons of friends here when I'm not even around. People come listen to her because it's ridiculous. I'm like, how did you meet Sally from such and such? Sally's husband is Bob. She has two kids. She said, I'm like, how? And we're going to breakfast in the morning. I'm working. No, I'm not talking about you. Me, Sally, and Bob, and her mother Marilyn's coming Friday. So I'm going over there. I'm like, oh my God, what is happening here? This is my town.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:49

And settling up some scrubs. Don't forget, I'm settling up scrubs. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:53

She's hanging around with these people. And let's keep it real. These people are elders, a lot of them, that aren't, but they're not, and they are. So they love her spirit. And one thing that particularly sticks out, I mean, when she did that poem, you know, we went to a location and, you know, we just do our own thing a lot of times, and she's out there by the water and she's practicing and she's doing that thing. Well, when she did that poem, okay, we were out there by the boats and all that. And the dolphins come. They just start coming around. And they're coming around and they're flipping around, and we have dolphins, we have manatee, we haul that. But it's like the dolphins follow her. It's just like very amazing because she's like, Yeah, I had to put a video up.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:34

I went live.

SPEAKER_09 1:02:35

She hugs the trees, she hugs the trees and she does that thing, and you know, all that. So I'm like, what is happening here? You know what I'm saying? So I'm like, okay, that's cool. So she's saying the poem or whatever, and then people start gathering and people start listening. And they're just like, you know, very touched by the things that she's saying. Because, like she said, a lot of these things were for her, but they're they're connect with a lot of people, different levels. It doesn't have to be your specific situation. And so I've witnessed things that she's done. And like I said, with the with the animals, it done freak me out as much anymore as it used to, but you know, bees and spiders, but literally here, manatees like when she laid out one one day and she was singing and talking to the the universe and all that, like I said, the dolphins came. And that was just like, I'm like, okay, this is like second or third time this is happening. So either she's very spooky, and she and I need to get this lady, sage her right now, or whatever. But these things always happen. And when you're around a person that's like that, that energy is real. And the things that she talks about is real. And when the universe listens and the animals listen and all that stuff, it's a pretty remarkable thing. It's just not things that you can always just, you know, come across in people. And the kindness, and she's a handful now, let's not get it wrong. But but she usually will fight you because she sees something greater in what you're doing, and you're not, you don't, you might not see it. And the people that she has around her and the people that she's connected to, it's a it's a pushing force, and that that makes you so when she's doing the things that she's doing, and I'm so glad that we had a deal because yesterday was the anniversary of her mom going to heaven, and we were just intentionally meaning that that was gonna be an amazing day. Like I when I sent, I, you know, she didn't know, but I sent AD the pictures when you were in your mom's house and you were in there hanging from the beams and doing the things. This is how she she does. She goes to her mom's house, she's and her, she says her poems out in her in her mom's living room, and she does this stuff, and she really, really, you know. And I've met my taste, I'm new to poetry, but I've met her team and her friends. Now I'm a poet snob because when I hear these people that are on the level that they are, I'm like, my God, you know, I just think it's phenomenal. And and so I just want to take the time to let you know the little she'll do the poems, but I see the stories behind the poems, and I see the time that she puts in, and just the literally, because she's introverted, you know, you would never know, you would never guess. And the people's like, what? She's you know, that she's severely like that, and she's severely introverted, but her heart shines all the time. And so she's always doing the things. And this tour, the last tour she was on, it was the emotional baggage tour, that's what we call it. And, you know, so this this time, you know, we're doing a little dumpster fire and thing like that, because we're we're we're putting things where they go, the things that aren't serving us anymore. We're putting those in there and you know, we're we're letting those go. So this this part of it's gonna be the beginning of the jump out for the dumpster fire. So I just wanted to tell you guys that and let you know that the real is real. And when she's doing these things and the things, you know, her mom is phenomenal. She, you know, and when I met her, she's like, Well, I told her, I said, I want you to bring me, because I have this from my grandmother's house, my friend sent it to me. And I said, I want you to go to your mom's house and bring me some bricks. And she's like, What? And I'm like, I want, because that's foundation, that was what she loved. She loved that house and she loved them in that house. And so she, when she came to visit me, she brought me bricks from her mother's house. And I was telling her, you know, if anything happens, because we have hurricanes here, you best know I'm grabbing my granny's bricks and I'm grabbing her mommy's bricks. That's things that are dear to me. You know what I mean? And so this is a real thing. It's a real thing, and it's real, you know, I just, and I it's just a blessing. You know, it's a blessing, and I like I said, it's just really phenomenal. Appreciate you. You're welcome. You kick cash out, you know how to do it.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:51

I know, I got you. I got you the dollar.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:54

Well, I wish I'd have known this with with y'all, with y'all, what y'all, what y'all doing as powerful women, but I know next year, women, Women History Month definitely gonna bring it for y'all back. Well, thank you. Uh-huh. Women, y'all, y'all do a lot, you know, and you know, and we appreciate y'all for what y'all do because a lot of stuff y'all do, we as men don't have the patience. You know.

SPEAKER_09 1:07:19

But we love the boys, too. John L got boys. I have a son, she has boys. We we are pro-boy rap team.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:26

So I bet not though, I better not throw it no hard for that. I I ain't that type of woman. I'm a little unlady-like, so I ain't got no patience. So I shout out to y'all women. Y'all, y'all ones with them patience. Shout out to y'all. We love y'all. We appreciate y'all, y'all us up on folks. Look at Natalie.

SPEAKER_09 1:07:42

Look at why the girl wrote. Look at your team, your folks coming in. And she, she's an amazing person. She does. We were talking about kids and she has the things for the kids. What is it? Say it, Poppy. What does Natalie have? Natalie has.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:56

She has, she has, she has the STEM kits. She does science. She does like different things, but she goes around to different schools and she has out these packs and you can sign up for them. It's actually dope. You get telescopes, you get all kinds of stuff from that. That's a that's a that's uh that's another powerful queen right there as well. So yeah, we I mean, we in the house. Like I said, it's all about community around here. So if it to me, you only shine as bright as your community signs. So if your community is in here, you know what I'm saying? I I even think I seen my soot come in here. I don't know if she's still in here. Oh yeah, she she, yep, she's down there. So even Mystics in the house. She got butters that you can get if you don't like the, you know what I mean? But you want to still, you know what I mean, relax and get your stone. She got good butters for you to put and I put that sh on within. You hear me, like cinnamon bun, cinnamon roast, and like toast, like whatever I'm eating, I buy. So like it's I just keep, to me, you it's all about if you the brightest thing in the room, then you might need to uh realign yourself with better star.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:08

Yeah, yeah, because I'm I'm gonna have to talk to y'all offline because uh about you know uh pusher and pushing Indy Hart, you know, doing some partnering with y'all. Because we also are, and and people say that, but I'm I'm more about the community. It's good to have, you know, artists singing, but like my whole thing is it's also community work that needs to be done because there's a lot of people, old, young, there's people who just need the help. And sometimes we're we're out here, we're performing and we're doing things. And sometimes people might think that it's it's beneath to help.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:46

But yeah, you find that a lot. We do we do a homeless drive, we pass out hygiene bags. During the wintertime, I hand out blankets. Anytime I'm downtown, I keep clothes in my truck just in case I see somebody that might be laid out, that might be dirty, and I I give them clothes, you know what I'm saying? And and I actually build bonds with the homeless community, and they've gotten to the point now where they tell me what they need.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:14

And you know, if if it's not donated, I go to the thrift store and I'll pick it up myself. You know, I was homeless for two years. That's not why I do it. You know what I'm saying? Because I wasn't there kind of homeless, but I was homeless. If you don't have your own mailbox to go to and your own address, you're homeless. You know what I'm saying? So, like, but just giving back to I'm I'm big on community. Like, I'm really huge on that. Because I feel like that's the only way we can really I forget, I I feel like we forget to love. It's just a simple one thing. I don't have to know you to love you. Right. You know what I'm saying? And I just feel like, you know, so many, we we move through life so fast that we forget to just love on somebody sometimes. It's just, you know what I mean? Because you never know how a person's day is. Even, even like me going to work every day, it's simple for me. I go in the building with the energy I want people to give me. So I go in the building piped up. I speak to everybody. I might not talk to them, but I speak to everybody. I want to know how your yesterday was, and we might not say that. But just know that this is the energy that I'm coming with. Don't give me your woe is me's. I don't, I'm not the type that wanna be in the aisles and talk about things that's going on with the job. And no, don't mix me with that. Then you see how I greeted you this morning? Having a grand rising. You will too, whatever you're going through. Don't even tell me the story. It's just be great. That's all you got to do today. When your birthday, I'm a Gemini. I'm May 26th, it's coming up. I'm about to say, Yeah, I thought you were a cancer because you sound just like me. Yeah, no, I'm a I'm a Gemini. But yeah, it's just you set your own algorithm in life. This is our world. And and and we we need to learn to control it.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:11

Yeah, I agree. I definitely agree with that. Because it's it's it's a lot, there's a lot of stuff that could be done in the community, but a lot of it is people want to be seen. And I and I even tell people, even up here, like, it's good to be out here trying to promote music, trying to do whatever, but can you walk out there to that door and be like, hey, what do you need? Or what or can I help? What can I do to help? And sometimes people list the vote, even with support in the area, like, you know, uh, I'm here. Uh I support everybody, but I also can't forget my back door. Because, you know, people forget their back door because they they like all they're out here in the street and they're like, hey, I'm I'm talking to I'm talking to Poppy, I'm talking to the so and so here in Atlanta or over here, but like it's people are in your back back neighborhood that you can.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:03

Backyard.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:04

Right in your backyard. Yeah. If you're gonna pay attention to. And so I I'd always tell people, don't forget. It's cool to get the I hate to say clout, because I think some people say it's clout, but it's you gotta take care of your your own, and then, you know, people don't even have to say anything. A lot of even with me, uh looking at you and all that, and you know, a lot of people that are here doing things, one of the first things people say is, hey, I I've been watching you for years. I tell people like, hey, am I you ain't coming? Well, I'll just watch and see how you move. I've been watching you for years and you know, then it's like something happened and hey, let's work. And, you know, sometimes people see your motive. My my thing is somebody even with this said, hey, you know, a lot of people are not interviewing people. You know. And uh, you know, or people wanted the mainstream people. I I I hate the that word and exposure. Cause you don't a lot of people don't need exposure. They just need one opportunity to let somebody see who they are. But some people Oh well, I'm gonna put you on my show because, you know, it gets it give you exposure. Like, you know, you don't need that. That's why I don't tell people that. Like, I just want to come on, hear your story, have a good time, and leave a lasting impression. But sometimes we just gotta, we we as artists or our street artistry people, we we have to sometimes do do better than what we what we did.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:30

That part. That part is because it's because people forget that this is all just about an outlet for the most part. Whether you rapping, whether you singing, whether you're writing poetry, playing a banjo, I mean, drawing, whatever your artistic creativity is, is an outlet for you in some shape, form, or fashion to get it off. Just because you might get monetary funds that make you on another level, don't make you rich first. Where most people get in that mindset where they feel like they rich. Some of those people are the poorest people that you'll ever meet. Poor because they don't know love, poor because they they ain't never poured into anybody but themselves, poor because you know what I'm saying, and they unhappy. You know what I'm saying? Look at look at all these superstars that have all this money and they off themselves. You know, I mean, it could be something bigger going on, it could be something mental going on, but most of the time it's because they're lonely. Most of the time it's because that money can't buy them what they really want, and that's love. You know what I'm saying? So, like I said, like, you know, I I definitely feel you on that. Like, I don't do anything that I do, my movement and my footsteps, I don't even know what clout is. I don't, I don't care about your recognization. I don't, you know, that's that's not that ain't why I'm here. You know what I'm saying? I'm really I'm just here to get the message out. And the message is be great, keep shining, keep pushing. You know what I'm saying? No matter what you go through in life, because life's gonna be life. And you can still still cry about it. You know what I'm saying? Like, you gotta bring some life. Yeah, like so many people will sit still crying instead of moving your feet. You you most people don't cry and walk because they can't see. So you know you standing still while you crying. You know, it's nothing wrong with crying, get it off. But at the same time, what you crying about? You know, and and it's like when people come to me with their issues and their ailments, like people that hate their job. Well, why you work there? Make a change, do something. You can you can keep on, you know, just don't change until you wash your clothes or do something different. You know what I'm saying? So, and then once you do something different, if it works for you, don't gatekeep. Be a gate opener. How many people can be a gate opener and say that they open doors for anybody other than they self? And don't get it wrong, I'm selfish. I'm selfish as the devil when it comes to me. When it comes to my pe peace of mind, when it comes to, you know, all of that stuff, but at the same time, I'm self-driven.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:17

Right.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:19

But it takes that same energy from the people that I allow to be and see self. That that energy pushes me. Cause you can't let everybody see you. Sometimes you gotta put on a mask so that you can just survive the room.

SPEAKER_09 1:17:37

You're right about that. That's that's rare because Natalie never gets on camera. I'm freaked out when she got up there. That one right there, that's the that that is the that's the that is the rocket girl right there. That's who we're talking about with the kids. She never gets on camera. And she, oh my god, her that's Janelle, you and Natalie got it hooked too because she's the one. Say something, ma'am. What do you do? Because I'm like freaking out her face, and it's the most wonderful thing.

SPEAKER_07 1:18:09

Hi, everybody.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:11

How you doing?

SPEAKER_07 1:18:12

So this is spam. They've adopted me. I feel honored. I teach ed I teach aerospace education, STEM, and steam. So I'm not a rocket scientist. I just love it. I'm a big nerd. You'll find me in my yard at night, looking up at the skies, looking for the satellites that I know are getting ready to go by, checking out certain stars. In the daytime, I'm looking at my lizards and my birds and my snakes that are coming in my yard and planting my flowers and doing some seed projects. But you know it's all about the same thing. That the reason I think we all connected is just about community. And being a part of a community means you give to your community, right? That you are a part that, you know, you don't just take because a lot of us just take and we don't understand. So when I work with my students, I have cadets and I have students where I go into the classroom and just volunteer and hang out, and I do the STEM kits and just learn with them and teach aerospace education, character development, put a little physical fitness in with it. All of those things are part of the program that I volunteer with, which is Civil Air Patrol. And I just take it to the next level because we don't hear about things like Civil Air Patrol. We're the last to know, if we ever know. And so for me, it's all about leveling the playing field. And a lot of times we don't even know there's a game going on. Right? So if you don't know, you know what I'm saying? So for me, it's about having us understand that part, right? Know that there's a game going on, know that we deserve a place in the game, and then have helping us to figure out the game, the plan, right? The strategies in the game, all of those things that that help us to be a part of it versus sitting on the bench. Or we ain't even at the game. Forget that. We ain't even at the game. So that part for me is what's important. And uh this team right here, like I said, they adopted me and pushed me to do stuff that I should be doing, and I'm slowly doing. So I just appreciate that part. I thank y'all for even letting me say something. I came on because somebody was sending me messages, yeah, texting me stuff, and she says, show up. So whenever they say show up, I'm showing up.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:59

Right.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:00

I might be in the background not saying anything. She's real with it. She got an electric car. But she's the car. So I'm waiting for what so I'm waiting for us to create to create that. She's amazing. I'm waiting for us to create it, though. If I could build one and have the factory, I'd have the Dagon factory. Believe that. And employ us.

SPEAKER_09 1:21:21

Now we're parting what we do have now. Now we're parting with her because she's in the process of getting us a farm for in Georgia. So, I mean, this is just like so exciting. These things are just popping up crazy, and so yeah. But we gotta get to the poetry because I know Adrian's like, we got a poet on here.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:40

Sorry. Now, y'all don't have to apologize like this. This is this is family shit. I told y'all. I got uh I had to.

SPEAKER_09 1:21:47

See what happened when you have talk on? When people sing, you could just do the thing. You could just do the thing when they sing, but when you talk, you this is what we do.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:55

Yes, hey, I I had a script. We don't went past that script, so hey, we we good.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:01

Said I had scripted it out, y'all.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:04

Yeah, so I just blowed up the script, y'all. Well, we tore we tore that up. We we did it like church style. We we tore it up and went another way. So that that's how we move here. And I I appreciate all y'all getting on on here, and that's why I sing when women history my cards rolls around. I want us all to come back again and where we can we can talk. So, because you guys are y'all, y'all are doing a lot. And people need to hear about what you're doing. So I I'm glad, even for all y'all to be on this, this, this interview, so that now everybody can hear what y'all have going on.

SPEAKER_09 1:22:42

So um Kino's the pie packers, so wherever she goes, she got a tribe coming. So you just know pull out some seats, because she don't roll up along. She never comes along.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:51

So we we got we got the we got the billboard in the back that that's putting everybody on. So that that's good. I'm glad I'm glad that y'all all work together, because you know, that that sometimes, you know, everybody has their own ego or they they think they they're doing something to somebody else, but to see y'all come together like this, this is this is uh this has been a powerful uh uh energy right here. So I appreciate all of y'all. We're gonna get we're gonna get you. No, no, this ain't about me. This this technique, this is about you. I'm I'm gonna do you like how they doing you. So this is about you. You know what I'm saying? Y'all wanna come, y'all want me to interview you on a show? Y'all come back, y'all, y'all talking about how, whatever. And I sit there and I can I can almost cry and all that stuff, but no, this this is about you. Because I've I've seen interviews and you know, I I can do the whole, yeah, I did this, I I did this, but that ain't that that that's still in the way a moment from y'all. So I appreciate y'all sharing y'all moments.

SPEAKER_09 1:23:47

So but we the branches on her tree. This is we the branches on her tree. So this is how she rocks. This is her, and she's she puts out the light, and we just light follows light. Yeah. And that's that's part.

SPEAKER_06 1:23:59

But you can get back to your script, man. We ain't tearing up your stuff. Come on here. What we got? What we what we do on next?

SPEAKER_04 1:24:06

Come on, my script is done. We don't, we don't, you don't pretty much answer majority of it just by, you know, pretty much you you we just played around, but like I said, uh, I keep it just for to stay on, like if some like if you if you around people that, you know, you gotta stay on script with. But like, I just I just keep it just to just have some some talking points, but as far as that, you know, we we don't need a whole another level. So we're gonna let you do one more, one more, one more piece, and then I'm gonna let you do your shout-outs and where everybody can find you at and what you got that you're working on.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:43

Hold on, so one piece? What what what we want? Uh one more piece left. Let me see. I gotta think of the piece I wanna close with, because I gotta Okay, I think I'm gonna close with uh change.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:03

I think. Let me see. All right, so what was the question? I had to get the piece together.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:12

We got to talking and I'm So where can they find you at? What do you got what are you working on? And uh any projects that you got in the in the works here, and you know, this let you had the floor that just you know, so people can, you know, because I don't want nobody ever to say, oh, I I don't know where I can find her, I can go back to this energy. So yeah, yeah, she gave you where you can find her. So yeah, that's how we're gonna move with that.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:37

That's uh Facebook, Instagram, you can find me Poppy Woodyard, about like you see it, right here. I think on TikTok, I am Poppy's Poetry Corner. But if you put in Poppy's Poetry Poetry Corner, you can find me any and everywhere, honestly. Just that would probably be the best way. YouTube, especially if you want to see the show. We're live every Wednesday night, but we're 25.8. You know what I'm saying? So you can tap in at any point of time. Uh we have any, I mean any amount of poets, music, just you know, trying to get more artists on there. So you might find anything on a Wednesday night. You know, we we just trying to anything that's artistic that makes a boom, you might find it on the corner. I have sensual Saturdays coming up. That is May 30th in ATL. It's gonna be an erotic show hosted by the beautiful Jason. Lighting PPP, and of course, I am the features, and it's gonna be Drip Weekend. So it's it's gonna be all kind of shenanigans and great poetry going on. So if you guys want to know anything about that, you can also tap in with me, you can tap in with Javi, or you can go to Eventbrite and just get it, you can send you a ticket to send you a Saturday sale by table. You know what I'm saying? Once you get there, of course we're gonna have product on hand. You have to, you know, we have bombs, we have teas, we have soaps, we have booty washes, we have almost anything you need from head to toe, all natural, everything at the dot com to get you some coastal sunflower body scrubs. I mean, yes, I'm not just the president. You know, I'm also a client. I use everything and y'all see it. You know what I'm saying? I it's shining, shining, shining. So make sure that y'all tap in. I'll be hosting the Alphabet Brunch May the 3rd. I'm trying to get all these dates together. That's also gonna be in the ATL for to meet Cook Festival. So, you know, it's if you're in the community and you want to hear some good poetry, basically tap in with my page and you're gonna find it somewhere, even if it's not from me. Because again, community, I'm posting other people's stuff. Or you can tap into the group and other people are posting so much stuff in there. Um and I think that is. Make sure that you tap in with the ladies. If you need, you know what I'm saying, daycare for your kids. I got plenty of them. So ain't nothing like having a peace of mind on where your kids are while you're out doing what you do. So make sure that you chap in with Miss J. April and you know.

SPEAKER_08 1:28:15

April 18th is our grand opening. So y'all come out with me out from Twitter. Grand opening. Grand opening.

SPEAKER_06 1:28:22

I will be glad. So make sure that y'all tap into that. And I guess that's that's it, y'all. Let's let me get to this piece. Did you have something to say, King?

SPEAKER_04 1:28:31

Where if if you're looking for artists and poets, where where can they they be considered where where you they could see your email or would you or how you do that?

SPEAKER_06 1:28:40

No, you can hit me up on any of those platforms. Matter of fact, you can hit up anybody from my team. You know what I'm saying? If you see the name Missick, aka Pound K, you can hit her up. You can hit me up. You can hit Kimberly up. You can hit Angel Kim up. You can hit, you know, anybody that misses with PPC that can get to me, you in there. It's just that easy. We push the community. If you know somebody that you need to, we need to have we do have a we do have a list now. So it might be a little time before we can get you on, which is a blessing. So it gives you time to prepare for whatever you're gonna do. So yeah, that's that's we're pushing.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:17

All right, better. All right, so I'm gonna let you do your thing.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:20

All right, so I guess I'm gonna get into this last piece, y'all. I know I've been changed.

SPEAKER_06 1:29:34

You see the angels up in heaven. Sign my name. Yeah, they belong to me. So many from my family tree knew what I was destined to be. Don't need a contract to know that my contract has been written in gold. I came into this world heavy, not with weight, not baggage, but with purpose. Too big for most to bear and too loud to be silenced. I don't need a phone. It's been written in blood lines, run deep. I know that's why I didn't perish in the streets. See, my ancestors been praying on me, not just for me. You should need to find purpose and move purpose in my divine given energy. Changed more than my getup. I overcame the come-up mentality. See, thinking about all the plays I could have made that could have cost me everything. I me thankful for the get up, the blessing to see another day. Be gratitude in my posture, let's go in my spirit. See, yesterday's problems are no longer today's problems, because I know I've been changed. You see the angels up in heaven done. Sign my name. Written in cursive. Words of affirmation turns into chant. Sitting alone, this group effort feels effortlessly. Mental illness was a normal thought process. Mama just told us we was gifted. Taught us to think outside the box because we can never fit in one. We not staying in society lines, kept me in trouble. I'm going to a spike or fight a spirit that they can never change. See, that box wasn't for me either. I got sick of failed, no disorder needed. This orderly conduct was often defined. Third eye closed, I was walking blind. Bound to a contract, the deepness and greatness I had already signed. My goodness, I just had to open up. See, the change wasn't sudden, it was ancestral. It was prayers that you meet me in fall. It was heaven saying, not this one, not yet, not ever.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:50

I just had to open my eyes and realize that it was already trying to protect it.

SPEAKER_06 1:32:01

So when I say I know I change, I mean I survived what was meant to erase me.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:05

I mean I walk different, I smoke different, because I'm carrying my more than just my feet. That's why I've been changed.

SPEAKER_06 1:32:16

You see the angel something haven't done. Sign my name. And I love him, and that's my peace, y'all. Peace, y'all. Thank y'all for having me tonight. This was everything I needed. Poetry month, but not just poetry month. It's Nepture Words Die Month. It loud month. And you allowed me to do that. So thank you, King.

unknown 1:32:43

Peace.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:44

I appreciate it, Queens. All right. Thank y'all for your time. I thank y'all for coming through. Thank you for just blessing us. Just not as a performance, but it's purpose. Just want y'all to make sure y'all keep keep yourself tapped in every Wednesday at 8 p.m. And follow her movement and follow everything that she's doing. And and all these magnificent women are doing as well. So this is your boy AD from Pusher Independent. And Indy Hart are signing out.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:13

One love. That's it.