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SPEAKER_04 0:04

We up we up to side too. Take the date that you bring up before you knew you're trying to do so heavy market, so we're starting to stop freaking marvelous. That's me remarkable. You smack me up, all of them. It's not to the blackness, you know, it's so bright and like show me to the smack. You make it a half or a free. You don't know what I've been told, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 2:35

And when I can tell me, I'm not gonna oh oh, I'm gonna make that oh my god, oh that's what we're gonna stop right back and make my feelings.

SPEAKER_01 4:46

Like 18 when times get tough. What's the big when life gets fucked? Like what to do when life gets fucked? You can chop the juice on just get up. Somewhere to hide, wait till it's over, try to survive the pain of the temperature, punch your stone, trying to crush your son, trying to duck the blades like the Mayweather shoulder. What you do, it'll all be important to help you through all of the torment because you can fight back all the evil forces, force the forces. They call the reinforcements, the sweat in the foods. I got a nervous. I got a weapon to keep saying it's perfect, and this weapon renewed sale restores quick, and this weapon I used, I call it worship.

SPEAKER_03 6:24

We are honored to feature incredible gospel artist, songwriter, minister, and inspirational voice, Renelli. Renellia is a contemporary gospel recording artist from the D and V and known for powerful songs like Lightself and Victory. Through music ministry and testimony, she has touched lives by sharing messages of faith, hope, resilience, and purpose. With over 15 gospel releases, a passion for the youth outreach, and a mission to bridge the gap between the culture and Christ through faith-filled music. Renellia continues to make an impact based on and off of the stage. So I want y'all to welcome Miss Renelia to the stage tonight.

SPEAKER_02 7:11

Hey, hey, hey.

SPEAKER_03 7:12

So how you doing today?

SPEAKER_02 7:14

I am just so truly grateful to be here.

SPEAKER_03 7:19

I'm grateful to have you here.

SPEAKER_02 7:21

Thank you. Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_03 7:23

So I know doing some some research, you you are you full-time at Mount Ena?

SPEAKER_02 7:29

I am full-time at Mount Ena. Yes, that is my home church.

SPEAKER_03 7:33

Okay. So so you've been you've been doing a music ministry since you've been younger or or what what what got you into doing it there?

SPEAKER_02 7:42

So actually, when I started younger, I actually grew up at Ebenezer AME, which is right down the street. Right. My family is still at Ebenezer. As I got older, I grew uh liking to uh the the preachings of Pastor Coates. So I left the area and uh for about 12 years and I came back here and and that's where I was led to be. So but yeah, I started at that the Almighty youth choir at the Ebenezer AME, and I've been singing ever since. Good.

SPEAKER_03 8:25

Yeah, because I've been listening to your music and and I and I hear the the power you can tell that like God is in what you're doing, and like you're really sincere and and you're passionate about, you know, touching not just the youth, but you know, touching everybody's life with with your with your words and your your energy and your vibes. So how does it feel like to, you know, to be doing what you're doing right now? Could you could be doing anything else?

SPEAKER_02 8:54

It feels incredible. The one thing that I'm learning is every day God is giving me a new testimony, and he's having me speak about the testimonies that I get, and then he gives me a brand new one to keep doing it over and over and over again, and I'm just watching what he's doing and how he's been moving and where we're going, where he's taking us. And I'm constantly in awe of God, and I don't know what else I could be doing, because this is what he called me to do.

SPEAKER_03 9:30

Right. So with you because I know I had uh a Kev on here last week, and I asked him the same question because he's doing pretty much you both are doing the same thing out here ministering. Uh how is it different from you like staying on the secular side, not you know, crossing over to I mean uh staying on the on the side that you on now and not to cross into the secular side, because I know like sometimes, you know, even gospel artists look at the money and sometimes like they feel like you know it's not happening on the gospel side, so they're like, hey, let me take it on the secular side. So what makes you humble and stay where stay put and grinded where you at?

SPEAKER_02 10:11

Yeah, so you have to know what you're doing this for. At the end of the day, this the outcome is yeah, we do things to get, you know, financial gain from it so that we can live, so that we can survive and all of that. But I was called into this as an assignment. It's something that God said, I need you to do this. Just say yes. It has nothing to do with financial gain. You can't come to me and say, Hey, I'm gonna make you famous, because I'm not about making me famous.

SPEAKER_05 10:47

Right.

SPEAKER_02 10:47

This is about something bigger. This is about something greater. So when you go into it and you know exactly what you're doing and why you're doing it, none of that other stuff matters. None of that other nonsense comes into play. I'm not here to be rich, I'm not here to be famous. I'm here to do my assignment.

SPEAKER_03 11:11

So have you ever got approached from the other side to be like, hey, we heard we heard you and we wanted to like have you on a project or something?

SPEAKER_02 11:19

Yes. Yeah, a couple of times. To be to be in a a club, to be on a stage, to to be doing secular songs, your voice, the voice you have, you you know, go-go to to be in a go-go band. I do get approached often for that.

SPEAKER_03 11:40

Yeah. So with you, with that being said, like, individuals that are indie artists that's in the gospel scene, like what would you tell them, like, because like I know it's hard out here being an indie artist, but like what would you tell a gospel artist that's just starting down there like, hey, things are not moving the way they want, and they kind of think about crossing over? What would you tell them?

SPEAKER_02 12:03

It's it's all about their why. You know, at the end of the day, we're all gonna have to answer for what we do. And it's important what we're speaking in the people, what we're doing it for, what we're saying things for. So you need to know your why, what's your reason? If that's what you're getting into it for, for financial gain, you know, then move accordingly. But you just have to know what it is that you're doing, your intent, your purity. I've gone times where I didn't eat, I've gone times where I've had to sleep in my car trying to make it in the gospel game. You know, a lot of people don't help you in the industry if you're not big, if you're not, you don't have a name for yourself, you're not gonna get the help that you need. You know, there's been times that God has called me to go somewhere, and I'm like, how am I get there? I don't have no gas, I don't have no money, they're not gonna give me no money, you know. But it's the impact, the people that need to hear your story. The people that are dealing and going through, I think a lot of times people don't understand that it's it's bigger than us. When you go through things, when you go through hard things, when you go through bad things, when your body's hurting, when your body's aching, when you're broke, when you're you're dying, all that. It's not for you.

SPEAKER_05 13:39

I agree.

SPEAKER_02 13:40

It's not for you. It's it's for somebody else, somebody else that's dealing with it, somebody else that's going through it. They need to know, you know, that he is real. And so when he sends you somewhere, you can't be worried about, well, am I gonna get paid for this because, you know, look, I can't even be right now put down to to gospel because that's not who I am. You know, you could put me in any genre you want right now. The way that my music is coming out, when you see this, when it releases at the end of June, you're gonna be like, I don't even know, I don't, I I don't I don't I don't know where to place her. However, the one thing that you will be able to tell is that I'm singing my heart out to to God.

SPEAKER_05 14:28

Right.

SPEAKER_02 14:29

You you'll know that and you'll feel it. Whether you a thug, whether you a murderer, whether you an abuser, right, whether you an alcoholic, whether you a preacher, you gonna be like, wow, she she knows God.

SPEAKER_03 14:48

I agree. Speaking of that, we also hear at Indy Pusher, since you have music coming out, I would like to also, if you can send it to me so I can push on my station. And also we can bring you back and like do a little drop so you can uh drop it here again and so people can hear because my whole thing is even though like I do all germs, but like a lot of people, they're going through a lot. And we need to hear, we need to hear some some uplift and things that a lot of people going through a lot of things, a lot of people out here struggling where whether they don't know if, you know, if they're coming or going, you got, you know, people that you know might be going to church and they like, hey, you know, maybe the church they're in is not really edifying them or building them up the way they want. So they out here confused, like, what should I do? And I and I listen to you and I I see how you move out here and you know, you move, you move quiet. And when you when you and I even did a little, you know, looking at your your IG, and I was like, man, she's doing a lot, but she doesn't really broadcast it a lot, like, you know, like a lot of people do, but what what what you're doing is you're doing a lot of powerful stuff that, you know, if people don't pay attention, then they're gonna miss out on on a on a blessing that that could could really build up build up a lot of people. And and I think my thing is even with the DMV, we we gotta do better with the artists, like, you know, because there's a lot of good artists. I even had ones on the platform, I have ones that send me music out of D M V and I'm like, why they why they not getting heard the way they need to. I know it's a pecking order, but I think that the artists need to be heard and and I guess God gave me this platform just not to just get the artist that's out of state. I pretty much said I want to get the artists in in at home first and then the ones that's out of state they'll come, but you can't forget about home first because there's a lot of people out here that's doing big things gospel, go-go, rap, RB, that's not getting heard. And like we we just we just gotta do better. And then I also ask, do you worry about likes or comments with the content that you put out, or do you just be like, I'm just doing it for God and and and and that's it?

SPEAKER_02 17:13

You can't worry about that. You can't worry about, oh, how many likes did I get today? You got artists out there that are major that are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars just to get a like, you know. It's not about that. At the end of the day, who who is being reached? What am I doing this for? It's gonna keep, I'm gonna just keep like taking it back to that. What is your why? My why is because God is calling me to do it and he's telling me what I need to do, and he's guiding me through it as he promises certain things, and I say, how is that possible? And it happens. When I'm writing, now I'm rapping, you know that. And my raps, when I'm rapping and I'm writing stuff, it's things that I'm dealing with, things that I'm going through, things that I'm praying over constantly. And my entire city, it took us about two years, you know, to go through and do the things and write the music. And today I was in the studio, we've re we've redone like four of the songs because we've been praying and God has put newness in it. It's like, oh my God. Right, oh my goodness. But when you listen to the words of the songs, everything I rap about, all that stuff, God bless. Right over and above, again and again and again and again, like I said, he gives you new testimony, he gives you new testimony so you can keep on replenishing and keep on replenishing. What he's doing is bigger than us. That's all I'm saying.

SPEAKER_03 18:57

I feel that I I like that. What what makes you what what keeps you consistent and what makes you different from a lot of artists on on in in every genre? What makes you different from uh from them?

SPEAKER_02 19:10

Uh I'm just being authentically me. I don't care. I get a lot of calls about, you know, what's your style? And you know, what are you gonna do about your clothes? And what are you what are you doing about this? And um my focus is is clear, you know, like I just I'm me. I'm walking in authority and in in what God gave me to be. And I wasn't always doing that. In the beginning, I didn't know who I was, I didn't know what God needed me to do, and when he told me, I was like, it ain't me, I can't do that. You know, he got the role that ain't me. You know, but I'm genuine. Heart is real, and that's not something you can tell people, that's something that they have to see. Um all of the experiences that I've gone through have made me this person that I am. Was I always this person? No, of course not. But I'm different because I am so so unapologetically real. And and it's it's from the heart.

SPEAKER_03 20:39

Yeah, I feel the same way uh because I'm I'm a drummer and it's just that I you know it's it's good to stay humble because you can always get work. Because a lot of people either sometimes you don't come prepared or you just you you just be on your own thing. I might got some work because I had a a headphone jack. And and and Gown Keith said, I ain't got one. And it was like, he looked in my bag, he's like, Man, what you got? You got a lot of stuff. I said, Yeah, so I always I was always told to be prepared just in case something happens. And they like, all right, cool, like, you know, but like you you looking for some work. Like, yeah, like so then they they pretty much said they'll give you the work. But I I feel like people out here, you know, we we wanna be, we wanna have these four course meals, but we we we giving McDonald's and and and and stuff like that, and then we want to know why we can't get work. And sometimes you just you gotta I tell people all the time, you gotta be humble out here. Because uh even in this area, the things are small, so it's like you don't know who knows somebody. So like I know you, you know somebody might be like, Hey, they played with me, they didn't know the music. I'm looking at them like, hey, like, did you learn the music? And they like, you know, they got the the the phone looking at you and they got the phone looking like uh Yeah, like and you look like, hold on, did you I gave music a couple months ago? And like so it's like a l a lot of things that people like I say arts development helps a helps a lot of people understand, but sometimes you gotta be be humble and some maybe gotta go through things to to appreciate your gifts and and your talent.

SPEAKER_02 22:21

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 22:23

So we're gonna we're gonna talk about your you started singing at 13 and you also played the flute.

SPEAKER_02 22:31

Yeah. And I still do. I still do.

SPEAKER_03 22:34

You still do. So how did the experience shape your your musical growth?

SPEAKER_02 22:40

Well me me playing the flute. Let me tell you, I would I would go to concerts and they may call me to do a solo.

SPEAKER_05 22:56

Right.

SPEAKER_02 22:57

And I'm standing up doing this flute solo and I'm shaking and I'm sweating and I'm every time. Every time. When I went to high school, I had a band director, Walter Harlan, Oxen Hill High School marching band. That movie Drumline was made because of us.

SPEAKER_05 23:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 23:26

That's the band that we were.

SPEAKER_05 23:28

Right.

SPEAKER_02 23:29

And learning from those experiences, that passion, that drive that he put into us and taught us, it was just like I could do this. I I really can do this. This is this is who I am, you know. Don't sit there looking stupid, being nervous, being sad, I'm through that, you know. This this is you, you got this. You know, speaking of that, one of the songs on my album, I do believe in the beginning, it comes on and you hear marching band, and you hear this in the little voice that says, up to that's Walter Harley. He's guest starring on that track because it meant so much to me in my journey.

SPEAKER_05 24:26

Right.

SPEAKER_02 24:26

How how you know he shaped us and just allowed us to grow into those things. Being a flute player, even now, I'm I'm playing, I'm still playing in bands, I'm still, you know, doing different things with that as I can. It teaches you drive. You you have to learn, you have to practice, you have to, like you said, show up, pay attention, put in the work. Not only in playing the flute, being being a rapper, doing singing, you have to put practice in everything you do that you want to be good at, great at. So it shapes you to learn those things and and put put in the work.

SPEAKER_03 25:09

So by you talking about your your you got an upcoming release, Tubelie, coming June 9th, what what all can the listeners expect? I know you talked a little bit about it, but what can they expect when they when they hear?

SPEAKER_02 25:22

Oh, just share, share power. Uh-huh. Share power. They there all I can say is that expect to not be ready. Expect to not be ready for what's coming. And it's gonna be something that is going to open the hearts of those that know God, and it's gonna be something that opened the hearts of those that don't. They they're gonna want to know what this this person is all about. But it's I wish that I could have sent it to you before the show, because you could have played it today. I'd have let you play it.

SPEAKER_03 26:06

I'm one of the ones I like to I like to get it when when when everybody else gets it. So if you want if you want Oh, I mean if you want to send it to me, you can send it to me.

SPEAKER_02 26:13

I mean look, you said you wanna wait. You can wait, but if you wanna do if you wanna play it, you can definitely play it.

SPEAKER_05 26:22

All right.

SPEAKER_02 26:24

Where where do you want where do you want me to send it to?

SPEAKER_05 26:27

You can send it to my email. Oh, you can send it to my email. Uh I take you out my email, Miller A Miller A N 81 at Gmail.

SPEAKER_02 26:41

Hello. Let me let me try and see. Let you get a list of this. You'll be this will be your exclusive. I'm giving you an exclusive.

SPEAKER_03 26:48

Oh, I pre- Hey, hey, I appreciate it.

SPEAKER_02 26:51

Milleran81 at gmail.com. Just sent it to you.

SPEAKER_05 26:58

All right.

SPEAKER_02 26:59

So this this right here, you got the exclusive on it. I'll let you play it. It's dropping on the knife.

SPEAKER_03 27:10

Well, when you get the when so yeah, then I put I'm gonna definitely push it on the knife when you get when you when you send it to you. Oh, yeah. So I'm gonna push it on the knife on my station, then I'm gonna put it on my other show.

SPEAKER_04 28:02

I'm not too flat with the puzzle of fear and this sending me thought I was gone, but it clearly the giants were coming like saying that I'm killing this. So tell me not worthy to be called nemesis. I already know how this gonna go. Holy ghost, gonna tear out your throat everywhere. Gotta fall to the flow. You finna laugh because you know he didn't gotta I'm trying on my knees, come to please. Oh my god, they don't see because they need help too. In these streets, feel like he needs to sick a beaver in the sea, cause you come back to tree. Said that I had to go. You said no, no, no. I'm the one who knows what to do. Dude can't get twice as long, further twice as long. I know you're so dead. You know, I believe. Hold on, even when jump was coming, you turn that into pay and release the summer. How do you have left over a cow with the stuff gonna be on the hole? That's why we're screaming. Already working out, you that down, let's break the floor for your mouth. You can't double down, break it out, already working out, you that down, you let the break the floor from your mouth. You'll tell this out, work it out, you're that down, you let break this floor from your mouth. You never did because you say my family's a both double close. They can't have this one of the fusing you.

SPEAKER_05 31:15

I'm out. Okay, you got some fire there.

SPEAKER_03 31:22

My my question is, where where does the p the passion from come from? 'Cause like you you really you really you really put your all in into it and you and you can feel it.

SPEAKER_02 31:35

It comes from unbelievable experiences in my life. Let me know he's real. And so when I'm writing, you gotta go back to those moments. You gotta go back to that time, you gotta go back to those situations and remember like everything that you putting out there, everything that you're writing for, these people gonna feel it.

SPEAKER_05 31:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:59

You know, when you're going through, for example, some of the singers, gospel singers, going through divorces, going through things like that, when you can hear that stuff in their music, whether they know it or not. You know, if it's not, if they're not pulling from a certain place, you're gonna feel that. Same with preachers when they preach in from a certain place. All this stuff fews on the people. So when I do my music, I'm pulling. I'm pulling from all the times God has brought me out. I'm pulling from all the times I was down in pain, all those times I didn't know what to do. And when he brought me to that place, all that stuff matters.

SPEAKER_03 32:46

Yeah, because I'm as even being a in a drummer, I always, like I I think for everything he does, I'm one of those ones that if you can't give him a hundred percent, like just don't do it. Like you can't come in there giving like half. And like just like you you listening to you, people ask me, like, you play hard, and I was like, cuz I'm not really supposed to be playing from what doctors said, I was supposed to be in a wheelchair. So to be able to get get up every Sunday and and play and and and and do something I love and what I wasn't supposed to be doing. Like if you can't give it all, give it all you have, because I mean he he's giving you all to, you know, uh take you out of situations, but she give you favor with people that you probably never thought you was gonna meet, but he he made away. So uh like I always tell people like give a hundred if you if don't don't have step with him if you can't. Just don't do it. You know, don't even do it for the money. Like if if you just feel like hey, because it's it's like there've been times I've been like, hey, I don't I don't feel it like, you know, and I don't want to be uh un uh un uh unservice to him for all he's done because he didn't he didn't have step with things he's done for us, me and and everybody else. So that's how I pretty much take the perspective of uh of even playing and just listening to you because you're not listen to what I've I've heard. You giving uh all you have in in your music and you can feel it. So just like continue to encourage yourself and encourage the people that you you you touch. And I know the the the young people, I know they they really they really be vibing with you the hardest though.

SPEAKER_05 34:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:36

If I be in church, hey, like I can't wait for Sunday, you know. I know she gonna she gonna do her thing up there or something.

SPEAKER_05 34:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:42

So what what inspired the the project?

SPEAKER_02 34:47

Well, believe it or not, I was at a workshop. I went to a workshop with Morette Brown Clark. Amazing, amazing artist that I followed for a very long time that I loved very much. And she was teaching us, teaching us, you know, different things about the industry. There were different producers there, there were different everybody, stylists, all kinds of people. And they were just teaching us. We wrote a song in 10 minutes, we did all kinds of stuff. Well, anyway, and writing that song in 10 minutes, they split us into groups.

SPEAKER_05 35:27

Right.

SPEAKER_02 35:29

And I was on the group that did the rap. And I'm like, why am I on this group? I am not a rapper, you know, but none of us were rappers, they just split us into groups.

SPEAKER_03 35:42

Right.

SPEAKER_02 35:43

They put their top three people up for each section, and the rap team said, You top three, go up there. I was like, What? You know, I know how to write. Yeah, so I wrote something. They was like, hey, you killed it. Went up there, rapped. A couple months later, I got a call from one of the producers who is now an amazing teammate and partner of mine, Israel Bell. And he was like, girl, you a rapper. You know, he said, I could feel everything and everything you did. He said that power. He said, You don't even know who you are. And I was like, okay, you know, well, we worked together on some projects, and it just exploded. Exploded. It was clear that God had put us together to do uh what we needed to do, and and Israel was put there to bring it out of me to do. Um we've been working, just putting music together, learning, praying, doing all kinds of things. And it just came out two years later. Now we got a project, you know, and on top of this project, we still gone. So there's so much more to come. And it's exciting.

SPEAKER_03 37:07

Yeah, so we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna celebrate those those moments because like you you also understand that you had a New York performance that gained significant attention. You was also in the New York Times. So let's talk about talk about that.

SPEAKER_02 37:22

Absolutely incredible. Like, again, when you see the things that God does, it's like what is happening? That show I I was able to meet a lot of artists. I was able to meet a lot of mentors. There were so many people there from shoot, from groups I used to listen to when I was younger. RP groups, you know. I was like, oh, okay, you know, it was just great cut clothes. You remember the group cut clothes? Oh, yes. They were in the building, you know, just I just and I'm like, I don't know if that's telling my age or whatever, but yeah, I'm an 80s baby, so you know, I'm an 80, 80s baby all day, you know, but it's like to be able to do that. And I was not even feeling well at that time. I was kind of down. I I just found out that I had bronchitis, and I just am getting over it now. And it's like, but you still did that, you know, and it it it was a definite bless, and I was blessed to be asked to do it.

SPEAKER_03 38:35

Nice. So what does faith flow purpose mean to you personally?

SPEAKER_02 38:42

Faith flow and purpose, man. Just walking in in your call and keeping the faith no matter what, no matter what it looks like, no matter what you're dealing with, no matter how scary it gets. Keeping yourself level, level headed, not just continuing to talk to yourself over and over and over and over, but having that relationship to talk to God and listen, you know, remember that he's not just some genie in a bottle.

SPEAKER_05 39:11

Right.

SPEAKER_02 39:12

Uh because a lot of people just be going, you know, I saw this house and you said he's true. No, you know, just just know who he is and and walk in that purpose and find out what your purpose is. Because I didn't know. Like I said, I didn't know for so many years. When God revealed it to me, I was like, like, but they say many are called, but the chosen are few. The chosen are the chosen are the ones that say yes. I said yes. God used me. Everything he told me that he was gonna do, he did, and is still doing on grand schemes. So again, it's not about me.

SPEAKER_03 39:59

Right. The bigger so what type of legacy, because I know you you have a daughter as well. So what type of legacy? So you got two daughters. So what type of legacy do you want to leave for both of them and for people that are your your supporters and fans?

SPEAKER_02 40:17

I've just I'm trying to leave the legacy of God to to to leave what it is that He is about for them to understand heart, love, faith. Those things that that people don't get, that we're in a very hard time, that we're in a very hard world. And I want them to understand the evil, you know, that power's forces are real, you know, and the things that they'll have to fight against, the things that they need to stand for, you know, those things. It's not easy, you know. I got a baby girl that's a junior in college at a HBCU. She she turning up. She don't want to hear what I got to say, you know. But she but she also let me know that she is proud of me and she sees me. See, they see you. They may not say it, but they see you, you know. So that's what I want to leave for my kids, my kids, kids. You know, I need them to look back and be like, yo, she did that. She was a woman, a guy, and she showed us that this is real, you know.

SPEAKER_03 41:38

So what would you tell your your younger self after like everything that you're doing now? Like, what would you tell them what they would experience and like what things that they could they could learn from from you at the at where you at now?

SPEAKER_02 41:54

I would tell, you see, you see my younger self, that's me right there. My album cover is me trying to figure out the microphone. And I would I would look at her and I would say, you know, ooh, I'm gonna cry. You gonna have me cry. I would look at my younger self and I would tell her, you are, you are, you know, everything that everybody said that you aren't, all the times that they looked at you and told you what you can't do, what you won't do, what you can never accomplish, you are that. And God has created you to do great things that you will do. Believe in yourself if you don't believe in anything else, believe in yourself and walk with your head held high and know that you are going to do it for sure.

SPEAKER_05 43:05

I like it. You said you said you said a lot right there.

SPEAKER_03 43:11

I feel the same way. If I if I could practice, do some things different, I I would do a lot of things different. Oh and if if if I could tell them, hey, you know, because I I never thought I would be having a radio station, I never thought I'd have a podcast. I I just thought like four or five years ago I'd just be doing shows and he kind of like said, nah, we I got something that I want you to do different. And I said, God, I I don't I don't talk. I don't like talking to people and he was like, Well, he said, Well, okay, well you gonna you're gonna have to talk to people 'cause it's gonna be some people that that you gonna have to either touch or they're gonna touch you.

SPEAKER_05 43:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 43:53

And so and pretty much he was like, You're not gonna have to chase anybody for an interview, you're not gonna Chase anybody for it. Cause I was like, God, I don't I don't because I I I look online, I'm like, hey, I I don't have a million likes. I don't, you know, you know, and he was just like, Don't worry about that. He's like, I'm gonna put the people there. And so it's like people came out the Willworks and it's like, hey, I got artists, and then one artist did tell another artist, and then and I was just like, just doing what I'm doing. I'm like, God, I'll just I appreciate it because I just didn't think. And that's even even if I can go back a couple years ago, I never thought I'd be doing doing what I'm doing, doing now. But I I'm I'm thankful for the blessing to, you know, give me what to say, how to say, and and even the the ones that don't don't pan out. I always, you know, I first I when I first started, I got I used to get mad, like, you know, they did a no-call, no show. I was like, ha ha. And then he came to me, he's like, look, like, hey, they they weren't supposed to come. He said the ones who were supposed to come, they they they supposed to come for a reason. And so like even the interviews, they helped me. Because I I tell people all the time, you know, I'm I'm an artist, you're an artist, and we go we go to stuff, and people think because we show up and we we worship, we praise, and and we we we get the crowd into it. People think, oh yeah, you know, y'all good, but like sometimes you don't. Sometimes those it might be a song you did you had sung 50 times, and that one day you sung that song was like, man, that was what I needed. So So it's like I I see I see what you're doing, and after, you know, having this this time to even get to know you, like I I've learned a lot as well, like, you know, about you. And so like, you know, I'm always like I said, support, you know, whatever you need push, you let me know, because you you're doing you're doing a lot of things, doing it the right way. So I re So I re So I respect that.

SPEAKER_02 45:53

I appreciate that.

SPEAKER_03 45:55

So we we about to I'm about to throw a couple questions at you, then we're gonna do some closing remarks, and then we're gonna go from there. So I'm gonna start off with your favorite gospel artist.

SPEAKER_02 46:06

My favorite gospel artist, believe it or not, is the one that I just put the single out with, and that's Canton Jones. And my favorite artist for several years.

SPEAKER_03 46:19

Nice.

SPEAKER_05 46:20

Favorite worship song right now.

SPEAKER_02 46:28

My favorite worship song has always been The Great I Am. Um it it just it just is.

SPEAKER_05 46:49

Your dream collaborator. My dream collaborator's heavy, that's heavy.

SPEAKER_02 46:59

For real, I to be honest, it's like as I grow and I I see things, I I I wanna I wanna do some stuff with Kirk.

SPEAKER_05 47:19

I can see that. I can definitely see that.

SPEAKER_03 47:22

That that that's some high energy right there.

SPEAKER_02 47:25

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 47:26

I thought she's gonna say try Ty Tribble for real.

SPEAKER_02 47:29

So, so Ty, I actually sang background for Ty some years ago.

SPEAKER_05 47:34

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 47:35

And he's a friend of my my my father's. And I've been out of his teachings and stuff. Ty goes so hard, I'm scared of the song. When I sang background, I thought I was gonna die on the stage because it was going so hard. I I ain't got that energy. I love him. I love him so much, but I got yeah, I got to get my energy up.

SPEAKER_03 48:01

Right, true. Your most memorable ministry moment.

SPEAKER_02 48:07

My most memorable ministry moment is when I followed Morette Brown Clark majority of my life, cried to her music, be in my room, boo-hoo crying, and I ended up being on her concert with her.

SPEAKER_05 48:25

Nice.

SPEAKER_02 48:26

I I sang on her concert, and she she came out after the show, and we connected. We've been connected ever since. I call her auntie, that's my auntie Mo now, but she came out and she, you know, just just loved on me and spoke to me, and I was like, I couldn't believe it. Like I'm I'm on Marette Brown Clark's concert. Um it it was it was major to me.

SPEAKER_05 48:54

All right. Uh what is next for you?

SPEAKER_02 48:58

Next for me is building. I'm building, I'm I'm releasing, I am getting ready to explode. And it's all for a great, powerful purpose.

SPEAKER_03 49:13

Amen. So I'm gonna let you, you know, give your shout-outs on where your supporters they can find you at and where they can and where they can find your music.

SPEAKER_02 49:23

Absolutely. So you all can find me everywhere. If you go to Google, you can Google my first name, Ranelia, R-O-N-N-E-L-I-A. When everything will come up there. But uh most importantly, stream my music. You can go to YouTube and same thing, Ranelia, R-O-N-N-E-L-I-A. Facebook is Ronelia Sings. That's R-O-N-N-E-L-I-A Sings. S-I-N-G-S. Same with I-G, same with TikTok. Everything is all the way across the board. Take a look, take a look at the music, stream it, share it, shout me out, you know. Send me a video. Everybody send me a video singing, screaming, lights up. That'll be it. I'm great.

SPEAKER_03 50:20

All right, you want any shout outs you want to give?

SPEAKER_02 50:22

I want to give a shout out to my team member and producer, Israel Bell. He's amazing. I'm grateful for him. I'm grateful for his teaching and how he's just developing this ministry and what he's doing with it. He's doing great things and it's getting ready to break through. And I'm just so grateful for him. And you know, my church in Mount Ena, Baptist family. Shout out. Shout out. And you know, my man, uh DJ Swivel. Yeah, uh, I know the DMV knows him very well. He's out DJing as we speak. And um grateful for him as as my teammate and DJ in the ministry as well. So just grateful for it all. And appreciate you for for having me and the time on your show.

SPEAKER_03 51:22

I appreciate you taking your time out as well. I'm honored to uh to have you on here just to have a conversation. Looking forward to everything that you got coming out, all your projects. You know, since I got your single, I'm gonna I'm gonna be respectful and I'm gonna drop it on a knife. Uh any your your project, you can send that to me as well. And so I can push that. And I can also push that on my soul soul few session where we we take contemporary gospel, all type of gospel, and then we put it, you know, mix it and then, you know, play that on Sundays and go from there. So I thank you for sharing your journey, your testimony, and your heart with us today. Your story is a powerful reminder that faith can carry us through every challenge and that purpose is found in serving God and serving others. Before we go, please. Oh, you did that. So just make sure that you guys follow, support, because it only takes two, two seconds to share. Because you want people to share for y'all. So share for her as well. So this has been A D from Indy Pusher. Continue supporting Indy artists, spreading love and walking in purpose. God bless everybody. God bless. I appreciate you.

SPEAKER_02 52:46

Appreciate you. Have a good one.

SPEAKER_03 52:48

Oh, you too.

SPEAKER_05 52:50

Bye bye.