00:00Is it fair to assume you're behind the Mariah Carey Tribune?
00:02No, no, no, not at all. Mariah's behind, no, no.
00:05So you're just here having a good time?
00:07No, I'm just here, yeah, yeah.
00:10What's B-T meant to you over this 45 years that they're celebrating?
00:13Everything. I mean, I mean.
00:15Everything is everything. It's like, um, this is our home.
00:17This is, you know, I think when.
00:20Uh, I think when people hear me talk about creating 106 and Parker, being involved with it.
00:25What I wanted with 106 and Parker was that I created, I had an artist.
00:30It was named Bow Wow, and I wanted that artist to have a home.
00:33I didn't want that artist to have to look for a place.
00:35Or look for validation from anywhere else besides this home.
00:40And B-T and Stephen Hill, they created that home for us to watch.
00:45They created that home for Bow Wow to actually be, to deliver his music.
00:48Um, I.
00:50I continue to keep writing songs and producing Bow Wow so we can keep giving music to this home.
00:55So tonight means everything.
00:57That's what it means.
00:57As an Ohio native, I have to especially thank you.
00:59That's what it means.
01:00That's right.
01:01That's right.
01:02That's right.
01:03That's right.
01:04Um, and so, you know, we also are just learning about the past.
01:05I think of Sly Stone, an icon who's meant so much to music.
01:08What should people know about him and his life?
01:10He's one of one, and when you see other people, you see Sly in them.
01:15Um, starting with Prince.
01:17Um, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm scared, I'm, I'm.
01:20I'm sad that Prince is not here to give us a tribute on Sly.
01:25Because he would have did it.
01:26He would have did it.
01:27Um, but Sly definitely, like I said, one of one.
01:30Uh, probably one of the most creative, um, black men.
01:35In music that we'll see ever.
01:38You know?
01:39His sound.
01:40Um, the funk.
01:43The idea.
01:45The look.
01:46Everything.
01:47He's, he just had it all.
01:48Yeah.
01:49Now I do believe you are doing a quick.
01:50Quincy Jones tribute.
01:51Essence Fest.
01:52Is that?
01:53Okay.
01:54Can you tell us anything about that or what's it?
01:55Like kind of putting that.
01:56I mean, my goal is just to try to like connect the two worlds.
02:00Right?
02:01Um, it's older people that know Quincy Jones music.
02:05And it's younger people that don't know that they have listened to Quincy Jones music.
02:08But they think.
02:10Somebody else.
02:11Right?
02:12So I'm just trying to make sure that I collide those worlds because I come from the.
02:15other world of the kids that don't know.
02:18But I also am old enough to be part.
02:20part of the world of the kids that do know.
02:22So I'm just going to try to, you know, make my mind do something.
02:25that I don't believe they've done for Quincy this year or last year.
02:29And, uh.
02:30It needs to happen.
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