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Essence's Yes Girl Podcast talks with Kofi Siriboe
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00:00Well, we can't, you know, you see it.
00:02But actually, for our audio listeners, they don't know who's here yet.
00:06Or he has a whole thing she does.
00:07I do a whole, like, build up.
00:09But I realized, damn, they're already here.
00:12What's up, y'all?
00:12Look who's here, guys.
00:14Surprise.
00:15Thank you for having me.
00:16Now, pronounce your name for the folks who can't see you yet.
00:20Kofi Siribah.
00:21What?
00:22Yeah, that's my name.
00:24Now, you know, some folks on the gram like to call you Kofi Siribah.
00:28Yeah, a lot of folks.
00:29I know you've seen it.
00:30I've heard, yeah.
00:31Or Kofi Siribah.
00:32You know what I'm saying?
00:33Kofi Siribah.
00:34Okay, I like that word.
00:35Look what you started.
00:37I didn't even know that.
00:38I like that word.
00:39I was saying, I heard a lot of things.
00:41Do you have a preference?
00:42I don't have a preference.
00:43I prefer Kofi.
00:44Just Kofi, all right.
00:45Exactly.
00:46I like that.
00:46I remember your mom once told me they call you Joloff or some sort of Joloff.
00:50No.
00:50No, I ain't endorsing that.
00:54No.
00:54Do your fans have a name?
00:56Like, you know how there's, like, the Beehive.
00:58Yeah, I call them my Siribahs.
01:00Your Siribahs.
01:00Now that's sweet.
01:02That's nice.
01:02You're such a sweetheart.
01:04Yeah.
01:04We love Kofi.
01:05He's us and his family.
01:06Yes.
01:06Yes.
01:07I love y'all too.
01:08We do.
01:09I appreciate that.
01:09Now, you're with us because Queen Sugar is coming back.
01:13Yeah.
01:14Fourth season.
01:15Fourth season.
01:16Yep.
01:16Epic.
01:17Oh, my God.
01:17It's pretty wild.
01:19I mean, you remember.
01:20Yeah, I know.
01:21Since 2016.
01:22Time just flies.
01:24Flies.
01:24Well, Charlie and I were saying we have this, we both, I guess I was on one side of the barricade
01:29and she was on the other.
01:31That was wild.
01:32That was my first time experiencing anything like that, though.
01:35For y'all who don't know, should I, like, Kofi arrived, you were arriving, right?
01:40Yeah.
01:41At the convention center at Essence Festival and people were like, are the Obamas here?
01:46What is that?
01:47Like, all you saw, we were on the riser.
01:50So, we were kind of like above, I was on the riser.
01:52I don't know where you were.
01:52I was just walking.
01:53I was trying to get back to the green room.
01:55Every woman in that convention center all flocked to the same location.
01:59It was dangerous.
02:00It was dangerous.
02:01I was like, is there a fire alarm?
02:02Like, what is happening?
02:03And then you just saw the, like, it was parting, like, the sea.
02:07And everybody's like, who is it?
02:08Who is it?
02:08And it was you.
02:09It was my black ass.
02:12And, like, real talk, we were like, does this man have enough security?
02:16Like, no one expected that.
02:18I wasn't prepared for that.
02:19Like, I didn't think it was going to be like that.
02:20Like, it was.
02:21How have you adjusted to fame?
02:24Super fame.
02:24Because that is like, that's how you know you are famous.
02:27When, what, 500,000 black women were like, ooh.
02:30Yep.
02:31They all came.
02:31I've been adjusting, you know, really just taking my mental health seriously and just taking my space seriously.
02:38Really, you know, solitude, you know, and adjusting.
02:43You know, I think a big part of me in the beginning was trying not to accept that my life had changed and that my identity has shifted a little bit.
02:50You know, I could walk around New York five years ago.
02:53I could walk around Essence 2016.
02:56You were fine.
02:56I was good.
02:57Yeah.
02:58And literally a year later, it's the situation you just described.
03:01And, like, it took me some time to accept that this is a part of my new reality.
03:05Yeah.
03:06Now, granted, Girls Trip was coming out and people get real hype when there's a problem.
03:09You know what I'm saying?
03:09And then I also realized that the highs and lows and not getting so, I guess, skewed by the validation.
03:17But, you know, appreciating it for what it is.
03:18But also, again, taking my personal space and my spiritual space very seriously.
03:23I was going to ask you that.
03:25Did it make you want to be, like, more private?
03:27Because, you know, that's the point in your career where you have to decide.
03:29It had to be.
03:30Am I giving all of me to the fans or what part of me?
03:33Well, I definitely give all of me when I'm working.
03:36You know, like, when I'm on set, like, I don't ever try and hide a part of myself from, you know, my work.
03:42So I do think it's important to keep, you know, the pieces of myself that are, you know, cherished and private, private.
03:48You know, but it's hard to even do that.
03:51You know, I realize it's not a physical thing.
03:53You know, the privacy becomes, again, really cultivating that internal spiritual space and really being comfortable inside, you know.
04:01So it's like, even if I'm not doing anything or necessarily, you know, being, you know, I could be in a dark room by myself.
04:09And that should still feel like the brightest room in the world internally.
04:13You know, sometimes that's how fame feels.
04:15It's like, I don't want to be seen.
04:16I don't want to be looked at.
04:17I don't want to.
04:17I wish I was in a dark room, but I might have to create that space for myself.
04:20Yeah.
04:21Is this what sparked your, the short you did, Jump?
04:24Absolutely.
04:24And I always wanted to do a short film.
04:27I told myself, since I'm making enough money, I'm going to go to New York and I'm going to make me a project.
04:31Like, that was always my personal passion.
04:33But, of course, I still wanted to be rooted in truth.
04:36And, you know, I wanted to be personal.
04:37And I didn't know I was making a project about mental health.
04:41No, I said I want to make something cool, you know.
04:43And it's like, I don't know.
04:44I don't think suicide is cool, but I think it's real.
04:46And I resonate with, you know, I guess the lead up to something like that.
04:52You know, I have people who, you know, aren't here because of suicide.
04:55So it was an exploration.
04:57And, you know, it was me kind of trying to, like, get answers from things that bothered me.
05:01And it just opened up more boxes, you know, and it created more questions.
05:08And I really had to confront myself, you know, and I really had to, you know, challenge myself to transform and expand.
05:15And that gave me the space and, I guess, the context to do so.
05:19Now, with your work on Queen Sugar, you've been working under the great Ava DuVernay.
05:23The great.
05:24All the other black female, or female directors, period.
05:27What has that experience been like for you?
05:29I love it, honestly.
05:32And I can't say I've been so used to working with male directors.
05:36I've worked with a few.
05:37But it's kind of like my norm is now, you know, female directors because I've worked with literally over 40 different directors in the last four years.
05:46I love women.
05:47You know, you guys are nurturing naturally.
05:49You know, it's just a, there's just a care and a gentleness and a sensitivity that is so natural that I really resonate with that.
05:59And it gives me the, I guess, encouragement to be the best Ralph Angel possible, especially because the show is paced so, you know, patiently.
06:09And it's not a, it's not a, you know, it's not fast paced.
06:12It's not, you know, projected.
06:13It's a very subtle and, you know, it's just, it's just, it takes its time, you know.
06:17And I think women are, you know.
06:19I receive all of that.
06:20I'm sorry.
06:20Can we just take a moment to receive all that love he just sent black women?
06:23That's, it's just facts.
06:24That was beautiful.
06:26Thank you for the tribute.
06:27Well, I'm curious.
06:29You know what I mean?
06:29We appreciate it.
06:30That was a word.
06:31Speaking of time, we find that Ralph Angel this season has done his time.
06:36His time is, he is free from parole.
06:39I love this clip we see of you just running through the sugar cane.
06:42Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:43Is it sugar cane?
06:44Oh, yeah.
06:44Sugar cane fields.
06:45What was that like now to, what can we expect from Ralph Angel this season?
06:49You really see him trying to transform into the man he's always wanted to be without having the baggage he's always had to carry.
06:57I think he's in a stage of ascending, you know, and also accepting his new reality, you know, finding out that Blue's not his biological son, you know, finding out the truths about, you know, his family, about his sisters, you know, even about, you know, Darla, you know, just really coming to terms with his reality.
07:15And how does he, I guess, take that as a platform to build the reality he now or design the reality he now wants to live.
07:22And, you know, it's a struggle.
07:23You know, he still has baggage and weight that he still has to, like, you know, come to terms with.
07:28But, like, he's creating that space for himself.
07:30And you just see it.
07:30You see him trying, but in a different way.
07:33Like, he's A, actually being a man, you know, coming from where we met him, you know, season one, robbing a liquor store, you know, crying every day.
07:41Like, I really, I see him trying to, you know, level up.
07:46And it's fun.
07:47It's fun to see him transition.
07:49And so, okay, with mental health and the black community being a passion of yours, right, and your character, I mean, it's so intense on screen.
07:57It is.
07:57And, you know, in real life, you know what I mean, you were laughing, you're having a good time.
08:01How do you keep those boundaries so you bring all that intensity on screen, but then you can't bring it home?
08:07Been learning, you know.
08:08You know.
08:09It's trial and error process, you know.
08:10I didn't think I needed those boundaries, you know.
08:13And in the beginning, I was like, I'm good.
08:15Like, I'm going to go shoot that and go party.
08:17And I was like, why am I?
08:20Yeah.
08:20And I'm just sitting there drinking my sorrow.
08:22And I'm like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
08:24What's going on here?
08:24And I just realized, like, it's real, you know.
08:28And what I'm tapping into is so much bigger than me.
08:31So there's a level of humility I had to bring to the process, you know.
08:35At first, it was like, I'm, you know, I'm doing this, you know.
08:38But I realized more and more how much I am not it, you know.
08:43Like, I'm truly the vehicle, the vessel for something bigger.
08:46And, you know, with every vehicle, when you're carrying cargo, that vehicle needs to be protected.
08:52And the driver needs to be careful.
08:53So I'm just, there's more care and more patience and more just space, really.
09:00It's like, I really, I'm obsessed with space and time, you know.
09:02And it's like, what is that?
09:04Nothing, you know.
09:05It's like space is just space.
09:06But it's like, that's the essence of everything, you know.
09:09So, like, I'm, how can I correlate that to my piece and, like, you know, my process?
09:13And I've seen it working, you know.
09:16So if it works, then I'm going to continue to explore it, you know.
09:19Have you tapped into any other actor or actor community to help you better manage that or to give you tips into how to separate fame from reality?
09:30You know, I have a few friends here and there.
09:32You know, the conversation I had with Oprah in the beginning of this whole process really, really stuck with me.
09:37To be honest, like, I'm still getting information from one conversation.
09:43You understand?
09:43Like, it's like she said everything she knew I needed to know for the next 10 years within, you know, I was hanging out for three hours or something.
09:51And it's like, I still, like, I wrote notes when I left her.
09:54I was like, I got to go to the bathroom.
09:57I'm like, what is the note?
09:58But I cherish what she's, and I admire what she's been able to create for herself.
10:03She's owned her space.
10:04The name of her company is Own.
10:06She just, she embodies, she embodies, she embodies owning your space and aligning with the universe, you know what I'm saying?
10:14And just being at one with who she is, you know, who she is, who she's been, who she desires.
10:19Like, she just, she does it seamlessly.
10:22And it's not easy.
10:23Like she told me, it takes practice.
10:25It takes routine.
10:26It takes spiritual routine.
10:28It takes morale.
10:28There's so many elements that make her her.
10:31And I just don't think most people are willing to put in that level of work.
10:35So, just, just, A, taking notes from watching.
10:39I'm working with so many amazing adults.
10:42And it's like, nah, I'm, because, you know, I'm like, it's weird.
10:45Because to me, they're like, you know, they got families.
10:47They got properties.
10:48They got experience.
10:49They're years of experience.
10:51And I'm just watching.
10:53I watch.
10:53I ask questions.
10:54All the way to Paul Garns, our producer, unit production man.
10:59I'm just like, tell me everything.
11:00Tell me, when did you meet your wife?
11:02Why are you still with her?
11:03Is it hard to be with her?
11:05Like, tell me everything you could give me so I could.
11:08You're just being a sponge right now.
11:08I'm a sponge.
11:09I'm a sponge.
11:10I'm a sponge in Bob Squarepants, for real.
11:13So, what are you manifesting next for yourself?
11:16Property.
11:17Space.
11:17Hello.
11:18I want to literally start owning my space.
11:21And I think that starts with, you know, property.
11:24You know, personal space.
11:25And then, you know, expanding the commercial spaces.
11:27And sharing that space.
11:29And creating, you know, micro, macro communities for us to do us.
11:33You know?
11:34Things like this.
11:35You know?
11:35Like, just whether it's creative communities, educational communities.
11:39Sport.
11:40I don't care.
11:40I just want space for us.
11:42You know?
11:43I think that will make me happy.
11:44If I look at my life in 20 years, like, I could see myself going to my different houses, pull up at this school, go to my restaurant.
11:52Like, and I don't just say it facetiously, but it's like, what else?
11:56So, Kofi Elementary, Kofi Ripshack.
11:58It might not be called Kofi Elementary.
12:00But, like, yeah.
12:00I mean, seriously.
12:01You need ownership.
12:02But, literally, ownership.
12:03Ownership and cultural exploration and fusion.
12:07Like, I'm still from Africa.
12:10You know?
12:10Like, that's where I was.
12:11That's my heart.
12:12That's my blood.
12:13How can I?
12:13And I was born here.
12:15So, I'm still from America.
12:16How can I merge my experiences and make it a little less drastic and disconnected?
12:22And I think that's a lifetime of work, you know?
12:25Speaking of, we were talking before you got here because we know you rep Ghana hard.
12:29You went home.
12:30We were talking about how we did our DNA test.
12:32Word.
12:33Yes, I'm proud.
12:34Where are you from?
12:35Ghana stands up.
12:37Yay!
12:38I'm very proud of that.
12:40You know what I mean?
12:40I was excited.
12:41I haven't been back yet, though.
12:42Okay.
12:42But you have.
12:43This is the year.
12:43This is the year of the return.
12:45Literally.
12:45So, I have, like, six months left to get it together.
12:47Kofi, are you talking?
12:47Yeah, buy that ticket in three months.
12:48You got a lot.
12:49I can.
12:49I'm not good in.
12:50Buy that ticket in three.
12:51They played me.
12:52They told me at first I was Nigerian.
12:54Uh-huh.
12:55But now they're saying I'm from Benin, Togo.
12:57That ain't bad.
12:57They recalibrated.
12:58I know.
12:58No, shut up.
12:59Africa is Africa is Africa is Africa.
13:01But, you know, we got weed.
13:02Like you said, you want to feel that connection.
13:04Yeah.
13:04That was one of the most exciting things we've done.
13:06The whole staff did it.
13:07That's dope.
13:08And we were, like, waiting on them to come.
13:10I say people just pick a country.
13:12It don't even matter.
13:13We should just, here's a list.
13:16Pick a country.
13:16Now do the work.
13:17Go educate yourself.
13:18Go learn about that country.
13:19And I challenge the people from that country to embrace you and create a pathway for you to learn and expand.
13:25But you're not from America.
13:27How did it change you?
13:28Like, how did it change you going?
13:30Because you went recently, right?
13:32More than even changing me, it challenged me.
13:34It challenged my reality.
13:35It challenged my identity.
13:37All that I knew and valued was based off of what I didn't know and couldn't value.
13:41Even me being from God, knowing where I'm from, my parents were born there, came here.
13:47But I was like, how did so much get lost in between time and space?
13:51And what is the degree of my correcting and reassembling, you know, my identity?
13:58And that's the real, that's the effort.
14:01That's the everyday effort and challenge of, like, how much do I just want to be comfortable in what I have known and what is already my identity?
14:07Same thing I was speaking about with Adjusting to Fame.
14:09But how much do I want to transform and expand and transmute, you know, those gray spaces or gray areas rather than just shove them, you know, to the side?
14:20You know what I'm curious about?
14:21Like, we were talking, I just came back from New Orleans.
14:23I went to visit the Whitney Plantation.
14:25It's beautiful.
14:26And being there, it's kind of, you know, it's very interesting because they all have lists of descendants there and they'll be from West Africa.
14:32They're listing the countries.
14:33It's wild.
14:34So I'm curious for you, being Ghanaian-American, filming in Louisiana, does that impact you?
14:40Let me tell you a story, man.
14:43I had a really emotional day on set and I work on, you know, the plantation every day, like, for real.
14:50So I had a long break, the sun was setting, the weather was nice, but the day was emotional.
14:57So I just took some time, me and my castmate.
15:00Y'all don't know her yet.
15:02Exclusive.
15:03Exclusive.
15:03Nah.
15:04I'm not about to get Ava knocking on my door.
15:09But I was just standing there, taking in, you know, the fields and I just, like, blurred out.
15:15Like, I tried not to look at it, but, like, you know, just see it.
15:19Like, I was, like, I stared for so long that I couldn't look at it anymore.
15:22Like, I was seeing it and I felt like I just was so connected to what used to happen out there.
15:28And I just, I kept that moment to myself.
15:31I shed my little, my tears and I went about my work.
15:35Four or five days later, we're shooting in the city, which is rare.
15:39And I had a little break in between.
15:40So I'm, you know, Chopper Tool is a, you know, Discovery, shout out Discovery.
15:44These are my people.
15:45It's a furniture store.
15:46So I'm like, yo, I want to go to the mall and get some jewelry.
15:49But, nah, you know what?
15:50I don't need to do that right now.
15:51Like, I didn't have enough time.
15:52So I was like, fine, I'm going to go with my first gut.
15:55I'm going to go to Discovery's.
15:56I walk into Discovery's and this man, this white man, he, I got something for you.
16:01I've been waiting for you to come back in the store.
16:03I got something for you.
16:05I'm like, okay.
16:07He came to my house.
16:08He sees my house.
16:08He knows I got the black poster, the Jackson Fire, the cotton on the wall.
16:12So he knows, okay, that's my vibe.
16:13He's like, I know your vibe.
16:14He goes up to his office, comes back down and hands me slave tools, sugar cane tools.
16:22I just got chills.
16:23Literally 250-year-old tools that they discovered out in the plantation.
16:29Oh, my God.
16:30That part.
16:31That thing is sitting in my house right now.
16:33That's why I need spaces to put that on the wall and tell these stories.
16:37Yeah, that story, yeah.
16:37And to honor that.
16:38Who gave that to me?
16:39That white man didn't give it to me.
16:40He honored however it came into his hands and where the spirit led him to pass it on.
16:47But how did I have that moment on that plantation?
16:51Yeah.
16:51And our whole theme this year, to take it back to Queen Sugar, is ancestry.
16:57Yeah.
16:57The spirits, you know, land, space, ownership.
17:02That's some real deep shit.
17:04Excuse my French.
17:05No, absolutely.
17:06But you're like, I still haven't fully processed what that means.
17:11Like, if you were going to eliminate construct or time or space or any of the words or things that blur the spirit, all I know is that those tools still exist.
17:21With the blood and the sweat and all of that.
17:25And through space and time, they just ended there in my living room right now.
17:30I don't care how.
17:31I don't care who, I don't care what or when.
17:35That's it.
17:36That's powerful.
17:37That is powerful.
17:38Oh, my God.
17:40You don't have to sit with that for a minute.
17:41I can't do nothing about it.
17:43I just got to just let it do.
17:45Just honor it.
17:45Just let it do what it does.
17:47Like, there's nothing to do about it.
17:48There's nothing I could, trust me, I tried, I thought, I text Oprah over with.
17:53He text Oprah.
17:54She said, she said, oh, my God.
18:02She's like, big words.
18:04I'm like, yeah.
18:05She's like, nothing.
18:06There's nothing to do.
18:06You know what?
18:06I just had a big word.
18:08Down the road, years later, we'll look at it and exhibit it, like, on behalf of, on loan from.
18:14That part.
18:15Yes.
18:15That part.
18:16That's how I felt when I was at the smith.
18:18Because I don't own that, and I don't want to.
18:20I just want to share the experience, you know, and the history, yeah.
18:24And that's how I feel like God put that in my hands because he trusts me, which, again, challenges me to be the soldier I know he needs.
18:31And I know that we need, you know what I'm saying?
18:33The world is crazy right now.
18:34Social climate is serious.
18:36So it's like, I challenge us to stand up, you know what I'm saying, and secure our future and to secure our history, too, you know.
18:45I love when the universe gives us unexpected responsibilities.
18:48You know, like, it just puts it on you.
18:50Yeah.
18:50You just got to embrace it.
18:52I'm reminded that you are born and raised in L.A., right?
18:56Mm-hmm.
18:56So can you talk to us a little bit?
18:58How are you affected by Nipsey Hupso?
19:01Because looking at you, I'm getting, like, mannerisms and stuff.
19:04And the community element, how important it is for you to get back.
19:07That was my idol, man, like, literally.
19:09Like, we were working on a video together.
19:11I reached out to him in January after, like, 10 years of being afraid of reaching out to him because I'm like, I don't want to, I just want to love you from afar.
19:20Like, you my, you, he made so much to me.
19:22And he hit me back immediately.
19:24I hit him on Instagram.
19:25Like, yo, I'm trying to shoot, I'm trying to, excuse my friend, but I'm trying to direct the young video.
19:29It's a song that's all about young just transforming and coming into their own.
19:34But he speaks, obviously, from, you know, a hood perspective, you know.
19:37But it's such a powerful song and, like, it's my life, you know.
19:41And it's, like, I was, like, if I could direct this video for the West, OG, it'd be such an honor.
19:47And he said, and that's what we doing it.
19:49And we linked up.
19:50We met up.
19:50We met up.
19:51We met up.
19:51You know, and we talking about it.
19:52I sent him the treatment.
19:53We're doing all this stuff.
19:55And then he gets killed.
19:57And I told myself, like, I love Oprah.
20:00I love Queen Sugar.
20:01Oh, that's great.
20:02But, like, the day I felt ready to do a video for Knit, because I was, like, I can't wait to show people what I see in you and how much you mean to me and what you've, how you've affected my life personally.
20:17Like, it was, it was a part of, like, again, that's a challenge.
20:20I'm still trying to understand.
20:21Why did God do that?
20:23Like, like, what?
20:25Why?
20:26Like, I'm so grateful that I got to, you know, exchange with him and meet him personally and even have a chance to work with, because we were working.
20:33And just the fact that it never manifested the way I wanted it to breaks my heart.
20:39And it's just, like, I know what he meant to a lot of people.
20:43And I know what his mission was.
20:45And he was so ten toes in that mission that it just, I do feel a responsibility to finish his work and keep it going, you know.
20:54You've got another chill.
20:54Yeah, yeah, I do.
20:56I do.
20:57So, it's just, that one was hard for me, you know.
20:59It really, yeah.
21:01I did appreciate seeing so many people who didn't understand his legacy and his life and his work learn about it after that.
21:09You know, like, that was a national, global news story.
21:14And I, it was good to see people learning about a man's work if they didn't know.
21:19No.
21:20You know what I mean?
21:21So, that, you know.
21:22Yeah.
21:23It was hard on all of us.
21:24But that, I saw that and I was like, okay, good.
21:26He's still teaching.
21:27Yes.
21:28Even, you know, in that.
21:29Yeah.
21:29I took away, it reminded me that to never pass judgment on anyone.
21:33Ever.
21:34You know, in one way, you could be like, oh, he's a rapper.
21:36You know, yes, he's cute.
21:37Yes, he is.
21:37Right.
21:38You know, you look at him one leg, but the minute he was gone, his impact, I mean, his funeral was at the Staples Center.
21:44That part.
21:46Who before that?
21:46Michael Jackson.
21:48That's him.
21:48You know.
21:49Yeah.
21:50Yeah, I know.
21:50But thank you for sharing that.
21:52You know, that was.
21:53Yeah, but thank you for sharing.
21:54Yeah.
21:54We didn't know.
21:55You really meant a lot to me.
21:56No.
21:56You really meant a lot to me.
21:58Yeah.
21:58Yeah.
21:59Who else do you look up to?
22:01Who are your other mentors?
22:04My mom, my dad, Ava, you know.
22:10We got to chat with Sally Richardson.
22:12Yes.
22:12Dope.
22:12Yeah.
22:13She's good people.
22:14Shout out to Andre, too.
22:17Honestly, man, between Oprah and Nip and my people, like, those are like.
22:22Nip was my idol, like, for real.
22:24No, yeah.
22:25And it's not that I want to be like him.
22:27You know, I don't need a rap.
22:29I don't need to have brain.
22:30I don't need to be from the city.
22:31I don't need none of that.
22:31Like, I respected his ambition and his expansion, his transformation.
22:36Because I used to listen to him when he was really on some hood.
22:39And he's still on some hood, but he's just sophisticated it.
22:43And the message was always still black excellence.
22:47You know, he talked about Africa.
22:48He always acknowledged his African heritage.
22:52He talked about everything.
22:54He, to me, is what people love in Ralph Angel because he wore duality.
23:00And he did it so well and so seamlessly.
23:02It's like, how could you say that and that in the same song?
23:06But, like, I feel you.
23:07And I know you really mean it.
23:10You know what I'm saying?
23:11Like, he just was a real one to the core.
23:14He walked the talk.
23:16He did it.
23:17He did it.
23:18He was doing it.
23:18And he died at his Jesus year.
23:21You know what I'm saying?
23:22Like, it's wild.
23:24But I feel like he made his impact.
23:25Like, I'll never not carry Nipsey with me.
23:28You know, like, again, I have so much work to do.
23:31And a part of me is excited, you know.
23:34But, yeah, a part of me will be sad forever.
23:37Because I did wish to see him get old.
23:39You know what I'm saying?
23:41I'm proud of you, Kofi.
23:42I mean, that's a lot on your shoulders, but you are so focused.
23:46You know what I mean?
23:47And you have a responsibility.
23:49And you are taking your career seriously and your work in the community.
23:52Those are big things.
23:53Appreciate that.
23:54And I thank you guys for supporting me.
23:56Of course.
23:56No, thank you.
23:57But we can't leave sad.
23:59I think you got to give us this little treat that's down here.
24:02What's in the box?
24:05What's in this box?
24:06Kofi came with gifts and presents.
24:07Yes.
24:08And I made y'all some pie.
24:09Ooh.
24:11Let's see.
24:11Can we do it?
24:12We got to do an unboxing.
24:13What's in here?
24:14Can you give us a little hint of what's going on with Aunt Vi this year?
24:18Aunt Queen Sugar.
24:19What's happening with Aunt Vi?
24:21I can't talk about Aunt Vi.
24:23You trying to get him.
24:24He's going to get it.
24:25You're going to get kicked off the group text.
24:27She's trying to get you kicked off the group text with Oprah and Aver.
24:30Wait, where's the front?
24:32What did we do?
24:33Oh, you know what?
24:33Here it is.
24:34Here it is.
24:34Okay, come on out now, pie.
24:35I can get into a pie.
24:37Ooh, and they're in little boxes.
24:39Amazing.
24:41Yes.
24:41Salted caramel.
24:42Yes.
24:44Blueberry.
24:45Pies, pies, pies, and diner.
24:47Yes.
24:48Plastic.
24:48Mini blueberry crumble pie.
24:53Thank you for this.
24:57Oh, we appreciate you.
24:58Always.
25:01All right.
25:03Now you got to come back, though.
25:04You know, we got to come back.
25:05You know what I mean?
25:06Well, he going to be at Essence Festival.
25:07Yes.
25:08But we're going to sneak you through the back, back door.
25:11No, I think he needs to land on a helipad on the top and just come in.
25:15Just come down, because are you squatting up with security, though?
25:19You got to stay ready.
25:20Yeah, I'm squatting.
25:20Okay.
25:21All right.
25:21We want to keep you safe.
25:22We want to keep you safe.
25:24You
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