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Ne-Yo talks to ESSENCE about making his hosting debut at the 2022 Urban One Honors ceremony and how this year's honorees -- from Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis to Jennifer Hudson -- have personally affected his life and music career.
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00:00You are like such a natural performer, like singing and dancing.
00:03I wonder if this did get you out of your comfort zone.
00:07A little bit.
00:08I mean, you have to, okay, I don't want to be that dude that was clearly reading Teleprompter
00:15and like look like you, okay, hello everyone and welcome to the, I don't want to be that
00:20dude, you know what I mean?
00:21And believe it or not, it's hard to not be that dude.
00:24You have to, it requires a lot of different places of the brain all working at one time.
00:30It's like, okay, smile, please don't follow the words with your eyes.
00:34Like all of these things you have to think of to not be that person.
00:37So yeah, I was nervous.
00:38Hell, I was very, very nervous, but the production team there made things very, very easy for
00:43me.
00:43And again, the show, the show looks absolutely amazing.
00:47You will not be disappointed.
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