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Andscape shares exciting overview of new programming coming to Hulu in August including Trap Jazz, and TheConversations Project"
Andscape shares exciting overview of new programming coming to Hulu in August including Trap Jazz, and TheConversations Project"
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00:00What's up, I'm digging?
00:02So you write your songs now, huh?
00:05Yes, ma'am.
00:06And I think the record execs will think it's fresh.
00:09Oh, you do?
00:11Well, I think it's stale.
00:13Like your attitude.
00:14We're gonna stick to what we've been doing.
00:16Right, boys?
00:17Yes, ma'am, that's right.
00:18Give it y'all.
00:19And by the way, Fresh Fest,
00:21that little Fuji's remix you pulled last night?
00:24Don't let it happen again.
00:26This is a family band, and we really don't need you.
00:29Let's take it from the top.
00:32Muskrat love.
00:36And they whirl and they twirl and they tango.
00:41Singing and jing in a jangle.
00:44It was right then and there that I realized I was on my own.
00:48And that I hated Muskrat love more than anything.
00:56So when we bombed on the boat, like I knew we would,
00:58I didn't have no problem going for myself.
01:06You're lucky.
01:08I let you.
01:11You love me.
01:13I knew you'd fall for me.
01:16My love is deeper.
01:18We ended up crushing it.
01:20Deeper.
01:21You're lucky.
01:23I let you love me.
01:26You were mad good, Giselle.
01:28Thanks, Ray Ray.
01:30You were really good too.
01:32Pick up your fans.
01:33We getting out of here.
01:34So what about the record people, mama?
01:36Ain't nothing happening.
01:37Your little girlfriend over there stabbed us in the back
01:39and made a deal for herself.
01:40Giselle, is that true?
01:43But why, Giselle?
01:45Yeah, I want to hear this.
01:49I'm not family.
01:50Remember?
01:56Don't y'all just stand there.
01:57Get your stuff and meet me at the dinghies.
01:59You boys got some rowing to do.
02:04So I didn't stab anybody in the back.
02:06I was just standing up for myself.
02:09And that's what really happened.
02:10But that was only half of the story.
02:12Oh, snap.
02:13Somebody about to get slapped.
02:15I knew this day would come, sugar mama.
02:17And I'm ready for you.
02:25Bring it on.
02:28Oh, girl, relax.
02:29Nobody wants to break you today.
02:31I don't blame you for what happened.
02:32Except I would have been a woman about it.
02:35And told me to my face.
02:41But no.
02:42I found out backstage after the concert.
02:48Good news, sugar.
02:49We got a record deal.
02:51What you mean, we?
02:52Yeah.
02:53Merlin makes the connect.
02:55Merlin's in on the deal.
02:57The bad news is this rip off contract.
03:00No.
03:01The bad news is they want the soul vibrations
03:04without the three little boys with no soul.
03:08Then we don't have a deal.
03:10I figured you'd say that, sugar.
03:12However, there is a deal with the girl.
03:15I'm not letting her sign that crooked contract either.
03:18She's family too.
03:19Not from what I hear.
03:21It's not gonna work, Merlin.
03:23These kids got something you'll never understand.
03:26Loyalty.
03:27So is that why she signed this contract?
03:33See you at the Grammy, sugar.
03:34Oh, no I won't, cause you won't be there.
03:37I hate you, Merlin, with your little skinny-leg greasy hair
03:41shuckin' little food with him.
03:45Well, why didn't you tell me he was a crook, sugar mama?
03:48Because you wouldn't have believed me, Giselle.
03:50You would have thought that I was trying to hold you back.
03:53Yeah, you right.
03:55Besides, Merlin was right.
03:57These three had no soul or talent.
04:00You deserved the shot, and I knew you could handle Merlin.
04:04You're tough.
04:05Like me.
04:07Thank you, sugar mama.
04:09I'm just glad everything worked out.
04:11Mama, what are you talkin' about?
04:13It didn't work out for us!
04:14Miss Giselle, may I ask you a question?
04:17Who did you like?
04:18Uncle Bobby or my daddy?
04:21Neither.
04:22Wait!
04:23I was kinda sweet on Ray Ray, but he never paid me no mind.
04:27What you talkin' about?
04:28You can't drop somethin' like that on a brother.
04:30You just made me regret my entire life!
04:34Okay, Ray Ray.
04:35I got somethin' that'll make you feel better.
04:37Come with me.
04:38Everybody!
04:44Ladies and gentlemen,
04:46I got a special treat for y'all tonight.
04:49After 25 years, I bring to y'all my brothers.
04:53Oscar, Bobby, and Ray Ray Proud.
04:56The original Soul Vibration.
05:02You're lucky I let you.
05:07You love me.
05:09I knew you'd fall for me.
05:12My love is deeper, but I'm the keeper.
05:17You're lucky I let you love me.
05:22But you hit me on the string, like the belt on your line.
05:24You don't wanna end up beggin' for my time.
05:26That's right!
05:27Suckin' cold sweet tea, givin' honey to floss.
05:29You know everybody want me, cause I'm fine.
05:31Whoa, whoa, whoa.
05:32Baby, I want you, and I do what I choose.
05:35Better thank me every time I call you mine.
05:37Break up hard, I can move.
05:39You got somethin' to lose.
05:40Speed it up while I got lovin' on my mind.
05:43You're lucky I let you out.
05:48All right, everyone.
05:49Don't go anywhere.
05:50Coming up next in the Essence Film Festival stage is Enscape, where blackness is infinite
05:55panel.
05:56Don't go anywhere.
05:57Come here, baby.
06:01Come on.
06:02I'm moderating.
06:04So this is real money?
06:06Alright, please.
06:10So, we'll be right here.
06:15Go the hell.
06:17Go the hell.
06:18Go the hell.
06:19Go the hell.
06:20Come here, BERLON!
06:21Go the hell.
06:22Go the hell.
06:23How good?
06:25I'm proud to be, you and me, we're the best ring of the you know it, I'm proud to be...
06:40Yeah!
06:44Uh-huh!
06:45Don't put the squad!
06:46Let's go!
06:49It's looking like we in the thick of it now, showing, proving, keeping it moving it,
06:52watching us down, through the tribulation, we made it, ain't no seein' us down, never faded,
06:55we elevated, took an app in the mouse, keep us around, you can only make a struggle,
06:58phenomenal power, impossible, feeling unstoppable, chopping the obstacles down to a molecule,
07:02when we in the mood that we gotta do what we gotta do, it's about to get violent!
07:06Everything we do for the squad!
07:08Don't come and play no games!
07:10When we come through with the game, we can remember the name!
07:17Revolution!
07:18Are you ready for a revolution?
07:21Come, here we go!
07:22Revolution!
07:23Let's start a revolution!
07:24Let's start a revolution!
07:38All right!
07:42Hello, everyone.
07:43Thank you guys so much for staying.
07:45I'm Kelly Carter, I'm senior entertainment reporter for Anscape.
07:49And so excited to moderate this conversation for you all today.
07:54But before we get into it really quickly, I want to shout out the Algiers America Project
08:00that was shot here right in New Orleans.
08:02So let's play that really quickly, please.
08:04The Car Cougars are going for a fifth consecutive state championship.
08:15Nobody in America has ever done it.
08:17But we always believe it can be done.
08:19Our aspiration was to build the best team in America.
08:23And people kept saying we couldn't.
08:27But man, it's hard to think about that when you see people getting killed.
08:32Last night, former wide receiver to let George was shot to death in the Algiers neighborhood of the city.
08:38The relentless pursuit of saving a child.
08:43Easier to say that.
08:44Harder to do it.
08:45When we lost him, it changed our message of our program.
08:52People think it's all about football.
08:54But it's really about the lessons that you learn.
08:56Win and losing don't define champion.
09:01It's how you fight your adversity.
09:03I don't want to release no balloons for no funerals.
09:07I want to release the balloons when they graduate, when they go to college.
09:14They want hope.
09:16They aspire to be great.
09:18We have to give them greatness.
09:20We have to instill that greatness in them because that's what they aspire to be.
09:29I love each and every one of y'all to death.
09:32And we have one more project that's coming to Hulu in August.
09:44It's a conversations project, which is an unscripted conversation series.
09:49It's going to feature six episodes that begin streaming on Hulu on August 28th.
09:54So let's take a look at that clip too, please.
10:02This is a question for the table, but I'm especially curious what you all think about this.
10:14Do you believe that black people are inherently more spiritual than other groups?
10:20I don't know if I want to say more spiritual, but we are spiritual.
10:23We just are.
10:24I agree with that.
10:25This is just the way I've seen it in America, where when people have a lot of money, I think as you go up in wealth, the level of belief goes down.
10:35I'm not saying it has to be this way.
10:38I just find that like anyone who needs faith usually leans towards faith.
10:44And that's why I like how you describe everything because I used to just think that my idea tastes good.
10:50You know what I mean?
10:51Like I'd say something and be like, mmm, like, yes, that's right.
10:55That's a delicious idea.
10:57But also the way that you describe, because there's so much purpose behind the way that you talk about it.
11:02I've been at parties where white girls are like, oh, you know, I'm a Leo, so I steal.
11:08It's just like, that can't be, that can't be part of it.
11:12You know what I mean?
11:13But I think as far as what you said about the more wealth, the less belief, it was actually the opposite for me.
11:23I became a millionaire when I was 19 or 18 years old.
11:27But for me, that brought me closer to the architect of the universe.
11:33It gave me more belief because in order for me to accomplish what I accomplished, it was so improbable.
11:40Not to just be alive, but to thrive and to have my dreams come true as far as wanting to be a musician and entertain the world.
11:48That was an act of divine intervention because my trajectory was just, just wasn't supposed to go there.
11:55I was supposed to be dead or in jail.
11:57So I hear what you're saying.
11:59That may be the case for other people.
12:01But for me, it actually brought me closer to knowing that it's not just me here on Earth.
12:09There are forces that are, you know, helping me along.
12:13With me, my faith journey has been up and down.
12:16My grandpa was a Methodist pastor.
12:18My mom and dad are very into the word.
12:20And I always was like close to God.
12:22I always wanted to be close to God and Jesus.
12:24And like, it really hasn't mattered the money I've made.
12:26It's really mattered what I've gone through.
12:28I lost a close friend to a drowning incident in high school.
12:31And that made me really close to God.
12:33Then it was also the opposite with my sister.
12:35I lost my sister to suicide in 2018.
12:37But that pushed me away from God.
12:39But to me, it hasn't been about like my success.
12:41It's been about the ups and downs of people I'm around.
12:44But I grew up in a white suburb in Coppell, Texas.
12:47And people sometimes, it was like a superficial faith.
12:51I'm going to do this because it looks good and I can like kind of show it off.
12:53And I didn't like that and that pushed me away.
12:55But the business I'm around in the NFL locker room, a lot of like people with a lot of money.
12:59But there's a lot of faith in the locker room.
13:01One thing I did want to put in perspective is I feel like, and you made me think of this,
13:05is when you said, you know, what happened with your sister made you push away from God.
13:10And I feel like what happens with a lot of us is we don't understand that our free will has nothing to do with God.
13:16A tree can only be a tree. A rock can only be a rock.
13:20We can be whatever we choose.
13:22And when we don't like the outcome, we get angry at God because we have the illusion that God was a part of that.
13:29Does that make sense?
13:30But do you believe that God is absent from certain actions?
13:34I don't believe God is absent, but I do believe God gave us power and free will.
13:38God gave us the power to be nothing in everything.
13:41As a Christian and as somebody who is more devout, are you triggered at all when people start talking about like human design or psychic readings or mediums or things like that?
13:51Does it make you uncomfortable?
13:52Throughout my journey, I've gotten into kind of all of it, like, especially like I really struggled after she died and I like needed to feel her in some way.
14:00And one way I do that spiritually now, whether I feel her in the wind or a butterfly comes up and touches me, like whatever it is, like her favorite flower is a sunflower.
14:08If I see sunflowers.
14:09I was going to ask you.
14:10So I was going to ask you.
14:11Yeah, yeah.
14:12So yeah, I have this tattoo for her.
14:13Growing up, I heard like any other gods, energy, spirit, like, that's bad.
14:19Like, I don't really believe that, so.
14:21Can I ask you a question?
14:22Yeah, of course.
14:23Do you ever pray for someone after you tackle them?
14:28Like, when you get them real good, right?
14:33Do you take a minute to yourself and be like, Lord, I didn't mean to.
14:38Are you like, oh, he got a family too, Lord.
14:41Just, you know what I mean?
14:43I love hearing that laughter.
14:48That is coming to Hulu next month as well.
14:53But here's the main event, Trap Jazz.
14:56Let me tell you a little bit about this documentary.
15:00It follows three classically trained jazz best playing musicians and friends from Atlanta,
15:06each revered within the music industry for working with some of the world's top artists.
15:11Trap Jazz sees them leaving behind their comfort zone with artists such as Cardi B,
15:16the Migos, Chris Brown, Justin Bieber, Kelly Rowland, and more.
15:20And embarking on the uncertain journey of stepping out of the supportive shadows and into the spotlight.
15:26Along the way, we chronicle what shapes each of them and the two genres that they are trying to meld together.
15:31Trap music and jazz music.
15:34This essentially is a love letter to jazz.
15:37Before I bring up our panelists, I want to show you guys a quick little snack of what's to come.
15:42Let's see.
15:43Okay.
15:45Alright?
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