One of today's guests
choreographed routines
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for some of the Music
Industry's biggest stars
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the other guest was on the verge
of a lucrative music deal...
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Stay tuned to find out
why they are no longer buying
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into the hype of the world...
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My name is Yvonne
Lewis and you're watching
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Urban Report...
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Hello and welcome
to Urban Report...
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Today our guests are
Dwayne Lemon and Lance Wilbur
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Co-Directors of
Tekoa Missions...
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Welcome to Urban Report
Dwayne and Lance... Yeah...
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Thank you for having
us... Glad to have you...
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and you know what's great?
I have you in the Studio...
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because usually, I
have to Skype in guests
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because we are kind
of in a remote area...
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but you guys are
here... live and in person...
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Oh, so good to
have you... Thank you...
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You have such
compelling testimonies...
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and I know... our Viewers
are... many times they...
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you can just kind
of get impressed by
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what's going on out there...
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without really
knowing what's behind it...
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I think... if people really
knew what was behind everything,
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they would be a
little appalled by it...
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Hmmm... hmmm... So
tell us... tell us...
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I'll start with you Dwayne
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give us the basics of
your testimony... like
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where did you come from...
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what were you doing
before? let's just talk...
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Yeah, basically, I was
born in Queens, New York...
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Yup, New York... we're going
to give New York a shout-out...
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I'm a New Yorker
too... yeah... okay...
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Specifically in an
area called Hollis Queens
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Okay, okay...
and Hollis Queens was
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very, very well-known for
being one of the center areas
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in Queens, New York
for the hip hop culture
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and a few Rap artists...
one of them being Run DMC
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there were from there...
amongst several others...
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Isn't 50 Cent from
Queens too... and Jay Z...
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weren't they from Queens?
Well, Jay Z, I'm not really sure
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I think Jay Z was from
Brooklyn Okay... okay...
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but nevertheless... you
know... it was a central area
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where a lot of concentration
of the hip hop culture
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could be seen... and,
of course, a lot of people
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of today... have
come from Queens...
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nevertheless,
that's where I grew up...
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and I grew up in a home
that was not religious...
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Hmmm...
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there was no
profession of any kind...
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of any religions... my
parents basically said,
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"Don't kill anybody
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and don't steal anything
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and more-than-likely
you'll be all right
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and probably you'll
even make it to heaven"
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Hmmm... very simple rules...
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nevertheless, you know,
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growing up in a home
where I'm the youngest of 8...
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my... yeah... Oh...
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my father... he was
married to another woman
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and they had 7
children... and then she died...
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and then my father met my mother
and then I was number 8...
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Okay...
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so there were 5
boys and then 3 girls...
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Wow! so, I was
the youngest of course
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and, you know, we
grew up in a home where
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there was somewhat of
a love one for another
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as far as brothers and
sisters were concerned...
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we cared for each other...
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we bothered each other...
we made each other mad...
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we did what a
lot of families did
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in those days...
and nevertheless...
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we grew up in a home
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where dad was self-employed...
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for the most part...
yeah... he would do a lot of
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side painting jobs... he
did work for a blue-color
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Organization but most of
his income came from that...
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so as a result of that...
hustling a lot... to make money
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dad was not home very often...
mom was in the Corporate world
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and she was working
in the World Trade Center
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and, you know, Mom
was a Corporate Woman...
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she is from the Virgin Islands,
she was the daughter of a
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Methodist Pastor... and
dad, pretty much, as far as
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I remember... people used to
refer to dad as somebody who was
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always... had street
knowledge, street life...
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Now, when you say
"hustling" you don't mean,
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"hustling... hustling"
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No, no...
"hustling" in this context...
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was working really
hard like over-working...
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Okay, I just wanted
to make sure Yeah...
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Finer terms...
Yeah, yeah, understood...
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Okay... so, you
know, so mom was there
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as much as she could
be... dad, again, hard worker...
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very strong and discipled...
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you did not cross dad or
else... the wrath would come...
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Hmmm... but nevertheless
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they did their best
of what they could offer
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to give myself and my brothers
and sisters a happy home...
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all right... Yes...
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now, in that, you know,
we did not get a chance to
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get the nurturing
that would come from
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what we understand today as
a "Bible-believing household"
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Hmmm... you know where there is
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morning
worship, evening worship,
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Right... regular
church attendance
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prayer and things like that,
we didn't get any of that...
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There wasn't any
prayer going on at home?
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There was no prayer at all...
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Okay... at
all... we went to Church
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pretty much once a year,
that was around Easter time
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and for me... that was the
time to show off my new suit
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because I didn't wear
a suit any other time...
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Okay... okay... you
know, very, very vain...
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just empty... no
religion whatsoever
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with that being said... I
grew up watching television,
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being trained and
reared up by entertainment,
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video games... all of
these different things,
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anything that just
could stimulate me enough
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as a young child to
have a lot of fun...
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so, in that
environment... growing up...
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my family, I
discovered, was very musical...
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my brother Michael... he sang,
he tried to go ahead and sing...
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he never made a
career of it, of course,
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but nevertheless, he
tried... my brother Leslie was
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very talented... he
knew how to play the keyboard
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he knew how to play
several instruments,
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my brother, Vernon,
was excellent at the drums,
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and my father was a drummer...
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he used to play at the
night clubs in Harlem...
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So, you come from
a musical family...
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Correct... yeah... so
there was a lot music going on
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but I didn't have any
of these musical talents...
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we used to listen
to Rhythm and Blues,
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a little bit of
gospel... very little gospel...
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but then... we also listened
to something called Funkadelic
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it was like...
what they call T-Funk...
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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and it was kind
of... like a mixture
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of a lot of different types
of music... all into one...
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nevertheless, that's
what we grew up on... so...
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listening to all this music
in the house, it got to a point
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where I wanted to find
out "Well, what's my talent?"
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so, I tried playing the
drums, wasn't very good at it...
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Hmmm... hmmm...
touched the keyboard...
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couldn't do it... my
father always said I had
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fingers made for the keyboard
but it just never panned out...
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Hmmm... hmmm... but
what I did notice was that
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that every time
music would play...
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my feet would just
start naturally moving...
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Hmmm... I mean,
it was very, very
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impulsive... it was like...
as soon as you heard something,
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it was like, "Oh, okay... "
and I started moving around...
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so I discovered at
a very young age that
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that I knew how
to dance... Okay...
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yeah, that was just
something that I loved to do...
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it was like... any
time music would play...
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and later on... I discovered
that there are some people
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who move to music...
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and there are other
people, who the music moves...
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Hmmm... and the people who the
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music moves...
always made the best dancers
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Okay, so explain that...
explain that a little bit...
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There are some people
when they listen to music...
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they are trying to
process it in their mind,
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and to keep their bodies
and their motions coordinated
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to the music so they can
move at a certain pace and so on
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I see... I see...
there's a lot of this effort
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that's being put out...
and then there are other people
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that when the music
plays... it's moving you...
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so it's almost like your body is
naturally flowing with the music
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Okay... those always made
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the better caliber of
dancers... Okay... okay...
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yeah, and we
discovered that later on
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because the music
was always moving me...
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it was just moving me...
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So, you went into
dancing, I assume...
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Oh yeah, definitely, definitely,
it got to a point where
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it first started just...
being in my home and when we
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were playing music in my
backyard during a barbeque
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then... Dwayne was
"the entertainment"
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Okay... so, you
know, and I loved
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getting attention...
because I just didn't get
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as much as I
needed... from my parents...
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Hmmm... hmmm...
so there was still
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somewhat of a love gap...
so, for me, the love gap was
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bridged... by me dancing...
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and then receiving what
I interpreted as love...
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Okay... which was attention...
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Okay, so, when did you take that
into the professional realm?
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what happened with that...
there was a series of events
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that took place with
that... I went to High School,
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and when I went to High School,
I was pretty much a nobody...
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no one recognized
me for anything...
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but, I knew how to dance...
so I ended up participating
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in the "Homecoming King
- homecoming Queen Pageant"
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Okay... Yeah,
the talent shows...
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so when I did
that... I ended up winning...
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and I danced...
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Because the talent
that you were displaying...
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everybody had to do their
talent and yours was dancing...
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exactly...
exactly... and you would win...
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Yep... Okay...
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and through the
votes and everything...
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they chose me as the
Homecoming King for that year
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1989... okay... okay...
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so, when I became
the Homecoming King...
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I got a lot of attention...
I mean... a lot of attention...
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and then, there
was a series of events,
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kind of fast forwarding,
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there was a series of events
in High School that took place
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where some guys came and they
started dancing at the school,
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and I really didn't
appreciate the fact that
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the crowd... the auditorium...
was showing all these guys
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the love that I
felt belonged to me...
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Right... right... right... right
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so, therefore, I got
jealous about that...
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so I went up on stage and
I wanted to battle with them
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by dancing... Hmmm...
hmmm... hmmm... hmmm...
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and the teachers thought
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that a fight was
getting ready to start up...
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so the teachers broke it up
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they said, "No, no,
no, let's stop this"
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and then we were
left off the stage
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and a fight broke out
as a result of that...
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somebody thought that
one of these guys wanted to
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start trouble with me
so they want and started
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to jump on the
guys and beat them up
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Hmmm... and it was terrible...
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come to find out that
the guys that they beat up
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at the School... were part of
a group in Brooklyn, New York,
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called "The
Decepticons" there was a cartoon
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that used to be
called "The Transformers"
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and they had the
Autobots and Decepticons
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the Decepticons
were the bad guys...
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to make the long story
short, they were the bad guys...
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they were known for
just beating people up
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killing them...
all these things...
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Even the name, "Decepticons"
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I mean... you know...
sounds like... bad news...
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Well, they basically interpreted
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the Decepticon
guys who got beaten up,
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they figured I
started this fight...
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I sent the guys... so,
they began to call my house
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and tell my mother and my father
"We're going to kill your son"
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and so on... and my
mother got very nervous
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Wow...
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and she said, "You
can't go back to School"
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and so I became a
high school dropout...
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Wow, and at what grade
were you in at this point?
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This was when I
was in 11th Grade...
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Okay... oh wow! so you were
a Junior... one year left...
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and you dropped
out... Hmmm... hmmm...
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Well, what
happened after that is...
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I ended up having to look
for a job... had to work...
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because I couldn't
go back to School...
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so, odd jobs were
not working for me
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I took a job at
UPS... hated it...
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tried to do another
job in another location
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hated it... so I
told my mother and father
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I said, "Listen, they
always do auditions for videos
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in New York... in Manhattan...
so let me give it a try"
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again, because my
parents didn't have any
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strong moral
standards... they just said,
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"Go for it... whatever you
believe you can do... do it... "
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Hmmm... hmmm... so I
went from the house parties
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and I started going
to music auditions...
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and that's how I started getting
into the Entertainment Industry
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I see... so you went
to some of these auditions
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and one of them
clicked for you...
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one of them clicked...
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it's probably the one
that clicked that really helped
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launch my career...
was with Queen Latifah...
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Okay... Queen
Latifah held an audition
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and I was part of the
group called "Quiet Stone"
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and our concept was always
"We walk soft but we hit hard"
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Hmmm... Quiet Stone...
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and we would just go in there
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and just kind of
look like nobody...
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but when it was
time for the dance...
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and they would press
play in that music...
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the music took
over... and, therefore,
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I would demonstrate my
talent and then, Latifah said,
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"Oh yeah, we got to
bring this guy in... "
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Hmmm... and
that's how I got in...
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I went on the
Apocalypse '91 World Tour
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you know, with the Public Enemy
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and there were
several other artists
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and that was kind of
like the really kick-off...
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Hmmm... of my
being involved in the
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Entertainment Industry as
a dancer and choreographer...
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One of the things
that people might not know
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about the Entertainment Industry
is... it is about "who you know"
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Oh yeah...
because those doors open
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as you get to know one
person and they recommend you
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to somebody else... that's
how the doors open for you
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Absolutely... it's
kind of... from within
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Yes, it is... and
so, you're saying that
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when you started out...
you took these auditions
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and stuff... did really
well... one person saw you...
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"We got to have him... "
and then, the rest of the doors
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started opening...
Really, the rest is history...
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Wow, so who else did you...
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work with, some of the names?
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I worked with Queen Latifah,
I worked with Salt-N-Pepa
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Hmmm... hmmm...
worked with a Rap Artist
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by the name of MC Lyte,
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I started to
work with Busta Rhymes
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and then Leaders
Of The New School
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A Tribe Called
Quest... Wu-Tang Clan
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I ended up going more
so to the singing side
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so then I met a guy by
the name of Tony Terry...
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who was a great R and
B Artist at that time...
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really well known...
then Cee Cee Peniston
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and then, of course,
Brandy... Hmmm... hmmm...
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when I got a chance
to work with Brandy,
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and these were individuals
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that we started doing music
videos with and tours with,
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and then it started to
branch into other things like
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Commercials...
Sprite commercials,
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Coco Cola, Nike
and the list goes on...
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Hmmm... hmmm... then
eventually there was a
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a Sitcom called
"New York Under Cover"
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Yeah... and they brought me in
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to do some acting... that
was my first time doing acting
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Okay... you know, and,
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that was incredible as well...
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so, it was in a
very short period of time
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but before you know it, I
was a dancer, a choreographer
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an actor, you
know, the list goes on...
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and it was kind of
like... you're going uphill...
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Yes... you
know... at that point...
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What did you see...
this is so important because
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people think that
the music industry
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is just all glamour and glitz
00:13:10.02\00:13:11.45
and that people are
just having a great time...
00:13:11.48\00:13:13.49
and all that... Hmmm... hmmm...
00:13:13.52\00:13:14.80
what did you
see... behind the scenes
00:13:14.83\00:13:17.34
that would make
you go, "Whoa... "
00:13:17.38\00:13:19.47
that would kind
of take you aback
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what did you see? Yes...
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there is a lot that takes
place when the lights go off...
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and I realize that
the Entertainment Industry
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it's very trap-oriented...
because what they do is...
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when the lights are on...
and you see the music videos,
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and you see the "Bling...
bling" all of the glamour,
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the money... the
women... the men...
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and this that and the other...
but when those lights go off...
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it's a whole different world...
I saw murder, I saw thievery,
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I saw abuse...
00:13:48.30\00:13:49.99
I saw individuals
who were wrongly done...
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there were things that were
done to them that were horrible
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it's difficult to even mention
specifically some of the things
00:13:57.18\00:14:00.51
that I've seen... I've
seen a lot of crooked behavior,
00:14:00.55\00:14:02.50
a lot of crooked foul activities
00:14:02.53\00:14:03.93
you know, you see these
things when the lights go off...
00:14:03.97\00:14:06.11
there are promises
made but not fulfilled
00:14:06.15\00:14:08.31
Hmmm... hmmm...
there's a lot of using and
00:14:08.35\00:14:10.48
abusing of individuals
from the mental to the physical
00:14:10.51\00:14:13.01
and perhaps in certain
ways even spiritual levels...
00:14:13.05\00:14:15.55
Yes... then
there's a lot of bloodshed
00:14:15.59\00:14:18.04
there's a lot of fighting,
there is murder, you know,
00:14:18.07\00:14:21.61
there are things that take
place that I saw... that I said,
00:14:21.65\00:14:25.81
"Man, I didn't know that I
was entering into this... "
00:14:25.84\00:14:27.86
Yes, see to me...
that is the thing...
00:14:27.90\00:14:32.55
Satan is so conniving...
00:14:32.58\00:14:35.72
he presents this picture
that everything is beautiful...
00:14:35.76\00:14:39.56
but when those lights go off
00:14:39.59\00:14:41.89
you see... all of
this dirt... Corruption...
00:14:41.92\00:14:44.42
yes... all of these
things that are going on
00:14:44.45\00:14:46.92
and just... it's just...
you know that it's a trap
00:14:46.96\00:14:51.08
That's right... it is a trap...
00:14:51.12\00:14:52.70
and I want our
Viewers to know that...
00:14:52.73\00:14:55.02
that's so important...
because we get beguiled...
00:14:55.05\00:14:57.81
Yes... we're
beguiled by the Serpent
00:14:57.84\00:15:00.48
we're really... get beguiled...
and if we if we are not careful,
00:15:00.52\00:15:03.88
we think it's so great...
00:15:03.92\00:15:05.32
Now, I'm going to come
to you Brother Lance...
00:15:05.35\00:15:08.15
because I want to hear
what's been going on with you
00:15:08.18\00:15:10.97
and then we're going
to talk about Tekoa...
00:15:11.01\00:15:12.54
I wish I had an hour... I
need an hour with you guys...
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see it's not fair...
you're going to be doing
00:15:17.83\00:15:19.77
something on the Today Program,
00:15:19.81\00:15:21.04
and I didn't get you for
an hour, ok, so I am going
00:15:21.08\00:15:23.13
to have to talk to them.
00:15:23.17\00:15:24.20
Okay, now Brother Lance...
tell us about yourself...
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Where did you come from?
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I'm from
Massachusetts originally...
00:15:28.20\00:15:31.29
I was born right on
the outskirts of Boston...
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and I lived in and out of
Boston and around the area...
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pretty much... growing up...
00:15:36.90\00:15:37.99
I kind of come in
from a different angle...
00:15:38.03\00:15:41.18
similar background... I
had a single-parent household
00:15:41.21\00:15:43.60
I was raised by my
mother, bi-racial family...
00:15:43.64\00:15:45.43
and really no
morals in the house...
00:15:45.46\00:15:50.68
I mean there was
standards and values, I guess,
00:15:50.72\00:15:52.38
it wasn't complete
chaos... Hmmm... hmmm...
00:15:52.41\00:15:54.60
but no religion...
certainly no religion...
00:15:54.64\00:15:56.79
pretty much...
try everything once...
00:15:56.83\00:15:58.26
you know, do whatever you want
00:15:58.30\00:15:59.67
as long as it
doesn't hurt anybody
00:15:59.70\00:16:00.94
kind of
values... Hmmm... hmmm...
00:16:00.98\00:16:02.18
so, I was exposed
to a lot of things...
00:16:02.22\00:16:04.53
early on... you know...
00:16:04.56\00:16:07.07
domestic violence, drugs,
00:16:07.11\00:16:09.50
alcohol... all kinds of
things at a young age...
00:16:09.53\00:16:12.99
so by
ten-years-old... I was already
00:16:13.03\00:16:15.29
repeating those things...
00:16:15.32\00:16:17.12
and repeating the behaviors
that I witnessed... so...
00:16:17.15\00:16:18.75
I was already getting
involved in the streets
00:16:18.78\00:16:21.20
more heavily and
smoking and drinking
00:16:21.23\00:16:23.10
and that just
escalated By ten...
00:16:23.13\00:16:24.96
by ten... yeah... Wow!
00:16:25.00\00:16:26.26
so, pretty much, eleven,
twelve, now it's everyday...
00:16:26.30\00:16:30.31
and I'm pretty much now
getting sucked into that
00:16:30.34\00:16:33.31
street life... and it
was just, at that time...
00:16:33.34\00:16:36.22
pervaded by hip hop culture...
so, I became addicted to it
00:16:36.25\00:16:41.23
I mean... I was kind
of anti-establishment
00:16:41.27\00:16:43.97
and I was just, I don't know,
00:16:44.00\00:16:48.04
people probably had all
kinds of bad names for me,
00:16:48.07\00:16:50.66
but I was just on the
streets... Yeah, yeah...
00:16:50.69\00:16:53.24
whatever you can
imagine... that life would be...
00:16:53.28\00:16:55.74
that's what I did...
00:16:55.78\00:16:56.82
so, I had my
mid-life crisis at 15...
00:16:56.86\00:16:59.24
because I had pretty much
done everything, you know,
00:16:59.28\00:17:02.89
tried everything
that I wanted to try...
00:17:02.92\00:17:06.89
just partying and
you know money and
00:17:06.92\00:17:10.81
basically anything that
came to mind, I did it...
00:17:10.85\00:17:14.77
if I wanted to do it... I did it
00:17:14.81\00:17:16.06
and there was nothing...
there was no law or anything
00:17:16.09\00:17:18.82
that could stop me...
so, a large group of friends
00:17:18.86\00:17:21.55
a large "crew" if you will...
00:17:21.59\00:17:22.99
that we used to
be together everyday,
00:17:23.02\00:17:24.78
every day was like a party...
00:17:24.81\00:17:26.17
and eventually, I just
got disgusted with that,
00:17:26.21\00:17:29.27
lifestyle... at 15...
Hmmm... hmmm... hmmm...
00:17:29.31\00:17:31.96
it wasn't fun anymore...
it was kind of maxed out...
00:17:32.00\00:17:34.61
Hmmm... hmmm...
ran its limits...
00:17:34.65\00:17:36.08
so, I began asking
questions, I literally remember
00:17:36.12\00:17:39.63
a conversation that I had
"God" whoever I understood
00:17:39.66\00:17:43.14
was God at that
time... because I remember
00:17:43.18\00:17:46.98
as a young child...
having a conception of God
00:17:47.01\00:17:50.78
and Christ and the Bible...
but, no real experience,
00:17:50.82\00:17:53.71
you know Church... and
weddings and funerals and...
00:17:53.75\00:17:56.61
Right... Easter and Christmas
00:17:56.65\00:17:57.82
kind of thing...
But no relationship...
00:17:57.85\00:17:59.18
no relationship... Yeah...
00:17:59.21\00:18:00.28
I just had peripheral knowledge,
00:18:00.31\00:18:02.71
so, I remember asking
for things I understood,
00:18:02.75\00:18:06.09
"Oh, you pray
for something and God
00:18:06.12\00:18:09.06
'is supposed to give it to you'"
so, I remember asking for things
00:18:09.10\00:18:11.80
and if it didn't
immediately manifest itself...
00:18:11.83\00:18:14.42
I would curse God out... and
I would just have tirades at God
00:18:14.45\00:18:17.47
Wow! so, fast-forward at 15...
00:18:17.51\00:18:19.26
it was mid-life crisis...
I'm disgusted with my life,
00:18:19.30\00:18:21.15
I'm not satisfied...
and I asked the question,
00:18:21.18\00:18:25.30
"Why am I here...
what is the purpose...
00:18:25.33\00:18:27.33
is there a God...
is the universe... "
00:18:27.36\00:18:29.29
all these questions...
these Proverbial questions
00:18:29.32\00:18:33.86
and an answer came into my head
00:18:33.89\00:18:35.80
a very clear
voice came into my head
00:18:35.84\00:18:37.70
and the voice said, "If you
want answers, go and read... "
00:18:37.74\00:18:39.84
Hmmm... and I hated reading...
00:18:39.87\00:18:42.01
to me reading was for
certain kinds of people...
00:18:42.04\00:18:45.70
Nerds? exactly, exactly...
00:18:45.73\00:18:47.83
so I just wasn't in to
it... I mean, I was never "dumb"
00:18:47.87\00:18:50.92
I mean, I was
always an "intelligent kid"
00:18:50.95\00:18:53.50
and I could do what I wanted...
but I didn't like School...
00:18:53.54\00:18:57.25
it just didn't appeal to me...
so, I took it as a challenge
00:18:57.29\00:19:00.97
I was very
competitive, I played sports...
00:19:01.00\00:19:03.88
I was a three-sport
athlete, and so I said,
00:19:03.92\00:19:06.77
"All right, that's a challenge
if you want answers, go read"
00:19:06.80\00:19:08.52
I took it like
that... I literally got up
00:19:08.56\00:19:09.93
and left my house, and went to
the High School I was attending
00:19:09.96\00:19:15.33
I went to the Library
and took out some books...
00:19:15.37\00:19:17.08
I took out some
books on philosophy,
00:19:17.12\00:19:18.47
I took out a book on Shamanism,
I took out a book on Egyptology,
00:19:18.51\00:19:22.75
and I took out a book on Mars...
the planet, the red planet...
00:19:22.78\00:19:26.99
Whoa... whoa...
Egyptology and Shamanism...
00:19:27.02\00:19:29.88
Yes... yes Whoa, okay...
00:19:29.92\00:19:31.23
so I started my journey...
00:19:31.26\00:19:33.19
I literally
now... 15, 16, 17, 18...
00:19:33.22\00:19:36.81
I'm still in the streets,
I'm still doing all kinds of
00:19:36.84\00:19:38.96
Were you doing
music at this point?
00:19:39.00\00:19:40.11
Yeah, pretty much by this time
it was music and basketball...
00:19:40.14\00:19:45.46
or street and basketball...
I had already received
00:19:45.49\00:19:48.02
some invitations...
even in my sophomore year
00:19:48.06\00:19:51.16
I was receiving
letters to play basketball
00:19:51.20\00:19:53.59
at various
schools... but I hated school...
00:19:53.62\00:19:55.94
and so, street life and
drugs and alcohol every day...
00:19:55.98\00:20:01.68
and late nights don't mix
with high-level athletics...
00:20:01.72\00:20:07.39
and so, they were
able to scrape me by...
00:20:07.42\00:20:10.48
and I received, you know,
people offering to buy you shoes
00:20:10.52\00:20:14.58
and send you to camps
and do all these things
00:20:14.61\00:20:16.99
and pass you through
grades and classes...
00:20:17.02\00:20:19.33
that you don't even attend
or don't do any homework for...
00:20:19.37\00:20:21.56
Wow! but I just... I got less
00:20:21.60\00:20:24.73
and less interested with School,
I guess the whole idea was...
00:20:24.77\00:20:27.37
I'd wake up whenever I
wanted, go into school...
00:20:27.41\00:20:29.07
just find out what's going
on for the day and then leave...
00:20:29.10\00:20:31.76
So, how did you get
into the pro-music...
00:20:31.79\00:20:36.92
I know that you were
doing music and basketball...
00:20:36.96\00:20:38.99
how did music, then, take over?
00:20:39.02\00:20:40.80
Because, basically,
with hip hop culture
00:20:40.83\00:20:43.72
when I was just
completely engrafted into...
00:20:43.75\00:20:46.44
in running the streets
and taking in the culture
00:20:46.47\00:20:50.19
through the music,
and the entertainment
00:20:50.22\00:20:51.59
and the movies... and,
you know, my surroundings
00:20:51.63\00:20:54.11
and the people that I
was running with everyday...
00:20:54.14\00:20:56.59
that became an
option... in other words...
00:20:56.62\00:20:59.15
I was always good
with speaking, and just...
00:20:59.18\00:21:01.53
it was a natural
talent that I had...
00:21:01.56\00:21:03.39
so, it's
something that I heard...
00:21:03.42\00:21:05.18
and, you know, you go
from memorizing people's songs,
00:21:05.22\00:21:07.56
to then... somebody saying,
00:21:07.60\00:21:09.22
"Hey why don't
you make your own?"
00:21:09.25\00:21:10.69
Okay... and then you sit down...
00:21:10.72\00:21:12.07
and it's just automatic...
you don't... it comes naturally
00:21:12.11\00:21:15.13
so, everyday becomes now...
00:21:15.16\00:21:16.38
I'm going to pursue
this professionally...
00:21:16.41\00:21:18.62
so, I'm going to just...
from writing rhymes and Emceeing
00:21:18.65\00:21:23.57
amongst your friends...
00:21:23.61\00:21:25.01
now you're going
to different levels...
00:21:25.04\00:21:27.06
so, I connected with
pretty much the most prominent
00:21:27.09\00:21:30.59
Deejay Producer
in the Boston area
00:21:30.62\00:21:33.22
he was in... pretty much all the
prominent magazines at the time
00:21:33.25\00:21:36.96
and Boston really didn't have
a reputable hip-hop or music
00:21:37.00\00:21:40.90
scene for the hip hop culture
so it was very, very isolated
00:21:40.93\00:21:44.80
groups that were identified
with the city of Boston...
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so there was an underground
swelling that was happening
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at the time... as hip-hop
was starting to spread globally
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where... we were just getting
more and more opportunities
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so, I started getting serious,
I started putting together Sets
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and putting together a
demo... and recording...
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and that kind of
went from there...
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So, you guys
both... this is so deep...
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you guys both...
had invested yourselves
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into that whole hip hop culture,
into that whole music deal...
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and yet, you were
brought out from it...
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I want to know...
as quickly as you can
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tell me, how you got out,
because I want to hear about
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Tekoa Mission... Yes...
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how did you, first Dwayne,
how did you find the Lord?
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and then I want to
hear about it from you...
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Okay... even while I was
in the Entertainment Industry,
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traveling and everything,
00:22:38.24\00:22:39.47
even the partners that I
brought in... to dance with me,
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one of them, he actually decided
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to no longer go in
to work with me anymore,
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and I asked him, "Why?"
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and he said, "Because
Christ and the world do not mix"
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Hmmm... hmmm...
now, that was a seed...
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when you think about the Bible,
in Isaiah 55 where it says,
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"so shall my word be that
goeth forth out of my mouth:
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it shall not
return unto me void... "
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Right... he planted
a seed in my mind...
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Right... so, I'm thinking,
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"Christ and the
world do not mix"
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at first I was like,
"Man, you're crazy...
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all this money and everything...
and you're telling me
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that you're going to
turn it away for Jesus?"
00:23:06.12\00:23:07.49
it didn't make any
sense... but then...
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a very traumatic
experience happened...
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my nephew got killed... Hmmm...
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and when my nephew got killed,
it was one of the first funerals
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that I ever went to... and
when I went to that funeral,
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that's when...
watching his casket go into
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the ground... it felt like he
was being pulled out of my life
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and it was
through that experience
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that when we went
back into the limousine...
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all the voices in the
limousine kind of drowned out...
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I started to hear a
voice asking me very clearly,
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"Will you accept me now?" Wow!
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"Will you accept me now?" Wow...
00:23:36.72\00:23:38.98
and it was like...
that voice was clear as day
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and in my mind, I knew
that this must be God...
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Yes... and that
was the first time
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that I ever said,
"Yes" to the Lord...
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Wow! that's
awesome, what about you?
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Yeah so, going back,
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when I heard that voice
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that said, "If you want
answers go and read... "
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so I did... and
so the whole time
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when I'm continuing to
deal drugs and run the streets
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and produce music... I'm
studying... I'm reading...
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heavily... Hmmm...
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so, fast forward 5 years
later and about 60 books,
00:24:04.48\00:24:08.83
of all kinds of
religions, New Age,
00:24:08.86\00:24:11.56
and Buddhism and
Islam... I pretty much decided
00:24:11.59\00:24:14.35
that I was going to
join the 5 percent Nation...
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it's an off-shoot of the NOl...
the Nation of Islam in America
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and so, through a
providential series of events...
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I found myself in a Barber
Shop, I sat in this Barber Shop,
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and I began to go
into the Barber Shop
00:24:31.72\00:24:33.43
to get haircuts
and just to hang out...
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I was very close to the
person I was working with...
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and we used to get
into religious matters...
00:24:36.78\00:24:38.80
and had virtual
fist fights over religion
00:24:38.83\00:24:40.78
and I was 60 books in... and
I felt that I knew everything
00:24:40.81\00:24:43.18
you couldn't tell me anything,
and one day, the owner,
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after months and
months, the owner said,
00:24:45.58\00:24:46.89
"Hey, I have a Pastor
coming in to give a Bible Study,
00:24:46.93\00:24:48.86
why don't you sit and wait... "
00:24:48.90\00:24:50.30
I said, "No
problem... " I thought,
00:24:50.33\00:24:51.82
"Another challenge"
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah...
00:24:51.85\00:24:53.46
"like the pastor is not
going to be embarrassing you"
00:24:53.49\00:24:55.06
so, I sat in... closed
the Barber Shop, after hours
00:24:55.10\00:24:57.83
there were about 25 of
us in the Barber Shop...
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we sat down for a Bible Study
00:25:00.60\00:25:01.90
and the Bible Study was on
the Authority of God's Word
00:25:01.93\00:25:04.40
and the prophecies
of Daniel chapter 2...
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I had already read books
that I had accepted as truth,
00:25:06.20\00:25:09.42
prior to, sitting down
and seeing this in the Bible,
00:25:09.45\00:25:12.87
and when I saw it in the
Bible, my mouth was stopped
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Wow! and I asked for that set of
00:25:16.32\00:25:18.08
lessons... there were
31 lessons in the series
00:25:18.11\00:25:20.24
I took them home, I did
all of them once, twice,
00:25:20.27\00:25:22.33
I was half way the third time,
00:25:22.36\00:25:23.57
and the Pastor asked me
00:25:23.61\00:25:24.86
if I had any questions...
I said, "No, no questions"
00:25:24.90\00:25:26.36
my mind was made up...
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Wow! you see how God had this
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divine plan for the two of you!
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All right, fast forward
now and tell us about Tekoa...
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What is it? Tekoa
Missions is a ministry
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we're located in New Hampshire,
00:25:39.85\00:25:41.25
over there over New
England in the Northeast...
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and our goal is to
produce an army of young people
00:25:43.91\00:25:46.47
who are committed to
soul-winning for life...
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we started in 2008...
we are two of the Directors
00:25:49.14\00:25:51.34
there's another
Director, Brother Andre Waller
00:25:51.38\00:25:53.55
who also works
with us very closely...
00:25:53.58\00:25:55.39
and we pretty much have an
Evangelism Training School...
00:25:55.43\00:25:58.51
so we train young
people how to learn...
00:25:58.55\00:26:01.06
how to win souls for Christ,
how to work and add numbers
00:26:01.10\00:26:04.28
to God's Kingdom...
we're also interested in
00:26:04.32\00:26:07.32
not just training young
people to do missionary work
00:26:07.36\00:26:11.03
in the U.S. in the
Northeast... predominantly
00:26:11.06\00:26:13.31
but also creating a
Center, if you will,
00:26:13.34\00:26:17.52
like a refuge... a sanctuary...
00:26:17.56\00:26:19.08
to reach the cities...
00:26:19.12\00:26:20.74
you know, the urban
areas... and the Communities...
00:26:20.77\00:26:23.27
the population centers
that are desperately in need
00:26:23.30\00:26:25.77
of the truth...
and the gospel...
00:26:25.80\00:26:27.26
and not just the gospel
in the theoretical sense
00:26:27.29\00:26:30.45
in the preaching sense,
but in a practical sense...
00:26:30.49\00:26:33.61
Yes... the
day-to-day... The day-to-day...
00:26:33.64\00:26:35.84
so, learning how to offer
solutions to people's issues
00:26:35.88\00:26:40.40
and ministering to
people physically, mentally,
00:26:40.44\00:26:42.85
and spiritually... so,
creating a network, if you will,
00:26:42.89\00:26:46.38
that workers can be
trained to offer those services
00:26:46.42\00:26:49.76
and then offer
something outside of the cities,
00:26:49.79\00:26:52.62
in the Country... to
bring people from the cities
00:26:52.66\00:26:55.45
out there... and let
them see the contrast
00:26:55.49\00:26:57.46
to see that there's a
different way of life...
00:26:57.50\00:26:59.40
so we take a lot of young
people from urban areas...
00:26:59.44\00:27:01.10
so, then they can go
back into those urban areas...
00:27:01.14\00:27:04.62
not just after the education
but we're working these centers
00:27:04.65\00:27:07.76
while they are being educated
so they're getting a practical
00:27:07.80\00:27:10.87
education and the Biblical,
theoretical training as well...
00:27:10.91\00:27:13.95
Wow! that is wonderful...
00:27:13.99\00:27:16.19
what a wonderful
God-inspired plan!
00:27:16.23\00:27:19.46
Yeah... and I praise the Lord
00:27:19.50\00:27:21.26
for you guys... I
love to see young men
00:27:21.30\00:27:23.48
that are on fire for God...
00:27:23.51\00:27:24.82
that have come out
from the darkness...
00:27:24.86\00:27:26.49
Thank you so much...
Thank you for having us...
00:27:26.52\00:27:28.56
you're in His marvelous light
00:27:28.59\00:27:30.08
and I'm just... I'm
thrilled to have you
00:27:30.11\00:27:32.25
and I'm looking
forward to you guys...
00:27:32.28\00:27:34.34
you guys are going to be hosting
a Program on Dare to Dream
00:27:34.38\00:27:37.06
so, I'm really
excited about that,
00:27:37.10\00:27:38.98
and we'll talk more about that
00:27:39.02\00:27:40.35
in December
when you come back...
00:27:40.39\00:27:41.69
All right... All right...
00:27:41.73\00:27:42.86
Thanks for joining us...
00:27:42.90\00:27:44.21
and tuning in today...
00:27:44.25\00:27:45.49
you know, today you've
heard from two young men
00:27:45.53\00:27:48.89
that are on fire for God...
00:27:48.93\00:27:50.28
that have come
out from the darkness
00:27:50.31\00:27:52.03
into His marvelous
light... there is nothing better
00:27:52.07\00:27:55.00
than that... there is
nothing greater than that
00:27:55.03\00:27:57.93
join us next time...
00:27:57.96\00:27:59.50
it just wouldn't be
the same without you...
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