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- [Al] Chris did a
walkthrough with the police.

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- [Radio] So is the concern a shooter?

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- We get threats all the time,

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I'm not gonna not do the rally.

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- So one thing when I was
watching your documentary

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that I found pretty
fascinating was you talked

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about your relationship with James Brown.

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Is there any like piece
of advice or lesson

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from him that you find
yourself revisiting frequently?

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- James Brown became like
a father figure to me.

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And he would always tell me
to "Don't be one of the guys."

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That was his, he admonish me,
"Always find your own beat."

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And I'm sitting there.

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He had a lot of cars.

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He had about 33 cars.

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We in one of his custom cars.

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And I'm like, "Why are we
sitting here?" to myself.

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And finally about two minutes
in, he said, "You hear that?"

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I said, "You hear what?"

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He said, "Do you hear that?"

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And I said, "I hear inside the church,

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it sounds like a choir
singing and a band playing."

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He said, "That's exactly what it is."

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He said, "When I was a kid, I used to come

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and stand outside of this church

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and hear that band and the drummer."

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He said," I didn't have enough
good clothes to go to church

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and that drummer is on the half beat.

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And that's where I learned
how to do a one three beat

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rather than a two four beat."

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And that's where he would sing

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"Take it to the One".

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He said, "Don't ever follow everybody

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else's beat Reverend.

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Follow your own beat.

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Be strong enough to be different"

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- Saga, you led a protest the
morning of the 2016 Oscars.

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Do you feel like things
have progressed the way

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you would've hoped in that way?

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- I think that there
has been some progress

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but it needs to go forward.

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It cannot just be one time

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or two times and we move backwards.

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But I think there has
been some real progress.

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I've monitored the makeup of the academy.

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I was glad to see Will Packer

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the senior producer last year,

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Questlove winning an
Oscar for Summer of Love.

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And then of course the Will Smith incident

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with Chris Rock overshadowed, all that.

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So I think they're moving
in the right direction

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but they've not
institutionally arrived yet

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where they need to be.

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