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DJ Sir Daniel: Thanks for watching!

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Greetings, and welcome to another episode of Queue Points Podcast.

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I am DJ Sir Daniel.

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And my name is Jay Ray, sometimes known by my government

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as Johnnie Ray Kornegay the third.

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And Sir Daniel, we have made it.

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Through another year, sir.

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DJ Sir Daniel: We sure have.

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Queue Points podcast is the podcast dropping the needle

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on black music history.

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And like you said, 2024 acted like he had somewhere to go.

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Like they couldn't, they, they came inside.

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They didn't want to put the, she didn't want to put her purse down.

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She didn't want to take off her jacket.

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She was fluttering about the place and just got the hell up on out of here.

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Yes.

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Because in less than a few days, we will be, like you said, um, stepping the

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new and an unknown territory of 2025.

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And that is exciting and scary at the same time, considering what we've

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been through over the past year.

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Yes, indeed.

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You know, it's putting all of this in perspective.

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One of my true highlights is the fact that we get to do this show.

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Um, because let me tell you something since COVID it has been

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like, For real, though, for real.

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So I am excited to experience 2025 because, you know, it's a

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new year, you know, not even new year, new me, just new year, right?

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Same me, new year.

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Um, And I'm looking forward to it.

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Uh, but I, I'm, I'm also just like, okay, girl, let's see what you give.

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DJ Sir Daniel: Let's see what you got.

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Come on, hit me with your, well, no, let me not say that.

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Hit me with

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your best.

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Nah, you know what?

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Take that back.

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DJ Sir Daniel: Yeah.

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Nah, cause 2025 will come around here and just Mali walking us all right,

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just dragging us and just wrecking the house as soon as they come in the door.

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So what we are going to do is we're going to be very demure and we're

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just going to have a mindful and very mindful of of the things that we

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That we have come across in 2024, and we're gonna do it the Queue Points way

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You know, people like to come up with a top 10 list.

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Restream recording Dec 23, 2024 • 12:16:36 AM: Mm-hmm

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. DJ Sir Daniel: We are not going to do that.

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What Queue Points is going to do?

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We are going to list the good, the gag, and the ugly of 2024.

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And before we get into all of that, Jay Ray.

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If 2024 had a theme song, what would it be?

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And it doesn't have to be a song that came from 2024.

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It could just be a song that just pretty much sums up what this year was giving.

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Oh, you know what?

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Um, shout out to Kendrick Lamar.

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I think squabble up, um, actually summarizes 2024 really well.

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It's just like, listen, what you got.

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Let's go

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. DJ Sir Daniel: You know what?

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You're right.

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You're right.

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And on the flip side of that, what I will say is my song that will help you describe

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2024 would be Sheena Easton's Strut.

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Okay?

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Yes.

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2024

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DJ Sir Daniel: says Strut, pout.

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Put it out.

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It's like you, what you, what you doing here?

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We want to see what you got.

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Yes.

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We want to see what you got.

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And it's going to be a lot of foolishness.

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There was some fun.

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Yes.

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There were some tears definitely shed, but that's what, that's life, right?

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Indeed.

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Indeed.

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Man, that's the thing we keep going.

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DJ Sir Daniel: We keep going.

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So let's just get to it.

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So the good Jay Ray, what was your good of 2024?

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I have had a lot of goods in 2024, but if I am going to pick one good,

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um, it is the fact that, um, I got to participate in the, in the, uh, Air new

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voices, amplify, which Queue Points, which was for Queue Points, right?

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That was one.

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I applied for it.

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It's different when you apply for stuff and you get it.

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That just feels really good.

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Right.

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I applied for it.

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I got in and I also, um, learned a lot.

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Um, that we get the opportunity to use here for the show.

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Um, and I feel like I also contributed a great deal.

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I made friends, you know, I got like friends and some came to our, uh, our

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end of the year kickback that we had.

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And, um, I am very proud, um, of, of that experience.

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And that is one good that I would like to highlight.

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What about you, man?

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DJ Sir Daniel: Um before I say that I will echo what she said not only did

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you make friends But you've made there's a lot of people who how do I put this?

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They swear by Y'all listening.

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They swear by jray in this industry Jray is like the god the go to person Um Um,

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when it comes to all things podcasts, um, logistically, and that truly is his gift.

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I'm saying that I don't mind.

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I'm not guessing you.

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This is truly how I feel.

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You know, I say it all the time.

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That is truly your gift of foresight.

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And just organization, which a lot of us scatterbrains really

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depend on people like Jay Ray,

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Restream recording Dec 23, 2024 • 12:16:36 AM: you

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DJ Sir Daniel: know, to, to make things happen.

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So, yes, I totally agree with you on that aspect.

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And yes, you rocked 20, 24, um, 20, 24 was, uh, I'm proud of

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myself also for 2024, um, because, um, my boat got rocked in 2024.

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You know, I had a big life change that a lot of people experienced this year.

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You know, I, I lost my job.

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I lost my, my main source of income.

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And as a creative, Um, trying to, you know, keep the lights on and, but also

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do your thing forces you to become creative and it forces you to really,

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you know, put your, rely on your faith and really see what you're made out of.

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And in the midst of all of that, I've had some really great opportunities.

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Like I was able to, I was invited by a lot of, by quite a few of my peers to

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appear, um, on various, uh, various DJ gigs, which, you know, I, I did without

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any fear of trepidation, um, that's something that I put way behind me.

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I, I literally don't have time for that.

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Um, the nerves.

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allow me to, to, to, to put more preparation into what I'm doing and

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to really, um, create a vision that I want to for, that I want to see happen.

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And so it's allowed me to really expand and flex my muscle and just to really step

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in and present myself as, you know, The best at what I do or what I, you know,

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and doing, and that's not just as a DJ, but as a podcast host, we've had several

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opportunities, opportunities, shout out to the folks at Afros and audio, who,

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um, took us from a small classroom to the main floor presentation this, um, in 2024.

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So I'm very happy for the personal growth that I've experienced along

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as professionally alongside UJ race.

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So 2024, you know, you try, you try, you try, you tried a little, you try

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a little bob and weave with me, but you know, I bobbed and weaved back.

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I stood up and I took my licks, but it's like, I'm still going.

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Yes.

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You cannot, what's that mean?

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You cannot fool me.

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You cannot trick me 2024.

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So no, but yes.

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So that was my good.

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And uh, I, I just foresee more good and gooder for Queue Points

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for the Queue Points crew.

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In 2024.

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Yes.

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In 2024.

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Um, and definitely in 2025.

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Yes.

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Um, so to that point.

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You know, there's always something right that that's kind of like, it's not good.

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It's not bad, but you know what?

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It's kind of like the gag, right?

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So for you, um, cause I had to think about this and I got a good one.

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Um, what's your gag for, for 2024.

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DJ Sir Daniel: You know what?

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I'm glad you asked me that Jay Ray.

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Cause I, what has really gagged me all year long.

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Is I am a, you know, I'm like the rest of you out there, I, I partake in my

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social media and I have my, you know, I indulge in foolishness online and I see

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a lot of stuff that's happening, but I am perpetually gagged when I see people.

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That we have turned some of the most unlikely people into superstars.

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A product example.

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Here's my biggest example.

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Um, you all out there, I'm pretty certain are familiar with who Shemarco

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is and, or, or as he's known as big Marco clock that T you know, who Shemarco is.

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I.

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So Marco is a bonafide rockstar and I'm putting rockstar up in quotes right

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now, but he is a bonafide rockstar who went from being, uh, ridiculed

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and made fun of online because of his, it's clear, it's very clear that he has

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some, um, is definitely a birth defect.

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He is a form of scoliosis and, you know, he's shaped funny.

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Um, he's, You know, he definitely has a lot of, um, dental challenges with the

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crowded teeth and, you know, everybody's concerned about his, where he lands

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on spectrum and his mental health.

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And he has gone from fighting a lot in the streets, fighting, um, with various

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people, being ridiculed, people running up on him and recording him to make

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fun of him to becoming A well paid Um, performer, someone that actually has a

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song that is playing in certain types of clubs, but he, but now because of

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his heightened visibility, um, because of social media, he is able to command

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appearance fees and performance fees.

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He's traveling.

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Um, they're rolling out the red carpet for him.

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Now, here's the thing, Jay Ray, I don't know.

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I don't know if it's good or bad.

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I know it's good in the sense that He's not begging, or he's not, um, he's not

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begging for money online like he used to.

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It was like every other morning he was begging people to cash

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app him to pay for a new phone.

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It looks like he's able to sustain himself.

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That's good.

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Um, food, clothing, and shelter wise.

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I am concerned of how long this bubble will stay inflated because as we all know,

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when they're, when they're vulnerable people, they get, you know, they get

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these kinds of opportunities and are, you know, and become famous overnight.

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There's always people on the sideline.

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Waiting to with their hand out to get something to use their name to get their

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own money or Just waiting for him to fail.

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Yes, and because and I just I you know Like the rest of y'all, I get my laugh and

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I kiki about stuff too, but at the same time as a human being, I'd be like, damn,

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is he, you know, I would hate for him to go back to what he was going through.

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And I just don't know.

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And it ain't none of my business really, but I just don't know if he has that

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kind of support to keep him, uh, a float or to keep the momentum of his,

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Yes, you know, as this is a career

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at this point.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a

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DJ Sir Daniel: career for him at his point.

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And yeah, but it just, but again, to my, my main point is.

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That social media is taking the most unlikely, sometimes some of

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the most undeserving people, people that we just don't, that don't

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necessarily, in our opinion, look like or feel like they have, that

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they're actually talented or anything.

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And that's just the bewilderment of social media at this point.

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But I am, I continue to be gagged at what social media has done for.

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individuals, good, bad, or indifferent.

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Yes, that is a very real thing.

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I, I, and I, yes to that.

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And I want to encourage us all let's stop making people who

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don't deserve it famous in 2025.

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DJ Sir Daniel: Good luck.

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There are.

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Sir, Daniel, I promise you, you mentioned these two people.

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I'm not going to mention their names here.

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Cause that's shady.

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But there are two people that you text me about regularly that I'm

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like, I still don't understand why these people are like a thing.

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Like I don't understand it.

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It doesn't make sense to me.

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I don't get it.

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And that's okay.

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Yeah, everything ain't for everybody.

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Ain't that?

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What?

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Uh, what, what, uh, Jill Scott said

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DJ Sir Daniel: this.

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You sure did.

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Yeah.

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And, and so some of these folks ain't for everybody.

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Let's stop making some of them famous . But I, I dig that gag and, you know, I

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had to think about this one a bit and actually my gag is related to my good.

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DJ Sir Daniel: Okay.

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So here, . And you know what, I'm gonna walk in this a

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little bit because I was gagged.

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Um, you were actually in the room when this gag happened.

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Um, uh, as part of my Air Amplify new voices opportunity, I had the

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opportunity to, um, present on SEO, right?

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It was just very random.

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I had talked about SEO and then they were like, Oh, would you like to present on it?

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And I did a little deck and presented on it.

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Um, The like a week later or whatever well at the end of the cohort, you know,

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they were asking people like, okay Well, what did you get the most out of blah blah

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blah blah blah and people were going down the line Here's what I got the most and

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one of the people and I was so grateful But also gags was like actually the one

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thing that I really got a lot out of was Johnny's presentation or SEO and I

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grew by like 200 percent and I was like

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DJ Sir Daniel: 200 percent we need that at home.

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Jay Ray.

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I know.

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Oh my God.

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Um, I believe it was 200%.

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I'm gonna go back and listen.

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But either way it was, it was a lot of percent.

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Okay.

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It was a lot.

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And so the gag was, I'm sitting here in this room, right?

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Um, amongst these people who are incredibly talented.

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Yeah.

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That's it.

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Yeah.

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And I needed to be reminded that I am also talented and I am also in this room.

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And so I was gagged at the fact of like, Oh God.

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Okay.

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I see you God.

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Cause you ain't even had to, there was no, she ain't have to say it.

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And none of that had to happen, but she said it and I was just

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like, oh my god, thank you

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DJ Sir Daniel: Absolutely.

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Yes, you're right.

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You're right And you know what the the exercise for you then is to not

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let that gag you anymore You should be like, you know what I receive that.

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I I I work hard at this.

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Yeah, i'm not gagged anymore.

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I I get it.

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I know why I know why y'all love me Yes, I

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think, I think the other thing too, for, for folks who

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are listening to this is step out, lean into your gift, right?

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DJ Sir Daniel: For sure.

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Lean into your gift, because here's the thing.

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We You do this too, Sir Daniel, I'm sure.

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Like what the stuff that we do is kind of second nature.

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It's just like stuff that we do.

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But literally there are people out there in the worlds that are amazed.

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I am amazed.

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I see you up there with those, like with the vinyl and like,

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you'd be like blending and stuff.

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Listen, that's not my ministry.

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I respect it so much.

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It's amazing to me.

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Right.

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And.

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We have to lean into that.

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I do things that people are like, wow, that's a thing.

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And that's so for everybody listening, lean into your magic, whatever that

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magic is, that you might have a lot of magics, maybe sprinkle that thing.

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What Robbie has been saying, Robbie said, shine your light so bright that it

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inspires other people to shine theirs too.

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Two, because guess what?

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It's a whole lot of folks out here that aren't able to do that.

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So if you are baby go big.

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When Leo

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DJ Sir Daniel: say big, go big.

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Do you know?

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It's just go.

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No, don't half ass.

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Yo

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ho ho.

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That's

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DJ Sir Daniel: exactly right.

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You know, you're absolutely right.

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And I'm going to say this last piece and before we hop to the

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next part, but yeah, your talents.

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They're going to make a way for you that they teach that in the Bible.

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A lot of people say that all the time, but they, it's true.

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Your talents will make a way for you.

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And when you think like the conventional way of things that you've done stops

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working that talent that you have.

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Uh, somebody is going to recognize it and it will make a way for you, whether that's

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getting you a couple of dollars until a payday or starting a brand new career.

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So I received everything you just said, J.

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Ray, um, and.

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And it's funny, the, the talents that we're talking about, yes, I love working

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with vinyl and I love, um, DJing period is, you know, I really do feel happiest

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when I'm doing it and that's why I, um, you know, when the people that I look

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up to in the art, um, a lot of those people actually passed away in 2024.

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And so.

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There was some deaths that really, that really shook me, you know, this year.

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I mean, they always shake you, especially when it's people that

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you grow up, grew up admiring, but it really shook me like this.

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I would say the, the passing of Mr.

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C then, um, fat man, scoop DJ polo.

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And then Clark Kent.

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Yeah, all within the same year, I was like, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Hold on.

Jay Ray: 00:19:39

2024 Hold on life.

Jay Ray: 00:19:40

What is really happening here?

Jay Ray: 00:19:42

And each and every single time that I would hear, we would hear You hear about

Jay Ray: 00:19:50

the people that have been influenced by them and the things that people were able

Jay Ray: 00:19:56

to glean from their careers or that they took from them in some form of mentorship.

Jay Ray: 00:20:02

It just made me.

Jay Ray: 00:20:04

more appreciative of the, the more immediate people that are in my circle.

Jay Ray: 00:20:10

Cause I, I know who those gentlemen are.

Jay Ray: 00:20:12

I didn't necessarily, I was not close enough to reach out and touch them,

Jay Ray: 00:20:16

but there's plenty of people in my circle who, um, who mean a lot to me

Jay Ray: 00:20:21

and are very instrumental in there.

Jay Ray: 00:20:25

They know, they probably don't even know it, but are very

Jay Ray: 00:20:29

influential on me as, as a DJ.

Jay Ray: 00:20:32

And so.

Jay Ray: 00:20:33

So that made me those deaths made me appreciate those people more,

Jay Ray: 00:20:40

especially when I get to reach out and talk to them and see them at events.

Jay Ray: 00:20:45

Like I got to see a whole bunch of people at, um, at this most recent

Jay Ray: 00:20:49

crafts and crates where we had a surprise, a guest performance by

Jay Ray: 00:20:53

Nicolay, which was really awesome.

Jay Ray: 00:20:55

Shout

Jay Ray: 00:20:56

out to Nicolay and the foreign exchange,

Jay Ray: 00:20:57

DJ Sir Daniel: man, you know?

Jay Ray: 00:20:59

So, yeah, so that.

Jay Ray: 00:21:00

Those things really shook things up for me for 2024.

Jay Ray: 00:21:05

Was there a death in particular this past year that kind of.

Jay Ray: 00:21:11

You know, rocked you just a little bit.

Jay Ray: 00:21:13

Um, recently actually.

Jay Ray: 00:21:16

Um, so this is personal.

Jay Ray: 00:21:17

Um, there is a, a brother here.

Jay Ray: 00:21:21

Uh, I went to the viewing just yesterday.

Jay Ray: 00:21:24

Um, and we grew up together like literally, uh, He was my neighbor when

Jay Ray: 00:21:32

I was like a kid, kid, kid, kid, kid.

Jay Ray: 00:21:34

So we was like little kid friends, right?

Jay Ray: 00:21:38

Um, he lived right next door to me.

Jay Ray: 00:21:40

We lived in a, in a, in a row in row homes.

Jay Ray: 00:21:42

He was my, he was connected and, um, my age and, uh, you know, he

Jay Ray: 00:21:50

passed away and that was wild.

Jay Ray: 00:21:55

Um, Because it's also happening what seems like more frequently.

Jay Ray: 00:22:02

Um, and so I saw, uh, I actually went early on purpose.

Jay Ray: 00:22:06

I was like, Oh, maybe I'll get in here early and I won't

Jay Ray: 00:22:08

see a lot of people, right?

Jay Ray: 00:22:10

Um, cause I knew I wasn't equipped, uh, to do the funeral.

Jay Ray: 00:22:15

And I actually happened to see, um, another brother that

Jay Ray: 00:22:17

I went to high school with.

Jay Ray: 00:22:18

And he was like, man, I guess this is.

Jay Ray: 00:22:20

Our season where this is now, you know, our parents would go through that, right?

Jay Ray: 00:22:24

Mm-hmm . Mm-hmm . This is our season of like, going through that.

Jay Ray: 00:22:28

So that definitely rocked me, um, at the end of this year.

Jay Ray: 00:22:33

Um, yeah, and, and to the, and, and in addition, I would say another thing that

Jay Ray: 00:22:41

just kind of rocked me this year was the, um, watching the world be so polarizing.

Jay Ray: 00:22:50

Like it's either this or it's that.

Jay Ray: 00:22:53

Um, and with no nuance, with no, what seemed like no critical thought, it

Jay Ray: 00:23:03

was just like hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, or love, love, love, love, love.

Jay Ray: 00:23:10

And just like the casting away of folks.

Jay Ray: 00:23:13

Um, has really, like, really rocked me this year, too.

Jay Ray: 00:23:17

Um, and has forced me to be, you know, to just lean on my empathy.

Jay Ray: 00:23:24

You say something, um, that was kind of your model, I think, for 2023.

Jay Ray: 00:23:29

And it's, um, you know, that idea of giving people grace, grace and space.

Jay Ray: 00:23:35

Um, really just being reminded of that, like give people grace and space because,

Jay Ray: 00:23:41

um, it's hard out here in these streets.

Jay Ray: 00:23:43

So between, yes, between, uh, that death that happened super recently, but also

Jay Ray: 00:23:48

just watching the world be on fire.

Jay Ray: 00:23:52

It's been like,

Jay Ray: 00:23:55

so what I am looking forward to though.

Jay Ray: 00:23:57

And I think I said this in our kickback is, um, I'm dying to

Jay Ray: 00:24:01

see the art that comes out.

Jay Ray: 00:24:02

I want to see what we do.

Jay Ray: 00:24:04

I want to see what other folks do when folks feel pushed it, uh, like

Jay Ray: 00:24:09

their backs are against the wall and they got to fight their way out

Jay Ray: 00:24:11

like a, like a cat, you know, some beautiful stuff can come out of that.

Jay Ray: 00:24:16

And I'm looking forward to that beautiful stuff because guess what?

Jay Ray: 00:24:19

We're going to need beautiful stuff.

Jay Ray: 00:24:21

DJ Sir Daniel: We are definitely going to need art.

Jay Ray: 00:24:24

We are definitely going to need that.

Jay Ray: 00:24:26

And that's why we're going to lift up the people.

Jay Ray: 00:24:28

Because what's your experience of what we collectively experience?

Jay Ray: 00:24:33

Whether it's the actual physical death of someone or the death of An era like

Jay Ray: 00:24:39

what you what we experienced with those.

Jay Ray: 00:24:41

Um, those revelations and then the polarizing the country Right, you

Jay Ray: 00:24:46

know We're grieving we are greeners.

Jay Ray: 00:24:49

We are in a sense grieving and I I you know, that's Some people look at that

Jay Ray: 00:24:55

as as ugly and It can get ugly, but I think to me, what was really ugly

Jay Ray: 00:25:05

about 2024 is this insidious, this insidious, um, feeling among, and I

Jay Ray: 00:25:18

don't want to, I don't want to pinpoint and, and just rag on young people, but

Jay Ray: 00:25:25

it, because it's not just young people.

Jay Ray: 00:25:27

There are a lot of Older folks who are facilitating and enabling

Jay Ray: 00:25:32

them with this feeling of that there is no value on anything that

Jay Ray: 00:25:39

happened before they were born.

Jay Ray: 00:25:42

And there is no value regarding any art that was created before they were born.

Jay Ray: 00:25:48

There is no, you know, I've mentioned it before and I don't even know

Jay Ray: 00:25:52

who this young man is, but he referred to samples and Old school

Jay Ray: 00:26:00

music, quote unquote as UNC shit.

Jay Ray: 00:26:04

Restream recording Dec 23, 2024 • 12:16:36 AM: Mm-hmm

Jay Ray: 00:26:05

. DJ Sir Daniel: First of all, that boy was as white as the palm of my hand.

Jay Ray: 00:26:10

And I was like, first of all, why do you feel emboldened to speak on

Jay Ray: 00:26:15

such things to be able to speak?

Jay Ray: 00:26:17

I have, I had

Jay Ray: 00:26:17

thoughts on that.

Jay Ray: 00:26:18

DJ Sir Daniel: Speak on the culture.

Jay Ray: 00:26:20

Mm-hmm

Jay Ray: 00:26:20

. DJ Sir Daniel: And then it just, and then when I see other things happening

Jay Ray: 00:26:25

across the, um, social media and.

Jay Ray: 00:26:29

You know, the, the cultural platforms where, you know, a comedian can feel

Jay Ray: 00:26:36

emboldened to say something, to, to speak on or infer buck breaking on a major

Jay Ray: 00:26:43

rapper, because he wants to, cause he feels like he's a comedian and he has fun.

Jay Ray: 00:26:47

Full carte blanche to talk about black people and black women and, and just go

Jay Ray: 00:26:54

beyond and say, and even, and even if, um, infer that they're, they're okay to

Jay Ray: 00:27:01

use, they have a past to use the N word.

Jay Ray: 00:27:03

Restream recording Dec 23, 2024 • 12:16:36 AM: And

Jay Ray: 00:27:04

DJ Sir Daniel: the only way that they can feel that is if you, you know,

Jay Ray: 00:27:09

y'all Negroes out there that have, yes, that have given them said past, you

Jay Ray: 00:27:15

know, I'm always talking about those.

Jay Ray: 00:27:17

Cut it off.

Jay Ray: 00:27:18

Friggin invites to the cookout.

Jay Ray: 00:27:20

There's a, there's a whole bunch of y'all that I don't know if you all are

Jay Ray: 00:27:24

on perks, you rolling on something, or you too drunk to realize that you are,

Jay Ray: 00:27:29

you are yet again, enabling and abetting and the giving away and the throwing away

Jay Ray: 00:27:36

of this culture of the things that we created in this world across the diaspora.

Jay Ray: 00:27:41

And so that, to me, that.

Jay Ray: 00:27:45

Has become like really prevalent and it's something it's like a really ugly

Jay Ray: 00:27:49

pimple that has just come out about of nowhere of people wanting to just

Jay Ray: 00:27:58

Lack of a better term shit on the things that a lot of people paid with their blood

Jay Ray: 00:28:03

To create that you have benefited from you continue to make money off of yep

Jay Ray: 00:28:09

And so that's my ugly and I'm sick of it.

Jay Ray: 00:28:12

I'm sick of

Jay Ray: 00:28:12

it.

Jay Ray: 00:28:13

I have so many thoughts on that and I do want to echo something that you just

Jay Ray: 00:28:17

said um this This young man who said this stuff um has no connection to the history

Jay Ray: 00:28:32

That he is now making money from so he is literally making money off the culture You

Jay Ray: 00:28:38

Restream recording Dec 23, 2024 • 12:16:36 AM: Mm hmm

Jay Ray: 00:28:39

that he has He has no critical thinking.

Jay Ray: 00:28:42

He has no history.

Jay Ray: 00:28:44

He has no connection to it.

Jay Ray: 00:28:45

So he's able to just kind of fly off the cuff and say it.

Jay Ray: 00:28:48

But here's the other thing that I know about that.

Jay Ray: 00:28:50

He, to your point, he's had people in his circle that have enabled

Jay Ray: 00:28:55

him to say stuff like that.

Jay Ray: 00:28:57

And I have problems with y'all.

Jay Ray: 00:29:01

My beef is with y'all.

Jay Ray: 00:29:02

He's only saying the foolishness that he's saying, because y'all let him say that.

Jay Ray: 00:29:08

This is your culture, your legacy, your history, and we are a people

Jay Ray: 00:29:14

who our ancestors and the people who the shoulders we stand on matter

Jay Ray: 00:29:20

as much as what we create today.

Jay Ray: 00:29:23

And if you don't get that, you've missed very, very, very, very valuable lessons,

Jay Ray: 00:29:29

and you got to go back and learn them.

Jay Ray: 00:29:32

That's all I got.

Jay Ray: 00:29:34

He stopped going over there.

Jay Ray: 00:29:36

Stop giving him your art because he's able to make money off of your back.

Jay Ray: 00:29:42

He doesn't even respect your history, the history of your ancestors, the history

Jay Ray: 00:29:47

that he's, that you're continuing to move forward with and make money from.

Jay Ray: 00:29:53

He don't respect none of that.

Jay Ray: 00:29:54

Stop going over there.

Jay Ray: 00:29:55

I'm looking at y'all.

Jay Ray: 00:29:56

I don't care nothing about him.

Jay Ray: 00:29:57

It's y'all that keep going over there to that man and giving him your brilliance.

Jay Ray: 00:30:03

Stop it.

Jay Ray: 00:30:05

I'm so sorry.

Jay Ray: 00:30:06

I, I, we hadn't talked about him.

Jay Ray: 00:30:08

I don't like that.

Jay Ray: 00:30:10

DJ Sir Daniel: I don't like it at all.

Jay Ray: 00:30:11

So yes, the, the, your two uncles have, have said what they had to say about it.

Jay Ray: 00:30:17

And we're going to leave that here in 2024 and I want to hear enough.

Jay Ray: 00:30:20

I don't want to hear nothing about it no more on

Jay Ray: 00:30:23

my list.

Jay Ray: 00:30:26

DJ Sir Daniel: So that has been the good.

Jay Ray: 00:30:29

The gag and the ugly of 2024.

Jay Ray: 00:30:32

Our Queue Points, uh, 2024 year in review.

Jay Ray: 00:30:36

Um, Jay Ray, let the people know.

Jay Ray: 00:30:38

Yes,

Jay Ray: 00:30:38

DJ Sir Daniel: nothing much has changed, but it is about to change

Jay Ray: 00:30:41

some more for the good, but just let the people know how they can

Jay Ray: 00:30:44

continue to watch us thrive and grow.

Jay Ray: 00:30:47

Absolutely.

Jay Ray: 00:30:48

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Jay Ray: 00:30:48

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Jay Ray: 00:30:52

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Jay Ray: 00:30:54

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Jay Ray: 00:30:57

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Jay Ray: 00:31:01

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Jay Ray: 00:31:14

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Jay Ray: 00:31:18

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Jay Ray: 00:31:25

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Jay Ray: 00:31:46

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Jay Ray: 00:31:47

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Jay Ray: 00:31:48

So, like I say, at every end of every, at the end of every episode

Jay Ray: 00:31:52

in this life, you have a choice.

Jay Ray: 00:31:54

You can either pick up the needle or you can let the record play.

Jay Ray: 00:31:57

I'm DJ Sir Daniel.

Jay Ray: 00:31:58

My

Jay Ray: 00:31:59

name is Jay

Jay Ray: 00:31:59

DJ Sir Daniel: Ray,

Jay Ray: 00:31:59

y'all.

Jay Ray: 00:32:00

DJ Sir Daniel: And this has been Queue Points podcast, dropping

Jay Ray: 00:32:02

the needle on black music history.

Jay Ray: 00:32:04

We will see you on the next go round and we will see you in 2025.

Jay Ray: 00:32:09

Indeed.

Jay Ray: 00:32:10

Peace, y'all.