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Mervin Mayo: Gospel's R&B Rebel Shakes Up the Game 🔥 | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Dec 23, 2024
Watch Mervin Mayo silence his critics with a soul-stirring live performance of "In This Place" on Sway in the Morning. The gospel sensation opens up about breaking musical boundaries and reaching new audiences with his contemporary approach to spiritual music. Mayo discusses his journey from R&B to gospel, addressing criticism from traditional church communities while staying true to his mission of bringing souls to Christ. He shares how his viral Sway in the Morning appearance led to massive streaming success, averaging 600,000 weekly streams. The interview reveals personal insights into Mayo's morning routine, his Richmond, Virginia roots, and his perspective on dealing with judgment in the gospel community. His powerful testimony about mixing gospel with modern sounds showcases why he's becoming one of gospel music's most innovative voices. The segment culminates in an unforgettable performance that left everyone in the studio speechless, proving why Mayo's music transcends traditional genre boundaries. From his hit song "God Did It" to his latest worship anthems, Mayo demonstrates why his unique approach to gospel music is reaching audiences worldwide. #tybrasel #worshipsongs #gospelsongs #praise #mytestimony #gospel #andymineo #christianr #worship #worshipsongs CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Mervin Mayo Returns 00:40 - Mervin Mayo on Criticism 05:00 - Mervin Mayo's Most Popular Song Insights 09:18 - Listener Love and Feedback 11:25 - Mervin Mayo Performs “In This Place” 18:23 - What's Next for Marvin Mayo: Future Plans
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man come on let's clap it up for this
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man he's back yes sir Mike mes he said
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he will return and so glad he did and
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when he came here there was a Divine
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moment that took place and when I when I
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step out in the streets in the
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public there's not another clip from
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this show that people bring up more than
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the moment that mvin Mayo came on this
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show it's true and they and one of the
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things that blows me away every time
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when they talk about you singing live on
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this show is how great we sounded
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together when I harmonized with you did
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you get
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that here
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man wow so I ask for
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forgiveness but it was amazing because
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the one of the things I've always wanted
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to introduce or or really uh support is
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that the fact that in our community
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where hip hop comes from we didn't we
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weren't monolithic we didn't listen to
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one form of music and other different
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forms of Music informed hip hop you know
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we know that Soul did you know all these
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different genres but so did gospel right
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and so it was important to me to show
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the world how the two intermix and it's
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like a perfect combination if you put it
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together properly and so I'm curious to
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did you first of all mvin Mayo is here I
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appreciate you coming on this day I
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appreciate you having me thank you man
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you brought amazing Queen with you I
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bring it with me everywhere I go I know
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that's right and them matching F coats
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man a never seen nothing like that I
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said a blue fur what kind of animal is
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that that's Fox oh is it damn a Blue Fox
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I like that did you get any approached
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by people who weren't fans initially and
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saw that clip I did my um my YouTube
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when I when hit the ceiling my YouTube
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my Instagram and and people say you know
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I I I I don't listen to gospel but I I
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heard you interview on the sway show and
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um and now I'm listening to gospel and
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you know and you just did some things
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and I'm like man this so I reached an
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audience that I wouldn't normally
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reaching so this platform this this
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platform it did God did it God did it
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God did it God did it yeah but I think
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you know I went to see uh Kirk Franklin
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after that right and I saw him in DC and
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uh just the most hospitable man you want
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to meet and you know Fred Hammond was
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there all these different Legends yand
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was there and we went to the back and
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he's he was so like Curious and anxious
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to know what did I think of his show MH
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and I was like are you kidding me this
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like the best concert I think I ever
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been to like top three and he was so
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concerned he said I know those people
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and we are in choir but I'm trying to
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reach these other audiences right right
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how do you feel about that that's my
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goal um just like I did a remix um um uh
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go go for God did it and of course I
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knew I was going to get you know you
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selling out you doing it but I'm like if
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I don't reach the young people or the
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people that's interested in this type of
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music then who will and so I have to
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step out you know and get in my get out
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of my comfort zone to bring them in and
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so I can take the criticism I can take
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the heat because I know my God so I
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don't really care what you think about
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me I'm trying to bring souls to Christ
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there you go by any means necessary
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selling out who though but you know how
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Christian people are church people you
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know um a lot of people didn't even they
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thought God did it was too secular um W
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whoa yeah yeah I think it's just the uh
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just the um the music you know uh it's
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not traditional Dr the production like
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to mixes it's not like traditional organ
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church music and so it's like you know
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you're doing too much and I'm like thank
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you that's that's my goal to do too much
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cuz the music genre has to expand and
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grow right if you want to pollinate in
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different demographics if it stays
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stagnant it dies you know and you're
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still a creative so you're still like
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able you have permission to be
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imaginative and to explore and to
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experiment my background is is R&B
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anyway and so uh I'm I most of my music
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I come from R&B I used to sing a group
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R&B group and so I still have that R&B
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style but I'm just praising God with
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that R&B style so you just you have to
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get used to it that's it how do you
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determine whether something is a
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critique that you should just you know
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kind of shake off or is actual feedback
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that you should consider well you know
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what I don't even read um comments like
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talking about it
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um my goal is only to reach God's people
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and so I get a lot of negative comments
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and I get a lot of positive comments you
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know um my manager he gets upset about a
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Sur from God's glory music he gets upset
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man did you read s s I'm like no you I
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don't care what the people think my goal
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is I only have one goal to reach God's
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people you know that's it and I think
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that was that yeah answer your question
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mvin Mayo was here 888 742 3345 I didn't
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know you and Mike were related Mike Muse
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oh yeah no no we're not related okay I
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asked him before he walked in uh did he
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know my cousin um Alfred Johnson who was
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uh part of the sheriff's department in
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Richmond so my family is based in
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Richmond and I do know him I know but we
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cousins
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now espe ballhead ball I I do have a
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question for you though I'm actually
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kind of surprised to hear
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that you did receive such push back and
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I'm just curious do you think it's
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segmented based upon race and culture
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because a lot of other music right now
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is so I guess if you want to say secular
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or inspirational right I'm think about
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Maverick city um I'm thinking about a
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lot of other music that so I'm curious
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about is there a difference in
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Domination right like Baptist
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Pentecostal I don't think so you know
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what I think it is originally when I um
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when I when I went um viral when I
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started started doing a lot I was
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singing like worship songs slow worship
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songs praise songs and then U once I
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started getting a little bit more
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attention the people saying oh now
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you're doing this hip hop that's not
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what that's not what what what stirred
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me to you it was your praise and worship
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but now you're doing this and you know
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and that's where the sellout you know
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you sold out but that's not it I'm just
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trying to reach everybody I'm trying to
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reach the young people and I don't feel
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like I have to explain myself so when
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they say those comments All I say is God
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did it you know that's it why why why
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are people so critical in in that genre
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man like that's supposed to be the place
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where there's no judgment right yeah
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that something why that's why you get
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the most judgment how do you explain
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that you don't and that's that's why a
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lot of young people are not coming to
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the church that's why because of that
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type of judgment but what it's not the
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young people it's the people that's been
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around for 60 and 70 years that are not
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willing to change you know this is the
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way my grandma and my granddad did it so
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this is the way we're going to do it but
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everything has to change you know and um
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and they just it's hard for them to
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accept change but that's where I come in
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at you know um and like you like I I
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don't read my comments I don't really
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care say man yeah yeah I get that man so
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uh what you eat today brother what that
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meal first meal of the day is for you
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man today what's your regimen I know
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that you keep you stay in great shape
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man oatmeal okay you still you still
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eating that slave food huh slave stick
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to your ribs huh
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Virginia
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thing blueberry and cranberry I mix it
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together that's what you miss every
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morning for breakfast and coffee and
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that's oatmeal and coffee oatmeal and
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coffee list so we got this young man
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Devante AKA young nav young Na and um he
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he flew in from Iowa with his amazing
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mom star who's one of the big one of our
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big citizens uh here who supported us
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over all the years right go and he's
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this his first time in New York he's 11
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on 12 and now he's going to ask you a
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question okay yep
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um wait hold on one you got it okay go
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ahead um what's your um most popular
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song called my most popular song right
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now is is God Did It I'mma listen to
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that however um in this place it's it's
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it's oh man it's doing his thing it's
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doing his thing yeah yeah okay but God
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did it is the one that that that reaches
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all genres you know what I mean and uh
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in this place reaches it's reaching
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every it's I'm averaging 600,000 strings
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a week wow yeah wow that's amazing
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around of Applause what's about what's
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it about uh in this place it's just
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about um in this place could be in your
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spiritual realm it could be in the
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church it could be wherever you are but
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as long as you have god with you there's
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healing in this place there's there's
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Deliverance there's there's um um
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there's everything that you need is as
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long as God is with you it's it's in
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this place and uh it actually was
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supposed to be an intro uhhuh and to my
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to my my my album and it just took over
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the whole album because it's not it's
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not like a Verse Chorus Verse Bridge
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chorus you know what I mean yeah it's
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just like a intro and it's just I just
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praise and worship through the entire
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time I'm going get a caller real quick
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who uh says do she listens to God did it
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every day Kim what up Kim W hey
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Kimmy hey y'all this Kim from high
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quality inad how y'all doing excellent
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girl how how is everybody good how are
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you I didn't I didn't find out about
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this uh great man until I listen to sway
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in the morning wow wow you um and when I
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say that it is one of my go-tos in the
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morning and when I'm getting up getting
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myself together um making decisions
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different things like that uh I want to
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say one thing to this young this young
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old I'm from Richmond Virginia as well
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okay the connection's there um I want to
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say to you keep doing your
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s now don't be concerned about what the
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naysayers are saying you you just said
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it the old is old and you can't put new
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wine in old wine skin right right um so
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I I I mean I applaud you I've been
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listening to you ever since um I love s
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in the morning this is my this these are
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my people um and you are doing such an
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amazing job sir you are reaching so many
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different uh people on so different
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levels you know continue to do what God
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has told you to do you know you know
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what you're doing you know who God is in
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your life and you just continue to just
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be who God has called you to be thank
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you thank what part of Richmond are you
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from um Southside okay okay come on
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Southside
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okay he I have a question yeah uh my
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father my grandfather was the chief of
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police of Richmond who's your
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grandfather um his name was Gandy
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okay Hester okay yeah Gandy Hester okay
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yeah bless so I applaud you sir I
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applaud you so much um and I love
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everybody up there hello Heather hello
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Tracy they're all here we getting ready
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for
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part torture love you Kimmy okay all
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right now you guys have a good day you
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too all right man okay we got we got C
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day coming up in just a minute but I
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want to get you to do this so we're
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going to airdrop the instrumental now go
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ahead Devon you got another question
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yeah yeah
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um um I I like I look young but I'm
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older # black d crack that's right you
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better tell them young so like what how
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old were you when you made your first
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song um I've been singing since I was
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about 12 years old um like I said I used
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to sing I used to sing R&B I was I used
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to sing with a group called charm and um
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we were we were we were killing it back
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then yeah yeah I got those guys could
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sing too um but um I put a song out um
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it's called angel I think I was about 17
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when I actually put a a song out 17 it
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was R&B song y y young M just wrapped
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for us earlier this morning okay okay
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uhhuh killed it what the young people
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say spit
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bars he dropped some hot some hot bars
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you know what we're going to do we're
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going to have you do it AR capella and
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then go into the song Oh Lord is that
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all right I can try to do it AR capella
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okay all right okay um I prefer to have
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a music though okay pull that thing up
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we'll go into a song and then come back
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cool let's go into a song We'll go into
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the song how about that Shade
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45 mvin Mayo is here yes he is cord is
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on Deck pull
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up frequency
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Fridays yearend broadcast happening
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right now we got young nav in the
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building Round of Applause yes sir we
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got eston Serrano rapd came in the
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building Round of Applause we got
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Haywood and tia on T I'll just say t in
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the building Round of Applause we got
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star who's in the building Round of
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Applause Mrs mvin Mayo yes is in the
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building Round of Applause looking fly
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is all Heaven Mike Muse is
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here we just want to get one live okay
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performance from you okay if that if
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that's okay that's okay all right we got
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the
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music mvin Mayo Sway in the Morning
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shave 45 yeah
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yes I can
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feel the power of God
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moving it's moving all over this place I
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just
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to the presence of God is all over this
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place yes it is it's moving all over
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this place you see the atmosphere is
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shifting
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shifting in this place yeah yeah yeah
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yeah and miracles are working working
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working right here in this
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place so I being
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saved they're being saved in this place
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I just to you and relation ships are
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being rich
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da so come on and go with me come on and
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go with me see Jes are be and
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brok come
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[Music]
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on in this
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place in this place and bodies bodies
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are being
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healed they being
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healed right here in this place I just
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and addiction is leaving your
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[Music]
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body the spirit of sadness is being
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evicted sadness you're not welcome here
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depression you're not welcome here and
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your mountains are
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moving they moving this place they're
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moving in this place
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[Music]
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I just your chains are being
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broken right here in this
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[Music]
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place you have to realize that storms
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are passing
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over storms are passing over in this
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place and broken hearts broken hearts
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are being mened they're being mened so
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come on and go with me come on and go
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with me our children are being baptized
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in the name of Jesus down by the water
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down by the
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[Music]
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water I just want to help you find your
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way I want to help you find your way
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come on and go with me come on and go
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with me
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strongholds strongholds are breaking m
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in this place right here in this place
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right here in this
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place there'll be no more
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suffering there'll be no more
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suffering right here in this place if
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you bring it to the altar you can get
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back up guys all you got to do is bring
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it to the altar you can get back up on
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man so so come on and go with
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me come on and go with me come on and go
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with me just bring it to the
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altar hey that's Deliverance at the
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altar there is there is there's peace
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there's peace at the
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altar there is there's healing uhhuh
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healing at the altar so I'm asking you
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to come on and go with me
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[Applause]
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wow come on and go with me I don't know
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the song
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[Applause]
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but M
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Mayo come on man right here in this
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place come on
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man see that's what purpose does right
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right here in this place right here in
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this place right conviction man I want
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to commend you brother for your your
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purpose in your path hey your project
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your success hey thank you bro and and
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you receiving this platform to come I
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appreciate it and do what it is and be
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comfortable enough to sing like that
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everybody's flabbergasted okay you know
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he blow cord day and the crew walked in
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they they just look at them they usually
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talking too they not saying nothing
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won't won't he do it won't he do it
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won't he will come on man mvin Mayo
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thank you brother God bless you man
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bless you bro thank you all what's next
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for you I'm still still pushing this
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project I'm actually working on my CD
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but I'm still pushing this first project
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and it's doing it's doing it's doing
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really good sh shout out tapa Brown she
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just had surgery and she uh she's
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healing and she uh she posted me I'm
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healing my song I'm healing I one of her
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and so shout out I pray a speedy
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recovery for my sister Tabitha man mvin
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Mayo y'all give him a big round of
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applause young nav you want to say
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anything to him on the way
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out the um song was good thank you thank
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you thank you thank you I loved how you
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pointed at me when you said children
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children yeah you got to put them in
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your next video yeah all right cool man
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thank you mvin Mayo
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