Episode 160

New Edition's Diddy Era: 'One Love' Is A Twenty Year Old Musical Moment We Forgot About

Published on: 15th October, 2024

In this episode of Queue Points Podcast, hosts DJ Sir Daniel and Jay Ray revisit the 20th anniversary of New Edition's 'One Love' album on Bad Boy Records, exploring the collaboration between the iconic R&B group and Diddy. The discussion covers the creative control battles, production challenges, and the impact these conflicts had on the album's success. The hosts also touch on Bobby Brown's absence and the internal struggles within New Edition during this era. Tune in for a deep dive into the history of New Edition and their tumultuous partnership with Diddy, shedding light on how they navigated these significant career challenges. Join us on Patreon for exclusive, uncut footage and more insights. Don't forget to subscribe, share, and support Queue Points for more discussions on Black music history.

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DJ Sir Daniel:

Greetings and welcome back to another episode of Q Points podcast, dropping the needle on black music history.

DJ Sir Daniel:

I am DJ Sir Daniel, and my.

J Ray:

Name is J Ray, sometimes known by my government as Johnny Ray Korngay III.

J Ray:

What's happening, people?

DJ Sir Daniel:

Well, I can tell you what's happening, J Ray P.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Diddy is.

DJ Sir Daniel:

To say that he's in trouble is an understatement.

DJ Sir Daniel:

We're now 120 more allegations deep, and the saga just continues.

DJ Sir Daniel:

More artists that he's worked with are coming out with their own tales of working with him.

DJ Sir Daniel:

But you know what?

DJ Sir Daniel:

You and I were having a conversation about a.

DJ Sir Daniel:

A video that we recently saw featuring Johnny Gill.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Yes, and Johnny Gill, of course, we know.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Iconic, legendary vocalist, member of Lavert sweating.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Gill, also a member of new edition, of course, was reflecting on his time and new edition's time working with Diddy on Bad boy.

DJ Sir Daniel:

And you and I looked at each other like, that's right.

DJ Sir Daniel:

I completely forgot about that.

J Ray:

Yeah, that was a perfect.

J Ray:

That was a moment in time.

J Ray:

It's wild when you think about it now, one that it was that many years.

J Ray:

So that is the 20th anniversary of the release of New Edition's album on Bad Boy, which was called One Love.

J Ray:

lbum, released in November of:

J Ray:

So we're really coming up on it on the Bad boy universal.

J Ray:

We got a lot to talk about there leading up to this record.

J Ray:

But you know, what's interesting about this album, for me, personally, Sir Daniel and I do want to have us get into what Johnny Gill said.

J Ray:

What's interesting for me, though, about this album is I literally forgot.

J Ray:

So there was home again.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Yes.

J Ray:

And then there was one love in my mind.

J Ray:

They were the same out.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Same, same J ray, same.

DJ Sir Daniel:

I was like, so that wasn't on hot tonight, wasn't on the home again.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Oh.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Huh.

J Ray:

I literally said the same thing, and I figured out why we feel this way, sir Daniel, the reason why we feel this way, and this speaks to kind of the omnipresence of bad boy in that era between, like, 96 and, like, the early two thousands, was that, of course, Diddy produced the single from the home again record.

J Ray:

And for whatever reason, I merged these two things together and was like, oh, yeah, one love.

J Ray:

Of course.

J Ray:

That I remember.

J Ray:

I remember the hot tonight that was on there, and I thought it was all six of them.

J Ray:

And it wasn't until I was getting ready for this show, sir Daniel, where they were, like, only five members were in the group.

J Ray:

And I'm like, no, that don't make no sense.

J Ray:

It was six members in the group.

J Ray:

It wasn't.

J Ray:

This is a totally different record.

DJ Sir Daniel:

It was not.

DJ Sir Daniel:

It was supposed to be a celebration of new edition finally leaving MCA.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Cause they had been with MCA for decades.

J Ray:

Yes.

DJ Sir Daniel:

They were finally leaving MCA.

DJ Sir Daniel:

And they were also.

DJ Sir Daniel:

They also got their masters.

J Ray:

Big deal.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Which is a huge deal for artists.

DJ Sir Daniel:

You hear them talk about it to this day, about getting their masters, getting the original reel to reels, in their case.

J Ray:

Yep.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Of their recordings.

DJ Sir Daniel:

They, like you said, they had not put an album out in seven years.

DJ Sir Daniel:

So it just kind of felt like, you know, Diddy is Diddy and bad boy records.

DJ Sir Daniel:

As you mentioned, J rate has been running things, for lack of a better term, for close to a decade now.

DJ Sir Daniel:

They've had a great track run.

DJ Sir Daniel:

They've had.

DJ Sir Daniel:

They got this new deal with Universal Records, which that just was not a good era for bad boy, in my opinion, and clearly yours as well.

DJ Sir Daniel:

ey actually signed a j ray in:

J Ray:

Yeah.

DJ Sir Daniel:

n the album finally came out,:

DJ Sir Daniel:

So there's a two year gap.

DJ Sir Daniel:

There's two years of being in the studios.

J Ray:

Yep.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Two years of, I'm sure, photo shoots, two years of writing.

DJ Sir Daniel:

And the only thing that I can think of, J Ray, is that they were just.

DJ Sir Daniel:

There was too many chefs in the kitchen.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Cause when you look at who was on the roster, as far as producers, J Ray and writers, first of all, new edition, of course, being the consummate performers that they are, are writing as well.

DJ Sir Daniel:

This is not just.

DJ Sir Daniel:

We're gonna sit here and let you know.

DJ Sir Daniel:

This is a collaboration.

J Ray:

Absolutely.

J Ray:

They are new addition.

J Ray:

They have had hit after hithenne as a group and solo.

J Ray:

They are seasoned performers.

J Ray:

So by then, new edition is 20 years into their career.

J Ray:

They are veterans.

DJ Sir Daniel:

They are.

DJ Sir Daniel:

They are veterans.

DJ Sir Daniel:

They are heads of state, in my opinion.

DJ Sir Daniel:

And so, of course, the album roster of producers includes, you know, your Stevie J's.

DJ Sir Daniel:

You got your.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Now you got your Mario Winans, Ryan Leslie, who is a whole nother conversation.

J Ray:

I'm great to say.

J Ray:

That's like the long.

J Ray:

That's a whole other long conversation.

DJ Sir Daniel:

That's a whole nother conversation to have.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Dre and Vidal and funny enough, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis were producers on this album as well.

DJ Sir Daniel:

J Ray, that's a lot of chefs in the kitchen.

J Ray:

That's a lot of chefs.

J Ray:

And, of course, you know, so the thing about it, and I think it was Michael Bivens, it might have been Ricky Bell that talked about this at the time.

J Ray:

Bad boy, of course, didn't really want.

J Ray:

They weren't really keen on the Jimmy jam and Terry Lewis edition.

J Ray:

So Jimmy and Terry only did, I think, two songs on this record, if I'm correct.

J Ray:

Yeah, they did two songs on the record.

J Ray:

And most of that was because I think, you know, budget wise, you know, Diddy wants to keep everything in house with the hitmen.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Right, of course.

J Ray:

But of course, we know that new edition is like, nah, like, our big bangers is this.

J Ray:

We, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Like, that's magic right there.

J Ray:

How are we not going to have a record with Jimmy Jam, have songs with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis?

J Ray:

But I do want us to talk a little bit about the moment in time that new edition are actually coming into bad boy, because I think that does cloud what happened to so in the early, the late nineties.

J Ray:

So this is:

J Ray:

Bad boy changes a lot.

J Ray:

So by:

J Ray:

So there's no more faith Evans, there's no more biggie, there's no more mace.

J Ray:

Like, all of these people who were part of Bad Boy version 1.0 have all moved on.

J Ray:

And now we're into Bad Boy version 2.0, which Diddy had gone through.

J Ray:

And because Diddy is the biggest star on the label.

DJ Sir Daniel:

By design.

J Ray:

By design, right.

J Ray:

He grew to be the biggest thing on the label.

J Ray:

Right.

J Ray:

And of course, he went through his own challenges.

J Ray:

This is after the club incident with the shooting and shine.

J Ray:

And so, J.

J Ray:

Lo, so Diddy is having a rough time chart wise in this era.

J Ray:

And I remember when I heard about the fact that new editions signed with bad boy on paper, it made sense.

J Ray:

It's like Diddy is from, you know, this era of.

J Ray:

He understands r and B.

J Ray:

He's helped to craft some of the most amazing r and B and ushered in some of the most amazing r and B acts will ever experience.

J Ray:

And it's like, oh, yeah, no edition signing with him makes sense.

J Ray:

And then, of course, we get into it and realize, like, oh, my God, this is actually kind of a mess because Johnny Gill alludes lose to that in the interview of like, yeah, it didn't work out the way we thought it was going to.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Yes.

DJ Sir Daniel:

So Johnny Gill's interview, he specifically recalls an incident where, you know, and he always prefaces.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Prefaces the conversation by saying, hey, I've known Sean for years, which is true.

DJ Sir Daniel:

They.

DJ Sir Daniel:

You know, if you're in the music industry long enough, you're gonna run into the same people over and over again.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Y'all are running in the same circles.

DJ Sir Daniel:

You're probably on tour with each other.

DJ Sir Daniel:

They know each other.

J Ray:

Yes.

DJ Sir Daniel:

They're in the same age group.

DJ Sir Daniel:

This is so Johnny Gill is looking at him like, you're my peer.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Yes, we're bros.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Right.

DJ Sir Daniel:

And so he recounts these really ugly incidents where Sean kind of oversteps his.

DJ Sir Daniel:

The boundaries and, like, gets really flippant with him.

DJ Sir Daniel:

And he was like, hey, now, wait a minute.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Then this thing, you know, they're having these drop knockdown, drag out arguments and.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Jerry.

DJ Sir Daniel:

So I have a theory.

DJ Sir Daniel:

As you mentioned, bad boy isn't really on the charts like that anymore.

DJ Sir Daniel:

The roster is looking real funny because now the roster is made up of mostly reality tv stars.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Diddy has transitioned from a recording star to a television star, thanks to MTV and the making the band series.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Of course, you know, you've got, first of all, remember that.

DJ Sir Daniel:

That whole weird moment in time where he had all these white acts like he had dream he had.

DJ Sir Daniel:

What was it, Michelle?

J Ray:

It was a Donnie Klang.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Yeah.

DJ Sir Daniel:

So he was.

DJ Sir Daniel:

He was really, really, like, I guess, trying to, of course, cross over on in a major way by introducing non black acts to bad boy.

DJ Sir Daniel:

And that really didn't work if you look at the roster and who actually was successful.

DJ Sir Daniel:

But I go back to the making the band series.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Diddy now has this television Persona of the mogul and the HNIC, everything.

DJ Sir Daniel:

I'm the last.

DJ Sir Daniel:

I'm the last stop for everything that goes on around here.

J Ray:

Yes.

DJ Sir Daniel:

And so I think he carried over that Persona, that.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Gimme a cheesecake from Junior's Persona into a conversation with new edition, who are his age or maybe slightly older, who have been in the actual industry longer than him, are actual performers who have sold millions of records, consummate performers who get up there and do a two step like nobody else can.

DJ Sir Daniel:

They can fall into choreography.

DJ Sir Daniel:

These are seasoned professionals.

DJ Sir Daniel:

J.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Ray, it sounds to me like one love was not a collaboration.

J Ray:

Yeah.

DJ Sir Daniel:

One low was definitely a battle.

DJ Sir Daniel:

A battle mostly with Diddy's, probably his ego and him trying to keep creative control over this project.

DJ Sir Daniel:

When he didn't, he probably didn't realize that he could have gotten a lot further if it had been more of a collaboration instead of him trying to bully some grown ass men.

DJ Sir Daniel:

And as we see here, it took.

DJ Sir Daniel:

So the album.

DJ Sir Daniel:

You want to talk about the stats?

DJ Sir Daniel:

Let's talk about the stats.

DJ Sir Daniel:

, excuse me,:

DJ Sir Daniel:

album did not come out until:

DJ Sir Daniel:

The first single, hot Tonight, which was a battle in of itself, produced by.

J Ray:

Ryan Leslie, by the way, produced by.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Ryan Leslie, did not.

DJ Sir Daniel:

According to new edition, the single did not reflect their maturity, and it did not reflect the maturity of their audience because they know who they are and they know who their audience is.

DJ Sir Daniel:

They know how old the audience is.

DJ Sir Daniel:

And this.

DJ Sir Daniel:

This literally sounds like something you could give to a 112 or day 26, right?

J Ray:

Right.

J Ray:

Yes.

J Ray:

So listen, y'all, we can't do everything here on YouTube, so what you should do is you should definitely join our Patreon.

J Ray:

We have a version of this particular show with some extra footage from the one love era of new edition.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Listen, J Ray is talking really greasy on this unedited version.

DJ Sir Daniel:

I really think you need to check it out because he's in rare form and you never seen him talking like this.

DJ Sir Daniel:

I had to step back myself.

DJ Sir Daniel:

I couldn't believe it.

DJ Sir Daniel:

No.

DJ Sir Daniel:

But on a serious tip, if you want us, you know, there's things that we can introduce and play on the backside, but we can't do it here because, you know, we'll get flagged in.

J Ray:

Yes.

DJ Sir Daniel:

You know how YouTube does that thing.

DJ Sir Daniel:

So make sure you subscribe and come on over.

J Ray:

Yes.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Catch the raw, uncut footage.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Trust me, you don't want to miss it.

DJ Sir Daniel:

The cool kids are over there.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Come join the cool kids and just, you know, get all the behind the scenes juice that, you know, you.

J Ray:

Yeah.

J Ray:

Peace, y'all.

J Ray:

Peace.

DJ Sir Daniel:

So the album one love debuted at number twelve on Billboard's 200 chart and number five on the Billboard r and B hip hop chart.

J Ray:

Yep.

J Ray:

Respectable for a band of that caliber.

J Ray:

And new edition's audience wanted this record, of course.

J Ray:

And honestly, from a commercial and critical perspective, the reviews were fine.

J Ray:

People were like, no, this is actually a competent record.

J Ray:

Diddy knows how to make sure that a record is clean, that it sounds good.

J Ray:

All of the above.

J Ray:

So people didn't have concerns with the quality of the album, per se, but it was some of this other stuff.

DJ Sir Daniel:

It was some of the other stuff we were talking about the lack of cohesion between Diddy and new, new editions.

DJ Sir Daniel:

And so the single, which, again, only single from the contention between.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Between the label and the artist, they didn't really want that single to be the first thing, because this is.

DJ Sir Daniel:

This is how you're reintroducing yourself after seven years of not releasing an album.

DJ Sir Daniel:

This is not.

DJ Sir Daniel:

This is not only how you're reintroducing yourself to your core audience, but there's a whole nother generation that is getting to no new edition.

DJ Sir Daniel:

That single, j Ray, peaked at number 35 on Billboard's r and B chart and number 87 on Billboard's Hot 100.

DJ Sir Daniel:

We're talking about new edition here, Jerry.

DJ Sir Daniel:

This is new edition.

DJ Sir Daniel:

This is.

DJ Sir Daniel:

This is a super group.

DJ Sir Daniel:

This is new edition.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Bell, biv Devoe and Johnny Gill form to make Voltron.

J Ray:

Right.

DJ Sir Daniel:

At this point.

DJ Sir Daniel:

And then.

DJ Sir Daniel:

So by April of:

DJ Sir Daniel:

By April of:

DJ Sir Daniel:

245,000 copies.

DJ Sir Daniel:

sold that on his own back in:

J Ray:

Right.

DJ Sir Daniel:

With the record that people didn't even know.

DJ Sir Daniel:

You know what I'm saying?

DJ Sir Daniel:

This is.

DJ Sir Daniel:

That's.

DJ Sir Daniel:

While considering that, again, this is a.

DJ Sir Daniel:

This is a heritage group.

J Ray:

Yeah.

J Ray:

Yeah.

DJ Sir Daniel:

This is a heritage group.

DJ Sir Daniel:

These are not some new jacks.

J Ray:

Yeah.

J Ray:

You know, it's interesting.

J Ray:

When I put this in perspective today, we would look at 245,000 and think, oh, my God, that record is such a hit.

J Ray:

This is awesome.

J Ray:

Right?

DJ Sir Daniel:

But physical copies.

J Ray:

Physical copies, right?

J Ray:

Like, oh, my God, that's a really great.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Y'all did that.

J Ray:

Y'all did that.

J Ray:

This is a hit album.

J Ray:

But in:

J Ray:

Right?

J Ray:

And as a result, new edition has to be released.

J Ray:

Like, listen, we went out of this thing.

J Ray:

We bow out.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Grand opening, grand closing, literally a year.

DJ Sir Daniel:

J Ray, from November of:

DJ Sir Daniel:

One and done.

DJ Sir Daniel:

We are out of here.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Let us out of our.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Let us out of this contract.

DJ Sir Daniel:

That's it.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Let's just wipe our hands.

DJ Sir Daniel:

But, Jerry, who's missing out of this?

J Ray:

I'm going to say, like, we haven't talked about the fact that there is a member.

J Ray:

The king of R and B is not in this group.

J Ray:

And we're not.

J Ray:

Meaning that facetiously.

J Ray:

Bobby Brown is amazing.

J Ray:

King of R and B.

J Ray:

True.

DJ Sir Daniel:

J ray, where.

DJ Sir Daniel:

So we saw Bobby Brown in:

J Ray:

Yes.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Part of the home again project.

DJ Sir Daniel:

But where was he during one love.

J Ray:

Well, so the interesting thing.

J Ray:

So new edition reforms in:

J Ray:

It's amazing.

J Ray:

Everybody's excited to have new edition back.

J Ray:

So what do artists do, Sir Daniel, when they need to promote an album they like?

J Ray:

We gotta go on tour.

DJ Sir Daniel:

On the road again.

J Ray:

We are new edition.

J Ray:

We gonna do all of our new edition stuff.

J Ray:

And then we gonna do our BBD, our Ralph T, our Johnny G, and our bell biv Devoe stuff.

J Ray:

And it's gonna be amazing.

J Ray:

Bay, bae, listen, those brothers was scrapping Sir Daniel.

DJ Sir Daniel:

I believe it.

DJ Sir Daniel:

I mean, knock down drag outs.

DJ Sir Daniel:

But it's.

DJ Sir Daniel:

In all fairness, and all honesty, they've been doing that since they were kids, which is to be expected.

DJ Sir Daniel:

You know, you've got growing men on tour with each other.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Everybody has different personalities, their own egos, of course, and they're making money.

DJ Sir Daniel:

So, yes, you're gonna have a clash.

J Ray:

Of the titans, and that's the other big part.

J Ray:

So, yes, I know we did the whole thing about them arguing and not getting along, but the other thing was from Bobby Brown's perspective, he's like, I don't wanna split.

J Ray:

You know, you have, when you're in a group like this, like, you gotta split the money up evenly.

J Ray:

Like now it's not five, it is six.

J Ray:

So when you've now been a solo act for as long as Bobby Brown had been a solo act, those splits were also a thing as well.

DJ Sir Daniel:

He got a lot of kids and.

J Ray:

He got a lot of kids to take care of.

J Ray:

That was a whole different point of time in Bobby Brown's life as well.

J Ray:

For sure.

J Ray:

Bobby did not sign on for the one love, the whole bad boy era.

J Ray:

But Sir Daniel, one thing that you said earlier, and I know we're going to get out of here in a second, but I do think it is really ironic is the wrong word.

J Ray:

I felt like new edition fighting so hard to get from under the thumb and the foot of all of these MCA records.

J Ray:

Maurice Starr back in the day, all of these people that were like, no, no, no, we're going to hold you down.

J Ray:

I think the other thing is going over there to bad boy.

J Ray:

They quickly figured out like, no, because he's already trying to take control of stuff that we've worked so hard to get, regain our control.

J Ray:

You can't have it.

DJ Sir Daniel:

You are absolutely right.

DJ Sir Daniel:

One caveat.

DJ Sir Daniel:

So like, Bobby Brown rejoined new edition right after they left bad boy and went to support the One Love project, what was left of it, right?

DJ Sir Daniel:

And they went on tour after that.

DJ Sir Daniel:

But you're absolutely right.

DJ Sir Daniel:

I couldn't have said it any better.

DJ Sir Daniel:

These are grown men who have literally come up in the industry as children have gone, have gone up against every monster in this industry that you can think of.

DJ Sir Daniel:

And for, you know, again, like I said, diddy is at this time, is really feeling himself and wants to take creative control, keep everything in house, of course, like you said, to keep it more beneficial for him economically.

DJ Sir Daniel:

But these fellas are just like, no, you can't talk to us like Duban.

DJ Sir Daniel:

We're not Danny B.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Kane.

DJ Sir Daniel:

You're not going to roast us and have us doing a dance battle you can't do that with us.

J Ray:

No.

DJ Sir Daniel:

And so it's just.

DJ Sir Daniel:

It's really simple.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Let's surmise it, J Ray.

DJ Sir Daniel:

The factors that led to the failure of one love battle of creative control between Diddy and new edition.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Strike one.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Two.

DJ Sir Daniel:

The lead single, did not reflect the group's maturity or the maturity of their audience.

DJ Sir Daniel:

And number three, and most importantly, there was probably just a lack of respect.

J Ray:

Yes.

DJ Sir Daniel:

A lack of respect for them as artists and for them as creative creatives in this process.

DJ Sir Daniel:

So, yeah, guys, I hope you not.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Do you remember, is it clicking now you remember one love.

DJ Sir Daniel:

The album cover is white.

DJ Sir Daniel:

They're wearing baggy jeans right here for new edition at that age.

J Ray:

Okay, so I do want to talk about that before we get out of here.

J Ray:

That was also really interesting.

J Ray:

So new edition has this baggy.

J Ray:

Like, it's like a.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Is it Sean?

DJ Sir Daniel:

They're probably wearing Sean.

J Ray:

They're probably literally wearing Sean John.

J Ray:

And they got.

J Ray:

So if you go back to home again, they're all in suits.

J Ray:

Da da da da da.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Yes.

J Ray:

And in this, very classy, right?

J Ray:

And in this, I'm like, so are they the locs now?

J Ray:

I'm not sure.

DJ Sir Daniel:

They're looking like a combination of the locs and soul, for real.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Not up to new edition standards.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Sorry, guys.

DJ Sir Daniel:

But I hope you enjoyed this episode of Coupoints podcast.

DJ Sir Daniel:

We enjoyed bringing it to you, J Ray.

DJ Sir Daniel:

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J Ray:

Absolutely.

J Ray:

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J Ray:

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J Ray:

You're amazing.

J Ray:

Sir Daniel.

DJ Sir Daniel:

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DJ Sir Daniel:

So, listen, what do I always say?

DJ Sir Daniel:

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DJ Sir Daniel:

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DJ Sir Daniel:

I'm DJ Sir Daniel.

J Ray:

My name is Jrey, y'all.

DJ Sir Daniel:

And this has been Cue Points podcast, dropping the needle on black music history.

DJ Sir Daniel:

We will see you on the next go round.

DJ Sir Daniel:

Peace.

J Ray:

Peace.

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