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(Shakyra) Hey y'all, it's ya girl Shakyra Mabone

(Jada) Jada Vasser

(Anthony) and Anthony Brinson and this is All Shades of Chocolate where we bring

(Shakyra) the sweetest

(Jada) the hottest

(All three) Black culture to MSU

(Anthony) we back again week to season but we don't three season three Have we reached our one year anniversary yet it's where today we are one year anniversary insane thank you all for the clap because I'm like I don't want to keep getting this date wrong but especially since it's been listen that's going to learn I probably might do that like three more times just recording but especially but with with it being pretty much my also your anniversary and then not yet officially being adversity I'll show you the chocolate again. I'm gonna keep doing it until probably for the rest of our journalistic careers thank both of you. I think both of you individually especially because one y'all did a huge campaign of getting me to actually accept to working here because I remember it was during the time I was at my other job and I'm like I don't know if I want to do too I don't know if I'm even qualified and you're like No Please Please come on back home because I was

(Shakyra) But no, I had to beg I was like bro take my job. I don't want to do this I'm like because I was podcast coordinator too and I was just like I was getting so stressed I was my own Do It and plus we needed another host

(Anthony) And the fact that like she pretty much gave me her job and show me the ways and then now it's flow like this and then even Jada making sure like to go be with Shakyra and make sure to get me to work here and if I'm not mistaken which one of y'all told Samaya about me? Me I think it was you because I we had to joke so I think I don't know having told this story about metal so shout out my man's Jeremiah says I'm shot on my man's Jeremy Yeah, no shout out a Professor Jeremy Steele, really great guy and I first met him through the MIP organization or MIP program and it was pretty much a program like you work with the kids coming in and my role was more so like a counselor I wasn't like in the classrooms but to my understand that you could be in the classrooms be like a mini teachers pretty cool experience. So like a TA Yeah, that's pretty much my was like a TA. And like, matter of fact, this segue it's a whole nother story eventually. Let me finish one story first. Eventually this is going to where I saw somebody there and black lady she was talking I think it was Claire coincidentally or was somebody that we also knew, and I had tried to speak to her a few times and she did not speak to me back. I'm like, that's crazy. And I was wanting only Oh my God, give me a steak. Give me a bland face and like wouldn't like she just wouldn't. I'm like, Okay, I don't know what may I know of like, Oh, wow. You know, so then long story short, this ended up being my boss for the editor in chief. Sa'mya overall and then she was like, I'm so sorry, my bad and I still sometimes miss work to this day about it. But it was so crazy to like it was one of those like small world moments. But the other tangent I was about to go on. So it was I was working with a lot of kids first one kid was tall. It's a bad word, but it was one day I told you about this. It was a guy he talked like this. He was like, Yeah, you know, I'm going for the podcast and he was 15 and he was talking to me. I'm like, What is your like, what is in the food? They be in a Wheaties and it was one at a time. It was like six seven in the morning. Now y'all know if y'all know me I do not like being woke up in the morning. So I'm here on my dorm let me see what's going on. So Dan, Look kid, he's such an adorable keep so bad. Who's so adorable kid he was like, hi, I was like, Hey, how are you? Like Is everything okay? He was like everything's fine. Give me a Hi Fi MFA camera. He's like give me a high five I'm like Nah, no, no, I'm not I know young boy some like there's no he's doing this for a reason. His hand was real sticky. And I'm like why do you want I'm like no I'm gonna give you

(Shakyra) better than me was because I would have been like rubbing my fade

(Anthony) I'm looking at him like no I'm not gonna give up he's like nothing's wrong I'm like why your hands like go have a good rest of your day at class there's no added Do you This is why you have to like is if you like do anything with kids involved students you got to like them which is so crazy because even though he was so bad at me it was so adorable. I'm like okay, this is so cute. And then there was another thing was so bad they were so intelligent and bad the same time. They literally stacked a tower of chairs and put them on the elevator and was like moving chairs. I think I got a picture of this short video of it. They had all the chairs on one put it on the elevator got it downstairs. And like I'm like, how to I was impressed at the creativity and be followed by the badness like how what went through your mind to

(Jada) sit down and sing your ABCs color meal you found

(Anthony) it was so fun to and they weren't makes it all worth it because I wouldn't mean I would just when they did, so I'm like, Why? Why? They were like, here's one of the best, like, Western names we ever had. I was Oh, see this with me on my hand. This will make it like, oh, this will make it so much better. Like we also bet and obviously our little bloopers and we just had my hand on the wrist or on the table. But that whole five minutes and as I look at the clock was related to nothing we talked about today. Listen, we're glad y'all stay here. But we're gonna do another music episode more specifically the importance of our backgrounds in terms of how we learn to music and how we grew up to loving music. I myself was in varsity choir. I'll let them talk about what they were in because I always mess it up. But we can I guess when going order of how we're sitting so Jada?

(Jada) Oh, wait, I'm saying what I was in. Yeah, Anthony thinks I was an orchestra, no shade to the orchestra people. My twin sister was an orchestra. She played violin. That wasn't me. I was in marching band. I was in marching band from I count sixth grade to 12th grade, but really technically eighth grade to 12th grade. There it was marching band, orchestra, marching band, what was the technicality? Technically eighth grade? Oh, well, technically, because they introduced the idea to us and like sixth grade, but they didn't really take it serious till I got to eighth grade. That's what it was like, technically eighth grade.

(Anthony) Okay.And Miss Mabone.

(Shakyra) Yeah, I was in concert band and marching band to from eighth to 12th. But I started like playing like an instrument in seventh grade. But I switched schools. I used to, like switch schools around. It's so weird, but yeah. Yeah.

(Anthony) Could you specify more on what concert band is?

(Shakyra) So a concert band? Yeah. So it's like, um, basically like a symphony, but like without the strings and stuff like that. And you just have like, the hearts to percussion and, you know, like good things and stuff like that. I played the flute, for concert and then I play the piccolo that's like the miniature I knew he was gonna say, I knew and um, yeah, that's the ministry of flute for the marching band. It was and they used to all they call me squidward, so I was like, that's not crazy

(Jada) clarinet. Bro. woodwinds unite. When's the best part of the band without woodwinds? They wouldn't. So you miss it you

(Definitely left it in, lol)

(Jada) I would love to hear right here. I'm like I was locked it right here. Yeah, so um

(All three) what was the first instrument you'll ever play or ever touched or took a liking to flute Okay, those are your first cool yeah, I am planning to like pick up another instrument. I want to play like the acoustic guitar because I was like, well how to sound and you know, it's just like really pretty good music and stuff like that. You know that one dude who rappers that'd be playing? Yeah, no, yes. I'm like, I love his video so much shadow him. I can't think of his name right now.

(Anthony) But we also we I keep alluding to this episode with the mindset because trust me, whether you call it overripe or not very talented individual and the way I met him, I was in Karl Marx. And if you're familiar with the Commerce building that big lecture hall, I used to have a piano in it and I was going in class one day I think it's was it class 108 Yeah, or wait is one of them is one of them? Yes. One of those it was with a professor it was it was a Pete was it Park Clark's Park? Yeah, a park. Agent beaver but um, I was going to a different class that day and I was walking in I heard a beautiful were you playing? I don't know if you remember. Were you playing the John Legend song first. So he's playing John Legend one of my favorite songs. Is they called all of me yeah all of me by John Legend. I'm like I to my y'all can see the camera like wait a minute. He says one of my favorite songs. So then I went down and in the most Anthony way possible. If you don't know me, I just do this. I just literally walk all the way down and walk up to him like, first of all, hi. But also you are incredible. And he's like, he looked at me like who are you like thank you.

(Shakyra) then I asked him to play like a month. I was like, Come on, man. You messaged me.

(Anthony) Crazy, wasn't he just he was talking to me and still playing. And then he played me another song and I asked him to play some notes. And it's just his story. I'll let him tell his own story when we get him on the podcast. But just it was incredible to understand. Because the only person to my understanding as I look at you, you learned like you taught yourself right. So the only person I had ever heard personally in my life doing that was my cousin. She taught her own stuff, how to play piano and the fact especially being able required knowing like the ins and outs of a piano without an utoplay

(Shakyra) Wait, what's your registered inquire? Like? What are you like, are you

(Anthony) Well, I thought I was supposed to be in but it was baritone but what my second choir teacher wanted she wanted me to be mainly tenor. And like, I feel like I'm more baritone was like a hit. I couldn't consistently hit higher notes. And at that time, I didn't know how to sing from my diaphragm. Yeah, so it was really coming from my throat and like mouth pause and it was more difficult to consistently hit higher notes. So um, that was that but with knowing how piano works, the fact that somebody can self teach themselves and like from a whim it's incredible and channel prank shadow channel prank if you went there from elementary school this time specifically, there was a I can't why we're figuring that your name was Miss Constantino. She was the music teacher and we all play recorders the little like, what it's like it's like a like a mini like a flu. It's like a isn't the same family. Yeah, I was terrible. It could not play. She um, she would always say this in class. She always taught us his lesson. She'd be like early is on time. All the time. It's late and late is unacceptable. And that's still in the oddest time. Just that journey of having that musical like background and then getting in varsity choir it always makes me appreciate music more, because I feel like especially in songs more catered to like choir or orchestra or r&b Specifically, I hear things that most people usually don't pick up on in music. And I wouldn't have that without my background or even your background. Because when and always confuse marching band, and all like concert band orchestra because when all y'all will perform. It's like it was a movie. Everybody at the marching band about the winter concerts. CPA, listen again. People gave us standing ovations for choir but when it was time for like orchestra and like band like Charles Thomas, listen, that's my man right there. And then one of my friends Imani Staley, she played the violin. I'm pretty sure she or her dad gave her a solo. Yeah. My school to y'all were like, even as somebody who was technically competed against draw like orchestra and band and marching band, y'all were the best because especially when it came to like the tournaments, the bands, I have to go to our CPA with how my school was structured, they would practice right outside the choir room. So I would see firsthand like, Okay, so the quiet room was like, literally right there in the band room was like, like, right there. You know, we had to like do our solo practices. We have to go in the hallway or go outside marches, stuff like that. So you'll be hearing us used to hear us and like there was one guy there was always the leader. It was always funny, but one guy specifically Jordan Harris, shout out Jordan. He was very like, no BS. He's a drum major. Even actually, he's a drum major at Wilberforce now University Yeah, and even the teacher what was the teacher was teaching he was a cool guy to Thomas. Yeah. Like, that's not like my, like, I have so much respect for that part of music because you don't have the varsity choirs about the instruments. They always tell us to use our voice like an instrument so we don't have those. It's hard to like, all of this is so difficult. And Miss Dr. Vasser gave me an interesting perspective that I never thought about. Can you give your opinion on if you feel marching band is a sport or not?

(Jada) Yes, it is. Yes, it is a sport. Okay. It is a sport. I will die on this hill. Because it is a sport. Because more specifically my my my marching band, Mr. Dr. Deontay Kennedy. He was my marching band director. He trained us as if we were at HBCU marching band. Yeah, we practice with the basketball players, we practice with the bass,

(Jada and Shakyra) like a dog.

(Jada) Their workout routines we did those, we had to send him workout routines that we would do, there will be practices for hours where we would just work out, run the track, run across the field with your instrument plan it so that ... because when you play an instrument, it's all from your diaphragm. And it's all lungs. So if you have bad lungs, do not go march a parade for 40 minutes. So all of that was torture to me. But when we did the parades in the Battle of the Bands, we could breathe longer, and you can breathe better. So yes, it's a sport because we train just like we're doing a sport. We have competitions just like sports. This is I'm not battling you for a basketball. Football trophy. It's a sport you hear me? Well, we got the hammer. It's not a sport yet. Look at me, okay. It's a sport. Especially my marching band it was a sport. It was in the best shape of my life. Let me tell

(All three) I never thought about it like that. But even then, especially when like weather being bad don't matter. y'all out there. No rain, the wind. I Oh my God, I feel so bad the games they do not let y'all sit down. I'm like dang, that's crazy.

(Jada) It's discipline the point of marching man with a lot of directors is to build discipline building you up so you can withstand everything.

(Jada and Shakyra) for college oh yeah you know and then try to get me to go to calcium growth because they are bad I did my favorite bands personally, I clap up all the HBCU bands if you're out there doing it I clap you know I wanted to go write. My cousin, he's from Pine Bluff and he said that like whenever like they have like a parade and you know it's hot down there is really isn't what is it artists or somewhere like that? But he said like people was I like actually passing out and he had they had to like march over that person. You couldn't start you have to keep going. I was like yeah, no, I'm not. Yeah, we had a parade I don't think I when we had a parade it was towards the end before my band director Mr. Kennedy left. We had a parade it was so hot. It was like a record breaking heat in Michigan. But we were out there parading so if you had to get out of line you had to fill in the gaps because he taught us he said if somebody falls out don't stop going you got a clip show will go on no matter what happens so yeah, people needed to drink water they lightheaded but you just feel to the spots and you kept doing the show. It's really it's a discipline thing. Let me tell you something, the discipline of depths is marching band from like when I was a freshman in high school, man, some of the highest discipline I've ever had. He tell you to do anything and you do it without thinking like a Cree a creed a creed like it's not some you say right well yeah like you say like at the end of the practice. Oh yeah. Okay, ours was slow it was like the processes says and then we repeated the process it says the first the prices assesses everything. Oh y'all remember? And then if I rebuild the benefits of the wars it was something like that. Yeah, like say that yeah, every time we had speeches oh my god yes. Because they it was a mental thing. Or Did y'all did you watch me do a thing where you were crap before you had to cross over Yeah, so my name I don't even remember my stuff a gum Bubble gum Yes. Oh dear. What kind of nice man it's incredible I can't even say oh hey, you do have like the well yeah no we had a phrases I'm trying to remember what's what's the one we said after every competition every practice I think it was life I have life I have is yours to keep life I happen to we meet and we send it off to every practice so that when we came back he said we met again pretty much so yeah, yeah, we set it up every practice and every game and then we had like other like, chance we would do we had a sectional chance so clarinets would I would chant trumpets would chant that was sound off, man. The sound the words off of me. Yes. Yeah, he'll show dances. We had a lot yeah, my man does man have some good memory. Yeah, it was really fun. I mean, I met my boyfriend and Dan so well. My boyfriend and man let's just get that straight I met Stevie in when I when we were living grade marching band. That's how we did I guess it's a stereotype within like marching band the flute or the woodwinds always date the percussionist like so like the drummers and stuff like that. Yeah, he was a drummer so a lot of my clarinet section dated the drummers

(All three) is there like a correlate what's the correlation? I don't know. Are they like- if I ever lose my job No, no, give me you give me keep keep the angle on me. But the abs are now even now. We're not even at all. Anyway. Marching Band right. Beat Drummer Boy. The question now is the question so know what you said. No, you didn't That's mad. You know, the Energizer Bunny was he was based around to see perfect you know, we call him a shadow going deeper just

(Anthony) Anyway, but um, with the discipline that y'all got from marching band, how would you say it's took what you're now even outside of margin, man?

(All three) That's a good question. Well, it came in a good exercise routine. I'll tell you that much cardio.

(Jada) I feel like the discipline it keeps me consistent. Because I feel like once you get put in that mindset of of having a schedule and continuously doing something it kind of just falls into every every other part of your life, especially with school. Like I wouldn't say I have a strict school schedule but I still have like the mental brain that I did back then that keeps me going like it keeps me like no you have to do this do that do this do that do this do that and that order because that's all marching that was do you did things in order and if you messed up the order, you have to do it again. Messed up the order I have to do it PTSD with me, because it's just like drop sound off all that stuff

(Shakyra) Yeah, so drop basically what that means if if somebody like in the band like section Astina like mess up on a know or like messed up when you do the sound off before you kick off or whatever, or like if the percussion messed up a cadence or whatever, like if you kept doing it basically the band director he's gonna get like irritated or she will get irritated and then dropped you're gonna have to do push ups or flutter kicks Yeah, or like to sit ups or whatever is whatever you know to help your corner things like

(Jada and Shakyra) a flutter kick to your I didn't hear a great for the abdomen. But for our flutter kicks they he bled well, sometimes Drum Major have doing what us but sometimes if he didn't feel like like picking the beat, he will okay drum major, the rhythm

(Poster falls)

(All three) that could happen to fall in his newsrooms just like our diversity mean, that's what I'm saying. With that, without me. We'll get into that. Yeah, sort of flooded kicks.

(Jada) I like I like doing flirt cheeks too. But my drum mentioned was petty. And then make the beat really slow. So to the beat would be this. So every beat that's one leg than the other leg, and you had to keep your legs up at a certain degree, or you have to do it again. And they make it even slower. They made it even slower.

(All three) bootcamping away, but it's really dramatic. It's really music, you know? Perfect. You mentioned that. Haven't you been ROTC before? Right? No, not at all. The comparison between that marching Yeah, my bandmate Her name is on the tire she was so yeah, hurt crowd name was paper towel actually because paper towels their appropriate reason why I was calling. I mean, again, I want to lose my I want to I don't know how far we could go with this type of stuff. Just say it has something to do with her complexion. Okay man, don't wait to class today. 2017 don't seniors. They was mean, I want the seniors man, bro. And this is gonna be kind of random. Do y'all have stories of like experiences with seniors or our freshmen or underclassmen?

(Anthony) CPA used to do a thing they used to do shadowing, I don't know if he got school he did as well to where like, I was in eighth grade, like the middle schoolers did that so so I did it and I even wanted even with this story, I loved it. But I was in eighth grade. And if you know me from like, in my personal life, I was very small. I'm still small, so even smaller than I was. And I was sorry, and my voice was higher. So it was great. Timing. So very squeaky I had a lot of energy. It was funny, but so I was I had to go to the restroom one time and it was a bunch of seniors in there and with how CPA designated each gray it was by shirt so like I had a bright orange shirt and they had on burgundy told you that if greater bro why did they pick me up all pick me up and was holding me in the sky? My shadow who was a girl to come because I was grieved. And now I'm like way outside the piece. I'm okay. They scared me. So listen. I don't remember who it was on a freshman Friday. Day. What? Yeah

(Shakyra) I used to be scared of that. I thought that was like real. I never experienced anything like that before. It was real?

(Anthony) It was real fun. At least during this period. It stopped once like my class got into high school who's in the lunch room and somebody wanted to see me his highlight post all of it, like move it out the way and one of the teachers had to be like, don't treat them like that. I started acting like that. No way. It's true. But you can do yoga stories like that, or is it just me is it I think it is you because you know me? Even though I'm like really small I was smaller back then. I still had like a little bite in me so you wasn't gonna do that to me. I'm just saying. Pick me up. What are ya?

(Jada) No, but we had things like my school did shadow days not more like for school, but we had shadow days for when I was in eighth grade going into high school. get into like, the official marching man when I became a freshman. So we didn't shatter days. Like if we stayed after school we were able to go across my high school was across the street from my middle school shout out, you see, you go across the street to the high school. And then in the big old bedroom, their band room was way bigger than my middle school was over there. There's been rumors, shoot, it was really like two classrooms put together. So we're in this big ol band room. The band is like 7080 kids, and the band director stands up there. He's like, who's on the middle school? And we like that would have been me, I would have liked school. But that's a theme though. It was like, show me what you can do. We said, he said, play your instrument. So but you know me, you know, I'm kind of scared with the clarinet. But especially back then, so I play it. He was like, Yeah, you got a spot. But he said, if you're scared to do it in front of me, you'll never do it. And if so, you got to do it. And of course, you know, you get nervous you mess up and people laugh but he like added this to y'all today. Let me bring up the video. Oh, my Yeah, I said marcher man, bro. So it was lit.

(Anthony) I go on these tangents. I'm about to go on another one to tie in these points. But there was a time during the same period of like the pickup though, freshman Friday. We also we did some cool stuff at CPA sometimes we went to another school in Michigan. And it was more like, it was like a different culture type of school. Like they were more like Latina base and like other kids there and like we met some kids, actually, this is a random tangent, but hear me out is like a good story. So one of the individuals I met they were a really nice person. And they and they were transgender. And I didn't have much experience with like meeting people like that at the time, because this is like, either ninth grade or me transitioning to ninth grade. And they were so nice to like inform me about like, the fact that they were trying to get in the first place and tell them about their community. And I really appreciated that I went me and I don't unfortunately remember who the person was. But those experiences outside of your own realm potentially can make up like who you are as a person. So I go on that tangent too. Then x, what were your favorite memories from being in marching band in your own world of being a school and then going out to whether it be competing in other schools? Or like you mentioned meeting somebody in the marching band? Just what are your favorite memories in your marching band? And then if y'all have any outside of your own marching band, like just seeing How's it go on?

(Jada) That is a good one. I had a lot of favorite moments in marching band. Now let me let me also say marzipan got on my nerves. But once again on my nerves I really really liked some like some of our practices where it wasn't more so like workout based, where it was just us like playing like our favorite songs and like he would like play quizzes on like memorization because the Marchman you have to memorize everything. There's no paper so you don't carry Yeah, some are commands do though when they stand on their instruments. Yeah. Man, he said you will memorize everything. So we will do like a week on a song. Then he tests to see how much we memorize. Just want to do it, you know, outside of practice and stuff. But I'd say practice was really like, some of my favorite moments, because especially when you got like further into the band and you didn't leave, that's when people like started to open up to you. And that's when you really start to like, just talk with people and then like talking to other clarinet players that played longer than me was really cool. And people who actually wanted to go to college for bands specifically, you saw like their drive for wanting to play their instrument and it's just cool how like music really can take people far and okay, and also better the band like the practice like the performances, we have to go out to other schools like we went to a park. We were huge. We went everywhere and battled these bands,

(All three) come on. Oh, no, that not at all. Do now back in my dad. We went to Castle castle. They was the stuff you know, I didn't know cats have a marshy fan? Yeah, I'd never hear about though.

(Jada) Yeah, we battle Cass a lot because we were right there. They were so close to our school. So they always came over and we well yeah, we went to Castle. Crazy, really ancient forms that I just remember. We performed for the NAACP. Yeah, it was something we did every year to where like Detroit schools were like bands would come and my band was sweet we had Nike tracksuits. was a little kid that making checks who I worked with everything, yeah, my Nike duffel bag. I use that everywhere... So we had kids and then we had a jacket and then we had a shirt that said our band name on it. So for performance does he say wear your gear and we knew that we had to wear that we used to wear it. We used to dress on it. uniform we could wear it all day in class we could man

(All three) My band was the opposite we couldn't wear it all day it was just like yeah you gotta give it back pretty much required us to like they had especially on performance day and everybody did do the same thing marching band choir we just had dripped out in the suits. We used to be clean dance suit back then. I want to see if I can find a picture of me and my Nike tracksuit, I don't know if I have any pictures like we had tracksuits but we actually have like suit suits to wash it You mean like the jacket? Yeah, we can wear those all day but they stayed in the bedroom we had those if you I'm about to expose myself going YouTube you'll find me I made all of those videos now you see I haven't said nothing about rules right I'm gonna just keep it legal keep no disrespect to rules I graduated from there and they tried to ruin all these brand new listings

(Anthony) As Shakyra looks for that one of my favorite memories with being acquired we would always we did like the travel stuff as well and matter of fact shout out shout out Renaissance shot already but we should have beat jaw at NAB acquired competition we have I forget the year we had I think it was 2021 We should have one I'm gonna tell you why. So we got second place we got second place and they got first place wasn't restaurants I cast it was one of them. I think it was Renaissance and the reason why I felt we want or we should have one was because so let's say I give them they were more structured singing was like they had they had some great sopranos and I would say they sung better than us right but I feel we outperformed them by a mile like we had like we move he was moving he was high Yeah. And I feel like even I can say out Tsongas I don't think they watched us to where like okay, it was a clear gap between like how they sang the song. Yeah, even with that though, like those performances like that. I really like those stick out to me and you see as I get to the cameras say we shouldn't want that obviously, as a place in my mind, but also every time it was I'm like one of those what were the days where like we perform and stay with go to middle school because they had pretty much like the Christmas shows. Yeah, like winter concerts and stuff like spring concert. Concert. Yeah. Which Shakyra is mentioned earlier. I love those because it was always like a holiday. Get together. Everybody sometimes working with everybody. And they it'd be so crazy. So what how CPAs auditorium Middle School Auditorium was structured. Shakyra shows Jada the picture

(Shakyra) this is the closest I have another picture but this he was we got cameras now. We got cameras now. Well, I don't know if I can like show them what like, Well, anyways, his name was Mr. Arnett. This is like one of our band directors before he was hired. Yeah, he was like in control of like the music department at CPA as a whole but yeah, he was a good director. You know?

(All three) Ours kind of looked like that but they were red obviously because red white I'm gonna just try to show I was gonna say Lowkey bras good enough you can save that picture and just be one of those edits. Yeah, you know, I have another picture too. I'm trying to find it but yeah a favorite memory and then it has to be the practice and it has to be like the game the game we talked about practice OB sad if you don't get the reference I don't lie. But anyway. Oh, well. We talked about practice before this rally, but But yeah, you're talking about a game we talked about practice the origin that he said was a really great player but he didn't really like go into practice and they were writing articles about or they were in the he was in the news he was like a rebel was saying like he was coming to practice all that and they had come like he'll miss practice but like 30 in the game so that's why he had come to interview like the guy talking about PrEP but well yeah. Um, more specifically the basketball games because I don't know it's just like no dad's war games definitely you get real Come on now fighting that our basketball especially well who was a Rutgers Michigan collegiate MC y'all rivals to bro we did not move anybody you finished first because he paid did not like them? Yeah, it was just every time when MC can come around like for football homecoming and then you know for like basketball like the championship game. We'd be so weird bro. We've been literally Tonto like it was beefmYou got away with some stuff that you can do and you can really make fun of people do you like what you're doing bam. Like when a player had Miss like, you know that no we'd be like oh my god. It was lit no. Like I'm somebody who likes tries to stay out of drama so I'm not hip to the old rivalry thing I may come around but oh well we'll blink with them I was on site we didn't actually be on site yet again whoever lose they talk and then we go ahead just like that you have an MSU game show yeah, it was like it was legit beef I'm like and what were always, so I'd always and people get mad at me when I say this I'm like look me personally I don't know what a Michigan collegiate is. So like me how are they? What is the MC like? Why are we let somebody unknown why are we letting somebody unknown be our rivals but apparently I mean hey, it was it was worthy enough to get attention and get a reaction? Oh, no, I was my bag. Oh, no, I was my last another good memory was okay, so we had a mall next to our school it was Eastland is no longer near Detroit staple, right. It was yeah, it was really well, I used to go there. Like for my whole life down there. Harley's carry you know, a tiny spot. I don't know if you have like every got though. It was like right next to Charlie's. But anyways, that was another good memory. I used to reuse like me in the band members. We used to go like to the east land and just like chillin, lollygagging whatever. But he used to be like so bad up there. So it was like one point where you couldn't go up there without like an adult. So it was yeah, you met all the Detroit rappers like cash cow cash kid used to be up there. He used to be just so fun up there. Like, now's the time. That was the time. But with that being said, These are the moments that like, especially in school, like I mentioned in the beginning of episode he's like maybe childhood it's like you see we can get these stories and like not only we tell them we get like emotion like yeah, we was the better yeah, we want or like Jada mentioned like same as a CPA like we go, we'll get the records we go. We don't see. Nick, as you. Matter of fact, I'll let them ended off with this. What was your favorite song to perform? And why? Oh, what did you perform? We play mom. You know Mama's love. Yeah. Yeah, that was my favorite play or noise? Art of Noise.

(Jada) I'm trying to see if I still have like my band notes. Because a lot of things. Yes. Because a lot of the times when he taught us to kind of go into what I talked with my team by learning by ear, he wouldn't give us sheet he didn't know. Yeah, he says ecba and we have to write it down and remember it. So that's how I kind of heard how to do stuff by ear because he wouldn't even say no, no, he said okay, play it. Yeah, but he's like, alright, that's your point. Remember, man, we played a lot. We play. big baller. Yeah, yeah. We played man. We played a lot. We played Gods playing by Drake. T shirt by me goes out to be fired. We would do songster we would change the lyrics to like fit our band and we'd shout it out like in between the brakes, man, like a goober we play Rockstar Knuck If You Buck we play... neck man that once you play that song, that's when people really want it. Like, oh, no, no, you don't want to do that to me.

(Shakyra and Jada) your own life school song because we have what we have on it's called CPA phone. And it was like we chant it was like CP CP. I don't know. I think I think we did see Yeah, we did. Remember no, but we definitely had it but I changed band directors a lot too. So a lot of our stuff like change like what's my first band director left and my dad my new one? They did they just kept doing a lot of different stuff differently. For Ben did y'all have to do like Okay, did y'all have like when the drum major were called off a sweet thing y'all had to do a move and shout stuff out Yeah, talk about memory hog about if I'm my clarinet I will be a fool and get up and redo all this stuff because I knew my head where he's where he do this whistle you do that when he knew this whistle when you hear the percussion get loud you do this like it was commands to where he's like, You have to learn it because I'm not gonna call it out all the time. So when you hear you just do it like band Man, we played a lot of songs that I didn't write down that we played though. We also would I kind of liked it. So we did a lot of like church events to where we performed at churches. That wasn't a big concert band. Yeah, I don't know if y'all know the song by the clerk's. You bought the sunshine. Yeah, we played that

(Shows excitement for song, lol)

(Jada and Shakyra) Oh, you know, well, I mean, sorry Joe Clark Sisters, you bought the sunshine. We played it and when we play that song so that people know what that was somewhere people like got up and started dancing to it. And I was like, wait, you telling me we could be church you too. And then we went you know, like it have like a lot of bras and do it anywhere literally that provement okay, you can bring your marching band to church, and it was good. Yeah, I'm scrolling through my Google Photos. Why this person on my phone? Would I be me? I'd be like

(Anthony) Google, and snap be messy Google and snap to memory from four years ago. I don't want to remember he was sick. But it's crazy. You mentioned the part about the churchy part like having as big of a as well and you brought back a memory of like playing by your learning by ear because our choir teacher bro Shut up both of my choir teachers Miss Hoke and Miss Griffith Griffith. I loved both and Miss Griffith was so funny. She was in my opinion, I'll make sure I put the disclaimer in my opinion. She was more of like a perfectionist. And I get to tell like so. Two funny stories and then we can get out of your butt to relate more to playing by ear she had tried to get us to do that like singing by ear she was singing a note and be like a singer like this if we mess up should go to that piano player. No, but this is how you say Man, this is how you saying that? No, we look at it it's not that this shouldn't should get our face. And then when she conducted. I'm pretty sure I told you if I have to Oh, geez. Of all shades of chocolate. But we had a warm up. It was for annunciation it was Timothy Titus to see Oh, yeah. Two tops two two. Is every good boy. What do you know about it?

(Jada) You want to know that something? That's crazy, though. You doing that enunciation. If you keep the way your mouth is structured when you say Timothy that's how you play in Spanish man like exactly to light and not enunciate words but enunciate specific notes when you when they tell you get stronger you Yeah, so we kind of do the same.

(Anthony) Which is so crazy how music works, but if you guys don't have anything else to share, I'll let y'all if y'all got anything else to

(Shakyra) I just want to ask, Did you almost have to play like other instruments? I heard you was always like stuck to clarinet.

(Jada) I was I was always like the clarinet. I wanted to switch my instrument which funny enough I told you I met my boyfriend he played trombone I wanted to play trombone that I met him and then I played it a little bit but I would went to my Dad Yeah, I can't mess with brass. I tried to it takes air but to play a brass and and to get loud. You gotta like, yeah, not to it's buzzing like you know, busted lips desperate to get their notes out. So I would have to change everything up and then brass people get too high. But hold on. Wait a minute. What do we got to sit down? We have to realize they have to stand up and if they didn't stand up they get in trouble

(Shakyra) I was the only piccolo in my second only one. Yeah, and it was like a lot of brass SCPA Well, no, i Rouge to I was the only people Oh, so I literally had to like get my aunt. Oh, yeah. I was lightheaded after every performance. Honk about it, bro. But the pass out literally like, Oh my God, it was so terrible. But I would never change it for the world

(Jada) Yeah, I wouldn't do anything. That was fun. Yeah. That's what I'm telling you planning to instrument don't take that for granted. Because to be able to still hear you over 15 trombone 10 trumpets to tubers. Like it takes a lot. It takes a lot of London a lot of wind. But you can hear us though.

(Anthony) And that's another great point to mention, too. Like, even when I was were performed varsity choir, I would ask my parents like, could they hear me? And they say yeah, that'd be crazy. Every part is important. Yeah, like especially like a big band or a big choir. And it's like, even it was so crazy. It got to the point especially miss Griffith Griffith with how she teach. Like, if you're if somebody's messing up like I can hear light and especially you never want to hear or like now, like in my life now. It was funny when I think participation was one of the events they had somebody like a choir singing and I said to somebody I'm like I said Like this specific part of the query, I was like, they're like, they're hidden. They're not in the note. Like they're hidden off key. It looked at me like, That's me. I'm like, that will be I'll be like, yeah, not.

(Jada) Are you planning a key? That's not even the song. You hear everything,

(Anthony) when, like I mentioned wouldn't trade it for the world. And hopefully whenever we have the monitoring, I think we're aiming for next week. We don't know how plans work, but if things go as planned, we'll be able to get the perspective of piano and I don't even know if you play any more instruments. We'll save that for next episode, but appreciate you guys for tuning in. Now we're officially on camera shout out each podcast who's made this adjustment and shout out Brad shout out the digital desk shot everybody in the state news Dream Team for rue de Monte as well for helping with the cameras and stuff as well but with everything and with all that being said, this has been all say chocolate where we brought

(Shakyra) the sweetest

(Jada) the hottest

(All three) black culture to MSU

(Jada) and remember, I can see y'all remember to stay sweet, bye