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Should so and so win?

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YEAH!

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Should so and so win?

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YEAH!

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And if they like you, they says,

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the winner Ken Harvey, yeah!!!

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Welcome to Harlem USA,

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and welcome to the world
famous Apollo Theater.

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The Apollo crowd is mean,

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they\'re very mean,

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it\'s just like a bunch of uh,

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pitbulls eating raw meat,

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but you know what

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I love it and you know
why I love the Apollo?

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Because the Apollo is honest.

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That crowd

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is one of the roughest crowds.

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If they don\'t like you
they will let you know

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and sometimes not in a nice way.

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They\'re gonna bring it to you,

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you know, but you gotta bring it to them.

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It\'s real rough,

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it\'s very rough

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cause people get crushed
when they get booed.

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Back in 1985

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I got booed.

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It was just like,

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someone peeling the skin off your arm.

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I was just so hurt.

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Gosh, am I prepared? I
don\'t plan on being booed,

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but if it happens, it happens.

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I\'m not afraid of the Apollo audience,

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it just gives me more strength to grow.

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One thing in life you
have to be a daredevil.

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The Apollo Theater is just
like a whole bunch of fire,

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you got Evel Knievel on a bike right?

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Getting ready to jump through the fire.

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That\'s how I visioned the Apollo Theater

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just like a whole bunch
of fire going Whoosh!

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Whisking at me, whisking
and about to burn me.

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I\'m going to be that Evel Knievel,

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I\'m going to jump hurdles
right over those people.

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If it wasn\'t for places like
the Apollo we wouldn\'t have

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big icons like James Brown.

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James Brown was actually boo\'d

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by the audience when he
first did amateur night.

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Before there was American Idol,

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before there was Star Search,

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even before there was Ted Mac\'s

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Original Amateur Hour

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on black and white tv,

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there was Amateur Night at the Apollo.

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I heard this story Luther
Vandross was booed maybe like

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four or five times,

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at the Apollo, but look where he is now.

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Lauryn Hill the same way, she was booed

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but it didn\'t stop her from performing.

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All the performers I looked up to,

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came from the Apollo Theater.

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Billie Holiday was an
amateur night contestant.

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The Motown review

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Fat Joe

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Mike Jackson was the best

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Beyonce,

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Jay-Z

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Aretha Franklin,

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Smokey Robinson

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Ella Fitzgerald was the very first female

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to win the amateur night show
in the history of the Apollo

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Cisqo

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the Supremes

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Ashanti

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And the list goes on and on
of people who performed here,

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blacks, white, asian, Indian,

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every culture has been expressed here.

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I was like hey, if these guys can do it,

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I can do it.

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My father, he said \"Son go
get some singing lessons\",

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I was insulted.

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I was like what is he talking about

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I don\'t need no singing lessons.

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I...investigate what he said,

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and I was like, you know what,

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let me just do what pop says to do,

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and it worked.

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As a struggling artist,

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you think that sometimes things
are not going to be complicated.

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But things will be complicated

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at first.

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I grew up in the South Bronx

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Housing Projects.

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Unfortunately a lot of those
opportunities weren\'t

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there when I grew up.

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And that\'s when I decided to audition for

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the High School Music of Performing Arts

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where I went to the Fame school

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and was a vocal major there.

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I\'ll practice singing

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before I go to work.

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And I take the 4 train
to Grand Central Station

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and go off to the Traffic Audit Bureau

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where I\'m an administrative assistant.

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It\'s interesting, cause you
see people like you know,

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this is where their hopes
and dreams are, and

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it can either make you or break you.

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If you\'re in New York,

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if you can make it there
you can make it anywhere,

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I think that\'s what the Apollo represents.

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It\'s the place

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for any performer.

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You can plant your seeds at the Apollo

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and then you can grow into
a happy healthy tree,

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a performing tree,

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you have to believe in yourself.

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On the day of the audition,

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when I arrived at the Apollo Theater,

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there was a long line
going around the corner.

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You find a lot of people on the line,

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expressing their fears

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about getting up in front of the
judges of the Apollo Theater.

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Just relax, relax, just relax.

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They only taking 300 contestants.

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If you come after

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one o\'clock you might
miss out on the count.

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But when we got inside.

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Everyone wants to get picked.

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Everyone wants to be a star.

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It\'s very intimidating to
know that someone is there

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judging and you don\'t know
whether you are good or not.

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You are desperate to know
your results, your fate.

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You\'re going to say your
name and your number

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and then go ahead and
start your performance,

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okay? They\'ll let you know
when you are to stop.

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You\'re going to sing up to
or perform up to 90 seconds.

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You don\'t have time to wind it up.

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Get it to where you\'re going, okay?

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Wooh, I was uh, I had a lot
of butterflies in my stomach,

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because I just wanted
to make sure like, ok,

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this, it\'s real,

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we\'re really doing this now.

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No playtime.

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I\'m ready. I feel like
I\'m ready to do this.

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I really feel like I\'m
ready to, to go in there

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and make my own history now.

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But of course you\'re, you\'re nervous.

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In order to do this job,

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you have to be able to see

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what a person can be,

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not exactly what is presented to you.

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If you are extremely confident
and have belief in yourself,

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then I believe you, and I
need you to convince me

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that you are good enough
to be on the Apollo stage.

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Is that the only gospel song that you sing?

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No ma\'am.

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Can I hear something else?

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(singing) I\'ve had some good days.

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I\'ve had some hills to climb.

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I\'ve had some weary days.

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Yeah! Some sleepless nights.

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Thank you, thank you very much.

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You need to sign, if you are underage,

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we need one person that will be with

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that person that\'s underage.

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Everyone else-supporters, fans,

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wanna-be fans,

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can go inside the theater
and have a seat and wait.

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Thank you.

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At the audition, the judges, they
are looking for originality,

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bravery. You keep it simple.

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You hold a steady note, and if
you can\'t hold a steady note,

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they\'ll let you know, don\'t
call us, we\'ll call you.

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You can\'t get no better than this.

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That\'s what I\'m talking about.

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No he doesn\'t, it\'s his first
time and I\'ve never seen him.

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And he got conviction.

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Oh yes, that\'s entertainment.

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That\'s the thing though.

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He would never, he wouldn\'t
get to this point.

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Are you kidding?

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He\'s still in it.

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You putting him on?

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I know a star when I see one, and

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it makes me feel good to know
that I saw that potential.

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He should go with the dancing.

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Ok, sir, have a seat to my right.

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Yeah!

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So I feel bad knowing that I\'m
not going to pick some of them,

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because, in my opinion they\'re not ready,

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doesn\'t mean that they\'ll never be ready,

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it just means that the day that
they chose to audition on,

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they weren\'t ready.

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So I know that they always
think that I\'m the mean lady.

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Yea she was like, alright,
come on over here,

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I was like, yes! Yeah! Yeah!

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I said thank you thank you I said
it\'s all for the ladies, ladies, yes,

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you know I was just, spazzing out.

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I was just spazzing out.

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I would like to reach the
womens in the audience

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more than anything.

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Anything that can inspire,
womans to come to me,

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cause when I think about that
song I think about roses.

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I think about pretty flowers.

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That\'s how much love I
got for women, period.

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If it was not for women,

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I would not be singing, I\'d quit tomorrow,

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you understand me, I\'d quit tomorrow.

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No pain, no gain.

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You go to a gym, and

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you half-step your workout,

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then you don\'t get built.

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But if you feel the pain,

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then you get paid.

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That is exactly what the Apollo is like,

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it\'s a hard workout but it\'s ok,

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everybody go through those phases.

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I would like to say to my mother
how I love her very much.

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And, I would like to have more friends,

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you know, I don\'t have very much friends.

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I\'m a loner, you know I stay to myself.

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I don\'t friend too many people, I\'m,

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I\'m like a singled out guy.

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I believe in just

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singing

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and being to myself,

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and hoping that one day I get discovered.

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I can get somewhere that I can

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help my family,

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my mother

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who I love so dearly.

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For me being on stage

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is like an out of body experience.

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I\'m aware, I\'m present,

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I know I\'m there,

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but something comes over me,

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I just love being on stage
and I love performing.

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I know the world is waiting
to see Velvet Ross.

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Come on, help a sister out.

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Give me some of that Dreamgirls\' stuff,

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come on, give me some of
that Dreamgirls\' stuff.

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In the name of Jesus, amen.

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Amen. Okay, thank you sister.

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Alright, I\'ll be back to get ya\'ll, okay?

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Don\'t practice too much.

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Now, setting it off for the amateur
contestants, ladies and gentlemen,

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we have a male vocalist coming to the stage

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Please welcome Mr. Ken Harvey.

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Clap with me y\'all, Ken Harvey.

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You\'re my everything,

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the sun that shines above you

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make the bluebirds sing.

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The star that twinkles way up in the sky

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tells me I,

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I\'m in love.

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When I kiss your lips,

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I feel the rolling thunder
to my finger tips.

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And all the while

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my head is in a spin

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with those lips.

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You\'re my everything...

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I can\'t believe he wore all
that white to do that.

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Clap it up for him, he tried though.

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Can\'t come to the Apollo
start anything off with,

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la la la la la,

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better bring it, these
people mean it out here.

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Start making noise, let\'s give
it up, let\'s go, c\'mon let\'s go,

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let\'s go, ladies and gentlemen give it up

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for Velvet Ross! Clap it up y\'all.
Velvet Ross!

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Do your thing baby.

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C\'mon y\'all, you know this,
it\'s an oldie but goodie.

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Wooh! It\'s been such a long, long time.

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Wish I could get you off of my mind.

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But I can\'t,

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just a part of you, my love,

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turns my whole world misty blue.

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I, oh, baby,

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I should forget you.

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C\'mon y\'all.

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My whole world,

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turns misty blue.

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My

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Whole world turns

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misty blue.

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Thank you Apollo!

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C\'mon y\'all, give it to
her, give it to her.

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Give it to her.

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It\'s time for the judging.

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Now this part of the show, you do not boo.

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What we want you to do is
if you want them to win,

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scream your lungs out, make
as much noise as possible.

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Gentlemen, we\'ll go for first place first.

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First place, scream your lungs out.

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Will first place to go?

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Or will it be Velvet Ross?

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First place goes to Velvet Ross!

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Where\'s my mom and my dad I\'m
just waiting for them to come,

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hey brother, thank you, thank you so much.

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Congratulations.

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Oh gosh.

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I know! Yea!

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Hi! How are you? Congratulations!

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I thought you said you were first?

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I thought I was first.

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Did you see your daddy\'s
jumping up and down?

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Yes I did daddy I did!

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Thank you for coming.

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This place can either
make you or break you,

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no no no, it can make you

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and that\'s what it done tonight, made me.

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Because I know I done something
right, and I met this

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beautiful young lady by the name
of Nadja, this lady right here.

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Alright see you later baby, aright, aright.

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I\'ll call you.

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Aright do that.

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It\'s been a real pleasure.

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One day, there will be a door open

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and I will walk right through that door,

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ha ha ha.

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Just like, the Jefferson\'s
theme song, I\'m movin\' on up

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to that deluxe apartment in the sky,

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that\'s how I feel, I\'m movin\' on up.

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I am hoping that I can eventually fulfill

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my dreams, my destiny

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to becoming a big pop icon,

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to be a artist.

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But I want the people to
know who Ken Harvey is.

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Mother says, you know what

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you never forget where you came from

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and with the Apollo theatre, that\'s home,

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because all the legendary
singers came from there

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and I believe one day I will
become an Apollo legend.