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Hold up. Every day I wake up. The Breakfast Club. You're all finished or y'all's done. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Just hilarious. Salomey and the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Launlerosa's here. And we got a special guest in the building. The legend. The icon has returned. to bless us with her presence once again.

Ladies and gentlemen, Jill Scott is back.

Welcome. How you feeling? Thank you. Thank you. How do you feel, Ms. Jill? Excited. Mm-hmm. Excited. First album in a decade. Ten years. That's what I hear. To whom it may concern. Yes, sir. By the way, I love the way you release music because it feels like you release music when you feel like you want to.

When the spirit moves you.

How do you know when it's the right time to release music?

Because I have too much.

And then it lets me relax.

When it's not finished, I keep tweaking, touching, touching, tweaking, finding new flavors,

seasonings, musicians, producers.

And when it's done, it leaves me alone.

And then I can just listen.

And I have so much that I could just listen to.

I knew I was done.

I was like, okay.

Now I can create. So people would assume that you stopped recording for a little bit and then you just started recording recently but you've been

recording this whole time I mean it doesn't stop it's gonna show up I mean what are you

gonna do I do record but I don't I just go when I feel like it. Or for no intention, just because I have to get it out. Other than that, you know, it's not like I'm thinking about an album until it's done. Are you like a comedian? Like, you know, comedians always say they got to stop and live a little life before they get back on the stage. Are you like that? Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, I got to make dinner. I got to go grocery shopping. I got to see my mom. I got to have her put me in my place a little bit, you know, raise my kid, do stuff. Absolutely. Other than that, what are we talking about? I saw you talking about when you took the time off and how intentional you are with just being a mom in that

time that you took off and then explaining to your son about like why you got to get back

to work and teaching him that how has it been now that you're back out on the road and you're

doing all these things and getting back into the swing of things well he's 16 now and i didn't have

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