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Guaranteed Human. Every day I wake up. The Breakfast Club. We're all finished or y'all done? Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Just hilarious. Sholomey and the Guy. We are the breakfast club. We got a special guest in the building. Her album is out right now. Tasha. we have Tasha Cobbs Leonard. Welcome. What's up? Good morning. Good morning. You look beautiful. Thank you. How are you feeling? Cold. Yes, it's freezing outside, but it's all right. It's freezing in here. Yeah, y'all are right? Bless Black and How the favorite. New album, Tasha, out right now. When people name their albums, like their name, usually it's very personal.

So I know that that's what this is.

Yes. I remember Karen Clark Sheard a few years ago, she did an album called Finally Karen.

And I always wonder, why did she name this album,

Finally Karen? And when I got to this album, I completely understood that she was in a place

where she was just settled with herself. Like, this is who I am. This is what I have to offer. And

that's what this album is about for me. It is a testimony, so many testimonies bottled up in a bunch of

songs from, you know, from miscarriages to grief to celebrations and blended families. I mean,

everything is in there. How did the gospel, I'm sorry, how did the gospel community feel when you put,

when you put yourself as the focus?

It's, you know what? It's, it's more so about the testimony that God has been faithful

through those, through those seasons. And I feel like it has been accepted much better because a lot

of times we can hide behind like this fog of everything is holy, holy, holy, holy. You never go through anything. And I think people can relate more when you tell the truth about your story, that there are some seasons where I was sitting down like, God, what are you doing? You know, and people can relate to that. But at the end of the day, even when we went into the writing sessions, my main thing was we're going to always offer hope that we tell our truth. At the end of the day, God is still faithful and he's

been good. And it has been received so well by so many people.

And you talk about all these things that you've been going through. You never scared to put

that much personal information out, especially because people always say church folks are the

most judgy. Yeah. You never had any like ah maybe not you know what doubt should not judge but boy

my goodness you know what i i um uh last year i released a book called do it anyway and that was probably

one of the most transparent things i've ever had to do is like memoirs.

So I went back into my life and my story.

And I realized that sometimes we can put these songs out and people think you just

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