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Good Words with Kirk Franklin

Jill Scott

Good Words with Kirk Franklin

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Music, Religion & Spirituality

4.9946 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Kirk Franklin is joined by Grammy winning singer-songwriter, and actress, Jill Scott for a thoughtful conversation about love, boundaries and cultivating community. Jill talks about her iconic first album, adjusting to fame, motherhood, being a director’s actor, knowing when to walk away, how heartbreak led her to writing, religious curiosity and why prayer is a tool for joy. Good Words With Kirk Franklin is produced by RCAI & Somethin’ Else, and Sony Music Entertainment. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts. To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email [email protected] Text 'Kirk' to 83393 -- or visit Compassion.com/kirkfranklin to sponsor a child through Compassion International Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

I don't make music and say oh this is going to be a hit I hated golden what I hated it I was mad I was mad

0:09.1

When I was in the studio that day and I heard the music and I just started writing it and I wrote it with a heavy hand because I was mad.

0:16.0

It wasn't I'm taking my freedom. It wasn't that it was I'm taking my freedom

0:22.0

It was that I was growling I was pissed

0:29.0

brothers and sisters my name is Kirk Franklin and I come to give you good words.

0:40.0

Let's go.

0:44.7

go.

0:46.7

Ladies and gentlemen I am grinning ear to ear I'm blushing as a black man.

0:53.4

I'm turning red even though I'm a dark-skinned brother

0:57.6

because I've got just, man, I got beauty in the building,

1:01.5

I've got elegance in the building, I've got class in the building I've got

1:03.6

classiness sexiness charm charm wisdom

1:07.6

flavor light and every other type of adjective that you can even pull out right now because this young lady right here is a

1:17.8

yeah she's a platinum artist Grammy women New York Times been poet, she's critically acclaimed, she's an actress,

1:25.0

and she's really got chops.

1:26.0

Like if you've ever seen her do her thing as an actress,

1:29.0

it's like, wait a minute, it's a pess being I'm looking at,

1:31.0

is this, what is, what is happening happening and then she's got a podcast.

1:35.0

I mean if you have not had the pleasure watching her sing live, you're dead.

1:40.0

That's right, that's right, you are deceased, you are gone. I'm talking to you now and you are in the sweet by and by if you have not heard this woman sing live

1:48.8

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our Renaissance woman, brothers and sisters, Jill Scott.

1:57.0

Get anybody ready.

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