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It's time for today's Strawberry Letter.

And the subject is hip-hop and jazzy.

Hip-hop and jazzy.

We'll get into that.

Find out what that's all about in just a few.

But right now it is the nephew and the prank phone call for today.

Nephew, what's on the menu?

What you got for us?

Well, yesterday,

yesterday, college early was my boy Keith Sweat's birthday.

Oh, that's my boy. Sweat. Sweat. Sweat. Have you belated. Keith with an elf. Keith. Keith. Keith, what a L. Keith's sweat birthday yesterday. So I got to drop y'all down one of the classics here. And the name of the prank is Keith Sweat. That's what it's called.

It's called Keith Sweat.

Cat dog. Let's sweat it up. Let's go. Hello. I'm trying to reach Mani. Is this Mani? No, this ain't Mani, man. This is Sweat. Who's this, man? Hey, this, Rahim, man. Wow, this sweat. Okay. Hey, Mr. Keith, we got people down here.

You're supposed to be here at that B.

The B.C.R. Store. man, wow, this is what, okay, hey, Mr. Keith, we got, we got people down here.

You're supposed to be here at the Bres store, man, right here in Harlem, and we got people

wrapped around the building.

You're supposed to be here signing these CDs, man, but there's been over an hour of these people

been standing in waiting on y'all.

Yo, man, I don't know nothing about no record store, and number two, I don't know nothing about doing no signing, man. Who set this up, man? I mean, the name I was given was Manny. Who was Manny? Manny's my role manager, but he don't set things up, man. He's a road manager. He's not my manager. He just handed my stuff on the road. But I was never told I was supposed to be nowhere to do anything, man. I mean, normally when somebody tells me, me and them have an understanding that I book what I'm supposed to do. So I don't know nothing about this, my brother. Okay, well, you know, we got to get this taken care of. We got people wrapped around the bill and we got a table here laid out. We got pins and everything for you to sign these CDs, man.

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