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In Class with Carr

S E474: Wellness Wednesday: Iyanla Vanzant Speaks on DMX and "Fix My Life"

In Class with Carr

Knarrative

Society & Culture, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Empowerment, Education

4.9972 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Iyanla Vanzant talks about the time she spent with Earl Simmons (#DMX​) and honors his passing with Karen, Lamont King

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0:00.0

This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. She just dropped this article, this piece where she's telling women that they should close their legs and open their hearts and their minds.

0:21.0

And I think that, you know, I want us to have a conversation about it and she's also out here

0:26.5

fixing people's lives this is the last season of IANLA fixed my life last season let me welcome

0:37.0

the one and only the great I yon le Van Zat welcome. Hey! How are you my love? I am I am I am awesome we thank you first of all honored to have you. We kicked off the show of course giving

0:48.3

Some some love to DMX who has passed into becoming an ancestor.

0:53.2

And before we get into your story, I remember you actually had him on fixed, you know,

0:59.2

it was one of the most memorable actually fixed my life and it went left quickly as you were trying to you know

1:07.3

get his son his family healed. Any thoughts about that you you know, upon hearing about his death?

1:15.0

He's free. He is, you know, the end of this physical existence and experience takes us into a whole

1:26.1

another experience and the thing that I've always said about him is that he was

1:31.6

anointed but he was never consecrated. I mean this is a young a man who

1:36.7

grew up you know in the streets from the age of seven eight nine never really had a father. His mother wasn't really in his life, the soft

1:47.0

spot in his life was his grandmother. And I remember, you know, I was with him for three days,

1:52.0

you all saw 90 minutes. I remember those soft spots where he talked about his grandmother.

1:58.0

And the thing that I said to him, why isn't her love enough to sustain you and part of it

2:04.8

Karen is because he comes from a time in an age when our young men were paid to

2:10.9

be dysfunctional. I mean everybody knew that the whole culture of that

2:16.0

hip-hop environment with the drugs and the sex and the guns I mean that's how we lost

2:20.3

Big E to-P, so many others.

2:23.4

That's the culture he came from.

2:25.4

So he was paid to remain in his dysfunction.

2:29.1

But he's free now.

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