Craig Brewer

Not effectively.

But yes.

Yes.

I mean – and the thing about – like I mean to be in a car with my friends being picked up from school and having like Slick Rick and Dougie Fresh come on and just saying like, mom, you got to turn this up.

and to hear the show, to hear what Doug E. Fresh was doing.

And it was so outrageous.

It was just so new and yet somewhat taboo.

I knew people that went to church with me or kids that went to church with me that would have to come over to my house so they could listen to the Fat Boys.

They would come over to my house so they could listen to Prince because their parents wouldn't let them.

It was, it was, but I really have to give credit where credit is due, and that's just...

That's really just Memphis.

I think that Memphis is truly a unique, magical place in American culture, both thematically, historically, geographically.

To live in Memphis and to love Memphis is to recognize that you are a part of black culture.

It is not part of you.

You are in service and you benefit from black culture.

Our greatest white artists and even our greatest white politicians benefited from black culture.

Some of our greatest mayors are benefiting from black culture.

Robert Church, who was the first ever black millionaire who built downtown, he was the son of a black woman and a white steamboat operator during the Civil War and built Memphis from the ground up.

I definitely am not here to say that I am speaking from experience or anything.

I just try to keep an ear open to it and then kind of like a coach just be in service of it.