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美国国家公共电台 NPR Maimouna Youssef AKA Mumu Fresh Is Ready For The Spotlight

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ROBERT GARCIA, HOST:

What's up, everybody. Peace. Just a heads up, there may be some strong language in this episode.

ADRIAN BARTOS, HOST:

Ooh, some bad words (laughter).

MAIMOUNA YOUSSEF: So my mother, she tells the story that she knew I could sing by the way that I cry.

GARCIA: Aw.

YOUSSEF: Yeah, and I'm one of 14. So I feel like she was, like, waiting for one to be able to sing.

GARCIA: Wait. Wait.

BARTOS: You have 13 siblings1?

YOUSSEF: Yeah, I think I'm like number nine maybe.

BARTOS: You think?

YOUSSEF: I think.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

BARTOS: Hey, everyone. This is Stretch Armstrong.

GARCIA: (Singing) And my name is Robert Garcia, aka Bobbito.

BARTOS: Jesus Christ. Say your goddamn name.

GARCIA: Listen; we're about to have a guest that has multiple names as well, so we might as well start...

(LAUGHTER)

GARCIA: ...On the right foot. We got Maimouna Youssef, aka...

BARTOS: Mumu Fresh.

GARCIA: And, wow, what a brilliant soul.

BARTOS: A tremendous woman, she is a MC extraordinaire...

GARCIA: A singer.

BARTOS: ...Incredible singer.

GARCIA: Grammy-nominated backup singer for The Roots on the song "Don't Feel Right."

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "DON'T FEEL RIGHT")

THE ROOTS: (Singing) It don't feel right. It don't feel right. Don't feel it. Don't feel it. Can't feel it no more. It don't feel right. It don't feel right. Don't feel it. Don't feel it. Things don't feel right over here.

BARTOS: A lot of people might be familiar with her for her role as a backup singer and sort of playing the back. But right now she's stepping out front - both as a soloist2 and with her project...

GARCIA: Vintage Babies with DJ Dummy3.

BARTOS: That's right. She has collaborated4 as a backup with Zap Mama, with The Roots, as you just said.

GARCIA: She's toured with Common.

BARTOS: With Common - but right now it's her time to step out upfront into the spotlight5, into the limelight - and, wow, is she going to do it. She has an incredible singing voice, but she can spit with the best of them.

GARCIA: That's right.

BARTOS: Trust.

GARCIA: Real talk. I saw her perform with Common. It was a NPR Tiny Desk performance with the group August Greene. And Common rhymed. Robert Glasper was on piano - three-time Grammy Award winner. Andra Day performed. Brandy performed, you know.

BARTOS: Special (laughter)...

GARCIA: Maimouna comes to the mic and just put it down - shut it down.

BARTOS: She did the destruction.

GARCIA: She did the destruction, yeah, like Big L did in '95.

BARTOS: Amazing.

GARCIA: She's about to really take over the world...

BARTOS: Boom, boom, boom, boom.

GARCIA: ...Not just the world of music, just take over the world. I was blown away by seeing her live. And we hope that the audience will be blown away by this interview about to come up to.

BARTOS: Should we get into it?

GARCIA: Let's do it.

BARTOS: Mumu Fresh, coming right up.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

BARTOS: And we're back here with the very talented singer and MC Maimouna Youssef, also known as Mumu Fresh.

GARCIA: What do you prefer - Mumu Fresh or Maimouna?

YOUSSEF: I mean, if you can say my whole name, then you can call me by it.

GARCIA: AKA.

YOUSSEF: Yeah, yeah.

GARCIA: We're going to give you both...

YOUSSEF: Yeah, OK.

GARCIA: ...Because, you know, I'm Bobbito, AKA Cool Bob Love. Did you know that?

YOUSSEF: I didn't know about the Cool Bob Love.

GARCIA: Oh, man.

YOUSSEF: I'm sorry.

BARTOS: He has a lot of other names.

GARCIA: It's OK.

BARTOS: And I feel a little like I've been deprived. I only have...

(LAUGHTER)

GARCIA: He's nickname deprived.

BARTOS: I only have the name that my parents gave me and Stretch Armstrong.

GARCIA: Which is exciting.

BARTOS: Which is exciting - that meant it wasn't exciting. Can you tell us how you got that nickname?

YOUSSEF: I think my name is hard for people to say, you know. So it kind of started - people would say, what's your nickname? And my mom would always say, no, don't let anyone call you by a nickname. If they break up your name, they break up your purpose. So they have to say your whole name, right? She would never allow anyone to call me my nickname. It's actually Black Thought who gave me the nickname Mumu Fresh. And then, you know, my web designer was like, hey, listen. No one is going to find your URL. You need to go by Mumu Fresh and have the .com be Mumu Fresh. And so then we started that. And the once we did the Tiny Desk, it was like, you know...

BARTOS: It's a throwback name - right? - when fresh...

YOUSSEF: It is, right? It is.

BARTOS: When was fresh still in the common parlance6?

YOUSSEF: It's so true. So Mumu means - as I started touring, and I was using that name, like, it means different things. So like in Nigeria, Mumu means the fool, right?

GARCIA: Oh, get out.

YOUSSEF: So yeah, at first, people were like - when I would, like, talk to promoters, they would say, I don't know if we should promote you as Mumu Fresh because people might think you're the fool. Well, I was like, well, it could be stupid fresh. You know what I mean?

(LAUGHTER)

YOUSSEF: So I just started seeing it as, yeah, I know it means the fool, but I'm stupid fresh. You know what I mean? And that just is my first name long. I have seven middle names and a long last name.

BARTOS: Oh, what are they? What's the full name?

YOUSSEF: (Unintelligible). That's like my full name. So yeah, he was like, yeah, so you're Mumu, OK? I was like, yeah, it's cool. And then I went to Germany, and Mumu means vagina.

(LAUGHTER)

YOUSSEF: Yeah, it's weird7. So I was like, well, at least it's fresh. You know what I mean?

BARTOS: It's the best kind to have.

YOUSSEF: So it's like all these place I would go and just find different names...

GARCIA: Oh, my God.

YOUSSEF: ...Like all the different things it meant.

(LAUGHTER)

GARCIA: We are always happy to see family up here at NPR and Maimouna....

YOUSSEF: Aw, yeah. You say it so nicely (laughter).

GARCIA: Thank you. Like, I saw you perform at NPR Tiny Desk. I was in the crowd. And that put you on the radar8 for a lot of people.

YOUSSEF: Yeah. No, it was a blessing9.

GARCIA: Did some good for you.

YOUSSEF: Oh, for sure. For sure. Definitely opened up a whole new audience. You know, what I love so much about it is that - especially the first one that I did with Common - for it to - it came out on Women's History Month, the first day of Women's History Month.

GARCIA: That was the August Greene...

YOUSSEF: Yeah.

GARCIA: ...With Robert Glasper...

YOUSSEF: Karriem Riggins and Common.

GARCIA: ...Karriem Riggins, Common. Yeah.

YOUSSEF: And Andra Day, she featured and Brandy.

For it to be about something that means so much to me and for so many people to get it - for it to really, really resonate 'cause, you know, sometimes you can say something and people don't get it. They might not get it. Sometimes it's timing11. It's delivery. It could be a myriad12 of different things. And people got it. And not just women got it because - I'm speaking to women, but I'm also speaking to men. The amount of men that reached out to me, like, thank you so much for that. Like, something clicked when I heard your rap verse. And it changed my whole perspective.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

YOUSSEF: (Rapping) Sometimes being a woman is like being black twice. I got to scream fire instead of rape13. But you tell me to act nice. Look pretty. Stay slim. Don't talk loud. Don't think. Don't feel. Don't act proud. But if I'm at my lowest, how you a hundred percent? God made woman and man for the balance of it. So will the real men please stand up and defend what God made, signing off with love. Will the real men...

That was so major. Even more than Instagram following growing or anything like that, the fact that I feel like I was heard. The Tiny Desk was, like, kind of like the epitome14 of that, of being able to convey a really important concept - and through hip-hop and through song, you know?

GARCIA: Yeah. People wonder, how revolutionary is hip-hop in the moments when it's derogatory or it's sexist or, you know, it's expressing misogyny? If people of color are expressing themselves and have a platform, then that's revolutionary. Right?

BARTOS: In itself.

GARCIA: But I do feel like hip-hop has provided a space. And it's good to hear you, as an MC, found that voice. But I think, you know, there's plenty of singers who have put emotion and activism into songwriting as well and performed it.

YOUSSEF: Here and there. I definitely don't think it's encouraged among people of color. Like, if you've ever been signed to a publishing deal or been on a label, like, they're never going to encourage you to write about something besides a relationship, the club. You know, you've got about, like, three topics that you're kind of tied to and confined to. What I was told when I was first getting into the music business is black people don't want to think. Don't start writing about anything deep. They're not going to get it.

BARTOS: Who told you that?

YOUSSEF: They were, like, A&R, yeah.

BARTOS: And on the publishing side or...

YOUSSEF: On the publishing side, yeah, because I was not only writing for myself but I was writing for other artists. And I would write all these songs. It was like, hey, you're not going to be able to sell that to the artist that you're thinking about. And not because they didn't want to think - they weren't allowed to think.

And so then I started realizing that, you know, they would say, well, this is what the market wants. But I'm like - hmm, I feel like you're creating the market, though, when you limit artists and writers...

GARCIA: Sure.

YOUSSEF: ...From being able to really write authentically15 and unadulterated, you know, which is what made me want to be independent, because I was like, I don't like this structure. You all are not allowing the music to progress naturally. This is not a natural evolution. It's not. You know, it was like, you guys are putting all these - you're steering16 it a particular way. And that's not cool, you know?

BARTOS: So earlier, we were talking. It's unanimous. You have just a incredibly soothing17, comforting voice - even when you're not singing.

YOUSSEF: (Laughing).

GARCIA: I want to sing backup for you.

(LAUGHTER)

BARTOS: When you're not singing or spitting, just - I mean, it's like...

YOUSSEF: You got to stop here (laughing).

BARTOS: Your default mode is just - it's just ridiculous.

YOUSSEF: Thank you.

BARTOS: But let's get into your voice.

YOUSSEF: OK.

BARTOS: You know, I think some people have to put a lot of work into the voice. I imagine since your speaking voice is just so ridiculous, you're starting so far ahead of everybody else.

YOUSSEF: Thank you. (Laughing) Oh, my God.

GARCIA: (Laughing).

BARTOS: But the voice that you have when you're singing, is that something that took a lot of work to nurture18? Or did it just sort of - you felt like at a young age it just - you had it?

YOUSSEF: So my mother, she tells the story that she knew I could sing by the way that I cried.

GARCIA: Aw.

YOUSSEF: Yeah. And I'm one of 14, so I feel like she was, like, waiting for one to be able to sing.

BARTOS: You have 13 siblings?

(LAUGHTER)

YOUSSEF: Yeah, I think I'm, like, No. 9 maybe? Or...

GARCIA: You think?

YOUSSEF: I think. I don't know.

BARTOS: That's a lot.

YOUSSEF: It's a lot of us.

BARTOS: Wow.

YOUSSEF: Yeah. But of course, it's so funny. Like, my dad was like, yeah, right. She's not going to be able to sing. And she was like, no, I can tell she can sing. And even now, maybe, like, five years ago, my dad came to me and was like, you know, you can actually really sing.

(LAUGHTER)

GARCIA: Well, what was it about your crying chords that...

YOUSSEF: (Laughter) I don't know.

GARCIA: ...Revealed to her...

YOUSSEF: She said my crying was melodic19 and she knew that I would be able to sing. So she started - my mother is a singer, too. She was actually Tommy Mottola's - so she was Tommy Mottola's first artist.

BARTOS: What?

YOUSSEF: And she was...

GARCIA: What's her name?

YOUSSEF: Her name is Nataska.

BARTOS: You're just dropping so many things that we got to figure out how to address.

GARCIA: (Laughing) So wait, what's her name?

YOUSSEF: Nataska.

GARCIA: (Singing) Tommy Mottola lives on...

YOUSSEF: (Singing) Lives on the road. He lost his lady two months ago. Maybe he'll find her. Maybe he won't. Oh, wonder that love. La, la, la, la, la...

GARCIA: (Singing) She sleeps in the back...

(LAUGHTER)

YOUSSEF: Yeah.

GARCIA: Yeah.

YOUSSEF: But anyway, she left the music business. She totally made a whole life change and converted to Islam. And she started only doing, like, straight-ahead jazz and, like, Afrobeat and like on some Letta Mbulu, Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela vibe, you know. And so my grandmother, she was a choir20 director - right? - in Chicago, contralto voice. And my mother grew up singing in her church. But by the time I was born, they had all converted to Islam. So like, technically21, I wasn't supposed to, like, learn to sing gospel. But when I would go to my grandmother's house in the summertime, she would still teach me gospel.

(LAUGHTER)

YOUSSEF: And I would learn all these, like, escape songs, slave songs. And the other thing is that my grandmother is Native American. She's Choctaw. My grandad's Creek22. But it was illegal to practice our culture until, like, I think, '76. So the Freedom of Religion Act (ph) was passed for Native people after the Longest Walk. They had to go back and relearn the language and the culture and the songs because it was illegal before. And you couldn't even speak the language or do any ceremonies - any sweat lodge23, vision quests, sun dance.

And so by the time I was born, they were going back and relearning those songs. So along with the gospel songs and the jazz and even the African songs my mom was learning from, you know, being on the road with these Afro bands, I would learn traditional Lakota and Choctaw and Tuscarora, Meherrin - all the traditional songs. And I would dance in a powwow; I learned the traditional beadwork - like, everything that we went back and relearned from, like, you know, the Indian boarding schools. Native children were sent there to - basically, it was a program called "Kill The Indian, Save The Man" to basically wipe any kind of, like, Native memory of your Native culture and force you to assimilate into regular culture.

That became another part of my cultural influence growing up, learning to sing those songs. At home, music was something we'd do - like, if people asked my mother to, like, teach them to sing, she's going to make you cook and clean. That's, like, a part of the lesson. Right? She'll be like, all right, shuck this corn and pick these greens, you know? And then she'll just sing as she's doing it. (Singing) I love the Lord. She'll say, come on; sing what you feel. (Singing) Oh, he heard my cry. And she'd be boiling the water. Sweep the floor now. And you know, like, that's how she...

(LAUGHTER)

YOUSSEF: That's what it was like. And you'd just do chores, and you'd cook, and you'd sing. And it's - I feel like I live such an alternate - in an alternate universe. Like, people ask me - I grew up in Baltimore, but I'll say, I grew up in my mother's house because I'm sure my experience was very different from my next-door neighbors because I was home-schooled up until high school. And I was really kind of incubated in her reality.

And I actually got into hip-hop because (laughter) - so my brother had this rule. Right? He really - he liked me. But I think it was, like, me being a girl was, like, my, you know, innate24 flaw. And it was like, how can I accept her being a girl, you know? And so he had this rule that girls couldn't come outside in the summertime unless they could rap. So like, you couldn't pass the steps to get outside. So I would just come outside and start trying to freestyle, just start trying to battle him. And he's such a good battle rapper. He's so - I mean, he can just think of the most just degrading things to say to you in the dopest ways, you know?

(LAUGHTER)

YOUSSEF: My self-esteem would just be crushed every day. And I'd just go back in like, damn. And I'd come back out again the next day. And I'm trying to rap again. And I'm trying to, you know, put words together. So he kind of started taking to me like, all right, you know, maybe I might be able to forgive her for being a girl. So he started saying, well, listen to the Wu-Tang Clan25. So he would play the Wu-Tang Clan tapes and say memorize all of their aliases26 and write down their raps.

So I just started just writing, (rapping) I bomb atomically Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses - have a hell of a time defining me.

So I'm still a little - like, 10 or so. I don't know what year that was - maybe 10 or 11. And so I'm, like, writing down all of these raps. And I don't even think my mom knew I was, like, you know, listening to Wu-Tang - quite definitely not child-appropriate. So this is like...

GARCIA: Ooh.

BARTOS: This is great.

YOUSSEF: So then that was, like, my orientation27 to hip-hop. It's like I really held onto the things that I could get my hands on and almost, I feel like, Manifest Destiny because all of those artists - you know, Black Star, who I used to sit and write their rap lyrics28 and just wonder, how could I one day be so - you know, as good as them? - I've worked with every last one of them.

GARCIA: Word.

YOUSSEF: Like, you know what I mean? I've toured with them. Like, they're the homies now.

BARTOS: Yeah.

YOUSSEF: That's still insane to me. Like, I feel like that child manifested that destiny.

BARTOS: So you alluded29 earlier to your Native American heritage. Your whole family history is just, I think, incredibly rich and fascinating. And...

YOUSSEF: It's a lot. Very interesting (laughter).

BARTOS: (Laughter) Yeah.

YOUSSEF: In more ways than you know.

(LAUGHTER)

BARTOS: Well, we're going to try to get to some of those right now.

(LAUGHTER)

BARTOS: Yeah. So if you could just maybe let the listeners know what your family tree is like.

YOUSSEF: My grandmother, she's Choctaw. And my granddad is Creek and African-American. And my dad's side is African-American. But the crazy part is we just recently did, like, an africanancestry.com. And his ancestry30 actually comes from, like, Israel, Persia, Iraq - that area. But I don't know enough about it to even claim that. So as far as I'm concerned, he's a black man.

(LAUGHTER)

YOUSSEF: I know. When I told him that, he was like, oh. He was like, well, tell that to the police. Or like...

(LAUGHTER)

YOUSSEF: ...Maybe I can get some credit now, get a loan. But - so yeah, that's kind of my background. I definitely grew up in the culture - in Native culture - practicing ceremony, dancing in a powwow, learning the traditional beadwork. And then I also grew up in West Baltimore. So...

BARTOS: So what was that like, sort of, you know, having one foot in each of those worlds? How did you balance that, if it...

YOUSSEF: I don't know. It just was normal to me.

BARTOS: It was? Yeah.

YOUSSEF: It wasn't until I was around other people who told me it wasn't normal that I was like, is that weird? Am I weird?

(LAUGHTER)

YOUSSEF: It just was - you know, we would be on the block one day. And then the next day, we're like, you know, in the woods praying for the full moon and (laughter) doing sweat lodge ceremony. I mean, my first time sweating, I was 7. The first time to go on a vision quest, I was about 7 to 8.

GARCIA: What is a vision quest?

YOUSSEF: I mean, it's the same thing that Moses did, all the great prophets did. But in the Lakota tradition, you go out on a mountain for four days and four nights without food and water. And your supporters - they eat for you or pour food and water into the fire. And you stay there and wait for a vision. So you prepare for a year for it. And you have prayer ties around you with tobacco. And you're asking God to give you a vision and a purpose for your life's mission and journey. So when my mom went on her quest, I was about 7 or 8. So I came there as a supporter for her to sweat in the lodge. So basically, in a lodge - I guess it's, like, similar in the Western world to, like, a sauna. But it's, like, a hundred times hotter. And you - but it's built like a womb. So you're crawling back into the womb to rebirth yourself.

But that was normal for me. We would all - we would sweat. That was a part of, like, growing up. My son - he's sweated. You know, like, he became 7, and he sweated as his rites31 of passage. And it was even to the point that, like, some of my brother's homies would be like, what y'all doing in the woods? Like, why y'all be doing that? He's like, well, you know, come through. So then we'd have all the dudes from the hood32. They'd come down south out to the land, and they started sweating and learning the tradition.

BARTOS: (Laughter) That was my next question.

GARCIA: Why you sweating me?

YOUSSEF: Yeah, they would start - they would learn how...

BARTOS: Don't sweat the technique.

YOUSSEF: It's true. They learned how to fire-keep. And it was deep because, you know, you'll see them on the block. And they might be talking crazy and being super reckless. But when they come on the land to do ceremony, they're totally different. They don't use profanity. They don't smoke no cigarettes, no nothing. It was - I mean, it was so transformative. Like, I really believe that the boys that were around my brother at that time - like, my mom introduced them into - like, that ceremony really saved their lives and changed their lives. By the time you get out, you're covered in mud. Like, you have submitted. You're in full submission33. And no ego34 can exist there.

BARTOS: Can we talk about your grandmother?

YOUSSEF: Yeah, sure.

BARTOS: Grandma Mountain Eagle Woman.

YOUSSEF: Aw, you got my grandma name over there?

(LAUGHTER)

YOUSSEF: Yes.

BARTOS: We looked at a photograph of her online. And even through looking at a computer screen...

YOUSSEF: Yeah.

BARTOS: ...I mean, her face...

YOUSSEF: Oh, yeah.

BARTOS: ...Is quite powerful.

YOUSSEF: She is.

BARTOS: And I'm sure she was...

YOUSSEF: She still is.

BARTOS: ...Yeah - quite an influence on you. I'm just curious. What did she teach you? What was the influence she had on you?

YOUSSEF: I think the biggest thing that she reminded me of, to not need other people's validation35, in particular because I don't look like her, you know? And I - my hair doesn't look like hers. And so being younger and being in the powwows and in certain settings, there was a lot of scrutiny36 about - are you really Indian or not? - to the point that I was like, Grandma, look, I don't want to be Indian. It's too much work. I'm cool - black people like me. I'm cool with being black.

(LAUGHTER)

YOUSSEF: Let me just be black because being Indian's too much work for a nickel. And...

(LAUGHTER)

GARCIA: You've got to sweat. You've got to...

YOUSSEF: Yeah, I was like - not even that - it was...

BARTOS: Covered in mud.

(LAUGHTER)

YOUSSEF: No, it wasn't the ceremony. I love the ceremony. It was proving to other people who would say - well, how come you're not lighter37? And how come - you know...

GARCIA: Got you.

YOUSSEF: ...And having to go over the whole history with them, like - well, all Native Americans don't look like that. So I would say to her, like, Grandma, you know, they're making fun of me or they're giving me a hard time. They want to check my Indian card all the time. And I don't want to - just forget it. I just won't do this no more. I just - she was like, you don't let them decide what your destiny is. Like, you are who you are whether they acknowledge it, whether they understand it, whether they validate38 it or not.

I've had to think back on that lesson - not even having anything to do with being mixed but just being in environments where people, they couldn't see me. They don't know what to do with me. You know, when I would get into the music industry later, they had no idea what to do with me, you know?

So there are times when things might be easier for me if I go along and get along and just don't say anything. But it's not going to be easier for the girl coming behind me if I don't say something right here and now, if I don't say, no, we're not going to do it that way. You know? So...

GARCIA: I mean, that's definitely manifesting in your lyrics.

YOUSSEF: Yeah.

GARCIA: It's manifesting in your independent career - clearly uncompromised...

YOUSSEF: Yeah.

GARCIA: ...You know, clearly controlling your creativity. But along the lines of your grandmother and your mother, you're a mother yourself.

YOUSSEF: I am.

GARCIA: You have a child. And you know, I imagine you have made some very tough decisions. What are the struggles there, raising a child and being an independent artist? And I saw all the tour dates.

YOUSSEF: Yeah.

GARCIA: (Laughing) You know, so...

YOUSSEF: I wish...

GARCIA: ...Is your kid coming out on the road with you?

YOUSSEF: He does. He does travel on the road with me.

GARCIA: Word.

YOUSSEF: This is - oh, it's funny. This is the first year that (laughter) - his father actually asked me this year if he could come live with him. And that's so hard for me 'cause I'm talking about, my son has been...

GARCIA: How old is he?

YOUSSEF: He's 12 now.

GARCIA: OK.

YOUSSEF: My son has been on the road with me since the very beginning. Like, I recorded a whole album nursing him, you know what I mean? Like, he's been a part of everything. Like, he...

GARCIA: Do you know Erykah Badu?

YOUSSEF: I do, yeah.

GARCIA: Yeah, 'cause she does...

YOUSSEF: Yeah, yeah.

GARCIA: She talks about that, too.

(LAUGHTER)

YOUSSEF: Yeah. I mean, like, he sells my merch. Like, when we go to shows - like, this is also kind of how I ended up, like, home-schooling. That's his class. So he takes care of all the merchandising. He does...

GARCIA: At 12 years old?

YOUSSEF: Yeah. I mean, he's been doing that since he was, like, 7 or something.

GARCIA: Wow.

YOUSSEF: So he traveled over - we stayed out in London for a little while. You know, the first summer we went over there, they took my merch - right? - took my CDs - right? - told me I ain't pay taxes on them.

(LAUGHTER)

YOUSSEF: So I said, look, Pop (ph), this what we're going to do. We're going to buy merch over there. And we're going to have it delivered to a friend's house in London. So this is how much I'm going to pay for it. This is how much I can sell it for. This is the conversion39 rate. We are going to have to pay taxes at this particular venue40. This is how much that costs. And I would make him do everything. He has to do the whole spreadsheet for our loss and our profits. And then he gives himself 10 percent of whatever the profit is.

My son...

GARCIA: Does he try to negotiate with that 10...

YOUSSEF: He does. He does. Yeah, he definitely is saying that it's too much work and he needs 15 percent. And I was like...

(LAUGHTER)

YOUSSEF: I said, but Son, you have to deduct41 the rent, all your clothes, the food that you eat. You know what I'm saying? And then he wanted to hire an employee. But then...

(LAUGHTER)

YOUSSEF: ...He didn't want to pay the employee from his cut. He wanted me to pay the employee. And I said, that's your employee. How am I paying your employee? So he - and I'm telling you, this is what - my son is an amazing person and a brilliant mind because he's had this kind of experience.

GARCIA: Sure, sure.

YOUSSEF: So I try to make every day school because I'm like, bro, if I got to drive you all day long - like, in a car all day long, I need you to read these contracts for me. So it's interesting because people who live in traditional settings, they may feel like him moving around and touring - they'll say, he needs to have a stable environment. He should go to the same place every day, the same time, do the same thing. And I'm like, but says who, though? Can your kid read contracts? I'm just saying.

But you know - like, it is a challenge. It's tough. It's never easy having - because there's been plenty of times, so many times I've had to turn down work or turn down big opportunities if there's nowhere for him to go or if he's sick. I'm not going to say it's not hard. It's almost always hard. But I don't even recognize when things are hard anymore because I'm just so used to (laughing) dealing42 with hard stuff. I just - you know, we throw it on our back, and we - let's go. Let's keep it moving. Like, (laughter) - y'all ready? Let's do this, get up this mountain.

BARTOS: I want to talk about a song...

YOUSSEF: OK.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

YOUSSEF: (Singing) If I should die tomorrow at the hands of a policeman....

BARTOS: ..."Say My Name," which is a tribute you wrote to Sandra Bland43.

YOUSSEF: Yeah.

BARTOS: And I'd love to hear, in your words, who Sandra was and what she meant to you.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

YOUSSEF: (Singing) And the papers say, we're going to call it a suicide. Would you even question why?

I think her story hit me really hard because she was a woman. And as I watched the video of her on YouTube - of her being drug out of her car and beat on the side of the road - and then I scrolled44 down to listen to some of the comments, I just kept seeing people write - I mean, you know, she was too mouthy. That's the problem with black women. Y'all always talk too much. And you know, that's what happens when you talk too much.

And there was so little empathy, as if death is the punishment for being mouthy. And in general, I feel like women of color get a really bad reputation for speaking out against things. And it hit me because it could have been me. It could have been my sister or my mom. And I couldn't get through my day without writing it, you know. And I had started putting down, jotting45 down, little pieces of it.

And we did the first part in a doo-wop because, you know, in the '60s, people poured out a little liquor to this person who passed. And it was this homage46. You know, they were paying homage and libation to that ancestor. And then we went to the hip-hop part because, you know, that's my heart. And so - there's certain things I can only say rapping and certain things I can only say singing, you know? So I'm like, I got to do both of them so you get what I'm saying. But the part that hit me so much, when I said, (rapping) we watched a woman get drug out and beaten, filmed in the highway and all y'all could say was black women too mouthy. I'm vexed47 searching my timeline, seeing people find time to criticize and villainize and calling it a suicide. But what if Sandra Bland was your child?

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

YOUSSEF: (Rapping) I know the struggle, it get hard. But we ain't backing out. Nothing is impossible. The word alone says I'm possible, so I'm the racehorse that I'm riding for. Audacity48 of hope...

Her mom called me after that - 3 o'clock in the morning. Like, wake up. Is this Mumu Fresh? I need to talk to you. She and I on the phone in tears, and it was just so heavy. I was like, OK. I'm supposed to be doing this. I'm supposed to be - like, her story was supposed to be told in that way. I mean, when we performed that song on NPR, like, everybody was in tears. I'm in tears. They're in tears. It was definitely like, you know, a spiritual experience we had together there, you know? So I'm grateful for that.

GARCIA: All right, we're going to go to a quick break. We'll be right back.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

YOUSSEF: (Singing) Say my name. Say my name.

Corey Fonville on drums, Romeir Mendez on bass49.

(Vocalizing).

(SOUNDBITE OF BOBBITO GARCIA'S "ROCK RUBBER 45S")

BARTOS: Well, you know what that means. Bob?

GARCIA: Yes.

BARTOS: Mumu?

YOUSSEF: Yes.

GARCIA: Wait, she's - is she...?

YOUSSEF: What?

BARTOS: What?

GARCIA: She's Mumu for us?

YOUSSEF: (Laughter).

BARTOS: Yeah. She said whatever you want.

YOUSSEF: Yeah, that's fine.

GARCIA: Well, I'm going to call her Maimouna.

YOUSSEF: (Laughter).

BARTOS: Good for you.

GARCIA: Yeah.

BARTOS: You can do whatever you want.

GARCIA: OK.

BARTOS: I mean, you know, if she's all right with that.

GARCIA: Yeah.

BARTOS: I'm just saying.

YOUSSEF: It's fine.

GARCIA: OK. So back to you, Stretch.

(SOUNDBITE OF BOBBITO GARCIA'S "ROCK RUBBER 45S")

BARTOS: It's time for the Impression Session.

GARCIA: (Laughter) Woo-wee (ph). And in this segment, we're going to each play you a track...

YOUSSEF: OK.

GARCIA: You react. And it's simple as that.

YOUSSEF: I like that. That rhymes (laughter).

BARTOS: All right. I'm going to go first, as I usually do (laughter).

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LONESOME LOVER FEAT10. ABBEY LINCOLN")

MAX ROACH: (Singing) So long I've been needing your love - hear me pleading. Love, my heart is bleeding. Take me back where I belong. I know folks are saying from you I've been straying.

YOUSSEF: (Vocalizing).

That bassline is killer50.

(Vocalizing).

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LONESOME LOVER FEAT. ABBEY LINCOLN")

ROACH: (Singing) But still I keep praying. Take me back where I belong. Oh, lonesome me. Why can't you see? Let bygones be. Take me back where I belong.

YOUSSEF: That's dope. Who is that?

BARTOS: (Laughing).

YOUSSEF: Oh, you can't tell me?

BARTOS: No, no, I can tell - of course. That's...

YOUSSEF: I like it.

BARTOS: That is a song on a - well, it's by Max Roach. But the singer is Abbey Lincoln. Max Roach, the drummer.

YOUSSEF: Oh, Abbey Lincoln. Oh, wow. OK.

GARCIA: Who only recently found out about - I don't know - like, I've known the name Abbey Lincoln for a long time.

(LAUGHTER)

GARCIA: Abbey Linkin (ph).

YOUSSEF: Yeah.

BARTOS: You know, Abbey Linkin?

YOUSSEF: So - I've seen her in concert. She's really, really good in concert.

GARCIA: She's bananas.

YOUSSEF: Yeah, she's amazing. That was beautiful.

GARCIA: What was the name of the song?

BARTOS: "Lonesome Lover."

YOUSSEF: (Vocalizing).

BARTOS: Now I picked that song because - oh, and you were singing along. I'm just going to - I'm going to be quiet right now.

YOUSSEF: No, no, no. Go on (laughing).

BARTOS: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You started it (laughing).

YOUSSEF: That was beautiful. I love that bassline. It's - that time period - I like music from that time period.

BARTOS: Yeah, it's really evocative. I mean, it sounds almost like a musical.

YOUSSEF: It does, yeah.

BARTOS: Like, you can see a chorus of men standing51 on a stage. I love that song. Even though it's a song about - it's a love song. It's about - I mean, she's expressing a desire to be - I think - to be forgiven for something she may have done. And she wants to be taken back. But it sounds to me more like a spiritual...

YOUSSEF: It does have that - yeah.

BARTOS: ...The refrain, take me back where I belong. The reason why I wanted to play it for you is because your music so effortlessly sort of incorporates your heritage...

YOUSSEF: Yeah.

BARTOS: ...And your roots, if you will. And it just...

YOUSSEF: My DJ always says that. He says, Mu, you always sound like you're singing a Negro spiritual all the time.

(LAUGHTER)

GARCIA: You talking about DJ Dummy?

YOUSSEF: Ay, Dummy always says (laughter).

BARTOS: That's my man.

YOUSSEF: Yeah, we actually did a song on "The Vintage Babies" album, "I Got A Feeling," that was for that purpose, like that kind of call and response.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "I GOT A FEELING")

YOUSSEF: (Singing) Yeah, yeah, yeah. Higher. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Take it higher. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like a - we call them ring shouts - you know? - when people will be in the - (singing) yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. You what I mean? And it's this whole, like - it's like a sermon. But you know, you preaching, talking about something. Yeah, I know what you talking about. (Vocalizing). Uh-Huh. Me, too, you know. And it becomes this whole, like, this dance and this communal52, like, communication or whatever through music. Like, I enjoy those. Like - and it's fun to do with the audience, too. It takes them back to a particular, you know, time in history, even if we didn't live through it.

GARCIA: I'm going to play you a song.

YOUSSEF: OK.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ELEVATOR (GOING UP) FEAT. MONIQUE BINGHAM")

LOUIE VEGA: ...Ever falls. Look what you've done. She'll never fall again. She won't. He should come with a disclaimer. They met on an elevator. And who could blame her? He was going down as she was going up. Excuse me, please. Going up. Please hold the door.

YOUSSEF: It's like house, soul, jazz. Even the way the vocals53 are stacked, it's almost like bossa nova, the way it's not harmony necessarily always, like the unison54 octave.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ELEVATOR (GOING UP) FEAT. MONIQUE BINGHAM")

VEGA: (Singing) So they went down. Going down.

YOUSSEF: Aw, that's beautiful. OK. Who is that?

GARCIA: So that's - Louie Vega is the artist.

BARTOS: Louie.

GARCIA: It's featuring Monique Bingham, who is a legend of house music. And unfortunately, she's not, like, a household name and has carved out an independent path, similar to you. You know, for years, for years, for years, for years, she used to sing with a group called Abstract Truth...

YOUSSEF: OK.

GARCIA: ...in the late '90s. And the title of this song is "Elevator (Going Up)."

YOUSSEF: (Laughter) OK.

GARCIA: The reason why I played that for you - not that it's a Baltimore house record. But - you know, I'm just looking at like you grew up in Philly - I think hip-hop. You grew up in D.C. - I think go-go music. I think of the go-go clubs, you know. And then I think of Baltimore...

YOUSSEF: Baltimore is definitely house. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's definitely house.

GARCIA: (Laughter) It's like y'all throw down on some house music hard.

YOUSSEF: Yes, for sure.

GARCIA: Like, hard. So what's your experiences with house music?

YOUSSEF: You know, I really haven't done a whole lot. I was actually talking to Dummy and talking to Terry Hunter (ph) about wanting to work on some house music this year. I think because we started a jazz hip-hop band. And for - honestly, like, when we were younger, we were against dance music, period - like, no dancing.

BARTOS: (Laughter).

GARCIA: What do you mean?

YOUSSEF: I think that we thought that, you know, like if you're going to drop science, you can't dance.

GARCIA: Oh, that's because - that's the era of mid-'90s, when hip-hop was at odds55 with, like...

YOUSSEF: Right. So that's what we grew up under.

GARCIA: Yeah.

YOUSSEF: So we kind of held that mentality56, like no dancing. It was hard for me because I really like to dance. But I'd be like, no dancing.

(LAUGHTER)

YOUSSEF: I was like oh. And like, my shoulder would get to going. Like, girl, stop that shoulder. My cousin would be like, yo, stop. I'd be like, you right - no dancing.

GARCIA: But you know, hip-hop, at its core, is...

YOUSSEF: Is dance music.

GARCIA: It's pure - yeah.

YOUSSEF: It's really ridiculous. I don't even know what we were thinking. I mean, so many thoughts that you have when you're coming up - like, I always laugh about it when I see pictures from - I performed at "Dave Chappelle's Block Party." In all of the pictures, I look really, really sad because, in my mind, that's how adults looked. And I wanted to look older.

(LAUGHTER)

YOUSSEF: So I would just look like I'm crying and just, like, dying every day 'cause I'm like, adults look sad. So...

(LAUGHTER)

YOUSSEF: Those are great choices, though. And y'all put me on to some stuff, too.

GARCIA: Cool. Maimouna, thank you so much...

YOUSSEF: Absolutely. Thank you. Aw, I'm so - thank you.

GARCIA: ...For being our guest on WHAT'S GOOD WITH STRETCH AND BOBBITO. Word.

BARTOS: Thanks a lot.

GARCIA: Peace.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

BARTOS: That is our show. This podcast was produced by Michelle Lanz, edited by Jordana Hochman and N'Jeri Eaton, and our executive producer is Abby O'Neill. Original music was provided by composer Eli Escobar, as well as our own Bobbito Garcia.

GARCIA: If you liked the show, you can find more at npr.org or wherever you get your podcasts, including bonus video content on Spotify on Fridays. While you're at it, please go to Apple Podcasts and rate, review and subscribe57. That's how we know you're out there listening.

BARTOS: Or you can follow us on Twitter, @stretchandbob, or Instagram, @stretchandbobbito.

GARCIA: Kaboom.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)


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1 siblings 709961e45d6808c7c9131573b3a8874b     
n.兄弟,姐妹( sibling的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • A triplet sleeps amongst its two siblings. 一个三胞胎睡在其两个同胞之间。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She has no way of tracking the donor or her half-siblings down. 她没办法找到那个捐精者或她的兄弟姐妹。 来自时文部分
2 soloist EirzTE     
n.独奏者,独唱者
参考例句:
  • The soloist brought the house down with encore for his impressive voice.这位独唱家以他那感人的歌声博得全场喝彩。
  • The soloist had never performed in London before.那位独唱者过去从未在伦敦演出过。
3 dummy Jrgx7     
n.假的东西;(哄婴儿的)橡皮奶头
参考例句:
  • The police suspect that the device is not a real bomb but a dummy.警方怀疑那个装置不是真炸弹,只是一个假货。
  • The boys played soldier with dummy swords made of wood.男孩们用木头做的假木剑玩打仗游戏。
4 collaborated c49a4f9c170cb7c268fccb474f5f0d4f     
合作( collaborate的过去式和过去分词 ); 勾结叛国
参考例句:
  • We have collaborated on many projects over the years. 这些年来我们合作搞了许多项目。
  • We have collaborated closely with the university on this project. 我们与大学在这个专案上紧密合作。
5 spotlight 6hBzmk     
n.公众注意的中心,聚光灯,探照灯,视听,注意,醒目
参考例句:
  • This week the spotlight is on the world of fashion.本周引人瞩目的是时装界。
  • The spotlight followed her round the stage.聚光灯的光圈随着她在舞台上转。
6 parlance VAbyp     
n.说法;语调
参考例句:
  • The term "meta directory" came into industry parlance two years ago.两年前,商业界开始用“元目录”这个术语。
  • The phrase is common diplomatic parlance for spying.这种说法是指代间谍行为的常用外交辞令。
7 weird bghw8     
adj.古怪的,离奇的;怪诞的,神秘而可怕的
参考例句:
  • From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来,他好像有点怪。
  • His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。
8 radar kTUxx     
n.雷达,无线电探测器
参考例句:
  • They are following the flight of an aircraft by radar.他们正在用雷达追踪一架飞机的飞行。
  • Enemy ships were detected on the radar.敌舰的影像已显现在雷达上。
9 blessing UxDztJ     
n.祈神赐福;祷告;祝福,祝愿
参考例句:
  • The blessing was said in Hebrew.祷告用了希伯来语。
  • A double blessing has descended upon the house.双喜临门。
10 feat 5kzxp     
n.功绩;武艺,技艺;adj.灵巧的,漂亮的,合适的
参考例句:
  • Man's first landing on the moon was a feat of great daring.人类首次登月是一个勇敢的壮举。
  • He received a medal for his heroic feat.他因其英雄业绩而获得一枚勋章。
11 timing rgUzGC     
n.时间安排,时间选择
参考例句:
  • The timing of the meeting is not convenient.会议的时间安排不合适。
  • The timing of our statement is very opportune.我们发表声明选择的时机很恰当。
12 myriad M67zU     
adj.无数的;n.无数,极大数量
参考例句:
  • They offered no solution for all our myriad problems.对于我们数不清的问题他们束手无策。
  • I had three weeks to make a myriad of arrangements.我花了三个星期做大量准备工作。
13 rape PAQzh     
n.抢夺,掠夺,强奸;vt.掠夺,抢夺,强奸
参考例句:
  • The rape of the countryside had a profound ravage on them.对乡村的掠夺给他们造成严重创伤。
  • He was brought to court and charged with rape.他被带到法庭并被指控犯有强奸罪。
14 epitome smyyW     
n.典型,梗概
参考例句:
  • He is the epitome of goodness.他是善良的典范。
  • This handbook is a neat epitome of everyday hygiene.这本手册概括了日常卫生的要点。
15 authentically MOyyR     
ad.sincerely真诚地
参考例句:
  • Gina: And we should give him something 2 authentically Taiwanese. 吉娜:而且我们应该送他有纯正台湾味的东西。
  • A loser is one who fails to correspond authentically. 失败者则指那些未能做到诚实可靠的人。
16 steering 3hRzbi     
n.操舵装置
参考例句:
  • He beat his hands on the steering wheel in frustration. 他沮丧地用手打了几下方向盘。
  • Steering according to the wind, he also framed his words more amicably. 他真会看风使舵,口吻也马上变得温和了。
17 soothing soothing     
adj.慰藉的;使人宽心的;镇静的
参考例句:
  • Put on some nice soothing music.播放一些柔和舒缓的音乐。
  • His casual, relaxed manner was very soothing.他随意而放松的举动让人很快便平静下来。
18 nurture K5sz3     
n.养育,照顾,教育;滋养,营养品;vt.养育,给与营养物,教养,扶持
参考例句:
  • The tree grows well in his nurture.在他的培育下这棵树长得很好。
  • The two sisters had received very different nurture.这俩个姊妹接受过极不同的教育。
19 melodic WorzFW     
adj.有旋律的,调子美妙的
参考例句:
  • His voice had a rich melodic quality.他的音色浑厚而优美。
  • He spoke with a soft husky voice in a melodic accent.他微微沙哑的声音带着一种悠扬的口音。
20 choir sX0z5     
n.唱诗班,唱诗班的席位,合唱团,舞蹈团;v.合唱
参考例句:
  • The choir sang the words out with great vigor.合唱团以极大的热情唱出了歌词。
  • The church choir is singing tonight.今晚教堂歌唱队要唱诗。
21 technically wqYwV     
adv.专门地,技术上地
参考例句:
  • Technically it is the most advanced equipment ever.从技术上说,这是最先进的设备。
  • The tomato is technically a fruit,although it is eaten as a vegetable.严格地说,西红柿是一种水果,尽管它是当作蔬菜吃的。
22 creek 3orzL     
n.小溪,小河,小湾
参考例句:
  • He sprang through the creek.他跳过小河。
  • People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek.人们在露出小溪的岩石上裸体晒日光浴。
23 lodge q8nzj     
v.临时住宿,寄宿,寄存,容纳;n.传达室,小旅馆
参考例句:
  • Is there anywhere that I can lodge in the village tonight?村里有我今晚过夜的地方吗?
  • I shall lodge at the inn for two nights.我要在这家小店住两个晚上。
24 innate xbxzC     
adj.天生的,固有的,天赋的
参考例句:
  • You obviously have an innate talent for music.你显然有天生的音乐才能。
  • Correct ideas are not innate in the mind.人的正确思想不是自己头脑中固有的。
25 clan Dq5zi     
n.氏族,部落,宗族,家族,宗派
参考例句:
  • She ranks as my junior in the clan.她的辈分比我小。
  • The Chinese Christians,therefore,practically excommunicate themselves from their own clan.所以,中国的基督徒简直是被逐出了自己的家族了。
26 aliases 9299da2529c98fccce0e32b476ba3266     
n.别名,化名( alias的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • Can you allow the user to enter aliases for the longer entries? 可以允许用户为过长的文字选择别名吗? 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
  • The criminal has several aliases. 该罪犯有数个化名。 来自辞典例句
27 orientation IJ4xo     
n.方向,目标;熟悉,适应,情况介绍
参考例句:
  • Children need some orientation when they go to school.小孩子上学时需要适应。
  • The traveller found his orientation with the aid of a good map.旅行者借助一幅好地图得知自己的方向。
28 lyrics ko5zoz     
n.歌词
参考例句:
  • music and lyrics by Rodgers and Hart 由罗杰斯和哈特作词作曲
  • The book contains lyrics and guitar tablatures for over 100 songs. 这本书有100多首歌的歌词和吉他奏法谱。
29 alluded 69f7a8b0f2e374aaf5d0965af46948e7     
提及,暗指( allude的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • In your remarks you alluded to a certain sinister design. 在你的谈话中,你提到了某个阴谋。
  • She also alluded to her rival's past marital troubles. 她还影射了对手过去的婚姻问题。
30 ancestry BNvzf     
n.祖先,家世
参考例句:
  • Their ancestry settled the land in 1856.他们的祖辈1856年在这块土地上定居下来。
  • He is an American of French ancestry.他是法国血统的美国人。
31 rites 5026f3cfef698ee535d713fec44bcf27     
仪式,典礼( rite的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • to administer the last rites to sb 给某人举行临终圣事
  • He is interested in mystic rites and ceremonies. 他对神秘的仪式感兴趣。
32 hood ddwzJ     
n.头巾,兜帽,覆盖;v.罩上,以头巾覆盖
参考例句:
  • She is wearing a red cloak with a hood.她穿着一件红色带兜帽的披风。
  • The car hood was dented in.汽车的发动机罩已凹了进去。
33 submission lUVzr     
n.服从,投降;温顺,谦虚;提出
参考例句:
  • The defeated general showed his submission by giving up his sword.战败将军缴剑表示投降。
  • No enemy can frighten us into submission.任何敌人的恐吓都不能使我们屈服。
34 ego 7jtzw     
n.自我,自己,自尊
参考例句:
  • He is absolute ego in all thing.在所有的事情上他都绝对自我。
  • She has been on an ego trip since she sang on television.她上电视台唱过歌之后就一直自吹自擂。
35 validation a617908b172c473cb8e8cda059e55bf0     
n.确认
参考例句:
  • If the countdown timer ever hits zero, do your validation processing. 处理这种情况的方法是在输入的同时使用递减计时器,每次击键重新计时。如果递减计时器变为零,就开始验证。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
  • Although the validation control is a very widespread idiom, most such controls can be improved. 虽然确认控件是非常广泛的习惯用法,但还有很多有待改进的地方。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
36 scrutiny ZDgz6     
n.详细检查,仔细观察
参考例句:
  • His work looks all right,but it will not bear scrutiny.他的工作似乎很好,但是经不起仔细检查。
  • Few wives in their forties can weather such a scrutiny.很少年过四十的妻子经得起这么仔细的观察。
37 lighter 5pPzPR     
n.打火机,点火器;驳船;v.用驳船运送;light的比较级
参考例句:
  • The portrait was touched up so as to make it lighter.这张画经过润色,色调明朗了一些。
  • The lighter works off the car battery.引燃器利用汽车蓄电池打火。
38 validate Jiewm     
vt.(法律)使有效,使生效
参考例句:
  • You need an official signature to validate the order.你要有正式的签字,这张汇票才能生效。
  • In order to validate the agreement,both parties sign it.为使协议有效,双方在上面签了字。
39 conversion UZPyI     
n.转化,转换,转变
参考例句:
  • He underwent quite a conversion.他彻底变了。
  • Waste conversion is a part of the production process.废物处理是生产过程的一个组成部分。
40 venue ALkzr     
n.犯罪地点,审判地,管辖地,发生地点,集合地点
参考例句:
  • The hall provided a venue for weddings and other functions.大厅给婚礼和其他社会活动提供了场所。
  • The chosen venue caused great controversy among the people.人们就审判地点的问题产生了极大的争议。
41 deduct pxfx7     
vt.扣除,减去
参考例句:
  • You can deduct the twenty - five cents out of my allowance.你可在我的零用钱里扣去二角五分钱。
  • On condition of your signing this contract,I will deduct a percentage.如果你在这份合同上签字,我就会给你减免一个百分比。
42 dealing NvjzWP     
n.经商方法,待人态度
参考例句:
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
43 bland dW1zi     
adj.淡而无味的,温和的,无刺激性的
参考例句:
  • He eats bland food because of his stomach trouble.他因胃病而吃清淡的食物。
  • This soup is too bland for me.这汤我喝起来偏淡。
44 scrolled 313315b0796120af40f9657f89e85dc9     
adj.具有涡卷装饰的v.(电脑屏幕上)从上到下移动(资料等),卷页( scroll的过去式和过去分词 );(似卷轴般)卷起;(像展开卷轴般地)将文字显示于屏幕
参考例句:
  • Wherever the drop target can possibly be scrolled offscreen, the program needs to auto-scroll. 无论拖放的目标对象是否在屏幕之外,程序都需要自动滚动。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
  • If It'still is then you've not scrolled up enough lines. 如果还在说明你向上滚动的行数不够。 来自互联网
45 jotting 7d3705384e72d411ab2c0155b5810b56     
n.简短的笔记,略记v.匆忙记下( jot的现在分词 );草草记下,匆匆记下
参考例句:
  • All the time I was talking he was jotting down. 每次我在讲话时,他就会记录下来。 来自互联网
  • The student considers jotting down the number of the businessman's American Express card. 这论理学生打算快迅速地记录下来下这位商贾的美国运通卡的金额。 来自互联网
46 homage eQZzK     
n.尊敬,敬意,崇敬
参考例句:
  • We pay homage to the genius of Shakespeare.我们对莎士比亚的天才表示敬仰。
  • The soldiers swore to pay their homage to the Queen.士兵们宣誓效忠于女王陛下。
47 vexed fd1a5654154eed3c0a0820ab54fb90a7     
adj.争论不休的;(指问题等)棘手的;争论不休的问题;烦恼的v.使烦恼( vex的过去式和过去分词 );使苦恼;使生气;详细讨论
参考例句:
  • The conference spent days discussing the vexed question of border controls. 会议花了几天的时间讨论边境关卡这个难题。
  • He was vexed at his failure. 他因失败而懊恼。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
48 audacity LepyV     
n.大胆,卤莽,无礼
参考例句:
  • He had the audacity to ask for an increase in salary.他竟然厚着脸皮要求增加薪水。
  • He had the audacity to pick pockets in broad daylight.他竟敢在光天化日之下掏包。
49 bass APUyY     
n.男低音(歌手);低音乐器;低音大提琴
参考例句:
  • He answered my question in a surprisingly deep bass.他用一种低得出奇的声音回答我的问题。
  • The bass was to give a concert in the park.那位男低音歌唱家将在公园中举行音乐会。
50 killer rpLziK     
n.杀人者,杀人犯,杀手,屠杀者
参考例句:
  • Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
  • The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。
51 standing 2hCzgo     
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
参考例句:
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
52 communal VbcyU     
adj.公有的,公共的,公社的,公社制的
参考例句:
  • There was a communal toilet on the landing for the four flats.在楼梯平台上有一处公共卫生间供4套公寓使用。
  • The toilets and other communal facilities were in a shocking state.厕所及其他公共设施的状况极其糟糕。
53 vocals fe5262cfb22a0b2ee8d36fbf8b3f4942     
(乐曲中的)歌唱部份,声乐部份( vocal的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • Also look out for soaring vocals on The Right Man. 另外,也可留意一下《意中人》中的那高亢的唱腔。
  • Lazy bass line, lazier drums, lush violins, great piano and incomparable vocals. 懒惰的低音线,较懒惰的鼓,饮小提琴,棒的钢琴和无比的声音。
54 unison gKCzB     
n.步调一致,行动一致
参考例句:
  • The governments acted in unison to combat terrorism.这些国家的政府一致行动对付恐怖主义。
  • My feelings are in unison with yours.我的感情与你的感情是一致的。
55 odds n5czT     
n.让步,机率,可能性,比率;胜败优劣之别
参考例句:
  • The odds are 5 to 1 that she will win.她获胜的机会是五比一。
  • Do you know the odds of winning the lottery once?你知道赢得一次彩票的几率多大吗?
56 mentality PoIzHP     
n.心理,思想,脑力
参考例句:
  • He has many years'experience of the criminal mentality.他研究犯罪心理有多年经验。
  • Running a business requires a very different mentality from being a salaried employee.经营企业所要求具备的心态和上班族的心态截然不同。
57 subscribe 6Hozu     
vi.(to)订阅,订购;同意;vt.捐助,赞助
参考例句:
  • I heartily subscribe to that sentiment.我十分赞同那个观点。
  • The magazine is trying to get more readers to subscribe.该杂志正大力发展新订户。
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