Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: It is my brother, Fred Hammond. How are you?
[00:00:04] Speaker B: Good, good, sis. How you feeling?
[00:00:07] Speaker A: I'm feeling good.
You sent me this song last week ahead of the big concert at the Fox Theater on Friday night. And it is an ode to Detroit. Tell me about it.
[00:00:20] Speaker B: Absolutely. Since we call it the Detroit Legends Tour with the Clark Sisters, Cl. Carmen Winans, Dietrich Haddon, Byron Cage, Lisa Page Brooks, Keith Stayton, and the honorary Detroiter, Marvin Sapp, we're. You know, we just wanted to get together to show people this is the music that came out of one of the greatest cities in the world.
[00:00:42] Speaker A: Absolutely.
[00:00:42] Speaker B: You know, they used to always ask us back in the day, what is in the water up there. Y' all got the Clark sisters, you got Vanessa Bell, I'm Thomas Whip. What are y' all doing in Detroit?
And they said, oh, man, we just. It's just. It's just a place we live. So we went to, you know, and the great thing about it is 90% of us. 90% of us went to Mumford.
[00:01:07] Speaker A: What happened with that?
[00:01:08] Speaker B: Man, I don't know, but it was just a beautiful. And we were in this corner called the Amen corner. All the church people in the city that went to Mumford, we hung on the second floor. And in the west, the south west corner, and that was just where the church people hung at. You know, we just did it. And, you know, the sports athletes hung down the street and this, that and other.
But that's. That was us. So in doing this tour, we couldn't do it without telling people what we're famous for.
[00:01:38] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:01:39] Speaker B: And the first thing we do, if I see somebody in Australia or in Japan or we see somebody in Africa with that English D on, we just look at each other and say, what up, Doe?
[00:01:50] Speaker A: What up, Doe?
[00:01:51] Speaker B: That's it. And everybody know that's what's going on. And other people, honestly, comedians, and everybody be like, yo, we going to Detroit. What up, Doe? Because that's what we known for. So I'm like, I gotta write something. I gotta do something to let people know what the deal is.
[00:02:07] Speaker A: Well, let's listen right now. It's what Up, Doe? With Fred Hammond.
[00:02:11] Speaker B: All right, everybody, this is Uncle Fred. And I'm in the building about to give you the code to how we talk in the D.
Say, oh, Brett Hammond.
[00:02:21] Speaker A: What up, Doe?
Absolutely love this. I love it. I love it.
And this is an ode to Detroit. Of course. You will be in town Friday night for the Detroit Gospel Legends Tour. And I just need everybody to get their tickets, like, right now, while we're talking.
[00:02:43] Speaker B: Right, right. You know, we want to. We want to have a great show, and we want to have a great time that night. I want people to be proud of this city. We're not talking about legends, us being legends. We're talking about music that have come out of Detroit is legendary.
[00:02:57] Speaker A: Absolutely.
[00:02:58] Speaker B: You know, and that's what we want to celebrate, you know, so I'm having a few of my friends come with me, and we're just gonna have a great time.
There's only one real requirement. After you get into your seat, do you some vocal warmups, whatever they are, and get ready to sing with us, because we don't want you just to watch us. We want you to sing with us. All your favorites. Stand up, sing loud. Sing in any key you want to sing in. Go ahead and sing. And that really goes for the brothers, because the ladies usually can sing.
[00:03:27] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:03:28] Speaker B: But the brothers just sing. I don't care what key you inhale.
[00:03:33] Speaker A: That's gonna be so much fun. Because if you true blue, you are going to know every word that you all gonna sing.
[00:03:39] Speaker B: That's right. That's right. But with that in mind, we have amazing time.
[00:03:43] Speaker A: Yes, absolutely. Well, you also have a big project right now. I've been seeing some of the trailers. I actually featured it on our website, detroitpraise network.com.
it's called Hood Book. Tell me about it.
[00:03:58] Speaker B: You know, my family and I have a foundation called Fred Hammond Adoption Awareness Organization. It's to bring awareness to the adoption crisis that's in the world, that most of the kids that are in the foster care system black and most are male, and there people kind of forget it. You know, we talk about the kids overseas and we talk about people doing this. That another. But who's going to take care of the kids in America and bring to their notice that they need a home, that they deserve a family because it's just this week. And so my job was, you know, I did this movie, but it's really about a foster kid who's aging out of the system. His mother and father were killed when he was four. He's seen every damnable thing in foster care systems and people's homes. That's possible. But the Lord kept him and preserved him, but he don't. He ain't cool on God no more. He's like, why can't I have a family? God don't love me, so why should I love him? Oh. And he's really in despair, but he ends up at a woman's house who at the last minute took him in and she gave him a room. And he's a brilliant kid. He loves fashion, he's a designer, he likes old school music. And he. He opens up this book, but ain't no words on the page. So he puts on these. Oculus.
[00:05:17] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:05:17] Speaker B: And AI Scat, AI scavenged scans his whole life within three seconds. And then God takes him and puts him into a portal outside the Garden of Eden where he explains to him the love of God. How he can understand this is not rewriting the Bible. This is just what's going on in this person's head to how to connect to show the love of God. So he sees marriages the way they should be and not the way he witnessed them. He sees men who are black men who stand up for what they do with their wives and appreciate their wives the way he should be and not what he saw. He saw the love of God teach family in the garden. But then he sees the real truth of who God is and how men fail and how God made a plan for him after it's over. So he now is introduced to God in the way that he can understand it. Hood, just straight hood, not all that King James and stuff like that. You know, no bow big bouts and thoughts and it's just straight up talk the way he can understand it. And a lot of people will be able to relate.
[00:06:22] Speaker A: Oh my goodness, that sounds so cool. So when will we be able to see it in its entirety?
[00:06:28] Speaker B: Actually right now I'm doing a pre showing on my Patreon plate to page $15. People can watch it for the whole month plus all behind the scenes. And I'm doing this early because it's getting ready to go to to be and to different platforms in a month or two. But it's going to be cut down. But this, they can see the whole version and it's getting ready to go out. This is all so that I can take it out in 2026. If Wicked can go out and the Lion King can go out and the Wiz can go out, I believe that this kingdom cultural event can actually take the kingdom out. So it'll come to the Fox, it'll come to New York, it'll come to every Chicago and it'll be live on stage. And it's better on stage than it is on this film. And it's dope on this film.
[00:07:16] Speaker A: Oh my goodness. This is so exciting to me and I'm so glad that we had the opportunity to talk about it. So we can start spreading the news right now about it. And then I'm so excited that here at home on Friday night, everybody get your tickets. Ticketmaster.com it is the Detroit Gospel Legend Tour and Fred Hammond. You know I love you. We go way back. Way back. Rival high schools, though, but you know.
[00:07:44] Speaker B: Which school did you go to again?
[00:07:45] Speaker A: I went to Redford. It's a Myers now.
[00:07:47] Speaker B: Redford. Redford.
Would you back there with Fred Brockington and all of those guys?
[00:07:53] Speaker A: Absolutely. And. And tune up, man.
[00:07:56] Speaker B: Yeah. Yep, yep, yep. My cousin Edward Watson was the quarterback during that.
[00:08:00] Speaker A: Absolutely.
[00:08:01] Speaker B: Yeah. We was definitely rivals. I had love for Rep and Doe.
[00:08:04] Speaker A: Well, thank you so much. I will see you on Friday.
[00:08:07] Speaker B: See ya. Love you, Detroit. What up, Doe.
