 I'm Frankie Greek for UpBrags. I'm here today with multi Grammy award-winning and most recently Emmy award-winning Producer and pianist Robert Glasberg. Yes. Hello. Hello. Thank you for being with us today. No problem So we are here today in capital records. We're in the studio right now. Yes, hang it out You've been here all day. Yes And we have a couple things we want to talk to you about most importantly this coming Monday You're holding an event here in Los Angeles Help Houston heal. Yes. Tell us a little bit about what that is. So I'm from Houston, Texas I've had some family members who have lost houses and cars and all that kind of stuff and Some friends family members friends of friends who have like actually passed away, you know in the middle of all that stuff So it's definitely a time of need there. And so Me and some of my friends from Houston decide to come together and make it do a benefit to raise money So we can give people there some relief and myself Latoya Luckett and My best friend Brian Michael Cox We're all doing this together. We all went to the same high school Yeah, so we decided to do something here in LA Because a lot of people are here a lot of people don't want to fly to Houston right now You know me people trying to do benefits in Houston, but it's like people aren't trying to really fly there and Figure things out and Houston is not really it's not rebuilt yet. So it's not really just ready for you know Have a bunch of shows. So given how extensive your discography is What are you planning on performing on Monday? And will you be collaborating with any of those artists you just mentioned? Yeah, I'm gonna go it's some of it's literally gonna be up in the air because people are just saying hey We're gonna come through you know something well like I have a studio session, but I'm gonna come through I'm flying in that day for something, but I'm gonna come through It's gonna be up in the air whoever comes through it's kind of how my shows are in general like when I do shows People just walk follow through so aside from the concert. You are a very busy guy. You've had a very busy year We teased it a little bit earlier, but you recently won an Emmy with common Yes, the letter song to the free which was in a very nice Netflix documentary. Yes. Yes So why do you think that that song in particular resonated so much? Because of the times that we're going through now I mean the song talks about you know the Trump administration And what's what's going on with that and just talks about racism in America? The film itself talks about the 13th is is in reference to the 13th amendment, which is basically the It's modern-day slavery, you know I mean it's basically a way to make people slaves without them being slaves You know you put them in jail Therefore there was an amendment you put them in jail Therefore, you know you can treat them like slaves and make money off a big profit off it So the more people you have in jail then you know the cheaper labor is and you know big corporations Become a part of that and now you don't want the jails to be empty you want people in them You know what I mean? So we're just that just is that and there's a lot of things so I think I think that the way we with with Ava's film and You know the lyrics that come in a row for that song is you know It's just really speaks to everyone. How did you react when you heard the news about winning the Emmy? It's funny I was in Europe. I was in Okay, well, I think I was in Germany or something and I was just about to walk on stage from my show and Ava Text me like congratulations. You know they for Emmy and I didn't even know we were in the runnings for it Or any you know, I didn't know anything. I was like for what? What are you talking about? What you know and she told me for let's do the free moves. I was like, oh my gosh That was just the nomination itself. It's like, oh man, this is great You know me so I was I was happy just to be nominated and to know I'm gonna go to the Emmys It's cool, you know, I mean, but you know when they called when they called my name called me in common And Kareem's name. I was like, oh my god It's really happened, you know and it's great when you win something like that on that kind of platform For this for what we're talking about for what we believe in You know, it gives it a bigger platform, you know what I mean? And it's great. You can win something So so prestigious by telling the truth with something. That's real that we all feel Feel passionate about so that's the best kind of award you can get As far as the current administration goes, I mean, I feel like it's it's it's more of the same other than, you know Barack and Probably Clinton, you know a little bit in there, but other than that for the history of America It's been pretty much the same. It's just now there's Twitter, you know what I mean? And now there's Instagram, so it's just more obvious Trump is just being more obvious about it Even with the killing of black people by police and all that stuff that's been around, you know Now we just can say hi see it's really happening and everybody can see it now Racism is at a point where it's in your face and you can see it and there are still people who still fight the fact that and We don't don't want to believe that it's here, you know what I mean? But now we can say look it's here came up on my Instagram post You know what I mean? We can like prove it now, you know what I mean? So that's where we are in America right now I think so I want to bring it back to Monday Help you some heel 8 p.m. At the troubadour What message do you feel like people who are attending the event? Like what's what's the goal for them to take away about Houston about music about Basically, we're all human you're human first what you know musician is what we do Whatever you do for a living is what you do. But the first thing is you're a person, you know what I mean? So And you're a person that didn't make it on your own, you know, there was somebody or a group of people or Whatever that got you to where you are So you always have to remember you're a person first and you're not gonna take any of the stuff that you pertain with you When you pass away, you know what I mean? You didn't ask to come here. You don't know when you're going You know, so, you know, that's my that's my thing I'm like always remember you're a person first and try to help whenever you can whatever you can do Somebody's in me try to help. That's it. That's simple And especially if you could use a gift that God gave you to do that, you know what I mean? If you can use a gift Everybody doesn't have that kind of gift that can raise money, you know what I mean? Like I do what I'm doing and money comes and then I can give away so Monday 8 p.m.. Of the troubadour There will be more information about the benefit in the comments below and the Organizations that will be benefiting from yes, exactly. And we're using real organizations in the grassroots That really helped the same way across none of that other stuff, you know, I mean people who are on the ground people are actually on the ground For sure. Thank you guys for watching. I'm Frankie for up rocks and I'm Robert glass per up rock rocks, baby