 You put me up on game this time You don't say shit a lot But this shit you say Wow They jail with I don't know when I first met him. I keep telling him. I thought it was a scam because He had to send me a voice message to make You know that nigga got there man. He's a strange nigga, but I love that dude First of all, welcome to the black market And I want to introduce the world to L strings Well, I just call you hell straight. I got all your names here right here, but that's what you go by right? Yes, that's what I go by the L stands for Leanne. That's my actual person. Okay, Leanne in the string with a Z Okay, that's I feel like you can't we can't just put strings with a s gotta make it You know that spice it up a little bit How you been I think well, I've been really great since the show. Well, we're gonna get to all that in just a Moment, but you have a whole fucking musical Academy. Yes, I have a music Academy the L strings music Academy Okay, first of all at what age did you pick up the violin of all things? I was well, I've always been musical I used to sing and I was a dancer in the church, but then there's a praise dance. Yes The areas and the schools that I was originally going to here in Atlanta, we're not the best so my mom transferred me over to Another elementary school on the other side of the cab and that's when I picked up violin at the age of nine I tell the story of the time I saw a box and somebody playing music out of it and I was like, what's that? It's a violin so I rushed on to my mom and I was like mom buy me a violin today They have an orchestra this big me every morning about she was like, I'm not buying a violin day We that's an expensive thing, but we're gonna go we're gonna rent one and if you stick with it for a year Then you go ahead and you could play violin The year passed. I want to be in an honor orchestra. I wind up Doing multiple performances even at a young age So it was like I didn't even realize that that year had passed and then I was already off and now it's been 15 years later I'm here. How important is music to black children? Oh man music is very important If you look at even graduation weights the schools that have music programs have a 90.2% chance of Graduation rate versus schools without music programs, which are seventy two point one percent and most of those Music schools schools that don't have music are our black schools because they take it out to support Football and basketball and I always tell parents when they ask me about why their kids should be in music Well, my kids in sports or whatever and I'm like everybody's gonna be trying out for football and basketball But when you get to those numbers about how many of them actually go to the league is less than 1% Music is one of the few things that if you proof not only can you do it outside of just your regular job But if you were to go to college and you wanted a scholarship, you don't have to be you don't have to major in music You don't have to love music that much All you have to do is show up to your orchestra your band or your court or choir and go to a rehearsal Maybe have two or three performances. Yeah, you can get half a full ride I'm not full scholarship just for being music musician And when it comes to the strings because there's no there's barely any African Americans that are going into the string world They will basically give you a full ride at these colleges just for being black and playing a string instrument You don't even have to be that good You putting them up on game