Kirk Franklin Tribute To Bishop Rance Allen Will Make You Cry

[Music] i was uh [Music] i was 28 years old when uh when god loaned me the song uh something about the name jesus was 28 wrote that song and uh and was trying to trying to figure out first lady allen who who could like who who could do the song had this song idea and and and i had the idea of bringing these two generations together one with menace and dirk who were they were in their 20s as well young bucks and and i saw rance allen on on tv on on some event and the first thing i thought was is that man really does have pretty hair i never seen a fade on a man like that and then i heard him sing and i and i did research and all of his great hits back in the 70s first lady and it's all of the joints that he was just killing on i mean every time i mean he was just he was a savage on every record he performed on i mean he he uh so so reached out and and got in touch with him you know and nervous again i'm 28 i'm a young buck i'm i'm um i'm i'm trying to get the ranch island to be on this record and i'm like sir sir sir it's me it's me uh my name my name my name is kirk and uh and you know and and he's just so jolly you could hear him on the phone it's like ah my boy and i said listen i have a song that i would love to put you on um and i have this idea of you and these other young boys called mena standard want to know if i can get you all to do it together because you know sometimes people would do their vocals in one place and send them to you i said no i would love to produce you with them and be able to get like this this performance of you all together i mean he's rants allen he's he's he's ransalin right and so he comes to the studio and you know we've got you know juice and we got you know things ready for him we got everything cleaned up because like bro where's ellen coming bro you know you got to be on your you know you got to be right you got to be right because they come rants and you know i was expecting you know for that to be you know armor bearers and security and you know because it's rance helen man reyes came up in that studio by himself hair blowing in the wind you know you know it was almost like slow motion like he was standing still and his hair was blowing in the wind and so and and first lady alan i don't know if you know this or not but he had never heard the song he had never heard the song he trusted me by me just telling him i have a song he had never heard the song he shows up cold to the studio and it never heard that song and i play him the song i jump on the piano and i just give him the idea of what i want to do and and and how i have him one of bob and weave he had never heard the song before gave him a lyric sheet he goes into the studio into the booth he goes into the booth and mind you i've never worked with mr ass before and he's behind the microphone and he starts to do this i said what's wrong with him and he did that again i said do we need some water is he is is he dehydrated you know and he starts to move his body and he's twitching and i'm thinking well he sounds incredible but what's wrong with him and the more he twitched the better he sounded so we said we're going to let him twitch as long as he want to twitch because every twitch come with a better performance and now mind you he was done in like 10 minutes what you hear on the album renz allen did that in 10 minutes and was like basically he dropped the mic it was almost like a mic drop and said to the young boys and what you hear is the genius of a poet a painter he was prolific every time he was behind the microphone he was a surgeon no pro tools no auto tune you're not having to tune his vocal every he does is right on key it's like how does this negro do a e on key every time a savage we'll never see that again we'll never see that again and the fact that i was alive to write record and produce the red salad that they had contacted me this year first lady and rance wanted me to write a song for him was nervous because he's red talent i had the song put together rhoden produced the song sent it to the label they sent it to him and he loved it and we was just trying to figure out was i going to come to detroit or was he going to come down because i know he was under the weather and i've got this song i just have a song sitting in because he's rents alan nobody else can do it nobody else can do this song because he's rants alan so trying to figure out now what to do want to do something for you i'm i'm and you know you know we can you know easily you know write your check and pay for everything or we're trying to figure out if we're going to maybe write and produce the greatest you know like a tribute record and have all the royalties and money come straight to you and take care of you and so we are trying to figure it out right now trying to trying to figure out something that will yeah and and that everybody will do it for free every ev everybody's going to do it for free and all the money is going to go to you and i talk to you last week and and you said something you didn't have to say we gonna love on you just the way we loved on him and and so we'll be in talks [Applause] but you know how do you remember him you know how how how do you remember one of the greatest ever to do it and i think the only thing that you can say is what i heard an old mother say when i went to the performance when we when we did the song live and as i was walking off i heard an old lady say that she had to be in the late 80s and the only way that i could remember rants is what she said nobody nobody can shake their booty like [Music] [Music] so you

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Length: 10min 8sec (608 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 19 2020