pharrell williams good to see you.with how you are as a man and person, you're a pleasure to be around. >> thank you >> it's no surprise you have all this stuff going on. let's start with the festival, this is something you started in 2019 in your hometown. >> yeah. >> covid hit what was the idea for this initially and how did we get to where we are in d.c. >> something in the water has always been like a black solution to a systemic problem that ended up being this festival that allowed everybody to come together, white, black, gay, straight, whatever you are, as long as you're a human being you're welcome we had a great time there. and then there was an unfortunate event where there was the loss of the life of my cousin, donovan lynch and no one thought they handled that correctly or with the love and respect you would for somebody that's from virginia and so, we just decided to take our solution to our nation's capitol during the juneteenth weekend since that's a holiday we worked in our state to -- >> to have ackno