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Waxman Staff Writer Apr 14, 2015 2:25 PM UTC With her [new music video](http://time.com/3820241/janelle-monae-yoga/) for her single “Yoga” taking off, R&B singer-songwriter Janelle Monáe is having a banner week, and she is not going to let any troll on Twitter get in her way. A tweet from a user (who has since made his tweets private) said: “girl stop being so soulful and be sexy..tired of those dumbass suits..you fine but u too damn soulful man.” Her response: “sit down. I’m not for male consumption.” [@mellow\_saa](https://twitter.com/mellow%5Fsaa?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) sit down. I'm not for male consumption. — Janelle Monáe👽🚆🤖🚀🪐 (@JanelleMonae) [April 13, 2015](https://twitter.com/JanelleMonae/status/587499279217885184?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) The tweet has racked up more than 2,200 retweets in 24 hours. ### Go Inside Starbucks' Wild New 'Willy Wonka Factory of Coffee'  On Dec. 5, founder Howard Schultz debuted part of his new strategy for Starbucks: his first flagship “Roastery,” a 15,000 square foot space that is both a coffee roasting facility, and a consumer retail outlet. The place is to coffee what FAO Schwartz is to toys or Dover Street Market is to fashion—retail theatre. Ian Allen for TIME  Ian Allen for TIME  Ian Allen for TIME  Ian Allen for TIME  Ian Allen for TIME  Ian Allen for TIME  Ian Allen for TIME  Ian Allen for TIME ## Transcript [00:00] [ CROSSTALK ]. Come on! You sick ma? You said we got [00:02] across? Look. Oh, thank God. Now we're still together, [00:05] most of us. [ LAUGH ] [00:12] Did you see the look on his face [00:16] when we told him he was going to be a father? [00:20] [ LAUGH ] I wish you wouldn't joke about that. [00:23] [ LAUGH ] Mother you're a scream. Really you are. [00:27] The next thing I know you'll be knitting little garments. I [00:33] don't see [ LAUGH ] anything so ridiculous about that. [00:35] [ LAUGH ] If I were you, I'd save myself the trouble. [00:35] Momma, will you be on my side for once. Mm. Now you [00:37] saw what he [00:42] did. You saw him down there on his knees. Yes. Now [00:43] wasn't it you who taught me to despise any man [00:47] who would do that, who would do what he's going to [00:48] do? Yes, yes, I taught you that. Me and your daddy, [00:53] but I thought I taught you something else too. I thought [00:55] I had taught you to love him. Lorenzo, this is Jake. He's [00:56] a young man of your age. Look Lorenzo! A great big [00:57] pumpkin. Let's go down and feel how big [01:01] it is! [ CROSSTALK ] What [01:07] sweetheart? I'm [01:16] sorry, Lorenzo. Let's, let's try that again. The war will [01:19] take our son. Our snap or shrapnel shell or Typhus. [01:23] Same as took Willie. It takes hundreds of boys a day. [01:26] He'll die uselessly and how will I ever forgive you? Most [01:29] men their first born is their favorite, you, [01:34] you've always blames Robert for being born, for [01:37] trapping you in a marriage that's only ever given you [01:39] grief and caused you regret. Now, that's simply not [01:40] true. And it's the slaughter of Cold Harbor on your [01:44] hands, same as Grant. God help us. We'll pay for the [01:46] oceans of spilt blood you've sanctioned, the [01:46] uncountable corpses! We'll be made to pay with our [01:49] son! Just, just this once! I [01:53] told them [02:01] to build me an assassin. I wanted a killer from [02:05] a world filled with killers and they chose you because [02:09] they thought it would bind me closer to them. But [02:14] now, we have come almost to the end, one last [02:18] step. [ NOISE ]. What are you doing? Don't you tell [02:27] what I'm doing. Oh, mommy, no. Oh, no. Mommy, I [02:27] look awful. Yeah. I know you look awful. You be quiet. [02:29] You're always rummaging through my drawers, trying [02:30] to make people look at you? Why. Lookin' at yourself in [02:32] the mirror! Why are you doing that, tell me! Precious! [02:32] Precious! Precious! Get down here! You brought that [02:32] white **** up in my house? You, why would you bring [02:32] that **** up in here? I didn't bring her here. Well, why [02:36] the **** would she ring my buzzer? I [02:41] can't hear you Precious. [02:57] Since you got [03:06] so much mother [03:13] [ INAUDIBLE ] mouth. And you going to bring that in my [03:14] house. Why was that ringing my **** buzzer. I ain't tell [03:14] her to come here. See I think right now you're feeling [03:14] like you becoming a grown woman cause that **** you [03:15] pulled in the kitchen. I should of you up. But [03:19] I let you walk away. Why. What if I [03:23] told you that I wasn't really your mother, that we [03:25] weren't related? What? You'd like that, wouldn't you? [03:25] Sure you would. You don't have to tell me. Now why [03:26] would you like that [ INAUDIBLE ]? What are you talking [03:40] about? Of course you're [03:47] my mother. Of course you are. Royal. 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