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Don Toliver On Defining His Artistry, Kali Uchis Relationship, Travis Scott Collab + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Wait that ass up in the morning breakfast Club. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's the world more dangerous. Want to show the breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 1: And we got a special guest in here this morning. Man.
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  Speaker 1: I also got Nolla Simon in here, you know, holding
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  Speaker 1: it down with me. But don Toliver is here. What's up,
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  Speaker 1: my brother? What's up? How you feeling? I'm blessed black
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  Speaker 1: and holly favored. Man, you got the new album, Love Sick.
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  Speaker 1: I have to say I'm a little disappointed that you
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  Speaker 1: don't have a leather coat on right now, sir, Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'll see what she's saying. I had it. This is
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  Speaker 1: like some different type of like it just feels good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry I couldn't do the leather. It's restricting, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I wanted to be comfortable. We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk to us about the new album. Man, Love Sick.
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  Speaker 1: Why why that title? Well, love sick is kind of
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  Speaker 1: just the threshold to um a story, a story that
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  Speaker 1: I created. I wanted to make an album, and I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to make a movie and a soundtrack for the album.
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  Speaker 1: So love stick is basically just the term for you
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  Speaker 1: going through whatever you're going through with your significant other
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  Speaker 1: where it's whether it's bad, good, ugly, sad, whatever. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: within the movie short film that I created for love sick,
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  Speaker 1: it is love sick, whether it's to cook, the dining
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  Speaker 1: of the cop, me my girlfriend. So it's something that
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  Speaker 1: you have to pay attention to in a movie to
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  Speaker 1: really understand. But that's exactly what definition is. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that's a narrative you don't really hear from artists nowadays
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  Speaker 1: because artists, you know, historically want to be players and
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  Speaker 1: pimps and run through a bunch of women, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean. I actually have somebody looking for love
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  Speaker 1: and to say they love fit, that's a little different. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's definitely just like your own choice is really what
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  Speaker 1: it is. It's like, do you choose to you know,
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  Speaker 1: stay faithful and lock in with your significant other or
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  Speaker 1: do you choose to deal with everything else in the
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  Speaker 1: world that has nothing to do with that. So that's basically,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the duality of love sick. On the first
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  Speaker 1: track of love sickness, you say love is the fall
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  Speaker 1: that you don't get up from. Yeah, was this written
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  Speaker 1: prior to you falling? Or are you still like and
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  Speaker 1: that I was? I was? I made that statement, Um,
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  Speaker 1: I made that statement at the end of the song
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  Speaker 1: just to let people know sometimes that love is heavier
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  Speaker 1: than what you think, you know what I'm saying. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you fall in love with somebody in that same feeling
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  Speaker 1: sticks with you for years and you don't understand why.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what I meant by you know, you're never
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  Speaker 1: supposed to fall in love though, really, because when you fall,
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  Speaker 1: anytime you fall historically in life, you get hurt. You
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  Speaker 1: supposed to grow, yeah, in love with people. That's why
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  Speaker 1: I said, you know, falling your love is the one
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  Speaker 1: fall you don't get there from. See you still down?
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  Speaker 1: Am I still down? Yeah? Yeah? We're falling. Yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 1: still down for sure, down for the count. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like down makes it sound like bad when you're actually
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  Speaker 1: in a good spot. It looks like I'm in a
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  Speaker 1: good spot. But I mean it's just like you know,
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  Speaker 1: we are. When you're in a relationship is Sometimes it's
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  Speaker 1: not like pieces and cream, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes that ship gets you know, y'all busy, y'all schedules, conflict,
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  Speaker 1: y'all might be arguing about the littlest, the dumbest things.
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  Speaker 1: You know, It's like a lot of stuff that goes
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  Speaker 1: on that makes it relation ship tougher than what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes I really sorry, I really like and let her
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  Speaker 1: go when you're like, I think I'm really here for once?
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  Speaker 1: Is that what your relationship with Cali feels like? Like?
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  Speaker 1: Is this the first time you feel present with your
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  Speaker 1: partner more than I've ever been with somebody? For sure?
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  Speaker 1: That's so, what do you think is the difference? Like?
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  Speaker 1: What mix it? I just I just I'm just way
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  Speaker 1: more invested into my relationship and then I've probably been
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  Speaker 1: in any other relationship. I love that. Good for you.
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  Speaker 1: I love the flip that you guys did with Beanie
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  Speaker 1: Man and Maya Uh for for me? Was that like
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  Speaker 1: on purpose? Is that a sentimental record for you guys
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  Speaker 1: or what you guys just in the studio and came
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  Speaker 1: up with that? It was a record, It was a record.
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  Speaker 1: I really love that that sample a lot. It's a
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  Speaker 1: crazy sample. Girls Girls Them Sugar is a crazy sample.
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  Speaker 1: I really loved that song a lot, And it's just like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I kind of wanted something I've been into
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  Speaker 1: just like really having fun dancing lately, So I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to kind of like that dance hall Field and I
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  Speaker 1: love Neptune was a lot, so it's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: the best of both worlds. And then Wheezy did the
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  Speaker 1: sample on the B so it really really I just
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  Speaker 1: had to do it. Was it hard to clear that record?
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  Speaker 1: I was, Yeah, I would say yes for all got
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  Speaker 1: on percent. I will not disclosed I love Pe. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna say piece the back out here, but sample. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: business is business? Man? Is it hard mix it in
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  Speaker 1: the business? I guess with with with the pleasure, um
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  Speaker 1: depends on like you know who you who are you? Like?
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  Speaker 1: I don't really there's not too much pleasure for me
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  Speaker 1: now these days when it comes to just other artists.
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  Speaker 1: I have like a kind of set amount of people
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  Speaker 1: that I deal with. But um, you know, business is business,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I just I chop it up to the game.
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  Speaker 1: Like you know, I think I'll be mad atenoughbody for
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  Speaker 1: charging me because I'm gonna charge them. Oh so you
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  Speaker 1: charge your girl for features? No, that's what I was
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  Speaker 1: talking about. I thought y'are talking about pan business and
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  Speaker 1: pleasure like you And I was thinking you were speaking
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  Speaker 1: enough terms of like business and pleasure as like me
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  Speaker 1: maybe me being cool with Pee or something. And it's
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  Speaker 1: like the business or not. Now, me and my girls,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's beautiful. You know, we just do we kind
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  Speaker 1: of stay on the music side, the whole business thing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just like, whatever she wanted, cool, blah blah blah,
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  Speaker 1: let it go. I don't even like really dealing to
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  Speaker 1: it too much. But we just try to really keep
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  Speaker 1: in musical, you know what I'm saying. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, speaking of dancing, and you talked about the dancing.
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  Speaker 1: What does that dance you do when you're like hands
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  Speaker 1: is moving and your feet like you have a name
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  Speaker 1: for that. It's called do the food the fool food,
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  Speaker 1: Do the Fool's Crazy. It's something I created in Australia
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  Speaker 1: when I was I was in Australia like last year
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  Speaker 1: and Metcha was dropping his album and I had like
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  Speaker 1: three songs on the album. I was very excited to
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  Speaker 1: hear the album. And I don't know what got into me.
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  Speaker 1: I was outside just like chilling listening to the album
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  Speaker 1: my headphones. I tell my brother recorded me and my
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  Speaker 1: feet just started moving. And then after that I never
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  Speaker 1: stopped doing the dance again. It looks like you're dancing
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  Speaker 1: like nobody's watching, but we're literally all watching but when
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  Speaker 1: you hit it last night on stage, I'm like, man,
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  Speaker 1: this guy is having the time of his life. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Travis Scott came out that was that was crazy? Did
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  Speaker 1: you rush the deluxe because you knew that this was
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  Speaker 1: happening like the show when you want to traps? I
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  Speaker 1: really just wanted him on my album. I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: tease it on my album, and I just wanted to
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  Speaker 1: give the fans like a couple, you know, more songs.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like they were asking for a lot. The
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  Speaker 1: album was just amazing. I never had a chance to
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  Speaker 1: really just give fans immediately something, you know. It was
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  Speaker 1: like one of the funniest things for me to do.
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  Speaker 1: It was challenging because after I dropped my album, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, yo, I want to give my fans some
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  Speaker 1: more music. But it was like kind of challenging because
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  Speaker 1: I have so much music and I had to break
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  Speaker 1: it down into like four songs that I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: put on it this album. So it really caught me
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  Speaker 1: off guard because you did it within like a week span.
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  Speaker 1: Why not give us a tape and then the project?
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  Speaker 1: Like why make it so lengthy? Oh? I just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to I wanted to even twenty and like I said,
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  Speaker 1: I want to travel and teas are on my album immediately.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want to wait a week. I didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to wait a month. I wanted them on my album.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I wanted to listen through exactly you know
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  Speaker 1: how I planned to see it immediately then waiting. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like the fans wanted the same thing. Your fans
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  Speaker 1: are really demanding, and it's really because you keep doing
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  Speaker 1: the snippets, Like, do you regret posting the snippets at all? Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I don't regret posting the snippets, but I will say, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I really just want the fans to have
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  Speaker 1: a chance to be able to like, you know, get
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  Speaker 1: something a little early, or be able to say, like, yo,
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  Speaker 1: I remember when he played this on Instagram Live before
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  Speaker 1: it came out, to have a little exclusivity to whatever
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing. It's really what I wanted to do. If
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  Speaker 1: that helper hurts you think when you um, it's a blessing. Man.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like at the end of the day, you know,
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  Speaker 1: people want to consume the music regardless, so however they
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  Speaker 1: get it, you know, however they get it, But as
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  Speaker 1: long as it's not being stolen and somebody else's monetizing
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  Speaker 1: all whatever you got going on. It's whatever. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: when the time comes right, if you snip it something,
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  Speaker 1: it should come out. You know. I even was wondering, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know what the four new songs that you added,
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  Speaker 1: how do you even decide what you want to put
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  Speaker 1: out originally because you know, you don't just sit on
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  Speaker 1: Travis Scott features. You know what do you mean by like,
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  Speaker 1: how how do you decide you know, what to put
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  Speaker 1: out later at Bonus Tracks as the polled originally? Uh,
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  Speaker 1: that was That's what I'm saying. That was a challenge
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  Speaker 1: behind it. I really just um, I really just day
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  Speaker 1: did into four well, first it was off the four
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  Speaker 1: was something that the fans wanted one song and the
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  Speaker 1: other three songs were really just something that I feel
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  Speaker 1: like the album really needed. Travis for sure, I want
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  Speaker 1: to him on my album regardless. He's been all my albums,
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  Speaker 1: and Tizo Touchdown is from Texas. I'm from Texas as well,
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  Speaker 1: and I always like to highlight, you know, any artists
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  Speaker 1: coming out of Texas doing whatever they possibly doing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I felt like it was the perfect opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: lay him go up on the album as well? How
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  Speaker 1: would you define yourself as an artist? Because I listen,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, well, is the R and B? Is he rapping?
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like, how would you define
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  Speaker 1: yourself as an art I would just say it's R
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  Speaker 1: and B sold just a little twist of what I
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  Speaker 1: got going on, you know. I really I deal heavy
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  Speaker 1: into the R and B and the melodics of things
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  Speaker 1: a lot. But I definitely just like to get off
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  Speaker 1: some bars here and there too. I don't like to.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like, if I can do it, why not
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  Speaker 1: do it? Do you hate to rap? I'm not hate,
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  Speaker 1: but do you How do you feel about the rappers
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  Speaker 1: who may sound like you but they're rappers? You know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean? May sound like me, but they're rappers. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, man. I get a lot of times
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to horn, but a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: say that I'm kind of different or I have a
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  Speaker 1: certain distinctive sound. So I don't want to say people
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  Speaker 1: are sound like me, but I'll say, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that are melodic and wrap
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  Speaker 1: as well. I just feel like when I come across
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  Speaker 1: it just hits a little different my opinion, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like te Paint is the influence of yours. Yeah, tee Pain.
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  Speaker 1: Te Pain is definitely, um uh someone that I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to present listen to when I was coming up. Definitely
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: a lot of people are still expecting you to drop
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: Rolling Stone or the joint with Baby King. Yeah, kind
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  Speaker 1: of crazy because it's like we're joining baby Ka when
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  Speaker 1: you guys talking about I haven't snipped any song with
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: a Baby King, but Rolling Stone I know all about
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: that for sure. Um and what about the joint with
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  Speaker 1: um innercent Pop Honeymoon Out? Was he originally on that
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  Speaker 1: or did somebody just make that online? Yeah? Somebody. I
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: feel like they kind of like did that whole internet
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  Speaker 1: twisting verse thing? It made the little situation. But um,
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  Speaker 1: I love Andersen, would I would like that. Speaking of honeymoon,
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  Speaker 1: is marriage something that you have in minor like on
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  Speaker 1: your Yeah, I love it. I love that. You know
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  Speaker 1: you know though, brother, Yeah, you're right. Don't play with it,
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  Speaker 1: like you know what I'm saying. When you know she
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  Speaker 1: the one, don't play with it, man, don't play with it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm here, Um, you have a you have a you
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  Speaker 1: know what your proposal me? Look like, because that's very
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  Speaker 1: important because you got money. When you got money, you
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  Speaker 1: got to make sure that the proposal is something that
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  Speaker 1: they never ever forget, Like it's a story that you
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  Speaker 1: can tell the people in the future. That's just fly.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like whatever I do, it just has to
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  Speaker 1: be organic. I can't really do too too much. My girl,
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  Speaker 1: she just kind of wanted to be Heartfield. Whatever it
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  Speaker 1: is gotta be organic. It don't matter if we in
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  Speaker 1: the park having a picnic, you know, it just kind
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  Speaker 1: of gotta feel organic. How do you How do you
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  Speaker 1: know when that person is the one you want to
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  Speaker 1: spend the rest of your life with. Um. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like if you've been with somebody for two to three
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  Speaker 1: years for this is me and my girl going on,
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  Speaker 1: you kind of know if you really want to be
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  Speaker 1: with them. And that's kind of like where I feel it, Like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, we here. Did you see a lot of
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  Speaker 1: healthy relationships growing up? Yeah? I did. I mean my
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  Speaker 1: mom and my dad they separated when I got a
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  Speaker 1: little older, but they managed to just keep there. Like
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  Speaker 1: they would have the ups and down, she would be
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  Speaker 1: mad at him or whatever, but at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, they still kept it. Like this is my mom,
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  Speaker 1: and it's my dad and then dad never that never
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  Speaker 1: like kinda left the playing fielding. I respect that. And
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  Speaker 1: my grandma, my grandfather, they've still been together. They've been
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  Speaker 1: together for they've been married for like fifty some years. Beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. You're gonna make a lot of money. Brother,
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: reason you're gonna make a lot of money is because
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  Speaker 1: you know, like, when you have that partner like that,
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  Speaker 1: you devote all your time and all your energy too.
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  Speaker 1: And you ain't not here doing all extracurriculus shit. You
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  Speaker 1: just watch what happens in your life. You can commit
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  Speaker 1: to that one situation give you stability that other people
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  Speaker 1: don't have. That. I love that you called it extracurriculum.
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: That's cute. Um On, go down. You have this line
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  Speaker 1: that I have a bone to pick with you about.
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  Speaker 1: You say twenty five the life of certified lover. Keep
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  Speaker 1: me cool? She she keeps me cool undercover backseat. I
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: never use a rubber. That's what you promoting. Mind your business.
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: That's okay. Now I ask her don First of all,
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: this is I ask her Billy silly. And then company man,
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: this is the third company you've given us. Each company
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  Speaker 1: is like a classic. Do you see yourself doing a
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  Speaker 1: company just project company ten? Yeah, Yeah, I mean I
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  Speaker 1: feel like, honestly, yeah, I feel like, honestly, it's just
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: one of those things where it's like I want to
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: have something that the fans can't always relate to on
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  Speaker 1: my album, and right now, I don't see why I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't want to come with a four or five or six,
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  Speaker 1: just depending on where I'm at in my life. Hopefully
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  Speaker 1: I'm in a good place to continue to want the company.
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  Speaker 1: If not, you know, I'm good. How did you pick
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: your features? I like the range of features you go
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  Speaker 1: from Glorella to Justin Bieber to whiz Kid to Charlie Wilson,
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  Speaker 1: Like how do you decide who you want to collaborate with?
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of like it's kind of like a wide
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  Speaker 1: variety of like the industry, and it's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: all my favorites from like all those little pockets. I
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  Speaker 1: love Toro, I love James, I'm a fan of Globe,
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: I'm a fan of Dirk. Futures inspired me my whole life. Travis.
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  Speaker 1: You already know about that. Tiso Touchdowns a legend tis
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  Speaker 1: a career is another Houston legend. It's just little pockets
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  Speaker 1: on the album with Brent fan of Brand, Like all
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  Speaker 1: these pockets of artists, I really just respect them, respect
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  Speaker 1: their craft, and just happy to have them on my album,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and be able to like
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  Speaker 1: collaborate them cap collaborate with those guys. I always wonder
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  Speaker 1: how you and Travis, you know, because because growing up
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  Speaker 1: for us, Houston always had a specific sound, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean, Like you knew what Houston sounded like,
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  Speaker 1: but you and Travis kind of like broke that mold.
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  Speaker 1: Was that intentional or I say in my heart it
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  Speaker 1: was intentional Travis. When I've seen Travis, Travis gave me
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  Speaker 1: the hope when I was doing like all my little
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: underground stuff back home because he was the unicorn in Houston.
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  Speaker 1: That was like doing something abstract and I felt like
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: I was doing the same, but I didn't have when
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  Speaker 1: I was really like that's what really just putting me
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: on in the city and had people looking at me
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  Speaker 1: different because I was doing some different Yeah, we are
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  Speaker 1: known for the traditional, you know, Houston rap, but at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, there's a lot of great creatives out
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  Speaker 1: there that do a lot of different things. You know,
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  Speaker 1: and I was able to kind of cut through because
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  Speaker 1: it was different and that would help me. And I
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: think people in the city kind of just need to
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  Speaker 1: realize that, you know a lot of people are doing
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  Speaker 1: a lot of different things. Don't let me take away,
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: but you know, staying different, it's always to go right.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: Always you get flat for that in the city because
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: I think about, you know, I'm from South Carolina, but
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: I remember hearing New York like when Asap Mob first
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: came out, they be like, oh man, they sounds like
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: they from the South. They don't sound like they from
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: the city. Did you get flat from people in Nah? Man,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: I didn't. I feel like I feel like people probably didn't.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: They definitely didn't know if I was from Houston or
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: not or whatever. But at the same time, it was
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: like like I was doing something different, you know, and
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: I was organic. I would just go like I was
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: a type of kid to just pull up in the
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: DJ boofing be and way to the DJ's spends all
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: his songs and be like, Yo, can you spend this
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: one last song for me? And and that got me like,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: you know, that kind of would That's where it had
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: the streets like, you know, I respect his kid. He's
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: doing something different, but he's in here really putting his
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: foot down, trying to work, and I was like the
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: respect factor I got from there. I see a lot
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: of people have been showing love to your project, Dom
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Kennedy Bunby. What is it like like having them embraced
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: you like that? I love it. I mean, I respect
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: bun I respect everybody who's showing me love on the album.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: I just respect it because at the end of the day,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: I put a lot of working on this album. I'm
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: not gonna sit here and say like I just did
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: the album in two months and turn it in and
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: there was nothing. I put a lot of Like it
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: was very tedious, like every song, and I've never put
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: that type of attention on any other on any of
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: my other album So, like, the respect for my peers
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: is beautiful. How do you feel about the consumers because
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: it feels like music so disposable nowadays. I feel like
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: you gotta set tone and you gotta make sure whatever
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: you putting down into this universe, it's gonna test the time.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: And that's the way I feel, honestly. It is disposed.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Was just here today, go on the mall but you
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: just gotta know in your heart whatever you're giving, you know,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: your consumer is something that I'll be able to digest
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: for the rest of their life, not just for the moment.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: You know. That's why I wanted to give give that Deluxe.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I was like, Man, as
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: much as I can possibly get my father to my
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: next project, I'm not mad at it. You know what
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. What makes you what makes you realize the
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: music still matters? Is it? The shows? Music still matters.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: When I'm in the studio and I'm recording the music
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: that I make, it just it just does something to me.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Bro Like I love to record, I love to challenge
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: my brain. All that shit, all that is um uh
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: it helps. It's like it's brain food, brain power, and
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: it's very resourceful because I would I mean, I saw
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: the videos of your show from another night and I
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: was like, Dan, that must as an artist, that must
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: be the only thing that makes people feel like my
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: music still madically, Like you could drop the Love Sick
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: album and then two days later they'll be talking about
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: something else. Then you got to give them four more
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: songs to get them back focused on the project. That's
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: what it just seemed like from the outside looking in. Well, honestly, bro,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: I just uh, it's been a it's been a roller coaster.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: This is probably about the most. Um, I feel like
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: the greatest blessings I've gotten from my album or the
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: biggest reception. So honestly, I didn't. I just wanted to go.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I'm like, full, full blown all cannons go, like, I
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: just don't even really, I want to get fans whatever
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: they want. I want to give you know, whoever's never
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: heard or who was not up to game, whatever, you know.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: I'm just sewing some if I got an opportunity to give,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to go up and only after a week
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: they already knew all the words like dancing. There's a
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: great reaction last night. Um, but my favorite record on
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: there is absolutely well it's kind of changed between Lead
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: the Club to now the Brent Fire's Joint. But what's
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: your favorite record if I had why Charlie Wilson. It's
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: just a legendary moment. I love Charlie. I think Charlie
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: is amazing and he's just like dope guy. Any intimidation
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: getting his studio with Charlie Wilson. I'm not gonna say intimidation,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: but you know him being an og he is, I
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: didn't know how, you know he I didn't know how
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: he would react to me or knew if he knew
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: anything about me. So that was the only type of
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I guess, a little hesitation. But he was so cool
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: that he was just he just went in there and
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: did his thing. You know, did he take direction? Well,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: did you give him not to? Yeah? He was cool.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: He he did everything I really wanted him to do.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: He did it like he did everything I wanted to do,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: no question, whatever I needed out of him, he was
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: like he wanted, he wanted to get it through and
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I respected that. Like to the Move with a Dote
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: in your life. Got excited about that record, My mom, my, grandma,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Grandpa wor it up. We Live a Gap band. We
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: loved Charlie Um Justin Bieble who wrote his verse. Man,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I know her, Yeah, you know me and me and
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: me and Justin. We were just in the stud dude, dude.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: We was in La in the studio. Dudes in there
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: with a red rollerblaze on on the mic. We back
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: and forth like we just like on a mic and
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I'm just wondering because he had a lot going on
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: at the moment, and it was a certain couple of
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: things I really wanted him to test bases on, especially
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: like when you know he come back to the CD
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Houston like so, but Justin was really going crazy that
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna hold you. He was feeling the vibe.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I had him just in his mode. So did he
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: record that before future or he could record it that
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: before future. You got to love sick short film on
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Amazon Prime too, Yes, sir. Why did you notice needed
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: a film or visual to go with it like this? Um, honestly,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: I wanted. I was just tired of one. I wanted
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: to Like I said, I wanted to shoot. I want
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: to shoot a movie from my album. And uh two,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: I was just kind of tired of doing a traditional
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: video type thing. Um. I love mutic music videos, but
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I wanted to give my fans like another visual aspect
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: of how I felt the music should be, like you know,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: play through aesthetically it's given like seventies, like what was
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: the late seventies. The whole the whole inspiration came from
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Studio fifty four and like disco culture. Um, I kind
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: of like started there and it turned into like everything else.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: The cocaine was way pure back then. Man, you know
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: I heard about it. I'm not that old. You're going
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: on to a future, right huh? One big party though,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: One big party to March starts March ninth. So what
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: you're gonna do? I'm gonna go crazy? How are you
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: gonna keep in touch with family? You're gonna bring something
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: one the roll with you? Um See this tour is um,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: this tour is like weekends. It's like kind of spotty.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: It's not like every day. So um, I'd definitely be
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: able to bring my family out put up, but it's
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: not nothing too too too crazy. Over the past few years,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: how do you think your your growth process has been
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: as a man and musical? Honestly, I've just been wanting
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: to be the best version of myself regardless, and I
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: think that like it fuels everything. It fuels the music,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: It feels me and fuel as everybody else around me.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: They just want to me, want to be the best
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: possible down I can be. What did that look like?
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: How do you how do you get to that? Therapy
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: is working out, meditation, it's a working out, it's it's
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: being able to think in the clear headspace. It's being
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: able to eat, you know, correctly, not like go crazy
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: on a bunch of shit for no reason. Like you know,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: it's it's all about like what you indulge in, you know,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: like get into something that's gone, like feed the brain
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: a little bit more than something else. Do you really
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: feel like time heels off? Yeah, because I used to
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: feel a certain way about a lot of people. But
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I just realized that,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: you know, we are human. M do you learn a
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: forgive love that? Congratulations on having a hell going platinum? Yeah,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: thank you? Yeah, pretty big deal. Yeah. One of my
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: favorites after Party is actually still one of my favorites.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if I can let it go.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: I love it after Party. I think that's forever, forever
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: joint and I let that song all right. Well, you know, listen,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Nila got a segment on this show called Past the
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Auks when she plays new music every every Friday morning. Yes,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: so what y'all want to get into? Off the off
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: the new Lovesick album? Do you want to pick one? Nwla?
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: You want him to pick one? You know, my personal
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: favorite is a Brent one. But do you want to
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: do the Charlie one? Yeah, or actually play embarrassed embarrassed embarrassed.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Let's go with embarrassed red. Why do you feel that
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: energy this morning? Why? I haven't stopped listening to it
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: since the drop? Okay, okay, I love that song. We
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: performed it last night. It's just amazing. Yeah, the Travis record.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Everybody's on it. Let's get into it. And it's your
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: segment now. If you want to play more than one,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: don Toliver record you can. I gotta spread the love. Okay,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: I got three tricks. I gotta spread them love. But
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: we got you in there. Let's get into it. It's embarrassed.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Where does Daver record that? Because I know you guys
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: be all over the all over the world recording together.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: I recorded that. I feel like, a yeah, what was
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: it like in that studio session? How'd y'all come up
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: with it? Um? I was like, this is one of
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: those moments where I just love Wheezy Beat. Wheezy did
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: that bet And I don't know when I hear Wheezy be,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: it just kind of pushed me in a certain mode
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: that particular eight O E and Snares kind of pushed
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: me in the mode with those and they just kind
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: of happened. One of those things that just happened, super
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: organic kind of came out. So when that Don Toliver
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Travis Scott Best of Both Worlds album dropping, I know
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: y'all got a collaboration project, driving Hope sooner than later.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: But y'all done. No, Oh, y'all got a lot of
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: music together, I'm sure though. Yeah, we got some tunes. Yeah,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: if that's something in the works, like y'all have thought. Yeah,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: it's a no brainer. It's anough brainer. It's that that's
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: it's like, it's such a enough brainer. It's just like,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: you know, one day it's gonna we're gonna press that
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: button and get to work. But right now we just
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: you know, got records and whatever. We you know, we're
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: just trying to get off our own shore right now.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Get it going a dam who's pushing forward more? You
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Travis to Sycamore, Um, probably me? Okay, all right, yeah,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: all right, it's Don Toliver Man. Thank you for joining us,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: my brother, thank you, yea, sir, It's the Breakfast Club.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Wait that ass up in the morning. Breakfast Club