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Stevee D - From Flight Attendant to Busting Rhymes · Cats & Pudding with Jennifer Dilandro

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  Speaker 2: This is the Cats in Footing Podcast, a melting pot
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  Speaker 2: of footing, and now here's Jen.
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  Speaker 3: Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to this episode of Cats
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  Speaker 3: and Pudding. And today I have a great guest, mister
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  Speaker 3: Stevie d. He is a rapper and he is a
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  Speaker 3: very interesting rapper because he's part of the LGBTQ community.
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  Speaker 2: So this is exciting.
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  Speaker 3: And I love I love your story and when I
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  Speaker 3: was researching you, I thought it was very interesting how
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  Speaker 3: you came about.
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  Speaker 2: So get into it.
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  Speaker 3: I love you to tell me how this whole thing started,
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  Speaker 3: How this whole thing erupted.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, how it all started? Where do I
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  Speaker 4: even start? I mean, I'm actually kind of new to
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  Speaker 4: the music industry. I've been doing it for about a
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  Speaker 4: year and a half. Really just fell in love with
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  Speaker 4: the production and doing music videos and the rap game
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  Speaker 4: and just seeing people come up from the rap game
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  Speaker 4: and just saying like I could do better.
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  Speaker 3: So, well, what inspired you to become a rapper?
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  Speaker 2: How did this?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if you only started a year and a
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  Speaker 3: half ago, how did it come to pass?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 4: I honestly, I just seen so many people's lives changing
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  Speaker 4: overnight and figuring what I've always wanted to do something
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  Speaker 4: like this. I've always wanted to be in the music industry,
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  Speaker 4: but I figured when I give it a shot, I've
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  Speaker 4: seen people's lives change overnight, and I want mine too,
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  Speaker 4: so and I figured I could do better. So instead
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  Speaker 4: of talking shit on the internet or whatever people do nowadays,
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  Speaker 4: I went out and I did better.
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  Speaker 2: So you used to talk shit on the internet one
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  Speaker 2: of those.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I was never a troll like that, but
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  Speaker 4: I mean I'll talk if I need to.
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  Speaker 2: Well, everybody does.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it's I don't think it's it's relegated
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  Speaker 3: people have.
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  Speaker 4: I don't give like unwarranted opinions though, like unless someone
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  Speaker 4: comes from.
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  Speaker 3: Me right, So you're not like a person who's looking
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  Speaker 3: for it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I'm not like that either.
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  Speaker 3: I don't directly go to look for a problem if
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  Speaker 3: I see something that bothers me. But it takes a
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  Speaker 3: lot for me to actually comment though.
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  Speaker 2: It takes me to really get into it. People.
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  Speaker 3: Some people just come on and they just right and
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  Speaker 3: it's usually the most miserable people. So like, you have
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  Speaker 3: nothing better to do than to troll my page in
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  Speaker 3: my comments than.
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  Speaker 2: God bless your baby.
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  Speaker 3: Right. So you so you had this inspiration that you
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  Speaker 3: wanted to but what did you know you were going
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  Speaker 3: to be a good rapper?
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  Speaker 2: Did you know? Like, I mean my first.
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  Speaker 4: Poetry before or the Yeah, I mean I wrote poetry
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  Speaker 4: since I was five. I never really did anything about
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  Speaker 4: it because you know, people say, it's like if you're
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  Speaker 4: living in a fantasy world trying to be a rapper
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  Speaker 4: in the music industry. It's very rough and it's hard
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  Speaker 4: to get started. But yeah, I mean when I first
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  Speaker 4: got in the studio, I was like and I heard myself.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, oh yeah, I got it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And do how what is like your genre of rap? Like,
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  Speaker 3: is it is it hardcore?
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  Speaker 2: Is it?
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  Speaker 4: I mean I do a lot of drill stuff, but
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  Speaker 4: little smith rap, you know what I mean. No, I
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  Speaker 4: mean I do a lot of drill. I'm kind of
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  Speaker 4: moving more into like the hip hop pop and like
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  Speaker 4: performance stage. Like when I first started rapping, it was
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  Speaker 4: like very harsh and uh kind of vulgar. But I've
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  Speaker 4: kind of moved more into like mainstream and being more marketable.
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  Speaker 2: M hmm.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, I have different sides to me, and
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  Speaker 4: that's okay.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what's your fa how what's your favorite style? Like,
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  Speaker 3: is it more hard care your favorite style?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I like both. I really like how
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  Speaker 4: I'm evolving as an artist too, like when it comes
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  Speaker 4: to more pop kind of or hip hop. So, but
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  Speaker 4: I like both. I like both sides to it.
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  Speaker 2: Who's your favorite artist? Sorry yourself?
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  Speaker 4: I really you know, I'm from North Carolina originally, So
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  Speaker 4: I really like Cole Okay, he grew up like thirty
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  Speaker 4: minutes away from me, so and I think he's really
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  Speaker 4: lyrically creative and intelligent.
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  Speaker 3: So and you like more inspirational rappers because like there's
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of rappers today. I feel like the
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  Speaker 3: newer rappers, Like I mean, I'm from the generation of
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  Speaker 3: you know big. You know, I'm that he was a poet,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I mean I think I think that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I love obviously, I used to love Diddy
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  Speaker 2: when we were younger too.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I want to talk about him
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  Speaker 3: right now. But you know, these were different. There's rappers,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Machavelli, you know, uh, they were great rappers.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like the ones today it's more, it's just
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  Speaker 3: everything is about drugs, about this about you know. I
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  Speaker 3: like to hear the poet. I like to hear the poet.
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  Speaker 3: I like to hear the insight what they feel like,
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  Speaker 3: rapping about something important, rapping about something they're going through,
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  Speaker 3: rapping about a situation, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And if I'm very sexualized, yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 3: It's listen, I have no problem with sex, but I
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  Speaker 3: think it's it's it's like too much of the same thing,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Like you know, that's what I feel like.
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  Speaker 2: It is that I feel like it's just.
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  Speaker 3: Too mainstream that we need we need some poets back then.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, meanings and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like your I feel like your yours more poetry,
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  Speaker 3: Like it's more it's yeah, I feel like it's more
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  Speaker 3: coming from within it's not like it's it's substantial that.
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  Speaker 2: I guess that's the word I'm looking for.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Do you feel that way about your about your
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  Speaker 3: because that's but that's good.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we need these days. The kids need it.
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  Speaker 3: The kids need some real instead of being drones and
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  Speaker 3: just being like you know, I.
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  Speaker 4: Know, it's it's crazy how much sex sells. Yeah, in
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  Speaker 4: industry too.
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  Speaker 3: Do you feel do you are you trying to do
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  Speaker 3: you feel that you want to not get into that
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  Speaker 3: at all or just want to kind of shy away
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  Speaker 3: from it that I mean, I know obviously in mainstream
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  Speaker 3: you have to kind of.
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  Speaker 4: D Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I think about
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  Speaker 4: that a lot. That's a good question, because I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I kind of wanted to keep, like the music in
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  Speaker 4: my personal life and sexuality and all that kind of
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  Speaker 4: separate from the music. I wanted my music to be
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  Speaker 4: more like relatable, as like third party kind of thing
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  Speaker 4: where anyone can kind of relate to it. So that's
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  Speaker 4: what I kind of do with my music. I don't
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  Speaker 4: really say, like if you listen to my music, there's
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  Speaker 4: no she whatever. It's kind of like third person so
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  Speaker 4: more people can relate. But I don't really want to
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  Speaker 4: get to sexual and the music.
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  Speaker 2: How do you feel?
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  Speaker 3: How do you feel like when you when you listen
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  Speaker 3: to other artists, you feel like that that is something
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  Speaker 3: that that you that you don't agree with what they're doing.
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  Speaker 3: Like the newer artists now that are coming out with
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  Speaker 3: all this, I mean, to.
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  Speaker 4: Each their own and if that's what's selling for them
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  Speaker 4: and that's what's making their money, then I get it.
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  Speaker 4: That's just not how I want.
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  Speaker 3: To That's not how you want to be remembered, because
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  Speaker 3: it is forever, right, you know that right now today
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  Speaker 3: everything is forever, because everything is not just now that
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  Speaker 3: if you're doing, if not just do your music, but
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  Speaker 3: anything you say, anything you do is forever on the internet,
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  Speaker 3: on social media, right. You can't take some things back,
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  Speaker 3: especially if it's out there. So you want something that's
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  Speaker 3: going to be sustainable, that's what you're saying, and.
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  Speaker 4: That's more marketable to a wide range of audiences and
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  Speaker 4: not just one group, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, how do your parents feel?
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  Speaker 4: They at first were a little bit shocked and kind
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  Speaker 4: of it was like what are you doing? But now
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  Speaker 4: that they've kind of heard my new stuff and where
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  Speaker 4: I'm going with it. They're really supportive and really nice
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  Speaker 4: about it.
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  Speaker 2: So what were you doing before this?
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  Speaker 4: I was I moved up to Las Vegas as a
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  Speaker 4: flet attendant. I was doing that for a few years,
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  Speaker 4: and that's just kind of gigs modeled for brands like Mali,
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  Speaker 4: jim Man's Warehouse, Sunglass Hut was doing stuff like that.
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  Speaker 4: Still signs an agency in Vegas, but really kind of
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  Speaker 4: moving away from that and more into the music. I
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  Speaker 4: feel like it fits me better.
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  Speaker 2: What airline did you work for? That's it?
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  Speaker 4: So you Yeah, I can't say because I still am
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  Speaker 4: employed there and I need those benefits.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, but just imagine, oh boy, yeah, I can't
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  Speaker 5: listen listen there's some are you Are you a nice
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  Speaker 5: flight attendant?
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  Speaker 2: Are you?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? I lead people alone.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not.
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  Speaker 4: I don't bother nobody.
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  Speaker 2: How do you deal with some people sometimes? Though?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's gotta be I see what they go
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  Speaker 3: through with Like you get these like these obnoxious kids
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  Speaker 3: on the plane and the parents don't control them and
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  Speaker 3: they climbing all of everything.
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  Speaker 2: Don't just want to go over and say, look, could
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  Speaker 2: you shut your kid off all the time all the
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  Speaker 2: stop it?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean there's really not much you could do.
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  Speaker 2: What was the craziest thing that ever happened to? How
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  Speaker 2: is that? Dealing with people? They must have been like nobody.
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  Speaker 4: Because it's like he wants to do all this stuff
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  Speaker 4: and then it was no hazard pay and it's like
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  Speaker 4: you want me to wear the mask the whole time.
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  Speaker 4: I can't even breathe, And it was it was just
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  Speaker 4: a mess, the whole thing.
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  Speaker 3: And I bet even just dealing with the people on
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  Speaker 3: the plane holding it to the masks.
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  Speaker 4: Having germophobe attacks. That's why I'm ready to I'm ready to.
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  Speaker 3: The ononder why you want to still wrapping? Ye're rapping
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  Speaker 3: about your flight?
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  Speaker 4: No, everyone said that it is so funny.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm sure you've met a lot of interesting people
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  Speaker 3: doing that though too, for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Right yeah, I don't think it. I think without it,
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't be where I'm headed today.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know what when people, I mean, I know
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  Speaker 3: with me, I'm I mean I do with my practice,
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  Speaker 3: I have a a patience.
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  Speaker 2: So the more I feel like the more people I meet.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when you connect with people and when you
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  Speaker 3: talk to them, it just opens up, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, a whole new world today.
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  Speaker 3: Say look at that you've met me. When I met you,
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  Speaker 3: I got lucky to be hit it off. And so
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  Speaker 3: then after so you were flight attendant and then it
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  Speaker 3: just it just kind of erupted.
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  Speaker 2: Basically basically like nobody walks up.
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  Speaker 3: To you and say, hey, I think you should become
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  Speaker 3: a rapper, Like.
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  Speaker 4: You know, this all came like within me, you know, and.
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  Speaker 2: You just started just said let me let me try
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  Speaker 2: it out. Like what was the what was the first
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  Speaker 2: thing that came to you?
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  Speaker 3: And whnd when you when you decided that I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to be a rapper, Like what was the inspiration?
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  Speaker 2: What was it?
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  Speaker 3: I mean like it has been something that turned the
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  Speaker 3: line on for you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I just seen other people trying to
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  Speaker 4: do it, and I just knew I could do better,
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  Speaker 4: like within myself. And I went to the studio and
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  Speaker 4: I liked what I heard and I put it out
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  Speaker 4: and I said fuck it?
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  Speaker 2: And did you did you? Did? You started at home first?
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  Speaker 4: I mean you didn't just like watch No, I literally
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  Speaker 4: did just want.
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  Speaker 2: Just said I want to come just because my friend.
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  Speaker 4: Was doing it and she knew some guy and I
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  Speaker 4: was just like get in there.
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  Speaker 2: And you did it? Can you give us a little tidbit?
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  Speaker 2: Can you give us a little some some.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone asked me, I told you I want to be
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  Speaker 4: prepared for this, but you're gonna have to just check
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  Speaker 4: out the album.
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  Speaker 2: All right, all right, maybe we'll give me a little
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  Speaker 2: tibit when before before we go, I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: put you on the spot, but I kind of didn't
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  Speaker 2: want to put you on the spot. That's okay, I
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  Speaker 2: know you do. What about how how was.
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  Speaker 3: This change like your your brothers and sisters and friends,
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  Speaker 3: did it? Like did that that changed your relationships with
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  Speaker 3: them that you decided to move on and do this
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  Speaker 3: type of.
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  Speaker 2: You know, not really type of path.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like the real ones stuck around. But I
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  Speaker 4: think I did confuse some people at first where I came,
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  Speaker 4: like at first with the rap because even like my
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  Speaker 4: first remix I dropped, it was kind of like pretty vulgar?
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  Speaker 2: Was it?
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  Speaker 3: That was that what bothered them was a vulgarity or
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  Speaker 3: that you just wanted to do.
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  Speaker 4: I think some if you really know me, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like the different sides to me, and I think for
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  Speaker 4: some people who don't know me, it comes across like
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  Speaker 4: not as genuine or like unauthentic. But like I could
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  Speaker 4: see why because I came off right off the gate,
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  Speaker 4: not doing any music, coming out at twenty nine, almost
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  Speaker 4: thirty years old back then too dropping that so it.
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  Speaker 2: Was like it kind of a shock, total shift from
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  Speaker 2: your But but.
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  Speaker 4: If you really knew me, you're like, oh, I get it,
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  Speaker 4: and now you kind of see like my versatility as
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  Speaker 4: an artist, especially with the album with like other stuff,
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  Speaker 4: it kind of makes sense, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean I'm sitting here, you're very like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you're chill, you're cool, But I could see that there
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  Speaker 3: is that other side of you, like I could now,
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  Speaker 3: I could see that, and most people gotta worry about
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  Speaker 3: Hawaii people. Those are the people who take their families
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  Speaker 3: out with bullpeen hammers and kill the dog too. Now
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  Speaker 3: it's so true. So like people like me, I let
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  Speaker 3: it out. I scream, you know, boom boom. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm very vocal, but I think it's the quiet ones
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  Speaker 3: you gotta worry about.
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  Speaker 2: But I could see that little streaking you.
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  Speaker 3: I can see that little yeah people, Yeah, that's good.
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  Speaker 3: But you're but you're you're good. You're a good person,
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  Speaker 3: and I want to see your eyes. Let me see
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  Speaker 3: your beautiful eyes. Let me see those, Wow, and you
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  Speaker 3: cover them up with sunglasses. You should be showing off
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  Speaker 3: those baby blues. You'll sell more albums that way. You
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  Speaker 3: show it off those baby blue eyes. You stare into
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  Speaker 3: that camera.
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  Speaker 2: Look at them.
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  Speaker 3: They're gorgeous. So nice with those your beautiful lips.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, seriously, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's true I speak the truth, so yeah, I do.
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  Speaker 4: We need more truth seekers?
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  Speaker 2: Do you know what?
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  Speaker 3: I get a lot of ship to speak in the truth,
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  Speaker 3: I really do.
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  Speaker 2: I have a lot of shit and you.
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  Speaker 3: Know why because with the people that when I say
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  Speaker 3: things to people, you know when they get mad because
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  Speaker 3: it's the truth.
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  Speaker 2: That they don't want to. They don't want to they
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  Speaker 2: don't want to hear it.
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  Speaker 3: But you know what, then don't get me involved in
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  Speaker 3: your shit and don't ask me for my opinion because
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  Speaker 3: you're going to get my Yeah, and if you do
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  Speaker 3: something stupid in front of me, I'm going to give
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  Speaker 3: you my opinion.
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  Speaker 4: For me too, and it's usually not pretty. Sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, people get mad hurts does.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care if they do get mad at me? Honestly,
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  Speaker 4: I just I'm not a mean personal about it. Like
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  Speaker 4: if you ask me my opinion, I'll give it to
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  Speaker 4: you straight, but I'm not someone like go out of
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  Speaker 4: my way and like tell you something. You know what
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying, because I feel like that there's a line
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  Speaker 4: between being real and being mean to somebody.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's that's true, that's true, But I think you
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  Speaker 3: can be construed. I mean, I know for me, I
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  Speaker 3: don't want to be mean to people, but sometimes they
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  Speaker 3: ask for it, and then because they're of what have
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  Speaker 3: the behaving. But if you are somebody who speaks the truth,
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  Speaker 3: I do you know.
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  Speaker 2: Well you're being mean, Like I'm not. I'm not being mean,
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  Speaker 2: I'm being honest.
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  Speaker 3: Like like my friend, if I ask my friend something
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  Speaker 3: like I would.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate my friend.
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  Speaker 3: Well, like if I had a booger hanging out of
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: my nose, let's say my friend's not telling me that
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: it's there, I'd be like a friend who is gonna
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: say bog hanging.
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: Out of it because they're gonna you look stupid with exactly.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: So to me that friend who doesn't tell me, it's like, well,
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: why are they not telling me?
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: Do they want me to look stupid?
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: I'd rather them say that to me, And even though
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: it makes you look stupid for a second, and you
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: have a boga hanging, and it's at least that were
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: honest to tell you that that that was what's going on,
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: you know, using that as well.
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: So what do you want to what do you want
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: to see? Think of me?
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: What do I think of you?
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: I think you're from from the vibes I'm getting for
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: you now, No, I think you're I think you're as
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: far as what you look.
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: Like or I mean just overall. Yeah, well for.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: The for the last fifteen minutes that I know you,
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: I think you are. I think you are a pretty
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: genuine person. I think you you have a little anger
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: inside of you that you want to let out.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're a little angry.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: You think so a little bit about some stuff. Maybe
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: not about like this sub stuff serious nothing serious, but.
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's on the work. I've been in therapy. Amazing therapist.
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: Shout out to doctor Darcy Sterling. She's in New York.
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: She's amazing, she's working.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Actually, get her number.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: She's worked with like poly d Aubrio da like she's
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: really good. So yeah, I've done a lot of work well,
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: and I'm proud to say that I don't you know,
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: what I'm saying.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Who isn't that's a I have a life coach. I
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: love them.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: And it's good to bounce bounce stuff off, ship off
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: of other people because they give you an outside of
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: the box.
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, sometimes you just need another perspective.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because they'll give you the if they're not in it,
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: they'll give you a better perspective and and you'll get
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: a better perspective of what's going on, because if somebody
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: is in it with you, it's very hard to step
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: out of it and look in.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: And you have to be willing to look at yourself. Yes,
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: another person, that's true.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: A lot of people don't like to look at themselves.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: It's it's not easy to look at yourself, is it.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: It's you got to look in the mirror and like
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: what you see inside and all.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Well, you you should like what you see in the barrier.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: If you are beautiful, and like I said, just take
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: off those glances.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: I want to see your beautiful eyes.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: See now I can talk to you, now I can
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: see you.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: See. I love this.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: I love talking to somebody where I could see their
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: faces and I could.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: See into that.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: See you have such beautiful, like dreamy eyes, like you have.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: A beautiful You have a beautiful Saul. See now that
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: I can.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: Now you can see the cell.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Yes, and you should always show them. They're beautiful.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: So what is is? You have an album out? Now?
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Is there?
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: August first? Coming out? My debut album, No Time for
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: Friends comes out August first. I'm really excited.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: Oh did some friends get mad? Did they ask if
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: that's me?
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Did you?
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: I didn't really care. I was just I really didn't
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: have time. There was just a lot going on in
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: my life and that's why I named it that.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: And when and it's coming out August first? How many
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: are you going to be doing shows or Yeah?
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: I plan on doing some performances this fall, maybe at Pride,
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: and I have a few things in La coming up.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: So I'm really excited and just pushing the album. And
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: here in the city.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: That's exciting. And you live here in New York?
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: Now I just came from somewhere actually right before here. No,
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: I don't live in New York. I live in Las Vegas.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: How do you like Vegas? It's like living on the sun.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: It's like living on the fucking sun.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: Literally, I mean I like it. Though there's always something
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: to do. The food's really good.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: I mean it's it's always activity, that's for sure. But
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: I feel like Vegas is very real transient.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: I feel like it's like everybody there is like from
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: someplace else. There's like nobody's rooms in Vegas. Where, right
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: do you find that? Like it's like, yeah, there's nobody
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: really from there. It's not like in New York, like
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: where I'm from, Like I don't know anybody Vegas that
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: has somebody that's their friend for like since they're like ten.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Years old or something like that.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: But it's probably like that in North Carolina because you
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: said you're from there, right, so it was very probably
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: very close knit and right where you were from.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Did you like North Carolina? Not really really?
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: I mean it's beautiful, Like there's some beautiful places, but
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: especially like for what I want to do, and it's
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: not the place for me, you know.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: And the whole family still lives there.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, most of my family out there.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: They come busy with My dad's from Queen's actually really
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: what a lot of queens?
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: Is he from Okaven?
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: What Haven? Oh my god, that's right by me. That's
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: so funny. Oh my god.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, you know what, That's why I was
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: going to ask you because I know that last name.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: I mean, I asked you if you were related to Drida, right,
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: so one, yeah, but is that there was a lot
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: of the ones in from Howard Beach.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Anybody family from there? My grandma was living.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know the last name. Yeah, well we won't
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: say it all.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: It's a big name up here.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: It's a big it's a big it's a big Italian
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: last name.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of them around. Davanzo Divonzo. Yeah. So yeah,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: that's so funny. So how old you died?
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Sixty four?
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: All right, So he's a.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Little he's ten years older than me, but he probably
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: does he have any other brothers and sisters?
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he's got three sisters. Are the younger one
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: of them was hit by a car in New York City. Yeah,
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: it's so crazy, terrible recently two years ago.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: It's a shame. The Does the family still live in Queens?
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Anybody still live?
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: I got family in Brooklyn, Queens. My aunt lives up
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: in center of Long Island Island. Where else West Hampsted?
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, you look very Italian right now that
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: you have Yeah, yeah, I could see.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you look like a true guinea.
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: Do you miss do you miss that bring home with
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: your with your mom's cooking and stuff?
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah I do. There's a lot of good Italians
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: the Vegas, so you'd be surprised there is.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: But if there's nothing like New York though, you got it. Yeah,
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: you got.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: There's family Italian food, you know what, Because.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: It's the water.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: The water makes the everything tastes so good, and it
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: really does. Yeah, the Italian bride, yep, everything.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: Where are you from again?
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: I'm from Brooklyn. I'm from howerd Beach.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, yeah, my home born Brendon, raised my whole life.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: But I might be making a truck to to Jersey.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I'm just dont to look for house. Have you I have?
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: I haven't been there in a little while, in a minute,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: but I want to.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: I'm actually going to go back and visit some friends.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: So I'm gonna have to come visit you when i'm there.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Me know, when you're there, we'll definitely do something.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: And I would love that, and then maybe I could
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: see one of your shows.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: I better be invited.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: I just bought a house there, so.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Oh I would love to but you have a pool, right,
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: because it's hot there, you have to have.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: I don't have a pool.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: I'm not all right, Well we'll go, We'll go on
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: to the casino. I would love to come and I
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: would love to see when I come to Vegas. So
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: tell everybody where they can find you and where, when
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: when the next out, when the album is dropping, and
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: where they can get it from.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the album is dropping August first. It'll be available
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: on all music platforms Spotify, Apple Music, et cetera. You
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: can find me at stev d at Steve d s
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: t e v e E dot d. That's YouTube and Instagram,
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: and my website is coming soon.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: What that's so excited? You must be so excited.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: I'm getting I'm getting just getting stuff done in the
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: progress has been you know, it's not easy to do.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: No, it's not.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: That's not not from starting something from nothing.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: But look what you are a year and a half
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: and now you're on my show. Made it? You made
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: it totally. I'm going to give it to you when
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: you leave. You you're parting pudding when you really putting here,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: I do I have an I haven't eaten all day.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: All right, Well I'll definitely, I'll give you bothellacolate.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: That guy I like all right too.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: It was so amazing than having me and I love
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: you to come back like after, like you know, to
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: see how you're doing and how now everything's going with you.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: I love to do that.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: And like I said, when I come to Vegas, I'm
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: going to I'm definitely gonna come.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: And see you to give you my number.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: Please must exchange. Thanks having beautiful and I'm suglasses left
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: gorgeous size and you just his eyes how beautiful.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: I appreciate you.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for being It was a pleasure
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: having you. Everybody, Thank you. This was a great episode
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: of Kats and Pudding.
• 24:09
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