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Passion for Music with Casper · Authentic Living

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Hi, everyone.
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It's, Roxanne Derhodge with authentic living with Rock can.
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Today, I have a very special guest, and, it's Casper.
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Hi, Casper.
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How are you?
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Hi.
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They were honored to be on your show.
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Okay.
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So Casper is my first music, person.
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So he's gonna be, this is gonna be an interesting interview.
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So I'm gonna tell you a little bit about Casper and Casper's gonna fill in if I missed anything
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significant, significant Casper is a reggie and army, a recording artist.
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And, he reads, he released 23 albums.
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Wow.
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That many.
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Internationally so hot which is distributed by AMG And Universal Group, you make it, from the
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upcoming R and B album, turn it up.
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You've, recorded with some, pretty high level people, cocoa tea, Freddie McGregor and Chip
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Fu.
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Is that right?
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Chip Food.
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Okay.
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And and you got the best regular song at the Academia Music Awards in California for pro 1.
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Wow.
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So you've done a lot.
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And, you've appeared on that
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channel.com
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show WhatsApp and the Nikki Clark show, which is where I met you in 2006.
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So thank you for being here.
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I don't know if there's anything.
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I know there's a law
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lots more
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in but is there anything in your in your, bio that you'd like people to know, that you
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missed?
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Yeah.
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The biggest one was, hit the billboard magazine in 2007 team, and it was, Canada's 150th
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birthday.
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So my face got in there.
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So it was very nice because, you know, you you your face was up with Katie, Perry, Justin
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Bieber, Drake, Drake, all of them.
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Right?
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Of of course.
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My biggest, because I've done a lot of independent magazines Mhmm.
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Through the years of regular magazines, whatever.
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This is my biggest accomplishment, and it's been my 10 year life goal to get into it.
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It's interesting.
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So you had you had that as a goal of something you wanted to achieve.
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So you know what?
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I I would like to know, and I, you know, obviously, and we're gonna speak about the
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obvious, you know, you're Canadian, and you're not coming from the Caribbean and you're you're
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not, you know, you're say you're singing reggae, and RMB, right, which we know that
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that's I'm sure that's the first thing you get asked when you get interview.
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So tell me what happens, when you go out there and you talk about the fact that, you know, you
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you you sing in this this arena.
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What?
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What happens?
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But do you start from the beginning, or do you wanna know what?
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You you take me wherever you think is a good place to
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go, Casper.
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Back in the day in, my hometown, did you make a hand filled with come up pick tomatoes and
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apples?
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And I would have to learn their dialect, their 512, you know, as you have your own.
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Right?
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Absolutely.
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And, that's the way I could communicate with them.
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But then once we communicated, I got a cable machine cassette tapes of what we had at the
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time.
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We didn't have no CDs.
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No.
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Which makes us old here, and I don't know how that
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Well, a a wee bit, but we won't admit that.
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But that's how long I've been in the game.
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But what we did was we put on the carryout machines, and we, recorded tape, double plates,
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kinda tape things.
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And the Jamaicans were like, Yo, you sound great.
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You sound like one of us, and that's when I realized I hadn't.
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And but then I kept practicing and practicing rewinding fast forwarding the tapes to learn
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what they were saying because you can't just get it at the beginning, you know, being the
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Canadian white dude, you know?
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And then all of a sudden, boom, just came naturally, and then the guy's like, you know
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what?
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You're great.
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When you when you get you should go to Toronto and pursue your career.
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And this is exactly what I did.
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I left with a demo and a dream
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So where where you said that little town, where were you from that you would, it's it was the
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farm, people that came up to work on the farm.
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So where where were you?
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It's picton, Ontario.
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Oh, you were in picton.
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Okay.
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Cause I'm in Niagara and I know a lot of people come up, to work on the farms here also in
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Niagara.
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Exact same thing.
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Right?
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So, okay, so you prior to that, had you had any musical aspirations?
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Had you like singing?
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Had you, you know
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That's the funny part.
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In school, I sing, inquires somewhat.
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But when I hit high school and stuff, I didn't even do a music course.
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I didn't even get into music.
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It was just in me just just I just was singing, but I didn't know what I was singing.
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You know, I would grab a old record or R and B record or reggae record and just put it all
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together, but I had no idea that I was building up for this.
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So tell me the first time you actually got out there and sang, can you remember my first time
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when you got on stage?
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Or Sure.
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It's a long time ago, but I'm curious.
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What was that like for you?
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Well, let me let me push it back once.
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We brought when I brought out my award winning album, and then at that time, it wasn't award
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winning.
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It was just an album.
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But what we did was we didn't put my face on it.
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Is like a ghost.
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So people would think I was a ghost.
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So but so what I'm saying is, prior to what I'm talking about is people were shocked when they
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saw the white Duke get on stage.
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They're looking for the black guy.
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Right.
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Because the radio was playing the track when you wind it, and going off crazy, but they had
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no idea I was white because I never showed my face in anything I did.
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Interesting.
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And I did it that way because I didn't wanna be judged because back back in that day, nobody
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wanted to produce a white red hair in his No one wanted to even promote a white reganese.
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We I had it pretty hard.
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Nowadays, it's different.
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You know, got rappers that are white.
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You got some regular artists now that are white that are doing it.
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They might have had a hard time.
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No questions.
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But back in the day, when I was coming up, black was black and white was white.
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It was a very kind of, protective kind of thing.
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Hi, Robert.
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Once I saw, at Lamport Stadium, because at, with Karabana, because, you know, I'm Trinidad
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Adi and I went to, watched the king and queen bands.
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And it was interesting because I could tell you my reaction because I'm a trainee, obviously,
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you know, you know, calypso since I could walk, And then there was a German guy, and he
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obviously was white, and he got up there.
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And he sang a calypso, and he blew us all away.
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And we were like, what the heck is this?
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But boy was he good?
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So once he performs, everybody went, wow.
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You know, because you didn't expect it.
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Again, that expectation, right, like, for a particular kind of music.
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You expect, you know, if if you're Colombian, you're gonna, you know, be from Trinidad,
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you're gonna be probably for Indian or If you're reggae or RMB, you're gonna, you know,
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and really, I think music is from, I would say, the soul.
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It's something that comes from you.
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Exactly.
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So, you know, it's now the messengers of reggae music is coming from different races.
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You know what I mean?
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There's there's the Jamaicans, of course.
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There's the whites.
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I mean, we've got a niece.
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A lot of different ones.
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Even trainee are singing regular music.
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You know?
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Fine.
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Absolutely.
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You gotta, blend up things for sure.
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But it's funny you talk about Trinidad is I'm actually working with I don't know if you know
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the name connector.
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I've heard of the name.
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Yes.
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Connector.
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Yes.
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We'll be on a combination this year.
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Nice.
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It's gonna be, like, a dance So I'm actually pushing into the turn of data inside of 2
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because I just finished doing an African interview, TV interview, and I'm pushing in the
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African side.
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We I've already done the Jamaican, so now I'm just trying to go for the globe.
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Okay.
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Nice.
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You sound they say, yo, you sound great.
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You sound like one of us, whether you're Jamaican or turn it that in, or or, African
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people are listening to me, and they're like, you're so ethnic.
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That's why I'm doing the Bob Marley thing is because people say, you sound like Bob Marley.
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Right.
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You sound like the real deal.
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Now I you know, I'm gonna talk a little bit.
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What I find interesting is I did when I did my grad school, I actually focused on, cultural
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diversity as one of my thesis.
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And we talked I did a lot of courses on, obviously, you know, the black culture in the
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US, and they talked a lot about, obviously, where where things like, rap came from.
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And, with with reggae, I'm gonna tell you what I know about Trondland.
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I'm sure you know, probably know more about the origination of Klipso than I do.
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But with wrapping, obviously, initially, it got started.
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And, you know, and there's different terms that I, I'd learned back then.
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That people, when, when it came out of something, obviously, not adverse, but
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something beautiful came out of it, which was music.
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So people couldn't, obviously, the slaves couldn't talk, so the masters could understand,
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so they kind of develop a a way of being able to communicate.
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So only the other slaves would understand what they were saying.
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And then out of that kind of came the art form eventually, of wrapping.
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Now my understanding of reggie is not so good.
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So you tell me about what what you know about reggie or, you know, Well, the roots,
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it's funny because a lot of people think hip hop was generated by just hip hop.
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The roots of hip hop is rap music.
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Biggie Small is one of the biggest hip hop artists.
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He comes straight at Jamaica.
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I didn't know that.
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You know what I mean?
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So it's all influenced, and now we can even go as far as this.
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This is crazy.
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Country music and reggae are close.
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Because acoustic version acoustic version.
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Oh, okay.
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And a lot of reggae artists, same thing.
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Do a lot of country crossovers.
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If you notice a lot of rig guaranteed, you can probably turn it down in artists too.
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Do a lot of covered songs.
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Yes.
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They do.
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You know, so that jaundered, but the hip hop comes from the reggae.
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So it's all in it it's all in 1.
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So the creation of of reggae music is a very strong music.
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Not only because of the the instrumental instrumental on the production, but the message
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behind Reagan.
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So let's talk about the message because I think that's the important part, I think, that a lot
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of people don't know you know, I I think, unfortunately, on on sometimes it's on the
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radio, you hear a lot of, you know, swearing, squaring, and you know, putting down of women,
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you know, women, those type, all the things that we're isolating against.
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Right.
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So with reggie, tell me kind of the core of of the messaging that a lot of regular music is
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about.
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Because a lot of times, you know, I know I'm turning that in.
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I can get the slang, and I can I still miss it?
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Tell me what's what's the content of a lot of songs that you've written or the ones that you
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know.
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Well, what I've written is a lot of judge out tunes, had god tunes to inspire, a youth.
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So it's basically forget about me right now.
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Let's go, Bob.
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Let's go, Peter Tosh.
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Let's go, Greg, guys.
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Let's go, Coco T, friend, with Gregor, that all have a certain message, and there's a just sent
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message, you know, save the people, save the slaves from Africa, whatever, but it's more of
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a a message to the governments, and the leaders of Babila, which is Babila, is the government
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for is has their name in Jamaica.
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Mhmm.
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So it's that inspiration saying, we don't need to be slaves no more.
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We don't need to live in poverty no more.
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We don't and that's the message that regular music's trying to get across, I would expect.
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You know?
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So it's basically just inspiring the kids and the youth and the people to go on with their
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life with god, but also know that they can do it.
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Mhmm.
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And don't let Bobby learn the government say you can't do it or the the haters or the
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criticize people saying you can't do it.
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I know this through experience.
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I've been hated through this industry left and right.
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But the same people that hated on me are the same people that love me.
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So tell me about that because that's hard.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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Because you, you know, when you're starting off in anything, you know, you know, you're you and
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you have the passion.
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You know what you wanna do.
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It's kinda like when I start to speak, it's kinda like.
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And then you're, you know, you're you're you know what you wanna do.
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You know, you have to professional craft, those types of things, but you have to have a belief
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in yourself.
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When you went out there and you were, like, you know, kind of judged because of what when they
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finally saw you and stuff like that.
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Not kind of judged.
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Judge badly.
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Judge badly.
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Yeah.
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So what?
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It wasn't it wasn't a judge for because I wasn't good enough.
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People knew I was good.
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Okay.
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Time I did it, I did acapella, and I killed the crown.
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Right?
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It was affecting my skin color.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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As you know, I'm white, and you can see I'm like, but at the end of the day, to the fans
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that are out there and the audience listeners that you have here, I am a white, reggae
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artist, freshenal white regulators, but my soul has a black feel to
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me because
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where my music comes from, straight from the soul, the heart.
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So I don't believe that music has any color.
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In any genre.
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Right.
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But our society says it does, but we're here to change that.
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And and I've I think I've done an amazing job with that because a lot of people respect me as
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yourself, Nikki Clark.
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Oh, everyone.
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Right?
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Actually, Nikki Clark is the one that got me the Carissa Michelle.
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Interesting.
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I see she's, she's doing some big things.
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I have connected with her lately, which is amazing.
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So nice to see.
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She's doing amazing and, you know, and I root for her big time.
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Mhmm.
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But it's like, It's like they start to see not the color.
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They start to see what this quite sounds.
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Like us.
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Not only does he sound like that in our music, but he speaks Jamaican.
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Mhmm.
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And that's where they get it.
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Because I remember having a conversation with a few people and say, yo, you sound you sound
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more Jamaican than me, and I'm Jamaican, you know, It's weird, but that's the truth.
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You know, when I really start speaking Jamaican, I start speaking Jamaican.
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I w when I was in the African interview, they had to tell me to slow down my vocals because
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they couldn't understand what I was saying because I was saying best because sometimes I
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do that.
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But that to your your question is that it, yeah, it was hard.
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It, like, the skin color was the key to it all, but after 16 years apart, well, 20 years, we we
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we we put it back that far.
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That's a long time.
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So how did you keep connected to the passion for the music?
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Because I know when you're trying to do something, that's different, and you are doing
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something different out there.
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Right?
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You are, you know, you're not saying I'm gonna go talk, you know, same country in Western.
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Oh, I'm gonna you know, do a, you know, you could, you could have picked a lot of
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different, genres of music, but you picked reggie and you picked r and d.
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Let let me stop you at the pick.
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Like I tell everyone, it chose me.
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I didn't pick it.
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If that was the case Mhmm.
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I would have picked country.
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I would have picked rock.
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But it because I used to I'll when I first started out, I sang.
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I listened and sang soft rock.
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Okay.
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That's what I liked at the beginning, but reggae chose me.
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So when people say, Did you pick it?
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I said, no.
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It shows me.
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No.
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When you say it shows you,
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the spirit chose me, like, I had to I went to Jamaica at the age of eighteen.
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Didn't know why I was really there.
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Yeah.
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I know what I'm saying.
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Like, in music, I had no idea.
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What level I would be on.
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So when I went to Jamaica at the age of eighteen, I went there and I cut a first dump
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plate, which is a there's a song.
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And everybody was amazed by it because they're like, yo, you're white, Canadian, but you sound
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like us.
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Again Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And then all of a sudden, they took me in like a king, and I was I was blown away because I
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was like, I'm no one.
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I'm just wrong tunnel.
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I wasn't even Casper at that time.
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That's the truth.
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Yep.
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Yeah.
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But it's crazy.
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How it works because I've been there over 9 times.
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And for long periods of stretch, one time I was there for 2 months, but it's like weird because
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you go down not knowing who you are, but after that night's time, you go down like a king.
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You go down like Kessler, you start performing with certain artists.
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You go down in studios.
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You work with Coco T, Freda McGregor.
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It's like, a dream come true because at the age of thirteen, I was listening to their music.
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Wow.
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Interesting.
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So when you when you write, right, when you tell me Tell me what your creative process, or
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do you have a creative, like, is it a particular way?
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Is it time of day?
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You know, I know when I write, I have to, you know, this certain things that I do.
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And then if I know I'm not in flow, I just will I'll just pack it up if I'm trying, and it's
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not it.
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You're doing it right because once you're not in flow and he's out here, Yeah.
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Yes.
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Yep.
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So how do you how do you do it?
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How do you do it?
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How do you get your inspiration for your songs?
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Well, first, they all might to god, but at the end of the day, sometimes they all Sometimes I
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wake up at 3 in the morning, and that's my hugest time right there.
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I'll look up 3 in the morning and write something down.
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And then and then, maybe even record a piece of it.
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That's the beauty of having your own studio, of course.
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You can just walk downstairs or whatever and just jump on and Yep.
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Yep.
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Well, mine's upstairs, but, yes, I jumped on and do my thing.
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And then I come back to it later and write the song.
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Sometimes the song can be bright in 10 minutes.
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Sometimes the song can write in a week.
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It all depends what what creativity is.
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You you know that as a book.
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Right?
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Mhmm.
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You don't you get right as blocked sometimes.
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Right?
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But I have over I'm thinking now Internationally, as you heard the how many
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albums, I think I have 350 songs.
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That I've written and produced, not just written.
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So you also produce your own music?
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Yeah.
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I produce not only my own music, but others too.
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Oh, you do.
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As part of my business.
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And do you produce other reggae artists at R and B or just different genres of music.
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Yes.
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I do.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Hop on the reggae.
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Sometimes some dance Maybe, well, now this we're gonna be producing Silca.
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So
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Oh, so if there's somebody's listening, right, and They're on a journey, whether it's a music
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journey or just, you know, they wanna do something different.
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Right?
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And they and they have that voice in their head.
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We all have it.
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Right?
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You know,
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talk about that voice.
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Yeah.
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That voice, it says, well, you know,
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who do you think you are?
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It's amazing.
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It's amazing.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It can be a scary voice too because it's one that says, hey, do it.
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Take away your fears and go for it.
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Right?
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Right.
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Right.
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And then there's the other part that says, oh, boy.
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What if I do it?
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Exactly.
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There goes the doubt.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So it's it's that so what would you say to someone, whether they're they're beginning
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artists that maybe are tuned in today because they know you're gonna, you know, be on the
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show or somebody kind of starting on a journey that they're it's a big one, and, and, and
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they're scared.
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What what would you say to them?
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I'd say that's okay because being scared is key to success.
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People always say, y'all y'all gotta be brave and the best.
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But being scared can actually help you.
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Not scared enough for not to do it, of course.
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Mhmm.
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Being at least nervous or scared is that inspiration of saying, okay.
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This is new and different.
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I should try Right?
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So what I tell most few listeners or TV stuff I do, I say this is my slogan is If I come up
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with an idea, it's just an idea.
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First, the fear steps in the doubt steps in as we know the the voices, but then you have to
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sit back and make a decision.
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Make the impossible possible and then go and make it reality.
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And that's what I do.
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So, yes, you can be scared.
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You can doubt, but once you pass that part of it, then you're on your way to success to to to
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your goal.
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So that's what I would tell at anyone because I always that question for some reason.
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But it's a powerful question because in business of any sense, that's just the way it
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is.
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Everyone can be scared and dealt at first because you're not sure if you're gonna do it.
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I remember when I first recorded my first album here when you wind it, and I was terrified
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because I'm like, what are they gonna think about me?
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How are they gonna to see how, you know, what are they gonna do?
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But the crazy part is I brought it out, and I started in karaoke bars at first.
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Right.
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Right.
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You know, back in the day.
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So you're one of those guys that would go to Carrieoka and everybody would say, oh, I'm not
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following him.
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Yeah.
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But what I would exactly but what I would do is sing the own songs that I produce.
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Oh, wow.
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I switched it up.
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Right.
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And at first, they didn't want that because they wanted us to sing their own theirs.
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But then I said, no, I wanna sing mine.
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So I actually promoted when he winded.
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My award winning of them.
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For dance home of the year, Toronto International.
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I started in a karaoke bar.
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So Again, back to what we were saying.
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Don't be scared because there's always someone out there that's listening at the the world's
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huge.
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But the problem with most people is they stay in a box.
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You know?
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They don't see the world in the globe and say, hey.
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Woah.
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I mean and, of course, you're scared of the the globe because that's such a big world, but it's
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also a small world, if you notice, because you you go to a meeting or you go to someone.
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Oh, I know you, but you could be in a different country.
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So this circle can be small.
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You know?
25:36
But the idea is key.
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If you don't have the idea, then you don't have the goal.
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So it starts in your mind and then you get some.
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Then you're like, oh, no.
25:51
I I remember when I I just, yeah, I just spoke in New York with Les Brown and, you know, kinda
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getting there and I'm thinking, I'm gonna be stage with this, you know, one of the best in
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the world.
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Where would that feel like?
26:02
You know what I mean?
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Well, you
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know, I gotta tell you, I'm gonna be honest.
26:05
Right?
26:05
So I was in a mass frenzy.
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I think I finally just seen down a bit.
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It's honestly since December.
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And so I'm getting prepared, and there was so much, and my team was working hard.
26:15
And, you know, I was I obviously had to practice and, you know, there was lots of
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things flying and obviously, you know, still doing other businesses and stuff like that.
26:23
And I, I remember sitting and thinking to myself, in the pressure of it.
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I said, you know, you could just stay on your little cul de sac.
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Exactly.
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Got
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it.
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And kinda lock up your house with your family.
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I'm not doing it.
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I remember saying that to myself, and I thought, this is just fear.
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Is normal because I'm making that big leap to get on with some of the best in the world.
26:48
And what did that feel like?
26:50
That's another thing because I can I can feel your what you're feeling, because when working
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with the icons that I've worked with Yeah?
26:57
And then I'm thinking, wow, I'm up next, and I'm listening to the first person.
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And what I did is I just went into the zone because I thought, okay.
27:05
I'm just gonna focus.
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I've been practicing, you know, nonstop.
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I know it's, it's, it's in me, like you said.
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It's like you and you, when you sing, and I've seen you sing.
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You just go into a space where it pours out of you.
27:19
I think at times when I speak Casper, I don't know if this I'm sure this is the case with a
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lot of artists also is I literally can't remember some of the things that I've said
27:31
because I, I get I feel like it's a download from something bigger.
27:34
It is.
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It's a spiritual download.
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It's a spiritual download.
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It's it's I'll watch an interview.
27:41
Even this probably this interview is the same thing.
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Is you never can prepare yourself for an interview, a stage show, or anything.
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It just comes naturally.
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You can you can practice and you have to practice because that's key.
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Yes.
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But if you notice, even though your practice doesn't come out the same way you practice it,
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Hello?
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It comes out the way it's supposed to come out and the way that people caking in is amazing.
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Correct?
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Absolutely.
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Because you get the you get the feedback after.
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And then, you know, you always think, oh, you know, did I miss this, or did I, you know, and
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then you get feedback from others, and then they go, You know, and I got some fantastic
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feedback from, a lot of people in New York that I've since been doing business with.
28:24
And they're like, this was it was inspiring.
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You were on, you know, you, you, you, your message was what we were needing for our
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company, those types of things.
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So, you know, multiple events have come from at since.
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So you're right.
28:37
It's it's it's you know, your ego kinda says, oh my goodness, should you do this?
28:44
And then you kinda, you know, and I'm I'm I I'm, you know, in New York City and I'm looking
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around.
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Okay.
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What did you feel like?
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Okay.
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So
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I felt
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what did you feel like when when you sat back and said, oh my god.
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I'm really doing this.
28:58
Then I was You know, once I got over that hump of, okay, you could just kinda lock up your
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house and stay here with your kid.
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Yeah.
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And then
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I and then I'm in New York City, and I'm like, I'm meant to be here.
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And that's how you feel.
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Right?
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I'm meant to be here.
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This was in the plan all along, so I think you're right.
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You get that anxiety, and then you think, because again, another, you know, so many other
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things are expecting of you, which you have to deliver.
29:24
And I knew I mean, I've always delivered, but, again, every time you take a bigger leap, like
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you've obviously done in your career, it took something bigger out of me yet again.
29:33
And then New York was the last one, that happened, and now I'm doing a big event with
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bringing, someone, that's a celebrity to speak, in Toronto, on, mental health and mental
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well-being and addiction.
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Yes.
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In in June.
29:51
So, again, that opportunity.
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Out of, you know, network and and his name is, Brian Cuban, his his brother Mark Cuban, is you
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know, kind of the one that's on shark tank and stuff like that, but he's one of the, you know,
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ones coming, you know, to Toronto.
30:08
So you never know.
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You you have a good point.
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You're you're doing this.
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This is all going to be all over, and you never know who's gonna be listening that might hear
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you or hear me and then want to connect for whatever reason.
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Yeah.
30:23
Well, I think that's the key.
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I think that's the beauty of social media now.
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We didn't have that.
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Right?
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Absolutely not.
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I mean, you know,
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you can go out and you can contact a celebrity.
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You can contact anybody you wanna contact nowadays, back in the day, you have to go
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knocking on the doors.
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Right.
30:42
And my opportunity for New York came from a social network connection, and that I worked
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with for a while and then was able to to finalize the deal to be able to go to New York.
30:52
So you never you never know, but I think it goes back to the whole element is that you have
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to have a plan.
30:58
Like, you first of all, you're right.
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Have an idea.
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Mhmm.
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And then you have to know that you have this burning desire, even though you feel like, oh,
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can I do this?
31:06
And you you got you gotta step on it daily.
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You gotta, you know, reach out.
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You gotta connect.
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You gotta talk to people.
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That's because for me, like, I'm I'm spiritually connected.
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That's how I work.
31:18
Like, I'm a spiritual man.
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You probably know that by now.
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Yes.
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That When I connect with someone, there's a chemistry there.
31:27
But how I do it is it's kinda strange.
31:30
Because the higher power says, you gotta connect with that person.
31:36
Now your fear can say, no, I don't.
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But usually, you sit there, and you can actually know who you can connect with because
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it's just in you.
31:47
You say, okay, that person I know I have to connect with, because it's part of your goal
31:52
because, see, I talk about this.
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This is crazy.
31:54
And that you might relate to this.
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It's, I believe, life is like a video game.
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You know, you you you adventurous video game.
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You know how you do the wizard stuff in the video game.
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There's a wizard Derhodge.
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There's ghosts here.
32:08
There's demons here.
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But yet, the top of there is your treasure.
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You get to the king or the queen.
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Right?
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And you
32:16
have to go through all these people.
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So I believe in life is the same way.
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You go through all of me, you, Nikki Clark, whoever.
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We go through everyone until we get everyone, we get something from it.
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It can be a bump on the street.
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It could be the president.
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It could be anybody in the world, but we're we're made to get that key.
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Because every time that I get that key, I get to the next level.
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And I'm still trying to keep going to the top, you know, I'm the first stop.
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But at least you connect, you know, And then all of a sudden, you get that one piece that
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you were missing.
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And that person might not even know they gave it to you.
32:57
And that's a good that's a good point.
32:58
You're not sometimes you don't know, and you never know who along the way Guides you or
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helps you, but sometimes you look back and you go, oh, wow.
33:08
That was really significant.
33:10
There was something there, you see.
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Right.
33:12
And it may not have been somebody in a authority position or a power position
33:16
sometimes.
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It may be just that, you know, like, it's kinda like we met a year and a half ago, I guess it
33:22
is now from work, yeah, about that or get heading on that.
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You, you know
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But but, again, we we didn't know we're gonna do this interview.
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No.
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No.
33:30
And then, you know, and then we connected.
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And I said, oh, it makes sense because, obviously, I'm busy.
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You're busy.
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And, You know, I think you, you know, that's interesting.
33:40
So when you say, okay, you're a spiritual man.
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So the choices that you make in business Are they guided by some of that spiritual wisdom,
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or you just go with intuition?
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Funny because, you know, in this society where we can sit back and say it's us.
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Because that's how the world works.
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Society says it's us, but in the spiritual world, it's god.
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And When you put those 2 together, you have to say it's you, but we give thanks to the all 91.
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Right?
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Yes.
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It doesn't matter if you're you're Christian.
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It doesn't matter if whatever religion is.
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I'm not I'm not any religion.
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I just believe in god, period.
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Love.
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Love is key.
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One love.
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Yep.
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Yeah.
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But how it works is that people are the vessel.
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You know, and when people shut, like, how the world's doing it today, they're trying to shut
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off people and shut off the messages.
34:36
But if more people could say, okay.
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Hi.
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How are you doing?
34:40
Mhmm.
34:41
That is like a virus going out there.
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Of love, but the more people say, hey.
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I hate you.
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There's still the virus going out there.
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And that's how our world is starting to become.
34:52
Were but but my goal is to bring back to love.
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Thank you.
34:58
It's it's
34:58
so interesting because, you know, because of my, obviously, my theme of authenticity.
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And I, you know, I often say, you know, I grew up in Trinidad.
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Right?
35:08
You walk past somebody.
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You never you had you said hello.
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It was What
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was it?
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Good morning.
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Good afternoon.
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Hello, and high high uncle, respect.
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Right?
35:19
And I think it's something that's such a basic thing, but it's such It's such a nice thing.
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Right?
35:26
Like, you said, like, you, you know, when you see someone in the even if they give you a half
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a smile, that's like a hug.
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Right?
35:32
And it
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makes a difference in the world.
35:34
And you're right.
35:35
It's kind of that energy that we're putting out there.
35:37
And I think the world needs more authenticity.
35:40
We need to be real.
35:41
We need to let people know what we're ready about.
35:44
And, you know, like you said, love, right, to be, to, to be kind and gentle and compassion in
35:50
the world, that energy, the more of that you put out there, How much better is it concern,
35:56
concerning what the kind of things are going on in the world?
36:01
People don't believe that their voice is powerful enough.
36:05
They always say, okay.
36:06
If I say hello, I open the door, so what?
36:09
That doesn't mean nothing.
36:10
But it does mean something because you're putting that out there.
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And that's actually creating a spiritual level for your day.
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Mhmm.
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So if you're miserable for the day, then you're all gonna be miserable for the evening.
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If you're gonna be miserable for the day and all of a sudden, you change it into a spiritual
36:32
connection and say, okay.
36:33
You know what?
36:34
I'm not doing that today.
36:35
And your evening's gonna be a lot better.
36:38
Right.
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I
36:38
know that sounds strange, but that's life.
36:41
But it's so it's so true, though, because what happens is if you're if you're in that mode,
36:46
then you're not gonna, you know, go do the things you need to do.
36:48
And you're not gonna see possibilities, you know, open because if you're in that stage,
36:53
you're thinking negativity and you're not thinking about, you know, I gotta follow
36:56
through.
36:56
I was supposed to follow-up with this person.
36:57
I was supposed to connect with this person.
36:59
And when you kinda lift yourself and say, Hey, I'm not having a good day, but I'm gonna do it
37:03
anyway.
37:04
What happens is you feel better.
37:05
And you get lifted up.
37:07
Absolutely.
37:08
Because you may have maybe had a nice conversation with somebody or and run it to
37:12
somebody at the bank and they, you know, you chipped out at about nothing.
37:15
And before you know, you're like, oh, yeah, by the way, what was I, what was I upset about?
37:19
I forget.
37:20
Exactly.
37:21
So that's what I do with my music.
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When you hear my music, it puts a smile on your face because the message is strong.
37:29
I'll have some party tunes.
37:31
I'll have some some jaja tunes, spiritual tunes, even some gospel tunes, but love is
37:37
love.
37:38
Overall, I will not put any slackness, any badness.
37:44
Through my 20 years, I have not recorded any slackness.
37:48
That swearing.
37:50
That's that's not me.
37:51
Now most of the time in the industry, they always say, you know Casper.
37:55
I mean, I've I've had contracts, no word of a lie that came up to me from Jamaica, New York,
38:00
whatever, in the States.
38:02
We're talking huge amount.
38:04
I won't say, but huge amounts to do that.
38:08
And I just stayed with my own label because I didn't believe in that.
38:12
That was hard, and it is still hard.
38:14
But at the end of the day, I still keep my my overall, respect.
38:21
And authenticity.
38:22
You're you're what you're saying is you could have gone off the beaten path because but you
38:27
decided that this is what you're about.
38:29
This is but this is big this is your space.
38:32
Yeah.
38:32
Right.
38:32
And Well,
38:33
I figured if I did anything stupid just for the money, then all those albums that I ever
38:39
preached about in my music and the messages would all just fall away because people would
38:44
be like, okay, he's doing this.
38:46
The last year, he did this.
38:48
I try to stay fluently focused on everything I do.
38:53
So back to the writing stuff and I'm sure it's the same with you, is I am very, very critical
39:01
and very spiritually connected to rights.
39:05
My songs because they gotta be right before I push it out to the world.
39:11
If it's you're gonna cry to my song, You're gonna be emotional.
39:15
You're gonna be happy.
39:16
You're gonna be whatever.
39:18
Most people that hear my music say, oh my god.
39:21
I can feel your pain.
39:23
See, when you heard me perform it on Nikki Clark, what was your first thing?
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Yeah.
39:28
I I was struck with emotion.
39:30
Like, I mean, and I think that's you know, when an artist does that, I I mean, I remember the
39:36
words, and I can't, I'll be honest with you, but it's the emotion that it brings up in you.
39:40
And then you you're you're struck with it, and then you're like, you're connected then.
39:44
You are connected, truly connected then, and then you open up your heart because it's touch
39:48
you're you're saying about something that touches in me, a memory that I've had, and then
39:53
I think of it where it takes me.
39:55
And if, if that happens to, say, even a a third of your audience or 50% of your audience, and
40:02
they're going to a space of vulnerability and, and, wanting something better in the world.
40:08
And like you said, energy, what happens?
40:11
It goes out from there.
40:12
Right?
40:12
And I think at the end of the day, I think you're right in saying that we're only one
40:17
person, but you never know who you're gonna impact.
40:20
Well, you never know.
40:22
Mhmm.
40:22
Mhmm.
40:23
You know?
40:23
And it's like, lyrical content is key to the world.
40:28
You know, you're gonna sing about badness, bad things are gonna happen in the world.
40:31
You're gonna sing about goodness.
40:32
Great things are gonna happen in the world.
40:34
This is the bottom line.
40:36
That's why I say an artist, or even someone that writes books anyone, anyone that speaks
40:42
about it, that we have a powerful tool to send out a loving message to the world.
40:50
Mhmm.
40:51
So if any beginning authors or artists out there if they you can give them one tip.
40:57
Maybe they've been thinking about writing and they're, you know, they just haven't taken that
41:01
step.
41:02
What would be one or 2 good tips that you could give
41:04
Well, the first thing I would say, stop thinking about it and just do
41:08
it.
41:09
Like
41:09
like Nike said, he'd do it.
41:11
Get past the fear of the damage.
41:13
And say everything will work out.
41:15
So what you do is, from my experience, is you could go with your idea.
41:24
It could be the most over the top craziness.
41:27
I've had some crazy ideas over the top.
41:30
And every goal I've ever set up, I've always got it because I did it.
41:35
And I didn't just do it from doing it for 6 months to I always I'll wait till 2 years, 3
41:41
years until it's done until I get it.
41:44
Mhmm.
41:44
Most people don't want that.
41:46
They want it fast.
41:47
Especially today in in the kids world, that we use world, but ideas is the key to your your
41:55
your product.
41:56
So first thing is, as you probably know this very well, is the idea going through it,
42:02
getting it all done, getting it right, and then product is key because now you need something a
42:09
brand to sell.
42:11
Mhmm.
42:12
Mhmm.
42:12
Correct.
42:12
Absolutely.
42:13
Absolutely.
42:14
So you now gonna sit back and say, okay.
42:18
Is my brand Right right now.
42:22
My book, my CD, my product, because we just can't switch to the product.
42:26
Ron Tuttle is the key of the business.
42:29
You know?
42:30
So product is is key to it.
42:33
Like I said, book, CD, DVD, it doesn't matter what it is.
42:38
It's key to get that product first.
42:41
And then you can step in the industry of whatever industry you're you're dealing with,
42:45
but you gotta make sure that your product's solid.
42:48
See, when I first started in mind, my product, I wasn't sure about because it was my first
42:54
product.
42:54
I was scared.
42:55
I had tears coming to my eyes and everything.
42:59
I pushed it, though.
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Yep.
43:02
I pushed my first album, and this never happens much, but I pushed pushed my first album and
43:09
that album became award winning for trial international dance of the year 2 years after I
43:15
pushed it.
43:16
So 2000, I pushed it, but 2004 is when it won the award.
43:21
Imagine that.
43:23
So that takes a lot of follow through and vision and daily steps of of getting it out
43:31
there.
43:32
Drive, motivation, persistent, I mean, I'm a persistent man.
43:36
If if if I wanna I want something and I wanna do something, I wanna get you.
43:41
Mhmm.
43:41
Mhmm.
43:42
They would say, hey.
43:42
How'd you get this guy?
43:43
How'd you get this guy?
43:44
How'd you get this lady?
43:45
Whatever.
43:46
It doesn't matter how I got you.
43:48
It matters I got you.
43:50
Mhmm.
43:51
Because that's the key to success.
43:54
Mhmm.
43:55
Because people are busy, but at the end of the day, if you come with the right stuff, some
44:02
people will go and say, hey.
44:03
You know what?
44:04
I'm not busy enough to not hear that or listen to that.
44:08
Yes.
44:09
Now you've intrigued my ears.
44:11
To keep my sense, my eyes, you know, that's the key.
44:16
So back to product is the key.
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So get get, get prepared.
44:23
Well, it's it's true because, I work with a coach and she says is, ready.
44:31
Aim.
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Get ready.
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Then aim and fire.
44:34
Well, that's again.
44:35
That's the same thing.
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Yeah.
44:37
Same concept like your game because you can't go out there.
44:39
You can't go out there until you know what you're about.
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And what
44:42
are you targeting?
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Yeah.
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You don't know your brand.
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You don't know who your target market is.
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All those things, you know, whether it's in business or in speaking, or coaching like I am,
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at the end, end of the day, you can't go to the market without knowing what your brand is and
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what your brand identity is, and then, and again, at the end of the day, who your target
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market is.
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I want you're able to do those things, then you, you, you know, you find not everybody's
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gonna wanna deal with you, but that's okay.
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But then you're gonna position yourself accordingly to get the people that, want you in
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their lives, they will they will join your tribe.
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But it it's it's kind of funny that way because when I first was talking about what we're
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talking about, you're right.
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Not many people wanna deal with you.
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Not everyone wants to deal with you.
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But if you do it, right, those same people deal with you.
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I can't remember.
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I've had nomination awards.
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That the same people that dissed me and said, okay, blah, blah, blah, blah, are the same
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people, imagine this, that shaped my head and is presenting me the award.
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It's crazy.
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Yes.
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So that's that's gotta be powerful.
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It's powerful and it's true story.
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Yeah.
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You know what I mean?
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And being white, we gotta just to to to push that a little bit further because there's not
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many of us in the scene, especially in Canada.
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Think you can move us.
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It's snowing me.
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Right?
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Oh, there's 2.
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That's just two.
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Wow.
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So, I mean, that's really doing it.
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Mhmm.
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Mhmm.
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So that's the power of it all.
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Like, so we're making history people say that's a legacy leaving behind Casper legacy or even
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your legacy.
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Right?
46:20
Mhmm.
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We are here to to teach and inspire the people.
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Correct?
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Absolutely.
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You know, one one go around one voice.
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And so long as you're making that in line with what you wanna get out in the world, which is
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truly what I hear is it's about spreading love versus, versus hate.
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Yeah.
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And and recognize that we have all the gifts all around us, but, you know, it's it it's what
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you do to recognize that we really have everything.
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We are abundant.
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You have the guests, so you have the tools.
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Everybody can do what I do.
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Where you do for sure.
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It's just having the persistence, the motivations, and the product, and and the money
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to do it.
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Mhmm.
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If you wanna sleep, that's fine.
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Some people say, you know, how do you do it, Casper?
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Well, I'm up at 3 in the morning sometimes.
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And whatever.
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Right.
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Right.
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By the time I'm done, as you're sleeping, I've created, and I've actually got what I needed.
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Absolutely.
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That's a real business person.
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Yes.
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You do it.
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You you do it till it's done.
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And you, you know, and it's hard work.
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Yes.
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And it's persistence, and it's stepping into the courage, like you said.
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Right?
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Like, we all have fear
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when
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you're doing something, but it's, you know, it's feeling the fear like they see in doing it
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anyway.
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Now I know you have a big event coming up in, Mississauga, and it sounds very exciting.
47:45
And, So tell why don't you tell the listeners about it and tell them, tell them where they
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can get a hold of you if ever, people are wanting to maybe there's people on here that
47:56
might listen might want to hire you, to perform or just to, be able to get more on, on you and
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your new music, where can they get a hold of you?
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You can get me at www.caspermusic with a k.
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Dotcom.
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So that's ww.castpermusic.com.
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And everything's there on my right that all my social media everything's there.
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So they can contact me anytime there.
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They can get me on Twitter.
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They can get me on Facebook.
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It's all there.
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Okay.
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So tell talk about Karasaga and what you're doing here.
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Karasaga is huge because I gotta be up to 1 Nikki collect for that.
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She linked me up.
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I did a Balmari tune for her.
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As you know, her brother passed away.
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Yes.
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I did this all for her.
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I recorded a studio session for it, but I didn't know where it was gonna go.
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Right?
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I just gave it to her, and she loved it, and
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Oh, wow.
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It was a spiritual moment.
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Right?
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But then she introduced it to, Juliet Julie.
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That puts on the Cara saga Jamaican Pavilion.
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And she told me to call her, and I called her, boom, boom, boom, and before I knew it, I was
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on the show because I love they just love me.
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Right?
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Nice.
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Not only I was on the show, but it we're we're just supposed to do, you know, the tent, but I
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wanted the big stage.
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So they got me in the big stage for the opening night.
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And the cool part is my future is my daughter.
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She's gonna sing the hook about Marley.
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Oh, my goodness.
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That's amazing.
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It's not amazing when your when your children get in, but hold is your daughter now.
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She's 10.
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My son, actually, when I launched my book, the night of the events, he actually, read all the
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acknowledgements, to a roomful of, like, 200 people.
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It was absolutely amazing to watch.
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And, just, you know, it made my night.
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You know, I I know it was a big night for me, but just seeing him do that was so special.
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So I could just imagine what that's gonna be for you.
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And I hope to so Karasaga is a huge cultural event in miss Saga, Ontario for anybody
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listening.
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And, representing the Jamaican Pavilion.
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Right.
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And Is it Bob Marley Dean?
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Awesome.
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It's at the Hershey Center, May 25th.
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I'll be on stage 7:30.
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I I'll be on stage at 8 to 8:30, so I'm doing almost a half hours in.
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And, it's at 5500 Rose Cherry, PL, Mississauga.
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Okay.
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Awesome.
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Awesome.
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So, I will I'm definitely gonna try to be there and, and listen and and, you know, bring some
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of my family because I you said that there's also a big, Trinidad Pavilion, which is
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excellent.
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So I'm sure we'll all wanna, and most of my family live in Mississauga.
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So which is great, which which is not far.
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So You
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have the information of who contact.
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Correct?
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Yes.
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I do.
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I do.
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So Casper, this has been amazing.
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You know, I I'd never thought of the I mean, I know about the parallels of creativity, but
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when I hear you know, whether I've, I've interviewed some, you know, huge, authors and
51:23
speakers, in my, in my show.
51:26
And really, it's the parallels are the same really around, creativity, which is, it's just
51:32
awesome, you know, which is, again, quietening the mind you know, the, the downloads come
51:39
following, following your passion and being truthful and authentic, to your voice, which is
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there, and it's coming from somewhere bigger.
51:49
Yes.
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Well, I hope I inspired your viewer, your, listeners.
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And, I'm just honored that you actually put a recording on this on this.
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I mean, I'm
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just You're gonna be the first, so we'll see.
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Maybe we'll get some more.
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You never know.
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But, really, at at the end of the day, the message.
52:05
Right?
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And I think what I like about, you know, obviously, it's Caribbean music, which, you
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know, I grew up with us, you know, from a baby, and I love I love Reggy, and I love Soca, and I
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love calypso.
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But I also like the fact, you know, that to actually talk about the difficulty that you've
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had, in breaking into an industry, which is oftentimes the opposite.
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We often talk about, you know, you know, non white people having issues, but I think it's
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the music industry, like you said, music has no color.
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It doesn't.
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And and I've I'm finally showing the world that a lot, because I've done a lot of interviews
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through the globe.
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Right?
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And they had the same same same thing.
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How'd you do it?
52:54
Your light.
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I mean, it's the first thing.
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Right.
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Now
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I know you don't wanna come off that way, but I mean, too.
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Right?
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And I I don't put offense to it because I look at it as like it's okay because I'm more on
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that I am because of that.
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Well, and it's powerful because it it's teaching, I would think, if you can inspire,
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inspire young people, to not be focused on what they look at, but to love what they do and
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follow their passion.
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And then in my opinion, you've done a big, the world that you're using.
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So thank you for that.
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Thanks for taking the time, and, I will see you, I will see you in May.
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So for all my listeners, again, thank you so much for tuning in, to authentic living with
53:43
Roxanne.
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If you're wanting more information on my services, you can go to
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roxanderpaodge.comforward/courses where I have a free course that you could sign up for.
53:54
And, I hope that you enjoy Okay.
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Take care, and we will chat with you soon.