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T.I. Says ATL 2 Can Happen + Kehlani Celebrates a Career Milestone · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Twist.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything
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  Speaker 2: and everybody.
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  Speaker 3: You don't know if you don't lie about that, right,
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  Speaker 3: Lauren came in. Hey, y'all, what's up.
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  Speaker 2: It's Lauren de Rosa and this is another episode of
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  Speaker 2: the Latest with Laura de Rosa. This is your DELI
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  Speaker 2: did on all things pop culture, entertainment, news and all
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  Speaker 2: of the conversations that shake the room.
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  Speaker 3: Baby.
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  Speaker 2: Now, we normally check in behind the scenes of the grime,
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  Speaker 2: but today again I am on the scene, so we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna get right on into the Latest as I bring
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  Speaker 2: you some exclusive conversations from the Roots Picnic with some
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  Speaker 2: of the biggest names in the industry, from TII to Kailani.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get into it now.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all know t I King of the South, even though
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  Speaker 2: he said he trying to kill the King with this
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  Speaker 2: next album. Watching him at the Roots Picnic though, and
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  Speaker 2: I compliment him here a lot, because if you were
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  Speaker 2: there at the Roots Picnic and saw his set, you
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  Speaker 2: will understand the greatness.
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  Speaker 3: And I would say the evolution of TII.
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  Speaker 2: But to be honest, he plays songs from the very
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  Speaker 2: beginning to the very you know, the most recent songs
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  Speaker 2: right in the way that people just know every word,
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  Speaker 2: the way that it's reaching generation and generation. I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: across the crowd like, damn, everybody can't do this. To
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  Speaker 2: be so blessed in that space, you got to give
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  Speaker 2: it up for Ti and everything that he's done. He's
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  Speaker 2: celebrating twenty years of atl and the King album, which
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  Speaker 2: was very monumental part of his career.
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  Speaker 3: So we get into all of that. Let's say a listen. Hey, y'all,
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  Speaker 3: it's Laura La Rowe.
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  Speaker 2: So we're here at the Roofs picnic hosted by AT
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  Speaker 2: and T, and I'm sitting here with Ti.
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  Speaker 3: I know he's trying to kill the title the King of.
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  Speaker 2: The South or kill the King, right, Yeah, Can we
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  Speaker 2: still can refer to you as a King of the
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  Speaker 2: that's how we know you.
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  Speaker 4: To Yeah, at this point, well, you know, I mean
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  Speaker 4: the Monica King of the South. You know what I'm
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  Speaker 4: saying that was to make a name for myself.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean what I'm saying is here.
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  Speaker 4: And to introduce myself to a to a world that
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  Speaker 4: would have chosen to ignore me if they could have.
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  Speaker 3: Which is crazy.
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  Speaker 2: I just watched you perform and I watched so many
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  Speaker 2: people like of all ages and like everybody just flopped
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  Speaker 2: to your stage to make sure they can see you.
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  Speaker 2: But the classics that you went through, timeless classics. I
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  Speaker 2: was like, Wow, people say timeless, but to see it
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  Speaker 2: in real life, I feel like that's been the moniker
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  Speaker 2: of the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: We saw jay Z last night, timeless night. Yo, you
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  Speaker 3: weren't here? Did you see it? One?
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  Speaker 1: Here?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 4: I had I had a film premiere at the abfl
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  Speaker 4: if I couldn't make it.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, you're you're you're you are a showman, right,
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  Speaker 2: you're a performer. When you saw the freestyle and you
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  Speaker 2: saw I mean, jay Z hasn't said much about much.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you haven't seen the whole thing.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't seen the whole thing, ain't. I don't have
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  Speaker 4: no social media on my phone.
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  Speaker 3: So oh, why not you taking a break?
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  Speaker 1: Man?
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  Speaker 4: Since man, it's been since what man, probably twenty three?
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  Speaker 1: Wow?
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  Speaker 3: No social media?
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  Speaker 2: Well yeah, I mean he so he did his freestyle
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  Speaker 2: that I mean, Qus Love said they didn't even know
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  Speaker 2: what's going to happen. You heard about it, You heard it, okay,
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  Speaker 2: because the reason why action is because we know, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're lyricist.
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  Speaker 3: We know you address what you want to address.
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  Speaker 2: And the conversation right now is if whether or not
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  Speaker 2: Jay Z should have addressed certain things because he said
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  Speaker 2: that we didn't need to have battle conversation or battle
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  Speaker 2: rap in the culture anymore. We need to collaborate more,
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  Speaker 2: and he chose to take the stage in and address
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  Speaker 2: certain things. So you as somebody that I mean people,
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  Speaker 2: don't we know that you're gonna address what you want
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  Speaker 2: to how you want to. We've seen you do it recently.
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  Speaker 2: How do you feel when he chooses to do that
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  Speaker 2: or like, you know, I think as.
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  Speaker 4: A creative bro, just you you support the art.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Yeah, I got you.
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  Speaker 4: Expression if him expressing himself creatively is keeping him from
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  Speaker 4: you know, keeping it, letting it faster, you know what
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying, Man, let the man do it thing. And
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  Speaker 4: an artist, an artist is going to we go put
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  Speaker 4: it out there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah you feel me? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: How we see how we see it appropriate and the
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  Speaker 4: rest of the world just have to observe and deal with.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what we've been doing all week.
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  Speaker 2: And I know that you just celebrated twenty years of
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  Speaker 2: King album twenty years also of atl Man.
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  Speaker 3: I talked to Jason Weaver.
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  Speaker 2: He was telling me, we had a conversation about what
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  Speaker 2: ATO two and just you know the battle that has
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  Speaker 2: been for you guys, kind of like with the executive
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  Speaker 2: He said, t I might be upset at me for
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  Speaker 2: saying this, but the executives they don't They didn't really
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  Speaker 2: understand where ATO sits in the culture.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought that that was crazy.
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  Speaker 4: I think you was. I think he was spot on.
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  Speaker 4: I think that, you know, the film came out and
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  Speaker 4: surpassed all expectations.
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  Speaker 2: I were number three in the box office or opening
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  Speaker 2: weekend with limited theaters and limited support. Ice Age came
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  Speaker 2: out that weekend and you guys were number three. Ice
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  Speaker 2: Age was one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that's you know how crazy that is? I do.
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  Speaker 4: I think that I think that people never thought that
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  Speaker 4: a film about you know, atl Atlanta at that time
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  Speaker 4: would captivate so many hearts and minds of people out there.
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  Speaker 4: But I think that it's probably one of the one
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  Speaker 4: of the most magnificant coming of age stories of that generation.
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  Speaker 2: Are we we saw the reunions? Are we furthering those
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  Speaker 2: conversations now? Every time we see the reunion it's like
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  Speaker 2: you know, y'all, y'all tear it on heartstrings.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, man, you know what, anything can happen. I
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  Speaker 4: just uh, I just got to get to I gotta
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  Speaker 4: get to the right set of ears that understand and
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  Speaker 4: see the value and the and the purpose. Yes, in
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  Speaker 4: the sequel, uh, I think it can happen. We we
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  Speaker 4: got the stories.
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  Speaker 5: The cash together.
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  Speaker 4: We we got the money or enough of the money
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  Speaker 4: and can get the resk. So I mean really about
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  Speaker 4: finding the right executive that can neither allow us to
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  Speaker 4: you know, understand or that understands the purposes.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate you. They wrapping me up. I appreciate you,
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  Speaker 3: and I want to say too.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I was telling you this and I kind
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  Speaker 2: of opened with this, but watching you perform today, I
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  Speaker 2: was like, this is you really understand an artists and
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  Speaker 2: and their their longevity in the culture when you see
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  Speaker 2: the people and how people respond to them. So congratulations
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  Speaker 2: on an amazing set today at Roots Picnick. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: of course always it's learning the roads that we heard
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  Speaker 2: the rus Picnic and hosted by AT and t t
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  Speaker 2: I is here with us.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see you guys in the next one.
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  Speaker 2: Now, y'all know, we had Jason Weaver here on the podcast,
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  Speaker 2: and Jason Weaver, you know who was in Ato who
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  Speaker 2: is the singing voice of Simba, a younger Michael Jackson
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  Speaker 2: as well. You guys know Jason also talk to us
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  Speaker 2: about the same thing. So you know, hearing it from Jason,
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  Speaker 2: hearing it from t I, it's like, all right, studios
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  Speaker 2: in Hollywood, y'all, I get that together for real, because
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  Speaker 2: you're missing out on what is really impacting culture. One
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  Speaker 2: of the most amazing things, you know, and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of this is like reflective on the roots picnic now right,
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  Speaker 2: because we're days out of it. One of the most
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  Speaker 2: amazing things is not only getting to watch people and
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  Speaker 2: see how they impact the audience with like a TI,
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  Speaker 2: but also getting to see an artist in their element,
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  Speaker 2: like an artist who really loves to be on stage,
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  Speaker 2: whose voice has been the echo chamber of some of
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  Speaker 2: your most peaceful, calming moments. And Krin Bailey is that
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  Speaker 2: you put on Karin Bailey in press play when you
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  Speaker 2: were trying to go to another healed zone baby, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: even speaking to her felt like that, Let's take a
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  Speaker 2: listen and I have joining me one of the like
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  Speaker 2: I would say that like your voice is like a voice.
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  Speaker 3: Of like clouds.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how most people describe your voicing and
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  Speaker 2: the feeling that they hear from your music, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: think a vocalist, we think of you.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the rus Picnic. How you're doing today?
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  Speaker 4: Doing very well?
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing amazing? I was just asking you before we
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  Speaker 2: got started. You just came in. You do you take
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  Speaker 2: a second to like ground yourself a bit before you
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  Speaker 2: hit the stage.
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  Speaker 3: You're like, what's your man?
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  Speaker 1: We had a sound check today, so I like to
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  Speaker 1: do that. I'm just out there, you know, I'm literally
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  Speaker 1: doing my tai chi. I'm looking and thinking, oh, some
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  Speaker 1: people will be sat under this tree, There'll be people here,
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  Speaker 1: there'll be people hit. So I like to visualize it.
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  Speaker 1: So when I come out, Yes, I'm just blessed by
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  Speaker 1: the fact that there's now people in front of the stage.
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  Speaker 3: And huh.
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  Speaker 1: I always really want to connect with people, so and
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  Speaker 1: I felt like we did that today, So I was happy.
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  Speaker 3: Even doing a sound check.
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  Speaker 1: Well, in the sound check, you've got the security guards,
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to win the murther. I mean, once you're
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  Speaker 1: once you're out.
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  Speaker 3: There, Yes, and it's fueling got you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like the thing that I hoped what happened
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  Speaker 1: did happen. So I'm really really happy that.
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  Speaker 3: You're celebrating twenty years of your debut project, right, that's right. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: how does that feel? It's so weird.
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  Speaker 1: It's like it almost feels longer than that. I'm also
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  Speaker 1: sure to than that. But it's been so magical. That
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  Speaker 1: first record really changed my life. There were songs from
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  Speaker 1: my life that went on to transform everything for me
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  Speaker 1: and and make space for me in the world which
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know would be there. You know, I felt
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  Speaker 1: like I had an unconventional voice, and you know, I
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  Speaker 1: brought my own sort of homemade music.
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  Speaker 2: You know, your voice is just so I don't know, like,
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  Speaker 2: whenever I'm listening to your music, I literally I always
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  Speaker 2: say to myself, like, your voice can't ever have an
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  Speaker 2: off day, because it's really the sound is very unique,
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  Speaker 2: but it's also very soft, it's very like refined. I think,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I know that your voice being so
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  Speaker 2: unique was a thing for you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I always used to love singing as
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  Speaker 1: a child, but I never felt there was a place
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  Speaker 1: for me when I got into Kirk Cobaine and Billie Holiday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got into them in the same year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I can see that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad that you see that, you know, because those artists,
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  Speaker 1: I felt like they had so much. There's no decoration
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  Speaker 1: in the voice. It's just storytelling. It's just raw and beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I loved that.
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  Speaker 2: So you think you talk about touching people and you
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  Speaker 2: know everything you're able to do on stage. Did you
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  Speaker 2: think that twenty years later those songs from that project
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  Speaker 2: will still be doing exactly that.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I had no idea. You know, when I get
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  Speaker 1: to play, especially like a star put your records on
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  Speaker 1: all over the world and stories, Yeah, I mean, just
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  Speaker 1: to be invited here is really special. It's the first
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  Speaker 1: time I've ever played here. And I play in settings
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  Speaker 1: that are like this, so you know, and then settings
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  Speaker 1: that are like a play in jazz festivals or like
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  Speaker 1: I'll play in a pop festival in Germany, or you know,
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  Speaker 1: I just feel like, in a way, I sort of
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  Speaker 1: don't fit in anywhere, but that sort of makes me
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  Speaker 1: able to kind of and they just kind of show
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  Speaker 1: up in places, and I'm so grateful to get those invitations.
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  Speaker 2: When people watch you on stage, whether it was here
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  Speaker 2: at the Roosts Picnic or wherever you are, what do
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  Speaker 2: you think or what do you hope they take away
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  Speaker 2: from you as you're like, you know, popping into these places.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, at the end of your rockers on, I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: I hope you get your dreams right, and I'm just
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  Speaker 1: like shaking my tumburine and that is really what I feel. Like.
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  Speaker 1: I hope that people have that, you know, have that
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  Speaker 1: for themselves. That life is so big and wide and
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  Speaker 1: I just sort of I'm kind of wishing well for people,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the things that I felt, the healing, the
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  Speaker 1: blessings that come through music. I just want everyone to
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  Speaker 1: feel that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, even talking to you, I'm just sitting here, like
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  Speaker 2: even talking to you feels just like a mantra or
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  Speaker 2: like a hug or like so, I mean, I think
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  Speaker 2: the energy exludes itself.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations on your first Roots picnic.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it's my first Youths picnic as well. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: doing it together. I'm saying here all night, are you
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  Speaker 3: wanna hang out?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely love.
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  Speaker 2: Karim Bailey loved meeting her and speaking to her. It
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  Speaker 2: felt like a hug to be honest with you or
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  Speaker 2: a great, amazing hot glass of Chema milty just soothing
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  Speaker 2: as ht double hockey six. But then we also ran
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  Speaker 2: into kay Lannie, and kay Lannie, you know that's my girl. Baby,
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  Speaker 2: We've been folding clothes for last year. The things are folded.
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  Speaker 2: That song, it has taken over so big, and it
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  Speaker 2: really makes you feel good, And it really makes you
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  Speaker 2: feel good when you feel like you've been following an
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  Speaker 2: artist's career to see them get a song like what
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  Speaker 2: Folded has done in radio and across like seas. We
• 11:25
  Speaker 2: talked to Kaylnie a bit about the impact, and honestly,
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know if she fully feels and understands
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  Speaker 2: all of it.
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  Speaker 3: Yet. Let's take a listen, y'all know I had to
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  Speaker 3: pull up on my gras. Kay Lannie, how are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing good? How are you feeling?
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  Speaker 1: I'm good.
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  Speaker 5: It's such a nice day, the weather's perfect, everybody's in
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  Speaker 5: really great spirits.
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy to be here. Girl.
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  Speaker 2: Let me tell you something I feel like, Folded has
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  Speaker 2: been like my It's almost like my alarm clock at
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  Speaker 2: this point. From the last everywhere bro for real, from
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  Speaker 2: the last time I saw you on the Breakfast Club
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  Speaker 2: to now the song is even bigger? Are there different
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  Speaker 2: feelings because it won't stop growing then? And you know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean, like, is it different than any other
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  Speaker 2: song that you've released.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we just broke the like the number
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  Speaker 5: one radio single like ever, which is kind of crazy.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm there are things that are happening for me
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  Speaker 5: that have never happened for me before. So honestly, I'm
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  Speaker 5: just I'm excited.
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  Speaker 3: And you're you just announced the world tour.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're going on tour.
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  Speaker 3: Come see me? Is that okay?
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  Speaker 2: So when you're preparing for a world tour as as
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  Speaker 2: as Kailani with this big record, people want to come.
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  Speaker 2: They want to hear from it. We have so many
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  Speaker 2: of your records that we love. I wouldn't even actually
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  Speaker 2: how you organize the setlist? I'm asking you, is everything
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  Speaker 2: gonna make it? And how do what are your babies
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  Speaker 2: that you're like, I'm okay with putting that one down?
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  Speaker 2: Or are you changing for different parts of the world?
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  Speaker 1: Girl?
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  Speaker 5: You know it's important to me to be able to place,
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  Speaker 5: you know, take a bet and play this new album
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  Speaker 5: and play every single song on this new album. I'm
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  Speaker 5: definitely gonna lean into it was good until it wasn't
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  Speaker 5: a bit. I feel like everybody waited on that tour
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  Speaker 5: and because of COVID, we didn't get to happen. So
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  Speaker 5: I'm playing songs I've never played from that album Wow.
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  Speaker 5: And yeah, of course there's Day one songs that will happen,
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  Speaker 5: but I'm really prioritizing every song on the Kaelanni album.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm happy for you, and I also feel like
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  Speaker 2: that shows how committed to you your fans are because
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  Speaker 2: a lot of artists I don't care, bigger or small,
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  Speaker 2: would be scared to commit to doing a full album
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  Speaker 2: on a world on a tour stage in general.
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  Speaker 3: But you got that girl.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all always tell me how much y'all love the conversations
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  Speaker 2: that shake the room, and we've brought you guys a
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  Speaker 2: ton of them this week, So make sure you guys
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: check out all of our exclusive on the scene on
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  Speaker 2: the scene latest coverage from the Roots Picnic.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate you guys to tune it in.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you, guys, every single episode, y'all could be
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  Speaker 2: anywhere with any old body, but y'all choose to be
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  Speaker 2: right here with me.
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  Speaker 3: My low riders. I appreciate y'all. I'll catch you in
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  Speaker 3: the next one.