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**BONUS SHOW**| DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 1| HOST LATONYA MICHELLE LITTLEJOHN · DA CREW Podcast

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This is show twelve for me. This is my guest, mister King Ambition.
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Thank you for being a patient as we figure all of this out.
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No problem, it happens. No problem, delayed but not denied. We're
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here right right right, So if you don't mind, could you please introduce
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yourself to the audience. A sure can? I sure can. I am
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King Ambition of Ambition Fouts Ambition Foules is actually a hip hop band, and
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I'm the m c our heill from Chicago, Illinois. I reside now in
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Atlanta, Georgia. I've been here for a while and yeah, just excited
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to be here, excited to be here. Well, we're glad to have
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you here. What started your love for music? So, my father has
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been in a reggae band since actually been since before I was born. It's
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a band called Gypsy for Reggae band. Okay, So I've been around music
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all my life. Really didn't have any plans on becoming an artist or an
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MC or anything until maybe when I turned nineteen, eighteen nineteen. And you
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know, it just started out with, you know, freestyling with a couple
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of your buddies in the car. Everybody think they're rapping to be come on
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and we we rapping during that time, mid West was just booming. Being
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from Chicago, you know, we had what's to do with die, crucial
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conflict, common sense, And I would say maybe by the time I was
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twenty, that's when I actually started recording music and taking it from there.
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But but I mean, I've just been around it, and I guess I
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just found my my love for the music as an MC versus as being a
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musician. My dad is a musician and the singer. Okay, yeah,
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I was a part of a little local hip hop group here in Spartanburg,
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South Carolina. It was called Kim Folk. I don't I don't write rhymes,
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but I had people writing stuff for me. But so I get it.
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I enjoyed, you know, going places and performing and you know,
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just being in front of the crowd, no doubt, no doubt, no
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doubt. What what intrigues you so much about music that it's like something that
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you just got to do? So when it when it comes to music,
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I feel that it's a it's a platform for me to inspire and and lead
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others. I've honestly tried to walk away from music a couple of times and
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God won't let me so, and I haven't asked them that recently because I
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know my path like clear state. But I've had my battles to where I've
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been making money and entertainment blessed to say, oh for a decade, but
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I do so many other things just being an entrepreneur. The things that I
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do from the other side just generated more funds, And had I not been
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allocating so much time to my music career, I could have been putting time
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into those other businesses. So I would say as I as I got deep
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into prayer and just listening to Him to make sure that this is where I
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needed to go, he also gave me that clear sight on the lane that
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I needed to go. So prior to being called Ambition, I used to
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go by name two Crump, the number two kru and K and I went
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from two Crump to Ambitions to King Ambition And the name changes comes from me
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evolving as a person. So some of the things that I would talk about
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as two Crunk, that's around that timeline. While I was really debating,
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Okay, it's just really what I'm supposed to be doing so and not that
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I was talking about nothing bad. It's just I spoke about where I was
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at that point in life in my early twenties in Atlanta. You know what
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I'm saying, Just just kicking in and being on the ground, like that's
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what was in my music. So it just evolving. And as my music
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changed, I would say maybe like maybe around like twenty ten, when I
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changed the productions that I use, when I stopped trying to chase hits and
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just actually writing about my life being transparent in my music, I noticed that
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I got it. I got different type of fans. I would do a
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show and people would tell me, oh, man, this song I listened
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to it every day, or this song got me through, got me through
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this moment or that moment. And what you what you learned as an artist.
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And that's why I always encourage most artists to be their self. Because
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the gift of music, if that's truly your gift, it's not here for
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you, It's for other people. So think about how music gets you through
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life every day. So the best way to create music to inspy your others
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is to be you. That Don't get me wrong, you got some people
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that write hits. Me personally, I can honestly say that that's not my
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forte. That's not what I do. I just write reality rap that that
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sound dope. But when I say you got people that write hits, like
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when you just got some certain producers that can't miss, certain artists that just
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can't miss. Like, try to name how many hits to Drake got,
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Try to name how many hits future gat Like that's a that's a whole different
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talent, that's a whole different lane. And earlier in my career I thought
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I had have a hit to be somebody. Like now I'm just gonna create
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the music that's on my heart and do it dope in a way that I
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think it's dope, my producers think it's dope, and I ain't gonna lie.
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It's been. It's been. It's been good ever since. Okay,
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most writers are poets. Do you write poetry as well? I don't.
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But what's what's funny is my my rhymes could actually be poetry. Okay.
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So when I say that, like, I got some stuff that I've been
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working on with my keyboard player's name is Marcus Davis, and we had some
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things that we actually recorded when we were rehearsing and it's just me spending my
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rhymes over over keyboard to do an acoustic set. So it's one of those
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things. So like I've been trying to see how I can putting my music
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in different lanes, Like how can you make hip hop fit in a coffee
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shop? Right? You know what I'm saying. Youboually want to say a
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coffee shop as somebody on an acoustic guitar and he's singing this, yeah neo,
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so something knowing that, But the way I compose every song that I
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write, it's a story and there's a reason for it, and it has
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it has a possibility. It's such a you want some shape form of fashion.
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So it's the same thing with poetry. Like anytime somebody is doing some
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form of poetry, there's a story to it from beginning to end. My
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songs are the same thing. So like when I'm writing, if I'm writing
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about a day from eight am to eight pm, I'm gonna split that up
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in four hours. The first verse you're getting four hours, the second verse
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you're gonna get what happened in this four hours. In the last verse,
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you're going to figure out how to day close. So I'm I'm not offended
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or you know what I'm saying or what you mean, I'm not I'm not
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offended by that question. Like I actually think it could be poetry from just
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from my lyrics, Like someone could read my lyrics in a sense of a
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poetry. What sets you apart from the Tis, the Drakes, the Gucci,
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Mains and people of that nature. I wouldn't say I'm any different from
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them. Like the people that you name, I'm just like them, Okay.
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And this is what I mean by that when you say, when you
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say Gucci, he don't sound like nobody else. When you say t I,
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he don't sound like nobody else, say Drake, he don't sound like
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nobody else. They're homed in on their individuality. And that's when you have
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longevity and anything that you put in, because now you got a niche that
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they have to come to you for. So for me, I do get
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comparisons, and some of the comparisons I get, I don't hear it,
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but I can't tell a person how they hear music, right. But most
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importantly for me, what separates me is the production that I picked my show,
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and I'm always true to me. So like I don't have any competition.
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I come along to be the best version of meat. So like prime
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example, I remember the first time I heard Drake best I've had. You
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Remember that was his first single. You know when I said, you know
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what I said when I heard that song for the first time, that I
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said, this dude for to be here for a while. Yeah, it
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was a breath of fresh air. He didn't sound like nobody. It was
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either gonna hit or miss. Where were at? Right? Are you signed
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to a label or are you independent? Independent? I've always been independent.
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I've always funded myself. I've always bought my own equipment. I've always bought
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my own music equipment. We can pull up and do a show, light,
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sound, everything. So the And when I say that, I'm not
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saying that to brag or sell everybody that independent is the route. I stay
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independent because that's what I choose. I want ownership. I want to move
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how I want to move. If I want to wear a red hat today,
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I don't need nobody telling me I need to wear a black hat,
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or I don't even wear a hat at all, Like sometimes I want to
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wear a hat, Like I got a closet full of hats, So It's
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like, I just like having control of what I'm doing now. Am I
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open to partnerships and business ships, business business ventures, Yes i am,
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but like as far as ever just completely signing a deal. I got too
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much invested, and I've the money that I've generated in the streams that I've
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generated. I've done it on my own, So it would never be me
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signing. It would always be a partnership and they would have to show me
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to where. Okay, if you partner with me, you're here, right
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here, this is where you're at. I can take you right here,
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and we're gonna do it in this amount of time, and if it goes
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good, we can re up again. So I don't want to say that
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I'm independent, and I'm just I'm gonna stay independent forever. I'm a business
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man. It just gotta make sense. So just to have a little fun
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with this conversation, Oh tell me who you're top five hip hop artists are
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Daniel Alive. My gold is Tupac mhmm. Let me see. Then after
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that, I'm not gonna say, uh, I'm not gonna say two through
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five in any order, right, but my gold is Tupoc. I listened
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to Nipsey every day, Okay, every day Holly influenced by Nipsey Hustle,
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the greatest lyricist for all time. You ain't gonna be ready for this.
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I hope you've heard of him, but this cat out of Stone Mountain,
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Georgia. He goes by side how to Prince. I haven't, but I'm
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sure my husband has. Oh man, if your husband the hip hop hed
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sat Man, Yeah, yeah, he's the truth. He's he's depending behind
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so many people. Okay, yeah, a lot of people, and I
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gotta see season last two. It's tough because I got I got so many
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I'm inspired by so many, so many people and so many different people footprint.
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I tell you who else. I got a heavy rotation right now,
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I'm gonna say nahs. Okay, the whole King's Disease, one, two,
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and three. When you heard one, I was like, oh,
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man, he took me back to the nineties. Then when you heard then
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you heard too, oh he can't out do this. It's you know what
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I'm saying. Then you heard three, it's like, come on, dude,
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like, how how you still able to produce like produce work like this?
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Right? Yeah? And number five, jeez, can I do a
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two way time on number five way time? And at the top of that
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time, I'm gonna put Biggie and on back half of that part, back
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half of that time, I'm gonna put jay Z. And that's just because
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I think jay Z is Biggie. Biggie and jay Z are two of the
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greatest storytellers to ever do it right, and I just wish we would have
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had more of a catalog, you know what I'm saying from from Biggie because
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the way the way that man just put his words together, you know what
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I'm saying like it was effortlessly right, and that's why we still listen to
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his music. Anybody has done it like him. Yeah, but yeah,
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I will put I will put them up on Top five Okay, Top five
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female. Ooh ooh uh you might not be ready for this list season.
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Okay, all right? So, uh, Golden it out just for legacy
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and error and laying the foundation. Well she ain't really she put it on
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the bigger platform. I can't say she laid the foundation. But my gold
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is Little Kim. I love Little Kim, Yeah, little him. Yeah,
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she She's my goat. From there, I gotta go. I gotta
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go NICKI Nah, who else I want to put in there? Sound like
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wise who just held it down and we tend to forget about her number three?
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Yea, I gotta go Queen Latifa right right piece and held it down
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with the dudes in the nineties hip hop. Yeah, you know what I'm
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saying. And then I gotta put Missy Elliott in it. Absolutely, I
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gotta put Missy Elliott in it. And some people probably gonna be mad at
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me because I'm gonna put her and my number five slot even though her career
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is maybe only about five maybe about five years long. I feel like,
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uh, this pimpcy daughter and we just don't know about it or they ain't
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telling listen, you know what I'm saying. But I love Megan the Stallion.
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Yo, she talked talk love it, you know what I'm saying.
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Like just her whole style. She don't sound like nobody, She didn't come
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out trying to make songs like nobody, and she couldrap. So for me,
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it was always as far as females salt and pepper. Oh yeah,
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you love them. Queen Latifa, m Lauren Hill, Cool, Little Kim,
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Foxy Brown, Megan No Stallion and my guilty pleasure is Cardi bash now
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as far as men for me, Eric being rock him okay hhmm Tupac M
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Biggie LLL around the Rock, the Bells, Era and jay Z and honorable
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mention Little Wayne, Oh yeah best. I love Mathew Man okay, okay,
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no doubt, no doubt. Yeah. Oh but oh he put Buster
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now now right and I gotta I gotta agree with the treat put treats on
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on Buster. So in my opinion, no, no MC and hype Man
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has ever been greater than Buster Rhymes, right right? I give you this,
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Okay, but I do want to throw in because I have to eminem
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he wanted the coldest white boys out there and I loved it. Dude,
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Yeah, love m m m D. He didn't definitely did this thing.
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He didn't did this thing. Do you gain any what am I? What's
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the I'm looking for? Do you hear other genres of music and get inspired
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by that? To right? You're right? I am mostly inspired by R
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and B and seventies fun Okay, just because who inspires you? R and
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B? So many geez, because I mean weekend like I still listen to
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like a lot of Marvin Gaye, a lot of Al Green, a lot
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of Osley, even even on the newer side, Like, I still listen
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to a lot of independent artists. You ever heard of Eric Robinson? Yes,
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okay, Yeah, he's my favorite independent artists. Okay, I've just
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been playing his lane and touring for probably almost two decades now. Just amazing
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show, amazing energy, great production, great lyrics. Who else inspires me
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to write? Yeah, it's like I mean, just going through unless Yeah,
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a lot of it is just a lot of a lot of seventies funcs
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is because of the musicianship and a lot of times. What I do like
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about why I like being inspired by R and B is because there's no rapping
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on it, so I can hear the melodie that they're on and I can
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come up with my own cadence versus itself I'm listening to another rapper and trying
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to wrap. I gotta kind of block out their caden so I can come
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up with my own style, and then I still gotta have something reproduced to
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come in and put it down. So that's why I like. For the
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most part, I'm usually listening to instrumental instrumentals that producers have already sent me
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with something that hit me while I'm listening to R and B, because I
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just hear another melody in my head. Have you connected with anybody that's already
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signed. I wouldn't say that's already signed, but I have worked with quite
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a few people that have been in the industry. So like the biggest producer
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I've ever worked with, his Atovin. Okay, that relationship came from us
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being in the same church. My pastor hooked this up together. Oh yeahs
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Atovin is the humblest dude you will ever meet in the industry. There's not
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a fake bone in his body. He don't care about money. All you
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care about is his family, being a stand up guy. And you're never
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gonna hear no dirt on that dude name, you know what I'm saying.
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So like the opportunities that he gave me early, Like that's how my name
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actually starts spreading in Atlanta, because at that point he was just known as
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the you know what I'm saying, the trap guy, producer and Guti,
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you know what I'm saying, producer. So folks looking at me, like
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how am I on tracks? Several tracks? You know what? I'm saying
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with him, but yeah, it was a blessing to be able to work
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with him at that time. Then a little bit later on in that time,
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I also worked with this engineer named Seth Ferkin's Rest in Peace that was
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actually futures engineer before he passed. So Seth kind of taught me how hee
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me. He taught me how to develop a sound and how things needed to
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be recorded, and how I needed to be on top of production. So
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it's sometimes just working with another artist, sometimes working with the producers and the
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people behind it. These are the guys that emoes you like. Even even
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from the standpoint of my showmanship, I thought I was killing shows. I
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used to go to this fight we had to fight an Atlanta call FA two
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ninety and this lady named Carolo used to put on showcases out there, and
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I went out there. You know what I'm saying, I was. I
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was super cocky, knowing I'm gonna kill it. And it's this guy name
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Dominique Mitchell, and he's developed everybody from your TLC's on Damn two of my
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whole performance there like no this word you need to be, this is what
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you need to do, This is how you need to do X, Y
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and Z. And even from there, I've been blessed to get jewels from
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so many people that were in the industry before me to help my show be
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what it is, to help me become a better artist. So and you
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know, then there's been some people outside of the industry that don't have big
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names that have blessed me with information. So I just always try to be
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a sponge and just remain humble because you don't know what type of information or
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door is gonna be. You know what I'm saying, open up for you.
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When I've worked with a few more guys in the industry, some guys
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that are producing for people now that I'm blessed to call my brothers. We've
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just been brothers for so long and now they're producing for your your Summer Walkers,
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your Mary J. Blige, and you know what I'm saying, stuff
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like that. So I got some people that really believe in me and get
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my back. So we're working on that way to get me back outside.
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For twenty twenty four. I got some tracks. Okay, So who's your
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dream collaboration? Okay, so this is crazy, my dream collaborations that never
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happened. My dream collaborations would have been with Poco, Nipsey, so many
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other folks. I would just be humble, you know what I'm saying,
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to get on the track with them, Like I would be humbled to do
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a track with j Cole or Kendrick Lamar you know what I'm saying, or
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jay Z or you know what I'm saying, a little Wayne just to or
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side Hi, you know what I'm saying. Just for them to be so
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far right doing these things and I'm doing my things so far left and it's
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just hornting up things where it's just magic. But I do have dream producers
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that I will work with you Okay, who are they? Drake okay?
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Uh Tembling and uh and Swiss beats Okay. I would love to do a
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five song EP with with with those producers, like one with Dre. You
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know what I'm saying. Then, you know what I'm saying. One with
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Yeah, but yeah, Like I feel like I feel like they even mastered
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their sounds. Like to me, I feel like when it comes to drums,
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when you start talking about drums, I feel like Dre, Swiss and
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Tim are the king of drums. Like you're just not going out drum now
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right when you are talking about hip hop like and Swiss energy, we're going
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to buy songs and swit's doing a hook on all five songs whatever. I
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go with a writing sixteenths for the right and spoil score and we're going in.
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It's gonna it's gonna be a rap Drake. For me, it's like
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sometimes he puts me in a place where I want to go to Jamaica and
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and just dirty wine and and you know all of that. But then sometimes
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he puts me in a place of like he's the Keith Sweat of of hip
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hop almost to me, like it's almost like he dry bagging sometimes and I'm
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like, brouh, come on, what I mean? That's that's that's the
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dangerous part. That's the dangerous part of Drake. Like he can do both.
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He can he can do a song for the ladies and then you know
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he can he can go bar for bar with you lyrically and slay you.
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That's why everybody I would love to do a song. You know what I'm
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saying with Drake. If duver happens, I'm okay with that. But if
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he gets to the point to where you know what I'm saying, it makes
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sense. I'm with that, like mostly all the people that I would want
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to work with its cats, like that they got their own sound or and
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I don't want to say that, like I'm that open to working with other
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independent artists. The song just got to make sense. So like for me,
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sometimes I'll get a I may get a request for collab, but I
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don't feel like I can be an asset to the track, meaning the subject
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that you're talking about is irrelevant to me, Like I don't. I don't
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do that. I don't live that lifestyle. So like I don't when I'm
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when I'm doing my music, I don't. I don't talk about nothing that
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I'm that they're not about. Yeah, that I'm not living. I'm from
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a different era. So yeah, so it just it just has to make
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sense. But Drake is Yeah, Drake gonna be here forever. He gonna
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be sixty's still putting out news and cause and we're still gonna be riding to
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it and it ain't gonna be none you can do about that. You just
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don't have to be mad. He's still gonna be selling our stadiums. It's
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right, Get over it. Yeah, yeah, you got a point.
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So I want to ask you, what what does your definition of hip hop?
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What does hip hop mean to you? To me, hip hop is
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just the art of storyteller. And how well did you tell a story?
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Can't your story keep me in trade? Do I want to did you did
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you say a line that made me want to wait and hear your next line?
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Right? Do I like your voice? Do I like your delivery?
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Do I like the cadusiance that you use? That's all hip hop because I
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mean, we can all tell a story, but we don't want to listen
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to everybody sell it, you know what I'm saying. So it's like like
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certain people their voice, it's just gonna grab you immediately just because of just
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because of their tone. So like that was one thing about Big although lyrically
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he was just super dope, you know what I'm saying, just his tone
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it made you pay attention, you know what I'm saying, Certain people when
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you hear Jez voices make you pay attention. Gez ain't never been a lyricist
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and never claim to it, and then you gotta have believability. So even
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the same thing with so one of my favorite one of my favorite artists,
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rest in peace, PIMPC. You know what I mean, everything he said
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that man. I don't know what it was about Pimp C, but that
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man got into my skin so bad. Like I want to say, it
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may have been the player's ball anthem where he walks in and he got on
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this mink, this own white mink, and I'm like, you know,
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it's about four hundred degrees in Atlanta. How you got on the met But
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I mean, it's just certain things that he would say, and I'm like,
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you know, I couldn't. I couldn't get with Pimpcy like that,
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like now Bunby, Yes, Pimpsy. I couldn't. And I get that.
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I get that. You know, I'm I'm I'm from the I'm from
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the Middle West. So we grew up on a lot of a lot of
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Texas music. And that's just from the connection of twist and do what I
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used to always be down there, you know what I'm saying back and forth,
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So we just kind of like paid attention to who they collab with and
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who they work with, and that's what had us paying attention to you know
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what I'm saying, U g K. But U g K is ah,
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I would say, okay, so, and you can tell me yours.
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But my top three groups uh and hip hop Outcast number one, eight Ball
29:55
and MJG number two, U GK number three. So for me, Outcast
30:03
is number one. My husband kind of put me onto a little bit of
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Woutang so and it's I don't know if they're considered like a group because it's
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like eighty five of them, and so I think it's just those two cause
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me personally, I'm more of an R and B person. Okay. I
30:34
often feel like I was born in the wrong time frame. I was born
30:41
in seventy nine. All the best music to me was before seventy nine and
30:48
the nineties. But the Temptations and you know, people of that nature,
30:55
Marvin Gay, the Supreme that that does my heart good. I like I
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can sit and listen to that all day. My husband wants to know what
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part of the Midwest you're from. Oh, man, I'm from Chicago,
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South Side, born and raised Low Win if you if you know a whole
31:18
lot about Chicago, but yeah, south side of Chicago. Man, So
31:22
being that you're from Chicago, I gotta ask, what's your take on this
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whole R Kelly situation. Oh lord, I so I'll say this. I
31:38
don't like speaking publicly. You know what I'm saying about people's situation, right,
31:48
I can own it. I'll say this. If he's guilty, I
31:56
pray that that man get the help that he needs, right, Because that's
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a I got a twenty one year old daughter. Okay, yeah, so
32:07
I don't. I don't see how a man of our age. It's a
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kid. Like So we just went out, we just went on a family
32:20
trip and my daughter had one of her friends. You know what I'm saying
32:24
with her Like, I'm looking at it like, Okay, that's her friend,
32:29
but that's my daughter while I'm on this trip because we're a long way
32:31
from home and I'm responsiblutely. So I just I just think that we need
32:37
to understand that, you know, especially in our community, mental illness is
32:43
a thing, and we think that it's only other h what's the word.
32:51
I'm looking for other people that only have issues like this because that's what we
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see on TV. That's what's painted on TV. Right, and you know
33:06
it's I think if and that's why I like. That's one thing I do
33:08
like about social media. There's so much more emphasis on mental health. There's
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so much more emphasis on speaking with a counselor or a therapist, like it's
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okay as a black man to to see a therapist, Like I'm open about
33:24
that. Man, Like when I see people going through something like bro,
33:29
you're not You're not lame or less of a man because you've had to see
33:31
a therapist or you've had to talk to somebody like I had to do it
33:35
last year. It was one of the best moves that you know what I'm
33:37
saying that I did. So I think the more that we move into that
33:44
direction and you know, maybe somebody may touch him to help him get some
33:47
help, because, like I said, if he if he is guilty like
33:51
this is this is a problem. And even if he's not guilty of what
33:55
they're what they're doing, even for the fact of the younger women that he
34:00
has dealt with, even rest in peace, Eliah, Like, in my
34:02
opinion, there's just no for me, I don't see there's no way I'm
34:08
attracted to a teenage woman, right, yeah, that's that's that's just the
34:15
kid to me. So for me, for me, I blame the parents
34:21
because if you're looking at their age no child that age should be going to
34:30
any R. Kelly concerts definitely should not be allowed back stage. And you
34:37
know, there there are mothers who set their daughters up for things of that
34:43
nature, trying to get you know, money, jewelry or what have you
34:50
out of these people. And so, you know, if he's guilty,
34:53
I feel like the parents should be held responsible as well, because you know,
34:59
one of the young ladies, I can't remember her name, but she
35:02
was fairly young, and her parents were like they couldn't get her to come
35:07
home. And I'm like, how do you lose control over your children to
35:14
a place where they are being treated in a nasty way or what have you?
35:23
Like, how do you lose your parento mind frame and allow stuff like
35:32
that to happen? Like my son is twenty eight, my daughter's twenty five.
35:39
I'm all uping through the business. I don't care how all they get.
35:44
I mean, I'm gonna. I mean, I was sixteen when I
35:47
had my son, so I told him from from here to the grave,
35:53
if we wind up in the same nursing home together, I'm in your business,
35:59
like you know, But I feel like the parents dropped the ball on
36:04
those kids A lot of them. But I can't. I can't go much
36:10
longer. Being that you know, we had a little delay in starting.
36:16
I need to ask you a favor. Sure, can you hit me with
36:21
a freestyle before we go? Oh lord, man, I ain't a freestyle
36:28
on about fifteen years. Let me see, let me see, But I
36:37
know I can definitely, I can definitely. Uh, I can definitely give
36:43
you something. Matter of fact. So I got this. Even while we're
36:46
talking about kids and kids being lost, we in the era where there's just
36:52
so much bullying going on, so much cyber bullying. Right, So I
36:55
got this song. I got this on this project. It's called Ambition Fouls.
37:00
You missed it, Volume one. One of the one of the songs
37:05
on there, it's called still Fly. Okay. When I speak on still
37:12
being fly, i'm speaking on for me. I didn't when the Jordan's came
37:19
out, I got the last year of Jordan's, right, I ain't get
37:22
the current year of Jordan's that was that was one O nine. I got
37:25
the last years that was sixty nine or seventy nine. But I was still
37:30
you know what I'm saying, I was still confident. I was still cool.
37:31
You know what I'm saying you on of if I just got him off
37:34
I these are still the same ones from last year. So I've just had
37:37
so many battles with that and find it myself and my confidence. And that's
37:43
where you know what I'm saying. I came up with it, but just
37:45
to spend a little something off of that the first versus like let me see
37:53
you see I wasn't born with the confidence. School up a trigg and say
37:59
the girls go for them felt like a fifth will when I rolled with them
38:02
like a spell under the car house, fosed to win. I ain't have
38:06
a lot of colors or can I ben? Then I was in my daddy
38:08
blaze. I had to blaze it. Then used to get my mom's a
38:12
cord the corn to bending. They onned him turning up that heat because they
38:16
ain't on the bus deal the sal Man. Oh they love being us three
38:22
sixty, don't know who to trust. If I can get you up,
38:24
that's not what you should still love. My mama used to like her,
38:28
but my friends ain't like her. Shity listen back then she in this sight
38:31
for my pop shared word but can't share them words. I'm satisfied with my
38:35
life like the student curves and ain't pull up in the lamb boat, but
38:38
I'm still fly. I ain't get the Jordans this time, but I'm still
38:45
fly. No too religious this time, but I'm still fly. I grind
38:53
high goals for minds and you know they definitely check that out. Man.
38:59
But yeah, yeah, whatever y'all got going on, man, No,
39:01
you're good doing you When y'all caught me, y'all guard with that, but
39:05
you know, yeah, I ain't And normally I say normally, I say
39:08
no anytime somebody asks me to freestyle. But you know, just when we
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was talking about it, I was like, you know what, I can't
39:15
spit that well. I'm humble. I'm humble that you would do that for
39:21
us. I watched the Field of your Lives and I know that you DJ
39:25
and you do parties and stuff like that. So if anybody wants to reach
39:31
out to you to book you for weddings, parties, shows, how can
39:39
they reach you? My line has been the same over twenty years. Four
39:44
zero four three nine two two three six s eight. I always pick up
39:49
my phone. Social media, ambition fouls on everything, Ambition fouls on everything.
39:57
My website is who is Ambition dot Com. My phone number. Easiest
40:00
way to get me four zero four three nine two two three six eight.
40:06
You can book me with my band. You can book me to host your
40:08
your your party, you can book me the DJ, your party, whatever
40:12
you need. I'm coming through and bringing life to it. We're gonna turn
40:15
it up. Okay, Well, I truly enjoy having you with us tonight.
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I would like to bring you back and and have a more in depth
40:30
conversation. I'm with you, so I'm gonna stay in touch with you so
40:36
we can set some stuff up and go from there. But in my signing
40:42
off, I'd like to remind people that oftentimes we are delayed in things that
40:51
we're trying to accomplish in this life. But whatever God has for you will
40:55
never be denied unto you. So until next time, this has been delayed,
41:02
but not denied the podcast. I am your host, Latagia Little John,
41:07
mister King Ambition. It has been an honor to have you here with
41:12
me tonight, and we out of here every second Monday at fourth Friday of
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each Monthy, this is she that you don't want to miss.