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Blxst on ‘Labor of Love,’ Self-Managing & Protecting His Peace · The Baller Alert Show

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  Speaker 1: I alway wanted to ask you this question. How'd you
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  Speaker 1: come up with your name? Dad? In the corner with
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  Speaker 1: the camera, And that's been cool. We're talking, you talking
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  Speaker 1: smack or you you quietly. I'm over there coaching the coaches.
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  Speaker 1: So I haven't dropped the album since twenty twenty four, correct,
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  Speaker 1: And this is the longest I took a break. Usually
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  Speaker 1: I dropped every year and been on tour every year,
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  Speaker 1: but this time, around twenty twenty four, I had to
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  Speaker 1: manage myself. So I'm on tour wearing multiple hats and
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  Speaker 1: kind of took away from the creative side, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: just learning how to balance it out. From twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: four to now. As soon as I got hot, I
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  Speaker 1: kind of spreaded myself then in a sense, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you think you do? You feel like you overdid it?
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  Speaker 1: Bro So you right? Record engineer produced? So you one
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  Speaker 1: stop shot man? She fucked you up? Yeah, But I
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  Speaker 1: love questions like.
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  Speaker 2: Push up Ben to Robert Win for Robert and you
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  Speaker 2: know me, geez, you like me mental health chat talk
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  Speaker 2: to me. Somebody got you fed up? Call and get
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  Speaker 2: it off your mind. Catch us in there a turn
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  Speaker 2: us up while you went traffic Slane. Welcome to the
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  Speaker 2: greatest shown Earth. Yeah it's the Bottle of Alert. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's the Bottle of Alert. Yeah, it's the Bottle of Alert.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Greatest shown Nerve. Yeah it's the Bottle Alert. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's the Battle Alert. Yeah, it's the Battle Alert.
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  Speaker 1: Broadcasts a live from the Nagro Law Firm Studios. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to the Ball Alert Show. My name is Ferrie Simmons.
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  Speaker 1: Blasted the building. What so, what's up? What's up? Broill.
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  Speaker 1: Good to see you man, big fan, big fans to
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  Speaker 1: be back. How long are you in the city. I'm
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  Speaker 1: actually leaving back to New York tomorrow, so I was
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  Speaker 1: only out here for like two days doing press. Yeah, press,
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  Speaker 1: and I had a meet and greet from my album
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  Speaker 1: at the record store at Crates Crates. Yeah, that's that's
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  Speaker 1: a good location to do too. It was a good
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  Speaker 1: vibe in there. Man. Listen. I feel like you're one
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  Speaker 1: of those artists that Atlanta appreciates. There's an appreciation for Blasts.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's his lyricism. He's easy to connect to.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, it's good to listen to as well. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not really big R and B. I like like
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  Speaker 1: hardcore rap. Yeah, but I like to enjoy your music. Man.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad I can play my small little role. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to ask. It's an important role in my life.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. So we definitely listened in my house. We
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  Speaker 1: listen to you a lot. That's what's up. I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to save relationships out here. Now. I know I'm an
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  Speaker 1: ask but she's going to probably indulge more. How's your
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  Speaker 1: energy today. I'm a little over stimulated, but I know
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  Speaker 1: I'm in a I know I'm in a loving space
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  Speaker 1: right now. So I'm straight. I think it's one day
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  Speaker 1: at a time, but I try to embrace every emotion
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  Speaker 1: and not dwell on it, but still be aware of
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  Speaker 1: the emotion that I do feel.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I love the awareness, black man, because it's
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  Speaker 4: so rare.
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  Speaker 3: It's so rare to even acknowledge. You get overstimulated too, man,
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  Speaker 3: It's not just the women.
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  Speaker 4: And I love that you say that because I think
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  Speaker 4: it's genuine and it's pure and people are missing that.
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  Speaker 4: They're missing that type of conversation and dialogue. And I
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  Speaker 4: think that as an artist sometimes, especially when you're doing
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  Speaker 4: these press runs and you're engaging with so many different energies,
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  Speaker 4: you know, not just your management.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the people who you have to show up for.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta vibe.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta give them that good first impression, like they
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  Speaker 4: don't acknowledge that how overstimulating that can be. So I
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  Speaker 4: love that you said that. So spiritually, do you feel
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  Speaker 4: like you're kind of like finding a balance.
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  Speaker 1: Toward Yeah, I think I think even me being aware
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  Speaker 1: of it is is growth for me, you know, But
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  Speaker 1: also it's ups and downs and everything. So I'm cool
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  Speaker 1: with the fact of how I feel like I know
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  Speaker 1: how to manage through it. But I'm still aware of it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I'm still adapting. I'm not like a
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  Speaker 1: social butterfly. You feel me, so each engagement I try
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  Speaker 1: to make it, you know, meaningful and just be present
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  Speaker 1: at least this time around. When I first got in
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  Speaker 1: the industry, I was just doing everything, just my head
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  Speaker 1: in the clouds. But now I just want to feel
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  Speaker 1: everything and be grateful for the opportunities that I get.
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  Speaker 1: But it's still some down moments even in that too.
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  Speaker 4: You feel different, like from the first time we ever
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  Speaker 4: sat down and we had a conversation and we get alive,
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  Speaker 4: Like you express like how antisocial and just kind of
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  Speaker 4: like you were getting adjusted to the industry. And I
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  Speaker 4: can hear and even the growth in the way that
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  Speaker 4: you speak. So let me be a person to reaffirm
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  Speaker 4: that too, Like you're growing. You're growing, and it's noticed
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  Speaker 4: and it's felt for sure, And I think that that
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  Speaker 4: is what is going to allow you to capitalize off
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  Speaker 4: these next chapters of your career is just being able
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  Speaker 4: to not only be aware, because awareness is nine tenths
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  Speaker 4: of the law, you know, and I think you being
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  Speaker 4: able to acknowledge it and then kind of grow through
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  Speaker 4: it and then learn different.
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  Speaker 3: Ways to adapt for yourself.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to take you like light years ahead, yeah
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  Speaker 4: for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Now all my notes, you wrote and produced everything on
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  Speaker 1: labor of blah. Yeah, the top to bottom. Proud of it.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lot of work. Yeah, because usually sometimes I
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  Speaker 1: mean an artist like yourself, you can give and take
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  Speaker 1: from maybe producers and songwriters. But to do it all
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  Speaker 1: by yourself. How did that mentally take a take you
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  Speaker 1: through the whole motion of the project. I would say
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  Speaker 1: since twenty twenty four, I started managing myself, okay, and
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  Speaker 1: it really gave me time to just like you know,
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  Speaker 1: spend more time with your family. Managing yourself is a
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  Speaker 1: lot too. Yeah, it's a lot. I mean, I'm still
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  Speaker 1: going through it right now. And I don't say that
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  Speaker 1: in a sense of like I take pride in managing myself.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the current state that a man in my career.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a reason why I feel might be asking
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  Speaker 1: I'm not even finna get into all. Okay, say less okay,
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  Speaker 1: but in a nutshell, it gave me. So I haven't
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  Speaker 1: dropped the album since twenty twenty four, correct, and it's
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  Speaker 1: the longest I took a break. Usually I dropped every
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  Speaker 1: year and being on tour every year, but this time
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  Speaker 1: around twenty twenty four, I had to manage myself. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm on tour wearing multiple hats and kind of took
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  Speaker 1: away from the creative side and I'm just learning how
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  Speaker 1: to balance it out from twenty twenty four to now.
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  Speaker 1: But by the grace of God, I got an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to make this project and just be more present and
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  Speaker 1: connect back to the roots of the fans that fell
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  Speaker 1: in love with me in the first place. And that
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  Speaker 1: was me being in control of me being a producer
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  Speaker 1: and the output that I was putting out and I
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  Speaker 1: think like from twenty twenty to twenty twenty four it
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  Speaker 1: just felt so fast and like a blur where I
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  Speaker 1: was working with different people, meeting a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: fresh in the industry. In twenty twenty four to twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, it felt like I was back to me. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm back to my family, having conversations on a deeper level,
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  Speaker 1: looking myself in a mirror, and just being a human again,
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  Speaker 1: going to places by myself, not feeling like I gotta
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  Speaker 1: have security or feeling like I got to dress or
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  Speaker 1: be a certain character that I'm not. And the error
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  Speaker 1: just felt like a labor of love, you know, And
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  Speaker 1: it was intentional, and I wanted every piece to feel
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  Speaker 1: like that for me producing it. I wanted to have
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  Speaker 1: every detail be from authentically me.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you can tell with like even the way
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  Speaker 4: you articulate, like the labor in love, and like how
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  Speaker 4: it's important it is to show up. So hearing you
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  Speaker 4: say like the behind the scenes of what you're doing
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  Speaker 4: as an artist, it kind of takes my introspection because
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  Speaker 4: as I was listening to the album, it's like, I'm thinking,
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  Speaker 4: you're talking about just love and showing up in relationships
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  Speaker 4: and you know, being who you are need to be there.
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  Speaker 4: But like I can hear the labor of love and
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  Speaker 4: even showing up for yourself, you know, showing up for
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  Speaker 4: your career, your dreams, still being a father. Like, how
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  Speaker 4: do you feel like you're finding kind of like wholesomeness
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  Speaker 4: in this new chapter of your life? Because I understand
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  Speaker 4: it could be overwhelming, So like, how are you showing
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  Speaker 4: up for you?
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  Speaker 1: How am I showing up for me? I think just
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  Speaker 1: being honest with myself whenever I feel however, I feel
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  Speaker 1: learning how to put me first. I haven't mastered it,
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  Speaker 1: but I just know that if I love myself, then
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  Speaker 1: it's easier to give love. You know, it's a daily process,
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  Speaker 1: but you know I start with my body and soul.
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  Speaker 1: So one of my exercises is working out. You know
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  Speaker 1: that starting my day like that always take me a
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  Speaker 1: longer way because for me, it's like if I start
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  Speaker 1: my day off doing the hardest thing, everything else becomes easier.
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  Speaker 3: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: What's something on the project that you don't want your
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  Speaker 1: fans to overlook? Is there a song that you be like,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to listen to this one. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I want them to listen to the whole project. But
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  Speaker 1: I would say overall, I don't want people to overlook
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  Speaker 1: the fact that I'm a human outside of just an artist,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because I know that perception of an artist
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  Speaker 1: or celebrity. I never really connected to that. I always
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  Speaker 1: looked at myself as an everyday person who just so
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  Speaker 1: happened to do music, and the music is a soundtrack
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  Speaker 1: to my life, for sure.
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  Speaker 4: I think that something about you that I appreciate as
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  Speaker 4: an artist is like when you are going through and
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  Speaker 4: listening from front to back to the album, because you're
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  Speaker 4: one of those people who you can do that with,
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  Speaker 4: Like it feels like a conversation, like you're kind of
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  Speaker 4: like walking through different chapters of what you're doing. So
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  Speaker 4: I think that in hearing you say that, that's the
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  Speaker 4: part that you want people to.
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  Speaker 3: Get, like your humanism definitely comes out because it's like
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  Speaker 3: you couldn't see yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Going through like different different conversations that you're having, or
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  Speaker 4: different parts of your life that you may be conquering.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that's kind of what brings the completedness
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  Speaker 4: to the project too.
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  Speaker 3: So I think if to a person who gets it,
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  Speaker 3: they gonna get it.
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  Speaker 1: Man, I'm big on that, like just the intimacy or
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  Speaker 1: like feeling like the album is like I'm sitting next
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  Speaker 1: to you when I'm talking about in these songs, like
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  Speaker 1: it's a real convers.
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  Speaker 3: That's what it feels like, That's what it gets.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, now you did the breakdown from twenty twenty to
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. What's the lesson that you learned from
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty to twenty twenty four. So use my voice,
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  Speaker 1: you know, state my opinion. Don't just go with the
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  Speaker 1: flow of things, even if you may become wrong at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, at least you could be
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  Speaker 1: comfortable with the fact that you you know, you put
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  Speaker 1: your energy out there. Because a lot of times I
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  Speaker 1: was just quiet, going with the flow of things, okay,
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  Speaker 1: and then I get to a point where I'm mad
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  Speaker 1: at myself because I felt a lack of control when
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  Speaker 1: I could have did something in the first place. So
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  Speaker 1: now I try to take accountability of my power in
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  Speaker 1: the things that I say and how it adds to
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  Speaker 1: any situation. You have a good show too, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: because I never figured I was in Tampa at a
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  Speaker 1: radio station I used to work with doing the activation
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  Speaker 1: with DTLR one type of DTLR, and you were ad
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  Speaker 1: I forgot the name of the concert, but you were
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  Speaker 1: one of the performers and the crowd just you had
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  Speaker 1: you did, you had great stage presence. Man, Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Do you work on your show? I do? I do.
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  Speaker 1: I take rehearsal very serious. Okay okay. I came up
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  Speaker 1: in the camp where it was like twelve different artists
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  Speaker 1: and it was kind of like a making making of
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  Speaker 1: the band type situation. We had to stink called you
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  Speaker 1: worked the stage too, Thank you, Thank you. We had
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  Speaker 1: to stink called sixteen twenty one, and it was a
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  Speaker 1: practice where you had to write a sixteen bar vers
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  Speaker 1: a day and then you had to go sell CDs,
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  Speaker 1: so you got to make at least twenty dollars selling CDs,
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  Speaker 1: and then you got to promote one hour on Twitter.
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  Speaker 1: So we used to span people. So it's just this
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  Speaker 1: work ethic that I like to apply, just to have
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  Speaker 1: a system to, you know, keep sharpen in my iron
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  Speaker 1: that was up.
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  Speaker 4: It's like God was already kind of preparing you for
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  Speaker 4: this season where.
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  Speaker 3: It was going to kind of be on your back more.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I like that proper preparation.
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  Speaker 4: I got a question though, like in the seasons of transition,
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  Speaker 4: especially when it's like you experience more overwhelmingness, over stimulation
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  Speaker 4: and things like peace is a.
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  Speaker 3: Really really big thing. So how do you protect your piece?
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  Speaker 1: That's a good question. Yeah, how do you? How do
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  Speaker 1: you protect your piece? Man, I could do a better
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  Speaker 1: job of doing that, for sure. How do I protect
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  Speaker 1: my peace? Do you set boundaries? Yeah? I mean I
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  Speaker 1: exercise that no word more than ever more.
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  Speaker 3: That's different.
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  Speaker 1: That's my new my new word twenty twenty five. Twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, it was no for me. No will take
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  Speaker 1: you a long way and reserve a lot of energy. Reserve. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So I think it's just as simple as that. So
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  Speaker 1: you say no, you gotta say no, even if you
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  Speaker 1: say yeah later. You gotta say no right now, just
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  Speaker 1: so you can look my pr right now. I told
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  Speaker 1: her no earlier today.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think too that saying yes to yourself and
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  Speaker 4: replacement of yes to everybody else. It's like when you're
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  Speaker 4: in the act of servitude and you want everybody to
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  Speaker 4: be just happy and content with your movements, you know,
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  Speaker 4: especially when you're in the industry, like people expect more
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  Speaker 4: of you when you start to make it.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's important. Like the caveat to that is
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  Speaker 3: like I gotta say no to you, but I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: say yes to me.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna say yes to doing the things that I
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  Speaker 4: normally want to make the space to do when I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: Yes to you. So yeah, I think I think that's part.
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  Speaker 1: Of the protective they you got five kids, so it's
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  Speaker 1: easy for me to throw that in there. I'd be like, bruh,
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  Speaker 1: I got five kids. No, hell no, hell nah. It's
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  Speaker 1: to a point where I don't even get the questions
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  Speaker 1: no more. I always wanted to ask you this question,
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  Speaker 1: how did you come up with your name? I made
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  Speaker 1: it up? Made We was asking Travis Porter the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: We was like, bruh, it's three of y'all, how did
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  Speaker 1: y'all come up with Travis Porter? It was like I
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  Speaker 1: made it up. You just made up and made it
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  Speaker 1: up on the fly. I was gonna change it, Like
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  Speaker 1: as I got what was the name before Blast that
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  Speaker 1: you was thinking about, It's always been Blast, So I
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  Speaker 1: started making me like sixteen years old, it was Blast,
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  Speaker 1: and I was gonna change it because I'm like, this
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  Speaker 1: ain't got no significance to like who I am okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: And then when I had kids, I'm like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Blast sound like a superhero name. It does, Yeah, it does.
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  Speaker 4: And I think the combination with the eagle to like,
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  Speaker 4: it's like the fly guy mentality. But there's a humbleness
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  Speaker 4: to your spirit's like I feel like we'll always make
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  Speaker 4: you sore.
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  Speaker 1: She she she fucked with Kayla, she don't miss Why
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  Speaker 1: do you spell it the way that you spell it?
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to just create it, you know, Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking of it on a like branding aspect,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when you google it. I was just you
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  Speaker 1: the first thing to its lot.
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  Speaker 4: That's what caught my attention. The first time he ever
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  Speaker 4: came across my playlist was the X. I'm like, how
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  Speaker 4: do you enunciate this? Yeah, it's like a conversation, yes,
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  Speaker 4: like it's a conversation starter for sure, No, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Well listen, man, I just appreciate you spending some
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  Speaker 1: time with us. I know you leaving soon you had
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  Speaker 1: anything else, big k big energy. I feel like we
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  Speaker 1: was just getting warmed. I mean, we keep going going.
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  Speaker 4: So my question to you is how many hours do
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  Speaker 4: you think that you dedicated to this entire project.
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  Speaker 3: You get everything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what I'm saying. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: a that's a big project. If you produced and you wrote,
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  Speaker 1: that makes you picky too, Yeah, but I was. I
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  Speaker 1: was more intentional with this one versus my other projects.
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  Speaker 1: Like I made exactly the amount of songs that you
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  Speaker 1: hear from this album. But the tediousness of like mixing everything.
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  Speaker 1: Do you do that part too? Yeah? Bro? So you
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  Speaker 1: right record engineer, produce, so you one stop shot. You
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  Speaker 1: don't need nobody. I mean, I mean, I said, but
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  Speaker 1: now I'm understanding the importance of collaboration too. This project
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  Speaker 1: was more so like a let me get it off
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  Speaker 1: my chest, let me prove my point to myself, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And then how I look at this is like the foundation,
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  Speaker 1: Like this is a project to where I'm showing you
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  Speaker 1: how I'm showing up as a man, like the things
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  Speaker 1: I stand for and the error that I'm in, me
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  Speaker 1: as a father, me in my relationships, me with my family,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, now it's trying to spread my wings
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: and take it across the world. Do have a question,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: because I suffer from this, I think we also offer
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: from this. How's your work life? Balance. How do you
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: balance work, how do you balance personal? How you balance
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: being a dad? Honestly, I feel like I can be
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: a little more outside. I'd be so isolated at the house.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: I've been in father mode, like, which is a blessing,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: you know, to go to my son's basketball games. I'm
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: the dad in the corner with the camera and that's
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: been cool. But you're talking, you talking, smack or you quiet.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: I'm over there coaching the coaches. But I think it's
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: also my chat GBT started laughing. I need to pull
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: up my chat GBT and just started laughing. Y'all heard
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: that laugh? What the fuck? Go ahead about that? You
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: gotta watch that, man. That's crazy, man. But yeah, I
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: feel like I can, you know, just get back to
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: the work more and just getting outside more, mess on
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: my community, tapping in with the fans, tapping in with
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: different artists and producers, just creating that balance because I
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: don't want to just be one way, you know.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think even in that too, something to consider
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: is that you being more active in the things that
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: you love, like your kids and your life and just
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: like grounding yourself and being human too. That probably added
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: to even like you creatively as you were making the
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: music too.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: And I feel like listening.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: To the project front the back, you can hear it
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: like now that I'm hearing the story behind it.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: It all makes sense.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: It's like, dang, you really was carrying the whole project
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: on your back. But I think that that will make
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: it meaningful going forward too, because a great leader will
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: be able to speak to every part of the process.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: And now that you've done everything, like you can literally
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: just think.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: About that to yourself. You can say to yourself like.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: I dropped an album and I did every you completed
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: every facet of that project. So it's like now you
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: can be selective because you know exactly what you need
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: to get where you're trying to go. So when you collaborate,
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: you can collaborate with intention instead of just the need.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a fact, and that's how I look at
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: it too, Like I have to make sure I have
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: my foundation before I start stepping into these rooms, because
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: I felt like it was the other way around before,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Like as soon as I got hot, I kind of
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: spreaded myself then in a sense, you know, you think
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: you do you feel like you overdid it. Yeah, you
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: know that I was doing hell of features and you know,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: just giving everybody the sauce for sure, for sure, and
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: awareness of my own sauce, you know so, But you
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: know it's still more sauce to come. So being running down,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: what's the intention of your studio time?
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Are you?
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Are you a loner in the studio or do you
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: need what type of energy do you have to be
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: surrounded by in the studio? Well, naturally, like who I am,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: even outside of being an artist, I love being in isolation. Okay,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: that's my bag, you know, so in the studio saying
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: nobody's gonna hear nothing until when when do you share
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: the music with? I got a couple of people, you know,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: my circle that I share you will you text it?
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Or do you got to hear the person? Okay, okay,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: you gotta hear the person. Okay, that's just how I am. Okay,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: But no one's no one's gonna be there with you
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: when you're creating, right right? Okay?
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: Do you feel like that's like a spiritual thing, like are.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: You and God? Thing?
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I think I don't know, it could be. I ain't
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: think that deeply of it, do you know?
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: I'm always thinking deep?
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Not for sure, but I think I just learned
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: how to be comfortable being alone. I'm the youngest sibling
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: out of three older sisters. It's just you're the only guy. Yeah,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: the only boy. So it was a lot of like,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: you know, that's my comfort too. They slip all your moms, Yeah, exactly,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: three moms pushing baby. Yeah for sure. So sometimes I
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: gotta lean outside of isolation because I'd be so good
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: by myself to where the world don't even matter to me.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Any of your sisters do music too? My sisters? Yeah,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: she was a rapper growing up. You know, she don't
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: really getting her bag like she used to, but maybe
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: one day. Yeah, I gotta get on, you know what
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. What's what's that conversation like? Cause you know,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: I feel like your baby, bro, and I know she
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: proud of you, obviously, right, But what's that conversation like
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: with you know, having siblings and I know they support you,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: But how how how how is the family dinners? And
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: how what does that look like? In the blast household? Man?
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: My family? When I get around my family, I become
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: so small. I'm still the same kid. Do y'all talk
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: music in their eyes? You know? We don't talk. Everything
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: is just back to regular.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Okay, that's probably good balance.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: That's good balance. Man.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Shit like they're not looking at you like the superstar. Yeah,
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: like it's just this bro.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, I get humble when I get in the house.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: My wife don't call me Ferrari. She called me Sean,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: And I'm straight dad. I was in the Addict yesterday.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I had a little leak. I'm replacing ship and doing
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: all types of stuff. So yeah, I mean, I'm not blast,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: but I understand the it's normal that balance.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: You gotta come out of. Like even who was it
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: too Short?
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: We were talking, yeah, talking to too Short.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: He was talking about just the fact that it's like
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: too Short is a character. He's like, and I'm still
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: me so when I show up to these interviews. The
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: context was he was just talking about how like artists
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: will come on and they'll talk, but they'll act like
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: their conversation has to be minimalist. And he's like, you know,
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: you gotta let people feel you. You gotta let them
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: feel who you really are, because you know that is
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: what gets them in little.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Support of the character that you've created.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: But the character is the character, and you're still you Damn,
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: that's a great way to put it off.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Definitely, I think I definitely think your music is as
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: authentic as possible. Just being hearing music all the day,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: all the time. I can hear records that i'd be
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: like all right, but when I hear your music, I
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: feel it pausing to get I ain't as deep as Kleb,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: but I'm I hear authentic music. With your music, you
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: feel me so like it's definitely you're definitely one of one.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: You're you're You're in your own You're in your own lane.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Thank you. I don't take that lightly, man, No, for sure, bro. Like,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: remember we had the radio station, bro, so we're interviewing
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: artists all day every day. I was excited when Jay
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: hit me and was like you get black, I was like,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: fuck yeah.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: I just told him that I said when they said
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: you was coming, I couldn't weak because.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, I probably have more questions, but I'm slick,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: fanned out on the low. I'm just I'm really a
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: fan of your music, bro, Like you're dope. I appreciate that.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: I think every one of your albums there is like
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: because you're so authentic and you're the genuine nature of
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: your spirit comes out, and like, now hearing the way
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: that you create, it makes sense because.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: It makes sense.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's like.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: You're solo creating, and it's like it's you're really putting
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: like that's your labor of love. Like you're putting yourself,
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: your heart, your spirit, like your thoughts, your mind, like
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: probably some of even your insecurity all into the project.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: So I think that that's dope to kind of hear
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: you vocalize that too.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Sure, as a fan, I always wanted to know, like
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: what's your recording process and how do you you know,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: curate your your genre of music. Do you even like
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: do you consider yourself like what type of artists do
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: you consider yoursel as far as like genre. Yeah, I
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: mean I'm a I'm a rapper at heart, but I'm
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: also singing. So it's like I teeter that line because
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I feel like you're literally your own genre because I
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: was thinking about we was talking about Bryson Tiller the
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: other day and how he kind of to do like
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: that trap soul playing. I've never heard that before, the
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: same thing that you've never heard your style before. Yeah,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: so what would you call it? I don't know, I
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: think R and B is the closest thing to it,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: just just in terms of the context, like you know,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: me speaking about love for sure, But I approach every
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: verse from a from a rapper's perspective. Really, yeah, as
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: far as like the bar, the bars in the format,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: even how I approach it. It's like I write before
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: I even hear how the melodies no sound? You know,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: did you always want to be who you are right now?
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Is that something that you said I envisioned this and
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: it's actually happening or did it you tried it and
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: it was like, oh shit, y'all like that? Yeah, it
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: was more so of a thing, like I didn't chase it.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: But when I got to the point of making music,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: it felt effortless, like it didn't felt like a job.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: It felt like something that's good I was bred to
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: do all my life. And when I look back, everything
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: made sense. Like when I was a kid, we used
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: to leading up to where you're at now. Yeah, we
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: used to remix songs for fun, just write lyrics, so
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: it was already happening. And then once I got a
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: chance to record, heard my voice, I just fell in
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: love with it.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: Wow, you got a birthday coming up September?
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: What zodiac scien is that? Stop? Do you believe in
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: that zodiacci Yeah, you're gonna read his poem?
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: No I ain't.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: But but in honor of the fact that your birthday
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: is coming up, what are you celebrating the most about
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: yourself this year?
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: And I'm talking now, look you know me, I like
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: to go.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: Deep talking spiritual, like feeling like what is different about
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: you this year that you want to take into this
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: next year of your life?
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Man, she fucked you up. Yeah, but I love questions
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: self reflection.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: But you know what's funny is I have his birthday
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: in my calendar.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: That's crazy, damn real, I didn't have. I didn't have that.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: From hearing your growth. Like honestly not the caveat off
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: what I said. But the reason why I asked that
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: is because I think that's what I hear the most
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: in this interview is gross, like hearing even what you've
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: been going on behind the seats every time I check
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: in it.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: On you, taking it one day at a time.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: Doing this now I have more context into Okay, these
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: are the things that when I hit you and you
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: come on my spirit and God's like Hey, check on him, like,
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: you know, like check on his spirit, you know, see
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: what he's got going on. So it's like knowing that
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: that's kind of been the narrative and the dialogue the
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: whole time. I've been checking on you this year, like
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: hearing you now, I can hear where God is taking
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: you into the next that coming, Yeah, you know what
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: I mean, Like you've been carrying it. It's been a
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: little heavy, but he was breeding something in you and
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: there's a fierceness that I can hear and even what's
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: getting ready to evolve. So I'm curious what your recollection
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: on your last year is.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Wow, I would say just consistency, Like that's what love
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: is to me, the daily commitment of showing up, yeah,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: and embracing everything that come with it. You know, I'm
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: real proud of myself and I plan on living in
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: the consistency because that's where you see real results no
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: matter what you think about when you hear that word.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I think that's something that I want to continue to
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: embrace moving forward.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: I love that you've been doing the work and it's
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: paying off and you should be proud of yourself. And
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: I'm happy to hear that that's what you recollect of
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: your last year, because that's the part that I want
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: you to understand, even as a friend, like you're growing
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: and it's being felt, and the work that you're doing
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: is paying off, and it's not just paying often.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: That the energy that we feel when.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: You're the presence in the room is what we feel
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: in the music that you're creating. It's hard, so it's
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: like what you're trying to do, you're doing it and
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: everybody doesn't make that connection.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: So when you.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: Walk out and chest out, you know what I'm saying, hello, Hello, hello,
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: that we've been doing the work.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: You've been doing the work.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that for real. Listen, man, we appreciate you
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: spend some time with us. We know you on the
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: press run. This is a dope interview. Great meeting you
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: as well. Usually I talk a little bit more shit,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: but I definitely am a fan bro. Sometimes I gotta
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: sit back and be like, man, this is cool. This
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: is the part of my job that's like super cool
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: to interview people that I listen to a lot that
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: so far Laborer love out appreciate you. Definitely you're gonna
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: give us a can.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: I pray with you before. Yeah, let's do it. Come on,
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: why the guy? I come to you with somebody?
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: As ever, I thank you for another day we were
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: able to wake up and rise to the occasion. Right now, God,
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: I just pray over Black and his career. God, all
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: of the light, the loads that he's currently carrying. God,
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: I pray that you continue to keep him elevating in
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: his labor of love. God. I pray that he continue
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: to show up as a dad, as an artist, as
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: a producer, as an engineer, guy, in every facet of
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: his life. But most importantly, I pray that you send
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: him all that he needs and his team for him
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: to continue to be able to evolve in his purpose.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: God, I pray that you keep his spirit like God.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: I pray that you keep his peace prevailing in every situation.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: That he encounters.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: God, and just keep his mind and his thoughts and
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: his spirit and his course of action aligned with you
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: at at all times. God, send Jesus name, I prayed
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Man Amen, Yeah, Yeah, the job