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Episode 329 "Rapsody" · The Baller Alert Show

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  Speaker 1: Work with me here. You know bt know how it goes.
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  Speaker 1: Shout O O C T no real color what we
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  Speaker 1: see the whole game, read the book something. But you
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  Speaker 1: can't stand on the host. See. I already know you
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  Speaker 1: can't with me because with the squad of me they get.
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  Speaker 1: They called me. He love love her, I love her.
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  Speaker 2: Broadcasting lie from Atlanta, Georgia. Welcome to the ball Alert Show.
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  Speaker 3: I go by the name of Ferrari Siming. I go
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  Speaker 3: by the name you know bt C T.
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  Speaker 1: Of That.
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  Speaker 4: Sound was good, the Grammy nominated man the biggest Yeah imagine.
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  Speaker 4: Want to say thank you for this project, thank you
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  Speaker 4: for your contribution to hip hop, and thank you for
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  Speaker 4: staying with it because we need you. You know, the
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  Speaker 4: culture is everything. Like you like to say, please don't cry, uh,
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  Speaker 4: please don't cry.
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  Speaker 2: Looking at me like that, what's yeah, yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you for listening to play, for giving me a
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  Speaker 5: platform to share more about it. I feel good, man.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just overwhelmed by the love. You know, it's so
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  Speaker 5: much and I want to find a way to give
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  Speaker 5: it back. And they telling me like you just got
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  Speaker 5: to sit in and receive right now, shorty.
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  Speaker 6: So I just I feel really good. Like full of gratitude, you.
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  Speaker 5: Know, to being in this long, you know, to have
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  Speaker 5: done so much and you know to still have the
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  Speaker 5: opportunity to put out more and have it received in
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  Speaker 5: a way it's being received right now.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just thankful.
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  Speaker 2: We was in our group chat and one of the
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  Speaker 2: youngins I said, we had you on the schedule one
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  Speaker 2: time for Big d Rode Nation and I was like, man,
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  Speaker 2: I believe she's the best female MC in the country.
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  Speaker 2: Because they were like, oh, man, who's rap City. I
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  Speaker 2: was like, to me, she's the best female rapper in
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  Speaker 2: the country now, and I feel rapper in general. But
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  Speaker 2: if I'm if I'm describing you, I definitely said I
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  Speaker 2: feel that way. I feel like the world man hip hop.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, you know if I'm kind of curating,
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  Speaker 2: like to describe you to this young man, I was
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  Speaker 2: just explaining to him like, yo, like I really don't
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  Speaker 2: know anybody that could rap better than you.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, but let's take it back a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, let's take it back, because if we can't assume
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  Speaker 4: everybody know you know what I'm saying, Rahap City, But
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  Speaker 4: can we take it back to Snowfall?
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  Speaker 1: Is it?
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  Speaker 7: What was it?
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  Speaker 6: What's your where I'm from. Yeah, yeah, snow Hill.
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  Speaker 7: Snow Yeah, Snowfall.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I like that, though I don't know if it to
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  Speaker 5: apply right right, snow Hill Man, take us bank.
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  Speaker 7: What was it like growing up and you know, North Kakilaki.
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  Speaker 6: I mean it was it was slow, you know, quiet.
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  Speaker 5: It's one of those you know, small towns where it
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  Speaker 5: ain't nothing to do really if you're not in like
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  Speaker 5: sports or your books, you in the streets sports or anything.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. I played basketball.
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  Speaker 5: I played basketball from age seven until I graduated high school.
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  Speaker 5: And jumper still there, it's there a little bit, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: one and two, one and two two. Yeah, But I
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  Speaker 5: mean it was just it was easy. I played outside
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  Speaker 5: a lot. You know, we rolled a lot. We have
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  Speaker 5: house parties at the community or parties at the community center.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 5: It was just country, slow life. It wasn't too much
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  Speaker 5: else to it. You know, everybody in the community connected,
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  Speaker 5: everybody know each other. And yeah, that's that was growing up.
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  Speaker 5: That's the best way I could describe it. I spent
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  Speaker 5: a lot of time with my cousins, you know, just
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  Speaker 5: having a good time pig pickings.
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  Speaker 7: And they kind of introduced you to hip hop.
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  Speaker 5: Right yeah, my older cousins Dion and Kennywood Jr. I
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  Speaker 5: mean I first was introduced to it myself, to like TV,
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  Speaker 5: you know, your your MTV raps, the BT video shows,
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  Speaker 5: the radio, like I was just sitting watching tea videos.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, it was like right around my older cousins,
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  Speaker 5: I got exposed to albums, you know, like you watch
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  Speaker 5: videos on TV, but listening to the whole albums and
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  Speaker 5: listen to the B sides. That was like my little
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  Speaker 5: younger self in the back of the track of like
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  Speaker 5: my mama like you know, take her to so and
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  Speaker 5: so house and you know, they playing nads or they
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  Speaker 5: playing j or they playing.
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  Speaker 7: Tribe or you know whatever it was.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm getting to experienced albums, you know, and even
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  Speaker 5: the style, like they were so hip hop.
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  Speaker 6: So I used to watch emulate how they dressed the.
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  Speaker 5: Boys, you know, like the tims with the photo down tongue,
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  Speaker 5: the nadi Ka jackets or like my Homegirl, my older
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  Speaker 5: cousin Katanian, she's you know, where swim Trucks was in style.
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  Speaker 6: Like I was just into all of it.
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  Speaker 4: But then you went to college and then you know,
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  Speaker 4: how did you meet the ninth wonder? Because you know,
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  Speaker 4: you got you signed with him and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 6: I met him through a friend.
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  Speaker 2: Are you rapping at this particular moment? Not rapping at all?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. I always wanted to.
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  Speaker 5: Be a rapper since I was like five or six,
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  Speaker 5: but I didn't really I understand the process of how
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  Speaker 5: to become a rapper being from where I was from.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you grew up in a big city LA Chicago,
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  Speaker 5: New York. Like you meet rappers in the street, you
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  Speaker 5: watch them do videos their studios in your city, like
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  Speaker 5: you know, there might be a cipher on the block.
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  Speaker 5: It wasn't like that for me.
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  Speaker 6: Growing up. Everything was on TV and radio. I ain't
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  Speaker 6: know no rappers.
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  Speaker 5: I never saw nobody make a video, so it wasn't
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  Speaker 5: anything that was like attainable to me.
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  Speaker 6: But it was still a dream that I had.
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  Speaker 5: So, you know, I remember one day Saturday morning, I
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  Speaker 5: was cleaning and I took the vacuum holes and tried
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  Speaker 5: to freestyle.
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  Speaker 6: My brother told me I was wax. I ain't never
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  Speaker 6: tried again.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't do it, you know, brother, he kept in
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  Speaker 5: frail I was at that time, So you know, I
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  Speaker 5: was like, well, maybe I'm not a rapping them.
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  Speaker 6: Even though that's what I want to be. But I
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  Speaker 6: started writing poetry.
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  Speaker 5: So when I got to college, I was still in poetry,
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  Speaker 5: but I was really getting to the spoken word form
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  Speaker 5: of it by watching deaf poetry jam. I met some
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  Speaker 5: of my closest friends working at foot Action and just
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  Speaker 5: on campus. And you know, two degrees of separation.
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  Speaker 2: Which college were you at?
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  Speaker 5: North Carolina State University and Raleigh, North Carolina go with
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  Speaker 5: Pat I'm a duke fan of but yeah, that was
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  Speaker 5: due fan since ninety one ain't two Grant Hill, Bobby
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  Speaker 5: Hurley like that era gotcha.
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  Speaker 6: So I just couldn't afford to go to do so
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  Speaker 6: we started a hip hop organization on campus.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, we was doing like rap battles and
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  Speaker 5: I would host everything. I would never be anything, but
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  Speaker 5: you know, just being around them, like soaking it up,
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  Speaker 5: learning because you know, they would go to studios and
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  Speaker 5: that was my first opportunity to see people make music
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  Speaker 5: in front of me, or they have us set up
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  Speaker 5: in that dorm room. We're in the house that they
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  Speaker 5: were wrinting. So I was getting exposed to it and
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  Speaker 5: I was just watching.
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  Speaker 6: And soaking it in. I go home and do my
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  Speaker 6: thing by myself. And shadows.
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  Speaker 5: But one of my closest friends was also in the organization.
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  Speaker 5: He knew what I was doing, and we was at
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  Speaker 5: the studio one day and he was just like, yo,
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  Speaker 5: quit being scary, getting a boog, Like we just having fun.
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  Speaker 6: Ain't nobody here to judge you.
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  Speaker 2: So I started.
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  Speaker 5: I recorded my first two songs, and we did a
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  Speaker 5: mixtape for the organization. But one of the guys in
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  Speaker 5: the group was shadowing Knife at the time, learning how
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  Speaker 5: to use fruity loops, and he asked Knife just to
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  Speaker 5: come meet us all listen to our music. And that's
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  Speaker 5: how I met him, and he saw something in me
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  Speaker 5: that was like, you know, he thought was special. He
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  Speaker 5: wanted to take time and invest in, and the relationship
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  Speaker 5: just blossom from there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Question, did you finish college?
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  Speaker 6: I was?
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  Speaker 2: And what were you studying?
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  Speaker 6: Accounting?
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  Speaker 2: Wow? Yeah, why I'm just saying no, them classes are classic.
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  Speaker 6: I know why.
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  Speaker 5: And I tell people that's like one of the like
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  Speaker 5: things charity and philanthropy wise, I want to do is
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  Speaker 5: go back to my school and like expose kids to
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  Speaker 5: more options about you know, investing, like what they're passionate about.
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  Speaker 5: Because they pulled me in off and they were like,
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  Speaker 5: you're good at Mathew High scoring, you score high and
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  Speaker 5: that you can be an accountant.
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  Speaker 2: So I just chose.
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  Speaker 6: I was like, all right, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Did you finish?
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  Speaker 6: So I'm one crewdit credit, shove, get my diploma.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, come on.
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  Speaker 7: Something like this, mad years.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna go back and walk.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, still playing like I walked everything. And when you
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  Speaker 5: when you have like UNDERNIGN credits, they let you walk.
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  Speaker 5: So my family's there all the things.
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  Speaker 3: You got that diploma now?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So I went back the next semester for the UH
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  Speaker 5: for the class, and my dad gave me the tuition
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  Speaker 5: to pay for that class, but I spent it on
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  Speaker 5: something else, to deal with music, and so I had
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  Speaker 5: to drop the class. And they still don't know what
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  Speaker 5: you spend it on, smiling like stud something I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even your parents your parents now, I guess
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  Speaker 3: it worked out.
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  Speaker 6: It worked out.
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  Speaker 7: I believed in myself.
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  Speaker 2: So a question when did you start? When did you create
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  Speaker 2: your name?
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  Speaker 6: Because I created it while I was doing spoken a word?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so why did you pick this particular name.
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  Speaker 5: I'm a huge jay Z fan and he has this
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  Speaker 5: documentary out. It's about a reasonable doubt, And in a
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  Speaker 5: documentary he talked about how he became so good with
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  Speaker 5: words because he used to read the dictionary because he
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  Speaker 5: wanted to have a full vocabulary for his raps. So
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  Speaker 5: you know, I was like, bet, I'm going to do
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  Speaker 5: the same thing.
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  Speaker 6: So for like two weeks.
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  Speaker 5: It would didn't last that long, but I would sit
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  Speaker 5: up at night and read the dictionary.
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  Speaker 6: I just picked a letters. When I got to rhapsody,
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  Speaker 6: I loved the definition of it.
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  Speaker 5: It was poetry spoken with great emotion, and I felt like,
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  Speaker 5: even though I was doing poetry, that's still.
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  Speaker 6: What rap was. And so I was just like, oh,
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  Speaker 6: that's flying, run with it. Take the age out.
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  Speaker 7: She's so good man.
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  Speaker 4: We got rhraps City right here on the ball of
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  Speaker 4: our show Man. We'd be right back with more, back
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  Speaker 4: with more of the Brother of Law show. We got
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  Speaker 4: rahps cdy in the building.
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  Speaker 9: Day Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. She didnt graduate college. She
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  Speaker 9: spent all her money on on the studio.
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  Speaker 6: Time, come on out all. I was responsible for most
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  Speaker 6: of it.
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  Speaker 9: But I mean it makes sense now why people are
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  Speaker 9: kind of upset with like a lot of the rap,
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  Speaker 9: because I don't think a lot of these rappers now
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  Speaker 9: they read.
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  Speaker 5: No know or did they pretending because it's the idea
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  Speaker 5: that it's not cool to be smart. But I believe like,
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  Speaker 5: if you make it in this game, are you successful?
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  Speaker 5: You got to have some type of knowledge on you.
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  Speaker 5: And a lot of the ones that you that sound
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  Speaker 5: like they can't read, they be knowing a lot, you
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  Speaker 5: know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 9: So do you feel like it's just not any type
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  Speaker 9: of representation for like the younger generation to look up
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  Speaker 9: to as far as the artists like how you was
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  Speaker 9: talking about you had mc light and jay Z and
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  Speaker 9: these were people that you know, we're doing it on
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  Speaker 9: a high level, but was also preaching you know, the
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  Speaker 9: intelligent part of reading.
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  Speaker 6: It depends on where they're getting.
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  Speaker 5: You know, if you're only looking at mainstream, you know,
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  Speaker 5: you may be limited in the representation for that because
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  Speaker 5: it's just it's a certain thing that they push into
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  Speaker 5: the top.
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  Speaker 6: But I think, you know, if if you look outside.
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  Speaker 5: Of mainstream, there's a lot of examples of amazing rappers,
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  Speaker 5: and you can you know that they they're intelligent and
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  Speaker 5: they're smart and they're proud of it.
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  Speaker 6: A soul Vince Staples Schoolboy Q Kendrick J Cole, Tierra
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  Speaker 6: Wag It's it's a lot.
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  Speaker 5: Uh So, it's just where you're getting your music from,
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  Speaker 5: you know, that's that's the biggest thing.
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  Speaker 2: So to kind of reel back a little bit to
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  Speaker 2: what we were talking about now, yeah, sign when you
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  Speaker 2: signed with Knife wonder, correct, what is your next move
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  Speaker 2: after this? Because you're I know, he's assisting with the
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  Speaker 2: curation of creating songs and speaking to the masses. What's
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  Speaker 2: going through your brain? What are you doing now?
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  Speaker 5: I mean it's one of getting better as an MC,
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  Speaker 5: you know, starting to put my brand out there as
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  Speaker 5: an artist.
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  Speaker 2: And how do you do that?
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  Speaker 6: You gotta put music out there.
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  Speaker 5: You got to promote yourself, like figure out how to
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  Speaker 5: do these music videos, you know, figure out how to
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  Speaker 5: get into the PR space and get interviews. It's just
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  Speaker 5: like how do I expose myself? And he told me before,
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  Speaker 5: like it's gonna be a long road. It's gonna be
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  Speaker 5: a seven to ten year road before you ever kind
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  Speaker 5: of peek your head into where you're trying to be
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  Speaker 5: and to hear that.
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  Speaker 6: Can be like very intimidating.
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  Speaker 7: Or discouraging or discourage.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, but it was something I wanted to see that happened.
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  Speaker 2: Were you discourage at any moment at this particular moment.
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  Speaker 5: Not discouraged, frustrated you know, you have any moments you
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  Speaker 5: get frustrated along the journey, but never discouraged early in
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  Speaker 5: the days, Like that's the best word I could He.
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  Speaker 6: Was just frustrating.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, so I mean we're in the studio just rapping,
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  Speaker 5: and it was like, you know, proven how good you
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  Speaker 5: are and that you've proven to yourself and to the people,
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  Speaker 5: like it's my first time doing it, and just really
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  Speaker 5: taking as much direction as I can and learning the business,
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  Speaker 5: you know, making connections with people.
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  Speaker 2: Like you're very connected. I would like to say that, like, you.
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  Speaker 6: Know, never left the studio.
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  Speaker 5: I was a studio rap Knife would come there and
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  Speaker 5: TD would pop up, and sometimes I'd be out of
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  Speaker 5: at the time, he probably had like twelve artists, I'd
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  Speaker 5: be the only artist in there, you know. So it's important,
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  Speaker 5: Like if you're gonna do it, you gotta make it
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  Speaker 5: your life.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 5: If he called and said anybody was come to the studio,
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  Speaker 5: I was there just to meet people and connect and
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  Speaker 5: watch them and learn. It's the cheeks came down when summer.
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  Speaker 5: I remember I stayed there all day all night, watching
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  Speaker 5: and record and just learning and soaking it up.
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  Speaker 6: So that's what it was like.
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  Speaker 5: You know, if Knife went to New York, he would
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  Speaker 5: always extend everybody, like if y'all want to come, come,
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  Speaker 5: Like I remember one time, me and Sundown, one of
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  Speaker 5: the members of Actual Proof, got on the China bus
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  Speaker 5: first and last time I ever took the China Bus.
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  Speaker 5: I went to New York like just to follow him
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  Speaker 5: around and watch what he did. But every everywhere he'd go,
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  Speaker 5: he introduced people like, this is my artist Raps, this
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  Speaker 5: is my artist Hollow, this is my artist whoever.
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  Speaker 6: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 5: And that made a difference even though they know who
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  Speaker 5: I was, Like you see people enough and then your
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  Speaker 5: name starts to come out a little bit, like they
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  Speaker 5: remember you.
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  Speaker 7: Know, were you living at home at this time?
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: There was a period where I was living with my sister,
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  Speaker 5: and then I got sick and I moved home to
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  Speaker 5: snow Hill. But I would drive to Raleigh, and my
• 14:34
  Speaker 5: mama got tired of watching me drive because I was
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  Speaker 5: I would sleep at the studio and then get up
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  Speaker 5: and go find a friend house to go take a
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  Speaker 5: shower at and she got tired of that. So this
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  Speaker 5: is when, like I think it was like right before
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  Speaker 5: Obama administration.
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  Speaker 6: Houses was mad cheap, like full clothes.
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  Speaker 5: So they found me like a really nice townhome for
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  Speaker 5: a really cheap price, and I stayed in Raleigh, you know, Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just highlighting that, Ryan, You know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 4: because you know, some people need jobs to survive as
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  Speaker 4: they try to chase their dreams.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I definitely did you have a job.
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  Speaker 2: Where did you work?
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  Speaker 5: I was pushing sneakers that foot action. Still, yeah, I
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  Speaker 5: was still there for that.
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  Speaker 6: I quit a few times, that always went back.
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  Speaker 2: But at least you kept. You kept. You get the
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  Speaker 2: thirty percent off, so I know you're getting there getting
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  Speaker 2: the releases so you can stay fresh.
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  Speaker 7: And I worked at the outlet.
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  Speaker 2: What about your personal life though, because this doesn't sound
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: like you have a personal life.
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: I didn't.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: No relationship.
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: Later on, but at.
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: This particular moment, no.
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: No, but still I still put the music first.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: But no love interest at the time.
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: Though early on, no no love interest.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: I mean you didn't have time to think about it.
• 15:46
  Speaker 6: I dated, but nothing really lasted long.
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: Okay, Like I might have dated one guy for like
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: seven months and I found out he had a girl
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: at another school. You know, I meant dating another guy
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: for like three months, like you know, and then I
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: got in a really long relationship that lasted nine years.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: So yeah, okay.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: So you pretty much it sounds like you done with love.
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: Who now I'm really just getting started.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: The beautiful thing.
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: You go through these relationships and you learn a lot
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: about yourself.
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: And the last one I learned you hear it on
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: the album. I learned a whole lot about myself.
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: And I think when you know who you are and
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: really what you want and you attract that, I expect
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: good things in the next one.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: Do you gotta do? You gotta like a check book?
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Like what?
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: Okay, I got no checkbook.
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I meet who I meant you see how it
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: is energy, See what their ambitions are, what their personality like,
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: if they funny, make me laugh?
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: Please? You know. I ain't got no check mark.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we got a check mark right here. We got
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: to hit that commercial check mark. We'll be right back
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: with Rhapsody right here on the Baller Alert Show.
• 17:01
  Speaker 8: We'll be right back with more of the Baller Alert Show.
• 17:06
  Speaker 8: You're listening to a special edition of The Baller Alert Show.
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: Yo, Yo, this is Rhapsody and I'm chilling with the
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: Baller Alert Show on revot Beck with more.
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: Of the Butler Alert Show. We got Rahap City in
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: the bill.
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, please don't cry.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah please, Because I have a question, Okay, go ahead.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: How accurate is this three AM record? Because this sounds
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: very one hundred percent? Like, yo, I'm there with you
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: because I go on YouTube to watch the video and
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: it's twenty minutes her talking to Eric Abadu that conversations here.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: I want to I want to see the video.
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: We did an unofficial live performance video.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, but the fire I still.
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: Want to do one.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: Like while we were making the record, she was like,
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: what we're gonna do for the video and she gave
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: me an idea, so I don't want to rush it,
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: like you know, she travels the record.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: I watch the full twenty minutes. Did it was a
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: good conversation. I could definitely tell mental health is a
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: big deal and you guys both take it seriously. But
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: I can tell that this was very organic. I could
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: tell you guys, you were speaking truthfully. You know, sometimes
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: people script things. This correct me for wrong. This wasn't scripted.
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: No, I went in.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: Everyone wasn't. Nothing was scripted, even the one with Sonihilatan Beautiful.
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: The difference in there did different, but they're very much
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: honest and authentic, much like your album.
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we were shooting a.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: Music video the same day I did the Sona joint,
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: and you know, it was gonna start the video. So
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: she's just like, I'm going to approach it as like
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: Sydney a reporter. But everything she asked was still spot
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: on and my answers were just authentic.
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: It wasn't rehearsing. I didn't even see the questions, so
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: what BADU?
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: It was just like that I'm a i'm a i'm
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: A lead the questions and I just sat there and
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: it was just like, whatever came off.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: My head I'm going to talk about with love?
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: Nothing. It was just really off the fly, dopey.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: So who came up with that? That conversation series? Is
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: it over?
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: I hope?
• 19:14
  Speaker 9: Not? Like?
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: Are you going to do more?
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: We want to do at least one more. They're kind
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: of in chapters, so so now I was unveiling. Erica
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: was unconditional about love so we want to do one
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: more about the heal chapter what healing looks like, so
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: we'll see, like we got to figure out who.
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: That person is and the calendar works. But that was
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: my idea. That's so built team.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Like the whole idea of this was like to
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: connect with people and I wanted people to get to
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: know me more because I never really gave.
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: I never really let people all the way in. I
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: was kind of protecting.
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: Myself behind them words, not hiding.
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: I was just protecting myself.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: It was kind of hard to I mean when I
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: say hidden, I mean it's kind of like hard to dissect.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Sometimes you got to really listen like ten times to
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: really understand. So it's like hitting messages when I mean.
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: Now you're completely right.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: If you don't understand the lyrics and breaking them down,
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: you're gonna miss a lot of things. And it wouldn't
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: necessarily I can't say. It might have been a little
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: intentional and subconscious. I was still trying to prove a
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: lot too lyrically. But this time is just like I
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: just want to connect with people and I want to
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: be more profound and trying to have like these crazy bars,
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: even though that comes out naturally.
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: I don't think it's as hidden, you know what I'm saying.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: So, yeah, I mean that's I feel like that was
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: kind of brought to the forefront and today because with
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Kendrick versus Drake, you know, it's like a lot of
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: people want to easy listen sometimes and they don't want
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: to have to like think or they just want to
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: just put it on. But with kendricking and your lyrics,
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: you know, you have to kind of like really pay
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: attention because there are several times even in this album,
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: I'm like, oh what I had to listen.
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna get to the song, but I was like,
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: let me run that back. What does she mean by that?
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: That's the beauty of heart form?
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: But please don't cry.
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: Where did this this title come from? I mean I
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: was I was heartbroken at the time, and I was
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: I was looking on Pinterests at poems.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Heartbroken from that from that last guy, the.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: Longest relationship nine year, it was one after that, Yeah,
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: shorter one was like a year, but deeper.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: What happened for him?
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: Hey, people fall out of love and they move on,
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: you know, and you got to learn to accept that.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: I had to learn to accept.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: It such a mature answer.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a real one. You know, it's an evolved one.
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: But I.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: But I was looking for words to describe how it
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: feels because it was I was so in it I
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: couldn't even speak for myself.
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: And I came across this poem and said, please don't cry.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: You won't always feel so broken, and please don't cry
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: shit out to me, because I was like, I have
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: been so hidden and I haven't allowed.
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: People to see me just be human. So it felt.
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: Perfect instead of query and shield right there and type
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: of teams.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: I do feel like I definitely know you more based
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: off this project because when we do our little deep
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: dive I'm listening, I'm driving, I was like, yeah, I
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: like this, And I say you tricked me because when
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: I went to the YouTube to catch the video and
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: I saw the twenty minute conversation, I was like, oh wow,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: this is a very open. I think a lot of
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: artists should try at least to have something similar or
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: do their own version of it, not to try to copy.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: But I think that what you did connected me with
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: your music. But I think I feel like I know
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: you a lot more. Yeah, I didn't feel that way before. Yeah, yeah,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: so this this was a great job. So I don't
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: know you and your team, shout out to y'all because
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: this is a great job in executing what you were
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: trying to purvey, because I got it.
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah. No, we were super intentional, even like the artwork
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: was crazy.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: Who who I did was that.
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: This artist I've been.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: Working with since twenty fifteens from Bulgaria's name is Passo.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: He worked with me through the whole process from twenty
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: twenty till we finished it and put it out like
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: he was with me the whole four and a half years.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: My manager came in like the last year. Who's your manager, Chantel? Yeah,
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: but yeah, we were just super intentional, even like in
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: the beginning, they had an idea, you know, based on
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: what were stream good, what were people like like let's
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: put the Wayne joint out, Let's put the back of
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: my bag out. And I sat with it during the holidays.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: I was like, it's it don't feel right. So I
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: called Sherry and I was like, you know, I want
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: to just talk through this. I'm not saying it has
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: to be my way, but I just want to share
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: how I feel. And I was like, people know I
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: can rap, so leading with the rapping joints is nothing different.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: I said, we got to give them something different this time,
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: and they got to get to know me. And that's
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: why we changed the order of the songs that came out.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: And while we were so intentional about it being like
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: having a connection.
• 23:58
  Speaker 9: With people, anybody that you reached out to that you
• 24:03
  Speaker 9: want to know. The album that didn't make.
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: It, Yeah, Jill Scott. I wanted her on a ballot
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: of Homegirls as well as Oh.
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: My Gosh, I love that song.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Sorry, but I love Baby Tait too.
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: Now, No, by God, I wanted I wanted to be
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: like a home Girls plural like okay, you know, I
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: wanted it Jill Scott's Summer Walker, Ari Lennox and Baby Tape,
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: you know, just like a joint. I don't know how
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: that would have worked were in the All Stars, but
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: that would been good though. Yeah, uh who else old
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: black pop star?
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: I had a few ideas.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: I hit up Little Sims, but she was on vacation
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: and I didn't want to interrupt that. I hit up
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: Tierra Wax, she was finishing her album.
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: I want to say.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: I sent that to Andre three thousand and two, but
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: you know what space he was in, so uh, that
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: was really an incomplete song that I hope to finish.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: I've landed on miss though, so I really hope we
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: can do a remix to Black Popstar and get Missy.
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: But those that's it. Everybody else, you know, we kind
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: of got.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, man, I really want to get into
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: these songs when I'm scared because we have a commercial
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: in like two minutes, so we'll just break real quick.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: Let's come back with more rapidy after this. Please don't cry.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: First off, how did you get Felicia Rashad on there?
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: She's all throughout the album, beginning, middle, and end.
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: Man, Thank god, I really really really wanted her.
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: I've been a big fan of her since I was young,
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: Like people asked like, who are the people inspired you?
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: And she's always on my list.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: I got to give that up to my manager, like wow,
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: I told her I wanted her, and she was like,
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: I thought it was like really far fetched because I
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: dreamed big. So I was like, this is what I want,
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: but we can't get her. Boom boom boom boom. She
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: was like, we're gonna get her, and she found her manager.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: She reached out and they say yes, wow, Like I
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: was shocked and really grateful that, you know, she wanted
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: to lend her her gifts and her.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: Voice to the project.
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: Did you meet her?
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: I still haven't met her. Oh yeah, okay, yeah.
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: She did that part parts on a voice.
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: Memo and send it to me and I arranged it
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: and fill in with my own voice to make the
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: story complete.
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: So that intro, what was that exactly.
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: Is me walking into a hair salon, a hair salon and.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: Barbershops as well in the black community, or a safe space,
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: you know, it's where we go and have conversations in here.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: At the time though, doing the project, I was watching
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: The Matrix a lot, and I was really really intrigued
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: by the relationship with the Oracle and Neo, and I
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: felt like I was on my own journey, you know,
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: like Neo trying to get him to the reality and
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: escape from the matrix of what this is. And so
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: I wanted Felicia to serve as my oracle, but I
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: wanted to make it black and wanted to make it
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: human and what we all experienced, like you know, going
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: to the hair salon and bearing our soul and getting
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: the guys and you know, the advice that we need
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: to walk the path, and so she give me. She
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: asked me the questions and you know, it's like pills
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: and the apple sauce and I got to go out
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: in the world and really apply it and.
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: Find my way.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: Now I feel like, you know, it was and then
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: you know the album is riding. But I feel like
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: when we get to stand tall, that's like when we
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: start getting to like the meat of like the vulnerability.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: Is just I mean, anytime you're doing an album, like
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: the sequencing, it's a trial and error process, like how
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: you got all these songs and it's like, Okay, how
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: were we going to.
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: Tell the story?
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: So it goes through a process like nine pitched in
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: his thoughts, but I decided to do it myself because
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: I was really intentional about how I wanted the story.
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: It's different. It's no rules.
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: Some people sequence albums based on like the first four songs,
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: one of the best songs, that's gonna keep people, and
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: then we'll just figure out the rest.
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: I wanted to tell a story, and that's how our
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: sequence it.
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: So the first part half part of the project is
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: like introspective, like I'm looking at myself. I'm looking at
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: myself as an artist, in the industry, in the world.
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: I'm asking these questions. Then the middle part is the heart,
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: where you get to stand tall and at one time
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: at three am and loose frocks, and you get to know,
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: like the emotional side of me what love looks like.
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: And in the end, it's like you go through all
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: this thought and then this healing, and you sit in
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: the fire and let yourself burn and then you heal.
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: And so that's where you get the back of my
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: bag and raw, and it's just like I found myself again.
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, uh, that one time? What was that? Can you
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: break that down with that? Exactly what was about? Because
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: it's like so many different definitions in my head, but
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: I just don't really clearly know.
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: What did you take from?
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: Was it two different scenarios or like two different things
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: that happened.
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: It was one main one.
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: I just I spoke on another one with right, Like
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: I'm talking about one experience I had with a woman.
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: I've dated men all my life and I had one
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: experience with a woman and it kind of changed my
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: whole life, Like it was really deep.
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: But in that I talk about the married man.
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, right, and it's just like that was one
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: thing I said I would never do. But it's like,
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: how did you get here? And how did you get
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: in that predicament? And you know, it was really taking
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: accountability and looking in the mirror, you know, and you know,
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: just being at one with like, yo, what's up with you?
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: And you know, it just takes me back to the
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: conversation you had with Sanai when you're talking about, you know,
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: the accountability thing, and like everybody's going through something similar
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: to that. People are dealing with that every day. So
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: I thought that was super super dope. How you broke
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: that down?
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: I like your name number two, Yeah that's number two.
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but it's the first song, the second track.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're speaking to yourself.
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so self reflection and then.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: You got Loose Rocks where your grandmother's going through Alzheimer's.
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: I mean it was your aunt. Okay, I'm sorry.
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: How was that, like, you know, having to deal with
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: that in real life and then translating it into music
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: like you did.
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: Like this album was just me like really documenting in
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: real time everything I was feeling and experiencing, and so
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: like that was a big thing, like she's a big
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: part of my life. I love her just as deeply
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: as I love my mother, like they wanted the same
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: to me, so, you know, having to deal with her
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: diagnosis and just seeing it take its course. My therapy
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: is through writing and music, and I thought it was
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: important because I knew I wasn't the only one dealing
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: with it, and it was just a way for me
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: to pour out. I'm a way better writer than I
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: am like a communicator. I'm still getting better. But I
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: remember too, like I was in Dallas at s One's
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: house when I did that record, and I call her
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: that's what it is. As they ended up joint a
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: conversation with us, and I just remember, like if you
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: listen hard enough, you can hear me, like my voice crack,
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: but I was crying all through that when she was
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: talking to me. It just hit me are so you know,
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: it was just it was just honest, and it was
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: just I feel like albums should be a reflection.
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: Of your life, and that's just what was going on
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: in my life.
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: And I documented it and I love the song, so
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: you know, I ain't got nothing, you know, deeper than that.
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: It's just that's how you.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: Just said that your communication is like not as good
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: as your writing. How are you helping that today? Like,
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: how do you how do you practice better communication.
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: When I say like I'm not as good.
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: I'm still a good communicator, but I'm a way better
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: writer because you know, I get to take time with
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: my words and really be intentional and think through what
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: I want to say and how I want to say.
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: It and how I want to set it up.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: So you get it, you know, so your texts are
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: better than your.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, though I know some people that don't talk on
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: the phone at all.
• 31:59
  Speaker 9: Okay, Yeah, just what you said expressing expressing your feelings
• 32:03
  Speaker 9: and your emotions.
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: Like some people be like no, I get it.
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: But to me, like when I'm talking sometimes my brain
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: moves so fast I feel like it comes out jumbled.
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: That's how I feel sometimes.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: How does someone get your attention? If are you looking
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: for love or relationship?
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: I'm not.
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: I'm just focusing on me, Okay, you know, Like if
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: it come and come, if it don't, don't, do.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: You check your DMS? Like is there is there any
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: way that a guy can or whoever can contact you?
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Like what is there? Only? I mean, you know, what's
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: what's the options? Like how can someone you forget the.
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: Options or the options? You know if you want toss
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: right there.
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: If you don't live here, you don't know me.
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: I check my DMS, but don't I don't see everything,
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: like I can't. I mean, but then there's some people
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: I got pushed up on two weeks ago when I
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: was in New York.
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: I hadn't done it. I hadn't been pushed up on
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: like that.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: Somebody approached It was very.
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and now that I appreciated his approach, Like he
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: came in and first he was like, yo, I'm a
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: real big fan, you know. I was like, thank you.
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: And he was like, I got a little crush on
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: Rhapsody and the Homies. My Homies was there. They was like, oh,
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: you just got a little crush on Rhapsody.
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: That's crazy. You should have a big crush, right and
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: he and he leaned in to it so he was
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: got in my face. He was like, I mean, I
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: love to take you out Saturday.
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: I was like, okay, Like I appreciate that. Said no,
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: I said, okay, I gave him my number.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: I liked his energy. It was respectful, but at the
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: same time.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: It was like he wasn't scared.
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: It was just direct.
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: Did you'll go out Saturday?
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: I have an album released week. It wasn't. I had intentions,
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: but if my.
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: Schedule was just too crazy, and I told him, you know,
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: I don't want to come sit with you for thirty minutes,
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: so you know, next time I'm in New York, but
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: text me, get to know me, called me.
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: Call me.
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: Okay, that's what it was. Don't like yo, what's your
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: damn it was. It was just real direct, and I appreciated.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: That, you know, some grown up type ish.
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I come from that generation. You know, I don't.
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: I don't know about the dating apps getting a.
• 34:12
  Speaker 9: D I see a lot of celebrities are starting to
• 34:15
  Speaker 9: use dating apps, but they're not having any success.
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: I would I would never.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: You would never do a date to.
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: Never, never get on dating ap.
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: Those swipe never left right never You just like an
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: old school approach.
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah, me too.
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: Mad DM.
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: But just like the old school.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well technically you just want them to say, you know,
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: just approach me.
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: You just approached me.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: Now a lot of people gonna be approaching you now
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: watching this interview. Fault.
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: I'm a cool person.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: I got to respectfully reproach or break. So uh, let's
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: get right back with more Rhapsody.
• 34:58
  Speaker 8: We'll be right back. Stay tuned more of The Baller
• 35:01
  Speaker 8: Alert Show. You're listening to a special edition of The
• 35:05
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• 35:06
  Speaker 5: Yo, Yo, this is Rhapsody and I'm chilling with the
• 35:08
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• 35:10
  Speaker 4: Back with more of the Brother Alert Show. We got
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: RHP City in the building. Yeah, yes, please don't cry
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: to enable the album. Man, we're still talking about it.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: One of my favorite records is raw Ulawayne Man. When
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: I say you snapped on that, man, you can't correct.
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: Thank you man. How long did it take you to
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: write that? I was really.
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: Experimenting, you know, and I was like, yo, again, I'm
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: trying to be more profound. So I approach it like
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: I just want to do something fun. Ain't trying to
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: be like super lyrical. And he sent his verse with
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: different beat. We had a hook a big okay. And
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: when he sent it back, I was so inspired.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, you rewrote yours.
• 35:47
  Speaker 7: I absolutely did, and I had no issue that.
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: Most people be like, no, yes, I think it more
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: than once. Okay, I was joking. I was I wrote
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: it like twenty seven times, and hip hop has made
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: it the headline. I was like, guys, not being that literal.
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: I probably wrote it like maybe six or seven times.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: But I do a lot of songs, and you do write, right,
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Because some artists I see, they go in and they
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: don't write. They kind of just punish that.
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: For like a month.
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: It's not my thing. I really write. I mean some
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: people just get that.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: You're in there and you're reading off of what you wrote,
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: or do you memorize it and then going down times?
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: Sometimes I just I write it and I said a
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: few times, and then I go in the booth and
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: sometimes I'll sit with it and memorize it and.
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: Then because I know everybody, Yeah, But most of.
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: The time, I just write it and sit with it
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: and learn it enough where I can read it and
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: still perform it.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: Does it take you a long time or it.
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: Depends on to day. Some things you can write in
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: twenty minutes.
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: Some days I spend a month on You know, there's
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: no writer wrong answer, it's just really what where you
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: at that in that space?
• 36:48
  Speaker 7: But you was in a good space on this record,
• 36:51
  Speaker 7: you were.
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, A lot of these a lot of these were quick.
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: You know it's there a few things like the raw,
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: like my raw verse. I really took time on and
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: I wrote a lot of things I like, but nothing
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: felt like it, Like it still didn't match his level because.
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: I wasn't trying to out wrap him.
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: I was you got to hold your own. No, you
• 37:10
  Speaker 7: was doing that.
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: It wouldn't even I just wanted to.
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: I was so inspired. I wanted to match his level
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: of how he approached it. I took his flow. I
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: just used my own word facts.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: But you but you, you held your own because sometimes
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: you know, when you're dealing with a goat like that.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, your got within your your
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: by yourself. But you know, when you're dealing with that level,
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: you can't let nobody just kill you on your own song.
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: You held your own.
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: Sometimes you can't.
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: I mean, no, you can't do that Rhap City, you can't.
• 37:37
  Speaker 6: I mean I knew I could write something better, That's
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: all I'm saying.
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: Like, now you did that. You so humble, But you
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: did that.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not gonna I'm not gonna be humble about you.
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: Right after that song, you got Lonely Woman, And when
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: I heard that record, I'm like, what in thea Jenet Jackson,
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: would you mind it is going on?
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: That is so funny.
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: I was like, well, I was like, okay, I'm just driving,
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: all right.
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: I was showing people every every piece of me that
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: was human. Okay, yeah, like that was especially. That was
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: a big section of my life then. So it was
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: like we just we just recorded it.
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: But to people who don't know, that's a very self
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: loving record right there.
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I love yourself, That's what I'm saying. Deeper than
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: what you think. But but to it, like I would
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: see conversations of like raps, you don't talk about sex sex,
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: And it's just an example of you can talk about
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: sex in so many different ways. Some of it's gonna
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: be ratchy and raunchy and right in your face, and
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: some things are gonna be creative and some things are
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: gonna be poetic.
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: And it's like, you know.
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: Man, the way that you wrap that record, it was
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: just so creative, Like I've never heard nobody do that
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: like that.
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I like to get people an experience.
• 38:58
  Speaker 7: You know, that's an experience. You know, I'm on a quarius.
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: So we never liked we like to go left where
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: everybody else here, like we like to be as creative
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: as possible. Black Odyssey produced that because originally that song
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: as One produced it and it was it was more
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: of like a fun bop joint and it wasn't so
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: erotic and.
• 39:19
  Speaker 7: That's Erotic City.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: When Black Odyssey.
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: Heard it, they were like, yo, can we like try
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: like just a different version because it's so erotic erotic,
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: but we want we want people to really feel it
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: and we want them to be in the room with you.
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: And I was like, all right, let's do it room. Yeah,
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: Like they like, yo, we need to put like.
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: Shower in the background, like and steam and we got it.
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: Like they made it a whole movie.
• 39:42
  Speaker 7: Yeah, wow, very visual.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: You got any favorites on the album?
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Three Am is probably my favorite song, and it's
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: not just I love the song, but because it was
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: an experience in creating with Eric Abadu, So that's for
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: multiple reasons.
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: Loose Rocks is another one.
• 40:02
  Speaker 7: A ballot for the Homegirls so lid though.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Man, it's hall.
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: I love all the records. They all my babies.
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: That's Grammy music, man, for real white you could listen
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: to the whole project with like zero skips I feel
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: like when you can do something like that, that's like
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: Grammy music to me.
• 40:17
  Speaker 6: Damn, thank you.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with that.
• 40:19
  Speaker 6: I told people I just had I ain't have no expectations.
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: I just I made an album for me this time,
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: and I was like, you know, people either like it
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: or not. You know, I just wanted to give them
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: something that was honest, unapologetic.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, great job.
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: So you got the tour? Yeah, we announced tour.
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: Tour kicks off in Europe, first four dates London, Paris, Berlin.
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: And Amsterdam. And then you excited. I'm super excited. I
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: haven't been on tour since twenty.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Nineteen before the pandemic.
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: My last show was canceled because we were on Lockdown
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: two days later, so I didn't even get to have
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: my homecoming show. And I'm excited to see the experience
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: and how the music connects with people in the flesh.
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: Like that's I'm super excited about that. So I can't wait.
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: But we're doing North America too, So it's eighteen dates.
• 41:11
  Speaker 7: Oh, just a couple more songs I want to highlight.
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: From the album never Enough. At the end of the song,
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: you say my purpose ain't for purchase, is that right?
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: You say, my purpose ain't for purchase.
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: Love me or love me not? Now I know what
• 41:28
  Speaker 7: worth is me?
• 41:31
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 41:32
  Speaker 7: How did you come to that conclusion?
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: I think just again sitting with myself and really, like
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: I said, I'm plugging from the matrix. Like, yo, you
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: don't want to sell yourself short because you're not gonna
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: be happy at the end of the day. So stop
• 41:48
  Speaker 5: worrying about all these false measurements. And you have to
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: validate yourself and find value in yourself. And that's just
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: what it is. So it's like, you know, my authentic self,
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: my soul, my spirit is knock a purchase and I
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: can't sell that because I want a nice car or I.
• 42:04
  Speaker 6: Want to be number one on the radio, like you
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: gotta do music.
• 42:09
  Speaker 5: That's the real currency, is peace of mind and happiness.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: Are you ever does Rhapsody ever think about having a family?
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: One day, I thought about it.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: I used to it as in past present.
• 42:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so want to have kids like two maybe three.
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: But I'm I'm at the stage of life where I was,
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: you know, I'm like, I'm kind of I'm I'm okay
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: if it happens, it happens. But now I'm just like,
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: I really like my time. I really like my piece.
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: I got six pieces and nephews, and I'm like, I'm
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: like super auntie, and i'd be I love them, but
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: i'd be like, I'm ready to go to sleep.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: So you're a rich auntie. You're a rich auntie that
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: come over.
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: Drop it, back off, and do everything that their parents
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: asked me not to do.
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I told you not to do that.
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: I'll be like, I can't help it. So I'm okay,
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: it's what I'm saying. If it happens, it happens. But
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: I'm not like I need a family.
• 43:05
  Speaker 9: I'm sad like you seem like a loner. You seem
• 43:08
  Speaker 9: like you like being alone. You like your peace.
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: I have a great balance. I don't think I'm an
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: introvert at all. I love people. I love hanging out,
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: but I like chilling. Like I'm not a club girl.
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: I'm a house party girl.
• 43:20
  Speaker 9: You know.
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: I'm a kickback girl. Like I really like people and
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: I love hanging out.
• 43:24
  Speaker 7: Man Rhapsody, I'm so proud of you, man, thank you
• 43:27
  Speaker 7: so humble. But I'm just so happy for you.
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: You want me to talk my ship, Yeah, every man,
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: I'm just so happy. Thank you all for seeing me
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: important to me for.
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: Sure, Thanks for coming they reporting to us with your
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: with your albums. Man, like, for real, you changed a
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: lot of people. That's why I was asking the questions
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: I asked because you know, you got so many people
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: who are lost today.
• 43:49
  Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying.
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: They looking online just to find an identity, and you
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: know that it's really within You got to put that
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: work in on yourself.
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: If people ask me my intention for this myself, I
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: wanted to be a lighthouse for people to find it
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: way back to themselves.
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I like that.
• 44:05
  Speaker 7: You can feel it for real for sure.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: Please don't cry available right now. Look for Rhapsody on
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: the tour. I guess you're gonna post the schedule. Uh yeah,
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: we posted it today.
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: But w W dot I M rhapsody dot com, I
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: A M R A P S O d y dot
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: com and socials at Rhapsody on all things are.
• 44:26
  Speaker 6: Don't put no H in my name now.
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: Wasn't that?
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: That?
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: Wasn't that the website the download music? What was it?
• 44:31
  Speaker 7: It's a music site.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: It was the music website, remember the.
• 44:34
  Speaker 6: One with the H rhapsody. Yeah, joke on me about that.
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: You name yourself at the music service like shut up, hold.
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: Only acknowledge is the world right here right there in season?
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: Baby, you gotta you got called New York back? Right,
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: I gotta who called New York back? I gotta who
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: you go to New York spost be going on to
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: day right.
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: Because my friends got ahold of the nickname.
• 45:06
  Speaker 6: I'm not telling you know what it's gonna be.
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: My friends call him Hancho because they say he looked like.
• 45:14
  Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, man.
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: Before we get out of here, we do have a
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: pep talk, yo, yo, what's up? This is Rahap City.
• 45:20
  Speaker 6: Look, I just can't even tell you.
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: Don't be stressing over the things you gotta let go
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: in life, whether it be love, friendship and security.
• 45:29
  Speaker 6: You gotta let go.
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: And find yourself, find your peace, find your happiness and
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: work from within. You are enough. You are special, own
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: that love yourself. You really like that?
• 45:41
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