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#255 - R-Mean · The Bootleg Kev Podcast

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Speaker 1: Bouleg Cap Podcast special guests that here are mean, Yes, sir,
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Speaker 1: thank you for having me, sir, welcome, sir brother. How's
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Speaker 1: everything going? Man? You got a lot more jewelry on?
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Speaker 1: I mean, let's just watch here. It's funny. I knew
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Speaker 1: when I walked in here you were gonna make a
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Speaker 1: comment about my jacket. But I took off now and
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Speaker 1: you had a pretty ridiculous Gucci jacket on. That was
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Speaker 1: very nice. Yeah, I know, it's just you know, it
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Speaker 1: was a big puffer jacket. It's cold outside and I
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Speaker 1: was wearing this short sleeve and I was either unawear
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Speaker 1: that or like a mediocre looking one. You're like, you
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Speaker 1: got your MESSI on though, Yes, you're excited for the
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Speaker 1: World Cup. Is this like a time of year or
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Speaker 1: time of every four years you're excited for? Yes? This
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Speaker 1: is really the only real thing that I super follow
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Speaker 1: in sports, right, Like, I'm a basketball fan, but I
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Speaker 1: can't say I'm like really following it the way I
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Speaker 1: used to after Kobe and everything. I mean, you have
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Speaker 1: a King James song though. Yeah, I love Lebron but
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Speaker 1: of course you know, and I follow it, but you know,
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Speaker 1: so soccer is different. I was gonna say because you
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Speaker 1: are Armenian, but you grew up in the Netherlands, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm not Argentinian. You're not Argentinian, but you like Messi Messi.
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Speaker 1: This is just like a symbol of greatness, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean. It's like a Jordan Jersey at Kobe Jersey,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But yeah, I grew up
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Speaker 1: in I'm Armenian, but we don't have I mean, we
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Speaker 1: have a team, but not in the World Cup unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: maybe one day. But I grew up in the Netherlands, Amsterdam,
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Speaker 1: so and growing up in Europe. Like as far as soccer,
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Speaker 1: that's like deep rooted culture, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: It's different, like people here don't really understand it yet, right,
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Speaker 1: you know for sure? For sure, it's like when when
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Speaker 1: the country's playing, there's nobody outside, you know, everyone like
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Speaker 1: watching it. Everyone I'm talking about my mom right now
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Speaker 1: is watching the Netherlands play, like you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: Guess be the US, Yes we did. I'm sorry. Were
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Speaker 1: you excited about that? Yeah? I expected it, you know,
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Speaker 1: us wasn't ready yet, even though in the Netherlands this
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Speaker 1: year we not as good as we once were. Usually are.
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Speaker 1: You know, we known as the greatest nation to never
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Speaker 1: win the World Cup. That's interesting. A couple of times finals,
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Speaker 1: always in the semis quarters, but never actually won. What's
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Speaker 1: going on? I feel like we when we talk what
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Speaker 1: is uh? Is there anything new going on that we
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Speaker 1: should get out there with Armenia. I saw recently like
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Speaker 1: Azerbaijan was sterning shit up a little bit again. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's like an ongoing conflict, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: It's still going on, but it's I believe it's kind
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Speaker 1: of calm right now. Russia is trying to like mediate
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Speaker 1: and shit. But this is like a conflict that's been
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Speaker 1: happening for like thirty years on and off. But then
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Speaker 1: it was quiet for a long time. And then a
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Speaker 1: couple of years ago, really in the middle of the pandemic, right,
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Speaker 1: I got like attacked out of nowhere, and you know,
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Speaker 1: basically they were trying to take over. Well, first there
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Speaker 1: was this piece of land. Then I won't go too
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Speaker 1: deep into it because it gets colm. We talked about
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Speaker 1: it a bit before. Yeah, if this piece of land
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Speaker 1: called arts off n Gordoll Klarabakh, which is like kind
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Speaker 1: of within Azerbaijohn but it's like it's an Armenianian city, right, yeah,
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Speaker 1: and it's always a fight over that piece of country.
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Speaker 1: And when the USSR broke up, they gave it to
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Speaker 1: Azerbaijohn even though it was Armenian you know what I mean,
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Speaker 1: Like on some divide and conquer type ship Stalin did that,
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Speaker 1: you know. So it's ongoing. So then there was a ceasefire.
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Speaker 1: Then they attacked again. And the thing is like Abajhn
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Speaker 1: is backed by Turkey, which there's a whole history there
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Speaker 1: with the army genocide, and they're like a powerful country.
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Speaker 1: Yeah Turkeys, no, no, yeah, and compared to Armenia, you know,
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Speaker 1: we can use some help, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: How big of a deal was it? I was gonna say,
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Speaker 1: because speaking of the Turkey thing, like Joe Biden acknowledging
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Speaker 1: the Armenian genocide as the first president to ever do that,
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Speaker 1: How big of a deal is that? Look, it was
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Speaker 1: a big deal. We all for one day celebrated, and
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Speaker 1: then we heard that Joe Biden is giving military aid
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Speaker 1: to like Azerbaijan or through Turkey or whatever, you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So it was kind of like, hey,
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Speaker 1: thanks for yeah, exactly, which you know, honestly, that's what
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Speaker 1: we kind of used to at this point. You know
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Speaker 1: what I mean now, because because I was talking to
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Speaker 1: my boy out about this, because we were in Detroit
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Speaker 1: and out all my people in Detroit that's like my
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Speaker 1: second home course, right, you've been out there, you're running
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Speaker 1: around in the sprinter out there. I think, yeah, they
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Speaker 1: take care of me over there. But there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of I don't even want to fuck up the ethnicity
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Speaker 1: of people that's out there, Kaladians, Kaldians, Albanians, Kaldians, a
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Speaker 1: lot of Arabic Middle Eastern, right. So we went to
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Speaker 1: a store and the guy was like, there's all this
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Speaker 1: like Middle Eastern candy. And the guy was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: this is a Turkish candy bar. You should try it.
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Speaker 1: And I looked at that stuff hell, and I was like,
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Speaker 1: I bought it. He was like like you better not. Dog.
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Speaker 1: He's like, I won't eat that. And I was like,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna try it, bro, what if it's fire? Like, nah,
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Speaker 1: it's all good. Like the thing with like I grew
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Speaker 1: up in Amstem, right, it was almost no Armenians. I
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Speaker 1: didn't have a single Armenian friend growing up and I
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Speaker 1: lived until I was eighteen, and it was a lot
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Speaker 1: of Turkish people like Netherlands, Germany, so automatically, you know,
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Speaker 1: you have friends at basketball teammates and shit like that,
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Speaker 1: and they didn't even know about that. They don't understand.
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Speaker 1: It's not about the Turkish people. It's all love, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's about the government. But we
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Speaker 1: don't support shit that's like made in Turkey, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean? If I see something that like Zara
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Speaker 1: that says made in Turkey, I'm saying Zara because they're
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Speaker 1: known for having shit in Turkey. But do you know
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Speaker 1: Turkish people who sympathize with what happened to our media? Yah?
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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't really know a lot of Turkish
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Speaker 1: people personally, now, you know what I'm saying. When I
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Speaker 1: was a kid, Yeah, so I don't really know. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: you see people come along along your timeline, like I
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Speaker 1: always wonder that, like if there's like some kids in
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Speaker 1: that Azerbaijan, it's like our country's fucked up. No. Absolutely
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Speaker 1: like the media and absolutely have people like that, but
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Speaker 1: it's also they didn't really have a freedom of speech
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Speaker 1: and like the media whatever, journalists to get locked up
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Speaker 1: if they you know what I mean, it's that kind
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Speaker 1: of country with Russia exactly. You can't just talk about,
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Speaker 1: you know, against the government like Iran right now, there's
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Speaker 1: like a rapper in Iran that's like locks like you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean. Iran's fucking wild and they want
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Speaker 1: to give him like the death penalty. I saw that
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Speaker 1: they were trying to like murder like fifteen thousand protesters. Yeah, insane.
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Speaker 1: the interview. You've been super so I feel like for
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Speaker 1: music and every time I see you, play me shit,
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Speaker 1: what are you gonna put some shit out? Yes, you've
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Speaker 1: been on a well, you've been on a tear. You've
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Speaker 1: been putting out singles. You obviously dropped the project with
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Speaker 1: Burn that did really well. You've been working with everybody
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Speaker 1: from Bernard to Davies to Jeremiad, a fucking goddamn French Montana.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we could go on and on. You got
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Speaker 1: a new mixtape coming out. Yeah, So, like you said,
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Speaker 1: I've been working on a lot of music. This mixtape
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Speaker 1: dropping on the sixteenth. Me and Justin Credible got together.
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Speaker 1: Really has started with him. You know, he started doing
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Speaker 1: like mixtapes on some old you know what, DJ Clue
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Speaker 1: type of shit. He wanted to kind of get in
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Speaker 1: the music side of things. Earlier this year, he put
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Speaker 1: out this project on Hunger Flow and he hit me
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Speaker 1: for like, you know what I mean. I did like
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Speaker 1: a little freestyle joint on there. And then I saw
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Speaker 1: he's working on his second one and I had this
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Speaker 1: song called ten Rap Commandments. I shot it to him like, yo,
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Speaker 1: if you want to use it, you know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: And he loved it. He put it on his ship,
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Speaker 1: and then we were just talking. He's like, Yo, we
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Speaker 1: should do more shit together, you know. And I saw
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Speaker 1: he did a he did a tay with Larussell, which
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Speaker 1: was really like his first one like that, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean, with like one artist. It was called
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Speaker 1: just Incredible Presents Larussell. I'm like, yo, let's go just
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Speaker 1: Incredible Presents. Ar mean, I have a lot of music,
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Speaker 1: so we put it, put a really dope project together
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Speaker 1: on DSPs or is it? Like? Yeah? Yeah, it's not
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Speaker 1: like on some sched you know, there's no freestyles on
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Speaker 1: famous speats or anything like that. Yeah, we can't do
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Speaker 1: that now, unfortunately. I mean, people are doing it still.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why, but they are. Yeah. It's not
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Speaker 1: the wave like. Yeah, you could do it, put it
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Speaker 1: in on YouTube, SoundCloud. It just don't reach as many people,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like I feel like I
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Speaker 1: made that mistake in the past, you know what I
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Speaker 1: mean one of the nas. You have nast feature feature work? Yes,
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Speaker 1: I do. When when is the NAZ? Yeah? I feel
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Speaker 1: like I know I've been talking about it for you
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Speaker 1: heard the songs, yes you have, because I felt like
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Speaker 1: I was doing songs right, I'm not crazy, No, no, no,
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Speaker 1: you're crazy. It's one. It's just one. Okay, let's not
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Speaker 1: blow it up too much. I probably know songs. It
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Speaker 1: was I'm thinking, you never mind, someone else I know
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Speaker 1: has two songs I want to know it was. It
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Speaker 1: was Belly, because Belly too with NAS on the Weekend
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Speaker 1: and Weekend. Uh yeah, but you have but you have
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Speaker 1: a great my brother, Belly have a great NAS record. Bro,
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Speaker 1: my NAS record is ridiculous. I'm not gonna lie. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: the thing is, so I started working with Scott Storch
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Speaker 1: on this whole project, and you know, we put some
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Speaker 1: joints out, like you said, the one with Jeremiah, which
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Speaker 1: was called King James, Who's got a great high stream,
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Speaker 1: great sink ship a lot of love, Yeah, I got,
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Speaker 1: I got sing on ESPN. I dropped the one with
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Speaker 1: French earlier this year, bb got a lot of Love.
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Speaker 1: Those were really like I put him out to kind
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Speaker 1: of test the waters. But like, the album is done now,
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Speaker 1: and it took a little longer than I expect that
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Speaker 1: That's why I had already. You know, I didn't hold
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Speaker 1: it in when I went to the studio with NAS.
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Speaker 1: I posted that ship the next day. And now we
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Speaker 1: are here and it's still not out, but it's coming. Man,
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Speaker 1: Like now everything is ready. So it's just just incredible tape.
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Speaker 1: Dropping the album, and then the album early next year.
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Speaker 1: You know, I want to start rolling out of February,
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Speaker 1: drop the album in March. Yeah, I got some big
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Speaker 1: shit on there. Would you and Berner do another Clap album?
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Speaker 1: I would love to, but you know it was dope. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the first one is dope. And you know, almost on
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Speaker 1: a daily basis of people in my DM asking when
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Speaker 1: I'm doing another album with Berner, just like I got
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Speaker 1: a lot of Burner fans out of this. I went
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Speaker 1: to tour with tour with them. Yeah, and then I
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Speaker 1: work a lot with be Real. I just dropped a
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Speaker 1: crazy join with be Real too. But also just you know,
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Speaker 1: that whole scene, that whole crowd is kind of similar,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, that smoke a crowd, so
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Speaker 1: they be hitting me all the time. Of course I
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Speaker 1: would love to. Burner is my dog, But you know
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Speaker 1: he's a Forbes cover top five riches, you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean, Like he busy. He's gonna be number one
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Speaker 1: rich as soon, yes, is so he you know, he busy,
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Speaker 1: so so hopefully, but I would say in the next
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Speaker 1: two years, Berner's gonna be richer than Dee and jay Z. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised. I actually it's yeah, it's gonna happen.
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Speaker 1: No man. Unfortunately, the last time I spoke to Takeoff
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Speaker 1: but Takeoff was there too, and I was, you know,
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Speaker 1: a record with yet, you know what I'm saying. He's like,
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Speaker 1: I see what you're doing, bro, come on, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean, send me a joint. I'm like, I
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Speaker 1: got you, and I fucking never did. Wow. And it's
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Speaker 1: really because a lot of times I had a few
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Speaker 1: of these opportunities. Nipsey too when I'll tell you about
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Speaker 1: you have time, Yeah, you think you have time. And
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Speaker 1: why'd you put this guy on an album cut? Exactly?
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean? And that was my thing
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Speaker 1: because I understand it's a big deal to get a
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Speaker 1: song with these guys for someone in my position, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean. So you know, and sometimes it
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Speaker 1: takes a little while to get that right one. Every
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Speaker 1: time I'm in the studio, I'm like, well this one
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Speaker 1: worked for takeoff. No, not really, let me, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean. And then that shit happened. Man, was crazy. Okay,
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Speaker 1: two weeks ago. Is it closed? Yeah? No, it's closed
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Speaker 1: for remodeling. Okay, okay, because I drove by and I'm
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Speaker 1: everybody hit him, but I missed something that closed? Is open?
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Speaker 1: Well it's not opened right now, you're remodeling. Because I'm like,
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Speaker 1: he's moving. I don't know. No, No No, we're in the
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Speaker 1: back studio. Shit is everything is there, but we're remodeling
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15:29
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15:31
Speaker 1: saying my people, Yeah, they're doing amazing, and they opened
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15:39
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15:52
Speaker 1: Of course, it's half my people, like literally my actual people, yes,
15:56
Speaker 1: not my you know, shout out my dogs. Yeah. Man,
16:01
Speaker 1: the weed thing has been amazing for me. But I'm
16:03
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16:08
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16:10
Speaker 1: you also like a certified pharmacist? Yeah, by trade? Yeah, am,
16:16
Speaker 1: And I own a pharmacy in Tarzana. Yeah. Man, that's
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16:25
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16:29
Speaker 1: it's like, yo, you got that I remected shit, I
16:33
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16:38
Speaker 1: that they do, but they probably hit you for some
16:40
Speaker 1: wild ship. Yeah, they hit me for all this shit.
16:42
Speaker 1: That kind of shit is cool. I help you, Like yo,
16:45
Speaker 1: you can't get perk thirties from me? Go Ford? Yeah please,
16:48
Speaker 1: but I get that all the time. But yeah, yeah,
16:50
Speaker 1: I'm a pharmacist too. You know what, I realized. I
16:52
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16:54
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16:56
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16:58
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17:05
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Speaker 1: All right. So you also I watched the Patrick Beddavid
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Speaker 1: podcast a lot. Yeah, and you're the you do the
18:31
Speaker 1: theme song? Yeah, so how that happened? Yeah? Patrick Beddavid
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Speaker 1: is a big supporter man. So he's half Armenia and
18:37
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Speaker 1: It was more like you know, the business advice, motivational Yeah,
18:49
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19:05
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19:12
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19:17
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19:23
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19:28
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19:33
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19:43
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19:49
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19:51
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19:55
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19:58
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20:01
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20:04
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20:07
Speaker 1: it for the interviews first. You know, he did the
20:09
Speaker 1: interviews like he has a crazy interview with Kobe. Yeah.
20:12
Speaker 1: I've been watching him for like five or six years,
20:14
Speaker 1: so I've been watching him when he was in Texas,
20:16
Speaker 1: when he was doing all the inspirational shit interviews with people. Yeah,
20:18
Speaker 1: same is the same as me. So they used it
20:20
Speaker 1: just for their for their interview section at that time,
20:24
Speaker 1: but a lot of big interviews Kevin Hart, ma J.
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20:33
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20:42
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20:45
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20:47
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20:49
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20:50
Speaker 1: because like he's somebody. And what's also dope is like
20:53
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20:56
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20:59
Speaker 1: like a full like I really educated myself on what's
21:02
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21:04
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21:22
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Speaker 1: Let's get back to the interview. Me and you have said,
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Speaker 1: I would say pretty similar taste and rap music. We
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Speaker 1: are your favorite albums this year, of course, Katie three, Yeah,
23:30
Speaker 1: I really fuck with the twenty one Savage Drake album
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Speaker 1: Her Lost. I agree stupid way doper than I than
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Speaker 1: I expect my top ten for sure. Yeah, Kendrake, of course, Yeah,
23:42
Speaker 1: your boy Freddie Gibbs is definitely in the top Levet
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Speaker 1: triple Less. You know, you know which one I really
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Speaker 1: like that. I haven't heard people talk about Montega franch Fire.
23:55
Speaker 1: That was one album that I was listening to a lot,
23:57
Speaker 1: like No, I mean like that should definitely French albums. Honestly,
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Speaker 1: those would probably be my top five. But I love
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Speaker 1: the Joey Badass one. Of course, Push Your Tea, Push
24:08
Speaker 1: Your T's always in the album of the years. The
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Speaker 1: French album is definitely slept on. Harry, I mean Harry
24:12
Speaker 1: Froden thirty eight Special just put out a crazy project. Okay,
24:15
Speaker 1: I haven't heard that one yet. Lebron's been posting it
24:17
Speaker 1: like every other fucking day. Really, that's what's up. Yeah,
24:20
Speaker 1: fuck with thirty especial heavy. Like as a fan of
24:22
Speaker 1: Harry fro Beast, you are right though. The French album
24:26
Speaker 1: is hard and nobody's really like, I feel like it's underrated, bro,
24:29
Speaker 1: super underrated, Like French, go hard on them. Harry Fraudby's
24:32
Speaker 1: that's French, that's his sound. Yeah, that's what he was. Sure,
24:36
Speaker 1: that's what the fucking Harry fraud beats. Then he's a
24:41
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24:43
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24:46
Speaker 1: He's got a roster, that's what they say. He's like,
24:49
Speaker 1: top five best rosters in hip hop? What's with French?
24:52
Speaker 1: Who else is amazing? Drake? Drake's got a roster. Travis
24:57
Speaker 1: Nick Cannon, Nick Cannon's got it. You know who Loki
24:59
Speaker 1: has crazy roster. I don't know if he's low key
25:02
Speaker 1: Scott's storage. Yeah, my brother, he's low key and hike
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25:11
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25:22
Speaker 1: any like it's crazy Scottie, my brother. I can't wait
25:25
Speaker 1: for him to do a movie man like a or
25:27
Speaker 1: a Netflix series. I heard he did a deal with fifty.
25:30
Speaker 1: He talked about it too, Netflix series. Crazy. I don't
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25:36
Speaker 1: Hoesy was fucking all the cocaine. His whole story is crazy, insane.
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Speaker 1: Ar mean tapping with you boy? Yeah, Run with be
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Speaker 1: Real is out right now. Low music out, a lot
25:53
Speaker 1: of music out, a lot of music out already, but
25:55
Speaker 1: like a lot of amazing music on the way. Like honestly,
25:58
Speaker 1: like I've never been disconfident, you know what I mean.
26:00
Speaker 1: I'm saying, like like when I just said, I've been
26:02
Speaker 1: pressing play on people, like I've never been this confident
26:05
Speaker 1: to like press play in these meetings. So the no
26:07
Speaker 1: song will be on the album of course. Yeah, That's
26:09
Speaker 1: what I've been kind of waiting for for the album,
26:11
Speaker 1: not only for the album to be done, but honestly,
26:13
Speaker 1: I've been kind of figuring out how to release it.
26:16
Speaker 1: That's why I had all these listening sessions, because you know,
26:19
Speaker 1: we talked about this a lot, Like I had some
26:22
Speaker 1: meetings with major labels too, but that was never really
26:25
Speaker 1: the move which distribution company to go with. Even my
26:28
Speaker 1: immediate team, not my immediate day to day team, but
26:31
Speaker 1: like you know, what I'm saying, like the management or whatever.
26:34
Speaker 1: So I feel like everything is ready now you know
26:36
Speaker 1: what I mean. Boom. Well, we're rather have him wrapped,
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Speaker 1: for that. You let's go, man, Thank you for having
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