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INTERVIEW: Wale On 'everything is a lot.' Love, Heartbreak, Therapy, Music Business, Being Misunderstood +More · The Breakfast Club

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Every day.
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  Speaker 2: Up we click your breakfast club.
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: You'll finish for y'all done morning. Everybody is DJ n V.
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  Speaker 3: Just Hilarry Charlamagne the guy. We are the breakfast club.
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  Speaker 3: Laura Roses here, we got a special guest in the building.
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  Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen's indeed, what's up, Lauren something?
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  Speaker 1: How you feeling? I am exhausted?
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  Speaker 4: Uh, your girls stays with Leon and DC and we
• 0:26
  Speaker 4: drove straight here.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, year is this for you? How long you
• 0:30
  Speaker 5: been in the game.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, y'all like fourteen thirteen something like that.
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  Speaker 5: You're thirteen fourteen? What album?
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  Speaker 1: What is myth album? Eighth album? But then you got
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  Speaker 1: mixed and MG compilations, so.
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  Speaker 5: It's a lot so all of that music and to
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  Speaker 5: have delivered your best body of work. How does that feel?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's up for debate if it's my best,
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  Speaker 4: but I think it is. But a lot of people's
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  Speaker 4: been saying that. A lot of people just like this
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  Speaker 4: Elsi's top three because they don't want to jump the gun.
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  Speaker 4: But it's good because it's like, I know the artist
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  Speaker 4: that I am, I know what I'm capable of, And
• 1:06
  Speaker 4: in a weird way, this is kind of like my
• 1:10
  Speaker 4: first album because well my first album DELO because you
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  Speaker 4: remember attention deficit. I was re mark like I was
• 1:17
  Speaker 4: just kind of following what I'm doing, what I was told.
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  Speaker 4: Then the MMG stuff, I was really on my own,
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  Speaker 4: but it was under it was in a group, so
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  Speaker 4: it was kind of like, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: So this is it feels like my first one. You
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  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. It feels like an introduction to
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people. Like if you listen to Belly,
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  Speaker 4: it feels like, oh like if somebody was like, yo,
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  Speaker 4: where while they're from?
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  Speaker 1: Or what is he? What he about your belly? And
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  Speaker 1: you'd be like, oh, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: So having a lot of moments where a new listener
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  Speaker 4: could come in and.
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  Speaker 5: I hate to say it, whoever, whoever the woman is
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  Speaker 5: that broke your heart, Thank you God.
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  Speaker 1: Than make you think that. What makes you think of women?
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  Speaker 1: Broke mind?
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  Speaker 4: Me? Stuff down the album? But you got you got
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  Speaker 4: you gotta tell me what makes it like?
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  Speaker 6: But for me, it always feels like when you when
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  Speaker 6: you get to a certain point in a relationship, you
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  Speaker 6: feel like you fall into hard you like all back
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  Speaker 6: a little bit even before this album, you know what
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  Speaker 6: I mean, Like what.
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  Speaker 4: That's a fair assessment. That's like through the music, that's
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  Speaker 4: a fair assessment.
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  Speaker 5: I feel that off the first song Conundrum, and throughout
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  Speaker 5: the whole album, it's like you want to be in
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  Speaker 5: a relationship like your mother is even stressing like your
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  Speaker 5: when you get me.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's just it feels good to be loved,
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  Speaker 4: like you really do, like like when you're really trying
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  Speaker 4: to like boss up and do your thing like boss up,
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  Speaker 4: it really do feel.
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  Speaker 1: Good to be loved.
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  Speaker 4: But then sometimes it's a matter of like like who
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  Speaker 4: who how can you mesh with somebody with this like lifestyle,
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  Speaker 4: but just like oh you got to get up and
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  Speaker 4: go and stuff like that, Like you know what I'm
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  Speaker 4: saying In Conundrum, I mean that ain't nothing, but like
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  Speaker 4: me having a self realization of like damn, like I
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  Speaker 4: really got it takes a lot for me to like
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  Speaker 4: to reheat this hot like you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 4: Like like you know what I'm saying, Like I accept
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  Speaker 4: whatever this is with some and some bread quick, But.
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  Speaker 1: Do you love me? Not for real? Do you love me? Damn?
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  Speaker 4: Well, this is quite a conundrum because I don't like
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  Speaker 4: I don't love you, like you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 4: like these these awkward situations, cause it's like I'm not
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  Speaker 4: like I'm not a sloppy dude, like I don't be
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  Speaker 4: moving you know what I'm saying, Like if I'm messing
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  Speaker 4: with somebody, like it's you know what I'm saying. But
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  Speaker 4: I also can realize like when in the past, like
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  Speaker 4: five years, like I like one of my exes told
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  Speaker 4: me that I'm just like it's so cold. Is wrong
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  Speaker 4: with like why you so cold? I'm like, I really
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  Speaker 4: come put my finger on that.
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  Speaker 1: I really don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Like, but again, over time I realized, like yo, when
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  Speaker 4: you and your r it's sometimes hard to see anything
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  Speaker 4: but that you know what I'm saying, and you're gonna lose.
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  Speaker 4: You're gonna lose people in your life because they don't
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  Speaker 4: understand I know, you know, like Bruh TV film all that,
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  Speaker 4: Like it's hard to like when you lock in, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's hard to like have that you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 4: Like even if your partner giving you space or whatever whatever,
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  Speaker 4: Like you know what it's like when you locked in,
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  Speaker 4: you locked into the thing. Like when I'm working on
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  Speaker 4: the film stuff I'm working on, and I'm like really
• 4:32
  Speaker 4: in that flow state, like which could last for like
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  Speaker 4: three weeks, four weeks, I'm not really, I'm not in that.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: It can't be in the relationship because you.
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  Speaker 3: Up here nine times, this is the same sentiment you
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  Speaker 3: have every time talking about the same young lady that
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  Speaker 3: you would not you worked.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's sim with every relationship, and these are the problems.
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  Speaker 7: There a problem and watching Us though it felt like
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  Speaker 7: you found a because she's just as famous that you
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  Speaker 7: could balance it with and you was into it, but then.
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  Speaker 4: You it can happen. But watching Us is his own part,
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  Speaker 4: Like it ain't. It ain't end on a sad note.
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  Speaker 4: We in Vegas, we were in Paris. It ain't in
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  Speaker 4: on a bad note. So I think this is more optimistic,
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  Speaker 4: my my.
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  Speaker 1: My outlook on it the whole, Like.
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  Speaker 4: There's more optimistic on this project because I'm a little
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  Speaker 4: bit more optimistic and the idea of it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So the.
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  Speaker 6: Name of the album is Everything is a Lot? Does
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  Speaker 6: that describe where you are?
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  Speaker 2: Mentally?
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  Speaker 4: We see that shook one book right there, like I
• 5:42
  Speaker 4: remember like reading it on tour, like brouh, like the
• 5:46
  Speaker 4: levity of like everything is just crazy right now, and
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  Speaker 4: it's like the way we desensitize for everything.
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  Speaker 1: It's nuts.
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  Speaker 4: Like five years ago we were not even We would
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  Speaker 4: never say like, goa have a pandemic and the Trump
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  Speaker 4: gonna be back. It's gonna be National Guard, Like I
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  Speaker 4: just love these there's National Guard like in front of
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  Speaker 4: places I grew up at.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 4: That's one, and then two is like, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 4: this weird anominally in the industry, whereas I'm from this
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  Speaker 4: place that I'm the only person really in the in
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  Speaker 4: the black spaces in the industry, and it's like I'm dolo,
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  Speaker 4: like for real, like navigating through it and everybody know
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  Speaker 4: by now like I'm not clique.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really mingle. I'll be in and out the spot.
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  Speaker 1: I'm ana blur. So it's like, you know, everything is
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  Speaker 1: a lot like this. This is who I am.
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  Speaker 4: This is this is like this is good, the bad,
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  Speaker 4: the imperfect.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: We all literally like try and figure it out. It
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  Speaker 4: don't matter what your tax reckort is. We all literally
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  Speaker 4: try and figure it out because especially the black people,
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  Speaker 4: we don't know what's gonna happen. For real, and we know,
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  Speaker 4: like certain people playing in our face. So it's like
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  Speaker 4: the levity of how much all of that is and
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  Speaker 4: still like trying me personally, trying to navigate through life
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  Speaker 4: like relationships. Where do I want to move? I would
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  Speaker 4: love to move back to DC, but it's too heavy,
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  Speaker 4: it's too much.
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  Speaker 1: I can't go.
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  Speaker 4: I can't even go get my mom from groceries because
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  Speaker 4: it's like, you know what I'm saying. So it's just
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  Speaker 4: the levity of all of it. It's just a it's
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  Speaker 4: a lot.
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  Speaker 5: Well, what song on this album felt the hardest for
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  Speaker 5: you to record emotionally?
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  Speaker 4: Probably Survive, because like I never talk about it, like,
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  Speaker 4: but there was definitely like a like a rewiring in
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  Speaker 4: my brain, like like right after ambition, my you know,
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  Speaker 4: my my cousin died the day after his first born
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  Speaker 4: was born, and I was trying to I was really
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  Speaker 4: trying to weave a lot of that, like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like make sense of it because it just seemed so
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  Speaker 4: like so I really was going through it think still
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  Speaker 4: to this day. But I never mentioned it on record.
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  Speaker 4: And then my little Man racks, you know, that's my
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  Speaker 4: man square. Oh squirrel not here, squirrel outside, But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's eight time.
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  Speaker 1: That's his uncle.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, like I spent a lot of time
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  Speaker 4: with Racks, Like I've really liked you, like how was
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  Speaker 4: Racked like seventeen right sixteen, And you know, I had
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  Speaker 4: him on my hip, and you know, I'm actually learning
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  Speaker 4: from him, learning from me. I had him, Like the
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  Speaker 4: last thing you hear on for Lauren two is his voice.
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  Speaker 4: He'd be like for the city though, And I remember
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  Speaker 4: the songs called Beverly Boulevard and I remember just riding
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  Speaker 4: around Beverly Boulevard eight.
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  Speaker 1: This is young.
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  Speaker 4: It's a nigh from the trenches, like super duper, you
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  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. Young, And he's just like looking
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  Speaker 4: how like And I'm just like, you know, when you
• 8:53
  Speaker 4: bring people around that don't be around, like people you
• 8:56
  Speaker 4: might have grown up with. You bring him to like
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  Speaker 4: the nice hotels or whatever, and it kind of gives
• 9:00
  Speaker 4: you it gets you back excited because we probably used
• 9:03
  Speaker 4: to it and it's not like that I was feeling
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  Speaker 4: all them feelings like so we had a great connection
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  Speaker 4: and then you know, we got killed like a couple
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  Speaker 4: of months after, you know, and it's just like and
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  Speaker 4: that's not that's not the first time that happened. But
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  Speaker 4: it's like I don't be talking about that in interviews.
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  Speaker 4: I don't talk about in his songs because it's just
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  Speaker 4: like that joint. It'd be too too crazy, Like you
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  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. So I address it and survive.
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  Speaker 4: I address it and survive, and it's like I'm just
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  Speaker 4: giving the people like bro, this is why you might
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  Speaker 4: see me, and I'm not like the most jovial you
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  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. Like it's like and it's NonStop.
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  Speaker 4: I lost like so many people and then even like
• 9:45
  Speaker 4: Nip like Brah, like he's an artist to most people,
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  Speaker 4: but that's somebody we talked in text. It ain't no,
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  Speaker 4: there's no normal. Nothing nobody can get convince me that
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  Speaker 4: it's normal to be Like coming home one day and
• 9:58
  Speaker 4: looking at the dude he was texting just yesterday and
• 10:01
  Speaker 4: got songs with dying on Instagram. Nobody, it's nobody like
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  Speaker 4: it's so but we the fancy sensitized because it's all
• 10:09
  Speaker 4: chaos and whatever. But like you know, I read Nip
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  Speaker 4: texts like our Texas. You know what I'm saying, Like,
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  Speaker 4: I remember, this is what really sparked the I like
• 10:18
  Speaker 4: that song, like we tell like, there was immediate person
• 10:22
  Speaker 4: that we was both in a bad place with and
• 10:25
  Speaker 4: we was texting and he was like, Yo, they don't know.
• 10:27
  Speaker 4: They don't know what it's like to pay for caskets
• 10:29
  Speaker 4: and even mothers that you don't even know, but you
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  Speaker 4: a pillar to the jon't They don't know. They don't
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  Speaker 4: like people don't know. They think it's just like, oh yeah,
• 10:37
  Speaker 4: lotusly nah man, I got a lot to carry from
• 10:41
  Speaker 4: where I'm from because they looked to me for a
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  Speaker 4: lot of that and I try to be a hope film.
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  Speaker 4: So like you're seeing your man's die literally on a joint,
• 10:51
  Speaker 4: you seeing like I got, like I got like fifteen
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  Speaker 4: records with ghosts.
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: That ain't no, that ain't like that do something to
• 11:00
  Speaker 4: your brain and then when you really know, like what happened,
• 11:04
  Speaker 4: what like and then put you in a position of like,
• 11:06
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. So Survivor was like I
• 11:09
  Speaker 4: had to take it there for the That's the first
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  Speaker 4: time in my career I really talked about that other
• 11:15
  Speaker 4: side of what I gotta deal.
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  Speaker 5: With And what about blanco Blanco is I.
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: Don't I don't think people cracked the code on Blanco.
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  Speaker 4: But that's another thing I learned on this media run
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  Speaker 4: is like, oh, like y'all listen to music different now,
• 11:31
  Speaker 4: Like I go to these players, I did ninety two
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  Speaker 4: Q and I forgot what about I think it might
• 11:37
  Speaker 4: have even been Blanco and like they was like, yeah,
• 11:40
  Speaker 4: it's about just just drinking.
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  Speaker 1: No, this is about like.
• 11:45
  Speaker 4: Really avoiding avoidant personality disorder. This is about knowing you
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  Speaker 4: got you gotta do this, but you struggle with it.
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  Speaker 4: I you know what I'm saying, You gotta go in
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  Speaker 4: this room and dah da dah like I ain't ever.
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  Speaker 4: I can be in any room. I can handle it.
• 12:05
  Speaker 4: But it's also like what I gotta do to get
• 12:09
  Speaker 4: me there? To get me there? Because it's like like
• 12:14
  Speaker 4: you're always performing, You're always performing because if you're not
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  Speaker 4: happy enough, I'm sure everybody been because we're all on
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  Speaker 4: TV and radio like.
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: Are you okay?
• 12:25
  Speaker 4: You're not happy? Why you're not happy? Like, oh, I'm
• 12:26
  Speaker 4: supposed to I'm supposed to be the entertainment. You know
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  Speaker 4: what I'm saying, Like, and that's and that and that's
• 12:34
  Speaker 4: that that's draining, Like you know what I'm saying. We've
• 12:36
  Speaker 4: been doing this a minute, Like we like like they're
• 12:39
  Speaker 4: gonna be like we're dick heare sometimes, but it's like no,
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  Speaker 4: like no, I'm just actually just decompressing them here. So
• 12:45
  Speaker 4: in these Hollywood spaces, if I'm not like that, they're
• 12:48
  Speaker 4: gonna say, I'm whatever the narrative is, So let me
• 12:52
  Speaker 4: get a little bit of lit like so I can kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of like get through.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's kind of like that, and they also like
• 12:59
  Speaker 4: that being alone, Like I spent so much time by
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  Speaker 4: myself making his albums, Like that's what it is, like
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  Speaker 4: I had to take myself to these places.
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  Speaker 1: You still love it though I love it.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't I almost wonder if the
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  Speaker 4: juice is worth the squeeze though lately you know what
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying.
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: To break that down. So you love the music, but
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  Speaker 1: you love them like it's just like.
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  Speaker 4: It gets a little frustrated sometimes when I just know
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  Speaker 4: that like certain people at the level that we at,
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: they don't got to do nothing, and I just like
• 13:33
  Speaker 4: I do my work all the time, and it's cool,
• 13:37
  Speaker 4: like sometimes it's actually fun, like to see y'all because
• 13:39
  Speaker 4: I ain't seen y'all a minute, or do feel like
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: kick it, like you know what I'm saying. Sometimes it's
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: sparked ideas with me. But like man, media it's different now,
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: like they might backdoor you in an interview and clickbait
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  Speaker 4: you and make you look crazy, like I be wondering
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  Speaker 4: if the juice is worth the squeeze Because.
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  Speaker 1: I like rapping. I'm like, man, I got money, I
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  Speaker 1: got I'm cool.
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  Speaker 4: I could just make songs and just send text text
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  Speaker 4: them out like so you know, I still love the art.
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  Speaker 4: I love writing, I love making music, but like everything
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  Speaker 4: that I gotta do to even get my music heard
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  Speaker 4: is a little frustrating because I was doing like I've
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: been consistent for so long, and most people when they consistent,
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: but it's long.
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  Speaker 1: It ain't no question. I seen you.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen you on the press running and I've seen how.
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  Speaker 5: You water get some water waterfall.
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: I've seen you on a press run and I see
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: how you feels like a lot of times you're like, yo,
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: I'm over this.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: But then when I you know, I seen you in
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: Hampton Homecoming. Lauren was with me.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, and I've just seen you your reaction with the
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: crowd and you performing, It's a different feeling it's a different.
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: Look, and that's when you have the music versus music business.
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  Speaker 4: The Hampton Joint was really just like damn you love
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  Speaker 4: but even now, like you ain't like it ain't that
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: because it's like, yo, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Another Monday's business. None of y'all.
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  Speaker 4: Y'all, y'all, y'all ain't nobody but Tupaca Michael jacksona walking
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  Speaker 4: this door.
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  Speaker 1: They impressed nobody in Y're not like.
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  Speaker 5: Y'all.
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I know, I just said impressed.
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  Speaker 1: Y're not impressed, Like y'all this is.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: I told you that that.
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  Speaker 1: This is probably what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: Is what I'm saying is like nobody gonna come in
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  Speaker 4: here and y'all be like wow, That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: Like not like like I ain't do my big one,
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: like but like like, y'all, this is work. You know
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: what I'm saying. You're not let me laying. The Hampton
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  Speaker 4: Joint was like more like real, like yo, like this
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: is black left, this is like, this is music. This
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  Speaker 4: is more of a music business setting right now. That's
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 6: I ain't these niggas know you. I never met you before.
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: I wanted to meet you right from down the street from.
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: Where I'm from.
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  Speaker 1: I grew up listening to you now to call you
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: you know what you like? You like gave me a
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  Speaker 1: hard time on your ascension snsion.
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  Speaker 2: But that's it's a blur.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: It's a blur. It's a blurt.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: I don't I don't really remember, you know, but right,
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: but I'm just saying, like again like you was doing
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: with com jokes.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: But I did what I was saying him in the
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: movie Mark Wahlberg, I'm like, Yo, ship.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: Jake, I'm sorry.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Racist a little bit.
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: They don't look the same, yo, but no.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: But but my thing is that I don't even hard
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: but none of that. And I just have to say
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: that because like the vergo on me that was.
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: Like say, it was the joke.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: I don't even know what that's what I'm saying.
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: Confusing, I don't know, I could.
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: Never well, it don't matter, no more like it never
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: I like, I don't, I don't even I just had
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: to say it because I.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: Never mentioned cool. But I love you, I thank you.
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: And at the same time, I still talk about everybody.
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: It's just you know, just funny.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: The game is the game, you know what I'm saying,
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: like I've that's one thing I've definitely learned, like post COVID,
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: like the game is the game?
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: You remember the joke? Yo? No, I don't remember. I
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: do want to go back to something just said though
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: about the Blanco record though, because you said, you know,
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: trying to ease my mind, trying to trying to ease
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: my mind, trying to free my mind. Got a three
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: some with these demons and I need some time, right.
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: And I always think about, you know, when they when
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: they have artists, the writer will be alcohol or anything else.
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: Do you think that people should maybe say, hey, let's
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: try something else. Maybe.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, I can't speak for everybody else, I can't think.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: Well, I definitely always say that I think, uh, somebody
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: record deals should come with.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Access to a therapist.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: Like we was a lot of money, you know, and
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: a lot of these kids it's coming from super traumatic
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: they don't even know how much trauma they have in
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: them and just navigating through this industry like you're gonna
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: need it because like brother come in talented artists, we
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: lose young because they're just getting.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Thrust into this.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: So you know, I definitely think that's we need to
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: have some type of mental health like like union with
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: rappers or musicians, and it should be free to Duke
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Gallington uh uh and and uh that's Chappelle. That's where
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: he went to high school. And Johnny Gill like it's
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: an art school in DC. And it's like, now Taraji
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: did something. She did, she gos a wellness thing that
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: she's doing in the d NV and she they gotta
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: they literally uh at uh entertainment psychologists in the school.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, I think that's so fascinating because it's
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: like I always wonder what if I had some type
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: of some some of this knowledge before, I probably would
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: have carried him when I was in high school, because
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: I don't think it's in school. So it's like you gotta
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: take that joint, like you gotta take And he told me,
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: and like I was just you know, I was I
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: was doing the principal for the day thing and I
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: was just sitting in and he was talking about stuff.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: He was like, yeah, you know a lot of times
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: when you perform, you performing three times. You like, you're
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: performing for yourself, you're performing on stage, and then you're
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: also performing for the people that need you to be
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: a certain way when the show is over, like it
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: don't stop. And he's like, that can cause a lot
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: of pressure, you know what I'm saying. So once I
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: heard that me just sitting in the class, I'm like,
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: this is a very very interesting like thing that's necessary.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: And then I'm talking to some of the kids and
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: I'm like, what makes y'all nervous? What makes y'all? And
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: all of it was, and he's just like, but they
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: like jin alpha right in high school?
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Right now? Is that still gen z or is alpha?
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: You know? They was.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: I'm trying to learn how they operate, you know, and
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: they're like a lot of it is the pressure of school,
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. The pressure of like playing
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: their instrument or doing that, like because it's an art school,
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: the pressure of getting into college, you know what I'm saying.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: So it's just interesting to just see how that joint,
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: how much like people be thinking that, well, some people
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: use mental health as like a hook to get something,
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: but like when that's why, you know, Charlemagne always been
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: inspirational because it's like I feel like kind of Trojan
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: Horse the whole, like mental health, Like you know what
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: I'm saying, and I applied it to like music and
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: why I'm feeling like I'm feeling, and why I came
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: in a game as an extrovert, but now I was like,
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: I rather be by myself. You know what I'm saying.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: These are all things that I really couldn't figure out.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: So I just feel like it's a good thing that
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: like if we had a little bit, they don't have
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: to go, but it should be readily available because like
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: they need somebody to call. Man, Like, you can't call
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: your friends from your neighborhood no more because they they
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: kind of look at you as it, even if they
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: love you, they.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Look at you different. Do you have somebody to call?
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Do you speak to a therapist? And anybody? Try?
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: Like Bro, I saw I saw one of the first
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: bills that got from this one. I'm like, and then
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: and then he wasn't even available. I'm like, do you
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: just made me cry on his couch?
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Bro? Like where you go and left me?
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, You got you want to
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: with barberstride saying or something like you've moved away, so
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: it do be It's That's That's one thing that I
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: will say, like when it comes to that therapy work is.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: I think it's a little bit even more difficult when
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: you're somebody that be on TV or that's well known.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, because you you know, it's
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: a look that everybody.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Gee you like that. You know, oh, it's getting in
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: the fan territory.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: So you don't want a comfortable talk because that would
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: be difficult feeling comfortable as a celebrity to talk to
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: somebody and knowing that he's gonna keep you up moments
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: to himself.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm, I'm.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: That's the thing I'm still trying to find. I'm still trying.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: To find it. Like I'm something.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: I think it needs to be the exact opposite, like
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: a white woman or like doesn't know because then it's
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: just logically putting things together. Or then sometimes I need
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: maybe it's a black man so he understands the plight.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: So it's just deep. It's like a thing that I'm
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: like trying to figure out.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: Put together a team, like you can't you can't just
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: have one. That's that's something I learned. You can't just
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: have one.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: I learned that in the acting world, like you have
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: to have different cuaches, like like to get your best.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: So I get what you mean, like different, like just
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: to to like to get everything in one place.
• 22:34
  Speaker 8: I take that.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, I'll be confused and I
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: gotta talk to you and then I got to explain
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: to her what I just told you. And I think
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: the worst part about the therapy process is damn y'all,
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: ain't do me like fat joel, y'all let me talk,
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: nah for let me talk. But like I think the
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: most intense part of therapy is like finding one and
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: then like that because because that like you gotta do
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: you gotta do that session when you unpacked so much,
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: and it brings you to a crazy like it bring
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: you like down and it's like I can't do this again.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: This one didn't work. I can't do this again. Like
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: you know, this one was too expensive. I can't do
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: this again. So that probably runs more people off than
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: anything else.
• 23:17
  Speaker 9: I think power and problems. You said you feel like
• 23:20
  Speaker 9: therapy is extortion.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the therapy talks shit. The therapy talk shit for
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: like backdoor extortion. You're thinking you all heal, but you
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: really you've gone here, you back on it now, I
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: go back on that block list. He back on that
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: black list, You back on that blacklist because me, I
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: can be y'all can be anything. Me, I gotta be
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: cautious and I'm on this. I'd rather be single than
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: double cross ship, because that's that's what it is, all right,
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: You've got got like my power is being able to
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: be alone, but my problem is being alone.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: The last three months of the album, I was in there.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: I was in my little band house, pacing fucking all
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: types of mister childs bags were all around, Like I'm just,
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: I'm just, I'm all the way in it, just trying
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: to get everything out my body, everything out of my
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: mind and my heart, just going for it like you
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, and that that lonely that lonely
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: thing is a real thing.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Bro.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: Like everybody want to fake kick it with me outside,
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: but like like, bro, like the real thing when it
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: all boils down to it, Like who's around my family?
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: All my family in DC. I'm in LA.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: I'm like where you gonna find real? I have to
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: always talk to black thought about this. I'm like, yo,
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: like comedians actors to some extent, they hate on each
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: other too, But like comedians, actors, athletes there's always community.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: Hip hop don't got no community. Everybody for theirself. Everybody
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: is no community, you know what I'm saying.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Like you didn't have community with when you was with MG.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: That's that's I don't. I wouldn't consider that community.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: That's a crew, just like you have your friends or whatever,
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: like you can't y'all might not have the same interest,
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. Like, so for me, unity
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: comes when y'all have the same interest, y'all have the
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: same like like somewhat idiosyncrasies and like you got the
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: same thing. Like y'all all the kind of guy that like, oh,
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: we all played the trombone and we all we all
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: do we all do comedy. In comedy, you'll see like five,
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: you'll see done now with Dave. You'll see fourever comedians
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: helping them like crafted thing.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: It's not really like that in hip hop.
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: But they all came up together though, Like I always wondered,
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: like even when I look at y'all from the old
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: Double XL Freshman coupleless, like you know, even those people,
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: wh y'all didn't build something there, Na damn when.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: They talk to people like that, I didn't know we
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: were talking about. I came in extrovert. I was ready
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: to talk to everybody, but I gotta I got a
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: philosophy or like a conspiracy.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: That I think.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: I think like around around anywhere from six to like
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: nine years by that that bubble, something traumatic happen to
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: every single person in this industry entertainment. That changes you
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: one way or another. It might make you more optimistic
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: about you know what I'm saying.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: What was that for you? You remember what it was?
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: It wasn't.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: Maybe around the time Shine Drop, I just had my
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: daughter and I was at her name of ceremony and
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: I found out I got back door on like like
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: three million dollars at my child's name is ceremony. I
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: remember storming out on the phone because I signed something
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: that was supposed to be something schoolterbron management and then
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: it ended up doing like a breach for something like
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: a loophole, and I realized that the lawyer was in
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: on it, like it was the whole thing, and that
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: changed me.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: Who was you signed to?
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: It was just a I don't even know if I'm
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: a lot, you know what I'm saying, Because it was
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: a lot. You do not trust people yeah, And I
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: remember I was on literally when Zala was born, Like
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: I'm literally like in the hospital, like like I was
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: my baby was like grabbing her.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Know what I'm saying.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: I'm literally looking at my phone and I'm like on
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: shave room for not being able to attend this Barclay show.
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: Why was you on your phone during the label in
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: and out?
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: Man?
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: There's some things out you don't want to see. But
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: I was. I was, I was locked in.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: But I mean like like it's just like, oh, wile
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: doesn't he doesn't attend his Barclay show when it really
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: is you know, it was an active god clausing my
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: contract that say because she was it was due and
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: like just like that, like how how ruthless? It was
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: like I'm bringing life into this world and like seeing
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: what that? That changed me when Lotus flower Bomb dropped.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: You know, I'm grateful for all the success, but like
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: you know, I submitted the song and when I heard
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: it on our Heart Every Hour one hour Stimulus package, right,
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: my voices pitched up. They made a couple of changes,
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: and I'm like that changed me. But it was a hit, no,
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: but it changed me because like how could you work
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: on this song and and then like imagine you tapping
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: in conversations with somebody and it's like going to the
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: world and like you had on the radio, was.
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: Like why do I Yep, it didn't sound like what
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: it was when you're.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: Fins And it just made me again to trust things
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: and whatever, you know, you know, I mentioned it on
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: Joe Show, like just even being like, Yo, you're about
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: to get this award and get up and then you know,
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: like embarrassment and all of that. Like a lot of
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: things changed me, like complex leaking the phone, the conversation
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: we had even though I was lunching a little bit,
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: but like what company does that? Like like we've all
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: called a company and cursed them out. They don't post
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: it things like that, like kind of like you know.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Like everybody was against you.
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: I mean, coming from DC, there's nobody, Like how could
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: I not Like it ain't nobody that no ogs from
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: DC was like, I'm gonna make sure he bro they
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: you know, there wasn't nobody to go to.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: So I I did feel like that.
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: We've had these conversations before off their man, happiness is
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: a choice, not justsgarding anything that you've ever been through,
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: but happiness is. I always tell you, man, you gotta
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: look at how great a career you've had.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I thank God every day there right now.
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: But I look at this and I haven't looked at
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: this Excel freshman class in a long time. But there's
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: only like one other person.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Who's nah, I get it.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: I get it, I get it.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: I don't want you to take it that I'm not
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: happy because like I don't gotta go work and I
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: don't gotta work in Popeyes. I don't gotta do that.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: I've got to do stuff. That's you know what I'm saying.
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: I understand it's not physically trying, but like right up here,
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: like it do something to you. It do do something
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: because I put myself out there. I've been I've been
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: put out there for fifteen years. Or like you know,
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: I gotta known album. When I'm above top, I go low,
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: get low.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: You know you want from me? That's that's that's really
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: what I mean everything. I promise you.
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: I probably got to thinker scin ninety percent of the
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: population because what I've been through. I'm not like upset,
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: but sometimes I like, if you get a thousand things
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: thrown your way, like one of them going like mess
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: with you.
• 30:27
  Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying, what's the perfect relationship with
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: you between the industry and an artist like wile, Like
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: if it could go the way you think it would,
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: because what you're describing is people just being business as usual.
• 30:38
  Speaker 9: I just yeah, get around.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just it's just to be feeling with. But
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: I just in the perfect world is just like the
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: art is the is the thing right now, everybody's saying,
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: I got one of the best albums of the year easily,
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: and then I wanted to be the best album of
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: the twenty twenties. Then I wanted to be one of
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: the best albums of all time. You know what I'm saying,
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: Like that in a perfect world to be like that,
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: but like so many other things coming to play, like
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: we're not you know, an algorithm told y'all that while
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: they not good, like while they not hot, or while
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: they's this or whatever. Algorithm told you that. You know,
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: algorithm told you that they played the next song for you.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: So we are So I can't battle that I had
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: a decline.
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: I had.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: I had one of the biggest declines in like seals
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: nothing tour wise changed, but I had the biggest decline
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: in sales when it went from uh physical to streaming.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Like it's just like everything.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: I stopped hitting one hundred first week once I went
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: to streaming because I'm.
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: A high box like everybody else you should.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: That's why I start that.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: That's why I start belly off or they say the
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: streams fake the box running this thing. Wait, I can't,
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: Like I like, I can't. You know, it's dead Internet,
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: three types shit going on. So it's like I get it,
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: like you know, I can't, but it's like I can't
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: even play that game like it's it's a it's a
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: I feel like it's just slapping the face of who
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: hurking them. That's crazy, It's just slapping the face when
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Because when they play with your name and you say something,
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: they say you're emotional, But now you understand why you
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: take it to heart soul strong.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: Because because and then the other thing is like, I
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: know I know you'll favorite rappers for real, I know them,
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: and I'm like you think, brah, you think I'm I'm
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: just honest with my I'm all these guys, like a
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: lot of these guys be just like they just be
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: purple like they're not.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: It ain't like that, I know you for real.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: So it do be frustrating because I'm not trying to
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: be rob rob whatever. But I'm saying what I say.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: I'm I'm honest. I tell you my life. A lot
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: of people like just you know what I mean. So,
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: like I look at the industry a certain way, I
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: look at how it is a certain way.
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: What did making this album teach you about yourself that
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: you didn't know before?
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: Man, I took it to the limit. Man, I just
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: took it to the limit. Like my engineer really really
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: really good technical and like technic technical cool, but he
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: don't got that thing that we all got, like you
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: know that thing like like I'm doing like you listen
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: to like Blanc or Cornerback going, I'm doing four par
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: harmonies because I'm like, you know, big Jodysy fans, I'm like,
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: there ain't no rappers doing no four paromedy.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: And I can't even talk to him.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: About callback get on up you D'Angelo, Like I can't
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: because there's a thing and I didn't realize how much
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: it matters for the engineer to have that you know
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: what I'm saying, because havn't really we was really having
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: I had to really teach to.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Him while I'm making an album.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: It was it was the this has been the hardest
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: thing I've ever had to do, like creatively.
• 33:42
  Speaker 9: Ever bou Mi Wow and Mira on the Bens.
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: It's kind of like a letter to yourself, Like you're
• 33:48
  Speaker 7: talking to yourself right with you being so vulnerable and
• 33:52
  Speaker 7: so honest, and you're saying that like you don't take
• 33:54
  Speaker 7: it as people like you don't inherit the I'm emotional.
• 33:57
  Speaker 7: I'm just honest, Why did you? Why did while they
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: feel like he maybe.
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: Maybe I am emotionals like you know what I'm saying,
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: but it's not it's not without it's not without reason.
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: I'm saying, Well, I'm just saying I feel like in
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: this in this song, when I'm hearing you talk to yourself,
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: I'm like, yes, I want him to do this often
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: because I want more music.
• 34:13
  Speaker 9: I want him out and about.
• 34:15
  Speaker 7: But hearing you talk here and right now, it's kind
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: of like you not letting things get you, but they
• 34:19
  Speaker 7: are getting to you.
• 34:21
  Speaker 9: So I'm wondering why.
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: You decided to put a record like this where you're
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: kind of basically saying I do need that uplifting sometimes
• 34:25
  Speaker 7: because you've always said I don't care what's going on,
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: I just.
• 34:28
  Speaker 9: Stay away from y'all.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: Could we just like I mean, like it's just you know,
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: you know, black women put me onto man like Manifest
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: and all that, Like, so I wanted I just wanted
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: to put in this song for him, like that joint,
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: Like it's that joint is really just for black men.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: They ain't.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: They ain't for nobody else. Being on the bands is
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: for black men. Manifest Like I'm not, I wasn't the biggest.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: I'm still not really big on it, but I'm like,
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: if I'm gonna try it, let me do it in
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: in the form of a song, you know, like like
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: and it's like, I'm a mind to myself who inspire
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: everybody there that's inspiring the youth.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: I want to my horn. I'm just clearing it to you.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: I know you're just mirrit but my fear is only youth,
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: Like I'm only scared of Like I'm only fearing myself
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: and what I'm capable of, you know what I'm saying.
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: So I just have to speak life into my career
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: because sometimes it do be feeling like I get left
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: out of a lot of things that I'm not supposed
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: to be left out of. So I gotta remind myself
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: like you deserve everything you do. They just want to
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: get you in the move. They're gonna try us to
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: work right. Should have never stopped listening to you, And
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: that's the inner child in me, Like, should never stop listening.
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: I should have never stopped listening to the child, the
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: kid that was bold enough to try rap in DC
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: and may it like that that he's somewhere inside here
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: as jaded as I am. He's somewhere inside and I'm
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: trying to pull it out. I should have never stopped
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: listening to you.
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: What made you stop listening to him? Noise Industry, I.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: Think we all stopped listening to our inner child sometimes,
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: like it's like this this game, you know, failure or
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: like like not reaching your goals. You try to reroute things.
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: You try like, man, Okay, I'm gonna do it this way,
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna do it that way. You know what I'm saying, though,
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: And sometimes when you do that, you lose your in
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: a child. I hear comedians talk about it all the time.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: I hear you know.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: Rappers say it in other ways or you can see
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: it how they've lost their inner child and this industry
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: would do it to you. Like it's not again, I'm
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: grateful for my where I'm at, but it's a It's
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: like playing Madden on like the hardest level, or playing
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: video game on the hardest level and get harder and harder.
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: Year.
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: Have you given up on seeing metric success because on
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: like you say, this album isn't going platinum no matter
• 36:41
  Speaker 6: how this shit get done.
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: I mean, no matter how this shit is done.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you see, you see what's happening to me. You
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: don't want to let it happen to us?
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: So how.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: How deep I go into my work and how the
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: goals I set for myself? Any man God has go
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: whatever mine's is? Like yo, like, you see how much
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: you see how this dun is torturing me as an
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: as an artist, as a man, as a person, as
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: a father. Like you see how I was torturing me,
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: But you like and you lift me up all these times,
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: and I know I'm not at my best, But you
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: don't want what's happening over here that break us down?
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Cause again the levity I
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: talked about, it's heavy for you. See, I see I'm
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: looking at Instagram, Twitter, I'm looking at TV, I'm listening
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: to the radio, Like, I see what you're going through.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: I don't want it to happen, you know what I'm saying.
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: But there's also power and words. Why you don't say
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: you're going platinum.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: If I'm if I'm talking to That's why I'm honest,
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: because if i'm if I'm really talking somebody, if I'm
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: really like that song is like, Yo, you come home
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: from the club and like she's like like you can
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: see that she's kind of over like and I'm like, Yo,
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: this ain't gonna plat no, how Like it's hyperbole for real.
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: I think you can't go plotting them. But I'm just saying, like, yo,
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: like sorry, this ain't going I'm doing my best. I'm
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: trying to do them possible, and I'm losing my mind
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: in the process. I'm losing my mind in the process.
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: He ain't going to plat the no matter what I do.
• 38:12
  Speaker 6: But you know what I'm saying, I think that's just
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: the defense mechanism to manage your expectations or your disappointments.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: But I mean I understand the layer of where we're
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: at right now.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: You know, I want to know we talk about you know,
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: you talk about friend groups and people that you can
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: lean on, right we talk about people are working with
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: like me, Sharla, Jess Lauren.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: We don't hang out with.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: Each other outside of the show, but they are people
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: that I can call upon if I have a problem
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: or I can give me advice. Do you have that
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: in the industry where somebody you could say, Yo, I
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: need that, or what it is you have.
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: That that nigga be hitting to me? Don't let that
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: nigga fool you. Nah, we don't hang about you don't
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: always a shoulder for you to lean I don't.
• 38:54
  Speaker 6: Invent Sam because he'll laugh right at you.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: A little bit of that.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: Like I like, like my cousin who passed, I was
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: just telling me about. I was like, now looking back
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: on it, I was like I definitely was in the
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: psychosist for like two weeks at least, because I just
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: looking back on it, just things I was doing. I
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: remember I called Kendrick round that time. We talked about
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: like like we just had that was at that time,
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: and I remember like like getting ready to have my child.
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: I talked to cold. That was probably only two times
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: I really leaned on an industry person, you know.
• 39:32
  Speaker 8: So.
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: But the crazy thing is FoST prophets came up the
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: next day, post came out this very next day after.
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: But I ain't take it, you know what I'm saying.
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: But I think, nah, but I mean he said it's
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: not really about me. But what I mean, all I'm
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: saying is that that's that's my I love him, that's
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: my brother.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Whatever.
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: I just I mean, I think I kind of halted
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: telling any industry for anything too deep like around that time,
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: Like I just like, you know what, I don't even
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: I don't even want to think that they using this,
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: like you know what I'm saying. So the answers to
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: that question is no, no, no more no.
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: What is heartbreak taught you about yourself? And I ain't
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: even just talking about romantic heartbreak.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: I'm talking about you know what crazy, Well, well that's
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: ster romantic heartbreak a bunch.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Of man it's crazy like because.
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: Like the ex that told me that I was cold,
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: like she was definitely right, you know what I'm saying.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: And but also.
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: Like as soon as we broke up, like she got
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: had a baby. So I'm like, so it's like I
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: try to like, you know, I don't know if you
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: have any of year I ever talked to somebody like
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: for a long time and then like y'all have like
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: a super small fight with y'all. I never speaking, but
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: that's happened, and then I thought I was in love
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: with that person. I'm like, damn, like we just like
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: like I had like a like about leaving a box
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: of cereal open and you want to work and never
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: seen senor again, or you just super on on every
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: couch in l A like having a time like so I.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Don't know, you know, that's who did all this ship?
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: Nah, it ain't nobody. How come we're not talking about
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: where to start? It's watching us where to start? Tomorrow
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: Today something just as much.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: It's just as much sunshine it is. It's rain on.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: You know why I made Tomorrow Today is because at
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: the time there was so many contrived toxic love songs
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: like just the fake be toxic, And I'm like, whatever
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: happened to being like Okay, I'm pressed now what what
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: we're gonna do now? I'm pressed? Cool, what you're gonna
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: make fun? Of me, because nobody in your phone is me?
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: So whatever, who you going to tell? Tell your friends?
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah? While they pressed off me and still what what's
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: going on? So I wanted to make it.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: I wanted.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: I wanted to make a love song.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: I just wanted to be because I was pressed with
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: my wife and I was pressed. And look at you
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: now with the hundred kids, twenty four years.
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: Mar man and all them cars and stuff. You got
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: your partner, I got them right.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: So I'm just saying, like tomorrow today like yo, like
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: I like, yeah, I'm spending.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: So what love tricky to dress? Try I play with
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: my heart.
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: You're gonna need a man, no glove, the ship being cold,
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: it's not cold right now. I'm optimistic, So it ain't
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: who broke your heart all the time. It's like I
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: seen you ten minutes ago, dropped you off. I really
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: want to spend and come back. I don't want to
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: wait till tomorrow. Fuck with you like that.
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: Oh you in love right now?
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: Damn, oh oh boy, don't give me no poem.
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: Yo.
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: You're in love right now.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Yes, right away.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: So whatever happened now, you're go get in trouble and
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: get back to the crib Now, I don't know.
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: I don't know if I should answer that. I don't
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: know if I don't know how to. I don't know
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: how to answer that question.
• 43:14
  Speaker 7: What you mean you don't know how to? You're dating
• 43:17
  Speaker 7: that you would contemplate being in love with, or.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: You don't want to put your heart out there. I
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: think all of the answers is in the album, Like.
• 43:28
  Speaker 9: No, for sure, I was going to say when you
• 43:29
  Speaker 9: said to.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: Because you actually ya.
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: Actually y'all actually cooked with the questions because I was like,
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: I ain't know what y'all really got lyrics and stuff.
• 43:37
  Speaker 9: It's amusing.
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm still I'm even thinking about the nunderum
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: when you start off, my baby mother told her new
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: husband she had to move on.
• 43:46
  Speaker 9: She was ready to be a wife.
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: She's trying to be a wife, and we've been fighting
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: for too long. But that's the price. That's the price
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: of his life. I pray for GUIDs in and coupons.
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: Sh is expensive on your heart. I can't say nothing.
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: I can't and and uh damn, okay, here's a little
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: bit that I'll say that I won't turn away. The
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: original line was my baby mother told me she loved me,
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: but got to move on.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: I was like why and now the hallelujah.
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: Then I changed it to my baby mother, Uh told
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: me it's fuck me, I'm about to move on.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: I was like why.
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: Then it turned to my baby mother told her new
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: husband she had to move on. So those are all
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: the stages and the making his album that had happened.
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: We already we already we ain't we been not together.
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: Like you know what I'm saying, She's a great mom.
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: I don't really got nothing bad to say about her,
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: like we bump heads, but like great mom, solid woman,
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: all of these things. Uh, it just didn't work, you
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. And I went through all them stages.
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: Loved you, goodbye you, fuck you, goodbye. Hey, I got
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: this guy. I'm out. And I will say, like the
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: craziest thing about it all is like he's a really
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: good dude, and it's like, Bro.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: It could be a it could be a real.
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: Like learning or teaching a moment for like niggas understand, Like, Bro,
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: you don't got to be like he not You're not
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: in the media, opt you know what I'm saying. Like
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: the dude, the dude does community stuff. He does he's
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: really good with Zalah.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Like he's just.
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: Saying, like I could see he's like a nigga as
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: you could go out and have a drink with like
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: you can. It's okay to move on in your life,
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying.
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: And how long how long after y'all broke up?
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: I mean, uh, I don't even I don't even know
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: because I wasn't when it was over.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: I just I checked out of that so I wouldn't.
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't in their business and I never you know,
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: and then you know, cole parenting is a thing that's
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: like it's it's different for everybody.
• 46:00
  Speaker 5: About it is coming up? Did you man?
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: I might have to come up here with old boy
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: and and and talk about because it really brou like
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: if you if like.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: You have a child was in my like it do
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: matter who they be around.
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: And he's he's just a dude that's like we got
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: It's almost like I like he get why I couldn't
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: do it, and I get why he can't, you know
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: what I'm saying, Like he'd be on it like bro
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: like I get it because you know a lot of
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: artists too. He'll be like, man, I get it. Like, bro,
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: you're trying. You just you're doing you. You know what
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: I'm saying, I'm gonna bring it. I'm gonna bring her over.
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: Like you know what I'm saying, Oh, this is what
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: happened at school because I can't even talk.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: I can't. It's it's hard for me, my daughter mother to.
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: Even talks the like we we respect is love.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: It was just like it's too much.
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: So me and slim Be talking and it's like kind
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: of refreshing because it's like I don't got worry if
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, I don't got worried. And
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: also like you know, they just had another kid, and
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: it's like my daughter got brother.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: Now that's a that's a new reality for me, Like
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: And he just make he making it easier than it
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: could it could be really difficult, and you know what
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: I'm saying, Oh, I'm grateful for that.
• 47:15
  Speaker 5: What's something you want your child to learn from watching
• 47:17
  Speaker 5: your journey? Not your music, but just your your life?
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: Man a lot actually, because it's like she don't she
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: don't understand, like you know, like when we was growing up,
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: like we was all really really was we just ain't
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: have nothing. And you know, you got two immigrant parents
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: meet it U DC and have me like they trying to.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: Figure it out. I just like, how hard, like how
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: hard I work?
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: So she don't got you know, like even sniff anything
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: close to what I had to go through. Oh no,
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: you know my cousin Banger, the actor, he's on wire
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: and all that. Like we was, you know, I was
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: the baby. We always used to walk could we live
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: in DC that to Maryland And I just remember like
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: my mom would drop us a banging house and all
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: of us walking to school.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Like I look back at that.
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: It's like, bro, we ain't have not tag for real,
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: like for so long, and it's like our job. You
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: just trying to make sure like she don't even got
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: sniffed dad, you know what I'm saying. But sometimes and parents,
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: and it's crazy because what we do, We got more
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: money than people our ad parents are, so they getting
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: these they getting these other environments that we put them
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: in because we got we got you know what I'm saying, Like,
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: so it kind of shapes their personality a little bit.
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: I just think it's kind of crazy, Like you know
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: what I'm saying, Like you know, having no you know.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: Private schools and all that exactly.
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: So yeah, but like I just wanted to have like
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: like more than what I had, And maybe I might
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: obsess over it too much because I work crazy to
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: be like, yo, everything is taken care of, you know
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: what I'm saying.
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: But that's a big thing.
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: I just learned to know how hard I go, and
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: then when she get to the agent, she find her
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: passion whatever it is, to understand like, this is this
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: is what we do in this family.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: We work, we go hard, we grind it out.
• 49:14
  Speaker 5: Beautiful.
• 49:15
  Speaker 7: The text that you sent your mom, Wow, the album
• 49:18
  Speaker 7: with all this great praise that the album is getting.
• 49:20
  Speaker 7: Mom listened to it, did she say you did?
• 49:22
  Speaker 5: Okay?
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: My mom is not like she don't like she don't.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: I don't. I still don't.
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: It's just like, Mommy, you don't understand or you don't
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: really care.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: It's one of the other.
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: But it took a long time in my career for
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: even to even acknowledge this is a real job, you
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. I think it was when I
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: met Obama, when I performed at the White House, because
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: that's that's the biggest picture in the living room now
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: you've been doing it for that long and that was yeah,
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: that's crazy, right, But it's like I can't be mad her,
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: like she my mom had a hard life in Nigeria.
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: She early got here, like you know what I'm saying.
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: So it's like sometimes I try to be like get
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: like juice her up, like mommy, you see what I'm doing,
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: like ain't you happy? Like and she's just like yeah,
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: that's nice, like you know what I'm saying the subjects.
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: So I don't know. I think it's just like as
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: we get older, like like I just I do be
• 50:17
  Speaker 4: y'all like want her validation. I ain't really care when
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: I was younger, like my whatever, like like I still
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: pay bills and take care of it like y'all, like
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: wanted her to know, like you know what I'm saying
• 50:28
  Speaker 4: because I was really bad, like I was really troubled
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: when I was a child, like I ain't go to
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: no regular school after second grade, when from second grade
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: to the last semester of my senior year, I was
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: in all types of different programs.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Like yeah, do you want to make I just want to.
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: Be like yo, you like you know what I'm saying,
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: Like I know it's an orthodox like whatever. But like
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: see how they see how they react when I go
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: to Nigeria, Mommy, like you see how whatever. So I'll
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: be trying to you know, make her. But you know
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: Nigerian parents, man, they they like that, like a lot
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: of immigrant parents was like that.
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: So you mentioned on the album a couple of times
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: that she basically wants you to get married.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: My brother got my brother like since the last album,
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: my little cousin whom he met his wife at like
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: an album release party a long time ago. They married,
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: got beautiful family. We went to Nigeria, a crazy wedding
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: and all that stuff, you know Naderians like they five
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: outfit changes, choreography all that.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: You know. It was the time.
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: Then my brother he getting married out here, kind of
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: a smaller thing. He wanted to do a low key
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: but it's like like dang, I went from never been
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: to a wedding until like some of the close people
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: in my life getting married and like you know, all
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: the aunties dead, all the grandmothers they are, like all
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: the elders dead. And I'm you know, coming in like
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: it ain't no way I cannot be me, Like you know
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: what I'm saying. So I'm hearing it from everybody, So
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: what are you doing? What is your own wife? What
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: are you doing? Like it became a theme, like and
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: I'm like literally working on the album while I'm at
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: these weddings. And it's like I like, all right, I
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: get it, you know what I'm saying. I get it. Yeah,
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: But also there is a thing that I hope none
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: of that, like my elder Nigerian like uncle, I don't
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: take this wrong with it, but like there's a culture
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: of well it goes for a lot of immigrant parents,
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: like they always want to show their friends, Oh look
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: my son just got married. Look at that wed my son.
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: There's the doctor, my son just graduated college. Like you
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, They always want to do that.
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: And you know, I don't know what more. I don't know.
• 52:52
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't think the music shit phases
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: my you know. So I hear the marriage thing and like,
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: you know, understand why.
• 53:00
  Speaker 5: You can't find some money though, because he now, okay.
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: You know she thinking she'd be thinking like man, she'd
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: be like trying to put like put blind dates together.
• 53:10
  Speaker 4: I'm like, Mommy, ain't no way like I'm like, these
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: girls are finessing you like they know what they trying
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: to they telling them they're trying to ask. She's like, no,
• 53:19
  Speaker 4: she doesn't know your famous is it? She's not Jerrying
• 53:23
  Speaker 4: and she's from Baltimore, Like you know, mommy stopped. We
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: always gonna happen when it happened, like don't try.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: But she was like, yo, this is not ni. Jerry
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: is nineteen sixty, Like wait, will.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: They be finding your mother? First of all?
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: Like, man, they now she got you know, she got friends.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: She be our friends.
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: Now she keep it low for real, like she keep
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: it low but like she got you know, church friends
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: and all that. Okay, oh, like you know, like she
• 53:47
  Speaker 4: thinks she's doing the right thing.
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: God bless them.
• 53:49
  Speaker 9: Are you dating too?
• 53:51
  Speaker 8: Mary?
• 53:51
  Speaker 9: Right now?
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Man? Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: I have that realization within these four years, like I drop,
• 53:59
  Speaker 4: Like I'm like, bro, it's like a lot like because
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: that that that you find shit that that wears off
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: in like two weeks. Like then it's like yo, can
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: we laugh? Can we like can I can we decompress?
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: Can we do we ever? Like what our interests? Like
• 54:16
  Speaker 4: that keep this jump you know what I'm saying. Can
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: you understand me if I don't feel like talking for
• 54:21
  Speaker 4: like a day or whatever, like just be those things
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: and like you really want again, You want to build,
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: you want to keep going to whatever. Every all of
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: us in here got something up then that nobody's complacent.
• 54:33
  Speaker 4: You gotta find somebody that's like that make you not complacent,
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: that make you feel like your wife, make you feel
• 54:42
  Speaker 4: like y'all still in it. Like you gotta pick the
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: person that's like you really can see yourself really building
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: with like when things when when babies come, wait, fluctuates
• 54:54
  Speaker 4: or you know, you around a million perfect joints a day,
• 55:00
  Speaker 4: like like you know what I'm saying, Like you it matters,
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: Like don't nobody want to be like having a juggle
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: about one hundred emotions unless you on that poly ship.
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: But I don't know, we don't know how that that
• 55:14
  Speaker 4: if it's that sustainable with that, but yeah, it be
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: it dating in the.
• 55:17
  Speaker 5: Marry Nigerian and you don't ever want more than one.
• 55:21
  Speaker 4: I think that's an old trope. I don't know if
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: that's it's accurate, but I used to think, like you know, yeah,
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: maybe every spread like so.
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: I'm never alone, but I don't know. I don't think
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: so you don't got patience.
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: But also a lot of people in that world kind
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: of like they settle. The women settled like, yeah, he
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: don't got patience, but I'll take what I can get
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: type thing you.
• 55:48
  Speaker 5: Don't want to ask you man, You know, everything is
• 55:50
  Speaker 5: a lot. I think it's your best body of work.
• 55:51
  Speaker 5: When I when I heard it a few weeks ago,
• 55:53
  Speaker 5: I was like, oo, this is classic Wale, Like it's
• 55:55
  Speaker 5: just like everything that you love about Walle is in
• 55:57
  Speaker 5: this album. And I think about jay Z when he
• 56:00
  Speaker 5: was on Breakfast Club thirteen years ago and we asked
• 56:03
  Speaker 5: him who from this new era we're gonna he is
• 56:06
  Speaker 5: gonna be around in the future. Name three people? He said,
• 56:10
  Speaker 5: obviously Cole, he said Drake absolutely, or for Drake absolutely,
• 56:14
  Speaker 5: Kendrick as well, and then he said just on Shill
• 56:16
  Speaker 5: Will and wanting it, hile A is gonna be here.
• 56:19
  Speaker 5: So you have that kind of vision. So who do
• 56:20
  Speaker 5: you see now that's gonna be here ten years from that?
• 56:23
  Speaker 8: Uh?
• 56:24
  Speaker 5: Have they reached the level to get a shout up?
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 56:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
• 56:27
  Speaker 8: These people that I'm about to mention definitely reached the level.
• 56:31
  Speaker 8: I mean obviously Jake Cole Drake absolutely, uh, Kendrick as well.
• 56:42
  Speaker 8: I think just just on on He's talented, very talented,
• 56:45
  Speaker 8: but just on on share will and wanting it. Yle
• 56:49
  Speaker 8: A is gonna be here as well.
• 56:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you think about that statement thirteen years ago and
• 56:54
  Speaker 5: you here still, you know, giving us terrific musical.
• 56:56
  Speaker 4: First of all, you're gonna you're gonna fly that in
• 56:58
  Speaker 4: the thing. Just making sure these whipper snappers need to know.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: But right, Nah, what was the end question? Again?
• 57:10
  Speaker 5: How did that make you feel?
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: Oh? Ship?
• 57:13
  Speaker 4: I remember that day actually because that's when I was
• 57:15
  Speaker 4: at Regnation, and I think Emory was like like like
• 57:20
  Speaker 4: I always used to come like come upstairs off like
• 57:23
  Speaker 4: just being with everybody, like the whole like building, whatever.
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: And Emory was like, y'all, y'all, Broy, you're gonna like
• 57:32
  Speaker 4: what You're gonna like what Bro said on it? You
• 57:34
  Speaker 4: know he sound like he Bottimore, He don't like what
• 57:37
  Speaker 4: like what Bro said on it on the jont Man
• 57:38
  Speaker 4: I was talking about like you're gonna see and then
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: uh then I then I actually then Jake came around
• 57:45
  Speaker 4: and he was just like whatever like and then like
• 57:48
  Speaker 4: when they when they finally hit.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, you.
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: Know what I'm saying, like like okay, I'm not gonna
• 57:53
  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna let him down at all, Like you
• 57:55
  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying that joint. It keeps me motivated
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: to this day that he he saw that in me,
• 58:00
  Speaker 4: because it's like but then, like now that I'm way
• 58:03
  Speaker 4: older now, I think back to like what could make
• 58:05
  Speaker 4: him think that? And I remember when we was when
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: this is when I first dropped out of school, Like
• 58:11
  Speaker 4: people don't understand, like when I was torn with my ronson.
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: We was opening for Ja, so he had his eye
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: on me for a long time. I remember I forgot
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: where we were. We just like like maybe like a
• 58:22
  Speaker 4: week stretch, and he that's what they started being comfortable
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: letting me around, so like he got him up. We
• 58:29
  Speaker 4: slapped boxing and everything at this point, and I remember
• 58:32
  Speaker 4: he saw me because I ain't had no songs out
• 58:35
  Speaker 4: like that. I have mixtape songs and I'm doing like
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: sixty thousand people with Mark having to keep the crowd going,
• 58:43
  Speaker 4: and he saw around the time more about nothing drop.
• 58:49
  Speaker 4: He saw the process of me hearing the song with
• 58:52
  Speaker 4: them like Bungalow eight or one of them clubs and
• 58:56
  Speaker 4: like bobbing my head to it to like it being
• 58:59
  Speaker 4: on the mixtape, to me performing it because I ain't
• 59:04
  Speaker 4: have no joint. So I sampled this song called Black
• 59:07
  Speaker 4: and Gold that was big in like the UK Island
• 59:11
  Speaker 4: around that time, and that made it like an EDM song.
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: And I remember walking off that stage and he dapped me.
• 59:16
  Speaker 4: He was like, dog, you different, you'd be figuring it
• 59:20
  Speaker 4: out because he saw when I just get your hands
• 59:22
  Speaker 4: up random hip hop dah da to me doing an
• 59:26
  Speaker 4: EDM record and be like, Okay, I know they gonna
• 59:28
  Speaker 4: know the hook and they got I figured that out
• 59:31
  Speaker 4: early and he always admired that. So I think that
• 59:34
  Speaker 4: when he said the resilient thing, he saw everything that
• 59:37
  Speaker 4: I was going through with them, even the chilling video
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: like when the debut don't want them to Si the Park.
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: It was completely different. He was in the office. He
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: saw what I was going through. Pretty earl video. They
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: actually put it out with a green screen in the
• 59:54
  Speaker 4: background instead of what it was supposed to be. He
• 59:57
  Speaker 4: was there with that and he just see how I
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: kept maneuvering, like yeah, I kirk out online, I'll be mad.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 4: But he would see how like land On my feet
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 4: or like bounce back with something. So I think that's
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: why he said that, like looking back on it, but
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 4: it rejuiced me for my like I'm always I always
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 4: think about that.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah know that that sounds like community, right, and that's
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 7: how you said it was that sounds like management management,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 7: But that sounds like but do you know how many
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 7: times you have management but like they don't care enough
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 7: to even watch you go through these things and do
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 7: as much as they can and give you props to
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 7: push you into the.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: Use a business though it is definitely not gonna. It's
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: definitely been.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 4: And also like he is Michael Jordan and Michael, you
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 4: can't ask Michael Jordan why the thirteens don't fit like
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 4: the twelves, you know what I'm saying.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: So it's like it was business. He definitely took a
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: liking to me.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 4: But it's still like I'm still earn earth like Earn
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 4: and the potential, not saying that that's why, but it's
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 4: just like, you know, I don't I don't look at
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 4: that as community. Community is me asking black dog, like, yo,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 4: what you think about this hook or this this flow
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 4: of this cadence like or me talking to young Chris
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 4: about like, man, what you think like sending them a verse?
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: Like what you think that is?
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 4: It's on right, Like that's that's the communities stuff like that.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 6: We got indy visuals coming for everything is man?
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: Uh force aby fire man. What you're doing after this? Uh?
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 5: Now, yeah, we're gonna we're gonna put out some visuals
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 5: when people finish this album. What's the one truth you
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 5: want them to sit with?
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: I want them.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 4: I want them to feel like they watched a movie
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 4: like whatever, however, if you like it, love it, hate it,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 4: you know, watch watch the movie and and understand if
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 4: you if they take it like, oh this is a movie.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 4: I didn't like it or I didn't understand it.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: Cool as a movie.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 4: You run it back and watch it again and look,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, Look, go look online, go
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 4: on read it whatever that it break down.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: I want them to.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 4: Really see the whole picture because I'm I mean that
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 4: the work starts now with that album, Like you know,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 4: the work really starts now, like okay, it's out, like
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 4: all right, let me make let me push like my songs,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 4: let me make sure they're in people's hands, like and
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 4: that they know the movie. So any feedback is appreciated
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 4: because niggas can feel how they feel. But like, don't
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 4: not don't look at it like oh, a playlist or
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 4: nothing like it ain't that. This is a this is
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: a real thing. These stories are in it. They're weaving
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 4: within each other.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: Let's get into a join of that.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 5: Well, I got one more at this point in your career,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 5: what part of a while later you feel people still misunderstandable.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 4: I think people think I'm angry. I even sit it
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 4: on mirrors. The people people think you're crazy, and the
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 4: crack is think you too aggressive? You know what I'm saying,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 4: Like where I live ain't no black people, so it's
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 4: like I can't even like, you know, I'll be trying
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 4: to go for my little jogs and put the shisty
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 4: on because it could be anybody. Actually, I was jogging
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 4: on my neighbor on time and Rihanna text me was.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: Like, Yo, is that you running around? I was like,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: what what you mean? You know what I'm saying? And
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: I was just like, how did you see me? She
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: was like yo?
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  Speaker 8: Me?
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  Speaker 1: And Rocky was driving past me, So are you running?
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 4: But a little quick snubber, but it makes sense to
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  Speaker 4: the question. Let me what was the question again? Let
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  Speaker 4: me talk back at this point in your career. You know,
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  Speaker 4: what do you think people still misunderstand? Yeah, they think
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  Speaker 4: I think they think I'm like mad all the time.
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  Speaker 4: And it's like, bro, I just be out the way
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  Speaker 4: and like, well I was going back to the running thing,
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  Speaker 4: Like bro, I just be running. I got this little
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  Speaker 4: thing I run. And it's like it's always the feeling
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  Speaker 4: of like they white people thinking I'm upset, and then
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  Speaker 4: when I come in my own culture, they be like
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  Speaker 4: he's whining.
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  Speaker 1: He's up just because everybody try to.
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  Speaker 4: Play too cool and I just be saying what I
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  Speaker 4: say like people just to be thinking I'm mad, and like, bro,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not mad at all.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: Like when I'm mad, i'all gonna know it for real,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, Like because I'm I'm I'm
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  Speaker 4: a I'm a veteran crack shout like like but no, no,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not. People just thinking nigga mad. I just be
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  Speaker 4: over a lot of this. I'm over like the fake stuff.
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  Speaker 4: I'm over like, oh, let me get the feature, then
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  Speaker 4: let me pop off and let me never let me
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  Speaker 4: act like you know what I'm saying, I'm over all
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  Speaker 4: of that. And then you know, the over face might
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 4: look upset, but some of your joke I laugh like
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 4: you feel me like if it ain't nothing funny, I
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  Speaker 4: ain't about to be said.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: People just think I'm upset all the time, and that's
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  Speaker 4: that's gonna be further from you.
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  Speaker 1: I love you, all right. Well, let's get into it, Joe.
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  Speaker 1: What you will hear? So? I got a requests I
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  Speaker 1: want Can I hear four songs? Why not? Because I
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  Speaker 1: want to know. I want to know what record?
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  Speaker 4: Because like literally I asked everybody their favorite song, it's
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  Speaker 4: always a different jump. So let's pick three three okay, okay,
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  Speaker 4: can everybody? Can everybody just give me one? And then
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  Speaker 4: m hm, he said where to start?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah? I know that w one't been out there though,
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  Speaker 9: But that's my one.
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  Speaker 5: Powering problems, power problems.
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  Speaker 4: I won't say pound problems now, that's just the one,
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  Speaker 4: just the one that I know they didn't hit out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, that's a good choice.
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  Speaker 6: Belly cool too, but power problems.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like belly is like my I was telling
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  Speaker 4: I was telling the label this, so I think Belly
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  Speaker 4: is my like this is my new Wiet song, Like
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  Speaker 4: this is if somebody want to know who he is
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  Speaker 4: about where he's from.
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  Speaker 1: Belly is the jump.
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  Speaker 4: But I will say out of them three we can
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  Speaker 4: do Belly Pound Problems in uh City on file and
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  Speaker 4: then corner Bottles one get corner? Can we squeeze half
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 4: a corner bottles in there?
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  Speaker 5: It's one you almost sound like Ross.
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  Speaker 6: Oh my god, yes, I want to like click.
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  Speaker 9: It because I'm like, is this like a blink backround?
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  Speaker 4: It was homage. It was like the style I thought
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  Speaker 4: it was, you know, because that's like a little nod
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  Speaker 4: the Ross, Like you know what I'm saying, Like I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: it's always gonna be, always gonna be locked in, you
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  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying that I wanted to show homage
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  Speaker 4: in a unique way. And also like you know, if
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  Speaker 4: you've seen Godfather, like you know how like nuanced it
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  Speaker 4: is like if you know, like I always always I
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  Speaker 4: used to see myself as Sonny like because like hot
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  Speaker 4: head and make like you know what I'm saying, I've
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  Speaker 4: kind of like smoothed it out a little bit more
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  Speaker 4: and like it's more of a Michael, now you know
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  Speaker 4: what I'm saying, Because Sonny got spanked because he couldn't
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  Speaker 4: control his temper for real. Michael was more like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, and afraid those there's a
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 4: lot of freidos running around. It's just they can't. They're
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 4: not they don't need to be in no rooms type stuff.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, but as far as the flow and the beat,
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  Speaker 4: that's all like me just paying homage to rows like
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  Speaker 4: I ain't.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of a lot of people said I sound
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  Speaker 1: like I don't. I don't. My tone is completely different
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  Speaker 1: than here, So I just start.
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  Speaker 9: Did he know that that homage was coming or he's
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  Speaker 9: finding out?
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  Speaker 1: He might be finding out right now when you hear this.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Well there you have it, Wile album.
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  Speaker 1: Everything is a lot is out now. We appreciate you, Brotter.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, and I'm sorry. I'm like still a little
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 4: time from last night. Literally, so the junk with me
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  Speaker 4: and Leon I ain't changed.
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  Speaker 1: I slept in this. It came in, so thank y'all.
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  Speaker 1: The great It's wi It's the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning every day, click up, Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 1: Finished, y'all.
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  Speaker 5: Dump