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#321 - Davido · The Bootleg Kev Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Yo, what up my people, it's your boy David Oh.
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  Speaker 1: And you can catch me live under the Bootleg cav
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  Speaker 1: podcast Keep in Luck.
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  Speaker 2: One look, Bootleg CAV show. We got a special guest.
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  Speaker 2: A legend is in here, man, David Oh. Welcome, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Well he said it perfect, did I?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's people usually fucking up. I'm not gonna lie.
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  Speaker 2: I was a little confused, like like early on, I
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  Speaker 2: was like, is it David Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Is it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? It's David Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, thank you, big fan of your show.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate it, man, thank you for having You're obviously a legend.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: I think when we think of like afrobeach, you're kind
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  Speaker 2: of like the jay Z of the shit Lokey, you know,
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  Speaker 2: crazy It's good. Yeah. What's it like to kind of
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  Speaker 2: see your sound that you've been doing for all these
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  Speaker 2: years become like the sound now.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Like you know, I was born in Atlanta,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I've always been like coming to America, but like
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  Speaker 1: when I became a musician, especially like coming out here
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  Speaker 1: you know for shows trying to push the music. It
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  Speaker 1: really don't started with like just like African fans coming
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  Speaker 1: to the shows, right, you know when we do shows
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  Speaker 1: out here, and then he started just you know, spreading.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like even when I was in college and
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  Speaker 1: I used to play my friends African music and they
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  Speaker 1: liked to college in Alabama. Okay, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: which which cool.
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  Speaker 3: It's called Oakwood University.
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  Speaker 2: It's something that he was raised in the South. Low
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  Speaker 2: key yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, fully, you know what I'm saying. So even when
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  Speaker 1: I used to play African songs for them, I knew
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  Speaker 1: that they liked it. So I always knew it was
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  Speaker 1: always if there was an opportunity to be heard, you know, people,
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  Speaker 1: you know, fuck with it?
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  Speaker 2: What's it like? Because I feel like I don't. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know that about you, that you were kind of
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  Speaker 2: you from Atlanta and you were you went to college
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  Speaker 2: in Alabama. Yeah, that's like the Bible Belt for.
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  Speaker 1: Real, crazy Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville Young. I was like sixty
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  Speaker 1: years old in college. You know, hey, we see you
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  Speaker 1: and that's coming like straight from Legos, right, you know,
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  Speaker 1: straight there. And I remember even just being in college
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  Speaker 1: and talking to like friends there like household, how is
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  Speaker 1: it in Nigeria?
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  Speaker 3: Like how did you get here y'all got airports.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Because there were no Edue
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  Speaker 1: kids that about this, about what's going on here. But
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  Speaker 1: now you know what I'm saying, You have social media,
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  Speaker 1: so it's different. They see a different side of Africa
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  Speaker 1: when you when you tell people that, oh, I'm night Jeri,
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  Speaker 1: you're like, oh, I love afrobeats. For me, like fifteen
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  Speaker 1: years ago, that was not the story, you know what
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  Speaker 1: was like for you?
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  Speaker 2: Like can you can you kind of pinpoint in your
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  Speaker 2: opinion as somebody who you know obviously has a crab
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  Speaker 2: out here and went to school out here and was
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  Speaker 2: born here. Can you kind of pinpoint the moment that
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  Speaker 2: you noticed like America starting to kind of take a
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  Speaker 2: liking to the genre.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely to me from my experience, it started like from Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: two cities, Atlanta, New York or mainly Atlanta, and just
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  Speaker 1: like even going out, you know what I'm saying, Like,
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  Speaker 1: like one thing I knew one of my friends used
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  Speaker 1: to do. He used to he was a big baller.
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  Speaker 1: He would go to the club and he like spends
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  Speaker 1: so much money. But he tell them every time, YO,
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  Speaker 1: when you bring my bottles out, I want to hear
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  Speaker 1: this song, right, you know what I'm saying. So the
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  Speaker 1: DJ is playing it, you know what I'm saying, the
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  Speaker 1: bottles coming out to the song, you know, and the
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  Speaker 1: DJ is liking the music. And then that's that was
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  Speaker 1: like one of my first experiences of like being in
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  Speaker 1: the club and hearing it. Friend, yeah, and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: start growing. You know, once the girls like it.
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  Speaker 2: Once the girls like it, it's over.
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  Speaker 3: It's over, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: So even like girls being in the coby with the guy, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you play some afro beats because you know, girls like.
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  Speaker 3: It, you know, let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: It obviously became because it was like a big big
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  Speaker 2: thing in the UK first, right, you know, it was from.
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  Speaker 3: The UK before you go to America.
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  Speaker 1: You know, UK was like the first place to I
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  Speaker 1: know that apro beats, Like we start doing arenas in.
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  Speaker 3: The UK first, crazy, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Afrobeats. UK actually named it Afrobeats, so that's like a
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  Speaker 1: UK It's like k turn. But then you know, we
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  Speaker 1: just ran with it, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: That's fire man. What how much can you attribute to
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  Speaker 2: Drake embracing it to kind of it being like easily
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  Speaker 2: bridge to the US because I feel like once Drake
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  Speaker 2: gets behind anything, for the most part, it can it
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  Speaker 2: can really take off.
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's this there's always Niratis like, oh, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Afrobeats was was definitely you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying huge, It was huge because if it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't he was Drake Drake.
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  Speaker 2: When it was he was like.
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  Speaker 1: Before Drake, but you know, Drake is Drake. You know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So i'd be lying if I see
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. He didn't put some spotlight
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  Speaker 1: to you know, afrobeats. You know what I'm saying. And
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  Speaker 1: you know it was dope. He's made some dope you
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  Speaker 1: know records.
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  Speaker 2: Yo. What there's this like new trend where there's the
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  Speaker 2: normal version of a song and then the sped up version.
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  Speaker 2: Back in the day, I mean you're from the South,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there was this chopping screwed ship, the screwed
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  Speaker 2: up ship back in the day to Texas. But now
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  Speaker 2: I feel like every single there's like the normal version
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  Speaker 2: and then they got to sped That's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Said that because I released the album was out, so
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  Speaker 1: we released a couple of songs and we released the
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  Speaker 1: single again with a sped.
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  Speaker 2: Up Yeah, there's a sped up version.
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  Speaker 1: Yah's crazy, you know what I'm saying. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: some songs I don't even know, Like some songs.
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  Speaker 2: I see on like TikTok and stuff, you don't even
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  Speaker 2: know the normal version.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll be thinking that's that's the original when they
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  Speaker 1: When I hear, I'm like, oh, okay, it makes sense now.
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  Speaker 3: I mean. Social media is crazy though, Like it's a
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  Speaker 3: different avenue.
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  Speaker 1: When I started music, we used to talk about radio
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  Speaker 1: and you know not Now it's like podcast. If you're
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  Speaker 1: promoted me before, just putt on like YouTube or Facebook.
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  Speaker 1: Right now you got like twenty apps. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta do your promo.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I keep hoping that TikTok is banned so
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  Speaker 2: I don't have to worry about it anymore. It's like
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  Speaker 2: one least day last day. I'm like, if TikTok is banned,
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  Speaker 2: it just takes one more thing I don't have to
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  Speaker 2: worry about away.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's going crazy, Like, yeah, are.
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  Speaker 2: You pretty big on TikTok.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I got a lot of followers, but I'm like, are.
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  Speaker 2: You like on the app? Scrolling and like get diving
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  Speaker 2: into the algorithm. Nah nah, because you hit a sucky
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  Speaker 2: in bro yo.
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  Speaker 1: And every time I get on TikTok, I'll be there
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  Speaker 1: for like two hours.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because whatever you're into, it knows different and everything's
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  Speaker 2: all because I just love like dogs and food, so
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  Speaker 2: it just shows me puppy puppies and food.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's crazy how it can tell what you like,
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  Speaker 1: just like being on the app. After like a week,
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  Speaker 1: he's like me, I like food.
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  Speaker 2: Those you're just like guys who like cooking a minute
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  Speaker 2: and like got to cook outside. Oh yeah, I love
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  Speaker 2: that ship. And then I just bought a grill, like
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  Speaker 2: a griddle, like a little griddler thing outside, So I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm always trying to find like ship to do on
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  Speaker 2: the grill.
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  Speaker 3: The guy that throws the butter butter bait, yeah, his food.
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  Speaker 2: You ever see the uh the guy who does the
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  Speaker 2: shark bite at the restaurants Big Groove, I think them too.
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  Speaker 2: He might actually I interviewed him.
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  Speaker 3: I think he might be.
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  Speaker 2: The guy's just a massive human being and he does
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  Speaker 2: very tight close. You gotta get him to do to
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  Speaker 2: do a dance to yourself, how give me kind of
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  Speaker 2: like your come up, because if you're in the States,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to college here, how did how do you
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  Speaker 2: end up popping off? You go back home?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, just being in Alabama for like before
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  Speaker 1: I go to college. Obviously I didn't liking to music.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, we obviously, like you know, my father was
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  Speaker 1: just olemans about me going to school.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm first generation that Titana in my family.
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  Speaker 2: You know, so it's a little harder to convince your.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's business business business, like hey I want to do this,
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  Speaker 1: and they're like, was it normal template?
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  Speaker 3: Now you know what I'm saying. You go to school
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  Speaker 3: and then you go out and work for the family business.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm the last kid of five, so it was
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  Speaker 1: already I was not even thinking about, you know, convincing
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  Speaker 1: anybody or so, you know, just being in school and awkward.
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  Speaker 1: Apart from me, it's a church. It's a Christian school,
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  Speaker 1: so apart from even like going to church, the choirs
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  Speaker 1: or there are lots of like musicians around the school.
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  Speaker 1: So the dude that lived like that stayed like on
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  Speaker 1: top of me in the dorm. He was like goo sposing.
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  Speaker 1: Guy's name is Jamo. So I always used to hear
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  Speaker 1: like music, music like, but I never went to check.
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  Speaker 1: So one day I guess said, let me go check.
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  Speaker 1: So I went to check and knock the door and
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  Speaker 1: then he opens his room and it's a whole studio setup.
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  Speaker 3: Like in the dorm.
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  Speaker 1: So i'ing like that was just recording himself. So like
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  Speaker 1: that was like my first time like seeing like a
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  Speaker 1: laptop in the studio equipment.
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  Speaker 3: So I was like, Yo, how much is all this?
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  Speaker 3: And he told me.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, yo, want to buy it? Just teach
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  Speaker 1: me the way around it. So he was he was
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: teaching me. And I also like learned off YouTube, like
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  Speaker 1: how to make some YouTube.
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  Speaker 2: University. Man, you can learn anything on YouTube. So what
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  Speaker 2: was your first interface? Was it like U M audio,
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: the little M box plug.
• 8:50
  Speaker 3: And play USB and then I had the it was
• 8:56
  Speaker 3: It wasn't pro tools, it was logic.
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  Speaker 2: Logic. Yeah, a lot of people learn on logic.
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  Speaker 3: So from that I just started recording myself, recording myself.
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  Speaker 3: But mind you.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like I said, it's school, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. So I'd go home every December Christmas. So
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  Speaker 1: one December I go to the club and it's like
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  Speaker 1: you know before before I left in the club or
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  Speaker 1: on the radio in Nigeria, they played with mostly American.
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  Speaker 3: Music, like what was popping in Nigeria when I left school.
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  Speaker 3: It's like fifty. Of course I love him.
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  Speaker 2: I just like the world loves fifty. Fifty is just
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  Speaker 2: like anywhere in the world. Yeah, usher, you know that's
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  Speaker 2: like confessions.
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  Speaker 1: Nearly you know this then, but you know, I fact,
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  Speaker 1: I you know, noticed that when I got back after
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  Speaker 1: I think I went was like two years away and
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  Speaker 1: I came back with Christmas and it's like, Yo, it's.
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  Speaker 3: All African music now, blah blah, it's different.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm in the club and I'm seeing like the
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  Speaker 1: artists blowing up, the girls going crazy.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm like, yo, this is about to be something.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Were you already making that kind of music in
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  Speaker 2: your dorm them or was trying to rap or what
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  Speaker 2: were you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Na?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I actually started as an engineer, Okay, you
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  Speaker 3: know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: So you were just learning your way around here.
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  Speaker 1: I used to record, like my cousins, gotcha, you know,
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  Speaker 1: stuff like good to Atlanta record them. So actually started
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  Speaker 1: as an engineer. So it was really like R and
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  Speaker 1: B is kind of music, right, African music sometimes. But
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  Speaker 1: then when I after that trip changed it changed it.
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  Speaker 1: So when I got back, it was just African music.
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  Speaker 1: Like after that trip, I decided, That's when I decided,
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  Speaker 1: like I want to be a African musician. So the
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  Speaker 1: biggest artists at that time, his name was debanch right,
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  Speaker 1: So anytime like night John, say, anytime they're coming to Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: they would always call me up. You know, I hooked
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: them up give them some right, you know what I'm saying.
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: So you're with a plug. Yeah, and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: fifteen fifteen, you're selling weed in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 3: No, I was just selling we do.
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  Speaker 2: I knew where to get it, you know where to
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  Speaker 2: get it, of course, Yeah, and you were, you were
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  Speaker 2: the middleman.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I knew had to get it, so you know
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  Speaker 3: from there, you know what I'm saying. They came.
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  Speaker 1: So one trip, one of the biggest artists at that
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  Speaker 1: time came to Atlanta. I took them out, you know,
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  Speaker 1: got them hotels, took them.
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  Speaker 2: To the strip club, which one oh damn.
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  Speaker 3: Some strip club on the South Side. It's called Club Walks.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it's old so not Magic City.
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  Speaker 3: Not non Magic City.
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  Speaker 1: So I took them to that club box and Yo,
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: they changed like twenty thousand in once. But that was
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  Speaker 1: like the most one that I'd seen at that time.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, what, Y know these guys that really gets
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  Speaker 1: in it. So at that point I was like, Yo,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going back to school.
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  Speaker 3: I want to.
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  Speaker 2: I want to. I see that you can make some
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  Speaker 2: real money off.
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  Speaker 3: And then from then I was like, Yo, this is
• 11:48
  Speaker 3: one I want to do because like.
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: It's got to be kind of hard because you probably
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: were like also semi influenced by a lot of what
• 11:55
  Speaker 2: was going on in Atlanta, and like it's kind of
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: hard to like see outside of what's happening right in
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  Speaker 2: front of you. So for you to go back home
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  Speaker 2: during the summer and be like, oh no, there's this
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: whole other yeah thing going on, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: Like there's a whole there's another world outside.
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  Speaker 3: Of the US, yeah, And I'm like, I don't want
• 12:12
  Speaker 3: to miss this, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: So that's when I started getting involved in doing me
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: like a forgot music production, facing it the food week.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't even affecting my academics, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: What'd you drop out?
• 12:25
  Speaker 3: After like two years dropped out?
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: Parents were happier. They didn't know.
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  Speaker 3: They thought they even know I was dropped up, so
• 12:31
  Speaker 3: they thought that was in school. Yeah for a year,
• 12:32
  Speaker 3: you're like school's good sending them fake grades on that.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: But it was the first convo where you like let
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: them know, like it was never a combo. Oh okay,
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: they just like saw you on tv DA.
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: So you know, he was calling my phone and at
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: this point, I've gone back to America, but I was
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: planning to go back to Nigeria to stop my music
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: career because like I had met people already and stuff
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: like that. So my sister hit me up on Facebook.
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: She's like, I think my dad was like trying to
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  Speaker 1: call my phone. Then he called the school like trying
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: to reach me, and then like, oh, so David hasn't
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: hasn't been a road here for the past year. He's
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: like what what did My sister will never forget that message.
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  Speaker 3: I was in a burger. Yea that news you haven't
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: been in school. My stomach, Oh fucking function, your whole viralthing.
• 13:27
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• 13:29
  Speaker 2: a doctor. He's got a doctor.
• 13:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, goy, he's he's not a doctor.
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  Speaker 1: After that, and then my dad like, I like, I
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: hit the seem disappointed to me, Like it could mess
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: up my whole vibe for sure.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: So I was like, man, I'm not going home. I
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: ain't even trying to hear all Like where do I
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: start from?
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Like where do I start from? You know what I'm saying?
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: So I was like, man, I got to blow up
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: that's the only way he's good to forgive me.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: So did you wait to like really?
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I would tellt so no, no, he well
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: kind of, I was like about to blow up, and
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: then he kind of caught me kind of because I ran.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: I kind of dipped, So he was looking for me
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: for months, and I was like, you're just on the
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: run from your sixteen I was like sixteen at this time.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Sixteen on the run. Not on the run, but you know,
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: you're on the run from from your pop. Yeah, for sure.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: And then I went to London for like six months
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: and then my friend had the studio his house.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: You're sixteen at the time, yeah, sixteen. You kind of
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: ran away, low Ki.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I was in my friend's house recording, you
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. He had a studio in London.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I recorded like ten songs, right, so I
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: had him with me, you know what I'm saying. At
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: least I have content from whenever I'm ready to drop.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: So after being in London for like, it's me and
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: my cousin be ready that we both ran away. So
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: it's like, after being.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: In on him for like six months, you got a
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: fake idea at the time, Nah that I wasn't even
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: going to no.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: Club or I was just in my friend's house. But
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: you know I had American passport.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I just you know what I'm saying, just
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: good money wherever you're at, come on anywhere. So after
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: like six months, I was like, yo, I had the
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: ten songs. I saved up a little paper. I was like, yo,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: I'm going to Nigeria, you know, to start, you know
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Get on the plane land and then
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: like my dad.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Like caught me. Oh shit.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: As soon as I got off the plane, he was
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: waiting for you in Nigeria.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the immigration he's living Nigeria, like the army gration
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: people just grabbed me off the plane and took me
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: straight to him.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: I'm shoot, like, boy, I got an eye Pierson lip pressing.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: He's not fucking with you.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: She's looking me crazy.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: It's like what happened to my son.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: So we get in the car and I against he
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: hugged me by He's like you brother. I was like, man, daddy,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: I do want to hear.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: I just wanted to do music. Do you understand I
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: don't need anything from you.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Then we get home and the whole time I ran away,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: my dad like cut everybody off, like he the hancho.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: He take care of everybody. So he's like, go out
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: get my song now. Nobody. Everybody message me like, boy,
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: you better come back home. I'm hungry.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: You got fucked up out here.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Everybody caught everybody off like that was like my aunties
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: and your dad sounds like a g in mafia. I go,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: I get back home and then I have my ten songs,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I'm just like your
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: house to do music. So I'm telling my siblings and
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: then my dad was just like, look, you know what
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. You could you could have just came and
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: told me. You know what I'm saying, Like, oh, this
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: is really what you want to do. I was like that,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I told you like ten times.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Nah. School.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: So he tried it up like cutting the deal. It
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: was like he was with him.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: So he's like, so you gotta go to school. I said, okay,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: but what's it for me? He said, Man, he built
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: me a studio and give me some paper to start.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Off my career.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: So helped out. Yeah.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: So I had to go to school for like every
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: two weeks. I had to be a school. Well he
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: should be like four hours away.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Oh ship, you know what I'm saying.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: What was What was the song that changed your life?
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Probably my second single. It's called Domny Duo, right, So
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: that's when like I left school. I was like because
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: I was on because you're like, look it worked. The
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: first single was all right, you know what I'm saying,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: but the second one I was in. So I was
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: only allowed to go to the city every two weeks.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: So I'd be in school for like thirteen days four
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: hours away. Yeah, thirteen days, and then on the fourth,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: fourteenth day, I can go to the city for just
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: three days to do.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Me trying to break your record stuff like that. So
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: and I'm in school, my dad put me next to
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: like the owner of the school, like I might even.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Like he's a studio. He's like like, you got you.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: This is the door of the school owner. This is
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: my room. So every day you go to work, knocking
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: on the door like are you going to class? You know,
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: stuff like that. But when I had that second record,
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: my boy called me.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: He was in the city. He said, it's lip. I said,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: what you mean, say he was in the club last night.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: He played the record, everybody went. I said, are you sure,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: because if I leave this place, I'm fucked.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought I forgets. So I made like a
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: fake body in my room, like under the clubs.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've done this.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah you put you know how to do you put people?
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: You stuffed the jeans? Yeah?
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Overout this like that. He was called on the way
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: to the four hours trip. He called him I phone, like,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: where are you?
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: What is this?
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: I said, Man, I'm out. So that night we got
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: to the city and this this is like my first time.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Scene like anything or any feeling type of any importance
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: of my music.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: I walked in the club.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Boy, they knew who you were.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: I was like I was, I was like, yo, so.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Like and I was like, that's like I'm seventeen. So
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: that record was like too big, Like it blew up
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: the whole country, the whole Africa. Like it was like
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: really like literally over night success crazy, you understand, Like
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: we all confused, like like we're not even prepared for
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: what came, you know what I'm saying. I'm like, oh damn,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: now I got a pr publicist, I gotta get a
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: tour manager.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: I gotta get you know what I'm saying this that
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: And from there it was just on what's the clubs like?
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Because I've heard that the clubs in Nigeria are crazy wow,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: but like you've been to both the Atlanta side and
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: so for you like, yeah, I was about to say
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: that's the one thing about here. It's like you know,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: at bottles and they stare at each.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Other when I downcing switson to like ten am.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Just everyone's dancing, happy, smiling, crazy bottles everything.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: What about are the strip clubs in Nigeria? Yeah? What
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: are the strip club vibes like compared to just like
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: just like same thing.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: And funny enough, a lot of like dancers fly from America.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: To dance out there, to go dance out there.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Oh there's fire.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Uh so you got the new project out timeless? Uh?
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: For people who don't know, man, are you very like
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: aware of like your place in like Afrobeat's history. When
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: people bring up the Big Three, I think it's like
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: you whiz Kid and burna Boy.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely know, like definitely away especially like do you
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: have some once you remember when I told you that
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: I was like an out, I was on out that
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I'm looking in when I went for December and I
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: saw that, you know, in the artist everybody was like
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: in one section and I'm just looking like I gotta
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: get into this. I gotta get in the mix. But
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: I also like came with like a vision. Do you understand?
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: And I feel like that's what helped me solidify my
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: place in afrobeats.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: Came with the vision, I knew what I wanted. Do
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: you understand?
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: I'm a producer as well, so with the production, I
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: already knew how I want everything to sound.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Do you understand?
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: And from there and then you know, shout out to
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: my pops. You know what I'm saying, he shot my
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: first video.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Your dad shot your first video. Paid for it. I
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: was about to say, your dad is talented, he's got
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: a doctorate, he's out here shooting videos.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: And so he shot my first video.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: So you know, from then I kind of like, you know, God,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: you know, okay, you know, continue the journey and you know,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: coming out here it was very puzzling for me. So
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: came out here, and you know, especially for one when
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: I did my first tour, I used to live in America.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so it was very futile for me to figure out.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: I know that what gets to be listening? How do
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: we do?
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like it's already popping in
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: the clubs, and then before you know it, a major
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: label hit me up, Boom Sony. You know what I'm saying.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: And this is I've been doing music already for like
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: seven years, right, you know what I'm saying. I'm talking
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: about we like we like sixty records in at this time. Wow,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: sixty records in. But the old records is just start
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: to catch, starting to catch. Yes, I feel like that's
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: what it's been happening with a lot of It was
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: very difficult for us, you know, artists, because we're so
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: we're so comfortable already, you know what I'm saying. At
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: that time, I was already making at least one hundred
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: and fifty two hundred thousand dollars a show, and then
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: we have like that's death and then we already setting
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: out stadiums, you know what I'm saying, thousand people, and
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: then you know there's the all that syde of things.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: But you want to move music to the culture to
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: push you come out here and the money they're saying, No,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: definitely no. Nowadays it is now. Yeah, but like back then,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: like you got kind of stop from scratch again. Definitely
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: not like my first show. My first show I think
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: was New York was like Urban Plaza, I think something
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: like that.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: It was like a thousand people I'm used to doing
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: like fifty.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but there.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: But you know that's how, you know, spreading the music,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: waking up for interviews, like you know what I'm saying,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: doing promo. So you know, when the major labels got
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: involved in Aprobets, I felt like we had the music,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: but we didn't have the structure.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Right, you know what I'm saying.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Now, you know there's a little bit of structure all
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: the labels right now in Nigeria, do you understand?
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: So yeah, no, I know, like a shots, I got Gazi,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: I think Empires doing a lot, yeah, a lot of artists, Sony,
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: a lot of artist under Sonya.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: As well too.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Who would you kind of consider to be
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: like Eurog's in this ship because I feel like we
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: always hear about you burna Boy and whiz K, but
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: there's a whole generation of guy's prior to you guys
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: that kind of let the groundwork.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: I think definitely the bunch you know, that's one of
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: the artists I saw. I told you du Bane Too Face.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: So the Big three then was the Bane Tooth Face
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: and it's a group it's twins called p Square, So
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: that was those were like r ogs, you know. Then
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: those are the people that made me say it's possible
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: doing this. Yeah, I'm doing this.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: You also have kind of became one of like the
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: main guys that like hip hop artists will tap into
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: if they universe or the hook. I mean you guys
• 26:32
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• 26:35
  Speaker 2: of the well, first of all, being as a guy
• 26:37
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• 26:40
  Speaker 2: there been a hip hop artist you've worked with where
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: you were like, damn, that's crazy.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: I got a record with this guy like this. Definitely,
• 26:48
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• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Oh I think, well, I mean I have a lot
• 26:51
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• 26:54
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• 26:56
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• 27:00
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• 27:02
  Speaker 2: You guys met him a head boy.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he just came in the room.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Was not what he was like.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, man, like he likes African.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, thank you, thank you, thank you
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: what you're working on and he just laid the verse
• 27:14
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• 27:19
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• 27:23
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  Speaker 2: His face right there, it's behind that box.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's crazy. So that was like crazy to me.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, oh like not even on music tip. You know
• 27:47
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  Speaker 1: Man actually met a Little Baby through Thug before Little
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  Speaker 2: Oh really back in the day, people don't understand like
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  Speaker 2: that's got. What was it when you guys worked together?
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  Speaker 2: Did he record the verse with you there?
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Because I heard his process is pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he thug duty, But baby, I said, I said, baby,
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  Speaker 3: just all.
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  Speaker 2: Because like this Doug going right now and down right.
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  Speaker 2: It's just does he lay the he lays He lays
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: the melody first and then punches in.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Or then go back, punch in, go back, through the melody.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Then you know, you get the words that you recorded.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: You know, I kind of record the same way too.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: So you're you're kind of similar with Joe, like melody
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: down and then feeling the lyrics melody and then feeling
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: the lyrics. Yeah, you used to be an engineer. Yeah,
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: which way do you prefer to record an artist? Because
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: I do know some engineers to get frustrated. Yeah, you
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: touch me in back back back back, No right there.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: To me and pu me in think about me. You
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: gotta be quick because I get anxiety when you know.
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  Speaker 2: When if you have an engineer recording you, they got
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: to be fast.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to be very very quick.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: And I don't sleep, So it's like you gotta be quick, quick, quick,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: because you know the way you want to, you know,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: lay down an idea. You know, first of all, you
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: don't want to lose it, right because sometimes it never
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: comes back, you know what I'm saying. So I like
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: to be kind of quick.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah for you. How much how much like of your
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: own production are you doing these days?
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: No?
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: None?
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah recently, but with this last album, I like I
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: supervisor production what I'm said, But I'm as hands on
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: us you know, I.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Was, you know, years back, what it's like for you
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: give me two or three artists that are on the
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: come up right now that we should be checking out
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: in the States.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: African African h I was talking about they big lad
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: see what he's here on the come up?
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Maybe here here, definitely.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: He's he's hot right now going crazy.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Rema Rama's got a smash number the highest, yeah, the
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: highest ever number one song right now. It's Rhythm radio
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  Speaker 2: in Selina.
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  Speaker 3: It's crazy care Redma bou Ju.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: I've heard. I've heard of Rama, who's on the remix
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: of that song.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: Boojus.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: You know, at least kih kids down here. A lot
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: of people, man, I can I can name one hundred females.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: You know, we got Thames, we got Iron Star Savage,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: So yeah, we're doing great.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: Do you ever like see American artists trying to do
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: what you guys do and it comes I've seen a
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: lot of guys do it and it's very corny. But
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: do you ever like feel like like it's a little
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: kind of appropriating like y'all's vibe, because it does feel
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: like I've seen I mean, I don't want to say names.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: There's been a few guys with like just blatantly just
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, like they don't care about the culture, and
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: it's like, this is the sound, let me make the song,
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: I don't feel like offended by it, like because I'm
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: from both worlds, right, But it'd be like kind of
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: weird when when we have like a session and like
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: and they come and they're like, yo, can you make
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: it sound like that? I'm like, what you talking about? Like,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: can you make it sound like this? Okay, you you've
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: had that happen.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, plenty of times.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Do you like cool loo guy to the side, They're like,
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: hey man, you got to a little appreciate what we're
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: doing here a little bit. Let's say some microwavableshit. Yeah,
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: And then I'm just happy, like the night not even
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: take it's changing.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: And I've been in the studio, I've worked with so
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: many people and then and you know what I'm saying,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Like before it was like a thing to have like
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: American artists on your record, it'd.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Be like a big deal, a big deal. Now it's
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: kind of for it.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: I don't mention names, but you know what I'm saying,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: you can be in the studio vibing out with somebody,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: somebody do it verse the next day they send.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: You papers and boys, we're boys that you know in
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: the video, you gotta do that too, and you feel.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Like it's the other way around.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: Now, what's up? I'm charging now? Yeah, what you need,
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: I'm charging now.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: I'm saying my lawyers, what's the feature costing? Right now?
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: It's timeless, six figures hundred hundred.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: If I know you, If I know you, that's the price.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: If I know your hundred and that's not bad. And
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: then the video and then.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: The video costs. That's one thing, you know, Like there's
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: a few guys who like I feel like, to.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Be honest, if I know that, if you do a
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: record and I know that you're gonna push it to
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: the fullest, to the fullest, and you're an artist that
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: I enjoy.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Like you're a fan of somebody.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: I'm a fan like me and Chris be time we
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: get in the studio, like, I'm happy, you know what
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, Because Chris is doing a video with you,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Chris is bring you out on tour.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: Chris is thinking of ideas, and he's also like our
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: our Michael Jackson. Yes, like I think Chris Brown's like
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: he's an alien for you, because I do. I do
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: feel like there has been a few artists who have
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: kind of like embraced Like I know when Castanova Free
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Castanova came with to Nightgery video felt like he just died.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: Little Baby cames out. He stayed in my house when
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: he came to a little Baby Baby was at the crib.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he said, as the Migos came out there a
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: lot of people come out there for shows.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm curious, like is the breaking in an artist process?
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: How much different is it than here? Because here it's
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: like obviously there's TikTok now, but you know, traditionally in
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: hip hop you would want to maybe catch a wave
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: in a strip club first, or you know there might
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: be no from.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Like my generation on me was like that's really like
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: putting out like a thousand CDs go around and club.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: But now, like, shit is different.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: You can be sitting somewhere in the village, you drop
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: a record once one thing goes viral and you you
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So stuff is different now, Like
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: even when we're in the studio, now we're thinking like
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: how can we make a challenge to this song.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Like how we get the ship popping on TikTok and
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: then out there's Audio Max really big.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: I think Audio Mac Yeah, because you know it's easy
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: to It's easier, it's like subscribe, you know what I'm saying.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: But recently started fy Nigeria. He comes to Night Gena
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: and that's helped.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: A lot too.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: Who would you want to do a collab project with
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: from the States? If you could do a collab album
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: with anybody?
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Definitely Chris. That'd be crazy. Definitely Chris. Me and Chris
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: got like ten songs like people ain't heard.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: Ten that are just on a hard drive. Yeah, have
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: you guys talked about doing that? He did a thug album.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Definitely, Definitely. I go to his house after here too.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: But yeah, me and Chris definitely, you know what I'm saying.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: I was even meant to go on toll him.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. But we're gonna do a
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: lot together. Who else?
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: I do a record with Scissa, She's.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Really really dope for Bad Bunny too.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: There is such a correlation between like reggaetone and afrobeats
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: because one it's just great dancing music, and I feel
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: like BPM wise like BPM wise, they match up so
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: well if you're DJing in the club. Have you done
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: like any shows with any like any like big reggaeton
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: artists anywhere? No?
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Not really, but I had to showing Puerto Rico though, Yeah,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: crazy crazy. I remember on the flight down maxim Names,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: I was like, you sure it's going to be yo?
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: What it was like?
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Twenty thousand people in Puerto Rico?
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Puerto Rico.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: We've had Mexico reach out to. But I love performing
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: in the islands.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: What's your favorite place to perform so far?
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: So far?
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: That was real dope, I'll say the Bahamas.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: The Bahamas. Do you ever go to that crazy resort
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: they got there, the Atlantis resort that I obways see
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: it on the line.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: We would like in and out, in and out records,
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: in and out records.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Well, look, man, the new album's out right now.
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  Speaker 3: Timeless, you know what I'm saying, going crazy?
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  Speaker 2: Anything else on the way.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: Definitely be going on tour in July. If you can't everywhere, Nah,
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: we do. We spliting it up, so we do.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: I want to see I want to go to it.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: I want to go to a show that's not the
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: United States. I want to go to like, so come
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: to come to Nigeria. I gotta go to Nigeria. Puerto Rico, Rob,
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: are we going to Nigeria.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: We're gonna get to December, December, December, let's go.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: So the best time to come definitely, you know in December,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. She also visit Ghana too,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: and I.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: Heard Ghana is amazing.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: So Nigeria is like New York and Ghana is like
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: La Like okay, calmer.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: So Nigeria is like fast paced, bro, you gotta.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Be shopped if you can't, so wife, in Nigeria, you
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: con sof anywhere.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Ghana is more relaxed.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, kickback, you want to.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: Don't kick back too much in La though, they'll rob
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: your ass out, I know, do you guys? Listen? Dude,
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Africans claim Elon Musk because he is South African. I'm
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: just wondering, is it he's from Yeah, but.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: That's crazy. He's got like kind of like South Africa.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: I love you know Caucasians are down there, you know
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, because you know they stayed after It's dope.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: South Africa southever it looks like la It's like beautiful, Like.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, isn't it like very still kind of like separated
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: and like a lot of the social issues. Yeah, like
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: there's some yeah everywhere, some Jim Crow type ship there.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: They're like two languages. I know, there's like a one
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: language called Afrikaans, and like it's weird, like I think,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure it's not one hundred percent, but I
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: think like the black people don't speak that.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: That's wow. Man, Well listen, I appreciate you pulling up.
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  Speaker 2: You're definitely a legend.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: There's dope to have you here. A new album out, new.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Album out, Timeless the Way tour on the way. I
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: got a festival in Atlanta in November. Oh ship, Yes,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: I plan to do it yearly. It's called a wavefest.
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  Speaker 1: Who else before I'm trying to bring okay, you bring everybody, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: We can do every year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I just saw there's a big afrobeats festival I.
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  Speaker 3: Think is Miami. The next one is Miami.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's what's up. I appreciate you. Yeah, affirmation my brother.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate you, man, David. Oh hey, we got to wrap
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