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Brandon Conway REVEALS How One TikTok Video Took Him From 54 Followers to 34 Million Views Overnight · The Baller Alert Show

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  Speaker 1: What's up you guys. That's your boy, Brandon Conway. Just
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  Speaker 4: Pow Wow. Broadcasting live from the Nagel Law from studios.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome to the ball Alert Show. My name is Fred
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  Speaker 4: sent I go by the name you know, BT Brandon Conway.
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  Speaker 3: Of the building. Yeah, welcome to the show. My brother,
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  Speaker 3: something I got it.
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  Speaker 5: I appreciate it. What's going on? Man?
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  Speaker 3: Where's Brandon Conway from?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: A small town called Walkersville, Georgia, about twenty minutes outside
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  Speaker 1: of Athens. Walkersville, Walkingsville, Walkingtonville, twenty minutes outside of Athens
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  Speaker 1: now north southeast or west of Athens?
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  Speaker 5: You know what, I really don't even know. I'm just
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  Speaker 5: gonna do.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 3: So when you go to the airport, where do you
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  Speaker 3: go to the Atlanta airport?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: About an hour and a half ride.
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  Speaker 1: Eh Atlanta to get to Atlanta.
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  Speaker 5: So I mean, like I'm used to Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I live in Nashville now though, Okay, I'll closer to
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  Speaker 1: the airport now, Okay, cool, cool, cool?
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  Speaker 3: How long have you have we.
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  Speaker 5: Been doing the music professionally about three and a half years.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So what made you want? What made you want
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  Speaker 3: to get into music?
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  Speaker 1: To be honest, I posted a video, and before that,
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  Speaker 1: I was doing it for fun, and you know, I
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  Speaker 1: was doing it in the form of DJing or you know,
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  Speaker 1: like house parties and stuff karaoke. And I posted a
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  Speaker 1: video one night, woke up the next morning, first video
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  Speaker 1: on TikTok, no less and it just.
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  Speaker 5: What thirty four million views later? It just kind of
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  Speaker 5: did it?
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  Speaker 3: Ninety four million views?
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  Speaker 6: How'd you feel when you woke up the next day.
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  Speaker 1: So I was expecting maybe, like I had fifty four
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  Speaker 1: followers on TikTok, and I was expecting maybe, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like a couple thousand and maybe like ten thousand views,
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  Speaker 1: So around like three o'clock that afternoon, that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: where I was sitting at. And it won't until like
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  Speaker 1: definitely about seven o'clock that night is when it like
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  Speaker 1: started hitting super hard. And it was like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of followers and.
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  Speaker 5: Millions of you. So, I mean, like, I wasn't expecting it.
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  Speaker 1: And then after a certain amount of time, once I
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  Speaker 1: realized it wasn't stopping, and I was just like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: let's see how long this is gonna keep going. So
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  Speaker 1: I never really adjusted to it. I kind of didn't
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  Speaker 1: set myself up for a goal. I just got, you know,
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  Speaker 1: curious at that point, just to see what was gonna happen,
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  Speaker 1: because I wasn't expecting it to begin with.
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  Speaker 3: So I was gonna say, you sound very humble, man.
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  Speaker 3: That's something that's something you could all have.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, where you were you living back in your hometown
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  Speaker 6: when this was happening, or you was already in Nashville.
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  Speaker 5: I was living at home, so yeah, so you're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: well I gotta go to Nashville, ty to. I've been
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  Speaker 5: in Nashville like eight months now, oh nice.
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  Speaker 4: So as this is happening, what's going through your mind?
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  Speaker 4: Because you're blowing up and you're getting hundreds of thousands.
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  Speaker 4: How many followers do you have now?
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  Speaker 5: One point three million?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And like, if I'm being honest, my initial thoughts
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  Speaker 1: are kind of the same.
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  Speaker 5: Now, Like, man, I just wake up and go day
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  Speaker 5: by day with it. You know, I don't know what
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  Speaker 5: to expect.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you have enough followers to be to monetize for
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  Speaker 4: a significant amount of your future, just to be honest,
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  Speaker 4: because most people don't have that even threshold of followers
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  Speaker 4: to talk to.
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  Speaker 3: So just you can make money advertising the promo.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, very true, very true.
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  Speaker 3: But you still focused on music.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Man, it's fun. It's a lot of fun. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: a learning curve in some places. But it's been a challenge,
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  Speaker 1: and like I said, I like challenges. So I mean, like,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's cool. It's something different. It's not what I
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  Speaker 1: grew up thinking I was gonna do. It's not something
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  Speaker 1: that was even on you know, my radar. So the
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  Speaker 1: experience a whole new life that a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: don't get to live is it's cool.
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  Speaker 5: It's really really cool.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, So you're blowing up on TikTok. When does the
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  Speaker 4: seriousness outside of this start happening? Like, manager, okay, should
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  Speaker 4: I go to the studio?
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  Speaker 5: Man?
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  Speaker 1: In all honesty, it came in bits and pieces, but
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  Speaker 1: immediately okay.
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  Speaker 6: So but you but you knew, like at some point
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  Speaker 6: you was like, I know, I gotta get some representation
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  Speaker 6: because it's like this is going yeah out of my hand.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, didn't have a choice.
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  Speaker 3: And now what's the single that we're promoting right now?
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  Speaker 1: We got a few things coming out for you, but
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  Speaker 1: right now, we just rolled out a cover that I
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  Speaker 1: actually did with the man himself, none other than mister
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  Speaker 1: Teddy Riley of Heaven Can Wait. Like I said, we
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  Speaker 1: got a few more surprises coming soon, but that would
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  Speaker 1: be the biggest hit that we about to put out
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  Speaker 1: right before this movie drops. And we haven't decided if
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna before the movie drip or after.
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  Speaker 6: Now what movie we're talking about?
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  Speaker 1: The Michael movie that comes out tomorrow, So Michael Michael
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  Speaker 1: Jackson movie, Michael Jackson Man, put some respect on what
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  Speaker 1: you're saying.
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  Speaker 3: Fam, You're you're right now. You just dropped not too
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  Speaker 3: long ago. Heaven Can Wait? Ye, okay, and I'm loving
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  Speaker 3: the vibes. What's your nationality?
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  Speaker 1: Bro?
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  Speaker 5: Black and white?
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  Speaker 4: I'm mixed, okay, you a little Hawaiian to me, the
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  Speaker 4: Hawaiian Hispanic.
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  Speaker 5: I get it all.
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  Speaker 6: Because I see like the little you know, the tribal
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  Speaker 6: so people people do think that, uh that you're wa Bro.
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  Speaker 5: I can called Maui on a daily I know.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm not trying to put you in a in
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  Speaker 3: a box. I was just saying, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: So you just white and black? You're mixed? Who's black? Mom?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Wow, I just guess that that's mom. What's up my mama?
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  Speaker 3: You ain't black either? You mixed too? No, I'm black's
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  Speaker 3: I'm black light skin I'm black okay?
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  Speaker 6: Nah?
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  Speaker 3: So okay, and so continue my bad, my bad? I interrupted.
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  Speaker 5: I apologist.
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  Speaker 4: We was talking about the music and taking a serious
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  Speaker 4: and then I just had to ask you about your
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  Speaker 4: nationality only because our fan, our listeners and our fans
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  Speaker 4: they may not know this, so I just want to
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  Speaker 4: we're putting them onto you.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it, man, I appreciate you. You made a correction
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  Speaker 1: for me earlier as well. We actually have Heaven can
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  Speaker 1: wait it's available on all streaming platforms right now.
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  Speaker 5: But we got a little visual.
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  Speaker 1: Little magic surprise that we've been working on there, So okay,
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  Speaker 1: let me correct myself with that. But yeah, man, we
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  Speaker 1: got some projects coming, some singles and then obviously the
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  Speaker 1: head honcho. But I don't want to speak too much
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  Speaker 1: on that right now. But okay, we got we've been cooking.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, we've been a.
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  Speaker 3: Full project coming soon, project date on that.
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  Speaker 5: Or no, you don't know yet name? Uh no, no.
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  Speaker 4: Name major label yet, or you're taking all you're taking meetings.
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  Speaker 4: You ain't answer that you're taking some meetings. Ain't you
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  Speaker 4: got a team?
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  Speaker 5: You already got a team?
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  Speaker 3: Who's manager?
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  Speaker 5: Oh we got a little doble situation.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, I'm in a good spot. I'm not in
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  Speaker 1: a rush, but I'm in a good spot.
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  Speaker 5: That's good.
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  Speaker 3: Don't don't don't don't rush.
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  Speaker 5: That's nothing, man strategic.
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  Speaker 4: We're playing the colture course of the especially if you're
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  Speaker 4: making some good money on on the social.
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  Speaker 6: Media and you and like I said, you already seems
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  Speaker 6: like you already have your team. And that's really important,
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  Speaker 6: especially when you are going to these labels because they
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  Speaker 6: they really pay attention to that.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, we'll give me some shout outs, mister Brandon M. Conway.
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  Speaker 5: Let me see.
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  Speaker 3: Music, bro, I do a little research now, all right.
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  Speaker 5: Let's see where do I start?
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  Speaker 1: First and foremost, the man upstairs wouldn't be here without them.
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  Speaker 1: Second off, the woman that's standing over here to my
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  Speaker 1: left wouldn't be here without say it again, shout out
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  Speaker 1: risk at Global Sean Louisiana, who's also.
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  Speaker 5: Here with me.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all gonna hear from him, and go Muhammad and my
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  Speaker 1: uncle Teddy Riley. Still I used to saying that, but
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 3: Is crazy. Yeah, that's man.
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  Speaker 4: Much blessings and success to you, fam, because I appreciate
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  Speaker 4: it getting all these followers. And that's not by luck.
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  Speaker 4: That's about design. So don't think you know I appreciate
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  Speaker 4: l man. That's about design.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 3: You got to get the team around you too.
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  Speaker 5: So and shout out to the fans like y'all are
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  Speaker 5: the most important. So no, thank you, guys.
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  Speaker 3: They're gonna pay them bills. They're gonna pay your bill.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, Brandon Conway right here on Ball of Alert,
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  Speaker 4: Part one,