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Tech N9ne Interview · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: It's DJ Envy Angela Yee Sharloman, the God. We all
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Speaker 1: the breakfast club. We have the independent King in the building. Yes, sir,
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Speaker 1: you know it was cool to be independent. Everybody keeps
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Speaker 1: saying that, man, everybody, it is the truth. Yeah. Well,
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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, we have tech minie in the building.
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Speaker 1: And you still haven't sold out and sold to a
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Speaker 1: signed to a major. No, never, never will. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, man, it depends on how many millions
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Speaker 1: even now, and this climate is like I don't really know. Man,
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Speaker 1: Like somebody just called and offered the sixty million one enough, wow,
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Speaker 1: sixty million. Yeah, I can't say who it was. I
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Speaker 1: need my phone to ring like that. I talked to
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Speaker 1: my partner. I talked to my partner, Travis, and he said, man,
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Speaker 1: but we're about to do this year. Sixty million a't
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Speaker 1: gonna sound like nothing. I was like, yeah, you're right,
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Speaker 1: a deal worth sixty million, like advance everything up here?
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Speaker 1: Ain't nothing know for what for our blood sweat and
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Speaker 1: tears to me? I mean, I know, y'all sell a
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Speaker 1: lot with merchant and you gross a lot and show
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Speaker 1: how what kind of range were talking? Man? What do
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Speaker 1: you mean money wise, he makes the Forbes list, like all,
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Speaker 1: I know, you know last year, you know, I was
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Speaker 1: on the fourth list for eight millions, so you know,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, we do we do? Okay? Yeah? To
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Speaker 1: turn down sixty million dollars, I'm sure yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: And I've never turned down sixty million. That was the
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Speaker 1: first time I ever did it. Day before yesterday was no, no, no.
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Speaker 1: I was just flabbergasted, you know what I'm saying. I
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Speaker 1: was like, wow, that's what they want to say. And
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Speaker 1: he was like, man, but what we're about to do
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Speaker 1: after May fours, you know, after the album dropped. That's
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Speaker 1: not gonna sound like a lot of the money. I said,
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Speaker 1: You're right, though. Was it an easy decision of easy? Hey?
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Speaker 1: It was really, it was really easy. We laughed about it,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. We laughed about it. Is
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Speaker 1: that bad? No? Yes? Yeah, you regular people absolutely. Oh
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Speaker 1: somebody last thought that was funny? Yeah yeah yeah yeah.
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Speaker 1: But you know, things change all the time. Man. You
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Speaker 1: never know, somebody might call with the right number, and
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Speaker 1: it's probably easier for you to sell records, which makes
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Speaker 1: more money because of the internet, because yeah, it's doing
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Speaker 1: it before it was so easy to pres Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we had to start, you know, like Steve Rifkin did
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Speaker 1: it when with the Big pun thing. You know, we
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Speaker 1: have street teams, we still have everything grass roots. So
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Speaker 1: it's like the internet thing got for it because I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to go over to Australia like I
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Speaker 1: just did in New Zealand and Honolulu for the first
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Speaker 1: time and have all sold out shows, you know what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. And you know, it really is important, I
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Speaker 1: think for an artist like Tech nine to show these
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Speaker 1: other artists how important it is to have a great
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Speaker 1: live show exactly. You know a lot of people don't
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Speaker 1: understand the importance of having a live show. They get
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Speaker 1: sold out with Without the live show, man, you're not
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Speaker 1: gonna last, you know what I mean. And back in
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Speaker 1: the day when we were on the road, like early,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, it wasn't too many people
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Speaker 1: on the road, but toilet quality was on the road,
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Speaker 1: you know, atmosphere was on the road, Citizen Cope stuff
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Speaker 1: people like that. But then in later years I got
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Speaker 1: to see Asap Rocky hitting the road with Danny Brown
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Speaker 1: and scoopboard Q and I was loving to see it
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Speaker 1: that the youngsters is getting out their touring now because
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Speaker 1: one thing to be real told me a long time ago.
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Speaker 1: He said, they could try to take away djan and
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Speaker 1: buying on everything, but be able to take away the
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Speaker 1: live show. And if you have a great live show,
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Speaker 1: people will talk. Word of mouth really works, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean. So when they say you gotta go
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Speaker 1: she tech now you gotta go see this. People come
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Speaker 1: and we're still on the incline because of that, because
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Speaker 1: we gave a damn about what the show is and
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Speaker 1: you did. Just don't ance your tour. Mers is on
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Speaker 1: the tour. Yes, I wondering was here. I had a
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Speaker 1: scriptle here for you to eat up. He's morderlized for that,
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Speaker 1: and I feel responsible people what happened. No, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: tell you what really happened. Okay, okay, because the truth
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Speaker 1: of the maddest people don't know. It's explaining to people
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Speaker 1: what happened. I had a show called Lift Service and Merds.
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Speaker 1: I saw him at Rock the Bells, Yes, and he
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Speaker 1: told me, he said, bring some strippers up there. I
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Speaker 1: want to eat somebody out. He said that his mom
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Speaker 1: was there as well. Really close mouth, don't get fed, bro, exactly. Okay,
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Speaker 1: you know, no problem. I set it up and I did.
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Speaker 1: We had two shippers there for you. Yes, you came
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Speaker 1: through Roxy Reynolds. And still remember the name can Vine
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Speaker 1: Candas Vine. Yes, I'll never forget you ain't. Both of
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Speaker 1: the one was yeah, one one was you know, touching me.
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Speaker 1: Another one set on you put your face in candas ones.
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Speaker 1: But though yeah I didn't do that too as you
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Speaker 1: just get random. But it wasn't it was it smelled,
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Speaker 1: It smelled great. She was clean, very like you know,
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Speaker 1: you inspect before you, you know, dive in you know what.
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Speaker 1: I'm drunk. Nah, so I was okay, you a little crazy? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he was definitely nervous. Was this your first sexual experience? No, No,
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Speaker 1: first on air, you know, on live on the internet. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I did too. I got I had to take a
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Speaker 1: sidebar with the boss. Mostly what most people get when
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Speaker 1: they come to a radio interview. All you got some
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Speaker 1: cheap coffee or whatever. Yeah, but then he ended up dating. Yeah, Roxy,
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Speaker 1: you did a good job. Anything good in her professional opinion.
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Speaker 1: You know a lot of people do that for her barely,
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Speaker 1: And I guess I weren't high up. Yeah, you make
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Speaker 1: it come in the studio. I don't know I should
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Speaker 1: I hope so. And I think he didn't do it
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Speaker 1: long en Afterno, No, it wasn't that. It wasn't that long. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but Murray says he's always told me that he gets
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Speaker 1: a lot of recognition for that. Yeah, people stopped me
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Speaker 1: with my wife. Now, I was a what did your
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Speaker 1: wife say? She hates that question because they'll just ask
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Speaker 1: me what it tastes like? What roxy Reyntals tastes like?
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Speaker 1: I'm here in the video. Yeah, she saw it all
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Speaker 1: before you got married, before he got married, some conversation
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Speaker 1: like babe, I want to shake you this just so
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Speaker 1: you know, she knew. She knew me who I was,
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Speaker 1: so she knew what had happened. But it's still awkward
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Speaker 1: when you put going to Walmarts and a dude walk
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Speaker 1: right up to you. Hey man, what roxy Reryntals taste
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Speaker 1: like you? It makes her feel a certain kind of way.
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Speaker 1: He was just talking about murders. I can't remember who
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Speaker 1: it is though. We're talking about what was it? Who
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Speaker 1: was it? I remember, I don't remember. Was it the
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Speaker 1: boss man? Who's the boss man? Be your own boss man?
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Speaker 1: I think it was. Yeah, Yeah, we have. What do
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Speaker 1: y'all got going on? No, I was. I was working
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Speaker 1: with him on this label before, while I was living
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Speaker 1: with him for a few few months. Got you and
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Speaker 1: up in upstate. Now I'm helping his son with the
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Speaker 1: cookie business. Me and his son are more more tight.
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Speaker 1: I haven't taught the damon in a while. Oh, that's
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Speaker 1: what it was too. It was it was Lucan Lucan. Yeah, okay, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I might messed with them. Tell but well, Lucan Bookie
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Speaker 1: got a regularly what I think you got something coming
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Speaker 1: out on the lag? Yeah, I put, I did a
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Speaker 1: single form of years ago. No, it was done years ago,
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Speaker 1: and they're just now getting around to put because they
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Speaker 1: opened the restaurant. That's what you're saying. The tech now,
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Speaker 1: you let him say saying it was done a long time.
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Speaker 1: They've done a long time ago. You know, it sounds
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Speaker 1: like it just happened. Technic. Yeah, now Techno and this
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Speaker 1: new album you have special effects here. You're saying this
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Speaker 1: is going to be your biggest album to date. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I know for a fact. Everybody else is gonna know
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Speaker 1: after May fourth too, you know what I mean, not
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Speaker 1: just because of all the major um collaborations. But it's
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Speaker 1: just the music is bigger, you know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: The concept. You know, my mom just passed. H June
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Speaker 1: said to Lupus, you know what I mean. So they
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Speaker 1: asked me was my inspiration? I dedicated the whole album
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Speaker 1: to her, and everything I always wanted I got after
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Speaker 1: she passed, you know. So it makes me feel like
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Speaker 1: I really have a real angel. You know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 1: What did you right here? I wanted a lot of
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Speaker 1: things over the years of my music career. Man, it
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Speaker 1: just so happens when she left, all these things started
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Speaker 1: happening for my music. Like know what I'm saying, Um,
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Speaker 1: I can't really say, man, you know, it's just big,
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Speaker 1: big I'll say it like this, and almost every genre,
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Speaker 1: whether it's d M, whether it's hip hop, whether it's metal,
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Speaker 1: it's all on my album. And we got the people
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Speaker 1: that are at the hilt of it the best collaboration. No,
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Speaker 1: I didn't say that. Why does everybody get saying that?
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Speaker 1: Why does everybody get saying that? That's so funny? Now?
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Speaker 1: The truth that your fans gave you flat for being
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Speaker 1: on Jimmy Kimmel last year, Oh yeah, and they're giving
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Speaker 1: me flat for the two chain something Bob Money that
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Speaker 1: people don't want to see you do stuff because they
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Speaker 1: feel like you're selling out. Well, not all my fans,
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Speaker 1: but some fans do not tech. Why would you do
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Speaker 1: something with two chains? He is not on your level lyrically.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, listen, that's my bro. When he gets on
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Speaker 1: a track, it says party. Why wouldn't I put him
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Speaker 1: on that party track? It's beautiful? And he lit it up?
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying in my opinion, And you know,
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Speaker 1: it's like I've been on the underground for so long.
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Speaker 1: A lot of those fans don't want to share you
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Speaker 1: with the mainstream, like, oh, he's tech technologs going mainstream.
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Speaker 1: I said, no, technog would never go mainstream, but mainstream
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Speaker 1: will go tech and that's happening, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: I didn't have to change anything. I didn't have to
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Speaker 1: conform for no amount of money or nothing. You know what,
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Speaker 1: I'm sizzling. So it's like I just fight with him
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Speaker 1: on Instagram. Hey, they imagine did a song with a
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Speaker 1: little Wayne? Oh yes, oh yes, I mean I had
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Speaker 1: to really stand behind Wayne, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: And after a while I went away. It always goes
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Speaker 1: away if I stand strong, and I'm always stand strong. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I did Riker's Island. That's how y'all the relationship for him? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: because he says something about me out of the blue.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know he knew me, you know. He said
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Speaker 1: something the mass reflection somebody I don't know, and said
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Speaker 1: he wanted to work with me. So when I came
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Speaker 1: out here for a press week like this week, I
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Speaker 1: went up there to see him. Ogs hooked it up,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And I went in it's beautiful.
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Speaker 1: Soad you explain the afair that Jimmy Kimmel situated, because
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Speaker 1: I would be happy that my guy who look oh
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Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah. A lot of them, a lot of
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Speaker 1: them were there, you know what I'm saying. They got
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Speaker 1: tickets for that, you know what I mean, And a
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Speaker 1: lot of them were happy for me. But the ones
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Speaker 1: you said that, oh, he's on TV now, you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. He's not underground anymore. It's supposed I
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Speaker 1: told him. I tell him, real music is supposed to
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Speaker 1: spread and shine, you know what I mean. And since
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Speaker 1: we started, me and my partner Travis o'gwen, when we
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Speaker 1: started this, our goal was world domination. You know that
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Speaker 1: means I want everybody to know the name Tech nine.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm sisling because I always thought I
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Speaker 1: had the talent to spread to everybody and something to
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Speaker 1: say to everybody, you know, And that's what we're gonna do.
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Speaker 1: And in order to do that, radio and TV has
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Speaker 1: to happen. No matter how weird the face paint is,
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Speaker 1: no matter how weird the the scrub top and pants are,
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Speaker 1: whatever it is, I'm just gonna beat me and it's working.
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Speaker 1: I'm questing that for a lot of people that don't
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Speaker 1: know your history, why did you decide to go independent
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Speaker 1: from the door and not necessarily stay looking for a
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Speaker 1: record deal? Well? I had major record deals, you know.
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Speaker 1: I meant. My first one was in ninety three with Jimmy, Jemmy,
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Speaker 1: Terry Lewis Prospective Records. That did not work because they
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Speaker 1: didn't know what to do with a black dude with
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Speaker 1: a red spiked hair and face paint and whatever. You know,
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Speaker 1: what do you do with that? Where do you put them?
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Speaker 1: Tell you something stupid stuff like hey, why don't you
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Speaker 1: go wrestle exactly exactly? You know, really that would probably work.
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Speaker 1: But in ninety seven, I gotta deal with Quincy Jones,
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Speaker 1: question Warner. The people he had working for him didn't
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Speaker 1: know what to do with me as well, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean. Ninety nine we did a deal with
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Speaker 1: Interscope and Jacorp. They just totally destroyed the project and
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Speaker 1: canceled the video and everything. Man, and it just wouldn't work.
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Speaker 1: And me and my partner Travis would say, you know what,
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Speaker 1: We're gonna start Strange Music, our own label out of
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Speaker 1: Kansas City, Missouri. Man. And fifteen years well almost sixteen
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Speaker 1: years later, here we are, man, the number one independent.
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Speaker 1: You know, you ever wonder why anybody ever signed to
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Speaker 1: a major, especially being with I know why people. I
11:18
Speaker 1: know why people signed to a major. They try to
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Speaker 1: get up out of poverty, man, and something is better
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Speaker 1: than nothing. I know exactly why. They unfortunate to have
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Speaker 1: a great partner who was also a great business Oh
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Speaker 1: my goodness, to save my life. Man, How did you
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Speaker 1: meet him? I was doing music back in Kansas City
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Speaker 1: and he was funding some dudes that I knew that
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Speaker 1: did clothing Paradise Originals, and they were having a fashion
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Speaker 1: show with a lot of chicks and everything. So they
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Speaker 1: wanted me to come perform my song that was popping
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Speaker 1: on the radio at that time. I planned Rock to
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Speaker 1: Q and I came and did it. Everybody was going bonkers,
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Speaker 1: and Travis said, I want to have a meeting with him.
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Speaker 1: I've been on his music for a long time. I
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Speaker 1: went to Travis's home the next day with my homeboy
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Speaker 1: George Forte, and he said, hey, tech Manum, I've been
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Speaker 1: a fan of your music for so many years, and
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Speaker 1: I wonder, like your music is better than a lot
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Speaker 1: of people out here on the radio. What does it take?
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Speaker 1: I said, it takes a lot. He said, well, I
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Speaker 1: have a lot. I own my own business, furniture works,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And he's made up self
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Speaker 1: a millionaire by the time he was nineteen, and he said,
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Speaker 1: what do you think about doing a fifty fifty partnership,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I was like, Yes, I
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Speaker 1: want to call it strange music because I'm a doors fans.
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Speaker 1: People are strange, strange days. Let's go you know, snake
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Speaker 1: in the bat And he was so smart he knew
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Speaker 1: to put it on a hat, or put it on
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Speaker 1: a g string, or put it on a belt, buck
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Speaker 1: or a money clip. You know what I'm saying, our
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Speaker 1: T shirt and people would be walking billboards. You know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, the people that believe what you're saying
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Speaker 1: in your music. And it's been happening for over sixteen
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Speaker 1: years now. The FTI movie, that's what Listeners were able
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Speaker 1: to legally download y albums through the artist website where
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Speaker 1: you charging for that. No, I gave it to him
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Speaker 1: for free. I gave it to him for free. Signs
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Speaker 1: they'll come to the shows. Well, this is what I believe.
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Speaker 1: This is what we believed, and we proved ourselves right.
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Speaker 1: You know, Um, if you have a beautiful project, if
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Speaker 1: you have wonderful musicum, people will buy it. If you
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Speaker 1: let them hear it for free, they will support it.
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Speaker 1: If you take time to do the music, if you
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Speaker 1: take time to do the artwork for the music, if
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Speaker 1: you make a collector's item something that they can collect
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Speaker 1: and keep for a long time. We prove that we
13:18
Speaker 1: gave it away for free and people still bought absolute power,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And we knew this, and
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Speaker 1: that's what he was trying to tell other artists, like
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Speaker 1: if you just got one songs on the radio and
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Speaker 1: the rest of your songs a bunk. They're just gonna
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Speaker 1: download that one song. They don't want your album, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean, make them want it. That's what
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Speaker 1: What do you think about Jay Z's News Screaming System title.
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Speaker 1: If it's anything like Spotify just panis pennies, I don't
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Speaker 1: care about it, you know what I'm saying. If if
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Speaker 1: it's anything like that to where the artist gets pennies
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Speaker 1: for their masterpieces. Um, I hope that he. I haven't
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Speaker 1: really looked into it because I've been busy. I've been
13:47
Speaker 1: out of the country to fight. That's why he's doing it.
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Speaker 1: If he's doing that, if he wants the artists to
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Speaker 1: make more money, that's kudos to him. Bro. Bro, you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Because what Spotify is doing, I'll
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Speaker 1: be ready to fight. I'm saying, seventy percent of a
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Speaker 1: fraction of a penny as a game crisis. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's how we Roberts. That happened to any other genre,
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Speaker 1: people would be in front of Congress. Oh my goodness,
14:04
Speaker 1: you know what happened. It's like the people were asking me,
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Speaker 1: you know, overseas, because that's where they where they get
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Speaker 1: their music, Like why isn't Fragile on Spotify? It's on
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Speaker 1: there now, you know what. I don't know how to
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Speaker 1: hell back, but it's like, um, why can't I get
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Speaker 1: your album on Spotify? I said, because it's a masterpiece
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Speaker 1: and I will not get pennies for my masterpiece, right,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean? So if jay Z is
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Speaker 1: doing something to better that, uh you know what, what
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Speaker 1: artists get paid and I'm all the way forward. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's giving artists equity in the company and everything. That's beautiful. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's beautiful. Able to think of doing something Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
14:34
Speaker 1: you know we we we do a lot of things
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Speaker 1: where our money and um, we're look into it, but
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Speaker 1: we're so swamped with everything we're doing. Man, we're so swamped.
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Speaker 1: So oh FILET Tech nine yeah yeah, oh yeah. I've
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Speaker 1: been on to Jay Z and I sent him a
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Speaker 1: track for this new album too, and they said he
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Speaker 1: wouldn't doing music at this time, so he owed me,
14:51
Speaker 1: didn't reach out to you about title? No, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: not not yet. You know what, But I know that
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Speaker 1: Jay Brown told him that I sent him a track,
14:58
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. He's like, oh, man, we
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Speaker 1: know tech Yeah, yeah, yeah, but we aren't doing the
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Speaker 1: music right now. Okay, I get you next time, bro, Bro.
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Speaker 1: And when I sent him was hardcore too. And what
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Speaker 1: about the song you did with Ti? Was that something
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Speaker 1: that he wanted to do something with you or you
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Speaker 1: sent that to him? Well? I met him last year
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Speaker 1: when I was at Comic Con in Chicago. Trade the
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Speaker 1: Truth called me. Heard of was in Chicago doing comic Con.
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Speaker 1: He said, we have a show here tonight, me, Tip,
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Speaker 1: Wayne and two Chains and I was like, we're coming.
15:24
Speaker 1: Me and my partner Travis. Jumped in the car, drove
15:27
Speaker 1: an hour out of Chicago or something like that where
15:29
Speaker 1: they were, and Trade the Truth met us at the gate,
15:33
Speaker 1: got us right, took me right to Tip. I never
15:35
Speaker 1: met him, and he said, Tech, I didn't even know
15:37
Speaker 1: nothing about you until I was in prison and Arkansas.
15:40
Speaker 1: They put me up on your music. Man. I did it,
15:42
Speaker 1: and I said we're gonna hook and we ended up linking.
15:44
Speaker 1: And next thing you know, I sent him a track
15:47
Speaker 1: with Zeus on the chorus. You know what I mean.
15:49
Speaker 1: Zeus from Kingston, Jamaica. I love his music and he's
15:51
Speaker 1: going on tour with me on this tour as well,
15:53
Speaker 1: and uh, tip sent him right back, and then I
15:55
Speaker 1: just shot a video in Atlanta and he showed up.
15:57
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you what he did. Man, this man
16:00
Speaker 1: was at a LA movie premiere. Probably would get hard.
16:04
Speaker 1: I don't know what movie. Maybe he didn't getting hard,
16:06
Speaker 1: I don't know. Okay, that's probably the movie premiere he
16:08
Speaker 1: was at. Really the country, you don't, I'm gone. So
16:13
Speaker 1: it's like he got on the plane. Uh, got to
16:19
Speaker 1: at L seven thirty, went to his nephew's wake, and
16:25
Speaker 1: still came to my video set before he went home,
16:27
Speaker 1: dressed in the clothes he was supposed to wear, man
16:29
Speaker 1: and did that video for me, And I was like, Man,
16:31
Speaker 1: so much love to you, bro, I know that you're moving.
16:33
Speaker 1: He's like anytime anything you need. He brought so much
16:35
Speaker 1: love and respect. Oh my god. And not just because
16:40
Speaker 1: he did something for me, just a real you know,
16:42
Speaker 1: a real dude when you meet fraudulent you know what
16:45
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Now, you're very interesting to me because you
16:47
Speaker 1: got the money. You know, you got a great career,
16:49
Speaker 1: but it seems like you still want more. But it's not.
16:51
Speaker 1: I don't think it's financial. No, I don't care about
16:54
Speaker 1: making any more money. I m It's almost like you
16:57
Speaker 1: want the fame kind of you want people to want
16:58
Speaker 1: people to know that I give all my heart. You know.
17:01
Speaker 1: The only thing hard about it now is I still
17:03
Speaker 1: like to go to Walmart. And it's hard, you know,
17:05
Speaker 1: still I still like to fly regular, you know what
17:07
Speaker 1: I'm saying. It's hard taking pictures with all the TSA
17:11
Speaker 1: or and all the people flying in from Persia or
17:13
Speaker 1: something like, oh my gold Technoine, you know what, I
17:15
Speaker 1: got to take pictures with them, take pictures with the
17:17
Speaker 1: regular people that are in the US. You know what
17:19
Speaker 1: I mean. It's hard for me. You know, it was
17:21
Speaker 1: so hard at Walmart that you know, I went and
17:24
Speaker 1: got a Costco card. But it's the same. It was
17:27
Speaker 1: the same thing at Costco. So I still go. But
17:29
Speaker 1: me and my roommate Maxilla, we just make the chicks
17:32
Speaker 1: chase us, you know, through the aisles, and if they
17:34
Speaker 1: catch us, they can get pictures, you know what I mean.
17:36
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's fun. We try to make it fun. Man,
17:39
Speaker 1: Because I asked somebody on a higher level than me, um,
17:44
Speaker 1: does it get better? Do you still pump your own gas?
17:47
Speaker 1: And this, that and the other. And he's like, man,
17:48
Speaker 1: I used to pump my gass and I'm like, wow,
17:50
Speaker 1: the artist. Yeah, oh man, it was somebody. Man, somebody
17:57
Speaker 1: I'm cool with, you know what I'm saying, told me this,
17:59
Speaker 1: you know, and I was like wow. So it doesn't
18:01
Speaker 1: get easier because I need normalcy in the world that
18:03
Speaker 1: I created. Strange Land. It's like, um, everybody call you God.
18:07
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. You can lose your head.
18:08
Speaker 1: There's a lot of women, a lot of everything. You
18:10
Speaker 1: can lose your head, you know what I mean. That's
18:12
Speaker 1: why I wonder why you even want the fame. Yeah. Wow,
18:14
Speaker 1: it's more like I just show that's what I want.
18:19
Speaker 1: I want to perform. Man, I I was. I was
18:21
Speaker 1: a dancer before I was a rapper. You know what
18:23
Speaker 1: I'm saying, poplock and break dance and empty hammer dancing everything.
18:25
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I wore the padding, leather
18:27
Speaker 1: shoes and hammer pants everything. You know. How did you
18:30
Speaker 1: grew out of that? Yeah? Yeah, they're going back to it.
18:33
Speaker 1: Yeah wow, the hammer pants. But flattops having parts will
18:37
Speaker 1: be back. Having parts are coming back, Dude. I didn't
18:39
Speaker 1: see Chris Brown wear them. I then saw I went
18:42
Speaker 1: to see r Kelly around New Year's and he had
18:45
Speaker 1: on them. He don't count. He's going through me. Busted
18:47
Speaker 1: him on the stage. I said, see that's what you
18:49
Speaker 1: get from the comfortable. You know. No, I ain't never
18:52
Speaker 1: gonna wear no parachute pants ever. Again. When you said
18:55
Speaker 1: the song Fragile you did, has that been your biggest
18:57
Speaker 1: song as far as radio? And yes, yes, yes, yes,
19:00
Speaker 1: yes yes, Fragile is the biggest song that I've ever had.
19:03
Speaker 1: Um they saying the Huggles Craize is gonna be even
19:06
Speaker 1: bigger than that, so we'll see. I just do music
19:08
Speaker 1: and my people put it where they think it should go.
19:10
Speaker 1: You know, do you think about like, Okay, this song
19:12
Speaker 1: could go on the radio or does that not matter? Well,
19:14
Speaker 1: it don't matter to me. But when I hear a song,
19:16
Speaker 1: we've been a dancer. When Bob sent me that beat
19:18
Speaker 1: with this go Craiz, I'm like, ah, hell yeah, it
19:21
Speaker 1: makes me want to move, So it's gonna make other
19:23
Speaker 1: people want to move. And I know that much. So
19:26
Speaker 1: that's why I do the party track and the things
19:28
Speaker 1: down there. They got the hair that's missing. Keep bear,
19:30
Speaker 1: I promise, and never tear that kitten. You know, I
19:32
Speaker 1: know what that beat is doing because I'm a dancer,
19:35
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So the fact that it
19:36
Speaker 1: makes other people move is a wonderful thing. You know.
19:38
Speaker 1: Is it hard to deal with a lot of the
19:40
Speaker 1: stuff that regular artists have to do it because you're
19:42
Speaker 1: so successful, like dealing with the radio and I guess
19:45
Speaker 1: asking DJ's to play records, talking to music directors. You're like,
19:49
Speaker 1: I really don't have to be doing its front say this,
19:55
Speaker 1: I should say. I should be real, right, absolutely, Okay,
19:57
Speaker 1: So I'm never politically correct. So if I could just
20:03
Speaker 1: do music in the studio and go on tour and
20:07
Speaker 1: not have to do any of this, I'd be cool.
20:09
Speaker 1: I'd be cool. I love seeing you guys faces. But
20:12
Speaker 1: it's like, I just I just want to do music.
20:15
Speaker 1: I don't care about you know, I'm promoting and all that,
20:18
Speaker 1: but you have to write, you know what I mean.
20:20
Speaker 1: I'm I'm just an artist. I just want to do
20:22
Speaker 1: I love being on stage. Man. When I go out
20:24
Speaker 1: there and I see everybody's smiling, I feel like Kevin
20:27
Speaker 1: Hard or something. I don't know, man, you know what
20:28
Speaker 1: I mean. It just feels good that you're making everybody smile,
20:32
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And that's what I love.
20:34
Speaker 1: I love showing out for my fans. I remember the
20:37
Speaker 1: first time seeing a tech Nice show was it Paid
20:39
Speaker 1: Dudes Festival? Yeah? Because of him. He made it happen. Yeah,
20:43
Speaker 1: and it was incredible. It's even better now I got
20:46
Speaker 1: a live band with me, now, you know what I mean.
20:48
Speaker 1: But I would just do that, man, you know, but
20:51
Speaker 1: I'll keep on coming out here talking to everybody though.
20:53
Speaker 1: You know, whatever it takes to get everybody on it.
20:55
Speaker 1: You know. Actually you don't think directly the consumer is
20:58
Speaker 1: good enough, like just talking to him online. Yeah, I
21:00
Speaker 1: think I think it is. I think it is. I
21:01
Speaker 1: think I think Jaycole proved that. I think Beyonce proved that.
21:05
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. You know, when you have
21:06
Speaker 1: a good product, man, you know your people are in tune.
21:09
Speaker 1: You know. I went to Pandora and they showed me
21:11
Speaker 1: how many people are playing my music and all these people,
21:13
Speaker 1: these millions of ingiers and people that are tuned in
21:15
Speaker 1: to Tech nine and have Technine stations. I'm like, wow,
21:18
Speaker 1: my dumbath. I'm like, Pandora's a place. But he was
21:21
Speaker 1: like talking about the album was out already and I
21:29
Speaker 1: just didn't know about it because well I wasn't supposed
21:32
Speaker 1: to put out the intro to the album, but it
21:35
Speaker 1: was so now that I couldn't wait to make for it,
21:38
Speaker 1: to get that message out to everybody. What I was
21:39
Speaker 1: trying to say to God. You know what I mean? Yeah,
21:42
Speaker 1: I did. I said, Um, so many circles will send
21:45
Speaker 1: robbed me. That's why we go angel to grim Cosby's.
21:48
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. Bad things happen and turn
21:50
Speaker 1: us crazy. I guess I don't know. You know the
21:52
Speaker 1: fact that you always give glory to God because the
21:55
Speaker 1: deception don't look like you even believe in God. We
21:58
Speaker 1: talked about that last time. You know, I'm saying the
22:00
Speaker 1: devil worshiping thing, but my mom would kill me. I mean,
22:03
Speaker 1: I grew up in the church. You know. I was
22:05
Speaker 1: a part of the Sunshine Band. I go to cry
22:07
Speaker 1: rehearsal with my aunties, you know what I mean. I
22:10
Speaker 1: was at the sewing circle at the church. You know,
22:12
Speaker 1: we're a breakfast, lunch and dinner at Barker Temple Baptist Church,
22:15
Speaker 1: you know Bishop Moore. So it's like being in the
22:18
Speaker 1: Bible belt. You know, we express our spirituality, so that
22:22
Speaker 1: might when you hear the Holy Ghost that's dark. So
22:25
Speaker 1: that's where the darkness is coming from, you know what
22:27
Speaker 1: I mean? And people that don't understand and not to me,
22:30
Speaker 1: people express their spirituality. I mean Tupac did Kanye does?
22:34
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? You know a handful of
22:37
Speaker 1: people do it. But sometimes when you do that, you know,
22:39
Speaker 1: you can scare people. And especially if you got red
22:41
Speaker 1: spiked hair and bishops row, they might If somebody say
22:45
Speaker 1: he's a devil worshiper, everybody's gonna agree. But nobody knows
22:47
Speaker 1: what the devil looks like. I don't know. I don't
22:49
Speaker 1: even know what God or Jesus looks like. A picture
22:51
Speaker 1: that they painted. It's not supposed to be the right
22:53
Speaker 1: picture of Jesus. Jes might look like me. He's supposed
22:56
Speaker 1: to you know, if you're talking about where that region? Absolutely,
23:00
Speaker 1: can we have some bars? I know we usually don't
23:02
Speaker 1: do this, but this is it's a pleasure when we
23:03
Speaker 1: get an artists like tech nine and Hire. Do you
23:05
Speaker 1: have some bars on deck? Um? Can? I curse? Yes?
23:10
Speaker 1: Lately I've been like grab what did he say? Grab?
23:14
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, I'm a writer a boat and plus
23:16
Speaker 1: caps grab because all these tough cats really don't have
23:20
Speaker 1: no nuts. Sacks. Trust that enough scratch does back much wackness.
23:23
Speaker 1: Flush that down with the gowns, with the sounds for
23:26
Speaker 1: the clowns not in a good way. You can drown
23:28
Speaker 1: underground with the pounds where they gust that oh so
23:30
Speaker 1: low we stole Joe holding donegro we flow though. Let
23:33
Speaker 1: the soul glow mo Joe pillowcase over the head of
23:38
Speaker 1: the industry. Illustrate with my mouth and murders my ministry,
23:41
Speaker 1: seal the fate of my end, and me feel the
23:43
Speaker 1: way of my energy. I hear the hate, facilitate this
23:47
Speaker 1: jockey's what scriller. Make them play your records until your break.
23:50
Speaker 1: Radio ain't nothing but real estate. It's still affect deal
23:53
Speaker 1: of maso. Ain't rilla wick. But the midder is greater
23:55
Speaker 1: than eight that can kill a yates. There you have it,
24:02
Speaker 1: ladies and gentle don't pull it over here there, ladies
24:05
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, tech Na, we appreciate you joining us doing
24:11
Speaker 1: nothing my body man and the and the tour. Just
24:18
Speaker 1: let people know when the tour starting. It starts April eighth.
24:21
Speaker 1: It's called the Special Effects to support. It's in support
24:24
Speaker 1: of my new album, UM Special Effects, and UM I'm
24:27
Speaker 1: gonna let merders talk because my body is jittering right
24:30
Speaker 1: now because I just screamed on everything I really felt. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Chris Webby zeus k A well know myself. Chris Calicos
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Speaker 1: Special Effects Tour album and Stories May for Maye four.
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Speaker 1: There you have it club, Good morning,