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Maino Interview · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: I'm real people, real celebrity join the Breakfast Yeah, I'm Charlomagne,
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  Speaker 1: God Angelie, the world most Dangerous Morning to show the
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  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. Maybe had to run out to do something
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  Speaker 1: and we got the King of Brooklyn here, Yeah, King
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  Speaker 1: of Brooklyn. Three. Yeah, it could be deceiving. I go,
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  Speaker 1: I'll go. I'll go maybe twice a month, really to
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  Speaker 1: the gym twice a month, Yeah, maybe three times. I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not doing as well as I should be. If
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  Speaker 1: I was going to the gym maybe three times a week,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be I'll be reallyster. But I don't. I don't
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  Speaker 1: go as much as I should. But when I do,
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  Speaker 1: when I do go, I'll do a lot of cardio. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean too. You know. I like to try to
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  Speaker 1: stay lean and burn the fat. I'm saying, you look lean.
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  Speaker 1: What you changed to diet or something a little bit
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  Speaker 1: like I was going I was doing. I was staying
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  Speaker 1: away from the bread, staying away from all the carbs,
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  Speaker 1: you know, saytoes, rice and stuff like that, and just
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  Speaker 1: trying to maintained you know what I mean. Listen, these
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  Speaker 1: dudes ain't better than me. And he definitely acute her.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean, I gotta I gotta maintained understanding.
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  Speaker 1: Girls be like cute, so I gotta can't be out
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  Speaker 1: y'all flat. And you know, I know I saw the
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  Speaker 1: most recent rumor was you in black China? I saw
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  Speaker 1: you guys posted up on the glos and everything you
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  Speaker 1: saw really, Yes, I didn't know shaw that. I google
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  Speaker 1: it right now. You problem? Why do people think you
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  Speaker 1: could just be friends with a woman though people don't
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  Speaker 1: think I could be friends? Yeah? Why every time you
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  Speaker 1: take a picture, Um, I don't think that. They don't think.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think people believe that. Do you think people
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  Speaker 1: believe that me and you look out relationship and we've
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  Speaker 1: never ever like me and you like this even though
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  Speaker 1: you don't handle certain business for me like a got
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  Speaker 1: so much girl friends forces you in the position and
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  Speaker 1: be like, you know what, let me just be your brother.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, that's probably what it is. That's probably
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  Speaker 1: what it is. There you go the kob three. Yeah
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  Speaker 1: out right now, I like, all right, I'm gonna tell
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  Speaker 1: you some of my favorite songs in there. I like
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  Speaker 1: that pm P song with chings. That's right, that's that's joint.
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  Speaker 1: That's it right. I think that should be a single
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  Speaker 1: right there. That was you know what that was originally
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  Speaker 1: what it was supposed to be. But I'm I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: go harder than them. It's been like it's been, it's
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  Speaker 1: been moving and it's crazy that you know, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of times, you know, when when you see records moving,
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  Speaker 1: it's all about the machine that moves it, right, But
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  Speaker 1: every now and then you get you get records that
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  Speaker 1: move organically, like right now, you see all these people
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  Speaker 1: posting these workout videos to it. You can't buy that.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's that's just the natural, you know, progression of
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  Speaker 1: a record that just you know, feels like it relates
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  Speaker 1: to people. So it's it's been doing good man, and
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  Speaker 1: I feel blessed. I feel good man working out and
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  Speaker 1: you don't even work out there, you know, I did,
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  Speaker 1: I did? You know, I did? I did? I did.
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  Speaker 1: I did two workout videos or maybe three and posted
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  Speaker 1: it and from there it was just crazy, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with with everybody posting videos and you know, I see
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  Speaker 1: one dude, he got the ball bell, he throwing up
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  Speaker 1: like this, he's singing it at the same time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and it just feels good to be able to make
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  Speaker 1: music that that touches people. Man, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: exactly a good problems man. Oh, I'll see you on
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  Speaker 1: talking about it a lot. Now you got a song
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  Speaker 1: about it. Yeah, yeah and shot listen man, shout out
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  Speaker 1: the Chinks um, rest of God, God, blessing man. You
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  Speaker 1: know I was, uh, I was. I was doing these
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  Speaker 1: things on my on my on my instagram. You know why.
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  Speaker 1: I was calling out dudes for some of the outrageous
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  Speaker 1: behavior that they was having right that. And it was
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  Speaker 1: funny because I would trying to make it funny purposely
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  Speaker 1: because you know, it was like, these are the problems
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  Speaker 1: that only you know what I'm saying, These are the
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  Speaker 1: problems that only we'll have. So I would make it funny,
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  Speaker 1: like I'd be like, yo, you know, if you're a
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  Speaker 1: up and then you know what I'm saying. You got
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  Speaker 1: your girl and you holy hands with a girl and
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  Speaker 1: just come by and just touch your girl about her
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  Speaker 1: ass and something like that, and you turn around, you
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  Speaker 1: don't do nothing, and then you got your problems. You
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So it was funny. And Chinks
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  Speaker 1: called me one day and was like, yo, I see
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  Speaker 1: your instagram, man, I got something for you. And he
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  Speaker 1: came with that hook in that verse, and it was
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  Speaker 1: just so crazy. Were supposed to shoot the video. Um
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  Speaker 1: two days like two days before before he passed away,
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  Speaker 1: we was talking about shooting videos. So I'm still gonna
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  Speaker 1: do it regardless though death affect you because you dude, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: in the street, not as much, man, all I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm. I got out the streets and I'm fortunate,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I see you and I see people in Jersey,
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  Speaker 1: now you know what I nah. But he wasn't doing nothing.
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  Speaker 1: I understand. I understand the question though, like it affects
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  Speaker 1: me because at the end of the day, we all
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  Speaker 1: black males getting trying to get away from that, that life,
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  Speaker 1: and we all you know, sacrifice, you know, time with
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  Speaker 1: our family and and and been through certain things in
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  Speaker 1: our life and our development. And then we got here
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  Speaker 1: and the whole objective was to try to get away
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  Speaker 1: from that. So for that to come back and invite
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  Speaker 1: you it, yo, listen. I was the first person to
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  Speaker 1: post it. I was the first person to post it
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  Speaker 1: because I had, I had, I was, I was. I
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  Speaker 1: did a show and um and Unicut and I was
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  Speaker 1: on my way back and the homeoms called me and
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  Speaker 1: was like tax Stone called me and he said that
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  Speaker 1: somebody called him from the hospital. And I spoke to
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  Speaker 1: Buyino and then I posted it and then Meat called
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  Speaker 1: me asked me was it true? And I was like, yeo,
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  Speaker 1: it's true. You know, um, that could be any one
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  Speaker 1: of us. We got kids, we got families, were all
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  Speaker 1: trying to, you know, make this music work for us.
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  Speaker 1: You understand, that's what the objective is. We've been in jail,
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  Speaker 1: we've been we've been in the streets, we've been banging,
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  Speaker 1: we've been going to war and all that or whatever
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  Speaker 1: over over money and misunderstandings and stuff like that. And
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  Speaker 1: we get into the game and the whole objective is
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  Speaker 1: the is the is the win. It's just it's just unfortunate, man.
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  Speaker 1: And it bothers me. It bothered me a lot, because
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  Speaker 1: it's like trouble. Trouble finds you like you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: get you're trying to get away. You do what everything
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  Speaker 1: you can to be out of it, if you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, sometimes it made me feel like because because
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  Speaker 1: he was so humbled to me, you know, and and
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  Speaker 1: and and watching him and I remember him from back
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  Speaker 1: when stack Bundle days and stuff like that, and it
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  Speaker 1: was like it's just like, damn, do it paid? Do you?
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  Speaker 1: Like this is why you gotta punish all the time,
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  Speaker 1: Like you know what I'm saying, like, do it? Do
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  Speaker 1: it pay? To be a good Sometimes you question like
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  Speaker 1: you should be the coolest. It just come blow your
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  Speaker 1: head off. Like so it's sometimes it plays with your
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  Speaker 1: mind and it's like, you know, but you know what,
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  Speaker 1: we ain't gonna go to that negative route. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: stay We're gonna stay on the same path. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do what we're supposed to do. And you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just unfortunate, man. And it touched me
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  Speaker 1: because I look at my son. He twenty years old,
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  Speaker 1: and I can't even think of a day where he
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  Speaker 1: could be like, damn, my father ain't come home no more.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely well. I mean I always look at you as
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  Speaker 1: a business person and I as well, you know, as
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  Speaker 1: an artist. So let's talk about some other things that
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  Speaker 1: you have going on. I know, King of Brooklyn three, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: is that right now? Right now? And I gave it
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  Speaker 1: for free again, I did it for free. Did it
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  Speaker 1: for free this midnight? Yeah, midnights for free. Let the
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  Speaker 1: people have because I want the energy. It sounds like
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  Speaker 1: a real album, not just the free They put my
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  Speaker 1: heart and soul into it. That's what I want. I
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  Speaker 1: want to such people's soul. But you know, I'll be
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  Speaker 1: all doing you know, different things. You know, we're hustling.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I tell you all my business. Right, you're
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  Speaker 1: doing television and you finally go do the TV thing. Man, No,
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  Speaker 1: not like you think, not like you think. Um, I
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  Speaker 1: will share this with y'all because you know me, I
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  Speaker 1: like I like to be unpredictable, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm the underdog and I feel like
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  Speaker 1: people they look at me one way, they don't really
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  Speaker 1: understand me. So I like to do things and surprise people.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm actually I actually developed developed the show. I
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  Speaker 1: actually developed the show. I wrote, I wrote, I wrote
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  Speaker 1: a few things out. You know, I got a couple
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  Speaker 1: of things drafted, and I went and you know, shout
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  Speaker 1: out to Isha Entertainment, Michael Holshon, shout out to Melissa Cooper.
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  Speaker 1: We partnered it up on the show. I don't really
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  Speaker 1: want to get a shot. I don't really want to
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  Speaker 1: not it's not about me. Why didn't you do a
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  Speaker 1: show about you? Because that wasn't the words that was
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  Speaker 1: in the works. But yeah, but I didn't. I just
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  Speaker 1: felt like I didn't want to show because you filmed
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  Speaker 1: some of that. Yeah, yeah we did. We did you
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  Speaker 1: know it was with VH one. Um, I just felt
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  Speaker 1: like I didn't want to show that was that that
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  Speaker 1: really just catered to my love life. I felt like
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  Speaker 1: I was more, it was more parts to me than
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  Speaker 1: just you know, my love life and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: And then I guess I get spooked. I look at
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  Speaker 1: these shows, I'd be like, damn. Part of being an
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  Speaker 1: artist is some of the mystique that you don't know
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  Speaker 1: about everything. And I look at some of these it
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  Speaker 1: was in me like, damn, I liked you, man I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know you was a lame like this. Damn. I
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  Speaker 1: just like how Mano used a slick word like love life.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah forever. I just want to say. And the first
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  Speaker 1: thing I thought, man, is your love life is fascinating.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to call life, why would you say
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  Speaker 1: that because it is fascinating? How is that you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: put because you're gonna you're gonna put a bad, bad name.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it is. Um, I'm trying to think
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  Speaker 1: how can I say felt us? I feel like Mano
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  Speaker 1: love life at certain points wants to be in love,
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  Speaker 1: but then I felt at certain times you don't, and
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  Speaker 1: I just don't. I feel like you might get with
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  Speaker 1: a good girl and whatever, but you just can't. The
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  Speaker 1: dots aren't connecting properly, and women fall in love with
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  Speaker 1: Mano do they? I know one female in particular. You go, oh,
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  Speaker 1: she was in the hospital. That's where I was should be. No,
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  Speaker 1: you don't even know that I know this girl. And well, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: she she was upset because I guess you stopped messing
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  Speaker 1: with her. She said the dud was so good. She
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  Speaker 1: was all broken up over it is that so got
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  Speaker 1: a routine going here that reads really really so. But
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  Speaker 1: what would make you cut a girl off? I'm I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm a simple guy. Man like I'm I'm gonna fall
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  Speaker 1: out the chair. I'm an easy going dude, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like you know, they think I'm cute, they say I'm handsome,
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  Speaker 1: you feel me, they like my ways. But listen, I
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  Speaker 1: stopped talking to a girl before for not voting. You
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  Speaker 1: know it's good as a mother, ladies, make sure you
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  Speaker 1: get out here. Man, you would rather she vote? It
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  Speaker 1: don't matter who she votes for. It was something that
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  Speaker 1: she said though that Obama. It was Obama re election
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  Speaker 1: don't count and were in somehow we were talking about Obama.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'll be watching the news. Obama came up
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, yo, you voted. She was like,
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  Speaker 1: voting for what They're gonna kill him anyway, I said, Yo, man,
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  Speaker 1: I ain't never spoke to that girl again. No, I'm
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  Speaker 1: like that too. I don't like that kind of ignorant.
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  Speaker 1: That's ignorant though, Like at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: like listen, if we can't, you know, build and grow
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  Speaker 1: and grow with each other and learn from each other,
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  Speaker 1: and then it just just a waste of time. So after,
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  Speaker 1: after you come away from the sex, then what is
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  Speaker 1: it really about that. I used to date this girl
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  Speaker 1: who she had an inverted nipple and I asked her
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  Speaker 1: what is that? And she was like, asked the nipple.
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  Speaker 1: All the guys like the suck on. I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta go, yeah, get some deformities out there situations.
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  Speaker 1: But he just didn't want thinking another man sucking on
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  Speaker 1: that nipples disgusting, disgusting. Yeah, it's just stupid to say though,
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  Speaker 1: Like for real, Like, we gotta be able to build.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta be able to grow, you know what I
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  Speaker 1: mean At the end of the day, when we after
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  Speaker 1: the club, after the radio, after we're on the road,
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  Speaker 1: after the shows, after the whole everything that's going on,
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  Speaker 1: and we're just chilling in the crib, I need what's
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  Speaker 1: your character? Like, we need to be able to talk.
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  Speaker 1: Can we build? Can we talk outside of what's going
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  Speaker 1: on in the club? Can we talk outside of music?
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  Speaker 1: I can? And if we if I'm with a female
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  Speaker 1: that that's just talking ignorant. It's crazy. It's like it's
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  Speaker 1: a turn off for me. Now. I also saw you
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  Speaker 1: this really made me laugh on CNN. Yeah, as a
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  Speaker 1: as a as a a token inmate, yeah, correspondent in
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  Speaker 1: this jail that. Yeah, they called me up the CNN
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  Speaker 1: and I thought, I was like, you know, what cool
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  Speaker 1: I do. I'll do it. You know, it's the first time.
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  Speaker 1: But they kept calling me to come back, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, what they want to talk about? They want
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  Speaker 1: to know, you know, you know, they want to know
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  Speaker 1: the relationships between inmates, you know, female inmates and no
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  Speaker 1: female guards and inmates. And I was like, listen, there's
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  Speaker 1: certain things that go on in there and that should
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  Speaker 1: that shouldn't be told exactly. I got friends that's in
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  Speaker 1: prison that might be in situations where they they might
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  Speaker 1: be situated. You feel me and you I can't be
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  Speaker 1: on National International. This is what happened. Yeah, this is
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  Speaker 1: what happens. You know, they bring in twinkies and you
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  Speaker 1: know what sneaking and you know, fish sticks like that.
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  Speaker 1: Like I can't be. I can't. I'm not no, right,
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  Speaker 1: you can't break down. So I was very careful about
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  Speaker 1: when even the first time when I you know, when
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  Speaker 1: I went up there when I talked about But it
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  Speaker 1: was a great experience though, you know exactly. I like
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  Speaker 1: to see your dudes that are smart in those situations
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  Speaker 1: though you're smart at the new gangster though, like be
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  Speaker 1: elevating though, man, you know what I'm saying. Like the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing is the inspired the hood, Like they know
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  Speaker 1: what I come from. They know what it is. It
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  Speaker 1: ain't like you don't know, like I still because I
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  Speaker 1: pull up, I come, you know what it is. But
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing is about showing them that we could
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  Speaker 1: get to a whole nother plateau. We could do other things,
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: like we could have that dirt on us. There's felonies
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  Speaker 1: in these in these situations in the streets, but we
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  Speaker 1: could rise above it. And that's that's all my music
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  Speaker 1: and that's all my whole being ever been about. The
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  Speaker 1: last time you was here, and I salute you on this,
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  Speaker 1: you predicted that the next time you was here, your
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  Speaker 1: assault case would be dropped in your name would be clear,
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  Speaker 1: and that I told you. I told you I ain't
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  Speaker 1: because I didn't want to talk about it. Then about
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  Speaker 1: the bitch line on me, like that line on a brother,
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  Speaker 1: on a good brother, and you clean that, yeah, a
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  Speaker 1: good brother. Yes. I was a very upset when when
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  Speaker 1: they called you, they always calling you, they knew they
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  Speaker 1: called you. It called you up and that, and wanted
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  Speaker 1: to jump all over the radio and and and spill
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  Speaker 1: these lies out and stuff like that. But I listen,
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  Speaker 1: I ain't lose no sleep about that because at the
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  Speaker 1: end of I said, what you're calling me about that? Man? Man,
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  Speaker 1: hang up, man, I'm gonna sleep because at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, we don't come out and the wash
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  Speaker 1: donna come out. The rent So I knew I ain't ain't.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't worried about that. Does it piss you off?
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  Speaker 1: Though that like when when the bad stuff happens, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's true or not, media all over it. Case get dropped,
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  Speaker 1: you might get one. I would have guarded. Listen that
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  Speaker 1: she was in the paper four times when it first happened,
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  Speaker 1: and then it was in paper maybe once or twice,
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: but it was on every blog, every blog when it happened.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, people call me like, yo, you did this,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, you really think I did that? I
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: was more mad at that. So when it when it
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  Speaker 1: when they found out that she was lying and they
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: put the press release out, only like two three blogs
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  Speaker 1: picked it up. I was like, wow, because nobody cares
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  Speaker 1: about the truth and the live nobody cares about the truth.
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  Speaker 1: And that's yeah, that's man, that's the real this thing
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  Speaker 1: I heard on morning. Nobody cares about the truth when
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  Speaker 1: the lives were entertaining, when the lives more entertaining, I
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: might I might run with that next album. Yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I might rum with that. A lot going on in
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  Speaker 1: hip hop, man, everybody beefing, but you may know what's up. Man,
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: You ain't had to beef in a while. You know,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: nobody want to beef for me? Man, I'm a ringer
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: I'll be playing rough. Nah, I mean listen, it's who
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: want my beef with? Though it's no, it's no, it's
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: nobody to Really, I don't know. I just think I
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: had to spend more time getting myself together than let
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: me beefing with niggas about nothing about frivolous stuff like that.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: But who beef and beefing is good in music though? Absolutely,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: it's if you competition? Could you because we had gun
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: play up here, play like he don't want nobody rapping
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: about him because he couldn't handle it. He had to
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: see you. Well, No, I can't say I couldn't handle it.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: But it depends on the nature of what the situation is.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: You know. Some some be disrespectful to the point where
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: it'll be like, you know what, let me see you.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: I can't even. I just need to really, you know,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: see about the situation and address it in a different way.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: But what's going on right now? It's cool, man, it's cool.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: I ain't got a problem with it. It's this is
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: I think it's it's good for the culture because I
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: think where hip hop fell into this whole fake love,
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: everybody friendly, everybody's no competition, everybody holding each other's hand
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: and kissing and holding and hugging and fake acting like
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: family and all that. Just it's just nasty. It's okay
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: not to like each other some people. If you don't,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: you don't get along. I'm cool with not being cool
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: with everybody. I'm comfortable with with that. It's like you
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: build your own gang, right, I'm I'm down. I'm not
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: down with nobody. I'm I'm by myself and I've always
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: been by myself. But that's why my role been, you know,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: the way it's been, because when when things not going
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: good for me, I can't. I don't have another artist
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: to lean on. I don't have a whole situation like
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: it's just me. When artists come up in Brooklyn, do
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: you feel like, for the most part, do we reach
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: out to men knows in particular from Brooklyn to be like, hey,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: I just want to well, well, most artists that come
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: from Brooklyn. Nine times out of ten, I kind of know, yeah,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: do some weight some you know some Yeah, I know them,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: you know, and I always try to extend myself, you know,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: um for them because like you got you got, you
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: got this artist that's coming up, you know too. Million
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: we did we didn't remix me shot the video and
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: all that, and that was just about me. Just they
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: from Gates Avenue and I just just feeling like this
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: is love, man. I love to see that, you know
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: what I mean. And I love because nobody helped me
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: like that. So I wanted to be able to just
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: give a little bit of support, you know, you know
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: what I mean, because the video was only on YouTube,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: so I wanted to you know what I mean, if
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: we shoot it again, we got a chance to hit
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: whirld Stone and everywhere else, you know what I mean.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: So you know it was it was all good. Does
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: it Does it help our hurt artists to keep it
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: so New York because I've seen you got this song
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: with Votto and Uncle Murder now yeah, but also got
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: a song with Kevin Gates. I've always been an artist
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: to work with artists outside of the thing. I'm like,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I with whoever, anybody. I don't I'm not confined to
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: just New York it, don't you know what I mean?
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I love New York. Yeah. We just got back from Japan,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: you know, so it it's it's it's cool like I
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: work with whoever and if we connect and the music
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: is dope, then it's all good. I mustn't miss it.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: They said, you got a number one dance hit with
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Erica Jane. Oh yeah yeah, number one. Yeah yeah, we
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: had a number one record. Yeah, like what happened? Yeah? Quiet,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: this is what I'm saying. Quiet money, Quiet things going
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: on out here, you know what I'm saying. When you're
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: a hustler like you, you're into different things. You see.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: It's not just putting your eggs in one basket, you know.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: And and just because you may not have the number
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: one urban record going on, the other things you got
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: going on. That was a video And when we had fun,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: we went, we went to la We had a great time.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: And that's a whole other genre, you know. So yeah,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: shout out to Erica Jane. You know that there was
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: in the Scott Starch because we put that together. Um,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: I was in a club what was a greenhouse and
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: ran in the Scotts Starch and el Varna and um
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: we went yeah yeah, Scott Starch and el Vanna and
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: we went. He was like, yo, I got the studio,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: let's go. So after the club, we went to the
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: studio and we wrote this song. We me and El
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Varna wrote the song together Wow Crazy Yeah, which became
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Erica Jane's song, which became a number one record on
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: the dance charts. Yeah damn. So what do you think
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: about this whole ghostwriting uh phenomenon in hip hop? Since
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: you mentioned writing not really a phenomenon. Can you respect
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the artist if you know he got a ghostwriter? It
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: depends on what the situation is. If you're telling me
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: the word I right, rymes, I write checks, then I
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: understand what what's going on? Like, that's the Puff, you
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: know what I mean? You we kind of always respected
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Puff because we knew what it was, even straight out
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: of Compton. Ice Cube wrote Everybody's wraps, right, but you
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: andre like and we kind of love those dudes regardless.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Um um, even Kanye we always know and he's had
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: help writing. That's never been a secret. Right. But when
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: you yea, I think it's different when you're trying to
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: say when you, when you, when you basically saying that
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I'm that dude and this is right, I think it's
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: it becomes a little bit different. But I made care.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: But I don't think that the the vast general public kids, No,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: they don't care. You know what I'm saying not the fans, right.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Maybe like back in you know, in the nineties, if
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: something like that would have came out, it would have
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: been like, oh my god, it was like the Holy
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Grail because you're not writing. Because here's the thing, all
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: our greats, all all the people that we put up
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: on that pedal stool. Let's say, big rights hole right,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: who else? Um kiss kiss all those dudes we we like,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: he's like our guards, right, I wrap guards and all
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I'm wrote. So, then is it is it safe to
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: say that we put a dude up there that it
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: may be questionable? It may be questionable. I don't know.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Now we could be a fan of the music, you
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: know what I mean. I love the music, But is
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: it is he one of the greats? I don't know, true,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I get it. But hip hop is good.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of you know, it's beefing going on.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: It's all good. It's a little you just need a
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: little bit more like I like how it is now.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: It's a little scary. Just look like when a rabd
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: him start getting into it with me, go like that,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: it was a little scary, a little scared. It's a
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: little my thing with that, Like last night I was
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: a griffin and um, and I saw something happening that
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: really really bothered me. They put on an um sus one,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: shout out the sus one, throw on a m drake
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the drake back to back record and um, you know,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: everybody was like going crazy. And then he threw on
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: the meat record and the crowd started boring. No, man,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: if they were doing that, it was born a little
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: bit and I and I was like, and I asked
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: village a turnaround, say they born? Said yeah, they born him,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: And I grabbed the MICA said, I just you know,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I'm an I hold on this New York City. We
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: can't do that. You're not gonna make no street uncool.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: All you streets in here, that's that's supposedly representing a
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: certain type of lifestyle. You're not gonna allow somebody to
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: make you feel like where he represented his uncool meat
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: is the only urban this right now on that level
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: that represent the street. We can't allow people to make
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: us feel like he's that's not cool. But no good point.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: But what about figuring himself looking cool with the twitters?
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: That's a battle cool and he's a man and if if,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: if he's he's if he lost the battle or whatever.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Cool you, that's a battle. But you're not gonna You're
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: not gonna tell me his music. It's not good you.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: You're not you. You was just partying to his music
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: two weeks ago. Now all of us, all of a sudden,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: you're born it down. I'm no, we can't do We
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: can't allow that to happen, because what do you represent?
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: It affects me, you understand. I feel like what he
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: represent we need that in hip hop. If you look
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: at the charts, he's the only artist that sold that
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: amount of records and still he talk mut cracky street,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: you're crazy. We need that. As a rap fan. Though,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: it's a battle, and I'm comfortable saying, Okay, Drake, situation
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: was well thought out. He put it together and he
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: did his thing. Cool. I like both of them, But
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: with some step that you think that me took, that
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: he should have executed better. I just think it should
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: maybe should have been a little bit more thought out.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: And I think sometimes we underestimate our enemies because sometimes
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: a lot is going on. You see, it's an art
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: to that, you know, opposition thinking steps ahead. You feel
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: me I try to always be a step You know,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: if I do this, then what what are you doing?
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: You understand? So that's that's all. But I think that
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: come on, here, a young artist, he could he could,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: he could grow from that. We we we we get
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: wounded in the field, we pick ourselves up and we
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: keep going. We don't stop going with good music just
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: because of battle. They said Hove lost the NAS. That's debatable.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Thought what I said. They said Hove lost the NAS,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: that's debatable. Cool. So for the people that felt like
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Hove lost, I don't think that they stopped dealing with
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: whole music. True. All I'm saying is I don't. I don't.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: I don't like I don't like what that representation. And
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: I just felt like New York City, we ain't going
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: about to We ain't about to do that now on
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: my watch. I also think it's just temporary because it
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: just happened, and people will forget it. I think people
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: want to fight temporary cool all that. What you're saying
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: is they still cheering for him, crazy whatever. I think
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: it's just temper. I couldn't. I couldn't. I couldn't been
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: in being a club and seeing dudes I know is
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: in the street, and this is the only street artist
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: rapping about streets that I know you relate to. I
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: know you relate to it. I know you relate. You
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: relate to this more than anything else because you in there,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: y'all can't you can't do that. You can't tell that
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: because what we got, I mean, that's selling the movie.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: You're not seeing the movie. He's you know, he's the herb.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: He's the face of urban music the street just not
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: just you know, you got big seans, you got, you got,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: you got Jake Cole's. But they represent something different. And
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: they and it's all good music, but they represent something different.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying if he lost all cool whatever, but
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: you can't tell that that guy ain't not hell no
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: that I think that they might be born because they
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: feel like you let the streets down. It's like, if
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: we saw you doing something crazy, we'd be like, come on,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: main no, I no, no, I no, I get it.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I get it, I get it. I get it. Sometimes
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: you got to take that L and you know, move
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: on from. But but that's what the L is. We're
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: supposed to learn from. I took playing els in my life.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: You know, we all make decisions sometimes that we said, damn,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: shouldn't have done that. You see what I'm saying. You know,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Sharlo Man, he waking up in hotels with strange women
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: all the time, Like, damn, not anymore. I'm married now,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I'm out the game, out the game. But I know
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: for a fact, man has definitely woken up. You got
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: a chill, definitely said yeah, man, I shouldn't have done that. Yeah, yeah,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: plenty times. I'm gonna try the end of the day.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: We listen at the end of the day, it's hip hop.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Let's keep it. Let's let's keep it hip hop. I mean,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: you know, the fans is upset. Let's keeping hip hop.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: It's cool side. You know, we all they all winners,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: We all winners. I see on your Killed Me three.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: You got like a lot of new people on that
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: of course. Of course Reds Dil Samrano, here you go,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: shout out the tweezy you know. Um that's what it's about, though,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: like making way for that new wave. You see what
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. Like I was fortunate to work with a
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: lot of artists, big artists, whoever in these young boys
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: they coming up right now, they they got that sound
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: and they got that wave. But that's how you stay new,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: that's how you stay you keep it alive. Like you
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: know what. I've been around for a few years now.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: So it's like he got that new and new wave
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: and it's like, Okay, cool, I like that, come on,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: bring it on. Look, Doctor Drape was with nw way
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: and then he went and found snooping like kind of
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: caught him another wave and and then called him another wave.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying. That's the new energy. It's
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: the same thing what I like about you. Man. You
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: came out with All the Above is a big record,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: but you never went and chase that again. You know,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do another All Above. Yeah, listen, it's just
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: about Yeah, it's about It's about position. And I wasn't
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: able to because I wasn't able to have it at
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: this time because that comes with being with a major
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: corporation that's gonna spend a lot of money. Because I
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: believe me, I got a couple of those but if if,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: if we you can't waste them though, and if you
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: can't just throw them away, um, if you're not, if
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: you don't have a big situation, then it's like what
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: I because I do. But so it's just like boxing.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: It's like every punch is not gonna be a knockout.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: You head hunting and you might lose the fight. So
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: what you do? You gotta some sign saying, you know what,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: whole on me, go to the body. So I'm going
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: to the body on these niggas. You know what I'm saying.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: I had to break it back down, go to the body.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: That's what cal B three is, That's what that's what
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: these these street records and going straight to the core,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: that's what. That's what it is. And look what's happening.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: And it's something that's happening for me that ain't been
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: happening in a long time. It's moving organically, you understand.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: And it feels good. Man, I feel good? You feel good? Man? No?
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: May no? Man? Are you feeling any backlash with these checks? Like?
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: You know, you cool? What backlash? Now? What I do? Now?
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: You know it might be a situation like say you
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: like somebody, but you don't smash their friend or other
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: people that they know, and right, but here's the thing
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: that causes some backlash. Yeah yeah, but check this out.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Don't go there with you No no, I'm gonna I'm
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: gonna go there, gonna put myself in the hole, myself
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: jammed up, you know what I mean? My phone gonna
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: be clicking. Check this out. A lot of times these
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: people paint wrong different pictures. You see what I'm saying.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: You sell dreams, May, No, I don't sell dreams. I
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: sell the truth. And that's why they liked me, because
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: I'm real. So you don't tell these girls it's like, oh,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: you know we're gonna be together when I feel that
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: way at that moment that I only feel that way,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: won't when the club. I only feel that way at
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: the club, right, all right, so you do feel that
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: way temporarily. Let me tell you something, man, Yo, I've
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: been so out of my mind at times that I remember,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: do you believe in love at first sight? You said no?
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Because I'm feeling something I've never felt. May don't come on, man,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: talk to these girls, don't you out here? You love life?
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Love life? I try listen sometimes people. I'm selling the
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: truth though, because outside of that, that's because that comes
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: with heavy intoxication. Right, So the King of the King
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: of book No, only heavy intoxic. When it's heavy intoxic, right, scary. Listen,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: heavy intoxication could bring about certain things, man, and you
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: might say something you know what I mean, and it's okay, right,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: But outside of that sober talking, no am I selling.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: So when you're sober and the girl says you, you know,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: last night in the club you said love at first
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: sight and it was this, isn't that you say, well,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: I was drunk? Or do you just don't? It never
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: really comes back up though. It's just like, because I
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: think it's to sound so ridiculous, though you felt for
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: that that's kind of on your and that that that
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: hasn't happened a lot, but that hasn't. But what I'm saying,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: it's about your question. It's like sometimes people they think
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: more of themselves than you think of them. So I'm saying,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: suff I never kissed you before, I ain't never done things,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: and I've only been around you three four times in
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: the whole five years we've known each other. What that
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: tell you? Like, like you ain't then you hate no
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: other situations because you because you really whatever you feel,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know nothing about because if you know, it
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: ain't the same way because we ain't never was like that, right,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: you just told on yourself. Now you would have girls
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: wanting to kiss now in public said kiss me and
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: take a picture. No, but I'm just saying we should know.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: If I ain't never kissed you, you should know like
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I don't I how how much like do I have
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: for you? If we ain't never even kiss not one time?
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: What about would you go down the girl if you've
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: never kissed her? This is what I'm saying. If I
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: never did either the two, what are you talking about?
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: No? No No, no. If I never done either up the two,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: then how how do I? How much like do I
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: have for you? So you can't be out here misrepresentation
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: the situation act like oh yeah, me and him was
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: like that and we was gonna. I never did none
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: of these things with you, none of the no dating,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: new hanging out, no, none of these things. Okay, I
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: just wanted to clear that up. Yeah, I just wanted
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: to clear that up. KOB three is out right now.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Ko B three is out right now, harder than them
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: is out right now, banging p and p all that Like,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, listen, man, the real one's gonna come back
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: from me. Absolutely slew. My dog made a man that
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: he my brother love