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Best of full interview: 803 Fresh Talks 'Boots On The Ground', The Rise Of Southern Soul + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Breakfast Club Morning, everybody is t j n V. Just hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: Charlemagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 3: We got some.
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  Speaker 2: Special guests in the buildings.
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  Speaker 1: Indeed, you got eight O three Fresh home team and.
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  Speaker 2: Young guy here in the building yourself. Welcome fellas, y'all
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  Speaker 2: feeling man.
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  Speaker 4: Where the fans at they now? If you don't know
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  Speaker 4: Ato three Fresh, of course they got the record right now.
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  Speaker 4: That's if you've been out and about, especially in the South,
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  Speaker 4: especially HBCU Boots on the Ground on their song.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations boys, that song.
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  Speaker 3: Moving man, Thank you brother, appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: When did the song actually come out?
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  Speaker 3: December twenty four? That was like my crisis gift to everybody.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Charlemagne and live Charlan like that song been out
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  Speaker 4: for three years. I'm like, Charlomage know what I was
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  Speaker 4: talking about.
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  Speaker 5: Just the whole line dance movement from South Carolina.
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  Speaker 6: It's definitely been going on more than three yeah, But
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  Speaker 6: is it just started picking up more in it like
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  Speaker 6: the past year and a half.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: People don't really get to see the line theres, especially
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  Speaker 4: on the East Coast as much. But when I when
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  Speaker 4: I DJ everywhere you get to see it. And I
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  Speaker 4: remember I was a Charlotte and a girl came up
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  Speaker 4: to me. It's like, can you play the Boots on
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  Speaker 4: the Ground. I had no idea what she talking about.
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  Speaker 4: It was a mob dip song.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, is that a mob deep Boots on
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  Speaker 2: the line. I had no idea. It's out that Louis v.
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  Speaker 3: Louis.
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  Speaker 4: He was like, yeah, I'm gonna send it to you
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  Speaker 4: right now, send it to me. And then when I
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  Speaker 4: played it, I see.
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  Speaker 2: The went ups moving.
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  Speaker 1: I said, you know what's crazy, it's crazy as it sounds.
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  Speaker 5: The current political climate kind of boosted the record too,
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  Speaker 5: because I remember people started posting saying, you know, we
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  Speaker 5: ain't tripping off what this administration is doing.
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  Speaker 1: Black people are.
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  Speaker 5: Finding joy learning new line dances, and it would always
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  Speaker 5: be Boots on the Ground with the fans.
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  Speaker 6: It took everybody, like everybody's mind away from like the
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  Speaker 6: you know, the current, you know stuff that's going on.
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  Speaker 7: Man.
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  Speaker 6: So for me, it's like the unity in it. That's
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  Speaker 6: what makes it more appeeling for me. You know, you
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  Speaker 6: got thet the two year old, you got the eight
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  Speaker 6: to two year old, you got the everybody I mean
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  Speaker 6: Grandmama's auntie. That's what makes it more genuine for me.
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  Speaker 4: Man, the dope think about it was a lot of
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  Speaker 4: the line dre songs a lot older, like you're talking
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  Speaker 4: twenty years older. Like, but when you go to a
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  Speaker 4: family reunion or a wedding or a HBCU, it's always the.
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  Speaker 2: Wabble wobble.
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  Speaker 4: Electric slide before I let go and you played the
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  Speaker 4: Beyonce version. And this is something fresh new, So let's
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  Speaker 4: start from the beginning for people that don't know you.
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  Speaker 2: Who is eight or three fresh? Where are you from?
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  Speaker 2: And how did you get into this this thing called
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  Speaker 2: the music industry?
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  Speaker 3: What's going on? Everybody? Al three?
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  Speaker 6: First, the kid live in the building man, listen from
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  Speaker 6: a small town in South Carolina called Wagner, South Carolina.
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  Speaker 6: One Stop signed one Stop, Like we all share the
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  Speaker 6: same dog.
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  Speaker 1: Most going to be bigger than Wagoner, Yeah, yeah's.
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  Speaker 6: Going bigger wagon Man. But started off in the church man,
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  Speaker 6: humble beginners. Man, started off in the church man singing
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  Speaker 6: in the choir or whatever, you know, like the product
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  Speaker 6: the sun, and left away from it, you know, I
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  Speaker 6: went out and I started venturing into like more genres.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: I tapped in the pop, attacked in the R and B.
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  Speaker 6: I wrapped a little bit and then I found something
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  Speaker 6: so really southern. So found me man, been doing it
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  Speaker 6: about a year and a half now, man, and it
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  Speaker 6: actually saved my life.
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  Speaker 1: Man, So explain to the people what suffering souls.
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  Speaker 3: So the soul is a mixture.
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  Speaker 6: It has a like a fine undertone mixture of gospel, blues, soul, all.
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  Speaker 3: Like mixed together, mianda together.
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  Speaker 6: Man and us. It's only based in its auth but
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  Speaker 6: when you hear it, it's like feel good music. When
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  Speaker 6: you hear it's like that music that touch your bones
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  Speaker 6: and they you know, it's it's a beautiful thing. You
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  Speaker 6: just got to be in one of the like one
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  Speaker 6: of the events to actually feel it.
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  Speaker 3: It changed the environment totally.
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  Speaker 6: You're saying, we advocate for a good time, we advocate
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  Speaker 6: for unity in that and so that's why I I
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  Speaker 6: chose to piggyback on that genre the most.
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  Speaker 7: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, just saved your life. How were you into before?
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  Speaker 6: You know, with being in the rap culture, you said
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  Speaker 6: you have to you know, adapt to that, you know
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  Speaker 6: that rapping environment. When I came to southern soul, you know,
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  Speaker 6: I was battling some stuff, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 6: and it pulled me out of that because of the
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  Speaker 6: good feeling that it had. You're saying, make for me.
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  Speaker 6: Then my mama was she was able to be proud
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  Speaker 6: of it. You know, when I'm rapping, she don't want that.
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  Speaker 6: She couldn't have to understand some of the stuff. So
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  Speaker 6: when she first when she heard my very first the
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  Speaker 6: soul song that I dropped the car all night long, man,
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  Speaker 6: and I got that first confirmation from him, I already
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  Speaker 6: knew then that this was a genre for me.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 5: Do you remember the first record that that made you say, oh,
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  Speaker 5: like the one that touched your soul? What's something the
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  Speaker 5: soul record touched your soul as.
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  Speaker 3: Far as mine?
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  Speaker 1: No, just in general.
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  Speaker 3: Shuts out the King George Man, he's from down my
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  Speaker 3: way as well. Man. He definitely kicked the door down
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  Speaker 3: for us.
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  Speaker 6: Man, Keep on Rolling is like one of those that
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  Speaker 6: you know, really really really punched me, you know, and
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  Speaker 6: it gave me even like some inspiration.
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  Speaker 7: Bro.
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  Speaker 6: You know one of those brothers I mean from South Carolina,
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  Speaker 6: And I'm saying he keeped the door with like whye
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  Speaker 6: open for us? And when I heard that song, I'm saying,
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  Speaker 6: I automatically knew that this was the type of JENM
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  Speaker 6: that I wanted to be in.
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  Speaker 2: Were you were you surprised how fast this record card on?
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  Speaker 3: Of course?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, cause it's it's everywhere and you know, and
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  Speaker 4: people are learning to dance quickly.
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  Speaker 2: When did you realize how big the record was?
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  Speaker 3: Man? I woke up one morning h checked my TikTok.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I had so many notifications on TikTok and
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  Speaker 6: I GeV you're saying, I thought somebody had died. So
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  Speaker 6: when I checked it, whatever, I've seen the video. The
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  Speaker 6: video was you know a spot now my way called Sbar.
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  Speaker 6: You know, it's a it's a it's a mecca for
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  Speaker 6: like the line dance you're saying. So I seen that
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  Speaker 6: and it was like maybe twenty videos. I want to sleep,
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  Speaker 6: and I woke up it was like five hundred videos,
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  Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. I knew at that point
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  Speaker 6: right then that it was I might have a little something,
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  Speaker 6: you know what I mean. And over the course of
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  Speaker 6: time now wasn't being but three months almost four months. Man,
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  Speaker 6: it is past me. So right now I'm playing catch
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  Speaker 6: up to the song. Everybody have been trying to put
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  Speaker 6: a face with the music.
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  Speaker 3: So here I am good on.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like that's what is Luther King George. I
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  Speaker 5: feel like that's what he hasn't done yet. He hasn't
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  Speaker 5: put a face to his music because everybody listens to
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  Speaker 5: you know, at least down South, you see people play
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  Speaker 5: a lot of King George music.
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  Speaker 8: He a young dude, thirtything, all right, yeah broth.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, but I'm saying I feel like he hasn't
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  Speaker 5: done that yet.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder why.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, timing is everything, especially for me. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: look how long I've been doing music. I've been doing
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  Speaker 6: music for over twenty years. As far as sudd and soul,
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  Speaker 6: I dropped five songs before Boots on the Ground and
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  Speaker 6: then it picked up, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean time is everything.
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  Speaker 6: So y'all, y'all define stay tuned, y'all, gon see a
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  Speaker 6: lot more of him and a lot more to the
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  Speaker 6: Southern soul front coming.
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  Speaker 9: When I noticed it got big was when I seen
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  Speaker 9: kids doing it, you know, it from old people to kids.
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  Speaker 9: It was everybody got these kids doing it, and it's something.
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  Speaker 9: It's feel good. It's like music that you had the
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  Speaker 9: family reunion and stuff like that. Did anybody try to
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  Speaker 9: like reach out about signing you or anything like that.
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  Speaker 6: Mercy ig been blowing up Angler crazy. It's definitely been crazy, man.
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  Speaker 6: But you know, we started this company. Shouts out to
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  Speaker 6: the Snake Eyes Music group.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 6: We started this company, you know, from the bottom up.
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  Speaker 6: You know, we came with a vision. It was just
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  Speaker 6: a vision. And I think that we've done more in
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  Speaker 6: a year than a lot of folks have done.
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  Speaker 3: And like five seven years are.
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  Speaker 4: You are you signed to a major or no? You're
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  Speaker 4: doing everything independent. We all independent, so you get everything
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  Speaker 4: that you Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We've been there. I'm proud of us, man, I ain't
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  Speaker 3: gonna lie proud of us, because you know, we all.
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  Speaker 6: Learned from each other. You're saying as we move, we learned,
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  Speaker 6: we grow and shuts out the young guy man. You know,
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  Speaker 6: that's why I brought him. He's one of the United
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  Speaker 6: Fronts that were staying with as far as Southern Soul.
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  Speaker 6: And they they accepted me with open arms, man, and
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  Speaker 6: they had been doing it, you know, pride to me,
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  Speaker 6: but they showed me the roles.
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  Speaker 3: They definitely wouldn't stint your game. And I can appreciate that. Man.
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  Speaker 6: So everything independence. So we're gonna I'm entertaining something, but
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  Speaker 6: you're not.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, how long have you been young guy? Young guy?
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  Speaker 8: Man, I've been young guys for for a long time,
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  Speaker 8: thirty years. I told her. We was saying for change
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  Speaker 8: my nine the uncle guy in a man of man.
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  Speaker 8: That would be crazy because folks see me, they're saying,
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  Speaker 8: you know you you're a rapper, Like, no, they're not.
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  Speaker 8: Then they stay. I get on stage and I'm saying
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  Speaker 8: some soul for ship and they were like damn. You know.
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  Speaker 8: But I kind of kept my name back when the
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  Speaker 8: younger day, when I was a rapping man. So I
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  Speaker 8: come when I jumped into music, my story kind of,
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  Speaker 8: you know, similar to his. You know I've been I've
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  Speaker 8: been rolling in the southern soul game probably about it
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  Speaker 8: finish two and a half years now. And power of
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  Speaker 8: social media. I had a record that you know, I
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  Speaker 8: was singing in the garage and posted it and changed
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  Speaker 8: my life, you know what I'm saying instantly, So yeah, man,
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  Speaker 8: So I kind of I was tapped in on the
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  Speaker 8: rap side. You like him, man came up in the church.
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  Speaker 8: You know what I'm saying, try different things. So far
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  Speaker 8: as you me physically doing music, man, I stepped away
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  Speaker 8: for music I about fourteen years. So when I finally
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  Speaker 8: just made up my mind, like hey, fin get back
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  Speaker 8: in the studio, get it rolling. You know what I'm saying, proficially,
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  Speaker 8: record me a song, sit down and that that record.
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  Speaker 8: You know what I'm saying. Two record later, I was
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  Speaker 8: driving trucks.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 8: I ain't drove a truck almost a year and a
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  Speaker 8: half now.
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  Speaker 5: Man, you stepped down just because of the frustration, you know,
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  Speaker 5: coming from South Carolina. Man, I don't know if people
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  Speaker 5: even realize that there's so many people in South Carolina
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  Speaker 5: who do music, whether it's rap, whether it's singing, but
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  Speaker 5: it's hard for people from South Carolina to get that break.
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  Speaker 1: So you just had got frustrated from Mississippi.
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  Speaker 8: Man, So it was you know what I'm saying, it's
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  Speaker 8: worth so h from.
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  Speaker 5: Uh the at least y'all got y'all got band in
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  Speaker 5: krick though yeah you know we ain't had one yet.
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  Speaker 4: Y'all got Peter Poplo Man, that's North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: I tried, but you got frustrated with the music.
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  Speaker 8: You no man for showman, because when you when you
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  Speaker 8: come where we come from. Man, you don't have the
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  Speaker 8: resources like that. You know, years ago I moved to Atlanta.
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  Speaker 8: I was gonna, you know, try to be around when
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  Speaker 8: you're not around a music scene, like a music scene
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  Speaker 8: where you know Atlanta. When I moved to Atlanta, man,
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  Speaker 8: they got an open mic on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
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  Speaker 8: They got you got studios everywhere you can neet where.
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  Speaker 8: You got a lot of people that can that can
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  Speaker 8: connect what you're trying to do. And SIP ain't really
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  Speaker 8: got that. So you think about a big Krick. Big
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  Speaker 8: Krick came out of me. Uh, you know, shot the Creek.
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  Speaker 8: He came out there. Creek is a one stop shot,
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  Speaker 8: write his own music, produce his own music, the whole nine.
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  Speaker 8: So you know what I'm saying, just yeah for real.
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  Speaker 8: So like you know, you got you gotta have a
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  Speaker 8: little bit more musciple behind you just to get out there.
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  Speaker 1: You know from the South Yoking.
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  Speaker 8: Man, we met a couple of coupleout two years ago.
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  Speaker 6: I think my very first show out there, that is
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  Speaker 6: I think that next Mississippi, Man, my first show. Kind
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  Speaker 6: of nervous you're saying me personally, you know, I had
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  Speaker 6: just thought it with some song. Soro came. He hollered
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  Speaker 6: at me, saying he gave me that little pep talk
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  Speaker 6: or whatever you're saying. I show up my shoulders and
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  Speaker 6: did it.
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  Speaker 8: He came to me like, man, like, young guy, Man,
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  Speaker 8: what I because I was kind of moving pretty good, man,
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  Speaker 8: you know what I'm saying. I had a record that
• 10:26
  Speaker 8: was that was keeping me busy and he was like, man,
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  Speaker 8: what what what I gotta do? Advice can you give me?
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  Speaker 8: Was like, man, you know, keep grinding, bro, You're gonna
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  Speaker 8: get that one, and you gonna know you got So
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  Speaker 8: when I heard that Boots on the Ground, I called him.
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  Speaker 8: I said, you getting ready to be original? You know
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  Speaker 8: what I'm saying. When I knew it from the first
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  Speaker 8: ten seconds ten seconds of the song, I was like, man,
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  Speaker 8: that's this finna go crazy. And now to see you
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  Speaker 8: look on social media shack dancing to it, you got yeah, like, man,
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  Speaker 8: that is crazy. You know what I'm saying. So it's
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  Speaker 8: it's a blessing. And man, I just proud of my
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  Speaker 8: brother and were just trying to keep it going.
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  Speaker 5: What inspired Boots on the Ground though, Like like when
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  Speaker 5: you sat down and said you heard that beat and
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  Speaker 5: you're like, this is what I want to write about.
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  Speaker 6: Man, I tell the story all the time. Man, Listen,
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  Speaker 6: I had a show in Phoenix City, was in the
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  Speaker 6: back of the van. Whatever, say it like this. I
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  Speaker 6: had my had experience. I had a chance to experience
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  Speaker 6: my first trail ride last year. Went to trail ride.
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  Speaker 6: You saying a couple of ladies had fans or whatever.
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  Speaker 6: It was hot, so I you know, they got fans,
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  Speaker 6: so uh.
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  Speaker 3: I got a.
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  Speaker 6: Chance to go to my second trail ride line and
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  Speaker 6: see no fans. So I pulled the question where them
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  Speaker 6: fans at? You know what I'm saying. So with boots
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  Speaker 6: on the ground, boots on the ground is already aligned.
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  Speaker 6: That's terminology you're saying. So you know when they say
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  Speaker 6: boots on the ground, you know it's about to have
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  Speaker 6: a party. We just to a down type of deal.
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  Speaker 6: So I just really merged the two ideas and it
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  Speaker 6: became a good marriage.
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  Speaker 1: What's the trail ride for the people who don't.
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  Speaker 6: Know, Listen, man, trail ridse is you know ATVs horses
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  Speaker 6: You saying that, uh line, desc it's a whole like
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  Speaker 6: combination of all good things. It's definitely a coach, it's
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  Speaker 6: not really just an event, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 6: And that's why I feel like, uh, Southern soul and
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  Speaker 6: line dance is a perfect mixture, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 6: It's a great marriage.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 6: It piggybacks off of one, piggybacks off of the other.
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  Speaker 6: And if you ever come to the trail right down
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  Speaker 6: and there, man, I promise you can have a good time.
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  Speaker 6: You might get a little dusty, which I promise you
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  Speaker 6: gonna have a good time.
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  Speaker 2: Now, every time you make a song, is it a
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  Speaker 2: line song?
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  Speaker 1: Now?
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  Speaker 6: Oh no, okay, see uh see, that's one thing I
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  Speaker 6: didn't want to get called in. I didn't want to
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  Speaker 6: get caught in, you know, just being the line the line.
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  Speaker 3: At the boot at the boot nigga. Yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 6: And I've been thinking about you're saying names for like
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  Speaker 6: a EP or album whatever you're saying, and I really
• 12:36
  Speaker 6: wanted to be versatility because I want to show them
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  Speaker 6: on all skills.
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  Speaker 3: I got differ skills music.
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  Speaker 2: But you could do it like you remember how Jamaine
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: Dupre did back in the day, like he.
• 12:43
  Speaker 4: Had the the All the what was it called it,
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  Speaker 4: The the Beat All Stars where it was just one
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  Speaker 4: album just doing all the uptemper talking about like the
• 12:51
  Speaker 4: when he had a whole album or that and then
• 12:52
  Speaker 4: he had a whole album, different ways of doing things,
• 12:54
  Speaker 4: So you could do that like an anthem like that.
• 12:56
  Speaker 4: Because your HBC you it's gonna be crazy this week's
• 13:00
  Speaker 4: spring flings, homecomings all that. They should start booking you
• 13:04
  Speaker 4: now to try to get the cheapest prices.
• 13:05
  Speaker 8: Possabo schrazy, you got to show tomorrow? What is tomorrow?
• 13:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 13:14
  Speaker 8: I fly tomorrow, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. You booked on
• 13:19
  Speaker 8: a Monday.
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what's up.
• 13:24
  Speaker 9: I know you don't want to just fall into the
• 13:26
  Speaker 9: line dance, uh, you know, genre of music.
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: But it's like nobody has.
• 13:31
  Speaker 9: Made any that's they're great since all like the five
• 13:36
  Speaker 9: that we got like but none since then, and it's
• 13:46
  Speaker 9: like it's it's kind of hard to do like you
• 13:49
  Speaker 9: know what I mean. So for you to just come
• 13:50
  Speaker 9: up with one and just do it just off of
• 13:52
  Speaker 9: what you felt, you gotta do that more.
• 13:56
  Speaker 8: I'm tired of that. Tell people like I felt like
• 14:00
  Speaker 8: my opinion, I feel like lion dances like the new disco. Yeah,
• 14:03
  Speaker 8: you know what I'm saying. It's a big thing in
• 14:06
  Speaker 8: a Black culture that you know what I'm saying, we're
• 14:07
  Speaker 8: just trying to shine light on because you got you
• 14:09
  Speaker 8: got people who y'all. You know, y'all from the see it.
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 14:12
  Speaker 8: It makes people from the see that.
• 14:13
  Speaker 10: Man.
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: I get me some boots fan had.
• 14:17
  Speaker 8: It's just it's a culture that they shine a light
• 14:18
  Speaker 8: on so people can experience. So it's just lying dances.
• 14:21
  Speaker 8: It's been around for a while, but like this an't
• 14:23
  Speaker 8: got bigger. Man, they got to be seven thousand people
• 14:26
  Speaker 8: out there.
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: African music too, African music has it, has it as well.
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: Dance like Jerusalem is a line dance.
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 14:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the thing though the artist like, it's not
• 14:38
  Speaker 5: like you created the dance.
• 14:40
  Speaker 6: No, you see that's that's the sweetest thing about it too.
• 14:42
  Speaker 6: You said, oh, you didn't create the dance.
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: The people I didn't.
• 14:46
  Speaker 6: They choose it. They choose it whether it's going to
• 14:48
  Speaker 6: be you said a lot dance to it or not.
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
• 14:52
  Speaker 6: When they see that on TikTok, it was like four
• 14:54
  Speaker 6: or five different dances to it. What I'm saying, I
• 14:56
  Speaker 6: reposted one shouts out to trade little When I what
• 15:00
  Speaker 6: was that? Everybody took on you, I'm saying to that
• 15:02
  Speaker 6: one because it was real easy.
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: It wasn't to me a ish you know, to me,
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: it got back.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: I'm that's a lot.
• 15:10
  Speaker 6: That's it's like the cursive of blindness.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: That got you got your profile.
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, devil not intermediate anyway.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: You have to learn your own dance basically, yeah, and
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: I can't.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: So you just picked that one.
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: It was like, this is the one we got rocking
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: because if twenty people said different dances, that's why I said,
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: and everybody.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: Being sync that people chose it. Man, Boots on the
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: Ground was not intended to be a lot of dance song.
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: It was just blessed to be that way, even with
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: the fan bang bang, like.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: You know something that you do when you hat.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: And I didn't know that fans, like the fans were
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: like a big part of the you know, the trail
• 15:55
  Speaker 6: scene until I made the song with it, and now
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: here like you know, ten twenty different song with fans,
• 16:00
  Speaker 6: now what I'm saying. So it definitely is a part,
• 16:02
  Speaker 6: like a big important part of the culture. So I
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: think I just revived it.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: Why not the church fan the church fan too. I
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: think that the sales on Church fans is at an
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: all time half right now.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Church fans.
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: You know Amazon, when when I first came up with
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: the with the song or whatever, they were just cracking fans.
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: If you go on Amazon right now, they Boots on
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: the Ground fans, hm hm, you got the little.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: Biton got fans.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: What I was getting.
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: I was like out of here and got this on
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: the ground fans, you know what I'm saying. So it definitely
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: has been impactful to the culture.
• 16:38
  Speaker 10: Man.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: I'm just proud to be a part of it.
• 16:40
  Speaker 9: They're gonna be waiting for for them t fans, I'll
• 16:42
  Speaker 9: tell you that.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, out there right now.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: But everybody's gonna be waiting for new music. Do you
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: got more after Boots.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: On the Ground take something.
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: I got so much music, I'm saying, And I got
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: music like before I got you know, our previous catalog.
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: I got five songs that I dropped. Like I said,
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: I've only been in a year and a half, you
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: know what I mean. But as far as the catalog, man,
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: I got a widespread catalog that's getting ready to come.
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: It was just the timing was waiting on, you know
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: what I mean. So I think it's the perfect time
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: for everybody to see me. And you know what I
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: got the offer versatility is coming.
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: What's the toughest challenge about being an artist from South Caroline?
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: H The weight that's on my back, you're saying, because
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: not only do I stall, I mean, yeah, boost and
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: the ground is for me, but I stand with a
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: lot of weight that I'm carrying as far as like
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: southern so as a whole, because see, this is what
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: my main part is. And I ain't gonna lie. This
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: is the reason why I came here. You saying, morning,
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: I want to make Southern soul that main genre. You
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: know it's being you know, supplid like it's been like
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: undertone for so long, and you know that Chipland circuit
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: has been going on, Like you got greats that came
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: through that Chitlan circuit, like Tyrone Dave, It's Marvel, See's Changed.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Brown, There's Muddy Waters.
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: All these guys become under that Chitlin circuit man, and
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: it hasn't really had a catalyst for it has been
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: brought to the front. So I take myself to be
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: a martyr that he was saying. I want to be
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: able to display that as being a main genre. And
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: showing that, you know, we coming with the United Front.
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: I got Sew Meka, Joe Quail out there, I'm saying,
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: grown ass woman, I got Frank Johnson out there. You
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: can hate on me. I got a young guy right here.
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, Like, take here. These are
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: all very impactful songs to the culture, and when I
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: bring my boots on the ground, I want to bring
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: them as well. So that's probably like the biggest thing
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: as far as like, you know, I'm carrying that weight
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: and I want to be a good advocate for them.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: Well, you know, you got to get yourself all the
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: way through the door first, you know what I'm saying, Like,
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: That's that's why I think a lot of people falter
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: a little bit because they want to represent for the
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: whole state and they want to bring everybody with them,
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: and usually all the people end up weighing them down
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: before you get to where you need to be.
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: I think that with me, how I present myself, how
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: I care myself. I care myself as you know a
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: you know, he's he's a strong front by himself. You know,
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: it's just I want to be a good representative for him,
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: you know, it's not that I'm pulling them up.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: You're saying.
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: The way that I walk, my character is what you know,
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: it puts it out there like, oh oh, I like him.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Let me see what they got going on. You know
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: what I'm saying. I let my walk you were saying
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: speak for me.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: I mean it's I can line to have it in a
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: moment right now. You got trapped, Dicky.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, man, the traplan you know Black Zach Yeah.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: Man, little balls rest in peace speaking now, because like
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: it's a lot of people doing it. But I really
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: love what the Southern soul is doing because that's a
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: whole different genre. And we call it the Chitlin circuit.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: Well really, what I call it is the heart and
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: soul of Black America definitely, bro, Like that's what all.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: The majority of Black people in America are in the South.
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: Don't advocate for violence, man, we advocate.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: For unity like good time.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: And you know what I'm saying, you just got to
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: pay attention to a lot of this music, man. And
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: it's like real life relatable stuff, bro. And it ain't
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: you know, fabricated. You know what I'm saying, it's real
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: life relatable things. And I think that's why people gravitate
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: towards it a little bit more because I'm able to
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: you saying, oh yeah, I'm going through that right now,
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: you know what I mean. So I think that's why
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: everybody did gravitate towards it.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: But it's definitely a movement.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: Man, If you had to pick one song that best
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: represents you that's not Boots on the Ground, what would
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: it be?
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: You know, that's a tough one. Shout man.
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: One you ain't got out you.
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know, you know, because like all of
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: them is like a representation to me.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: You said, I feel all of them, you know what
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: I mean?
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: So y'all just stay tuned. Man, ain't y'all just I
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: got I got so much that's coming behind me. I
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: don't even know how to pick it, you know what
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: I mean.
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: You're gonna get these fatten you get these.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: We got I think we got them.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Stamp Okay, I think you got them stamp man.
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: I was looking here. Yeah, you're right. And the prices
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: up sixteen hours.
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: You know, I'm inavertently employing people that I don't have
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: to hire it, you know what I mean. Everybody selling
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: Boots on the Ground shirts everybody's selling fans or whatever.
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: I'm saying. This was something that nobody had thought about.
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: They wasn't tapped into it. So everybody is able to
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: make money. So I just feel like I'm an employer.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: You know, I gave everybody I'm saying something that you
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: can make their money off of. And you know that's
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: what hit me the most too. You know, Hey, I'm
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: helping you out.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: You got to teachers to dance for you leave, man,
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: you gotta show that somebody put the song on.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: I will say this though, do it.
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: I'm saying these oldest niggas.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: First of all, it's for everybody. It's for all age groups,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: old to the young.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: All right, HBC, bring Lauren how to do this?
• 21:07
  Speaker 9: You're trying to guys, we got our mechanic coming in here, mechanics.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: We're gonna get under the hood of her wig. God
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: damn come on, who don't want to learn to dance?
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Don't say in that direction to damn hard because.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: You must know.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Because we're trying to keep.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: And everybody trying to keep the lace.
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: Come on, yes, I know.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: Teacher, you're gonna lead us fresh.
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: Your wig.
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: Did you say you got to do that.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: I just learned. Who's gonna lead us? You're gonna lead us?
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Man, I try something, I tell you.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: That's why he keep the one.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: That you know you shot?
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: Why are you.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: The man?
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: The god, the fel I never seen the guy gooskay.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: You gonna doing the wait? Wait, don't know what tired.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: My god to.
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: Back like it was going where I came.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: That's too old for me.
• 23:04
  Speaker 9: I know.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Right who so proud he get?
• 23:15
  Speaker 10: Wait a minute, now, a right all the way all
• 23:20
  Speaker 10: around and you know I can't do this.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Confuse me.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: A metaphor, that's what I.
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: May. Back school.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Let me come in way too much? Kid, I can't
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: from the child you get in.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: This.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: It is that the instructional version dropped the deck. Okay, alright,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: where where all dsp what you mean?
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: So he tells you how to do it?
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: And then I'm tired of here knees here Okay?
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: On YouTube, man, they got an instructure I was looking, but.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: We tell them where to follow you. Eight on three fresh, it.
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: Will be press the kid Live, Billy. You can follow
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: me on all streaming platform everywhere. Man, this type eight
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: on three Fresh. You said you can get my music
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: from a munic. Spotify your local bootleg man fleet market,
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: you can get them every where. I definitely appreciate y'all
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: and listen, man, Man, I appreciate you.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Man, listen.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Always love for the home team.
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: You're definitely putting soccer line on the meppers will yes
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: what you're doing? DJ envied, Man, I appreciate you. You said
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: it's just layer that depinite appreciate you.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: How you pretty?
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Young guy?
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Go young, I'm gonna follow you up.
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: Man, follow me on all platform man, young guy, I'm
• 25:16
  Speaker 8: pretty much the same on everything. Checked me out, don't
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: all music streaming platforms. Like we got a lot coming
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: man twenty twenty five, we're gonna finish it out. Next
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: year's gonna be even bigger. Man. Like I said that
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: feature to representing Mississippi, Man, South Carolina. We're just all
• 25:29
  Speaker 8: trying to put it together, man, absolutely.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Albody guys, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club