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INTERVIEW: Swayvo Twain On Losing His Parents; Angie Stone & D'Angelo, Music & Artistry, Questlove +More · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Hold every day waiting breakfast club. You finish for y'all
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Speaker 1: done morning.
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Speaker 2: Everybody is the DJ Envy just hilarious. Charlamagne and the guy.
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Speaker 2: We are the breakfast club on the Roses here as well.
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Speaker 2: We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed
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Speaker 2: we have suave old twins.
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Speaker 3: Welcome brother. How you feeling I'm feeling blessed man, feeling
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Speaker 3: blessed man. Thank you all for having now.
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Speaker 2: For people that don't know you are the son of
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Speaker 2: Angie Stone and D'Angelo.
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Speaker 1: So first we just say, you know, sending.
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Speaker 2: And well wishes and everything. How you doing now?
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Speaker 1: How you feeling? Man? Uh?
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Speaker 3: I thank you for the condulence, But man, they are
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Speaker 3: they're in a better place than me. Man. They ain't
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Speaker 3: paying no bills, no more good. They im good man.
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Speaker 3: Just taking the moment by moment for real.
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Speaker 1: Every day of a different day. It's different emotion, I'm sure.
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Speaker 3: Yeah it it someday is better than others, for sure.
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Speaker 3: But we're still pushing, man, You still pushing.
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Speaker 4: When I think about you, man, I think about you. You
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Speaker 4: know you had you had two you know, legends parents.
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Speaker 4: Right when did you first realize that that wasn't normal?
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Speaker 3: Uh? In school like kindergarten for real, Like I was
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Speaker 3: always type I ain't never really tell people in school,
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Speaker 3: like I just go to school and just be Mike.
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Speaker 3: But if I get in trouble or anything, and my
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Speaker 3: mama has to come up to the school like the
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Speaker 3: teacher be done, seek my parents, so she knows who
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Speaker 3: she is, but she gonna wait to in front of
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Speaker 3: the whole class like such and such your mama, and
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Speaker 3: I might say yes, I might say no, and then
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Speaker 3: like the whole class or no, and then they're gonna
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Speaker 3: ask they mama, and its just be a whole little thing.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, that's why I realized that I was growing up.
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Speaker 1: Did you grow up?
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Speaker 2: I don't want to say normal because you had two
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Speaker 2: iconic stars where you always on the road.
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Speaker 3: I was growing up. No, it was it was uh
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Speaker 3: normal at times. So like in my earlier years, I
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Speaker 3: went with my MoMA like I was, you know, with Grandma.
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Speaker 3: So I'm saying column. It was South Carolina the three
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Speaker 3: to met for sure. And you know, my mama came
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Speaker 3: and got me from Columbia when I was about twelve
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Speaker 3: or thirteen, moved me to Atlanta. So when I first
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Speaker 3: moved to Atlanta that was like a super culture shocking,
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Speaker 3: like h yeah about out here got money, Like we
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Speaker 3: stayed right like two those now for pat Man Jones
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Speaker 3: and he was turned like so it was normal, but
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Speaker 3: I tried to be as normal as I could. But
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Speaker 3: then when people started figuring it out, it was just
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Speaker 3: doing extra stuff.
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Speaker 1: You know, you went back to Columbia. Did you go
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Speaker 1: to usc on my trippn.
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Speaker 3: Nah N I go back to Columbia just to visit.
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Speaker 3: I probably got like a three day limit in Columbia.
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Speaker 4: What's one lesson your father taught you about like artistry,
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Speaker 4: and then one lesson your mother taught you about discipline?
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Speaker 2: Uh?
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Speaker 3: My daddy, like we didn't never really We sometime we
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Speaker 3: would discuss like like music notes and music there, but
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Speaker 3: we didn't really discuss stuff like that. He really would
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Speaker 3: put me on like mindset, things like that's how you
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Speaker 3: need to be with your business. Is how you need
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Speaker 3: to be with your team, Like that's how you need
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Speaker 3: to be with your mental when you get overwhelmed things
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Speaker 3: like that. And my mama, she ain't have to she
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Speaker 3: ain't have to show me nothing like I seen it.
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Speaker 3: Like my mama like she'll be in the hospital and
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Speaker 3: get out of the hospital that night and go to
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Speaker 3: go do the show, and nobody know. Wow, you know
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Speaker 3: what I'm saying. She was a real soldier gangster, so
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Speaker 3: she ain't have to say nothing. I was watching, I
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Speaker 3: was living it with her, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 5: And I saw your video that you're posted on your
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Speaker 5: Instagram and you just well, first of all, I just
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Speaker 5: want to say, why do you speak at their funerals?
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Speaker 5: You just there's still like such a joy there or
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Speaker 5: something that I didn't understand. I've never been through what
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Speaker 5: you've been through, but I don't know if you can
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Speaker 5: kind of like talk us through. When we're seeing you,
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Speaker 5: You're like making everybody laugh and do with your family
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Speaker 5: and it's the push ups and y'all just having a
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Speaker 5: good time. I'm like, how is he able to, you know,
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Speaker 5: so do that for everybody in the situation he's in.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that's that's my personality. Like I'm not a complainer,
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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. I'm not like a woe
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Speaker 3: is Me guy, And I'm always trying to like bring
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Speaker 3: in the vibes, you know what I'm saying. So in
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Speaker 3: a moment like this, when everything be mor ofbid and dark,
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Speaker 3: like I'm gonna make everybody laugh, right, you know what
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Speaker 3: I'm saying, because that's how my mama was. Like she
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Speaker 3: was so funny, like she's the funny person, you know,
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Speaker 3: but she ain't telling no jokes, you know. So I
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Speaker 3: just I just always try to keep it light, man.
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Speaker 3: And you know, even at the funerals, like you know,
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Speaker 3: not for nothing. The funeral be for the living. They
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Speaker 3: don't be for the dead. They gone already. So you know,
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Speaker 3: let's let's laugh and talk about the good times. It's not,
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Speaker 3: you know, as much as we can.
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Speaker 4: You know what, it's interesting me I can tell how
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Speaker 4: much faith you have in God because you know, when
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Speaker 4: you first started the conversation, you said, I mean they're
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Speaker 4: in a better place, like if you're a true believer,
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Speaker 4: that's really the.
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Speaker 3: Really yeah nah this uh man? When when they when
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Speaker 3: they when they leave here? You you you really like,
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Speaker 3: as their son, I think I'm really seeing how much
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Speaker 3: they was actually shouldering on the day to day like,
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Speaker 3: you know, especially being the music being and my mama
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Speaker 3: didn't have been there since forever ago, and my dad
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Speaker 3: did the same thing, so you know. Ship from the
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Speaker 3: label to labor by the time you get the twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty five, the business be y' all messed up. You
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Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. You know, you you try to
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Speaker 3: fix it and work on it, but they just unfortunately
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Speaker 3: around out of time. So now you know, I'm fighting
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Speaker 3: that fight for him. So I think it's I'm like, damn,
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Speaker 3: y'all was doing this ship every day like this was
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Speaker 3: y'all was battling with and still going to work and
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Speaker 3: still dealing with my shit on top of it. I
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Speaker 3: can't cut up, sorry, y'all, but yeah, man, they were.
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Speaker 3: They were some soldiers.
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Speaker 1: Man.
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Speaker 3: What gave you the music?
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Speaker 2: I don't want say what gave you the music? But
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Speaker 2: but when did you say I want to start singing?
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Speaker 2: When did you know you had that?
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Speaker 3: You could say when I when I when I moved
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Speaker 3: to Atlanta and uh, seeing the rich kids or turned
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Speaker 3: they were. They were a little bit older than me,
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Speaker 3: and they had the hottest, the hottest thing in Atlanta,
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Speaker 3: I'm like, oh this was going on, and you know
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Speaker 3: I started I still was really running from me, but
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Speaker 3: maybe like I was fifteen sixteen, my mama bought a
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Speaker 3: whole studio set up for her in the house, and
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Speaker 3: I ain't never use it. So I started going down
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Speaker 3: there recording myself, figuring it out, and before you know,
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Speaker 3: I did about fifty sixty songs I don't win and
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Speaker 3: play her something. She actually really loved it, you know
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Speaker 3: what I'm saying. So when she did that, she just
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Speaker 3: put the battery in my back and I was just
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Speaker 3: going hard from there.
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Speaker 1: And what did your dad say about your music?
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Speaker 2: Because they said he's a He was a hard critique
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Speaker 2: when it came to music.
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Speaker 3: Nah, for sure, Like I'm not gonna lie to just
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Speaker 3: be real with you, My my daddy didn't really embrace
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Speaker 3: it and say go ahead and go crazy or something.
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Speaker 3: He didn't do that till after my mama passed. Really yeah,
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Speaker 3: like he ain't. He never really wanted me doing music
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Speaker 3: because everything he went through with the business, you know
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Speaker 3: what I'm saying, He was like, son, I don't want
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Speaker 3: you any ship, you know what I'm saying. But it's like, man, pause,
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Speaker 3: I ain't. I ain't. Man, I'm gonna work in the wild,
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Speaker 3: Like I don't. I'm tired of the way side of
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Speaker 3: the car center like I'm cold, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: But as my mom passed, he really tapped in. He
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Speaker 3: was like very impressed, you know what, And that's all
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Speaker 3: I ever really wanted anyway, just just him here.
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Speaker 1: How do you call about your own identity?
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Speaker 4: I still acknowledging the legacy you come from.
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Speaker 3: That's that's been my batter all my life. But I
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Speaker 3: can't do nothing but be me. Like when you when
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Speaker 3: you hear my music, it's like you can hear them
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Speaker 3: in it, but it's still me. I'm doing a whole
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Speaker 3: different thing, and I ain't trying to battle them or
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Speaker 3: trying to live up to what they did. They already
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Speaker 3: did it. They done, went to the went to the mountain.
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Speaker 1: Tip.
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Speaker 3: I'm on my own journey, you know, say Twain, and
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Speaker 3: I can't. I can't run from who I am and
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Speaker 3: I ain't trying to. But I'm not trying to. I
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Speaker 3: can't compete with that, and I don't want to.
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Speaker 1: Did you do records with them with your parents?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? My mama last Albu, me and her. Me and
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Speaker 3: her got a song together. Me and my mama and
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Speaker 3: my sister Diamond, we have a song together that I'm released.
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Speaker 3: Me and my past never got to work together, though,
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Speaker 3: I think that's I like, no one regret we ain't
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Speaker 3: never get to do nothing. Yeah, me and my mom
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Speaker 3: for sure.
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Speaker 5: I saw you also talk about the you know, the
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Speaker 5: time that you spent with your dad. It was like
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Speaker 5: a week or a couple of weeks that you guys
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Speaker 5: got to and just after your mom passed away, the
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Speaker 5: time that you guys are spending together, and you said
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Speaker 5: you finally saw your parents as just like people because
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Speaker 5: there was a lot of things that I guess you
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Speaker 5: had one way in your mind. And then when you
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Speaker 5: and your dad spent that time after your mom passed away,
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Speaker 5: you saw him so differently.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, man, by her, you know, my dad, he
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Speaker 3: moved in a certain way.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 3: It was like and I used to always think you
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Speaker 3: just be an extra. But when we did my mother's funeral,
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Speaker 3: we had to repass and my dad was in the
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Speaker 3: city the whole day. So he hit me like some
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna put up and put up and pull up.
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Speaker 3: But he didn't. He didn't show up the whole funeral.
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Speaker 3: And then the whole repast happened here and showed up
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Speaker 3: eter So I'm like, man late again, you know what
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Speaker 3: I'm saying. But he pulled up like at the last
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Speaker 3: possible second, at the repast, and he came straight to
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Speaker 3: me and instead of my instead of my family in
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Speaker 3: South Carolina treat him like a regular person. Here for
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Speaker 3: the funeral, they all went mobbed him like you justin
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Speaker 3: bieb or something. Yeah, And I'm like, it's a lot
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Speaker 3: of my family that did that. I don't follo them
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Speaker 3: to this day, you know what I'm saying, because it's like, man,
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Speaker 3: we just put my mom in the ground. So when
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Speaker 3: I seen that, I said, oh, wow, you understood. This
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Speaker 3: is why he this is why he you moving in
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Speaker 3: this type of a maunt because it's like he ain't
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Speaker 3: want to even make it about him. He just wanted
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Speaker 3: to be there for me.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, How did did you talk
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Speaker 1: to any of your family about that? And you just
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Speaker 1: like you know what actually.
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Speaker 3: Speaking, I don't want to talk. Yeah, I don't talk.
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Speaker 3: They showed their ass without one.
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Speaker 2: He was dealing with cancer at that time, so.
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Speaker 3: We ain't even I ain't ship looking back at the pictures,
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Speaker 3: it's like, yeah, he probably was, but I ain't even know,
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Speaker 3: Like I ain't had no idea, Like I ain't I
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Speaker 3: ain't never seen my daddy with a meant nothing. So
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Speaker 3: when they came to that situation, it was it just
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Speaker 3: it shocked there everybody. It definitely shocked me. I ain't.
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Speaker 3: I ain't never seen my daddy's sick or nothing.
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Speaker 1: So you found out like the rest of the world.
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Speaker 3: Damn though, like down there, like I know, I knew,
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Speaker 3: I knew he was battling with it, but I didn't
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Speaker 3: know how bad it was.
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Speaker 1: Did you get a chance to, like, yeah, say you
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Speaker 1: could bothers and everything?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? Man, spent the last down there, like the last
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Speaker 3: week together. You know, I was up there with him
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Speaker 3: and we was just just talking and laughing and listening
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Speaker 3: to music. And you know, I ain't I ain't really
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Speaker 3: wanted to want to see see me sad or nothing
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Speaker 3: like that. So I was just like, you know, we're
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Speaker 3: gonna vibe out. Me and my little brother, my little sister.
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Speaker 3: We always there. You know what I say.
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Speaker 1: You don't got to answer this if you don't want
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Speaker 1: to do.
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Speaker 4: What was your perspective, like knowing that you had just
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Speaker 4: lost your mom earlier this year and now you spending
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Speaker 4: your last moments with your did you even look at
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Speaker 4: it at last moments?
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Speaker 3: Uh? Yeah, yeah? And I knew why I was there.
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Speaker 1: You know, but.
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Speaker 3: I don't know man, that I think that was just
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Speaker 3: in my mind. I'm like, man, this is just what's
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Speaker 3: going on in my life right now, like that, like
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Speaker 3: this what's going on. I definitely can't question God, you know,
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Speaker 3: but I'm gonna just take this. I'm gonna really take
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Speaker 3: this time and cherish you know what I'm saying. And
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Speaker 3: you know, I'm ama wipe my faith's up when I
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Speaker 3: started crying because I don't want him to start crying.
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Speaker 3: And you know, man, were in that were listening to
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Speaker 3: his music, were listening to Earth Wind and Fire, you know, like, yeah,
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Speaker 3: it looked at me one time he looked at me.
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Speaker 3: He like he looking at me, like, damn, son, I
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Speaker 3: see where you at in life?
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Speaker 1: Like you.
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Speaker 3: I remember when I was your age. I was I
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Speaker 3: was just getting ready to drop my second eye. Man,
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Speaker 3: I just seeing all the pressure that was on me.
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Speaker 3: I was like, I'm looking at you and like I
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Speaker 3: see you know what I'm saying. So I don't know
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Speaker 3: it was I was just being there, being in that moment.
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Speaker 2: Did you have a question in faith for that at all?
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Speaker 3: Question faith? No, I can't do that. I can't do
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Speaker 3: that cause I mean I don't know, you know the
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Speaker 3: age old saying, no stuff don't happen to you, happen
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Speaker 3: for you before you. You know what I'm saying. So
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Speaker 3: I just be going with the punches. Man. You know
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Speaker 3: it is what it is.
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Speaker 5: And you have your song A duve Sore that is
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Speaker 5: a dedication to your mom and your dad. At what
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Speaker 5: point did you start writing that song, like after your
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Speaker 5: mom passed away? Like when were you okay enough to
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Speaker 5: try and put things in music in further with your show.
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Speaker 3: It's crazy. I was in the studio making that song
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Speaker 3: probably about two days before I got the call about
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Speaker 3: my daddy. So when I was making originally making the song,
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Speaker 3: it wasn't even about it wasn't even about my dadd
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Speaker 3: is really about my mama the first part. But I
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Speaker 3: was getting writers block on it, so I did that.
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Speaker 3: Probably two days later, I got the call like needed
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Speaker 3: to clean like dots, like you to get your ass
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Speaker 3: up here. So I went up to New York, did that,
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Speaker 3: and it came back to Atlanta. I was working on it,
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Speaker 3: but I couldn't. I couldn't really come up with the words.
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Speaker 3: So after we did the funeral and I can't, I
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Speaker 3: came back like probably the night before I flew out
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Speaker 3: to come back home after the funeral. I finally like
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Speaker 3: broke the writer's blocking, was able to finish the song.
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Speaker 3: So you know, yeah, man, that I don't really work
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Speaker 3: on that song for the last month for real.
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Speaker 2: Know, I'm saying you want to be signed or you
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Speaker 2: want to see independent a lot of family members that
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Speaker 2: business I mean.
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Speaker 1: So I'm just I'm glad you called him sir too. Man.
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Speaker 4: He'd be forgetting he old, So thank you for the remind.
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Speaker 3: But no, I'm not saying I'm not saying nobody. I definitely,
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Speaker 3: I definitely would like to do something off it if
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Speaker 3: it's the right situation. I just want to be with
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Speaker 3: the right people, you know whatever.
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Speaker 5: That looks like I was gonna say, after everything your
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Speaker 5: parents went through with like the business side of it,
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Speaker 5: you probably have a little hesitation about you know, when
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Speaker 5: deals is coming your way. YEA, yeah, of course.
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Speaker 3: You know. I'm I've been watching and learning and being
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Speaker 3: a student, so you know, I definitely want to do
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Speaker 3: things the right way for sure. But yeah, man, when
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Speaker 3: when that time comes, you know, I believe I'm ready
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Speaker 3: for that.
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Speaker 2: Do you have to with as far as the state
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Speaker 2: is concerned. Do you handle the estate making sure because
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Speaker 2: I'm sure people are trying to clear records.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. So so on my father's side, I'm I'm you know,
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Speaker 3: it's it's it's very fresh, so I'm not really sure.
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Speaker 3: But as far as my mother, I'm the executive, so
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Speaker 3: you know, I'm you know, me and the team we
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Speaker 3: handle letting everything.
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Speaker 4: Is it true that I saw a quest Love say
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Speaker 4: that the Angelo album is coming.
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Speaker 3: That's what he said. You know, me and me and
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Speaker 3: me and quest Love, we ain't really we ain't. We
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Speaker 3: ain't really talk about no music like Big Brothers hitting
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Speaker 3: me on some man type of time and life, just
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Speaker 3: checking on me like man. And he was telling me
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Speaker 3: how he was feeling. So you know, I appreciate him
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Speaker 3: reaching out like that. Man. I heard some of my
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Speaker 3: me and my dad at the end, we started trading music,
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Speaker 3: so I heard some of the stuff he got.
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Speaker 1: It it's crazy to his new stuff.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, like the thing that quit Love said like
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Speaker 3: it's for the past but for the future, like I
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Speaker 3: probably couldn't have described it no no better. It's hard,
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Speaker 3: and you know, I would definitely love to be a
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Speaker 3: part of.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and you said on your song you say, I know.
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Speaker 5: God had a chuckle when I told him my plans. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: man's man, what were your original plans?
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Speaker 3: Definitely definitely wouldn't go into two funerals this year. Uh
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Speaker 3: but uh noah, I was. I was getting so my
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Speaker 3: mama passed the morning after my birthday twenty you know,
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Speaker 3: she got a show on my birthday. And you know,
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Speaker 3: for the last year or two, I've been opening up
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Speaker 3: for my mom on the show. So I usually go
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Speaker 3: with her just to make sure she good first of all,
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Speaker 3: you know, but for some reason, she just didn't want
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Speaker 3: me to come to this one. You know, she told
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Speaker 3: you that. Yeah, I know, like right before she left,
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Speaker 3: she like, son, you got your own career, you're getting
17:09
Speaker 3: ready to do your rollout. You don't need to come
17:13
Speaker 3: to this, you know, just stay home. And I'm like, man,
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Speaker 3: you sure, and she like, no, I'm positive. But she
17:18
Speaker 3: made me come to all the rehearsals for the show.
17:21
Speaker 3: But the day before she like, no, I don't want
17:22
Speaker 3: you to come. And you know, at the time in
17:25
Speaker 3: marsh my pr right here will tell you like I
17:29
Speaker 3: had a whole album done roll out, you know, I
17:32
Speaker 3: you know, got my little budget together and I was
17:35
Speaker 3: getting ready to do that, and then the morning after
17:38
Speaker 3: everything changed. So that's where that lyric comes from, Like
17:42
Speaker 3: I had a plan, but God had something different. Like, nah,
17:45
Speaker 3: then what you thinking? It ain't even about to be that, brother.
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Speaker 1: Because you'd have been on you'd have been on the
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Speaker 1: bus with her. Yeah, man, yeah, yeah, man.
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Speaker 4: What's one conversation with your with your dad and mom
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Speaker 4: that changed your direction in life?
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Speaker 1: Not even just musically, just as a man.
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Speaker 3: Man, my daddy. My daddy said to me one day,
18:07
Speaker 3: He's like, son, you gotta choose your piece over everything.
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Speaker 3: You know. I think it was a point in my
18:13
Speaker 3: life where I was just being poored in so many
18:16
Speaker 3: different ways, and you know, it was it was it
18:20
Speaker 3: was joining me. Like, you know, my mama been dealing with,
18:23
Speaker 3: you know, her health, and I've been essentially like a
18:27
Speaker 3: caretaker for her for the last four or five years.
18:30
Speaker 3: You know, people didn't know that, and you know she
18:33
Speaker 3: did a good job of hiding it, but you know,
18:38
Speaker 3: there was a lot of serious situations and you know
18:40
Speaker 3: I had to, you know, sacrifice a lot, you know,
18:42
Speaker 3: and I'll do it again, you know, because that's my mama.
18:45
Speaker 3: I know she'll do it for me. But you know, Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I was just talking to my dad and he was like, man,
18:54
Speaker 3: you know you you do what you do for your mama,
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Speaker 3: but all the rest of that, man, you gotta choose
18:58
Speaker 3: your piece over everything. And I really started implementing that
19:01
Speaker 3: and help me a lot.
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Speaker 2: You did a couple of your dad's songs over Yeah,
19:07
Speaker 2: that has to be nerve wracking, like because you know
19:09
Speaker 2: people gonna compare.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so you do you play.
19:13
Speaker 1: To do some more on your new music?
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Speaker 2: Is it's something that you've been iron Uh?
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Speaker 3: Man, I ain't never really want to do it in
19:18
Speaker 3: the first place. Man, my mama made me do that.
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Speaker 1: She made this.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, she made me do it, like she been saying
19:24
Speaker 3: I have to do it for years. So when I
19:26
Speaker 3: redid SDM, she was in the studio with me, like
19:29
Speaker 3: right after I find record, she started crying. She's like,
19:32
Speaker 3: why you finally did it? So well? I do it again?
19:38
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe or you do the how does
19:40
Speaker 1: it feel video over there?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? For sure? Man.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, man, I was gonna ask, what do you think
19:49
Speaker 5: your mom's a lesson for you? And that was like,
19:52
Speaker 5: what was she trying to teach you by making?
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Speaker 3: Man? My mama is Encyclopedia when it comes to samples,
19:58
Speaker 3: like if you the long way you talk to her,
20:01
Speaker 3: is likely she going to tell you something simple. And
20:05
Speaker 3: you know, it was a lesson in it because if
20:07
Speaker 3: it worked before, it will work again, you know. And
20:10
Speaker 3: she implemented that in her career. So she was like, son,
20:14
Speaker 3: it's gonna work. I ain't got no choice but to work. So,
20:19
Speaker 3: you know, independent ground, man. You got to front your
20:21
Speaker 3: own money. Man, So I ain't had a gas to
20:23
Speaker 3: really make it go chart, but you know, my little
20:27
Speaker 3: independent budget.
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Speaker 1: Man.
20:28
Speaker 3: You know, I definitely made some nod with it. So
20:30
Speaker 3: I was proud of that.
20:32
Speaker 2: I just figured out where I've seen you before. Man,
20:35
Speaker 2: you had dreads before for sure as an artist. Now
20:37
Speaker 2: I remember, yeah.
20:39
Speaker 1: Why do you cut your dress?
20:40
Speaker 2: Just different styles just changed, man.
20:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, after after that funeral, after Mabas, I cut them,
20:45
Speaker 3: but shit, I got tired of they were getting too heavy.
20:48
Speaker 3: You know, you be in you be in the bed,
20:50
Speaker 3: you think something crowding on you. You're like, man, my hair,
20:53
Speaker 3: like manya them'm in the pool doing all others Like nah, man,
20:57
Speaker 3: I cut it off.
20:59
Speaker 1: Do you really really really love music?
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Speaker 3: Man? For sure? That's that's that's what that's what's getting
21:04
Speaker 3: me through right now. Like if I ain't, if I
21:08
Speaker 3: ain't creating, man, I'm I'm I'm losing. That's how I feel,
21:12
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. So the music definitely therapy
21:15
Speaker 3: for me right now. And it's like that was a
21:18
Speaker 3: point of connection for my mom and my part just
21:20
Speaker 3: be real, like you know, were connected through the music. Man,
21:25
Speaker 3: you know, even you know my you know, my daddy, Man,
21:29
Speaker 3: he really, he really was tapped in to a lot
21:31
Speaker 3: of a lot of the new artists, like you know
21:33
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. He loved the Migos. He he you know,
21:38
Speaker 3: like you heard a new Ice Spice like just people SI,
21:41
Speaker 3: you wouldn't even know that he was tapped into it.
21:43
Speaker 3: And my mama she like before she passed, man, she
21:47
Speaker 3: was she waked me up three in the morning. She
21:49
Speaker 3: in the room writing a new right right in a
21:52
Speaker 3: new rap to ghost Face Killer, like you know what
21:55
Speaker 3: I'm saying. Like she was, she still had that fire
21:58
Speaker 3: to to the end. You know. So I love this shit.
22:02
Speaker 1: What do you think your purpose is as an artist
22:04
Speaker 1: beyond entertainment?
22:08
Speaker 3: That's a good question. I'm I'm here to help people, man,
22:11
Speaker 3: I'm here to be a vessel man, you know, like
22:16
Speaker 3: and you know, you know we're from Columbia. Man, people
22:20
Speaker 3: don't make it where we come from. And it's like
22:22
Speaker 3: it's a mindset of you're not gonna make it, Like
22:26
Speaker 3: somethings gonna happen before you get to where you're supposed
22:29
Speaker 3: to get to. Man, So I want to I want
22:32
Speaker 3: to use the music as a vehicle to definitely like
22:35
Speaker 3: go back and help people for so.
22:38
Speaker 4: Ten years from now, what do you want people to
22:39
Speaker 4: say about you that has nothing to do with your parents.
22:44
Speaker 3: I just want to want people to say that I
22:46
Speaker 3: was a genie with guy, or I helped them in
22:49
Speaker 3: some type of way, or you know, a lot of
22:51
Speaker 3: people being hitting me like throughout this process, like man,
22:56
Speaker 3: I don't know how you doing it? And I'm like, man,
22:58
Speaker 3: I ask it. I ain't. I ain't doing nothing but
23:00
Speaker 3: a whole lot of crying and praying. Like if I
23:02
Speaker 3: if you know, if I could be a if you
23:05
Speaker 3: can look at me and think you can get through
23:07
Speaker 3: because I'm getting through, then you know what I'm saying,
23:10
Speaker 3: That's fine.
23:12
Speaker 2: Let's get on your record.
23:13
Speaker 1: Man introduced the record to the world.
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Speaker 3: Wow, uh, this is swave WoT Twain Man when Doug
23:18
Speaker 3: saw you know, exclusive right here at the Breakfast Club
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Speaker 3: Man dedicated to my mother and father. Man, y'all checked
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Speaker 3: it out right there you have it, swave O Twain.
23:29
Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club.
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Speaker 4: Every day waiting pass up the Breakfast Club.
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Speaker 3: Do y'all finished or y'all done