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Common Interview · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Real, for real celebrity joined the breast morning. Everybody is
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Speaker 1: DJ en Vy Angela, ye Sholamin the guy. We all
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Speaker 1: the breakfast club special guests in the building. Oscar went up,
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Speaker 1: his birthday is this Friday? Yeah? Yeah, it's the coming
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Speaker 1: grass they now watch you leave open Hagen with the
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Speaker 1: high five. Man, Man, that's trying to give me back.
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Speaker 1: Trying to give me back. Man, you know what I
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Speaker 1: thought she was about to get. I thought she was
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Speaker 1: giving a high five to John. So I was like
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Speaker 1: saving myself. I don't want to I didn't want to
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Speaker 1: get caught out there. So anyway, that's my girl now
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Speaker 1: she cool? Man? Did you call it? Apologize afterwards? Yeo.
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Speaker 1: I talked to her the next day. She was like, yo,
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Speaker 1: she was just like, dang man, y'all really killed that performance.
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Speaker 1: He was feeling that joint. You probably even realize you
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Speaker 1: left open hanging. You probably saw the next day on
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Speaker 1: vine or something. I don't know that's exactly what happened.
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Speaker 1: He was like, she could take back and do it
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Speaker 1: over again. Oh man, I definitely wanted to do I
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Speaker 1: ain't an I wanted to do it over because I
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Speaker 1: was like, I saw they showing on vine leave it openhead,
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Speaker 1: it's over. Now. Did you think that you were going
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Speaker 1: to win the Oscar? I mean I was feeling confident.
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Speaker 1: We were feeling confident. But until they say your name,
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Speaker 1: you just don't know because it was like they were
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Speaker 1: talking about other some of the other nominees, and you know,
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Speaker 1: it's different people voting. So we were just like sitting
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Speaker 1: there like I ain't gonna. I was nervous, but I
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Speaker 1: was still like, okay, man, we could do this. When
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Speaker 1: I heard them they said John Stevens and Lonnie Lynn,
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Speaker 1: I was like, man, we wanted we got an oscar.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but around in a in a in an
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Speaker 1: audience thing. No, they were looking around like what's up
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Speaker 1: that man didn't win? Hello? Until we jumped up. But
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Speaker 1: my mother jumped up, like first yeah she was, she
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Speaker 1: was geeg man. But now it's everybody's saying that you
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Speaker 1: and Serena Williams got back together. Why did you say that?
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Speaker 1: Because she was holding my oscar? You know the morning
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Speaker 1: you did anybody hold yeah crazy? She was holding yours
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Speaker 1: to the picku of y'all to that night but deleted it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, but you know that's my girl. Man. Shoot,
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Speaker 1: I give her love all the time. We just saw
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Speaker 1: we saw. I saw it at the party, and you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give her that respect. She can hold the
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Speaker 1: Oscars a better way to celebrate exactly. She hold you
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Speaker 1: later because you're like golden ball, like the golden like
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Speaker 1: the Golden Boy. I read in People's magazine and you
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Speaker 1: said more people know you now after Selma. Yeah for sure. Man.
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Speaker 1: It's like different different people from walks of life. From
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Speaker 1: ten year old kids, yeah, white people, black people, like
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Speaker 1: old agent, like different people coming up to me being like, man,
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Speaker 1: we really feel Sama, we feel glory, or like man,
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Speaker 1: we loved y'all at the Oscars. Older people too. I'll
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Speaker 1: be like, wow, man. It's a good feeling though, because
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Speaker 1: I felt like we were present, like hip hop culture
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Speaker 1: represent black people represent a lot of different things that
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Speaker 1: just you know people, the people that you know, I'll
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Speaker 1: be on the people. So I felt like we would
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Speaker 1: representing that and to have people coming up saying, yo,
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Speaker 1: we honor that. It's good. You go out there for
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Speaker 1: the march with President Brock Romama. Did you go out there? No? No,
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Speaker 1: I didn't get to go there. Yeah, I was here
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Speaker 1: promoting this movie Run all night. Then we got coming out,
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Speaker 1: so I had to be here for that comes on
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Speaker 1: your birthday to Yeah it's on one birthday. Yeah with
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Speaker 1: Liam Neeson. Yeah it's good, it's good. I'm on Pisces.
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Speaker 1: You know, I always wondering what does that mean? I mean,
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Speaker 1: we just were cool. We we we always tell the
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Speaker 1: truth and we you know, we we opened and speaking
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Speaker 1: our minds. If you want now comment, I don't know
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Speaker 1: that you've always told the truth. I mean memoirs. He
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Speaker 1: talks about certain situations where he would fake things like
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Speaker 1: what I mean, I gotta you gotta maneuver through you
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Speaker 1: gotta maneuver through life sometimes, but you know, overall, tell
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Speaker 1: the truth. Women say that you're honest. Yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 1: That's the one thing a woman go get get from me.
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Speaker 1: I read something that I said, you used to used
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Speaker 1: to fuck when you was twelve to get girls attention. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know that was you know, when you're short of
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Speaker 1: you're trying all type of things. Man. You know, I
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Speaker 1: around a girl to get you. I know, but I was,
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Speaker 1: you know, I was like being a little class clown
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Speaker 1: or something. That's the right kind of I know it
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Speaker 1: ain't the it ain't, but I mean the girls. I
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Speaker 1: still was getting girls in so it works somewhere. You
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Speaker 1: don't do that now, No, No, I don't know. You
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Speaker 1: know I always tell men when they fought around other men,
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Speaker 1: I say, that's a form of flirting, So I guess
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Speaker 1: it's kind of the same thing. Yeah, I mean, would
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Speaker 1: you want to a man to know what you askmell like, well,
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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't be thinking about that man that. Seriously,
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Speaker 1: you have to be with a female the fart in
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Speaker 1: front of her. I mean, you gotta be uh yeah,
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Speaker 1: you gotta know where you gotta You ain't gonna do
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Speaker 1: that in the first like a couple of months, a
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Speaker 1: month or two. You know what I'm saying. You gotta
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Speaker 1: you to be cool. What a bad for her to
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Speaker 1: do that in front of you? Is that something that
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Speaker 1: you're like? I mean, eventually if she if she if
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Speaker 1: she like, we really cool, but then I'm with it.
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Speaker 1: But at first she ain't gonna be doing it. People,
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Speaker 1: something happened the good people. I always wondered about Glory.
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Speaker 1: When did y'all write that record because it seems so
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Speaker 1: timely with everything that's going on with police brutality. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, just the way we need to seem like
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Speaker 1: we needed that record as the people. When when did
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Speaker 1: you write that record? Um? We wrote it like it
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Speaker 1: was like October because Ava Douvna, who directed the movie,
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Speaker 1: she was talking to me about doing the song, but
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Speaker 1: they was busy editing. So I was like, Okay, one day,
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Speaker 1: I just like, man, let me call John Legend. We
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Speaker 1: just get started on the song and he started it up.
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Speaker 1: I told him the title Glory was one of them,
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Speaker 1: and he sent me to the music like he sent
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Speaker 1: me the piano, him singing, I just out of working
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Speaker 1: on that joint. We wrote that joint quick though. It
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Speaker 1: was in the height of everything. Yeah, he gave it
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Speaker 1: a really powerful speech at the Oscars. But some people,
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Speaker 1: for whatever reason, we're upset about it. Like I saw
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Speaker 1: people saying, oh, you know, how dare he say these things?
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Speaker 1: I couldn't understand that. Yeah, I mean, you know, you
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Speaker 1: know you can't keep everybody happy. I've been having more
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Speaker 1: people come up to me and like, you know, be like, man,
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Speaker 1: that speech meant something to me. You know. I've had
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Speaker 1: people saying they they was crying about it. So it's
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Speaker 1: like at the end of the day, I know you
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Speaker 1: ain't gonna please everybody. I said it because that's what
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Speaker 1: it was on my mind, and I think John John
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Speaker 1: had something important to say too, So we just took
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Speaker 1: that moment to be like. We didn't even give no
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Speaker 1: shouts out of no thank you. We were just like, look,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna say something that. Yeah, you also said I
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Speaker 1: saw the People magazine that you're being known for the
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Speaker 1: thing you want to be known for, Like exactly what
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Speaker 1: is that thing? Now? Yeah, I mean just like standing
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Speaker 1: for something and represent hip hop in a certain way
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Speaker 1: and really, man, shoot, I'm a person of guy, so
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna reflect that and just being known for like
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Speaker 1: standing up, speaking up for certain things, and being, you know,
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Speaker 1: a person that's trying to bring people together. Really. Now,
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Speaker 1: Jay congratulated you on social media. Did you ever speak
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Speaker 1: to him after that? Yeah? I told him. I told him, man.
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Speaker 1: I was like, I said, man, you know, we got
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Speaker 1: that golden glowed. And then they said right after we
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Speaker 1: got the stage, you know, they told us they was like,
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Speaker 1: Jay just tweeted glory. And then I told Jay, I
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Speaker 1: was like, man, when I see now, I was like,
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Speaker 1: we made it, like Jay tweeted us, we made it right.
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Speaker 1: I was you know I was geek man because he
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Speaker 1: was real. He was real supportive. He was like when
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Speaker 1: I saw him the night after the Oscar, He's like, man,
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Speaker 1: don't put that Oscar down. Man, you did this for us.
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Speaker 1: Like he was like he was overjoyed about me winning,
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Speaker 1: and I was like, Man, I appreciate it, you know
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Speaker 1: the love. Yeah, yeah, ever worked with each other? Do
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Speaker 1: a record? Man? I want to Man, that's that dude
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Speaker 1: obviously one of the greatest, and he like for me, Man,
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Speaker 1: he's still be snapping on the raps, like absolutely, So
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Speaker 1: I would love a rocket hole. Is that what you meant?
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Speaker 1: A fan asked you or what's on your bucket list
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Speaker 1: that you haven't done? Yeah, hip hop and you said,
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Speaker 1: jay Z, yeah, I love a rock song and we
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Speaker 1: never did nothing, so yeah, that'd be right. I'm I'm
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Speaker 1: supposed to work with YEA two on some stuff. We've
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Speaker 1: been talking about getting getting up on some more music. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: back right, I said, you know, I wanted Jesus to
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Speaker 1: be like his Electric Circus. Yeah. Didn't he come back
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Speaker 1: with the b Yeah, he coming back. And see three
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Speaker 1: for three right now, the Only One and the All
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Speaker 1: Day and the Wolves. Man that that All Day I
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Speaker 1: love that and wolves, and I like how you know
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Speaker 1: he's giving it up for like Vic Mensa, Like, you
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Speaker 1: know some of the youngest from from Chicago, it's just
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Speaker 1: it's dope. Man. You embraced chance to wrap him as well. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: told us I think your grandmother cooled. Yeah, our grandmother's cool,
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Speaker 1: so I you know, our grandmother was like, man, you
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Speaker 1: know it's this it's this kid. You know, my friend
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Speaker 1: got her grandson rapped. Can you just say something to him?
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Speaker 1: So I hit him up and he wasn't a chance
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Speaker 1: to wrap it him. Maybe that was his name, but
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Speaker 1: I just hit him up and just gave him a
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Speaker 1: little inspiration. But he dope too, man. Chance that you
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Speaker 1: probably get a lot of that in Chicago though, commence
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Speaker 1: this rapper. Yeah, for sure, I definitely get it, you know,
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Speaker 1: but I feel like it's my duty to be able
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Speaker 1: to give it give it up for some of the
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Speaker 1: for some of the new generation coming up as far
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Speaker 1: as just in hip hop, especially coming from Chicago. I
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Speaker 1: feel like, man, we didn't open some doors. It's up
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Speaker 1: to us. That's why I'm honoring like what they're doing,
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Speaker 1: whether it's a little baby, whether it's little herb or
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Speaker 1: Dirk or or Chance and Vic Misson. Also this this
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Speaker 1: Friday's your birthday. So what are you doing with you
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Speaker 1: on your birthday? And who are you doing it with? Man?
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Speaker 1: We gonna I'm really just gonna kick it with my team, man,
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Speaker 1: because we are. We've been in like a lot of
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Speaker 1: celebratory modes since things ain't popping, So I ain't gonna
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Speaker 1: do too much. Yeah, yeah, I am going to movies
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Speaker 1: to see Run all night. Yeah. I think that would
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Speaker 1: be a great idea to go on your birthday. Surprise
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Speaker 1: people show up. Man, y'all gotta see me in this movie.
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Speaker 1: I'm like a crazy, like hit man, like crazy, it's dope,
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Speaker 1: and I'm going like go at it with Liam Neeson
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Speaker 1: like we we we go toe to toe. It's dope. Man,
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Speaker 1: Like that's a scratch, Like you're not from Chicago. I
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Speaker 1: ain't never seeing you slap somebody down bringing up up,
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Speaker 1: remember when that's common sense? Cannot do you know? I
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Speaker 1: saw him slap somebody a little bit. Always bring things
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Speaker 1: that common is done. And you want to talk about
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Speaker 1: him slapping some time it inspires, It doesn't inspire it all.
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Speaker 1: Somebody come from that and tell the story for somebody
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Speaker 1: who hasn't heard it, slap somebody the dude heckling him
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Speaker 1: in you started freestyling, and then mister the freestyle you smacked, Like, wow,
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Speaker 1: it didn't stop freestyle. Is there anything that anybody could
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Speaker 1: do now that could make you want to smack them?
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Speaker 1: I ain't. I ain't. I ain't even try to get it.
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Speaker 1: Ain't worked it, you know what I mean? Unless you
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Speaker 1: was doing something my daughter or something that's goed like
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Speaker 1: it's offending my family like that. Then otherwise it's like, man,
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Speaker 1: come like people will be saying certain things, and I
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Speaker 1: mean a lot of people don't say nothing too crazy,
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Speaker 1: but if they say something i'd be a cool they'll
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Speaker 1: never say a dear faith. So it just be on
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Speaker 1: social media. See it in the wall show with your
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Speaker 1: daughter and say something slick did. But they're not gonna
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Speaker 1: that's true. Now, why didn't y'all let lettice sing, take
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Speaker 1: my hand, pressure, let me let me say, let me
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Speaker 1: say no, let me tell you, like, first of all,
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Speaker 1: it was like the Grammys put together the performance and
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Speaker 1: they choose, you know who they want. I don't think
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Speaker 1: the idea. The idea wasn't even um. I don't think
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Speaker 1: the idea was like lettuces or idea. That wasn't the idea.
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Speaker 1: I think it was the Grammys about how they would
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Speaker 1: place what they wanted Beyonce to do it. That was
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Speaker 1: between them that and they just said, yo, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: tie this in with the whole Glory and the Selma
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Speaker 1: were given a tribute to Semmer. So, you know, Lettucee
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Speaker 1: did a thing and Beyonce did her thing too. Man,
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Speaker 1: I was like, she she she does. She never a
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Speaker 1: choice like Okay, look, you know we want to sing
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Speaker 1: this song. Lettucey did it in the movie, we want
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Speaker 1: to Beyonce to do it. Yeah. No, that wasn't the idea.
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Speaker 1: The idea was more that came from the Grammys and
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Speaker 1: and some maybe somebody in Beyonce's camp. So it was
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Speaker 1: never like a choice, got you. Yeah. Now, I feel
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Speaker 1: like there's so many artists out here that are like
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Speaker 1: flash in the pan. You know, they might have a
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Speaker 1: big single right now and not have the longevity that
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Speaker 1: somebody like Common has had. You know, what are some
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Speaker 1: advice that you could give people so that they can
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Speaker 1: just keep on evolving, because you definitely have evolved from
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Speaker 1: the beginning of your career. People considered you like, you know,
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Speaker 1: an underground rapper to being somebody that just has evolved
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Speaker 1: into you know, to give some free advice now, some
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Speaker 1: advice to some of these up and coming artists so
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Speaker 1: that they can know what do they need to do
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Speaker 1: to be consistent and to stay relevant. Yeah, I mean
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Speaker 1: I think you can't be afraid to change sometimes, Like
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Speaker 1: say you came like you came out saying one thing.
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Speaker 1: We all grow, we all like evolved as human beings,
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Speaker 1: she said, like your grandmother, Like can you call that
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Speaker 1: young boy if you was on the phone with one
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Speaker 1: of these kids right now. I mean too, it's like
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Speaker 1: you kind of want to you want to find your voice,
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Speaker 1: like you to just be imitating everybody else out there,
13:02
Speaker 1: because you will be that run of the male artists
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Speaker 1: that we just you know you're here and then they
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Speaker 1: just fly by night. If you get something, bring something unique,
13:09
Speaker 1: because even with Charlomagne saying like, yo, man, we thought
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Speaker 1: the Jesus was his was Jay's electric circus. Jaya bring
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Speaker 1: you something each time to make you keep you on
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Speaker 1: your toes, like if we if you know, like this
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Speaker 1: artist is gonna do the same thing. And they only
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Speaker 1: fifth album at the while you like it's like it's
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Speaker 1: like a woman that ain't like you know, y'all doing
13:28
Speaker 1: the same position anytime, you know you want to flip it,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Yeah, you go back to
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Speaker 1: comment would saying he doesn't have a girlfriend to celebrate
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Speaker 1: with to celebrate his birthday with on Friday, so you're
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Speaker 1: gonna spend him with the team. Yeah, I'm spending with
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Speaker 1: the team. And you know I'm a single guy right now.
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Speaker 1: Life is life is great. Speaking of sex, how does
13:46
Speaker 1: it feel to watch the Roger every Wednesday? I mean,
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Speaker 1: I don't watch Empire all the time, not because it's
13:54
Speaker 1: the show is funny, man, I love it. Man, it's
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Speaker 1: a good show. Um, But I'm I don't really watch
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Speaker 1: CV that must to be honest. But did you see
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Speaker 1: the episode when she walked out and he asked, was out?
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Speaker 1: But to ROGI doing a thing. That's one thing I
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Speaker 1: gotta say. I did see when she beat us song
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Speaker 1: with a broom, and I kind of I was like, man,
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Speaker 1: this she going in YO, people love her. I got
14:14
Speaker 1: more power. I'm saying more power to her. She doing
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Speaker 1: nothing and she and my na in my hometown, so
14:19
Speaker 1: they hold it down. She she came to this festival
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Speaker 1: we had called the I Fest, where I had like
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Speaker 1: Yae perform and and Loupe and Little Herb. It was
14:28
Speaker 1: like a festival for Chicago. We was raising money for
14:32
Speaker 1: our programs and stuff. Ya's programming everything. Yeah, shout out
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Speaker 1: to Ryan Fest too, because he was really behind a
14:37
Speaker 1: lot of that. You say, you singing, but she like,
14:39
Speaker 1: you're looking from good ones get away. I know it's
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Speaker 1: been some good hey man. I mean Washington that's a
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Speaker 1: good one. But you But I'm saying, all these women
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Speaker 1: are doing great huge. It's kind of like once you
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Speaker 1: day coming, you go on to becoming elevate. I elevate them,
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Speaker 1: but Serena. But Serena had a lot of stuff before.
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Speaker 1: But but I elevate them. That's all it is. Yet
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Speaker 1: hit TV shows after they all text you, like when
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Speaker 1: you wanted to ask, did you look at your phone?
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Speaker 1: It was like Carrie, I mean, they definitely give love,
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Speaker 1: like to Rogie, she didn't tweeted before. After the Golden Glow,
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Speaker 1: she gave us a shout out of that's what. That's
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Speaker 1: the one thing I ain't end off on. No bad
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Speaker 1: notes that everybody. Yeah, okay, how close are you to
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Speaker 1: play in the Green Landing. Man. Man, I'm hoping that
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Speaker 1: it happens because, like I know, they rebooting The Justice League,
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Speaker 1: and if they if they decide to do like that
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Speaker 1: Green Landing John Stewart, the Black version. Man, I'm hoping
15:44
Speaker 1: they come to me. I'm definitely gonna fights you just
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Speaker 1: I'm just I'm doing no, I've been um, I'm doing
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Speaker 1: two other movies that I'm about to start, and then
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Speaker 1: I'm producing and gonna starting this TV show, but specifically
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Speaker 1: for the Green Landing. I ain't got no call. You
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Speaker 1: got to fight that role. I know. Yeah, I ain't
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Speaker 1: mad on it. Go forward. What's this TV show? This
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Speaker 1: TV show is I can't really talk all about it,
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Speaker 1: but it's it's dope. I'm the lead of it, and
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Speaker 1: it's like it's gonna be real good. It's kind of yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's something here and something we put together. No, No,
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Speaker 1: it's more it's it's gonna be based in the world
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Speaker 1: that y'all gonna love. It's really dope. The I'm the
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Speaker 1: League and we're producing it. It's gonna be You still
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Speaker 1: love music. It seems like you love the acting in
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Speaker 1: the movies. You still love music, man, I love music.
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Speaker 1: Part of the movie that he was in. Yeah, but
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Speaker 1: you know, I ain't in front. I do like writing
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Speaker 1: music for different things, like now when I'm working on
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Speaker 1: the project where I want to Liken make a short
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Speaker 1: film to it and maybe eventually like put it on
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Speaker 1: Broadway or something like. I like having thinking of doing
16:53
Speaker 1: music in different ways. So um, yeah, I love doing music. Though. Man,
16:57
Speaker 1: it's like, man, every time I get around, like when
16:59
Speaker 1: we rapping and cat saying some dope rhymes, I'll be like, yeah,
17:03
Speaker 1: all right, that's all. Is it pressure to win an
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Speaker 1: Oscar for acting? Um? I don't think it's pressure, but
17:09
Speaker 1: I wanted. I want to do that. I want to
17:11
Speaker 1: I want to get like a Grammy where I got
17:14
Speaker 1: the Grammys. I want to get Oscar. I want to Emmy,
17:17
Speaker 1: and I want to Tony. It's like it's called the
17:18
Speaker 1: egot and it's only a few people to ever walk
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Speaker 1: the earth to that have done that. So that's one
17:25
Speaker 1: I got to go go. Yeah, I got to go
17:27
Speaker 1: to go Oscar the Grammy. But you know the Tony Award.
17:30
Speaker 1: I mean I would have to win doing theater and
17:33
Speaker 1: then Emmy. I would have to win for something on TV.
17:35
Speaker 1: So going forward. You went from can I borrow a dollar?
17:40
Speaker 1: To mom, I want to Oscar? Yes, like when you
17:42
Speaker 1: were thinking about nothing that's growing up in Chicago. Nah, man,
17:44
Speaker 1: I mean that's the That's the thing about it. It's
17:46
Speaker 1: like I just wanted to be heard as an MC.
17:49
Speaker 1: I wanted like car Rush one and and day I
17:52
Speaker 1: sold to know who I am, like be coming to
17:54
Speaker 1: New York Rocket shows. And then it just kept I
17:59
Speaker 1: mean no, I wasn't. I mean we Twister was the
18:02
Speaker 1: first artist out, and then I came next, and we
18:05
Speaker 1: had to had to fight to get that respect. That's
18:07
Speaker 1: why I even name the album Cannot Bought a Dollar,
18:08
Speaker 1: because I was saying, can't we get our respect? Can
18:10
Speaker 1: we get some love? But then, you know, eventually, as
18:14
Speaker 1: I became an actor, I was like, man, I want
18:16
Speaker 1: to Oscar. I want to Oscar. I was thinking about that,
18:18
Speaker 1: and who would have known. I would have got it
18:20
Speaker 1: through music, but I wouldn't have wanted it no other
18:22
Speaker 1: way than to be up there representing with Glory and Selma.
18:25
Speaker 1: You know, of course I would like to get it
18:27
Speaker 1: as an actor too, but for us to be able
18:29
Speaker 1: to say, look, man, we up there represent this, like
18:32
Speaker 1: you know, the movement like and hip hop. What was
18:35
Speaker 1: that turn where you went from music and said I
18:37
Speaker 1: want to start acting? That was like that was around
18:39
Speaker 1: the Electric Circus time, like House Like. It was a
18:42
Speaker 1: little before like Electric Circus. But I just was getting
18:45
Speaker 1: bored with hip hop. I was like, I gotta do
18:47
Speaker 1: something else like and I'd already been into I did
18:51
Speaker 1: some plays when I was younger, but then when I
18:54
Speaker 1: did to play my mother, and everybody wasn't saying like
18:56
Speaker 1: I was fresh, So I just stopped acting. But then
18:59
Speaker 1: then I just decided I was. I started taking classes, man,
19:03
Speaker 1: I was going to classes being on tour. I would
19:05
Speaker 1: come home just take classes, and then I started going
19:08
Speaker 1: on auditions. I just loved acting, and I was like, man,
19:10
Speaker 1: it's something I really feel, like like I feel music.
19:13
Speaker 1: I feel just as passionate about it. You even look
19:15
Speaker 1: at some of your old auditions tastes like, oh man,
19:18
Speaker 1: I look at some of my old films I've been
19:19
Speaker 1: in and be like, damn, I could have did. I
19:23
Speaker 1: don't care what nobody my joint I can't talk about
19:26
Speaker 1: I know, but I'm right man. Thank you many That
19:31
Speaker 1: girl tries to come back to you after you got
19:33
Speaker 1: here and I'm like, after that bitch comment, get back
19:36
Speaker 1: with her? Do you look at you like, man, I
19:37
Speaker 1: could have did better? Just right, that's right, Charlomagne said.
19:43
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, what was that movie you were
19:46
Speaker 1: in with Alicia Keys or Carry Her Smoking? That was
19:50
Speaker 1: the first movie. That was the first movie I did
19:53
Speaker 1: so and the first movie Alicia did so. We was
19:56
Speaker 1: you know, we was rocking out one together. But just
19:59
Speaker 1: write a movie. I think I could have did better.
20:01
Speaker 1: And I was in the Terminator. I could have did
20:04
Speaker 1: better than that. But hey, you know, I'm living and learning.
20:07
Speaker 1: You know. Did do you ever go back and listen
20:08
Speaker 1: to Electric Circus and be like, yeah, they was right there.
20:12
Speaker 1: Hey man, I think you know I still stand on
20:14
Speaker 1: the Electric Circus. I still stand for that, you know.
20:16
Speaker 1: I think it's part of my whole, like you know,
20:19
Speaker 1: um body of work. And I feel like you gotta
20:22
Speaker 1: get that sometimes because not look think about you like, man,
20:25
Speaker 1: you ain't coming with it with all day and wolves.
20:28
Speaker 1: It kind of it's almost like you gotta go down
20:30
Speaker 1: and go up, you know, even if that down ain't
20:32
Speaker 1: down to you. People still looking like, well I ain't
20:35
Speaker 1: like that as much, but you bringing something back to
20:37
Speaker 1: him because you can't with be so you gotta heard
20:39
Speaker 1: with everybody saying yeah like circus that motivates you to show. Yeah.
20:43
Speaker 1: I definitely was like yo, because people was writing me
20:46
Speaker 1: off like yo, you know it's over for him, you know.
20:49
Speaker 1: So I was like, oh man, I'm about to show
20:51
Speaker 1: y'all and get him. When I got to rhyme don't
20:52
Speaker 1: get him high, that was the beginning for me. Like
20:55
Speaker 1: we was like that was a new beginning. How'd your
20:57
Speaker 1: relationship with no idea? Now? That's man, that's my guy,
21:01
Speaker 1: Like he produced the whole last album Nobody's Smiling, and
21:04
Speaker 1: I'm on his label Artium So, and you know, and
21:07
Speaker 1: Deaf jam Is. I'm on Deaf Jam So. And that's
21:09
Speaker 1: just my brother. You know. I didn't know them since
21:11
Speaker 1: fourth grade. So it's just a bond. It ain't it
21:14
Speaker 1: can't be separated it much. For a little while it was,
21:17
Speaker 1: it was, but we grown men now, So it's like
21:20
Speaker 1: you go through that, you know how many friendships friendships
21:23
Speaker 1: go through that sometimes And the fact that we came,
21:25
Speaker 1: you know, came back together and we're rocking together. Yeah.
21:28
Speaker 1: I always wonder were you raised by a village that
21:31
Speaker 1: your mom pops everybody. Yeah, it was. My mother was strong.
21:36
Speaker 1: Then my father didn't grow up around, but you know,
21:39
Speaker 1: he was still president in my life and his words
21:43
Speaker 1: meant a lot. And you know, the time I did
21:45
Speaker 1: get to spend with him, my stepfather, and then just
21:47
Speaker 1: being in Chicago to you know, the group of guys
21:50
Speaker 1: I grew up around. We just that was part of
21:53
Speaker 1: the village. And then you know next door neighbors. You know,
21:55
Speaker 1: like for the Oscars, my mother brought out about twenty
21:59
Speaker 1: five people like that we all grew up with, like
22:02
Speaker 1: and they all we you know, we celebrated, like we
22:05
Speaker 1: had a barbecue before before the Oscars. The night after
22:08
Speaker 1: the Oscars, we had a dinner. I brought the oscar.
22:10
Speaker 1: They all was like taking the picture. They was gigging. Yeah,
22:13
Speaker 1: I know, you were like, I can't get everybody in
22:14
Speaker 1: the club. Though I couldn't take them all, I could
22:20
Speaker 1: exactly exactly because like you've always been conscious, you are
22:24
Speaker 1: to the gentleman. You know what I'm saying. It definitely
22:27
Speaker 1: is the village. And my grandmother and my uncle stepped
22:30
Speaker 1: in too. My uncle's was like, yo, they was one
22:33
Speaker 1: of my uncles. God blesses. So my uncle Charles He
22:36
Speaker 1: would always be like, man, you're gonna do something. You're
22:38
Speaker 1: gonna do something. You know that. That kind of gave
22:40
Speaker 1: me some fuel. And I always say this that they
22:43
Speaker 1: haven't read it. You should read um comments autobiography. It's
22:45
Speaker 1: a really great read. You learn a lot about how
22:47
Speaker 1: he was raising everything. I'm actually working on a new
22:51
Speaker 1: book too, really yeah. Um, we're developing it now, but
22:55
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be you know, like a memoir. It's
22:57
Speaker 1: gonna be about different subjects. Yeah, I'm yeah, advice you know,
23:02
Speaker 1: a little you know, like perspective, I'll say too. Yeah,
23:06
Speaker 1: you know in your own experience. Yeah, okay, you think
23:08
Speaker 1: you'll ever dropped the comment altogether because you were from
23:10
Speaker 1: common sense? The comment, now you got oscars in golden gloves,
23:14
Speaker 1: you to get just be Lannie. No, no, you know
23:16
Speaker 1: I love Lannie because that's my father's name too, So
23:19
Speaker 1: I'm carrying that. But now comment. You know, I didn't
23:22
Speaker 1: worked hard with this, so you know, and people know
23:24
Speaker 1: me is that now and they feel they feel like
23:27
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, they feel connected to that.
23:29
Speaker 1: So I'm with it. We appreciate you joining us, man man,
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