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#613 - Awich Talks New RZA-Produced Album, Losing Her Husband, Okinawa Culture, Crazy Stalker Story & More · The Bootleg Kev Podcast

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  Speaker 3: Blueleg Cat Podcast special guests here. Good to see you,
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Uh, nice to meet you too. How long
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  Speaker 3: have you been in the US on this trip?
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  Speaker 4: Sue days?
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  Speaker 3: A couple of days promoting the new album?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I was. I did want to stream?
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  Speaker 3: Who stream? Did you do?
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  Speaker 4: Black Boy?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Nice? Did you guys make a song?
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  Speaker 4: No, it wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: It was like eating ohok bank, the mook bang thing, eating,
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  Speaker 2: like teaching him how to eat sushi.
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  Speaker 3: How do you did he not know how to eat sushi?
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of science to it because he was
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  Speaker 2: like pouring soy sauce on top of sushi.
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  Speaker 4: I said, don't pour.
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  Speaker 3: You're supposed to dip. Yeah, like just a little. And
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  Speaker 3: there's certain soy sauce or certain sushi you're not supposed
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  Speaker 3: to You're supposed to do ponzu.
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  Speaker 4: Or nothing, so you know.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, I love sushi. I was just in Japan
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  Speaker 3: and it was it was my favorite food trip of
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  Speaker 3: all time. I ate so much. It was like even
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  Speaker 3: like the cheaper places where the conveyor belts yep, where
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  Speaker 3: you just order and then it just shoots out and
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  Speaker 3: you're like, the food isn't better than any sushi had
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  Speaker 3: in America. And then we went to like the really
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  Speaker 3: nice places and it was just so good. You guys
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  Speaker 3: are I would say Japanese food and Mexican food the
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  Speaker 3: best food, yep, for sure. So you had fun Like
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  Speaker 3: the muckbang? Is that where like people eat a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of shit at once?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? I think so. It's a Korean word that.
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  Speaker 3: I just think of the like girls on like TikTok
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  Speaker 3: that like bite into like crazy shit and it's like,
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  Speaker 3: oh but yeah, nonetheless, But yeah, how did you you?
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  Speaker 3: You know, so many American hip hop fans have been
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  Speaker 3: wanting The Riza to produce a whole album. How were
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  Speaker 3: you able to make that happen?
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  Speaker 2: It was at first he wanted to come to Japan
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  Speaker 2: for filming projects, okay, and he needed somebody to guide through,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the community and show him places. And so
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  Speaker 2: I got in touch with them and we started talking
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  Speaker 2: and he was like he found out that I'm from Okinawa,
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  Speaker 2: which is the birthplace of karate, like mister Miyagi.
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  Speaker 3: That's where it's Oh, I mean you have the wax
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  Speaker 3: on wax off song.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I do karate too, you do karate? Nice?
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  Speaker 3: Are you? Like what belt? Are you?
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  Speaker 4: Black? First degree black belt?
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  Speaker 3: Let's be clear, she came with no security because she
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  Speaker 3: does not need it.
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm just playing. But yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And also I was married to American.
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  Speaker 3: Who he was like a five percent right obviously is
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  Speaker 3: very much like a part of the you know, the nation. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And so when we were started, like when we started talking,
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  Speaker 2: he was like, you know your like lessons, you got
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  Speaker 2: knowledge yourself. I said, yes, please, you know the god
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  Speaker 2: you know who passed away, you know, taught me all
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  Speaker 2: of these lessons. And and so he was like.
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  Speaker 3: All right, you're different right where you been at.
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  Speaker 4: On the other side of the world.
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  Speaker 2: Like, you know, I've been holding on to this knowledge
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  Speaker 2: and and like living my life accordingly and making my
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  Speaker 2: you know, achievements in life.
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  Speaker 4: He was like, all right, this is something that we
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  Speaker 4: have to tell the world.
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  Speaker 3: You have a very unique story for sure. Yeah. So
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  Speaker 3: he was just like, because musically, is it intimidating.
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  Speaker 2: Too, because there, you know, it was intimidated at first,
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  Speaker 2: but then I was like, you know, I have to
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  Speaker 2: get through it. And I understand why people wouldn't like
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  Speaker 2: go through with it, like because it's a it's a.
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  Speaker 4: It's like a training process.
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  Speaker 2: It's really it's really like thirty six chambers of showerling crazy.
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  Speaker 4: He finished with one chamber next.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not easy because he will he's he's just
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  Speaker 2: the abbot, he's a master.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's.
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  Speaker 4: To work with me.
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  Speaker 2: He don't have you know, he made all of the
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  Speaker 2: all of the treatments in his life already. So it
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  Speaker 2: was just me like just sticking with the master, right,
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  Speaker 2: and I just I just you know, follow through with it.
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  Speaker 4: But many times I just almost quit.
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  Speaker 3: Really what was it about?
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  Speaker 4: Like he would never say beats, you have to go
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  Speaker 4: get it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it feels like he's the kind of guy that
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  Speaker 3: like you're not going to get an email with just
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  Speaker 3: like a drop box folder of beats to go through.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, no, you have to, You've got to go.
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  Speaker 3: You have to make it happen. Like the he's not
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  Speaker 3: even doing Wu Tang members albums, so.
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  Speaker 2: Wherever he's at, yeah, you gotta go see him, right,
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  Speaker 2: And he won't even tell you to come see me.
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  Speaker 4: You just gotta you, just gotta you, just gotta go, and.
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  Speaker 2: Like call him like peace, I'm here right and then
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  Speaker 2: he'll let he'll he'll open the gate.
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  Speaker 3: Where all did you have to go?
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  Speaker 4: We met in La.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, yeah, of course in New York. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 3: what was the like, how long I guess did it
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  Speaker 3: take to complete the album? From three years? Three years?
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  Speaker 3: So you've been working on so while you're putting out
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  Speaker 3: other music, you have this RISD project that you're working on.
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  Speaker 3: In the cut, Yeah, that's incredible.
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  Speaker 4: And also.
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  Speaker 2: It took a minute because it was like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all the record companies and like labels that was telling
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  Speaker 2: me not to do it.
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  Speaker 3: Really, Yeah, for this is such an accomplishment.
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  Speaker 2: I know, it's the most honorable thing I've done in
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  Speaker 2: my life. It was an honor to work with him,
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  Speaker 2: and it was but before I started working with them,
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  Speaker 2: when we decided to work on album, when he said like,
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  Speaker 2: y'all want to produce your whole album? I was like
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  Speaker 2: so excited, But then I started talking to everybody. They
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  Speaker 2: were like, I don't think it's a good idea. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think you could go follow through with it. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think this is like like urgent sound.
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  Speaker 3: Right, because I feel like, you know, what I do
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  Speaker 3: feel like is like I noticed a lot of Japanese
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  Speaker 3: rappers will try to chase like whatever is like hot
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  Speaker 3: in America at the moment, and sometimes it feels like
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  Speaker 3: a little inorganic. So like when I listen to your album,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, yo, this ship is like, first of all,
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  Speaker 3: a whole album produced by the Reds. As a Wu
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  Speaker 3: Tang fan, this is a big deal. We don't get
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  Speaker 3: we don't get that. Yeah, but I also just feel
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  Speaker 3: like it was like executed just wonderfully.
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  Speaker 2: So thank you so much, thank you so much. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I just didn't want to just do it and put
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  Speaker 2: it out. We went through it so many times, many beats.
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  Speaker 3: And also the features dope features on the.
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  Speaker 2: Appare crazy, Yeah you got and these are like the
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  Speaker 2: real friendship.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I know you're on Ferg's album. Yeah, we talked
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  Speaker 3: about that. He told me you were on his album.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, man, Ferg is like really brothers and sister.
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  Speaker 2: He wanted to be like next Nigo and for Real's great.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and he's on two songs in your album,
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  Speaker 3: right yeah, yeah, ye shot to Ferg. Yes, Yeah, were
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  Speaker 3: you at the Forest Festival out there when he performed,
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  Speaker 3: I was, yeah, it was a fun time. That ship
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  Speaker 3: was kind of crazy. It was crazyhout yeah, shout out
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  Speaker 3: to those guys. Did you like what how did you
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  Speaker 3: initially discover like Wu Tang was like, like, how did
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  Speaker 3: you get up on the Wu Tang? Like as a fan?
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  Speaker 4: Like my husband, your.
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  Speaker 3: Husband or not your acean, your late husband, sorry because
• 9:21
  Speaker 3: obviously he was like he's from New York for then,
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  Speaker 3: so he got did he put you up on all
• 9:27
  Speaker 3: the like boom back East Coast rap shit, all of
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  Speaker 3: the all.
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  Speaker 2: Of the guys like Bernubians or righteous teachers and like
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  Speaker 2: big Daddy.
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  Speaker 3: King, oh ship, so he puts you.
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  Speaker 4: On and MF doom, MF doom.
• 9:45
  Speaker 3: Hell Yeah. Do you feel like because I feel like
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  Speaker 3: that you have like a unique perspective where you're obviously
• 9:51
  Speaker 3: influenced by what you're influenced by, but you also you
• 9:53
  Speaker 3: can't help but be influenced by the real dope rap shit,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean? Like, I feel like that
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  Speaker 3: makes you pretty unique? Is there is Do you feel
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  Speaker 3: like there's like a above like tell because I feel
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  Speaker 3: like a lot of Americans don't understand how crazy the
• 10:08
  Speaker 3: music scene is in Japan, and I I can speak
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  Speaker 3: from like the perspective of like we don't really have
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  Speaker 3: record stores like that, but if you go to Japan,
• 10:18
  Speaker 3: like there's a seven story tower records. Yes, there's an
• 10:23
  Speaker 3: entire jpop floor. Yeah you know what I mean. Like
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  Speaker 3: it's like its own music industries.
• 10:31
  Speaker 2: Stay bop runs on physicals, like you actually anyone's buying
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: buying physical CDs, cassette, tis records, the.
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  Speaker 4: Vinyl record.
• 10:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah. You guys like still sell stuff out here. It's
• 10:49
  Speaker 3: like everyone's worried about Spotify numbers, and it's like, why
• 10:52
  Speaker 3: don't y'all try to sell with something. Do you feel
• 10:55
  Speaker 3: like that's like a big part of your kind of
• 10:57
  Speaker 3: like your uh, you know, your infrastructure as an artist,
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  Speaker 3: making sure like hey I have this cold following or
• 11:02
  Speaker 3: this huge following in my country, I'm gonna make sure
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  Speaker 3: when we drop we give them something to buy.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, yeah definitely, And they already are is asking me
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  Speaker 2: like I get mad, damn, like when this is coming
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  Speaker 2: out as a record, vinyls, we need it, we need
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: it coming out percent.
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  Speaker 3: I do feel like there's a bit of like a
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  Speaker 3: rent in America in terms of like where you're from.
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  Speaker 3: Okinawa is obviously it's a part of Japan, but it
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: wasn't always a part of Japan. And I know you're
• 13:09
  Speaker 3: very proud of your heritage. Can you kind of give
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  Speaker 3: us some.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, Now, we used to be a kingdom and
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  Speaker 2: then we had like Japan came to take over and
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: became part of Japan. But after World War Two Japan
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: gave okay now to America.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, for like thirty years or something that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, the forties to the seventies.
• 13:35
  Speaker 3: And so that's where our bases are over there, right, yeah, yeah, all.
• 13:39
  Speaker 4: Of the bases is in Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Now, so my parents' era was America and my era
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: we still have like heavy concentration on the US military
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  Speaker 2: and heavy heavy influence.
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  Speaker 4: By Americans, and.
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  Speaker 2: We as a child, we look up to all of that, right,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean? And always like the festival.
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: They're doing festivals, big PiZZ of big ice cream, the music,
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  Speaker 2: big personality.
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: You guys are eating hot dogs and pizzage, French fries and.
• 14:13
  Speaker 4: Minds is the blue zone area?
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: Do you know? That blue zone is the area in
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: the on the planet where people live. Average people lived
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: two hundred over a hundred for everybody. There's like my
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: grandmother was one hundred and two, my grandfather was one
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: hundred and four. Past Why do you think that is
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: the diet before American game right before you.
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: Guys got implemented with French fries and hot dogs, not.
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: Anymore, I guess, But was the diet because it was
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: the seaweed.
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: Seaweed. That's the key, is the seaweed.
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: I think seaweed and the fact that we eat everything.
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: And a nice balance. We do eat meat and right,
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: but everything is in the Golden balance.
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: I do feel like because we are in like the
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: obesity capital of the world. You see that, Well, I.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: Was just at the restaurant over there, like down the streets, sizes,
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: the portions.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just crazy. And then it's like, but it's
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: also like when you go to like Asia, anywhere in Asia,
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: like Japan specifically, the food just tastes so clean. Yeah,
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: like there's like no preservatives like our shit. Like if
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: you leave a McDonald's burger out in America, it'll look
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: the same after two years if you just left a yeah,
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: because it's blessing.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: And then McDonald's in Japan or like Thailand tastes so good.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: It's like tastes the same, but it feels like, yeah,
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: it doesn't sit on you as heavy. How do you
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: feel like the because I do feel like it is
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: always an uphill battle to be an artist, not even
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: necessary specifically Japan, but just anywhere that isn't the US
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: or Canada. Canada's broken through because a drink. But what
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: is that uphill battle like trying to get acceptance in
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  Speaker 3: the States, And is it something you even care about?
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  Speaker 2: Like, yeah, I do care, and I do express this
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: concern of being judged because I'm an Asian woman that
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: my artistry is not worth checking right or.
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  Speaker 4: And people will.
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  Speaker 2: Be like, yeah, you know, for the dumbest reason, people
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  Speaker 2: do judge you and they're not gonna take you seriously.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: But you just got to show up and talk to people.
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  Speaker 2: And all of the people that you personally met and
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: talked to whore put in the notes like there's a
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: real one, right you gotta you know, I've been traveling,
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: so all of the record label was telling me no,
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: so we went independent.
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  Speaker 3: So right now this album's independent. Yes, Wow, that's big. Yes, Yes,
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  Speaker 3: So I've.
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  Speaker 2: Been you know, because I do. I know a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of karate. I'll just be moving by myself.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if you're a black, you're a black. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if you know a little bit. It sounds like,
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: you know a lot of a lot of it.
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  Speaker 2: I travel about myself and like you know, knock on
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: people's door life.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: So you move around mostly solo. Yeah, Like, at what
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: age did you pick up the karate thing? Was that
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: like early early in life.
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  Speaker 2: Or yeah, in junior high school so probably like thirteen, Wow,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: well thirteen.
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  Speaker 3: Did you like go to tournaments and all that.
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  Speaker 4: One time. My my style, let's called matchibios.
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  Speaker 2: You do wasn't really big on like fighting, but the
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  Speaker 2: kata okay, the actual battles okay was not really our thing,
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: but like really.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Expertise and you know, kata is like the movement.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah I know, yeah, yeh yeah, yea, yeah yeah yeah
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: yeah that's dope. Yeah, So I feel like, yeah, you
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: that's why it's so dope that you've got to work
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: with the Rizz of Theriz is like and I took
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  Speaker 3: him too, and he's also like executive produced like dope
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  Speaker 3: martial arts movies. Like I went to the kill Bill
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  Speaker 3: restaurant by the way, what's that place called in Tokyo?
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, good place.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, the food did not stop coming for you. Can
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  Speaker 3: you kind of which feature on this album were you
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: most excited to get done? Obviously for your friends, so
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: that was easy you guys. But you got some dope
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: features on this album. What was one that you were like, yo,
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: this one came over the finish line, This is like,
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: I'm excited for this one.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: Well, West Side Gun he.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Was out in Tokyo recently, shout to Madame Moves that's there.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: We called him over there.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: To Madam Moose to do the shows okay, okay.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: At the Old East, So I opened for him.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just because I wanted to do a track with him.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: We make this whole scheme of like, Okay, if we
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: call him to do a show, he's going to be
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: here hanging out with me, so we can do a track.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: And he agreed and he came, and but the whole
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: time he was there, you know, he was busy with
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: a fam or like shopping, and they didn't have time.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: To do a song with me.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: But I already let him listen to to what I've
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: been working on.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: He was like, it's dope.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like once you say, hey, I have a
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• 19:44
  Speaker 2: it was like, Yo, it's dope.
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  Speaker 4: Riza did his thing, you did his thing, you did
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• 19:54
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• 19:59
  Speaker 4: it was like three days before the.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, so it's right right, It was right at the
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• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would make Yeah, but my producer, like my
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  Speaker 2: directors that I use, is like definitely friends and like
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  Speaker 2: you talk about we talk about it for a long
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  Speaker 2: time before we even shoot it. It will go in
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  Speaker 2: and like do a research with the books and like
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  Speaker 2: the history on whatever we want to you know, express
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  Speaker 2: in the video, and then he would just execute it beautifully.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Like the wax and wax Ow video is pretty crazy. Yeah,
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: you executed that. That shot was any of the shot here?
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  Speaker 3: No over there?
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Yes, we call like individually, we call him. We flew
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  Speaker 2: them over there.
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  Speaker 3: It's a samurai loope and he traveled.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: He's the one who travels everywhere. So Loo he's not
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: scared of ship.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Well yeah he I think I think he's a badass.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: I think he is.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: I've seen him, seen him do it.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And he's a teacher.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: He's a teacher.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he does a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you guys
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: and everything.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: No, Ferg brought it like he made it. It's a
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: leather ge mm hmmm. It's like it's not you like
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: it's he.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Made it Taylor. He got it Taylor somewhere in New
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: York and he brought it.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: How crazy? Because do you deal with Because out here
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: I feel like your guys is culture is so respectful
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: and even like the fans are super respectful. I feel
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: like out here our fans are kind of crazy, like
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: they just be jumping out d M and motherfuckers. Like
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: it gets it gets weird. Like I was walking around
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Tokyo with Vingo from Bad Hop and I saw like
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: people freaking out, but they were freaking out respectfully. Yeah, Like,
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: have you ever had any crazy experiences with like any
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: wild fans out there?
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: I have some stalkers stalkers Yeah, wow, Like when you
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: say stalkers, like how are they stalking you?
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: They would send me email, I mean males.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Like like to you where you live?
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: To where to my parents' house? Is that he thought
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: I was living there? And he will send me.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: So should I because he like what did he send?
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: You?
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Send me his like hair and things like that, and
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: like he or he will tell me that you know,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: he is so glad that he's married to.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Me, and and he never that's that's wild.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: And then and then and then he came to one
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: of my shows and I didn't even know.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: Oh he came to my shows.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: I didn't know his face, right, you just know he
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: sent you mail. Yeah.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: And then I was doing tours, yeah, and this on
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: a tour.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: One of the tours, the security was not like it
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: was like weak. And then you know a lot of
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: people it was just like friends, friends, friends, and he
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: had like crazy fashion and like I didn't know. I
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: thought it was somebody's friends, but he was just right
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: there and he started talking crazy to my friend, my
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: rapper friend. So everybody didn't like he started. They started
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: thinking like who is this guy? And the security came
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: and talked to him. Nobody knew ab knew about him,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: and and they took him out and they told me
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: about it later.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: They were like, that's the dude, right.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: And then at the same time, my mom received another
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: male and then she always sent me the picture of
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: these males and one of the one of the papers
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: had his.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Face picture.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: Oh, so then you were like, I remember that guy.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: So I don't know their face, right, I don't know
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: his face.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: But I was just talking to my friend about on
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: some other ship I have a stalker, like and then
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: he just sent me a picture of his face and
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: I show it to my friend. They were like, that's
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: the guy that was their actual tar.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Oh hell no.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: They gave me chills.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: So what happened? And then, guys, what happened next?
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: He came to my parents' house.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: This is crazy. It sounds like a horror movie about that.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: He came to my parents.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: He came to my parents' house after after he got
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: after he got arrested in Okinawa. He was he was
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: like sending me mails from other places in Japan, but
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: then he got into to Okinawa and he got arrested
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: right away.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: I don't know why, but.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: The police called called me because he was speaking of
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: my name. So the police found out my contact information
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: and contact and like do you know this guy? He's
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: claiming that he's your husband? What I don't know him
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: and I don't know, Like why is why is he arrested?
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: That's fucking crazy?
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: But after he broke, after he got out of the jail,
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: he came right to my house so the police let
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: him go. Was this recently, m like last year?
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: Oh? Ship? So like, are you do you have a
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: do you guys have restraining orders?
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: Out there?
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Like out here for him, for him we do, so
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: he's not like if he comes near you, he's going
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: to jail. Yeah that's wild. You may have to get
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: some fucking karate on that dude. Yeah, that ship is wild. Yeah. Yo,
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: I went to this place while I was in Tokyo.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: I ended up going to like not by choice, by
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: the way, I got dragged to like this bar, right,
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: but I think it's like y'all call him hostess bars.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: So I'm staying in Shinjuku, the Godzilla Hotel, and like
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: all around the hotel there's just like buildings with like
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: anime looking chicks on the on the on the building,
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: or like dudes who look like chicks kind of with
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: the makeups. Yeah, And I'm like, what the hell is
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: going on here? And then we ended up going to
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: somewhere in like Shabu, Yeah, and we going to this
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: bar to go meet some dude and it's like a
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: bunch of Japanese businessmen in there with girls and I'm like,
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: where the fuck. Shout out to my guy Taka. He
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: brought me down.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: But it was just it.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: There's like these I guess there is a strip club
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: in Japan, but there's mostly these like I guess they're
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: hosts of.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: Hostess host club or hostess club, but.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: There's bars club like women will go and hang out
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: with these the buildings they kind of look like from
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: like boy bands.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like, yeah, it's kind of crazy. It's like its
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: own thing. I've never seen that before.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a weird culture. It was just a weird culture,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: but it has it's a multi multi like a billion
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: market in Japan. Yeah.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Like my boy was like, he's like, you don't understand.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Like he's like like these dudes are like kind of
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: like a thing. He's like, there's like girls who like
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: travel to like hang out with them at this bar
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: to talk them. And it looked like chicks kind of Yeah,
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: they got makeup.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: It's hipop champagne for them, yeah and everything. I love
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: going there. It's fun. It's funny.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: I had an interesting time where we were drinking and
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: like we met with some dude and I was just
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: like I just like people watching, like, yeah, this is different.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: I've ever seen this before. Do you live still in
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: Okinawa or you in Tokyo. You're in Tokyo, Okay. Yeah,
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: it's one of the greatest places in the world. The
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: best shopping ever. Yeah, oh my god. I went to
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: the Babe Store and I almost fucking I was like,
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: this is this is this is a problem. I'd go,
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: what's that big store with all the stories like that?
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: They're everywhere, the stories. It's like the story you could
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: buy anything? You could buy anything.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: There was it called oh donkey.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: No, It's like you know what the don't yeah donkey yeah,
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: donkey yeah, Joe. I'd go in there and bought me
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: a fucking suitcase because I bought so much ship.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what they do.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: That store is so crazy because you could buy like anything.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: I mean I turned a corner and there was a
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: sex toy file and almost like you what? And then
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: like seven feet away they have like a bunch of
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: us Louis Vaiton person right, and I'm like this, this
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: is interesting. Yeah, that's the that story. Shots of that story.
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  Speaker 3: husband like kind of affect your artistry? And just like
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: obviously I can only imagine and like you know, raising
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: a kid and you know, dealing with all that on
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: your own. How did that affect you?
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: It was like when I when I got married and
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: like living as a mom and a wife, I already
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: kind of gave up on like music. I didn't think
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: it would go anywhere. I was still making demos sometime
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: going to the studio or always writing, always writing, but
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: I didn't think it would be it would go anywhere.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: So when he passed away, I went in like a
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: depression for maybe two years, but I kept on writing.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: So writing was my therapy at that time.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Like when you guys got married, were you already making
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: music or yeah I was.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: I was rapping already, and he was always telling me like,
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: don't quit, like you got to keep going, but I
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: just didn't think.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: I just couldn't think of it to be a real life.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: So after he passed away, I was writing, writing, writing,
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: and like constant QNA with myself, like do I want
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: to discontinue my life as well? Or what are we
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: going to do about Toyomi and my daughter? But then
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: I realized if I'm going to live because at that time,
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: I was already living with my parents for two years
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: not doing anything.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: I just didn't the depression.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I just didn't have the energy.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: But also I didn't have nothing to lose at that time.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: So if I don't have anything to lose and I
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: want to continue living, what do.
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: You really want to do? And I said, I want
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: to do what I love, which is writing lyrics and
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: doing music.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: And so.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: I decided to give back on my music and I
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: promised my daughter like and get back on music. And
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: she was like, do it, And I told her I
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: would be the best. How did she was like she
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: was three when he passed away, so she was like
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: five years old, but she was She was the one
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: person who helped me through it, like he even my
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: parents was trying to like get me out of the.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: Bed to like you gotta go get in the world.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, she was like, no, my mom needs to rest.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: Don't talk like to my mom.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: She's like, you know, she's sad, but she's just she's
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: the girl who you know, took the took the biggest loss,
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: which she was so supportive of me, and she kind
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: of pushed me to live again. So that kind of
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: the fact that I was given the second chance was
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: my motivation to kind.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: Of go all out and it's worked out beautifully.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what has been being independent like so far with
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: this project because you kind of got to do everything right.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I've tried independent, I've tried major label you
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: know thing, but it's it's way more ah work. But
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: at the same time, it's much more fun rewarding to rewarding. Yeah,
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: and you don't have to like check with the people
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: who don't listen to your music or who don't even
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: know your your your your music.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: Right or your audience or yeah, they don't really know,
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: but they have to give me.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: They had to give me a goal sign, right, because
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: you want to do a project, you want to use
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: that budget.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: But if you don't have to do that, it's maybe
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: I'm working.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: With a smaller budget. But it's way more like people
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: are hands on all my all my team.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: I probably have like three people on my team.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: Wow, you guys getting a lot done with three people.
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but they know about me left and like inside out.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like it's important, like because I feel
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: like sometimes labels will like just want to work with
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: you because they see numbers, but they don't understand not
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: like they don't understand the artists. They're just like, oh this,
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: there's there's money here, so let's figure it out and
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: let's try to you know.
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: The only thing they tell you, like, do do the
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: ship that that you did that selled?
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: What if I want to do album?
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: So it's like I want to do more invent like
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: like innovative stuff and do something I have to plant.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: C's to the next generation of rappers coming out of
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Japan and if I'm chasing numbers, I can't do that.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: The there is like a bubbling scene in Japan, like uh,
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: you know I mentioned shots the bad Hop Ruhs Vingos
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  Speaker 3: just dropped his album and then like there's like Yellow
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: Bucks and there's a lot of dope hip hop though
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: coming out of Japan. Who who do you think is
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: like kind of like like the up and coming folks
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: that you know Americans should try to check out.
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: Ben Jeji from bad Hop is a dope lyricist for.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: People don't know. Bad Hop is like a giant group
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  Speaker 3: of dudes that they sold out the Tokyo Dome like
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: they're fucking big.
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah. They they.
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  Speaker 2: Broken up, Yeah yeah, they finished their still clothing line
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: and stuff.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: The breathed together.
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: They're still together, but like there it was official and
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: lived their group the Tokyo Dome.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that was like the goodbye right, Yeah, it's
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: a farewell concert, but everybody went solo and they're all good.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so check check them out. Intown. My crew Okay,
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: in town, we have a dope rappers and producers.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: Is that the name of your crew in town? In town,
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: it's my It's my group, yo getting yen and I
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: had I had to somehow get ten thousand dollars worth
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: of yen in the United States and it's so much
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: more money than.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: So I'm at the airport and I'm like hitting like
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: each little like then the guy's like, look, I can
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: do this much here before I have to call my
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: boss and then you need to go to another I
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: was like, all right, thank you, y in town. So
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: that's how how many artists are on your crew? Eleven
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: eleven oh damn.
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: Eleven but five rappers?
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: Okay, others are DJs and producers right right, right, right right,
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: but that Lex it's another dope rapper Toji and Mikado
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: is a young up and coming that I just was
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: checking out his album and it's really good.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: Dope dope dope. Yeah. I feel like, uh, there's there's,
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: you know, so much potential out there, and like you
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: guys have, like I said, you guys like Japan has
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: its own music industry and infrastructure that it's like doesn't
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: really need America. I mean, obviously if America hops on,
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: it's great, but it's like it's it's its own thing.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: Which Wu Tang member, would you want to do a song?
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: With now that you got Riz out the way you
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: did a whole album with him. If if you could
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: get a future from anybody in Wu Tang who to
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: be Methamn Meth, that'd be nice. Yeah. What about another
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: the genius of course?
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Is there another American hip hop producer that you would
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: like to work on a full project with if you.
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: Could full project?
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, lock in do like ten joints.
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: I don't know yet.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: I don't like you. An Alchemist might be kind of dope.
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Alchemists. I've been trying to reach out. I mean
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: I know I know him.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: He come to Tokyo give me a Freddie Gibs shot,
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: like a whole little bit short film out there.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: Yes, so him and Erica, they just did a whole album,
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: did a tour to the man. Erica was hanging out
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: or was trying to call out to come out. He
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: didn't come out, So we were just close to hangout.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: But it'll happen. He's also like the busiest dude in
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: the world is in twenty twenty five, really busy. I
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: think he has a clone. He's got like five albums
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: out at the same time. He's on three tours at once.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: He's on tour with DJ for Me right now. He
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: just got off tour with Freddie Gibbs, him and hit
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: Boy Drive. Is a lot going on with album. It's
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: a busy guy, busy guy, busy guy. Who is an
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: American female rapper that you're a fan of that you'd
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: like to work with? Megan Megan isn't Glorilla big Glow
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: met Cardi Docii Doci might be the best live performer
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: in the world. I just watched her show at Camp
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: Flognaw Tyler the Creator's Festival, and that ship had me floored.
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: I want to see.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: It was uptivating. Yeah yeah, but uh, I feel like
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: Meg taps in with the she she's a She's an
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: anime big time, but she tapped in with the bro
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: what's the brother's name from Japan? She did the song
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: with who make the mag the Studians?
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah yeah, Megan, Yeah, Megan, Yeah yeah yeah yeah.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: I think he just moved out here. He's moving out here,
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: I think, so, Yeah, that's what I heard. Well, listen,
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: your album is out, thank you, uh okay now and
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: woman yep, and it is fully produced by the Rizza.
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: Yes you got loop A Westside Gun Mike Stoke, Joey Badass.
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: Joey Badass and full five four.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: You have an incredible body of work. Are you going
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: to be doing any like shows? And I mean, I
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: know you did Coachella like, wasn't was it twenty twenty
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: four year? Coachella was? Yeah? Yeah? Or is it this year? Yeah?
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: Last year?
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: What?
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: Any any other America?
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: Yesterday? Oh?
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah?
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: But it's more coming up, I'm sure.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there it is. We'll look go support the album
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: A which appreciate you pulling up you so much. Fire
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: mm hmm
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Mm hm