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DONKEY: Lil Yachty Faces Backlash After Premiering ‘George Floyd’ Line On New Song Snippet · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Today, there's a bunch of donkeys.
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  Speaker 2: That is why, Charlemagne, if we live a life where
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  Speaker 2: we might are tongue based off who we may have been,
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  Speaker 2: we never would say anything else.
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  Speaker 1: On the Breakfast Club. In the words of charlemagnea god,
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  Speaker 1: he's a donkeys. Oh man, Charlamagne, you've given donkey of
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  Speaker 1: a day to who.
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  Speaker 2: Now, well, Buster rhymes donkey today for Friday, August fifteenth,
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  Speaker 2: the Little YACHTI, now, you know, on Fridays, I like
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  Speaker 2: to open up the phone line so that people can
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  Speaker 2: give folks the credit they deserve for being stupid unless
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  Speaker 2: something is on my spirit, and today something is on
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  Speaker 2: my spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. I was minding other people's business on.
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  Speaker 2: Social media last night and I saw that Little YACHTI
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  Speaker 2: was receiving some backlash after appearing on the live stream
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  Speaker 2: with black Boy Max. Now, I don't pay attention to backlash, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: outrage on the internet because y'all always fake mad about
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  Speaker 2: something online.
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  Speaker 1: All right. The fuel that keeps the Internet going is anger.
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  Speaker 2: That's why you have individuals who make a living rage baiting. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: rage baiting you digital d heads, because they know the
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  Speaker 2: fastest way to garner engagement is to say something to
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  Speaker 2: make you mad.
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  Speaker 1: So I listened to what everyone was upset about.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, and it was the first time in a while
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  Speaker 2: I was like, Oh, this is valid outrage. Okay, I
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  Speaker 2: completely understand why folks is upset. See little Yachty previewed
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  Speaker 2: the new song, and in that song he had a
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  Speaker 2: lyric about the late George Floyd.
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  Speaker 1: Let's listen to the bar.
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  Speaker 3: Right forward wow right ford Wow? Wi something figure out
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  Speaker 3: right the bank for put my knee up on her neck?
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  Speaker 3: I went, Josh, I mean she she gonna wait some?
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  Speaker 1: Why playing one more time? Please?
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  Speaker 3: Right forward?
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  Speaker 2: Wow?
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  Speaker 1: Right card Wow?
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  Speaker 4: I wish something?
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  Speaker 3: Figure out right the bank for put my knee up
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  Speaker 3: on her neck? I went, Josh, I mean she.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna wait something put my knee up on her neck?
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  Speaker 2: I went, George Floyd, yachdy, how you put a hole
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  Speaker 2: in your own boat?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Are you trying to sink the boat and drown?
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  Speaker 1: Like damn?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 1: Black solidarity is anything sacred?
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  Speaker 2: When we talk like that about situations like George Floyd,
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  Speaker 2: we make others comfortable to do it, and then we
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  Speaker 2: get mad when others disrespect us. I'm all for a
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  Speaker 2: freedom of speech, Okay, I don't have to agree with
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  Speaker 2: what you said, but I agree with your right to
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  Speaker 2: say it. But you know what else is free shutting
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  Speaker 2: that up? Okay, See, I talked for a living. I've
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  Speaker 2: always gotten it right, Absolutely not. But it's just some
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  Speaker 2: things you should know not to say.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. You should know not to play with somebody's loved
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  Speaker 1: one who the world watched die.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, YadA, you are twenty seven years old and you
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  Speaker 2: are not a stupid young man.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, you are very bright. Okay. I've watched you
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  Speaker 1: in interviews. I've watched you conduct interviews.
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  Speaker 2: I've always thought that you had an empathy about you
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  Speaker 2: because of how you have been attacked in this culture
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  Speaker 2: called hip hop.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: People used to label you as the poster child for
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  Speaker 2: wack rappers.
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  Speaker 1: All right, some still do. Was that fair? Probably not,
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  Speaker 1: but that's what it was. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen you have empathy for Drake when Kendrick was
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  Speaker 2: busting his ass last year.
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  Speaker 1: So I asked a.
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  Speaker 2: Simple question, would you write a bar about Ken and
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  Speaker 2: drink Molly wopping Drake and their lyrical battle? Of course
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  Speaker 2: you wouldn't because that's your man. You wouldn't want to
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  Speaker 2: hurt his feelings are his team's feelings. I got a
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  Speaker 2: better one for you. Would you write a bar about
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  Speaker 2: the tragic, senseless murder of the late Great Takeoff? Of
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  Speaker 2: course you wouldn't because you would have empathy for him
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  Speaker 2: and how he went out.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you would have empathy for his team and family.
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  Speaker 2: So why wouldn't you give George Floyd that same respect?
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  Speaker 2: Why disrespect that brother's family and friends like that? You said,
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  Speaker 2: put my knee up on her neck, I went, George Floyd.
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  Speaker 2: So you decided to channel that racist ass crack ass cracker,
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  Speaker 2: Derek the Devil Chauvin who killed George Floyd. Okay, you
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  Speaker 2: watched that video that the world saw. The world saw
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  Speaker 2: Derek the Devil Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck for
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  Speaker 2: nine minutes and twenty nine seconds, watch that man take
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  Speaker 2: his last breath, calling for his mother, and you, at
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  Speaker 2: the big age of twenty seven, decided, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna put that in a bar, even if your
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  Speaker 2: brain thinks it immediately, something got to say, Nah, that
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  Speaker 2: ain't it okay, And no engineer, nobody in the studio
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  Speaker 2: said nigga, no, what are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? This is why you can't have a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: yes men around you.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta have somebody around it simply tell you no
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  Speaker 2: and hell no and f no.
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  Speaker 1: And I know folks is.
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  Speaker 2: Out there, but Charlamagne, you believe in freedom of speech,
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  Speaker 2: I do, but you are not free from the consequences
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  Speaker 2: of said speech. You can say what you want about
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  Speaker 2: anybody and anything, but you have to deal with what
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  Speaker 2: comes with that, because there is a cost to everything
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  Speaker 2: that comes out of your mouth, and before you speak,
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  Speaker 2: you should always ask yourself, am I willing to pay
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  Speaker 2: this price?
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  Speaker 1: Now?
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  Speaker 2: Stephen Jackson from the All the Smoke podcast dropping the
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  Speaker 2: clues bombs for the All the Smoke podcasts, you already
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  Speaker 2: know he's stepping about George Floyd every time, as he
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  Speaker 2: should every time. Okay, he replied to Little Yachta yesterday
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  Speaker 2: and he had this to say, Let's listen.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm just trying not to pay attention to you idiots, man,
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  Speaker 6: But like it's just hard, bro, Like Lil YACHTI bro,
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  Speaker 6: are you've been whacked?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 6: But you think you saying George Floyd name and trying
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  Speaker 6: to use his name in the bar, that's gonna make
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  Speaker 6: me for like your whack ass music money we y'all
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  Speaker 6: the only era that that that feel like the meaning
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  Speaker 6: the dead and saying that cool man, it ain't, it ain't.
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  Speaker 6: And it's me and the whole third Ward in the
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  Speaker 6: whole Houston, Texas riding behind g Man. Don't ever say
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  Speaker 6: his name, bro y'all. None of y'all knew g none
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  Speaker 6: about it. Which'all want to say his name for cloud?
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  Speaker 6: Put a kne up on I do, George.
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  Speaker 1: That's some week ad.
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  Speaker 4: Let somebody die in your family.
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  Speaker 6: We gonna do a whole skit about it and see
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  Speaker 6: how funny it is.
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  Speaker 1: Bro cut that man.
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  Speaker 6: It's only you whack sambars that do that.
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  Speaker 2: The only era that feel like the meaning of dead
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  Speaker 2: is Okay, that is a very valid point of little Yachty.
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  Speaker 1: Whether you realize it or not.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody who knew George Floyd and loved George Floyd feels
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  Speaker 2: exactly like Stephen Jackson does this morning. That line was corny, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: it was very cornish, all right. George Floyd got murdered
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  Speaker 2: knead to the neck from Derek Chauvin, and you turned
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  Speaker 2: his death into a corny ass rap bar. Okay, the
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  Speaker 2: ball don't even make no sense. You put your knee
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  Speaker 2: up on her neck. You and George Floyd what you saying?
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  Speaker 2: You want to kill him? If you don't think you
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  Speaker 2: upset George Floyd's family. Well, Lauren Lorossa got a statement
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  Speaker 2: from George Floyd's brother, Lauren, would you like to share
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  Speaker 2: what George Floyd's brother told you?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Terrence Floyd said to me he wants the lyric changed.
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  Speaker 5: He says, let his brother rest in peace. It has
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  Speaker 5: disturbed his family. People were sending him the clip all yesterday,
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  Speaker 5: so we had to listen to it and disturbed him
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  Speaker 5: a lot.
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  Speaker 4: He says. It's super inconsiderate.
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  Speaker 5: Terrence Floyd also said to us that this generation doesn't
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  Speaker 5: pay attention to what they say. They just want to
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  Speaker 5: make a song and get it on the charts, and
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  Speaker 5: they feel like because of who they are, people will
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  Speaker 5: listen and accept it.
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  Speaker 4: And that's not right. It's super inconsiderate.
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  Speaker 5: You should think about what you're writing and make it
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  Speaker 5: make sense because it impacts other people.
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  Speaker 4: He also has a message for lo Yatty.
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  Speaker 5: He says, you know, if you're going to talk about
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  Speaker 5: George Floyd, there, let there be a better message behind
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  Speaker 5: George Floyd's name, so that his legacy can live beyond
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  Speaker 5: the tragedy that Chauvin caused.
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  Speaker 2: The best way to not have your piece disturbed is
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  Speaker 2: to not disturb the peace of others. Little Yachty into
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  Speaker 2: everyone who can hear my voice, Please remember the simple
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  Speaker 2: golden rule we learned in grade school. Do unto others
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  Speaker 2: as you would have them do unto you. Okay, YACHTI,
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  Speaker 2: you want respect, you gotta give it. And the root
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  Speaker 2: of respect is not the full understanding of other people.
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  Speaker 2: It is the recognition of people's non negotiable humanity. Please
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  Speaker 2: give little Yatty the biggest he huh m, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, well thank you for that, donkey very. It's it's stupid,
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  Speaker 1: just a wack line that doesn't make any sense. Dumb y'all.
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  Speaker 2: All right, but you know, today switching gears is the
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  Speaker 2: Great Nipsey Hustle.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, and it's only right.
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  Speaker 2: Nipsey Hustle's gonna pay a couple of times, and it's
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  Speaker 2: only right to get back his interview fit. I feel
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  Speaker 2: like we should celebrate Nipsey every opportunity we get, and
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  Speaker 2: today is his born day day, he would have been
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  Speaker 2: forty years old today. That's okay, and we're gonna get
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  Speaker 2: that interview back on when we come back, So don't move.
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