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Tupacs Brother, Mopreme Shakur, says Tupacs family should have his things NOT DRAKE — exclusive interview · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything
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  Speaker 1: and everybody. I don't know if you don't lie about that,
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  Speaker 1: right la, Hey, y'all, It's Laura le Rosa and this
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  Speaker 1: is the latest with Laura le Roza. This is your
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  Speaker 1: daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news, and
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  Speaker 1: all of the conversations that shake the room.
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  Speaker 2: Baby.
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  Speaker 1: Now, we got a conversation today that I think is
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  Speaker 1: gonna shake up some things.
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  Speaker 2: So excited to get right to it.
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  Speaker 1: I was grace with the opportunity to speak to Mopreme Shakur,
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  Speaker 1: who is the brother of Tupac Shakor. There has been
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  Speaker 1: several headlines recently following Drake posting a chain online. So
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  Speaker 1: the chain that he posted, he posted a swipe through
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  Speaker 1: showed the front of the chain, it showed the back
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  Speaker 1: of the chain. The front of the chain read death
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  Speaker 1: Row dazzled in diamonds. In the back of the chain
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  Speaker 1: read all Eyes on You nineteen ninety six. It was
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  Speaker 1: engraved on the back of the chain. Now, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people were freaking out about this because we know
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  Speaker 1: that Drake is a Tupac fan. We also know that
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  Speaker 1: Drake is a type of fan of hip hop and
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  Speaker 1: the artists that he looks up to, loves, likes all
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  Speaker 1: the things and will go and buy memorabilia. He's done
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  Speaker 1: it before, He's gotten people tadd it. We know the stories.
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  Speaker 1: Back in twenty twenty three, he actually purchased, spent you know,
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  Speaker 1: over a million dollars to buy a ring that was
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  Speaker 1: formerly on bipoc from an auction. Now, Suge Knight, who
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  Speaker 1: would have been the one issuing the death ro chain,
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  Speaker 1: spoke to Art of Dialogue and he's alleging that this
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  Speaker 1: chain that Drake has is not a roal chain. It
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  Speaker 1: was never tupacs. It was never even given to anybody
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  Speaker 1: by Defroe. Let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 2: So, suit I gotta ask you, since you was the
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  Speaker 2: one passing out to death road change back then, how
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  Speaker 2: do you feel about Drake baying pac death row chain.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm quite sure it's not true. But the only
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  Speaker 3: person asks you know, when I came up with the
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  Speaker 3: idea to make the death row chains, one ha never
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  Speaker 3: been done before too. It was like wearing a you know,
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  Speaker 3: it was like having your flag, your rag. You can't
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  Speaker 3: tuk it you mean something. So only person I got
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  Speaker 3: death row changes and I'm the only one hand in
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  Speaker 3: them out. The dog pound didn't even have death ro change.
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  Speaker 3: I made them dog Paul pauls to Then when Pat
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  Speaker 3: came home, I want to go visit park. And when
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  Speaker 3: I got pock out. He came home and we was
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  Speaker 3: going somewhere at the time. He said, oh, I can
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  Speaker 3: kill all your niggas. They all got those death row chains.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, should gonna make you one? He was like,
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  Speaker 3: should you? My big bro mat me with yours. That's
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  Speaker 3: more important. I don't want no first. When I went
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  Speaker 3: the one, I want to wear the one you got.
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  Speaker 3: So my death row chain the time was full of
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  Speaker 3: diamonds on the on the chain, full of diamonds on
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  Speaker 3: a besl Cock came home and got that change. Not
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  Speaker 3: after Christmas, not after New Year's he already had it
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  Speaker 3: in one thousands ander cent. I heard a few people
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  Speaker 3: say that it was something roll on there, hit will
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  Speaker 3: on that chain, or the charm that that change, the
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  Speaker 3: charm on the back of when Drake bought that change.
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  Speaker 3: Dray should go back and keeps up there. But I
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  Speaker 3: don't go hard about it because it ain't Drake Faulk,
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  Speaker 3: and I believe Drake really admired Tucac like Tucac.
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  Speaker 2: Now my PREMI Corps has some you know thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's been conversation a bit about Drake and
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  Speaker 1: you know how we feel about him culturally, like is
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  Speaker 1: he a part of the culture. Is he an admirer
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  Speaker 1: of the culture who's been able to turn on and
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  Speaker 1: off this light of you know, Hey, I'm here, I'm Rapper,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Drake, I'm you know, I'm all things the sixth
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  Speaker 1: Or do we feel like when the light turns off,
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  Speaker 1: he's just a person that's soaking in what he's seeing
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  Speaker 1: and repeating it. Let's take a listen. Mapremur has some thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a listen to what he had to say.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, how you doing.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm blessed trying to.
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  Speaker 1: Be less stressed exactly, and we all and we all
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  Speaker 1: that's good to hear. So nice to meet you, first
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  Speaker 1: of all, and thanks for hopping on the phone and
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  Speaker 1: me I appreciate.
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  Speaker 4: It absolutely as well.
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  Speaker 1: Originally I reached out just because people were fanning out
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  Speaker 1: over the fact that Drake had posted the death Row
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  Speaker 1: chain with the all Eyes on You nineteen ninety six
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  Speaker 1: on the back, so it'd been picked up that you
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  Speaker 1: know it was Tupac's chain, and people were really really
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  Speaker 1: excited and all the things, and just wanted your reaction.
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  Speaker 1: And then since I've reached out, Shook Knight has come
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  Speaker 1: out and said Tupac never had that chain and that's
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  Speaker 1: not his.
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  Speaker 2: Chain at all.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, I don't know, you know what you
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  Speaker 1: comment on what you don't, but you know, you're the
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  Speaker 1: kind of one of the closest things we have, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to him. So I just wanted to hear your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on just the purchasing of the chain, if it is his,
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  Speaker 1: anything you may know about it. A lot of people
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  Speaker 1: feel like they want stuff like that, memorabilia like that
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  Speaker 1: to be left alone and not be purchased. So just
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  Speaker 1: any thoughts you had we were wondering if you want
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  Speaker 1: to share with the show.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, I mean, yeah, Parker is my brother, so yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you know, these are you know, or mentors of his life,
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  Speaker 4: and you know what I mean, maybe he's maybe they
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  Speaker 4: want to be a collector or something now all around,
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  Speaker 4: but for us, it's like it's a bit much.
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  Speaker 3: It's a bit much.
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  Speaker 4: Especially yeah, man, my man needed to think more about
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  Speaker 4: his his his his moves because they poll would make
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  Speaker 4: people pose other questions because I just saw an interview
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  Speaker 4: with him in London talking about London got the best rappers,
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  Speaker 4: London rappers better than American rappers. So you know, why
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  Speaker 4: are you so seeking after the king of raps? You know, jewels,
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  Speaker 4: little jewels. You know, it's in this thing with Kendrick.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Kendrick got a pullazer, so you know, I
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  Speaker 4: thought that was a bad move. A eyes my brother,
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  Speaker 4: and then he would close the question if England has
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  Speaker 4: the best rappers, why are you doing this?
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I'm just an observer. My name Bennett.
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  Speaker 4: I ain't in it, but uh, you know, you know
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  Speaker 4: I think the family should have all the pop sticks personally,
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  Speaker 4: you know, but you know, things don't always work out
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  Speaker 4: that way. But my personal opinion, that's what I feel.
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  Speaker 1: I got you did you know Tupac to have a
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  Speaker 1: defer chain, because now there's that whole conversation if like
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  Speaker 1: the chain was even his at all?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean yes, I we were together while he
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  Speaker 4: had a flow chain on. So as far as which
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  Speaker 4: one Drake got or what Drake got, I mean a
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  Speaker 4: lot of cats that depth blow had been changed. Now
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  Speaker 4: unless you know, unless you have certain identifiers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because sug Knight was saying that basically the one
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  Speaker 1: that Tupac had was Suge Knights and there wasn't anything
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  Speaker 1: written on the back of it, and it was very
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  Speaker 1: the diamonds were encrusted a certain way and things like that,
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  Speaker 1: which is not the same one that was posted.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't even know that, you know what I'm saying. So, Drake,
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  Speaker 4: that's the point that he has to deal with himself
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  Speaker 4: considering to purchase he made from someone for something.
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  Speaker 2: Gotcha. Well that was all I Those were all the
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  Speaker 2: questions I had. Unless you have anything else you want
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  Speaker 2: to share.
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  Speaker 4: We're in New Orleans and there's a lot of commemorative
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  Speaker 4: events going on around the anniversary of Katrina. I want
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  Speaker 4: a sense of love out to all the victims of
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  Speaker 4: Katrina and the survivors. And yeah, my sister's out here
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  Speaker 4: in the play about Katrina for the anniversary. So happy
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  Speaker 4: about that.
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  Speaker 2: What's the name of the play in it? And can
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  Speaker 2: the public go buy tickets?
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  Speaker 4: It's called Swimming Upstream. I'm not sure what the ticket
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  Speaker 4: situation is, but said, hey, are.
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  Speaker 3: You Jackson Theater?
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  Speaker 2: Got you? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, man, y'all gotta let me know y'all thults,
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  Speaker 1: let me know how y'all are feeling, what y'all are
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  Speaker 1: thinking in response to some of the things that Mopreme
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  Speaker 1: brought up. I think what my Premu is saying is
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  Speaker 1: a lot of what you know, the fall out I
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  Speaker 1: was seeing around this people feeling like at this point.
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  Speaker 1: One of my only issues with people being upset at
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  Speaker 1: Drake for wanting to buy memorabilia and get the tattoos
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  Speaker 1: and all of that is if Kendrick had never dropped
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  Speaker 1: out like us, we wouldn't have an issue with it.
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  Speaker 2: People thought it was so.
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  Speaker 1: Cool when he went and brought the pharal chain before
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  Speaker 1: he said he was gonna melt it down. People thought
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  Speaker 1: it was so cool when he went and brought the
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  Speaker 1: Tupac ring and he had the you know, the text
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  Speaker 1: that Lebron tattoo. I don't understand why now all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, this stuff isn't cool just because someone told
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  Speaker 1: you all.
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  Speaker 2: That it can't be cool. And I get it.
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  Speaker 1: I know that we group think, but I think now
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  Speaker 1: because of all of that, people are afraid to say
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  Speaker 1: how they feel now more Premium is different. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's that's the closest thing we have an extension
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  Speaker 1: of Tupac living in twenty twenty five. Family is gonna
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  Speaker 1: feel a bit different because these are pieces of a
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  Speaker 1: person that they once loved, that was once here that
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  Speaker 1: they don't even have the chairs, so they're looking like,
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  Speaker 1: why would you be the one to have it to chairish?
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  Speaker 1: But for the fans, I want to know if not
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  Speaker 1: like us, had never dropped, but people really have an
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  Speaker 1: issue with Drake being a memorabilia collector and be honest
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 2: I want to hear from y'all. Take it to the
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  Speaker 2: streets and the tweets.
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  Speaker 1: You call the dreets outside, outside, outside, I'm Lauren Leroza. Everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: the day, Hey, there's always a lot to talk about,
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