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XXL Freshman Cover Revealed · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Real people, real celebrity join the Breakfast Morning. Everybody is
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Speaker 1: dj N v Angela, Ye shall I mean the guy.
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Speaker 1: We are the breakfast club that we have, our family,
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Speaker 1: our friends from Double XL magazine, Words and Miranda. Good
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Speaker 1: morning guys, Good morning morning. It's about that time of year, Vanessa,
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Speaker 1: Thank god, because I'm exhausted. Freshman requests. Yes, the freshman
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Speaker 1: is here. The freshman is out. The freshman is here.
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Speaker 1: Everyone shut up. How exhausting is this process? And how
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Speaker 1: long does it take? Like when do y'all start the process? Um?
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Speaker 1: October November? We start? Okay, Um, we go for months.
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Speaker 1: It's exhausting. I mean, you know, the harder jobs out there,
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Speaker 1: definitely in the world. But you know, we sit with
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Speaker 1: artists over and over and over again. We go to shows,
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Speaker 1: We travel out of town to go to shows. Um,
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Speaker 1: I think we sat with seventy five something different, Yes,
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Speaker 1: seventy five Yeah that come to the office. We'll sit
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Speaker 1: with them multiple times. You know. As we narrow it down,
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Speaker 1: we talked to you guys. We talk to anyone that
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Speaker 1: we come across an industry. We talked to little brothers
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Speaker 1: and little sisters and nephews and pretty much everyone, and
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Speaker 1: then we start arguing down in a different long long
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Speaker 1: meeting when you say seventy five artists, are these people
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Speaker 1: that actually have things going or just the guys, No,
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Speaker 1: we never do your you know, your next door neighbor,
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Speaker 1: We never do your boy, or we never do the
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Speaker 1: guys legitimately could potentially make it. Yes, Now, sometimes it's
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Speaker 1: early on some of them. Sometimes they're artists of you know,
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Speaker 1: people that we know other artists, and they want to
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Speaker 1: get the artists in there, and we know it's a
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Speaker 1: little bit early, but we don't say no to that.
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Speaker 1: And you never know what's going to happen because we're
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Speaker 1: always looking at next year at um. But you know it,
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Speaker 1: the whole thing changes in especially the industry and the
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Speaker 1: way everything works. Now talk cabastic covering wall done. Let's
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Speaker 1: talk about the shooting percentage. Y'all got a pretty good
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Speaker 1: shooting percentage when it comes to picking very good covers, helpful.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you've had Kindrick, You've had j Cole, You've
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Speaker 1: had Wile, you've had Meek Mill, you've had French Montana,
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Speaker 1: people that we didn't even think was gonna happen, like
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Speaker 1: Macao Zea, Like you've been pretty good. That picking people
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Speaker 1: little vic mensa looks good right now, you know, but
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Speaker 1: you know, so yeah, there's definitely be some some good
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Speaker 1: ones out there. You have hits and missus. You're trying
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Speaker 1: to predict the future. You're trying to take um ten
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Speaker 1: year artists and put them on the cover, And I
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Speaker 1: don't know how ten's always going to work and blow up,
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Speaker 1: but it's fun. The idea is to put different people on.
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Speaker 1: You know, we can go do the same people over
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Speaker 1: and over again, but this gives people something to talk about.
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Speaker 1: This gives people something to look at, and it's exciting
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Speaker 1: to see them grow. When people don't make it, do
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Speaker 1: you have to call them and be like so people
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Speaker 1: who don't make it as getting more difficult every year.
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Speaker 1: Every year they acting now like you're taking food out
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Speaker 1: of their kids' mouth, you know, like they're getting you
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Speaker 1: know a little bit more disgruntled. And we don't call
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Speaker 1: you up and say, hey, by the way, you didn't
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Speaker 1: make it. They wind up finding out because they hear
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Speaker 1: that the shoot happened or something. Right, so do you
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Speaker 1: know already if they weren't in the shoot, you know,
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Speaker 1: I mean they all start hearing a little bit or
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Speaker 1: you know, then you have to start watching out because
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Speaker 1: the shoot happened, and you don't want to say, well,
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Speaker 1: you know, the shoot happened, and you're having these conversations
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Speaker 1: and to keep you know, everything in the bag, so
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Speaker 1: you don't want to let them know stuff happen. But
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Speaker 1: at the same time, so it gets very very political
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Speaker 1: more than ever with the turndown, which isn't even a turndown,
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Speaker 1: it's just a non follow up get hot. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: the cover and the reality of some people are hot.
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Speaker 1: It's just we don't know how much that's gonna last,
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Speaker 1: you know, because refreshmen, we're looking as you know, the
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Speaker 1: longevity of it, you know. Um So sometimes right now
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Speaker 1: we don't believe for the future based on the music
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Speaker 1: we heard, you know, we're based on your situation, how
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Speaker 1: you're signed. Sometimes people are in some jack deals that
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Speaker 1: the managers now we're going to let them move. I
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Speaker 1: know that you know you're dope, and everybody knows that publicly,
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Speaker 1: but your PaperWorks so screwed. It's not going to get anywhere.
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Speaker 1: Or they've got such a lineup of a roster that
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Speaker 1: they've come behind, you know, the other people that have
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Speaker 1: signed that you know, it's another year or so before
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Speaker 1: they're gonna get hot, or you know, it's one song.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we're in a situation right now. It's very
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Speaker 1: one hit wonder. You know, you get one song and
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Speaker 1: you blow the hell up and then we have to
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Speaker 1: sit there and be like, what's the chance there's a
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Speaker 1: second that could lead you right intof anywhe Now, let's
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Speaker 1: talk about the cover, because you guys do have two females. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: on the cover, people were debating is they're going to
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Speaker 1: be a female at all? Who should it be? And
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Speaker 1: this the cover is supposed to be a reflection of
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Speaker 1: what's going on in hip hop, right, you know, I
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Speaker 1: think that you know, I think that we saw R
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Speaker 1: and B last year because RMB was a little bit
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Speaker 1: more heavy. We didn't have as many pictures or as
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Speaker 1: many artists that were, you know, as actively in the
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Speaker 1: conversation with R and B. More with females this year,
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Speaker 1: which was great to see. So, you know, we didn't
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Speaker 1: really want to be forced to pick between DEJ and Tink.
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Speaker 1: You don't really have to. You know, they were treating
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Speaker 1: them all as valid artists, not as female artists, not
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Speaker 1: as white artists, not as black artists as valid artists
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Speaker 1: based on the same credentials for you know, the solo
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Speaker 1: album and all that. So we went back and forth.
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Speaker 1: I was like, this is a reflection of what's going on.
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Speaker 1: They like DEJ, they liked Tank. We believe in both
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Speaker 1: of these artists. Another two artist You know there are females,
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Speaker 1: but they're just another two artists. You just revealed Dave's
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Speaker 1: Loaf and Tank are on the Freshman cover double xel
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Speaker 1: fresh and cover. Yeah yeah, yes, yeah, yeah yeah. Who
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Speaker 1: else is on the cover? You have it sitting right
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Speaker 1: in front of you. I don't have any front he
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Speaker 1: took out, Um yes, Love Tink is on the cover.
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Speaker 1: Rory tried Lizzie gold Link. I really like mc roy's
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Speaker 1: a cool kid, K Camp, Kid Kid, Vince Staples and Start.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if we're repeating now. I feels like
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Speaker 1: K camp is at and K Kid has been around
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Speaker 1: for a long time as well. He's about a sophomore cool,
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Speaker 1: but a solo album comes out and then the summer,
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Speaker 1: so he's technically not a sophomore, you know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: If he disappeared today, the catalock's not as extensive, but
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Speaker 1: once you dropped that solo album. That's where you get
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Speaker 1: the people write up chance, you know what I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's what's looked at as your big debut. So he
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Speaker 1: hasn't had that he's built up, but Interscope's holding ready
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Speaker 1: to pull the trigger on him for the rollout, and
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Speaker 1: they went hard for a freshman look for him. But
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Speaker 1: although that's a guy who's had a few hit records there,
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Speaker 1: and you can't deny a few hits climate Key Camp
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Speaker 1: was a big argument, you know, because because much respect
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Speaker 1: to k Camp not as recognizable, you know, it walks
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Speaker 1: into a club, you don't get the same feeling that
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Speaker 1: you recognize him like that, but you can't deny the hits.
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Speaker 1: And what people kept on saying to us over and over,
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Speaker 1: which you know, like a Todd Moskwitz, like people we
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Speaker 1: respect in the industry that Kevin Lyles would be like,
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Speaker 1: you can't deny when people have hit records, you know,
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Speaker 1: And so we had to keep coming back to k
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Speaker 1: Camp on that being like, well, the kid knows how
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Speaker 1: to make hit records and he's got a building behind
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Speaker 1: him with Interscope that's ready to go. You gotta acknowledge
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Speaker 1: that set up from some of the other ones who
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Speaker 1: are hot but you know, don't have the next place
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Speaker 1: to move because of whatever their situation is. All these
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Speaker 1: are signed. They made it on the cover this year. No,
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Speaker 1: gold Link's not signed. I don't think Shike Lizzie's got
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Speaker 1: a major label deal. He's your management, he's got distribution,
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Speaker 1: he's got distribution at all. But I don't really know
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Speaker 1: what the actual label deal. There's a ship machine behind everything,
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Speaker 1: you know, or we signed, yeah, I want to say
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Speaker 1: trouble and getting wrong, but maybe I did. Yeah, No,
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Speaker 1: gold Link, Maco just signed. You know, he's been coach
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Speaker 1: k quality control and they just got a deal. Um
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Speaker 1: was that Capital Capital? Yeah? Town. I don't want to
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Speaker 1: I don't want to know if anybody um that just
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Speaker 1: got a deal Tink. You know what's up with Tank?
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Speaker 1: So yes, you know, I mean kid kids through GANE,
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Speaker 1: but that's not a major you know, it's their own things.
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Speaker 1: So there's and I'm sure there's stuff in the works
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Speaker 1: on every angle with everybody. But yeah, I wonder what
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Speaker 1: this cover does. It cause problems in the future because say,
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Speaker 1: you you know, didn't put somebody on as a freshman,
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Speaker 1: then they blow up and then you asked him to
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Speaker 1: do something later and they're like, nah, I'm cool. Yeah, no,
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Speaker 1: I mean definitely. But also, you know, let's talk. We're
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Speaker 1: talking about rappers. Rappers like to see their faces on
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Speaker 1: the cover of magazines, Like I'm not gonna turn down
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Speaker 1: a cover because I didn't get you know, we're still understands.
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Speaker 1: You know. That's not to say, hey, we're still understands,
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Speaker 1: but that counts for something. So they want to see
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Speaker 1: themselves there. I don't know where, I'm just looking. And
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Speaker 1: let's keep it real. There is artists who have turned
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Speaker 1: it down because they thought they were too big to
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Speaker 1: be on the Freshman cover, felt like they could get there. Anybody,
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Speaker 1: that's the whole thing. Anybody turned it down. The shit
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Speaker 1: nobody turned it down this year. Some funny responses from them, um,
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Speaker 1: not funny, I don't want to be weird, but not
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Speaker 1: such responsive responses from the hiding Next Dorm mcne in camp.
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Speaker 1: You know that they didn't seem so interested and in
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Speaker 1: the feedback that we got, so we didn't had that's
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Speaker 1: the biggest feedback we got of the uh, the not
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Speaker 1: interested and that was a little bit hazy too. In
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Speaker 1: their movement so much and they've got Drake. Remember Asa
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Speaker 1: Racky did that interview and he said that mcconan gave
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Speaker 1: him some LSD and then he looked at him and
8:41
Speaker 1: he looked like a Buddha with a Jerry curls. That's
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Speaker 1: so accurate, Rocke for that accurate description of that fat
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Speaker 1: school we doo sounding. Boy. There's anybody in the past
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Speaker 1: that you guys missed off the Freshman cover? They said, damn,
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Speaker 1: they should have made the cover. Yeah, it was the
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Speaker 1: biggest miss I would say, Drake, Yeah, I mean Drake
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Speaker 1: is The problem with the Drake thing is that it
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Speaker 1: he blew up through the middle of the year. So
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Speaker 1: when you come up with the cover and then all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, this guy comes out a few months
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Speaker 1: after whatever cover you have and blows up off of
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Speaker 1: Little Wade's third album too, going on tour with him.
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Speaker 1: I'll never forget when we were picking Freshman, Drake was
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Speaker 1: not even in the conversation. And then I remember we
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Speaker 1: get over to to do this with another DJ and
9:21
Speaker 1: they've mentioned to us something of the no somebody called
9:24
Speaker 1: in from Toronto and was like, what about Drake, And
9:26
Speaker 1: we were like, wasn't really even part of the conversation
9:28
Speaker 1: and a few months later that all kind of took over.
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Speaker 1: So you have that problem of there's only so much
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Speaker 1: time you can get something done in a year, the
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Speaker 1: timing of you're shooting it, you're making it. This is
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Speaker 1: not just about digital. We're physically creating something, going to
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Speaker 1: print with it, you know, proof reading it, copy editing it,
9:45
Speaker 1: shooting it and everything. So you've got all of that time,
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Speaker 1: plus your sales and you're advertising, to figure out to
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Speaker 1: build this thing, and things can happen in between. So
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Speaker 1: Drake can be a miss. I get a little defensive
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Speaker 1: about it because it wasn't a possibility right then. Nikki
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Speaker 1: kind of falls into that category. So when you came
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Speaker 1: around to Nikki, that one happened so fast she was
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Speaker 1: right on the Drake tail already in the camp over
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Speaker 1: there that she didn't need it because she's already with Drake.
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Speaker 1: So we did them the cover after I remember with
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Speaker 1: Drake and Nick, and that was the way we could
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Speaker 1: do the follow up. You know, I look back, I
10:16
Speaker 1: like Waka. You know, I will never forget um Gucci
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Speaker 1: saying to us du waka more like du oj and
10:22
Speaker 1: he's like du Waka and we're like oh OJ and
10:24
Speaker 1: you know, Waca would be a better girl look than OJ. Right,
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Speaker 1: Guzzi has his own column. Now, Yeah, I remember that
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Speaker 1: cam roon and all that song and everything, and we
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Speaker 1: were excited for ah minute there. Yeah, Flock is still
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Speaker 1: going around, So yeah, that one. That one hurts me.
10:41
Speaker 1: And I know that he's not the biggest rapper and
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Speaker 1: biggest success story, but I feel like he's such a
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Speaker 1: freshman feeling type of dude. I hate that he's not
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Speaker 1: part of the history. Chinks. I don't know if we
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Speaker 1: missed Chinks. I think that Um, I think Chinks is
10:56
Speaker 1: kind of on that in between is that you know,
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Speaker 1: we didn't get him early and he started to bubble
11:00
Speaker 1: now it felt a little bit late. You know, he
11:02
Speaker 1: was a little bit older. We always had respect for him.
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Speaker 1: He always came up to the office and played his
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Speaker 1: music rip. It's been tragic to hear all of that
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Speaker 1: of what happened. But there are the guys that kind
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Speaker 1: of fall in between, and you don't know what's going
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Speaker 1: to happen, and you don't know when their time's gonna shine.
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Speaker 1: And then they start to get a little bit older
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Speaker 1: and you're not, and then they're kind of in their
11:21
Speaker 1: career already and going back to them. You don't know
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Speaker 1: if that's disrespectful how they feel where they want to
11:27
Speaker 1: fit in next to the twenty year old or not.
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Speaker 1: That's French. I felt like French had been around for
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Speaker 1: a while. The difference is how much they come to
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Speaker 1: us and they want it. French wanted it. French is there,
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Speaker 1: you know, I mean Chin French wasn't. Chins wasn't there
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Speaker 1: like French was, you know when when French went for
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Speaker 1: his campaign with it. And that's part of it is
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Speaker 1: that we see your desire for it so much that
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Speaker 1: becomes it. But I don't know. I guess French was in,
11:48
Speaker 1: you know, in mid to late twenties at that point.
11:51
Speaker 1: Twenty seven twenty six is about three or four years
11:53
Speaker 1: ago now, and I just happened to look up his
11:54
Speaker 1: age thirty year. You know, we've had older ones. I
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Speaker 1: think yellow Wolf was probably the oldest, and he was
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Speaker 1: on the It's about it. But at the same time
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Speaker 1: we were very also newer to freshman I think it
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Speaker 1: was our third or fourth class and figuring it out.
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Speaker 1: Who's the biggest flop? The person you put on probably
12:09
Speaker 1: oh J the juice man, I you know, feel bad.
12:11
Speaker 1: It's probably the Jay the juice man. I mean, you
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Speaker 1: know John Connor last year. I don't really know what
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Speaker 1: happened that Dre you know, backing didn't really do too much,
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Speaker 1: um like it did for other ones. I don't really
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Speaker 1: know what happened there. I'm sure there's other ones, but
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Speaker 1: i'd have to look at the list. I forget who
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Speaker 1: gets honorable mentioned this year? Who were some people that
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Speaker 1: very strongly could have passed? I love Catch, I really
12:31
Speaker 1: am interested in Capch. I think Capchi's interesting. I think
12:33
Speaker 1: it was a little early for him. Um right, I'm
12:36
Speaker 1: talking NonStop and Miranda, what do you think? Um? Another
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Speaker 1: one that we considered was Eric Bellinger. He was cool.
12:43
Speaker 1: They did a little bit more that would a little
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Speaker 1: R and B heavy. Um yeah, I say cap like
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Speaker 1: a lot. But we thought that stew it a little
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Speaker 1: too female R and B for the x Excel audience.
12:55
Speaker 1: But we were interested in her, and we didn't really
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Speaker 1: know how to deal with that one. And you know,
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Speaker 1: I had a few throwdowns and the staff meetings about those.
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Speaker 1: And it's not that we don't support, we just don't
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Speaker 1: know how it fits in, right, you know, whatever the
13:07
Speaker 1: scheme of things are um, so that becomes part of it.
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Speaker 1: You know how many of our people we because I
13:12
Speaker 1: remember we sat up here and talked about who we
13:13
Speaker 1: thought should make the list. The only president I was
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Speaker 1: I was on Tank heavy. You know, I've been campaigning
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Speaker 1: for Tank for a while. We're ware that's it for me.
13:22
Speaker 1: And then I I got to go to the Shoe
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Speaker 1: for that. I went to the Shoe. Never put me
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Speaker 1: on the rory. Going to the Shoe and seeing Roy,
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Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, he's kind of dope. And I started
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Speaker 1: listening to his album like he's very dope. Yeah, where
13:32
Speaker 1: he's a talented kids. That's going to be interesting. I
13:34
Speaker 1: thought Detroit Sha would have been on there, but I
13:36
Speaker 1: guess not really still a little too earlier. I think
13:37
Speaker 1: she's dope. Though in the beginning we were really considering
13:41
Speaker 1: Bobby Shmurder too, but he kind of you know, he
13:43
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been available for the Shoe. Yeah, that was
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Speaker 1: the hard thing. I'm in to see when he got
13:50
Speaker 1: locked up in December. She was in April. You know
13:52
Speaker 1: last year, a few years ago, we had Chief Kief
13:55
Speaker 1: and he had been locked up. But we knew Chief
13:57
Speaker 1: hef was getting out and when we had put him
14:00
Speaker 1: I'm the cover, he wasn't locked up, you know, with
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Speaker 1: with murder, that's not really an end in sight exactly
14:04
Speaker 1: right now that you can guarantee, because he should have
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Speaker 1: been on it. He had, he had the music to
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Speaker 1: be on it, and he still has records that ring
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Speaker 1: in the club, whether it's body at the time, at
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Speaker 1: the time. Yeah, well he also hadn't had the opportunity
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Speaker 1: now to record circulating that. Yeah. Now he hasn't had
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Speaker 1: the opportunity to promote himself obviously the way he could
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Speaker 1: have been. So who knows. So we talked about it
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Speaker 1: with him in the new issue. So he speaks on it,
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Speaker 1: okay about him not you know, we got we spoked
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Speaker 1: on him, spoke to him while he was locked up
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Speaker 1: there is locked up and and got his take on it,
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Speaker 1: which you know, he was frustrated, but it's disappointed. Maybe
14:37
Speaker 1: it was the other way around. So were you surprised
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Speaker 1: Aby fetti Wapp No, I don't think so. First of all,
14:43
Speaker 1: Jersey over here has been recking Fettie Wap crazy and
14:46
Speaker 1: we have a few other Jersey staff members, so they
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Speaker 1: went very hard for him. I think that's east Coast,
14:50
Speaker 1: and I think that's interesting, you know, I think that's
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Speaker 1: an East Coast artist, and I think, you know, people
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Speaker 1: don't know he's from Jerseys. Yeah, people don't, you know,
15:00
Speaker 1: they go to those shows and all Jersey comes out
15:02
Speaker 1: for him, you know in New York and stuff. And
15:04
Speaker 1: when you see Jersey come out and you see an
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Speaker 1: East Coast crowd come out and you're just not used
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Speaker 1: to besides kind of the hipster audience, like you got
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Speaker 1: a real Jersey crowd, and it just was it felt
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Speaker 1: for the first time, even going out, even though the
15:14
Speaker 1: cops shut the shows down that I went to, that
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Speaker 1: it felt like, Okay, so this is interesting in New
15:18
Speaker 1: York's out there's an East Coast feel here even if
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Speaker 1: the performance isn't like that that people want to support.
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Speaker 1: I think it was amazing about Freddie wapp Is. It's
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Speaker 1: a big crossover crowd, like you know, yeah, I played
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Speaker 1: the club last night. It was seventy eighty percent Caucasian,
15:31
Speaker 1: and they knew My Way. They knew you know, his
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Speaker 1: record is that Yeah, I mean, and My Way had
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Speaker 1: thirty million listens on YouTube on SoundCloud. My mom told
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Speaker 1: me she liked that song. The other Okay, and she
15:43
Speaker 1: comes to Freshman. She was like that kid at freshman
15:45
Speaker 1: I heard that song, you know, so I think that's interesting.
15:48
Speaker 1: It's kind of an interesting and in the sight where
15:50
Speaker 1: he sings, you know, he doesn't wrap, so we thought
15:53
Speaker 1: that was interesting. And it's freestyle I raps, but in sight,
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Speaker 1: in the sight where he really sings. So we were
15:57
Speaker 1: surprised by that that we thought that was an interesting look.
15:59
Speaker 1: You know, he's very quiet and at first you think
16:02
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of an attitude. Miranda I think
16:04
Speaker 1: got into a fight with him that he didn't even
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Speaker 1: get into with her because she thought he was giving
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Speaker 1: her an attitude and he wasn't. He's like, I didn't
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Speaker 1: say any So he's a very sweet kid, which is
16:13
Speaker 1: interesting that I think people have embraced him so far
16:15
Speaker 1: for that. And three records can't be denied these days
16:18
Speaker 1: because they're huge off. He's talented, he's got he's five
16:20
Speaker 1: absolutely what do you want fire? And he's he's nice,
16:23
Speaker 1: you know. Plus he's got a great look on that
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Speaker 1: cover with that new jersey, devils a jersey, you know,
16:27
Speaker 1: I was excited about so, I know, you always do
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Speaker 1: the freshman tour and the concert what's happening New York
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Speaker 1: in LA New York June thirtieth, that's by LA July
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Speaker 1: thirteenth at Nokia. So they should be great special guests
16:40
Speaker 1: we've been hearing about already. Um, you know it's going
16:44
Speaker 1: to be. It's gonna be. It's gonna be pretty cool
16:46
Speaker 1: and try Still I should be plugging the sponsors, but
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Speaker 1: I don't know what they are off hands another time,
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Speaker 1: but um, it definitely will be a good look for
16:52
Speaker 1: us when doing thirtieth July thirteenth. You guys going to
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Speaker 1: be a part of this. What's going on? It should
16:57
Speaker 1: be a nice day and when of the sife was
16:59
Speaker 1: coming out and all that good stuff. Um, starting next
17:01
Speaker 1: week and the week after will be the freestyles, and
17:04
Speaker 1: then the week after that's the ciphers. You got two
17:06
Speaker 1: weeks of freestyles, a week of ciphers, and then some
17:09
Speaker 1: more interview stuff and some etra things after that. All Right,
17:11
Speaker 1: the final question for you and Miranda, this is the
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Speaker 1: pressure question. The list is out. Who's gonna be the
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Speaker 1: head of this freshman Class's gonna be the one that goes,
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Speaker 1: Oh damn, but Tink Betty or or Tink I get
17:25
Speaker 1: I say both I think Fretty and Take. I mean,
17:27
Speaker 1: I it's hard because you want to support them all.
17:29
Speaker 1: You just picked them all, you know. Um, But I
17:31
Speaker 1: think Fetty's got a great setup, and I think Tink
17:34
Speaker 1: is gonna surprise some people. I think that day she's
17:37
Speaker 1: surprised a few people that they really some of the
17:39
Speaker 1: guys really weren't sure what to do there. You know,
17:41
Speaker 1: after she after her cipher and the freestyle, she bodied
17:45
Speaker 1: the cipher and Timberland was there and you have him
17:47
Speaker 1: screaming in the back room. We had to edit around
17:48
Speaker 1: all his screaming. I was like, please, you know, but no,
17:53
Speaker 1: she bodies the cipher and she bodies the freestyle and
17:56
Speaker 1: everybody's everybody's dope. But personally I was affected by that, um,
18:01
Speaker 1: by her, by her performance the most. I don't want
18:03
Speaker 1: to say it's just because the female thing that was
18:05
Speaker 1: a big part of it. Um, you know, because you're like, yeah,
18:07
Speaker 1: you're doing it for the girls. But also, I mean
18:10
Speaker 1: the dudes shut up. Did yeah, you know, they absolutely did?
18:14
Speaker 1: And that always great gold links, great gold links for
18:17
Speaker 1: a freestyle is grank. Everybody's talented this year. It's just
18:20
Speaker 1: as a lot of new artists and it takes less
18:22
Speaker 1: for them to blow up than ever, So it feels
18:24
Speaker 1: like our job got harder. Primere River, you know those
18:27
Speaker 1: my three though take is my head of the class
18:29
Speaker 1: than Freddie Wappin didn't roar. Yeah, you never know what
18:32
Speaker 1: some of them are gonna, you know. O Matho has
18:34
Speaker 1: got quite a personality, quite a personality. You can do
18:37
Speaker 1: some stuff with that, you know, And so it'll be
18:39
Speaker 1: interesting to see how they all unfold. And people are
18:41
Speaker 1: already campaigning for next year. I'm sure you know, they
18:44
Speaker 1: campaign like crazy. It's amazing. I mean it's great, you know,
18:48
Speaker 1: thank gosh, it's like that, you know, thank god we
18:50
Speaker 1: have that success. But yeah, it's crazy, especially in this
18:53
Speaker 1: day aage when people don't necessarily don't care about magazines anymore. Yeah,
18:57
Speaker 1: you know, I mean they don't care about magazineymore, for
18:59
Speaker 1: they don't read the art calls. They want to be
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Speaker 1: on the cover. So whatever, you know, I mean, you
19:02
Speaker 1: still we still do it with that NonStop, from the
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Speaker 1: one who's being unrealistic about getting the cover to the
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Speaker 1: one that we wish we could get and is too
19:09
Speaker 1: huge to get. And maybe we'll do it well because
19:11
Speaker 1: the breakfast ups get the cover in the back freshman,
19:16
Speaker 1: I say, freshman and a Gucci main also has an
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Speaker 1: advice column, which I think is interesting. Now, yeah, she
19:21
Speaker 1: made this week. We started kicked off on advice column
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Speaker 1: with him yesterday. I think we're gonna do it once
19:25
Speaker 1: a week. People can send in their questions to XXL
19:28
Speaker 1: at xxlmag dot com and ask Gucci. You know, you
19:32
Speaker 1: can ask him whatever you want. It's disrespectful. We're not
19:34
Speaker 1: going to give it to him just because I'm going
19:36
Speaker 1: to send him a question. Please send us questions because
19:38
Speaker 1: he's show into it and ready to go. And the
19:40
Speaker 1: staff loved the We kicked off with staff questions yesterday,
19:43
Speaker 1: so you know, I mean, we could do questions from
19:45
Speaker 1: all you guys and do you know what's it? Let
19:48
Speaker 1: me find out you Miranda was writing his letters from
19:50
Speaker 1: jail because that punctuation and his grand wall be so good. No, no, no, no,
19:53
Speaker 1: you should cheet the emails. I get, you know, I
19:55
Speaker 1: mean you should see the emails like, yeah, he's on
19:57
Speaker 1: it over there, he's on it over there. Ye. He
20:00
Speaker 1: locked up, man, he's recording. He's locked up. He's locked
20:03
Speaker 1: He's got one dude doing everything for him on the
20:06
Speaker 1: outside and he's he's like he's on the outside because
20:08
Speaker 1: I was like, whoa, no, no, that Ducci is a
20:15
Speaker 1: smart dude that's gonna switch everything up in Atlanta. Come
20:17
Speaker 1: whenever that happened, Ye hit me on Instagram, Twitter like
20:21
Speaker 1: all right, Gucci, he followed the whole staff the other day.
20:23
Speaker 1: They all flipped out. It's not even him, guys, somebody
20:27
Speaker 1: else that. We appreciate you guys joining us. We appreciate
20:31
Speaker 1: the support. Thank you. And magazine It's on stands stands
20:35
Speaker 1: everywhere June thirtieth, but it'll be a little bit before
20:37
Speaker 1: then in the big cities and the covers out now,
20:40
Speaker 1: so you know at XXL VSA in x XL, Randa
20:46
Speaker 1: rights at you know you, congratulation, congratulations, everybody make you
20:52
Speaker 1: want to complain. The breakfast club is Vanessa. My respect
20:55
Speaker 1: for all you. What you guys do too. Thank you
20:57
Speaker 1: for the support.