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Boo Boo on Musical Roots, South Dakota's Scene, and Balancing Music with Digital Ventures · The Scene Projects

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  Alrighty.
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  Alright.
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  This is Will Pablo.
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  One time, we are live in a vault with another episode.
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  I got a very special guest by the name of Boo Boo.
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  We got a songwriter, singer, artist, podcaster, and much more.
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  So without further ado, let's tell the people who you are, man, where you come from, brother.
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  Hey.
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  What's up?
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  I'm Boo Boo.
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  I'm from Northeastern South Dakota.
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  Yes, sir.
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  Yes, sir.
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  So tell the people a little bit about yourself, Boo Boo, and and what you got going on your
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  way, man, and and why we should get to know you today.
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  I mean, I'm 22 years old.
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  I started making music about seven years ago.
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  I've been turning more towards positive stuff, trying to spread more happiness and positivity
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  out into the world with my music.
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  I also do podcasting.
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  I got a wrestling podcast that releases at 5PM, September 24.
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  And then Okay.
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  I'll have the boo boo project that I do.
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  Just I'm doing a whole lot right now, but the my album's gonna be out by the end of the year,
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  so stay tuned for that.
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  Man, awesome.
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  Awesome news, man.
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  Awesome news.
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  Hella
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  You cut out.
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  Can you hear me now?
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  Yeah.
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  So, boo boo boo, how how long you've doing this thing, this music thing, man?
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  How long you've been been on this music journey, brother?
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  Mean, I guess about eight years was when I just kinda, like, started screwing around with
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  music.
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  I mean, I I when I was, like, 10, I used to play the violin.
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  My brother was always playing guitar around me.
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  I mean, music's always kinda been part of the journey, man.
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  And then I decided to take off on my own about seven years ago and start making songs and
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  stuff after my girlfriend died and just kinda kept going from there.
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  Man, how how how how has that how has that been for you, man, like, going through the death of
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  your girlfriend, man?
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  How how has that been for you?
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  Man, it's been pretty tough, you know, and things, but you worked through it.
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  And, like, you know, I mean, I was just a high schooler, that kinda hit a lot harder.
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  But you I've worked through it, and I just kept working for the dream because that's what she'd
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  want me to be doing right now.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  Man, I'm honored to meet you, man.
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  So so any any shows?
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  You got any shows or festivals or anything coming up?
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  You you're gonna be performing anywhere?
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  I am trying to get some booked currently.
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  I was gonna have one this month, but it fell through earlier, sadly.
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  And, you know, so I'm open for booking currently.
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  You hear it for yourself?
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  You're open for booking, y'all.
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  South Dakota, the surrounding areas, you got you got Iowa up there.
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  You got a few places.
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  Are you able to travel around, move around a little bit?
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  Yes.
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  I am.
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  You hear it for yourself.
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  You hear it for yourself.
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  So so, boo boo, man, so what's what's inspiring you, man?
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  What kinda what kinda music do you have?
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  Like, what what's your what's your genre?
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  What's what what I'm saying, what what what kind of music do you have?
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  What and what what what inspires you, man?
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  I'll make rap music.
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  What inspires me is just kinda like, I wanna make people happy.
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  I wanna make people feel good.
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  I want people to, like, be able to forget about their problems for a bit and just be able to,
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  like, you know, be part of the music and just smile.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Okay.
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  Okay.
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  Okay.
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  So you're you're a rapper you're a rapper, you said, out of South Dakota.
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  Man, how how was how was that being a rapper in South Dakota, man?
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  Like, how was the how was the market up there?
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  Like, for hip hop artists that may be in Memphis that may wanna come to South Dakota and
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  do music and stuff like that.
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  Like, is there a good market for music up there?
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  The market seems to be alright for some of us, and then, like, I'm kinda like, once you build
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  your name, the market's pretty good for you.
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  Like, you have guys in Sioux Falls like Night Shield.
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  He hosts show after show, and he got his people in the bar all the time for those.
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  And you got d Luke over in Rapid City.
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  He's absolutely killing it with his shows and stuff.
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  He booked Stevie Stone earlier this year.
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  That was the last show I did other than my own, actually.
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  I forgot about that one.
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  Is is it, like, is there is there any any opportunity for artists to get paid with these
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  gigs up there?
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  The not at the moment.
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  Most of the opportunity there really comes from, like, selling your merchant stuff and
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  selling your tickets.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  But, I mean, you know, the market's rough still.
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  We're still trying to build the scene here.
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  So so so so, Boo Boo, are are you are you single now?
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  Are you are you a single man now still kinda going through the process from your ex, or are
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  you are you on the market right now?
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  Are you single?
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  What's going on?
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  I'm a single man on the market.
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  Yeah.
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  You heard it for yourself, ladies.
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  You single on the market.
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  Yes, sir.
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  Single on the market.
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  Yeah, man.
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  So so what what do you do besides music, man?
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  I mean, what do you do besides this music thing?
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  I mean, music is a journey, man.
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  Every day is a grind.
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  It's a hustle.
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  It's a daily grind, man.
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  You know, do you do anything besides music?
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  I mean, I work my normal nine to five to fund everything.
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  I host Beyond the Bell, which is where I interview professional wrestlers that aren't
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  in, like, you know, the bigger promotions yet.
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  They're more on the underground independent scene there doing their thing.
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  I also do the boo boo project, and I where I interview artists and podcasters and all sorts
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  of creatives there.
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  I'm also a producer for the scene projects, so I'm out here making the thumbnails, helping
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  post things, taking care of things like that.
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  Yes, sir.
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  Yes, sir.
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  Yes, sir.
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  Awesome, man.
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  Awesome.
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  Man, me and Bubba went on tour, man.
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  Me and Bubba went on tour at the beginning of the year, and that was a crazy experience, man.
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  I'll never forget it, man.
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  First time
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  He he tells me stories.
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  Man, first time being on being on the news, man, it was crazy, bro.
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  It was crazy.
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  That was a crazy trip, man.
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  Yes, sir.
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  Never forget it, man.
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  That that I mean, life changing experience.
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  Man, life changing experience, man.
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  I'm waiting to get a tour one day.
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  Oh, yeah, man.
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  You you you coming up next, man.
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  You you should make this run next year.
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  You should most definitely a lot of you you got you guys should make the run with us next year,
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  man.
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  I know Asher we Asher got in to Summerville.
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  I mean, in some of those Summerville's, you can get on get in those Summerville's too.
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  I don't know if you you wanna go all the way to down
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  I wanna go everywhere.
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  All the way to down St.
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  Louis, but it gets you in down there too, man.
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  I wanna go everywhere.
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  I got people that wanna get me in with cans in to Kansas City, and if it wasn't for the hotel
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  cost, I'd be doing it.
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  Oh, man.
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  Man, we I got some connection in Kansas City too, man.
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  I got connections in Memphis, Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, Minnesota, Milwaukee, and
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  Illinois.
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  Like, we move around, man.
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  I think I have a connection in, like, almost every state now.
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  It's just gotta get everything figured out.
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  And Right.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  Put it all together.
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  Right?
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  Yeah.
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  I wanna hopefully, in the next few years, if I can make enough money, I wanna try and hit a
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  show in all 50 states.
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  One run, 50 shows, 50 states.
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  Yep.
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  Yep.
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  And and that's what I'm hoping for, man.
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  I'm hoping for I don't think me and Bubba will hit every state next year, but we we're most
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  definitely gonna hit a lot more than we did this year.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  So looking forward to that, man.
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  I'm looking forward to that.
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  Yeah.
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  And I'm hopefully gonna be there, and I'm looking forward Yeah, man.
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  Yeah, man.
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  Forward to anything I can get on at this point.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, man, you young.
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  You got that fire.
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  Do you play any instruments?
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  I'm actually looking at getting back into violin.
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  I I don't know if you know, like, you know, like, sometimes we cities have, like, that
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  trash cleaning up week, you know, where the people put things out and they pick them.
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  I was walking around there, and I saw a violin case, and I was like, I mean, there's a chance,
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  and I found a violin with just a few scuffs and a broken string.
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  Well, yeah, that may be a sign, man.
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  It it it they say guys send signs and symbols.
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  Right?
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  So I say I say I say run with it, and that's that's the instrument that your heart choose,
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  man, fly with it, man.
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  You know, see
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  my I love that thing, man.
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  I got my keyboard I got my keyboard right here, and I think I need to get me a bass guitar and
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  maybe, like, an electric drum set, and I'll be set, man.
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  I'll be happy then.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm gonna, like, get more instruments, learn more.
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  That's the plan.
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  I wanna be able to be very versatile in my art and be able to do a whole lot more than what
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  I've been doing.
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  Yeah, man.
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  So what do you so, Bobo, what's next for you, man?
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  I'm pretty sure you you're gonna be trying to get on these these these these the radio
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  station here with Bobo, and you're gonna be on the on the on the TV channel and all that.
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  Like Yes.
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  That's what's next.
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  Right?
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  Big things popping.
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  Right?
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  What's next is, actually, I got my episode dropping.
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  I mean, I don't think we'll have the show out tonight, but you know what I mean?
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  I got my episode dropping tonight for a podcast.
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  I got two more to film plus four more scheduled after.
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  What's next for me is a whole lot of creative endeavors, it feels like.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  So, yeah, man.
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  Right now, I'm just I'm just I'm back in the studio, bro.
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  I'm back recording artists.
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  I'm I'm back I'm back just I'm back writing articles.
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  You need press articles out there.
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  You need articles out there.
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  You need press articles, come hit me up.
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  Come see your boy.
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  I can get you ranked on Google and published.
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  Let's they need a Pablo one time and boo boo song.
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  I think that's what they need.
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  Come on, man.
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  Let's do it, bro.
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  Let's do it.
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  Let's run it.
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  Hell, yeah, bro.
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  I'm with it, bro.
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  I'm with it.
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  Let's fucking run it, man.
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  I'm fucking with it.
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  Yeah, man.
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  Yeah, man.
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  I'm trying to make a movement here in the music scene.
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  Just trying to show, like, rap doesn't always have to be what it's been.
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  We can be positive.
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  We can just do nothing but spread avenues.
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  We can be like what Mac Miller was, what Nubs is, and what Modsson was.
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  You know?
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  Yes, sir.
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  In in in the same sense, that's what I'm doing right now, bro.
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  You're not gonna find too many songs that I sing that ain't positive, man.
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  Exactly.
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  And, like, that's what I like about your music, man.
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  It's like that.
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  Like, you're a very positive person, and I can see that you are in your real life too here.
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  Yeah, man.
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  I try to be, unless I'm drinking, unless I'm too
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  drunk.
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  Hey,
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  man.
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  We
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  all get it right now.
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  Oh, shit.
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  Yeah.
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  Sometime, it ain't it ain't the best sometime, man.
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  But you know what?
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  We live and we learn, bro.
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  And, Noah, I'm I'm honored to have you in the mix, bro.
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  I'm honored to be in the mix with in the community, like, with Bubba, bro.
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  Bubba is on to something, bro, and I'm glad we're we are here together, bro, a part of the
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  team, man.
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  As you see my starts and ends, I got my Pablo one time logo.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  Hey.
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  Hey.
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  I need I need me a Bobo logo, bro.
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  Where we going, bro?
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  Hey, Luke.
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  I'm actually thinking about getting some Maiden stuff, man.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, I got you see you see my press machine, bro?
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  Like, let's get some shit going, bro.
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  Yeah.
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  We'll definitely have to talk after the show, man.
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  That's for sure.
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  For sure, man.
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  For sure.
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  But, yeah, man, I got some beats and stuff too, man.
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  Like, send me some stuff.
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  Got any open verses?
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  Send me something, man.
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  Oh, open verses, man.
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  I got some for the album still.
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  Man, send it, bro.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Let's work, bro.
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  Let's work, man.
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  But yeah, man.
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  So, man, so, Bobo, who's been your biggest supporter, man, of your career so far, man?
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  My biggest supporter?
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  Probably my mom, honestly, man.
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  She's been every time like, I finally got to get a show that she could get to, man.
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  Like, she kept trying she keeps trying to get to all the shows.
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  But finally, I was able to host one here in our hometown where she could make it out here and,
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  you know, get to see it.
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  So that was pretty cool.
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  Gotta love mom, bro.
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  Gotta love mom, bro.
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  Man, my mom's gone, man, but you gotta love mom, bro.
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  Absolutely,
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  man.
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  Man, love your mom enough for me, bro.
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  I lost my mom.
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  I was I was I was, what, 27?
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  27 when I lost my mom.
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  Yo.
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  Man, I would have thought you're less than 27 now.
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  I mean, I'm sorry to hear about your mom's, though, man.
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  Yeah, man.
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  Thanks, bro.
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  Know.
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  They damn.
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  I gotta look young.
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  Shit.
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  I I got these gray hairs and shit.
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  Well, I can't see you, man.
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  The lighting got you got you looking younger there.
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  Oh, man.
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  Yeah.
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  It's the ring light.
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  It's all in the ring light.
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  Yeah.
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  It's the ring light.
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  The ring light make us look good.
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  I have to get myself one of those.
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  Yeah.
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  For sure, bro.
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  For sure, man.
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  Most definitely get you a ring light, bro.
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  You you you are a content creator.
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  You need one of these things, man.
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  You're going live on your on your podcast and all that good stuff.
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  But, yeah, we're talk, man, because you got some ideas that we can share some ideas, and I
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  got some shit for you too on the offline because I don't wanna get too much free game.
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  But me and Bubba but me and Bubba was just talking about creating this thing called
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  digital real estate.
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  Are you are you familiar with digital real estate?
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  A little bit.
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  Not entirely.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  We think we own that right there.
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  Well, we're just creating we're creating digital currency, you know, passive income
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  streams, man.
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  Just like our podcast.
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  Right?
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  Hopefully, eventually, we'll we'll we'll be on these bigger platforms, getting some money in,
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  some new sponsors, some endorsements.
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  Right?
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  Right?
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  So it's like but what if we can go a different route?
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  You know?
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  So that's why I created, like I got, like, five, six publishing companies.
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  I I I I right now got I I right now have five publishing companies, bro.
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  They're like, I can get articles ranked on Google.
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  I I can get you shit probably put on Fox, Medium, Newsbreak, all that kind of craziness,
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  bro.
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  Like, right here inside the house, like, on your laptop.
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  So we don't talk about shit like that when we get offline, bro.
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  Easy easy money.
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  Definitely.
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  Yeah, man.
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  Because we artists.
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  We need all the money.
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  We need every.
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  And and when you like when you like doing the kind of thing you're doing now, have you ever
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  considered hosting your own shows, bro?
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  Like, hosting your own events, like, your own
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  I did.
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  August 6.
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  I hosted my own or August 7, I think.
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  Eighth.
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  It was the eighth.
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  Sorry.
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  How did how did it turn out?
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  How it turned out?
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  I mean, honestly, there was maybe, like, 40 to 50 people, but I had, like, two weeks
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  promotion, first show in a country town.
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  Not much of a hip hop market, and I had a better turnout than most of the shows I had
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  done from other promoters around the area.
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  Bro, you gotta have show you gotta do that shit.
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  You gotta do that, man, once a week, bro.
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  Once every two weeks.
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  Yeah.
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  And, actually, right now, I'm looking with, like, a smaller, like, bar place here.
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  We're talk me and someone are gonna talk to them about doing quarterly shows.
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  You know, every three months, bring in not even always gonna be rap.
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  You know?
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  We'll bring in other things too.
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  You know?
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  So I'm trying to really get my name into the scene as much as I can around here.
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  Yeah, man.
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  Yeah.
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  Most definitely, bro.
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  I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm right there with you, bro.
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  So are you are you currently doing any kind of community work?
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  Like like, you know, I I I'm I'm starting to get into, like, the the nursing homes and stuff
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  like that, getting back to the community, man.
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  Like, are you doing any kind of community involvement up there just yet?
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  Actually, I'm looking at, like, hosting a show to, like, you know, drive up, like, money for,
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  like, community things that we need around here and, like, you know, maybe, like, to help fund
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  things for the kids and stuff, you know, because we don't have a lot of things for kids
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  to do around here.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  You know, this is kind of a lot of a bar college gambling town, but, like, there's a lot
• 15:54
  of kids here with not much to do.
• 15:56
  Man, ain't nothing to do in South Dakota but go to bars and and go gamble.
• 16:01
  Man, I don't know.
• 16:02
  Sioux Falls is pretty fun.
• 16:04
  Sioux Falls is pretty fun.
• 16:05
  Sioux Falls is pretty cool, man.
• 16:07
  I can't lie.
• 16:08
  Pretty pretty man, bro.
• 16:10
  Pretty cool with some pretty girls, man.
• 16:11
  Boy, boy, boy.
• 16:15
  Damn right, man.
• 16:16
  Damn right.
• 16:17
  Yes, sir.
• 16:18
  But, yeah, man, this has been a a hell of a conversation, bro.
• 16:21
  Let's most definitely link up back again.
• 16:24
  Hey, Bobo.
• 16:25
  Boo Boo, how did they find you, bro?
• 16:26
  How did they find you all over the place, man?
• 16:28
  Tell us where to find you at, man.
• 16:30
  Boo Boo, you can find me on Pandora, Apple Music seven seven, Tidal, Spotify still for
• 16:37
  now.
• 16:38
  And you can find me on I think I said YouTube.
• 16:41
  If you wanna email me for booking, it's real booboo420@Gmail.com.
• 16:47
  My and that is my handle for most social medias as well.
• 16:51
  I'm boo boo on Facebook.
• 16:53
  You can find my page there for different events and updates.
• 16:58
  You hear that for yourself, man.
• 17:00
  I am your boy, Pablo, one time.
• 17:02
  We are live in a vault.
• 17:04
  My boy, boo boo, came in and showed me some love today.
• 17:07
  Thank you, sir.
• 17:08
  Thank you.
• 17:08
  Hey.
• 17:08
  I love y'all out there.
• 17:10
  Peace.
• 17:12
  But, yeah, that's about it right there for us, brother.
• 17:14
  That's how we wrap that up right there.
• 17:16
  Boom, man.