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Grounded Show Ep. 45 - Music Et Cetera · The Grounded Show

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Yo. You remember that Family Guy episode where there was clowning the way Will
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Smith rap? Oh yeah yeah yeah, they're like, you know, take
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your shoes off when you go in there. Something Aboudy just cleaned that floor
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like they wanted to make him seem like O D wholesome. Yeah. Yeah,
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it's funny because I went through like that little Will Smith phase when I
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was I think, like in middle school where I was like tapping into his
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catalog and like the old like story kind of raps that he used to do
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and stuff like that. Did you ever like go through his catalog? No,
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not really for Will Smith, but it was more so just because I
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wasn't really tapped in to music that where I'm tapped in now. I feel
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like if it was me, you know, thinking the way I think now,
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I probably would have tapped in. I don't know if I would have
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actually liked it, but I would have at least tapped in, because he
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definitely was at a point in his career where it's like, bro, you
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gotta know who Will Smith is. You know what I'm saying. Yeah,
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it's not my style of music, but I appreciate how it was put together.
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Yeah, it was very well produced, you know, Jesse, Jeff
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and will Smith. Just the way they kind of put it together and the
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way they like had the concepts of the songs and stuff like that. It
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was dope. It was like a dope idea and it was very cleanly done.
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But definitely not my cup of tea. Yeah, yeah, I feel
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that. But funny enough, like all the songs that he did for like
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a movie soundtrack, I always found him at fire, like the Men in
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Black Yeah wa wa West, the second Men in Black, you know,
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the Black Suit to Joint. Oh, and I like the Just the Two
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of Us remake that he did. Just yeah, that sounds hard. His
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son, his first son. You know what I always think about when I
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think about The Men in a Black Joint, It's like every time I go
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to Universal Studios and you get off The Men in Black Ride and they're playing
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that song on repete. It's just like, obviously it's the movie, but
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it just like that movie came out like two decades ago and they've been playing
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that song on repeat for two decades. Bro. Will Smith had Cisco talking
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about Wild Wild West top of his lungs. Bro, We're going straight to
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the Wild Wild West, Like like a movie theme song and Cisco just singing
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his heart out, Bro, talking about the wild Wild West only Will Smith.
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Bro. Yeah, Bro, that's another another movie song. I don't
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know. Bro. They used to have the movie songs back in the day,
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and the movie song used to hit. Yeah, I don't know.
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Spin was hard, bro, Bro a little cool j the um the sharkspin
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joint from the Yea Remember that that was a lion Wire classic. Bro.
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I downloaded that joint quick. That kind of blew my mind too, that,
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like I can't have a song from like a movie and I could just
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play it whenever, like in my headphones, you know what I mean?
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Yeah, like, Bro, because we come from that time when like it
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went from it was damn near impossible to get music when you don't got no
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money to like, everything was just at your fingertips for free. Fact.
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I mean, it was illegal, and we didn't really know it at the
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time because you know, we little kids, you know, we don't know
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anything about anything one and it was like a new thing. You know.
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They didn't even really know like how to track that kind of thing. When
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you remember those days, like when you had like a little crappy computer and
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you had lin Wire on there and you just download mass songs bro. Yep,
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Yeah, I think I think that's where like my real deep diver music
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started because I was just downloading everything that I could download, bro, Yeah,
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lin Wire, I mean, and that was what was dope about that
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time though, is that, like you said, it was so new and
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so fresh that it was like it was such a game changer for us because
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like you said, man, like I remember having a few CDs you know
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what I'm saying, and like playing them joints flight bro, you know what
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I mean, Like that's all I got. So I'm gonna listen to this
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fifty cent album or whoever you know what I'm saying on repeat and like being
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able to kind of like get that first taste of what the Internet was gonna
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be. Like, you know, I remember my mom got me to get
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Richard that trying when it when it dropped and she got me the edited version.
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I was so tight, man, I ain't even bump it. I
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end up downloading the explicit. Yeah that's wild. Yeah, No, I
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ain't gonna like you're not about to enjoy it. Get Richard, I try
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and clean. I don't enjoy any music edited anything anything that's like edited period,
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you know, like in the true sense, anything that has been modified
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for a different way to consume it. It's trash to me. I want
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to hear, I want to hear or see whatever like as it's intended.
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Yeah, what's your thoughts on like remixes, Like, for example, of
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songs, I'm a big fan of remixes. I'm a big fan of um
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artists doing other artists songs. I'm I don't know, man, I'm you
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know, I got like a crazy big range of type of music that I
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listened to and stuff, and part of that is like bro remixes, alternate
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versions, different verses, Like there's so many variations of like a different version
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of a song, and I man, I like to listen to all of
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them just to kind of see like who made what tweaks to make that version,
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like to kind of make it more in their image, and which one
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kind of was the one that I'm like, yeah, this is the one,
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you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, I feel because there's
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like a lot of R and B songs from back in the day that were
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like like indie type hits and indie in a different way because obviously it was
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a different time, but like a song that was like now on like national
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radio, but maybe he was getting like regional play a dope R and B
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song, and then the song wouldn't blow up until they did like a rapper
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version of it, you know what I mean, where like, Yeah,
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that's how I think about just on the hook, so into You to Me
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a joint. I didn't know that song before the fabulous version, I mean,
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and they could have been popular, but I just I didn't know it
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before the fabulous version. Yeah, it was definitely on a different type of
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radio, Like it was like more in that contemporary you know what I mean
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radio stations they would play, but yeah, like it. I've seen a
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little video the other day about how All for One and some country singer did
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the same songs like back in the nineties that I swear joint. They did
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their version, obviously the R and B one that most people remember, but
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and then that singer did a country version of it, the same lyrics,
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same kind of melody, everything, Like they literally just dropped the same song
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at the same time. And then the other song that they did that I
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Can Love You like that Buddy did the same thing with that too. They
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both just dropped the same song, but like in their style. You know,
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yeah, I see that happened a few times, especially in older music.
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I know there's this one song that Prince has that's like, I don't
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know, it's a remake. I don't remember who's the original, but I
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know when I heard the Prince version, I was like, Damn, this
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song is hard, you know what I mean? Even like when Iced Tea
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has been talking about the ninety nine Problems joint, because he did it first
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and he was explaining kind of the origins of that song, and the dude
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he was with basically was the one that said that, saying, you know,
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I got ninety nine problems, but a bitch ain't one, and he
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was like, wait what you say? And then that's why they kind of
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made the song. And then Buddy end up dropping a Verse on it too,
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the one that came up with the idea. And then obviously jay Z
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remade it on the Black album, and I just heard him kind of talking
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about it, and something that we talk about all the time is like,
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you know that, I'm like all about the music all the time, Like
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I just want, you know, the music to be as dope as possible,
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like with no like feelings involved, you know. And I just kind
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of like that idea of like you could basically like be so open for your
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song that you'll let different artists do it in different genres, you know what
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I mean, you let people kind of put their spin on it, because
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at the end of the day, it's, like I said, you're just
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trying to make the best version possible, the best art that you can make
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out of whatever everything. You know, if you do it in the right
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sonic range, anything could be good. You know. It's just as much
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it's just are you gonna give it like the type of care and actually like
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cultivated. Yeah, that's real, that's real. I mean kind of going
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off of that, you know, we actually, you know, as I
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mentioned the last week's episode, you know, I went out to Florida this
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past weekend, stayed with Leicester for about five days. I mean we ended
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up actually shooting a video for a collap joint that we got coming out pretty
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soon probably next month, called good Morning Love. You know, let's kind
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of talk a little bit about that shoot and kind of your experience. I
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obviously tap into my experience just kind of how everything kind of went down.
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Yeah, we shout out to Johnny again. Man, he did the Comfortable
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video. People were really rocking with that one. The Comfortable was doing real
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well. People like it. I just had a studio session last night where
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shout out to Unkies, the one that produced it. He was just playing
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it in the studio for somebody, and it was really rocking with it.
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And that was like the song that kind of they were singing like after that,
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you know what I mean, like you remember the melody and he kept
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singing it. So it was really dope. And yeah, we shot that
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video with Johnny. We did it Sunday morning before the barbecue, which that
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was super dope and we're gonna talk to Joe about that next week. There's
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a lot of dope stories and funny stories out of that barbecue. And but
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yeah, we shot the video with Johnny where it was like, man,
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the day wasn't really helpful because it was real cold and wendy and cloudy and
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just kind of came out of nowhere because have been like perfect days before that.
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But you know, shout out to Johnny. He made it work.
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We ended up getting a vibe that looked real like California and we were just
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kind of like on this river doc. So I'm really excited for people to
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kind of see that and you know, their minds are gonna take them somewhere
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where like they're not gonna imagine that's where we shot that video. You know
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what I mean, facts facts, and I mean, you know, shout
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out to the models that that came out, Kathi and Joslyn correct, Jaslyn,
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Yeah, Joslyn, Yeah, they both came you know, came correct.
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Man. You know, we've both been kind of doing things for a
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while and have seen uh, you know, sometimes the worst of the worst.
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Sometimes people don't show up. Um. They came in. They you
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know, were easy to work with, very very um you know, uh,
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charismatic with how you know what I'm saying. They were taking direction,
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you know, so it was really cool to have somebody like or them too
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to work with. For sure. Yeah, it's always dope when you're able
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to connect with people that are gonna do things as they promise, be professional,
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try to do the best the best finished product possible, you know,
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based on whatever is going on and just trying to execute. That's something that's
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super simple, you know when you say it out loud, but it's something
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that's so underrated because so many people don't have that follow through you know,
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facts facts, Yo. But something that kind of sparked in my head a
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little earlier, just based off what we was talking about. It kind of
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made me think, I don't know why, but it kind of got me
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thinking again about songwriting and like, you know, how you create when it
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comes to the songwriting and stuff. And I heard something real interesting today about
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how Jim Carey kind of said it very flippantly in a interview. He just
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kind of threw it in and it wasn't really like something that he was harping
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on, but it really made me think where he was like, whenever he
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is working on phrasing of like these funny lines in these movies that we all
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know and love, you know Ace Frontura, Yes man, liar, liar,
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you know he said, you know, the best part is when he
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has actually time to work out the lines and memorize him and what he what
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he kind of said in a nutshell was like it's it's dope when he's able
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to switch it from one side of the brain to the other, meaning when
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he actually has time to write it and figure it out and learn it,
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you're turning off the analytical thinking, you know, figuring out, brainstorming and
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kind of side of your brain, and then you're going straight into the creative
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side because you already kind of know the material, you know what I mean.
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And it was like, dang, that's that's super dope, he said.
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He didn't really say it like that, like, but that's basically what
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he was saying, you know, because he was just talking about how when
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he's actually having the time to learn these things, he can kind of play
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with it in a different way and kind of like unlock another level with it
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because he's kind of he you know, you're hitting it from both sides kind
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of when you think about it, because you mastered it on one side and
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then you're bringing it to the other side and mastered it on that side too.
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So that's something that's real dope and kind of like reassuring to me because
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when I make music, a lot of the times i'll make it then like
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I'll have like the first version. To get to give you an example,
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like my best songs, the first version always is the one that I end
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up writing with. But I have other songs not saying that they're bad and
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it's not like one hundred percent theory. But like most of the time,
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if if the song is like all the way dope from the first time that
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I laid it down, that's going to be one that people really really walking
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with, you know. But sometimes I'll do a song where let's say,
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like sixty percent of it is really dope, and once I kind of learn
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it, hear it and analyze it, it's kind of like what he's talking
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about. Like, then I swear to the other side and I'm like,
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Okay, let me play with the flows. Let me make sure that these
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two bars don't sound like these two bars. Let me switch up some of
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the phrasing because it's kind of repetitivele what I said here, you know what
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I mean, Like I can kind of attack it from a different angle,
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and I feel like that's something that gives me like a real dope viewpoint slash
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advantage when I'm creating, you know what I mean? Yeah, And I
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can I can actually relate to that too, just from the standpoint of I
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agree with you, m I feel like, you know, when I'm writing
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or making the song or putting it together, sometimes you know, taking that
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time to kind of you know, hear the idea out, like because you
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have the idea in your head, but it's like I gotta get it out
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so I can actually hear it right. And being able to hear the idea,
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you know, you can say like, Okay, you know, maybe
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if I attack it this way. Maybe if I do it this way,
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it can sound better. You have that time to then analyze it. And
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sometimes when I'm in that creative mode, the song or the way I you
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know, wrote things might be dope, but maybe I'm not analyzing it to
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the point where it's like if I delivered that this way, it would be
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better, but I'm just trying to get it out because that's where my mind's
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at on that creative side. Does that make sense. Yeah, So it's
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like I definitely can I feel that because I definitely have songs where it's like
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for you or for me. I feel like some of my best songs probably
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have been ones that I've probably rerecorded, you know, just from the standpoint
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of being able to sit back, get the flow down right, you know,
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no hiccups. And then also you know, for example, the little
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snippet or song that I sent you that I recorded last night, you know,
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after hearing it like five or six times, I realized there were certain
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words that I can re record that I didn't enunciate like all the way,
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you know what I'm saying, Like they kind of slurred out a little bit,
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and so like when I first heard it, I didn't hear that,
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you know what I mean, So because I was just in that creative mode
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rather than that analytical mode. So I don't know, for me, it's
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a little different, but I definitely see what he means by being able to
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turn off the analytical side and just dive into the creative side. Yeah,
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I just definitely overall, I just feel like drafting is super important when doing
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anything, you know what I mean, Especially with music. It's like,
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you know, you're gonna prove yourself right if it's still dope anyway, you
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know what I'm saying, Like you don't got to have the mentality of like,
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yo, I'm gonna do this first try and look how dope it is,
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you know what I mean. Like so many people get caught up on
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that, and it's kind of something we've been talking about with the boxing too,
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like where like boxing is getting dope again because they're losing money trying to
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everybody for they're losing money with everybody trying to be undefeated and fight and trying
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to pick and choose bums, and then wait until they got you know,
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a year left in their prime or something, or maybe they're a year past
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their prime, and that's when they want to have these fights, you know
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what I mean. Yeah, yeah, And it's like they're kind of adjusted
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now where like you're having a lot of undefeated fighters go against each other and
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it's super dope because it goes back to that thing of like everybody always want
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to be like never looking like nobody wants to look uncool, you know what
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I'm saying. Everybody want to have this like little story of like, oh,
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like especially in music, like it's a big thing you hear, like
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where somebody will get interviewed or something and they'd be like, you know,
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I didn't know I'd even want to be an artist, you know, And
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I just started taking it serious for two months and then I popped off,
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you know what I mean. It's like, all right, you know,
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if if that sounds cool to you, cool, but you know, realistically,
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if you're really trying to be like a real dope artist, you take
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it a little more serious than that, you know what I mean. Yeah,
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it's like being an artist and being a celebrity and being money generating brand,
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those are all different things, right right, And I mean that kind
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of just goes back to like, you know, the why behind you know,
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some of the artists that are actually making music, it's like why and
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if if it's not something that's like, you know what I'm saying, deeper
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than the surface than nine times out of ten, that's what you're gonna get,
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you know. Yeah. And the funny thing to me is like I
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really don't care about how anybody's approach to it is. It's just like the
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idea of being honest with yourself about it, you know what I mean.
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Yeah, that's more the thing with me. It's like I don't really care
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if you know, you're just looking at this as a way to make money
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and feed your family whatever the case is, you know what I mean.
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Like it's kind of like what we're talking about on the podcast in general,
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like what people doo don't really got nothing to do with you, and they
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do it because they got their reasons in their heads. So you know what
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I'm saying, Like they don't really got nothing to do with you, so
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who cares? You know. Yeah, so I'm like, go ahead,
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ahead, go ahead. Now. I was just gonna say, um,
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you know, I posted something on my pages that other day. It was
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like a Nipsey Hustle quote or something basically about him, just kind of describing
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how music is spiritual and how like you know, when you're making I shared
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it that was super dope. I explained kind of like that, and they
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was kind of saying that like you go like to another place, another dimension
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when you're making music, and you bring something back for other people to hear
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exactly. It was a real dope clip. I liked it a lot saying
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and I feel like, you know, that was such a dope way to
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explain it from the standpoint just going off of what you were just talking about.
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You know how certain people and again I don't care why people get into
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music neither, but you can see who actually goes to those places with the
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mindset of like I just want to make a dope song. I just want
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to make something quality rather than somebody that's just like, you know, I'm
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just putting something out, you know what I'm saying. You can kind of
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just tell from not really from the music, but from like you said,
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if somebody's in an interview and they're like, yeah, man, I don't
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know, I just I just got out here a week ago, you know
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whatever. Like it's like you can kind of tell from them. You know,
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it reflects in the music, you know, if you think about it,
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like you it definitely reflects. Yeah, And then the funny thing about
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music is like there's an audience for each version of an artist, you know
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what I mean. There's people that kind of like the dumb down trendy stuff.
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There's people that kind of like the just straight witty kind of stuff.
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There's people that like the whole artistry side of it. Like there's just so
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many ways to attack it, and everybody listens to it different and experiences is
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differently, and it's just like overall the dope thing about music. And I
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feel like that's why everybody's just kind of kind of be honest with themselves about
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like where their places in it, you know what I mean, Because at
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the end of the day, man, we're just pulling sounds out the air,
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like you know what I'm saying. Some people kind of take it to
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serious or like wanna. I don't know. I feel like sometimes people put
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an unfair expectation on the music, you know what I'm saying, of like
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what it needs to be for them, And it's like, bro, like
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the music is just the music. You know, you gotta you got to
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use it however you need to use it, you know. And that's like
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anything, you know, like anybody in any field, or like anybody that's
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trying to go after something, there's always gonna be that one thing that it's
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like you can kind of make that the boogeyman, you know, if you're
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just not going to be honest with yourself, you know, Yeah, that's
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facts, that's facts. I feel like that's something that's like over time,
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you know, you can need to learn it or not, you know,
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but over time you kind of start to learn it and it helps you grow,
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you know. I feel like that's one of the things to me.
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Bro. It's like, especially over the last few years, man, I've
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really kind of just started to accept, you know, and love everything about
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myself, you know what I'm saying. Like, obviously I'm still working through
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that, you know, but I feel like over the last few years,
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more than ever probably in a long time. You know, I've really started
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to just accept and love like all the little quirky stuff about myself. You
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know what I'm saying that You probably was like, damn, I don't know
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why I even do that, But it's like that's you, that's me,
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you know, so yeah, man, for sure. Yeah. And it
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goes kind of hand in hand with like music and just anything in general.
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Where like with the music, it's the thing that we talked about before you
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got to record, you know, you got to get to a point where
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you're just so versed and fluid with it that you can connect all the dots.
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That's just with anything else in life. And there's so many people that,
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like I said, they always got to create some kind of boogeyman somewhere
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else, as far off in the distance, not realizing they're in full control
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of their own life. To me, that's like the most corny thing,
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you know what I mean. And it's like, if I see that you're
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kind of in that mind state, I'm I'm the type of person bro that
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like, I don't I don't give unwarranted advice. I'll listen to your stupid
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little story and I'll just laugh at it, you know, just you know,
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react in the sense of what it is. But I'm not going to
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give you no feedback on it, you know what I mean. And that's
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something to me that's just super fascinating. Like I was even talking about it
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the other day with my father in law, Like I would almost be more
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interested in seeing like if you could go into the mind of somebody, a
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smart person or a dumb person, I would almost just rather I mean not
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almost, I'm for sure I would rather go into the dumb person's mind to
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see how they rationalize the stuff that they do and how they make it make
23:33
sense, you know what I mean, Like, because to me, it
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got to be pure delusion, you know what I mean. So like I
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would just love to be in the mind of somebody like that and just kind
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of see, like where are you drawing these conclusions from, you know,
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Like and the type of people I'm talking about it is like people that clearly
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don't take responsibility for the things that they do, people that clearly don't want
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to accept their own flaws and work through them. Like that that's something that
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don't don't got nothing to do with. Like the type of person you are
24:03
just got to do with something that's black and white that you wear on your
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on your vibe, you know what I'm saying, Like that's something that you're
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always gonna pick up off somebody, And like that kind of plays into the
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whole barbecue thing. And I'm excited to talk about that with you and Joe
24:19
next week because that barbecue was like everybody that was on the vibe that we're
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that we're on, you know what i mean. Like it was kind of
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like like a ground to show barbecue, you know yeah, And that's why
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it was something that was so dope that we want to talk about. But
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going off of that, it's like everybody that was there was super cool.
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You never felt a vibe, but like you had to had your guard up,
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you know what I'm saying. Everybody was cool, even people that didn't
24:47
really know each other. It's like, if you're here, you're dope.
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Cool, Yeah, you know what I mean. Like the people that are
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here, are they supposed to be here? You know what I mean?
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Yeah, shout out to January. And only reason I say that because when
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you said that the if you're here, you're dope, it reminded me of
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brunch that I went to at her place about two or three weeks ago,
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and like immediately like just probably like five or ten minutes of coming in there,
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I didn't know anybody but January and her girl, you know what I'm
25:17
saying. But immediately of coming in there are I just got that vibe that
25:21
was like, Yo, everybody in here, it seems pretty dope. And
25:23
then like thirty to forty five minutes, bro, everybody, you know what
25:26
I'm saying, was chopping it up, exchanging socials, you know what I'm
25:30
saying, just getting to know each other, and like and then you figured
25:33
through the conversations like damn, these people are dope, you know what I'm
25:37
saying, And like that's the energy I like, you know what I'm saying.
25:40
I love being able to step into a room and and that's I feel
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like that's why, like, you know what I'm saying, the certain people
25:45
that are around me are around me because y'all can create that because of the
25:48
circles y'all surround yourselves with facts, and then it's that's why it's so important
25:56
finding like those like minded people and kind of getting out of the the blind
26:02
loyalty stage in your life. If you're even in that, you know what
26:04
I mean. I feel like a lot of people kind of get into this
26:07
thing where like they're not realizing that them. You gotta be loyal to yourself,
26:12
you know what I mean, Like you gotta be loyal to your path,
26:15
your future, because it's the thing that we always talk about that's so
26:19
simple, but people don't really analyze it. It's like everybody's living in their
26:23
body. They're living in their experience, so they're not focused on you.
26:29
You know what, I'm staying. As much as that person may love you,
26:32
and as much as that person may care for you, at the end
26:34
of the day, their instinct is going to tell them what's gonna serve me,
26:38
you know what I'm saying. Everybody has that, you know, So
26:42
you always gotta be trying to be the best version of yourself. You always
26:48
gotta be trying to be the best version of yourself. That's what I just
26:52
said right now, all right, So you always got to try and be
26:57
the best version of yourself. And that is the kind of thing that's going
27:02
to attract those other people that are in the same path and on the same
27:06
way, because if you're not always striving to be better and realizing that You're
27:11
never gonna get to a place where you're like one hundred percent better. You
27:15
already want, you know what I mean. I feel like something that Stephen
27:18
A. Smith always says is like he's the smartest person in the room because
27:22
he knows he's not the smartest person in the room, you know what I
27:25
mean, Because I think I don't know if I'm mixing up something that Shaq
27:30
says with something that Stephen Ay says, I probably am, but it's basically
27:36
something along those lines are like just kind of knowing being very aware of yourself
27:42
and the situation around you is like almost like the ultimate cheek code, you
27:48
know what I mean. Like just having that awareness and understanding that with every
27:52
situation you're in, it really just takes you far because you know at the
27:57
very core level the situation you're in, you know what I'm saying, And
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it's like it's for anything you know you can be. You know, somebody
28:07
that works in a fast food like that's a perfect example, bro, because
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I used to work at McDonald's. Right when I was a kid, I
28:12
worked at McDonald's. You know a lot of people have them, like little
28:15
fast food type jobs, and when you work them fast food type jobs when
28:19
there's like a rush or like you're behind on an order or something like you
28:23
slip into this mentality or like you're stressed out, you know what I'm saying,
28:27
like about like an order chicken nuggets or something, you know what i
28:32
mean. And it's like I always found that so fascinating, like that I
28:37
was like a kid and I'm looking at these like grown ups at the time,
28:41
you know, because at the time, I'm a teenager and I'm looking
28:42
at these adults and I'm like, yo, these dudes is really running back
28:47
and forth sweating over some hamburgers brush, you know what I mean. And
28:52
it's not it's it's not to degrade the job or whatever, because obviously I'm
28:56
there too, working, you know what I'm saying. But it's just like
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fascinating to me that like people get in a job or just in a situation
29:03
and forget like the human element of your life, you know what I mean.
29:07
It's like a lot of people talk about like feeling like they're in a
29:10
simulation and all these things, just basically saying like they're in a rut or
29:15
they're in a repeat, or man, the world is this the world?
29:19
Is that like so many people want to spend all their time just observing and
29:26
trying to figure out how everything outside of their power is against them, not
29:32
realizing we were literally giving the ability to create our surroundings and create our situations.
29:38
Yeah, that's facts. That's big facts, and that's just that's something
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like I said, Man, that's something that always be super fascinated me.
29:47
And it goes back to what I was saying about like getting in the minds
29:49
of somebody that just does stupid stuff, because it's like what what in your
29:56
brain is making you think that you're not in charge of your own life,
30:00
you know what I mean. That's something that's like so crazy to me.
30:03
Like there's so many people that, you know, everybody knows that they're already
30:06
at like a more advanced age, and they have never realized that, you
30:11
know what I'm saying, and you and you can see it on them,
30:12
you know what I mean, Like you can see that they've let whatever circumstance
30:18
was their original circumstance just dictate the rest of their life, you know what
30:22
I mean. That's why I've always kind of get like weirded out by you
30:29
know, people that consume themselves with their job. You know what I mean.
30:33
I always get weirded out by that because it's like, you know,
30:36
they pay me for a certain time of being here. I do this job,
30:40
I get money, and that's the transaction. Why am I at home?
30:44
Not me? But I'm just saying from you know, from that perspective,
30:47
Why am I at home at a seven o'clock on a Tuesday night talking
30:51
to somebody about work for an hour? Like you're not getting paid for that
30:55
first off, and now it's consuming your personal time when you already are giving
31:00
up forty or fifty hours of that time to get you know what I'm saying,
31:03
It just always fast. There's people that I love work, but to
31:07
me, work is just the most annoying necessary thing that you have to do
31:15
to you know, be able to do everything else. Yeah, you know
31:18
what I mean. I feel like everybody's just kind of trying to figure out
31:22
how to do that work the most enjoyable way possible and the easiest way possible,
31:26
to continue to do the creative and fun and just how do you say
31:33
it? Positive projects that you got going on, you know what I mean,
31:37
Like constructive things, you know, progressive things you need that job for
31:41
it, you know, and I understand that some people, you know,
31:45
that's that's another thing where like school, you know, like people go to
31:48
school for a job and then they're like, I'm gonna be doing this until
31:52
I'm X years old. Like it's like, how, I don't know that.
31:56
That's kind of crazy to me that you could just just I to do
32:00
something and not even like give a thought or given given opening for something else
32:05
to creep in, you know what i mean. It's like, how are
32:07
you so sure that this is your path? I'm I'm not saying that it's
32:10
not, That's what I'm asking. It's like, how how do these people
32:15
just know like I'm not gonna try anything else or I'm not gonna explore anything.
32:20
I'm just gonna say I'm this type of person and that's it, right.
32:23
I mean, now everybody's built like that, you know what I'm saying.
32:29
Some people are just you know, they kind of are followers in a
32:32
sense, you know what I'm saying. Like you're told all throughout your childhood,
32:37
go to school, get a good job. You do that, you
32:39
get your job, and that's kind of where it stops, you know what
32:43
I'm saying. You never then never even thought about other options to the situation,
32:46
like or you know what I'm saying, using that job to do something
32:50
they actually love to do, you know what I'm saying, Like there's ways
32:52
around it, and there's ways that you can do both. It just takes
32:57
balance and and hard work. You know, just takes you know what i
33:00
mean, Like hard work Like some people, you know, they go to
33:02
work and you know, they just do what's necessary to get by sometimes,
33:07
you know what I'm saying, If you're working hard at work and you're working
33:10
hard on whatever you got going on, both of those situations are gonna win.
33:15
Yeah, It's it's definitely one of those things where it's super disappointing when
33:19
you see somebody that kind of limits themselves with the job and they kind of
33:27
put themselves in a box and don't really realize that they're the ones that can
33:32
get out of it, you know what i mean. And it's like it's
33:36
not something where because we talked about it before too, it's not something where
33:38
I'm saying like, oh, you gotta do your own thing, like na,
33:42
you just gotta figure out a job that makes sense for you and how
33:45
you can leverage that to give you a better life, you know what I
33:49
mean. And at the end of the day, and that's what'll kind of
33:52
rap with this, Like that's kind of like the human element I'm talking about.
33:53
Like, and it's something that I mentioned before, Like whenever I used
33:57
to have like a regular job, I would always be like, Okay,
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I'm gonna be on time and I'm gonna do my job better than everybody else.
34:06
When you do that, you're automatically on it. Like the employee handbook
34:10
don't apply to you no more. You know what I'm saying, because when
34:14
you level with your boss and say, hey, look at what you know
34:16
what I'm saying, Look at what I'm giving you, look at the consistency,
34:20
look at you can count on me. They're not gonna treat you by
34:23
the book, right, you get what I'm saying. And it's like,
34:28
bro, why would you go to work to try and like cause friction of
34:31
like, oh, I'm not gonna work. Oh what are they? How
34:35
are they gonna tell me what to do? Oh? You know, I'll
34:38
do it, but I'm not gonna finish it, you know, just for
34:40
the principle or you know what I'm saying, Like It's like there's so many
34:45
dumb things that people do with their day that they're not even realizing. It's
34:49
like, dog, you gotta be at work anyway, and it's harder to
34:52
fake work than to just work right, you know what I mean. So
34:55
it's like I don't even understand the idea of that, And just to kind
35:00
of sum everything up, really, what I'm trying to say is you gotta
35:05
like actually like put in the legwork and you gotta get past like it's just
35:09
like working out, bro, Like you gotta get past that stage where you're
35:13
sore every day. You know why you're sore every day, that's your body
35:15
telling you. It's just like flossing, bro. If you floss in your
35:19
teeth, leave, that's your body telling you you don't floss your dirty mother,
35:22
you know. Yeah, Like it's the same thing we're working out.
35:25
If you're working out and you're feeling sore and crazy the next every day,
35:29
guess what is because you're not using your body to the best ability of your
35:32
body, you know what I'm saying. So with that, I'm just gonna
35:37
say next week, we're gonna have that conversation about the most fire barbecue of
35:42
all time, and we actually got some footage of it, and that's gonna
35:45
be wrapped up in the story. It's gonna be super funny. Man.
35:49
I can't wait to talk about that and stay butter not m m