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Tez STL On Metro Boomin Friendship, Surviving St. Louis Streets, & The #1 Thing Rappers Lie About · The Baller Alert Show

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  Speaker 1: That's one thing I really learned, but you really can't
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  Speaker 1: just say you did this shit on your own.
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  Speaker 2: Still need a team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you need a team. A lot of people be
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  Speaker 1: trying to do everything by themselves. I don't need nobody. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you do.
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  Speaker 2: So you have management and everything?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. The whole nine yards.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, y'all went to high school together?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: See, people do forget, because Metro's in Atlanta. Yeah. But
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  Speaker 2: he's from St. Louis.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's from the city, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: And he went to high school with you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So you probably hit him on the phone.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Is that your real name?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that ain't my real name.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I got a couple of alias.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I never use my real name.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to have to.
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  Speaker 2: Google me if you want that.
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  Speaker 1: How's your 2026 looking? My 2026 looking promising for sure.
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  Speaker 1: We got some shit in the cut for real.
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  Speaker 3: What you working on?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what you working on? Let's talk about it.
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  Speaker 5: Broadcasting live from the Nagle Law Firm Studios.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Bar Alert Show. I'm Ferrari Simmons.
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  Speaker 3: I'm, you know, BT.
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  Speaker 2: Tez, what's up, big dog? What's up?
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  Speaker 1: What's going on, man? Thank y'all boys for having me out.
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  Speaker 2: We appreciate you pulling up. We appreciate you pulling up. Now,
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  Speaker 2: where is Tez from?
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  Speaker 1: Tez from St. Louis, as it says in the name
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  Speaker 1: for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: The Lou.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The city. The slums. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you know, I ain't gonna lie. I've been to St. Louis, bro.
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  Speaker 2: Love the people. I want to say.
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  Speaker 5: Y'all might be the most serious-looking folk. There ain't too
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  Speaker 5: many people cracking a smile like that. It's not the
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  Speaker 5: Southern hospitality that I thought, because it's Midwest.
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  Speaker 3: I would say, yeah, they the Midwest.
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  Speaker 2: But St.
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  Speaker 5: Louis is a nice-looking city. If you're on a plane
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  Speaker 5: and you're about to land, it looks good.
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  Speaker 3: St. Louis is a nice city.
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  Speaker 2: When you get there... It's not as friendly. Yeah, nah.
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  Speaker 1: It look good to your land. You see the arch,
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  Speaker 1: you're like, I'm going to go down there.
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  Speaker 2: The arch is cool until you go down there.
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  Speaker 3: I saw the arch.
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  Speaker 1: You went down there? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I used to go to St.
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  Speaker 5: Louis.
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  Speaker 3: I've been to St.
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  Speaker 1: Louis a couple times.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all from Arkansas, so St.
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  Speaker 3: Louis is just up.
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  Speaker 2: But you know Arkansas is slick still to the south.
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  Speaker 3: No, Arkansas is the south.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So, St. Louis is.
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  Speaker 3: Midwest. Midwest. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. How long you been doing music?
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  Speaker 1: Shit, about 10 years. 10 years for sure. 10 plus.
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  Speaker 1: Not just 10. 10 plus. That's some... I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Know that motherfucker yet. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: How's your 2026 looking? My 2026 looking promising, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: We got some shit in the cut, for real.
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  Speaker 2: What you working on? Yeah, what you working on? Let's
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  Speaker 2: talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: Shit, well, y'all know I just dropped this song with Metro.
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  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: That takedown.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we got the video from.
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  Speaker 2: How'd that situation happen?
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  Speaker 1: Shit. I took a hiatus. But when I take my hiatus.
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  Speaker 2: What's the hiatus? Were you on vacation somewhere?
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  Speaker 1: No, I was just doing, like, dealing with some family
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  Speaker 1: shit type shit. You know what I'm saying? Just making
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  Speaker 1: sure my people straight. You know what I'm saying? But
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  Speaker 1: even when I do take my hiatus, I still record.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I take my time to record. Like, it be a
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  Speaker 1: lot of shit going on in my background. Like, people
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  Speaker 1: might not see me, but just know I'm always working.
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  Speaker 3: But.
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  Speaker 1: After that, I'm like, ah, it's time to pop shit again.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, the best way to pop some shit is
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  Speaker 1: with bro. So, I told bro, I'm like.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you need, man? Yeah, because Metro is
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  Speaker 2: from St.
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  Speaker 3: Louis.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people forget that.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, shit, high school.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, y'all went to high school together?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: See, people do forget, because, you know, Metro's in Atlanta. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But he's from St. Louis.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's from the city, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: And he went to high school with you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, you probably hit him on the phone.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He was like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He's over here like, that's regular.
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  Speaker 2: No, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: That's regular.
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  Speaker 2: So, did you come to Atlanta or did he get
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  Speaker 2: up at you?
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  Speaker 1: I live here.
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  Speaker 2: So, you stay in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I stay here.
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  Speaker 2: How often do you go back home?
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  Speaker 1: I'm finna go tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I'm finna go tomorrow. I'm finna sneak there. I ain't
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  Speaker 1: gonna let nobody know I'm there.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you gotta sneak in and sneak out.
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  Speaker 4: So, when Metro moved to Atlanta, did y'all move to
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  Speaker 4: Atlanta at the same time or did y'all stay friends.
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  Speaker 3: Or it was just kind of like.
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  Speaker 1: We stayed friends for sure, but he had been came
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  Speaker 1: to Atlanta. I think he came to Atlanta while I'm off.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Either why He was in and out During Senior year
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  Speaker 1: And I think he went out there He was hella
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  Speaker 1: young When he moved here Yeah For sure I mean
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  Speaker 1: yeah But uh Yeah we just stayed close Then when
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  Speaker 1: I Decided to pick up the mic You know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying He tapped in Showed love You know You
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  Speaker 1: know A lot of motherfuckers That you grow up with
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  Speaker 1: In high school You don't keep in touch With them
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  Speaker 1: When you get a certain age You know what I'm.
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  Speaker 4: Saying Especially when you read The success that You know
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  Speaker 4: That he's had In his It's really dope to see
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  Speaker 4: that you guys are still connected, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: Because sometimes when people move away from their hometown, you know,
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  Speaker 4: they don't tap back in, you know, with people that
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  Speaker 4: they grew up with or, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Because they're trying to get away.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But, bro, Humble, bro, got a, you know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: He got a loyal heart, so I can't even see
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  Speaker 1: him doing no shit like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. All right, so what does your next, what does
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  Speaker 2: the next six months look like for Ted?
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  Speaker 1: Next six months look like a whole bunch of new work,
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  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of new tits. I got new vibes.
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  Speaker 1: I transform over the time. I try to stay sticking
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  Speaker 1: with the era. Some Pluto shit. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Now, when you record, what's the process of when you
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  Speaker 4: go in the studio with somebody like a Metro? Do
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  Speaker 4: you tell him what sound you're looking for, or is
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  Speaker 4: he just in there cooking up when you're in the studio?
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  Speaker 1: I really know my vibe already because- You tapped in. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you did. Yeah. He really know my vibe, but sometimes...
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  Speaker 1: This shit's tailored.
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  Speaker 2: That's a blessing to say, fam.
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  Speaker 3: Must be nice.
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  Speaker 1: Nah, for sure. But I really only like people, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people in my sessions. I kick motherfuckers out
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  Speaker 1: of life.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I was going to ask you, how's your
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  Speaker 2: studio session? Do you prefer to work alone? You run
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  Speaker 2: a tight ship.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Women got to be the two.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: If you see a woman in a studio with me,
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  Speaker 1: She got good vibes.
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  Speaker 3: Because those women are slick. They in ours.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Because you could be like, what do you think about this?
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  Speaker 1: Man, listen. You got to think. When niggas want to
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  Speaker 1: take a bitch on a date, can I kiss? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: When women want to take hoes on dates, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying? They get in the car. They trying
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  Speaker 1: to let the girl play the vibe. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying? You might have to drive 30 minutes. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to let the chick be like, all right, what
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  Speaker 1: you want to listen to? Keep her comfortable. And they
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  Speaker 1: be playing some shit. You be like, what the fuck? Like,
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  Speaker 1: who is this? How the fuck you know about it?
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  Speaker 1: Women be bringing the vibe. So a lot of 9-10
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  Speaker 1: out of 10, if a woman say they fucking with it,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good start. That's a good start to marketing.
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  Speaker 2: Now you independently?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. I'm not talking like that.
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  Speaker 5: Are you trying to work towards getting a deal with
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  Speaker 5: a major, or are you kind of cool with just
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  Speaker 5: being independent?
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  Speaker 1: I'm cool with being independent.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: We got the bag.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir. You know what? I'm finding a lot of
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  Speaker 3: artists are starting to become independent.
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  Speaker 2: As long as you got the bag, you clean.
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  Speaker 1: For sure. You got the bag, you good. And if
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  Speaker 1: you got a team.
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  Speaker 2: You got the bag, you got a team. You really
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  Speaker 2: just building fans.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, at that point.
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  Speaker 2: That's the only priority, if I'm being honest. You go
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  Speaker 2: to the label for the services.
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  Speaker 1: You do.
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  Speaker 2: A label basically is you're using their staff. But you
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  Speaker 2: also have to know that's why you got to negotiate. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And you really, you shouldn't go to a label unless
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  Speaker 2: you like a top priority.
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  Speaker 3: You have leverage.
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 5: You got to curate some leverage because if you don't
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  Speaker 5: have leverage, they're going to be.
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  Speaker 3: Like, oh yeah, we'll get you.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to court you and put you right over there. Damn.
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  Speaker 2: And you're going to chill.
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  Speaker 3: You're giving artists a lot of game right now.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's just the truth though. I mean, same
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  Speaker 2: thing with like work. A regular job, fam.
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  Speaker 5: You got your main star of an employee, and then
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  Speaker 5: you got the people that's around that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But, you know, a lot of people like to say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I did it on my own. I beat it. You can't, like,
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  Speaker 1: that's one thing I really learned, but, like, you really
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  Speaker 1: can't just say you did this shit on your own.
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  Speaker 2: Still need a team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you need a team. A lot of people be
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  Speaker 1: trying to do everything by themselves. I don't need nobody. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you do.
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  Speaker 2: So you have management and everything.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The whole nine yards.
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  Speaker 4: I think artists just say that because they think it
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  Speaker 4: makes them look cool to say, I did it by myself.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: I guess it's part of the storyline maybe sometimes too.
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  Speaker 3: The storyline played out, man. Ain't nobody did nothing on
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  Speaker 3: their own anymore, man. At all, bro.
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  Speaker 4: And not saying this about you, but a lot of
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  Speaker 4: artists are saying that they're independent.
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  Speaker 3: And then you started going looking at.
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  Speaker 2: And they're not.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, wait, you.
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  Speaker 3: Had this big label behind you?
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  Speaker 2: No, it's actually the cap.
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  Speaker 5: It's actually the cap to say, like, oh, yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 5: doing this independent. It's a couple of big acts from
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  Speaker 5: the last five years that were perceived as they were independent.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because if you have a partnership deal, you're not independent.
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  Speaker 2: At all.
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  Speaker 4: Because you still got the machine behind you. It's just
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  Speaker 4: your label imprint.
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  Speaker 1: Keyword, the machine. You did. I forgot the whole machine
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  Speaker 1: behind me, so I did it by myself.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, right.
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  Speaker 2: Now, describe your name. Is that your real name?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that ain't my real name.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I got a couple of alias.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I never use my real name. Okay. You're going to
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: have to Google me if you want that.
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  Speaker 2: Damn. So, where did Tez come from?
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  Speaker 1: That's where everybody just called me.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Is that part of your name?
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  Speaker 1: It's part of my name.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 2: It's part of my name. or something like that?
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  Speaker 1: Something like that. That ain't me all the way.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, no, no, no, no. I got you. I got you.
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  Speaker 4: Now, growing up, how influential was seeing somebody like Nelly
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  Speaker 4: break out in the city?
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  Speaker 1: Man, shit. It was big. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: He was the one to do it. Like, damn. All right,
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  Speaker 1: we got some tension.
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  Speaker 2: He was like the first rapper.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But then it was, what, Chingy, then Jaquan.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like after Nelly, when he broke the mold.
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  Speaker 1: He opened the door.
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  Speaker 2: He's a couple singers, too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he opened the floodgates for sure.
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: Who was the singer that took his eye out? Remember him? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He gauged his eye out. You from St.
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  Speaker 4: Louis?
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  Speaker 3: Who are you talking about?
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Who the hell are you talking about?
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: You know him come out?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Houston or whatever his name is.
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  Speaker 3: He from St.
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  Speaker 5: Louis.
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  Speaker 1: He ain't a singer?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I said he was a singer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. He had gays he had got too high and
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  Speaker 2: he took his eye out.
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  Speaker 1: Damn, yeah, I forgot about that shit. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what he was on.
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  Speaker 2: He had one song. It was five, too. What'd he got?
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  Speaker 1: What'd he take his eyeball out for then?
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  Speaker 2: He was on some stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I bet he was because, nigga, that's the only way
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  Speaker 1: you can know some shit like that.
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  Speaker 2: He was hallucinating. No, yeah, for sure. I'm dead ass serious.
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  Speaker 1: All right, man. Respect him.
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  Speaker 3: But what I'm.
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  Speaker 5: Saying is the dope thing about St. Louis is I
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  Speaker 5: feel like it was a moment in time, like, for
• 11:18
  Speaker 5: the city. You guys even won a Super Bowl.
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: See, Atlanta, we ain't never won a Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't going to lie. I don't respect how the
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: fucking Rams went to LA on us.
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: That's crazy because it's true.
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  Speaker 5: Los Angeles team, that don't make sense.
• 11:32
  Speaker 2: That's lame.
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  Speaker 1: And then y'all still kept the Rams. Change the name
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: too then, nigga. You're going to leave. Change the name, nigga.
• 11:38
  Speaker 3: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 5: I know that hurt the city a little bit too
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  Speaker 5: because y'all loved the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: And they betrayed the fuck out of us.
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: Because y'all got the Cardinals.
• 11:44
  Speaker 3: That's great.
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we got the Cardinals. Yeah, man, we got the Cardinals, man.
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  Speaker 2: But y'all won the Super Bowl. They got up out
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: of there. Okay, so how, okay.
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  Speaker 1: So when the last Super Bowl that St. Louis won?
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  Speaker 3: They ain't won one since.
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  Speaker 2: It was like 2001. It was Kurt Warner.
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  Speaker 1: And what year is it today?
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  Speaker 2: 2026.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: So when they won in L.A., did that make you
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  Speaker 5: feel the way? When they went to L.A.? When they
• 12:06
  Speaker 5: won the Super Bowl in L.A.
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  Speaker 1: Man, I was pissed. It was a Los Angeles Rams.
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: They won the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, when they first got there.
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  Speaker 2: That was with Aaron Donalds.
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: No, when they first got there, they went to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: That made me feel some type of way already because
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: we couldn't even get that far when they was there.
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  Speaker 1: The second time, then they won.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And that really had me pissed.
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  Speaker 2: Like, damn, bro.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, it's just business.
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  Speaker 4: They probably just had more money in L.A.
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  Speaker 3: To get better players. But look, that's.
• 12:32
  Speaker 5: Crazy, fam, to have two teams in the same city.
• 12:35
  Speaker 5: I think only New York and L.A.
• 12:36
  Speaker 3: Have that.
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: But I mean, it's 20 million people in L.A.? Yeah.
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: It's like 10 million over here. But why take it
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: out of St.
• 12:46
  Speaker 3: Louis? Money.
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, overly.
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: Los Angeles is about to get a football team.
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, my bad.
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: Las Vegas. They got it.
• 12:54
  Speaker 3: Oh, I know Vegas is on the way.
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: No, it's Las Vegas Raiders. They got it.
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, they already got it. We tripping.
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: We tripping.
• 13:03
  Speaker 4: I'm not surprised that Vegas is getting a lot of
• 13:04
  Speaker 4: sports teams because I feel like that gambling money.
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: Is slowing up. I'm talking about NBA.
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: Gambling period.
• 13:10
  Speaker 5: They're thinking about doing an NBA team in Las Vegas.
• 13:13
  Speaker 3: They're going to make that bread.
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: They're going to do an NBA team?
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: They're thinking about it because they got football. And WNBA
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: right now.
• 13:19
  Speaker 4: But you know one thing that I don't understand, people
• 13:22
  Speaker 4: always say, well, why people don't play for Atlanta Hawks?
• 13:24
  Speaker 4: Because they try to say, oh, Atlanta has a lot
• 13:27
  Speaker 4: of distractions. If you look at all the trouble the
• 13:30
  Speaker 4: Raiders players have had since they've been to Vegas, people
• 13:34
  Speaker 4: drunk driving, people getting caught with drugs.
• 13:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: It's a.
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: The DUI shit go crazy and all. You ain't lying, bro. Like,
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: you see that shit, so motherfucker off that shit down
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: there normal. DUI, DUI, DUI.
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question, Tez.
• 13:48
  Speaker 5: How do you navigate staying, you know, grounded and well-grounded without,
• 13:54
  Speaker 5: you know, getting into any type of beefs or anything
• 13:57
  Speaker 5: like that while doing your music?
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: Man, first of all, I pray a lot. So, it's,
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying? It's a communion that I
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: got me and God right now. But other than that,
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: I got the people that surround me. Because, you know,
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: birds of a feather flock together.
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: Because it's dangerous being an artist.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: It is. It is very much dangerous, bro. Like, people
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: know who you is. You don't know them. Mm-hmm. They
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: walk up on you and shit. And, like, you just
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: be like, make you, in a sense, like, especially coming
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: from where I'm from, like, that shit make me paranoid. Like,
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: I'm instantly thinking you on something. Mm-hmm. Like, whole time,
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: you might be a whole fan. Like, hey, yeah, I
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: heard your music. But in my mind, I'm receiving this
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: shit a different way. Like, man, what butt ass on?
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: Why you talking to me? How you know this? Like, nigga,
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: you on the internet. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: So that shit overly hard, though.
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: How's the music community in St.
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: Louis?
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: It's good, man. We got a lot of hard artists there.
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: No doubt.
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: But do y'all, like, all work together?
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: Because obviously Sexy Red is one of the artists that's
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: killing the game right now from St.
• 14:59
  Speaker 5: Louis.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: I'm going brazen. But I wouldn't say we all... I
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: wouldn't say that y'all, listen, man, it's a hood thing there.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: You know, L.A.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: Like gangland.
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: L.A.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: Gangland.
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: And St.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: Louis, we more like, I don't know, like, where you
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: from and all that shit. Like, if niggas in tour,
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: they ain't making no motherfucking song together.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that shit dead. It's just, if motherfuckers get around
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: that shit, bro, it'll be good. Because there's a lot
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: of good artists there. Like, some artists, I'd be like, man,
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: whoop-wop made a song with whoop-wop. That shit would be dope.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: But I already know. Woo-Wop ain't gonna make a song
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: with Woo-Wop because of where they from and what's going on.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: Once it's up, it's up. So that's a neighborhood thing
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: in St. Louis?
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Hell yeah. Listen, bro. I'm running off hoods and zones.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: Where you from?
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: It ain't really too much gangbang. Nigga's gangbang for sure,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: but nigga's really like, nigga, you from where? Nigga, we
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: just smashed a nigga over there. That type of shit
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: be going on in the city. But I don't tune
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: in with that shit no more. Okay.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: He said, I'm a remover.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: I'm a remover.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: I had to. Yeah. I wouldn't have got this far
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: if I wouldn't.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, playing in the streets and trying to do this
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: shit is a no-go.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Because it's real dangerous in St.
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: Louis, bro.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: Man, very.
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: St.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: Louis is one of the most dangerous cities in the country.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you come there, you don't know why.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I see.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: I ain't been to St. Louis in many years. But
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: it's some very.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: Nice areas in St.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: Louis.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we got the county. I'm good. Bro, I was
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: somewhere very nice.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: You probably was in the county.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: I ain't gonna lie where I was at.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: You was in the county.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: It was very nice.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: You wasn't in the city. You was in the county
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: for sure.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: If you saying that, it was very nice. You was
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: in the county. It was very nice. Yeah, you was
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: in the county.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: It was a while back though. It was a conference.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: See, my sister live in St. Louis. I don't want
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: to visit now.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: I ain't visiting your sister. She going to be able
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: to tell you the ins and outs.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: Nah.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: What's up?
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: Listen, man, you know. I'm about to call you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: We're going to call you. I'm trying to go get
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: some food over here. Is this a good place? You
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: probably hit your head.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Nah, get your head. North side, south side, west side.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: You better call somebody. Yeah, you call me or somebody.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: That's what Sexy Raby said. North side.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't get no food over there.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: I'm telling you.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Damn.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: So right there by the arch is the no-go.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: That's somebody's hood, too.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: That's a hood over there, too.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: So we can't go to the arch now?
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can. I'm just saying. You can.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Just don't go at night.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: You can go at night, but just don't play around
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: downtown in areas you don't know.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: See, this is good information.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: This is good information.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: That's why I wanted to know, because my sister been like, yo,
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: been living in St.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Louis, you ain't came to visit me.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: You said Al probably was in the county?
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Nah, ain't no problem. If you saying it was nice,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: you was old in the county.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: That's close to everything.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: What did he say? It was nice.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was nice. Yeah, he was in the county.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: It was nice as hell.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: I'm like, damn, this St.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Louis, this is nice as hell. Yeah, he was in
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: the county.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: Bro, I remember going to St. Louis when I was young,
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: and all I remember is seeing the orange. I was like, damn,
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: this is a big city.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Big city?
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, coming from Arkansas.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: That shit small. You can get into it with a
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: nigga on the internet running to the gas station.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Damn.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: St.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Louis. St. Louis.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: You don't even know these niggas. They're arguing on the internet.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Running to this nigga at the gas station. I'm like, damn.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: I seen butt ass.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Now, what are some positive things that you can say
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: about St.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Louis? Our food's great. You know, we got real fried rice.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: I just went and got some rice yesterday. That shit
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: was yellow. I'm like, look at this shit. I forgot.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Then I got to lay one of them off and
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: say fried rice. This shit boiled rice. Beat it. Then
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: we got the pizza. You know what I'm saying?
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Okay, St.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Louis has got good pizza.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: On my mama.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: That's fire.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Not that big. I don't like them big-ass Papa John's
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: and Domino's. You like the slim ones? Yeah, and Chris.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: For sure.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: Well, listen, man, we appreciate you pulling up on the
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: Ball Alert show and spending some time with us. Take
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: this time right now to look at that camera and
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: promote your music and everything you got coming up.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, man. I'm Tez STL, man. Can't hurt a ball alert.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Show me love for sure. You know what I'm saying?
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Me and Metro just dropped this single. It's out now everywhere.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: You can go to my website, TezSTL.com. Download that. Grab that.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? But thank you for showing
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: me love. Fans, love y'all.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Tez STL in the building. Ball alert.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Ball alert.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, my bad. And by the way, if you're ever
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: in a car accident, 844-GA-REC. Danny Nagel, Law Firm Studios. Peace. A-Town.