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2Rare Talks New Project 'Truth Or Rare', Going to Ghana and Dealing with Hate Early In His Career
Sep 25, 2023
2Rare, a rapper-singer from Philadelphia, has been making waves in the industry with his unique sound and relatable lyrics. Recently, he made an appearance on Sway In The Morning, where he spoke about his new project, 'Truth or Rare', his experience in Ghana, and how he dealt with hate early on in his career.
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I met this man we were in uh landed in
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Ghana
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wow and we ended up the people who were
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taking care shout out to Chance the
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Rapper his entire family right oh yeah
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right right folks who was taking care of
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us came to pick up me a few others and
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this young man right here and I looked
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at him and said I know this dude I know
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this guy from because his haircut your
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style is always your signature thing
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yeah right the way you do your lining
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and then um we sat and we rolled to the
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hotel together and in that time I got to
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really know who he is already heard of
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him but didn't know who he was sitting
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next to me got it this man is uh special
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in many ways because of the energy that
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he produces with his music is purely for
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the party so people could feel good
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people could go to these clubs or go to
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these events and these um wherever you
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at the picnics wherever you at and dance
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we always talk about this HB when we
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grew up we danced a lot absolutely right
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you know we had we got all that toxic
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energy out that was the fun part about
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going out was was the dancing in part
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right
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um people saw him in a sticky video
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people saw him with um little Uzi verts
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I just want a rock video he told me some
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great stories about being around Uzi
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vert and how Drake howling Drake how he
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and Drake connected and we had this
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Ghanaian experience that I'm sure the
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way it changed my life it probably
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changed his life right in my life well
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let's talk about it two rarest here
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ladies and gentlemen
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[Applause]
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troop or rare is the new mixtape yeah
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welcome to the show bro
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[Applause]
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how did Ghana change your life he said
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it changed my life because like I seen a
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different part of the world you feel me
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yeah and I ain't gonna lie like the US
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got like a different look on Africa
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itself so when I went out there I'm it's
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I'm thinking I'm about to see some whole
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different [ __ ] like it's really rich
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[ __ ] out there
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all right like the whole [ __ ] is
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different so I'm like damn this [ __ ]
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[ __ ] my head up and I gonna lie bro I
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don't know if you realize but I feel
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like the air was different out there it
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was when you breathe you like you feel
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me yeah so all that [ __ ] like kind of
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really like [ __ ] my head up it changed
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my whole Vision on the world itself you
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film even like the food like the food
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was crazy everything was super healthy
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you feel me what'd you have I had uh
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what is uh jollof rice yeah with the
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fishing [ __ ] yeah like that [ __ ] kind of
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like I'm like damn like when I taste it
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I'm like
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your relationship to music creatively
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yeah yeah hell yeah cuz we go out to
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them because I ain't like we was
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partying hard I was partying hard like
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they party different though like I'm
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talking about you know how like [ __ ] and
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then like two o'clock I heard three
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o'clock in the morning they go on to
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like eight o'clock in the morning the
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next day they keep going like yeah and
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everything like really like kind of like
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outside for like a backyard party
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everywhere you go dancing and
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celebrating yes the music like a whole
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lot of Afro beats and when stuff not
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airful beats they'll like mix it up you
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feel like they're like Blended like they
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give it like if it's like a non-afrobeat
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record they're making an afro beat
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record so they had like their own little
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mix to it so I'm like no no I gotta step
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into this Lane more yeah yeah that was
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amazing two rares here man we talking
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about the new mixtape truth or rare
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mixtape did you
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I'm trying to think of all the parties
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so he was out with Dave Chappelle yeah
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[Music]
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now with Dave Chappelle and and you know
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cootie and Chica and all this you know
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J.I Michael Blackson did you go by his
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house you didn't you make it you went
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another Direction
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yo what did the what did the like the
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the people think of you as an artist did
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you get a chance to perform while you
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were there oh I didn't get a chance
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before you didn't no because remember
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chance had that's right yeah
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he was gonna bring me out but no I told
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him you saw me like go ahead be your
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thing for referral okay now you get a
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chance to perform but I got a chance to
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hit the mall and got like the real
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reaction yeah they knew you yeah you
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know that's that's what really [ __ ] my
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head up too I'm like yeah I know me out
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here like like too rare how did it make
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you feel I remember like I went out the
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country for the first time and when I
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got back home here
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I looked at everything different like I
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wanted to tell my friends and feel like
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you gotta go here it how did it did it
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have to say everything you just said I
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told all my friends my mom I showed my
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mom the money I said mine they got six
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presidents on this 100 Bill like
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everything everything is different they
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treat me like a king out here like I
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ain't gonna lie like everybody got to
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see Africa yeah everybody
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there you go that's dope yeah it was a
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great experience uh Tracy you want to
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talk to tuber I've been bragging about
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him all morning absolutely
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experience has helped you with your
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music and the new direction that you
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want to go in as well oftentimes when we
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have people who've gone different places
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I'm also curious if they felt like there
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was a different energy from the opposite
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sex too can you see a difference between
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the black woman in America and a black
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woman in Ghana
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yeah for like first of all they bodies
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different everything natural out there
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you feel me so when I seen these
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Ghana woman I'm like that's not a BBL
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yeah
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that's like you can spot a BBL hell yeah
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okay you can see the little difference
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and stuff but like the way they dress
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and everything is like just kind of
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different like you could tell the
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difference between you feel me and
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that's refreshing oh yeah okay because a
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lot of people feel like the BBL is a
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byproduct of what made my first time
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I'm just saying though
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you see the difference it's like that's
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the difference yeah what do you say the
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BBL yeah I wanna I'm curious too how how
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you got here man just knowing your story
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and maybe a lot of folks may not know it
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um but how did how did you get to
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becoming this rapper too rare that's not
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that wasn't your first love though right
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no football football what happened in
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the football career well I was doing
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good at high school my junior year and
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[ __ ] and on story short I had a homie
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that was a rapper so when he was a
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rapper I was support
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like this you feel me do this do that so
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he eventually got hot when he eventually
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got hot you know when you get hot
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everybody in the neighborhood started
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feeling some type of way about you
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everybody started feeling obligated
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there was a reason behind his success so
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it became like a lot of hatred
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mind I was working at Five Guys too bro
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working at Five Guys playing uh he's
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from high school football I'm trying to
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make [ __ ] work you feel me trying to
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help him pay for studio time just a lot
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of stuff so when he got hot the homies
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that we used to have they kind of felt
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the way you feel me so when he [ __ ]
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away you already know how that goes so
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one day I was at Five Guys and stuff
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working and stuff
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I got a phone call from bro he's like no
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bro we were just rumbling bro follow me
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so when he was fighting and [ __ ] them
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eventually fighting kind of like made
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everything go left you feel me when he
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went outside
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everybody update you feel me they upped
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it they went out you feeling me shooting
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like one of my old heads you told me so
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when he shot my old head but they
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pronounced him like later on like that
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day so after they pronounced him
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and like everything deeper than what it
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was you saw me yeah so with that being
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said when bro when bro had his [ __ ]
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going on he had deals on the table so he
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like bro we gotta get out of Philly all
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this [ __ ] going left you feel me so I'm
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like all right bro I'm out of chocolate
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football in L.A you feel me the vision
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was we gonna take this Felicia to L.A
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you know mind you we was turned in
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Philly and how old were you at this time
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yeah all right so we had everything
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turned in Philly you are not going to
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L.A so
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when we uh why not sliding out there and
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[ __ ] slid out there everything is born
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we in Beverly Hills you know people
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walking these dogs you feel me
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bro you feel me so people walking their
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dogs in the middle of the day watering
8:33
their lawn I'm like bro we're not used
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to this bro so the deal that was on the
8:37
table for him it was kind of it was some
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little [ __ ] so I I kind of Peep the
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vision I'm like bro y'all ain't enroll
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me in high school his managers in Roman
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high school I'm talking to my mom I'm
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flying back Ma so when I slid back to
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Philly they told me I couldn't play
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football no more he said I missed like
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over like 20 eligibility some years so I
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had a little counselor me and stuff I
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try to call my coach swimming to the
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office he like
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you gotta do this you gotta do that you
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feel me you gotta go to a whole another
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school to play for here I'm like how
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good were you though bro like when you
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nationally I was ranked like number nine
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and receiver
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and the nation
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[Music]
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I had to
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go through it and stuff or whatever I
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want to like this little like depression
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phase you know I get when you're playing
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a go left yeah yeah I was looking at the
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ceiling fan of my room one day spinner
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spinner I searched up sad type beats
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filming when I click the set type beat I
9:49
call my Josh said yo I ain't working
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here no more show me I quit Five Guys I
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had like like 40 to my name I had like
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40 you feel me to my name I booked the
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hour you feel me like in the studio so I
10:00
booked the hours through session
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I told Mommy I said we out bro we slept
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we slid there I banged on my first
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record so when I've been on my first
10:08
record what's that big bag what's up
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big bag like my third or fourth song I
10:14
got signed off like my fourth record
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okay but I dropped the song when I
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dropped the song whatever you feel me on
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my page everybody like yo bro you gotta
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stick to football [ __ ] telling me
10:24
super [ __ ] telling me wow yo yo seeing
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what you doing bro how back on the field
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you feel me so all that [ __ ] just made
10:32
me like no dog yeah I got a point to
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prove so then my homie that was rapping
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he eventually started hey you know I
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mean all that stuff just made me like
10:40
really light but my plan a was the
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reason why
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I started rapping that's why you started
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rapping that perseverance that
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commitment see the skill set you had in
10:51
football was a it was transferable yeah
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right that's hustling yeah backyard snow
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footwork every Sunday you feel me all
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that so that commitment that Dedication
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that discipline how has that transferred
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into your rap career I kind of feel like
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this rap [ __ ] like like yeah okay
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because when I play football you know
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you play football you gotta work out
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heavy you got a workout heavy you gotta
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make sure you're standing super duper
11:20
crazy you feel me like it's just a lot
11:22
of stuff that I was burnt out with when
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I was playing football it became more
11:26
easier when I did right because the only
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thing I gotta do is wake up and go to
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the studio so me as long as I'm cooking
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up a good record it's like but the only
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time I get a run is when I'm performing
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for 30 minutes yeah that's the only time
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I get it right you feel me but that's
11:39
how you get that Rush right yeah but
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other than that it's like
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football I mean rapping kind of way
11:45
easier than than football was for you
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this is interesting we got two rare here
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from Philadelphia North Philadelphia
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when I was playing I want to say it was
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rare step it was one of the songs I was
11:55
listening to in the beginning you
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alluded to the fact that
11:58
and correct me if I wrong but that you
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have a style that's been borrowed would
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you say yeah
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[Music]
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your style has been borrowed I'm glad
12:12
you said borrowing and I still didn't
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know well here's the thing I had um
12:17
Chic
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um
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[ __ ] whoo from Chic the uh oh now Rogers
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now Rogers okay now Rod just came on the
12:28
show and we talked about there was uh
12:32
the song Good Times you sample a lot of
12:34
music so I'm sure you're familiar with
12:36
good times
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um the Baseline in that
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um we debated if it was
12:45
we know that was hip hop Rapper's
12:47
Delight if you listen to Queen the rock
12:49
group uh Another One Bites the Dust it's
12:53
that same Baseline
12:55
dude you notice that right so we asked
12:58
him about that that happened he tells a
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story how Queen and them were in the
13:02
same Studio around the same time they
13:04
were making some music right and alluded
13:06
to the fact that man perhaps somebody
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did take a piece
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but he felt that the most successful
13:13
artists have all taken something from
13:15
somewhere right and and that's a maybe
13:18
an easy way for you to look at it like
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they borrowing your stuff
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that ain't working right now too rare
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that's different though because he's
13:27
sampling it okay but somebody's kind of
13:30
still and borrow your [ __ ] is like
13:32
different than I feel like sampling how
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how do you feel it's been like give me
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an example in what ways have your style
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been borrowed and I'm talking about to
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the point where [ __ ] invite me
13:44
to the studio and get little tips from
13:48
me and ask me how to work this how I do
13:50
this and do that make me do a verse on
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these [ __ ] and then find out dropping it
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you feel me without me you feel me like
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all that type [ __ ] bro so all that's
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like damn bro you kind of like
14:02
just milk my whole everything you feel
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me like and I'm thinking you third cause
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I didn't looked up to you at one point
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it's like yeah yeah
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um how do you Rectify that you gotta
14:12
move on you know yeah see these people
14:14
again yeah it's just like a lesson
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learned like bro you you would not ever
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you told me you would never another
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another artist would never get to use me
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like that because there's some artists
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that would be like yo where can you
14:25
produce this video for me if they're
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using the type beats that I use you hear
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me so it'd be like little stuff like
14:29
that or they'd be like yo bro can you
14:31
get your homies or can you hop in this
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video for me oh bro I'm not a dancer you
14:35
feel me I'm a real artist you know me
14:37
like I just dance so yeah has it always
14:41
been easy for you to say no for some
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folks that can be tricky and then you're
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like oh this is why I gotta utilize my
14:48
manager more to speak on behalf of me or
14:52
if I Publishers whatever the case I just
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got into this space where I'll be
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spending [ __ ] like that yeah
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you always 100 like I just got it down
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pat
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hello my manager right or you feel me yo
15:08
bro you you tell him you feel me like
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I'm cool I'm asleep right now good cop
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back up you approached the people you
15:15
felt like
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um didn't do it properly with you and
15:19
and borrowed your Sound and Music yeah
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what do you say to him damn bro like if
15:24
you ain't [ __ ] with my verse you feel me
15:25
you could have told me to recut it you
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throw me [ __ ] damn bro like what's up
15:30
like why you ain't like I'll be more
15:32
cool if a [ __ ] really told me how they
15:34
was gonna carry it before they but don't
15:37
get me riled up and hyped like yo bro
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I'm about to drop this bang cause now
15:40
I'm telling my homies I'm telling my mom
15:42
yo I got this you know I'm about to come
15:43
with such and such he's on me then it
15:45
come out like yo bro what happened this
15:47
the record that you know I look dumb but
15:49
all that stuff just made me get to the
15:51
point where I don't preview no music
15:53
with [ __ ] no more or nothing cause
15:55
this [ __ ] don't come out sometimes it
15:58
doesn't come out do my face is looking
15:59
at me funny yeah and you feeling
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a lot of kids just standing outside
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I'm about to look big time I'm bringing
16:08
these kids up in here too rare what is
16:10
it a high school class yeah I think so
16:11
can you mind if I bring them in yeah I
16:14
don't care bring them in they look like
16:15
two rare fans yup they hype
16:26
good
16:31
bring them in
16:33
this is crazy different it's different
16:35
how y'all doing we live though we live
16:38
on the air come on in come on in the
16:41
morning
16:42
Kathy B the greatest is here too
16:46
round of applies I'm not sure who's here
16:48
in the morning y'all got to keep going
16:50
around to make room cause you're live on
16:53
air right now right here stay right here
16:54
what's up man oh jersey in the building
16:58
guard to purses no no
17:01
I'm good I'm good okay
17:04
is everybody really from Jersey
17:06
everybody
17:08
what part of Jersey y'all from
17:11
Jersey City
17:14
from Jersey City Jersey City Jersey
17:20
City New Jersey
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[Music]
17:23
in Jersey City I grew up on Monticello
17:28
little Clinton baby Monticello in Jersey
17:30
City I'm
17:31
building this way you could get jumped
17:33
right now
17:35
security security
17:38
listen you guys came on a great day by
17:41
the way thank you to the teachers and
17:44
the counselors who brought these yeah
17:46
New Jersey
17:49
nobody ever did this no
17:53
you wish you had somebody how are you as
17:55
a student that was good man yeah yeah I
17:58
don't think I was one of them that was
18:00
good bro I graduated bro that's all that
18:02
money
18:04
that's so funny you mentioned that
18:05
because you mentioned playing football
18:07
earlier and looking now what coach Prime
18:09
is doing Deion Sanders do you think that
18:11
would have inspired you possibly if you
18:13
were watching him saying I want to get I
18:16
don't want to go right to his school
18:17
absolutely hell yeah he making a crazy
18:19
difference right now
18:23
the skills or the routines that's what
18:26
he's doing here too the mentorship right
18:28
yeah yeah
18:29
um what's up y'all
18:31
what school is it what is it what is
18:34
Jersey youth core you Jersey youth core
18:36
in the building y'all
18:39
I love it anybody uh buying to be a
18:43
broadcast journalist I know everybody
18:45
got a podcast or something yeah
18:49
educational podcast what's your name sir
18:51
Doug Bailey Doug Bailey is in the
18:53
building
18:57
uh-huh
18:58
we get
19:01
it there you go that's beautiful
19:04
somebody around here let's bring
19:06
somebody to this microphone so we
19:08
everybody get here yes anybody got a
19:11
question for too rare
19:15
let's play some music let's go to Cupid
19:21
I know Jersey City ain't shy you better
19:24
give them a chance to Flame me man nah I
19:27
don't know that ain't gonna be the
19:28
attitude wait you could talk you're
19:30
gonna turn your mic on oh I mean I'm
19:32
good yeah say your name too oh I'm Jada
19:35
I'm from Brooklyn
19:39
I got one question how much did your
19:42
change cost because dumb things
19:45
I have never seen pink diamonds again
19:47
watch my GQ interview I'm talking about
19:49
all my jewelry
19:53
who else got a question what it's like
19:55
being interviewed by GQ bro what was it
19:58
like being yeah it was lit it was it was
20:01
super lit because I ain't gonna lie GQ
20:03
like super Untouchable like every artist
20:05
you feel me can't get on there so when
20:07
they kind of like gave me that
20:08
opportunity I'm like damn I kind of feel
20:09
blessed you know what I mean yeah yeah
20:11
ain't nobody in your neighborhood been
20:13
on GQ
20:14
yeah what's up what's your name sir so
20:17
my name is Eddie what up Eddie question
20:19
for you uh I'm an upcoming artist hell
20:21
yeah and I'm just wondering what tips
20:23
you got just be different bro you gotta
20:25
be creative different you gotta come up
20:28
with your own like Unique Style you film
20:30
you got like a good image like you feel
20:32
me like your [ __ ] gotta
20:34
remember you like like people when
20:35
people see me they remember me because
20:37
oh yeah that's the [ __ ] with the
20:38
chocolate that's a [ __ ] with the
20:39
bandana that's a [ __ ] that dance you
20:40
know what I'm trying to say I got my own
20:42
like unique way to you know so
20:45
definitely just be unique bro what's
20:47
your artist's name
20:51
give me eight bars right now
21:07
[Music]
21:18
you gotta rap to whatever beat he throw
21:20
on cause you a MC right yes remove the
21:24
crowd
21:30
the fact that this is happening for you
21:33
right now mean is meant to happen amen
21:35
okay
21:37
you're exactly where you're supposed to
21:39
be all right
21:41
the fact that he's here today me and
21:44
this man ain't seen each other since we
21:45
went to Ghana back in January we've been
21:48
trying to make this happen and you
21:50
better represent for the hood
21:53
man I'll be talking so much about chill
21:56
town
21:59
and every day on the air absolutely I'm
22:02
gonna take it to have the beat at her
22:04
town is whacking you can't do that all
22:06
right all right
22:08
all right so
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um
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yeah
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yes sir
22:25
yo yo
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yo yo yo
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[Music]
22:30
I got some trash rappers OJ's I'm
22:33
wearing backstabbers they all white like
22:35
the Dukes of Hazard you complaining
22:37
about the money but it doesn't matter
22:38
his brain is slow watch the gray matter
22:40
I'm breaking all these records [ __ ]
22:42
check it I'm not Ralph but I'm gonna
22:44
wreck it don't like my pen but you gotta
22:46
respect it shake it tricky and get
22:48
sticky like your sim text it or get
22:50
depressed cause the Sim text it I know
22:52
I'm next but I'm not flexing gather
22:54
around and learn this little lesson my
22:55
boss of peaceful cause I stopped
22:57
stressing that girl is mine I know I'm
22:58
so possessive the old aggressive talking
23:02
like a text message I need respect I'm
23:04
also stacking the bread always lyrics
23:06
coming straight off the head rest in
23:08
peace to the dead government listening
23:10
though [ __ ] with the vest cause if they
23:11
rushing do we all catch a lead one time
23:13
for the bands they're losing beef why
23:15
you looking for smoke I got a chain
23:17
bigger than brains the size of a bow
23:19
come on jeans just feeling this I'm
23:20
feeling just like a goat feeling good
23:22
Menace I'll be doing the most living
23:24
just like a pro top dog I put you back
23:26
in your place you act crazy get a smack
23:28
to the face [ __ ] no I don't play
23:30
hitting your new food on the plate or a
23:32
tray you backstab me every dog has a day
23:34
I feel like slipping away you get a
23:36
sticker If you mention my name if you
23:38
dead space if I was playing the game
23:39
knowing we ain't the same you an
23:41
embarrassment that must be ashamed can't
23:43
bear my family surrounded by lames I'm
23:45
just spitting this pain always gotta
23:47
give respect to the grace cause my pen
23:49
wouldn't be here if I was spewing the
23:50
hate Kanye West Jay-Z I know a [ __ ] got
23:53
taste need a Beyonce by my side so I
23:55
upgraded to place [ __ ] grass and these
23:57
snitches they be talking to Jay get with
23:59
the head the whole mob sipping drinks at
24:01
the place listen to my old style you see
24:03
I'm making the chains Ferragamo is the
24:05
goal I always dream in the same [ __ ]
24:10
[Music]
24:26
[Applause]
24:27
[Music]
24:29
[Applause]
24:30
[Music]
24:32
[Applause]
24:33
[Music]
24:44
so all that time and I know you can
24:48
attest to this because he was talking
24:49
about his time as an athlete and a
24:51
student
24:52
this is an example of the work that you
24:54
put in when nobody's watching yes
24:56
Heather when everybody hanging out when
24:58
everybody doing this or maybe your
25:00
pockets ain't where they want to be you
25:02
work in a building on your craft for
25:04
moments like this yeah you don't never
25:06
know when the opportunity is gonna come
25:07
but be ready yeah be ready God bless you
25:10
with a gift and the talent don't take
25:13
that for granted amen keep working on it
25:15
and keep holding your skills God bless
25:17
you young man
25:19
[Applause]
25:25
a young man back there get kalani's
25:28
information when you're ready yep come
25:30
back don't come sooner yeah
25:32
[Applause]
25:34
because there's certain things you have
25:36
to you have to work on your eye contact
25:38
okay you have to work on your birth
25:40
control there's certain little things
25:42
that we notice but you have to remember
25:43
this is years and years of being this
25:46
industry so there's certain little tips
25:48
that you'll you'll be able to pick up
25:49
when you get that come back he gave me
25:52
this invitation congrats congratulations
25:54
yeah man that's beautiful you see how
25:56
life works
25:57
[Applause]
26:04
[Music]
26:07
so my social is b-a-b-e-a-r-g-a-m-o
26:12
and it's an underscore nice yo your
26:15
sister's smiling on you right now too
26:17
brother congratulations man this is how
26:19
the blessings work okay amen all right
26:21
just out of bless his work you know the
26:23
spirit is here brother God is what
26:25
covering you right now yes he is this
26:27
ain't normal all right bro next you just
26:31
spit flames on this show
26:40
all right man hey listen to all to all
26:43
of you everything's possible
26:44
everything's possible as you can see
26:46
everything nobody woke up thinking that
26:49
we're gonna be here today that man
26:51
didn't wake up years ago thinking he was
26:53
gonna be the on the GQ Magazine come on
26:56
that's all mine said
26:58
you already improved so first got on the
27:01
mic to now you already more alluring
27:04
Heather gave you some gems it's just
27:06
adapting that mindset right everything
27:08
is anything problems victory
27:12
what do they happen
27:14
here right so if you could discipline
27:17
that and maintain that you're gonna be
27:18
all right you know and then straighten
27:20
up your beard a little bit
27:23
now congratulations
27:28
relax too rare I know we we planned
27:32
something else today but this is kind of
27:33
nice
27:34
a lot it's different it's different uh
27:37
yeah ain't nobody never do this so you
27:38
know it's gonna be one of the ones but
27:40
that's What Makes You Different you you
27:42
don't you know you didn't come in here
27:43
pushing drinking or smoking and things
27:45
like that do you do that uh I I don't
27:48
smoke in that but I drink sometimes
27:50
every now and then but that that hasn't
27:51
been you know your whole mission
27:54
the mission has been to bring joy to the
27:56
rap you know for people to celebrate
27:58
what made you go that route that wasn't
28:00
popular well like the smoking and stuff
28:02
no no not the smoking stuff but just
28:04
your music like the music
28:06
um just making sure oh just don't like
28:08
that positive because I ain't gonna lie
28:09
that's how I grew up I grew up off of
28:11
fun music you feel me dancing you feel
28:14
me teach me how to Dougies and social
28:15
you feel me like all the like you send
28:18
me the Soulja Boy Hits and stuff like
28:19
that so I ain't really one like I kind
28:22
of already knew what was in a rap game I
28:25
gotta bring something different I gotta
28:26
be me at the end of the day because I
28:27
always was a dancer you're feeling
28:29
always with dance I always was playing
28:30
football always you know I always had
28:33
like a different type of energy bro so
28:35
when I kind of like heard the club beats
28:38
and stuff it just me and me because we
28:40
used to dance you sent me to the club
28:41
Beach
28:43
so the club is it the Jersey Club listen
28:47
listen listen listen listen listen
28:48
listen it's a whole like
28:50
thing with that [ __ ] right now because
28:52
you know everybody's truck right listen
28:54
it's Philly Club Baltimore Club and
28:56
Jersey Club for a foreign
29:01
[Music]
29:14
you were doing that first yeah okay it
29:18
didn't tell you that yeah hell yeah okay
29:21
we got a Pioneer right here he's writing
29:23
the music videos
29:28
there you go man what's next for you bro
29:30
this project Man true for real man first
29:34
ever body of work sure what did you want
29:36
to do like how did you approach this
29:37
different like in the past it's your
29:39
first everybody at work the first ever
29:41
you ever went off the scene was my whole
29:43
life uh-huh so
29:45
you know the label said it's time man we
29:47
gotta give him some got to give him a
29:49
project yeah is that scary a little bit
29:52
it ain't scary but I I only scared of
29:55
nothing but it's just like I gotta learn
29:58
how to promote this body of work I know
30:00
how to promote a song but I never
30:02
promoted a body of work and I ain't
30:04
gonna act like I do you know what I'm
30:05
trying to say so yeah you're doing great
30:07
yes and it's hard so treat it like such
30:10
that's your art so you he I'm just
30:13
kidding you brought those pink diamonds
30:15
off of Just singles along is that what
30:16
you're telling them
30:22
[Laughter]
30:30
that's a nice change
30:33
but anyway too rare man I appreciate you
30:36
brother I appreciate you wait you're in
30:38
dirt because we've had dark up here
30:40
before before the world knew who Dirk
30:42
was right so Dirk would come up here and
30:44
I I love watching his Evolution as a man
30:46
just as an individual what was did you
30:48
learn anything talking with him he told
30:51
me a lot of stuff like dirt told me like
30:53
bro you got the world you got the kids
30:54
my daughter love you you feel me he just
30:57
kind of like told me like you different
30:58
you feel me so just keep being different
31:00
and him being home he kind of like made
31:04
it towards though Auto want to be Street
31:06
[ __ ] yeah or want to do a club song
31:08
you feel me so he kind of did that for
31:10
me like you know he kind of knew what he
31:12
was doing for when he hit me up like you
31:14
know that was him being different yeah
31:16
right yeah it was like he rushed me to
31:18
put on Cupid too like he was anxious to
31:21
see this like he wanted to do some
31:22
different [ __ ] what would you tell
31:24
someone too rare about the difference
31:26
between being different but being
31:29
inauthentic when you being inauthentic I
31:32
feel like they always come to the light
31:34
so I mean being different like you stand
31:37
out more
31:38
follow me like everybody can't just step
31:41
into that lane like you gotta actually
31:42
be different and versatile you know but
31:44
how how to like find that difference
31:46
where it doesn't feel like you're making
31:49
up a character who's not you you know
31:51
what I'm saying because there'll be
31:52
people that just do a lot of antics and
31:54
then you have a conversation with them
31:55
they're completely different person I
31:58
ain't gonna lie I don't know man like
31:59
I'll never be fake so it's like yeah I
32:02
can't really tell you how to you know me
32:04
how to be famous
32:06
like you know it's good too to tap into
32:10
what's different about you yeah you know
32:12
like we've all been giving special gifts
32:14
and talents right so tap into that
32:16
authentic thing about you that nobody
32:18
else has yeah and then enhance that you
32:21
know and and that's what that will make
32:23
you be authentic to your true gifts so
32:26
you authentically doing what you do it's
32:28
in your spirit it's in your souls you
32:30
can't help it yeah you know what I mean
32:31
so you've you on that road to that and
32:33
it's inspiring other people I love this
32:36
man too rare man give this man a big
32:37
round of applause I want to get
32:39
everybody name before y'all walk out yes
32:41
okay come here what's your name
33:01
you have the most important job on the
33:04
planet you may be giving birth to our
33:08
next Global leader y'all protect this
33:11
young lady where are you from what
33:12
school you go to
33:18
Clinton New Jersey and JC
33:22
well you better stop I grew up at 53
33:25
Clinton Avenue
33:26
I know exactly what I know exactly who
33:28
how you are too can you stand over there
33:33
I love y'all taking me so seriously
33:36
what's your name come talk to us uh my
33:39
name is George I'm 18 and I'm going to
33:42
put them to get my diploma and become a
33:44
barber in order and become a mechanic
33:47
beautiful I like that love it
33:57
my
34:00
name is Marie
34:05
okay okay
34:08
our legal system our justice system will
34:10
be unpacked what's your name what do you
34:12
do man I make music I know you do
34:15
something
34:19
what's up what's your name man Barry
34:21
Barry what kind of music you making
34:23
I feel like I'm versatile artists
34:25
versatile artist anything yeah you like
34:28
this man he does a lot right yeah you
34:31
make music as a producer or as a school
34:34
for producer
34:36
you got to learn how to shake the whole
34:39
sand
34:39
oh man I gotta always pay producers to
34:42
go make music I used to BS for all right
34:44
all right so it's like I do my own thing
34:46
I can make my own music charge people
34:49
you see that young man right there get
34:51
his information so we could be connected
34:53
with you I love to hear your music okay
34:55
all right all right what's your name man
34:57
my name is Kim I'm 19 years old Chicago
35:00
and I got a little uh Cola brand coming
35:03
what's it called pay boys pay boys yeah
35:05
all right p-a-p-e Pate boys yeah like
35:09
paper yeah okay all right I like that I
35:12
like that it looks like it's gonna be
35:13
different it's ready for sale now
35:17
it's a generational thing
35:21
though
35:41
[Music]
35:45
your name and all that my name too
35:50
there's Cameron off the wreck man you
35:52
watching Sway in the Morning on
35:53
photography
36:00
hilarious I don't use your voice on our
36:02
show too come on in man you got you look
36:05
like a young meat
36:07
I'm 17 and then uh after I get my high
36:10
school diploma I'm going to trade school
36:12
to become a plumber okay where are you
36:14
from where you from
36:15
[Applause]
36:17
what part
36:22
cada oh okay I know exactly what that is
36:24
too all right good luck with everything
36:26
I'm scared I might know people mothering
36:28
here
36:29
that's why I'm being easy I ain't trying
36:31
to tell on the kids
36:33
you got job security the world always
36:35
needs a plumber
36:36
good job
36:38
yes I'm back again Brooklyn in the house
36:40
hey
36:42
um my name is Jada I'm 16. I um I don't
36:46
really know what I want to do I'm
36:47
keeping a buck with y'all because I
36:48
don't like to lie none of that right but
36:50
I have interest in things that I like
36:52
for example I want to be a therapist or
36:54
something like psychology so but I can't
36:57
make no promises because I want to do
36:58
something different every year one
36:59
minute I want to be a rapper one minute
37:01
I want to be a dentist I want to be this
37:02
I want to be that so in a few years
37:04
y'all see me somewhere
37:06
I feel it I feel it I feel it right yeah
37:09
be all of it yeah why not at different
37:11
times
37:12
come on you could do it all with us
37:14
what's up how you doing man
37:16
[Music]
37:20
all right so my name is Carl Lear I'm
37:23
17. I went to Lincoln High School let's
37:26
go
37:29
[Music]
37:30
but I recently moved to uh Seaview
37:34
um I don't know what I really want to be
37:36
I want to like get my high school
37:38
diploma and probably go do uh
37:40
construction yeah but I might go to
37:42
trade school and try to like work up to
37:44
that and learn like new skills and stuff
37:46
so I don't know what I want to do that's
37:49
okay you got an idea that's it see what
37:52
I love about this yeah and what y'all
37:53
don't realize you know um nobody else in
37:56
here grew up in my neighborhood but like
37:59
you tell us about Oakland sway these
38:02
kids are growing up in very challenging
38:04
areas like how I grew up but it's
38:07
possible to sways point you could be
38:09
here every day I'm from where y'all from
38:11
like it ain't it ain't fake and I'm
38:13
sitting here today did y'all hear it on
38:15
that new Nike commercials a new Nike
38:17
commercial you'll hear a voice on it
38:21
thank God I'm on a brand new Nike
38:23
commercial with Sabrina in that school
38:25
um the laws of the game and so you can
38:27
hear my voice doing that but I see her
38:29
Super Bowl commercial she did a Super
38:31
Bowl commercial
38:36
my point is I grew up in the areas very
38:39
very similar to y'all I grew up on
38:41
Clinton and Monticello so we know the
38:44
challenges I know Crown Chicken I know
38:46
the KFC did I know all of that you know
38:48
what I'm saying these are the stores
38:49
that I went to you know what I mean so
38:52
you can make it you can make it y'all
38:55
believe that right yeah you can make it
38:57
go beyond belief no it's true okay all
39:01
right y'all salute to y'all all right
39:03
God bless you appreciate you
39:06
[Applause]
39:09
and then no hey y'all hold up hold up
39:12
before y'all go I need y'all to support
39:15
this man
39:16
throughout his career
39:19
not not appreciate that man not just the
39:22
truth
39:23
yes
39:24
not just truth or rare but throughout
39:27
his careers right right
39:29
when he's popping and when you don't
39:31
know what he's doing still support him
39:33
right okay I appreciate you give it up
39:36
for too rare man that's my family right
39:38
here
39:41
[Applause]
39:42
he talks time he gonna spit some bars
39:44
too I heard him hell yeah no I am all
39:46
right
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