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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
01:24 - Akon Music Career
06:38 - Sheesh and L and Sk
09:15 - Most Profitable Song Analysis
10:35 - L and S Discussion
17:49 - Quoting Lyrics Breakdown
19:57 - Round 2 Competition
23:29 - Final Round Showdown
26:39 - Akon City Update
31:30 - J1 Performs “Sheesh”
33:50 - Holly Robinson Peete and Rodney Peete
34:20 - Video Game Characters Discussion
34:33 - Love You All Message
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Yeah, man. I had to play those bars. Shout out to coach PR weekend work.
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A lot of times I tune in to Coach PR weekend work just to get put up on game.
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They be 10 toes down HB. They got their ears to the street. Big facts.
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I listen to them to find out what's next. I heard these dudes freestyling on this show. I said, "Hm."
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I g I gave him a h right. I put them on my radar. Tracy G all the way back in
0:30
New York. You know, found out where they from. They from Chicago. How many people do we know from Chicago?
0:36
Chicago's kindred to Oakland where I'm from. Chicago and Oakland run hand in hand.
0:41
They run parallel. I went, hm, they from Chicago. But then when my family called
0:47
me and said, "I got one." I said, "You got one?" He said, "I got one."
0:52
Considering how many millions of records he sold, how many Billboard um songs
0:58
that he had chart, when he says he got one, you got to believe it, right? Cuz he done had so many in his career.
1:05
I'm talking about my brother. He's a a record producer, a rapper, a singer, a
1:11
songwriter, a businessman. He's not just a businessman. He's a business
1:16
man. Give it up for a
1:21
and hold up, man. We got Acon up in here.
1:29
Heather, I know it. I know it. Last time we had one of his family members, it was his son.
1:35
I know. At breakfast. Yeah, man. I thought he was so excited after that,
1:40
bro. Man, I wanted the um I wanted What's his rap name, dude? Who? Jay. Yeah,
1:45
I call him Jay. I call him I don't I don't want to get used to calling him his rap name.
1:51
Cuz then we become homies. I got you. I got you. The father, brother. I ain't mad at that. But he's very talented.
1:57
Yeah, he is. This is Shish. Introduce them to the world for us. Yo, the world. This is She born in
2:03
Chicago, raised in Elqua, Indiana. These are two brothers from the same mother.
2:09
Man, listen. I honestly the kind of music they actually you know do is the kind of music that touched me because I
2:16
know I remember I remember being in the position where music was my only outlet. So I only spoke about what I was dealing with at that time. I didn't understand
2:22
the concept of songwriting outside of what I went through in real life. So that became the content which I wrote
2:28
about. So later I realized that how many people on the planet felt the way I felt. Yeah.
2:34
And I think that's what contributed to my success. And I felt the same way when I was listening to Shish and the music
2:39
that they actually create because it's like real reality music, man. It's stuff that we're missing today. Well, how did y'all meet though? Like
2:45
Oh, man. So, they was doing circuits all throughout Atlanta, writing, producing with other guys um a specific uh
2:51
production company um with Bo. And then Bo called me. He's like, "Yo, listen Khan, I got this one kid, bro. You got
2:57
to check out this boy is a beast. I don't care what I throw at him. He writing some heat to it." I said, "Well, bring him by. Let me see him." I met
3:03
him. Me just clicked instantly. It was like it was like automatic as if we known each other forever. And then he played me the music. I was
3:09
like she that's really
3:15
that's how the name came about. Yeah. That's how the name came about. That's how the name he played the music and you went she
3:21
and somebody said that's it. He said really I said that's going to be our name. So were you solo prior to she or
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Yeah. My brother was locked up. Okay. All right. Even though even though me and Khan connected, you know what I
3:35
mean? We hit it off. Even though we connected, we hit it off, you know what I mean? Um, soon as I always was telling
3:40
him about my brother, he would always say, "Man, you I'm nice, but wait till you my little brother, when my brother get out, you know, we we
3:46
should, you know what I mean? I'm bringing him into the fold. I'm moving him down here to Atlanta with me." And soon as he got down there,
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you know, we we we hit it off, you know what I mean? And he loved him as well. Y So she is L and Ski.
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LNS. My name is LNS. Uh-huh. And his name is Big Ski. Big Ski. Yeah. You the younger brother.
4:04
Yeah. Big brother. Little Big Brother.
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And so you come out, you know, first of all, when did you come out? 22.
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22. So you still still, you know? Yeah. Well, I did from like 08 to 15.
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Okay. And then was out for a few years, couple years or whatever, and then I went back for a violation and uh got out in 22.
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Were you going back again? Never. Okay, there you go.
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Man, freedom is much more better than incarceration. I go into prison systems a lot. I work
4:41
with a organization called the last mile. We and we teach coding. We teach
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um I don't like to say inmates, but we we we teach people how to code, right? And um and I get a chance to talk to a
4:54
lot of folks, you know, and find out that man, you know, people got big dreams. don't necessarily want to be
4:59
there obviously and and given the opportunity what they can do with it and so now man
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right and so this is opportunity a blessingless blessingless there we go
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same time she knows she knows something yeah for real
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yeah it's like it's all a blessing and we grateful you know what I mean we both went in when we was young
5:24
they was bunkies bunkies can you believe locked up in the same cell they did that for Oh, somebody did that on purpose
5:29
though, right? We caught another blessing. You know what I mean? They they they they knew my brother, I was already locked up. We got
5:35
locked up at the same time, but they, you know, our family bonded the little brother out, you know what I mean? I
5:40
stayed in, but long story short, I did six years, he did seven years.
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The first year we were bunkies. Yeah. You know what I mean? At a max prison. And um we just knew, you know what I
5:52
mean? I just knew that this ain't going to be our life. We going to get out one day. This always been our dreams. We've
5:57
been rapping since we were kids. But we just made some poor decisions, young and dumb, just being, you know,
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kids just, you know, making poor decisions. But I used to wake him up when we was bunkies, you know what I mean? And be
6:08
like, "Hey, we got a right." You know, we got seven, eight years left, but it don't matter. You know, he'd be sleep, drooling, snoring. Hey,
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man, what the hell? You know what I mean? But it's like used to wake him up and say, "We got to write." That's a fact. We got to write, bro. You
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know what I mean? I left prison with almost a thousand songs. And I just knew that this is not we got to make our mama
6:26
proud. You know what I mean? We didn't let her down. We didn't made, you know, being wild and making poor decisions,
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but we got to make her proud. Like, you know, now we got kids and now it's about them. You know what I mean? So,
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it's been a we got a journey and a story to tell for sure. Like, you got a beautiful story to tell. That
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the one song to whom it may concern, I think it's called to whom concern. And you you go into
6:47
this story, right? You talk about um growing up in Chicago, food stamps, you
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know, you make a Caitlyn Clark reference, you know, you do all, you know, Indiana. Yeah. Indiana, the whole nine. So, this
7:00
project, this mixtape you put out is pretty much your life story there. Uh I wouldn't even say that because we
7:06
just we just touching on it, diving and dabbling, you know what I mean? But we got the album. Yeah. The album is that's
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Yeah, the album we So, let me let me explain how the mixtape even came about. Okay. After I released Ghetto Living,
7:19
people was inquiring about him. Uhhuh. And L was always saying, "M, yo, Khan, I
7:24
know you want to make great radio records and great music, but I I really want to just I want to rap." I said, "Well, that's what mixtapes are for."
7:30
Yeah. Uhhuh. You can do mixtapz every other month. We could drop a mixtape every other month, two or twice a month. I don't care.
7:36
My job is to make y'all [ __ ] millions. And I got to do that through radio and, you know, make the music global. Like,
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so at the end of the day, I said, "So, let's do this." while everybody's trying to figure out what in this is, let's
7:47
drop this mixtape while the single is out. So that way they have they have more content to check out outside of just the single.
7:53
So I said, "Just send me hurry up 12 songs real quick." Literally, he just picked the first 12 that was in his box and just sent it to me.
7:59
Wow. It was no order. It was no sequencing, no curating. He just literally
8:05
highlighted first 12 said, "All right, cool. Put that on the mixtape." And these are all the rap stuff that they was doing. Yeah,
8:10
but the songs when the album come
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in your heart decipher what's the difference between let's say a to whom it may concern and what you're calling a
8:24
song like what's the difference? It's it's like
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it's like all right. So, let me do this. To whom it may concern probably the closest to a
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song in that whole mixtape. Okay. Uh-huh. But me, when I consider a song, I'm
8:43
considering all the variables from obviously lyrical content, melody, delivery, and how it actually makes you
8:50
feel and how is it relatable to who's listening. Those variables to me is what makes an
8:55
actual song. Anything with those variables is going to automatically hit if you get the right machine to push it,
9:01
right? Some songs will pop off just on the fact of just, you know, hype or sometime just popularity. But those
9:07
songs are always in and they always out. Okay. But songs, they tend to last with you through your whole childhood, adulthood,
9:14
or through your lifetime. Mhm. What's been your biggest most profitable song to date?
9:19
The biggest most profitable song to date is Mr. Lonely. Mr. Lonely?
9:24
Yeah. Really? Yeah. Oh wow. That's been the biggest most profitable song. Tracy, that surprises you.
9:30
Yeah. I don't know why I wouldn't have expected that, but when I think about the lyrics, I mean, you're touching on
9:36
something that people often go through, you know, feeling isolated, feeling lonely, and so that relatability that
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people can't put into words. Exactly. And you Everybody in the world has been lonely at one point in your life.
9:49
I love this man. We got She here. It's LNS. Yep. LNS. Yep. Okay. And Ski. All right.
9:56
Um, and with with Acon. Do they remind you of you and Boo? No, they do though. That's
10:03
right. Like cuz that's the brothers thing. No, it is. It's It's so crazy because that that's how me and LNS got so close
10:09
cuz once he explained to me and we had conversations about his family dynamic, it became beyond the music.
10:16
Yeah. I felt like I had to make sure he was good so his family could be good because I saw how how close he was to
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his family, how much his family meant to him. So those be my biggest motivation. If somebody come to me for an
10:28
opportunity to feed their family and that's why they're here, it's no way I'm going to say no to them cuz how I feel
10:33
about my family. Yeah, I love this man. Give it up for She right here, man. Yo, Ski, man, you from Chicago, but you
10:41
this ain't drill music, right? What? Tell why not, man? Are you really from Chicago?
10:46
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You from Indiana, too, though. But that's what I'm Yeah. I'm headed like I
10:52
mean, we was raised in Indiana. Yeah. You know, COE. So, I mean, that's what molded me.
10:58
You know what I'm saying? Because I got there when I was like eight. You know what I'm saying? And been there ever since. So,
11:04
yeah. I got Indiana Ways. Okay. What does that mean? Like, what's the difference? Like, I just I'm It made I don't know what's
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the difference. I just know that I just got Indiana ways. they they who raised me. You know what I'm saying? And that's
11:17
what I identify with. And we got to just to interject with that, like we from Indiana, born in
11:23
Chicago, but our roots are back in Chicago for sure. We got more family in Chicago
11:29
than Indiana. Mhm. You get what I mean? My our mom moved us to Indiana
11:36
because we seen um a murder when we were like five and six. Okay. You get what I mean? So, it's like she
11:42
just was scared, you know? We got, you know, a hustler, gang bang, all that in our family, tree and all that. But she
11:48
just wanted to try to break the cycle with her kids. So that's why we moved an hour and a half away to Elcart, Indiana to try to
11:54
for to escape what we were going through on the west side of Chicago. But our roots trace back to Chicago. We
12:00
still got a lot of loved ones, family in Chicago, you know what I mean? So it's always love, you know what I mean? With
12:06
Chicago, for sure. you you guys are very well um
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and you the way I've listened to the mix but obviously I haven't heard the album um and the way you talk about your story
12:18
you know you guys have a lot of layers um it seems like to your upbringing and
12:24
this is an opportunity for you guys to even blossom to a whole another spectrum. Right.
12:29
Right. You got this man who's a avid businessman. you know, he's always
12:35
talked about business alongside music. I've we've seen him in a lot of his endeavors, you know, and
12:42
all listen because you're a businessman don't mean you going to hit a home run every single time, right? You know, but
12:47
I'm curious now to what are you sharing with them, right?
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Um business-wise so that it's not just making music and they don't turn out like a lot of majority of artists turn
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out, you know, where they just got a lot of songs out but they ain't got no money. They ain't got no property. They
13:05
ain't got no Well, how are you helping in that way? Well, cuz I I always, you know, and we talk and they'll tell you. We talk any
13:12
and everything that we do all the way down to coming to meet with you. We always have conversations.
13:17
Okay. And the conversations is always about who you meeting, their road to how they got to who they got to, the
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opportunities that lies within everything that we do. How music is just a vehicle to get to the money. Yeah.
13:29
Right. But for the most part, before you even know what that is, understand the business of music.
13:35
The music business is the first business that you got to harness and learn. Like, cuz that will give you the opportunity
13:41
to understand all the other businesses that surround you. Cuz the music business is probably the most gangster,
13:47
most vicious. You think it's the drug, man? It's the worst. Like, this is why
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drug dealers can come into the business and just actually just make themselves at home. Yeah. cuz it's that it's that just get
14:00
an address straight up. It's that vicious, right? So once you master the art of business, it ain't no boardroom
14:06
you can walk into and not run circles around these guys. You know what I mean? So that's why people like Master P, Jay-Z, P Diddy,
14:14
you know, Baby, myself, like when we go into these boardrooms, we don't even think traditional business. We think
14:20
outside the box because we know so many creative ways to flip. They only know the basic ways and then when they get
14:26
their little money to take it to, you know, exchange and, you know, they go buy stock and flip it that way. But we see opportunity in every conversation.
14:33
Yeah. Right. So the fact that we came from the hood and we had to make nothing. I mean, make something out of nothing. When you
14:39
give us something, flipping it is like a piece of cake. Easy, right? Like they gave me what?
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What? And they call it an advance. Are you crazy? Right. So, so with them, it's
14:51
more so about the opportunity that we have. Focus on that opportunity. Find out what opportunities within that opportunity is
14:58
going to be something that generates money for you that's sustainable. Because the key is not about to make a quick dollar and you're done with it.
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How can you make a quick dollar and that dollar sustains you into making more money or that becomes something that
15:09
makes money that's reoccurring either on a monthly to a yearly or you know generational basis.
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You know what I mean? I wish I had somebody to tell me that Heather when we first started. Right. What was they telling you in Oakland?
15:22
That you wasn't going to make it. You
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were wrong. Yo, somebody told you you would not make it in radio, right? Yeah. People tell me I wasn't going to
15:34
make it in radio. Ski, I'm hall of fame now, baby.
15:40
They can't tell us who we going to be. That's why I'm happy to have y'all here. Come on, man. This was so this was the
15:47
craziest part and I and I know you felt it cuz you was there but it was somebody
15:54
like me who came from Africa, right? And we especially coming into the music business with all the the the
16:00
stereotypes that comes with it. Mhm. I had never seen someone like a sway
16:06
at MTV with a head wrap. Yeah. Newbian representing black.
16:12
Let's go. M and they couldn't understand how we all was
16:18
so attracted to what he had. Mind you, now MTV had many shows, right? But everybody wanted to be on
16:24
Sways. That's a fact. Cuz he's what we identified with. And he had never wavered, never changed. As you
16:30
see him right now, he's the same guy today he was back in the early 2000s. Yeah. Same dude, you know,
16:37
outside of you age. Oh gosh. Thank you for saying that, Rich.
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belly back there. I appreciate you my brother. No, you're such a role model, man.
16:48
Because me watching him said, "Oh, wow. Black people actually can be on MTV and
16:54
be themselves." And be themselves, be themselves. That's crazy.
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That's you know what I'm saying? Like I don't even know he understands how much he's meant to the culture.
17:06
No, for real. I probably You open the door for so many, bro. like
17:12
half these careers and broadcast wouldn't exist without you. I swear to God. God damn. No,
17:17
I swear to God. Because the success of his is why all the other platforms including VH1 and everybody else started
17:23
to get African-Americans on there. Big facts. You know what I'm saying? There wouldn't have been no 106 and park and all that
17:29
without Sway. Yeah. It wasn't happening. Let him cook, y'all. Yeah. Let him He cooked.
17:36
Let him cook. He was the raw as he got. I appreciate you, brother. Thank you. Thank you, man. I
17:42
thank you. And as I travel, I'll start to learn that more, you know, cuz people tell me, you
17:47
know, tell us they grew up watching and the whole nine. So, I receive that. Um, I'mma quote a lyric, man. We got She
17:56
coast, West Coast, Bad Boy, Death Row. Ironically, a [ __ ] from the Indiana is the best though.
18:01
Yeah, that's me. That's me. That's the most confident. Throwing up off the floor like a air
18:07
mattress. Crazy how I still feel slept on. You know what I mean? Yeah. That's really Okay. All right. I like it.
18:13
It's real, man. LNS. What's your social, man? LNS AO N.
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What's yours? Ski b i g ski a o n s k i. And our group social is
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sheish_convict. So that's sh e s k o n v i t.
18:34
Mhm. All right. Well, you knew where you was coming today. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. I told him already
18:44
grew up watching that too. They grew up watching. They already told on themselves. They know big superstars.
18:51
Come on, man. They all had to come through here at some point. You come here.
18:56
Absolutely. See all them. This how you know. When he used to tell you, "We got to wake up. We got to write." Now you like,
19:03
"Nah." was talking loud.
19:08
8 years from now, we'll be on sway. Ain't that crazy? Come on, man. God, it's a blessing, man.
19:14
Yo, how often y'all come to LA? Uh, this my second time. Oh, wow. Okay. Second time in LA?
19:21
No, I think this is our third time. Third time in LA. Every time it's been through con.
19:26
Yeah. Yeah. It's a beautiful man right here. Third time in LA. But it's your first time in the valley.
19:37
You going I want to do Cali beats though. We going to burn that on me.
19:43
Get on this one first. Turn it up in the headphones. Go ahead. Right there.
19:49
Where's that? Turn it up the other way. You want to kick it off, Sk? Yeah. Yeah. Uh, no matter where you go, could always
19:56
make it bigger. Mom's laid down with a lame. I'll pop the realest [ __ ] All you fake. Day ones absent when I took
20:02
attendance. He ain't my dog. You skipped orientation, didn't you? Whipping through traffic. Might not be the
20:07
legalist. I'm mo with my lords. [ __ ] that's 20 Jesus. Jump to get you stepped on the hopscot. Squeeze a switch from
20:13
beefing with a traitor. He got the Don Cheetah lit. See these [ __ ] flexing on the net. I guess he is the main
20:18
Instagram ain't [ __ ] but some baby bibs full of stain. See my pants pushing with no epidur full of pain. I get so for
20:24
real under that [ __ ] [ __ ] candy rain. Ask me as I'm [ __ ] on this [ __ ] I start laughing line. I'm the man she see by the horse. Hard of damn
20:31
time. Say she want to [ __ ] for this too soon. This [ __ ] a Gemini. And she going to find some room in them jeans cuz I'm genuin.
20:39
Hey room in jeans. Yeah boy. You ain't a trapper. You a
20:45
fiend bro. Kilo brick to his face like he debo. Cheap ho. Took away his drive like a repo. All he do is sit on the
20:52
couch like a Remo. All I got is wood for a gold digger. Sound like a man, but he
20:57
a [ __ ] [ __ ] gorilla type to ask his homeboy to walk to the store with him. Scared of his ops, too, so he don't want
21:03
to go with him. Hey,
21:09
flipped off the porch to a winning streak. Spinning like rotary. It's time to make groceries. No, ain't no afford
21:14
me. I'm thinking more forly. Your mind stay screaming more Honda accordly. If I send shots, my Y instant priority and
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due to my sority won't be no disorderly [ __ ] That's why I can't relax, my [ __ ] Cuz [ __ ] always figure it's
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never facts with [ __ ] Mama always told me not to dab you [ __ ] I'm press that pop going to Dax you [ __ ] cuz I'm
21:33
quick to break a leg on the track my [ __ ] Tony said kill you [ __ ] I told him done deal. And right before I cut
21:39
off your head, make sure they all kn. What up Tony? Okay.
21:46
You don't write your own bars, [ __ ] You need a lookout. Spitting like a fully. I get a [ __ ] took out my bars a
21:52
barbecue a [ __ ] to a side for it's nice enough to cook out. I won't land up on the strip, but I dance on it. The kids a
21:58
plan B [ __ ] cuz I don't plan on it. You ain't going to have a good day. Can't take the chance on it. [ __ ] five ass
22:03
back camp on it. Shooting like the rucker. It's traffic with that blow spin around trying to stop. Rush shower like
22:09
Tucker. Only difference is I ain't dancing ain't shucking. Quick level up. The only time tears in the bucket must
22:15
have shot for gold how I'm gripping on this metal. Right. More of the codes. You shot never settle. Three sexy hoes
22:20
make it stand up like a special. Give me TLC but told him not to bring pebbles. [ __ ] got stuff. Don't buy off the pro.
22:28
Indiana on the Cali beat Midwest coast. Thinking that he shook and he acting like he pocking. Your dog going to need
22:33
a dock. I'mma end up on death row. Rip Mavelli. I was born in a shot. Winter
22:39
time it was pies. Put the beats on him like a rolling Kelly. Need a band-aid for his eye. Have him looking like
22:44
Nelly. Ain't a rapper [ __ ] with me in this [ __ ] 10 of 46 8 n to five. Y'all should quit. Always bet on myself. Every
22:52
point I'mma hit lyrically I am him. Need a fade and not a friend. Bet your chain. Bet your watch. No cuz your rolly tick.
22:57
Bet your crib. I'mma have your ass living in the tent. Bet your whip. I'mma have you somewhere walking like a [ __ ]
23:02
Bet a [ __ ] lose her cell back like a pimp [ __ ] What I got on? [ __ ] you won't find it. I'm fly ski fly [ __ ]
23:09
that's my co-pilot. Where the trash [ __ ] come from? [ __ ] I won't find. Hey, lot of ass coming out of nowhere
23:14
like Blowbody. Trying to get a money bag like Yo Gotti. If not, I ain't trying to pop out at your party somewhere in the
23:21
crib with my kids. I'm a homebody. Hey, run up in my crib, you going to die. That's a homebody.
23:29
The whole body. We got She up in here. Chicago finest. Indiana, stand up.
23:35
Convict Music. Let's go. Come on, man. Yeah. Okay, that's our warm up. That's
23:40
our first round. I like that. I like that. I like that. I like that. You see,
23:45
Khan told me I could do how cuz I knew they was going to want popular beats. We had original beats by DB.
23:51
I like that though. Yeah. You see? Yeah. Because you know the popular beats are a sa dude.
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Yeah. Yeah. Because we already know the popular beat. So you already got a head. Yeah, that's a fact. Yeah.
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When you could flip on an unknown beat. Yeah. We We ain't know what them was. Yeah. You got to let them know. We ain't know
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what them you ain't got to know. True MC going to jump on the beat no matter what. When we came up, right,
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K. No matter what, man. Listen, if you talking about rapping, if you
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come go to Sway, if you if you survive Sway, you got a shot. There it is, man. Period.
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Y'all did Y'all did more than survive. Y'all thrive right there, man. Come on, man. Thank you, bro.
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Hey, listen. You guys got a lot of great drive, great
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energy, and great lyrics. I listened to the mixtape. I'm looking forward to seeing the album, watching you perform
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the lyrics here. I could tell y'all love this [ __ ] And by you telling your brother to get
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up, we got to write. Y'all was making an investment in yourselves, man. Right. And now you
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seeing it pay off. You looking in the face of somebody you grew up watching, right? That's a fact, bro.
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That's some crazy. No, it is. No, that's He don't even understand,
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though. No, no, listen. He I explained it to him. He just broke it down. I broke it down cuz listen, I've never
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in my whole like as knowing him. I never ever see him nervous.
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This [ __ ] don't get nervous. No, that's a fact. But I know how he feels about you though. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a fact. Good.
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You know what I'm saying? Yeah. That mean you care. Absolutely. That's all that is, man. And we care about you.
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That's why we we doing this today. Yeah. Absolutely. Hell yeah, man. I'm excited. Sheesh. Man, we going
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to have to invite y'all back to do a um a garage series for us. Is J1 in there?
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Let's go. Where J1 go? In the back. I'm going to get the VP of programming for um Pandora and he programs here at
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Sirius XM. J1, if you tuned in, come come here. I want to I want to ask you
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guys to do we do something called the garage series cuz I want to invest in y'all.
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Like I want you to come back. Yeah. This ain't your first time. I mean, this ain't your last time being on this show.
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I want to invest in y'all movement, man, cuz I can see y'all focus and y'all going to stay on path, right? Perform
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live. Perform live. You can perform live in front of our audience. That's That would be dope.
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And I'm in your corner. All right. So, if you let yourself down, you letting me down, too.
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We ain't doing that. Hell, don't let down the guy you grew up watching, man. You don't want Hey, you don't want me looking at y'all like
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this. Right. That's that look of you goddamn death.
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You don't want that, man. But I'm gonna get J1 in here for a sec before we get off the air. Acon, can you explain to um
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cuz you're such a great businessman. Uh the this information that's coming out about Acon City, right? Okay. And um
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apparently was a synagogue. They said that that they're not going to do the project. Is this true or what's the
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status of that? What happened? Unfortunately, man, you know, anything that's a big dream is always going to
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get turned down and is always turned by the people that in their own minds believe that something like that is not
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possible. Okay? I don't get started into nothing I know I can't finish. My as I started going into my career, I
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realized that developing Africa is my calling. Right? So if I can give 600 thou I mean
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600 million people access to electricity building a city I can do overnight. Yeah.
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Right. But the problem is building a city in Africa is shaking up so many
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agendas from the west. Yeah. That that city as small as it may seem
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to people will be the one thing that ignites the development of the whole
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continent. Uhhuh. And the powers that be can't afford that to happen. So lately, and for a long time,
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almost a year and a half, I was super quiet. I ain't want to I ain't want to become Kanye and just start going crazy.
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Yeah. Cuz it don't get me nowhere. Yeah. So, I try to stay quiet. I try to stay humble. But it got to the point now
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where what they're doing is affecting my relationships with my investors and it's affecting my
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uh you could say your brand reputation. Your reputation, right? Cuz now they're actually blatantly putting
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out lies, fake news, and all kind of just evil like gestures towards the
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city. Oh, the government took the land back. First of all, the government never gave me the land. I bought that with my
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own money, right? That's number one. So, you can't take back what you don't own. That's number one. Number two, the idea that
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they would say, "Well, the city's not happening anymore," is completely false. That city's going to happen.
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The city's still happening. going to happen. They said you didn't deliver. No, I've bro I've overd delivered to be
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honest. I've overd delivered. I've never sat here and spoke about the city in a
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way to where nothing that I said is actually not happening. You understand what I'm saying? It's just the expectations of people that
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don't understand how things like this work. They expect the city to be built in two years. Yeah.
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One giant highrise will take maybe two, maybe three, sometimes even five years to build. We're talking about building a
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whole city. So the timeline in which I'm willing to finish is not a matter here because after after stage one is done
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I'll be hosting people actually inviting them in and as I get closer to that boom what did what did slow us down though
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was co because around the co the whole world had stopped that's right so it wasn't much I could do even if I wanted to right so coming off of that we
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got into the studies feasibility studies environmental studies you know all the land soil studies all the studies itself
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took about two and a half years in itself so these are times these are things that actually that they utilize
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as an advantage and and weaponize it to make it seem like nothing is moving. But there's so much happening in the
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background that wasn't happening on land on and on site as it speaks. You know what I mean? So to to answer your
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question, the project is happening. The project is still happening. What what what is your uh
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what is your projection on when you think you you'll be at that phase? Right now I'm at war.
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Okay. Cuz Acon City is under attack. They doing every and anything they can for it
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not to happen. Okay. So, I can't put a timeline on it now because I don't know what I'm facing. Okay. But what I can tell you is it ain't
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going to stop me from making sure this thing go down. I promise you it's happening. My man Acon, I appreciate that, man.
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We've seen a lot of res a lot of nations in Africa are fighting back,
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bro. The whole continent is fighting back as you can see, right? You know, and it was funny because we did research
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on they got these machines now, these bots that actually this what they do like it's either going to push out positive information or negative
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information. Just last in the last two weeks, there was over 23 million fake
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ads and false information put out on Acon City just to kind of kill the credibility.
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That's when I realized how deep this is. Yeah. I mean, that's the most that's the beginning. That's the that's the
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birthplace of it all. That's where the most minerals, everything is um in that land, man. Um and when I saw the
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headline, I said, "Man, I got to ask my brother directly what that's about." And we're in your corner, man.
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Thank you. All right. And when you finish that first phase and you start hosting people, I know me, L, and Ski going to
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be there having you coming. Okay. You already know we got J1 right here, fellas. This is
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the new group, Sh. Okay, you just heard them on the air.
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J1, this Acon's latest group on the label. And anything you want to ask of
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them? Hey man, you know, we got this beautiful series called the uh Sway in the Morning
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Garage Series, which we do right downstairs in our event space. Would love for the three of y'all to come
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through and perform. Absolutely. And have a good time with us. No question, bro. That's good. That's good.
31:54
An honor. Good thumbs up. Okay, great. Okay. So, Acon and she should be doing our next
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garage series. Citizens, we got them. We got it right.
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Let's do it. Yes, sir. Let's go. Yo, come back anytime, man. I hope y'all had a good experience up here, bro.
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We did. It was love. Blessing. Yo, use that energy. Run with it, bro. And we going to keep doing it on every on different scales, different levels.
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We here and they head on straight, man. These they they they really understand. They sacrifice all that negative to push it
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all in the positive direction, man. So, I'm really I'm I'm proud of you for it. Thank you, big brother. Ain't it a trip though when you start
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investing in positivity, man? You see the difference? Did you see the [ __ ] difference, bro?
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Life changing. Life changing, bro. Y'all was y'all was in [ __ ] little ass jail cells,
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right? But [ __ ] telling you when to get up and where to when to eat [ __ ] and take a shower.
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And then you got to worry about the person over your shoulder to the left and the right, right? And it be stinking
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for real. Straight up. No, for real. People never been to prison. Nah, bro. It's no joke. It's a smell.
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It's unfortunate. Yeah. It's unfortunate. And I feel bad for my brothers that be in there. But look at you now.
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Bless. And make sure and make sure you you talk to those Oh, yeah.
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who got left behind, right? You know, and and give them like your wins. Share it with folks.
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Spread your wins, man. And even if you hungry and you might be broke as you
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chasing this dream, you got freedom. And with that freedom, you got opportunity.
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And y'all got motion. Period. People don't put currency on mo motion is currency. It's currency.
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Y'all got motion, right? Yeah. So we in your corner, man. Give it up for She. Okay. Get that new They got
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that new mixtape out. The album's coming as well. You spell it s h e s.
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My brother Acon, man. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. All right. All right. And we want to thank Holly Robinson, Peter,
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Rodney Pete for coming by. Make sure you watch King's Court Sunday 900 p.m. on
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Bravo. Um, and then what's next for y'all? Music. Music. Yeah, we going every two months.
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Yeah, we dropping consistently. Constantly. Yeah. Yeah. So, coming off this ghetto living, we
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going to drop the next single and then we going to follow up with the album. Don't let nothing frustrate you. This your dream, not those distractors. Okay.
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You going to get them hate, all that. Don't let them frustrate you. That's right. What they call those characters in video games, John? The nunc.
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That's all they are. All right. All right, man. I appreciate y'all. Okay. Hey, K. Love you, brother. You already
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know what it is, man. Hey, on that note, y'all stay on the right side of positivity. will be back tomorrow, God
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willing.
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