Amanda Reifer's EPIC Live Performance on Sway's Universe 🔥 | SWAY’S UNIVERSE

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this one who is going to grace the stage
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first is hailing from Barbados
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And so you already know that she brings
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the spirit of those gorgeous sads to all
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of her craftsmanship to her songwriting
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to her style to all the different genres
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The way I first discovered her was from
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one of my favorite songs Kendrick's Die
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Hard And I was like who is that gal and
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somebody was like it's a man And I was
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like "Oh shoot." And she's continued to
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collaborate with Kendrick She's
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collaborated with Farel She's
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collaborated with Shawn Paul She's been
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on tour with her Beijian sister Rihanna
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And she is someone who's so deserving of
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our ears and our eyes Blessing the stage
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Amanda Reaper
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Hey thank you Thank you Thank you Thank
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you Oh my gosh Nice So excited Head
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what's up what's up LA how are you
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wow I'm so blessed to be sharing this
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intimate space with space space with
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y'all Y'all look gorgeous It is tight
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The energy is good It's warm in here
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Thank you so much for having me I I am
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I'm honored Welcome back to LA Welcome
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back Thank you Thank you Thank you All
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right so I'm going to start the vibe off
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tonight Y'all Y'all Y'all ready for that
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i I don't know about that one Are y'all
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ready for that
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okay All right We could
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go like a Jedi Look at me Dead eyee I
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ain't never said I wouldn't be a Jedi
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Trigger like a like a semi Sweet like a
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daylight I ain't in your head Right In
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and out In and out In and out I stay in
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and out in and
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out in and out in and out in and out I
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stay in and out in and
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out The logic's a false prophets looking
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to profit off money [ __ ] power through
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your optic skin out Mayday have it
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endorphins break down in portions You
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like an addict who pass you want to
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party on your high horse like a party
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Take what the sharks say I'm Desolinis
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in the shadows You never see me I do it
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my way You can stand it It's in your
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psyche like a Jedi Look at me dead eyee
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I ain't never said I wouldn't be a Jedi
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Trigger like a like a semi Sweet like a
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dead I am in your head right
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[Applause]
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Wait Hold up Hold up Pull up Hold up
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Hold on Hold on Hold on Hold on Hold on
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Come on now Come on now All right All
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right All right So y'all know I come
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from Barbados and I want to tell y'all a
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little bit about where I come from
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because some of y'all don't know me in
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here and I appreciate the introduction
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Thank you so much Heather But this next
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one going to tell you about where I'm
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from
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[Music]
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Where
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it
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get born and I raise up in 246 I cut
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through the kiss and judge his finest
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The Lord give me life and I swear never
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dim I don't fear none and I don't got no
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limit Got big ambition on me can't it
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down Many men try but they can't keep me
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down All of them too vex with a woman
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but can't cry to the lyric on the sound
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I'm run this town running loose It's
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coming now Labor but induce me for he
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thought is how I live it Sister Nancy
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show me how I got to give it This
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woman and I trouble no
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one I never trouble no
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one So tell me where to get that
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from Talk your talk You could do it all
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day I'm not impressed with a word that
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you say Even a black belly sheep could
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tell your bluffing Come wrong can't tell
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me nothing I'mma run this town Yeah I'm
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running loose It's coming now Lay
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button for head to toe This how I live
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it Sister Nazi show me how I got the
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living This
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woman never trouble no
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one I never trouble no
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one Tell me where she get it from
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Yeah cuz some of them ask me where get
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it from Some of them ask me where get it
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from I said no is from creation I said
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I'm not know it's from
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[Music]
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creation What the
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[Music]
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bum what the bum
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bum what
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the What the bum bum let me hear you
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What the bum all right real
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quick What
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[Music]
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the
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bum hey what the
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bum what the bum bum louder What the bum
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bum what the bum
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bum
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yeah
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Yeah Y'all sound good Y'all sound good
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Y'all sound good The energy is right The
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energy is right I got any Caribbean
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people in the house tonight hey All
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right All right All right My people My
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people All right This is the last one I
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have for you guys today Um this is Are
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You Dumb This is my new single that just
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dropped And listen I don't know if any
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of y'all have had this experience at
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least every day but have you ever just
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had to go like "Are you dumb?"
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Like "Are you dumb?" You know all right
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we're going to hit this one Ready go
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Let's go
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ahead [ __ ] through the doorway Why wait
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for you one way me in the room for the
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fun That's a cold face I ain't done yet
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Putting trophies down You ain't won yet
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20 minutes down the road Where the fun
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at don't get up [ __ ] I ain't come
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yet They be celebrating Tell them pray
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to the [ __ ] for the salvation Ice with
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man like Dalmation Drop everything you
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got for bad Hey crew like a pharaoh
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Straight to the heart like a arrow It's
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a hazel eyes with a halo Don't stare too
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hard That's f I mean I get it but I
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don't Are you dumb boy what do you want
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are you done boy what do you want are
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you done boy what do you want i mean I
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get it but I don't Are you done boy what
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do you want are you done boy what do you
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want are you done boy what do you want i
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better go celebrate live I'm an element
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Can't let it fly Give me someone I can
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level with Down for the ride Let me show
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you where the pedal is Want to know the
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tea let me show you where the kettle is
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Take a little dive in the lake I know
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you want a bite every [ __ ] got a low
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percentage rate Why well they just want
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to sit and watch the doves cry You want
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to eat the fruit like Adam from blow out
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my candle Still here looking for me like
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I never had him You know all the yapping
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not attractive Who there boy pump a
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break what you going to do when I snake
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it what will you do for a headline it's
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a good head It's your best I get it but
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I don't Are you done boy what do you
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want are you done boy what do you want
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are you done boy what do you want i mean
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I get it but I don't Are you done boy
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what do you want are you done boy what
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do you want are you done boy what do you
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want thank you so much Thank you Ellie
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Thank you Thank you Heather
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Ahead We got you here Come on Here Go
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ahead Let me get that chair for you Hold
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up I'm a Oh I got to spend more time
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with y'all I love this I love this
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Let me take these out so I can hear
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y'all Good Yes Yes Give it up for Amanda
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y'all
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Thank you
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You know to ask somebody "Are you dumb?"
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uh could be really embarrassing You know
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I've I've never really been asked that
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If are you dumb
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i must ask you that all the time on the
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radio and I think I repeat it It
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sometimes comes in the form of a look
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like that's that's okay So you a to use
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words to say are you dumb use words all
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the time No Okay Okay When the last time
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you actually ask somebody are you dumb
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oh this morning Yeah At least twice a
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day It's a doctor's requirement Right
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Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah You don't you don't
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feel be like you're being abrasive to
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ask that question no Absolutely not You
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know at one point in my life I would
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have said so I would have said yes I
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would have felt like I couldn't speak up
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for things about about myself and things
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I needed and things that were offensive
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to me But as a woman and I've grown
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through experience now I feel like I'm
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in a place where I'm unashamed to say
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what I think And that's what this record
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is all about It's about taking up space
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It's about saying what we need to say as
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women in spaces unapologetically Are you
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dumb are you glad that was so eloquent
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and mean all at the same time
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That that sound like something DJ Head
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would like to You seem like you say that
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all the time to people Oh I love the
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record Oh thank you Yeah I say it all
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the time But I don't say "Are you dumb?"
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It's more aggressive when I say it Oh
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you say "Are you [ __ ] stupid?" Oh my
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The ass bomb The ass bomb Okay All right
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I'm sorry That's No man It's okay man
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Don't come to me then Okay I know You're
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You're right I did that to myself right
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like it is
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One of the things you two have in common
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is your uh your relationship with uh you
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have a relationship with Kendrick Lamar
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you know and as we know DJ head has been
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the spokesperson for Kendrick Lamar
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right uh
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hey you got a chance to work with him
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right i did I was I'm so blessed to have
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that opportunity And every time someone
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ask me this question I make sure and say
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that same thing because I really want
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people to understand that that came at a
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time for me where I was in a place of
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self-doubt I have been doing this for a
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really long time I moved out to LA I I
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had only just met some good people
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Finally my manager Carmen she's in here
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Carmen's off the chain Where where's she
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carmen where are you from carmen
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Oakland
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And I Yeah So I mean Carmen is amazing
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and we had just linked up but I was
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facing some serious writer's block at
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the time And I had been praying for
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opportunity for the right people in my
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life And for God to play that big joke
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on me to give me the biggest opportunity
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of my life during the worst writer's
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block of my life really just um made me
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realize that I have to rely on him for
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everything and I have to walk in trust
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and walk in faith and to be able to show
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up and work with him on the record die
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hard and to work on Mr Moral and the Big
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Seers and to learn from him and
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Soundwave and Dahi I name them all the
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time because they're so incredible Um
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it's a great gift and that has flowed
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into my work as well and filtered into
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my work as well I love it Go ahead And
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you guys have collaborated more than
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once because you guys help with writing
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Both wrote for Are You Dumb Yeah As a
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co-writer as well as Forel producing
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which is just crazy It is to have those
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two names on such a record Girl you
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telling me you telling me i'm still you
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know I'm still little Beijing girl in
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the inside like running around barefoot
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in the country and just admiring all of
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these great artists and producers and to
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be able to work with them to be able to
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u sharpen my pen become a better writer
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to be able to grace a forel track I I'm
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I still am in I don't want to say
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disbelief because I got to believe in
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myself and believe that we're here but
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I'm in in in great reverence for for
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what I know the magnitude of the gift
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and opportunity I've been given And I
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know that you're such a studio rat Was
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Amanda Reaper i am You called her a rat
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Tracy
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It's a saying Don't get me in trouble
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Are you dumb exactly Oh mama Sweat too
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nice I can't say I have to sweat today I
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can't do it Amanda I'll do it I'll do it
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Just in case y'all wanted to see an
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example of how it's done Well I felt
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dumb I felt dumb Oh I love you But I'm
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I'm interested because I can only
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imagine when you are in the presence of
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such greatness have so many decades of
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history of just doing hits by hits um
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what did you take that really helped to
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shape your current style with
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songwriting from Kendrick and then also
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perhaps for your ear when it came to Fel
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or engineering or anything like that
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yeah I mean being in that room I think
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when it comes to writing and and
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creating music the biggest takeaway I
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got was don't judge it um to just be
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free and be candid and the the people
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like that of that level and that
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expertise will bring out the best in you
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and you have to peel back the layers and
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you have to be vulnerable and that's
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where the best work comes from and this
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album the reaper files that's come
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getting ready to come out you know it's
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that it's it's pulling everything back
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to get to that uncomfortable place to
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talk about the uncomfortable things but
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also the things you've been dying to say
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Um and it's and it's a full spectrum of
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moods and emotions and some good some
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bad some ugly some flawed some beautiful
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Um that's I think that's the biggest
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takeaway I took from them Love um I just
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want to say um whatever God is doing in
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your life right now is so beautiful Yes
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And um your work you need to be you know
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applauded for your work and your
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strength because this is a hard game It
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it just say is it's a hard game any
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profession is hard but in particular the
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entertainment business because people
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are so quick to judge You know everybody
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has a microphone right now And as
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someone who just seeing you for the
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first time and meeting you for the first
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time I was flawed You are so ready for
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whatever God has for you I will never
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forget you Your hard work has paid off
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sis and I hope God just blesses you
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through the roof It is beautiful Give it
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up for Amanda Reaper y'all Oh thank you
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Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you

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