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Anthony Hamilton On Studio Sessions with Drake and 40 and His Latest Album 'Love Is The New Black'
Oct 22, 2021
Multi-platinum singer-songwriter Anthony Hamilton is back with a new album, 'Love Is The New Black'. The album is his first full length album in five years — one fans have been anxiously awaiting.! He checked in with Sway In The Morning to talk about the album.
'Love is the New Black' features guest heavy-hitters Jennifer Hudson, Rick Ross and Lil Jon. Jermaine Dupri, 9th Wonder, Bink!, Wu10 & Cardiak and 1500 or Nothin’ are some of the producers composing this project.
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Anthony Hamilton On Studio Sessions with Drake and 40 and His Latest Album 'Love Is The New Black'
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[Applause]
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sadie ladies and gentlemen
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not enough words that could be put
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together to talk about
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the significance of this man's presence
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in the r b and music scene
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what he does man and he reminds us of
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our roots as we move forward into the
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future and he does it so smooth and
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eloquently no wonder he's a grammy
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award-winning artist it makes sense to
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me
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it makes sense to me hb when this dude
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teams up with anybody from nas to rick
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ross or lil john or
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whoever he's working with that he makes
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gold
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this is a true well-rounded individual
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singer songwriter performer humanitarian
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and we got him back with us today to
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celebrate his album anthony hamilton
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anthony hamilton anthony hamilton whoa
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whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa what
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up
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hey that thing took me back to curtis
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mayfield man i was listening to it
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we added the young lady on there man
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just to give it that you know
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who is she do that
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her name is actually from the church man
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a young lady uh my basically a lamont
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mccain
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turned on to her he was like i got this
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one girl you know that can come in a
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church girl you know but
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she came in and did that on one take
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like wow i'm like okay her name is
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regina
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from the church down down south man
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i'm thinking about taking home tour
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because i want when that song come on i
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want it to sound exactly like that
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that's interesting because it when i was
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listening to it i was thinking of not so
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much the sound but the the feeling you
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know i was thinking inner city blues and
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some staple singers and you know just
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those freedom songs right there and you
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may say something really interesting
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about her
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you know
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it reminds you of when dr dre used about
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to say when dr dre did what what truth
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hurts or what michelle what what dr dre
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just how he would do on the chronic how
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he had that that voice will come through
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like
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you know the music is doing what he's
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doing and it's reminding you of some
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old
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you know west coast funk but he has his
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voice to come in this female voice or
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man voice
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and it cuts through and it creates a
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whole new dynamic
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and i was just like man i was just
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thinking about that just now
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have you ever crossed paths with dr dre
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and it's anthony hamilton by the way
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yeah
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absolutely yeah
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yeah we he invited me into the studio um
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to work
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a couple years back
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and
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we were in there putting down some ideas
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man a whole lot of ideas and dre is so
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meticulous
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he wants it he knows exactly what he
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wants
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and and
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as great as the greatest people he's
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worked with he's he don't you can't
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impress him that easy he's already you
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know he's already a fan but
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if it's not exactly
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to the molecule right
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[Laughter]
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you know he'll change it up on you and
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the same thing i was just in the studio
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with with drake and we laid down on
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about four or five ideas
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maybe three years ago four years ago and
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it just now made the new album of
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remorse
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um my voice is on that so i'm a
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co-writer
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on
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oh really well okay yeah
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what was that experience with drake
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because you guys are two different kind
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of seniors yeah did he did he comment on
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that what was that singing conversation
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like with y'all man
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first he hit me he hit me on my dm uh
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some years back and told me about coming
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from where i'm from was one of his
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favorite albums of all time and i was
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like man i appreciate it i'm you know
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i'm such a huge fan
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you got a great thing going on he's i
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appreciate it and
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i said well if you ever need me
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hit me up
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a couple weeks later maybe a month he
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flew me out to toronto and
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we actually went to go see d'angelo play
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um
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that that same night
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when i first flew in d'angelo was in
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concert i said well yo d is here and we
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all rolled out we had a great time we
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went back to the studio and laid down
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about four different ideas with with 40
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and
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we talked about music he was like man i
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said you got good melodies i said you
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know he's evidently he's not the the
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he's not going to know casey or me or
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you know sing like that but in terms of
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melodic melodically how he does it i
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think he i think he's onto something and
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kanye does the same thing
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a lot of those cats are musical and a
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lot of the newer rappers are real
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musical like little dirk could break out
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he'll be
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hitting the bars
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something you know it's just
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it's just the weirdest thing but it's
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it's pretty dope to me so you know a lot
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of times people want me to bash the new
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music
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i'm a lover of music i'm a love of
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hip-hop like i'm a hip-hop head man
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my first album was fat boys you know
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what
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yeah anthony hamilton is a beat boy
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first yeah absolutely i just break dance
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and everything spin on the cardboard
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whatever let's go
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okay he comes from the origins of this
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that's why we we connect when rich nice
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and anthony i remember one time you and
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rich was popping against each other we
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was hanging out somewhere
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i remember that man how's it written
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he's doing good he's doing great he was
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out he was out at um
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uh uh uh anderson pack had a concert
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with amazon last night he was trying to
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get me to go out there yeah so he's
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doing well amen did jude drake 40
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deangelo did he come to the studio with
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y'all i could sound like a man
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yeah that would have been you look i
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think would have still been glowing in
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the dark right now but now we you know i
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think he was on like a real schedule and
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all that stuff
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wow
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anthony hamilton is here i'm gonna uh
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get out of the way i know the queen's
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gonna speak to you too but
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i you know if i look up coin go go go
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ahead i'll go ahead hey
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what's up it's heather how you doing so
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glad you could join us today i just want
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to you know it's always a good time
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thank you thank you family i just want
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to give a shout out to north carolina
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because for the life of me i just been
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like screaming out to everybody that i
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can like yo there is something going on
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in north carolina with the voices that
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come from that state
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fantasia yourself um jody like there's
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so many people that could just straight
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up sang
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coming from north carolina what is it
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anthony i'm not saying you the odds that
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you know all the answers but it's like
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is it the church background is it the
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dirt roads like what the hell is it it's
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a dirt road the church it's the dirt
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road the church getting whoopings with
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them switches
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learn how to hop
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open up them lungs
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[Music]
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caesars
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what you grow up listening to man
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that church sound and
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back then it was just like the jerry
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curls with the bass coming in with the
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bass guitars and the jerry curl and
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all the rings on and they get hit that
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mic
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you might
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that jesus know
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man to change your life
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and i've never forgotten that
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and sometimes it would get so powerful
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that it was kind of scary i was like man
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that's too much spirit coming from this
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like
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i'm feeling something i'm a kid but i'm
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feeling something real powerful
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and then i got old enough to recognize
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like
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that's what you need
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you need that power
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there it is man anthony hamilton said
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that switch did you did you used to have
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to pick out your own switch
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if i had gotten a small one it was going
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to be trouble because it's like oh
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you're trying to play
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the game
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so i went over here got a nice size like
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a medium size
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so you know that game can't be like oh
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he's trying to be funny
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going gonna give me mine so i can go
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back outside and play
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hello
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that's the beginning that's the first
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step of the punishment because it's
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psychological building up all that
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tension and anxiety
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i used to hate it but hey
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i shouldn't have did what i did so
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carry on
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speaking of people who shouldn't have
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done what they did and i was dying
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laughing on your um instagram recently
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when you was partaking in the social
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media
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red flag sensation and he was saying
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it's a red flag of her neighbor charlene
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off of that hit single that you got and
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uh yeah i'm curious so red flags for
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anyone's citizens if if you've just been
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seeing people on twitter or on instagram
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with the red flags is really what it is
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just um what are
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those signs that trouble is ahead and
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you should reroute and now and you know
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being such a grown and wise man i'm just
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interested in the red signs in women or
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in friendships that you're more
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aware of now that you weren't of in the
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past
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i think
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in the past
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you don't know if a woman is
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pretty stable
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within her own world like whether it be
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financially or
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emotionally
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and
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spiritually
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now you can see it because you can't
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after a while you can't hide that stuff
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you can't put makeup on it you can't
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like once it comes off of instagram it
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ain't the same like
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and you can see that in real life and
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real energy speaks loud
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so now i know and i can tell by the
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conversations
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like okay she's pretending to have it
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together
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and uh
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and i know when that
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that that energy comes around like i
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want to borrow some money energy
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if you don't speak the truth loud it
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always start with a hey
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yo aunt
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money
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wow you know that's money that someone's
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ever asked you to borrow
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i barely
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even knew her um
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and we hadn't even been intimate or
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anything so for five thousand dollars
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just for just for huh what
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oh i'm sorry you're serious i'm like i
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can't even believe you're doing this
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yeah five five k
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oh man they're shameless right now
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anthony said five thousand dollars just
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for huh yo just for huh sums up so much
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i'm messing with you
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man i get it but you know
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i just i don't know i just feel like
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and that was her starter price 5k it was
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going to be double that if you said yes
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somebody paid that to her before though
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oh yeah
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absolutely
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yeah that be that bodacious that's
11:44
someone get back at them because i sure
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i ain't spoke with i ain't supposed to
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underwent
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[Music]
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it
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from where i'm from
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you would have did that i would have to
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take a strike man
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i can't do it i was like what would
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suede do what would sway
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you go you know
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you can't do this but i can't let this
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wait i can't let the sways down nah man
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too many there's only a few of us out
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there but see that what you're saying
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and i'm glad we got into this part of
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the conversation because the song you
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made a fool of me um kind of you know i
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feel like that falls in the vein of what
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we're talking about you know it's a
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whole different perspective
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it's usually the man who's being talked
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about you know you made a fool of me you
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know yeah
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you know i'm not gonna cry i'm and now
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it's now it's the man who's being
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violated who's being taken advantage of
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what made you write this song or do this
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song
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you know
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it's produced by jermaine dupri and
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mango seal so me eddie kane and
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jermaine and we were just in there
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talking
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and reminiscing about like damn
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like charlene had you pretty messed up i
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said yeah
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i said but you know
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you you give a person another chance
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and
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trying to see the growth in the
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relationship with the friendship and
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you know turns out that this person
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ain't what you thought they were they
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come back
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maybe they just come back and make a
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fool of you but you know that was your
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last time
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so we just we got into it
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and it just we just started writing from
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that
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right
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anthony hamilton 888.7423
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oh why oh wow
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you made a fool of me
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that's right man take over
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hey well you correcting me yet
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[Laughter]
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are you trying to show me the right way
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oh okay you catching me on you made a
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fool of me
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that's right man where are the hamiltons
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man where my people at so
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you know we all took a
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everybody took and went their own way
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and did a you know their own thing
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we're about to actually do something
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together
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um
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with the orchestra in miami coming up
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soon which is going to be really really
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dope uh-huh so what's the well yeah
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everybody everybody's just growing it's
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like we're performing man some of my
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classics
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and uh
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and i'm gonna do it with the orchestra
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and it's gonna be incredible
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the new in my
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the new deco orchestra yeah absolutely
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absolutely there you go see that's why i
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see i like intelligent people come on
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here
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come on i won't make it yeah
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already asked you to step aside and let
14:50
anthony show you how to do the notes and
14:52
you're still fighting for the solo i
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mean just told you okay
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go let god
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do that again one more time for me if
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you don't mind you made a fool of me
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you made a fool of me
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i gave you all i had
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you made a fool of me oh damn it
15:33
hit the low hit the low sway though that
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made a fool of me
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yeah thank you anthony i appreciate you
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man you know luther
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i beat it i think
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thank you man thank you for recognizing
15:59
i do not get that from this crew trust
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me brother all right you know
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hey look at queen you know having them
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you know it's hard tough love right here
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man tough love hey lonnie
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thank you man
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what up lot lonnie's on the line from
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florida lonnie grand rodgers
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green rogers how y'all doing
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great wonderful
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hey uh anthony hamilton man first and
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foremost you the man i can't even say
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more than that you are the man brother
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um man i appreciate me through two
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two very very hard parts of my life man
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and you don't even know like
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uh when i was younger uh i thought i was
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in love and i got my heart crushed man
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and your song i'm a mess right now i i'm
16:45
not even gonna start singing but that
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song got me through man and i really
16:49
appreciate that
16:51
he didn't know but no problem man covet
16:53
man when kovitt kicked off and you were
16:56
performing live and you you've given us
16:58
free concerts man that meant so much to
17:00
me and my family we were tuned in so i
17:02
appreciate you man brother keeping what
17:04
you're doing uh i love you man and uh
17:06
just just keep doing what you're doing
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man
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thank you man that means a lot i
17:10
appreciate it
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holy man thank you lonnie thank you your
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citizen um how much did covet influence
17:19
this album
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you know in the beginning of covet
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you know well
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when things started to unravel with the
17:27
with the racial uh
17:29
injustice and all that stuff i was just
17:31
like i was pissed off i was angry i was
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scared i was you know i was a little bit
17:36
of everything being the father of six
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black males
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and uh i was writing from a different
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place i was writing from a what's going
17:43
on marvin gaye type type place
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and uh
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it was really heavy
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um
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but as things started to open it up open
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up and people you know i was like well
17:54
people we've been through a lot already
17:56
i don't want to be too heavy
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so i i've turned it around
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and uh
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i made the album that we have now but
18:04
those songs i'm definitely gonna put
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those songs out because i'm pretty sure
18:07
this world ain't it ain't healed yet
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um unfortunately but
18:12
those songs are sitting around waiting i
18:15
even had stephen mills doing background
18:17
on this one song that's really
18:19
incredible um and i was gonna add
18:22
eric about you on that so i can't wait
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you know hopefully
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we'll be able to wait but if the world
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should uh
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get sick again um with with ignorance
18:33
then i'll be ready
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um
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yeah man that's that's where i was okay
18:39
uh you know but it did it did affect
18:43
it did affect it right uh love is yeah
18:45
because a lot of relationships yeah love
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is the new black man uh
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relationship a lot of people you know
18:52
got divorced and broke up you know
18:54
things that
18:55
people went through a lot of a lot of
18:57
stuff during the pandemic
18:59
um this album is so refreshing like it's
19:03
just a lot of musicality that's just
19:06
authentic soul and it's a lot of
19:09
openness in it you sound open on these
19:11
tracks where we could just really hear
19:12
your grit
19:14
you know what i mean and um and uh i
19:16
really appreciate that and shout out to
19:19
to little john you know
19:22
being on the project did something
19:24
too right
19:25
yeah did what four
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yeah
19:28
he did mercy i'm sorry which i'm sorry
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it's incredible
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um
19:33
he did actually get the the
19:36
i'm ready john with with little john
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mm-hmm
19:39
which is a banger man it's a sexy crunk
19:42
record and then i got rick ross
19:44
on i'm ready
19:46
um produced by nice wonder
19:49
and uh i got jennifer hudson another
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north carolina dude
19:53
north carolina
19:54
absolutely jennifer hudson uh
19:57
and myself we did superstar over luther
20:00
vandross is superstar which is
20:02
absolutely
20:04
breathtaking oh my gosh
20:06
you know what yeah i was scared to touch
20:09
that yeah yeah
20:11
huh you know
20:12
i've been a big fan of luther so long
20:15
and i've been wanting to sing that song
20:16
and i and i did it
20:18
one day on live actually doing the
20:21
pandemic and it was absolutely
20:24
the response was incredible and i was
20:26
like okay
20:28
luther you gave me the right to do it
20:29
let's go
20:30
and so when i did it
20:32
i listened to it and i wanted to uh to
20:34
make it a duet i wanted it to be an
20:36
event
20:37
you know
20:38
not everybody could do a duet with
20:40
jennifer hudson it's only it's only
20:42
maybe three people in the world that can
20:44
do that man you you don't
20:46
even and shine
20:49
you know what i mean yeah yeah
20:51
yeah you know we wanted to stay true to
20:53
the song man and make it as beautiful as
20:56
luther did and not try to compete on it
20:58
we ain't trying to out sing each other
20:59
we already know what we both can bring
21:01
to the table but when you come together
21:04
it's something special about
21:06
being in the same spirit of of the song
21:09
i think we should hear that
21:11
yes let's do it i think we should hear
21:13
that
21:14
superstar anthony hamilton superstar
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featuring jennifer hudson it's on the
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love is the new black album we got that
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that is amazing bro
21:25
oh my god
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yo honestly i was scared for you aunt
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when you said y'all when i saw y'all
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read this superstar i was scared like
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heather said you weren't scared
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that's just something not anybody can
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touch
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when you love something so much man it
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comes from a different place
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and
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yeah i had to just
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i had to just come like
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imagine if i was luther
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and uh
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and and and being in that space
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how would i how would i feel about
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somebody making such a classic of mine
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um so i i came from that angle like okay
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i ain't gonna try to bend too much i
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ain't gonna try to do this i'm gonna
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sing the hell out of it
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and i'm i'm i'm gonna give luke to his
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props
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i pretty much followed his lead
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but just used my own voice
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and uh
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and jennifer came in and
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she came in and just real elegant and
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just
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she just
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just came in elegantly yeah and
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it takes a special voice to be able to
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have that control even though we know
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she can powerhouse it
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but to have that control like that it
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takes more it takes more to to be in
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control of your voice than to be loud
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and and and and
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you know
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it's loud more control yeah yeah just
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allowed for no reason
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yeah some people need to stop being loud
22:54
you lie for no reason they think louder
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is better
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you know uh i'm gonna take a few more a
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few more callers um and call us we're
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gonna be real quick because aunt ann has
23:04
to go we we need him to promote this
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project we need folks to know about this
23:08
one sphinx in arizona what would you
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like to say grand rise
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grand rising grand roger family how
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y'all doing long time listener first
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time caller
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[Applause]
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mr hamilton
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yes sir
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i can't even pick up my next passenger
23:28
yet man i got tears in my eyes they
23:30
gonna think something wrong
23:33
wow
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brother
23:36
man and i love luther that's one of my
23:39
favorite artists one of his best found
23:40
songs
23:42
y'all did that thing
23:44
i appreciate it man you know
23:46
that means a lot man from you know
23:48
someone who is listening from the
23:49
outside and uh who really loves music
23:52
and you're a luther fan so i know you
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wouldn't
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probably jump on me yeah you probably
23:57
smashed me
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you to give me that love
24:02
keep doing what you're doing brother
24:04
hey
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god bless you speaks while you're
24:06
driving won't you stream his album love
24:08
is the new black let the passengers hear
24:10
it come on you got it all right you a
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citizen
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okay arlene
24:17
it
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oh go ahead and i'm sorry and doing this
24:20
sales pitch back on switch go ahead and
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stream it download it
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itunes when you get it on itunes you own
24:26
it when you stream it you borrowing it
24:28
but either way i'm happy listen to it
24:31
keep good music alive there you go let
24:33
me take one more call because arlene's
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been waiting for a long time so i i i
24:38
i had to get her on here arlene grand
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rises he's in kentucky what up barley
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hey
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[Music]
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[Music]
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i promise i'll be here to the very end
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right by your side
25:03
to protect you and to love you and to be
25:06
with you for life
25:10
arlene are you there
25:14
hey she was waiting to hear her name
25:16
singing in that instead of charlie she
25:18
was waiting for arlene baby guys i know
25:21
get on the phone with me
25:22
[Laughter]
25:25
i love you anthony i love you and your
25:28
music back on purpose i love you back on
25:30
purpose i appreciate that
25:33
thank you thank you for the music
25:36
thank you make sure you get that new
25:38
album and get it for your aunts and your
25:39
uncles who too old to go on that
25:41
computer and download it make sure they
25:43
get it cause they love me they told me
25:44
they did
25:45
yes all right i sure will
25:49
okay thanks for that i appreciate you
25:51
thanks for your patience arlene
25:53
all right you thank you arlene trying to
25:55
talk in her pretty voice for anthony you
25:57
hear that
25:59
trying to be a green flag uh-huh okay
26:02
darlene
26:04
y'all betty
26:08
yes yes indeed hey anthony man it's it's
26:11
really great to talk with you man i'm
26:12
proud of you thank you man um man you
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you're what's good about the music
26:17
business family you are what's good
26:18
about the music business and early in
26:20
the in the introduction i called you a
26:22
humanitarian i respect your humanity and
26:25
when you're launching your free yourself
26:27
mental wellness challenge and
26:29
partnership with calm
26:31
via instagram and facebook um
26:34
you know that's just indicative of who
26:36
you are and can you want to talk about
26:38
that briefly
26:40
yeah so it started with my foundation
26:42
taste uh take a step to elevate i was
26:45
just noticing a lot of you know
26:47
a lot of boys and a lot of black men and
26:50
black boys going through like mental
26:52
breakdowns and acting out at school
26:56
and just uh not being healthy mentally
26:58
and so i was like if we can do something
27:01
to get those young boys at an early age
27:03
and the men don't have to suffer they
27:05
don't have to suffer when they become
27:06
men
27:07
to be able to make healthy decisions for
27:09
themselves
27:10
and just feeding people man over the
27:12
pandemic we fed people 150 000 200 000
27:16
pounds of fresh food
27:18
and just being there for people man just
27:20
to give them hope
27:22
and just say hey i love you
27:24
you know i don't know if you need it or
27:25
not but we're coming through and we want
27:27
to bless you with this food or we want
27:29
to bless you with this evening here just
27:31
doing stuff to give back because i've
27:33
been on both sides of it you know
27:36
and
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it feels good to know that somebody's
27:38
out there in my corner
27:41
absolutely man
27:43
and and fast what you could do is um
27:47
fans could submit what they're going
27:48
through for an opportunity to win a
27:50
three-month subscription to calm as well
27:52
so all submissions will be kept
27:54
anonymous
27:56
uh so make sure you do that and uh and
27:58
you're gonna do the acoustic christmas
27:59
live taping in atlanta on december 3rd
28:01
and 4th at city winery to benefit his
28:04
foundation taste
28:05
um
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you know tickets are on sale now so man
28:08
make sure y'all support this citizens
28:10
akeem and p.a ryan and detroit uncle jay
28:13
and charlie khalil in florida clinton in
28:15
chicago uh keisha and kansas city all
28:17
these people on phones with you i'm not
28:20
for you i'm an axe film to hit you
28:21
directly on your instagram man
28:24
okay that's good anthony hamilton
28:26
official hit me up
28:27
i'm there anthony hamilton music on my
28:29
facebook i'm there so look forward to
28:32
hearing from you guys
28:33
hey man it's a great conversation man
28:35
good to hear your voice brother keep
28:36
shining man keep shining that god bless
28:38
you guys god bless you man
28:40
[Applause]
28:42
thank you
28:42
can't wait to see you brother anthony
28:44
hamilton all right make sure y'all get
28:46
that album he got me in the vibe right
28:48
now i hear it he got me in the vibe i'ma
28:51
take it to oakley
28:54
i'ma take it to oakland y'all
28:56
let me see let us see
29:01
do it
29:03
let us see ladies and gentlemen
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oakland california's finest
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