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Anthony Ramos Talks ‘In The Heights’, New Album ‘Love and Lies’ & ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’
Jun 25, 2021
Anthony Ramos has done some amazing things with his young career, from the critically acclaimed ‘Hamilton’ to the new musical ‘In The Heights’. No stranger to Sway In The Morning, Ramos calls in to talk about his new album ‘Love and Lies’ and his starring appearance in the upcoming ‘Transformer: Rise of The Beats’.
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[Music]
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yes indeed
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he's back our brother is back db talk to
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him let him know who we got on the line
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right now db
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well like i said earlier he's no
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stranger to the show first time he came
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by in 2019 he's promoting his role as
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mars blackman on the netflix series
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she's gotta have it and his previous
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album
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the good and the bad then he was on the
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show last year to debut single stop
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he's currently starring as uznavi de la
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vega in the film in the heights in
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theaters right now and streaming on hbo
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max
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but his new album love and lies is out
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today welcome back our friend the actor
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the
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the rising star anthony ramos
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yes
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[Applause]
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yo anthony man i'll watch you and i want
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to say was it the blessings
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video and and i'm looking at him i'm
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like man this dude he got a video called
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blessing his blessings right
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is that the name of the song yeah yeah
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yeah bless his blessing
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yeah man and i'm listening to him saying
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man i hear an action on his vocal
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on his vernacular and i was going to
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actually what accent was you singing in
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what dialect was a blessing yeah sounded
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like you you know you put a little
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dialect a little swang on it i don't
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know i think it was really the music the
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music was really just like inspiring how
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i was delivering the vocal
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performance to be honest i think it was
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just like
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i don't know i was just feeling that
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beat and it was
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i was just like it was just all about
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like kind of like hitting that pocket
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you know like i heard you say something
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with your body
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you know like i was just trying to catch
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those little like swings in the beat
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and uh but you know that that song is
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inspired by all the afro beats
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music i've listened to my whole life and
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i really was just like i really wanted
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to
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to write a joint like that you know what
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i'm saying
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and uh you know especially like my
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family coming from the caribbean and
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you know being from puerto rico and like
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bomba
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a big uh you know a big uh
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a part of of the the pulse of of the
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music especially
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in in the caribbean in the latino
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country
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specifically and i think you know and uh
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you know
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afro you know all of that is inspired by
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the music from africa so that's
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you know you know that's the music i
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grew up listening like vibes cartel
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elephant man beat now the castle i was
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like i want this vibe i want this vibe
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on this album
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afro latina like when you say afro
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latino i understand what that means
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you know i know i know the history on it
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can you break it down
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for folks who may not understand why
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afro-latino might be different from
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any other sector what kind i think so
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the the so the the music the music right
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and uh
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especially the caribbean islands right
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there was the the
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when african slaves came to the islands
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right the tainos specifically in puerto
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rico the tainos were already
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were already being enslaved by the
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conquistadors from spain
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so that was already happening in pr and
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then the african community
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came but the one thing that the spanish
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allowed
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uh them to keep was the drunk that was
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the only thing they could keep now the
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difference between
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america and ireland right america and
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that's why a lot of music
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you know and on the island they were
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like they were like all right y'all can
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keep the drums
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especially bomba specifically
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which is a huge afro-latino uh community
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in pr mumbai's like
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you know we and we we touched on it and
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she's got to have it in episode
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seven we went to puerto rico in season
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two
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uh for anybody you know who wants to
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even get a kind of a window into that
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and sort of that you know spike you know
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thankfully you know
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shout out to spike you know he really
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wanted to kind of
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shed light on just pr in general and the
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life out there and he kind of
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intertwined mars's personal story with
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uh with what was going on especially
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after hurricane maria
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and we were able to shoot a scene in
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luis and we were able to see this bomba
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ceremony happening you know and unless
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like you know oshun the goddess of water
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and it's these worship like ceremonies
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and there's this form of dance where
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these cats are playing the drums and
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they follow the person who's dancing
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the person there's someone dancing and
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and the people playing the drums will
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follow them
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and that style of music you know came
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from africa and blenheim
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and and i think and that all infused
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when right new york
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those those forms of music meant jazz
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and salazar was born
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and i think um you know and uh you know
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i think
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that that so so so puerto rico and
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those islands right dominican republic
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you know and
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uh cuba right it's a melting pot you
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know but uh
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but the african uh the african
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uh influence is very heavy
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um you hear that you hear that
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you hear it and and
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is is a form of music that i had to get
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hit to i was in cuba
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and i asked this guy he was playing his
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music in this crib
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and uh and i wrote this song on my album
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called right now
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that was inspired by a song i heard in a
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taxi in cuba
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and i was like bro what is this the beat
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was like
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again the drums and i was like yo what
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is what is happening this is crazy
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i went to this little store and brought
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up like 10 cds
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because i ain't know the name of the
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artist or nothing i didn't i had never
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even heard of the artist because
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you know sometimes some of the artists
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especially in cuba they don't
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we don't get to we don't get to hear
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about them here in the united states
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and uh and i just brought up like 10
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fees and i was like yo
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uh forgive me if i'm going on and on
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about no no i cannot love that like
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like this this kind of [ __ ] is what i
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know
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history yeah break it down you know and
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um
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and i just brought up like these cds and
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i listened
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and i worked with these cats andres and
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mauricio
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who they worked on they like produced
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despacito and then
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i think they just won like songwriters
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of the year latin graham is the producer
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of the year
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and um these cats are amazing and i was
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like yo
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we have to make a joint that feels like
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this
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it doesn't even necessarily have to be
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the same but it's got a feel
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like this and um you know
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and that's how we came up with that song
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right now but yeah you know the african
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uh the african vibe you know the the
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pulse
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of africa is all throughout those
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islands
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and uh you know and you can feel it you
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can feel it in
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in uh in the music you hear
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from you know dominican republic and you
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know embedding and or you can feel that
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in that music um and and the music from
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cuba
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and pr you know and even extended right
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on our minds
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and uh uh you know and in other
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countries in latin america
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so um so yeah i know that's a
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long-winded ending no no no no well
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let me know but i love that you can ask
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that no there's a couple reasons why
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because i
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uh you know people we've been hearing
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that terminology uh
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for years and you know i don't want to
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go too deep into my roots
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right now because this is your interview
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that'll be a conversation we could have
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um
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uh but but let me tell you this boomba
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um i went to puerto rico maybe 2005
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and tego took me to louisa and uh
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we went to the beaches over there in
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louisa you know donkeys all kinds of
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stuff running around hbo i was like
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hey man i said tigger that's a donkey
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right yes where he lives here yeah yeah
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the horses will be out there and
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he's free they running the beach like
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they living the life and
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um and then people came out with
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percussions and drums and they started
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teaching me that dance and the drummer
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was following me around and
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i was just so intrigued with the ties to
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africa you know what i mean um i would
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imagine
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uh first of all congratulations on all
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your success man you just been a rising
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star
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since thank you so much and it's the
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right way it's quality
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citizens it's quality you gotta eat
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everything that's put on your plate
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damn it it's quality man how are you
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handling this success
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what else are you doing with your time
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with all this success man how
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how have you been handling it i mean
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i mean i'm in quarantine right now in
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canada so i'm i'm
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day 11 so i've really had a lot of time
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to kind of reflect and sit and
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think uh you know i still been you know
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promoting the movie and the album and
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stuff but i think
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uh i've been you know it's it's been
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kind of bananas but i i
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that's that's a it's a blessing that you
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even say that you like you know
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that's a that's a blessing that you uh
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connect with with the
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with the work man because um because
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people ask me they're like yo man like
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you know what's one thing you would say
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to people uh if you had to give advice
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i'm like i'm
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you know nobody needs advice from me but
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if there's anything i could tell people
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is like there's power and saying no to
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things
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you know i like i'd rather be broke than
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me do something that doesn't mean
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something to me you know i'd rather like
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figure it out
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as opposed to me do a job or do
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something a project that
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that doesn't say something that uh that
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i'm proud of or
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doesn't feel right uh in my heart you
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know so i think the way i balance it
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is continuing to ask myself uh the
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question like
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you know like do you still care
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[Applause]
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you know oh [ __ ] damn he laughed this
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off off the phone
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laughed so hard his line went out
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he was on his mic music
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cracked himself up so well he cracked
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himself off the phone but let's play a
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song from his new album
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yes um as we get him back the album is
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out today it's called love and lies
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ah let's play blessings if we got that
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blessings
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bless up yourself bless up
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brand new blessings off the love and
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lies album it's out today citizens
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perfect for the summer a lot of joints
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on there anthony
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ramos is with us a lot of joints on this
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one
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how is sound on the radio to you bro
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[Applause]
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oh my gosh hey man oh my god
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with all the success you're having right
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now is there a difference between
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music success or music fame and and tv
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and movie thing
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yo that is such a good question that is
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crazy
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um y'all can still hear me right yeah
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yeah yeah
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uh-huh okay yeah um that's what makes
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y'all but
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you know it's uh
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it's kind of it's kind of uh
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it's interesting yeah i mean i i would
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say yes
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um you know i think i think for whatever
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reason
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like like people can't
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it's hard for people to um
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for actors to be synonymous with artists
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right and vice versa right it's very
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it's like there's like a threshold
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that you have to break um
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and it's like how people how you're
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introduced to people
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is how they want you to stay sometimes
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it feels
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um the press the
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the uh i think you know people who
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listen to music or watch movies or
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whatever
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and um and it's so funny like
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it'd be it'd be so interesting too like
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it'd be like even you hear something
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happen with this artist
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and the same thing happened with an
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actor but the actor got into more
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trouble than the artist
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you know like sometimes it'd be
12:22
happening that way and i don't be under
12:23
really understanding why or why that
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why that is or it's interesting uh and
12:28
like even i'll do interviews and
12:30
you know and and uh and it'd be certain
12:33
certain stations would be like
12:36
you know they this this this this outlet
12:39
wants to only talk about music but this
12:40
one only wants to talk about acting and
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it's like
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why can't you just kind of why can't we
12:45
just embrace it all like why can't we
12:47
just talk about it all
12:48
right right and sometimes it's fine i
12:50
find myself like you find yourself
12:52
running up against the wall
12:53
because people want you to kind of uh
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they kind of they want you to be what
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they
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want to to know you as or see you as and
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uh
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so i think there's uh there is i don't
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know if that completely
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answers your question but but that but
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but i i feel like
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as a person who loves music like music
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is my first love
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you know but i was introduced to the
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public as an actor
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right that's how that's how the public
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made me okay and i think
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i think that's that's that's uh it's
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it's interesting like it's interesting
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like now
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i have to uh but like it doesn't stop me
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from making the music i want to make
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music because just
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until i pass till i die you know like
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and and i know
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uh and i believe in it and i love my and
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i love my records man but it's like
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i think i think there's this element of
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of having to uh
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remind people that like i'm i'm an
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artist and what an artist means
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is i paint i make art it doesn't matter
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what i
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how i make it that's what i do right i
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make a movie
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and i'm into a tv show and i write it i
13:58
write a song
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i put i'm on tour that's that
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you know that's that's that's the
14:05
definition of an artist
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right and i think it's like it's uh so i
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think
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i think it's it's really like that's the
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biggest challenge for me
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you know the biggest challenge is not
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even so much as like it's their
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difference it's just
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i think the challenge is helping people
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understand that it's okay when a person
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doesn't just do one thing
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you know and you know what i'm saying
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like that's and it's okay you can be
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open
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to learning about the other things that
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that person does
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and then sometimes you learn that that
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person probably does the thing that you
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didn't even know they do better than the
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things you
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you know you know them for yeah
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i think of queen latifah mm-hmm
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you know that's someone who came in the
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game one way and then showed you that
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there's
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many ways that spotted it she can do art
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i think of llc
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who came in it one way and then it got
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to a point like ice cube people didn't
15:00
even know he rapped at one point
15:03
you know what i mean and they just kept
15:04
mahersha ali
15:06
mahershala ali was from the bay he's
15:08
part of the hieroglyphic crew
15:10
souls of mischief yep the other funky
15:12
homo sapien was able to
15:13
you know match i don't see him going
15:15
back to music but you know la
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tifa was able to um but he should if he
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wants to be able to do that
15:21
you know like you know latifa showed a
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lot of folks how that could be done
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anthony i'm not gonna hog you man but uh
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i'm gonna let you know hb you know you
15:29
want to talk with aunt you know tracy
15:30
yeah
15:31
you know y'all okay go ahead fizzle
15:35
i'm hugging him out no not anthony
15:37
what's up what's good man i'm just
15:39
curious um i heard about the heights
15:42
obviously through um i'm live in new
15:45
jersey i'm from new jersey but it was my
15:48
hair stylist who first told me about a
15:50
particular section called the heights
15:52
in new york i i knew nothing about it
15:55
prior to then
15:56
um and she used to just explain to me
15:58
she's like yo she's dominic you know and
16:00
she's like yo you got to come up and
16:01
hang out
16:02
and i was so happy to do so and embrace
16:04
the culture and my sister-in-law
16:06
is dominican and she you know again
16:08
another way that i embrace the culture
16:10
what is it that you think people um the
16:13
heights
16:14
is not just for you know people from
16:16
your culture but what is it
16:17
why is important that you think other
16:19
cultures go see this film
16:20
and embrace you know the culture in the
16:22
heights
16:24
i used to live up there the pulse in
16:26
that neighborhood is infectious man
16:28
yeah like in broadway mountain
16:32
and uh it was uh you know like
16:35
that that neighborhood is rich you know
16:38
that neighborhood the
16:39
music the vibrations uh the culture
16:43
right the spots going just hanging out
16:45
up there
16:46
like it's just it's like it's a survive
16:50
and um you know and i loved living up
16:52
there and i think
16:54
you know um i think it's important for
16:56
people to see this film because it's
16:57
like
16:58
number one we ain't not especially not a
17:00
musical theater we never seen
17:02
75 latinos dancing in the middle of the
17:04
street singing about
17:05
pride and joy about where they come from
17:07
and waving different flags from
17:09
different countries and
17:10
you know i got people hitting me up
17:11
talking about i saw my brazilian flag i
17:13
saw
17:14
nicaragua i saw my flag from this
17:15
country like oh wow
17:18
you know like that for me is why is why
17:21
i tell people and this movie is about
17:24
it's about washington heights it's about
17:26
a a day in the life of these people but
17:28
it's also
17:30
it's also a about life
17:33
in general and this movie actually to me
17:36
felt
17:36
like it became almost a celebration
17:40
of us like coming out of what has
17:43
probably been
17:44
one of the craziest things we've ever
17:46
been through
17:47
um globally ever
17:50
uh at least in my life um in this
17:53
pandemic and of not being able to hold
17:55
each other
17:55
and not us not being able to hug each
17:58
other and
17:58
love on each other and be with each
18:00
other you know um
18:02
and uh and i think you know to see
18:05
to see to me you know my family being
18:08
from puerto rico
18:09
for me to see this film is it's a
18:13
it's a film that i wish i had as a kid
18:15
you know show them that i wish i had
18:17
seen i wish i saw usnavi on the screen
18:20
you know i i didn't have a usability to
18:22
look up to you know and there are plenty
18:24
of amazing actors that i look up to that
18:26
that uh that uh that influenced me um
18:30
and uh and i'm grateful that i got to
18:31
learn from their performances and
18:32
watching them but uh
18:34
but i think you know to have a film like
18:36
this you know where
18:38
you know that that people can also be
18:40
introduced to you know if even the
18:41
little things like this
18:43
you know i remember when we were talking
18:44
to our director john i was like you got
18:45
to get shot to the food bro
18:47
you need to get shot to the food people
18:48
need to see how we eat how we live
18:51
they need to see the the ropa vieja they
18:54
need to see that on the stove they gotta
18:56
see the mango
18:57
they gotta see that the queso frito on
18:59
the stove
19:00
frying the cheese like you know what i'm
19:03
saying like
19:04
people catching that you know they gotta
19:05
hear the music turn up the volume on the
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drums
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you know what i'm saying vibe that
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vibration like
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people need to feel that you know
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especially you know i think
19:16
especially in musicals you know we've
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never had a musical
19:20
in the history of musical theater that
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has
19:24
sound like this you know uh and
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it felt like this looked like this and
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and and
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you know that's that's that's why i feel
19:32
like people need to see this because
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it's something that's never been done
19:34
before you know and i feel like it's
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it's it's like going to the museum right
19:39
going to the louvre and seeing something
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like they're like yo there's artifacts
19:42
here
19:43
from this time to this time come see you
19:45
know i remember when i went to the
19:46
basquiat
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exhibit in paris i mean it was one of
19:50
the most beautiful things
19:52
i've ever seen and my favorite
19:56
painting of his was this joint
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because i think basquiat was i think was
20:02
he half haitian half puerto rican
20:05
and and and and uh
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i just like it was just so incredible to
20:11
see
20:12
him infuse like all the
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like the the complete uh the
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completeness of where his family is from
20:21
in this one painting it was just the
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most
20:24
it was so it was moving to me yeah his
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mother
20:28
i stood yeah i'm sorry his father was
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born
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in haiti and his mother was born in
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brooklyn and parents
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of her parents were puerto rican descent
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so thank you for that right yeah
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i didn't know that yeah yeah so you know
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and that's how i feel about our movie
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you know it's like it felt like that i
20:45
just completed painting for me
20:47
when i looked at it you know when i saw
20:49
this film and i saw us
20:50
you know we do this the cinco carnaval
20:52
el vario and we're singing
20:54
a party in the hood and we're singing in
20:55
the alleyway about pride and joy about
20:58
where we come from
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raise the flag you know you know al
21:02
faladon like raise it wherever you want
21:04
and i'm listening to these words and i'm
21:06
like yo i've never heard this [ __ ]
21:09
in a movie like
21:12
my boy my boy literally got up off his
21:14
feet he's like yo i'm dominican
21:16
yes that's what i'm talking about like
21:18
he couldn't contain himself
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um you know and uh
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that's that's you know and and it isn't
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that where you're from
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you know i think i think you know we
21:29
made this movie in the hopes that like
21:31
if you you feel proud of wherever you're
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from
21:34
you know just by watching these group
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this group of characters these people
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persevere um and watching the game in
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their lives
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and watching how they move through the
21:44
world and how they still
21:46
no matter what they're going through
21:47
it's a blackout there's a
21:50
whatever powers out they ain't got
21:52
whatever whatever they're getting
21:54
you know pushed out of their neighbor
21:55
whatever they still celebrate
21:57
they still rejoice there's still hope
22:00
there's still
22:00
love there's joy there's perseverance
22:02
there's togetherness
22:04
no matter what and um and that was
22:06
really the spirit of this film that is
22:08
the spirit of this film and that's what
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i hope people feel when they watch it
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and
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um anyway that's such a long-winded
22:14
answer yeah you just sold the hell out
22:15
of it though man about that yes he did
22:17
it
22:17
i know i saw the play i got to see the
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film yeah
22:22
and i'm glad you did that though anthony
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because sometimes we see
22:26
films and we think oh that's for and
22:28
just for lack of a better word oh that's
22:30
for spanish people and this is for black
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people
22:32
this is for white people but i feel like
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the way you just broke it down
22:35
it is for everybody to see it is for
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everybody to learn about the history
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and the culture so thank you for that
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yeah
22:43
thank you appreciate you and we
22:45
appreciate learning from you aunt
22:47
because
22:47
we used we just broke down all the areas
22:50
of
22:50
art the lane the many lanes that you
22:52
occupy but then you're also very
22:54
masterful with the art of communication
22:57
that's the art in itself like you are
23:00
very vivid with your storytelling so it
23:02
makes it
23:03
easy to receive the information um two
23:06
things that i'm wondering
23:07
one was it heartbreaking to see some of
23:10
the backlash
23:12
that came through from a lot of
23:14
afro-latinos and feeling like they were
23:16
not
23:17
as represented as they thought they
23:19
should be on the screen
23:22
yeah i mean because again i think we
23:25
made the movie with
23:26
all of every everything that you know
23:29
everything i just uh
23:30
shared you know that was that was what
23:32
we made we made the movie with love
23:34
the movie was always about in like
23:37
it's all of us we're included it's
23:39
everybody everybody
23:41
and um i would yeah i was i was uh
23:44
it doesn't feel good to especially you
23:46
know
23:47
for uh the afro-latino community or
23:50
anybody in
23:51
in the latino community about a latino
23:54
especially about latino people
23:55
just feel like yo we feel
23:59
left out and i was like and that you
24:02
know it hurt it didn't feel good for
24:04
sure
24:05
you know but um but i think honestly
24:08
you know i think it's a it's it's
24:12
as artists right like it's it's always
24:15
it's our job right
24:17
to see how to analyze what we did and
24:20
we're like all right that
24:22
you know what if i'm gonna tell a story
24:24
like this or whatever whatever
24:25
i need to i need to be okay this is how
24:28
i can make it better this is how i can
24:29
do it different
24:30
right um and and
24:33
but i but i do want to say that you know
24:36
at least i mean
24:36
you know i my job was to play this role
24:39
to the best of my ability as honestly as
24:41
possible
24:42
and i did i hope i did that right um
24:46
you know i i think i think as far as the
24:50
the movie is concerned i just hope that
24:53
i hope that
24:54
people know that that was not the
24:55
intention the intention was not to
24:57
and i again i i
25:00
i can only speak as the as an actor in
25:02
the show
25:03
right i wasn't a producer i wasn't i you
25:06
know i can only speak as an actor
25:08
that where my heart was and we were
25:10
making this
25:12
the thing i yelled out every single day
25:14
on set was this is for the [ __ ]
25:15
culture
25:17
when we were dancing in the cold water
25:19
and it was gray out and it was raining
25:21
and it looked like the sunniest day in
25:23
that 96 000 in that scene
25:24
in the pool we got this massive scene at
25:26
highbridge pool at the west heights
25:28
and it was the most i mean i'm talking
25:30
about the coldest
25:31
day of the summer three days raining
25:35
and i'm talking about the thing that
25:36
kept everybody going was that we
25:39
unanimously everybody on set was like we
25:41
feel like we're doing this for something
25:43
greater than all of us
25:45
so i want to know you know at least
25:48
from my heart that's that's that was
25:50
where my heart was at that's anthony
25:52
ramos every day i can't afford it that
25:54
was where my heart was at
25:55
and i truly believe that's where
25:56
everyone else's heart was um
25:59
when they were coming to set every day
26:00
so um again you know yeah
26:03
it hurt that um you know that
26:06
you know yeah that you know that you
26:10
know that
26:10
that didn't exactly got backlash and but
26:13
you know what i think
26:14
i think it's also like it's like all
26:17
right let's
26:18
let's let's let's work together let's
26:20
come together
26:22
and and do it do it differently next
26:24
time
26:25
all right and then let's let's let's
26:27
make more more work
26:28
more and then let's make him better and
26:30
let's multiply this
26:34
did he go out oh
26:38
man he was floating again man
26:41
ah man aren't you there anthony
26:47
no he's not there gang yeah that wasn't
26:49
a publicist pulling his plug wasn't it
26:52
he's just getting busy too i'm just
26:55
going to sit and look at the phone line
26:56
man
26:58
she might make it ring i don't know make
27:00
it pop up 888742345 anthony where you at
27:18
there you go
27:21
[Applause]
27:24
come on man all right man listen uh we
27:27
we're not gonna hold you i know you got
27:28
a lot of press but uh we appreciate your
27:30
honesty your transparency and your
27:32
responses
27:33
um um to that that particular uh
27:36
question
27:37
um i i don't want to forget that he got
27:39
a new album out called love and lies
27:41
that's about today we wanna we wanna we
27:43
wanna say that and then also man just
27:45
real quick man i i caught something over
27:47
the feed
27:49
rise of the beast revealed as the title
27:52
of new transformers blockbuster
27:54
with your picture
27:58
that's your picture right there under
28:00
that man
28:01
yo y'all listen get it don't get it ask
28:04
them as much as you can today
28:06
because we're not going to be able to
28:07
reach them after this one i don't know
28:11
that's the law and everybody is live
28:14
transformers bro yo
28:18
i mean i was uh i was i was shocked
28:21
i'm not even gonna lie and they offered
28:23
me this part
28:25
and uh and what's even more of a
28:27
blessing is i get to do it with one of
28:28
my homies like you know
28:30
another one of brooklyn's own east new
28:32
york dominique fishbach yes
28:34
that's our girl black messiah she's
28:36
dominique is a powerhouse she's a beast
28:39
um stephen cable junior our director who
28:41
decreed two he's got he's a visionary
28:44
and um and i just i keep telling people
28:47
i'm like no dude i've never seen a
28:48
transformers like this
28:50
set in brooklyn um you know
28:53
it's uh it's going down like you know we
28:58
the whole storyline is changing up and
29:00
and uh
29:01
you know i'm just so excited to flip
29:03
this franchise you know it's it's uh
29:06
it's been what it's been for six films
29:09
and uh and i'm excited to kind of
29:10
be a part of this uh this group of
29:12
people who are revamping this thing that
29:14
you know has been you know around since
29:16
the 80s you know but
29:17
it's like it's gonna it feels like a new
29:20
thing now
29:22
when it's a blockbuster like this
29:25
like when you uh let me try to think of
29:27
an analogy when you're in the artist and
29:29
you do deals
29:30
you know in terms of music is
29:31
differently you know you might sign a
29:33
distribution deal and they do a quick
29:35
percentage cut and that's it
29:37
but when you sign to the majors is a
29:39
whole lot the contracts are bigger
29:41
you know it's a lot more paperwork to
29:43
sign and you know it's a bigger
29:45
commitment but it's also a bigger payday
29:47
how
29:48
does things change when it gets to
29:49
blockbuster level
29:51
have you noticed or it's just the same
29:54
routine
29:55
yeah they definitely changed you get
29:56
like a full bed in your trailer
29:59
[Laughter]
30:04
i said there's an office space in here
30:06
oh [ __ ]
30:09
crazy right but uh yeah not like you
30:12
know
30:12
yeah you know obviously you know you
30:15
hope that you can uh you can negotiate a
30:17
good deal
30:18
that's financially uh beneficial
30:21
to you you know uh um you know you you
30:24
uh
30:25
it's it's a it's amazing that you know
30:27
but what what i'm what i'm also grateful
30:28
for is that
30:29
is that like these cats these cats they
30:33
they they really they really they
30:35
they're doing their best they taking
30:36
care of me really like
30:39
they they thank god like i'm on uh
30:43
you know i i got i got my trainer here
30:45
with me i got my brother here with me
30:46
you know i'm saying like
30:47
for this job i know you know i did a
30:50
sci-fi film where i had to i was in a
30:52
space movie and
30:54
uh and i had to uh you know i'm saying i
30:57
have to be out there in budapest
30:58
for for uh a lot
31:01
can y'all hear me still yeah yeah yeah
31:04
they can't hear me
31:05
my brother's like yo it dropped my
31:07
brother keeps coming out this is the
31:08
second time my brother came out he's
31:09
like yo a drop i'm like bro
31:10
i'm one i'm running i'm on the air
31:13
that's your big that's your big brother
31:15
is that your big brother yeah my big
31:16
brother yeah yeah yeah hey dude
31:18
anthony you are on set now you're
31:20
filming
31:22
nah so i'm in quarantine right now in
31:24
canada you know it's the law you come in
31:25
you've got a quantity for 14 days
31:27
so i'm on day 11 and uh and i go
31:30
straight into rehearsals right after
31:31
this
31:32
um and then we start shooting july 4th
31:34
we go back into production
31:35
uh out here in uh uh you know in canada
31:39
so it's uh
31:40
it's gonna be a long shoot then we go to
31:42
peru after
31:43
but um it's all for transformers it's
31:46
great this is awful
31:47
yeah this is all for transformers yeah
31:49
yeah that's dope
31:50
that's why i'm out here training yeah
31:53
yeah hey tell your brother tell your
31:55
brother i know he a older brother i'm a
31:57
younger brother anthony and no matter
31:59
what we do
32:00
they always try to bully us man tell
32:02
them you're doing the interview you got
32:03
this man
32:05
yo yeah yeah yo stop trying to bully me
32:08
man
32:09
[Laughter]
32:12
he
32:19
[Laughter]
32:25
yeah i'm grateful to have him out here
32:27
with me though honestly because you know
32:28
these movies
32:29
you know we'd be on set for for long
32:31
hours man and and you just uh
32:34
you know you just it could get grueling
32:36
man and it's just nice to have a piece
32:38
of home
32:39
uh you know and uh you know he's he was
32:42
with me on my last film and
32:43
and that was you know that was a journey
32:45
that was really hard i did this sci-fi
32:47
movie and budapest
32:48
i was wearing this 30 pound spacesuit
32:50
and we shooting in
32:51
not you know and overnights and
32:54
you know night shoots for for almost a
32:57
month and
32:58
it was cold and you know it was just
32:59
good to have my brother there man just
33:00
sometimes to just
33:02
be like bro this shit's hard you're like
33:05
it's all right man we're here we end it
33:06
together we in the mix
33:08
that's good grounding anthony ramos is
33:11
with us loving lies is the name of the
33:13
album
33:15
hey you still with your girl yeah man
33:18
she right here is she chilling where's
33:19
she at
33:20
somewhere she's kicking it she came out
33:22
here for a little she out here for
33:24
a couple weeks uh you know she's kicking
33:26
it she just had a crazy uh
33:28
crazy run too man she got the show
33:29
called blind spotting out like flying
33:31
out
33:32
y'all go check that out man you know i'm
33:34
from oakland
33:37
yeah tell her she tell her she killing
33:39
it i'm from oakland so tell her she's
33:41
killing it she gets my stamp of approval
33:44
that's it all right i know i know that i
33:46
don't mean a lot though
33:47
absolutely man loving lies man that's
33:49
the name of the project i hope it's all
33:51
loves and
33:52
no lies on your case anthony um it's a
33:55
brilliant project man keep going keep
33:57
making art bro
33:58
the world needs you they need your
34:00
energy and i love how you'd handle
34:02
yourself
34:02
me too continued success brother thank
34:05
y'all man i
34:06
thank y'all always for showing me love
34:07
man having me on the show everybody go
34:09
check out loving lives we got a vibe for
34:11
everybody on there
34:12
um thank y'all again for having me it's
34:13
so good to hear your voices and talk to
34:15
y'all again
34:16
it's always so good thank you brother
34:18
come on man we're going to play right
34:19
now
34:20
right now how about that all right
34:24
all right man sway in the morning it's
34:25
anthony ramos sway in the morning
34:34
[Music]
34:42
you
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