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Belly Talks about His Upcoming Album "Mumble Rap 2" on Sway In The Morning | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
May 18, 2023
Canadian artist Belly recently stopped by Sway In The Morning to promote his new album "Mumble Rap 2" which is set to be released this Friday, May 19th. The album was primarily produced by Hit-Boy and it serves as the sequel to Belly's previous mixtape "Mumble Rap" which was released in 2017 and was primarily produced by Boi-1da. Belly spoke about his vision for the album and what fans can expect from this highly anticipated project.
Belly's "Mumble Rap 2" album is definitely an album to watch out for.
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one of my joints right there uh he had
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to travel you have to Travis the white
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girls joined on there right yeah yeah
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that's the one man that project changed
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my life did it really really that
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project changed my life that's I got
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signed off that project I got
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you know noticed by certain peers and
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people in the game that I was you know
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like a super fan of my whole life and so
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yeah that project really changed my life
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I'm gonna come back to that too
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um this this man is um interesting to me
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because of where he's from yes and the
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way he raps and what he raps about a
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Palestinian descent you know a lot of
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lyrics you hear in his music is also
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politically driven you know based on his
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own personal experiences philosophies
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and views on the planet you know and but
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what I find fascinating is him being
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from Canada one of the first rappers I
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ever interviewed from Canada was a man
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by the name of Maestro Fresh Wes and
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this was in the early 90s Michi me I
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think too yeah sure yeah this was in the
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early 90s Legends and we were so blown
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away that King Tech and myself and my
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wake-up show uh we were so blown away of
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how dope they were we wanted to go to
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Canada because we used to just search
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for the hip-hop and since then people
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like yourself
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um of course Drake and others have come
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out and just really put Canada on a on a
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hit list of lyricism if you ask me Tory
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Lanez just put Canada on a hit list of
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lyricism I want to welcome him to the
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show
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um he's done he's an award-winning crit
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award-winning uh writer
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um artist
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um he's rolling with conglomerates for
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the right reason he's uh been through a
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lot of trials and tribulations in his
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career but he's here to talk about any
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and everything with his Mumble rap 2
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coming out this Friday he's even talking
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about retiring we're going to talk him
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out of that please welcome him to the
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show give it up for the one and only
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belly is here barely barely
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[Applause]
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thanks for being here and thank you for
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saying that um Swain actually had a
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conversation about this yesterday when
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folks come here and say that this is a
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bucket list moment for them or they
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wanted to be here it actually makes us
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feel good as well because we want
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artists to come here and feel welcome we
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want people to come here and feel good
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we want people to come in and feel
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celebrated you know and that's that's
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what this platforms that's how I feel
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that's how I feel man being here is
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exciting it's like this nostalgic
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feeling yeah yeah that's good I've never
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been here but I feel like it's like a
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familiarity to this whole room to this
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whole energy yeah man you've been here
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bro you've been here you was here when
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you was watching them things online and
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whatever it is you saw we've been trying
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to have you man so belly welcome to the
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show I find that fascinating that up for
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days which came out in about 2015 right
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uh was the one that grabbed the
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attention because uh I know there was
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the revolution yeah the album was the
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revolution that was my debut album in
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Canada and what year was that I was like
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oh seven exactly so it took eight years
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before certain individuals recognized
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because I mean I had my run in Canada
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and I was I was comfortable I was you
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know I was touring out there I was
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putting out projects I put out three
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mixtapes that did really well so I feel
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like I I I used to hear it all the time
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I would come to New York or certain
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places and they'd be like but are you
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popping where you're from yeah you know
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yeah and I'll be like damn I'm not all
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right hold on let me go home and let me
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get this together you know so that's
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really that was my goal is to climb the
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mountain
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be there and then be like all right I'm
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ready to come over here and do something
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so uh it took longer than I expected but
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still like just to come and put out that
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project and then know like you know Jay
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listened to it and
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it was just certain producers and
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artists hitting me up and being like yo
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like who are you bro you know and it was
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it was crazy to me because like it felt
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like that to me that I had been in the
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game for so long
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but I was just being discovered for the
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first time that's almost like
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um
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have an opportunity to reinvent yourself
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right so Jay it was that album The up
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for Days album that got Jay's attention
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yeah yeah yeah did he reach out to you
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or no like my my brother Gabby
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um he so I guess Pecos was at this
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restaurant
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and he's seen uh and so so he was there
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with Hove I guess and hope played the
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album and so he like just low-key hit up
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gobby and was like yo hoes playing your
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man right now in the restaurant I just
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wanted to let you know so Gabby called
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me like yo
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sit down bro you know like I gotta tell
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you like sit down I'm like all right
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cool whatever he tells me I'm like yo
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stop playing with me and Gabby's you
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know he's the type of guy he's he's a
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jokester I know he wouldn't play with
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that but I was still like yo stop
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playing with me bro he's like nah he's
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listening to your album right now and it
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led from that in the next few months I
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ended up signing to Roc Nation just off
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that moment you know what I mean so
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that's why I say it changed my life
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because
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I never had that moment with anything
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else yeah man that is so cousin you have
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Travis Scott on that album right uh of
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French Montana's on that album
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um Juelz Joel Santana is on that album
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yeah it's the weekend is on that what's
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the weekend on that I believe so you got
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all it so is that why they were on the
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album because of Roc Nation affiliation
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or or so that was before okay I put out
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the album independently okay so you got
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you already had those props then yeah
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yeah so like a lot of those people I
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knew already you know so like Juelz
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that's like my brother I've been known
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him for years Travis at that time when
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he came to Toronto he came looking for
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me for us to work and do some records
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together
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yeah he he pulled up on me at the studio
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and we ended up doing records and
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working together
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um you know so like everybody I was
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really getting these records from at
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that time uh-huh it was just based on
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like personal relationships it wasn't
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based on uh you know labels or anything
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like that you know I was signing XO and
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just working independently at that time
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what's the proper etiquette though for
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artists like when you're approaching
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people and you're still going to come up
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that you know your star isn't here yet
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you know like what was the etiquette how
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did you approach them how did you get
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artists to work of that magnitude to
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work with you when you're still on the
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come up
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oh man I had a chip on my shoulder
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number one okay and I think I like I've
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always been a show and proof type person
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I'm gonna let you know the music speak
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before I ever speak you know what I mean
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like I want I want that to wow you you
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know what I mean and then and then
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another thing is I always focus on like
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just making sure the frequency is good
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the energy is good like if if people are
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in a good mood and they got all the
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things that they want around to make
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them comfortable and they feel good
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we're gonna make some dope [ __ ] you know
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but if it's like toxic in the room
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nobody even wants to work I love that
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man belly is here get this man a round
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of applause absolutely immigrant
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um do you feel
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um obviously you say what you want to
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say but you you also intertwine your
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political stances a lot into your music
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um how has that impacted you you know as
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an artist do you feel like it could
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hinder you that way Shadow bands the
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shadow band off everything
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really
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why is that it's it's like a lot of that
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has to do with you know the first viral
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record I had before viral was even a
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word yet it was a song called History of
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Violence and it got banned over here
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like in the United States it was banned
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okay and we had to like get it unbanned
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so people could see it
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um so I think it always started out from
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like that
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and it's just been like that ever since
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like um
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but I don't know for me it's not
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political I'm not talking political
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stuff right like being Palestinian these
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are human issues to me right it's not
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like like I I hate getting into politics
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yeah it's it's you know you already know
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yeah it's all it's all a big lie and and
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you know it is what it is I'm talking
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about like the human problems that are
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happening because of
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the political people you know what I
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mean and
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um I'll never shut up about that I don't
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give a f you know I don't care about
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followers and
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you know none of that yeah that don't
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matter who made you want to rap like
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when you was in was you in Ottawa or
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where where did you grow up okay who
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what was that like Jimmy Spicer uh super
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rhymes
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was yeah the song that made me want to
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rap when I was a kid who was that
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artist's song that made you want to rap
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I think uh my first like inspiration was
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Snoop Dogg Doggy Style my brother
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brought that out celebrating 30 years
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this year right big Legend yeah that
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album's one of the most perfect albums
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ever created and so that was like my
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first insight into it and then I was
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watching TV probably six months later
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and I see Biggie Smalls on TV and just
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being a heavy set dude
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okay and I seen big on TV and I was like
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yo I'm I'm looking at the king of the
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world right now yeah I want to be this
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guy you know what I mean so
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all my raps when I first started rapping
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was just me trying to sound like biggie
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literally like your book the vocal voice
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can I hear that let me hear a little bit
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more ones I'll pull up some old records
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yeah is that you got the name belly
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um honestly I can't I remember how I got
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the name belly I don't because I lied
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about it so much throughout my life I
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can't believe which lies
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yeah because it was last time I got
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asked about it so much in like
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interviews and stuff I was like yo you
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know what I'm gonna just make up a story
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every time oh what's the last story made
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up uh I used to tell people that I
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played football and I would tuck my my
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jersey into my shoulder pads and my
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belly would be hanging out and they
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started calling me belly on the that's a
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horrible lie right yeah
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my name originally was Big Boy and then
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like big boys neighborhood and then and
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then I discovered yeah and I discovered
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Outcast and I was just like nah I can't
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be I can't be big boy this guy is
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incredible he got that name locked down
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yeah so so that's I think that's when
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belly started to come around I thought
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that it had something to do with the
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movie I did too yeah before the movie
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okay you thought it was size well he
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ain't that big now now right are you a
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bigger man I was 320 pounds yeah who was
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your food of choice chicken
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chicken one they won't get a 320.
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really yeah everything huh yeah I was
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the worst I was really the worst I used
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to drink sodas like by like the 12 pack
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I was terrible were you eating I'm
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consuming a lot to deal with like
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emotions I know a lot of times people
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will do that
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not really I just love to eat I hear
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that I really do like till now I lost
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like 100 pounds and I still look at
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Fatboy foods and I'm like I want that I
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want it now so it's been the key to get
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discipline
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I don't even know honestly I think I
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think feeling good is probably like I
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used to think it was just about oh I
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want to look better yeah and now I wake
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up and I feel all right like I get out
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of bed like I'm like oh I don't have to
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you know walk with a limp all the way
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till I get to the bathroom like I'm up
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and I feel good my bones feel good so
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it's like what Vic Mensa said yesterday
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with fun versus joy and how fun is very
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fleeting but the joy gives you bigger
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returns yeah absolutely absolutely and
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now now I feel like I did intermittent
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fasting for the last year and
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growing up you know as a Muslim kid
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doing Ramadan oh yeah I'm like this is
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easy yeah so I did that that's been the
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best thing I ever did in my life getting
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faster yeah because I could eat what I
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want to eat you know that one major meal
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a day so I could eat what I want and
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then the rest of the day I'm pretty good
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about my discipline and not touching
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nothing you know belly's here man get
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that man a round of applause Mike you
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want to jump in on this
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yeah it was very fascinating to
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interview yeah man this dude was an
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interesting guys I've been enjoying the
12:52
conversation which is rare I'm always
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thank you ready for the question
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um but it's been really enjoying the
12:57
conversation how difficult is it for you
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to separate though you know the politics
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from you being Palestinian because so
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much about you know always look at hip
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hop as the storytellers of our
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neighborhoods in the community right and
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so you being Palestinian you know it's
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hard to separate what is happening in
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Palestine from your identity so how are
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you reconciling that I mean I don't I
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just know it's going to come out
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if I'm true to myself and and my art and
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like actually expressing what I feel
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then it's got to come out yeah you know
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I I don't like when it's forced you know
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I don't like when people like force it
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like they've seen that it got them some
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attention and they're like okay now I'm
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gonna be you know super political every
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song about activism and it's like you
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know like I'm I love making music of all
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types of music but just it just so
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happens the type of music I make it's
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always going to be true to me being
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Palestinian is always going to leak out
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into the music so I don't got to try to
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put it in there do you feel
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responsibility because you you know as
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far as I know you're probably one of the
13:54
most recognized and well-known
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Palestinian rappers so or an artist uh
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do you feel the responsibility to talk
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about that
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I don't man I don't because
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look if if if
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um if you're from an ethnicity that's
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you know not not as common you know
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where you come from or whatever and
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somebody from your ethnicity does really
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well at what they do and they become a
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star right you're still proud they could
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have never said nothing
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you're still gonna be like yo that
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Filipino dude did this or that
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Palestinian guy did this you know so on
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and so forth you're still proud right so
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at the end of the day I think that
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inspiration and and that's the thing
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that I'm most proud of is that you know
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I meet Palestinian artists
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that are like bro you inspired me like
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you showed me that someone Palestinian
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can actually
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make music and and be part of this game
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yeah I mean so yeah that to me is my
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biggest accomplishment and that's that's
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the way I feel like I give back the
14:54
Optics matter belly is here man get this
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man a round of applause about to go into
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some more music if we if we got it or
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we're gonna play that Ambiance again
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um you got a great album Mumble rap too
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which is out Friday thank you man
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um
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we want to talk about this comments you
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made about you you love us all sincerely
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but this industry has taken its toll on
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me Mumble rap 2 will be the first of my
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last three albums ever mini tour for
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Mumble rap 2 then a farewell tour after
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my next two we're gonna talk about this
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y'all citizens we gonna listen to this
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song and if you think he's adult rapper
15:30
you're gonna come we're gonna all call
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up and convince him not to retire
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I'll hear all arguments all right we go
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hear all arguments why he should not
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retire this is belly
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888-742-3345 probably spend a quarter
15:45
mil on the ambiance
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yeah you hit Ambiance in that track have
15:51
the biggest of course I do what is that
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belly what is that uh
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um I don't know you gotta ask the
15:57
animals man they they actually made that
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you know that boy hit boy produced most
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of the album but the animals came
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through with a couple that I couldn't I
16:04
couldn't keep off the animals such a
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great dude I love that name but the work
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is incredible as well hit boy you guys
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how did that happen here boy who reached
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out to who oh I reached out okay
16:18
definitely reached out um you know me
16:20
and boy wanted to part one together I
16:22
remember that yeah so so we were we were
16:24
honestly talking a lot about doing part
16:26
two together and um just like schedule
16:29
stuff like he would come to L.A just so
16:31
happen I'm over like over here in New
16:33
York or something like we just couldn't
16:34
get it together
16:36
um so I was like yo I need to make this
16:39
like that one producer
16:41
project you know like I feel like my
16:43
favorite projects when I was a kid were
16:45
always that one producer yeah with a
16:47
rapper kind of that DJ Premiere you know
16:49
Pete Rock type yeah you know you know so
16:52
yeah
16:54
I felt like that's what this needed so
16:55
you know we started kind of going
16:56
through it I was just like hip boy that
16:58
was really the first uh thought I had
17:00
and then we reached out he was like yeah
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let's go let's let's get it you know and
17:04
I wanted to start fast a lot of a lot of
17:06
times you know you trying to work with
17:08
somebody that's as busy as Hit Boy and
17:10
it's like all right cool we're starting
17:11
two months and he was like yo a week
17:14
like let's go we can get this thing
17:16
going right now how long it take y'all
17:18
to complete it not long yeah at all like
17:21
the first session really mapped out
17:22
almost the whole album just the first
17:25
session like I was freestyling a lot of
17:28
the hooks he was playing uh a lot of
17:32
these beats and just blowing my mind
17:33
away you know and and it was just
17:35
inspirational I was really writing uh
17:38
Concepts and hooks and stuff like that
17:40
on the first day and then it was just
17:42
like mapping it out after that barely
17:44
here we got Danielle on the line from
17:46
Seattle Danielle go for it hey Danny oh
17:48
Daniel I'm sorry Daniel Daniel
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put some respect on my name
17:54
[Applause]
17:56
one of them yeah Daniel but hey I was
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just gonna
18:01
um say that dude from Palestine man that
18:04
that [ __ ] is hot man I was gonna say
18:06
what's your name but uh I just got it
18:08
belly that that track I just listened to
18:10
I'm definitely gonna look into your
18:11
catalog man that that was really nice
18:13
bro appreciate you man thank you all
18:15
right so tell them not to retire if
18:18
you're feeling them man talk to him man
18:20
that's a Vincent man hey man I got it's
18:22
the catalog's there man he might he
18:24
might have already put in his time man I
18:26
gotta see what this guy's about right
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here bro I like you bro I like you thank
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you
18:35
that's love man appreciate you bro for
18:37
real go check them out check them out
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Anthony from Yonkers
18:43
good morning everybody hey what's up Sir
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yo go for it what's up belly what up
18:49
what up to you I've been a big fan of
18:51
your music since like freshman year in
18:53
high school the first time I was
18:54
introduced to you was uh might not with
18:57
the weekend and I got to ask what was
18:58
your creative process behind that song
19:00
working with him
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oh man first of all thank you bro I
19:04
appreciate uh you listening and stuff
19:07
man working with the weekend is is it's
19:09
surreal man he's one of the greatest
19:11
artists
19:12
people on the planet uh-huh really and I
19:15
tell that to people all the time like
19:17
he's as good of a a better human being
19:19
than he is he is an artist and he's the
19:21
best artist I've ever been in the studio
19:22
with so
19:23
um yeah I mean every every time we've
19:26
worked together the experience is
19:27
incredible hey thanks for your call and
19:29
he said he gonna retire what you want to
19:31
say to him
19:33
don't plan on it keep going you're doing
19:36
great okay all right just so this is
19:38
what this interview about to be about
19:39
and you're a serious citizen okay we
19:42
have Vic Minster Tracy mentioned Vic
19:43
Mensa came in yesterday
19:46
um and he was talking about some of his
19:48
new music and a lot of his recent
19:49
experiences and I told him you were
19:51
coming on the show today
19:53
and Vic Mensa got excited bro yes yeah I
19:57
don't know if you ever work with Vic yet
19:58
no I haven't but I told him I had a
20:01
chance to tell him yesterday that
20:03
um I respect the fact that he went to
20:05
Palestine so much man like I told him a
20:08
lot of people won't go or can't go you
20:10
know from Arabs around the world and it
20:14
just means a lot to see that to see
20:15
somebody actually take the time and be
20:17
on the ground like that so I had to just
20:19
let them know the respect is real for
20:21
that you know well this is what he said
20:23
for you
20:25
rock with belly man that's why I put
20:27
that bar in there what I say I said uh
20:28
oh yeah my aunt got a skin tumor from
20:30
lightening cream she fighting them
20:32
demons I'm just writing my grievance
20:34
when the Hennessy XO and my belly can't
20:36
help me I just need to get away and
20:38
write for the weekend that was so good
20:40
you in the bar now you put it on belly's
20:43
new project and they work together
20:46
all right excellent MC man so I'm happy
20:49
to have them all tomorrow respect is
20:51
mutual man respect is very neutral yeah
20:55
man he put you in the bar son that's
20:57
special damn now I might have to put Vic
20:59
Mensa in a bar
21:02
down while you at it you know you could
21:04
throw me in one two Tracy
21:07
you know
21:09
adding bars
21:11
what do you have bad [ __ ] to Mike Muse
21:13
how you enjoy making all types of music
21:15
and it made me think how you started out
21:17
in um punk bands and also how I don't
21:20
know a lot of hip-hop artists that can
21:23
write for r b artists you know like
21:25
Drake comes to mind uh with you know
21:28
writing for Beyonce Alicia Keys etc etc
21:30
but how does your approach change
21:32
depending on the song and when you were
21:35
doing
21:36
um punk like talk about the different
21:38
influences that might surprise people in
21:41
terms of your musical background all
21:43
right so first of all I'm gonna say I
21:45
don't know where the punk thing came
21:46
from oh yeah it's weird I get asked this
21:49
in every interview now somebody really
21:52
went and played with my Wikipedia I
21:54
think
21:56
stranger yeah I was never I wish I was
22:00
though I love I love uh alternative Punk
22:02
Grunge music when I was a kid and I
22:05
think that's a big part of why I can
22:06
write so much stuff I was a fan of so
22:08
much stuff you know so
22:11
um and then when I get in the studio I
22:12
never hold myself back to be like you
22:14
know today's rap day or like today's r b
22:17
day like I go in there I'm like what am
22:19
I feeling on I love to go off with the
22:21
producers feeling a lot too so if
22:23
they're in there and then they hit a
22:25
chord and I'm like oh this needs to be
22:26
this you know what I mean so I I don't I
22:30
don't really like try to control it
22:31
because it's been songs that I thought
22:33
were throwaway records really like
22:35
sitting in a folder yeah and they end up
22:37
on some of the biggest albums
22:39
so I I stopped being like yo let me
22:41
judge and let me see let me make this or
22:43
make that you never know what somebody's
22:44
gonna take so I just try to make
22:46
anything I feel that day what's a song
22:48
that surprised you in that way that
22:50
ended up exploding six inch heels yeah
22:52
Beyonce off lemonade that was that was
22:55
my record I had French on that record
22:57
French Montana featured what yeah like
23:00
that really like that record was and it
23:03
was it was on the back burner it's not
23:04
like we were gonna put it out we weren't
23:06
gonna release it it wasn't like none of
23:07
that and then Big John uh you know
23:10
everybody knows
23:13
and he's first guy that gave me my real
23:16
first check in music and and I say that
23:20
to say the first guy that really
23:21
believed in me on this side when it came
23:23
to the music
23:24
um wow he heard that the first meeting
23:26
we had he's like play me some [ __ ] and I
23:28
was just going through the archives I
23:30
didn't want to play him stuff that I
23:31
wanted to put out myself
23:33
yeah I'm playing archive stuff and he's
23:36
like hold on what's that all right give
23:38
me this record and he took that and it
23:41
became what it became so you know I I
23:44
don't I don't try to judge it or like
23:45
now I'm like yo whatever we make just
23:48
put it over here make sure you know the
23:50
right people get it and you never know
23:52
you really never know man you never know
23:55
did you meet Beyonce or it doesn't work
23:57
like that
23:58
um you know I with that stuff man I
24:01
don't like to talk to personal stuff
24:03
because you know I've hung out with hope
24:04
a few times I know he's super um private
24:08
okay private let's keep it moving don't
24:10
worry yeah don't worry you got a song on
24:12
your um uh on your album called relapse
24:16
I want to come to that first but I need
24:18
to know why you're retiring
24:20
why you say that is that true
24:24
like like for me it's like this man I
24:28
don't want I don't want to like I don't
24:29
want to overdo it in terms of
24:31
being here and um and overstaying my
24:35
welcome you know what I mean oh my gosh
24:37
yeah I feel like I feel like God bless
24:40
like you said you know yeah one of the
24:42
best things I got to
24:43
respect of my peers and you know things
24:46
like that that I I hold that to a high
24:48
regard you know like so
24:50
I don't want to overstate a welcome I
24:52
don't want to be here long enough that
24:54
people start you know
24:56
thinking differently I'd rather just bow
24:59
out gracefully when I can and
25:01
you know work on other things obviously
25:05
you're welcome meeting in music industry
25:06
the hip-hop industry or just just in
25:08
general just in this space you know of
25:12
you man nowadays you don't know you know
25:15
I don't I don't I was never somebody
25:16
that wanted to be in front of the
25:18
cameras I was never someone I wanted to
25:20
be you know so
25:21
I kind of almost sabotaged a lot of my
25:24
own moments because I was like I don't I
25:26
like going to the grocery store yeah you
25:28
know and
25:30
I don't know I feel like now I'm at the
25:32
point where I love to write I'm gonna
25:33
write forever but you know I could write
25:35
TV I could write film I write so many
25:38
different things
25:39
that'll keep me at least in
25:41
entertainment you know uh belly is here
25:43
what's his life for you where are you
25:45
most popular here or in Canada
25:48
oh no Canada Canada for sure yeah they
25:51
scream for you in Canada it's okay man
25:53
they scream for me again I just I can't
25:55
do this in Canada you can't do groceries
25:58
I mean I still do but you know Canada is
26:01
different man I really I really took my
26:03
time over there and it was like a young
26:05
hunger you know that I had
26:08
um over here it's like
26:10
there's so much to do and see so much
26:13
opportunity there's so much like I look
26:15
out my window and it's LA and and
26:18
Hollywood and you know the the city that
26:21
I see in movies and you know what I mean
26:22
so I look around I'm like
26:24
this is amazing and I'm always going to
26:27
be grateful for this and everything that
26:28
it brought for me you know but
26:30
I don't want to keep myself kind of
26:33
pigeonholed into one thing and not get
26:36
the chance to express like every other
26:38
thing that God might have gave me it's
26:39
too creative right there get that man
26:41
around and apply a lot of Applause
26:43
um and he got bars my news in the song
26:47
relapse uh speaking of the bars because
26:49
I went through your album a bunch of
26:51
times and just heard a whole lot of
26:52
things that's crazy uh there was a line
26:55
I was telling you about about the IRS
26:57
yeah how does that line go
27:01
um Nicolas Cage
27:03
yeah it's hard for me to remember lines
27:06
right off but yeah it's it's talking
27:08
about that's why my book is missing
27:09
pages because the IRS came from me like
27:10
Nicholas Cage that's why my book is
27:12
missing pages and
27:14
I was telling you earlier that was that
27:16
was like a real story of coming out here
27:18
I used to be like yo how did this
27:20
celebrity you know let somebody mess up
27:22
his money why wasn't he watching like
27:23
what's going on yeah then I came out
27:25
over here I bought a house and stuff and
27:27
then there was like 700 800 000 of taxes
27:32
owed on the house that my accountant
27:34
just never
27:41
he's managing the accounts and stuff
27:43
looks like it's there and then you know
27:46
I went through like a little you know
27:48
one of the moments where you're like I
27:49
need every last thing and then I look
27:51
and they're like yeah you owe like three
27:53
quarters of a million dollars to the
27:54
government
27:56
and I almost went to jail for real yeah
27:59
like they didn't come to the point where
28:01
they came for me but it was like they
28:03
they sent us a warning like yo this is
28:04
what's old this needs to be paid you
28:07
know and it literally had nothing to do
28:08
with me or my management like we were
28:11
all crazy with everything yeah you know
28:13
super on point watching everything and
28:15
all that it's just the things that he's
28:17
supposed to know about that we might not
28:18
know about and he let us slip through
28:20
the cracks and that was like one of my
28:22
first experiences of being like you know
28:24
I get a check from somewhere and it's a
28:26
nice bag and I'm like the whole thing
28:28
got to go over here the whole thing the
28:30
whole thing you so you've hit bottom how
28:33
many times you hit bottom during this
28:35
one a few times like what's the bottom a
28:37
few times look man look
28:40
I think it's always it's always going to
28:42
be in there
28:47
I don't think so
28:49
I think honestly I like to talk about
28:52
these things it reminds me of where I
28:54
never want to go back to yeah the music
28:56
for real and and for me it was like a
28:59
lot of drugs a lot of alcohol
29:02
uh no type of structure in my life
29:05
you know but other side of the coin I
29:09
was sleeping on floors for this you know
29:10
I would I would sleep anywhere if they
29:13
were like we don't got a room for you
29:15
I was like cool
29:16
the the booth floor is fine you know I
29:20
was
29:21
and that's you know it was part of my
29:22
hustle but it was a lot a lot of times
29:24
you know things got dark things
29:26
really just um like I was trying to run
29:29
away from things and Escape things and I
29:30
think you know I just turned to like
29:31
substance abuse and stuff like that you
29:33
know how did you rebuild
29:36
from that bottom what was it that helped
29:39
you come back to life you know what I
29:41
realize that it's not like
29:43
people look at it like yo I'm winning or
29:45
like you know I'm growing and that's
29:47
fine like you know it's great to look at
29:49
life like that but now I'm seeing that
29:51
it's like Cycles you know you got your
29:54
highs your lows like you got to
29:56
capitalize on on this moment because
29:58
you know there's like an energy about
30:00
you and you feel it and you know you're
30:02
walking with like a pep in your step
30:03
yeah capitalize go in make whatever you
30:07
make times a hundred stay in there until
30:09
you can't make it no more because when
30:11
those lows hit you're not gonna be able
30:13
to make it at all yeah you know so now
30:15
I'm like I'm kind of balancing my my you
30:18
know my efforts let's say like now I
30:21
know when I need to take a week off and
30:22
sit in the house yeah I'm not gonna go
30:24
to the studio and like force it on
30:27
myself to try to push something like
30:28
it's like nah I'm good like I did enough
30:31
during this high that I could be over
30:33
here during the slow and that's the
30:35
thing now that's keeping me sane you
30:37
know because I'm not looking at the lows
30:39
like they're so bad no more yeah [ __ ]
30:41
it's coming it's coming
30:42
your retirement as well
30:45
I mean I think retirement from music is
30:48
what I'm talking about right but I'm I'm
30:49
gonna work a hundred times harder on
30:51
everything else you know yeah that I'm
30:53
gonna have going on so it's just it's
30:55
just like music to me you know like I
30:58
said it's it's something that I love I'm
31:00
always love I say I write shows I'm
31:02
always incorporate the music to the
31:04
shows or or the movies but I'd rather do
31:07
that if I'm making music let me make a
31:08
soundtrack Let Me Make a Score you know
31:10
what I mean like now I'm at the point
31:12
where that excites me so I want to do
31:14
that you know this is belly the song is
31:16
called real lapse
31:19
I'll be saying relapse but it's real
31:21
apps now that we got the context
31:24
888-742-3345 barely here
31:28
shade four five Sway in the Morning have
31:30
the B trigger Tracy G Angelo's on the
31:34
line guess what he's from
31:36
Angelo tell them where you from hello
31:39
let them know
31:40
um your hometown Auto Ontario Canada big
31:43
shout out to you let's go
31:45
it's so nice seeing Ottawa being a
31:48
smaller town
31:49
that belly's been able to make it to
31:52
California on the global stage it's
31:54
everywhere him and his crew uh profit
31:57
records Manny all of them so big Shadow
31:59
from thank you man thank you I
32:02
appreciate it what's it like having a
32:05
global Superstar now from your hometown
32:13
from you know New York to California
32:15
Long Beach
32:18
um and they just use Small Time art is
32:20
kind of going from clubs clubs into
32:22
scene and then going on to like say
32:24
Toronto across Canada
32:27
um and then yeah I'm just kind of
32:29
blowing up on YouTube and Just
32:31
throughout the world that it's insane
32:32
and
32:34
[Applause]
32:36
um all the other ones so just great to
32:38
see local talent and not only on the
32:40
Canadian scene but also on the local
32:43
odyss scene so that's love man thank you
32:45
he's saying some names who's these names
32:47
he's saying that's that's the squad gang
32:49
gang yeah that's the family bro that's
32:51
the family all right we've been around
32:53
each other 20 plus years all of us Still
32:55
rocking that's something man wow Angelo
32:58
thank you super citizens your belly man
33:01
I know you watched the show for years
33:03
man and we appreciate that support no
33:06
for real I'm glad you and I have had a
33:07
chance to have this moment actually
33:09
yesterday made sure I crashed Superstar
33:11
Jay's interview
33:18
the interview
33:21
imagine if somebody did that right now
33:23
they don't do it all the time if they
33:26
famous you let a rock the regular people
33:28
die
33:29
come on
33:30
Regular People regular Superstars
33:37
uh but you know what we do on this show
33:39
man
33:43
in your corner you got Drake in your
33:46
corner you got everybody in your corner
33:48
but right now you ain't on your corner
33:50
okay right now you ain't in Ottawa right
33:53
now you're not in California you're not
33:55
really even news in New York you in the
33:57
Valley of the hyenas
34:09
yeah or Latin alphabet
34:22
they told me be patient before my own
34:25
C-section call it misdirection I'm
34:27
evasive my mind F1 Speed Racing I talked
34:31
to God I'm just praying that the G's
34:32
make us sick like H1 and one eye on my
34:36
emblem j walking with the K on me like a
34:38
gremlin else I take worth the M's I make
34:41
money long like Nia started out with a o
34:44
flipping P's had cues four eleven five
34:47
double r s class when he's sitting seven
34:49
five let the [ __ ] spill T cut you out
34:52
seven times V's in the motor Court
34:54
[ __ ] been dead of time take another w
34:56
we don't do the W X Files imma probably
34:59
mold into something new take a breath
35:02
this is what I do belly getting that
35:04
someone touchable why now probably cause
35:07
I feel like Yadi I'm too wise on both
35:10
sides the real life Gotti they getting
35:11
bodied by somebody that doesn't exist
35:14
and here's the last Z you ever sleep on
35:16
me with you [ __ ]
35:19
[Applause]
35:28
okay the streets kept a g-shot used to
35:32
get the onion for a g flat
35:34
she was suck it for a C note 4G no she
35:37
probably later d flat I heard him
35:40
singing like the Isley Brothers
35:42
whoever quiet is the wisest of us the
35:45
real ones ain't allowed to tell us way
35:48
the real ones ain't allowed to tell us
35:50
keep six gotta double back talking [ __ ]
35:54
12 if you double that cheat 100 packs in
35:57
the Regal dog way I tried to quit I
36:00
couldn't beat withdraw now what the [ __ ]
36:02
is woke you sleep I'm showing teeth
36:04
provoke me imma move I eat the so-called
36:06
goats and sheep
36:08
clear out my lungs I want Nola to smoke
36:13
you whack rappers
36:19
hey
36:21
I feel like he was about to go again
36:25
[Music]
36:29
hey I had the hooks down back that's
36:33
good let's go we got an elite MC up in
36:36
here all the way from Ottawa Canada he
36:40
wouldn't be here if he wasn't who he is
36:42
he stayed true to himself
36:45
even when he was getting banned he
36:48
stayed true to himself he speaks the
36:50
truth he's a truth spitter and he's an
36:53
awesome MC we got a hyena
36:57
crazy
36:58
oh surreal surreal moments man
37:04
come on man you good for the culture
37:06
family so however long we can have you
37:08
we gonna take it thank you we appreciate
37:10
you Mumble rap too I don't know why you
37:13
call it Mumble rap again
37:15
uh I just felt like
37:18
it's like the opposite of that it's like
37:20
when you meet that guy in prison named
37:21
Tiny and he's like 60.
37:27
yo you're so nice man congratulations
37:30
um I'm glad we got a chance to see this
37:32
I got to see you live though I got to
37:33
see you live
37:35
I gotta see you live brother another
37:36
bucket list moment man just you know I
37:39
can't wait to go back out there and
37:40
touch the people yeah man you got tour
37:42
coming up yeah yeah we're working on
37:44
something now so yeah you know yeah I
37:46
hope I hope it all goes the way we
37:48
wanted to I'm sure it will brother all
37:50
right man we appreciate you Billy thank
37:52
you for coming by the show
37:54
I hope you had a good time
37:58
man
38:14
[Laughter]
38:20
what we doing cocaine spoons let's do it
38:23
man belly thanks for coming through
38:24
featuring Ricky Rose Sway in the Morning
38:31
foreign
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