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Big Boi Talks Collaborative Album w/ Sleepy Brown, 'Big Sleepover' Feat. CeeLo Green and Killer Mike
Dec 10, 2021
It has been two years since it was first teased, Big Boi and Sleepy Brown collaborative album, Big Sleepover. The album features appearances from Killer Mike, Kay-I, Backbone, Big Rube, and CeeLo Green.
Two pillars of the Dungeon Family come together to to mesh their two styles which blend perfectly. Drawing from R&B, funk, and plenty of southern hip-hop, the record features the previously released tracks “The Big Sleep is over” and “Animalz.”
Big Boi sat down with Sway and Tracy G to talk about the album, Outkast and more.
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hey listen this guy has been flying
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since 94 when i first met him sixth time
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or even maybe more time grammy winner um
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he's been such a contributor to the
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culture sometimes tracy you got
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consumers and you got customers this man
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has been a definite contributor to the
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culture uh sir luscious left foot
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himself here to celebrate a new project
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with sleepy brown called the big
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sleepover a lot of you know him from
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outcast but he's done a whole lot yes
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outside of outcast welcome him back to
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the show the one and only big boy big
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boy
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what's up buddy what's going on man
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hey man how you feeling man it's great
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to see you
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man i'm super fantastic phenomenally
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well perfectly whole complete blessed
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and highly favored as usual
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okay okay congratulations on the new
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project
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when i when i uh saw you sit down with
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mike man i thought it was one of the
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most
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refreshing by the way in enlightening
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conversations i've seen seeing you have
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and i'm listening to all those people
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who influenced you back in the day who
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are some of the musicians that really
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stuck to your heart back in the day that
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influenced who you are today
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uh definitely bob marley um kate bush
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um nwa
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uh ghetto boys ugk eight ball mjg two
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live crew try call quests
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temptations the idea brother sade anita
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baker it can go on and on man
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yeah
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we do i want you to say those names
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because
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now you're in those names of people when
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folks say well who influenced you you
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know your name comes up you know and i'm
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wondering if back when you first came
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out did you think you'd be releasing
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music
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this long
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you know a lot of those people you're
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talking about stop some continue but did
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you think
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this much time later you'll be releasing
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new albums
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um i just felt like as long as i enjoyed
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it and still was motivated you know it's
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definitely a part of my heartbeat um and
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i challenged myself i mean if i stayed
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excited then i mean as long as the music
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is
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evolving
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and and
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you know you keep reinventing yourself
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like it's fun you know i mean so you
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never know when you start but i mean
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when you're in it you hit it
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reinventing yourself um
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how do you do that like everybody has to
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take their own route when when did you
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realize man i gotta man i gotta flip the
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script i gotta re-imagine with my future
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what what stage of your career did you
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feel like you first reinvented yourself
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yeah
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um
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i guess after we got out of high school
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you know we got out of high school we
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was um before we was outcast we was two
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shades deep that was the name of the
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group i was black dog and dre with black
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wolf
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and then
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we came up with the name outcast because
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uh the group jagged edge had started
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calling itself faux shades
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so we came
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[Music]
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and um it went from big boy to dre and
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then later on in that section three
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thousand
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so we had to flip it from the beginning
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two shades okay all right trick trigger
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you want to jump in yeah i absolutely do
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big boy i'm so happy that you're with us
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you are one of my favorite artists and
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i think
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though a lot of people
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will definitely turn on a big boy track
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for high energy and for um just maximum
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creativity i don't know how many people
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are like me where you have one of the
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best like sensual songs in my opinion
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and from this project with steve brown
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think about for real thinking about the
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song um animals
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right
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which i feel like could definitely be
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played to set a mood you know and it had
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me curious because of how long you've
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been in um the rap game and the music
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game
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and
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especially as a rapper there's so much
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sexual temptation and for all of these
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years from 94 up to 2021 how has your
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relationship with lust changed or stayed
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the same
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um
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well
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i had to tame it you know i mean we
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first started out you know we were
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teenagers like 16 17 was like loose
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cannon but you know throughout the years
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and having a wife and kids you kind of
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get that foundation and it's not about
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that all the time you know what i'm
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saying
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and that's one of the main things that i
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can contribute to success is having that
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foundation and having that home base
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uh but still i'm aquarius me and rick
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jane got the same birthday so i'm gonna
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be a freak to the day i die you know i
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mean
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um
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completely respected yes
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and it's also a reminder yeah that
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married life can be just as exciting as
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any other status you know what i'm
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saying and i feel like as a whole in
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hip-hop as we continue to mature we're
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seeing that through you through a lot of
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your peers and i feel like that's really
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important to um to masculinity
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specifically as well yeah yeah yeah you
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just can't just spread the seed
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everywhere you know i mean you gotta if
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you gonna have these kids man you gotta
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really be there for them and that's i've
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been a firm believer in that because i
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got a big family so i couldn't just have
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like
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uh
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eight nine kids everywhere you know what
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i mean because all of them need
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attention and love and nurturing and um
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to this day one of my proudest moments
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um is not music is being a father and
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actually having three respectable
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memorable kids that are contributing to
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society
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yeah i'm here for that absolutely man
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being a father i salute you on that how
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do your kids like your music
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[Applause]
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i really love it they love it man like
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they've been listening to i mean i give
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them the new stuff out of studio they
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like my little secret and ours you know
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i mean they've been doing that since
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they was babies like i'd come home and
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like say for instance
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like bombs were bad that i played and my
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little boy was like
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just born and just going crazy you know
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i mean i'm like okay cool that's the one
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or you know when they get up in age then
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they started turning me on and stuff
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like my daughter has a playlist that's
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so crazy i should you know keep me in
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tune and then the boys they keep me up
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on the latest trap music and then who
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hot and who not but they got real
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eclectic taste man
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they got real eclectic taste uh and i
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met his kids too and congratulations on
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their success that's success as well uh
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the big sleepover man sonically man i
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really
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i really love what uh when you and
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sleepy get together man um
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from make you move to now man you dudes
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have done nothing but great work you
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know
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and sonically especially for those who
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really love music and some of us
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actually played instruments and took
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courses and music and the layers and the
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frequencies that you guys hit sonically
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is always at a point you know what i
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mean it's always on point how did you
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develop the sound was it you are you
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working with a team how did y'all
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develop it for this album
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um it was actually you know the same the
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formula organized noise behind the
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boards um i got a a
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a
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a whole stable of producers at stank
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only in my studio that's working around
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the clock as well as you know some of my
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partners like point guard from 1500 to
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nothing or cal vote great um that just
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you know send me beats i beat harvest
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all year long so i might have
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500 to 1 000 songs in my phone and i
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just keep my phone on shuffle and when
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i'm in the car if i ain't listening to
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you
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um i'm listening to beats
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come on man
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something jump out at me i take a
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screenshot at it go to the studio and go
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to work
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you know big boy you're
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obviously you are so
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incredible as a solo artist but you're
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also incredible when it comes to just
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working with people like long projects
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obviously this was sleepy brown major
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obviously outcast but also thinking
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about phantogram you know what i'm
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saying and i'm wondering because there
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are such a group of people who are so
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much like i could do it all by myself
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you know what i mean this very like diy
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generation which i understand and i
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commend but there's also strength in
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numbers you know
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can you talk about
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how
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collaborating with other people on long
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long-term projects has been meaningful
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you to you personally and also through
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the years what have you learned
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about handling group projects
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um i think with me i'm
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definitely a team player and i really go
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strong off of
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energy so if or vibe so if this somebody
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brings something to the table i'm gonna
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bring something else you know me i kind
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of like to try to shake it up and break
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it up just so it's not
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uh monotonous i mean through the years
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just i like to work with people who have
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vision you know like the whole
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phantogram thing came from just you know
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i was i heard one of their songs and
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they hit me on twitter and then we met
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up at governor's ball and was like hey i
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like what you do i love what you do
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let's see what we do together and
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they're they're definitely creative
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people and we get in the studio and then
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it's just two worlds colliding for real
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and then you got big grams but as far as
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brown brown you know was big brother
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from the beginning from he was on the
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first outcast song uh players ball um we
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did a song called wes evap so far so
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clean the way you move and um he's been
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on a tour with me and on the road me for
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some years and we were just you know on
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the bus and listening to these beats and
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it was like hey man let's do let's what
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we need to do some new [ __ ] i'm like
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okay
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so we just started playing beats man and
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got home and just started hammering at
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it i mean it was just really organically
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created never genetically modified i
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just got to be at a high level
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no gmos
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all organic everything okay
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i'm also wondering too big boy um who
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are some of the first artists
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that you listened to who
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were not black
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who did not you know weren't under the
10:08
genre of soul or r b or hip-hop
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definitely guns n roses uh metallica
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um willie nelson
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um
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kate bush you know uh def leppard
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let's listen to a lot of like like rock
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music uh nirvana of course
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um
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and it gives the beatles it just goes on
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and on and on i mean we listen to
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everything come on man the big sleepover
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big boy sleepy brown that's out on the
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tent off this friday teddy's on the line
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from south carolina what up teddy
10:41
what's going on in the morning
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oh man we got a legend on the line with
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us we can't be doing we couldn't be any
10:48
better right now it's winning wednesday
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assistant indeed
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big w
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i agree i agree man you know big boy man
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outcast man i'm uh i'm a day one fan
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uh i love outcasts i love big boy i love
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audrey man i that that's just i'm from
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the south so that's just what it is
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that's what we do
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man from
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southern play holistic
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man to atlas man like those two apples
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right there man was just
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man y'all just gave yourself something
11:18
to stand for man and uh i just want to
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give you your flowers while you're here
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man and um i appreciate everything
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you're doing i'm gonna be copping that
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album i appreciate it bro i appreciate
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it man much love
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that's what's up man how did you how did
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you handle that man because when y'all
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first come came out y'all y'all was you
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know you guys were in the trenches you
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were in the front line and saying
11:39
exactly what he's saying the south has
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something to say now atlanta is the
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premier city in in in the music business
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man how does that feel for you seeing
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that right
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it's great man to see the city city just
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flourishing you know all the new artists
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and all of us og's out here just still
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you know
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um
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just having fun and living life man um i
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can say that and i always tell people
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just like atlanta it's the camaraderie
12:04
that's that's been keeping us
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um you know like in the game like this
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for so long like i mean everybody work
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with everybody um pretty much name you
12:12
know might be like 10 percent b for me
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but you don't really know that there's
12:15
so many studios around he might pop up
12:17
on anybody and get the grooving so i
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mean everybody just got to keep on
12:20
working
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but it's the power source
12:23
of the music business the same business
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at one time tried to keep atlanta and
12:28
the south muffled
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like that that switch of position that
12:31
juxtaposition got to feel good because
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you were at the forefront of it
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oh yeah absolutely i mean you know once
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we kind of kicked the doe down for the
12:39
music and then the the whole film and tv
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industry moved here then we had music
12:44
and television like but and and the real
12:46
estate is is going through the roof so
12:49
atlanta you know chocolate city all day
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chocolate city man we got uh we're gonna
12:53
go to cleveland they don't call that
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chocolate city
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but they you know it's still the city
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hunt tara
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wow morning
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it was reached it what up tara we
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haven't heard from you boo how you doing
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i'm doing good how are you tracy i'm
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swell i'm happy to hear your voice i'm
13:11
good tyra thank you big on the line
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don't embarrass me what you got
13:16
i'm not
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i'm not gonna embarrass you first of all
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i am a huge fan like the midwest is one
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of the first
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areas to embrace the soft music and i
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have been a fan of y'all since day zero
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i love y'all so much you don't even know
13:33
now i got a question
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what do you think
13:37
and no problem
13:38
what do you think about the state of
13:40
hip-hop right now with so many rappers
13:43
getting killed right now what's your
13:45
opinion about that
13:47
um
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i think
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it's
13:50
it's what they're putting in the music
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you know um
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[Music]
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uh
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i don't really know i guess
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for us it was about you know being
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respected as lyricists and now
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you know with a lot of the younger ones
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coming up
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the promotion of the violence and the
14:08
drugs and things like that i mean i
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guess they're trying to live it out in
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real life and it's dangerous you know
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but i mean talk to the record labels
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you feel like the record labels got a
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major responsibility in that too of
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course right i mean they promote yeah
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for sure
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absolutely
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okay absolutely
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tara great question thank you you're a
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citizen as you know in the morning all
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right i'm gonna take one more uh big c
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in colorado what up big c
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what's up
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big c once again what's up tracy g hey
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boyd
14:45
big boy
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say what
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hey what's your question big c
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man my question is you don't say first
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of all i've been a what's up big boy man
14:54
i've been a big time fan can't some of
14:57
your first shows back in dallas you
14:58
don't say well originally from you know
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what says one say i'm proud of you and
15:02
you inspired me you know what i said
15:04
really inspired me to make my first song
15:06
off the lyric you said back in the day
15:08
you said keep it crunk you know what i'm
15:10
saying i turned it into a hook you know
15:12
saying did a show and actually won that
15:14
show you don't say it thanks to you for
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her
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go
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my thing is when you you were saying
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when you first started rapping and
15:23
started y'all started doing your thing
15:25
even when you changed the name you know
15:27
saying the outcast when did you feel
15:28
like it's like this is you this is your
15:31
career this is what you're gonna be
15:32
doing and you finally you think you got
15:34
it
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um i gotta say when um
15:37
we auditioned for organized noise and
15:39
they took us to the dungeon the very
15:41
first day and we met the goody mob and
15:44
and everybody in big room and everybody
15:45
that was at the dungeon and we heard the
15:47
sound and we was like buddy boy i got it
15:49
was like the the tracks were just so
15:51
dope in the depth and just the rhythms
15:53
and everything was like okay we need to
15:55
be over here because what me andre was
15:56
doing we was out beats our first tracks
15:58
we was just looping um songs on the tape
16:01
that like just it was just a loop you
16:03
know i'm saying was no program beats or
16:05
nothing and we heard some beats from
16:06
organized noise like we want to be with
16:07
them and we went and um
16:10
they get pulled up in a zuzu trooper
16:12
outside of a beauty supply store that uh
16:15
rico was working at and he was playing a
16:16
trial call quest what's the scenario
16:18
remix and me and dre just went at it
16:20
just you know back and forth back and
16:22
forth by 100 bars apiece and then rico
16:25
was like meet us at the dungeon tonight
16:27
and once we got over there it was over
16:28
with
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damn that's a great story man hey big c
16:32
thanks for your call you're a citizen
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man
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that's
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listen i know you got a lot of press to
16:38
do but the big sleepover what do you
16:39
want the fans to know about this project
16:42
in particular you got a lot of great
16:43
ones under your belt but talk to us
16:45
about this one
16:46
yes man ain't nothing changed man i mean
16:49
we just you know
16:50
i know it's cliche like fine wine but uh
16:53
we push it every time you know i'm
16:54
saying we don't just put out music
16:56
um just to put it out we put it out
16:58
because we're trying to make a statement
17:00
and let y'all know that this is reserved
17:02
seating um these seats is not this ain't
17:04
gonna be vacant we're gonna keep our
17:06
foot on y'all [ __ ] nick
17:08
uh this [ __ ] is uh super duper lyrical
17:12
some of the some of the hardest rappers
17:13
you're gonna be not hearing in the past
17:15
couple of years is killer mike on the
17:16
album is celo green on the album um
17:20
uh you know and it's dungeon family for
17:22
life
17:23
dungeon family for life and before you
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go man i'll be remiss if i didn't ask
17:26
you this because we talked about a
17:28
little bit when we talked on the phone
17:30
but one of the things i admire about you
17:32
most is your your business savvy and
17:34
your businesses i brag about that a lot
17:36
that you've been able to maintain not
17:37
even outside of rap that you've been
17:39
able to start and function these
17:41
businesses very successfully as
17:42
successful as you are in rap and you got
17:44
a lot of entrepreneurs that tune into
17:46
our show you listen to it you see a lot
17:48
of folks that's getting businesses off
17:50
the ground if you had a couple of golden
17:52
rules that you would suggest not tell
17:55
but just suggest people to look into
17:57
based on your experiences with business
17:59
what would they be
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um invest in things you know larry
18:04
taught me that um so the way i pick
18:06
stocks is like products i might buy like
18:09
apple or tesla or netflix it's something
18:12
that you use every day you don't mean
18:13
that's going to be here um
18:15
also
18:16
real estate is like the main thing now
18:18
because one thing about that is they
18:20
can't print no land or they can't make
18:22
no more land so even if you buy you a
18:23
piece of dirt hold on to it get that i
18:26
mean because it's going to
18:27
i always do that man and um
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always put something away man put put
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something away
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yeah put put something away rainy day
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huh
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i mean
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thunderstorm
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thunderstorm all right
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big boy love you brother good to see you
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it's been a minute man
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man appreciate it
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all right
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okay all the time man that's big boy
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y'all uh the big sleepover
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make sure y'all picked the project out
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it's a beautiful sounding project they
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got some great videos that go to a lot
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of the songs make sure y'all check all
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of that out
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[Music]
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you
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