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ain't great it's the only thing that's
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left in my vein i'm the mellow balling
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fresh in the game but i'm not the two
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today feeling like a newer yeah choose
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first two today might bring them to the
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student day
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and come on man bars son understand me
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bars right there at the time you heard
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him spit you probably didn't know his
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name
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but now you're gonna wish you knew his
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name don't get caught behind the train
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i'm dropping bars just because of you
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heard me heather i'm rhyming i heard two
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words that rhymed
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i'm dropping bars man i'm dropping bars
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man i remember when he put out that no
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love lost ep with red bull i believe it
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was red bull but he did it it was
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unusual people didn't even know red bull
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had a label y'all know i've been working
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with red bull for years the red bull bc
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one b-boy competition i've been hosting
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them all over all over the world i was
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there the b was there too they've been
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putting their foot in the culture in a
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great way and they really landed on
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something special when they landed on
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this guy right here that freestyle was
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from the freshman freestyle double xl
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freshman freestyle
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i gotta call somebody i gotta call my
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nephew before we even start this
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interview okay okay uh he got a lot
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going on for him he goes by the name of
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blast ladies and gentlemen blast is here
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let's go
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we want to talk about that too i gotta
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call my nephew isaiah real quick and i'm
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gonna do it live on the air okay did you
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give him a heads up at least i told him
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wake up if i'll call you pick up the
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phone he on the west coast west coast
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time let's see if he does it if he
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doesn't do it it's gonna be crazy
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embarrassing hey mm-hmm maybe he'll pick
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up you think so
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we on ring three now bring it there you
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go look at them look at them
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look who i got with me right now isaiah
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are you living
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i'm good i'm good i'm good he looked
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just like his father
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young royalty right there hey
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go ahead
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i used to listen to all your music
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before it came out when it was like when
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you were working with my dad in like
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2018 we used to listen to it in the car
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with my friends
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wow
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that's hard before the singles came out
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wow 2018 nice he was telling me about
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you way back then
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and then tell them what we did recently
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we uh voted uh we were voting on the xxl
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uh
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uh list and he was like who should i
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vote for for the uh i think it was fresh
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or what was it
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man appreciate the love bro that's
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genuine yeah hold on get a close-up on
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isaiah
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when i met king
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okay who's your coolest uncle
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there you go that kid is perfect man go
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to school get your good education
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got no brothers all right
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three three four five though seriously
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citizens just waiting on if you want to
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talk live with blasts right now he is
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here why suede's trying to get another
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video pic
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he done with juice wait how much you
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moving too quick yo the tech cannot keep
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up all right [ __ ] all right man with my
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nephew so blast welcome welcome to your
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life
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i'm happy to be here this is crazy
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yeah man this is this is one of those
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moments for those who don't know um the
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first time i heard you king tex sent me
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some of your music and um someone has
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spoken to your mom
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wow right and so and um oh i know
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exactly who it was it was uh uh somebody
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uh a friend of ours that uh that's as a
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advisor to our family
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knew your mom and said man this she has
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a talented son
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can i introduce y'all to him and then
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you and tech met correct yeah yeah do
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you recall that yeah for sure what was
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it he been to my house bro wow i've been
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to your house you went to tarzana yeah
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that's me in king tech's house wow
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that's crazy
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[Applause]
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yeah all of the basketball court and all
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that i don't school chris brown eminem
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guru from gangnam everybody got service
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on my court that's legendary bro yeah
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with the studio in the back with the
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studio in the back that's the same
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situation where were at that time in
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your career though where were you were
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you with red bull at that time or all of
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this stuff was starting to formulate
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yeah i wasn't with red bull i was solo
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dolo around this time just me and my boy
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vic trying to figure it out this was
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early on uh-huh what did you when you
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first approached the game did you
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approach it as a vocalist or was it more
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of a songwriter and producer at that
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time i would say simultaneously producer
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and an artist yeah that's pretty much
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how i got into it
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and what were some of the first things
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you were doing to put yourself on you
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know outside of just making the music
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and uploading it probably i'm sure to
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soundcloud but what were some of the key
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things that you were doing to ensure
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that your career started rolling
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i think
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my notoriety from la really came from
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just producing first
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even though i was an artist at the same
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time
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i managed to get a song with kendrick
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lamar yg and problem which was a song
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called do yogurt it was pretty popular
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and uh also caitlyn for real for real
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song called right with it he got with yg
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that was pretty much like my first
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introduction to people knowing who blast
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was knowing my sound that's the best for
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what that don't know your work yeah
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right was it in person did you get to
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sit down and work with them in studio or
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was it just sharing training it was it
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was just singing
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that was close enough though right
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that's all i needed for sure
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who was the first named artist that you
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worked with that it was in person
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hmm
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it was i would have to say eric
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bellinger
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he was like one of the first artists
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that gave me a feature just off the
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stream
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yeah yeah shout out eric ballinger gave
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you a feature did then what was the
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transaction like was it just off the
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strength really well you say off the
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street from my era that means we it's
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free
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yeah it was off the stream well we
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swapped i uh i did a beat for one of his
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songs
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on a project he dropped a minute ago and
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then we saw it for a verse as well
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okay man i love it man um when i when i
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your story is great to me anytime a
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parent
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steps up
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in front of their kid and show that kind
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of support that they're riding with your
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dream the whole time what was growing up
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like what was your household like
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so i grew up
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i had i would say i split it into two
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parts because i grew up with my mom at
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first on the east side of l.a
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um south central and then high school i
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moved with my pops in the i.e which is
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like an hour away from the inland empire
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so i would say growing up was cool you
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know the early stages just being a kid
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riding bikes throwing rocks at houses
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doing dumb [ __ ] but
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as you get a little older uh you realize
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certain territories you're not supposed
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to be in
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and uh my family was jehovah witness my
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grandparents so they kept
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like a level head on my shoulders you
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know but um for the most part
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after my sister got jumped you know my
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mom didn't want me to go to school out
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there in l.a so she moved me with my
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pops to inland empire yeah why did she
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get jumped do you know
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man probably something petty it was it
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was like when she was younger
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i remember those times as a young man if
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i may have to be i i'll go dig back deep
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into my head i'd like to hear it okay
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iron man girl growing up in oakland and
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being surrounded in those kind of
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environments and you got friends that
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are doing things you wouldn't
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necessarily do but they're your friends
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and you just kind of come up in it but i
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remember
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probably around the 10th grade i reached
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that crossroad like
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i had to decide man i can't even be
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around that if i'm trying to get to
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where i'm going did you ever have that
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type of definitive moment no i mean my
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parents pretty much pulled me out i
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didn't want to move but it was it was
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like a forceful situation and i used to
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look down on it but now i appreciate it
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because that's what led me to being
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creative not having to worry about
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what's going on outside you know i was
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locked in
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in my room just on youtube studying how
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to be who i am today
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so then what was i know everyone's an
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appreciator of music you know we hear
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music before we even attempt to add to
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that creative pool
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um
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what made you say you know what i don't
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want to just be a fan of this i want to
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be a part of this um
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that's a good question i think just
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seeing
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things like pharrell in studio videos
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seeing ryan leslie early on that just
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inspired me to
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not only want to pull from it but add to
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it you know and seeing how they
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they attacked it early on being
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involved with every aspect of it not
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just one so that's how i looked at
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myself like how can i
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now i'm learning how to do graphic arts
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now i'm doing post production on videos
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nice appreciating every aspect of it
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renaissance man you like that hp i do
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and uh i have to say this i'm i don't
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know
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that much about you it's interesting
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hearing your story but
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i like to connect the dots and i just
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want to you know celebrate that parent
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and celebrate the people around you
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because to me
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this could have went left very early on
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like
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going back you had no idea you were in
9:48
sway's house okay and imagine if you
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would have and eaten
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the whole thing but imagine if you would
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have conducted yourself in a way not
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favorable people remember things like
10:02
that you know they won't say anything
10:04
but sometimes they just don't invite you
10:06
back or put a word out about you and you
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fast forward you meet us just on a
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random you see us in a restaurant
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you know and your energy was so
10:15
beautiful when suede came back here
10:18
until we got we just got in the studio
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on monday so we're only three days in no
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you are the first first interview yes
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that we've had in two years
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in this studio
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but imagine if you would have conducted
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yourself otherwise so
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i just want to remind you or just
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confirm to you and all the young artists
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out there be mindful of where you are
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and how you conduct yourself because you
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never know
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five years later ten years later it's a
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life is a circle it's the circle of life
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these people you run back into again and
10:51
they remember things about you so i
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think it's very beautiful the energy
10:54
that you have because there's no
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accident that you
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from sway's house you had no idea to a
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restaurant you had no idea and a week
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later you're sitting here with us i
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don't think that's an accident so keep
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it up thank you i appreciate it you're
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welcome yeah
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that don't make you feel guilty when
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you're out there [ __ ] up
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and then randomly these kids be like
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sorry auntie i ain't related to them but
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that's how i get down so you watch your
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dms for me too if you start [ __ ] up
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all right
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all right blast is here man um what is
11:31
it what you imagined it to be you know
11:33
you come a long way and now you got troy
11:35
marshall working with you i don't know
11:37
how you pulled that off
11:38
but
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you know
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it's everything i think is
11:42
more than what i even thought it was
11:44
going to be like
11:45
i never pictured myself performing in
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london selling out in new york you know
11:49
just being from l.a i just wanted to
11:51
conquer my city so oh this is the cherry
11:53
on top yeah how was dreamville
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it was crazy you know dreamsville fans
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they all about the music so i feel like
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that was perfect for me to
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show my show my art
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how was it though just like
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backstage you know like well i used to
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get so excited about backstage even
12:13
as we became the people to throw the
12:15
concepts of
12:16
whether it was mtv or radio i still get
12:18
excited about backstage who you might
12:20
bump into and right
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did you get one of those moments yeah i
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for sure ran into a lot of people i was
12:25
listening to like jed
12:27
you know more ray
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moray got a crazy shout out tomorrow
12:31
north carolina stand up you love more
12:34
red can you get them up here
12:36
i think so okay work on that for me
12:39
don't make me dm you
12:41
more definitely come up here okay cool
12:43
cool cool and so you got to hang out
12:45
with these guys and yeah and swap
12:47
stories in that whole night yeah because
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me and mo ray was uh both on a double xl
12:51
freshman cover so
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it's always good to run the team so
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brotherhood mike muse i can see yeah
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really close but i want to ask you a
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question uh you just mentioned something
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the only thing you want to do is conquer
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your city and you were talking about
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going to london i've always been curious
13:05
for like a an artist who's just starting
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out because we all know how big hip hop
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is it's the most consumed genre of music
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of all times and i'm always wondering
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for a
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hip-hop artist
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when you see how big it is like when you
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go to london like what are you
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experiencing like what are you feeling
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right because you go from i just want to
13:23
conquer l.a yeah to now like i'm rapping
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in london and people are like rocking
13:27
with me like does it put into different
13:29
context the power of hip-hop yeah i
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think i like even just seeing how people
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react
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to me like little old me it's like i
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feel a different responsibility now you
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know all these people looking
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to me rather even if it's just to
13:44
relate to my feelings you know and just
13:47
that itself is is powerful to me now i
13:49
got to watch everything i say and be
13:51
intentional behind everything instead of
13:53
just trying to get a check from it you
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know
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i'm kid that makes me curious like
13:58
how challenging or maybe easy it is to
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be present because you know thinking
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about your social i think you have a bit
14:03
over 400 000 followers on there which is
14:06
tremendous but you're still like in the
14:09
early stages of your career you know
14:11
what i'm saying so
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is it
14:14
easy for you to be present and look at
14:16
this as success in itself or do you find
14:19
your mind constantly looking forward
14:22
towards more more and more
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yeah i think
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i've been operating at a high frequency
14:28
just moving and moving and moving like
14:30
sometimes i was just in the lobby
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thinking like
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hey how do we get here
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those are great moments to have yes
14:39
that's good and it'd just be tripping me
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out like i look back later and be like
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oh i did do that dang i did do that but
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i'm still i don't know it's just
14:48
something i'm chasing i don't know what
14:49
i'm chasing but i'm just going good
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you're going man you living clean
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living clean what that mean
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what you wanted to
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i'm living clean for sure
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yeah to my best ability
15:06
what what aspects what um spoils of this
15:09
lifestyle are you enjoying currently
15:11
i'm in love with shoes that's that's
15:13
probably my guilty pleasure just buying
15:15
shoes i'm not too crazy that's probably
15:16
my only oh yeah i'm regular today i got
15:19
on some air force ones but yeah that's
15:21
my guilty pleasure my shoes huh what
15:23
about indulging you know you you're very
15:26
uh
15:28
empathetic songwriter you know you you
15:30
understand both sides of the story you
15:32
know you like me in many ways you got a
15:34
romantic side
15:36
there's no reason for that right now
15:41
class you know what i'm saying you feel
15:43
it right
15:44
accepted yeah and so i kind of wanted to
15:47
go into some of the lyrics if that's
15:48
okay we do something we've done that's
15:51
right for years before there was a
15:52
genius we we did lyrical breakdown
15:56
i just want to let you know that all
15:57
right can we do that real quick
15:59
breaking down the lyrics you may not
16:01
understand what the hell did you just
16:03
say i thought i might go with chosen
16:05
because that features ty dolla sign and
16:07
tiger by the way that's a a banging
16:09
video i wish somebody invited me to some
16:11
of these video sets
16:13
and tiger i love tiger verse too he kind
16:15
of killed it he just you know yeah he
16:17
just glided
16:19
he just glided over that verse right all
16:22
right and uh working with them must have
16:24
been amazing all right absolutely two
16:26
legends from the city
16:28
they give you any gems
16:29
um i've been knowing ty for a minute
16:31
he's always been in my corner just
16:33
rooting for me so i look at him like the
16:35
sensei you know mm-hmm and um no it's
16:37
always been genuine love always been
16:39
genuine love buddy came on the show
16:41
recently and spoke highly of you thank
16:42
you name a lot of praises so y'all like
16:44
no buddy i seen you going crazy uh way
16:47
too long yeah
16:57
this room that it'll be i'll be speaking
16:59
and i'll have my crew here back at me
17:02
he keeps looking at y'all like wow man
17:04
like everything he say y'all go against
17:06
me
17:07
it's like that blast come on vic don't
17:10
do the same thing to you trust me vic
17:11
and troy are gonna do the same thing to
17:13
you let's talk about about you though
17:16
all right and you tell me if the lyrics
17:17
are wrong all right now i thought this
17:19
the first opening line
17:21
was such a mature line that i wish i had
17:24
this kind of maturity when i was a
17:25
younger man it says hey
17:28
i need you to be about we
17:30
give that man a round of applause right
17:32
there that's just from right there just
17:34
from the jump that's good yeah that's a
17:36
good one
17:37
because a lot of time in relationships
17:40
between male and female i don't know the
17:41
other dynamics perhaps them too okay you
17:44
know it's always about what you can do
17:46
for me
17:47
right and you said i need you know this
17:50
to be about we mm-hmm where'd that line
17:52
come from that what experience did that
17:54
come from
17:55
um i guess just me understanding if you
17:58
want to go fast go alone if you want to
18:00
go far go together you know so
18:02
i'm just about team team whether
18:05
that be any relationship your friendship
18:07
your actual relationship
18:09
that's just what i believe in that's
18:10
what you believe in have you ever um
18:13
been in a relationship where it felt
18:15
like you you were more invested than
18:17
another person absolutely absolutely i
18:19
know what that feels like so that's why
18:21
i feel like i'm able to speak on it
18:23
confidently
18:24
yeah how did that relationship been the
18:26
one you're thinking about right now
18:29
i just had to do my own thing you know
18:31
just have to isolate myself and get in
18:33
my back
18:35
yeah
18:36
what we're talking about male citizens
18:38
is you very rarely hear people mention
18:40
this is broken heart syndrome right did
18:42
you get your heart breath broken
18:44
i have before also not not as an adult
18:47
but probably when i was younger like
18:49
high school or something like that
18:51
do you remember how she did it
18:54
she holding your homies
19:05
therapy right now
19:07
[Laughter]
19:15
i don't know what it was she just it
19:16
just wasn't the same no more the energy
19:18
shifted
19:19
it it actually got kind of dark because
19:22
she start doing drugs and all kinds of
19:24
stuff like hard drugs though oh wow and
19:27
high school
19:28
euphoria babe you gotta understand i
19:30
went to high school with a lot of white
19:32
people so
19:33
it was like euphoric euphoria
19:36
there's a lot of drugs going on did you
19:38
blame yourself
19:39
nah nah i was too young to blame myself
19:42
okay
19:43
doctor now
19:45
no because what happens is
19:47
like i had a situation when i was
19:49
younger but somebody came and told me
19:51
that the the person i was with was just
19:53
plotting and planning
19:54
and it broke my heart she never told me
19:56
but somebody else did but then it
19:59
built up this shield right for years
20:02
that you know nobody could really
20:03
penetrate do you have that shield up are
20:05
you open for love
20:08
that's a good i i think
20:10
i have somewhat of a shield
20:12
subconsciously you know but i'm in a
20:14
relationship right now so i'm practicing
20:17
opening up in different ways
20:23
i'm gonna chill out on these questions
20:28
with a relationship something i often
20:30
think about is
20:32
i wonder if you as an artist if say you
20:34
want to tap back into your past to talk
20:37
about something you know to create
20:39
lyrics you know what i mean but it may
20:40
be
20:41
centered on lust or it may be centered
20:43
on a time perhaps you cheated or
20:45
something does it ever make you question
20:47
what you create
20:48
because you don't want your significant
20:50
other to wonder
20:52
does this mean something's going on in
20:54
the present does that make sense yeah
20:56
not for sure
20:58
but
20:59
she supported me
21:01
so heavily that
21:02
i put like honestly speaking i put our
21:04
whole relationship in our in my first
21:07
project
21:08
and she was supportive and i i talked
21:10
about you know some personal stuff
21:12
but um i think she understands just my
21:14
form of therapy overall yeah so she
21:17
don't really give me too much
21:18
flack on that
21:20
so then for your communication do you
21:21
communicate directly or do you prefer to
21:24
communicate through your art and through
21:26
your lyrics yeah through my art i
21:28
wouldn't say i'm the best communicator
21:29
just like you know talking writing is
21:31
therapy yeah what not yeah we're doing
21:34
good this morning man i feel like we're
21:35
getting close
21:39
he's comfy right yeah if you put a limit
21:42
on your love then count me girl i know
21:44
i'm my selfish ways be od
21:47
but i just express your ways you don't
21:49
see and you don't and you should know
21:51
that i'm about you if this ain't the way
21:54
to love then show me how to
21:56
because i'm not afraid of breaking no
21:58
rules i say what i say i don't say
22:01
it to sound cool
22:03
man let's play this song man open up
22:05
these phone lines this is about you we
22:07
got blasts here eight eight eight seven
22:09
four two three three four five yeah girl
22:13
i'm just happy we made it this far
22:15
i can't wait to see how far we go
22:19
see i'm good for that blast we got blast
22:21
in here you know you need somebody to
22:23
talk at the end of your song
22:26
sometimes you need that hey girl yeah
22:28
throw you on the outro real quick it's
22:30
cool i'm with it you know
22:32
uh on the strength is that what we say
22:34
like
22:36
off the strength oh my gosh
22:39
keep up sweet keep up [ __ ] said on
22:41
the strength all right
22:45
let's go to georgia we got makaio on the
22:47
line
22:48
rise and shine what up what up rise and
22:51
grind beautiful people rising brian how
22:53
are y'all doing today what's up feeling
22:54
good thank you say what's up the blast
22:57
that's good how you doing black what's
22:58
the deal bro i'm good
23:01
yes sir yes sir the first time i heard
23:02
of you was on the sixth tape actually
23:04
and i wanted to know your relationship
23:06
with um bino rideau and how did that
23:08
come about
23:09
yeah so being over though
23:11
another legend from la i would say he
23:13
come from the nip umbrella
23:15
he pretty much reached out to me as a
23:17
producer after i did the song for
23:19
caitlyn for real for real
23:21
and he didn't even know i was an artist
23:22
so i had to send them a song with a hook
23:24
which was our first song together then
23:26
we ended up knocking out six extra songs
23:28
we created a mixtape called the six tape
23:30
and it was history from that point on
23:32
the sixth tape okay that's dope ends up
23:35
but another quick question um i wanted
23:37
to know if you weren't had a chance to
23:38
work with the late uh nipsey hustler and
23:40
if you have any songs in the vault for
23:42
us
23:43
not at all i never had a chance to work
23:45
with him personally yeah
23:47
yeah but i did meet him at the racks in
23:49
the middle video shoot so you met him
23:51
yeah what was that like it was it was
23:54
humbling for real you just felt his
23:56
presence you know
23:58
um
23:59
good dude
24:00
he approached me
24:02
with humbleness that's all i could say
24:03
uh-huh yeah that's what's up man makaya
24:06
thanks for your call man make sure you
24:08
support this guy okay you're a citizen
24:09
you're associated with the morning
24:11
who else has who else what big names
24:13
have approached you with that kind of
24:15
humility
24:17
man
24:18
i would say j cole wow um wow j cole i
24:22
had a goat worthy he had reached out
24:25
and i pulled up on him at the studio he
24:27
wanted to meet me after i dropped no
24:28
love lost
24:30
and we had a solid conversation for sure
24:32
yeah
24:33
yeah oh my goodness so are you nervous
24:36
when you're meeting giants like this
24:37
like what is your internal dialogue like
24:40
for sure you got to understand these
24:42
people i grew up listening you're right
24:44
it's like
24:45
how do you even acknowledge me how do
24:46
you even know who i am how am i even on
24:48
your radar i just be trying to piece it
24:50
together and none of it be making sense
24:53
but i just try to keep in mind like
24:55
all of this is for a reason amen rather
24:58
i know it now or know it later i feel
25:00
like i'm
25:01
this is my purpose i'm supposed to be
25:03
here right yeah and keep that
25:04
nervousness yeah you know like that's a
25:06
good thing it's that's not you ain't
25:08
fanning out of being a groupie it's real
25:11
you know it's part of human emotion
25:13
there's nothing wrong with that i in
25:15
fact i would almost go as far as to say
25:18
people like to see that you know you
25:20
like you said you grew up watching
25:22
people we flip out people say things to
25:25
us just from sitting here doing this
25:26
show like yo this is legendary this is
25:28
this and that's a compliment you know
25:31
because we work hard at doing what we're
25:32
doing so i can imagine it's
25:34
complementary to those artists when you
25:36
feel that way and people tell them that
25:37
so it's good that you have that feeling
25:39
you walk around with your head up in the
25:41
sky you ain't going to see nobody hello
25:43
you know what i mean so keep that yeah
25:46
that's how you felt when you walked in
25:48
and saw her the bee
25:49
he saw me already when i see you i'm
25:51
like is this tv or what
25:54
y'all was really just sitting in the
25:55
corner i'm like this gotta be fake
26:00
that's good man keep that energy we got
26:02
a lot of folks let's go to canada we got
26:03
true on the line from toronto true what
26:05
up true not false
26:08
yo what's going on guys how are you guys
26:09
doing today what's up what's up what's
26:11
up you share the same name as blast son
26:15
true
26:15
[Laughter]
26:17
my question for blast was
26:19
when was the moment you knew that all of
26:21
your hard work was going to pay off and
26:23
that you were able to do
26:25
the
26:26
the the type of sound that you that you
26:28
uh
26:29
you that that you really put in the game
26:32
man i don't think it was a specific
26:34
moment like even to this day i still be
26:36
doubting myself in different ways but
26:39
i just felt like it was possible early
26:41
on even seeing my uncle
26:43
take me to the studio and give me little
26:44
gems like
26:46
reading words in a dictionary to you
26:48
know better my vocabulary
26:50
it just felt like effortless it didn't
26:52
feel like i was trying to do music it
26:54
just felt like i was meant to do it hmm
26:56
i like that reading words which uncle is
26:59
this the one no no no
27:00
no no no
27:02
his nephew though his nephew that's got
27:04
to be uncle sway
27:06
no it's true
27:09
in your game bro come on that's all
27:12
i know he's got the
27:13
info bro you know my other question for
27:15
you that's it true have a great day
27:17
you're a citizen though that's right
27:20
what's your favorite word that you've
27:21
discovered or like one of them
27:24
um
27:25
i don't know it may switch up every day
27:27
right off the top of my head i'm gonna
27:28
say intriguing i like that word
27:31
intriguing
27:32
that's a good a great word yeah it was
27:33
quite intriguing
27:35
that story you just told right
27:37
i'm intrigued by your jacket right now
27:41
there you go one of my words too
27:43
my nephew right here yo yeah i just
27:46
adopted him you've been to my house you
27:47
know ate my food um gee what up g in
27:50
indianapolis what kind of food was this
27:52
cause you keep bringing it or was it a
27:53
sandwich i don't know what food you're
27:55
talking about
27:57
so
27:58
you know sway wash out glasses like i
28:00
didn't eat
28:14
yeah when you come back bro we'll feed
28:16
you don't worry uh gee what up gn in
28:19
minneapolis what up g what up g gg yo yo
28:22
g what's poppin good what's good
28:24
not much man um wanted to give uh
28:27
wanted to get some flowers to blast man
28:30
um
28:31
i've recently probably within like the
28:33
last year really got hit to him
28:36
for super fan of the music man it's
28:38
funny hearing uh that story you just
28:40
shared about your uncle
28:42
um and kind of finding like a effortless
28:45
flow um because that's what i enjoy
28:47
about your music um that's what i've
28:50
enjoyed about the sound
28:51
um like i really have not heard a song
28:54
from you bro yet i'm like a music
28:56
connoisseur i love to travel
28:58
internationally domestically and you
29:00
know get on different types of vibes get
29:01
on music early um with you i did not
29:04
have that opportunity but i'm clocked in
29:06
now and you know my question is uh after
29:09
the flowers but my question is like
29:11
who's your like top five influences
29:14
you know when it comes to music
29:16
my top fly my top five up the top of my
29:18
head i'm gonna say d'angelo
29:21
raphael sadiq oh nate dog
29:24
oh i may even go erica badou yes jill
29:27
scott
29:28
i think that was five right there
29:30
wow that's a great five influencers
29:32
that's a great question gee
29:34
yeah i appreciate it i just wanted to
29:36
tell you bro uh man like super super
29:38
family you know you got those artists
29:40
that like when you get in the whip with
29:41
your friends you like you try to put
29:43
them on like yo you need to you need to
29:45
listen to this artist like i was on a
29:47
trip to uh miami
29:49
uh you know a little little pop-out trip
29:51
and uh we we in the whip and we're
29:53
rolling around i played one song of
29:54
yours everybody in the car was like yo
29:56
who the [ __ ] is this
29:57
i showed them you know i showed i showed
29:58
them on apple music they're like okay
30:00
okay we rode around i had another song
30:03
of yours i went ahead and played it
30:04
everybody in the car like damn they
30:05
started pulling out the shazam like who
30:07
the hell is this
30:08
and i showed him it was you again and so
30:10
you know people getting hit with the
30:11
campaign bro keep doing what you're
30:13
doing black man thank you
30:15
the music is amazing bro super super fan
30:17
of you bro super fan of uh sway in the
30:19
morning hey gee gee gee next time you
30:22
play that music played off pandora
30:24
that's our company all right
30:26
okay okay we
30:28
hey love you family you're a citizen
30:30
treasurer in the morning i want to hear
30:31
him collab with him you know bj the
30:33
chicago kid oh
30:34
yeah think y'all would i've made a
30:36
really really dope song project whatever
30:39
yeah i just he's another one of those
30:42
artists that i feel like
30:44
like when you hear his name you know
30:45
he's dope but he's not mentioned enough
30:48
you know and i just think your vibe your
30:50
energy your style in him would just be
30:52
crazy i'm a big fan of his as well and
30:54
now a super fan of yours so absolutely
30:56
yeah bj the chicago shout out to bj that
30:59
was a god in the air for that yeah i
31:00
like that hp we work together yeah i'm
31:02
curious blast um when it comes to
31:05
artists names was blast an instant idea
31:08
and what made you go a blast versus you
31:10
know a lot of artists that use their
31:11
government name too
31:13
so i made a blast when i was young it
31:15
literally had no meaning to it when i
31:18
was young
31:19
so i was going to change it as i
31:21
developed as an artist but i ended up
31:23
having a son and i kind of look at it as
31:26
me being his superhero now
31:28
so now i'm blasting
31:31
great superheroes
31:31
way you spell it and everything is good
31:33
so he's very superheroes yeah as well
31:35
because you don't i take it like we had
31:36
a blast
31:38
as opposed to fool i'll blast you you
31:41
know what i mean like some people might
31:42
take it with a negative connotation or
31:44
blast off or blast off mm-hmm
31:47
i like that see what you did there it
31:48
was sniffing
31:49
sniffing
31:53
but he said he was clean
31:56
i thought that was
32:27
never dirty just wild tell us more about
32:29
you heather
32:33
i know you're getting up you're getting
32:34
a lot of comparisons to nate dawg and i
32:36
know that's a compliment to you you know
32:38
because the late great iconic legend did
32:40
it his way you know him and guys like
32:43
devin the dude you know michael marshall
32:45
from timex social club who sang the hook
32:47
on got five on it you know um
32:50
uh i could take you back to a group
32:52
called whistle always bring bring up
32:54
like in hip-hop these were people who
32:55
sang at a time when singing wasn't
32:58
really you had to determine if you're
32:59
going to be a rapper or a singer you
33:01
have so much freedom in what you do
33:04
right you don't hang out in one style of
33:08
expression you could we heard you kick
33:09
them double xl freshman freestyle bars
33:13
or you could be extremely melodic how do
33:15
you determine how you approach a song
33:18
what style you're going to use
33:20
man i would just say because sometimes
33:23
it just flow through me like i'm a
33:25
channel sometimes i just paint the
33:27
picture whatever i'm feeling i don't go
33:29
in the studio with any intention like
33:31
i'm gonna sing today i'm gonna rap today
33:33
i just do what i feel
33:34
and um you know i gotta pay my respect
33:36
to the ones who was
33:39
breaking the doors down for me to be
33:41
able to be accepted to do that like the
33:43
drakes
33:44
the kanye west people that's just
33:46
been in the sound so
33:48
those people that i think about whenever
33:50
i'm just being free is one easier or
33:52
challenging when it comes to writing
33:53
between singing and rapping
33:55
no i was yeah i would say singing is
33:58
easier just because it
34:00
it just flowed through you it's a
34:01
feeling whenever you rap in you gotta
34:03
make sure every line is intentional and
34:05
just
34:06
you can sing some stupid stuff as long
34:08
as it sounds good
34:09
[Music]
34:11
you can sing dumb [ __ ] right
34:13
become a hit we've seen that happen
34:15
blast
34:16
we have seen that happen um what do you
34:18
see yourself in let's say now it's 2022
34:22
the star has risen you know billboard
34:25
has has acknowledged you
34:27
on so many levels of being that star to
34:29
watch you know king tech had you at our
34:31
house that was a big deal you know
34:33
double xl has acknowledged you uh what
34:35
do you hope to see yourself three years
34:37
from now
34:39
i slowly want to just transition into
34:41
the ceo that i want to be you know we
34:43
got a joint venture with red bull
34:45
records so
34:46
i got my own label me and my business
34:48
partners
34:51
vic what's it called eagle eagle yeah
34:54
so i got a partnership with them just
34:56
transitioning to put putting other
34:58
artists in position you know la artist
35:01
you're gonna focus on la
35:03
first yeah we already got it we already
35:05
got somebody from long beach shout out
35:06
jay million crazy producer crazy artist
35:10
jay what's his name j million j million
35:12
yeah why do i know that name you do know
35:14
that name uh that's what i think
35:17
you know cali too
35:19
yeah platform yeah yeah okay okay okay
35:22
hey you know i love that man okay yeah i
35:24
knew i had something to do with it
35:31
that's dope i see that for you
35:34
you know and that to me that's um that's
35:36
that's this culture evolved is when now
35:38
the artist because you've heard all our
35:40
stories
35:41
you know we don't own [ __ ] you know we
35:43
went through the rigmarole for so
35:45
artists now nowadays to have a eagle
35:48
label and bring up other artists
35:51
yourself and then sharing that back end
35:53
profit sharing those revenue streams
35:55
that we never used to get to see so i'm
35:58
proud of you all right thank you
35:59
absolutely man
36:01
hey blast we had a blast today man
36:04
let them know
36:07
oh galloway
36:10
just saying send my love to your family
36:12
your mom uncle yes you know your uncle
36:15
uh oh you said it
36:17
you know yeah i just said the first name
36:20
your uncle d
36:21
and muggs who are probably sitting
36:23
listening right now cracking up because
36:25
we're sitting here on the show uh but
36:27
congratulations to you come back and see
36:29
us man i'd love to have a sway in the
36:31
morning concert with you would have been
36:33
being tracy g is that possible
36:36
troy that's good
36:37
i like that
36:39
okay he'll come back
36:41
when is dropping
36:43
this interview
36:44
because i'm dropping the project april
36:46
22nd april 22nd i haven't even announced
36:49
that it'll be before that okay oh april
36:51
22nd i want to throw that out there
36:53
what's the name of the project it's
36:54
called before you go before you go yeah
36:57
you was about to sing that oh gosh
37:01
that's the type what's the power that's
37:02
the title track too you got the title
37:03
track before you go
37:05
nope that's just a title okay
37:08
before thinking about something
37:11
i was gonna have them sing the hook and
37:12
i was gonna join them
37:16
let's go improv
37:18
wow lies you make me wanna sing before
37:20
you go what's that what does that mean
37:23
for me
37:24
because some people may hear and feel a
37:27
certain way i'm not gonna make no
37:28
assumptions but for me it's like a note
37:30
to self like before you go
37:32
in this transition
37:34
like you're gonna leave some stuff
37:35
behind maybe take some stuff with you
37:38
but it's just finding that balance of
37:40
you know going into my next trajectory
37:42
of
37:43
me as a man outside of even just being
37:45
an artist
37:47
blast citizens get a big round of
37:49
applause all right
37:50
he got the the about you
37:52
videos
37:54
sometimes with this kid
37:56
zakari
37:58
who is zakari t.d.e zakari yeah so he
38:01
owned a song
38:02
love with kendrick lamar yeah that's the
38:05
car but who is he like what's his
38:07
background
38:09
he's from l.a i know he moved to like uh
38:13
i want to damn alaska he moved to alaska
38:16
for a minute
38:17
and he was working out there so he got a
38:18
strange little background he was out
38:20
there messing with wolves and
38:22
he took he had told me he had killed an
38:24
eagle before
38:26
it's kind of disrespectful but now he
38:28
dope he just uh
38:35
[Laughter]
38:43
he got a dope voice man yeah that kid
38:45
and he got an interesting look about him
38:47
y'all
38:48
y'all look great in that in that in that
38:50
visual
38:51
i can't wait to talk to them get them up
38:53
here too for me
38:54
for sure all right uh congratulations
38:57
man we're gonna end with chosen man but
38:58
congratulations on everything senators
39:00
look them up
39:01
the name of the new project is called
39:03
before you go that's coming out on the
39:05
22nd make sure y'all check for that one
39:08
and it's b l x s t all right sway the
39:11
morning has chosen shade 4-5
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