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Cedric The Entertainer's Talks The TOP 5 BBQ Pitmasters & New Book 'Flipping Boxcars'
Sep 13, 2023
Cedric The Entertainer is a name synonymous with laughter and entertainment. From hosting game shows to acting in movies and TV shows, he's always made us laugh. But did you know that he's also an author? The funnyman has recently released his first novel, 'Flipping Boxcars,' which has received rave reviews from both critics and readers alike.
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put your hands together citizens this is
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a pillar in the game right here this is
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different yeah this is what you
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discovered under the tip of the pyramid
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when you go deep down and you dig into
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those Sands and understand that there's
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a whole empire under the tip of the
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pyramid I don't know where I was going
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with that I mean that you rock that [ __ ]
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sounded like it was going to come around
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the corner somehow somewhere
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good sermon it was getting ready to turn
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into something I was ready to say
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hallelujah yeah it won't he won't he
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will
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is there one
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Hey listen everything he's touched
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everything he's touched has made an
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impact on our lives whether it was Dr
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Doolittle too give him a round of
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applause for that okay the Johnson
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Family Vacation give them a round of
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applause to that Welcome Home Roscoe
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Jenkins
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Street Kings you better stop playing
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with me come on now Barbershop two you
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better stop playing with me
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some comedy stop playing with me I feel
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like he was in The Honeymooners too The
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Honeymooners yeah
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what I'm missing something on Netflix
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uh you know I did my special day I did
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the live from the vehicle there you go
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you better stop playing with me
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oh and the new joint too if I got
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Anthony Anderson yeah
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AC barbecue man AC barbecue listen and
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he's an author of the book flipping box
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cars give it up for Cedric the
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Entertainer
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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I wanted to do
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[Applause]
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that you can't even do it but I don't
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have what can't you do no more about
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here's my it's my vocal cords um you
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have to stretch it like a hamstring you
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got to kind of work
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[Laughter]
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oh man what was that said I don't know
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what that was right there put you
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writing books now you could probably
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sing too though yeah I'm gonna do more
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like Barry White oh
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no
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[Music]
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what I do
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um
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wow yeah
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[Music]
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I'm the best at that come on man I'm
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coming on what you don't say
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it'd be loud
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I don't know
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that's that part
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coming on what you know yeah amen
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barbecue shout out to Anthony Anderson
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right there man come on you two together
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man I I didn't care what it was I was
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buying it yeah that was really one of
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the key things man of course you know
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we've been friends a long time when
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almost 30 years and then you know we we
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can do these golf trips where we go and
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rent house me uh George Lopez DL Cheeto
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uh Chris Spencer in the end so it's a
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fun little group but me and Eddie would
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do most of the cooking now because you
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know you were in a little Airbnb or
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whatever we could and so we didn't want
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to do a liquor brand we was just trying
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to come up with something that gave back
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to the culture and barbecue just felt
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really natural so you know we we started
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this business AC Anthony said Anthony
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said barbecue we got rubs we in Walmart
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we ain't like I got in Walmart Walmart
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to stop doing stand-ups we got deals
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coming with lows and Home Depot but we
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also going to do the sauces we got in
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utensils coming spatulas and tongs and
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all that Empire charcoal we gonna do
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that restaurants it's growing big man
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it's a big Mark it's it's a culture
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thing really I won't even call it just a
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market like um I was able to meet and
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talk to um Kevin Bledsoe said yeah the
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legend and when you talk to someone like
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him and how he approaches it you know um
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to Seth's point it's the difference
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between a rub and then somebody just
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slapping on sauce out of a jar all of
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that they it's a Next Level to all of it
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um it's amazing to see what some of
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y'all are doing with it and taking it
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seriously because it ain't just about
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going to the store getting a bottle and
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slapping it on people really approach
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this with heart and culture and soul
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behind it as well and it's in its
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different regions you know so that's one
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thing you know you got Texas style they
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do a dry rub yeah you got you know
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Missouri we do sauces you know Kansas
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City St Louis Memphis they do mainly
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pork that's a lot of pork and you know
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that's their big thing and then the
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Carolinas they got more mustard based
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sauce yeah but we we appreciate like the
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idea that grilling for us was very a
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social thing right you know somebody say
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I'm at the park I'm gonna throw
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something on you know we're gonna throw
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some stuff everybody just come and
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celebrate we kick it and you bring some
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you bring a dish you bring some sodas
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some drinks and next thing you know we
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got this this celebration of who we are
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and so that's what we really wanted to
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do with our brand more than like be the
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guys like oh we got the best rub yeah we
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celebrate we put on we we feature more
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pit Masters than we talk about the stuff
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we cook okay okay so we want to we want
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people to meet the Kevin bledsos
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yeah Rasheed Phillips these guys are
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they they're amazing these are like
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Legends in the barbecue world right now
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Kevin did something with Kingsford and
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his charcoal like specifically Kevin
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designed a bag
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yeah and he's got great restaurants all
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in L.A you know a couple in Texas too yo
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you remember we co-starred the movie
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them top five yeah remember that
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remember that yeah
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I was the [ __ ] man from Houston
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yeah and I was the you know the
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broadcast dude yeah
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a lot of people don't know like the many
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times you kill it on screen you know
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what I mean
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right yeah what dude you play in there I
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played me
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you could tell by how many people in our
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field of work have tried to act like me
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and fails
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that is different that's the difference
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yeah but so who would be
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now you know where I'm going with it
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your top five in the world of pit
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Masters
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I mean you know it's it's it's it's some
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cashless out there they really doing it
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but I mean Rasheed Phillips is killing
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it uh Mo Cason Uh Kevin blessos we named
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the three off the top okay uh you know
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Adam Perry uh Adam Adam Perry white boy
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he called oh
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um
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oh they getting down too you know
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there's a lot of that going on man and
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then you know and then you know
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it's been a few of them and it's a few
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of them out there that's getting down
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okay really killing it uh and we work
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with a lady uh she Asian lady but she's
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you know she had a lot of flavors she
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was Flay uh and then of course you know
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it's a it's a it's a few black families
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one in Memphis
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um Memphis usually the older the older
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ladies but yeah the young the younger
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ladies are starting to get into this
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grilling thing though because it's
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starting to be a lot more fun to it you
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know it used to be like you know you
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know it's hot you gotta bring all the
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charcoal out and all that you know
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usually it's kind of demand job you go
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get the charcoal but now you know they
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doing these uh pellets yeah so you know
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what about in Hollywood and
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entertainment who would be a top five in
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terms of like celebrities that could
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really cook celebrity shows yeah not
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celebrity chefs but but thinking about
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like celebrities
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I see I ain't never had a lot of
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people's food I know the Heather Cooks a
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lot yeah yeah
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so I'm gonna throw it on the list
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uh you know Patti LaBelle still yes
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she's the top she'll make you a plate
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they're gonna have a place
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[Laughter]
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you was really into that role right
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there
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thank you
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look that recipe up somewhere sounds
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like somebody need to admit that way
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yeah man that seemed like a thing a real
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thing
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all right that's Cedric the Entertainer
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is here the new book is called flipping
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box cars it's a novel about a
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charismatic Man by the name of babe yeah
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babe boys babe boys got into uh had a
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nice life right yeah man you're Loosely
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based on my grandfather uh this is my
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mother's dad you know she would tell me
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stories about him he had passed before I
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was born yet you know it's that Kendrick
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thing that we have in our family you
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know somebody'll walk up and tell you
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what you you walk just like your daddy
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yeah I walk like him again he had that
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same smile or you know laughing you
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realize like through DNA we actually
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connected to our family and I had never
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met my grandfather but his dress style
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fact that he was an entrepreneur the
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fact that he was a you know he was a guy
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that wanted more he he was in a small
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town but he didn't want to be stuck like
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in in the world that he was in so he
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always dreamed and and schemed and
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hustled and scraped to be better and of
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course that puts him into you know
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because you you stuck to the underworld
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in the you know you know was it was that
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pre-civil Rights era black man we
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couldn't really have you know all these
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things that we wanted so he bootlegged
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he did a little gambling yeah number
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Runner thing but he was also you know a
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dude that had a lot of great wits and
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characteristics about him and you know
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helped them you know he was the de facto
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married the black side of town he helped
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you people keep their lights on and he
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he did political deals to make sure we
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had fire trucks and stuff like that on
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the black side of town yeah what was his
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name Lloyd boys
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yeah everybody called him babe so is
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that why you used the name in the
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neighborhood as well is that a boy
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it all makes sense now yeah all right
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yeah so I try to do that a lot you know
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I'll keep my you know the family alive
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in any any kind of ways I can add them
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to real characters yeah yeah do you do
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you feel uh well first of all
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congratulations
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[Applause]
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[Laughter]
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[Music]
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get a tall furry dog
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[Music]
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it's like this
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Laughter]
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[Music]
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several times man I
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actually got into the subject
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Entertainer look-alike Contest out there
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in Maryland I wonder said you're
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entertainment contest and um I was
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thinking man can we have some type of
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tour call to help me help you tour you
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know I'm trying to get on the map
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like this phone call this kind of work
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right
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[Applause]
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[Laughter]
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go ahead and say it
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seven two five
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five five
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hey
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Paul man salute man we we gonna figure
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this out though you gonna you're gonna
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make it one day man
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yeah
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all right I wish you had him I want to
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see what he looks hey man you got to get
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an Instagram just start there man
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call back here give her Instagram and
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then call back up here and say I'm Paul
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that's my new IG page is this you're a
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citizen Paul Instagram my dog hey Sam we
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celebrating 50 50 and I don't even think
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the action is 50 years of hip-hop man
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people don't know about well they know
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about your hip-hop rules now yeah I've
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been a part of some like really big
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joints like throughout the years really
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blessed of course you know two Diamond
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albums on Nellie's uh you know Grandma
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doing the skits and then on the Black
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Album I'm threats on the on the Black
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album with with Jay Z did you do that in
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the studio with them or how did that
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work yeah yeah that was so I came up
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here and I did I did it in the studio
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and actually Jay had left but he just
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told me what he wanted that was one of
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the things he was like I had an idea for
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him you know you said it was the last
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album and I pitched on this idea because
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I wanted to do the uh the little city
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Eddie Murphy doing and uh uh what was
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that uh 48 hours I think it's an
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assistant of mine assistant man that's
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how a whole bit like Jay-Z is this the
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man who
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single-handedly took hip hop and he was
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like oh that's funny I like that he said
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but I'm working on this you know yeah
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you know
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Ah that's funny that's good listen oh
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Beverly Hills Cop
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exactly yeah
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[Music]
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threads and he's like I need somebody to
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just do some threats on some like mad
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rapper type stuff and he left but I did
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demonstrate how he did it to you though
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yeah you know Ah that's funny that's
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funny that's dope hey man so listen um
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I like that you know but I'm working on
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this album I'm doing some fresh stuff
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see if you can do something with that
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all right come on 100.
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[Music]
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looking like
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he just left you there he left me man
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but it was it was Guru
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shout out
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you know not you know we got to do it so
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and then I just went in there and I just
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freestyled and then he called me like
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you know I guess it was maybe a month or
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two later was like hey man you made the
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album I was like what I'm on the back
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how much
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[Laughter]
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yeah you get credit you don't really get
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nothing
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back in those days you get credit
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was money a lot of credit
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I'm tired
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of these how much more credit
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y'all sold off
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get more credit yeah
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it's not your standout it's not your
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Milestone hip-hop moment
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man
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you know what
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it was big and it's j you know he just
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always continue to prove to be one of
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the greatest and so you just to be a
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part of that and then you know even even
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for Mo man Nelly was like he was St
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Louis his own he was our first artist
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that really blew up and so you know that
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country grandma is also something that
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you know from where I'm from that's from
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where he's from yeah super legendary to
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be a part of that because you know again
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Mo just was the biggest biggest thing
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coming out of there you know and and
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still you know still to this day you
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know he he Hells it down on the music
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side I mean we got you know sexy red now
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too but yeah
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you know sexy red no I never met her
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before when you meet her ask her if she
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could come up on the show with us all
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right sexy when she was here she was at
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the game last night sexy red you still
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in town come up and do the show
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uh
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those are Milestone moments in hip-hop
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though you were part of significant
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times in our growth you know when
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Country Grammar came out that shifted to
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Paradigm we didn't know nobody from the
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loot that was big like that no doubt
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people fought that song
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remember how the world
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was like yeah boy he just went on push
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through yeah you know and if Tick Tock
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was out he would have been out of here
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he'd been gone down down baby could you
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imagine people doing this in their socks
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come on doing dances in the kitchen yeah
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they should bring that back out because
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people do that remix and remix it and
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then because what's that one that's got
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celo on there that's an old song that's
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like everybody doing now
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crazy yeah want me to call do you want
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me to come you know what I mean I mean
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it's impossible
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that's a big song right now again but
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that's an old song right there yeah
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cause I was like that's CeeLo right
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there that's CeeLo man yeah but he doing
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it Cedric the Entertainer you doing it
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too man I wish I had more time man I
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have to cry some more yeah but let me
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say this I'm proud of you
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I love you love you brother yeah man I
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appreciate you you've been solid through
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it all I see your thread through all of
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it yeah man the height for UPS the Downs
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in between I watch you I see your thread
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through it all you've always been sturdy
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yes you always been solid yeah I
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appreciate you you always as long as I
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got a platform you will always have a
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place we'll always have a chair but I
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appreciate that man always save this
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same thing I can say that about you for
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sure sway me one of these one of these
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people that really Hold Us Down yes
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coaching wise always consistent people
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know that you gonna give them the truth
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and you you you allow people to be great
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man you know and while you great in the
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middle of it that's what's really dope
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you you you don't have no problem like
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handing it off get down man I love that
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people don't people don't do that enough
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for each other man so that's uh this is
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great man I always love you man man I
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love you too man and look at look for me
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the new member of uh the new board
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member of AC barbecue
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AC sway
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I love you Cedric we'll be back tomorrow
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man thank you for tuning in
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foreign
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