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Chloe Bailey On Rappers She Produced for, Meditation, Reflection and New Music | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Oct 21, 2021
Singer, Songwriter, Producer, Actress Chloe Bailey is doing it all. She is being herself, ignoring critics, owning her sexuality and becoming as large as her idols Beyonce and Janet Jackson. With her new single "Have Mercy" turning heads she is preparing for much more to come. She called into Sway In The Morning to talk about where she is in life and with her music.
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Chloe Bailey On Rappers She Produced for, Meditation, Reflection and New Music | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
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yeah man i can't be proud of these two
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sisters and and
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this one in particular tracy please do
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the honors oh my gosh i would love to
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because
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honestly citizens i feel like this young
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woman she just hopped out the womb with
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a mic in her hand
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and a gift in her heart because the
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talent that she possesses is is simply
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undeniable both now at the age of 23 and
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going back to the age of 13 that's when
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most of us were first introduced to her
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and her sister on youtube and they were
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just these two adorable little nuggets
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young as hell with these grown voices
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they could just sing their asses off and
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they gained
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a very organic fan base and one of those
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fans happened to be the queen beyonce
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who eventually signed them as a duo that
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we all have continued to love support
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and adore and so she's thriving with her
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sister hallie in both music and
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hollywood shout out to grownish and
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she's also thriving as an individual who
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knows how to hell to command some
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attention from a fiery music video to a
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fiery via maze performance to a fiery
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jimmy fallon performance all featuring
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her new
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solo single have mercy citizens give a
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warm welcome back to singer
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songwriter producer
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actress badass the one and only chloe
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bailey hey
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wow
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chloe
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[Applause]
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hey chloe
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hey i miss you guys i miss you too miss
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you too chloe you tired
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you know i am blessed and grateful
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there it is man
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let the words guide your mood hey i
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ain't mad at you i i asked you this
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because i i know the run i know
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once you get hot man you're not gonna
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get a whole lot of sleep but you know
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these days you know you've been hot for
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a while so you got some grooming but how
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i'm just curious about your well-being
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you've had a lot of emotional highs
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you know as of lately with these
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performances and with these solo
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performances and all of this
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you know just even larger attention how
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how are you handling it physically and
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mentally what is it like
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how am i handling physically and
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mentally
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well i'm the kind of person who loves to
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work and i throw myself into work
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and you know i'm still trying to learn
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like what i do in between that
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because you know music is what kind of
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really fuels me as a human being and
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when i'm not doing anything related to
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it i'm like okay well what do i do like
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so i'm still figuring that out but you
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know it's a lot of prayers and
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meditating and you know reflection and
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reminding myself of my self-worth no
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matter what you know not even just as a
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performer but just me as a human being
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and so yeah i'm still working through it
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still working through it how much how
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much of your life
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you know we were having this
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conversation and even remembering this
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conversation we had with you guys about
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when you first moved to l.a and how the
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family made a collective decision we
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were having a conversation this morning
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um a man called up and asked
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you know how should we how should he
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address his daughter when she's you know
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seeking out her life's ambitions and
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she's pursuing her purpose and you know
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you know my daughter you guys are the
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same age and um
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i told him what i like to do to get out
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of her way and not project what my
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ambitions are on her
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how has your relationship with your
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parents changed in terms of decisions
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you make for yourself and with your
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career do they leave it all to you now
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or how does that work
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yeah everything has been left up to me
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and i think even now i've been finding
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the power in using my own voice i turned
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23 this year and it's been really
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empowering for me to really speak up for
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what i want and to control my own
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narrative and you know there's some
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moments when it's a bit scary and
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fearful but
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you know i have to speak up for myself
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and so it's been very liberating
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honestly and i'm still learning each and
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every day and i still have so much more
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to grow and even learn about myself
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and you know how to always hold my head
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up high but i'm happy that i was raised
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to be an independent woman and i'm
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really proud of myself
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there you go i'm proud of you too chloe
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is here chloe bailey is here tracy go
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ahead hello so good to hear your voice
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so great to hear yours thank you mama
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and it's such a pleasure to just see
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both you and your sister continue to um
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evolve as your own people but they
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continue to evolve as um as an entity
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and i was thinking about you because i'm
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not sure if you're familiar with um
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human design are you
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have you heard of it it's like um and
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this is for you two citizens if um if
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you're unfamiliar but it's been really
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illuminating for myself it's like a
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system that
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explains your personal dna how you were
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built how your best response yeah it's
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like a combination of astrology and um
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meyer's dream design yes human design
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for sure it's definitely worth your time
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with doing some research but the reason
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why i bring it to you khloe is because
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they speak about
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how people best make decisions and some
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folks
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it's best for them to go with their
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initial gut other people don't know what
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that means you know they don't feel
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something in the pit of their stomach
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they work best making decisions by
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getting feedback from others other
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people they just need one night to sleep
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on it other people need a longer period
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of time you know to be away from the
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decision they got to make and then they
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come back and do it which one of those
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best describes how you make decisions in
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the studio because not only
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are you
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the one who's singing songs but you're
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songwriter you're a songwriter and then
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also you're a producer which is a role
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unfortunately we don't
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see a lot of shine for women are you uh
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okay i'm just going off my gut and
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whatever feels organic or do you like to
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have someone so you can bounce ideas
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with do you like to sleep on it how do
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you make your decisions in the studio
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when it comes to creation in the studio
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i'm definitely
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the type of person who reacts and moves
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off of my gut instinct and you know the
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initial feeling and thought that i have
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because i feel like that's
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whatever is supposed to come to me comes
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to me in the
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most purest form before i start
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overthinking and before the side of me
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that is you know jaded by the world
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because we all are kind of comes in and
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you know
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kind of second guesses whatever idea
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that may be so you know i'm such a
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feeling kind of girl i always lead with
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my heart and with music that's totally
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okay
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and it's the best feeling when i'm
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creating
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a track or even just freestyling in the
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booth and i just closed my eyes and
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that's the place where i feel the safest
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to truly say what i want and need to say
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yeah
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what's your setup like in the studio are
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you like i just want one person in here
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and that's that are you a candle girl do
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you like it to be very bright what's the
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mood for you
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you know i never really thought about it
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but i never really like the room to be
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too bright i like some sort of vibe i
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don't need candles but i definitely
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don't need bright light shining in my
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face and if i'm in a studio with you
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know collaborating with someone i go in
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the booth and i'll shut all the lights
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off and i turn my chair so i'm not
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facing the engineer or anyone else who
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happens to be in there so i don't kind
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of get lost in my thoughts and i just
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kind of lose myself in the music truly
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like i do similarly on stage and you
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know yeah i really
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creation where i'm i sometimes
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in my bedroom that's where majority of
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my current album has been created but
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i've also been collaborating with a lot
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of songwriters and producers and being
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in the studio and usually i always like
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the smaller rooms more intimate rooms
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and i don't like too many people in
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there because i feel like you have to
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bear your soul to be so vulnerable when
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you're creating the type of art and the
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lyrics that i'm doing
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so yeah i you know as many
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the smallest amount of people as
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possible i prefer low light you know
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good energy for sure
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yeah
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what did you um learn
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and then what do you feel like you
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taught uh collaborating with murder
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beasts i mean this guy didn't work with
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everybody from travis scott to gucci to
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you know drake obviously nicki minaj i
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mean this dude you know i love this
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guy's discography so
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what was that experience like
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yeah i love murder he's awesome and i'm
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so happy that we built a friendship and
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you know he'll always just send me
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tracks and it was so funny because i'm a
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producer and he is as well so it was
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like when we were mixing this project we
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were going back and forth and like
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it was like a five-second section of
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like which 808 i wanted there and we
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were like going back and forth like
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should it be that should it be that and
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we ended up just combining it best of
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both worlds because we truly couldn't
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decide and i love it too because i'm
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able to work with him and let my ideas
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as a female producer shine and it was
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truly a collaboration on have mercy and
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i'm really happy with how it turned out
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like i still remember the day he sent me
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the beat and i was like oh this is fire
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and you know i'm so happy with what we
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did together and i can't wait to do more
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chloe bailey is here eight eight eight
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seven four two three three four five we
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got some callers kurt and atlanta is on
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the line kirk grant rises kirk what up
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hey kirk hey hey good morning good
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morning happy friday
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to you hey cult how you doing chloe hey
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hey you already know yeah i grew up
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there um man you know you're my new
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celebrity crush man
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you are the new janet jackson of this
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era you know what i mean like thank you
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your performances you're
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just the way your personality
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just the way you hold yourself i mean
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you just you're so dope you know
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anytime each compliment i love janet
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oh yeah oh yeah hey hey i grew up on it
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too
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but anytime i'm in la um you know if you
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ever dealt for for a day that noble
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or beverly hills shopping just let me
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know you know no no no no no
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we'll let you know because we'll be
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there too curt you got a trick on all of
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us kurt bring your crew got a club crew
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love
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you must you must uh your beautiful
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woman and people watch you grow and your
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music is extremely alluring and you have
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powerful performances i mean he brought
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up janet jackson but i i must imagine
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that folks like janet jackson probably
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beyonce
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after seeing you do your solo
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performances i'm sure you got a lot of
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accolades from some big names can you
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can you share any of that with us
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it is just so
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it's the best feeling to know that
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people have been enjoying my
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performances and seeing me
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completely who i am on that stage and
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you know each stage i've been stepping
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on as a solo artist has been pretty
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scary because it's where i really and
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truly have to rely on myself and my gift
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and my talent and believing in myself
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and you know a lot of times it's so much
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easier said than done and it's difficult
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to do
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but when i do get on that stage that's
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when every single one of those
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self-doubting thoughts disappear and i'm
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able to truly be myself and that's why i
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feel the most confident and you know to
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even hear that people of such
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high stature even complement my
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performing in that way it means
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everything even the supporters who have
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been supporting me and following me on
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the ride as i'm perfecting who i am as a
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human being and an artist and a
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performer so it's pretty cool it's
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pretty cool huh
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chloe bailey is here i think it was the
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jimmy fallon show where you brought out
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the drum the drum machine what kind of
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yeah what kind of drum machine is that
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yeah it was just an akai mpc
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you know i usually when i'm on stage
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doing the beats like that i use my
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ableton push 2 but i have these long
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nails and i didn't want to have so many
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buttons with me i wanted to keep it
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simple
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so yeah that's the one i decided to use
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for that performance
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how many like rappers have hit you up
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for beats
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quite a few honestly which is pretty
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cool and surprising and it'll come in
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handy when i need those features for my
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album hello
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that's what you heard tracy yeah
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exactly that's very very smart and i
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loved um the tweet that you put out and
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just owning like doing the most is just
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what i do okay so yeah yeah and and i'm
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curious khloe about your personal
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boundaries when it comes to technology
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of course you're on a very heavy promo
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run right now so that does require
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connecting with fans on social
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um but we know that
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an excessive amount of social media can
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impact our mental health um it can bloat
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our ego
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it can completely deflate our ego
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are you able to create like
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time limits where it's like you know
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what i'm just going to be on social for
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an hour or i'm going to take a break
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honestly i tried the whole time limit
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thing and i still have it on my phone
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but i'm the one who will get like the
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reminder and i'll say oh
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keep it on for about 20 more minutes or
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one more minute and then i'll keep
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pressing that so i end up still being on
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social media just as much
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you know
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for me
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i like to be as transparent
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as possible because we're all humans and
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i just feel like other people will be
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inspired to completely be their full
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cells and not ashamed to have
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insecurities and even feel really
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confident some days if i'm open about it
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just like i've seen so many other
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artists who i've been inspired by
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whether they're so open about it through
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their music or even just talking through
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their personal daily lives now of course
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there's a few things i keep to myself
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that i never want to distract away from
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people knowing me and my music
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but other than that i'm pretty much an
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open book
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i heard that that's interesting because
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okay with the open book low because we
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all know
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and
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i feel like you know this as well that
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you're on the path of becoming an icon
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and you should definitely own it if you
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have it completely yeah girl all my
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money i put on you right here me too i
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put a lot of money on it too
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don't let us down
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and that and that's just you know you
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your intrinsic nature it's not something
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that you even have to go out of your way
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to prove and
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try to um just perform your way into
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becoming an icon it's something that's
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gonna naturally unfold but anyways with
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the icons we have currently one thing i
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notice is that when they reach a certain
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level of super stardom they start
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phasing out from interviews you know
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from doing like sit-downs and i guess
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it's just their experience with media
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and how things can be um twisted if a
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certain like quote is the only one that
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people gravitate towards etc etc but she
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said you're an open book so i wonder do
15:22
you look forward to when you don't have
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to do interviews anymore do you feel
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like you still will do them
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you know honestly i think i'd still do
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them because it's been helping people
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get to know me and promoting my music
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and without the fans and supporters i
15:38
really wouldn't be here
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so i think i'll continue to do it but i
15:43
also understand the other flip side you
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know because
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on when you have more eyes on you like
15:48
that it becomes more difficult to get
15:51
your actual point across because people
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do twist your thoughts and your words so
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i understand that as well but i think me
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for now i of course i'm going to keep
15:58
doing them yes
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she still need to you know she got an
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album you know exactly yeah she's got
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some things to do
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down the line down the down the line
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okay all right uh db you got a question
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db usually you know you got a question
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db yeah i actually do because uh chloe
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you know it is october and i'm a huge
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horror fan and uh i wanted to know if
16:20
maybe you could shed some light on this
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horror film you have coming up called
16:24
the georgetown project um with russell
16:27
crowe and sam worthington two big names
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uh that you're starring in so i wondered
16:30
if maybe you could tell us a little bit
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about that
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oh wow yeah georgetown project was
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really fun to film and i can't wait to
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see it myself i do not know when it'll
16:40
come out but i can't wait i just wrapped
16:42
this other film called jane which is
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ironically another like thriller
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so but it's more like mental but i can't
16:50
wait to see all of these and i can't
16:52
wait to dive deeper and more into acting
16:54
i love acting
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that's what's up okay uh i'm gonna take
16:58
one more i know you got a lot of
16:59
interviews but tiara has been waiting
17:01
from cleveland real quick tiara go ahead
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say hey tiara hi hi chloe hi sway hi
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tracy g hey hey
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hi hey
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so i just have to say i have been
17:13
following you and holly since the
17:14
youtube days and i have always been
17:16
blown away by y'all's musicality just
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the way y'all can use your voices
17:21
and it's just so beautiful and
17:22
effortless and you guys hold yourself
17:24
with such grace and poison you seem so
17:26
down to earth and i just want to
17:28
encourage you
17:30
i support everything you guys do from
17:31
grown-ish to the lives you and how he
17:33
used to do on instagram with the stories
17:36
i just love y'all and these people out
17:38
here these naysayers they just mad
17:40
because they can't do what you do the
17:41
way you do it with that body and that
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safe honey
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[Applause]
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wow that was so sweet yeah that was
17:54
perfectly said we like you tiara you're
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a super citizen super i swear more than
17:58
vic
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okay
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absolutely chloe it's good to hear your
18:03
voice we're not in the studio right now
18:04
i know you had to build him but we'll
18:06
see each other soon hey i'm proud of you
18:09
and halle i'm proud of both of you i see
18:12
you guys taking your careers
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by the reins and just fully expressing
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yourselves
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unapologetically and i think it's great
18:21
and so congratulations as a uncle i'm
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proud of you keep going keep going keep
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going so much always proud of you thank
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you see you soon thank you see you soon
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tell the parents i said hey all right
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there you go chloe bailey ladies and
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gentlemen she's hot
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she is hot
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we're coming back with a little
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celebrity wire in that smite
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yes music
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3 4 5.
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