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If you haven't heard of Chow Lee aka @Thankschow yet, then it's time to come out of the cave! This Long Island native has been making waves in the music industry with his unique take on Drill and blending it with New York's style. With ten albums under his belt, Lee is not a new kid on the block but an artist who we have been sleeping on for too long. Recently, he stopped by Sway In The Morning to talk about his latest album, Hours After The Club, and he's also performing at Rolling Loud Miami this Saturday, July 22nd.
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yes indeed man we celebrating rolling
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louds coming up in Miami this Saturday
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July 22nd
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right I thought it was the 21st 21st my
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birthday yeah this weekend okay there
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you go that's more radio I appreciate
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that Tracy G and my man tari called me
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and he said listen we got this
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relationship I remember when Roland Lyle
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first started and man I've been dropping
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the ball every year he asked man won't
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you come host why don't you come host
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and I didn't and I didn't again and I
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didn't again because I always had
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something to do that weekend but I
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always wanted support and so we've
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supported Roland loud since day one uh
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we've done broadcast to support Roland
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loud we've done streams to support
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really loud I got people who worked on
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the streams in the production component
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of it to support Roland Lounge so when
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Terry comes to me and say hey man I got
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this artist that I really invested in I
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think he's cool somebody you should know
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you should have a Kim can we have him on
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the show I said if that artist would
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like to be on the show and it's with
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your stamp I have no problem with it he
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said man he goes by the name of Child
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Lee I said I know that name I know that
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name
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that's the what is it too sleazy too
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sexy guys they get too slizzy too sexy
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guys because I didn't know what slizzy
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meant when I first read that and then I
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started doing mortar research and saw
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how much work you put out yeah this man
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they put out what 10 albums or how many
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albums [ __ ] I don't even know I'll have
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to go back and count but there's a
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couple of them things on there though a
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couple of those things on there man
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coming all the way from Long Island
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Strong Island Public Enemy home of the
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JVC Force I know he doesn't know that
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because that group that song was out
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before before he was born what about
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Public Enemy he know who Public Enemy is
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let me see that
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on there
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I love it yeah that's nice okay cool man
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so who inspired you being from Long
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Island was it a long island artist or
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what made you bro at some point we all
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went through Heather put out music I put
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out music when I was younger than you it
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was people that made me go man LL was a
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person that LL Cool J was a person that
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made me want to rap who who was a person
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that made you want to write Drake I love
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that stuff that's a good reason to want
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to rap absolutely
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what was it like it's all the blurs you
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gotta go see that [ __ ] for yourself it
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just wasn't me it was my first J concert
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too so I ain't gonna lie he had mad it
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was a lot going on you're just gonna
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have to see it I can't give up this but
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what did you learn because you know I
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was watching him perform and she liked
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the crowd control and all that [ __ ] I
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really want to observe for real right
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right because you're not going just as a
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fan anymore now like yeah yeah I was I
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was watching I was just taking notes and
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[ __ ] so it's a couple of things I
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learned on there like what man what did
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you like just like crowd control you
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know interacting with the fans and [ __ ]
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breath control when to learn to turn up
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when the nine when they take a break
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yeah take voice lessons
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a lot of people don't know that but that
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should take part of the movie though man
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shout out to Jake yeah okay you gave you
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inspiration huh what do your shows be
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like we just played a clip rolling out
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2023 Cali sugar Niggy ain't gonna
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um I thought it just be fun but like I'm
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trying to like get into more like
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performing wise like just getting bad as
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a performer because usually we just go
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and turn up and [ __ ] so I'm trying to
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like tone that down but it is fun
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turning up sometimes but we just gotta
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know when to do it and when to not yeah
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but like you know be a lot of girls at
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the shows man you girls love it smooches
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you just smile at the word girl watch
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this girls yeah let's do sometimes
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whatever you want we're trying to stop
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saying calling women [ __ ] and [ __ ]
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songs
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yeah
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the last track that we just played
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before we introduced you um I forgot the
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exact line but you were speaking to a
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young woman and saying how you're in a
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season where you on the thought [ __ ] and
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she's on marriage yeah
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so you're still that's where we're at
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Reddit huh that's where we're at with it
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yeah man I got a life a lot of Life to
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Live man good for you yes
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you got any kids you got kids and nah
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yeah yeah yeah man
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keep that [ __ ] covered up man I know
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you're a horny dude
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[Music]
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what was it
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huh
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yeah they call me um shout out to my
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brother Casco vanity called as the
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horniest rappers alive at first I was
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like what like but it was like kind of
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funny so I'm like [ __ ] are we just gonna
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run with it the horniest drill man yeah
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man y'all I mean you but I won't even go
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down that road yeah let's get to know
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each other better before I go there it's
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a little intimate right there uh cash
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Cobain now where he's from the Bronx
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yeah he's from the Bronx he's been
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putting it down too man yeah man shout
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out to him man that's the goal right
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there that's the goat right there yeah
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salute the cash Cobain whenever I go to
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the Bronx I go to this place called
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Green Garden which is like a health
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store um
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213th Street and White Plains Road it's
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just where a lot of men come and gather
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with men and women in the community and
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and take care of ourselves and I have
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some kids running up to me asking me do
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I know cash
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when I hear it like that I know you
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buzzing on the street right yeah they
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love us man we love them too what's your
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life like outside of rap
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[ __ ] I just like to watch movies at the
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crib
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or I go out to eat I like to go out to
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eat and [ __ ] yeah I like food
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yeah and that's really it I'm really a
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simple guy actually I feel like Charlie
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giving me sexy voice TV
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It's Your Love of food where your rap
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name comes from nah I got my rap name
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from um The Hangover when The Hangover
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first came out you know the movie the
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Chinese guy they locked in the trunk so
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then I was just like damn like
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I'm gonna have to add a little last name
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to that so I just took Lee and not like
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rush hour so yeah I mean I love Rush
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Hour my phone you want my movie junkie
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would you go into we were talking about
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artists who have decided maybe
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mid-career or some or somewhere in their
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career to make transitions into like you
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know executive decisions become uh art
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uh film television would you go into
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that at all start taking acting classes
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and go into movies full-time hell yeah
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but yeah I would I just feel like I
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would have to try it out first because I
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don't know if I'm being good or not but
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I would definitely want to do that
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because I love movies yeah I'm trying to
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get in we trying to start shout out to
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fifth five films that's my that's my man
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from a long time from high school said
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he shoot all my videos let me shoot my
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video since I started this [ __ ] but like
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we trying to get into like more like
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acting in our videos because that's part
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of the Artist as well yeah you already
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doing you doing videos and everything
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study the craft you never know look at
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[ __ ] Luda and and everybody Snoop
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everybody Latifah Drake common you know
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it's it's a lot I just gotta figure it
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out first see if I could do it but I'm
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pretty sure I could do it though so yeah
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we're gonna get into that I love to be
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in some [ __ ] yo Euphoria I'm trying to
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be you trying to be in your foreign
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okay so you're out on your own
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[ __ ] rap paying the bills
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yeah man challenge
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because that's my team at
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what are you learning about um um the
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business of rap like it's it's fun when
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you start finally getting those DSP
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checks but yeah you start realizing you
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know well [ __ ] I can't just keep
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spending right like how do you manage I
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got good money management though like
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you guys had that okay so I already know
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like yeah you can't go crazy like I I
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ain't buying no new jury and Madeline I
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had this watch for Madeline this chain
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for man along so like I'm just saving my
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money only thing I really spend my money
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on is like food when I go out to eat and
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[ __ ] or like I'll be like we gonna have
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to get drinks and [ __ ] like I don't
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really be spending my money unless I
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gotta go get like some clothes or some
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[ __ ] for a video talk about how you've
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developed your team because you
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mentioned how it was important for you
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to make the investment of moving closer
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oh yeah you know I was surprised to hear
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that the bulk of them are in Miami
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because oftentimes when you're starting
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out you might see okay let me take
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inventory of all my friends and what
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their skills are and see okay who's
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gonna be in charge of publicity here man
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management how did you decide your
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teammates
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well I ain't gonna I've been doing this
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with my brothers for like
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since like 2017 so I'll just like Shah
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Delaney love like Donnie love that's one
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of my that's one of my like closest Well
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Service and um yeah like we just make we
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make all the type of music together
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um Jimmy one of my other close friends
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that's my manager and so who's who's
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doing okay what up Lonnie
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oh the shades
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man I should have known so like it's
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like we all the team soldiers like we
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all had to we gotta make the same moves
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and [ __ ] gotcha we gotta come down there
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and then um shout out to talk all of
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them is in Miami so um
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you know let's be honest OBO has really
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created an amazing blueprint yeah that I
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mean that's what I'm following to be
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honest but yeah yeah talk about that
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though I mean Drake is an incredible
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Artist as well you know
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um
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dope ass rapper you know incredible
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artist great Visionary and tremendous
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writer uh businessman but the business
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side that's what I'm trying to learn
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right now yeah yeah that's what you're
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trying to learn yeah that's what I'm
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trying to learn man the business side
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because that's when she gets tricky make
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sure you learn that business man what
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was the last thing that you were like oh
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snap that's just wide in my eyes I had
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no idea that this went into the game of
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hip-hop
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I don't even know they probably was hot
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the behind the scenes [ __ ] like
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contracts and all that [ __ ] like you
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gotta make sure you read those how do I
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get an entertainment lawyer shout out to
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my lawyer best lawyer
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um was there anything that surprised you
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in the contract that your lawyer told
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you about
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um nah not really just like you know
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like the percentages and stuff like that
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it was it wasn't really no like nothing
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that surprised me for real okay which is
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like she just broke it down like it's
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gonna be that and it's gonna be that and
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I was just like I bet so she was like if
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you're okay with that signing I mean
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that's what happened type [ __ ] ciao Lee
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all right
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on your publishing yeah yeah all right
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yeah
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hell yeah that's why we was um my
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manager he was like he [ __ ] bought a
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book on all that [ __ ] just to learn all
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that [ __ ] like before even when [ __ ]
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start getting serious he's like all
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right bet we going up they gonna try to
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throw some deals at you or they gonna
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try to do this we gotta learn all this
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[ __ ] Bro before [ __ ] gets sticky type
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[ __ ] so we were just like fake ahead he
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just used a trade yeah
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pretty damn good bro
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um how do you develop your rap style I
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listened to a lot of your music
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um
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it's just my lifestyle tape she's like
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I'm not
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I'm not a drill rapper rap about
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gangster [ __ ] and [ __ ] all the time like
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I love a woman takes your size so I'm
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gonna rap about or probably like when
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I'm in my bag I'm in my feelings I just
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know how to express it through music so
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do you write or do you go in yeah right
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sometimes mostly but I recorded my on my
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house so
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every I really don't have to ride just
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like punch in and [ __ ] so like if it
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come to me I just say instead of writing
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but if I'm like I'll write if I'm like
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not at home like if I'm on a plane or
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some [ __ ] out here be like I'll write to
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it and then save it later probably make
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a voice note so I remember how I said it
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what's the vibe like in New York you
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feel like with the up and coming younger
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artist the Indie artists you know I know
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little TJ and all those guys had a run
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is it a whole nother slew of artists my
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guys okay all right all right okay
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Lonnie cash
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well it's like it's a bunch of us like
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y'all Collective like y'all meet up and
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it's like I got two like it's it's like
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it's like a in the like I got I got my
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own Collective and then cash got his but
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then like we all friends and [ __ ] so we
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like
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he's just like you know we we like come
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together and [ __ ] when he comes time to
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say my Collective is called door House
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Records okay all right cash it is ENT
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slizzy and ENT yes yo got TB yeah I was
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just wondering um I don't know if you
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heard about NBA young boy talking about
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the regrets he had that is negative the
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negative impact that his music had on
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his listeners and fans and so I just
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wanted to know from somebody from a
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generation that is coming up on or
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coming behind NBA young boy what do you
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think about that do you think about how
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your lyrics are going to impact people
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people down the line or are you just
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living for the moment
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I mean
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most of the time I'm talking about like
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what I'm doing so it's like I don't
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really be talking about nothing but like
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women and stuff I might have some little
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drug bars and they don't do drugs
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because that's it I'm saying and use a
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condom
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that's it
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I'm not saying nothing too bad yeah you
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ain't killing nobody on your verses yeah
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man we're not killing anybody man that
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was a trip man don't let them trick you
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out chest spot man well y'all would send
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money when you were seeing all of that
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like you know when drill became that
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prominent thing and and we were seeing
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people correlating violence with the
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music man what what did you think what
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was going on in your eyes about that
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ain't gonna lie I like that I ain't
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gonna lie okay but it was like I was
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just you know it was entertaining so it
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was just like
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we was bumping and [ __ ] like that but it
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was just like that's not my lifestyle so
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I wasn't like yeah it was just something
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to watch type [ __ ] something to listen
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to type [ __ ] yeah we know what your
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lifestyle man a lot of people dying and
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[ __ ] so it's like [ __ ] again it's weird
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now so I was just like
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gotta calm this [ __ ] down at some point
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you know what I'm saying do you have a
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lot of family support
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um not really like my mom's my brother
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and my father and then my family my
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friends for real like that's where my
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support come from these guys
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[Laughter]
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um nah but the the on the radar
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freestyle that you had did that time
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like it was fire yeah that's one of my
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favorite sets too you know I'm saying
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the um well classical band right yeah
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yeah but I had did another one like by
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myself should I just did one yesterday
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another on the radar yeah that's fire
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how many verses you got bro huh how many
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verses you got couple of them things man
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really all right this is somebody who
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already got 10 albums yeah you got a
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couple of them you like that I just like
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making music man yeah it's mad fun what
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about you Lonnie Love You key verses or
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What's your deal yeah and he got them
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things to me a hotel or two out now
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let's move over inside
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but move aside for a second
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what you got so what songs you got I
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gave you yup what else you got torch
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what songs you got I got super sexy
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summer yeah it's a super sexy summer you
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want to do that all right we're gonna
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reset let's reset we're gonna play we're
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gonna play super sexy summer we're gonna
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let we're going to do shot of Lonnie
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Love right eight four five Sway in the
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Morning Man Charlie is here Child Lee is
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here the new album is called hours after
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dark I'm hours after the club hours
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after the club that's my life back in
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the day
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man yo we tore New York up for years
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every yo let me tell you something man I
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had a uh system only partied on the west
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side half the year and only partied on
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the east side the other half type [ __ ]
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yeah bro type [ __ ]
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they can't see where I'm at man hey hey
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Lonnie Love how long you been at this
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sure I've been riding since I was like
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seven bro wow [ __ ] yeah how'd you get
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introduced to it just like I allow like
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when Lil Wayne came out or when he got
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like super hot 2000s yeah I was just
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watching that [ __ ] like damn I want a
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rap too like that [ __ ] look man fun
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mixtape wearing yeah me and my cousin
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said trying to write freestyles and [ __ ]
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regular [ __ ] yeah yeah you haven't been
17:15
in a battle or it wasn't about that I
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wasn't no nine nothing like no Battle
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Rapper like in like middle school and
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[ __ ] [ __ ] are trying to do funny [ __ ]
17:22
but like never no serious [ __ ] who's
17:24
your favorite Battle Rapper you got one
17:30
Arsenal is one of my favorites
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um you know OG guy uh so let's do this
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man Lonnie Love man you ever have a job
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Lonnie Love yo I swear never in my life
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I don't know how you do the action that
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I know how to jump
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I was broke
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[Laughter]
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[Music]
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he's never had a job in his life it's my
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only job right here that's what's up
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appreciate it man you trying to get a
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raise yeah I'm trying to get a raise for
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sure all right cool man y'all can find
18:07
Lonnie Love too he's on the full service
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track off the hours after the club man I
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want to welcome y'all to the show I'm
18:13
glad we got a chance to meet man it's
18:15
good to meet you man we're gonna be out
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there for Miami for the roller loud too
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it's gonna be heavy hey man we
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celebrating 12 Years of Hip uh 12 years
18:22
of being on um Serious XM today and man
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it's only I'm serious
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and you guys man I want to thank y'all
18:31
for honoring us and blessing us we're
18:33
just a fun this is fun for us to be here
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bro
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