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CyHi The Prynce On New Album “The Story of EGOT”, Assassination Attempt, YSL Rico Case, Black Youth
Jun 2, 2022
Cyhi The Prynce is back with a new label, new album! "The Story of EGOT" is dropping this summer as Cyhi launches his own independent label. He details the assassination attempt on his life. And weighs in on black youth and the direction needed in the streets right now.
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CyHi The Prynce On New Album “The Story of EGOT”, Assassination Attempt, YSL Rico Case, Black Youth
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and listen
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sometimes have to be we we use others
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you know
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to get a message through and i've been
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saying this you've been saying this
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tracy has been saying this about this
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young man for quite some time and it's a
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crazy man when you talking about stuff
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he can relate to this because this camp
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goes through this all the time hey you
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know they see the future you know what i
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mean they have excellent foresight you
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know
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and a lot of times people in this camp
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yay or himself or whoever says things
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that people don't quite understand
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and and the only thing the only thing
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separating them from understanding is
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time
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uh-huh yep it's time you know people
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receive things at different moments
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you know it's time and we were saying
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something way in advance i think when uh
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because we could recognize it i get
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feelings i get sparks
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i've always received sparks in my heart
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when something special was in the midst
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i could always tell prior to even coming
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into hip-hop right you know i was that
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kid in kindergarten that was saying
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stuff that people was like huh tapped in
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tapped in and didn't know what i was
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saying
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and then you see those things come to
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fruition so i
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when i was younger i stopped saying
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stuff because it was spooking folks
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not my family members t cal to tell you
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my my grandmother tell you my mother so
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on and so forth so there's a lot of
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people who have those gifts and those
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talents when we first heard this young
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man spit in front of us
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we was way ahead h.b
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we were way ahead of everybody else
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recognizing his talent
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and we've seen him since go from one of
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the most celebrated lyricists
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songwriters
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alchemists
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visionaries
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activists
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hustlers
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artists
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performers yes friend
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brother
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conrad colleague pillar
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legend now
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in the game i'm talking about the one
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and only psy hide the prince
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[Applause]
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incredible man that was a great intro
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right there it's all truth yeah we might
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need to use that for a project
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why not
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it was accurate for sure for sure
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appreciate that man i'm glad y'all got
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me here you know this family right here
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that is family man yeah this is like a
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barbecue yeah yeah it's a barbecue man
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long weekend vibes
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i miss you you know we haven't seen each
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other since pre-pandemic yeah absolutely
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man
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a lot has happened a lot has happened
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bro yeah yes we're blessed though we
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blessed right absolutely
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truly blessed we're here to celebrate
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your project egot yeah the story of
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egypt the story of egot yes yes yes what
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does he got stand for it's the same
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thing as uh yes the emmy grammy oscar
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tony i uh i actually went into my album
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i was like man like i kind of wanted to
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you know elevate my mind elevate my
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music everything i was dreaming but i
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used to be like man i just want to be a
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rapper i just want to do a song with
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jay-z
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you know what i'm saying you know
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guys is incredible he'll be like you
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know what i'm gonna give you what you
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asked for as soon as you get in here
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so i kind of like
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stopped at that dream like man i did a
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song on jay-z it was just like i'm gonna
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kind of yeah it's like you have to cena
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to rap there's so many words
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but then you know man i had a real life
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experience a year ago and it just kind
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of put in my mind like
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many times you go further you can't just
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rest on your laurels it's like
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you know what do you really want to
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become so i just kind of dug down and
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been like okay
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i actually want to win an emmy grammy
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oscar in a tunnel
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you know what i mean so i think
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that's where i just started so i just
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named my record label he got records
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and the album is the story he got and we
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got the he got ep coming first
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but um the album is incredible it's
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actually broken up into four sections so
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i have a emmy section that sounds like
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you know television sitcom i got a
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grammy section that's straight just you
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know great music the oscar section is
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very cinematic
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and um the tony is just me you know
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spoken word me just going to that level
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so creative theater so you doing spoken
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word yeah it's theater everything it's
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monologues it's all type of foolishness
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so
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crazy it's going crazy going crazy what
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was the what was the life experience
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what happened on the highway absolutely
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okay so for you guys
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i remember you talking about this 2021
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some people were chasing you on the
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highway trying to take your life
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absolutely and you know it took me back
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to like
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it was kind of crazy because you know
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how you'd be like so far removed like
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man i got off the street right you know
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i mean but then i realized like man with
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your skin this color
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it just you you just got to be super
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careful uh-huh you know what i'm saying
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and you know it was just a bad night i
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was actually going out to celebrate the
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passing of one of my best friends yeah
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and then it just happened on the same
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night it was like whoa it was eerie
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so you know i just worked my moves and
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did everything i can do to stay alive at
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that night
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and you know i'm here today i was i
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still don't know what happened it's like
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you don't know who did it why nothing i
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mean you know my city isn't kind of like
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turmoil a little bit yeah i mean
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it's a lot of money and it's a you know
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once you bring the gangs and violence
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all into it it's like everybody free
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game at that point yeah so the police
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like man you just look like a rapper you
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reacted like a rapper i was like you
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know he was like he reacted like a
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street [ __ ] i was like what what you
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said street [ __ ] i mean he was acting
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like he was like they was following you
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because they i guess it was like a
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mistaken identity
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but me i'm like a dude just pulling up
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on the side of me he you know me he's
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like i'm trying to pull off
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he ain't letting me pull off he like you
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know just following me saying wait so i
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you know i went for what i know you know
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and
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it's like you reacted i'm like bro i'm
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in a bentley and a dude following me
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absolutely i'm going for what i know so
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it just you know i had to kick in my
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navy seal
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you know skill sets and pray to god and
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got to it and
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i made it out and i was you know i was
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an athlete growing up so
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they don't have to catch me you play
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football too absolutely oh there you go
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i was all counting in ninth grade
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somebody give that man a round of
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applause i know what it's like to be
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there literally olympics twice what
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position you play so i play tail back
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and slot okay i didn't play two i played
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linebacker cornerback oh you look like a
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linebacker thank you i think i
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appreciate that i'll be trying to get
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away from him
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when you saw when i hugged you it was
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pretty yeah yeah clamp right yeah you
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how has
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your mindset changed since that incident
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well you know
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unfortunately i am from that environment
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and like i said it's like
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it's it's sad but when you black you
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just grow up in it it ain't like you
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don't really got a choice i don't care
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if you grew up in a nice neighborhood
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still gonna have you know uh
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police prejudice you're still gonna be
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looked at a certain kind of way you're
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still gonna go to the party and if a
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fight jump off it ain't gonna just end
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with the fight you know what i mean just
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like so you already kind of trained as a
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young man growing up in these
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environments so
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i mean i just moved a little wiser a lot
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wiser actually and you know i just took
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myself more serious
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i never took myself that serious what
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does that mean though like
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how you spend your time right who you
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surround yourself with yeah but it's
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like
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i've been talented so long it's like you
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kind of like
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you don't really
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appreciate it like that you know man i
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could just been able to rap better than
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everybody i've been able to run
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the dance scene you know me so it's like
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oh this is just what god dated
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this come with the melanie you know what
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i mean
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you know what i mean
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you know that situation i told i said
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this in a song
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it was like being alive at my funeral
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wow
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when you when i posted it
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to see how many people just love you
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it's like damn like okay
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like they was crying and i'm getting all
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type of dms and man this and that and
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i got buddies coming out the woodwork
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asking me to do something about it it's
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just like damn y'all i ain't heard from
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this many people in so long but it's
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like
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oh you really special like you're really
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changing like i was really hearing the
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stories of man when i was 14 you got me
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through this my brother was in prison i
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sent them your song and you know i mean
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it was like so many stories
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how people just grew up and was like
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affected by my music
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oh in my story i was like damn i didn't
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really know that like that i just
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thought y'all enjoyed the music right i
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didn't know it was like that therapeutic
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or that like
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life-changing where you kind of live by
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it it's important yeah then i was like
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okay i got to put out some more music i
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can't just you know give it all away or
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just
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hide it or you know put it out when i
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want to it's like it's paramount that i
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put it out because people are living
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their lives to this music yeah you know
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what i'm saying and you know you just
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get caught up into
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just being an artist and just being in
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the you know industry you don't ever
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think that like i said people are like
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i have people like coming to me crying
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yeah
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and it's like i was saying the other day
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like it's kind of it ain't embarrassing
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but it'd be like
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awkward
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relax but then when they start telling
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you the story is like man i was in the
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car accident i had to sit in the house
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for six months my leg was dislocated
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i just went to therapy i was playing
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your songs in therapy and it's like oh
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man it's like
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when you get to hearing those type of
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stories it's like okay i got to put this
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out yeah yeah so that's what purpose
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absolutely absolutely we got sci hi the
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prince here the story of e-god is the ep
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coming out june 3rd come on man that
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thing sound bang and have the beat i
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know you already know like when you just
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um tracy just mentioned purpose
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and you and i have had conversations
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here as well as offline
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and one of the things that i always felt
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about you spiritually that
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you're gifted and anointed just on
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another level and a lot of times when
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people have that anointing on them they
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have to be careful right it's just it's
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not even physical things you're fighting
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with every day anymore it is spiritual
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attacks as well and you have to
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sometimes
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your brain is is over
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thinking it's a lot with that and what
10:30
you attract how have you been able with
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all that you probably
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are carrying um get to the point of
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discipline and obedience to actually put
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it out because i think that we fight
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ourselves sometimes in terms of just
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being disciplined and obedient
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well um i always wanted to put my music
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out but
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to be truthful it's like
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i have a high taste level now you know i
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mean being around you know the people
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i'm around so i got to make sure my
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production is that way
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my
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my music matches it my image everything
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my spirit is in line
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so
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i feel like now it's just in that place
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where
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i kind of sat back and analyzed my life
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my situation and understood
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my purpose because i was to be young i
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was kicking the devil's butt i really
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want to curse
11:24
i was kicking his ass or whatever and he
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was just upset and i felt like he had a
11:27
moment
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that he could just get me because i was
11:30
slipping or right you know man i was
11:32
just enjoying it too much and it's like
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now it's an everyday war it's everyday
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spiritual warfare with him
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so once i understood that you know i
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mean the war wasn't over with them it
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was like oh okay you playing with me
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okay so now i'm coming back better than
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now i'm coming with the whole infantry
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of the lord
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plus you know my my my mindset and my
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music and what i've learned over the
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years right
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and it's like my you know now i get to
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like
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how can i say this
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i i got to tap into some parts of me
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that i haven't tapped into
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a lot of times just be rapping because i
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could just rap very well but
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now i start bringing out stories and
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different uh moments in my life that
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kind of
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give people a really deep you know uh
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you know you know
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image of who i am you know it's like a
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lot of times as artists we come in and
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you know we just try to make words rhyme
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and stuff and i always had a pretty good
12:30
grasp on concepts yeah but then it was
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just like you know giving them
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them secrets those things that you may
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not let people know so
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that's what i did on this album it was
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just like my whole story in one album so
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that's why i called it the story that he
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got the story of god
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i'm glad you touched on all of that side
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because when you are an individual who
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has bottomless talent i'm like how do
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you challenge yourself are you
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surrounding yourself with maybe a couple
12:57
new people are you listening to like
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projects that almost make you feel a
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little bit nervous but the nerves then
13:03
turn into inspiration you know what i'm
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saying like which section of iga is it
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the emmy is it the grammy the oscar or
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the tony that made that pulled out more
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out of you i feel like the grammys might
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have been more easier yeah that was yeah
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i think i think the oscar section is
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what really pulled it out of me okay
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because i was like actually getting into
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the movie it was like what's the story
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yeah it was really like because the
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enemy part is super like
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you know hip-hop you know we're using
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the old like uh television kind of
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sounds and sitcoms like real cool like
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situations the grammy section is just
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great music yes right right
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but the oscars is when i really dove
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into like the story and the
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suspensefulness and the mystique of who
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i am and then once i got to tony i was
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just feeling myself
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any any other any issues of overthinking
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um people say that
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but when i see somebody like kendrick
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come out i'll just be like i'm just
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gonna overthink because that's what
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overthinks looks like you know
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absolutely that's what i'm saying it's
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like that's what you that's that's what
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overthinking at his highest level
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absolutely
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absolutely i want to overthink it okay i
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mean so but now what i did do is like i
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had so many songs that i over thought on
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that it ain't gonna take me that long to
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put them out put them out okay like now
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i can just go every six months like
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you know what i mean like i got cedela
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cootie on the way and i got the spook
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that's set by the trout i got different
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projects that i actually
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already have ready to go so
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that's set by the trap yes and then and
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the cool thing about it is like i'm with
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ghazi now so guys
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he from the bay you know what that is
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all right yeah he's gonna he's gonna be
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like okay we're ready next you ready
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let's go so he's he's not like a
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traditional
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you know
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record label he lets you be you know
14:54
yourself and let you you know if this is
14:57
the plan that you want to do if this
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your roll out this your three to five
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year plan let's do it okay so
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guys he has a full understanding i want
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to ask you man when you talk about
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spirituality and i know yay has really
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gone through turn that music back down
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for me uh yay has really gone um through
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a trance i don't know if it's a
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transformation but a uplifting
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upliftment if you will and um and
15:18
dedicated his life to the lord and his
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music
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you know we we we pray together you know
15:24
me and my team right you know we really
15:26
sit down and say prayers we don't eat
15:28
without prayer
15:29
we might pray in the middle of the day
15:31
for no reason what seems like any
15:33
reasons how do y'all pray do y'all pray
15:35
together absolutely absolutely we
15:38
actually pray more than people probably
15:41
think this might be
15:42
especially when he was in wyoming and
15:44
different things we having bible study
15:47
we praying five ten times a day oh wow
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wow i mean it's overwhelmingly
15:53
prayer you know what i mean it's like
15:55
okay bro like
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you know what i'm saying what are we
15:58
doing wow
16:00
so i think i think with him he's very
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spiritual on that level you know
16:05
and like i said he's he's someone man
16:08
when you will in the universe it's like
16:10
i always tell people like it's like
16:11
playing tug of war mm-hmm you know when
16:13
you pull this
16:15
you might get the cursor you might get
16:17
to doing whatever but you willing that
16:19
that energy in in that positivity so
16:23
with him a lot of times that's what i
16:24
look at him as it's like
16:26
he's wrestling with the universe
16:28
and that ain't an easy fight
16:31
you know what i'm saying so especially
16:33
when you feel like you're doing it alone
16:34
so sometimes it's like
16:36
we need that prayer we he definitely
16:38
brings prayer everywhere he goes like
16:41
we be on the jet he's going to say a
16:43
prayer we in the backstage it's just
16:46
we're with the family we on the ranch
16:48
whatever so bro is very spiritual in
16:50
that level in that way that bring people
16:52
closer though yeah
16:54
understanding right yes miracle
16:56
obligation mike muse you want to jump in
16:57
yeah i do i've been listening this
16:58
wonderful conversation you guys are
17:00
having and i'm looking at the story of
17:01
egot and really deconstructing to me
17:04
what a typical hip-hop album is i feel
17:06
like you're pushing the boundaries with
17:07
that i'm just curious what your thoughts
17:09
are lately because i'm thinking about
17:10
what's happening in the state
17:11
legislature in new york and how they
17:12
pass this new legislation where district
17:14
attorneys can't use
17:16
rap lyrics anymore to be part of any
17:18
investigation hearing your story about
17:20
the potential assassination on your life
17:22
thinking about georgia like what are
17:24
your thoughts on like young thug and
17:26
ghana and what's happening with them
17:27
with that recoil case man lyrics as
17:29
being used yeah yeah that's that's
17:31
that's a sad situation because you know
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you're so close to it
17:36
and artists are coming from a real place
17:38
but it's like
17:40
the pressure from the pressure from
17:42
everyone to be that image of who they
17:45
are it's like
17:46
you can never like i heard somebody say
17:48
like you don't see arnold schwarzenegger
17:50
just out here just like trying to be
17:52
like
17:53
you know be terminated or like
17:56
you know actually rambo in the street
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but
17:59
for some reason it's like it's hard to
18:02
let go because
18:04
you know to be successful is to be alone
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you know what i mean so it's like yeah
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so it's like
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if you just i could come up here with my
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publicist and my camera lady and it's
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like but those are not like i didn't
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grow up with them yeah so you you get
18:18
successful you want to bring
18:20
your homies with you and you bring
18:22
everybody else with you and that's when
18:23
they get tricky you know what i mean and
18:25
a lot of times those those past traumas
18:29
haven't went away you know i mean a lot
18:31
of times uh people say man you dying
18:33
your own hood yeah cause then the only
18:35
people you ever have problems with
18:37
you know what i'm saying you go
18:38
somewhere new it's like they don't know
18:40
you right
18:41
but you know being in our environment
18:44
it's like man it's that imaginary line
18:47
that it's an imaginary fence that
18:49
circles us and not a community that we
18:52
feel like we can't go outside of
18:54
and it's like they keep us in this
18:55
little box yeah and we just fight it out
18:58
with each other fight it out with each
18:59
other and the more money you get you get
19:02
more engulfed in it you feel like you
19:04
kind of should be you know that's the
19:06
smart thing to do is get away but
19:09
you draw yourself crazy with being alone
19:11
so you just go back to your friends and
19:13
your friends they made it yeah wow
19:16
and that's when it get you know that's
19:18
when you start mixing those two worlds
19:20
and
19:21
to me that's what i feel like is going
19:22
on in hip-hop is that they can't lead
19:25
their friends wow you know what i mean
19:27
and that's
19:29
that's the hardship of like i said
19:32
the black plight is serious the black
19:34
plague is complex
19:36
perplexing yeah
19:38
like even to me i i got something i want
19:40
to say
19:42
even to me it's really the record
19:43
label's fault okay okay break that down
19:46
because it's like i mean when i was kind
19:48
of coming up in the game it was like man
19:49
why don't you go get yourself popping
19:51
like you know the other guys in my city
19:53
like you know a young thug or something
19:55
it's like oh you talking about
19:56
penitentiary chances
19:58
how much you p how much you spent on the
20:00
record the market of record oh half a
20:02
million a million dollars now you see
20:04
all these independent artists that come
20:05
out atlanta and blow up
20:08
they not sign a real estate agent yeah
20:11
they're not signing a
20:12
no bitcoin no they getting this money
20:14
out the street this come with for every
20:16
one young thug is a hundred of them in
20:18
prison there's a hundred of them dead
20:20
you just got to meet young thug that's
20:22
the one that made it right you know what
20:24
i mean so imagine what's going on in the
20:26
city where these guys these companies
20:28
don't want to do the artist development
20:30
they don't want to be the nr i mean when
20:32
i was first coming up i was doing
20:34
showcases right right i got signed from
20:36
l.a read from a showcase showcases yeah
20:38
i mean they don't have no showcases
20:40
mm-hmm so it's like get your buzz going
20:42
get your buzz going dolph was like man
20:44
take me a million dollars to right get
20:46
the record going yeah so it's like where
20:48
are you gonna control that money from
20:50
yeah yeah all right and it comes with
20:51
all the rest of it so to me it's a rock
20:54
it's really the record labels that kind
20:56
of force
20:57
these young men to kind of go to the
20:59
extreme to be able to be rappers or
21:01
hip-hop artists yeah what's the solution
21:04
uh
21:06
well the solution one is me okay what i
21:08
mean because
21:10
you know i mean i feel like i'm one of
21:11
those artists who kind of cold turkey
21:13
the street and just strictly doing it
21:15
off music but you got artists like j
21:18
coles and you know
21:20
uh
21:22
kendricks and meeks etc but i think the
21:24
solution is
21:26
when you see a bed of music flourishing
21:28
i.e atlanta it should be a sony building
21:31
there
21:32
it should be a universal building it
21:34
should be reps that are there
21:36
to kind of you know see that talent
21:38
early and hire more
21:40
black and rs that understand the culture
21:44
and not you know
21:46
some no disrespect some white guys some
21:48
that's a a fan of the culture you know i
21:50
mean you need to be real
21:52
like me artists that you know understand
21:54
what's going on that's former artists
21:56
like how they doing a lot of the best
21:58
basketball coaches right now are former
22:00
players players you know what i mean so
22:02
it's like shout out to jason kidd yeah
22:05
yeah so that's what
22:08
needs to go on in music for us to you
22:10
know change that narrative uh the story
22:12
of egot is the project it's the ep is
22:14
out on june 3rd
22:16
he got records is the company yes
22:19
you got artists signed to you not yet
22:21
but i'm looking for i got producers
22:23
though yeah producers yeah why producers
22:25
first
22:26
well i think
22:28
i kind of wanted to
22:29
you know really cultivate the sound of
22:32
what i wanted to do so kids or another
22:34
artist can play oh okay he can like
22:36
that's why it's the egypt because it has
22:38
so many different sounds that it's like
22:40
oh okay i can go here and he can
22:42
understand my music you know i mean
22:45
that's the that's the first thing you
22:46
want to have a a great canvas for them
22:49
to paint on
22:50
you know i mean so i wanted to give that
22:53
and have those producers ready for them
22:54
so when i do
22:56
have artists that i want to sign
22:58
they can come in and have something to
23:00
work with have to have a team have a you
23:02
know publicist publishing team have a
23:05
marketing team ads
23:07
everything that's things that
23:08
i learned and i'm putting into this
23:10
album that i probably didn't know in my
23:12
first yeah you know i mean so just being
23:14
able to have the full spectrum of the
23:16
business to your expos you know to your
23:18
exposure is is what i wanted to do so i
23:21
wanted to build it slowly and organic so
23:23
i hired a prince man i'm proud of you um
23:25
i love you if i haven't told you that
23:27
before brother yeah absolutely love you
23:29
as well man i'm telling you that
23:30
that young man right there with the
23:32
shiny forearms is that as a result of
23:34
what happened last last year
23:36
oh
23:38
no he actually he's always been with me
23:40
but the crazy thing is he shot me
23:42
forearms he knows
23:43
his floor they are excited
23:45
he always uses
23:46
me i just didn't i just didn't have you
23:49
know i was going out it was like a
23:51
normal thursday night me and my buddy
23:53
what happened and my buddy had just got
23:55
his bentley too and he's speeding up the
23:56
highway you know me i'm cruising
23:58
and it just got like that but usually
24:00
people are with me and i usually ain't
24:02
out but
24:03
one not gonna be able to stop that that
24:04
was something that god you know i'm
24:06
saying wanted me to go through okay so i
24:08
feel like that was
24:10
you know just a a breakthrough in my
24:12
life that he was giving me he just
24:14
wanted i think he wanted to show me how
24:15
incredible he was there it is man yeah
24:18
wow so
24:19
uh let me do one more question tracy if
24:21
i ask him to do something that um i
24:23
appreciate that
24:25
between tracy and mike i don't see what
24:27
i go through let me see if i can if i
24:29
can squeeze this in maybe my you can
24:30
tailgate behind me um but when you
24:32
mention that to be success successful is
24:34
to be alone and i'm always thinking
24:36
about especially in hip-hop from a
24:38
psychological perspective and how for
24:40
maybe 98 of the game getting into this
24:43
industry is a form of survival and
24:45
people forget about that i'm always like
24:47
record labels should have mental health
24:48
professionals on deck because you need
24:50
to know how to navigate this emotionally
24:53
but it makes me also think we hear so
24:55
many folks say this is my fam this is my
24:57
brother my sister but we don't hear
24:58
folks say this is my friend you know and
25:00
i think we even have to discuss how to
25:03
make friends better at as adults to go
25:06
into like our trust issues and i'm
25:07
curious who would you say in this
25:09
industry are genuinely your friends that
25:12
you didn't know coming up
25:15
well
25:16
you know what it's crazy pusha t is
25:18
genuinely my friend pusha t that's a
25:20
real one right there boy he's a he's a
25:24
great guy man like we talk about random
25:26
so you know
25:27
i used to i know every word to lord
25:29
willing you know what i mean so
25:31
when i called him he picked up the phone
25:32
and still amazes me yeah you know i mean
25:34
like damn i'm on the phone with puss you
25:36
know what i mean but that's beautiful
25:37
you know yay is definitely a amazing
25:40
friend you know what i mean like
25:42
the one thing about yeah you got to be
25:43
around him 24 hours you know what i mean
25:45
because
25:46
whatever you think he whatever you think
25:48
you don't like about him on the flip
25:50
side he's a amazing individual you know
25:53
i mean it's like
25:55
i i can't explain enough how much he
25:57
cares and you know you you may think
26:00
cause it's money or whatever but it's
26:02
not it's like
26:03
i've seen him with about 300 employees
26:06
and know everybody first and last name
26:08
oh wow you know what i mean it's like
26:10
you know your kids your family name it's
26:13
like bro how you remember that
26:16
you think that he ain't got enough time
26:17
to like take out
26:19
or care right
26:21
how do you know
26:22
like he always say man i take care of
26:24
150 families
26:25
not just
26:26
the person that works for me it's like i
26:28
take care of the family the unit yeah so
26:31
it's like you got people like him you
26:33
know sean is definitely a close friend
26:35
big sean yeah absolutely sway heather b
26:39
like those type of people that check on
26:40
me is like
26:42
you know those are the friends that i
26:43
really you know cherish you know me so
26:46
like i said it's a longer game you know
26:49
i mean you don't really have a lot of
26:50
friends because you just try to you know
26:52
keep your business keep it's core drew
26:54
but
26:55
those who you do connect with you
26:57
definitely connect and you feel it we
26:58
got lamb on the line from flint michigan
27:00
lamb go ahead you got a quick question
27:02
what up lamb yeah
27:04
good question good morning to y'all
27:05
grand rises um i just heard him
27:08
i just heard triad say that mention that
27:10
um
27:10
people are living in the mid you know
27:12
living in music they living their life
27:13
to the music right and i'm from flint
27:15
and my community is hit hard with it
27:17
we've been listening you know to the
27:18
trap music murder music for years
27:20
and now the youth are doing it it's like
27:22
when do the artists take accountability
27:24
for what they create
27:27
okay um i think
27:29
a lot of times
27:31
they don't what else do we know
27:35
i mean i'm not even i would say i'm not
27:37
even from the hood like that i'm like
27:38
from a decent area
27:40
but i grew up on fist fight shootouts
27:42
you know
27:44
getting kicked out of school
27:46
[ __ ] i was i went scared straight twice
27:49
juvenile it's just like
27:51
sometimes it's just all you because it's
27:53
like man
27:55
you like to i don't like to be like man
27:57
we poor and we ain't got we got less
27:58
resources but that's really true
28:01
you know what i'm saying you got kids
28:02
that's being born with no fathers like i
28:05
was saying the person
28:06
most of these kids ain't never heard of
28:08
man boys until they about 18 19. never
28:10
heard a man's voice never heard a man's
28:12
voice you gotta think you're teaching
28:14
nine times a team gonna be a lady mm-hmm
28:16
yo if your mama
28:18
got you if she want to go somewhere out
28:20
she ain't gonna take it to your uncle
28:22
house yeah she's probably gonna take it
28:23
to your tea house that's like
28:25
more safer on that end so you grow up
28:27
your grandmother grandmother you don't
28:29
even get to a man to the police knock on
28:31
your door and you're 17 you just got
28:33
your license ain't that something and
28:34
you like hey man why are you talking to
28:36
me like that right you know you reacting
28:38
like because it's so unusual you're
28:40
unfamiliar and you're used to being an
28:42
only man your yeah
28:43
see that's why i had my old man so
28:46
i feel like it kind of gave me a balance
28:48
like i knew
28:49
if my mom was mad and my dad wasn't mad
28:51
i knew it was something that women kind
28:53
of didn't like if i knew my dad was mad
28:55
my mom's like see i told you your dad
28:57
was gonna if i stole some my dad
28:59
probably what my ass would have told me
29:00
not to put my mom on that man but then i
29:03
felt like if they both was mad it was
29:05
like a cardinal sin
29:07
you know what i mean so it was like okay
29:08
that's how i know how to navigate
29:10
through life because i did have it so
29:12
yes with me you might hear a little more
29:15
you know reasoning in my music to
29:17
understanding but a lot of these kids
29:19
ain't having old man or you know what
29:21
i'm saying around so it's like
29:23
what are they doing they learning all
29:24
trial and error you know what i mean you
29:26
can't discipline your kids no more these
29:28
kids coming up you know drugs all that
29:31
into play and
29:32
you know instagram and you're trying to
29:34
you know we didn't know what the outside
29:36
our community looked like and then two
29:38
sides we always say this here just stop
29:41
blaming the artist stop putting all of
29:42
it on the artist the level it takes to
29:45
go from writing a song on your auntie's
29:48
futon to the radio 100 people are
29:50
involved in that process you know how
29:52
many yeses you got along the way yeah so
29:55
just don't put it all on the artist
29:56
because to point to suede's point over
29:58
the years there's nobody there to jump
30:00
in and stop and say hey let me let me
30:02
talk to you for a minute let me have
30:03
that that consultant that showcase that
30:05
time perform in front of these people
30:07
you watching their faces and he said
30:09
nobody stops you so it's a lot of people
30:11
that check this off of y'all need to
30:13
stop making this music you know it's
30:15
just the artist
30:17
it is a bit strange though and it's like
30:19
you 20 years in the game and you still
30:20
talking about something that happened to
30:22
you when he was younger though
30:24
at least for me like it's like it's
30:26
trump is like that's the only thing like
30:28
even me rapping about nobody wants to
30:30
hear about me in
30:32
in switzerland with kanye west eating
30:34
crepes i would like to hear that i mean
30:36
i mean
30:38
kind of crazy
30:39
how many people can relate to it watch
30:41
the throne was a lot of that though yeah
30:43
but you believed it and it was it was a
30:45
lot going on yeah
30:51
young kids so that's the thing is young
30:54
kids and they they really don't know how
30:55
to articulate themselves that well to be
30:57
able to the young one
30:59
feeling so listen this is sci high to
31:01
prince get this man a round of
31:02
applause the ep is how june 3rd is
31:04
called the story of egot yeah all right
31:07
and uh man one of the things that have
31:10
always
31:11
been special here is
31:14
i mean i feel like the first time was in
31:16
dj drama studio was that it was when we
31:18
first heard this man nah i can't i can't
31:21
destroy it that was my first time when i
31:23
came to
31:24
actually new york
31:26
man that was my first time with uh
31:29
with your boy
31:31
but uh
31:31
met you before that in drama studio in
31:34
atlanta you just in fact you was in the
31:36
studio in atlanta for so many years yeah
31:38
you remember no that was that was after
31:40
that was after yeah that was after i
31:42
burnt that after i remembered
31:47
people think that's the most iconic
31:49
freestyle ever because bro
31:51
you was in your back but you're right he
31:54
it might have been the one thing because
31:56
i was
31:57
first i couldn't wait to get here yeah
31:59
man i remember that that was my first
32:01
inspired by his nephew that album that's
32:02
right dropped in february for black
32:04
history month that's right that was an
32:06
amazing album yeah man we made that
32:08
moment with rev run hey man
32:11
listen man we celebrating
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