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Daddy-O and Bobby Simmons of Stetsasonic Talk About The Band Getting Back Together and New Music
Sep 2, 2021
Daddy-O and Bobby Simmons of the legendary Stetsasonic band tap into the A&R Room with Rich Nice and the Sway In The Morning Team to announce the band getting back together and making new music.
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Daddy-O and Bobby Simmons of Stetsasonic Talk About The Band Getting Back Together and New Music
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we have them the iconic the legendary
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the visionaries the ambassadors the
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vanguards ladies and gentlemen they're
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here that's the sunny
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[Applause]
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come on come on
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wow we got
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grand rises listen listen bobby simmons
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let me say this daddy o is my brother
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you know we we see each other quite
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often and we have over the years and we
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always got a mutual connection but you
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and i we don't see each other enough
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you know
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yo man i just want to say it's an honor
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to have both of you here daddy yo bobby
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simmons tessa sonic
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wow
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man you know he got that divorce because
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she snuck all that sex in the house
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my man q was off the chain right bobby
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what the hell
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what is you doing
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come on man come on
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heather about to get him struck by
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lightning i'm like she keeps pulling it
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out
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like she's just gonna let the boy
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it's over hey ladies and gentlemen we
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cannot i'll be remiss if i didn't
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mention your favorite producer's
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favorite producer rich nicest on the
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line with us richard nice
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[Applause]
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to luke my fellow brooklyn uh uh uh
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hip-hop soldiers over there man it's
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good to good to hear your voice here
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absolutely
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so this is a celebration citizens um
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this is a celebration
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that was brewed together by of course
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daddy-o bobby simmons and also chuck d a
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public enemy
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um is a part of this brew as well but
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the big news is that's the sonic back
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together
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as a band
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releasing new music
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why not daddy yo you came up on our show
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years ago and that thing went viral when
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you did and you was talking to a lot of
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artists who have been here before and
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said why have you stopped releasing
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music and i didn't understand and i
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understand it now and so now i see you
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doing it talk about it why now
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i think i think that um
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we don't
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we i mean artists i think we don't
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realize that our fans make us i used to
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say this all the time i used to take a
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cd cover and show it to an artist and
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say see the front cover you did that for
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your fans now open it up you know the
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jewel case and you got the the lyrics in
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there you got you know all the credits i
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said you did that for your fans and then
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i showed them the back cover like you
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know when you put it in a bookcase
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you did that for your fans and then i
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picked the cd up out
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hold the cd in my hand and say you and
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you did this for you
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and when you start thinking about
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hip-hop
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we're very unique in terms of just the
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attribute of hip-hop what we've
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contributed to culture all of those
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particular things you know all the way
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up into the aflac duck right so
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we got a bunch of fans out there and
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when i say we i mean me i mean
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shout out to nc shannon i know he just
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lost his son but me m.c shan
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uh rock kim
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um um kid and play
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ducky fresh and to get fresh crew i did
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say all of them ricky get back in the
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group um but but but
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the point of that is that it's people
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out there that love us
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no and but y'all don't have no bragging
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rights
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so when y'all get in the car with y'all
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kids
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y'all gotta still listen to um
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scheistein
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you know what i'm saying but if we put
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out new music now you got bragging
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rights and now your kids are saying who
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is that or your grandkids for some of us
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like me um who is that and then when you
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they say that's that's a group of my
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time
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but it don't sound old dad of course you
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don't they just put it out so that's the
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science the science is a new uh a a new
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rockem record right now a new g-rap
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record right now
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uh a new mc light record right now and
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it got to be dope
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don't let's not take that you know
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you're talking about two producers on
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the fall here it's got to be dope but
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that
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that it makes waves man and it makes the
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fans happy and it makes the fans happy
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my fans are
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man my fans out there with no music like
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um we was talking to mr d speaking about
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you guys being the first hip hop band
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ever first one i knew of
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you know we started seeing a lot of
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bands come after that
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uh fuji's the roots
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i could continue to name more and more
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um different type of vans
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bobby simmons man i i feel like
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i i want steps to sonic to get more
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credit more recognition for what they've
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done in this culture
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i don't know i'm not gonna go as far as
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to say that anybody's hating on it i
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just think it needs to be a better a
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bigger effort to let folks know
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our culture you know like the history
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you know the building blocks in detail
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one way to do that is by you know
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teaming up like you guys are doing this
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collaborative project today another way
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is to um get together with uh you know
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fans who might be newer like the roots
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what would it be could hasta sonic ever
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reached out to the roots uh to
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collaborate and then yeah what's that
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ever do with versus against the roots
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a band versus
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i think i think a verse we've already
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made it clear that you know it's
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different because the ruth is a band not
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a hip-hop band and and thought it's the
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emcee so what you're going to have three
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mc's battle one mc and it's like you
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know if you talk about a a
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a a verse
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against a band a hip-hop band against
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hip-hop band that that that can happen
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but as far as the
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verses of of roots instead of sound
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we already talked about that we don't we
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don't really see that um did i ever
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reach out to the roots yeah me and um
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amir we talked a while back
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uh via email we was talking about
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actually putting together a roots and
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stesasonic tour only for europe
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um unfortunately a lot of things
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happened with them with the jimmy fallon
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show that we wasn't able to
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uh make the whole thing happen um we're
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still in talks and hopefully we can
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still make that happen but we reached
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out to a lot of other cats um who have
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our peers that we're looking to do
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things with like verdeen white smurf
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when the fight is a good friend of mine
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and we talking about doing the
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stethosconic and earthquake fire record
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um
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um but but i agree with you that we need
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to
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to
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let people know that when we when we
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created what we created you have to
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remember there was nobody really doing
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what we were doing and two m.c delight
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pinned that title hip-hop band if you go
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back to the history of all the hip-hop
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records no one's was saying anything
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about hip-hop band in a records and
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visually you saw just the dj in the mc's
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and maybe dancers like you know houdini
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had dances we had to take what we had
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and make music with what we had uh
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prince paul of course our dj dbc our
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keyboard player me on drums and why the
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human percussion so we actually on the
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first album on fire all those elements
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were used on that album so we literally
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recorded an album just with those
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elements we couldn't have a guitar
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player so prince paul had to scratch
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guitar sounds
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um dbc covered bass lines like on just
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they said that
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boom boom boom you know what i'm saying
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so we had to really use
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what we had to create our own hip-hop
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sound and that's what made us different
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from a lot of other rap groups that was
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out back then that's why when you hit
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hip-hop music of the golden age is what
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they call it
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you can you can say that every group
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had a different style and a different
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texture of what they were doing you
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can't say that about anybody today
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literally no disrespect to a lot of
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artists are putting out music but
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you can separate us from epmd and public
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enemy and big daddy kane and and mc
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light and rob base you can literally
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separate us musically
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and um visually and vocally from those
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cats so we knew that we had to be
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different
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and and have a stamp in hip-hop uh when
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we were doing what we were doing and we
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knew that we wanted to be the hip-hop
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version of parliament funkadelic in
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groups like mandrel and btx bt express
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cats that we grew up uh watching and
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working with
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uh we got stessa sonic on here bobby
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simmons and daddy y'all i can't wait to
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get in studio i want to be sitting with
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y'all i need pictures for this i need to
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brag about just sitting right here man i
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always tell that story about y'all i
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swear to you man sally was the first
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song i ever heard in a new york club and
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it just
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i just sent me back to cali like with
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all of this figure and this this energy
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i want to play this i want to play the
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new single and then come back and open
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up the phone lines and open up some
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questions but i want to make sure i play
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this video okay daddy oh you want to set
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it up for us
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yeah this is um
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now y'all giving up love by the sonic 22
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what are we saying bobby 2022
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2022 2022.
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we're leading into 2022.
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okay
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there you go legendary band uh hip-hop
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bands that's the sonic citizens
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come on y'all hip-hop heads prove it
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888-742-3345
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any question you got professor sonic let
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them know how you like the new music
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savanga right here
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turn that up sway in the morning
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steps to sonic let's go
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yeah brand new
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uh steps aside
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now y'all giving up love come on
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888
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742-3345 he got the legendary bobby
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simmons and daddy on the line
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red banded from brooklyn
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i'm loving that man i'm up dancing right
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yeah man i like high frequency i like
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high frequency music that make you feel
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good as soon as you hit it
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i'm dancing bobby i'm dancing i'm hey
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i'm doing top rocks
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about i'm about to hit the floor in a
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second it takes me a little longer to
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get down on the floor but i'm doing top
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rocks right now
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come on baby come on man
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we got red banded on the line from
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brooklyn red banded grand rises how are
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you doing
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hey hey
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what up
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what up
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what's happening man
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ain't no man i'm just calling to show
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love and support man brooklyn is back
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man i love my step crew man
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[Applause]
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that's bad daddy baby
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my man from that's my man 50 grand right
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there oh y'all know him y'all know randy
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[Music]
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yo man you've called him before
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you never brought that up
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because i was always called to support
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everybody else when when shantae started
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her channel i just called to show love
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and support the same way you showed love
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and support when you was walking down
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myrtle lab and came to my store i ain't
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bringing that up either you just came to
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my store and show love
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wow man i'm about to play your song
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right now show you literally
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y'all don't mind daddy yo bobby let's
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give a little love hold up
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[Music]
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is
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[Music]
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guy right we got rich man what you done
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hooked up rich we got legends on this
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phone rich nice
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yes
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[Laughter]
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red banded rich nice jesse west mc
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trouble god bless you there we was
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running more time
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yeah wrecks and effect too shout
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direction effect
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absolutely that's what's up
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daddy
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has been my man for the longest
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shorty used to do classes in brooklyn in
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the brc and i saw never went to his
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classes
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bobby simmons helped me when i when i
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when i stopped making music and i got
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into media and i opened my stores
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i always wanted to create a platform
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from unsigned you know new artists
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coming out because i knew what it was
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like so i created my platform and bobby
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simmons helped me get on his station
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chapter 26 and i ran that show for about
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four or five years so those two brothers
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man independently and collectively
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always been there for me so i'll do any
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and everything to support them go step
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to all day man
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appreciate that sam
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appreciate that brother we love you man
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we love you channel 26. new york fine
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hey red bandit appreciate you let's get
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the band back together stat doing it you
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can do it too you a citizen all right
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come on dog in south carolina got a
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really important question for you two
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dog grand rises hey dawg
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hey peace peace peace hi y'all how y'all
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how y'all doing well man hey brother
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what up big dog
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okay um actually really i'm i'm from i'm
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not from south carolina i'm from
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brookline projects from where fruit quan
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is from okay and wise lived up the block
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from me on williams avenue i heard the
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brother daddy yell speak of everybody's
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name but he didn't speak up for quan is
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he still part of stephen sonic
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juan hasn't been in the group since the
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third album
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um that's his choice you know he's the
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gatekeeper now he's in the gravediggers
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you're right he's a you're right you're
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right right he's a part he's the game
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he's keeping gates right now
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because like suede said the first time
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he heard the song in the club bro listen
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brother i grew up sonic was my neighbor
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he grew he was my enlightener growing up
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or you understand me from the projects i
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went to the school right there on
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williams avenue ps260 i looked up to the
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footprint wise with the human beatbox
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come up the block and spit them bars
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beatbox every day you know what i'm
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saying daddy oh my grandmother
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lived in bad stuff you said what i'm
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saying
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i grew up watching guys
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i love i love stepping on it though
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that's my favorite rap group right there
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band
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your favorite band
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the aaa
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you know wise and even food everybody
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poor man we appreciate the support we
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hope again hearing this you continue to
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support us man because uh again we need
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to keep doing new music man and just
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just again just y'all showing the love
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we appreciate it that's why the singles
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called now y'all giving up love and we
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appreciate that
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i think it was a hot that was a hot part
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too
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yeah make sure you support it dawg
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you're a citizen man thanks for that in
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the morning
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huh it's nice you want to jump in wow
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yeah yeah yeah so
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how does it feel to see songs like
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ghosts still have a pronoun effect on
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brooklyn and the rest of the hip-hop
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world when when they get played now in
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2021 i mean this energy is really hard
15:23
to match how does it feel
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um um
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you know
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at this present time
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it's rewarding i'm gonna tell you why
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because this is what we wanted right so
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you know 20 years ago 30 years ago
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you're making a song you're in the
15:40
studio
15:42
you know you hoping you got the sonics
15:44
right
15:45
um you know once the record is done
15:47
you're hoping the radio picks it up and
15:48
all of those things but then you gotta
15:50
realize when we were making records
15:53
there was a thing called shelf life
15:54
that's disappeared now since the
15:56
internet but it was a thing called shelf
15:58
life so that was like okay the wreck is
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going to be out for this amount of time
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you know and that shelf life would
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determine
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whether or not it became a classic
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so if it if it stayed around long enough
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and people
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played it continuously enough
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then years later it would end up being
16:18
somebody's favorite song and it would
16:20
end up being a classic so it's rewarding
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and rewarding is like the best word i
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could come up with it's better than
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rewarding but it's very rewarding
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because it's like when when sway put on
16:33
sally this morning i'm listening to it
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but i'm listening to the phonics i
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remember making the record i'm like damn
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that still holds up i remember when we
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did that sound i mean when we did this
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like all of the things that we did was
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for this kind of reward to come back
16:51
35 40 years later and still see people
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happy about it
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yeah yeah that's what it's right
16:59
since sally's your favorite record fun
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fact real quick yo daddy yo remember
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when we was in chung king studios making
17:05
that record right actually he was mixing
17:07
the record and russell simm at the time
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he was not managing he kept saying daddy
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oh that's the [ __ ] hit i'm telling
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you that sally that's the [ __ ] hit
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let me call tommy boyd and tell him
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that's the [ __ ] hit remember you know
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russell just kept going crazy over that
17:21
record like he felt that sally was going
17:24
to be a big record to show in the
17:26
beginning he wasn't looking at stallion
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one being saturday
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and we thought in brooklyn we was going
17:35
to have to close with ghostbetzer these
17:37
clothes with sally both nights now and
17:39
now nationally and internationally you
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close with sally anyway because you know
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you can't do sally you can't do a that
17:46
show in oakland and not close this out
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you can't do a that show in virginia not
17:49
close to sally but we figured in
17:51
brooklyn like man we ain't been here in
17:54
a while you know brooklyn going you know
17:56
the shows are in brooklyn we still close
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with sally that's how i'm crazy that's
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how crazy that song goes
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that's the sonic is here bobby simmons
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and daddy oh are here
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um
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that in my opinion you guys the first
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time when all that jazz came out was the
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first time
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i i you know as i recollect i heard jazz
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used quite like that properly
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um but you know with with the the drums
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and the beats that we utilize and the
18:26
samples for hip-hop and then you saw a
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lot of other folks guru jasmitaz tribe
18:31
called quest you know uh uh
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you saw all these uh diggable planets
18:36
you saw all these other folks use of
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jazz as an influence as well in your
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opinion with stethosonic uh what what is
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one of the key milestone moments in your
18:48
legacy is it bringing jazz introducing
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jazz to the game like that is it
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introducing
18:55
the the collective like uh
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many groups in one group what do you
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think is a milestone pillar of your
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legacy
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for well bobby cancer on his own for me
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it's just bringing the guys together
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right because i always say when i step
19:10
back i have people to always say
19:12
hindsight is 20 20 it's probably true
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because when i step back and look at
19:17
this group of guys
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it's such it's so warming
19:22
that's corny but it's true it's it's
19:24
such a warm thing to bring together this
19:26
group of guys because everybody had
19:29
their own musical
19:31
influences and talents right so bobby's
19:34
different than
19:35
you know bobby's young boy out on the
19:37
road playing with drums with rock bands
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and and and
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r b bands paul's just a genius i believe
19:45
he was just probably born but probably
19:47
came out his mom's with machines in his
19:49
hand like you know what i mean like
19:51
crazy because he's just
19:53
you know people talk about digital
19:55
natives now but prince paul back in the
19:57
day i'm talking about 67 years old 17
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years old could pick up a drum machine
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and use it right away without even
20:02
having any instruction or anything just
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he's just like that right so that's him
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then then dbc had a more traditional
20:09
approach to production as well as myself
20:12
and then delights the idea guy that's
20:14
where the name says the sonic comes from
20:15
that's where a lot of the ideas so it's
20:17
just it's just putting these guys
20:19
together to me
20:21
was the big deal something i said on
20:23
stage night before last i said you know
20:25
it hasn't fallen on my it hasn't fallen
20:27
on deaf ears to me that you guys went
20:29
out and got a band i never went out and
20:31
got a band i had a band i came in with
20:33
these guys and so like bobby was saying
20:36
earlier that's the
20:38
that's the coupe de gras right is that
20:40
everything i need is already in this
20:42
room
20:44
and that's just amazing that definitely
20:47
again i was going to add to that what
20:48
you said sway you know earlier about
20:50
that you're wrecking that you we were
20:53
the first hip-hop band you ever seen
20:56
and and just seen here do that and then
20:58
you saw of course the fujis and the
20:59
diggable planets and a lot of
21:01
i think that works uh coincide with our
21:04
legacy as well and and like you said p
21:07
we have how do we continue to banner
21:09
that and again coming on your show
21:11
talking about and people knowing the
21:12
history let me just make one thing clear
21:14
real quick before y'all you know sign us
21:16
off or whatever hey yo big cosmo you my
21:18
man but you know y'all wasn't the
21:20
hip-hop band man we talking about
21:21
nucleus with the record jam on it
21:25
dude
21:48
the record was hot we're just trying to
21:50
clear it with
21:51
he ben cosbo told daddy one time he said
21:54
uh the the reason why they said they
21:56
were hip-hop band because they went on a
21:57
rap tour
21:59
as a band and it's like no you you were
22:01
a band already you they were don't and
22:04
he tried to say the only thing that was
22:05
hip-hop and what they was doing was they
22:06
had break dances so yeah that didn't
22:09
make you a hip-hop band you know what
22:11
i'm saying and at the top jam on the
22:13
argument is
22:15
nucleus the first hip-hop band that's
22:16
the that's the ongoing art and your man
22:19
john little is sliding siding with them
22:25
little said from houdini he definitely
22:27
said he's saluda she said the problem
22:29
that he was having the other day was
22:30
that we weren't the only group that
22:33
represented brooklyn he was trying to
22:35
say that there were other cat
22:37
handwritten
22:38
conversations
22:40
[Laughter]
22:52
hip-hop band and he goes he might be
22:54
right though daddy yo they wasn't
22:58
with us
23:00
so let me okay so let me get this clear
23:02
let me get this clear
23:03
nucleus was a band they just weren't a
23:06
hip-hop man
23:10
they literally were a midnight star
23:12
prince in the revolution star point
23:14
that's the kind of band they were
23:16
seeking to beat and and they they
23:18
started out that way see ben cosmo
23:20
figured just because he was a dj
23:22
and he was into you know at the time rap
23:25
and then he had this band they did this
23:26
record called jam on it that they they
23:29
verified himself and said you couldn't
23:30
verify yourself as a hip-hop band
23:32
because the name didn't exist until the
23:34
light bended the light pinned it by
23:36
saying straight from the letter where
23:38
the hip-hop band from america look he
23:40
pinned it find a rap record from from
23:43
from from 79 to the time that we did it
23:46
that says hip-hop band you'll never find
23:48
it
23:49
do that or do that on on on on on the
23:52
pyramid or any of these game shows like
23:54
family feud you'll never find it well
23:56
we're the only group that pinned that
23:57
name the like pinned it
23:59
because we had to describe who we were
24:02
and what we were doing so it wasn't
24:04
nuclear cosmonaut nucleus and then
24:06
described who they were because they
24:07
were chasing purple rain that's what
24:09
they were chasing they were chasing what
24:11
prince of the revolution was doing every
24:14
act at the time think about the 80s sway
24:16
y'all in the 80s think of all the bears
24:18
that came out they all had the big hair
24:20
they were following the big colored
24:22
outfits and glitter shoes and they were
24:24
all trying to follow what printing these
24:26
guys
24:27
were were
24:28
already at the level they were at even
24:30
midnight star who was who was a great
24:32
band but then they had to change their
24:33
image to compete we didn't have to
24:35
compete with one of those bands all we
24:37
had to do
24:38
what we had
24:39
and make make something out of it and we
24:42
did it was stripped down compared to
24:44
what they were doing we're not saying
24:45
they were great they were great bands
24:47
and musicians but we had to strip down
24:49
what we had because we i don't play
24:51
guitar okay you know the other thing too
24:53
man
24:53
bobby not to cut you off but nobody was
24:56
trying to claim hip-hop band back then
24:58
either exactly back then there you go
25:01
yeah if you say hip hop back then you
25:03
already had a stigma put on you whether
25:06
it was radio record stores clubs
25:09
whatever the case hip-hop oh
25:12
so you guys were the first i knew to
25:15
embrace the term and say we are a
25:18
hip-hop band people don't even think
25:20
hip-hop had bands back then
25:23
so and that's what made it so important
25:25
because all of us grew up playing
25:26
instruments right here you go yeah and
25:30
so okay
25:31
it's clear bobby we got it man i like
25:33
you talking your [ __ ] though that's why
25:34
i was letting go let it go richard
25:38
[Laughter]
25:43
it makes me remember that you guys
25:45
always broke a lot of ground you always
25:47
had your finger on the pulse what was
25:49
what what what was it how did you always
25:51
have your finger on the pulse i mean
25:53
bobby had a video show that showcased a
25:55
lot of the skit styles that we see a lot
25:57
on the internet before there was an ig
26:00
and the tick tock bobby had a video show
26:02
doing skits and stuff like that that now
26:04
people would do small intervals of and
26:07
post on the internet is there a future
26:09
for the bobby simmons show talk to me
26:10
about that bobby
26:12
oh no no i think well as far as the the
26:15
show that i was doing back then now man
26:17
people we got youtube so people don't
26:19
really need to check video shows no more
26:21
um
26:23
but i do have ideas i do have plans in
26:25
the works
26:26
of uh new ideas of shows that i will be
26:29
doing uh i don't i don't want to share
26:31
too much now because like you said back
26:32
then i was doing split screens
26:35
you know before anybody you know thought
26:37
about doing split screens like that in
26:39
music unless you you had a big
26:41
production budget to do it i did it on a
26:43
quarter so you know what i'm saying so
26:46
um i do appreciate people always tell me
26:48
that they call my show the first
26:49
internet i appreciate that but what what
26:52
keeps our finger on the pulse is that to
26:53
be to be honest with you rich nice and
26:55
daddy over cosign is with me for real
26:57
sway y'all we really still in the
26:59
streets for real like we got our boots
27:00
on in the streets for real we're not and
27:03
i'm not disrespecting people like diddy
27:05
number or jay-z and those cats are
27:08
moving and moving how they're supposed
27:09
to move but we literally still
27:12
run these streets for real you literally
27:15
would see me either get out of a car or
27:18
you would see me from time to time if
27:19
i'm not in the car you'll see me on the
27:21
floor train so we still in the streets
27:23
we still got our boots on talking
27:26
slapping five and hugging with these
27:27
people even the young kids telling us
27:29
what they like and what they don't like
27:30
and and we see what's still going on so
27:32
our pulse is really the people and
27:34
that's what we feed off of and we kind
27:36
of know how to work and navigate um
27:39
around some of them and even with some
27:41
of them so
27:42
you're right about that man we still out
27:44
here on these streets
27:45
politically
27:46
we still out here um i'm working with
27:49
eric adams and his people so we still
27:52
out here
27:53
what our boots are strapped up man we we
27:55
haven't changed from the time that we
27:57
did records like africa
27:58
you know with judge jackson or still
28:01
talking about political things that we
28:02
see that's going on out here in our
28:04
community so we try to do our best to
28:06
stay connected
28:08
with the the adults as well as with the
28:10
youngins to find out why some of these
28:12
youngins minds is
28:13
it's going insane we still have a
28:16
ability to do for our community we still
28:18
owe them
28:20
that's the sonics ladies and gentlemen
28:21
that's the sonic is here
28:24
um
28:26
man i just got
28:28
i just got this vision man tracy help me
28:30
hb help me who who who are some of the
28:32
like top brooklyn rappers right now
28:35
in the game
28:37
let's say young ma
28:40
hey yo tracy man follow me back on ig
28:43
all right guys
28:47
i got you no problem yo i think stat
28:50
should do like man it would be great if
28:52
y'all did a collaborative album as the
28:54
band a live album with a lot of the
28:56
later a lot of the new generation
28:58
brooklyn
29:00
fabio foreign should i should should i
29:02
should i do this right now i guess i
29:04
will so you know sway you know your man
29:08
is really supposed to be the a and all
29:10
for this actually it's two of your
29:12
people you know sway
29:14
your people calling me up you know about
29:16
you you're in good hands whoever my
29:17
people are you know what i'm saying
29:19
kelly kelly kelly jackson and uh rich
29:22
nice called me about nine months ago
29:25
like man i like what you're doing man
29:27
you know we want to and all the step
29:29
record you know so when you start
29:31
talking about these collaborations and
29:34
all that man oh no
29:36
you know they're supposed to be doing
29:38
something right now
29:40
you understand what i'm trying to say
29:41
i didn't oh wow
29:43
and these are your friends too man i
29:45
don't wow
29:46
rich rich mad quiet right now
29:51
no no no no
29:52
i was
29:53
i was letting you finish because you
29:55
know what you know every good and all
29:57
you know it's like cooking you don't
29:58
just run in the kitchen and start
30:00
throwing things in the pot you go there
30:01
you stir the pot
30:03
smell it you taste it
30:06
you check out the situation and see what
30:08
see what the pot needs
30:10
so you know
30:11
i was just i was just letting you finish
30:13
the broth so i could go in and add in
30:14
them dumplings and you know you know hp
30:17
know about it you got to cut them sweet
30:18
potatoes right make sure you know
30:21
we we we get we get ready for that right
30:23
there
30:24
here you doing the dance right now
30:28
[Laughter]
30:32
you sound like you from detroit right
30:34
now
30:43
the one the last thing you want to do is
30:45
mess up the record so
30:47
it's something that i you know and i
30:49
respect these guys in all services i
30:50
respect what they contribute to hip-hop
30:53
so for a project like this it has to be
30:56
um a masterpiece and so i'm not gonna
30:59
just grab it and spin it around and just
31:01
grab whoever's the top guys and say hey
31:03
come jump on this because whoever gets
31:05
the call is coming
31:06
you know i remember prince said about
31:08
michael but he said if i call michael he
31:10
gotta come whoever i call for
31:12
stethosonic gotta come it's that's a
31:14
sonic you can't say no
31:16
so it gotta be right
31:18
okay
31:19
all right i'll just do all right out
31:21
there yeah
31:22
thanks for letting us get that off on
31:24
the radio man
31:27
it's documented daddy yo it's documented
31:30
now
31:31
[Music]
31:33
hey let me say this though i promise
31:35
when when we're back in the studios you
31:36
know we would do our concert tuesdays
31:38
for a long time and every week we would
31:40
do a live concert on radio and we were
31:43
trying to encourage all radio to do it
31:45
um when we come back we've had robert
31:47
glasper john baptiste we had different
31:50
people bring their bands and then we
31:52
would bring artists in i would love for
31:54
stet to be that band oh absolutely you
32:00
live on a radio that when y'all open up
32:02
stead is invited to come down and do
32:04
like what uh 20 minute live show with
32:06
something
32:08
more than 20 minutes baby we gonna do it
32:12
right y'all win okay cool
32:16
hey should i ask rich or should i ask
32:17
y'all is this single uh a lead off to an
32:20
album like is the album done i don't who
32:22
should i be asking the album's not done
32:25
but it is the lead to an album um yeah
32:28
we only we only a few songs deep i mean
32:30
you know i gotta get with rich and kelly
32:32
um probably i think we said next week um
32:34
to go through some of the stuff we got
32:36
but i mean i will say this man and i i
32:38
don't brag about much but
32:41
people are really gonna like this album
32:43
like i tell people all the time like i
32:45
don't brag about my stuff i do my own
32:46
stuff all the time that's fine but the
32:49
step stuff is really special to me and
32:52
i'm so proud of these guys they sound
32:54
the same um like i said i've been with
32:57
him two weeks we did two shows with the
32:59
last one culminating saturday and coney
33:01
island
33:02
i mean it's tight it's just it's i mean
33:05
you know
33:06
i can't if words can't really describe
33:07
it for me because
33:09
it's so much the same like even if you
33:11
look at my ig now and you look at some
33:13
of the performance so much the same like
33:16
i'm 60 looking like that man
33:18
what come on baby looking good daddy yo
33:21
come on i saw y'all in the video
33:24
on the train
33:26
i think it's amazing i i'm happy you are
33:29
here
33:30
show the way
33:32
like we as a people as a community as a
33:34
culture have to stop putting limitations
33:36
on ourselves
33:38
that's what you call self agree sabotage
33:41
there's nothing that says that's a sonic
33:44
who first album came out in 1986 cannot
33:47
be getting paid from doing shows like
33:49
they did in the past two weeks in 2021
33:52
22 and moving forward why limit
33:55
ourselves support these people support
33:57
these men they laid the bricks
34:00
and they still going they're going to
34:01
give you example how to look when you
34:03
turn 60.
34:04
how to
34:06
how to love how to strive
34:09
everybody's still working that's what
34:10
this culture does so that's why we fight
34:12
so hard
34:14
to say let's preserve our culture
34:16
let's not throw it away and dismiss it i
34:18
ain't about rapping that's just getting
34:20
this money i ain't about this okay
34:22
that's fine for you but we about this
34:24
culture
34:26
because this is what's gonna help breed
34:28
more and more opportunities for now our
34:30
kids
34:31
and our grandkids
34:32
and so that's it if if the rolling
34:36
stones or if aerosmith or if you two are
34:40
if any of these bands
34:44
elton john or any of these folks
34:48
have the right to still be out here
34:49
touring and making money why not hip-hop
34:52
fans there it is let's keep it going man
34:55
that's the sonic we need y'all out here
34:57
man i can't wait to get y'all in the
34:58
studios give it up for bobby simmons
35:00
daddy yo rich nice thank you thank you
35:03
thank you
35:04
absolutely uh we're gonna play this song
35:06
again on the way out
35:08
gentlemen thank you for being on the
35:09
show i can't wait to see you in person
35:11
brother all right no doubt okay
35:14
all right now i'll reach out to you your
35:15
anr squad yo
35:17
yo
35:22
okay i got you all right all right all
35:25
right the song is up now
35:27
now y'all giving up love is out right
35:30
now let's support that's the sign if we
35:31
coming right back sway in the morning
35:33
play that joint let's go
35:37
[Music]
35:47
[Music]
35:50
you
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