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David Sabastian Talks Legal Issue with Kanye & Gap, Skid Row Fashion & 5-Minute "God Did" Freestyle
Feb 24, 2023
The multi-hyphenate David Sabastian stopped by Sway In The Morning to talk about his music and career in fashion. Sabastian has been leading a purpose driven life making everything he touches of value. In his sit down interview with Sway and the team, he spoke about being sued by Gap and Kanye. He spilled a story he never told before on how he was arrested for robbery. And he rapped for 5-minutes straight over the "God Did" beat.
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David Sebastian Talks Legal Issue with Kanye & Gap, Skid Row Fashion & 5-Minute "God Did" Freestyle
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[Applause]
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come on man yo yo yo yo he was talking
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about this today earlier Tracy G and
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Heather B
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just talking about MCS with lyrics that
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made a difference that's right some of
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the best MCS are the ones you haven't
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heard yet impact come on left to Dairy
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Broadway I'm gonna speak this proof
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right now and I was pleasantly surprised
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man and his drip is crazy you gotta
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respect his drip
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I respect the drip over here in Brooklyn
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excuse me in Manhattan right now his
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trip is ridiculous
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um that was um the freestyle he did with
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the LA Lakers salute to them get them a
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big round of applause shout out L.A
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Lakers okay and
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my man uh DJ head you know uh and Chuck
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they sat down with you before and that
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was one one of the times I really first
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um started really understanding who you
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are in your movement but the thing that
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appealed to me most was your lyrical
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prowess and so uh when the opportunity
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came to have you on this show it's like
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hell yeah welcome David Sebastian to the
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show ladies and gentlemen
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what are you saying I I can't lie I'm
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kind of gas man yeah this is a moment
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for me yeah you know because
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it is it's it's it's it's crazy when
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your dreams actualize in front of you
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you know what I mean you get to meet
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people who you like you know are the
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reason why you even started doing music
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in the first place you know wow so
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what'd it feel like
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it's magical has it is it like you
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imagined
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of course I mean it's better than I
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imagined because I'm in the now I'm I'm
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like
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you really take your job serious you
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know I mean you really you're one of the
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people who really you can tell puts
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their heart into it in their intention
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and so it's just a blessing to be here
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for me you know that's what makes this
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really interesting it's a blessing to
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have you really man when I listen to
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your lyrics
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um it gets metaphysical you know it it
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it it truly does and it's artists like
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you that I think are
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um necessary we just had a caller call
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up and uh was talking about a particular
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artist that she shared with her students
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she's an educator and had to explain to
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them not only are you being entertained
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you're being educated and so one of the
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reasons why I asked you is it like how
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you imagined because one of the songs on
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your uh we are God's project was how to
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use your imagination right and in that
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you talk about how your imagination I'm
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paraphrasing pretty much paints your
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current you're now in your future and
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your future I mean if you look around
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this room yeah can you find one thing
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that wasn't created by someone's
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imagination
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exactly like like you can't see one
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thing that someone didn't imagine I
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think we are all uh products of God's
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imagination so that is the most powerful
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thing Einstein said you know imagination
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is more important than education because
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you know don't quote me on this but I
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believe he came up with the theory of
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relativity by using his imagination yeah
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right do you do you feel like one of the
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things I've learned when I start going
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to school yeah like public school
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right and what district where I'm from
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Oakland so East Oakland oh wow okay so I
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grew up in Oakland yeah I'm a product of
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a lot of Oakland Legacy yeah that's why
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your music appeals to me because it's
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it's fruitful but I the imagination if
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not
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um nurtured right yeah or guided right
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can do the exact opposite oh yeah stick
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to that I mean you went to public school
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I went to public school a lot of
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colored people you know black people we
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grew up in public school in the public
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school system is really created to uh to
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turn us into slaves why do you think
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most schools look like prisons big Gates
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on the outside why do you think most
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classrooms are built like assembly lines
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you know I mean you got to raise your
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hand
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um the idea of school wasn't really
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created to nurture your imagination it
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was created to stunt that inner child
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inside of you and make you complacent
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you know because I mean that's
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advantageous for this country if they
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had a bunch of
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imaginative kids running around who
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believed anything was possible who would
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work their jobs yeah come on all right
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yeah wait hold up man David I can't I'm
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trying to have this conversation with
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him Heather but I keep getting blinded
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by the by the diamonds on this too
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talk about like what you was feeling
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this morning
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so so you know I have a brand called
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Skid Row fashion right and uh this is
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actually all skiro Fashion Week I'm
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wearing I designed all of it yeah
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what's fire is
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like one of the labels and stuff that's
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on the back like on the lower back of
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the fit in the jacket and I just thought
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that was really dope because you
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actually know when when you see somebody
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with a fit on and you gotta check the
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back like you gotta turn around like yup
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you see it y'all act like you ain't
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looking you know the label good thing he
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was facing my back so I was able to keep
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it out his back was to me so I was able
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to peep it out but yeah well this is a
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perfect way to segue why I even do
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fashion so
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um when I was 16 I dropped out of public
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school I dropped out of high school and
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um my mission was always to be an artist
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to be a rapper you know but I didn't
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want to be like a 16 year old high
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school dropout I was like I want to be a
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rapper right and at that time being a
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designer wasn't like now like it was it
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had some respect on it because it was
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like harder to do you know I mean now
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anyone could be you know anyone could do
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fashion now but back then you really had
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to have like a leg into it you know so
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long story short since then until now I
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probably designed for over 80 Brands
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right and I told myself if I was going
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to do my own brand
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it had to have some impact behind it the
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last thing the world needs is another
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t-shirt the last thing we need is
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another something with a name on it I
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feel like anything coming forward out of
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the culture out of fashion out it it has
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to mean something so a community that's
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super underserved that's um super
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oppressed yeah and and a community that
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I identify with not only with my own um
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effects on homeless homelessness but
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just just the spirit of being in America
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and people having nothing right it is
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Skid Row right so I thought
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what's the way to take fashion right and
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use it to be a voice for a community
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that doesn't really have one and then
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how do we build a business around that
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to help serve those people so wow not
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only is it Fly you know yeah it actually
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means something and uh it's creating
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jobs it's creating opportunities and
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it's creating possibilities and
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possibilities I love that David
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Sebastian that's the real last name
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nah my life my real last name is uh my
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real dad's name is mcclotsky
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oh go go ahead Tracy yeah because David
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you know one of my favorite movies of
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all time I feel like I probably share
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this with our movie junkie DB but it's
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Cruel Intentions right and so here
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that's where I got it from that's right
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I was reading about them but what's Wild
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yup Ryan Phillippe
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um but listening to you describe your
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label your fashion label right and how
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there's obviously communities that have
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nothing but thinking about Ryan
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phillippe's um character who has
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everything Sebastian has everything one
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could say he's entitled he's a bit of a
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of a [ __ ] you know of an indulgent
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individual so connect that side to you
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so just just being completely honest
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like when I when I came up with that
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name right like I'm I'm really a nerd at
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heart you know I mean I grew up
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collecting comic books girl you know
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girls weren't into me that much you know
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I was a dude at you know lunchtime just
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like kicking it with a tree you know I
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mean I didn't really have that you know
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we would have gotten along
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you
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know I mean so
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I think we all create characters right
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like even even if you aren't a character
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you're a character we all create
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personas in which we live by identities
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right yeah essentially we're all just
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avatars we're blank we're Spirits right
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but then when you reincarnate into this
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body you say my name is this and I do
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this and I am this and that's how you
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present yourself and around that time I
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just wanted to be
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cooler I don't know I just wanted to be
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I just wanted to have that Essence I
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grew up with nothing so when I came when
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I seen Cruel Intentions you know to see
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this like affluent white kid with
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everything penthouse New York I wanted
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that you know so I kind of just took on
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that persona but me and him are very
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very different in in some ways
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same in certain ways but you know it's
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just a name at the end of the day the
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end of the day man David Sebastian is
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here I like it sounds cool though it
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sounds cool right points uh when we do
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I'm going back to education
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um there's obvious a lot of information
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that uh that that's hidden that's erased
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that show that's disposed stuff you know
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when you distorted distorted when you
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look at uh especially from Africa you
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think about age up in this history for
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not even being named Egypt yeah you know
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even Aboriginal history the history of
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here yeah yeah exactly well speak on
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that you know like it's because the
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reason why I'm actually because I was
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woke up this morning and saw Al Sharpton
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in Florida uh marching against Governor
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uh DeSantis yeah because they they want
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to censor
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um African-American history right and
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and it's just so blatantess in our face
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yeah what are your thoughts about that I
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mean uh the the English language right
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yeah is really uh it says it all right
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history is what it's his story right
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right so the Victor tells the history
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you know I mean the the conquerors the
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people who conquer get to manipulate the
10:11
truth and then normally do it to
10:13
whatever is advantageous to their um to
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their agendas so I'll just say this
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right
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and this is the metaphysical side this
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isn't like The Logical uh yeah snoring
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inside of me but I don't really know
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what the [ __ ] existed I wasn't here to
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see it I don't I have no idea you can
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read it they can tell you but unless I
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fit like we could have been
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I don't want to get too deep but I don't
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know that doesn't don't censor yourself
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but I mean sometimes not sense yourself
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but I find myself trying to say things
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in palatable ways for people to digest
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because sometimes you can say things and
10:56
people won't comprehend and then they'll
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assume the worst so I you know I don't
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censor it I just gotta take it down but
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the point is is
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we don't really know what life is we
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don't know most people don't even know
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who they are you know really you know
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you you think that you're black you
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think that you're this you're that these
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are just titles created like I said to
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give you a [ __ ] identity and the
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worst part about it is the identity that
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you created for yourself was created
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based off of someone's constitution of
11:25
who you should [ __ ] be yeah you know
11:27
what I mean so like
11:28
but how do you find who you are your
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Truth where you're surrounded in an
11:33
environment that's constantly trying the
11:35
only way out
11:36
is in there it is
11:39
um the only way out is in there's only
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one way to find out who you are see
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listen
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we have devices we have computers we
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have iPhones we got Twitter we got
11:48
Instagram we got Marvel movies we got
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Marvel movies we got pornography we got
11:54
everything we got every device to take
11:56
you away from who you really are I think
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the first journey and for anybody who's
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listening to this [ __ ] is to just stop
12:02
stop doing everything stop that that's
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really so I went I'm going to jail when
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I was younger I went for a year for a
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robbery a lot of people don't know that
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I was I was a whole different person at
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that time and I was hungry I had no
12:16
money I end up robbing this little white
12:18
kid whatever I'm getting it and I end up
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getting a year and some change right and
12:22
it was the best thing that happened to
12:24
me because I got to sit down and do
12:27
nothing still necessary and I I got to
12:29
be still and um you know a lot of times
12:32
it doesn't work because the whole print
12:34
you know jail system especially for
12:35
juveniles you know can really set you in
12:38
the other path right but for me I was
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bad so I spent a lot of time in the shoe
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in the box so in the box I got to really
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really think and I was like what is my
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purpose here I know it ain't this why
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why did God create me why did I create
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myself why did I put myself oh okay and
12:56
then light bulbs start clicking I was
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like I'm about to get out this ain't who
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I am I'm about to switch the Avatar I'm
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a designer now oh no I'm gonna do this
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and I just became me and it's just like
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that but it took time you had to be
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silent you had to sit in silence
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meditate figure these things out right
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your imagination use your imagination
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um we are God we are God
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such a statement right yeah uh
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so on a Quantum metaphysical level take
13:26
us there on a Quantum metaphysical level
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right everything is movement moving
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right nothing is solid right these are
13:34
atoms molecules whatever and they're all
13:36
kind of bouncing and refracting off each
13:38
other and from a quantum physics level
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you are an energy field right like
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you're not a body you're you're an
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energy field and energy Fields don't
13:47
start or begin they kind of blend in
13:49
everything because everything is
13:50
everything so if you are part of the air
13:52
which is a part of his era which is a
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part of this desk where you are just as
13:57
much of the Earth yeah that's the trees
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and the trees as the birds and the bees
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and all that [ __ ] so we are collectively
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God and I don't think people can fathom
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that because we've been born to think
14:10
that a God is like this this guy this
14:13
man in the sky who judges you and he's
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like hey but like it's so much more
14:19
incomprehensible than that and once you
14:22
re and once you but you know what's
14:23
crazy is the reason why you weren't
14:25
taught that is because the second you
14:28
know
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that you you are a part of everything
14:30
and you can do anything then everything
14:34
is possible everything you get to bend
14:36
the spoon with your mind you get to
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create you get to be free you get to be
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free David Sebastian is here uh we are
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goddess his latest project there's some
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stuff with DJ Drama our brother drama
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salute to drama
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I want to play this song uh what I'm
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gonna I'm gonna play the light uh my
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fate my my most important song you know
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I'm not going through your whole
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discography brother you know I'm picking
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the ones you know I like too you know uh
15:03
but what I also like about you you know
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you you your EMC for sure yeah right I
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studied I studied music yeah I studied
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the greats Hove I rewrote his lyrics I
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studied thesauruses and dictionaries I
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like I told myself I was going to be me
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I gotta be great at it you know I mean I
15:20
can't just be like some like novice yeah
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it's too easy to talk about
15:25
you know the easy [ __ ] yeah like I said
15:28
what the last thing the world needs is
15:30
another t-shirt and the last thing the
15:32
world needs is another record that don't
15:33
really mean [ __ ] it doesn't mean so
15:34
every lyric is important to you right
15:37
and you rewrote what did rewriting his
15:39
lyrics do for you uh not just his lyrics
15:42
but pox uh it put it put me in the
15:45
mindset that they were in when they
15:47
wrote it and and it helped me understand
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uh
15:51
metaphor simile structure oh oh this
15:54
goes with this it's all like you know
15:56
haikus and this like you could really
15:58
break down rap into like poetry so like
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just seeing
16:02
how they arrive yeah just how they
16:04
arrive you want to be Jordan you know
16:05
study Jordan's moves you know so you
16:07
could be better than them one day okay
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man David Sebastian here this is the
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light we're gonna play this and come
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back and uh talk some more I'm gonna
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open up the phone lines 888-742-3345
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[Music]
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remember
16:20
[Applause]
16:30
what role to religion play in your
16:32
upbringer I mean my mom is like
16:35
I mean you know what's actually crazy
16:37
it's starting to change but I I went to
16:39
church four times a week right like
16:41
church two times on Sunday choir
16:43
rehearsal on Wednesdays wow you know I
16:46
had that you know my mom grew up super
16:48
duper super Christian right but it's
16:51
crazy as I start to evolve she's
16:54
actually been evolving too man you know
16:56
she's more introspective now and uh
16:59
that's crazy in what way is it less
17:02
about it's it's less about going to
17:05
going to church she is the church now I
17:08
see what you mean you know I mean like
17:09
it's less about looking outward and now
17:12
more inward I'm teaching my mom to
17:14
meditate and stuff you know and for like
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my mom just turned 70. you know I mean
17:18
for a seven-year-old black woman who
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spent her entire life
17:22
you know in the church that that's
17:24
that's big
17:25
it must feel really great I know we do a
17:28
lot on this show that we don't film
17:30
everything like most people filming
17:31
everything and put it put it up we don't
17:33
do that like some things we just if
17:35
you're in the tribe you can catch it you
17:37
could catch it right and a lot of
17:39
segment we do on Thursday is called Good
17:41
News Thursday and it grew to be
17:43
something more than just who we are
17:45
right we go outside and people tell you
17:47
stories of man I was listening to the
17:49
show and I heard this to person's
17:51
testimony it changed my life I feel like
17:54
your music is doing that for people what
17:56
kind of response do you get to from your
17:57
fans oh man
18:00
it's the best man yeah it is I mean I
18:03
have so many instances like I have a I
18:06
have a community line right by the way
18:08
it's it's a three one zero three eight
18:11
eight fifty one ninety three three one
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zero three eight eight fifty one ninety
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three and every other day I see I send
18:17
an affirmation I send whatever is on my
18:20
heart you know and I got thousands of
18:23
people in it and I've I've heard people
18:24
you know say something my music has like
18:26
saved their life like they were on the
18:27
brink of like so one guy you know who
18:30
became a friend of mine was like yo I
18:31
was about to jump off a building I was
18:33
like about to end it all you know and I
18:35
just thought about one of your songs and
18:37
I just it just came over me but one in
18:40
particular uh
18:42
pandemic time around the time I dropped
18:45
we are God
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um a woman
18:48
um I'm not gonna say her name but she
18:49
reached out to me and she was like Hey
18:52
you know I have a newborn baby
18:54
and I have two sons and we sleep in the
18:57
car you know and uh oh my baby daddy
18:59
left us and
19:01
every night before they go to sleep I
19:03
play the light and I play how to use
19:05
your imagination and for a second it's
19:08
TR it transports us to where we don't
19:10
even feel like you know I mean like when
19:12
we know they're homeless they don't even
19:13
know you're homeless and that's just and
19:15
that's music man yeah that's the power
19:17
of [ __ ] music I love it get that
19:19
number it's three yo every citizen
19:21
because a lot of people don't like to
19:22
pick up the phone no more they text but
19:26
310-388-5193 call that number now see
19:29
what's on there okay if they ask you for
19:31
any money hang up no no no don't don't
19:33
call me oh okay you can't call it okay
19:43
come on come on he's here answer the
19:45
call
19:46
um Armand is on the line from
19:48
Pennsylvania what's up Arman hey Arman
19:50
what's going on family Sway in the
19:52
Morning
19:56
real quick
19:58
um that music you got is is like to the
20:01
highest that's what that's what we need
20:04
now with all this violence all this
20:06
stuff in Chicago all over the states
20:08
even other countries but you're gonna
20:10
have to watch out for the people that
20:13
won't don't want that to get out
20:15
so create your own platform create your
20:19
own buzz like you're doing like you've
20:20
been doing don't worry about that big
20:23
deal and all that just do what you're
20:25
doing and you're gonna it's gonna
20:27
gravitate to you the fans is already
20:29
doing it swaying them doing it for you
20:31
yo yo yo my and my brother hey I want to
20:35
say thank you right
20:37
um thank you for that but I also want to
20:39
say one other thing those people that
20:41
you talking about and we know who those
20:42
people are right they should be afraid
20:45
of me yeah they should be afraid of yeah
20:47
that's what I'm saying that's what I'm
20:49
saying what I'm just telling you is you
20:51
already strong I already hear you hear
20:53
hear the the the man's mentality in you
20:56
you know what I mean I like that okay
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[Music]
21:03
Nothing's Gonna Stop you nothing's gonna
21:05
stop you but you just don't want to
21:06
entertain it with them don't let them
21:08
come in and talk to you all that
21:10
[ __ ] keep doing your things man
21:11
y'all have a blessed day YouTube
21:18
be careful
21:20
like Wayne said like Wayne said they
21:23
can't stop yep
21:27
right yeah yeah Tracy's a wearing
21:30
enthusiasm yeah we all are but you know
21:32
I mean if idea would live forever yeah
21:36
an idea will live forever yeah right I
21:39
mean you you know POC right yeah I might
21:41
not change the world but I'll be the the
21:43
seed that Sparks the
21:45
it's all we can be is just seeds man
21:47
yeah that's what park uh when we sat and
21:49
talked once one of the things he said to
21:51
me he was so precocious
21:52
and we were so young and I remember one
21:55
of those last interviews and he said
21:56
sway I made the music that
21:58
I knew that people wanted to hear all of
22:01
our people from the drug dealers to the
22:03
professors and to the mothers and
22:05
everything in between now I'm going to
22:09
make the music I feel they need to hear
22:11
right yeah bro he was saying this at a
22:14
tender age and I'm look you know I was
22:16
just how you say I'm a conduit yeah
22:19
right that's how I live my that's my
22:21
part of my purpose is to be that conduit
22:24
and spread that information that that
22:27
don't always come from the physical it
22:28
comes from down from our ancestors
22:30
people gotta appreciate that and
22:32
understand that similar to what I
22:34
believe you do bro you you I mean I know
22:37
you know but like you serve such a
22:40
higher purpose in in in the history of
22:44
now and and you know it's like when it's
22:47
all said and done when all of this is
22:49
written in the books you know there are
22:51
very few people like yourself who get to
22:53
even have conversations with prolific
22:56
people like pop and get that energy out
22:58
of them because essentially the history
23:00
books will be written on some of your
23:02
interviews yeah that's right this this
23:05
right now we living in the now but 10
23:07
years from now people gonna be looking
23:08
back at this like oh man that [ __ ]
23:10
David was a cold [ __ ] you know what I
23:12
mean like
23:15
they're gonna be like did you see the
23:17
colors did you see the colors man he was
23:19
ahead man you got kids uh I don't know I
23:23
don't think so you don't think so okay
23:25
no I don't know
23:29
ain't nobody tell me that's your free
23:32
prison David might have
23:34
yeah
23:36
you know how you get caught like you
23:38
said you you robbed a little man I saw
23:40
this is going you you guys are gonna
23:42
laugh I've never told this story ever or
23:44
ever ever ever ever never told it I was
23:46
in San Pedro right and I was I was I was
23:49
in front of a like a Foot Locker right
23:51
and I seen this young white kid he was
23:54
buying like eight pairs of shoes right
23:55
and he's just like peeling money on him
23:58
enough so when he walked out I asked him
24:00
yo can I get a dollar that's all I
24:01
wanted can I get a dollar right I was
24:03
gonna like go buy like black him out or
24:04
something I was it's crazy I was I was
24:06
vibrating on some low [ __ ] yeah and uh
24:09
he like gave me some like white like no
24:12
like kind of crazy [ __ ] like that right
24:14
so I just walked up right behind him and
24:16
kind of like whispered in his neck and I
24:18
said
24:19
give me a dollar
24:21
just give me a dollar right so you
24:24
turned around
24:25
he gave me a dollar and he ran away
24:27
right he ran away okay I ain't got no
24:30
gun just ran away right next thing I
24:32
know I'm just chilling
24:35
police car pull up police car pull up
24:37
police car pull up he in the back seat
24:39
crying pointing at me [ __ ] I go to jail
24:42
now you would think for just saying give
24:45
me a dollar right yeah
24:47
probably wouldn't do it a year and some
24:49
changes it's a night just a night maybe
24:50
a night bro they gave me a public
24:53
Pretender that [ __ ] was drunk at the
24:55
hearing sweating profusely
24:58
and it was the worst situation ever and
25:01
then it was like yo you get a year you
25:03
got a one year for one dollar for a
25:06
dollar wow
25:08
you did a year for it because of a
25:10
dollar I did a year because of a dollar
25:11
some money
25:21
and you didn't Rob him yeah he did he
25:24
didn't Rob well you could cash in one of
25:25
those teeth right now you know but but
25:27
what I say everything happens for a
25:29
reason because if that didn't happen I
25:31
would not be here that's what made me
25:34
ask you because I'm listening to your
25:36
conversation and you you such a forward
25:39
thinker like I I just I'm just thinking
25:42
like you wouldn't have gone into a
25:44
situation without knowing how to get out
25:45
get away whatever yeah I'm like my man
25:48
how you got caught yeah man he uh give
25:50
me a dollar yeah yeah this is what I
25:53
want to do man um we gotta invite you
25:55
back up another time man especially if
25:56
you're coming there's so much to talk
25:58
about man yeah yeah I'm getting sued by
26:01
Kanye in the Gap me all types of yo what
26:03
happened with that that's real that's
26:05
yeah that's real maybe he can't talk
26:07
about it
26:09
you sold you the gap or yay so that so I
26:13
mean technically it was you know but it
26:16
was Gap it was the Gap it was a gap
26:17
right because they suing it I mean
26:21
in the law in the long in the long story
26:24
short I'll tell you two micro stories
26:27
right so
26:28
um I see myself as like the Robin Hood
26:30
of fashion right and I'm a whole
26:33
[ __ ] accountable right so you
26:36
know I was it was Skid Row Thanksgiving
26:38
right I'm doing our annual thing right
26:41
Kanye comes he's on the on the stage and
26:44
he's like I'm Gonna Save skid row
26:46
everybody blah blah he has one of his
26:48
people come over to me and he's like yo
26:50
round everybody up we got Vans we about
26:53
to take them to easy Studios and feed
26:54
them right so I get on the mic yo Kanye
26:56
is here free food right
27:00
everyone's like yeah you would think
27:01
this thing was [ __ ] Santa Claus or
27:03
something right everyone was so happy
27:05
right
27:07
someone comes back so Kanye just left
27:10
all the pants go
27:13
little kids Grandma everybody's like
27:15
what happened to Kanye I'm like I don't
27:17
[ __ ] know right so you know I talked
27:20
to some of the people at La Mission and
27:21
it was like you know Kanye came to talk
27:23
to them and this is no shade to Kanye
27:25
especially now I don't want to kick a
27:27
brother-wise down yeah yeah so I'm not
27:29
this is no shade to Kanye maybe he was
27:31
busy life happens I have no [ __ ] idea
27:33
but long story short he was talking to
27:34
La Mission and I thought to myself yo
27:37
maybe I could just give him a viable
27:40
plan on a way he can actually assist
27:42
Skid Row he has his billion dollar deal
27:45
with gap or whatever maybe I can oh I
27:48
know what I could do so I I made these
27:51
huge poster boards right and it
27:53
literally had an entire business plan
27:55
like yo you can run your manufacturing
27:57
through here by doing that it will
27:58
employ this many people by employing
28:00
this many people create houses
28:02
and I we pasted it me and my team we we
28:05
pasted it all on this [ __ ] studio right
28:07
and then at the bottom it said call me
28:09
with that 917 number they didn't call me
28:11
so 88 keys end up being outside the
28:14
studio the producer and he he's putting
28:17
it on uh on Tick Tock or Twitter or
28:19
something
28:20
it ends up going viral right I'm getting
28:22
hundreds of calls people thinking that
28:25
the number is Kanye telling them to call
28:27
him
28:30
wow right yeah so it goes viral on
28:34
Reddit next thing you know TMZ is
28:36
reaching out for a statement done and I
28:38
just tell them like yo so the idea was
28:41
for us to do a runway show on Skid Row
28:44
right manufacture it through blah blah
28:46
blah create a collection that correction
28:48
specifically goes towards housing that
28:51
Community right
28:53
so uh two days later my Instagram was
28:57
shut down and then my website was shut
28:59
down wow and then we got an email from
29:02
The Gap saying we infringed on AIP how
29:05
ironic I'm getting sued by the gap for
29:07
trying to bridge the gap perhaps that's
29:09
what you get for speaking facts facts
29:11
you are what you attract I said what I
29:13
said still won't take it back imagine
29:15
taking our black dollars back and
29:17
building our own lvmh they don't want
29:19
you to hear that yeah wow
29:22
wow so how what was the conclusion that
29:27
um they said that I had to delete
29:28
everything I've ever said about it
29:30
delete the videos and they would give me
29:32
my [ __ ] back
29:34
um
29:35
and they and they wouldn't go for the
29:37
four way and then uh yeah so you know so
29:40
I can't talk I can't talk past that
29:41
point yeah but yeah you know so you okay
29:44
I still think it's a great idea though
29:46
and I think Kanye's in a different place
29:48
maybe y'all you know could unite on that
29:51
one I mean call me bro we know all the
29:54
same people man hit me hit my line you
29:56
know like bro but you could do it with
29:58
uh I mean or you could just keep bro
30:00
yeah I could do my I mean when you told
30:03
Kanye like yo you don't need them people
30:04
you could build your own infrastructure
30:06
you really can yeah you really like I
30:09
don't know you really can there's so
30:11
many
30:12
factories that will give you lines of
30:14
credit to be able to really really you
30:16
know do that [ __ ] but when I said create
30:18
our own lvmh right lvmh has Louis
30:22
Vuitton blah blah blah all these high
30:24
fashion brands right they have artillies
30:27
in Paris all over the world there's no
30:30
artilliers in the hood yeah right if
30:32
you're a young black kid you ain't gonna
30:34
get that tradition passed down you know
30:37
I met with Kanye once in it in his
30:40
office and wherever and um
30:42
and I told him I was like you can build
30:45
your own lvmh right start a 10 million
30:48
dollar fund
30:49
I wasn't looking at the clip yeah we're
30:51
looking at the actual article yeah you
30:53
can take a 10 10 million dollars right
30:56
and you can find 50 designers and you
31:00
can allocate a hundred thousand here 100
31:02
000 here 100 000 here right and you get
31:05
a piece of all of their businesses right
31:07
but you're also building these people of
31:10
color POC You're Building these people's
31:13
Brands up so before you know it you got
31:15
a whole you got a whole network of high
31:18
fashion brands and then you can start
31:20
creating artillery programs in the hoods
31:22
in Chicago in la blah blah blah and you
31:25
could you could create the next Gucci
31:27
only it won't be Gucci it'll be Tyrone
31:29
or whatever it'll be right yeah it'll be
31:32
David it'll be David and code you know
31:35
whatever you know what I mean we got to
31:36
start empowering each other power I like
31:39
that blueprint
31:40
somebody gonna hear it somebody I hope
31:42
someone does something yeah and I hope
31:44
you do something with it I will but I
31:45
don't need to I will but if someone with
31:48
more money and infrastructure currently
31:50
can do it
31:51
one thing me and yeah it's not about me
31:53
I don't give a [ __ ] it's about the
31:55
progression of our people of humanity
31:58
you know I mean like I just I want to
32:00
see that [ __ ] happen then it shall
32:02
happen yeah all right yeah how to use
32:05
your imagination okay we are Gods we are
32:08
God okay with intention and honor man
32:10
bro it's been honor for us man it's
32:12
really great time nope no you know where
32:16
you are though right you know where you
32:17
arrived today you thought about it last
32:19
night before you went to sleep I know
32:21
you did
32:29
welcome to the world right now okay this
32:32
is the home of the real MC the true
32:34
emcee you in the Valley of the hyena
32:39
lose your volume right here man
32:42
Dairy Broadway yeah can you please do us
32:46
the honor oh yeah
32:50
this might be one of the moments I think
32:52
so make sure those levels right
32:55
I'm too level [ __ ] my levels
32:58
you know what I mean
33:00
so just lay in the morning David's a
33:04
bastard
33:07
wow
33:08
they ain't believing me but I did which
33:11
means god did the secret is we are what
33:14
God is ain't an album changed my life
33:16
like we a god did let the story begin
33:19
beginning of the pandemic everybody's
33:21
sitting I said it's time to [ __ ] get
33:23
it get the world to listen I had a
33:25
vision they said I was unrealistic
33:27
dropped the album on Instagram you had
33:29
to pay to get it in two months made a
33:31
quarter million after interest ain't no
33:33
jokes plus the gimmicks I'm about my
33:35
business till I change the music
33:36
business stay about my business how I
33:39
sign the deal and still remain
33:40
independent change the game change the
33:42
laws of physics since that's algorithmic
33:44
[ __ ] analytics I Define statistics I
33:47
seen the writers on the walls like
33:49
hieroglyphics Precision scientific I
33:51
studied metaphysics I used to sleep in
33:53
Civics and in Pacific you [ __ ]
33:56
parasitic you [ __ ] pessimistic I am
33:58
God just to be specific look in the
34:00
mirror I don't see a difference I'm one
34:03
with the universe I'm universal like
34:06
daytime television Vision you too
34:07
commercial we a God so that [ __ ] like an
34:10
infomercial and manifested all this [ __ ]
34:12
I had immature any minute My Demo I just
34:15
sold out all my shows employed all my
34:17
Bros they ain't gotta rap no more grown
34:19
I ain't got no hoes I don't want your
34:21
phone number cause I ain't even got a
34:22
phone Focus girl I'm in my zone
34:25
working out by the cold Mind Body Spirit
34:28
Soul Spirit Soul intentions is the
34:30
master key to be who you wanna be the
34:32
lower me is in 3D changing up the
34:34
frequency ain't at the Philharmonic but
34:37
[ __ ] I orchestrated the first thing God
34:39
did was get Incorporated so don't pay me
34:42
pay my Corporation to pay my 5013c
34:45
thanks for the donation mine's my
34:46
accounting so funds don't get
34:48
misappropriated I run a tight operation
34:50
a maturation to David Sebastian Skid Row
34:53
fashion believing yourself records
34:55
Chestnut Checkers Checkmate nickels I
34:57
could talk all that money [ __ ] like
34:59
whole beer cause I made from the same
35:01
fabric that Hove is that Kendrick and
35:04
Cole is I'm trying to say the world is
35:06
in so much big getting so big this is
35:08
Legacy mixed with Divine Destiny had let
35:11
the universe carry me like pregnancy
35:13
just versus a decade's worth of therapy
35:16
don't do anything unless you have Equity
35:18
you my dog but don't let them feed you
35:21
pedigree million dollar check scribble
35:23
my signature legibly I'm not a
35:25
billionaire yet but that's the plan you
35:27
got to see it to be it so technically I
35:29
am Rich Dad Poor Dad I didn't have a dad
35:32
just a photograph [ __ ] I don't write
35:35
verses I write folk guns playing
35:37
checkers on a Louis Vuitton Monogram
35:39
imma spit a monolith listen to my
35:41
accomplishments I don't need your
35:42
co-sign praise that your acknowledgment
35:44
when I win a Grammy imma tell them all
35:46
that God did this Mike dropped every
35:48
word I spit is the apocalypse Chef kiss
35:52
I'm two pack mixed with Deepak in the
35:55
air like basket Yachts I don't Tick-Tock
35:58
I am Salvador dollars crack this ain't a
36:00
movie but you still gotta give me props
36:02
watch a [ __ ] gas like petroleum just
36:05
shipped a couple of painters off to this
36:07
Smithsonian Sotheby's open up the bid at
36:09
the podium
36:10
[Music]
36:12
shout out to all of my Slimes like
36:15
Nickelodeon dick a [ __ ] dance till I
36:17
rupture Huff fallopian this is Plato's
36:20
Empoleon I Am The Reincarnation of
36:22
Napoleon
36:24
um yeah what are the odds I would beat
36:26
the Oz by myself I'm a man together we
36:29
are gone close my eyes look in the
36:31
mirror and I see a star same height as
36:33
Bruno Mars but my spirit's tall these
36:35
balls raise the ball that's the ball I
36:37
got bald like a sale I got balls like a
36:39
ball I got balls like an exam for the
36:42
law rest in peace Uncle Charles open
36:44
mouchy and all on your knees on your
36:46
paws I like sisters I like Parks here to
36:48
reverse dog that's a God oh my God
36:50
dealing with my
36:53
[Music]
36:56
a profit doesn't make spirituality
36:58
profitable I got God in every molecule
37:01
and every hair follicle don't do what's
37:03
grounding me cause I'm astronomical look
37:05
myself in the mirror and say damn [ __ ]
37:06
I'm proud of you my [ __ ] ride me like a
37:09
carnival getting on with all that fake
37:11
beef is impossible I should have been on
37:13
down to two shout out to my mama too and
37:15
if I ain't one of the [ __ ] greatest
37:16
[ __ ] I'm comfortable
37:18
yeah you know it's on me
37:21
tell hope to call me on
37:26
917-535-8577 greatest rapper alive
37:31
that's my real number two
37:35
[Music]
37:37
come on let's go
37:42
let's go David Sebastian
37:45
that was five minutes
37:49
five minutes
37:52
yo
37:56
[Applause]
38:04
HB I I got chills bro
38:07
yo I mean that kind of passion and alone
38:10
I don't know if I've never felt it to me
38:13
it's more about being ready for that
38:14
moment like he he spoke about this being
38:17
a dream of his when he first walked in
38:19
and I think a lot of times when people
38:22
have the opportunity They Don't Really
38:24
embrace it or they miss the opportunity
38:26
and you better lose
38:29
oh
38:32
you only get one shot sometimes and man
38:35
listen this this is gonna be ran back do
38:39
you got to study this one y'all I'm just
38:40
telling you now I told sway no more
38:43
whack rappers in 2023 I'm proud of
38:46
sitting next to corny dudes and I gotta
38:48
see him fake
38:50
I'm tired of that [ __ ] my phony Act was
38:52
listen I locked myself a certain amount
38:54
of phony hours for the year yeah are you
38:56
over yours already by April I'm usually
38:58
tapped out I want to at least make it to
39:00
June that's way got me and then I lose
39:03
all my hours right from that seat oh man
39:06
yo um David Sebastian I've I've been
39:10
around I've been around the greatest of
39:13
all time I've seen them all as they have
39:16
risen I put you right on that shelf oh
39:20
wow I'm putting you on that shelf
39:22
because you're not just rhyming for the
39:24
sake of making words connect
39:26
when y'all listen back to this and even
39:29
the parts that he had to you know fight
39:31
through to catch it you know but the
39:34
passion was
39:36
put your own words
39:39
yo he was like he was ducking and still
39:42
swinging
39:43
but I'm still throwing punches that was
39:46
amazing brother yeah you are amazing
39:48
brother yo this is just the beginning
39:50
I'm gonna be up here man come back
39:53
that's your home yeah come on thank you
39:56
so much thank you for all of y'all um
39:59
just thank you thank you man it means a
40:02
lot to us man you're walking on purpose
40:04
with intention yo shout out to be hold
40:07
up shout out to me
40:11
oh branch he been trying to call for a
40:14
year to give me the yo thank you guys
40:16
yes our branch is yo I love Al his wife
40:20
Al branch is a solid dude been in this
40:23
game for a long time he say what he mean
40:25
and he mean what did he say that's our
40:27
brother yeah brother and we talk on it
40:29
on a spiritual level can you give me
40:31
advice he don't be on no Industries
40:33
he'll be like yo is God's time he always
40:34
tell me what time is God's time he's
40:36
been around bro he's seen something he's
40:38
seen it like in uh rightfully it makes
40:40
sense to me man congratulations you're
40:43
incredible give it up once again for
40:44
David Sebastian give it up give it up
40:46
give it up all right give it up get that
40:49
new album well it ain't new but
40:56
we appreciate you
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