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Dee-1 Calls Out Industry Hypocrisy and Addresses Hip-Hop's Mental Health & Freestyle
Oct 30, 2023
Dee-1 is not your typical hip-hop artist. As a passionate advocate for social change, he uses his platform to spread positivity and hope, inspiring listeners to be their best selves. His latest album, “UNO” debuted at #4 in the world on the Apple Music/iTunes Hip-Hop Charts, proving that his message resonates with people all around the world. But Dee-1 is not content to rest on his laurels. In a recent interview, he called out industry hypocrisy, taking aim at rappers who talk about prison reform and other social issues, while glorifying violence in their lyrics.
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Dee-1 Calls Out Industry Hypocrisy and Addresses Hip-Hop's Mental Health & Freestyle
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this man has been prophetic this man has
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been standing on 10 toes down this man
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has always always give the same light
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even when you didn't know his name even
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when he didn't stream large numbers even
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when his albums weren't coming in
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streaming on platforms debuting at
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number four in the world on Apple iTunes
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charts and Pandora charge and all alike
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this man does not hold back his tongue
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because he believe it belongs to him not
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at all this messaging you see when you
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go to his Instagram D1 music this isn't
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literature that he's written before this
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is all coming through a vessel energy
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frequency that he's tapped into he found
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it and he's happy he loves the way it
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makes him feel I know it cuz when I walk
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out of Equinox every night my body is
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warm for working my muscles and feels
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good ins I
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digress about you s it ain't about me
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it's about my brother right here and
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Heaven we've been rocking with this man
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since day one since day one he told us
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he talk he talking to them kids teaching
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them kids and jumping out of jumping out
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of airplanes talking about Lil Wayne and
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everybody else JayZ called them all out
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y he jumped out the airplane and we were
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his only parachute literally
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literally and look at him now he doesn't
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need a parachute because he grew his own
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Wings this man is an angel please
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welcome him back to the show to
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celebrate his 10th album Uno the one and
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only d one has return welcome home feels
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good to be home it feels great to be
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home yo it feels so great to be home man
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come on this is this is truly like a
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Divine place you know so I feel bad for
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the people who come in here and don't
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recognize that cuz from the first time I
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met y'all and the first time we all Shar
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this space together this is truly a
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Divine place and it's because y'all got
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that Divine Spirit you know what I mean
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y'all spirits being in here y'all
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permeate all the negativity all the evil
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that are try to come and take this over
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just like it does with the rap game you
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know we need people that's going to
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stand on all 10 and be like nah I'm
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still here 10 years later y'all still
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here 10 years later that j50 and Weezy
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song came out 12 years ago 13 years ago
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I'm still here you know what I mean I'm
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not hanging on by a fingernail not at
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all I went from teaching Middle School
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to now I'm a college professor you he me
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he a Harvard fellow y a fellow you feel
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me shout out to toughs let's go so yeah
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so I'm I'm Professor Uno teaching that t
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University but don't get it twisted
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man's going man I'm at Harvard
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too he got the H in the harbor t-shirt
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man come on man look at
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God he ate to Sally May no more come on
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I paid Sally May hey we didn't took it
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from the hood to Harvard and From The
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Trenches to toughs you heard there you
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go bro come on man hey how when did you
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finalize paying Sally May Sally mayack
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so I I paid Sally mayb that was
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2016 right I owed those student loans I
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had signed a record deal at the time
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with RCA and instead of taking my
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advance and buying buku jewelry and and
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just you know new cars um I chose to
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take a chunk of my advance and pay off
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all my student loans and then I and then
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here's the flip here's the god flip of
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that I did something non-conventional
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with my money chose to pay my loans off
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instead of stunt you know uh with my
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bread and I made a song about it it's
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not popular in hip-hop to rap about
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being debt free paying your loans off I
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remember you made that yeah I made the
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song Some people were like they a see
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the vision I'm used to people not seeing
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the vision cuz they thinking in worldly
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terms you know they they looking with
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worldly eyes I'm thinking with Godly
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eyes and in Godly terms I made the song
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the song blows up I form a partnership
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with Sally May and the bread I made from
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the partnership with Sally May makes I
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don't even want to get into details you
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know what I'm saying but just know that
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what I got from my record deal which at
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the time I was like dang I got this
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advance from this record label that
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became pennies compared to that
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partnership you know what I mean so it
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made it to where I was like oh I don't
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actually need the record label I don't
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need the industry I don't need all these
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conventional cos signs that you think
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you need as a young artist coming up God
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really got me on a Divine path to where
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there's going to be income streams and
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revenue streams that that make me free
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to where I never have to do anything or
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say anything out of desperation for
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money go out of desperation for money so
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everything I do I want everybody to know
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this listen and I'm not going to go in
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detail but just know that like I'm
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financially set you know what I mean
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forever to the point where to the point
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where nothing that I do or say with this
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large platform I've been blessed with is
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out of desperation to get paid because
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by the grace of God we pass that point
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now now it's all speaking from a place
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of freedom and Liberation and telling
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people what I feel like they need to
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hear by a person who's Fearless woo
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D1 that's where we at that's
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amazing wow I'm about to tear up on you
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D1 man said I met you you don't tear up
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man tears of joy brother let me have let
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me have my
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moment that was that cofin d one he
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wasn't tear right
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right this is amazing um rest in power
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you you you you showed us a relationship
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with a very close family member of yours
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can we speak on him a little bit papa
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papa you that was amazing man the
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journey you had with him Papa was your
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grandfather that's my grandfather Yeah
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and you put him on your platform and you
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brought brought him to concerts you you
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let him experience your life he lived
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vicariously through you how what how did
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he react to that what kind of things
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would he say that you would include him
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on those those experiences yeah um when
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my grandpa had people in New Orleans
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stopping him and W autographs with him
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and pictures with him and he's 93 years
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old and he don't have a cell phone and
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he don't even know what social media is
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those those speechless moments where he
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would just look at me and just kind of
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be like how is this happening and I'm
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like Papa you famous like you don't even
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know but you famous but in a good way
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you're a blessing to people because I'm
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sharing what I've been experiencing with
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you my whole life now I'm sharing it
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with my audience and people love you and
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I tell you uh his last few days in the
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hospital um it was it was it was one of
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those situations where we called in a
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pastor a trusted Pastor shout out to
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Father Tony in New Orleans called him in
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to like read his uh to kind of like give
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him his last rights right my
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grandfather's Catholic so um there's
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like the anointing of the sick right
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before people pass I was raised Catholic
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I there you go me too yep so father Tony
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comes in and he's thinking he's coming
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in coming in to just speak over a man
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that's about to pass away soon and what
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he didn't realized was my grandfather
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was in his last days but mentally God
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still had his mind intact so what was
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supposed to be a 20-minute conversation
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led to a 2hour conversation between
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Father Tony and my grandpa and by the
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end of the conversation father Tony was
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in tears and was looking at me like D1 I
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had no idea the blessing that I was in
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for by coming in here talking to your
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grandpa so father Tony goes to church
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the next day and scraped his whole
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sermon that he had planned and decided
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to preach about his conversation with
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Papa right wow so my grandfather once
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again time ticking he in his last few
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hours with us I know we ain't got much
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time left I'm next to his his house
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hospital bed and just spending
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cherishing them last minutes with him I
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get a text from father Tony it's the
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YouTube link to his sermon from that day
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he said I decided to scrap my sermon and
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preach about your papa and how much he
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blessed me in that cono yesterday so he
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sends me the YouTube link I'm next to my
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grandpa he's in the in the hospital bed
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I press play on him my grandpa ain't
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never even seen YouTube before you know
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what I mean he don't have any technology
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so I was like Papa father Tony decided
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to preach about you today m I press play
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for the next 25 minutes I'll send all of
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y'all this sermon by the way for the
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next 25 minutes my grandfather sits
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there and looks at and listens to a
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sermon that's about him and how much
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this pastor was blessed by my
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grandfather's words and spirit and
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everything and for the first time in my
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life y'all I've experienced everything
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with my grandpa for the first time in my
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life I saw my grandpa cry he broke down
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in tears and all he kept saying Tracy
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was I'm not worthy God I'm not worthy
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cuz unlike this generation that we live
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in everybody for the attention for the
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looks my grandpa Pap is who he is
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without needing or wanting the attention
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so the fact that he was being honored in
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that moment by a pastor that we all look
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up to and and uh and really think highly
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of he broke down crying it made me break
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down crying so we sharing these tears
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you know what I'm saying together in the
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hospital room my uncle over there on on
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the side of the room he crying and it
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was just a god moment it was a God
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moment so I'm glad that God allowed me
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to experience that with him cuz I did
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everything else with my grandpa except
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cry and the fact that it just felt like
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our relationship finally had uh uh an
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exclamation point on it cuz we got to
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experience the range of human
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experiences together and he cried he got
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to see that's amazing man wow man thank
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you for sharing that I watch y' every
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day yeah that's let me tell you why what
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a tribute cuz while you was going hold
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up take the camera off me yeah picking
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them boogers come on
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man legend in the
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game got to St the truth hey I was
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picking some in the lobby so I ain't
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even Tri I had to go wash my hands man
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you could be Legends in this game and
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you still human you heard me so don't
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ever think that you are above your
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boogers you hear me I want y'all to know
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that I'm not even going to tell my story
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let's just go to
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song yeah D got all of us in tears got
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us all in tears man he got a song on
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this project called um your story Your
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Glory oh your story is your glory yeah
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man speak to that and we going to play
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it tell me about that song man I'm
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basically saying you got to tell your
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story so they can appreciate your glory
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Michael Jordan ain't got more rings than
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Robert Ory everybody's path is different
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we all got a story I never fit into
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nobody's box or category when I do me to
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the fullest the people can't ignore me I
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soak up game from real ones they came
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before me I'm not for everybody and
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everyone ain't for me but those who
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really get to see my heart they adore me
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that's that song in a nutshell yeah you
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got to tell your story in this world yo
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you got to so you know why I shared Pap
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with the world cuz he had a heck of a
11:13
story to tell but didn't know how to
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tell it cuz he's not a rapper he's not a
11:17
person with a camera crew always
11:18
following him like how I am or how y'all
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are so I was like it's my job to tell
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this amazing man's story while we still
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got him here yeah so I would share him
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with social media I got so much content
11:31
y'all I've been recording my grandpa for
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the past 10 years yeah for the past 10 I
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just started sharing him on social media
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two years ago but all these stories that
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he has it's like man y'all if this ain't
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God what do this say happened what is
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this right here what do that
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say call this is my grandpa's yo this is
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my grandpa's phone calling me right now
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y'all that it's my uncle I know it's my
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uncle but put on speaker put it on
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speaker we got to do oh my God hello
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what's up dude make this quick cuz I
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know you
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busy I'm on yeah I'm on uh I'm on Sway
12:06
in the morning right now Peaks is a
12:07
national radio show I'm I'm say hey to
12:10
everybody they got you on on speak live
12:12
hey live radio y doing out there and
12:15
guess what and we on the air talking
12:17
about Papa right now hey well guess what
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everybody Paul's name is up on his plot
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everything is straight oh he talking
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about on his on his uh grave his name is
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up on the plot it's on the plot yeah oh
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man Papa man
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salute wow hey PS I want I want to thank
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you you know you know I tell you this in
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priv but the fact that you calling right
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now I want to thank you in front the
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whole country watching this for uh you
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know as much as you love Papa and as
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much as you did to K for and you know I
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love you forever for that so I just
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wanted to tell you that publicly on air
12:51
cuz the whole country listening to this
12:52
on the radio right now yep hey y'all I
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got my nephew thanking me for taking
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care of his grandfather my daddy he's
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thanking me wow this is what we supposed
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to do y'all this what we supposed to
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do there you go Miss I know you missing
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well keep up the great work PE I'mma
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I'mma call you when I get off air all
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right bro you enjoy your segment you all
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love you too sir appreciate you wow y
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this Divine yo 888 742
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3345 got a few question for him but
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first i'm going let Vincent from Detroit
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talk to him what up yo what up what up
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though what's up y'all how y'all doing
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today Vince great man say what up to D1
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he got us in a high
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frequency hey man look I'm old school
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man I like all my old school music and
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sometime I be listening to S them and
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got to turn it because a lot of that
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stuff I just can't get into you felt
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that was
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necessary yeah yeah yeah you always
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harassing me you always harass me he be
13:56
and Tracy G show me kindness sway just
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always harassed me you know you know
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it's just harass Vince I make you tough
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man go ahead what you want to say the D1
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I just I'm I'm I'm loving these rappers
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man the last couple of days it's like
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y'all been talking to me man all the
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positive the you know the I was
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listening to the interview yesterday and
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everything man it's like he they just
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keep talking to me man and all these
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positive rappers is just something new
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to listen to man I just want y'all to
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keep doing it man you I'm enjoying the
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shows and stuff you know and it's just
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thank you thank you thank you brother
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you're a little late to the party man
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I've been here for a minute doing this
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you know what I mean so I'm glad well
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that's what I'm saying I normally got to
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change the station man because a lot of
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that stuff I just can't get into I don't
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sell dope I don't smoke I don't drink
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you know it's just like you know what El
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[ __ ] there I was listening to DC Young
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Fly yesterday and it's crazy that you
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said this Vincent cuz me and sway was
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just telling D1 that the past couple
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days here have just been on it's just
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God yeah it's been powerful man there we
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there we go brother I'm I'm
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I'm here man God makes no mistakes Vince
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so we we tapped in and I need you to go
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listen to my new album it's called Uno
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Uno stands for underdogs and Outcast you
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hear me that's let me ask y'all this let
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me ask you this what's best do I stream
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it or do I go buy the all
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Alum that's a great question my brother
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so I get more money if you go buy it on
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iTunes um I'm I'm 100% independent so uh
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so a lot of that BR come to me also
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streaming it uh that's cool I get a
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third of a penny for every stream so
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that ain't really no bread if you want
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to be honest but what really helps is
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for you to go and however you consume
15:37
the music that's cool but for you to go
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put some of your people on and go share
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and spread the word cuz at this point it
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ain't about the money man like I said
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I'm good for life in that department um
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but uh it's more or less about getting a
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message out there you know uh when you
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experience Financial Freedom it puts you
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in a place where you just like hey I
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just want to reach as many people as
15:56
possible there you go like that's about
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bro hey Vince thanks for your call
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you're super citizen man the morning
16:02
Dave you want to comment we got D1 here
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what up Dave hey what's up guys how
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y'all doing excellent I just want to say
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I am so moved I still got tears in my
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eyes y was crying I was crying too you
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know um he took me to a place about my
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my dad and my grandmother my mom
16:22
and everything just like what I told he
16:25
Heather be a few weeks ago this is why I
16:28
listen to your show in the morning I'm
16:29
driving to work and by everything
16:33
do it's it's like so
16:37
hard it gets so hard times in this world
16:42
wow let them out brother let them out
16:47
brother you do for that D1 I'm not a big
16:51
you know I haven't really um followed
16:54
your music a lot but I will after the
16:56
day wow yeah w I just appreciate the
17:00
show way I give all you guys your
17:03
flowers and just thank you for making us
17:06
feel like fames absolutely because we
17:09
don't we don't get this nowhere and I
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love you guys for that D1 keep doing
17:14
what you doing and sway Heather be all
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you guys keep it up I'm here every day
17:19
thank you man Dave man he got us all cry
17:23
man Dave you a super citizen brother God
17:25
bless you brother Dave a sway in the
17:27
morning it ain't nothing like said ain't
17:28
nothing wrong with letting them tears
17:30
out it's hard sometimes it's just really
17:32
hard and even the good people get tired
17:34
you know you just you got to let them
17:36
tears out sometimes how you make more
17:38
room D1 um this Financial Freedom you've
17:41
experienced because you know that does
17:43
weigh heavy on us we live in a
17:45
capitalistic Society so it's hard to
17:46
ignore it has allotted you the
17:49
opportunity to say whatever it is you
17:51
want speak your truth be liberated I
17:54
think we as a community should all be
17:56
able to experience that not many many of
17:58
us experience that can you express the
18:02
feeling that you have every day when you
18:04
wake up knowing that whatever you want
18:06
to say you don't have to hold it this
18:08
stuff I wouldn't say on this air today
18:10
wow me wow it's stuff I won't say wow
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yeah wow
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bro when you realize that money is just
18:18
a tool and it's meant to be used you
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know then what that does is that frees
18:23
you up to where you understand okay like
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I am who I am with or without the money
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you know what I mean I could take a
18:30
dollar bill right now and literally like
18:33
tear that mug up once I tear it up how
18:35
much is it worth nothing it's worth
18:37
nothing right but no matter what I go
18:40
through no matter how many times I sin
18:42
mess up in God's eyes am I ever worth
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nothing no I'm always worth something I
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always have worth I always have purpose
18:50
you know what I mean so I realized like
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I would not be a slave to a green piece
18:54
of paper man I wasn't born just to pay
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bills you know what I'm saying
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that right there is what is what has
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made me to where I'm like yo I'm I'm
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really not I'm not I'm not anti money
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but I'm but I'm anti the the love of
19:10
money to the point where it becomes your
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God you hear me and and that's it man D1
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is here um so with with that said you
19:18
you spoke you speak out on the culture a
19:20
lot I do and and I'm curious to has
19:23
anybody in opposition hit you from some
19:26
of the things you say like when you talk
19:28
about sexuality and lyrics and the
19:30
impact and effect that it has on kids
19:32
has any artist who uses that come to you
19:36
or dm'd you in in opposition no because
19:40
they know I'm right deep down they know
19:42
I'm right and at the end of the day
19:45
because I shine my light so bright all
19:47
that means is that my spirit irritates
19:49
their demons sometimes and I'm okay with
19:52
that my spirit is supposed to irritate
19:54
the demons that exist in this industry
19:56
that's okay the artists have not hit me
19:59
in opposition if anything it'll be their
20:01
brainwash fans the fans who pledge
20:03
allegiance to somebody who they ain't
20:04
never even met before you hear me and
20:06
who are like I'm ride or die behind this
20:08
artist or behind or they or they love to
20:10
hit me with uh well you only talking
20:12
about female artists you not talking
20:14
about male artists man I call anything
20:17
out from anybody male or female you know
20:19
what I'm saying my first big song about
20:21
j50 and Weezy the three Giants yeah come
20:25
on man so so nah at the end of the day
20:28
there's some people who just get upset
20:30
with uh with the fact that I will boldly
20:33
stand for righteousness even if it means
20:36
that my quote unquote popularity will
20:38
suffer because I wasn't put here to be
20:41
unanimously accepted by the whole world
20:43
if I'm doing if if I'm doing all that
20:47
little code switching to where I'm I'm
20:48
cool with everybody and everybody love
20:50
me then n something ain't right I want
20:52
to be known for being a bold man of God
20:56
who Talent could stand up next next to
20:58
anybody in the industry but who was not
21:00
a slave to any of this which is why I
21:02
wanted to tear this up on hold man get a
21:04
closeup on that yeah I got to tear this
21:06
up on get that close up this is
21:08
Liberation for people at home to see
21:11
that like wait I spent my whole life
21:13
working for this wait wait I'm I'm I'm
21:16
trying to I'm trying to backstab people
21:17
in my community to get this wait I'm
21:19
trying to glorify this all I do is
21:21
listen to rap that glorifies this man
21:23
this green piece of paper is now worth
21:26
nothing y'all nothing my whole life will
21:30
not allow me to be a slave to that which
21:34
y'all are looking at that's all it is
21:35
you know what I'm saying and when we
21:37
when we put it in its proper place then
21:39
it's like all right cool we all needed
21:41
to survive but that would not run me and
21:44
as simple as that sounds people need to
21:46
see that and hear that to be able to
21:48
exercise that and put that into practice
21:50
D1 D1 music make sure you follow him
21:53
another comment I thought was
21:54
interesting you talked about while back
21:56
was the mental health of the culture in
21:59
the
22:00
community talk to me about what how do
22:03
you view it right now and how are those
22:05
ways we can improve it all right the
22:08
mental health of Hip Hop is in such a
22:10
state of cognitive dissonance having to
22:12
be practiced on a daily basis meaning we
22:15
are actively creating and consuming
22:18
content that deep down we know this is
22:21
not healthy for us this is not what we
22:23
need to be putting out there into the
22:24
world but because it's so catchy and
22:26
because it has a beat underneath it we
22:29
continue to push it out there you got
22:31
managers who are taking advantage of
22:33
their artist they know their artist is
22:34
on a fast track to hell they know their
22:36
artist is on a fast track to jail or to
22:39
the graveyard but they want that
22:40
commission off of that artist and they
22:42
know like I'm going to keep exploiting
22:43
them because the world seems to be
22:45
infatuated with seeing them push them
22:47
you know push themselves to the Limit
22:50
and as a manager as a OG I'm not going
22:52
to say anything I'm just going to
22:54
collect my commission that is a mental
22:56
health illness that that that we have
22:58
that's almost like that's predatory you
23:00
know what I mean and for these artists
23:01
think about it like this yo in real life
23:06
if you do or glorify bad things there's
23:10
death there's jail time and there's
23:11
dishonor waiting for you yeah in the rap
23:14
game if you do or glorify bad things
23:17
there's money Fame popularity and
23:21
legendary status waiting for you that's
23:23
why everybody want to be a rapper
23:25
they're like oh I could wait I could be
23:27
a rapper and glorify all this negative
23:29
stuff and be looked at as a legend and
23:31
and get paid and popular off of it but
23:33
if I do that in the real world and if I
23:35
don't have the umbrella of saying I'm a
23:36
rapper doing this then I probably go to
23:39
jail or get merked behind that or you
23:41
know that's that's what I mean when I
23:42
say the mental health and Hip Hop is in
23:45
just a crazy place cuz you either got
23:48
Commissioners that's record label it's
23:49
the three C's it's creators consumers
23:52
and Commissioners you hear I teach about
23:54
this at tough my course is called the
23:56
intersection of Hip Hop and social
23:58
change you got these three components
24:00
creators need consumers creators and
24:03
consumers often need Commissioners like
24:06
Outlets media Outlets or labels who can
24:08
fund the uh the push of this music so
24:11
with creators consumers and
24:12
Commissioners you got Commissioners
24:15
labels who are taking advantage of these
24:19
creators who are desperate who are like
24:21
man I'm just trying to get a l bread to
24:22
get out the hood oh we'll give you an
24:24
advanced check we'll sign you knowing
24:26
that we about to exploit you that
24:29
not we going explo what happened to the
24:32
maor labels Len to this what happened to
24:35
the maor labels who pledged millions and
24:37
millions of dollars after judge Floyd
24:39
got killed and they were like oh man
24:41
this is such a travesty all right cool
24:43
that was a PR move for them labels
24:45
because now 3 years later them labels
24:48
are back to pushing and promoting and
24:50
funding the creation of Murder music
24:53
yeah but soon as George Floyd got killed
24:55
it was the it was the proper PR move to
24:57
say we as such and such records and we
25:00
as such and such records stand behind
25:02
the black community no y'all we as such
25:05
and such radio station we at such and
25:08
such such radio station we at such and
25:10
such app come on man we the such such
25:14
the whole the whole industry bro the
25:16
whole industry so I'm in this industry
25:19
but I'm not of this industry man and
25:21
that's a threat to people and I'm
25:23
fearless you heard me I'm fearless
25:25
because I don't need y'all money the
25:27
real one's going rock with me I'm cool
25:29
with that I'm a college professor I'm a
25:33
a billboard Shen artist I'm a public
25:35
speaker I'm a author I just put out my
25:37
first children's book which I'm about to
25:39
show y'all in a second man and I'm not a
25:42
and I don't care about being y'all
25:44
friends that's the thing I don't so
25:48
that's the part I love with that being
25:49
said
25:50
Heather wait who who are these people
25:52
man who is this we got booty on here we
25:55
got booty on FaceTime got we got um
25:59
Kodak Black is on FaceTime with you Mace
26:02
the legendary ma is on FaceTime my
26:05
brother M I'm not sure who that woman is
26:08
but you know she's beautiful man too far
26:11
no that that that's Steph Curry's mom
26:13
actually yeah shout out to miss son
26:15
she's beautiful yeah that's yeah that's
26:17
that's that's my brother Steph's mom um
26:19
yo I'm good with that being said I'm on
26:23
fire and I feel even more I feel even
26:25
more motivated to continue to be bold
26:29
about what's right cuz this this this
26:31
industry got us messed up these young
26:32
ladies like just watch the BET Awards
26:36
and you can't and you and and I love
26:37
that I'm in the culture enough to where
26:39
they can't try to excommunicate me I hav
26:41
been on the BET hip-hop Awards Cipher I
26:44
done hosted the red carpet for the BET
26:46
hip-hop awards for bet like I'm in the
26:49
culture but I can still look at what the
26:52
culture is glorifying and doing and be
26:54
like that ain't cool right there like
26:56
that's messed up right right there and
26:58
they act like you crazy for speaking out
27:00
on it and I don't blame the 20s
27:02
something year olds that's why I love
27:03
talking to Kodak or I love talking to
27:06
some of the the L youngest Fred o bang
27:08
that's my student I was his teacher you
27:10
know frang was your student was my
27:12
student bro I was his teacher in Baton
27:14
Rouge yeah sway God God got me on the
27:17
hold bro like my P yo with that being
27:20
said it's the old's who I like to call
27:23
DG's cuz they're disappointing grown-ups
27:25
that's what they are it's the old
27:28
in Hip Hop it's the ones that's 40
27:30
something years old and man I hate when
27:32
I see these grayhair clout Chasers who
27:36
still talking about and I send my young
27:38
boys to come and wet your whole block up
27:40
and da d da and they still glorifying
27:42
this I look at with a Jim Jones you
27:44
could do better brother I love you too
27:46
much I love you too much to not be
27:48
honest with you Rick Ross you could do
27:49
better brother Meek Mill you could do
27:52
better brother I love you too much not
27:53
to be honest with you are you the face
27:55
of prison reform cuz I H are you the
27:58
face of prison reform or are you sitting
28:00
here on your new song with Ross talking
28:02
about getting somebody merked and shot
28:03
at the red light which one is it bro
28:06
which one is it bro cuz I did a shoe
28:08
giveaway in my city and gave out 1,300
28:11
pairs of your shoes cuz they said reform
28:13
underneath them and I love that you
28:15
partnered with with a major shoe company
28:17
and you out here pushing prison reform
28:19
but now I got to sit here like man this
28:21
man glorifying getting people killed as
28:23
of a week ago like what are you doing
28:25
bro Li Snoop really got killed that
28:27
broke your heart you wear him around
28:29
your neck what why are you glorifying
28:31
the same thing when my best friend got
28:33
killed when Carl got killed New Orleans
28:36
know who I'm talking about when Carl got
28:38
killed and I had to go to his funeral
28:40
and read the eulogy and be part of the
28:41
funeral and I got back in my cway after
28:45
the funeral and I turned on my music and
28:47
I realized I'm listening to music that's
28:49
glorifying the same stuff that just
28:51
happened to my best friend it gave me
28:53
chills and I needed that moment that was
28:55
my come to Jesus moment of like D you
28:58
got to do something different brother
28:59
cuz cuz you have a taste for this poison
29:03
but you you're attracted to the poison
29:05
and rap is great the rap game hip-hop
29:07
industry is great at cooking up some
29:10
delicious poison d one music thank you
29:14
brother come on righty man let's
29:17
celebrate this man's journey and you are
29:20
not alone you are not alone you got
29:23
allies in here you got some they can't
29:25
see and something that's right in front
29:27
of they face and they still can't see it
29:29
it's oblivious to them let me see that
29:32
children's book man let me see that
29:34
children's book yeah so this my
29:36
anti-bullying hip hop children's book I
29:39
wrote this at Harvard University last
29:40
year see yeah it's called David found
29:43
his slingshot right now y'all know y'all
29:46
family so I had 300 copies with me when
29:50
I headlined this big Festival in uh
29:52
Louisiana this past weekend and I left
29:54
the festival with one copy cuz after
29:56
that I perform they flocked to me like
29:58
we need the book D we need the book so
30:00
I'm going to mail y'all y'all copies you
30:01
heard me I literally got one copy left
30:04
keep this one one
30:05
yeah could you give it back to the
30:07
author oh I'm of course going to sign it
30:09
man but this is I used to get bullet in
30:11
kindergarten you know what I'm saying
30:13
and I know what it feels like when
30:15
you're a little kid and you you you
30:18
you're scared to go to school because
30:19
you scared somebody going to make fun of
30:21
you you scared somebody going to pick on
30:22
you you scared somebody going to steal
30:24
from you all of the above was happening
30:25
to me in kindergarten because I found my
30:28
slingshot and your slingshot is a
30:30
metaphor for your gifts your god-given
30:32
gifts and your talents and when you find
30:35
your slingshot and you use it for the
30:36
purpose God designed it for you'll be
30:38
surprised how you can defeat the
30:40
goliaths in your life AKA the bullies in
30:43
your life AKA the poverty in your life
30:46
AKA the anxiety depression in your life
30:48
so this book is a true story about how I
30:50
found my slingshot and how I use it to
30:52
overcome bullies so yeah and we going
30:55
it's available now too right yeah it's
30:56
available 100% independent so wow you
31:00
got to go online to mybite get it for
31:02
your kids howay coming up let them start
31:05
reading Mission Vision lifestyle.com it
31:08
sounds so good when you say it say it
31:09
one more time missv Vision lifestyle.com
31:11
you hear me hear me you hear I brought
31:14
it down on K yeah it's like a commercial
31:16
right hey D1 let's continue the
31:18
celebration man go you just performed
31:20
this weekend why not perform for the
31:23
citizens you want original man hyena say
31:26
I step in the valley oh man I got to
31:28
stand up if we about to R I got to stand
31:30
up you got to stand up man DB drop a
31:32
beat on them s in the morning shave for
31:35
five D1 let them
31:37
levels come on
31:41
o let's go man let's go man everything I
31:45
do up here is legendary from the
31:48
interviews to my grandpa calling come on
31:51
to these bars for Papa
31:54
look I don't care if you know me you
31:56
about to respect how I step why would
31:58
you think I'd ever fear you I don't even
32:00
fear death a scary boy need a gun like
32:03
bad breath need a gum yeah your teeth
32:04
clean but I know the power of the tongue
32:07
I'm a man of God I ain't superstitious
32:09
from New Orleans where Birdman quotes
32:11
get treated like Bible scriptures for me
32:13
I ain't the type to brag about without
32:14
in Bool I make silent moves but I get
32:17
loud results D1 talk about his pain you
32:19
going to really relate D1 talk about his
32:21
paper you going to know that he's
32:23
straight if you go ask about D1 they
32:25
going to tell you he great if D1 on top
32:27
your beat you going to know that he ate
32:29
you bragging about what you done been
32:30
through partner we survivors too and you
32:32
calling boys your brothers which ones
32:34
going to ride for you ain't no g- code
32:35
no more for the streets than lie to you
32:37
that's why I be in my bag but I be in my
32:39
Bible too they don't like me but they
32:41
know they can't deny me man I'm a real
32:43
gank stand you know right where to find
32:45
me g a n GST do not try me growing and
32:49
nurturing gifts serving the almighty
32:51
keep up lot of people feel how I be
32:53
feeling but don't speak up I'll be out
32:55
at Harvard in my office with my Fe Beed
32:57
up God why you so good to me I need
32:59
answers slaves built this school now I
33:01
own real estate on campus looking for a
33:03
wife I ain't trying to be your daddy but
33:05
I am going to be the leader of this
33:07
house you going to respect me I just
33:09
need somebody I could build with the
33:11
real going to feel this like a slap from
33:13
Will Smith my girl don't need no rough
33:15
masculine energy let me handle that part
33:18
so you can rest in your feminine Spirit
33:19
gold is trick that is Tee and she's
33:21
sweet as cinnamon my grandpa and my
33:23
daddy raised the TRU ofn gentlemen I
33:25
need another title I'm no rapper I'm a
33:28
rhyming revolutionary authoring chapters
33:30
in this book we call life here to give
33:32
you instructions on fighting
33:34
self-destruction over beautiful
33:35
production I don't fit in I don't drink
33:37
smoke or pop pills I don't even curse up
33:40
in my music but it's hot still I'm all
33:42
in the hood and I ain't even strapped
33:44
Simba burrito you're lying in your WS
33:47
sometimes I be sad I'll be crying in my
33:49
WS wrote this on a plane I'll be flying
33:51
in my WS boy I deal with pain that you
33:54
couldn't even fathom but all the
33:56
blessings people be praying for I didn't
33:57
had them I'm not from this place maybe
33:59
heaven maybe Saturn they sleep on me I
34:01
wake them up they love me that's the
34:03
pattern who cares if you die rich if you
34:05
ain't dyamic God got my back why Panic
34:09
they say the devil's in the details so
34:10
read all of your emails watch all of
34:12
these Negroes watch all of these females
34:15
watch all of these white boys got to
34:16
stay woke that's right boy got to play
34:17
broke that's life boy no I ain't wrong
34:19
I'm right boy certain people around me
34:21
counting my pockets I ain't like that
34:23
feeling so I took off like a rocket
34:25
speaking to take off rest in peace to
34:27
the Migo I ain't stopping till the day
34:29
that we stop killing our people picture
34:31
me with a panut collider out in myo they
34:34
enjoying the some B she stroking my ego
34:36
telling me they sleeping on me she know
34:38
that I'm great don't need a chick I need
34:40
a queen all my Kings relate bring your
34:42
face listen to these things I lace I
34:45
kept going when them label used to fling
34:46
my tapes out the window telling me I
34:49
wasn't this and wasn't that I'm still
34:50
out sh winning cuz the people got my
34:52
back I can make you smile all day I'm a
34:55
happy dude make the type of music that
34:57
could put you in a happy mood happy
34:59
blacks happy whites happy Muslims happy
35:01
Jews happy Christians happiness will get
35:03
you mad confused we could unify behind
35:06
our favorite song stop the music and I'm
35:08
say people can't get along we out here
35:10
changing the world I know you see the
35:12
fruit I'm pouring into the youth cuz
35:14
they the truth we got blacks killing
35:15
blacks make songs about it then we play
35:17
it man we ain't no different from the
35:19
clan I just had to say it then we look
35:21
like Coons arguing which Tunes is our
35:23
favorite the devil proud of you so he
35:25
quick to elevate it the UST monetizes
35:27
black murder and celebrates it you need
35:29
to stop no you better tell them David
35:31
bigger than skin problems these are sin
35:33
problems when I finish spitting add a
35:35
mark to my wind column add a mark to my
35:39
wind column now wipe me down yeah DB
35:42
listen look look look look uhoh get
35:46
loose get loose I go through the type of
35:48
test that make you into a man I talk
35:50
with that confidence to let you know I
35:52
ain't playing I come from the type of
35:54
hood that lay you down where you stand
35:56
this the type of that turn a hater into
35:58
a fan let me just bust how busting then
36:00
watch me do what I do I be that one man
36:02
on me tougher than your whole crew
36:04
Started From The Bottom that's how we
36:05
was living boy I'm from New Orleans
36:07
where even the white people got rhythm
36:10
look just trying to be my best defeat My
36:12
Flesh you can't be selfish and still
36:14
expect to be blessed up to my neck in
36:15
this mess but I expected these tests so
36:18
my perspective reflects that I've
36:19
neglected to rest I've been pushing and
36:21
praying through the hard times I know
36:23
you ain't no Soldier cuz you be running
36:25
when it's war time be p
36:27
that's all I need you can't look at a FL
36:29
forget that it was once a listen me down
36:33
hold up me down hold up we still going
36:35
yeah we still going yeah it really don't
36:38
stop it really don't stop it really
36:40
don't stop shout out to New Orleans
36:43
shout out to Ben Rouge you hear me shout
36:45
out to sway in the morning we make hits
36:47
every time I come here you hear we got
36:50
leg D music what you going do now look
36:53
okay I probably come off the top I
36:56
wonder if sway ever spit or should I
36:58
stop if I put you on the spot you think
37:01
you got some BS I'm really wondering
37:03
sway cuz man you've been a star hey they
37:05
call me
37:06
sway welcome to the show y'all and
37:09
that's all I got that's all you
37:11
got hey hey okay where you at D okay
37:15
okay let me just tell him this man and I
37:17
don't want no beat for this all right
37:19
listen listen
37:23
y'all what's the point of writing all of
37:25
these lyrics if I'm rapping to an
37:27
audience that ain't trying to hear it
37:29
they rather me blow a bag than rap about
37:31
Building Wealth they rather me get some
37:34
brain than rap about mental health don't
37:36
sensor me eventually try to make sense
37:39
of me I don't need your dollars I need
37:42
you to think sensibly you feel good now
37:44
that you vegan oh that's funny if you're
37:47
still promoting garbage you just a
37:49
healthy dummy my city don't even love me
37:53
I'm calling it how it is I'm a threat to
37:55
the power structur that's brainwashing
37:57
our kids I'm fracturing all the egos of
38:01
illegitimate Heroes I only look up to
38:03
one man cuz he died then he rose huh I
38:07
keep it too real cuz life don't last too
38:10
long if everybody likes me I'm doing
38:12
something too wrong maybe in time
38:15
they'll appreciate my words like nipy
38:17
till then I'mma see how [ __ ] keeping it
38:19
real gets me d one come on man who know
38:25
out right now man let's go man Uno out
38:28
right now man new album out right
38:31
now Uno out right
38:33
now I love you brother yeah come on
38:37
thank you brother thank you brother when
38:40
when when I met him he gave me praise I
38:44
sure did he gave me beautiful praise
38:47
when we saw each other
38:49
today bro when yo fored to embrace me
38:53
the way he did today foru to say you are
38:57
a legend D1 yes and and I feel like we
39:00
overuse that term in hip-hop yeah we do
39:03
you know so I'm just like ah man you
39:05
know you got to be careful cuz
39:07
ultimately I just want to be a legend in
39:08
God's kingdom there you go but for sway
39:11
one of the ones whose opinion really
39:13
matters and holds weight to tell me that
39:16
and to embrace me it's it's all in the
39:18
embrace you could tell how sincere
39:20
somebody is in the embrace it it let me
39:22
know that um I'm on the right path and
39:24
I'm far from done no man we just begun
39:27
there you go that's a bar you should
39:29
have spit that you th me off guard bro I
39:32
usually got to fire eight but I I was
39:34
like damn I want to mess up his verse my
39:36
boy had a fire two not even a half next
39:40
time I'm going to be ready for you D1
39:42
stay the course yes yeah stay the course
39:44
brother D1 you important there's not
39:47
another voice more can I ask y'all L can
39:50
I ask first of all salute to DB come on
39:52
man he put you through the five fingers
39:53
right there salute to DB salute to DB
39:56
had to give you a custom New Orleans
39:58
yeah yeah yeah yeah so thank you thank
40:01
you thank you for that fingers baby um
40:03
any and I say this because a leader you
40:05
know a leader always got to figure out
40:07
how they can still grow any advice y'all
40:10
would have and I and I wouldn't ask just
40:11
anybody but they say A wise man seeks
40:14
the counsel of of others you know what
40:15
I'm saying get your rest okay get your
40:19
rest real get full night's rest as much
40:22
as you can you need to equip that Temple
40:24
for the the journey you on M make sure
40:26
you take care of those parts how you
40:28
eating getting your rest rest in your
40:31
mind rest in your brain allowing your
40:33
body to Ren nurture itself overnight do
40:35
those things cuz you got you got to be
40:38
as strong as possible for the path
40:40
you're walking right now you know it's
40:42
like you said nobody likes you it's you
40:44
got a lot of forces working against you
40:46
but sometimes I take joy in recognizing
40:49
that like oh I feel it y'all working
40:51
against me
40:53
oh I'm doing something right I'm doing
40:56
something and I can handle it cuz I see
40:58
it clear as day it's like the numbers on
41:00
the Matrix coming down the screen I see
41:02
it I could close my eyes and I ain't got
41:05
to see it I'mma feel it right but they
41:09
it's a tank they don't they don't know
41:12
what you built like they don't
41:14
understand that you you've been on this
41:16
since day one you are speaking
41:19
fearlessly that's why it brings fear you
41:21
speaking truth you know people run from
41:23
that we shake it's like it's a sickness
41:25
oh truth I don't want to accept it I
41:27
don't want to sit on it the stuff you
41:29
are the things you are saying I have
41:32
I've had arguments with program
41:34
directors I've been on radio over 30
41:36
years now bro it's like I was born here
41:39
they they gave birth to me a came up
41:41
right and I've had arguments with
41:43
program directors stop programming that
41:46
music especially in the mornings when
41:49
the mind is most fertile yeah it's when
41:51
we take in the most is once we wake up
41:54
you know it's a time period where you
41:55
could Ain so much information and I've
41:58
had people people who didn't grow up in
42:01
this who probably was a fan of me why
42:03
they got into this now somehow got uh um
42:07
ushered into position tell me cuz I
42:11
don't want to hear certain kind of music
42:14
during certain day Parts oh you just
42:17
disconnected you getting older W what Y
42:21
and hey [ __ ] I didn't want to hear
42:23
that music when I was 15 straight up
42:26
what are you talking about you don't you
42:28
don't feel the effects of the music you
42:29
go home somewhere else there you go oh
42:32
they don't let their own kids listen to
42:33
it but man bro oh man boy I know so many
42:37
Executives I could call them out by name
42:40
right now to where they sitting here
42:43
pushing this music but they kids are in
42:45
private school and they do not even
42:47
listen to the same artist that these
42:49
Executives have signed to them I had I
42:51
had somebody when I was signed to RCA I
42:54
told this story I saw that yeah call all
42:56
around the country the program directors
42:58
to get OT Genesis I'm in love with the
43:00
Coco uh played in in in heavy rotation
43:03
at the time and then they hung the phone
43:05
up and looked at me and said I don't
43:06
even let my own kids listen to that and
43:09
I'm just like man this is problem but
43:11
those kids tuition fees will be paid
43:15
from the money that's made something off
43:17
of that there you go you pe bro I so I
43:20
so a lot of these people who it's no
43:21
disrespect but it's just like y'all need
43:24
to do better why is nobody like calling
43:27
y'all out like Kevin La uh and I know
43:30
Kevin La you know what I'm saying but I
43:31
look at it
43:34
like this stuff Young Thug going through
43:37
and you go and you want to uh advocate
43:41
for him to you know not be in jail and
43:44
and you want to you want to speak on
43:45
that but why are you complicit with
43:50
pushing his music and and continuing to
43:53
allow him to perpetuate whatever it is
43:55
that he was glorify
43:56
they help get him there in the first
43:58
place it's like that type of stuff
43:59
doesn't make sense to me man and in the
44:02
in the name of cognitive dissonance
44:05
people are all sit back and just ignore
44:07
what it is they're pushing but want to
44:09
celebrate that we're black and we're
44:11
successful now successful at what cost
44:15
if you feeding your family of four but
44:17
you've poisoned the minds of four
44:20
million is that worth it that's not
44:23
worth it man and that's a that's a
44:24
problem yo and how that's how we look at
44:27
it I know if that if that means that I'm
44:29
a hater then call me a hater you know
44:31
all day cuz I hate that you know I
44:33
absolutely hate that like yeah like I
44:36
don't care you call me a hated so what
44:38
maybe that's a convers I think too
44:41
because I and that's something you do
44:43
you call out names you deal with L you
44:45
know you know did y'all ever come to um
44:48
he he he he unfollowed me on Instagram
44:51
so that must mean his feelings was hurt
44:54
you know what I mean and I guess I
44:55
thought it it was all good but then
44:56
afterwards I noticed you know he
44:58
unfollowed me so you know what that mean
45:00
nowadays somebody unfollow you I don't
45:03
care mhm at all you know what I'm saying
45:05
because even that bro I was minding my
45:07
business and you called me you you
45:10
called me to uh out you do a video uh
45:13
trying to justify being righteous and
45:15
Ratchet and and all that type of stuff
45:17
and you tag me in the video publicly
45:19
when you got my phone number you know
45:21
what I'm saying and when we talk behind
45:23
the scenes and I was just like brother
45:25
I'm from the state where that ratchet
45:27
term was invented you know what I'm
45:29
saying where like there's people in jail
45:31
and in and and in uh in the graveyard
45:34
right now behind trying to be ratchet
45:36
and if we promote that you can be
45:37
righteous and Ratchet then somebody
45:39
that's already living in a state of
45:40
ratchetness they feel like oh well I
45:42
ain't even got to change then I just got
45:44
to do some righteous stuff as well but I
45:46
could continue to embrace this
45:47
ratchetness and I was like that's that's
45:50
unhealthy for a baby believer or for
45:52
somebody who isn't mature in their faith
45:55
they see that and they like oh well if
45:57
if a Christian is saying that then they
45:59
must all feel like that since you put
46:01
that out there publicly I had to go out
46:02
there publicly and say hey just so y'all
46:04
know we don't all agree with that we
46:06
don't all feel like that and I got so
46:08
much support from people who are like
46:10
man that needed to be say d so then we
46:13
did speak behind the scenes he
46:14
apologized it all good da d da and and
46:18
he was like yeah you right I'm older bro
46:19
I'm probably out of touch with what the
46:20
word ratchet means and all what come
46:22
along with it cool so I'm like all good
46:25
my brother you know um two days later
46:28
puts out clothes saying I can quote
46:31
cardi B and Corinthians and righteous
46:34
and Ratchet and and puts out new clothes
46:36
so it's like oh you must have still
46:39
wanted to monetize this moment
46:41
regardless of what we talked about
46:43
behind the scenes and you saying like oh
46:45
I get it now like my bad D like dang
46:48
yeah I'm I'm I'm tripping You Know da da
46:50
da you still want to go forward with
46:52
trying to monetize this moment and it
46:53
was just disappointing so I'm just like
46:56
yeah that has to be spoken about too cuz
46:58
public actions will give public
46:59
responses and it's no beef it's no hate
47:02
it's no beef no hate just differences
47:04
there you go just differences the
47:05
differences I would love to hear you and
47:07
Kevin LS have a conversation oh I would
47:09
love I got his phone number I could call
47:10
him right now it's just that watch this
47:13
if we don't call people out by name you
47:15
know what happens man is we you miss
47:17
that by way damn nobody had to know that
47:20
boogers and misses boogers and misses
47:22
right right this is righteous snitching
47:24
happening right
47:26
yo yo s here's my thing with calling out
47:30
here's my thing with calling our names
47:32
is we know that these people have
47:35
nestled into this convenient space where
47:38
their success camouflages the fact that
47:42
they are at the Forefront of being able
47:44
to shift what's wrong with this culture
47:46
and if we never call these names out and
47:48
if we just look at it like well that's a
47:49
legend that's Untouchable you can't talk
47:51
about that person you can't say nothing
47:53
about this person that's that's the
47:54
biggest you know know uh artist in in
47:57
that realm or that's the da d da then
48:00
those
48:03
people are the biggest part of the
48:05
problem if they have the biggest
48:07
potential to help shift things but if
48:09
nobody ever talks about what it is that
48:11
they could be doing better it's like I
48:13
don't call you out cuz I got a problem
48:14
with you man like I wish we could go get
48:16
lunch right now me and any of them I
48:18
love you too much to not be honest with
48:20
you there you go that's what it is bro
48:22
and so if anybody yeah if anybody feel
48:25
bad about being called out it's like
48:27
let's let's talk let's uh let's talk
48:29
let's talk about it and and let's just
48:32
figure out what we can do better but at
48:34
the end of the day guess what's not
48:35
changing the word of God ain't changing
48:37
okay uh there's death and life in the
48:39
power of the tongue Proverbs 18 and 21
48:42
that's not changing and trying with this
48:45
foolish argument that it's just it's
48:48
just entertainment this ain't real how
48:50
many more people got to die in the hood
48:52
man how many how many people at the end
48:54
of the day lives got to get ruined and
48:56
and poisoned and how many rappers got to
48:59
get killed for us to be like come on man
49:01
when it's hip-hop it's a whole culture
49:03
and and it's implied that this is
49:05
autobiographical and this is non-fiction
49:07
tales that people are telling how much
49:09
does that have to happen so don't hit me
49:11
with that people just don't want to
49:12
confront the reality of this stuff man
49:14
and and you are I I am bro and I and I
49:17
got to keep doing this way and I got to
49:19
and I got to stay smart about how I
49:22
approach it um I got to stay bold but I
49:24
speak to the goodness in people and I
49:26
know because I speak to the goodness in
49:28
people I'm always going to have people's
49:31
ear I'm always going to have their ear
49:33
is just is their Spirit ready to accept
49:36
what I'm saying because I'm not speaking
49:38
from my heart I'm speaking from the word
49:40
of God and with that being said some
49:43
people are like dang I know what he's
49:44
saying is real but I just got paid 80
49:46
bands to do this show Meek Mill is the
49:49
one who came out with the viral clip a
49:51
couple weeks ago at a at a uh at a
49:54
conference saying the labels pay us more
49:57
money to rap about negative things so
49:59
you're speaking up against that Meek and
50:01
you're talking about how the labels try
50:02
to trap us Meek don't turn around and do
50:06
the same thing that you were just
50:07
blasting them for you know what I'm
50:09
saying that makes it seem like you poor
50:11
and you desperate for whatever bread
50:13
they going to pay you for that but we
50:14
know you're not poor cuz we see you on
50:16
the PJs we see you with all the jewelry
50:18
we see you with all the cars so what is
50:21
it that you want to represent at the end
50:23
of the day the power of the tongue man
50:25
like there's life and death in it and
50:28
for these artists I'm just like bro we
50:31
can't use that excuse no more the labels
50:33
just want me to do that and we can't use
50:35
the excuse that's what the fans want you
50:36
know what with the fans I'm going say
50:38
this the last thing with the fans y'all
50:42
really don't want to see nothing
50:43
different like like people don't want
50:45
that real they just say that they
50:47
do cuz if y'all wanted to see something
50:50
different there's enough artists who are
50:52
offering you different type of music
50:54
with the messages that you claim you
50:55
want enough of y'all don't want that
50:57
because we have become addicted to the
50:59
delicious poison that is the rap game
51:02
and what's been pushed on us for so long
51:04
fans if y'all want something different I
51:06
need you to I talk about this in my
51:08
college course I need you to become
51:09
what's called a consumer activist that
51:12
means that as a consumer you understand
51:14
that you have the power to be an
51:15
activist as well and your purchasing
51:17
power and what you choose to support is
51:20
a form of activism so if you don't want
51:22
to hear no more of this type of music
51:24
don't support it don't make a Tik Tock
51:26
uh uh video using those type of songs
51:29
cuz you're just helping to push the
51:31
furtherance of that and and and support
51:34
what it is that you want to see more of
51:36
but I don't think enough fans really
51:38
want to see something different you know
51:40
some do but you know and I'm putting
51:43
y'all on the spot cuz I the fans
51:45
accountable yeah they don't like we all
51:46
a part of it they make them
51:47
uncomfortable and and I purposely do y'
51:49
if I wanted to God bless me I ain't no
51:51
ugly dude I'm lyrical I got Charisma I'm
51:55
intelligent
51:55
man I could be playing the game and
51:58
manipulating it so I could be as popular
52:00
as possible but I'm actually doing the
52:02
opposite and I'm saying and doing things
52:05
that that that's going to make some
52:06
people be like I don't rock with dude
52:08
man cuz dude kind of called me out and
52:10
he kind of poked me but if I can help
52:11
you be a better version of you at the
52:13
end of the day and help get you closer
52:14
to God I don't care if you're not a fan
52:16
of me as an artist I'm going to be okay
52:18
I'm actually okay already but I'm here
52:20
to do that man so if we had more artists
52:23
with that mindset this world be a better
52:25
place D1 man I love it
52:28
brother D1 D1
52:31
[Applause]
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music
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