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In an exclusive, groundbreaking interview on Sway In The Morning, Page Kennedy takes us on an extraordinary journey from his roots in Shakespearean theatre to reigning supreme in the hip-hop kingdom. 🎭👑 Witness how this multi-talented Shakespearean-trained actor, MC, producer, and visionary masterfully blends his classical training with raw, unfiltered hip-hop artistry. From sharing the screen with legends like Samuel Jackson and Idris Elba to spitting fiery freestyles that challenge the very essence of hip-hop, Page Kennedy is redefining what it means to be a Renaissance man in today's entertainment world.
Discover the story of resilience and ambition, as Kennedy opens up about growing up in Detroit, facing naysayers, and using his diverse talents to make a mark that transcends genres and mediums. With exclusive insights into his upcoming project "Shakespeare for You" and a freestyle session that left everyone in awe, this is one interview you can't afford to miss.
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That's all I really wanted to hear was Paige Kennedy
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There's a lot of freestyling, right? I feel like I was at my concert. Shout out to the MCs, though
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It's part of the, yeah, but wow. That's not why we're here today, ladies and gentlemen
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We're here. We got a multi-talented Shakespearean-trained actor, MC, producer, visionary. You may have seen him in the Warner Brothers sequel, Meg 2, The Trench
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Yep. Okay, you might have saw him on The Kennedys. Oh. Six Feet Under, that was a success
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Yeah. Wee, shout out to Romany Malco. And Mary Louise Parker. Yeah, that was a success
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Man, that was the first of his kind. Come on, the Upshaws
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Oh, shout out to Kim Fields and Citizens of Swain and One of Mike Epps
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Wanda Sykes. Wanda Sykes. Congratulations on that success. That's amazing. Thank you
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This man has acted right next to Idris over the snowfall. Right
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That's right. Idris Damson and John Singleton. And next to Samuel L. Jackson, easily the most celebrated actor of all time
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That's right. Swap, baby. Okay, and he's here today, ladies and gentlemen. He got a story to tell
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He goes by the name of the one and only Paige Kennedy. Hey, what up, though
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What up, though? What up, though? I am here, and I am elated to be in the presence of greatness
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Wow. Wow, man. Yes, man. That's so nice to say. Thank you. Man, listen, listening to your story, following your career
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I want to diddle that sentiment. We are in the presence of greatness
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Paige Kennedy, man, what makes you great is your energy. that energy resonates through your music
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and it resonates on the screen and when I got a chance to meet you again
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we met actually years ago he came to the YouTube show when we did South by Southwest
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who was there? Cardi B Nick Grant everybody Lil Yachty was there
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remember that and we had a really good time that time and he was there since then his career
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has blossomed, has catapulted Paige Kennedy is here Put the work in
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Put the work in, right? You know, that's all you can do, man. You know, I'm from Detroit, so we hustlers
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We get it out of the mud, you know what I mean? And I just wanted to be able to show, for example, that it's possible to grow up in a beleaguered environment
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and be able to rise from the flames and be able to soar like the phoenix
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The flames are interesting because the flames are really metaphoric for any diversion, any naysayer
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Yeah. All right. Any pitfall that have been put in your place. When I'm listening to the song we play called Page Did, you talked about people saying that you couldn't do it
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You couldn't make it. Were those people from your own home environment? Yeah. You know, I mean, look, growing up as a kid, they, you know, kids
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I mean, look, we protect the kids, right? But kids sometimes can be the most cruel
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They're mean. They can be mean. And bad. And bad as hell
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And so, you know, obviously, there's always jokes. There's always that. And you get naysayers from everywhere, especially because I'm, you know, a renaissance man
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I don't just do one thing. I try and do a collection of different things
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And so if they know me from Vine, they're like, oh, well, he's trying to rap now
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When they don't know that I've been rapping my whole life. You know what I'm saying
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I've been rapping longer than I've been doing anything else. And so sometimes we just stay stuck in what we want to see somebody in
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We see Jim Carrey in the mask. We don't want to see the Truman Show until he gives us the Truman Show
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and we see how talented and skillful he is. And so that's what I got to do
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How do you work through that, though, especially when it's your friends? It's your family members
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Fuel. Right? I use it as fuel. I use it as fuel to ignite my fire
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Okay. You're a renaissance man. You're Shakespearean trained. You're from what part of Michigan
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Detroit. Detroit, Michigan. D. What up, dog? Why Shakespeare? Because, you know, me being a rapper, like, I've always considered myself a wordsmith
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you know? and so I've had an affinity for words like forever
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And so when I got to college and I started trying to be an actor, they threw me right into Shakespeare with A Midsummer Night's Dream
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which was like your first play that you read. That was my first Shakespearean play I read, yeah. And I read the first paragraph, and I was like, oh, no, this ain't for me
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I was like, I don't talk like this. I don't understand this. And my teacher, Fred Sabulski, he was like, look
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you should really revere Shakespeare. He was the first rapper. You know, and then once I started to like look at it from that sense, once I started to understand the words and be indoctrinated into the world and see the stories that are still relevant and be able to say these beautiful multisyllabic words, like I fell in love with it
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And so it's still been my favorite thing now. So Shakespeare is important because
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Because it is indelible, because stories never get old. It's kind of like you get a dope MC who story tells
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Those stories live on forever. Like a wave, that's a current. That comes and go
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But like stories are here forever, you know? And Shakespeare's stories are still relevant
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and so they're important to me. And to the point where, you know, I want to bring Shakespeare to younger people
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to the current audience, to the hip-hop culture. I want them to be able to embrace this thing that I love so much
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because I think that they could too. Can you do some Shakespeare for us right now
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Is that possible? I know most people come up here freestyle. I know what you was expecting
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This would be interesting. You in the valley of the theater. The valley of the theater
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I'm curious too because I think it's interesting that a professor would tell you that Shakespeare is the first rapper
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I don't I've never even thought about that, you know, and that's that's that's just so that's a huge disconnect to me
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It really is. It's a huge disconnect. He writes in verse, though, sometimes
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But that's what I mean. But once you started to say once you said it, I started to think, like, is there a reason why so many of the great actors study
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You know, we watched Denzel do Shakespeare. We watched Leonardo. We watched Devon Joy, who just beautifully gave a speech and spoke about not being able to find herself in what she saw
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And she studied. You know, these people are classically trained. And you know that they study that
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So it's interesting. I have to go back now and look at it differently and read Shakespeare very differently
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Because I never even looked at it that way. You know what I mean
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It's just to me, I would have been immediately turned off. I hated reading it in college
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I was like, this sucks. Like, this is stupid. I don't talk like that. Exactly
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So now I'll look at it in a different way. Yeah, and I'm going to try and bring it to us in a different way
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You know, I'm currently working on something now called Shakespeare for You
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and it's basically, you know, how the Leonardo DiCaprio adaptation was when they brought it to it
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where it felt like we could understand it. Romeo and Juliet. Well is it like what Manuel did Lin With Hamilton Lin Well no these I still using the actual text Okay So basically so I the first season is Macbeth and Compton
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and it's basically if you take Macbeth and Menace to Society and conjugated them together
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Got it. So you know, like, you know that time period. You know that feel
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You know what that looks like. You know what Los Angeles Compton looked like in the 90s
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You know what I'm saying? That's my favorite zeitgeist is that time and that area
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And so I want to bring that. I want to bring hip-hop to that. And so I'm still using the words
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but they're going to be done looking like something that you... And here, I'll..
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Demonstrate? You're going to demonstrate? All right. Okay. So this is a monologue that Macbeth is like talking to himself after he just got crowned the king
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And he's worried about, you know, staying king. So he says this to himself
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To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus. Our fears and bank will stick deep, but in his royalty of nature reigns that which would be feared
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to as much he dares into that dauntless tipper of his mind
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yet the wisdom that doth guide his valor to act in safety he tried the
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sisters when they first put the name of king upon me and bat them speak to him then
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prophet like they held him father to a line of kings upon my head
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they placed a fruitless crown put the barren scepter into my grip thence to be
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wrenched with an unlinear hand no son of mine succeeding if it be so
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for Banquo's Issues have I filed my mind Put wrinkles in the vessels of their
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Peace given to them and the common Enemy given to man to make them
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Kings the seas of bank Kings rather than so Come fate Into the list and champion
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Me to the other ones So Bravo Bravo I like that that was powerful
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Give me some dap on that And so and what we'll have is like we'll have
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Like the captions, the subtitles, instead of it being in those exact words, it'll be in the words that you understand that makes sense
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So you're able to read exactly what I'm saying. So like if you were not understanding exactly what I'm saying, but you can kind of feel the intention of it
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you're going to be able to read exactly what it is that I'm saying in your terms
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Okay. By your interpretation. You're going to interpret it for every... Right
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Right. Okay. Wow, that's amazing. Shakespeare for you. Paige Kennedy. When is that coming
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Well, we working on it right now. We're trying to put it on a big scale
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Okay. Terry Crews is a part of that we. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Citizen of Sway in the Morning
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That's our brother right there, his lovely wife. We done traveled the world together. I see Terry all over the world, bro
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Lovely man. That's an amazing individual. You, to be the person you are, what I like about you
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and one of the things you said, you feel like we were like-minded and like-spirited, which we are in many ways
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you know we coming through entertainment we we all kind of renaissance people you know um he played
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alex mehia played some music that i made as a younger man not understanding that one day that
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would lead me to the radio that would lead me to the tv that would lead me to producing movies and
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being a part of movies and expressing myself in different ways inspiring folks right um i had um
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i had team with me along the way my partner king tech alex mehia a lot of the people that
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we ran with at that time. Of course, my brother and my family. Who did you have
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When I listened to your music, it seemed like you had a dream, and then you had to carve
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your own path. I know your father passed when you were 16. Wow
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Who did you have that was backing you up when you decided to uproot yourself and come to
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L.A. and take this chance? Was it, who did you have? Well, I will say this
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It's two people that I want to name. first the impotence of me wanting to be a creative period is michael jackson michael jackson is the
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be all and end all for me from the time that i was six years old all the way through now like i
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walked through life like feeling what he felt and wanting to be great because of his greatness and
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how he felt about greatness which poured into kobe bryant which is my other hero you know i'm
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saying and so michael jackson is what started all of this for me you know and then and then i i have
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a personal relationship with god and i and i kept god with me in my life you know when i didn't have
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a parent that was my parent when i have you know a shoulder to lean on that was so so so god has
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been the person that has like you know carried me through all of this that's who i could turn on
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because I've been on my own. You work with Samuel L. Jackson, who's a lot of our two people
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is a god of a thespian, right? When you work with these folks like Samuel
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do you get to sit and have conversation or is it just what's on the script
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Well, it depends. I feel I have an affable personality, and so because of that, it's welcoming to some people
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I'm not standoffish. I bring energy of anything like that. And so I go out of my way to try and make connections with people because I love people
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I love human beings. That's my thing. And so if they are, you know, susceptible to, you know, me and me being so jovial, then, yeah, I go and try and connect with them
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And I've been able to connect with a lot of the great actors that I've been able to work with
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Like Mary Louise Parker, you know, like contrary to popular belief, like, you know, she could be standoffish to a lot of people
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And my I think my talent opened her up to me because when she had to have scenes with just her and I, she really got to see what it was that I was bringing
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And that is what opened her up, because before, like the first season, I don't even think I got to speak to her
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Yeah. But the second season, when. It's her and I. It changed everything
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She invited me to her kid's birthday party. And she, you know, so I've been able to, you know, connect with people
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Kim Fields, you know, like I love her. That's my people. That is an angel
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Like Kim Fields is an angel on earth. She's the hardest working woman that you could imagine
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And she has the patience of her God. Like so. Beautiful. Yes, she is
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Kim will hit randomly just to check in on you. Hey, I thought about you today
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Everything's good? Yep. That's Kim Fields. We're talking Tootie, dog. Yeah. Tootie, man
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She was little Kim on a Good Times episode. That's right. She might have about five decades in this game, yo
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Close to a cheek. Yeah. I'm glad Disney let her in, too, the other day. She went to Disney
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You know what? I'm glad Disney let her in. This is amazing, man, all the different things you got
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going on Tech Nine Tech Nine of all people who doesn ask for anything texted me two days ago your information of Freestyle and said hey you should get him on the show Shout out to Tech N9ne Tech N9ne
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Shout out to Tech N9ne, brother. I appreciate you so much. What does that mean, though, to you
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Like, to have a Tech N9ne? Who are some of those other rappers that embraced you? Yeah, I mean, you know, listen, I'm on an incredible run now
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You know, I did a Freestyle here at Siri. Shout out to John
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John was that Who Kid? You know, I just took care of him Okay
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Damn, that sounds very janky right there No, no, no Hey man, pause
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Found him on the street No Diddy Stay tuned for Who Kid That's coming up
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That's a new thing That's a new thing? No Diddy No, no, no
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We didn't, we're not You just needed to know It doesn't have to make the video
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You want to see it So like, you know In case somebody tell you
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After your pause rezone The other day Now you know Now you know that might be happening
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That's the new thing that's going on with the kids. It's happening. As the recipient of Houseway, I'm just not going to participate
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Houseway. Which I still use on a regular basis. Go for it, man
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The kids don't even know it's me no more, so it works out. The kids be saying Houseway to me
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I know, right? I'm like, me. It's me. Who? I'm Sway. What are you talking about
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He's like, no way. He's talking about you, really? I thought that was a coincidence
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No, they don't even get that far. You're Sway. Houseway. How? I know, right
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Anyway. Yeah, but no. So Tech N9ne, Graciously. So I have 10 projects
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I have five full albums and I have five mixtapes. I do a mixtape series called Straight Bars
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And at the end of each Straight Bars mixtape series, I have a posse track where I've had
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the most incredible rappers that you can think of I've had Crooked Eye
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Royce the 5'9", I've had Cassidy, I've had Logic, I've had King Lose, Citizen
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I've had Ciroc, I've had Mickey Fats, El-Zi, like just everybody that you can think of
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And so Tech N9ne was supposed to be on the most recent one, but we couldn't
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get it in time. And he really wanted to be on there because I'm connected with him
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And he's just a gracious brother and he believes in me. He saw what I was doing and that I'm getting all this love
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Scarface hitting me up free from 106 apart, all off of this freestyle
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And so we just trying to let me be heard because I got something to say that people should be able to hear
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We're going to hear it in a second. Right now, I want to say Childish Gambino. I'm trying to think who has been deemed the best actor slash rapper
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Well, Method Man can't be. Method and Redman. Common. Can they be included
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Yeah. Joey Badass. Okay, Joey Badass. Method Man. Of course, Meth. Black Thought
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He's on my own. Red Man. Red Man. Oh, come on, Reggie. Come on. Ice Cube
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Ice Cube. LL. LL. Latifah. Latifah. Eve. Eve. Eve. Will Smith Paige Kennedy
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Where do you rank? Listen If you wanna have a conversation If we having an open and honest conversation
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I said method man Keep that in mind And I said Black Thought
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Yes you did Wait Black Thought is an actor? He was in the Godfather of Harlem
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He's been popping up The early work he did too Was a Philly film
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I can't think of the name of it He pops up Where do you rank
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Listen Where you rank? I, as far as diversity, a skill set of everything, I feel like prevailing right now, I'm the best that's doing it
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When it comes to drama, comedy, Shakespeare, as far as the raps, I do socially conscious music
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I do battle rap, straight bars, bops, vibes, like everything. You can't see me coming
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And when it comes to the collection of all of the skill sets put together to be commensurate with each other, I feel like nobody's better than me right now
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Doing it right now. Doing it right now? Black Thought. Is he a better
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You got to put the acting in it, too. Okay, okay. So you got to combine
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Are you making a triathlon? Yeah, you got to combine it. You got to combine it. Okay
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Like whoever's on the same level. You just did Shakespeare. Ain't nobody doing Shakespeare
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Yeah, that's what I'm telling you. I'm the most diverse rapper slash actor in the world right now
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In the world? Wow. Do you dispute that? We gonna see. We gonna see
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We gonna see. I got the legendary, iconic Alex Mahil over there
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I know he got something nice. We gonna see. The world gonna see
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Paige Kennedy, congratulations on such an amazing journey. Yes. And it's still going and you still flowing
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From the big screen to the small screen to the mic booth to the Valley of the Hyenas
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Here we go. Alex, drop that beat on him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
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This is for my city. This is for my city. I want to represent who I came from
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You know, let me turn this up in my air. Detroit City
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Yeah. Detroit versus everybody. Look, welcome to Detroit City, the mitten. If you was born here, that means in your previous life you was a thorn here
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Had to be a that caused havoc and chaos. Must have killed Pam Anderson and let bait watch
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You must have been a Donald Trump or the sea lions. Led them to sharp waters to get eaten by them
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You must have been the extinction of dinosaurs. A place where they only beat you as a connoisseur
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Either that or treason is the only reason that I can even think of God leaving us in hell
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Cause we live in hell, but since we living, we giving a living hell to everyone around us
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Surrounded by founders that lack peace for encounters So when you see a at a light, you gotta stare at him
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While you making a right, you gotta glare at him And if he a real , he might pull out that Tommy Hill figure
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It's like we hypnotize, kill s We call it pride, but sometimes it's just for the thrill, s
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Take your wife for six bucks Pull up in big trucks Doop, doop, doop, this shit sucks
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Ride down Joy Road if you wanna Better hide that rollie if you want it
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Stick up, kids, well, stick up, kids With no hesitation, put the stick up the kids
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I went to high school at Cody es at Mumford Mackenzie and Harry Ford is where I used to dump work
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I was getting off packages Had the greens and the papers Had all the haters
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Mad catchin' the vapors My pops was a drug dealer That's where I got it from
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Pops had heaters in the crib That's where I got it from Went to school every day
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Packin' the deuce deuce Tired of runnin' from dudes in school So I got the juice
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And high-tech boots I was throwin' drugs Had to heat me and my
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Frank Warner thugs But they jumped on Some s from P-Rock Kicked them out of school
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Broke up rock steady and beat bop Now I'm on my own Tryin' to live right
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But if you grew up in a D, then a gon' have to fight And that's just what it is
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You can mind your own beers But you still gotta cross the lion to see the whiz
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The east side is no dry zone You got a there Better have that young dog with to get there The summertime is a funner time Everybody on they porches so hot it gorgeous
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The main wall is a death trap. The same place that you hang out, same place you get left at
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What you know about police extortion? Girls getting tattooed tears for abortions. What you
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know about being accused of the same race? Cause she can get ugly as
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Chris Rock's rain face. Are checking a check that's already spit. We a waterboarder with the water from Flint
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Main goal is to stay alive. What you know about being a grandparent that's 35
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What you know about really being in danger? Moms and sisters fighting like strangers
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Nine years old and kids with the bangers. Seeing your daughter on a pose like hangers
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What you know about cook, crack, and heroin? Stashing coke and tires of a caravan
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What you know about home invasion? I'm getting drug out your crib with the chrome invading
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Your dreams turn to nightmares Quick as a flash Got gold on the mind but they looking for crash
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What you know about being a parent at 16 The bills dude, you smell mildew, the shit's mean
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How you supposed to survive if you can't get a job I guess you gotta rob and let God throw a lob
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That's what he did me He had a lifeline he wanted to give me
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I got the out of there so I could make a better me
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Wanted to sway the right way Worked ahead to be I went around all the places
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And I saw all the nooses Turned racism into love No excuses
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I had to get the out So I can give back Cause home is where the heart is
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Not where you live at I wanted to show the kids in the D
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That they ain't gotta feel hopeless They can look up to me And they can see
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A real ain't gotta shoot ya A real is planning to have a future
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A real is taking care of his family The legal way
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So you can abort the plan B Make that A work Find something you love and make play work
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Get something you love that you can get paid for And you'll enjoy that shit way more
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I love my city For the drink and the heart that it gave me
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The fortitude to live The shit that made me And no matter if no one accepts you
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Detroit, Michigan, I'ma always respect you Praise Kennedy! Praise Kennedy! We gotta have you
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You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying
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You know what I'm saying? Come on, man. Wow. Come on, man. We got a hiatus
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Come on, man. You know what? We got to make sure we salute one of the go to the game
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We got to mention LL on that list of actors and people who spit those lyrics
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LL Cool J. One of the goats as well. LL Cool J, yo. Salute to you
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Let me say this. talent and all of these different things, it matters, right
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But God has blessed you with an amazing energy. And I don't care what this game
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or these negative forces try to throw at you, keep that energy
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Keep that spirit, that light that's within you. It is so beautiful and so powerful to see
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and inspirational. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much
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I really appreciate that. You wrote the hell out of that. I'm trying to tell you
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I was there with you, bro. It's one thing to write it, though, but you have to deliver it
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You deliver. We were in a movie. Real talk. What you know about cooking up
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Your mom and sister fighting like they are strangers. 36-year-old grandparents, the hood
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Your daughter hanging off poles like hangers. He said a lot. Teardrops for abortions
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We trying to abort the plan B. Come on now She heard it
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We can abort the plan B She heard it Paige Kennedy I want y'all to follow him
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The way it sounds is the way it's spelled P-A-G-E-K-E-N-N-E-D-Y Hyena
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We got a hyena up in here Official You made it happen brother
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That was great I'm not even mad we 8 minutes over but normally I'm complaining, bro
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I give Sway that look like it's time to cut. Sound like you're still complaining
27:15
No, no, no. I'm just acknowledging that it was worth my time
27:19
It was worth it. I have to acknowledge that. It's turning into Sway in the Afternoon
27:25
and this is beautiful, though. And I love it. No, not many
27:30
We watched Locksmith this year. Yes, yes. We watched some really dope people come up here and do their thing
27:37
And, man, this is good. The quality is, hey, man, hey, you emcees
27:43
Hey, I'm going to talk to the opposite of dope ones. I ain't even talking to them
27:46
You are not allowed. If you do not meet the criteria, you are not allowed to spit up here
27:52
Go practice. Man. Practice. Man. Thank you, Sway. Finally for coming around
27:56
Go practice. Don't come up here. It's going to jump. Playing on beats. Yeah
28:01
Wasting our time. Sound like me. Talk to him, Sway. Wasting our time. Smiling and laughing
28:05
It's goofy to you. You keep that goofy shit at home with you and your people
28:10
when y'all doing your whack freestyles off the top of the head. Don't come up here unless you rapping like this
28:15
Paige Kennedy. We got a hi-ina, Alex Mejia. God is great. God is amazing
28:22
Shout out to you. Shout out to Money Long. Y'all been ready coming up here, man
28:28
This is good. Come on. Money Long came up here and died. Destroyed that 21 questions
28:34
Damn. Yo, I was like, who? Man. I like Buddy's freestyle. Buddy
28:38
Shout out to Buddy yesterday. Buddy could spit one other day. We ain't only a few of y'all gonna get the chance
28:43
Stop asking Torch if you could come up here to spit and you ain't ready. Don't do it
28:48
That was amazing. Thank you. Aw, thank you, man. That was incredible. I appreciate that
28:52
Aw, man. I've seen a lot of great MCs, my brother, and you are just right up there with everybody else
28:57
Damn. Already. You're at the top of the line. Man. They put you at the top. I know
29:01
That's crazy, bro. Hey, I take it, man. I want to sit at the summit and I want to inspire people like Michael Jackson inspired me
29:08
I want to inspire kids that want to be great. You know what I'm saying? Like enough with the mediocrity
29:14
Like I want you to want to leave something, a legacy that people can have a blueprint of how you do stuff
29:21
Because if we have everybody that just come with the music, whatever the fad is, they don't care
29:27
then that's going to grow the babies to be that way. I want them to care, you know. Absolutely
29:33
And quit being rich and living in mansions and peddling that ignorance that you don't even be a part of no more in your verses
29:39
Yeah. Come on, man. Wow. All right. Shout out Detroit. Damn. I thought it was a good time to throw that in there
29:47
Kelly Kikage, but that's the Flintstone right there. That ain't Detroit. So shout out to Kelly
29:51
Kelly was on me. We met you in 2016, I think it really was
29:56
Yeah. Where? Do you remember? No, no. South by Southwest. Oh, it was 2017
30:00
It was 2017? Yeah. Around this time. It was around this time. 2017
30:05
And Kelly got me on that stage. I begged her. Yeah. And she's been a trooper ever since
30:12
And I've been harassing her, importuning her, because I wanted to be around greatness
30:18
And I got to come to the GOAT. And man, I'm so happy, bro. Come on, man
30:22
We happy too, brother. Thank you. Happy for you. Happy for you, man
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