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DJ Scratch Breaks Down The Iconic Redman and Method Man Verzuz Battle | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Apr 22, 2021
DJ Scratch gives all the details behind the epic Verzuz battle between Redman and Method Man. He talked about the song selection , guest appearances and his new project with Rza.
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but right now man
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man one of the illest producers one of
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the illest
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dj's ever highly rewarded highly
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regarded legendary the way he curated
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the verses
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the way he did the verses last night man
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i told him i told him personally man
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that was my favorite verses
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of the day there's been some amazing
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ones but that to me was the pinnacle of
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what hip-hop
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encompasses in this culture with red man
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and method man and
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do-it-all do and you know dj cool and
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all the wu-tang clan members and
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you know it and all the hit squad and
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and all these different fro
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man epmd his original group and i hit
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him and i think i might have woke him up
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um i'm not sure maybe he ain't even
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slept
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you know i'm not sure but man ladies and
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gentlemen we got the legendary the one
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and only dj
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grand master scratch is here
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on the line what a scratch what up baby
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congrats what's up baby
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what's up y'all what's going on come on
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man
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stop it man you sound too calm and
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collected man come on scratch
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you beat that thing up last night give
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it up for grab after scratch
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light work that's how you sound when you
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know you did that
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come on man this is just uh it's a day's
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work man
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[Laughter]
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now but you know um just you know just
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being the md and music director
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for all of these years man it's just
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like my job is to
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make sure at the very last song
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that these artists have a smile on their
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face
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you know it's it's really not about me
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on that stage
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it's about you know dj's job is to make
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sure the person that they do game for
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you know sounds perfect and and looks
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perfect
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on stage and if they give me my time to
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shine of course i'm gonna do my thing
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but that's just my job you know what i'm
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saying so
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i don't even really celebrate it because
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it's it's really worked
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even though i'm grateful to still be
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doing this all of these years man and
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then
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you know to be getting these these type
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of calls to come do this type of work
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man
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it's an honor man i okay i'll do it for
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him man it's the [ __ ] one and
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only dj grandmaster scratch man
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listen man you know i get it i get it
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scratched okay man i get it man
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those grammy knives ain't enough huh
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those golden platinum projects you done
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ain't enough hey listen man it's just a
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day of work with him but that was a
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clinic
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that was a clinic the world witnessed
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last night when you saw that man
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turntablism
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did you see him cutting scratches
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transforming turning spinning he could
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have got on his hands and did it with
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his feet
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if he wanted to he's a champion citizens
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he's been doing this for years
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you can't you can't short sell what he
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does he is a music director to
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two of the most incredible artists that
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hip-hop has ever seen
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you saw what he did when he lassoed any
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pmd and told him you can't leave
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come on dj cool you can't leave rizza
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you can't leave
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wu-tang you can't leave they all honor
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you the world should honor you for your
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contributions grand master scratch
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the world should honor you thank you
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thank you
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i'll do it for you man i know what it is
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scratch vision baby versus everybody
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everybody come on man i love it man
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how did y'all put the show together bro
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was this like pieces and bits of things
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you've done
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or because that nobody's done verses
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like that you guys officially reinvented
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verses
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as far as i'm concerned yeah well
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um when i when i dj's for d'angelo
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and red and meth came out uh met the man
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had reached out to me uh the next day
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and was like yo man you know
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if you're doing any if you're free on
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420 man i would
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i would love for you to dj force for
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versus so once we
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all had had a conversation you know it
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was like yo
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we want we don't want to just sit and
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you know and just
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play our songs we want to get up we want
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to do a show you because you know if you
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ever seen the red man met the man show
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it's always high energy
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so they just wanted to bring that to the
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stage so i was like okay let's do that
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like i would love to do that
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but let's let's do a different type of
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lineup um
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so i picked a nice list of songs and
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and it's all about a vibe you know you
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got to have
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songs flowing like if you're doing a
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real dj set
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like songs can't clash with each other
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all of the songs have to flow
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flow with each other so when they were
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talking about the the chick song
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so the chick song the song for the women
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those love songs and stuff like that
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they all they all have to go in a
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cluster
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that's how you would do a dj set so so
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that's how we planned it
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i was so impressed everybody looked
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great hb you want to say something to
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scratch
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yo i we was talking about you this
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morning scratch brother i was just
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bigging you up
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and not even knowing that you were going
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to call in this afternoon so thank you
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for calling in
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but i just i just feel like
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what you were able to do
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was remind so many people that
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to be blessed with the level of talent
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that you have
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as a technician is it like
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let's not forget about that i think we
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just take djing
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for granted and and because of how
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djinn is is being used in certain areas
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and platforms down and we see
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certain people quote unquote dj in the
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level of skill that you have
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that jazzy jeff has that dj premier
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scrap like these
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these technicians these geniuses behind
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these two turntables
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and the thousands of hours of practice i
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was so glad
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that you took time last night to display
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your skill set because
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we just we forget to appreciate that and
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me just being a hip-hop head
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brother i was just happy that you did
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that last night um
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it was beautiful it was brilliant and it
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was beautiful and i'm just echoing what
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i said about you this morning thank you
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just thank you for what you did thank
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you thank you absolutely
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thank you heather we'll talk
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scratch some folks are calling up for
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you d is in atlanta grand rises d
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d what's up jay hey what's up man i just
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want to just come in on
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that versus last night that is the real
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real hip hop right there that's the [ __ ]
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that i like to see
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and dj scratch man you did your [ __ ]
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thing yeah yeah yeah
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come on man there it is man d thanks for
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calling it
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and and i thought i think i think
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brandon meth you know for for giving me
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that shine that you know for me to do my
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thing man like
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you know they you know they come from
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everywhere they understand what a dj
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where the dj can give the dj a flat you
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know give him a
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a section for him to actually show his
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shine that's how i always was you know
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that that's been taken away from hip-hop
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but yeah
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you know these dudes come from
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everywhere it's like now this dude is
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this dude gets it in we like we got to
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let him shine as well so i appreciate
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that
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y'all actually set the bar y'all set the
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bar for
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the verses from here on out yeah i won't
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watch nothing else
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unless it's like that wow
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and he said i have a straight ass face
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hey brother you a citizen d you
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assistant way in the morning
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and then see some of these artists need
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to take cue because they need a dj to
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lean on
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red and men don't necessarily you know
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they got they know how to entertain that
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stage
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that stage performance their stage
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presence was a clinic
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but some of these artists could use a dj
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actually they you know they need the
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right djs that's the thing
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you know they need the right djs because
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um just it's just little things man like
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little things that can turn turn a show
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from
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a regular show to an epic moment like
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my favorite part of the show was
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when red man did superman lover and meth
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was walking
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was walking behind him fanning the cape
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like he was playing
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that was that was my favorite part of
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the show because
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you know he really you know when he was
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talking about that he really felt like
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you know
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red really felt like i'm like no dog
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like superman love is one of the
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greatest chick songs ever like he really
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doesn't believe that
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and you know he was transparent like he
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that was he was really transparent on
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stage about that when he was talking
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about that
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i'm like nah man so when meth put the
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cape on him
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and was fanning the cape so he can fly
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like that was real that wasn't you know
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the the cake was planned that's what i'm
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like yeah you got to put a cape on
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because we talked about this in
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rehearsal
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and we had the same conversation like
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nah man my i've got all the dope chicks
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so i'm like nah man superman love is a
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it's a legendary chick song i'm like but
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you just got to do it you just got to do
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it on an epic level you have to believe
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that it's a great song so
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when you when you do this song man go go
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you know at the front of the stage
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and somebody get a cake put a [ __ ]
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cape on and
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fly around the [ __ ] stage and so we
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got a cape
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and when meth fan the cape
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that was all and that was improv but it
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just
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it it made it made him feel confident
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and believed that his song was one of
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the greatest chick songs ever
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like that was real real emotion real
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emotion
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man man we got dj grand master scratch
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here with the scratch vision is the
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movement
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uh cody you got a question he and callie
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what's your question real quick cody
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yeah man scratch is my boy man back back
10:01
from 1992 let's scratch to bring it back
10:04
just killing the [ __ ] game man
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just killing the game you know uh
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i just love this i love what he does we
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he's just out there still doing it man
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born at 68 you know what i'm saying for
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brooklyn shout out brooklyn
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indeed uh
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all right cody can i jump in real quick
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go ahead tracy coach thank you still on
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420.
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right i'm like all right cody's in and
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out i'll see you how i can get in
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scratch i'm very curious when it comes
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to
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sequencing for a show is it the dj
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who um comes with a potential
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um set is it more collaborative
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like how does that work when you're
10:49
figuring out the order of songs
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well me in particular i i um
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i usually come up with the whole show
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and curate
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wow most most djs don't because the
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artists don't really
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and it's crazy you know a lot of a lot
11:05
of people who have dj's
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they don't really they don't really they
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just tell them you'll play these songs
11:10
they don't really
11:11
take their opinion or listen to the dj's
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opinion but
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you know i'm grateful to just earn that
11:17
respect from everybody
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so from you know from jay-z on down
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you know i i i will curate the list
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because they trust it and they've seen
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it work with other people
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you know so when they seen with d'angelo
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because d'angelo i put that whole show
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together
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and the the whole show was canceled
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like everybody canceled on d'angelo the
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night before
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verses he had he had like four other
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artists that i can't mention
11:45
along with red and meth and they all
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were cancelled
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the night before so deangelo told me
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that they all canceled at 3am
11:55
put a set together at 3 a.m
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so at 6 00 a.m we we were complete with
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a with a whole show and that's what
12:02
y'all saw him versus
12:04
hours later so you know and so they know
12:08
that backstory as well but um
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they just they you know they trust they
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trust my um they trust my judgment
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as a dj and just you know has just been
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doing this for a long time so
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usually when i'm djing for somebody like
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this and doing an event like this i do
12:24
all of the curation of music
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dj grand master scratch say his name
12:29
right you can't just be called a grand
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master
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you're right you're right levels to that
12:36
nobody can just call you a grand master
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okay he's earned that you got to win a
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bunch of competitions you got to get
12:42
some grammy knives some platinum
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projects there's all sorts of stuff that
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goes behind this
12:47
one of the things i i heard it's a cut
12:50
you produced a lot of the songs that
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were being played and
12:53
you had to snap rizzo into it but you
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got a project coming out with rizza
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yes uh mia viza we [ __ ] we almost done
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now
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we did the album together he reached out
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during the pandemic it was like just
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scratch man i'm you know i'm doing all
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this work you know
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hollywood and you know doing the films
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and all that stuff but y'all
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i wanna i wanna make some music but
13:16
i wanna just i just wanna rhyme and
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let's do it helping together i'm like
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let's do it
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so i sent him the beats
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he loved every beat i sent them he
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started knocking out vocals
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sending them back and we're almost done
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wow so it's risen be dispatched produced
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by dj scratch
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wow
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[Applause]
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and and and this is and this is this is
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the main thing about it man
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like i'm a wu-tang fan i'm i'm a fan
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of these artists that's why i work with
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them that's the first thing
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i have to be a fan to work to work with
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this is
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it's really not about the check anymore
14:02
i have to love it
14:04
because it has to be fun just doing this
14:06
all these years man like
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it should get to a point where i want to
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have fun
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so you know i'm a fan of wu tang so
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just just working with with any member
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of wu-tang especially the abbot
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you know is a [ __ ] honor you know
14:22
what i mean so
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so i oh so so i said this album
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is gonna sound like a wu-tang album the
14:30
real original wu-tang
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sound so when you hear it this [ __ ] is
14:34
some
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woo-tang [ __ ]
14:38
i can't wait to hear this crap kung fu
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the kung fu skits all of that that's
14:42
that
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you know that some of the artists have
14:44
swayed away from but
14:45
that sound i brought that sound to this
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album
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and i can't wait i can't wait for it to
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drop
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man man god is great brother and so are
14:54
you dj
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grandmaster scratch you got scratch
14:57
vision hey listen i've been a guest on
14:59
scratch vision come on man i was one of
15:01
the first one of the early games
15:02
come on man i did my thing come on come
15:05
on i got to come back now i get it
15:07
i got to come back scratch tell people
15:09
how they can reach you on social
15:10
train in virginia beach henry in
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maryland i want y'all to hit him
15:14
directly and ask him whatever you want
15:16
to ask him on his social
15:17
scratch how can they reach you you can
15:20
reach me
15:20
at dj scratch spell regular on
15:23
everything from from instagram to
15:25
facebook
15:26
even my space my myspace is still
15:28
popping
15:29
there it is i don't know if anybody
15:32
i i don't know i don't know if y'all
15:34
been you know y'all been on my space
15:36
lately but my space is still active
15:38
there's still about
15:39
about 20 million people on there but my
15:41
myspace is still popping
15:43
and up to date i i i still got my top
15:45
eight i actually
15:46
took four off because i don't [ __ ] with
15:48
them no more so i got top four
15:49
i don't have top eight right now but
15:52
yeah my mom screams everything is still
15:54
popping but yeah you can reach me
15:56
at uh dj scratch on all platforms and
15:59
you can hit me at scratchvision.com as
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well
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there it is man love you bro love you
16:03
man thank you
16:05
love y'all man thank you all right dj
16:07
grandmaster scratch you got it first
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right here be great scratch i'll talk to
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you soon brother
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you
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