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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
01:14 - Election Participation
03:45 - Honored at Harvard
06:32 - Collaboration with Fatman Scoop
09:20 - Hair and Style Choices
10:20 - Love's Influence on Music
13:09 - Collaborations with Artists
15:05 - Positive Friend Group
19:13 - Creative Outlets Beyond Music
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[Applause]
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yo this guy is back Tracy G uhhuh you
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could do the research you do the
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research you put his name up put our
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name up you see that we've been we've
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been meeting up for years word and one
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of the things I've always said about his
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I always enjoy listening to his music
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and I always enjoy his features because
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he introduces people to folks through
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supporting people who just his friends
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that we was talking about am earlier yes
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absolutely 100% glad that they
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collaborated um and all his many
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collaborations um have really landed in
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my musical pallet my personal pallet
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Mike m jcole yeah jcole right DOI Saba
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DOI all these different people are
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artists that um I listen to Just because
0:49
right and so it's always great to have
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him come back by the show always an
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interesting conversation also a
0:54
celebration this man is getting
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acknowledged for something pretty damn
0:57
incredible we going to talk about that
0:59
he got a new project that's coming out
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no date on it just yet you know no we
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ain't got a lot of information on it but
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we got a lot of anticipation on it
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welcome back to the show The One and
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Only
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[Applause]
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s family man how y man how you been
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young man I'm good black people I'm very
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good you good yeah I'm real good I like
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that GRE in black people yep feels good
1:27
we need that today man um we need that
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today yeah we need that today um how how
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how did you participate in the election
1:34
this year um yeah I did I did okay good
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just a round of applause I ain't going
1:39
even ask you who just a great way to
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kick it off you ain't got you ain't got
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to ask who
1:45
man you know what side we on okay there
1:48
you God damn it I did not get I might as
1:50
well go ahead and
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act we we we we voted for women for for
1:56
change they godam come on man voted for
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women I got it pink on today that's what
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that's about that's interesting because
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I I I said that and I won't dive too
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deep but I I said that to some of my uh
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comrades and some of my peers why part
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of why I was voting for U KLA Harris is
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because she's a woman right when may
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have been a hindrance to her Victory um
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um ironically might may have been a
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hindrance we know it was a hindrance to
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her Victory but damn it is it's been
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nothing but beautiful women who raised
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us who brought us into this world you do
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the stats and you find out how many
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women are heads of companies and you
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compare their um results and the success
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rate as heads of companies um you will
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find that women make great CEOs business
2:47
Mogul Leaders The Whole Nine and I think
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the country um for those who didn't vote
2:52
for this person because she was a woman
2:55
the country definitely needs a reset and
2:57
hearing you say that especially folks
2:59
that come from our community and come
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from our culture really lands well for
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me Mano man I [ __ ] with you love bro I
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mean you know I got I grew up I grew up
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I got four big sisters my mom I grew up
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around a bunch of women my my my pops
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got six five six sisters like you know I
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was raised by a lot of women and and you
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know I just seen this statistic that
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said uh young women are out earning
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young men right now in the in the
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workforce you know what I mean so I just
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I mean hey it is what it is and if you
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even my man over there you know we love
3:30
hiring you know women to just kind of be
3:33
on the team because it's a little extra
3:35
detail that they just go about you know
3:38
taking care of some stuff so yeah I mean
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yeah that's where we at with that but
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real man right here come on man let that
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breathe for a
3:45
second now I talked about a celebration
3:48
that's happening and um there's
3:51
something going on with Howard no not
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excuse me Howard I'm so I'm thinking of
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my daughter Harvard my daughter goes to
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Howard grad school I'm talking about
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every day but Harvard you're being
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honored at Harvard uh yeah the black men
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Foundation of Harvard they wanted to
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give me like a Lifetime Achievement
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Award um black man Forum my bad excuse
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me the black man Forum at Harvard um
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they giving me a Lifetime Achievement
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Award so yeah I'm going to go see what
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it's about cuz I figured a bunch of
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black men in Harvard got to had
4:18
something good to say you know come on
4:20
man but but what is it based on did they
4:22
tell you why they chose you they
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basically was saying when I read through
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it it was pretty much saying that it was
4:29
um for my excellence and being and and
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how I like uphold myself as a black man
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and what I do for my community back home
4:37
in St Louis and things pertaining to
4:39
that like you know I I can't really go
4:41
into DET about what it is cuz I I still
4:43
I'm still figuring it out I'm just going
4:45
to see what is you know what it is for
4:47
real for real but yeah I'm I'm honored
4:50
honestly I like that cuz I know the
4:52
things you do you don't do for
4:54
acknowledgement or recognition so uh
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it's kind of a to me you're anomaly in
4:58
the sense that don't you don't live to
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me like a regular rap star you know what
5:02
I mean is that on purpose it's a lot
5:05
it's a lot getting caught up in the
5:07
circus or everything it's it's such a
5:09
it's such it's too fun almost like it's
5:11
like sometimes you get into this part
5:13
where you just like it's really you you
5:15
kind of start feeling delusional like I
5:17
know these ain't my friends like I know
5:19
these ain't my people so I just try to
5:21
spend more time with the people that
5:23
actually like you know feed me and like
5:25
you know make me feel more better as a
5:29
as as a dude like not even no rapper
5:31
just a dude like I'm like that's my boy
5:34
I'm proud of you you um I don't know did
5:36
whatever like you got your license
5:38
finally me I'm proud of you like people
5:39
that tell me stuff like that type people
5:42
I try to be around what are the
5:44
qualities that you look for and friends
5:46
that you make now at this stage because
5:48
as we continue to expand and evolve we
5:51
also have the opportunity to meet people
5:53
who mirror where we're at but of course
5:56
to your point you have to be Discerning
5:58
to understand like what their motives
5:59
are who they are perhaps behind a mask
6:02
what do you kind of look at as um
6:04
qualifiers or how much time do you take
6:06
before you can call someone a friend at
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this stage it take a long time for I be
6:10
like you my friend you know what I'm
6:11
saying my mama raised me like that you
6:13
ain't got no friends but I'm from the
6:14
hood so you know how that go like you
6:16
got to be careful but um yeah man I
6:19
think my main quality is how you treat
6:21
other folks like you know what I'm
6:23
saying cuz a lot of times I meet people
6:24
that's pretty successful so they
6:26
probably think they just up her and
6:29
somebody down here and I just don't I
6:31
really don't rock with that so anytime I
6:33
can find somebody that's just solid like
6:35
with everybody like from the biggest to
6:38
the like you know just that Community
6:40
grocery store personal like we out with
6:42
the Uber driver you ain't treating the
6:43
Uber driver all bad and stuff like that
6:45
I rock with you you you good people
6:47
great quality to have I can bring you to
6:48
my crib if I can't bring you to my crib
6:50
you're not my homie straight up that's
6:51
just how it that man another you about
6:54
to get a lot of applies you put me in a
6:57
good ass mood to I'll be honest with
6:58
youo a little rough um I understand bro
7:02
I understand uh we brought up um DOI um
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I know y'all did that um want to say Pro
7:08
freak that also featured U fat man scoop
7:11
Long Live scop come on Long Live scoop
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man man what do what do you recall about
7:20
just being even having that affiliation
7:22
with school man I I really just was was
7:25
crazy in the studio all right so if you
7:27
ever been to a Smo show my hype man
7:29
sounds like fat man school so like I I
7:33
asked my hype man I was like uh his name
7:35
Jeff on the bush out my boy Jeff on the
7:36
bush Charlotte I say Jeff bro I need you
7:39
to hit that big booty girl I need you to
7:41
hit that J like fat man Schoop he did it
7:43
and then I hit my manager heny and he
7:46
was just like yo you know I actually
7:48
like know fat man scoop I could just hit
7:50
fat man scoop and he hit fat man scoop
7:52
and scoop straight called my phone wow
7:54
he was so excited to do it you know what
7:56
I'm saying he was like me on man did one
7:58
part when you you know what I'm saying I
7:59
don't know if you ever talk to school
8:00
but you know he be turned man so like he
8:02
was just like yeah that one part when
8:03
you getting down I figured I could do it
8:05
like that you know he just holling at me
8:06
I'm like bro you fat man School bro
8:09
whatever you want to do we going to do
8:10
it bro so yeah I mean he got it the way
8:12
and we just added his vocals to the song
8:14
that we already made and then it was
8:15
just like this empty verse and I just
8:17
sent her to DOI and she just took flight
8:20
so that's how it went a't something how
8:22
DOI is taking flight though bro oh yeah
8:24
I knew that from the man what from the
8:26
jump like I like ain't no way she ain't
8:28
F to go crazy like what she's a pure
8:31
Lyricist a pure singer a pure star just
8:34
literally yeah she's special though she
8:36
she's something different to me like I I
8:38
see a ton of projects coming from her
8:41
you know oh yeah absolutely do you
8:43
concern yourself with that like
8:45
longevity I think that that's all I've
8:48
concerned myself with is longevity like
8:49
I never try to think about this week or
8:51
last week when it come to music because
8:54
it's supposed to be timeless you know
8:55
I've been playing show I've been playing
8:57
shows for a while and I've been playing
8:59
songs from like 2017 since wow forever
9:03
you know so I feel like it's important
9:05
to just put your heart into the music
9:06
cuz from there people just going to you
9:08
know people going to decide if they want
9:09
to listen to something anyway or not so
9:11
I feel like the more you give them to
9:13
like listen to and to decide about the
9:15
better off you are so yeah that's really
9:17
that's that's my whole spill on
9:19
longevity know who did who did your who
9:22
did your
9:23
braid ask you was going to ask go ahead
9:26
after you ask yeah no because we talked
9:28
a little bit before we um Came live on
9:30
air but this to fit everything just A1
9:33
but the hair like who who who did your
9:35
hair today my little my little baby did
9:37
this nice she did tell her she did no
9:40
because hair is energy and you can't let
9:42
everybody in in your hair you just can't
9:45
I could probably count on one hand how
9:47
many people have done my hair before
9:49
like literally wow straight yeah you got
9:51
to be careful with that energy so no she
9:53
did a good job salute to the sis salute
9:56
and and speaking of your lady I gotta
9:57
say I'd love that you just I love that
10:01
you're so committed to your girl I love
10:05
when there are those in the culture that
10:08
are like claiming the love of their life
10:11
for us to see and obviously it's still
10:13
important to have your privacy you know
10:16
because that pours into the intimacy but
10:19
I think that's really important
10:20
especially because we had a culture for
10:22
so long that was rooted in misogyny you
10:25
know what I mean a culture that was
10:26
allergic to monogamy you know and
10:29
anything that felt like a union how do
10:31
you feel like your relationship and
10:33
shout out to da um how do you feel like
10:35
that has helped to shape your strength
10:38
as an artist or how you view the world I
10:40
mean I grew up seeing love so I figured
10:43
not I mean I didn't even do it for that
10:46
but like you know expressing it and
10:48
showing it to the world is like it's a
10:50
lot of people that probably don't get to
10:51
see that and they might think that I'm
10:52
pretty cool so I'm like I'm going just
10:54
show that too that portion of my life
10:56
you know and um also I think write my
10:59
best songs when I'm in love you know
11:01
what I'm saying I think I write my I
11:02
make my best music when I'm in love
11:04
honestly yeah my best music has been
11:06
about that's some type of girl SW you
11:09
over there crying
11:12
almost man man yeah man I ain't I ain't
11:15
I love my daughter so may you know I I
11:18
understand man love right now girls man
11:21
yeah I got a daughter so um anyway man
11:23
um I'm sorry how old your daughter 26
11:25
bro okay got a grown ass daughter I know
11:27
you wasn't expecting that number right
11:29
there cuz I look so you know young wow
11:32
young wow how do you get to compliment
11:34
yourself in that on mind he was like
11:38
damn swiggy I didn't know you got a 26
11:40
old you know uh but um always how did
11:44
you in sa hookup did that
11:55
ever you know name what happened was I
11:58
was in what had happened was just
12:00
playing I was in Chicago living in
12:03
Chicago transplant from St Louis
12:05
obviously and then um we all played
12:08
Pitchfork the same year and this
12:10
literally how it happened first of all
12:11
we all dropped albums in 2017 I dropped
12:13
black swine she dropped telephone sa
12:15
dropped what was sa uh
12:18
type comfort zone right I think it was
12:21
comfort zone H he act like he was going
12:23
to
12:24
remember so so we all dropped in 2017
12:28
and it kind of uh just that was all of
12:31
our like takeoff projects and we played
12:34
Pitchfork and Lauren Hill was there I
12:36
never forget we met Lauren Hill and all
12:38
that she was like y'all the ones pushing
12:39
it for keep pushing and then somebody
12:41
took a picture of all us and we posted
12:43
it and it went mad viral and everybody
12:45
was like this the super group rap needs
12:47
and stuff like that so um we tried to
12:51
just you know come up with a name and
12:53
all that and we came up with ghetto Sage
12:54
cuz ghetto Sage you know we all like
12:56
burning sage and being ghetto yeah so
13:00
dooty baby yeah little do yeah we came
13:02
up with ghetto sage and all that and
13:04
yeah that's how we came together the
13:05
people made us a group for real we still
13:07
working on the album right now still
13:09
working on the album what what I
13:10
appreciate about you collaborate with a
13:12
lot of
13:13
folks right and uh not everybody do that
13:16
some artists just sit in the studio by
13:18
themselves and but that seemed to be the
13:20
formula that work for for you then yeah
13:22
I ain't going to stunt sway I'm fire
13:24
that's one thing I know like I'm fire
13:26
like I I can I can get on anything I'm
13:29
I'm a drummer I'm a musician so a lot of
13:31
music inspires me so people will send me
13:33
cool stuff and I just be like I'm about
13:34
to find my way on it you know that's
13:36
really how this is really how I look at
13:38
stuff it's more about the music than the
13:40
person always yeah what you saying and
13:42
all that I don't care how big you are I
13:44
don't care if you just got a thousand
13:45
followers if I like the song I'm
13:47
probably going to do my thing yeah and
13:49
you come from a music family so that's
13:51
in your DNA my daddy still playing at
13:54
church every Sunday come on man shout
13:55
out to Pops man you are fire and um
13:59
I don't critique your music you know
14:02
what I mean I receive your music you
14:05
know like a lot of us who work in the
14:07
business tend to hear songs and want to
14:09
pick the [ __ ] apart or whatever a lot of
14:11
those folks never made songs I come from
14:14
a background where I made song So when
14:16
somebody's giving you something I
14:17
receive it like if I'm at your home and
14:19
you put something on the plate I'mma eat
14:21
it cuz you made it you know what I mean
14:23
that's tight you know and so I
14:25
definitely think you fire I always tell
14:27
Smo like yo man you make the of music
14:30
that gives us the feeling we felt that
14:32
we always talk about when we were coming
14:34
up but I don't like to put I don't think
14:37
that feeling is um is a feeling that
14:40
couldn't be repeated so to speak you
14:42
know and so I don't like to put it on
14:44
the old school I just think you make
14:46
great music for now that reminds me of
14:49
what I felt like when groups like De La
14:51
Soul and tribe call Quest and all these
14:53
guys are coming out because you knew it
14:55
was something special you know what I
14:57
mean not because it sounds like it but
14:59
it gives me that feeling hard yeah man
15:02
Smo Smo was here man U Mike Muse go
15:05
ahead yeah it kind of goes to the
15:06
question I had one to ask you Meo
15:08
particularly when sway when you were
15:09
talking about how he's a great
15:11
collaborator I'm G make a big assumption
15:13
here and it's dangerous to make
15:14
assumptions but I feel like you have
15:16
such a strong sense of self and agency
15:18
and vulnerability that I feel like you
15:19
have a good group of guy friends um if
15:23
you could talk about that and and the
15:25
benefit of how that's helped you define
15:27
and own your agency yeah you can tell I
15:30
don't have to worry about my homies
15:31
doing something weird and I'm like hey
15:35
yo why you do that bro I got to this I
15:37
don't got to worry about that ever you
15:38
know what I'm saying I think it's all
15:40
just uh I don't know how I don't know
15:43
that's just a straight blessing from God
15:44
cuz I ain't try to do that or nothing I
15:46
think it's
15:47
like personalities meeting each other
15:49
and stuff but all my homeboys just good
15:52
good guys raising their kids or you know
15:54
making their music staying out the way
15:57
they don't really be often to all the
15:59
you know extras like that like I got
16:01
some wild homies but they they pretty
16:03
much so still respect women and all that
16:05
like yeah bro I don't know I I don't
16:09
really know how that happened like
16:10
honestly it's straight only a blessing I
16:12
can't put words behind that I'm so
16:13
grateful for how that benefited you uh
16:16
they just got my back I don't never feel
16:18
weird when I'm around like they they
16:20
know what I'm with and what I'm not with
16:22
so let's say we having a show and it's
16:25
after the show and obviously people
16:26
start you know wanting to come backstage
16:29
you know the homies might collect some
16:31
cool girls to come backstage it's like
16:33
we don't be with certain stuff though
16:34
you know what I'm saying and I ain't got
16:36
to go too far in on it but you know what
16:38
I mean like yeah I ain't got to worry
16:40
about them for real me know man um give
16:44
this man a round of apply celebrating
16:45
the 2-year anniversary of um love for
16:48
rent and I was just thinking about how
16:50
many people was on that album fat man
16:52
Schoop jcole Uzi Lucky Day DOI mhm all
16:59
these people were on that one project
17:01
bro yeah can't forget Raven L come on
17:04
yeah my sis that's your sis yes my
17:07
That's a classic man uh and it's only
17:10
two years old congratulations man that's
17:12
a classic let me ask you I read you know
17:15
um did I what I wear today what what I
17:17
didn't wear nothing today hey come on
17:20
bro I didn't do nothing today I should
17:22
have he KN you
17:25
know you know normally I have my sneaker
17:27
game on point I should have should have
17:29
wore them but I wore the Y I'm in New
17:31
York I got the Y on I got y you got to
17:34
get ready I got on
17:37
y you you announced that you were giving
17:39
away your sneakers right on Instagram
17:41
did did that happen what size you were
17:43
11 dog all right I got some stuff for
17:46
you I I I get too much shoes to my house
17:49
like no no no complaints shout out to
17:51
Nike and all of my good people that send
17:53
me shoes but I just got too many shoes
17:56
and you know going on tour I can't wear
17:58
a same shoes shoes every night I I
18:00
lowkey get my shoes out every night cuz
18:01
on my rider I got a pair of white forces
18:03
every night you know I sound I'm about
18:05
to sound a real real privil for a minute
18:07
but I got all my you know every night on
18:09
the ride I got the white forces so I
18:10
sign them just throw them out but
18:12
sometimes I don't and then that just end
18:14
up piling up in my closet so yeah I'm
18:17
giving it away I'm doing this
18:18
partnership with this uh company called
18:19
Grill it's a company where you can
18:22
resell your stuff but I'm about to
18:24
basically have a whole Smo closet for
18:26
sale towards the end of the year yeah
18:29
and you can get whatever you seen me
18:30
wearing probably oh can you is it like a
18:33
faux PA like is it against the rule to
18:36
where your your ones more than once they
18:39
call ons
18:43
bro that's crazy time for the one time
18:47
you could only wear them on the white
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ones the white ones you can wear the
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black ones all your life you can you
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going have the same part of black forces
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for 25 years if you want to bro cuz yeah
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you could only wear on one come across
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way it's over you know what it really is
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though it's when that little bottom that
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little bottom get a little brown from
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walking and then you you take one step
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and you just like you got on some white
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and brown shoes it's so St yeah are
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there other ways that um you express
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yourself outside because clearly we see
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it when it comes to Fashion obviously
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when it comes to music what other forms
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of creative Outlets do you tap into it's
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not really a thing that I share though
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it's like I I love I love like um I like
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all right so I recently developed a
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green thumb that's great yeah so I like
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I like planting stuff you know and
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growing stuff come on Gardener that's
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great man yeah that's dope all kinds of
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stuff yeah yeah a lot of metaphor in
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that practice too what you growing like
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you said turn up yeah I'm I'm growing
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some turnup right now I'm growing a
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whole lot of turnup growing a whole lot
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of turn up yeah bunch of turnup okay
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yeah six turnup plants I like salad so
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we get it popping man yeah okay so I
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we're a size 11
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sneaker we we going to get you together
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we going to get you together I'm 11 too
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over here okay okay you heard Hy Hy
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going write that down man that's my boy
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over there okay no Andy don't write him
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down write me down oh
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wow okay I'm Miss I'm your I'm your plug
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uh what's your what's your top five
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iconic sneakers top five sneakers our
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first ones obviously okay number one
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number two shelto Adidas number three
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um um the Jordan flu
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games um four I'mma go with
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um the beef and broccoli
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Tims and five I'mma go with the beef and
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broccoli TS five
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bapes b yeah some bapes Pat and letter
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though Pat Le P Leather base I just went
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with my good I ain't really want to
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think about a't nobody ever asked me
20:57
that question so yeah good man that's
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what it is come on man size 11
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dog we got all that bro okay just case
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y'all didn't hear that part what can you
21:08
tell us about the new project yes the
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new project um was made before love for
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rent really oh timeless music yeah
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that's what I could tell you and um can
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I say the name all it's called maybe in
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Nirvana maybe in Nirvana yeah because um
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basically I felt like I would I would
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never be at peace if I didn't put this
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project out so I felt like all right
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maybe it'll be a good time when I am at
21:36
peace to put this project out so it's
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called maybe in Nirvana but I it's it's
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very very very very insightful music
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about my life at that time of my life
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and it's yeah it feels I love it is it
21:48
is it a closure project for that time of
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your life or yeah yeah yeah so I can
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move forward cuz I got so much music to
21:54
put out right now like literally
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literally I left la from the studio to
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come here but I got so much music to put
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out and I can't wait to put it out but I
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was just like bro this burn in my
22:04
pockets you know how you got some your
22:05
pocket I need to show everybody this fit
22:07
you wonder where this fit that's how I
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am right now with this album so yeah
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it's like nine 10 song 10 songs 10 songs
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I feel like since you here it's been a
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couple of years man like you know us man
22:19
we know you yeah man turn your air drop
22:21
on man turn my air yo DB uh torch turn
22:23
the air drop so is it on we got got it
22:28
we got it he got it oh you already got
22:31
the song no you air dropped it yeah I
22:35
air dropped it yeah okay that's it take
22:37
one take you got it take one hold on
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okay you want something else hold on
22:43
okay okay I like that know I honestly I
22:45
don't even care you pick any one or they
22:46
all fire you could curse it don't matter
22:48
serious you talking about I ain't going
22:49
to St I've been trying to stop cursing
22:51
so much oh you want to stop I Comm that
22:53
trying to I I I Ain said I did okay I my
22:56
music no I really for real I've been
22:58
trying to and try to say more words it's
23:00
it be it's wild how did you come to that
23:02
conclusion I cuss a lot I was listening
23:04
to this video of me talk I'm like damn
23:07
why I cuss so much I'm like H that's cuz
23:10
just I don't know I just do and I'm like
23:12
let me just make a new habit I be trying
23:13
to like bend my mind around and stuff
23:15
every like now and then you know I like
23:17
that you right-handed or left-handed
23:20
right here a something you should try um
23:24
too because I do that too I try to shock
23:26
my mind and and not and break out of
23:29
habits when you wake up in the morning
23:31
you go to the bathroom first thing you
23:33
do is you brush your teeth with your
23:35
left
23:36
hand and start doing that utilize things
23:38
with your okay trust me it kind of
23:40
rewise slowly through the day I'm
23:43
sipping coffee with my lip with your
23:44
left hand smoking weed with my left hand
23:46
but you exercising different parts of
23:48
your brain now you see smoking weed just
23:50
started to sound like a hook we learned
23:52
a new word today what's that prattle
23:55
yeah that's right yeah and it means to
23:56
talk at length about ins ific matters
24:00
mhm so just shooting the [ __ ] yeah
24:03
basically it's like small talk yeah not
24:05
so much small talk though I guess it
24:07
could be interpreted as small talk I
24:09
interpret it as just like time wasting
24:13
conversations prattling okay all right
24:16
we'll hear that in a verse all right so
24:18
what we going to play what we playing
24:19
what we playing taquan I believe this
24:21
how you pronounce it or yeah taquan it's
24:23
basically tequila and wine taquin taan
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this is brand new
24:29
Play a clip of it for the fourth coming
24:31
album right and it's called maybe and
24:34
Nirvana the SSO a world premiere Prem
24:38
exclusive all right man I love it man
24:40
that's a Vibe that's a win 12 out of 10
24:44
Lonnie light what you think more fire
24:46
more
24:48
fire Smo is here maybe in Nirvana that's
24:53
the name of the project we don't even
24:55
have a date yet
24:59
so seen it I heard the inity I wasn't
25:02
even looking at word the appetite is
25:04
present yeah it's on the way it's on the
25:06
way on the way man I'm looking forward
25:08
to it say early Christmas gift next time
25:10
I come back up cuz I'm putting out
25:11
another album Top of the Year too okay
25:13
so next time I come up here I hopefully
25:15
y'all had me back at the top of the Year
25:17
bro you come this your hey this is Smo
25:19
in the morning bro this this is your
25:21
platform Now dog especially when you
25:22
slide those Sid I'm just trying
25:28
especially when you do that I'm trying
25:30
to tell you uh no you know what it is it
25:32
got Beyond it gets Beyond industry and
25:35
business I I recall one time years ago
25:39
seeing you in an interview where you
25:41
talked about all the different stuff
25:43
that comes WAP you got to go here you
25:45
got to do this and you got to do that
25:46
and that's part of the process that's
25:48
part of the business for us we've done
25:50
this so long we connect with people
25:53
because of who they are you know what I
25:55
mean like even if somebody came up here
25:57
with a song I necessarily uh align with
26:01
I can align with that person fortunately
26:03
for you we align with you and I truly
26:06
align with your music so as long as I
26:08
have a platform she has a platform she
26:11
you have a place to come to all right
26:13
that's love that's why our family family
26:15
brother and you [ __ ] with everybody I
26:17
[ __ ] with Y A we Country Cousins now I
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don't know if y country but we Country
26:21
Cousins country man my my my folks from
26:23
Louisiana outside we got a East Carol
26:26
Parish you know all got there the same
26:29
way
26:30
Mano keep going brother the the m the m
26:33
music needs you the community needs you
26:36
yeah uh we need you brother appreciate
26:39
it man N I appreciate it man I love
26:40
where you are mentally the whole n that
26:42
song sounds you could just hear your
26:45
Evolution you consistently make music to
26:47
me that signature music to you and I
26:50
appreciate that keep rapping homie man
26:52
love give it up for Smo man all right
26:55
love it
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