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Oct 16, 2021
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yeah man
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come on man that's hey listen
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i don't know i gotta thank this young
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man first before i even get into this
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had to be tracy
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i gotta thank this young man for being
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open and
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just being really open-minded and
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precocious and how he approaches life
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being very thoughtful so i feel like
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he's somebody i've watched look at both
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sides of the coin and
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and and he doesn't just look he looks
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you know he he looks diagonally
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perpendicularly um in optus ways in
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acute ways he sees the world from a
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really interesting perspective and to
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grow up in a household um
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of a family a family that's famous you
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know uh carries his own challenges as
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well i would imagine being a kid growing
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up under those circumstances then he
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grew he evolved as a human being as a
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person as a young man and i watched him
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really you know not a lot of times when
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people come up in families that already
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have names a lot of the kids want to
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disassociate themselves and i'm like
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listen you need to take full advantage
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of that
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you know in the way that fits you and he
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found a way that fit him that allowed
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him to carve his own lane and i've
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always wanted to be supportive of that
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you know and from the time time would
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tell came out and to now you know a lot
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of people starting to really discover
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him we discovered him way before that he
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got a new project and i feel like this
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is one of his coming of age projects
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after listening to it it's called
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skydive it's out right now it's
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featuring anthony hamilton rhapsody
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uh d smoke who's a citizen chad to god
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his family member um it's also featuring
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nasty c our guy nasty c
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and it's out today ladies and gentlemen
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welcome him back to the show give it up
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for the money
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[Applause]
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come on man man what's happening
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with you brother how you doing nephew
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man i can't complain man i appreciate
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that introduction man that was that was
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good that was so dope dope listen
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you know it's coming from a real place
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i'm not even choosing my words what i'm
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actually doing is not to give them too
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much you know we don't talk about
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everything you got the song talk about
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it you know what i'm talking about we
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don't say everything uh but we say
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something
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right right
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and you and you really listen and
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dissect music and know exactly um
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whether you like someone whether you
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don't like it you know i mean you know
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exactly what to say and um know how to
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explain it and how to help people
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and that's why i you know i see music
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and i send you different ideas and i
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really admire your opinion so
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yeah man i appreciate that oh man i
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appreciate it too you you i played numb
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first because when i heard the song in
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sequence talk about it is one of my
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favorite things songs and i'll tell you
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why um
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but numb it's just you all out you
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skydiving on your vocals on numb
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you
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you out the plane with no parachute on
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it man um how how long did it take you
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to get that comfortable with your
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singing voice
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that's a great question man you know i
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always make made music like that but i
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never really put it out because i felt
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like it wasn't um the right timing or
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such
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maybe because i wanted to establish
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myself as a
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someone who could really spit and like i
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mean tell the story first and then
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branch out but i always made music like
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that i kind of started off in the
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beginning making music like that and um
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now i feel like i just
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just
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perfected it a little bit more with
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storytelling and just i got more to say
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and more to talk about so
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yeah now i feel like i'm ready for the
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world to hear
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is it easier to express
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sometimes feelings through singing
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rather than writing a rap
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like what you're trying to portray
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it could be because
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um
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sometimes rapping sometimes you feel
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like you're boxed in by the beat and you
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gotta you know i mean
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everything's time and everything so
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choppy and everything i mean so
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sometimes it's
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it's a lot easier and everything flows a
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lot smoother when
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i try to slow it down or hold a note or
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you know i feel like i have more
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flexibility
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i'm trying to get him to do a sway in
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the morning promo and his singing voice
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that was on fire
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i don't know
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i've been i i don't even i still don't
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even feel like i can sing i just feel
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like
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i feel like what it means at that time
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just what i feel like is just
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i don't know man i'm still working on it
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i'm still figuring it out but i would
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love to figure it out with you guys okay
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i ain't mad at that nile's on the line
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for michigan graham rises niles hey
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niles
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hey yo that that numb was fire i
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can't believe you're not like a regular
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singer bro i got me wanting to hit up my
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chicago girl bro
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thank you
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i appreciate it
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yeah that was good bro you got me uh you
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got me checking out amygdala now bro i
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just downloaded that
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man
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that's crazy man i i really appreciate
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that and i hope you're having a good day
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too
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oh yeah hey man you too
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all right eight niles we appreciate your
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citizens your citizens hey
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hey we got nephew here hb you want to
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highlight i'm loving it i'm loving it
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i'm loving it i want to know what's the
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first who is the first person you let
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hear your music after you get out the
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studio i mean uh sway and i have both
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done music full time before and i know
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the ride home used to always just be fun
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just playing the same song 50 times over
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roger
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hey you know you couldn't wait i know
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somebody you couldn't wait for somebody
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to hear who's that person that you just
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let hear your music first
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um
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well one one is sway oh you sway no i
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already always send him ideas and stuff
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like that
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but um you know i used to send a lot of
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my singing songs to like
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writers you know like songwriters and
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singer songwriters
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you know because i wanted to really a
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lot of these songs that i started
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writing i wanted to
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give away and have other people saying
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but um
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yeah so i was sending my songs to like
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pooh bear just like dope writers and
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stuff
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trying to see what i can make happen and
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then i just decided
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you know people need to hear
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hear the money thing
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you know so
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i just ended up putting it out
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there it is man
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go ahead tracy i'm sorry no worries i
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was going to say damani this is tracy i
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very much admire you especially at such
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a young age for
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taking your own path so seriously
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because as you know the way we know a
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lot of times when you come from
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a music family
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part of the immediate conversation is
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just the comparisons you know what i
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mean whether it's a father or whether
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whether it's your mother and i remember
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t.i was definitely fam at a show for
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sure he had done an interview um and he
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shared from
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his perspective why you had not decided
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to um renew your contract with um with
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the show friends and family hustle and
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so i wanted to hear from your own words
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why that was important to you to step
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away from that show and and what your
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absence kind of gifted you
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and i think
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i think i just needed to see myself a
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little bit clearer at the time find
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myself a little bit more and just focus
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on myself
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um
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i kind of i kind of already had a vision
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at a young age
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and i still see it thankfully i still
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see it clearly but um
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i just felt like that needed to happen
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just in order for
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more growth to happen
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um just to find myself as a
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as a human being as a man
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coming to be a man
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um yeah i just felt like that needed to
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happen it wasn't nothing against the
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show
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or anything like that it was like a very
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personal decision
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stems around growth
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i would say
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would you do a show that was centered on
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you documenting your journey into music
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um
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i am open to this i am open to that you
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know whatever
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i feel like that makes sense because a
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lot of people a lot of people might need
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it or a lot of people could learn from
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a lot of stuff that we go through in our
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daily lives just as human beings so yeah
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i think that would be dope okay
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okay well uh damani is here we're
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talking about the album the new album
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skydive
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you actually went skydiving for the
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first time solo recently is that true
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exactly yes i did yeah
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did you name the album skydive after
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that or before that
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now that was before i knew i wanted to
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um
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i felt like i always wanted to skydive
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and jump out of the plane
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but i don't know man for some reason i
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just do a lot of i like challenging
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myself just
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just i feel like i learned myself
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uh
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a little bit better when i'm challenging
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myself but
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yeah man i was uh
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i named the album before i actually
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decided to uh jump out the plane
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and um
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it was very peaceful it was very
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relaxing man i i feel like uh
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everyone should try it
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but skydive
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i usually just make all my music first
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i make all my music so i don't feel like
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i'm boxed
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under a title or under a concept
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i just make all my music and while i was
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listening to
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you know like a couple of my favorite
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songs i just realized that i was talking
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about
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falling and talking about relationships
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commitment
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talking about fathering out of love
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falling in love trying to find love like
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stuff like that and
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i felt like i was talking to myself
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and just talking about commitment taking
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that leap of faith
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and
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just jumping
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that's what i feel like
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that's where i got skye died from it was
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peaceful falling
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right swear you ever did the sky dodge
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no heather you know i never done that
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skydiving yeah it is
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peaceful what was it so falling
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yeah it's peaceful
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falling falling
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when you falling for a while you start
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to relax you can definitely feel like
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you're flying
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so
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damn you suggesting i do this hb i know
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the money yes
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you did it you did a tandem or you did
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it by yourself too
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by myself
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wow
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that's how we did it i i did it by
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myself i took an eight-hour i think it
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was either eight or ten hour course
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and then you pass your course and then
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you do it
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wow okay
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okay
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yeah man how was your landing demanding
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you didn't crack the mancus
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no you know that that's the most
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important thing so uh jumping out the
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plane and pulling to the easiest part
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the hardest part is the lander so
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i actually had a pretty good landing man
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everybody thought i did it before until
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i told him that was my first time so
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i had a pretty good landing i think i
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looked like double though
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okay you know they're looking forward to
11:48
fly yeah they're looking for a new james
11:50
bond bro gotta get you know i got the
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audition um this
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this this album
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i love it man i enjoy it man i feel like
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i'm living in the life of someone that's
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at this stage of their life like you
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one of the a couple songs you say a few
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real things you say real things
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throughout your music knowing you when i
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hear your lyrics i i i don't you know i
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know they're coming from an authentic
12:13
place talk about it
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is a great song
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um and i think it's um
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a song that really captures your
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personality and one of the lines in it
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you say i i'm all about my peace until i
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see pieces of chrome
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you know i don't bother nobody that's
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probably what's wrong don't take my
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kindness as a weakness because i squeeze
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till i'm gone
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something about yeah something about
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your family
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like you guys are stand-up people but
12:44
y'all i don't have any fear and i was a
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little concerned about nephew when king
12:50
was approached by somebody this thing
12:52
went viral and um somebody approached
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him by his car and he went and got a
12:55
backpack and said hey man
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leave me alone
12:59
when you saw that when i saw that i said
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that's definitely tip son
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that's definitely damani's brother
13:06
um did you talk to him about those
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those type of incidents because it feels
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like you guys as a family tend to get
13:14
challenged
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yeah we definitely we definitely did
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i feel like
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i felt like you learned a lot from that
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situation you know but but you said uh
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we are
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we are kind of like a weird family uh we
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we
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don't really have a lot of fear like you
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said but
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i feel like that might be because
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we've just been exposed to look to like
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a lot
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and we are like throughout our whole
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life we've all been just making mistakes
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and learning ourselves in front of the
13:47
world
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and dealing with that sort of stuff so
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it's like man
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yeah it's kind of hard to fear fear a
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lot of stuff when you
13:57
when you're not ready you know i mean
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just
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made mistakes in front of the world but
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um
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i feel like it's like living life
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in a boxing ring like that your life is
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just
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in that ring and uh everybody got the
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cameras on you
14:12
everyone is zooming in on every mistake
14:14
every fumble every
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i mean
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so but yeah i feel like he learned a lot
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from that situation and we definitely uh
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we definitely wasn't you know you know
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he looked like a boss up there saying my
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love um and i'm glad you got a chance to
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build with him on that because he'll
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he'll continue he'll continue to find
14:35
himself in that situation you see your
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dad they your dad is in the headline
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every year
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you know what i mean
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and so i'm sure that's made y'all
14:44
durable the headlines um
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i also want to ask you about this song
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falling
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because in fallen
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fallen is a beautiful song and when
14:54
y'all when you get a chance citizens uh
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go ahead and pick it up and in the
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beginning you mentioned father and i
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think you were talking about tip but i
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feel like you're talking about the holy
15:03
father am i mistaken
15:06
yep definitely was not talking about it
15:09
okay so so in it we're hearing you
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kind of uh reference scriptures and
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you know uh you talk about that's just
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what you know i'm i'm calling on you i'm
15:20
calling out to you i've i'm curious to
15:23
your spiritual upbringing what was that
15:25
like what are your beliefs and how often
15:27
do you tap into a higher being
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that's a good question man uh i used to
15:35
we definitely went to church
15:38
every sunday for a while
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until it started to get to where we
15:42
couldn't go to church and it was more
15:45
of people asking for pictures or more of
15:49
uh the collection plate stand in our
15:51
area i mean
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i noticed stuff like that as a kid and
15:59
you know then it started to
16:01
we started to try to find i mean our own
16:04
relationship with
16:06
the higher being and um
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i try not to get too specific man i feel
16:11
like a lot of people try to find a
16:13
specific answer
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and a specific look how does it look how
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does it feel how does it sound
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i feel like you can't i mean god is not
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physical i feel like you and
16:25
it's a i feel like it's impossible to
16:27
try to
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find
16:30
something spiritual something that's not
16:32
physical
16:33
with a physical mind like we're trying
16:35
to think and put it together with our
16:37
physical mind with our brain and how it
16:39
makes sense
16:40
i don't know why i don't try to get too
16:41
specific man i just
16:43
i just know there's good and bad energy
16:45
and i know uh whichever one you exercise
16:47
that's what you're going that's what
16:49
you're gonna get back man um
16:52
yeah man i just i just put out good
16:54
energy i believe
16:56
i think i was hearing someone on the
16:58
call before i had got home said uh our
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words are
17:02
talking about our words and what you
17:03
saying what you think and what you feel
17:05
is your reality
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and um i feel like that's my own
17:09
relationship with god
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um
17:13
yeah i feel like that's what it is i
17:15
hope i answered your question how you
17:16
did man i i and i see you taking it i i
17:19
appreciate that you really uh taking
17:21
these questions in absorbing them and
17:22
really trying to find you know
17:24
your real truth in it so i appreciate it
17:27
the album is um i'm i'm recommending it
17:30
sway calloway is highly recommending
17:32
this album for you for your listening
17:34
pleasure this weekend even for your kids
17:37
nick is on the line from nashville what
17:38
up nick hey nick
17:41
hey what up sway this is actually my
17:43
second time being on here oh welcome
17:45
back nick okay you on the street nick
17:48
thank you
17:49
okay
17:50
i just wanted to say first off you did
17:52
absolutely amazing that was awesome and
17:55
it really resonated with me and you said
17:58
you're like i don't know if i can really
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sing or i don't think i can really sing
18:01
so like
18:03
what drives you
18:04
to keep doing what you do i mean i know
18:06
you're
18:07
tips son and all but like at the end of
18:09
the day all that aside like what drives
18:11
you to keep going and keep making music
18:14
even when you may not always feel like
18:16
you sound the best or
18:18
you know you don't know if you're going
18:20
to be well received or not
18:24
man that's a great question i feel like
18:25
challenging myself as long as i can find
18:28
a challenge i mean um
18:31
whether that's challenging myself to be
18:32
more open or challenging myself to be
18:34
more honest to myself when i write music
18:37
it's always about myself at first
18:41
because it's mine that's my expression
18:43
that's my
18:44
that's my release that's my exhale so
18:47
but yeah i
18:49
i just challenge myself man try to
18:52
if i i feel like when i stop finding it
18:54
challenging um
18:56
i'll go to something else but right now
18:59
it's just been
19:00
it's been um it's been working man i've
19:03
been i've been figuring out myself i've
19:04
been learning myself
19:06
and in that process a lot of people have
19:08
been loving the music so it kind of it's
19:11
kind of been making making sense and i'm
19:14
i'm happy about it
19:16
right on man that makes sense i'm going
19:17
to challenge myself man hell yeah
19:24
energy you're a citizen nick you already
19:26
know it yeah
19:27
yo hearing domani talk like i don't
19:30
think i've ever heard a dude your age
19:32
who didn't feel
19:34
like they were rattled by lust like i'm
19:36
not sensing that you're distracted by um
19:40
women at all am i right with that
19:43
is that the stage and season of your
19:45
life
19:46
distracted me no i would not
19:49
i would not
19:50
sacrifice um
19:53
i would not sacrifice
19:55
something
19:56
for a temporary fit no i will not i will
19:58
not sacrifice something i work for for
20:01
years relationships that i've been
20:03
building for years for a temporary
20:05
feeling no i would not if that's what
20:07
you mean by distracted mm-hmm that is
20:10
damn he says it in the song friends with
20:12
nasty c which would probably go in the
20:14
interview with when he said she think
20:16
i'm crazy because i don't care who she's
20:18
talking to i was raised by players is
20:21
what he said
20:22
didn't you say that damani you was
20:24
raised with the players manual
20:28
man i'd be saying
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stuff man
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uh
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yeah man i'm up on all your lyrics
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nephew we'll talk again i want to break
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them down to off the mic that's that's
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something we don't talk about uh but
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listen this is an incredible project
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uh congratulations each time man you you
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know i'm very impressed with you your
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growth each time
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i really enjoy watching you and your dad
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i saw you at a afropunk in atlanta i
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really want enjoy watching you guys
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perform as artists i feel like when
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y'all on stage your father and son but
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you really just two artists respect
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another in each other has it gotten to
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that feeling when y'all perform now
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um
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man i feel like
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we never we've never said this out loud
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but i feel like we both
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understand that it's more important to
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just soak in that moment and be present
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on stage a lot of times we
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artists be on stage and be lights in
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your eyes music live people screaming
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you can kind of get lost
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then you just blink and then you're just
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walking off stage and you don't even
21:36
remember that moment
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so i feel like we both understand that
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and we both just
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try to just live in that moment as much
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as possible on stage and
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man we're up there having fun with them
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of course we're respecting each other as
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an artist
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more more and more as as we um as we
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grow and learn i mean we
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we just get we just get more respect for
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each other of course but yeah man we
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just be on stage just
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soaking in the moment for real there it
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is man um well man it looks great and
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congratulations the album was already
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top three lists on the dsps including
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pandora let's get it apple amazon come
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on man um it's big big big things
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continued success nephew i appreciate
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the project
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i'll be listening on and on this weekend
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absolutely man and i'll send you some
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more feedback but great job damani great
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job brother all right thank you thank
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you guys for having me
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absolutely hey man i'm going to this
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friend so nasty see y'all remember now
22:37
cc we brought him out here from south
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africa he's been blown up ever since now
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these two are together that makes sense
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here it is friends and we'll come back
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with some celebrity wire 20 in the
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morning
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you
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