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Drumma Boy Talks About His New Book, Birthday Celebration, and Upcoming Tour | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Aug 25, 2023
Drumma Boy has been a prominent figure in the music industry for years, producing hits for artists like Lil Wayne, T.I., Jeezy and Wiz Khalifa. His recent appearance on Sway In The Morning was all about his new book, 'Behind The Hits,' co-written by Tamiko Hope. The book takes readers behind the scenes of his most memorable records, providing insights into the creative and technical processes that went into crafting these hits as well as his journey to get to where he is at.. In addition, Drumma Boy discussed his recent 40th birthday celebration and a new single he just dropped, "Freak Sum," featuring T-Rell and Juvenile.
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the round of applause we had to take
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them back to 2012. that's how long we've
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been rocking with this man even before
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that that was South by Southwest 2012
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man that's been shining ever since there
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wasn't a moment he wasn't shining from
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the time he was playing beats for Jay
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Prince as a teenager he's been shining
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just like that citizens two-time Grammy
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award-winning producer rapper composer
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philanthropist by magazine called on the
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top five producers making noise the New
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York Times said he's one of the four
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hottest producers driving the city in
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Atlanta when I say these names Migos 2
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Chainz Trey Songz Master P Pastor Troy
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Plies Gucci Mane Jeezy K Michelle Rocco
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DJ Paul Scotty ATL who's my homie Too
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Short two chains and the list goes on
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Dexter daps the list goes on and on in
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case AP the list goes on and on give it
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up for the one and only drama boys
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and he got a new book
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yes the book is called Behind the Hits
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Christopher Drummer Boy Golson and he's
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here he got when I said it in that clip
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in 2012 I've seen him all over the world
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handing out CDs whatever any kind of
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Hardware in 2000 2023 in 2023 now he's
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handing out books wow you wrote your
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story of your life I had to somebody got
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to tell it wow I can't let y'all tell it
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we don't we don't know it all yeah come
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on man I gotta I had to it was it was a
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must shout out to wahita Clark uh-huh
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you know what I mean amazing Publishing
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Company helped me get my you know get
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get my business in line with the book
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shout out to Tamika hope um helping me
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get my thoughts together with the book
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it was it's amazing greatest feeling in
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the world 10 years Man 10 years 10 years
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bro they took the write this book oh
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yeah your joy is the greatest
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contribution you can make to life on the
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planet a heart at peace with his owner
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blesses everyone it touches this is in
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your book yeah you believe live by that
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oh come on man that's that's motto you
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know I mean and I had to put put that in
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the beginning to set the tone I
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dedicated the book to my my brother
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insane Wayne I wouldn't be doing this if
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it weren't for my big bro man you know
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what I'm saying that's the first cat I
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wanted to walk like talk like be like
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you know what I mean dress like you know
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what I mean and that's the reason why
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I'm making beats you know I mean insane
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Wayne tell us more about it in the same
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way insane Wayne man uh play keys for
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Three Six Mafia uh Ballin G Juicy J he
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was a barber so I started off sweeping
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hair for him you know what I'm saying at
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uh Dynasty one you know what I'm saying
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he also worked at nail design barber
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shop but he was one of the top barbers
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in Memphis so that's the first time I
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met ball and G I met Juicy J uh Three
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Six Mafia all them cast right there
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through my brother getting watching them
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get their hair cut insane Wayne I swept
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their hair up when you were sweeping
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their hair up though like I've done jobs
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where I knew that it was something
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bigger and better in front of me but
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when you were sweeping the hair up you
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knew what you wanted to do oh yeah I was
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playing my Beats I just wanted to be
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around big bro you know what I'm saying
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and it started off me caught calling
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them playing my Beats over the phone he
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was like man you might as well go and
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sweep for me at the shop you know I'm
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saying so you can start meeting these
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folks and you know I'm saying
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introducing your your folks to these
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folks so that's where the hustle and the
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intros and being able to speak up for
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myself as a young and you know 14 15
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before I had a real job you know what
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I'm saying and um I remember one time
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after the shop he was like yo we're
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gonna go to the studio come on you know
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what I'm saying and my first time in the
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studio probably like 14 just seeing all
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of the lights the blue lights the green
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lights yellow lights red lights I felt
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like I was in a spaceship you know what
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I'm saying and it's crazy because I came
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up in the orchestra world like my dad in
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the orchestra my mom's in the Opera wait
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wait hold up they don't know this part
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about our what we got in common his dad
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was a clarinetist
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39 years in the Memphis Symphony
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Orchestra so what's that got to do with
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you that's what I played declaring that
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growing up yeah played the Bumblebee oh
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that's crazy man I may always Tennessee
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band you know what I'm saying okay and
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then I almost killed somebody with my
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clarinet case so I you know what I'm
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saying I got some trouble in South
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Memphis my mom movements caught over you
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know what I'm saying and there's a whole
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nother story could you relate to that
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part you almost killed somebody with
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your clarinet yeah I got jumped by like
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four cats and you know I'm saying I'm
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[ __ ] up three three of them ran off
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them and and they left their homies
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behind oh and it was it was over they
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didn't see that coming no they didn't
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because you know it ain't the coolest
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thing to play clarinet I'm sure you got
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teams in high school yeah bro College I
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mean in in elementary I played in junior
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high Junior High yeah
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I'm still a Memphis [ __ ]
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don't get it twisted so you know what I
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mean my brother really saved my life uh
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and gave me a different outlook on music
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because my dad wanted me to be in an
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orchestra I could have been in a youth
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Symphony I could have you know followed
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his footsteps but I was like [ __ ] I'm
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gonna be the next Beethoven yeah I'm
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gonna be the next most I didn't want to
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spend the rest of my life playing
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somebody else music when you know at the
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end of the day I wanted to be the
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conductor I wanted to be in control of
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all the instruments you know what I mean
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reducing I could pick up a base I could
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pick up a Guitar I could pick up a piano
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or I could find instruments that sound
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as closest to the real thing and and do
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my own thing and write my own music
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that's what's happening man when you
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went in that studio for the first time
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and first of all we talked about Memphis
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we will be remiss not to mention Jazzy
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Faye oh yeah Jazzy insane Wayne was
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close friends okay Carlos Brody sliced
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tea Paragon like all of the legendary
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producers Isaac Hayes was a mentor oh my
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God that's how I wake up my mama you
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know because she heavy in a church where
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I wake up on a Saturday or Sunday and on
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a Saturday rather than see Isaac Hayes
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in the living room
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Isaac Hayes in the living room yeah
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Friends of the family you know I mean uh
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did he hear your music no I wasn't even
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really like into it then I was 9 10. you
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know what I mean 11 but as I started
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making music he definitely heard a few
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things from me you know what I'm saying
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and um I I started playing beats for
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sliced tea and Jazzy and you know Wayne
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actually introduced me to Jazzy when we
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went to Atlanta on a trip so just
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through him he introduced me to Tila I
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remember him calling me like man I'm
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finishing up the double dose album for
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Tila pull up the House of Blues
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legendary studio in Memphis it burned
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down now but back then that was like the
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spot to go to and I pull up I play some
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music shout out to Red Boy Enzo Jennings
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uh Taylor manager Bun B manager he doing
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a lot of things with TMT but uh they
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would like play some nephew I played a
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couple beats ended up with three songs
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on double dose so because my brother had
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two placements on double dose album 2500
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the track I come in at that rate getting
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2500 to beat this is my first album
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placement yeah wow 2500 and what year
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was this um this my uh
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uh I'm in high school this is my senior
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year so you was making 2500 to beat in
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high school oh yeah how many beats you
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get placed uh I did three on there so I
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got 7 500 from J Prince rap a lot of
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Records
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I guess why he was in high school my
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pops didn't know none of it my mom
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bought me my first keyboard you know
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what I mean um and just hustling bass
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tapes at Cordova so when I moved to
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Cordova I was like fresh prince of
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Cordova it was majority white you know
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what I mean but just putting them on the
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South Memphis thing and it opened me up
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to just different humor and just oh my
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God yeah
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just a whole different
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you know what I mean different artists
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demographic yeah
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um I was selling Bass tapes so it didn't
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matter the artist it was it was more who
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had the the 18s the alpines the the
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systems in their trunk you know what I'm
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saying
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15 inch woofers you know what I mean so
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man Johnny this white boy Johnny would
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always come to school late I had sold
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him my first hundred dollar base tape
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you know I'm saying he'll always come to
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school late you hear him coming you know
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what I'm saying
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[Music]
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going
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[Music]
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Southwest Philly okay yo we got Drummer
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Boy in here shout out to Philly come on
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man what they used to call you in High
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School drama boy just that's right drum
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High School cafeteria King okay all
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right let's let's get that yeah let's go
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back to the day man let's recreate it
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locked in with the locals the insane who
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intimidate the ones who be on 90 doing
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90 down the interstate set your homies
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food and they gon getting their sister
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today [ __ ] cut through and they cut
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Coke on dinner plates no lie I seen that
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[ __ ] with my own eyes I was just a kid
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moving around with them wrong guys first
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time I seen that polarizer [ __ ] so God
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made his Top Spin like a soda oh God
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[ __ ] treating funerals like family
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reunions still over top of his top now
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they can't even view them before it
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happened tries his action so my man
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don't even do them said [ __ ] that gotta
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stand what he's doing that man the man
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didn't he threw him it's a jungle out
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here they don't Rumble out here I'm step
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a stepping don't you stumble out here
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listen what is not your ego bad be
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humble out here cause with the murder
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rate you could be a number out here I
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regurgitate your days could be numbered
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out here stay on the porch don't be
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jumping out here you don't want it out
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here and goblins shooting robbing this
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[ __ ] never end beef in the streets never
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settle let that settle in
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come on man KP has arrived
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KP has arrived
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yesterday that was fun rap game we got a
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problem hey cafeteria sessions there you
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go that's the new series
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okay wow
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from South Philly Southwest Philly
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Southwest Philly it was important that
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you said Southwest why that's it's two
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different places okay all right okay
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it's real it's real different you got
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projects out now are you and me drunk
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working on something right now uh major
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project uh it's called a pain in the
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paper how'd y'all me
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uh met him off uh Instagram I was uh I
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do like series and things like that on
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my Instagram
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and I was doing one in my series and I
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was trying to lock in with producers and
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he's so thorough being the guy he is and
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his stature and and his resume he was
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like let's work he found you yes Wow
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Come on take notes on that that ego [ __ ]
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is out the door like this this church
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for me you know what I mean so if I feel
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the spirit if I feel the energy I ain't
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even know bro but I was going through
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his page and just looking at the videos
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like every video I watch I got chills
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yeah every video I watch on his page the
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hair stand up on my arms I was like bruh
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and then I seen the post he was like yo
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you know any producers that want to work
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let's get it he it was like a
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frustrating tone yeah but I knew we had
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some [ __ ]
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and I DM the [ __ ] like [ __ ] [ __ ] hey
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yeah I got that [ __ ] for you you know
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what I'm saying and it was a lot of
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young [ __ ] you know reaching out
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producers from all over you know I'm
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sure he was responding to but [ __ ] I
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knew you know my name is the jackpot you
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know what it is because it's also to
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drummer's point is and to you it's a
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testament just work do your work you
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just don't know who gonna see it when
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it's time even in the frustrating days
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you might get out four bars or five just
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work just work because you don't know
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after a while it piles up and you have
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something and those connections get made
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and I'm impressed I know you're working
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because to just come from behind like
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that step up
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and be ready to go without a Flinch or
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stumble congratulations to you because
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you working while the people sleeping
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thank you so congratulations I recognize
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it for sure let's do this man we're
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gonna play we got Michael Bivins coming
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up in a few minutes but we got a new
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single called freak some yes with t-rell
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and juvenile yes this is out right now
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right drummer boy has a new book too
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called Behind the Hits he's doing this
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himself self-published yes okay hold on
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how much are you charging for these
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books man a hundred dollars I love that
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book right there get it hold up man hold
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that book oh okay that boy pulling out
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the wallet okay hey
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like that right there brand new
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from the new singles called freaksum
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s-u-m-t-rail with juvenile this is out
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now it's just a part of a bigger project
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oh yeah we got Drummer Boy and Friends
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uh dropping
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November no I forget the actual date
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it's a Friday in November oh stay tuned
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friends
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Drummer Boy recently celebrated his 40th
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birthday y'all beautiful happy 40. four
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years of greatness 40 Years of greatness
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oh man it's just the beginning bro I
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feel like I'm just getting started sway
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like you know I mean I've done a lot of
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music I've done a lot of incredible
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things but just helping guys tell a
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story yeah you know what I mean and and
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turning pain in the paper I've been
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doing that all my life you know what I
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mean so just getting getting with guys
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that got the same message the same drive
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it ain't always about the money yeah
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it's about the passion it's about that
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pain and I've we're about to make more
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money than a lot of guys that have paid
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me up front you know what I mean so
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things like that you know I get a kick
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out of that you know what I'm saying I'm
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I'm fortunate I'm good I'm blessed it's
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not always about okay what you gonna
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charge what you gonna charge what you
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gonna charge like sometimes you gotta
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Bliss and give people things you know
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what I mean and it comes back tenfold
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amen Who's the artist would you say
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um
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the same way you're doing with KP that
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you were able to attach yourself to them
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and make the most impact because of your
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contribution to their art Plies Plies
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come on please
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we was putting in the work first you
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know what I mean then I got paid yeah
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okay but it was about what kind of work
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we did and what kind of chemistry we we
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put in the game together and first
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record I did for Plies with Shawty
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Shawty was the first record
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that was the first even no I'm not your
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girl I still call you mine
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[Music]
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yeah
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yeah he's writing first first record I
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did for walking yeah same thing Waka
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Flocka first record no hands no hands
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with the first come on man that makes
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sense shout out we just went down
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we just went diamond man that's dope
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first record I did with walking and we
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put in the work let me tell the story
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about this right question because Gucci
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was locked up and Gucci kept getting
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locked up Walker said man somebody got
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to be the artist on Greek Squad drum you
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know I mean Walker was the Goon Walker
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was the security you know what I mean he
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was like bro CEO keep getting locked up
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you know what I mean so I got Nicks you
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know what I'm saying I remember hearing
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hard on hard in the paint on the radio I
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was like damn
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you know what I'm saying Gucci get out
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of jail
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you know what I mean first day out I did
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another song for him called abnormal
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first two songs I did for him you gotta
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have Beats ready for Gucci you can't
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cook no beats up from scratch so I got a
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a pack for him he in the booth doing uh
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everything I do abnormal normal so why
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are you recording the verses of that
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I'll go to the other side of the room be
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room all my equipment set up Roscoe in
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there uh why lay in there Waka in there
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Lloyd Banks in there Reese man it's like
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50 people in the B rooming Patchwork wow
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I started cooking up a Beat from scratch
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you know I mean this is just a
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celebration Gucci came home we just
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gonna work ain't no money ain't no
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payment usually I get paid up front you
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know what I'm saying but it was just a
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moment you know what I'm saying the
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whole room just started moving as I
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started making the beat and Roscoe Dash
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was literally one of the only people
16:28
paying attention really so what do you
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mean by that I could see him in the
16:32
corner like just mumbling some words to
16:34
himself like you know I mean I knew he
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had an idea in his head so I'm like what
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you got Roscoe gone go on get in the
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booth my [ __ ] you know what I'm saying
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he get up going
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a lot of things go diamond
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a lot of albums it's rare you see a
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single that goes I mean that album is a
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lot of other producers a lot of other
17:06
features a lot of other collaborative
17:07
efforts and when I this this one song 50
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of the beat is me
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you know what I'm saying ain't no
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collabs ain't no midi Loops ain't no
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like I'm talking about from scratch
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playing keys go over here play the drums
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this and that like ain't no
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you know what I mean yeah so I'm coming
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from scratch from my spirit I could I
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transferred my energy from my spirit to
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the music and I think that's why the
17:29
world really [ __ ] with me like when you
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meet me in person it's deeper than the
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beat yeah you know I'm saying I'm very
17:35
therapeutic with how I produce the
17:37
records that I produce you know what I'm
17:39
saying and I'm telling a lot of these
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stories in my book Behind the Hits first
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song I did on Drake Money To Blow
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technique like run through some beats if
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you can't get it in five beats you ain't
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gonna get it I had five beats literally
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I get to the third or fourth beat up
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stop that pull it up
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you know what I'm saying immediately bam
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he goes in the booth
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running back
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get the shaking something cause that's
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what drama okay running back
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uh letting these bills fall out on your
18:19
skin and then he just starts dropping
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the hood
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wow 30 minutes I was in the studio with
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Drake he did the first verse and the
18:27
hook you know what I'm saying just like
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that and actually what's funny about
18:30
this record is that it sat on the
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internet for like six seven eight months
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Birdman caught me off the blue again I
18:36
did the work one paid you know I mean
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all my biggest songs is like forget
18:41
about the money yeah what what what's
18:43
your spirit feeling like what you gonna
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help the next man next to you do you
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know what I'm saying I wasn't chasing
18:48
after Jay-Z I wasn't chasing after Nas
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in the cast that I couldn't get to I'm
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I'm right here with the castle right
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next to me like make make make your
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neighbor Rich
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put your neighbor on put your put your
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put your hood on put your block on put
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the things that surround you on and
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watch what happened
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yeah man
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Michael Bivens is here and he got a new
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documentary uh talking about his life
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but I see I'm hearing so many
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similarities connections the documentary
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we probably like 70 you know what I mean
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so a lot of people reaching out Netflix
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Hulu uh peacock I don't I don't know
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where we're gonna end up but I know I'm
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gonna give you a very Quality Body of
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work you know what I mean uh I'm proud
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of you know I'm saying it's my story
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it's my spirit this my energy I know
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this life will it's forever it's forever
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man Drummer Boy is here to show your
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grill tour kicks off September the 7th
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yeah Greensboro North Carolina oh it's
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going down Scotty ATL tour that's my
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dude right there the city translate
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that's my guy right there yeah BJ Luke
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nasty come on oh yeah Hakeem Ali on that
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thing Ali KP gonna be out there hey
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you're gonna have to go and hit that
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road come on man all right we're gonna
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have the books with us and I gotta shout
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out one more person man shout out to
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Holy from Cleveland yeah we got
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incredible music Gigs album just dropped
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you on a song call me now he also on the
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uh uh Lobby Boys album he he did a
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record called off the leash he featured
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on you know I'm saying I'm doing his
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album his project too so I'm excited oh
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yeah yeah
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shout out to gigs man Drummer Boy I'm
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proud of you brother we've been doing
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this for years and you keep descending
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but what you're doing right now is
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you're sending others and that's God's
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work that's the vine intervention
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absolutely feel your energy man
20:41
congratulations we got much more to talk
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about you got to come back oh yeah come
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on I can't wait it's a ton of Records I
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want to ask you about and he goes
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through all the hits in this book you
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find out about his life story some of
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the trials and tribulations but how he's
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been blessed and highly favored it's all
20:58
in his book absolutely when you when you
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finish reading the book yeah give me a
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call I'm gonna give you my cell number
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that's my word give me a call and we're
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gonna come talk chop it up okay Drama
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Boy give it up for Drama Boy give it up
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