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Witness an unforgettable performance as Estelle brings the house down with her classic hit, "American Boy," live on Sway In The Morning! 🎤🔥 From electrifying moments on stage to heartfelt discussions about her journey as an artist, actress, and radio personality, Estelle shares her wisdom, creativity, and the love that fuels her music. Tune in as she also opens up about her upcoming album, the power of positivity, and her commitment to spreading joy through music.
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CHAPTERS:
01:22 - Estelle - Come Over
03:02 - Estelle - No More
06:36 - Estelle - American Boy
10:05 - Heather B Introduces Talib Kweli
11:14 - Talib Kweli and Estelle's Long History
12:49 - Staying Grounded in the Music Industry
13:25 - Self-Motivation and Encouragement
14:32 - Estelle's Relationship with DJ D-Nice
16:15 - Programming Your Subconscious Mind
18:46 - Future Plans for Estelle
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heather when you mentioned art it really
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brought a vision of this woman who is a
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global powerhouse facts and she is able
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to create art in so many mediums when it
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comes to music she transcends all the
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genres but then somehow represents all
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of them as well but then she also goes
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beyond just musicality she's um an
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actress she's also um a radio
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personality right she's all of the
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things and we're so so proud of her not
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only does she have such great words to
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give through her songs but she also has
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such great words to give through her
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wisdom and I'm talking about our sister
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Miss Estelle give it up for
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You got to give her a standing ovation
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give her a standing ovation absolutely
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[Music]
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you turn me up in my Always fly always
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fly stay standing [ __ ]
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love you sis [ __ ] you the long way you
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too get up i'm dead serious i'm really
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serious stay standing on your feet get
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up you really do run it run it run it i
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You might have to get up we ain't going
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to do that today turn the music up just
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a little bit please you know this song a
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little bit you know some ready music you
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with me are you with me
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all right let's go let's get it if I was
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to tell you just how much I need you
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would you come tonight act like you know
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reg music come on
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you love that easy turns out right i'll
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drag you out here to dance come on i'm
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trying to change the rules you deserve
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something good in your life yeah we've
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waited for far too long it's way too
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quiet i don't like it baby why don't you
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come
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over so I can show you love i promise I
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got enough to give you they so polite
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baby so many search to find a love
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that's as good as I like it i will waste
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your time so bring it all to me
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baby hey okay like that like
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that they ain't live enough i don't like
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this i am the person that will start it
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all over again but I'm going to start
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some new music for you can I do that can
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I do that listen to me come on let me
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see hey I need you out the way i need to
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get out there come on come on let me
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sing that hey you going to help me sing
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hey I sing oh
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I like that come on i just wrote myself
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a letter still changing for the
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better there's been such frustration
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trying to get back my
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patience oh [ __ ] all right i was
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supposed to lift up your hips a little
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bit with this one come
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on come
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[Music]
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on
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oh
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[Music]
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I test the wers if you want to just
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don't wait on what don't want
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you oh
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is broken i go slow slow
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[Music]
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slow if you want to it's going to wait
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until you come through
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yeah see your purpose and excuse us just
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don't wait no
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illusions no lie come
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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on let's go
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down come on
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[Applause]
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oh
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yeah oh it's easy oh I you
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too okay there it is there it is i like
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this
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this isn't over yes ma'am i came here to
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do a few songs i didn't ask you to stand
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on your feet for no reason
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okay one more time
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oh I like that i like that now this is
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the part where you actually dance for
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real act like you know soul music uh-huh
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like you got two feet that move and rock
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out with me
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okay here we
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go let's go
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[Music]
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hey you guys too out there come on let's
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go get up on your feet ah I can see you
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all let's go come on who's that all
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right come on where we at here we go
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here we
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go and I sing this i feel you on the way
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to me
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smelling like a
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fantasy it's a
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struggle hennessy come
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on guaranteed come on come on i'm not
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looking for a
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my baby for a love okay we good i'm
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looking for the one who catch fire
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turn me right
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take me higher y'all not having no fun
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with us ooh catch a fire yeah me
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brighter yeah take me higher
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without your fly this way yeah yeah yeah
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yeah you can join it on this room just a
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little bit hey come on fly this way
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yeah oh this is
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[Music]
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so I love this i love this
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yo what just happened here you ain't
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know it i feel embarrassed that's what
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happens what got you you don't know it
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can I do one more you want to do one
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more
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which one is this
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[Music]
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let's
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go start over start over
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what we doing selector rewind selector
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come down selector i don't like that how
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have you sat down singing it it's not
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that song
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yeah get back up let's go again
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[Music]
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sing it louder take me to New York i'd
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love to see her i really want to go with
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you a little louder you'll be my
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American boy
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he said "Hey sister it's really really
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nice to meet you i just met this 5 foot
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something i know i know it's short me i
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like the way he's speaking his
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confidence is peing i don't like his
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trees i'm like what's underneath him?"
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And now I been to MIA i heard the Cali
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never race new York wide away first they
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see the west and I shout you to my
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brethren i'm liking this American boy
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american boy
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i like to go someday i want to go take
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me to the
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can i really want to come kick it with
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your you
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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hey will you be my
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[Music]
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[Music]
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American I lived in LA whole lot dressed
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in all your fancy clothes sneakers
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looking fresh to death i'm loing
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shelter walking that walk huh
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yeah liking this American boy
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take me on a trip i like to
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take me to
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the LA i really sound so polite i'm
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kicking with you so polite you be my
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American
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here we go
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kanye say la come on come
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[Music]
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on
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[Music]
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la one time for the body roll could you
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be my love yeah could you be my love my
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love could you be my I'm not going that
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low [ __ ] all of that would you be my
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American boy american
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boy i want to see hey I really want to
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come kick it with you you You be
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my
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American boy
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[Applause]
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estelle estelle thank you
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[Applause]
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wow time for a stale
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wow dj had in the water thank you son
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thank you wow give it up for a stale
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on
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boy all that dancing got me tired of yo
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I just got my 10,000 steps i know i did
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you know all those yeah you wasn't
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really dancing though what was I what do
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you mean i don't know what you was doing
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what was the uh electric slide you never
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learned don't ask i never learned that i
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feel embarrassed
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oh they they never learned it either
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right i mean you gave them a warning and
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they were like "No."
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Yeah i didn't know i didn't I wasn't It
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was You guys got it there i like They
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got it like three of them um you know
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don't hate hey King Tac right there he's
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a one of the illst B boys to come out of
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Northern California Electric Slide yeah
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Tac was about to do some top rocks and
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go in the freeze hole
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how you been oh really good man really
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good yeah happy you're one of my
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favorite people yes baby can y'all see
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why yes a lot of times folks ask you
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know because we we done did this since
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boy how many decades now tech you want
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to do that you don't want to do that
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tech uh we first got on radio in what 19
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91 91 wow salute i was 10 mila uh now we
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got to clap for that
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and people you were swimming in um
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embryo fluid right oh my god um
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yo man
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world famous wake up show man get that
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i'm home man i'm home this is who I am
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embryo fluid
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no that do sound like a fly drink though
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my goodness Billy no it sound like a
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shot it sound like a shot nah that's a
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that's going to get you pregnant after
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that shot
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you would do it if you had after like
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four Hennessies you taking an embryo
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shot
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see we created something new together
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here you heard it first right here one
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of my favorite people ever and still we
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we partied around the world we find
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ourselves in different continents in the
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same rooms and this woman is who she is
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today is who she is yesterday is who she
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is there here
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what keeps you grounded
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uh well I enjoy being happy so I have a
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routine that keeps me happy i stay in
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myself i stay in my person and I stay in
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my body as much as I can wherever I am i
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have a real belief that I get to do this
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it's not that I'm doing it because well
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they you know I have a song and I did it
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before the song American Boy came along
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i you know I've had the the blessing to
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have the record i prayed for it and God
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said "Yeah you good
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take that forever." And I said "Thank
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you." Um but yeah I have my routines to
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have my things and I and it's it's me
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remembering who I am and what I'm here
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to do above all of it that keeps me in
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that space and it's to be light do you
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do you do you cheer yourself on you ever
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look in the mirror and give yourself
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affirmations what kind of stuff you say
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to you i look I tell myself while I'm
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brushing my teeth and I'm wrapping my
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hair from whatever hey depends on
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whether I want to call myself [ __ ] or
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sis or whatever right right that's how I
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feel in the morning i don't you know my
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meaning is what it means you got some
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[ __ ] to do
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today welcome to the world again you
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look amazing you're cute edges is still
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edging get out there and make it go i
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This is a morning thing this is a
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regular thing in some capacity in some
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way i believe in mirror talk i believe
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in speaking to your body i believe your
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body hears everything you say so for me
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that's the most important part of all of
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this if I don't say good things to
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myself if I don't believe that uh all of
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this is just for the show you know but I
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truly believe it i be having fun talking
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to people in the middle of the show cuz
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it's truth it's like how I feel like oh
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this is real quiet i don't Why are you
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being quiet sing along have some fun
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with me you know like it's all truth
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this how I actually feel um and the more
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I'm in that the more I get to the more
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you see it i love this estelle I want
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you to talk about your relationship with
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D nice y for D Nice right and you guys
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seem to have a really great chemistry
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with creating how did that begin for
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y'all oh my goodness h music i was um
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maybe my 30th birthday i met Dice in
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general you're like "Oh [ __ ] my name is
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Dice dice right?" I was in New York and
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I remember my 30th birthday came along
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and I had just met him as a DJ was like
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"I don't really want to insult you with
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what I don't think I got for your fee so
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can you just make me a playlist for my
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birthday?" And he turned up max Glazer
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turned up and Emma West turned up and
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they all just DJed my party for free and
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I know and I'm 30 years old it's my
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first official birthday in the United
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States i came here when I was 27 so for
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me at 30 it was like these are all
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lowkey my heroes just out here doing me
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a solid and he's been like big brother
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ever since and all three of them to be
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fair but like real family like we don't
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we pull up for each other you know like
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we've all been here and done this in the
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same way that we for years you know so
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when it's true it's true it's real i
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just wanted to give people a little
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insight behind the curtain that there
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are real people in this business like
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very authentic real people in this
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business and I want to go ahead and
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volunteer DJ head to DJ for you for free
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okay just like just like MOS did right
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here no English
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listen we'll pay you what you need but
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we love you we love you i
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have no clue it's possible thank you
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but I think you're a legend i love you
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you're brilliant sir you are thank you
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estelle I wanted to um tap back into
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programming your subconscious because
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I'm curious being such a
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multi-dimensional creative you know um I
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had mentioned how you're not only an
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artist you're also a radio host as well
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and for that type of I don't know the
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coupling of those two roles when you are
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not only creating your own music but
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curating the music of others
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interviewing others and you're hearing
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their journey journeys you're hearing
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whatever creativity is coming from them
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how do you still honor your
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individuality and not have all of that
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seep into your own spirit well I I Well
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I don't think that's even possible okay
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to be honest cuz if like I look at I
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mean we all start I started as a fan i'm
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still a fan i like music i'm a fan of
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you like I've been a fan of you like all
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Glocks down okay do you understand like
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okay and so to me it's it's nothing to
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speak to another person just about their
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process or give light to or share them
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with the world in the same way as I
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listen to a I listen to a Dennis Brown
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record and now I'm fascinated with
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baselines i'm listening to a you know I
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listen to a Duran Duran and I'm like
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this is my favorite dance you know like
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you take pieces from everybody yes and
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so it doesn't cloud me it doesn't it
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makes me original to me because the way
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I'm going to do it there's no other
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fingerprint like mine right it's going
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to be mine you know so I I love that's
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how I that's how I do it and I look at
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it like God gave me a way to be creative
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i don't judge it i don't get in my own
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way about it i just be creative i say
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thank you and be like well show me how
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to do this you know and then just on the
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technical side I started when I was when
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I started off in London before I became
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an artist I was finding every way to be
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in music i just wanted to be a part of
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it and one of my friends another DJ was
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be like I got the I got the the the
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graveyard shift
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yeah I got the graveyard shift at Choice
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FM in London at the time come on with me
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and so I would just go sit and look and
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watch and listen to what he was playing
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and how he was mixing and be like
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"Okay." You know and every so often he
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let me get on the mic every so often mhm
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um but it was just another practice of
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learning another thing about myself that
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I could do you know still great approach
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what's the next new music we're going to
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hear well you have Love on Love that's
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out right now yes yes yeah everything
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with this new So I have a new album
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coming i should say that first um in a
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couple months so I'm very excited and in
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a month [ __ ]
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um I can say that right okay yeah very
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soon um but everything on this album is
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on purpose it's
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intentional maybe 2018 I started
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recording this album i said this in
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interview and it felt like everything
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was dark everything was just cloudy and
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the music was just repetitive and the
19:22
same sounds i was like I want to dance i
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want to feel light i want to be my fairy
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self my friends call me a fairy when I'm
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outside in the clubs cuz I'll be out
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there
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like and they're like people it's not
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and people stare at me and it's like
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they're not staring at you cuz you look
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weird they're staring at you cuz you're
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enjoying yourself and they're like how
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can I get like her and a couple of my
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other friends are on the same vibe so I
19:45
wanted that feeling in the music that I
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was putting out and so I started
19:49
recording this and every single song was
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made with the intention of making people
19:52
dance and feel light and feel happy so
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when I'm singing love and love and love
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Dice was um playing on the radio or on
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our radio on our uh phones right i
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stayed on the radio on Instagram live
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and I just felt like what he's talking
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about and what he was saying at the time
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was like now's the time for love now's
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the time to remember that we're like
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now's the He kept saying that and I was
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like this this is it i just wanted him
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to come on and do that on that record
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Love and Love so when I say play it when
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I say turn it up when I'm like running
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that louder it's because I want you to
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feel it i want you to feel the energy
20:27
about it it's not to prove to you that
20:28
it's a good song play it loud it's a
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good song it's like feel this don't
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overthink it don't get into your bag
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about like what am I supposed to do with
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my feet to this just feel it just feel
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it just be in it you know listen to the
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words so and the whole album's coming
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it's all about that it's love it's love
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the world needs that right now the world
20:48
needs that right now and and not to get
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you again but it's not to say love is
20:51
just a fairy thing because you can stand
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up for yourself and love in an in a in a
20:57
in an audacious way yes and I think well
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I know with love and love and love I'm
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talking about what I would do well what
21:05
we did do and what we have to continue
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to do because of the way the world is
21:09
turning right now we have to stand for
21:11
what we believe in which is love and so
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while I'm saying we're making changes we
21:14
ain't stopping to this love and love you
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know the sentiment simple humans the
21:18
crew we you know we not we're not
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playing about that like we want to be
21:22
here we want to live in the world that
21:23
we know and the world that we know we
21:24
can create which is based on love so
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give it up for Estelle y'all let me say
21:30
this
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always she always comes she always
21:35
answers the call and this is our first
21:37
of many garage series that we're
21:39
bringing here to Sirius XM so how did
21:42
y'all enjoy it
21:45
right right right right i like that yeah
21:48
we we're going to do more and all of you
21:50
are invited to come back and your
21:52
mission is to tell a friend we're going
21:54
to make this space a cultural hub that's
21:57
rooted in love and creativity
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