FLAU'JAE JOHNSON Talks New Single "Big 4 Anthem", Album , NIL & Working with Lil Wayne & DJ Khaled

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I can eat rappers I'm cannibal
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cannibalism
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that's when you eat your own species
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[Applause]
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because she's eating up rappers like a
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cannibal
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it's interesting when I first met this
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queen right here had to be talk to me
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this globe Trotter this world renowned
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brand
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she was on the rise she had already put
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in work and she put us up on game
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at that time
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when we first met her
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she wasn't a national champion just
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quite yet it was in the making it was in
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the making at that time she wasn't a
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freshman of the Year why are you
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not just not quite yet at that time
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she wasn't one of the top 10 follow nil
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athletes not just yet at that time she
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didn't have over 1 million followers on
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her account not just yet at that time
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she wasn't the first rapper to receive
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her but she was the first rapper to
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receive a gold buzzer and America's Got
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Talent
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she was the first rapper that Jermaine
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to pick the Dupree called me about take
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a look at this wow
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we still talk about you to this day
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because of your success because of the
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success of Lotto
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it kind of spurred some ideas between me
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and Jermaine to pray that soon to come
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and tell you how proud I am because of
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which she represents
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in this entire time and she got into the
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spotlight she never forgot where she
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came from she never forgot who she is
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she stood up for representation of black
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women all over the world she spoke out
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loudly and clearly and even when they
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tried to hit her with controversy she
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knew how to respond properly did the
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right thing
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she was groomed for this she's been
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ready for this if you go back and look
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at our interview we did back in 2020 you
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knew that she was a Visionary it wasn't
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able to talk about manifestation
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she does it I want to welcome her to the
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show and congratulate her on all that
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she's accomplished and her family is
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here as well yeah I want to welcome them
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as well to the show please welcome back
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flage Johnson
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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thank you what's changed
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not too much you know what I mean same
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routine different day same routine
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different day for sure it's interesting
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I I hope people really go back
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especially young women uh go back
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especially young black women look at the
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interview we did you really manifested
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your life yeah
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I did but it's like it was manifestation
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but it was like already in my head that
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I was gonna do that like you know what
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I'm saying so it was like I was gonna do
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anything possible to make it happen so
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you can manifest it for sure but when
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you work right after it's gonna happen
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it's gonna happen how often you write
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man every day all right every day I'm
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recording every day like I really like
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to just like pull out my notes I just
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sometimes I just start rapping just to
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tighten up my skills so like every day
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I'm just trying to get better that's a
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dope practice to have yeah oh my gosh
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that's so good yeah because it also
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helps with memorization you know people
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don't realize like you write and you
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writing but when you being creative and
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you've already got the memories like
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muscle memory right so she has a great
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practice a lot of artists don't know
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that yeah yeah you're in a very unique
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place you know um I remember you came up
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here last time we were more focused on
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the WNBA you know like what do you think
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about that and you said something that
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never really I didn't understand when
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she said it back then Heather but you
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said I don't know about the WNBA man
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they'd be short on the back
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I can make more money you know uh at the
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time you had Johnny which yeah yeah what
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are your thoughts about that now uh my
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thoughts like now it's like I'm a
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competitor you know so I want to play
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against the best of the best and like
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the WNBA that's like the best of the
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best but I also feel like like
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if I graduate school and like I'm lit
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and rapping and I'm lit with like nil
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then like
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I would love to be like drafted and
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played but like I would love for the the
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like the WNBA to like go to a new level
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you know what I'm saying because like
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you know you have to be able to
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accommodate for Superstars but they have
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some already but it's gonna be like a
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new wave of them so I feel like they
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just gotta up it a little bit they gotta
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up it you represent a new wave like they
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have to get used to the fact that you're
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not buying for one career yeah you're
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vying for multiple careers and it's a
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lot of young athletes that are going to
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walk this same Journey that you're
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walking may not be able to handle it as
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well as you have what what is that like
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when you got people trying to tell you
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you need to focus on basketball or you
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need to focus on rap it's irritating
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because like I've been doing this my
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whole life rapping and playing
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basketball y'all just seeing it now but
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I've been doing it my whole life so I
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know like if I have a bad game they're
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gonna be like oh man she's been in the
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studio too much but like you know that
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stuff is irritating but it's like I know
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my work you know what I'm saying I know
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I wake up five in the morning you know
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what I'm saying do they I got to do so
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you know like it's like so it's hard for
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people to wrap their mind around because
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when something is new people don't want
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to accept it and they're like really
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they just like how is this possible
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because I feel like people can't wrap
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the head of somebody around somebody
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being good at two things at one time
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because people don't usually do it they
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just focus on one thing but man like
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well you gotta love her both and you
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want to do both
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sometimes stuff just fall in line you
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call me and fly Jay Johnson is here we
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spoke about your father man he rest in
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power
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um I am sure that man is smiling right
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now I hope so absolutely how's your
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mother doing with all of this oh she's
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doing good like she transitioned into a
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manager you know what I'm saying but she
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been managing me but like she really
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turned into a manager and an agent she
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negotiated a lot of my nil deals with
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these big Brands so
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who just I'm telling you like same
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routine different day we have a team now
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though
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um that's really helping us because we
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realize like we cannot do this all by
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ourselves right right as we're going up
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and up and up but you know man just
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stand solid like she's just really smart
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she know how to get what she want and
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what I deserve so I feel like it's no
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better person to manage meaning shout
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out to your mama man
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what about Scholastics though how did
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how did your academics uh sustain doing
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all of this oh man
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um it was pretty easy because LSU like
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they give us every resource we need to
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be successful we got mandatory study
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hall so like and me like I'm I got this
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thing in my head like but I know I'm
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trying to cut up all week so I need to
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make sure I finish all my school work on
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Monday you know what I'm saying so
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Monday gonna be my rest day so I get all
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my school done so the rest of the day I
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don't gotta do like the rest of the week
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I want to do nothing you know what I'm
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saying so I try to do that but man man
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LSU they just give us so many resources
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I got a great academic advisor Miss
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Carol and they just really be on us
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first championship ever yeah for LSU man
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wow do y'all walk around the campus like
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God I'm about to you
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nah but like me personally like I'm the
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type of person like they they would try
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like I'm trying to stay in class like
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I'm trying to walk around campus be in
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the quad like I'm trying to be with the
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people you know what I'm saying like I'm
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that type of person so you know I feel
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like it's gonna be a little different
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going back after like you know really
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like winning that Championship but I
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feel like it's still gonna be the same
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like they love us in Baton Rouge man
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male like you know it's just gonna be
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business as usual I'll be on my little
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scooter though I'll be out the way you
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have to wait yeah I love it man got the
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Wayne t-shirt on right we'll talk about
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that momentary HB I want to say that I
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think that you are great at more than
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just two things and you mentioned music
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obviously and mentioned basketball but I
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I you know I want to add the fact that
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the way you have carried yourself
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you have man we're so proud of you thank
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you we're so proud of you thank you I
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remember those three years ago when you
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came in here like just a spirited young
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lady and to watch you continuously grow
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and handle yourself your academics the
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championship
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media everything was so oh man so much
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grace yeah and so like almost like
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standing on your faith the foundation I
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I saw all the things and I was like
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that's why I hugged you so tight yeah
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when you came in here because I'm just
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I'm proud of you thank you and I want
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you to know that it is women of all ages
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watching you and rooting you and
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supporting you because you represent us
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you you really do and this and I'm not
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giving you any extra responsibility it's
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just that the way you have handled
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yourself just made us all so proud and
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it makes us proud so you have a support
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system just please be reminded of that
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on some of the tough days yeah that this
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industry tries to deal us you know you
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you got you got people messing with you
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heavy yeah all right I realized that too
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because like you know kids being my DM
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like hey you just inspired me so much
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how you doing two things at once and
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you're so positive and yeah you make me
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stay right on my academics I was like
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whoa like you know that's like a
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responsibility you know what I mean for
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these kids because they seeing something
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like they never seen before they were
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like she rap and she played basketball
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and she go to school yes I could do that
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I could do anything you know that's
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something yeah you know I just like man
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like that made me say on my toes too you
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know what I'm saying that made me cause
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I'm like now like I got a chance to
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change how a whole generation yeah you
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know what I'm saying yes we're doing
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what I do so I just try to keep it
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positive as a woman too as a woman
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come on you recognized she said I got
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the power to change a whole generation I
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damn it teared up with you for real but
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it's true though yeah it's true though
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yeah yeah it's true though because I see
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how many people are already touching I'm
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only 19. you know oh yeah
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she came up here 16 years old it was
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only 16 when you came
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yeah and she already had this grace in
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this I told you I was in high school
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I'm telling you on fire and to continue
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that this is people don't realize how
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tough it can be man I mean you said it
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Billy faith and Foundation
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um the confidence just oozes from you
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Floyd
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um and I feel like it's Tethered to
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something way bigger than you I know
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that you're a spiritual person that
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oftentimes you'll reference
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um John 6 6 for those who are unfamiliar
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can you share that scripture and what it
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means to you yeah so John 6 secret says
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he said this to prove to him for he
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himself knew what he would do and that
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was the story of when um the disciple
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was following um Jesus him they was like
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we don't have no food how you gonna make
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how you gonna make all this fish and you
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know so had the barrels and it was like
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only a little bit and it was 5 000
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people following him and he said they
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was doubting him so he said I would
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prove this to you if I know what I'm
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gonna do so that's like a confidence
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verse like I write it on my wrist every
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time I play so it's like you know have
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that confidence you know what you can do
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show them what you can do but I I'm I
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think I got a new Bible verse though
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because that one is like I like to like
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proof so he himself knew what he could
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do but it's like now I have to like
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prove myself right not prove them wrong
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you know what I mean so that's kind of
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the lane I want to be on for a mental
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standpoint from a mental standpoint
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what's the difference to you oh man
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because basketball is so mental and it's
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like if I'm putting all this energy to
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prove y'all wrong I'm proving y'all
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wrong like I'ma just prove God right I'm
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just prove myself right like you know
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what I'm saying so I have to prove y'all
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wrong
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I think that's the mindset I want to
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look at it from because then I'll be
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trying to please people right right just
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like that had to look at your team damn
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I'm trying to go through your training
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yeah bruh how did you get here
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tighten up brother push-ups and sit-ups
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too that might not happen either
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um would you want to jump in yeah I I I
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have tons of questions
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um by the way it's just fly Jay sorry
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it's okay
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um tons of questions but
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I'm just curious I'm obsessed with this
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LSU Women's Basketball team and I think
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you guys are so transformative
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um to women's college basketball which
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will ultimately be transformative to the
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WNBA all together
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um there has been a lot of exciting
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um
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female Conference basketball players as
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individuals that have gone on to WNBA
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and have been Superstars but I've never
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seen a collector front of an entire team
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that is exciting and Superstars how do
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you think about your team
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um and do you see you guys being that
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transformative of team in college
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basketball women's basketball yeah I
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think that
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well I didn't see it coming like this I
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knew I knew I'm like bro
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I knew how I was gonna go but I didn't
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know it was going cold like this and it
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was that's how you know something God
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right now but
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man you got people on team with big
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personalities like real hoopers like you
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could take the super stardom away from
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everything but when you got dogs you
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know what I'm saying
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that come from where we come from like
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it's just it's gonna happen because
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we're so excited watching it we got a
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coach that's jumping up and down on the
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sidelines acting crazy so you know we
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got that same energy you know what I
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mean like we got that energy and so
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coach monkey just let us be ourself but
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I remember we had this meeting she was
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like she had to let us know like I'm the
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alpha dog though like you know what I'm
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saying like I know it's a lot of
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personalities but I'm not I'm the alpha
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but she let us be us like you know what
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I'm saying like she don't put No
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Ceilings on what we can do and I think
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that what it was in college basketball
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like you gotta it was strict like girls
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don't say nothing you just who make a
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shot and go back on defense yeah nah
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we're gonna who make the shot talk trash
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then get back on defense you know what I
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mean so I think like that's the
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difference and with the era of social
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media they just make things more
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Amplified yeah yeah I think the W NWA
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can be popular I think it can get to the
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point where you guys start getting the
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contracts of the men's NBA basketball
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but because you have so many exciting
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players and teams and men's basketball
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that's what propels the NBA I think that
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what you guys are about to do is about
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to be the precipice of change in the
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WNBA for that I'm curious you mentioned
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dogs and personalities and I totally
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agree with it I think women's recruiting
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for college women's basketballs needs to
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change I'm curious what are your
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thoughts on that to get more players
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like the LS two players that has street
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ball personality and who goes out the
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conventional Norms what we typically see
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for women's Collegiate basketball
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players
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I can't laugh sometimes like it's just
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in you and like
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everybody ain't gonna be like that
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because like I feel like a few are
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chosen and then like the chosen ones it
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kind of rubs off on everybody else you
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know what I'm saying like you're playing
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with somebody that's so confident you're
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gonna get that confident like you know
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how Michael Jordan like he made his
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teammates better like yeah yeah I do
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that here yeah
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privately I don't know if it's in
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recruiting Because you gotta think like
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some dogs Can't Be Tamed so that's a
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thing like I'm not dealing with all of
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that you know what I mean so you know
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like I feel like you got to be in the
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right situation right team right coach
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right players like that's why it's
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nothing like you can pinpoint cause you
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got some hoopas but they just not
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excited they're not you know what I'm
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saying so
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yeah you know what I'm saying but I feel
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like now the younger kids they gonna
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realize that I could talk myself I could
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be myself and that's where the Change Is
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Gonna Come word you know what I mean
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like that's what I'm talking about
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that's what a team is going to come and
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then it's more media attention on you
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know women's basketball now so it's
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gonna be amazing especially if we keep
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pouring into it as well yeah absolutely
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man fly Jay Johnson is here man
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she is here you're doing the full full
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ride the full four years yeah oh yeah
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you're doing the four four years come on
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you love college you mentioned media how
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how challenging has it been for you
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navigating media oh man I thought I had
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it under wraps okay right I'm like you
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know I've been on a rap game you know
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what I'm saying they don't I went
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through all of that been on America's
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Got Talent but that was all like good
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media you know what I'm saying like you
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know they love me and then I drop a
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video and they hate me and I'm like oh
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my God like you know like just
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navigating all that negativity I was
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like
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how do you do it bro like
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you read it and they're like
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you just look at it and you laugh at it
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because like
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you took your time out today you know
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what I'm saying like you got a million
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other things you could be doing but you
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take your time out today to think about
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me say something negative about me or
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doing like you know trying to build a
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negative energy towards me
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but that's just how I know I'm going up
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because like you know what I'm saying
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like you you want that attention from me
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you know what I mean and like I almost
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be responding and I'll be like don't
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even say nothing but you know like it's
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hard to navigate because like you know
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somebody always saying something about
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you like it just yeah yeah yeah it's
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hard yeah you know but I just like bro I
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don't I don't too much respond to it or
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I just get on social media like
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it is it's something that's inevitable
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okay fly Jay Johnson is here man we're
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gonna play the new single it's called
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Big Four Anthem and continue this
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conversation uh it's from the upcoming
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EP Best of Both Worlds you did a
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distribution deal with EQ uh under
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Jay-Z's Rock Nation
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yeah you got a whole lot to prove
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yeah
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we'll talk about that up next
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845 come on man big four Anthem that's
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out right now
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[Applause]
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Johnson is here yeah buddy she's a LSU
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champion
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and she's an emcee a little different
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now though different Arena
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you know what I mean it's less little
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got some dudes to pay almost right you
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know you paid dudes over the years but
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now what the thing about when you sign
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these kind of deals like with a Jay-Z or
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or name some folks you know Interscope
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Records TDE records then people got you
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got everybody's attention now they watch
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the clock like it's ticking backwards
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right you know until what is she gonna
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do with it well I want to know your plan
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you know what's your plan what this
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distribution deal yeah
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when I signed this distribution deal I
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just knew that it would be dope being
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under the Roc Nation umbrella
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um that I'll be able to like on my
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masters and have creative control it's
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like if I want to like license and sync
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them you know so I can do anything that
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I wanted to do with them
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and so I think like that was the most
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important thing for me having that
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creative control because I was young
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when I signed a deal yeah
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I was like I went in there and I was
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like y'all need to give me a million
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dollars on any sign but then it was like
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fly like you know what I'm saying like
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you 16 17 like we want you to mature we
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want you to be because we put you in
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this deal like we're gonna you know what
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I'm saying like they knew I worked so
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they wanted to give me that freedom
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that's why I really respect and love EQ
19:37
because they really gave me the platform
19:38
to do it on my own and see how things
19:40
work and be my own boss all my masters
19:42
have created control roll out my
19:45
marketing you know what I'm saying so
19:46
that was the goal when I signed that
19:48
deal like just to really evolve and I
19:51
feel like I've been doing that but now I
19:53
get to do it like on a bigger level
19:54
because I got more eyes on me what's
19:56
your platform what's your company called
19:58
is it you have a company name oh yeah my
20:00
um label is flage entertainment it's
20:02
after my dad camouflage my mom's been
20:05
running it her and G and so man we just
20:07
been doing this thing on our own trying
20:10
to really push using social media you
20:12
know advertisement things like that and
20:13
it's just been it's been happening
20:15
slowly so the objective is to make sure
20:17
you push your career forward you know
20:19
set that foundation and then flash
20:21
entertainment will at that point signing
20:24
other artists yeah absolutely absolutely
20:26
yeah all right now you got this t-shirt
20:29
on you're wearing uh what's this Wayne
20:31
full circle uh what's that the Carter
20:33
four yeah anniversary and did Wayne give
20:36
you that no I just went and bought it I
20:39
was like it's Wayne like and they say
20:41
four on it so I had to go get it what
20:43
did Wayne say about you man
20:45
he was like bro
20:47
your flow is bananas I was like what
20:50
like
21:03
one of the greatest of all time
21:06
that right there was like Flock you got
21:09
it you know what I'm saying like you got
21:11
it flaw like stop tripping like you know
21:14
what I'm saying because you know I feel
21:15
like in this in this time you always
21:16
need them confident boosters like when
21:18
you playing basketball you got games
21:20
where okay that was a conference Booth
21:21
but you don't really have in the music
21:23
industry you don't really have no
21:24
confidence boosters unless you just
21:25
unless you know your people telling you
21:27
like you don't say you hard you hard but
21:29
when somebody that's been in it there's
21:31
a legend in it then did greatness in it
21:34
tells you that it's like okay this ain't
21:36
nothing that I'm making up in my head
21:37
like I'm not delusional no more I'm I'm
21:39
really you know what I'm saying I'm
21:41
everybody see it now so it's that type
21:43
of thing and man I'm just man that's
21:44
just an honor for me yeah it's an honor
21:46
for me those are the things that you
21:48
have to remember on them social media
21:50
days yeah those those negative comment
21:52
days you revert back to stuff right back
21:54
to him yeah but Tyler Perry once told us
21:56
here he was like you never see the moon
21:58
come down and bark back at the dog dogs
22:01
will Bark at the Moon all day long the
22:03
moon don't never drop down right come
22:05
off his his space yeah and bark back and
22:09
it's like I'm reminded of that sometimes
22:11
we all are because I really believe it's
22:14
a test sometimes you on that road of
22:16
greatness your road walking in your
22:18
purpose ain't gonna try to get at you
22:19
yeah no but you got Wayne and different
22:21
people I'm you know confirming it you
22:24
know letting you know people that wait a
22:26
lifetime for that and you're receiving
22:27
it early yeah that was my thing like
22:39
damn that's a hook for a song fast right
22:42
let us know
22:46
ah do you you do you really so you don't
22:48
really at well you're 19 you don't
22:50
really have time for a social life
22:52
outside or is your work yeah it's kind
22:55
of my work my social life because I like
22:57
people like I make friends every day you
22:59
know what I mean like I make friends
23:00
with my fans like I'm really like
23:02
sociable like I love meeting new people
23:05
I love creating genuine bonds like I'm
23:07
not one of them people that's like nah
23:09
but like I know how to like read people
23:11
too like spiritual discernment so like
23:13
once I already feel your vibe off you
23:15
know I'm saying I'm out of there but I
23:17
like to meet new people I like to make
23:18
friends like yeah spiritual discernment
23:21
and I gotta use that I'm just all ears
23:24
and learning from you right now you know
23:26
it's different though
23:28
um too because you know I feel like at
23:31
19 you
23:32
you don't deal with a lot of the
23:34
Hang-Ups we might have dealt with coming
23:36
up in rap music you know you're getting
23:38
your flowers when we were coming up you
23:41
didn't get instant flowers like that
23:43
right you uh you don't see the same
23:45
ceilings we saw you know where you could
23:48
do all of these different things
23:49
together yeah be a student you know and
23:52
every one of them is equally as
23:54
important to you it's because it's hard
23:56
like well I was just talking my mom was
23:58
like bro like I need a break like you
24:00
know what I'm saying like and she was
24:01
like this is why it's never been done
24:02
before because it's hard to do but like
24:05
you'll get few about that motivation and
24:07
then you can do anything you know what I
24:09
mean like I run off motivation yeah then
24:12
when I don't have no more motivation
24:13
left I run off that discipline so like
24:15
when you can keep it going you can keep
24:17
that consistency bro it's gonna that
24:19
motivation gonna come back because you
24:21
motivated that you even being consistent
24:22
yeah you're doing good habits so I think
24:25
that but like that motivation like once
24:28
you get that little Spark hold on to it
24:30
for as long as you can and then when it
24:31
when it burn don't just keep being
24:33
disciplined that's how I think I keep
24:35
going because
24:36
I I realize now what I'm doing has never
24:39
been done so I'm like okay flop well you
24:41
ain't got nothing to worry about because
24:42
you're creating a blueprint like there
24:43
you go yeah I'm saying like you can't
24:45
mess up because nobody's done it so it's
24:48
that thing for me that's what that's
24:49
what really keep me
24:51
and sink through I love it man I love it
24:53
too sorry go this way no I'm just gonna
24:55
say fly Jay Johnson is here I love it
24:57
too because I think for you know you
24:59
talk about a new way of getting things
25:01
done for me hearing y'all talking about
25:04
staying in school like and and finishing
25:07
it out like man I'm from a generation
25:09
like if anything pop off I'm leaving
25:11
College
25:13
it's so different and to hear women well
25:16
I'm finishing but obviously it's
25:18
prosperous but at the same time you
25:21
can't help but make connections in
25:22
college you can't help but get educated
25:24
in college you can't help but travel
25:25
especially what they doing and at a
25:27
level and it's helping build ideas and
25:30
build her Corporation and the future
25:32
things that's coming your way so I love
25:34
that I'm also hearing I'm finishing
25:36
school yeah I think I'm in there man
25:38
like this is what I realized like the
25:41
ball gonna stop bouncing I'm a graduate
25:43
from LSU
25:45
I ain't gonna be able to like I ain't
25:47
gonna be able to get nothing from LSU
25:49
you know what I'm saying so I'm like so
25:50
the time that I'm here I'm going to use
25:52
every resource that I possibly can
25:54
absolutely yeah like to build for my
25:57
future I'm not gonna be playing
25:58
basketball for the rest of my life I
26:00
could rap for the rest of life I want to
26:01
do that either like I want to own a
26:03
record label I want to help kids in like
26:06
the sports you know what I'm saying come
26:08
up and show them how to do it the way
26:09
that I did it and try to give them a
26:10
platform to build their brand like I
26:12
want to do that so I'm using these
26:14
reasons I just told I just told my um my
26:16
my friend like I'm switching my major
26:18
like I want to be an entrepreneur so I
26:20
need to take entrepreneur classes I want
26:21
to be a business woman I need to take
26:22
business classes you know what I'm
26:24
saying so I think like
26:26
using everything I can while I'm there
26:28
bro like it's just gonna put me like I'm
26:30
a catapult over my competition because
26:32
like you don't have that you know what
26:34
I'm saying yeah yeah yeah and she gonna
26:36
leave with no student loan debt
26:39
man that's the biggie yeah yo me and
26:41
Mike just smiling at each other I just
26:43
can't believe it like you're so
26:45
fascinating to watch like you're a
26:47
superstar a national champion but yet in
26:51
the music industry you're still a new
26:53
artist yeah but the Poise you have you
26:55
are selling yourself and I'm so
26:58
interested in your music yeah like I
27:00
wish more like new artists or emerging
27:03
artists had the type of ability to sell
27:05
themselves and their music to be
27:08
interested in it but I'm curious about
27:09
that like what is your POV because
27:12
you're a superstar because you're a
27:14
national champion because you're in
27:15
school and I love how you said you love
27:17
meeting people so you're always talking
27:19
and gathering information yeah what is
27:21
the POV for your rap like man like
27:24
just my day-to-day like you know what
27:26
I'm saying and that's why I think it's
27:28
so cool because I'm not rapping about
27:30
nothing I'm not doing I can't go out
27:32
there and say I'm gonna Shoot Em Up bang
27:34
bang baby I'm in college like I'm not in
27:37
the streets you know what I mean like I
27:38
can't say you know what I'm saying I'm
27:40
shaking this and I'm popping I'm not
27:41
doing that I'm going to court you know
27:43
what I mean so just taking real life
27:45
experiences from what I do and who I am
27:46
like I can't fake it and I feel like in
27:48
that way you can't miss because people
27:50
love originality you know what I'm
27:52
saying they love that because they can
27:54
relate to it you know it's not really
27:55
you know something fake like you know
27:57
I'm saying something that's why I like I
27:59
used to get like
28:00
I actually get mad because like I was
28:02
like people don't understand why subject
28:04
matter you know what I'm saying like
28:06
they're not gonna get it they're
28:07
probably gonna think it's corny but now
28:08
it's like they like bro this is real you
28:10
know what I'm saying like I love this
28:12
like I can relate to this like you know
28:13
what I mean so you know I was like who
28:15
is my target audience but I'm like bro
28:17
everybody my target everybody I like
28:20
that everybody's not talking about this
28:21
because everybody like real music yeah
28:23
man damn fly Jay Johnson man so much has
28:25
happened since she was 16 17. now she's
28:29
a whoppy 19 you know
28:32
oh my gosh man listen um The Best of
28:35
Both Worlds is dropping in August right
28:38
it's an EP and in that are we you're
28:42
going to talk about when you say The
28:43
Best of Both Worlds what what two worlds
28:45
are we speaking of we're talking about
28:47
the basketball world and the music world
28:50
okay but this is just to show them like
28:52
yeah you see me on the court but like
28:54
I'm the best at this too like you know
28:57
what I'm saying like this is going to be
28:58
a solid project and it's going to be
29:00
that one that's like oh okay she got the
29:02
best of both worlds like Hannah Montana
29:04
like she really you know what I mean
29:06
like Miley Cyrus yeah for sure so
29:08
I think like this is like one of them
29:10
Stampers for me because I feel like this
29:12
is my best music
29:13
but I just keep making so much good
29:15
music but this is my like best music I'm
29:17
gonna let you hear it I'm gonna send you
29:19
the whole time and send it to me oh my
29:21
gosh yeah and I I'm just I'm
29:25
I just get so excited when I talk about
29:27
it because this music like it's just
29:30
been the ones that I've been holding on
29:32
to and I've been yeah and I want them to
29:34
understand like and I want them to feel
29:36
what I feel when I'm recording them and
29:37
I know they will so I'm just excited
29:40
because you're passionate about it
29:43
come out you're my favorite new
29:46
artists
29:49
so excited to hear it yes like rap
29:52
should be fun and and at the same time I
29:55
want them to know I'm the best at this
29:56
yeah that's hip-hop yeah it's a
29:59
competitiveness yes and you know what
30:01
I'm saying like it's a competitiveness
30:02
and I think I get that from basketball I
30:04
just get that from me really but if I'm
30:06
going to do something I'm gonna be the
30:07
best at it yeah and if you don't think
30:08
I'm the best I'm gonna remind you I'm
30:09
the best you know what I mean so
30:11
I think it's that type of thing I just I
30:13
love it we love you man fly Jay Johnson
30:16
man come on man and in Florida go ahead
30:18
and
30:19
what's popping in
30:21
Australia
30:23
hey everybody what up
30:26
just wanted to say as far as they keep
30:28
doing what you're doing love I think
30:29
you're the first out of your generation
30:31
that I actually heard speak with with
30:34
using the words you use the motivation
30:36
that you know you got to keep keep going
30:39
don't change who you are for nobody for
30:41
nothing for no dollar sign for nothing
30:43
she's doing you for sure thank you so
30:46
much wow that's great I appreciate it
30:48
that's love I mean you know a lot of
30:50
people come up here to all say they the
30:51
best or they want to be the best they
30:53
got bars and all of that kind of stuff
30:54
you know I hear that all the time
30:56
fortunately I you said it in the day
30:58
back in the day and I saw you do it but
31:00
and I follow you on IG you know and I'll
31:02
watch you uh post a lot of the
31:04
freestyles that you do and do do you do
31:06
one takes or you might do it and then do
31:09
it again to make it better
31:11
um life in my freestyle yeah I do like I
31:13
go through all my takes like I probably
31:15
do like two takes and whichever one I
31:16
like the best but
31:18
I usually like the first one because it
31:20
you know when you try to redo it you try
31:22
to make it better you're trying to mess
31:23
up yeah but like man I just like when I
31:26
write these things like that's the man
31:29
that's the best part for me because a
31:30
lot of my music it's crazy my music I
31:32
freestyle like my music I just go off
31:34
the Dome but when I sit down and I write
31:36
my freestyle and I'm able to think of
31:38
bars like I love that because I feel
31:40
like I'm really getting better at my
31:42
craft you know what I'm saying because
31:43
you can you can edit it like almost
31:45
you're in the studio like I don't like
31:47
that word punch that out and I'm saying
31:48
today so if you're able to really put
31:50
your best work out there and that's why
31:51
I love it and it's so hard and it's so
31:53
challenging because you gotta remember A
31:54
Million Lives you know you know come on
31:56
well you're a national champion on that
31:58
basketball court and you're a hip-hop
31:59
champion in this room okay you knew
32:02
where you was coming this morning right
32:03
listen man this is a celebration it's a
32:06
celebration that's all that she's done
32:07
since she came here last time you do you
32:10
really don't have anything left to prove
32:12
as an emcee you did it when you came
32:13
here the first time and that in that
32:16
freestyle went viral and people around
32:18
the world are seeing how talented you
32:20
are equally or talented on that mic as
32:22
you are on that Court which is pretty
32:24
damn impressive so this verse is a
32:27
celebration verse that's right this is a
32:30
come home verse right here this is a
32:32
come hit the verse right and this is so
32:34
let y'all know that we got a hyena in
32:37
the best
32:38
let's go
32:41
look look
32:44
only the real gonna understand for you
32:47
it doesn't translate Every Beat I walk
32:49
in dead put it in a Trans State I sit on
32:51
the floor and I show love cause I can't
32:53
stand hate yeah you growing up but you
32:55
ain't make sure that your friends ate
32:56
but maybe I'm Different I don't care for
32:58
the likes of being a mansion I don't
32:59
look for attention I've been thinking
33:01
about how I could get a commission I've
33:02
been handling business I told my
33:04
professor I need an extension they ain't
33:05
seeing the vision I need me a ghost when
33:07
I'm trying to go missing now they say I
33:08
hate the world you know how to blog do
33:10
so I let the Tesla drive itself and say
33:13
I carpool man I made history spinning
33:15
heat like rotisserie I am who they
33:17
attempt to be coldest you got to mention
33:19
me artists of the century I just made in
33:21
the PIP and you run it it's like a spit
33:23
for me Marathon Ipsy cripping peace I'm
33:25
freestyling you know that the beat while
33:27
and I'm trying to buy three islands the
33:29
kitchen got remodeled batted in three
33:31
tallers put them in Weak collars how you
33:34
gonna get mad block me then we follow
33:36
her I've been in transition for a minute
33:38
took a fast break they ain't got the
33:40
balls to do it I make so my sway
33:44
[Music]
33:54
it's kind of stupid
34:02
[Applause]
34:15
she could rap better than you and then
34:17
dunk on you after the verse
34:22
thank you thank you I made you realize
34:26
your dream from seeing me accomplish
34:28
mine
34:32
I wish I wrote that verse you know
34:35
what you know what
34:38
yeah ladies and gentlemen would you
34:40
witnessing to something you never
34:41
witnessed before you never seen anything
34:43
quite like this a professional athlete
34:46
on a Collegiate level a professional MC
34:48
on the elite level welcome her to the
34:52
gang Give It Up to fly Jay Johnson come
34:54
on a true spitter all you at least get
34:58
with her thank you get with her make her
35:00
an ally get with her now do those
35:03
features whatever she wants give it to
35:06
her that's going on
35:10
incredible I think that's dope and you
35:13
care yes if they knew what we had to do
35:15
to set that up Just moment tell I can
35:17
see you care she care about this culture
35:20
it's not a vulture she wants to excel in
35:23
its culture and motivate people that's
35:25
what why this culture was built
35:27
disenfranchised people motivating
35:29
inspiring others and the tradition of
35:33
hip-hop 50-year anniversary yep 50-year
35:36
anniversary of hip-hop and you keeping
35:38
the tradition going strong I want to
35:40
thank you for coming home to us yeah
35:42
absolutely fly Jay Johnson it's
35:44
incredible incredible your conversation
35:46
is incredible your vision is incredible
35:48
you definitely have a support base with
35:51
us okay so much you know and I'll get to
35:54
the LSU game
36:12
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