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Fred The Godson’s Brother, Russ On Street Naming After The Late Rapper + New Music and More
Jan 28, 2021
In 2020 we lost a real good one in Fred The Godson. His name might not have been the biggest on the charts, but everybody knew who he was. And now one of the dopest lyricists to ever touch a mic will be enshrined on the block he grew up on, with the street being named after him.
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you know i haven't heard your music but
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word is you guys are hot
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sizzling discovering new music is easy
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gentlemen introduce it to you
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your favorite producer favorite producer
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the columbia
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fellow himself
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the president of the hip-hop museum
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learning center
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platinum producer
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ladies love them fellas want to be
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he traded his bike for a beam
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would that be a baby mama
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no it's the bm that's the car without
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the drama
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he ain't nobody's father okay we got
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rich knights here ladies and gentlemen
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how you feeling man you good
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red rising feels good to be here there
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it is rich nice and we got a very
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special guest today he's a friend of the
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family friend of the show i was talking
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about
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his brother just momentarily inviting
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him to come on the show with us today
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on the brother fred the gossip we got
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the one and only rush with us russ
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graham rises russ hey ross roger family
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what up y'all what up
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what's up russ what's
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man working trying to keep the legacy
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alive brother
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you know make sure everything going
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according to his you know
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the the plan he set you know what i'm
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saying yeah
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oh i love that man i love what you guys
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are doing i was actually um
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i was actually on the phone with leanne
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yesterday and she was telling me about
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the
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day that they're gonna do the naming of
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the street at the fred
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yeah man that's that's just it's just
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beautiful man i i mean you don't know
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one artist without a major distribution
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there without a record label
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to get something like this this fast and
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i had a talk with leanne and i told her
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i said you know
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fred did a lot of great things in his
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industry and a lot of great things for
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the culture but
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we need to put ourselves on the back
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because we push for this
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you know we push for his legacy to be
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alive and
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it's crazy man because we're getting the
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street name right in front of our
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building we grew up in
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oh wow that's taking it to another level
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yes man wow the beautiful thing about
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this wow
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is that you know the talks i had with
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fred as a kid
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he always talked in a legendary fashion
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like
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he knew he wanted to be one of the
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greats he preached
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out in his music and his bars and you
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know it would be times he'd be like you
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know i'm not i'm not comparing myself to
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no other artist
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i'm comparing myself to the great so he
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bust his brain and pushed his pen
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and did a lot of things him as a person
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is the value of what i think hip-hop
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should be about man because
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everybody loved them and you know
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regardless if he was
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at a certain level in this game man the
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person he is
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is what i think made this happen you
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know
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absolutely man i appreciate that i think
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it's great that you acknowledge the work
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that y'all have to do to continue the
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legacy i'm curious to how does that
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happen like do you
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approach the city did you who did you
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the president of the borough
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how did you make that happen well when
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this all first started and went down
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you know we decided to uh do a
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foundation something fred
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and his wife and his family discussed
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and you know about before not many knew
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about it
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but once we got the ball rolling a lot
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of people was in disbelief
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but once the work started coming out all
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the councilmen and members started
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seeing the things we were doing in the
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community
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with the fred de garson foundation toy
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drives
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we had you know book giveaways we had uh
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um you know a bar fundraiser and
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you know we started doing things just
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building and once everybody in the
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community started recognizing it
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and me on the other hand still pushing
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and working his music
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awesomeness and his management and
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putting things together
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and i think that just set the tone you
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know
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yeah man and then once then they came to
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us way
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they started seeing what we was doing
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and and seeing all the people we come
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around and you know the politics
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they like oh frank got a lot of
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[ __ ] man you know
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like yo let's give these people what
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they want
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and now we're here you know i love it
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man uh
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man round of applause for this man yo
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you know rush
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it's not often i go by well i don't even
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if i don't either think about fred i'm
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i'm hearing something about fred i play
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his music in my house i miss that man
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you know i really i really miss your
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brother yeah we all do
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man yeah you know sway the crazy thing
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about it
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on a personal note you know
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the way he talked about y'all was just
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i'm telling you just to let y'all know
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like y'all family man and heather
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the way you talk about your cooking oh
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my goodness
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the last time i seen fred suey was in
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the physical was like
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thanksgiving time and it was so
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crazy because the story was my family we
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always late for everything so he's
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having a thanksgiving dinner right
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and everybody was in town i was in town
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and fred was like yo when we gonna start
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in a man so my wife was there she was
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like yo i could make some meatballs he
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said you can make meatballs
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go to the supermarket right now
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i asked him i said yo bro
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you know cause my wife from the south
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you know what i'm saying and
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she made them meet boys with all and let
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me tell you man he was like yo
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i don't know what i would want to did
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man and i asked them i said yo
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they better than heaven had the bees he
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was like nah b
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now
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and you know those are cherished moments
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i would always cherish man
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seeing my brother in the physical so
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when this all happened
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like i just told him i said look you
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know
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so leanne i said you know it's time to
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strap boots on
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i know a lot of things about my brother
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i know he's connected with
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who he's close to and i i've been trying
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to reach you forever sway
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like forever because if i knew somebody
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was close to my brother i knew it was
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you guys and you guys are family
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word up man absolutely in the morning
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i'm telling you i'm coming to the the
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unveiling of the street brother
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i'mma be there yes sir yes i would love
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to meet you a person
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yeah chop it up off the air and you know
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we get connected man because
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this is only the beginning we just
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scratching the surface man fred got a
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whole lot in the vault
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and a whole lot of things up and coming
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for him man and and it's just beautiful
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you know it's amazing still his spirit
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well we going he is bro he is like his
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energy don't you know the physical pass
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is on but the energy stays you can't get
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rid of the enemy
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man that's a fact that is a fact cause
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i'm getting confirmation left to right
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and every time i call my mother
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and leanne once i get confirmation of
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things
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and it's it's it's a bittersweet moment
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but
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that makes leanne and my mother stronger
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you know when i tell them things that's
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happening
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you know i've been working a whole lot
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with bro you know
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and it's like once this happened we
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didn't plan to put
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the godson project out it was something
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that
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i wanted to jumpstart and put together i
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took
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his catalog and i took all the things
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that was a hundred percent his
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and put him all together and structured
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the album how he would got the album
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cover done
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got some press done and got this stuff
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done so
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fred can get a head start with streaming
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for the family
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to get some dollars in their pocket and
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and then i was the mastermind
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behind recreating the black power and
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dropped that when the ant came on the
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show the first time
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i was supposed to get on the show the
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first time but i was the one that made
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that call during that time
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okay all right that that was the and
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that that song was prophetic
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right yeah yeah it's like fred told me
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to do it
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like it was crazy uh man we speaking
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with russell who's fred the guy sons
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brothers
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a lot of great things going on for our
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brother he's getting a street named
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after him in front of the building they
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grew up in that's amazing come on clap
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that up
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yes it is what day what day is the
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unveiling of the street
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it's gonna be on his birthday man wow
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22nd on his birthday
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on his birthday that's not like a monday
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yeah i think so i think it's a monday
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yeah it's frederick fred the god son
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thomas way
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500 feet on the corner from the building
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we grew up in
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in the thick part of when fred started
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doing his rapping and music right
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oh that's amazing that's amazing
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citizens come on we're going to support
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cam where can people find more about it
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i know y'all got the website
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uh the freddagasanfoundation.org can
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people find out
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information there yeah we we
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are just uh gonna get a flyer together
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we're gonna put it out and blast it
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all over social media and put it on our
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website it'll be
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on friend the godson foundation.org and
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then
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all social media platforms i've read to
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god some foundations from facebook
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instagram you know we we're just going
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to let people know
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what time and and what date is going to
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be
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and it's just going to be remarkable you
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know we got city councils coming out
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we got some of fresh celebrity friends
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coming out
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and his close friends coming out you
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know the hood going to be there so
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yeah you know just to be trying to keep
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things safe and social distance
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and we're still in a pandemic so you
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know we got to be careful with things
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but
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at the same time this is this is a
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celebration for fred and
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we want to make sure everybody that
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loves fred and been rocking with him
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for a long time we want to make sure
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they know and be there
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facts absolutely russia is here please
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send our love to
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to your mother i'm looking forward to
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meeting your mom
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uh yes and seeing the babies and the
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family
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hey russ should i wear tims i mean how
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i'm looking when i come out there man
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what i'm doing bro
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i mean tim's is good man you know what
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i'm saying but you go you know you gotta
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have that you know gotta have that
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spread look you know
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you know in the winter time you like the
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lumberjacks
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[Applause]
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hey rich you gonna come with me we gonna
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be right out there
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all right oh yes sir shout out to rich
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man i love what you're doing with the
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hip hop museum man this is this is
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incredible
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thanks man
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fred in there say that again rich yo
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i said we got to talk to mention we got
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some reputation from fred in there
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oh man that man i'm humble and
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and we definitely can make that happen
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you know
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i spoke to leanne about that yesterday
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and and she told me that sway
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is coming with you and and and you know
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once we
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see each other we can connect and make
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that happen man i'm just humbled and
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thankful and grateful
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in any kind of way man that we can just
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keep this legacy going and that's a big
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component to that you know
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absolutely we're going to keep
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celebrating we celebrate them here
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russ we celebrate fred often play his
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music
12:28
we talk like he's sitting right next to
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us hey man i know you watched
12:32
a few of the interviews we've done with
12:33
them bro when we get together
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it ain't no it's like it's like after
12:38
the meal at the at the family function
12:40
on
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you know after the meal at the on the
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holiday is when the ruckus start to
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raise you know what i mean like
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you know everybody kind of core drawing
12:47
formal but after the meals when it
12:48
turned up
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when fred would come to the station man
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after the meal was when he first walked
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in the door bro
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you know we just it's our laugh
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family man like i've i've sold every
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single interview
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and before he gets on the show he always
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let me know yo bro tune in you know what
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i'm saying
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and i do that with everything he's done
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it's like it's you know
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seeing him from a kid and progress
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each level and always being in tune with
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my brother's stuff
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man it's just organically happened
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for me to just come in and work with
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those who was working with him
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and it was been a challenging experience
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because a lot of times
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people think it's not hurt for me like
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you know i've been grieving as well
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you know what i'm saying but it's like
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me working
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and seeing him get to the level he
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wanted to get to and what he deserves
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man that that that just is a healing
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process each step we go
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and let me let me say this because i
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don't want it to be me and sway was just
13:51
having this conversation about somebody
13:53
else
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this past weekend but um let me add this
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to it because
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as great as he is because his spirit
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still lives lyrically
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let's just acknowledge too that as a
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father
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that man loved his daughters he loved
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his children he spoke hot like
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he that would that has to be
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acknowledged as well so who he was
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as a father it needs to be recognized
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too because
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fred loved his kids man so just love to
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him for that too a lot of times i don't
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get mentioned
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especially when we're dealing with our
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black men he was incredible father as
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well
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yes he he he loved sadie and sophia and
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he loved
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me and his family yeah he would like
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listen in his eyes man you know and
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every time i see them you know it's just
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like seeing him and it's so
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beautiful because it's like my home
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warms up to see my my oldest daughter
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and my daughter's on the phone on a um
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ipad with each other talking and it's
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just
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it's just loving because their cousins
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are being there for them
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because they know their dad is not here
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but to see them happy
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and getting happier but people talking
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about their father
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and seeing people care for their
15:10
well-being man it's just beautiful
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you know because fred was a brilliant
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father and
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he just loved his kids and family man
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you know that's what it was about
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yeah it is man come on man russ man
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[Applause]
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i got a caller already we gonna play
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this song ali
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and uh somebody calling up already we
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got
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tommy from new jersey uh tommy
15:37
what up family
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yes how are you doing sway what's up
15:54
heather what up fam
15:56
no yeah no to me like i miss fred every
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day
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but i got rust there every day for me
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you know we're on the phone every day
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non-stop working the music
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okay and waiting for this hourly record
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to come out okay
16:10
and it's coming out friday right friday
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yep friday 29th
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yep this friday that's right can people
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pre-order it
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well right now you can't pre-order it we
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don't have a pre-order link
16:22
now but you know you guys wait for
16:24
friday and it'll be up right at 12 a.m
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okay all right cool i can't wait to um i
16:30
want to you know i got the song
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obviously but i'm still going you know
16:35
i'm still i'm trying to
16:36
put spending money because see the
16:37
stream the money is going to go to the
16:38
family and those beautiful daughters
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you know what i mean so citizens this is
16:43
one
16:43
we're going friday we're going to be
16:45
playing that song over and over and
16:46
we're going to really
16:48
this fred is family and this is what we
16:50
do on this show everybody
16:51
tune in man you got to see it russ folks
16:53
call in they might be going through
16:54
hardships or maybe not they just got a
16:56
great idea
16:58
and people from all over the country and
16:59
all over the world that listen to this
17:01
show will support it
17:02
and so that's just incredible this is
17:05
this this record
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is it's a story behind this record as
17:09
far as
17:10
me deciding you know this gonna be the
17:12
single because
17:13
you know this single is a projection for
17:16
for album
17:17
i put together in track listing and all
17:20
that i had all this music
17:21
that i had to decide and pick from from
17:24
verses for something songs and
17:26
you know sway you know when i'm thinking
17:29
about fred man and i'm listening to his
17:31
music
17:32
i try to tap in into the aura where you
17:35
know
17:35
how he would structure things and i try
17:37
to follow you know tradition
17:39
you know what i'm saying i think out of
17:41
everybody you know
17:43
i was just waiting and seeing like who
17:45
and then once i seen you and torrey
17:49
do that for the bt awards man it just
17:51
warmed my heart so i want to thank you
17:52
for that
17:53
you know what i'm saying because i just
17:56
wanted to tell you
17:56
personally thank you you know for you
17:59
know
18:00
putting fred out there and just talking
18:02
about him you're on tour
18:03
man and once you did that that's when i
18:06
was in the process of putting this music
18:08
together so
18:08
we trying to have this single lead up to
18:10
our album that i'm trying to drop
18:12
on his birthday as well okay okay that's
18:15
what's up man i see you back we we you
18:17
well we in your corner man and i hope
18:18
all
18:19
all of new york should be in your corner
18:21
all these stations
18:22
anybody in new york should be in your
18:24
corner you know and so
18:26
and if they not we're going to encourage
18:27
them to do so okay russ
18:29
thanks bro i appreciate y'all world rock
18:32
family
18:32
hey man won't you introduce the song um
18:36
as we conclude and send you know
18:37
definitely send our love to the family
18:39
but go ahead and introduce the song to
18:41
the world tell them about your brother
18:42
man
18:44
all right child this is the leader
18:45
single new single
18:47
fred the god son ali produced by
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arsonist the heat makers
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let's get it
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count black
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