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Grip talks New Album '5 & A F*** You', Talks with Eminem & Freestyles Over Wu-Tang & CNN Beat
Nov 8, 2022
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Grip talks New Album '5 & A F*** You', Talks with Eminem & Freestyles Over Wu-Tang & CNN Beat
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I kind of used that
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I used to play on words. Like I went hard for this. I gave my all for this
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You know, like I died for this. He left it all out there. That's dedication
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That's hard work. That's commitment. Sometimes that's what it takes when you have a dream
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One thing for sure, when you're dreaming and you set goals, you always find people to tell you what you can't do
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That's what you don't want to listen to. Got to avoid those distractions
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that energy you put in yourself pays off in the long run this man is from a place that you wouldn't
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imagine would sign would be signed to this place he's from Atlanta East Atlanta right yeah okay
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came up in the in the trenches you know done some dumb shit early in his life
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from his family's porch and then something happened to him I don't know you know maybe
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a walnut fell and hit him on his head or something made him pivot
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And because he stopped putting that energy that he was divvying out in the wrong directions
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and to the right directions, the laws of the universe began to pay off for him
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He caught the attention of somebody by the name of Eminem, who arguably is one of the
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greatest lyricists to ever pick up a mic and write songs, right
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Goated. Okay. This man also said that he believed that the signing of Grip is probably the best signing
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that this label, Shady Records, has ever made since it was started
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And I start going through the signings, Heather B. Okay. I start, well, you mean he's better than O.B. Trice
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What, he's better than 50 Cent? He's better than Slaughterhouse? Yeah. He's better than Royce the 5'9"
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Oh, man. He said that. That's big shoes. West Side Gun? Conway the Machine
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That's all Shady Records. West Side Boogie? my dog that's your family for him to say that um i have to say congratulations to you i know what
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he meant by it thank you you know he wasn't comparing you to them but he was happy with
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the signing and that's um that's why you were able to team up with him and do certain music
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and be here a part of the family welcome man thank you welcome give it up for grip citizens
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This grip is here. Now, grip, you wasn't expecting this. No, no, definitely not
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But, man, we live on air, man. You might as well do this in front of a live audience, right
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Sure, sure. Okay, so, Heather, who we got here? Well, I was on my way to go pee
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And, you know, SiriusXM, we're amazing. A lot of times, coworkers and colleagues here, they have tours, you know, in the building
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and taking folks through what it's like to basically be at a media mall. That is what I refer to SiriusXM as
2:48
You see different studios. And I don't know, somehow I just kept hearing
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Jersey in the building, Jersey in the building, Jersey in the building. The voice I listen to in my head, right
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And I stopped and I asked our colleague, what do we have here
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What's going on? Are you on a tour? And she said, yes, they are from Monmouth. And if you are from New Jersey, you know Monmouth County
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I live in Union County, which is further away. But Monmouth County, I didn't even get the name of the school
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but if someone can step up to the microphone here and let us know. Monmouth University
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You better go. I heard that. So I said, y'all need to come in because Sway is always bullying me about Oakland
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and let him know that Jersey is in the building and you are overtaken right now
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And Sway, as you always are, gracious enough, invited the entire tour in, the studio
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A lot of students here. A lot of debt. A lot of student debt in this room
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Grip, what up, man? Man, I can't call it, man. I'm excited to be here
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The title of your album, Five and a You. Five and a You
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How don't you give somebody $5 and then a finger? And say, you
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No, it's like a six. So, five, you, six. Six. So, it's my six project
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And, you know, just being from, like, the east side of Zone Six. So, that's where that came from
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This is your sixth project now? Yeah, including, like, EPs and shit
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Uh-huh. Yeah. When was your first time in the studio? Probably high school
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High school. Yeah, high school. Somebody had a mattress set up and shit
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You know how that goes. Okay. We're in the closet and shit. That was the sound room was the mattress
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Yeah, you know. We got the bedding to, like, you know, block out the sound and shit
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Like, stop echo. So it was, like, high school. Did you want to do this to escape anything
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Like when I got into the rap scene, it was like I grew up in Oakland
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I was hoping it'd lead me to something different. Was that your reasoning? I think we was just doing it just to do it at that point
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It was something cool to do. Who was out at that time? In Atlanta
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In Atlanta. Of course, like Gucci and Jeezy, Tip. Outkast had been, you know what I'm saying, came through
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and did their thing. You know, YG, Yola, all of that, all of that stuff
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So yeah, it came from that, just recording at the crib and just kind of like
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oh damn, like he's actually good. He might be better than these folks are
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And I just kind of like, once I graduated, got a kid out of college
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I ain't had shit to do, man. Sitting around, not doing anything. Just like
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yo, I'm smoking. Yeah, for sure, for sure. Smoking, drink. What was you smoking
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shit man back then hell I ain't gonna lie back then mid used to hit
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you know what I mean like it was hitting back then but like and they had this strain of perp that I've never
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seen again like the 08 09 strain of perp was just like different so like we were yeah it was different
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wait so the smoking got you kicked out of college nah nah nah nah I was
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I was selling shit in college but it was at a HBCU
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and uh like in Tennessee and I kicked out on some other shit like
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it was a big thing. My face was in the paper and shit. Oh, no. Yeah, but it wasn't even my fault
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It really wasn't even on me. Yeah, I wanted something for you. Yeah, no, for sure. Like, I got out
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and I saw that my face was in the school paper and I was just like, damn. For selling weed
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I kicked out. It was some other shit. Why are you trying to get him in criminal
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It was some other shit with it. It was some other shit with it. He beat the case and you bringing it back up
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It was some other shit with it. I definitely, I kicked out of school. Okay, when he said other shit
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I just knew I had to follow up with that. Sorry. Hold on. That's journalism
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The follow-up. All right? Okay. All right. Go for it. Go ahead. Then I went back home, and I just remember my mom was just like
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what you going to do? You know what I mean? So I was like, shit. I had tried to do, like, the community college shit, but, like, it was like��
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Which one? DeKal? What? DeKalb Tech. DeKalb? I went to DeKalb Tech, and they had—they used to have, like, Georgia perimeter
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but now it's, like, Georgia State. It's part of Georgia State now. So, like, I did that shit
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I got a refund check, and I was just like, ah, it's aint. This ain't it. So I used some of that bread and, you know, some other bread to just buy some equipment, buy studio equipment
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And I got the studio equipment and I just started doing it. But I would have just worked, like, jobs and shit, warehouse jobs in between that shit and whatever
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And that's how that shit went. What did you do at a warehouse, bro? Was you stacking boxes? I was driving, forklifts, picking and packing the whole nine
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So, like, I was just used to all of that shit. You know what I mean? I did everything for years
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Wow. And that chain you got on is probably worth more than all the money you made in that warehouse for five years
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Definitely. Definitely. I had to quit. You know what I'm saying? I had to walk out
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I would walk out of jobs, like, on lunch break. Like, they're calling, like, hey, coming back
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Like, no, I'm not coming back. Like, it just wasn't it. I didn't want to, like, limit myself or even just box myself in to, like, feeling like I had to, oh, it's a job making $15 an hour
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Hey, man, keep going. Like it like no bro Like it bigger It bigger things than that So that just how I always kind of approached it I just didn want to get comfortable So started making the music started going like full with that
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And fast forward to now, here we are. I don't have any kids, right
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But I'm trying to figure out, okay, so my son comes home. He's kicked out of college
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He gets the refund check. He doesn't save it. He's like, I'm going to buy equipment
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No record companies are calling none of this stuff yet. and fast forward a couple years later
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I had my first child, I had a daughter so I remember my mom just like
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looking at me, it was like a moment of truth she was like, do you even give a
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That's where I'm going with this but it hurt my feelings so I was like damn, my mom said this shit to me
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I'm like really though I felt like she should have had kind of just like trusting it
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and you didn't know that you gonna be able to do what you think you gonna do, right? But back then
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You ed up your whole life, bro So you don't it up, right? So back then, I was looking at it like that
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But, you know, as you get older and shit, And now you have a child and you can imagine. Yeah, I have two children. Yeah, I got two children now
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So, yeah, it's, you know, I could see where she was coming from
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Right. Being a parent. Any parents in the house? No. No. It's a new day, Sway
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It's a young crowd. Damn. She said she gave you the demon song
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Keep that at me back. So I'm curious because for many artists, you know, they start picking up a pen, a pad, a mic, and looking at rap as an extracurricular activity, you know, something to do after school
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Maybe you then start looking at it as an income generator. But when did it shift to looking at it as an art form, like really respecting it in that way
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I think that's how it started. Okay. I wasn't looking for money, you know what I'm saying
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Because we was just, like I said, we was just rapping. and we're just trying to, you know what I mean
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just have the best verse, you know what I mean, or take it from our influences and trying to make it better
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and trying to build onto that. So it started off like that. Okay, so it was pure
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Yeah, it's been pure, yeah. We weren't seeing no money from it. Okay
10:10
What I want to do, Grip has his new album. Grip is an incredible artist, you know
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He did a song called Finesse, and we're not about to play it, But with an artist by the name of Mick Jenkins, who's one of our horses in the stables when it comes to bars
10:27
You did Placebo with Royce the 5'9". For sure. You know, you've collaborated with Eminem
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We played the walkthrough. So you've been proven. You know what I mean
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You've been tested and proven. When we come back, we're going to play this song called Good
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Tell me about Good. All right. So Good was we had to add some more songs to make it
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because it was originally going to be an EP. Yeah. So we had to add some more songs to make it a full length
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for time purposes, right? So it was just my boy Rocky, who actually did Glenwood Freestyle
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he just sent the pack. And when I heard the beat, I was like, oh, this is easy
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I could just kill this shit. Like, I already knew, like, I heard the cadences, everything that I wanted to do
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And that was just like, for good, it was just like, all right, man, enjoy life. Like, this shit be too serious
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You know what I mean? Enjoy this shit. Like, everybody raise their glasses up. Feel good to be alive
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Mad for what? So, you know, I just kind of wanted to throw one of them, like, old school type of boom bapping songs on there and shit
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It's been a tough week. Tough. Tough week for the culture, for the community
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We lost takeoff. When I heard Good, you know, and also Many Thanks that you have on this album, I knew these were songs I wanted to play, you know, just to capture that vibe
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And then when we come back, I got these young up and coming, you know, superstar journalists that are going to ask you a couple of questions from Monmouth College
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All right. We're going to put them in the works. University's way. Excuse me. Pardon me. Excuse me. Put some respect on Jersey
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I'm just saying. Okay. I didn't know Jersey had universities. I went to St. Peter's University
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We was in the Elite Eight. I'm just saying. What, we doing this now? I'm saying
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I'm just, you know. Any Golden State Warriors fans say, make some noise? Eh
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All right. All right. We're going to come back. And then we also got Superstar Jay here
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We got him here for a reason. Five and the You. That's the name of the album. Shady Records Artist
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The one and only Griff is here. Lyrical. Lyricist. Come on. This is hip hop
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This is hip hop. So, Griff. We have some folks here. Some probably may not be familiar with you, but these are future broadcast journalists
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It doesn't matter if they are or not. They should be able to whip up some questions of interest to find out more about you
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So first up from Monmouth University is. Hi, my name is Gigi Avenator
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I'm a music industry major at Monmouth University. I'm a singer songwriter
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I'm Gigi sings on Instagram. and my question for grip is when did you know that you wanted to do this as a career
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um great question gg um let's see i think when i was pushing a fort lift and i was like you know
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what this ain't it man like but no really really it was i think it was my mom you know i'm saying
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just kind of telling me like yo what you doing like make a decision like what you you got to be
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serious about something. And I was just always good with words and shit. So I think that that was one of the reasons, like
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one of the things that pushed me to that point. Right. Yeah. Give it up for Gigi
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Great question, Gigi. Next up. Next up. Okay, with the headphones, don't put them by the mic
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because it's going to give feedback. Torch is going to regulate that. All right, live show, guys
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That's right. While she's getting situated, to follow up on your question, Gigi, Grib, how long did it take your mother to become a fan of your music
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I think she's always been a fan. You know what I mean? I just think that, I don't know, you know, probably had to hear it or see it kind of have traction for her to give it that extra look, that ear
14:17
Got it. So I think that's what happened. But she's been a fan. She's been supportive
14:21
Yeah. Okay. Our next question. Hello, everyone. My name is Carla Avila
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How are you? I'm so excited to be here. I've actually done college radio for three years
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Oh, this is so cool. Yeah. She's comfortable. We started our Hispanic Latin radio station at Mommets
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Better go. Nuestros sonidos de latinos. Yes. I love radio, but I'm really thankful to be here
14:42
My question is, take us a little journey, I guess, in your creative process
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How do you come up with the lyrics and what inspires you
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what motivates you during your time of creativity? It defers. Sometimes I'll be in the car, and I'll just have a BPM in my head or a beat in my head
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and I'll write while I'm driving type shit, and then I'll just find somewhere to either record it in my phone or put it down
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Sometimes I'll be in the studio, and it's just more intentional, like just listening to beats and knowing I'm going to actually write it down
15:20
It's different every time. It's different every time. But I do find that the car is probably my most effective
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Why do you think that? Because I'm in the car a lot. I drive a lot. So, you know, listen to music
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You're in a box. It's like, you know, so the car probably. Your biggest song was written in the car
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I guarantee it was. Yeah? What's been your biggest song? Probably Walk Through
15:41
So did you write that in the car? I wrote that in the car. I'm like, walking through the depths of hell
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I'm like, I am getting on this. Like, come on, man. So, yeah, I definitely wrote that in the car
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So that's a song he has with Eminem called Walk Through. We got one more
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Our cast, you did a great job. No, thank you. You're very close. Thank you. Oh, share your socials
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Except for that. Oh, okay. Quit taking headphones off from out next to the mic. That's a trap. No my name is Carla Melissa Avila on Instagram Carla Melissa Avila Avila Yes Pleasure Carla You doing excellent work Watch the headphones They did it again Feedback Radio rule Radio rule
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I'm teaching you on the spot. All right. Y'all are killing with the questions
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Come on, Mom, with the university. Hey, hey, hey. Oh, she left me hanging. She brought her notes, too
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There's a camera right there. Don't do that with the camera rolling. All right. Silly
16:29
There you go. Say your name. Hi, I'm Ava Berterman. You have a great voice already
16:33
Thank you. I've been doing college radio. This is my first semester of it. Okay
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And I'm a student journalist as well. Okay. But I am a music industry major
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and I didn't decide I wanted to do and go into music until high school, and you said that you had dropped out of college
16:48
So what do you have to say to those people who, I don't want to say got a late start
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but those who weren't up and coming? Because, you know, like Eddie Van Halen and other people
16:58
they've been starting since they were toddlers or when they were in middle school. So do you have any advice to anyone
17:03
who feels like they got a late start? Shit, man. Outwork everybody
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You know what I'm saying? Like, outwork everybody. Hard work be talent when talent don't work hard
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So, you know, you just got to do everything that they're doing plus go that extra mile
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Because somewhere there'll be some form of complacency just because they've been doing it for so long
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And you being, you know, fresh at it, you know, you should have that extra little pep in your step
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You know what I mean? So just work harder, you know. That's really it
17:32
Great job. And she wrote down your responses. She about to take this interview and put it in an article, post it on her platforms
17:39
Hey, we'll have this turned around. You guys are going to be in the posting, too, as well
17:44
Thank you. So we have your permission. I'm not even asking you. I'm telling you we have your permission
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So you can utilize that clip as you will. You know what I mean
17:53
Thank you. Okay. All right. So unless you're about to wrap, you might want to back up
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Tracy, move over here. Yeah, no problem. We're going to play another song and then come back
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and I want you to demonstrate what you've been talking about. All right, for sure. Value Mall for album Five and a You
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I didn't write that. He did. Five and a You. Five and a You
18:15
Square, when I came up in radio, you couldn't say words like that. Really? All right, man
18:19
This ain't no you. Come a long way. Yeah, man. I got kicked off three times in Cali with the world-famous wake-up show
18:25
where Eminem got his break. Wow. Because of things we said. We said words like and got kicked off the air
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With a couple of hundred thousand dollar fines behind it. FCC, baby
18:36
FCC, twice. That was Sway and Tech's claim to fame, getting kicked off the air for keeping it 100
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I see somebody know the history. Keeping it 100,000. Mikey. Mikey? Yeah
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You know about Sway and Tech? Yeah. Oh, shit. I've been listening to y'all since I've grown up
18:56
Wow. Damn, man. Wow. Me and Mikey grew up together. You were speaking to me as a little baby
19:04
Yeah. You watching MTV and all of that. MTRL. Yeah. Okay. Okay
19:09
Go get me some water, son. I'm joking. I'm joking. Hold on
19:15
We got T from Atlanta on the line. T, what's goody? T, what's the T
19:19
What's going on? What's going on, man? Full circle moment, dog. Full circle
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Give me your flowers. Full circle, man. Thank you, man. For sure
19:28
There's been a lot of people that introduced me to you. I didn't know who you were three years ago
19:32
I'm going to be honest. But one of my homegirls was in your video, and she put me on
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and I was like, damn, where the did I not know about you? You feel me
19:42
Oh, shit. But I'm glad to see one of our own at this level, bro
19:49
Oh, man, I appreciate that, bro. You're a breath of fresh air to the city
19:53
Thank you. Real talk. Thank you, man. That's what's up, T. I appreciate you as a citizen
19:57
Make sure you support the project. he's from the lineage of um three stacks i love it atlanta got so much diversity but you can hear
20:05
it more so in the mcs now when you listen to earth gang when you listen to si hi the prince
20:09
certain individuals yourself i feel like you guys are if anything and ti is a hybrid to me
20:16
yeah you know ti is very lyrical very street at the same time right right right we was just
20:22
talking about him uh the other day uh and shit man he got classes under his belt and i'm serious
20:28
It's probably my favorite Tip album because his first one was very wrong and lyrical
20:33
So, you know, shout out Tip, man. Three Stacks. Was he an influence in your life, Andre 3000
20:38
He's the best ever. The GOAT? He's the GOAT. The GOAT out of Atlanta? He's the GOAT, period
20:43
Nobody ever could out-rap Three Stacks. Nah, not me. Grip, y'all. We got Danny on the line from Cali
20:49
Danny, what's up? Danny, what's good? Yo, what's up, family? It's Billy, Tracy G, Sway, A-O, Grip
20:57
The last caller said you were a breath of fresh air to Atlanta
21:01
No, my brother, you're a breath of fresh air to hip hop. Thank you
21:04
Thank you, bro. You're a stormy tower. You can spit. And in my opinion, you're signed to the perfect label
21:14
So I appreciate you. Keep up the hard work and do your thing, brother
21:17
because your music ability is amazing. I appreciate that for real, man. Thank you
21:22
Wow, man. You're getting some superior props, man. We ain't even heard you rap yet
21:27
All right. Soon come. Soon come. Soon come. Soon come. Soon come
21:31
Come now. Come down. We got the one and only legendary, iconic status, superstar Jay here
21:40
Yes, sir. Grip, I really like you. I've been following you for a long time
21:44
Right? I like you. What's up? What's up? I like you. I want to love you, though. I want to love you
21:50
Okay. You can't get that love status until you come down here and you walk in the valley of MCs
21:55
You gotta be in the Valley of the Hyenas Hyenas Superstar Jay
22:01
Let's go Special levels right there kid Alright I think we good Uh Yeah
22:11
Turn Jay up Turn your levels up Jay Yeah Uh Look Look Okay
22:20
Flows from the kettle Rows that rose from the concrete And grows in the ghetto
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Tower bozos like hoes Stilettos, broke cold, but it's a whole nother level
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Rap like I sold my soul to the devil Who wanna go toe-to-toe with the rebel
22:31
You were cordially invited, torches reignited IDFT was a tour to force and they rewarded me with silence
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I can't afford to be excited, going to war with me's a minus I'm more thorn than Leonidas, can't play the game for the score to be decided
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Cause the game is rigged, my managers say I'm better than all these s I'm for the same as Ted, grown man spittin
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You just rather entertain the kids You did absolutely none of that shit that you claim you did
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s said he's serving slabs, but we know that's baloney And if you know where to be found, I'ma smack your homie
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Baby mamas love me, baby daddies know me Oh, that's that one we seen that had the rollie
23:00
You stare to discuss shit you wearing as sus Take that monkey shit off, you embarrassing us
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s see me on the light day and they be like, I'll be damned Hopping they best fit, saying gripper got me again
23:11
I rocked with my mans, the pot to the pans The shit I jocked concocted, a plot to expand
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From the land of shit storms, you need a glock to withstand And a stick when it's messy
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I don't mean to mop in your hands Uh, let's go Uh, look
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Uh, check me Look, I'm the underdog that won That brung shock to the fast
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Now they quiet, you can hear a pin drop in the stands The stands jock my stanzas
23:34
My similes and metaphors can set up wars or cure cancer I'm the short answer
23:38
To say otherwise is pure slander Won't get it bad but hate on another guy
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Is a subtle sign of poor standards Forces sport hammers or you on course to become a corpse
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In a short manner, straps on both waist like I wore pampers I'm a product of the wicked east
23:50
s is fickle feasts Streets to chew up and spit your actors pick his teeth The missing piece to the puzzle
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I get them cheeks and my tires eat in the rubble She wanna sleep in the cuddle Link with my peeps and spend a week in the huddle
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Planning our next play Make sure the ops too weak to rebuttal Ready, set, spray
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Used to get more work for less pay Now stray societies what the checks say
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Before we eat let pray Thank you for this bread that I about to receive If I told you I talk to God Would you doubt or believe Would you nail me to a cross throwing crown to my head Sharing picks and telling people in your town that I dead
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Just for me to resurrect and make you live with your choice No longer in the physical, just the voice
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Immortal through pictures and music Worshiped by many for causing a shift with his movements
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All hell can't grip is the truest Yeah Come on, man, give it up for Griep
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Excellent! Good take, A3 it's a level to this yeah man to this yeah man i play chess i don't like to play checkers
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you know what i mean i like trigonometry simple math doesn't move me
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it's levels to this levels and layers trigonometry right here it's calculus right here i'm trying to
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speaking terminology that y'all deal with all this. I don't know. Sorry. Yo
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We got a hyena up in here. Hyena. What's up, baby? Yo, you love rapping
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Yeah, man. You know. You love this. You know this at first. I'm cool as a cucumber right now
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When I first got in this , I was sweating and shit. I was like, damn, the lights is bright. Oh, yeah
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I'm nervous and shit. That's true. I'm nervous and shit. They handed me a towel
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They handed me the towel. Tracy passed it off. It's like, you know how you real good at Family Feud at home
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And you can get all the answers. When you get in that studio and on that stage, it's different
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But you definitely deliver. You are extremely talented. I mean, I know you hear it a lot
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But continue to keep putting that work in because it shows. You know, you walked in here saying he's been up since 4 o'clock in the morning
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And I'll never forget Carmelo Anthony sat in this same room and said, you're going to always remember the nights you stayed up
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not the nights that you slept. And then sometimes the nights that you stayed up makes a world of difference in your life
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Keep putting that work in. Thank you. Thank you so much. I hope you enjoyed your experience, man
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I got a call from Paul Rosenberg, Eminem's manager. Called me at home
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Hey, Sway. Grip coming to town, man. I really need this one
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I said, Paul, you didn't even have to call me. For sure. If you didn't call me, I'll be pissed at you
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Tell us one thing if you can. And, you know, Eminem, you know, I've known him since before he signed the deals
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I got pictures of him in my house in L.A. You know, I used to school him on my basketball court
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You could ask him about it. Oh, the crib in L.A.? Not the crib. Not the crib. No basketball courts in New York
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But I've known him for so long from the rap battles to coming on our show
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and different shows and the tours and, you know, all the stuff he did with MTV
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his knowledge runs deep and I don't know if folks really get a chance to tap into that unless you're
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with him personally sure is there something he said with you or shared with you that really sticks
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yeah we had a our first phone conversation um I don't know I was to say our second phone conversation
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um he was just saying like because I was just kind of asking like so like what is it I feel
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like everybody has to have like some stick about him you know I mean like to be in this to be in
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his game you know um because we're essentially characters you know i mean as as as as rappers
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as musicians like you're selling more than the music it's it's a personality that comes with it
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and everything but he was just literally like yo like bro just be yourself and that shit comes to
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you like if you find it it just comes you know i mean like it could just be as random as whatever
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you know i mean a decision that you make on a whim then it's just like oh shit that worked
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So he was just like Man you got it You know what I'm saying You have it already
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Type shit So I just took that And was like man If he tells me this shit
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You know what I mean It's different than You know what I mean Your cousin telling you this shit I mean them bro
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So yeah nah So that was probably like The most important shit
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That he said to me You are partners with The biggest selling rap artist
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Of all time What does that mean to you Shit Like I said
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I got big shoes to fill man Like you know And I think that
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I just want to set a legacy up for myself that can mimic it in some form
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you know, like the fan base and just like the record sales and, you know
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but mostly just a legacy, you know. One last question. I know, Bizzle, you got to cut out, right
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Ain't Okay. You got a song called Ain't Okay. I want everybody to pay attention to this song
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And in it, you kind of go into detail what it's like being a rapper, being an artist in 2022 and some of the things you talk about, you know
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you got to do tap dancing on TikTok and all of these different things. What is the energy for you like
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And we've also been talking about how many artists have been losing their lives. I don't think it's because you're a rapper
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You know, I think it has everything to do with the environment, you know, with the society we're living in
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For sure. If you just blame it on rap, that makes no sense. Rap was created to talk about the ailments that we've experienced in our community
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for those folks who felt disenfranchised and have representation, didn't have a voice
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we talked about the shit that happens in our communities now so people can hear it you know
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and then we see it it doesn't it's the nobody's exempt whether you're a rapper or not is really
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what it's saying to me right are you moving different what are your thoughts and what it's
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like being a rapper do you gotta tap dance on tiktok to get a hit all right man i don't have a
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tiktok uh post yet i mean i tried to post something but i it's too many rules they was like yeah you
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can't post this i don't know what i was trying to post but i was just like yeah i ain't got the
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patience for it but uh i do see a lot of people who do you know like their careers go further
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because tiktok you know like and um i mean you know i guess it's good and bad things that come
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with that you know some people might just only be live on tiktok you know you can't play your shit
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somewhere else and anybody know what it is you know sometimes right but then as far as just like
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staying out the way that's just always been my personality like i want to make it home i got two
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kids you know i'm saying like i gotta get home bro like whatever home is like i gotta get back so
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i don't really be in the mix too much like me i'll be i mean i'll go to like bars and and whatever
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the like i i drink i drink beer and shit man we make our own beer and shit so like i'm just
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trying to be in a hole another wave i don't really be at the hookah lounges and shit where all the
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other shit go down you know i pull up but like atlanta is crazy right now so if you don't know
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how to maneuver and we from here so we know how to maneuver but these out-of-towners coming down
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and getting killed and, you know, just are being in different cities and you don't even recognize, like, the politics and shit
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Like, it's already a target on us. So it's kind of just like, man, stay out the way
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Lay low. Stay out the way and lay low. That's all you can do
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Hey, Grip, we appreciate you, man. Give it up for Grip. New album, Five in the You
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Superstar J, thank you for coming by. Congratulations on your book. Superstar J got a book, DJ Lil J
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Superstar J got an energy drink as well. I'll call one more rep
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Here, bro, you can take mine. You're going to need it. You're about to go on the road. All right
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We want to thank all the students from Monmouth University. Thank you for coming by today
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My man. What's your name? Asad. Asad. Oh, hold on. Asad. Asad
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Asad. Thank you, my man. Asad having my back the whole time, you know, in case this one right here was going in my
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pockets and stuff. So I had her. How can I reach you, brother
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Oh, man. I'm Grip. Y'all can reach me on IG at Grip, which is Grip, G-R-I-P
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or Twitter is G-R-I-P underscore SS. The website is www.straysocietymusic.com, and go stream Five and the You right now
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There you go, man. Appreciate you, Grip. Thanks for coming through, brother. All right. Of course
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All right, and then you can find these interviews on our YouTube channel, Swayze Universal. Get the app, SXM app, as well
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We'll be back tomorrow. We got some other emcees that's coming up tomorrow
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Alright we getting back on it alright I'm at Real Sway across the board Y'all stay on the right side of positivity
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Monmouth University make some noise And on that note we have nothing
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Left to say
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