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Aug 29, 2022
Hannibal Buress talks about how the pandemic gave him the opportunity to lock into his music career and transitioning from comedy.
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Hannibal Burress (a.k.a. Eshu Tune) Quits Comedy To Become A Rapper & Freestyles | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
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Tracy, who we got with us today?
0:02
We have the multi-dimensional comedian,
0:06
artist, Hannibal Buress.
0:07
WHAT'S HAPPENING, MAN?
0:09
WHAT UP?
0:10
What's happening, man?
0:10
Z way, man. What was it like being on
0:12
her show, Z way?
0:13
Man, that was a that was a weird day,
0:16
actually, because I hadn't done any any
0:19
television or any shows in a in a minute
0:22
at that point. I was so I was rusty so I
0:24
kind of
0:25
went in there
0:27
and it was I was I was over stimulated.
0:30
All that pink, baby.
0:32
I hadn't been on a set in in so even,
0:34
you know, I just only been working on
0:35
music in my studio and in spaces that's
0:39
sound proof and small.
0:42
And so I got there and it was just
0:44
cameras and and it was is when you
0:47
haven't done it for a while it is a it
0:48
was a it was a lot, you know what I
0:50
mean?
0:50
Yeah.
0:50
Uh but she's she's incredible.
0:52
She's dope. She's sharp, man. Yeah.
0:54
Very sharp, right? So so that was a
0:56
funny episode. Hannibal Buress is here,
0:59
HB. He he might be out here on the
1:00
normal normal circumstances.
1:01
I know.
1:02
It's different now, right?
1:03
I'm excited to hear how this all
1:04
transpired.
1:05
Okay, we going to have and then we going
1:06
to have the citizens kind of be like
1:08
American Idol or, you know, the Apollo.
1:11
Yeah, Apollo. We going to have we going
1:13
to play some of your music
1:14
Yes.
1:14
All right.
1:14
All right.
1:15
I appreciate it.
1:16
Okay, but before we get started, I did a
1:18
show at the Nite Factory
1:19
Okay.
1:20
on Sunday. The Nite Factory was the it
1:22
was the last night. We did two shows and
1:24
I took off my shoes uh during the set
1:27
just to get comfortable. They were kind
1:29
of heavy so I wanted to
1:30
Okay.
1:30
be comfortable on stage. Somebody stole
1:32
one of my shoes. So if you're out there
1:33
you stole one of my shoes
1:34
Damn.
1:35
I'm after you and I'm sending out I'm
1:36
getting all the ticket people data. I'm
1:39
emailing you at the very least if you
1:41
don't give me my shoe back you going to
1:42
feel weird about it. Somebody took my
1:44
shoe.
1:44
brand was it? That was an expensive
1:46
shoe, huh?
1:46
It was a Nike. It was a Nike, yeah. It
1:48
was a
1:49
What size?
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11 and a half or 12.
1:52
That's a popular size, Hannibal.
1:53
Yeah.
1:54
But damn, just one? What you do?
1:55
They just took one, yeah.
1:57
Yeah, that's a size, brother.
1:58
And and to the people that was around
2:00
them that let it happen.
2:02
Y'all saw that. It's a red It was a big
2:03
red shoe. Nobody can't take that
2:06
smoothly.
2:06
So, you just walked around that night
2:08
with one shoe on?
2:10
I just walked around in socks. I did
2:11
second show in socks. I can't just walk
2:13
around with them. That's unbalanced.
2:15
You You make it sound like this all
2:17
makes sense. Like, I can't just walk
2:18
around with one shoe.
2:20
I mean, that's I still have to do the
2:21
show and it was you know, it's like
2:23
11:00 on Sunday.
2:26
Yeah, I just hopped in Uber and went to
2:28
the hotel.
2:28
Was there a young lady Jill Scott who
2:30
used to do that?
2:31
Barefoot, though.
2:31
Barefoot.
2:32
Yeah, what was that about? You just
2:34
wanted to feel connection to the earth
2:35
or something? Like, what
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It was They were just heavy shoes, man.
2:39
And so, they were kind of clunky. And
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and so,
2:42
these are my replacement shoes.
2:43
Are those Dunks you got on right there?
2:45
What you got on right there?
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These are just replacements, right here.
2:48
Yeah, these are the ones you want to
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show.
2:49
I'll steal them anyway.
2:51
Ah, man.
2:52
You know, my shoe collection outweighs
2:54
his. I'm not concerned about it.
2:56
But, that's unfortunate, man. I'm sorry.
3:01
[ __ ] STOLE HIS SHOE.
3:02
SOMEBODY STOLE his shoe.
3:03
Yo, so you don't carry cash or you only
3:05
carry enough for a barber shop? I
3:06
thought that was an interesting
3:07
question. Like,
3:08
Do I I It depends on
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How much cash you got? Let me see how
3:12
much I got.
3:12
today I just got like $7 or some [ __ ]
3:15
Oh, for real?
3:16
That's it.
3:17
Like, big bank take little bank.
3:19
Why do that to Sway?
3:21
Yeah, that's too much.
3:22
cash king. You like rolling around.
3:24
I got a 50.
3:25
And that's it?
3:26
That's it.
3:27
Yeah. What you mean that's it? It's 50.
3:29
That's not enough for a money phone.
3:31
It's not enough to treat to lunch.
3:32
That's what it is.
3:35
No. No, I I said that's it. Not Not
3:38
because normally he plays poker, right?
3:41
So, he always keeps his handy two, three
3:43
hundred just for like his winnings or
3:46
he's about to go play. So, 50 is kind of
3:49
light. Good for me and you, but light
3:51
for a poker player. That's why I said
3:52
that's it.
3:53
Yeah, that's what happens when you don't
3:55
win every time.
3:56
You only got 50 left. Hannibal, let me
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ask you this.
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Yeah.
4:00
Um Hannibal, we we spoke, we
4:02
communicated a few times, and you
4:04
he sent me something. I'm going to send
4:06
you something, and he sent me music, and
4:08
I didn't know if I thought I assumed it
4:11
was a parody.
4:12
Mhm.
4:12
You know, in the styling of Weird Al
4:14
Yankovic, or
4:16
you know, I used to think that uh Lil
4:17
Dicky was parody when he first came out,
4:20
right? And then I started listening to
4:22
it.
4:23
I was like, I don't see the joke.
4:24
Like it's
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I wasn't hearing the humor in it. I was
4:27
like,
4:28
this dude really rap? He trying to rap
4:30
rap. Oh, he's rap Oh.
4:32
So, this is really Hannibal the artist,
4:36
the performing artist, not the comedian,
4:38
right?
4:38
Yeah, I mean I
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there's some funny elements in it. I
4:42
don't I don't But I also have some songs
4:45
that's just straightforward and and not
4:48
playing for the laughs, just telling
4:49
stories and and talking about my life.
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So,
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um that's why I enjoy the music is cuz
4:55
I can add that range.
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Okay.
4:57
I mean? And uh and that play for it all
4:59
the time. It's uh it's been exciting,
5:01
man. It's been dope to just
5:03
start performing the songs and then
5:05
getting back into the studio. You feel
5:07
sharper after you performed, you know
5:09
what I mean? And and even like you
5:11
performed them better than you wrapped
5:13
them, you know what I'm saying? Cuz now
5:14
you getting stronger. So, I'm excited
5:16
about the growth and
5:18
Performed them better than you wrapped
5:19
them cuz you getting stronger.
5:21
Yeah.
5:21
And you going through a real rapper's
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process.
5:24
Yeah, man. It's uh and producing also I
5:26
produced stuff on the first four tracks.
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So,
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know.
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uh having that and then doing it live
5:33
with a band and seeing how the band
5:35
elevates
5:37
stuff I I beats I made. It's it's been
5:39
it's been really exciting.
5:41
Why now?
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I mean, you've done so well with comedy.
5:44
Always wanted to, man. Always was
5:46
dabbling or
5:48
I did skits on people's mixtapes and and
5:51
freestyled and I battle rapped in
5:53
college, actually.
5:54
Okay.
5:55
And hosted, you know, hip-hop open mics.
5:57
I was always adjacent to the music and
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uh
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just I got into comedy and those
6:03
opportunities kept coming and I never
6:06
just sat down and said, "I'm going to
6:08
work on this project, work on
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something." I just kind of dabbled and
6:10
so when pandemic happened it
6:12
Pandemic. Pandemic.
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Pandemic.
6:15
And so then I was able to, you know,
6:17
that
6:18
working on music, that process wasn't
6:20
affected by it. Whereas stand-up clubs,
6:22
you go people got masks, it's weird.
6:24
They got two tables here that are
6:26
But uh music, you can still kind of work
6:28
on music and
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not feel weird. Like it's the studio is
6:32
the studio, you know? So it was uh I was
6:34
able to really dive into it and focus.
6:36
So then, Hannibal, how do you critique
6:38
yourself when it comes to music? Because
6:40
the process is different, you know? As a
6:41
comic, there's a lot of competition,
6:43
obviously, and you can be like, "Okay, I
6:45
can go test out this material. Uh it
6:48
didn't work. Maybe tweak this."
6:50
You can't really test out like your
6:52
music. You can and you can't. So how do
6:54
you critique yourself? Cuz you do a song
6:56
and you get absolutely no response from
6:58
the crowd. It's like, "Damn, this this
7:01
sucks. People think this is weak." How
7:03
do you test out your music?
7:05
It's if I
7:07
I'll tell you cuz there's been some
7:08
stuff that I've I've cut or it was this
7:11
one silly song I was doing called
7:13
Cheers, where I was just kind of
7:15
saying dumb like British. I was like,
7:18
"Brixton, cheers. Gler der der, cheers."
7:21
In in in a in a dumb accent and it was a
7:24
lot of energy. And then
7:26
I would do it at shows and I wouldn't be
7:28
able to fully lock in with it. I I'd be
7:31
on stage like, "Cheers." I was like,
7:33
"What the
7:34
And it was like, uh my mind was just
7:36
rejecting it when I was on stage. It was
7:38
like, "Okay, well, I can't be doing that
7:40
one no more."
7:40
Right.
7:43
And
7:43
your mind rejected it.
7:45
It's like that's like some stuff is
7:47
maybe fun freestyles for friends and
7:49
like to send amongst the group chat.
7:51
Like that's how you look I made this and
7:53
then and when I got in front of people I
7:55
couldn't lock into it and so that's
7:57
that's my litmus if I can't fully be in
8:00
it if if you know and and be and and
8:03
lean into it.
8:03
why I asked because as a as a comedian
8:06
you're used to you you know when a joke
8:08
doesn't work or some material you can
8:10
adjust really quickly. But when your
8:12
music doesn't work and I'm like damn I
8:15
got two more verses to this [ __ ] Like
8:17
how do you keep going? So thank you for
8:19
answering that.
8:19
Yeah. It's certain things you start
8:22
I had to
8:23
retrain myself on interacting with the
8:27
crowd because comedy is all kind of
8:29
monologue wait monologue wait where
8:32
where where hip hop you have to engage
8:34
folks a little more and so I had the
8:36
track
8:37
kept about three
8:39
I didn't have a hook on it at first and
8:41
so when I was performing it it was just
8:44
me rapping for three minutes straight
8:47
and you can't just rap at folks for
8:50
three minutes straight without engaging
8:53
them. They're just going to be like
8:53
listen but as far as just getting them
8:56
going you have to you know you have to
8:59
be active with them.
9:00
already. You do that. Swear to something
9:02
else.
9:04
No, I think I there's some people who
9:06
could rap three minutes straight if if
9:07
they're dope. Yeah.
9:08
With this one
9:10
I think with this one when it without it
9:11
being known you know that's what it is
9:14
without
9:16
That's what I mean. Without it being
9:17
known you have to before they know the
9:19
music you have to perform in a way with
9:21
with more technique and and trickery.
9:25
A little trickery to get them to to get
9:26
them engaged.
9:27
Yeah. That's That's what I Yeah, that's
9:29
where it's at.
9:30
Yo, you're thinking about a whole lot.
9:32
Yeah.
9:33
Be strategic.
9:35
Like yeah. You're thinking about a whole
9:36
lot as an MC. That's a whole lot of
9:40
thought process to put on yourself. Are
9:42
you
9:43
You know, with the rap game, you got to
9:45
get stamped eventually either by
9:48
somebody or by the audience. Are you
9:50
concerned about people receiving you
9:52
properly, taking you seriously?
9:55
I think
9:56
uh I think it's happened.
9:58
Yes?
9:59
And it's and it's and it's and I'm
10:01
People rocking with it?
10:02
People rocking with it, man. Uh
10:05
At Pitchfork Festival, I went up and and
10:07
rap with The Roots and Black Thought.
10:09
The [ __ ] out. Really?
10:10
Yeah. It was crazy.
10:12
You rap next to Black Thought?
10:13
I rap next to Black Thought. It was like
10:15
a
10:15
Did he eat you up?
10:16
Absolutely.
10:17
AND YOU ENJOYED THAT?
10:21
YOU KNOW, THAT ABSOLUTELY WAS SUCH A
10:23
STRIDE. Swiss like, "Hey, it's Tuesday."
10:26
Hey,
10:26
we all get it.
10:28
Yeah. It's supposed to He's supposed to.
10:30
And I think that you have a good like
10:32
look cuz you don't look silly where I
10:35
would forget to take you seriously as an
10:37
artist if that makes sense. And I also
10:39
feel like at that time even though
10:40
you've been dabbling for a long time, I
10:42
feel like this was great timing because
10:45
people are accepting of all these
10:46
dimensions to a creative. You know what
10:49
I'm saying? Even thinking about someone
10:51
like um Donald Glover known as Childish
10:54
Gambino when it comes to his music and I
10:56
noticed I could be mistaken cuz it could
10:58
be just when I was listening, but
11:01
Eshu Tune is not just the name of this
11:03
EP. Is that Doesn't that your artist
11:06
name as well?
11:07
name, yeah.
11:07
Okay, so talk about choosing that cuz I
11:09
think that can be to your benefit as
11:10
well. You know, when you have another
11:12
name that you kind of put on when you
11:14
get in that zone.
11:15
Yeah. Uh
11:16
it Eshu is from I was trying to come up
11:19
with a stage name.
11:21
Uh
11:21
And Eshu was I looked up
11:24
African mythology.
11:25
Mhm.
11:26
And Eshu Eshu was one of the Orishas.
11:28
He's the trickster god. So, I just
11:30
connected with that description a lot.
11:32
It just It just felt right. And then
11:34
once that Once I was able to have that,
11:36
it really helped me
11:38
kind of compartmentalize working on
11:40
music stuff and and and and working on
11:43
other things and looking at
11:46
myself, looking at Hannibal as, you
11:49
know, somebody that's helping to ask you
11:51
out. He's like he get he get him in the
11:53
dough.
11:54
Right. Right. Right.
11:55
So people will try to people try to book
11:57
me for comedy and I be like, "All right,
11:58
man, I'm bringing a band." You know, I'm
12:00
doing them You know, I the offers I come
12:02
that come in I try to, you know,
12:04
maneuver them into into music shows
12:06
because
12:06
And do they
12:07
do it?
12:07
They're doing it. They they they do it
12:09
sometimes. They do it. Yeah. It's uh
12:11
it's and it's been It's been nice to The
12:13
show is growing and just, you know, I'm
12:16
having a good time working with the the
12:18
musicians that that that play with me
12:21
and it's been
12:22
It's next year is going to be a a dope
12:24
time.
12:24
to be a good year?
12:25
It's going to be a dope time.
12:25
Ashuu was here, citizens. Ashuu. With
12:28
the new EP, Ashuu Tune.
12:29
Right? Yeah.
12:31
Ashuu Tune.
12:32
Ashuu Tune. What up, Ashuu?
12:33
Jelly, man.
12:34
Good to have you on the show.
12:35
Thanks for having me.
12:36
I heard you got bars.
12:38
I got a few bars.
12:39
You go off the top or you you write Did
12:41
you write this project or you
12:43
Uh
12:45
It's mostly written. It's mostly
12:46
written. Captive Owl Three is uh is uh
12:49
chopped down high freestyle.
12:51
Ooh, you hear that?
12:52
Yeah.
12:52
Ooh, [ __ ] That's a classic right there.
12:55
What you going to do with that, Ashuu?
12:57
Ashuu, it's all you, baby.
12:59
Come on.
13:00
Yeah.
13:00
Ooh.
13:01
Processes repeat, outcomes can change.
13:04
Step out for my peeps, struggle with the
13:06
fame. Dip into the dark to find the
13:08
peace that I need. One day in the light
13:11
then I'm laying low for a week. This
13:13
game dangerous, vices will flip your
13:14
feet. And get them all down cuz ideas
13:17
will leave. And coming with a vision,
13:19
you might not get seen. Or sit shotgun
13:21
and hope you like the seat. They making
13:24
plans and won't show the screen. The
13:26
robots win again. It's a sweep. All this
13:29
[ __ ] fake. We fulfilled the needs.
13:31
Astronaut in space distracted by teeth
13:34
and half off ice cream and what do I
13:36
seek? Relaxation of flying net peaks.
13:39
Some chase legacy, some chase the beach.
13:42
I chase both my fishing poles with me. I
13:45
need some damn help cuz this hole with
13:47
beast. One look, now I'm mad for ET.
13:50
Take the hook out and throw it back to
13:52
sea. He win after drown. It's too deep.
13:56
Battle tested veteran, I seen this movie
13:57
with dubs. Youngers reach out when they
13:59
want to be learning something. My talent
14:01
is generational. I just be having fun.
14:03
I'm crossing out with my elephants
14:05
eating y'all for lunch. You propped up
14:07
by editors. Go wrong, you done. Cornfed
14:10
saddlers trying to block the sun. Family
14:12
obligations, I'm scattered. This [ __ ]
14:14
tough. Who gets what which cousin, which
14:17
aunt? Baby daughter, two moms. Let's
14:19
huddle up. Bessie thank me every month.
14:21
The only one. Games quickly change. Low
14:24
man is the minutes my cavalry real
14:26
simple so limitation is none. My older
14:28
songs sound timid. I'm getting them
14:30
shits we cut. My concepts get lifted. My
14:32
throwaways big business. The fridge is
14:34
long, liquid in the freezer overflowing.
14:36
ET acting like the dough won't open.
14:39
Trying to stress his water, refill to it
14:41
the board. Elbow deep in the five for
14:43
the moment. Nina, I'm fine. Just
14:45
grabbing some needles pouring in a
14:47
band-aid, baby. Let me lay in later. Yo,
14:50
the places we going. I'll take the wheel
14:52
while you looking in the telescope.
14:54
Unbelievably once again, we on the road.
14:56
Destination Westgate Sportsbook waiting.
14:59
Lucky window number four. Check for air
15:01
hustlers quickly looking over shoulder.
15:03
I just got some inside information on
15:05
the closer and put that ticket in your
15:07
pocket and just fold it. Probably ask
15:09
you two money line with the over, yo.
15:11
Come on, MAN. ET,
15:13
WE GOT ET UP IN HERE. ET UP IN HERE.
15:16
COME ON.
15:17
A LOT OF GAMBLING TALK.
15:21
A LOT OF GAMBLING TALK.
15:22
He kind of I saw I saw him he kind of
15:24
tiptoed in that verse and then he just
15:26
started stretching his stride out. I saw
15:28
what you did right there S-Shu.
15:33
I like that. We going to play this song
15:34
Donda Esta.
15:36
Donda Esta.
15:37
Donda Esta.
15:38
You know your Spanish right?
15:39
Donda Esta.
15:41
This is off the new EP S-Shu Tune
15:44
we formerly known as Hannibal Buress but
15:47
now he's S-Shu.
15:48
Yeah.
15:48
Is it S-Shu Tune or S-Shu?
15:50
S-Shu Tune.
15:51
S-Shu Tune is the full name?
15:52
Yeah.
15:52
There it is S-Shu Tune.
15:54
Let us know what y'all think.
15:56
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Calling all citizens. Calling all
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citizens. Let us know what you think
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about the new artist S-Shu Tune.
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Call us. Donda Esta off the S-Shu Tune
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EP is out now.
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S-Shu Tune welcome to the show. Thank
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you man. Good to have you.
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Thanks to be here man.
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Putting in that work.
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This This feels surreal cuz I've been up
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here before but yeah it's like oh man.
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It's a new thing.
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Yeah. Yeah it's dope man.
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It's new right?
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Yeah.
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I was up on your Judge Judy.
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Yeah.
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I remember you put that out last year
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sometime and I was like okay what's
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going on here? Okay let me keep watching
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him.
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And
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musically when you listen to this
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project it doesn't sound like somebody
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who just started rapping. So how how
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long you been doing the production? And
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then who produced Donda Esta?
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Donda Esta that's Chalique
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and then on the second beat that's Kenny
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Segal.
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Okay. On the switch up yeah. Okay. No
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relations to Beanie Sigel.
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Maybe who knows.
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No it's okay Sigel.
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Thought it was a tie there. All right.
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And then have you Okay so you're open to
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working with other producers. A lot of
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people are calling.
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Yeah.
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And so we're going to see what they say.
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All right Tony from Oklahoma rise and
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shine Tony.
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What's up Tony? What you got?
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Wait. What up? What up y'all?
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What's up, man? We got a
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Man, I'm good, bro. I've been following
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you since way back in the day, you know
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what I mean? But right now,
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I got to give him his card.
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Hannibal I rock with you, man. You're a
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funny dude. I feel like people don't
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give you your card, man. Like so it's
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time, bro. It's time. And your boy
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what's his name? As they don't they
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don't they start?
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As you tune. As you es s
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His name is called Don't they start that
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you just heard.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I
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rock with Hannibal too though, man. Man,
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you doing good work, bro.
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It's the same person.
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So here's the problem. This is what
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Hannibal going to have to deal with.
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I'm at peace.
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Okay, Hannibal
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Hey Tony, Hannibal
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Your boy
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and As you are the same people. As you
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tune is Hannibal's rapper's name.
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Yes.
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Oh, it's alter ego?
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Yeah.
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Oh, shoot, man. I didn't even know that,
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bro.
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What?
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That's his Sasha Fierce.
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It's like Funk Doc and Red Man.
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They know.
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He said your boy is fire.
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I I y'all y'all y'all ain't got to yack
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it up LIKE THAT THOUGH.
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YOU DON'T GET NO SAY so on your
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response, Tone.
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Hey, look man. I I rock with y'all, man.
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Hannibal do your thing, bro. Big love.
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Shade 45 Sway in the morning.
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Tone, you're a citizen, baby. You're a
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citizen, Tone.
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Sway in the morning.
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Come on, man. We got Stephanie on the
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line. Stephanie, Stephanie in North
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Carolina. What up?
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Hi.
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Rise and shine.
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Hi, guys.
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What up?
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Oh my god, I can't believe I got
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through. Thank you so much. I'm a big
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fan. Out here working. But I'm sorry,
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Hannibal. I love your comedy, but I
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don't like that song. It was booty to
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me.
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Booty?
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I'm at peace with that.
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You got to be at peace with the booty.
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Ain't the booty a piece?
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That's what I was going to say.
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You you to get a piece of booty, right?
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Hello, a lot of people love booty.
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BUT BUT I MEAN BUT STEPH STEPH STEPH
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Steph
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give me give me something more give me
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give me something more about it. Yeah,
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give us something more.
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I I like when I when it came on I was
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like okay.
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All right.
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Um what are you talking about?
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Okay, all right, that's fair.
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You know, I'm I'm a lyric person so I
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look for the meaning behind the song. So
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I I guess maybe I'm a little more in
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depth. You know what I'm saying? I like
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to listen to stuff with a little bit
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more depthness to it. So but I mean I
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wish you I wish you the best on it like
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I hope you know, I wish everybody
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success. I know you're going to be
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prosperous regardless.
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All right. Uh
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I want to counter you a little bit
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because you say you looking for depth
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and then I'm just telling my story on
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there how I started
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and my experience like with finances
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over time.
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Mhm. Okay, well maybe maybe maybe I'll
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go back and relisten to it and
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Yeah, go go freedom.
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I can pick it up.
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for sure. That's what's up Stephanie.
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You you got lucky right there as you
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tune.
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Somebody want to go back and check it
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out again. They usually don't do that.
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So Stephanie's
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There you go. Get a second listen. She
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might get a second listen.
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Listen and read the lyrics to jump on um
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genius.com. I love doing that.
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Stephanie, you're a citizen
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of Sway in the morning.
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Come on, you having a real rapper's
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experience. What's this like for you?
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You know, they telling you your [ __ ]
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don't I don't like your [ __ ] I love it.
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It's subjective, man. Okay, cool. Let's
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go to Cali then. You know, they tend to
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be a little more open-minded in Cali me
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being from Cali. That's why I say this.
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You know, damn what up?
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Damn.
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What up Sway? What's going on Tracy,
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Sway, Heather, Jersey stand up.
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You know it.
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Jersey
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It is what it is Sway.
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Damn, I'm deep out here.
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I'm from Jersey
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but I'm from Jersey. I live in Cali but
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I'm from Jersey. You know how it is.
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As you tune as you tune listen I'll be
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honest with you, man.
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So,
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off of that song, if Tribe Called Quest
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had a baby and they hung out with Lupe
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when he was kick pushing,
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I liked it. I liked it a lot, to be
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honest with you. I liked it a lot. Like
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I liked the vibe.
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I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was like
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going to a cookout and somebody was
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cooking that you didn't know could cook
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and you were
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you were surprised.
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It was good. Yeah.
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You know what I'm saying? So, like like
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like
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look,
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I'm not going to call you Hannibal, but
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I'm going to call you SUU Tune, right?
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Listen, I enjoyed it.
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There you go.
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Bravo.
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There you go. Come on, man. Keep up with
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what you're doing, bro. Thank you, dog.
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Appreciate it. Hey, hey, hey, and the EP
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is out right now, Dan. He got a couple
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of other bangers on there. Check it out,
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all right?
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I'm I'm looking. I'm looking. I promise
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you, I'm looking. I'm looking. I
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appreciate it.
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My man, you were citizen Dan. Take one
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more. Ivan's
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on the line from Florida. What up, Ivan?
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What up?
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What up? What up? What up?
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You.
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Got SUU Tune in here.
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SUU Tune, what up?
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I've been I've been following you since
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Bronze Age and uh
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Gather that phone together, Ivan.
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What's happening? You got us on speaker?
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Damn, Ivan.
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Damn, Ivan.
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Like like
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like he like like he said, it sound like
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um
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some Native Tongue good vibe hip hop.
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You know what I'm saying? So, uh
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salute to you.
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There you go.
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Thank you, man.
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Got another one. All right, thank you.
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Yeah, my our our audience is the best
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music feedback audience in radio and
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across the board. You hear this
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description?
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Yeah.
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Yeah. Come on, man.
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E40 Jersey.
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You stand up.
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All right, but we out. All right, peace.
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All right, let's go to Brooklyn.
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E-Class, what up, E-Class? What up,
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E-Class?
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Spread love is the Brooklyn way.
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I'm more with the Brooklyn way.
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What up? What part of Brooklyn you from,
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E-Class?
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Bed-Stuy, you already know.
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Bed-Stuy, that's why I said that. Spread
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love is the Brooklyn way. You know I
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used to be in Bed-Stuy all the time with
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C's.
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You know that, E-Class. You see me out
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there.
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Few times.
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I was over there on Fulton, Nostrand
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Ave, all that over there.
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Yeah, you know I used to do pull-ups
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right there on the on the lights, you
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know, you come on the stop lights.
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You were doing a Biggie video?
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Yeah, you know what I'm saying, E-Class.
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I had to go to that corner and do it. I
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actually did the [ __ ] But anyway,
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um
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What do you think of Ash you Tune?
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Um I'm going to be real. The energy was
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like mm,
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kind of sounded like kind of trash. I
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mean, to be real with you, I wasn't no
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energy there. I I really wasn't feeling
23:51
like the wordplay or what he was saying.
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I couldn't
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get in common with nothing he was
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saying, you know what
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Okay. Okay, it wasn't relatable to you.
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Nah, not at all.
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You talking about in the freestyle or
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the song?
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The song.
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Okay.
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The song like that really was kind of
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low, you know what I'm saying? Like the
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energy, you know what I'm saying?
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Okay. All right.
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But I got like a like a little Kanye
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vibe from him, like a early Kanye vibe.
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I feel like he got potential. He could
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definitely do some, you know what I'm
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saying? Like
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um make some better music, you know what
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I'm saying?
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Okay, that's fair enough. All right. All
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right, you hear that, Ash you? Anything
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you want to say to E-Class?
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That's actually in my
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I say my old the song sound timid. I'm
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getting them shits recut cuz because of
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is some of them
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So he was accurate.
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Yeah, yeah, it's a little some of them
24:38
on the on the project is the the the
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delivery
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some more music or or like higher tempo,
24:46
more energy, you know what I'm saying?
24:48
More screaming in it.
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Hey, let me ask you this this song
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with this knee brace Does knee brace got
24:53
tempo on it?
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Knee brace has tempo, Yeah,
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We'll end the We're going to end the
24:57
interview playing Knee Brace, so righty
24:58
class, I got a little tempo on it.
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do that.
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Okay, bro. Hey, E-Class, I like your uh
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your perspective, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I don't know if you remember I don't
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know if you remember y'all had a little
25:07
segment going on months like maybe a
25:09
month ago with uh Kodak Black. He got
25:11
caught with some
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um
25:13
OxyContin and stuff like that. And then
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you had put me on to uh you put me on to
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Dopesick. I don't know if you remember
25:19
that.
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The movie Dopesick. Yes, I do remember.
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Yes.
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Hulu. I watched it. Yeah, I've been 2
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weeks without taking OxyContin, man.
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Real talk.
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There you go. Come on. Hey, E-Class.
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There you go, man.
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Congratulations, brother.
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Congratulations.
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Come on, brother. Come on.
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with it.
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I'm glad you followed through and you're
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saving your own life.
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Yes, you are.
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Those people don't care about you. These
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pharmaceutical companies
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eating off you.
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There you go.
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Amen.
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Thank you, man. Thank you for following
25:51
through with that and sharing that,
25:52
E-Class. We
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We love you, brother. Yeah, man.
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You want to You're an angel, man, for
25:58
real.
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All so our love, brother. I appreciate
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you, man. We all angels. You are, too.
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By you saying that, now you're going to
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change somebody else's perspective on
26:06
OxyContin. Thank you, E-Class. You're a
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citizen, brother.
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I'm straight in the morning.
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[ __ ] then. Okay, go ahead.
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Real quick, man. Shout out to Ryan
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and Nadia. My twins. They got
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Instagrams. My son, he raps. He just
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started rapping. I don't know if I can
26:22
drop his Instagram.
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man. Why not? You off the oxy. You
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clear.
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Call me. dot rocket. Call me. dot
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rocket. And that's rocket r o k k e t.
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Call me. dot rocket. Y'all follow
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E-Class's son. Thank you, brother. Hey,
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stay connected, man. Let us know you're
26:39
doing all right.
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Everybody have a blessed blessed blessed
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day.
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You, too.
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Peace.
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Keep going.
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Damn, man. Shoot Tune, you you got you
26:46
got them calling, man.
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Hey.
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Thank you for having them call in. This
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is a This whole experience is surreal.
26:53
You just You just been sitting here
26:55
like, "What is going on right now?"
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Yeah, man. Cuz Cuz I don't I don't I
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don't I haven't been doing much press or
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nothing. So, every everything now, when
27:02
you not in the in the motions, it just
27:04
Oh, you do it. Every everything uh
27:07
is is exciting. Really exciting and and
27:10
different. So, being up here playing the
27:11
music and and having folks feed, it's a
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Yeah, it's it's overstimulating.
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There you go.
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This is dope, man. I appreciate y'all
27:18
having me here.
27:19
Absolutely. Uh one more question we
27:21
wanted to get your take on a story Tracy
27:23
told today. I'm curious cuz you you got
27:25
a lot of competition now in the rap
27:27
space,
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right? And there's even more foreign
27:30
competition. The The newest competitor
27:32
is
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an AI artist signed by the name of Effen
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or [ __ ] Mecca.
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I saw that.
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Yeah.
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I was I saw that the other day.
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He's trying to take your spot, kid.
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No, that That robot didn't even rap in
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that good.
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For a robot, it's
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That part.
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I thought this robot was going to have
27:56
some some crazy flows.
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Kendrick level.
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Yeah, he's got a robot rapper.
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was just real. I was I was so
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disappointed.
28:05
It was just a robot rapping in front of
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a [ __ ] Chevy.
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How you design How you program How you
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code a whack rapper?
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Right.
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YO, YOU GOT
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WHO YOU CODE THAT? Somebody getting a
28:17
check for that. Wait till that person
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steps up one day like, "Yo, I was the I
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was the rapper. I was
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I'm Effen Mecca.
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Yeah, does that count as a ghost WRITER?
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THEY JUDGED ME.
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THEY JUDGED ME.
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regular writer.
28:29
It was ghost writer. So, what do you
28:31
think of that though, man? Just eat
28:32
Somebody called said that's the worst
28:34
case of misappropriation I've ever seen.
28:36
What are your thoughts about how it
28:38
could or may affect culture or if at
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all?
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I don't I don't think it'll affect. It's
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not It's not too far off from having a
28:48
persona or having a you know we had
28:49
cartoons everything you know what I
28:51
mean?
28:53
So I think maybe he'll
28:56
set the path for
28:58
better robot rappers in the future.
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Am I supposed to interview the robot
29:05
rapper?
29:05
Well you could do it by yourself.
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You ain't going to do that with me.
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I'm not here to play.
29:09
I'm not
29:09
I'm not doing that. I'm not interviewing
29:11
a robot rapper. I'm not playing that
29:12
game.
29:13
I'm not
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What if they say that they freestyle?
29:16
You know when you ask them to rap?
29:18
Or if they do like five fingers of
29:20
death, how does that work?
29:22
But that doesn't matter.
29:24
They they they won't be doing it. Five
29:26
fingers of syntax error.
29:29
Five fingers of
29:30
old school terminology. You'll know it.
29:32
If you had the Atari 2600 and you had to
29:35
program your own games, you'll know what
29:36
I'm talking about. Go back that deep. Um
29:40
Hannibal Oh, excuse me. As you tune
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Yo.
29:43
Tell Hannibal we said what's up.
29:48
Yo, congratulations.
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Yes. Thank you, man.
29:50
Congratulations. I remember when Rob
29:52
Markman from
29:55
Genius
29:55
Yes.
29:56
stepped out and pursued his dream.
29:59
Which was like you, he was a MC before
30:02
he became a journalist or known as a
30:04
journalist and put out music and he had
30:07
a lot of naysayers initially and he
30:09
didn't allow that to stop him and he
30:11
continued to make better and better
30:12
projects and created an audience for
30:14
himself and started touring and
30:16
basically living out his dream. And I
30:18
feel like Hannibal when I see you here,
30:20
you don't even look like the comedian
30:22
when we when you come up here and do
30:24
interviews. I see an artist. I see a
30:26
rapper living in the moment of his dream
30:29
right now.
30:29
Yeah, man. So congratulations, brother.
30:32
You did that.
30:33
Thanks, bro.
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Just don't make no whack raps, though.
30:36
No. Don't give him ideas.
30:37
to get on you.
30:40
I'mma
30:41
uh
30:41
put out the the full-length project on
30:44
my I turn 40 on February 4th, so that's
30:47
when I put out the full-length.
30:48
Okay.
30:49
Nice.
30:50
this is uh and yeah, so I'll be
30:51
recording in October, November and
30:54
getting it together, but I'm excited to
30:56
you know, lock in and and and
30:59
yeah.
30:59
Go get it, man.
31:00
Yeah.
31:01
So is Ashuwar is the flower button-down
31:03
shirt? Is that his style with
31:04
Red and black.
31:05
Red and black?
31:06
Yeah, red and black is the Ashu color.
31:07
That's the Ashu color? Okay. I saw
31:08
something going on in here. Ashu was at
31:10
a power a black power
31:12
uh low emblem right there. What's on
31:14
your necklace?
31:14
This This is pyrite. I bought this at uh
31:18
I was at uh it's this festival ATL
31:20
camping trip.
31:21
Okay.
31:22
Um and it's uh it's a black-owned
31:24
festival that you know, music Yeah, it's
31:27
out in um in the
31:29
like Fairburn, Georgia.
31:30
Mhm.
31:31
I went out there in July.
31:33
You camp?
31:35
I didn't camp. I I was on hotel mode.
31:37
But people camp?
31:38
But people camp, yeah.
31:39
And it's a water is a bed of water like
31:41
a a lake or something? What do they do
31:43
it?
31:43
It's no lake. It was just uh this this
31:45
land out there. Uh
31:46
but it was a good time, man, cuz you
31:48
know, we don't be having those type of
31:50
Even ends, right?
31:51
those type of events. So it was uh they
31:53
got music, they got art, they got it's
31:55
like some yoga thing going on it's uh
31:57
I think Rory is a part of that.
31:58
Rory from here?
31:59
Rory.
32:00
Oh, the artist Rory? Our Rory?
32:02
Georgia, yeah.
32:03
Oh, yeah. Rare Rory always did those
32:05
camp.
32:06
That's what I'm saying, yeah. I think
32:07
he's a part of that cuz I I saw
32:09
something recently he put up.
32:10
My man Rory. Rory used to just live off
32:12
the trees and just eat what was around
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him.
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Yes.
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Somehow.
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You could come up in here, you knew he
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was in the forest.
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A LONG TIME. I LOVE HIM, MAN. That's my
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little brother.
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Yo, Ashu Tune, people want to reach you
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on social media, how do they reach you?
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Uh @HannibalBuress, @AshuTune.
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Uh
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and those are the spots, yeah.
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As you tune followers is is his numbers
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are
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They're growing.
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All right, for all the people who maybe
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are not familiar, spell it out, too.
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E S H U
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T U N E.
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Yes.
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Eshu Tune.
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Yeah.
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Look up Eshu, you're going to find a
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really deep
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rich enhanced history of the story of
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Eshu.
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Tune. All right. Man, thank you for
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coming through, brother. I'm glad we
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made it happen, man.
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Thank y'all for having me.
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So you see you you deal me on Instagram,
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lot of [ __ ] moves. You see that?
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All right, that concludes our show for
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today, citizens.
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