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HAVIAH MIGHTY Crushes Freestyle On Sway In The Morning & Talks New Album | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Sep 13, 2023
Canadian rapper Haviah Mighty has been on a roll with her recent release of album ‘Crying Crystals’. And to top it off, she's recently made an appearance on Sway In The Morning and slayed a fire freestyle. The Brampton, Ontario native’s talent is undeniable and her authenticity as a rapper is finally getting the attention it deserves.
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I was back in 2020
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that's how long we've been rocking with
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her
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we saw it before you knew it
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we heard it before you thought it
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Brampton rise up
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that name is that's I don't think
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nobody's ever said Brampton rise up
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Brampton rise up get wild
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she'll be performing at Everyday People
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Sunday September the 10th let that be
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known big round of applause
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congratulations yeah thank you perfect
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proud only Canadians oh yeah that's big
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right 2022 only Canadian nominated for a
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bet hip-hop award Round of Applause for
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that bet nominated
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first woman to win the 2022 Juno award
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Round of Applause for that she's out
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here working
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this new project crying crystals is
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something different for her
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you get to know her from introspective
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perspective going inside of her lens
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learning about her subconscious mind
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some of the feelings and emotions she
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felt mm-hmm
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start to learn that maybe she might be a
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little toxic in relationships but she
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blames everybody else you hear this in
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this album but she girls from it in the
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album too yeah
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she goes through a lot of emotions on
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this album damn sway it's confusion
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she's frustration she's in denial yeah
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feeling guilty she's all of that went
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through the full gamut and she came here
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for a therapy session today Heather
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because when you listen to this album
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the child needs help
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well then you can't really skip this
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type of denial you got to go through
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denial a little bit of it so she came
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home today citizens was celebrating her
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new album crying crystals please welcome
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back the one and only Havana Mighty
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thank you for helping him again sir
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always how you been looks like you got
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the Angela Bassett workout kit going on
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right here listen I feel like yeah like
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this this job in this life requires a
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lot from you mentally physically so yeah
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I feel like I've been in the gym now
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even better just trying to what's your
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resume cause you're kind of cutting you
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walking around her while you're like
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you've got a knockout punches listen I
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had to I had to cut the sleeves off you
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know okay
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um nothing nothing crazy like just you
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know like I try to do like just like a
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push-pull leg day like okay let's try to
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actually have like a routine so you know
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it's actually growing and like
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motivating myself eating breakfast in
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the morning just like simple basic
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things you said I wasn't doing any of it
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really nah I wasn't doing any of that
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like you work first always like okay
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which is how I got here in the first
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time okay but
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I knew I wouldn't come back if I didn't
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change them something you know I mean
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like I was just too focused on work I
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wake up in the morning and I look at my
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phone and just like not do kind of like
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the basic things which you need for
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yourself mentally so yeah yeah those are
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the things I would say like the pandemic
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also like forced me to because pandemic
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right after I saw all y'all like man
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that was 20 20. you came I think the
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pandemic happened a month like less than
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two weeks after two weeks yeah we were
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like February 18th or 19th because a
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Monumental moment in my life come in
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here okay
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um in less than two weeks yeah like it
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was done
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um so that was a good memory for me to
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hold on to and it was like you know when
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the world comes back you know that could
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be your reality but you have to sustain
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like not just your music but your body
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and your mind and your mind right that
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working out helped right it is it's so
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funny Hawaii and welcome back for sure
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so glad to see you but what is it we
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hear so many people say they don't eat
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breakfast in the morning it's like the
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first thing I do I pray I give thanks I
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go meditate
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um but I make sure after showering like
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I eat I have to have that meal you know
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what I mean in the morning to like start
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my day and it's funny because I used to
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eat heavier in the morning like fish
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grits shrimp like do it up in the
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morning but um I still eat a good
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breakfast but it's fruit it might be
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some cereal some oatmeal or something
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like that it's so many people in the
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generation that's just skipping
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breakfast what do you think that's about
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is it the phone cause you said you would
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wake up and look at the phone first I
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feel I feel like yeah like our detention
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span is so short now and I feel like
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yeah the attention to like actually you
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know make even a smoothie or something
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something that takes 10-15 minutes the
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time to do that right out the gate like
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I just think oftentimes we wake up very
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distracted like we wake up thinking
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about what we were doing last night or
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like what we didn't finish what we
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didn't accomplish and then yeah maybe
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like it's just kind of the thing that
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instills that uh Habit we're losing that
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maybe it's yeah you know you know maybe
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your parents instilled that so you know
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you take that with you but then like you
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know people my age the Millennials are
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doing the same thing I'm doing and
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they're having kids so like are they
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able to teach their kids to not be on
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Tick Tock as soon as you wake up like
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that's my guess I don't have any
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children or anything but yeah no we hear
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people say it a lot like breakfast is
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not their thing and I think it's so
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important because systemically and sway
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has brought this up to us a lot like you
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know there used to be a time when
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programs will come in the neighborhoods
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and feed kids breakfast because kids was
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not getting Black Panthers today yeah
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they were not getting breakfast in the
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morning and it was messing with them
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mentally in school or they were filling
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their bodies up with sugar cereals you
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know all the Fruity good cereals in the
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morning and that was that's not like
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real breasts right right so there's also
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different theories though from doctors
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that um breakfast is something that was
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actually manufactured by capitalism and
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there's people who say that we don't
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need breakfast and that we do instrument
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and fasting and that actually the first
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meal from like homo sapi was probably
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had at like 1 pm well I can't do that
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but I just know I know that for me it
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was a different philosophy different
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things but I know for me I was taught it
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was meant to break your fast like after
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you sleeping you know you wake up you do
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the necessary things that you do and you
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you have that meal that's definitely if
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it's water if it's fruit or whatever and
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so it could be something to that as well
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with the marketing bodies too all the
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different things too yeah it's a big
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point because yeah I feel like a lot of
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people it's almost psychological warfare
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for me like I can feel the fuel like I
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can feel myself not fueled the other day
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I like went to like a amusement park and
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I had to like walk around and ride rides
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and like the level of exertion I could
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feel because I didn't eat breakfast or I
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had a small breakfast and I just I could
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feel my fuel like I'm like I'm on 40 I'm
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on 30 I'm on Twitter and I felt like my
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mind like I and so it's interesting that
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you say that because I don't know so
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much about the other side of it but I do
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know that I know my body wants it it's
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just I'm not giving it and it feels like
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I'm attacking myself right like I can't
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I can't approach the day the way I want
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to or maximize the day because by the
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time 8 PM comes there's no more fuel
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right or you're fueling at the wrong
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time and now you're sleeping in the
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middle of the night and you know that's
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probably it's not sustainable it's not
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yeah so again I guess it's just
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introducing
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logical sustainable routines period so
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breakfast is one of those things working
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out is one of those things
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um just trying to do all of it because
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this is a this is a dense career man
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it's a game it's a game and like I feel
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like I've you know I'm learning a lot
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I've learned a lot since I've come
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like almost three years ago and yeah
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that's that's three years I love that
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Havana Mighty made three years damn it
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oh
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three years
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and it's just begun your best days are
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ahead of you you know which uh what I
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find really interesting and it's this
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album man this album
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this album different different
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you know you're not necessarily marching
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in front of the courthouse asking for
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equality and talking about inequities
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you're really diving into uh
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relationship Dynamics in this album and
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I'm assuming they're coming from a
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personal place a personal point of view
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so I told Tracy earlier she said yeah I
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was thinking about that what do you
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think of the album I said I think Avaya
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went through accumulation of different
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moments and relationships and she talks
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about them all in these songs you know
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moments things she might have felt
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during different particular times what
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was the motivation like that's that's a
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big jump for you yeah I mean a lot of my
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music has been politically charged yeah
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a lot of the things I've put out and
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yeah I feel like it's because I got
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really good at observing my external
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environment and what's happening in my
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environment what's happening to my
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people what I feel about it my
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perceptions
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um but I spent a lot of time there
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because I wasn't comfortable sorry I
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spent a lot of time there because I
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wasn't comfortable
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observing my internal world like I
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didn't have a perception of my internal
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world I feel like I didn't really know
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who I was that well
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um I was probably embarrassed about
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parts of my internal world so I just
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focused on what was going on outside and
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I felt like I did a good job of telling
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those stories or like creating impact by
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like reflecting on those things from my
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mental
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um but yeah I was going through an
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experience that was just inevitably
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affecting my ability to even like write
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songs about what I'm observing what kind
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of experience was that I wasn't a toxic
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ass relationship okay it was toxic it
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was it was like I feel like I
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experienced things that other people
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experienced like earlier in life just
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like a little bit later and like in the
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public eye and yeah it just got to a
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place where it was like it it the it
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being my music like me talking about it
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in the music was the only way
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in addition to like routine all these
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other things that I was able to heal
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like from that like making these songs
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was my way of getting out like the pain
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the strife and each emotion because yeah
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in this album each song does encompass
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or embody an emotion so like denial is
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actually like denial is snowfall or the
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snowfall yeah yeah okay right out there
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or it might be a little bit after like
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snowfall is confusion yeah
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and then denial was a little baby and
10:02
then and then I think sadness is the
10:03
next song and then yeah each song like
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encompasses and embodies a specific
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emotion and I I attribute it to like the
10:09
stages of grief and like I hate to like
10:11
attribute like grief to something like
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as like trivial as a relationship but
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like let's be wrong
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breakups we all go through yeah we more
10:19
you're losing somebody they might still
10:21
be here on Earth but they ain't with you
10:22
and sometimes you build a life with this
10:24
person or you create and that's you know
10:27
that's what I did I just created a space
10:29
for that to grow forever and so like I I
10:32
was still watering it and it was like
10:34
there are no flowers anymore so it was
10:36
just I needed to do it I needed to talk
10:38
about it I needed to get it out and I
10:40
also I wanted to also break
10:44
I'm I just don't like to be put in a box
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yeah I don't like to be put in a box so
10:48
for me it's like I'm always going to
10:49
talk about my observations I'm always
10:51
going to talk about what I observe as a
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black woman from from Canada or wherever
10:54
I'm at if I'm traveling like those
10:56
things are always going to be important
10:57
to me but I I didn't want to feel like I
10:59
had to only create albums about my
11:01
external view because I also felt like I
11:03
didn't know myself yeah like I didn't
11:05
like when I came here last like I I do
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but I yeah I'm saying there's so many
11:10
holes and I'm sure there are still so
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many
11:13
um but yeah like again like hip-hop it's
11:15
hard to give yourself some Grace though
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yeah because that's three yeah three
11:19
years yeah you know you're still hella
11:22
young and you're still young yeah and I
11:24
don't think any any of us truly knew
11:26
ourselves until we've been through some
11:28
things you gotta go through some stuff
11:30
that's true and and to see how you come
11:32
out on the other side of it
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um you have to experience some success
11:36
you have to you have to go through a lot
11:38
of stages of that as well in order to
11:41
know who you are when When the Smoke
11:43
Clear is so speak and then the people
11:45
around you you you have to look at them
11:48
too because that's a reflection whether
11:49
people want to admit it or not you know
11:51
who you're around every day and what you
11:53
water and that's a perfect word that you
11:54
use yeah you know so sometimes those
11:57
folks are covering up your [ __ ] and
11:59
making you think that it's okay but it's
12:01
really not and you won't have to look at
12:03
yourself to the bottom fall out but it's
12:05
we all have gone when we will continue
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to go through it that's the gift we get
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for being born
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you keep that's your reward there you go
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you're gonna keep figuring out who you
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take this dress here and
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when you finally get this [ __ ] together
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you out but I feel like why you've
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uncovered Unearthed these parts of
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yourself at a faster rate than a lot of
12:31
folks and you sharing this is now
12:34
helping a whole other generation maybe
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it doesn't take them three years it
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takes them one year right right right
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right because it's really interesting to
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note like a very sneaky form of
12:43
avoidance is working on all the external
12:46
problems that you can fix that's
12:48
productive you know what I'm saying I'm
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gonna talk about politics we're going to
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talk about this I was going all around
12:54
everything anything
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process also came from being in the
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public I am realizing I'm meeting so
13:06
many people who have no clue who I am
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and like they don't know and then I
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started to reflect I'm like I don't know
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either like right not in like not in the
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fun I know what my fundamentals are no
13:15
values morals my my values but I also
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think yeah like even just being in a
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relationship with a woman and being a
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rapper like I feel like that was the
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major thing I was avoiding like yeah I
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feel like for me for a long time I was
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like come on I don't like women I like
13:26
this person this person like because I
13:29
also I'm such a part of hip-hop and such
13:30
a part of the craft and it's not yeah my
13:33
reality is not always welcome in that
13:34
world so I dissociate it and I kind of
13:37
told myself that's not my reality until
13:41
I had to like this relationship even
13:43
though it was so toxic what I love about
13:45
it is it forced me to address the
13:47
realities that I was avoiding the only
13:48
way to truly heal was to be okay with
13:50
myself and then like okay with myself
13:52
and who I like what I like but then also
13:53
okay with myself not with this person
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yeah but I couldn't do that without
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being okay with myself as myself and I
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had to accept that and still be like no
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I can still spit These Bars nobody's
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don't say nothing you know what I mean
14:03
like you can exist in different worlds
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yeah so I think that was a little bit of
14:08
a hard part for me too but I think those
14:10
two things coinciding expedited that
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process yes and made it almost like no
14:14
other option for me like you can't be an
14:16
artist out here trying to tell people
14:18
trying to create music that you think is
14:20
impactful and then you don't know who
14:21
you are people can feel that yeah right
14:23
and so there's only so many politically
14:25
charged albums I would make before
14:26
people were like well who are you yeah
14:28
like I feel like I would lose interest
14:29
if the next album was that because it
14:31
wasn't where I was mentally and it
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wasn't I mean we were inside the house
14:35
you know like there's of course things I
14:38
could talk about like again but you know
14:40
those albums like after I did 13th floor
14:43
which was the project team floor right I
14:45
did put out Stock Exchange and that
14:47
project was also you know pretty
14:49
politically charged and I wrote that in
14:50
the pandemic so it's like we gotta give
14:53
variety too you know like yeah I want to
14:55
let people know like I rap by saying I
14:56
DJ I play the guitar like we want to do
14:58
music because it's no relationship yeah
15:00
and so it requires variety you don't go
15:02
on the same date all the time
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one of the things you learned about in
15:16
your relay your toxic relationship let's
15:18
not just call it that there were great
15:20
moments there was a reason why you and
15:21
that particular person decided to join
15:23
forces yes sure it was great in the
15:25
beginning and you start learning about
15:26
yourself and pop part of that toxicity
15:28
you're talking about is that process you
15:31
was going through probably not knowing
15:32
who you were 100 not sure about who that
15:35
other person uh if she knew who she was
15:37
but one of the things you learn about
15:39
relationship that's very important are
15:42
boundaries
15:43
oh my gosh boundaries
15:49
or a [ __ ] boy especially when
15:52
other people don't want to accept yours
15:54
right because they've been so used to
15:57
the absence of boundaries the absence of
15:59
boundaries you wrote this song
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boundaries what did you learn about
16:02
boundaries and why you write this song I
16:05
learned that I would never I learned
16:07
that I I would never be in that
16:09
situation if I had them
16:11
that's it like that situation I couldn't
16:14
that situation
16:16
like she didn't do anything to me like
16:18
there are things that happen if I go to
16:19
specific scenarios but I was only there
16:22
because I would allow myself to be there
16:24
like nobody forced me to go through what
16:27
I went through I stayed there and I told
16:29
myself denial or I told myself it's
16:31
gonna and I didn't set boundaries like
16:34
if I truly set boundaries first time you
16:36
spoke to me a certain way don't ever
16:37
talk to me like that again that's it
16:38
there you go that's a boundary right I
16:40
never did those things it would be like
16:41
all Justified like well maybe because of
16:43
my tone right and there's certain things
16:45
that you know that's her boundary to set
16:47
don't she could tell me and she was good
16:50
at she was better at setting down the
16:51
reason than me right so you know she I
16:54
learned a lot about myself in that like
16:56
I'm really assertive in my career and
16:59
like I know what I want and there's a
17:01
lot of clarity and then like when I
17:04
would not do that I would be the
17:05
opposite just like this like
17:07
unregimented person not in a negative
17:10
way well she would probably say
17:11
different but just in a way of like it's
17:13
like a different human yeah not planned
17:15
out not figured out and so so I was very
17:17
susceptible to other people's guidance
17:19
outside of my music yeah right which
17:21
luckily my music governs what I do so
17:24
it's really hard for me to become a
17:25
stray but like when you get so close
17:26
with one person and you trust them
17:28
believe then you yeah I was losing sight
17:30
of myself because I just didn't
17:32
you know like I didn't know the only
17:34
boundary I could set was for music no I
17:36
gotta rehearse for this no I gotta study
17:37
for this no anything else like if it
17:39
wasn't music I would bend it or break it
17:41
anything else anything yeah because this
17:44
matters so and so I use this as like a I
17:47
use this as a blueprint now like it's
17:48
like why are you not navigating life the
17:50
way you're navigating your business
17:52
because you're very successful in your
17:53
business that's wow yeah that should be
17:54
true skills yeah like and it I would
17:58
like turn myself off like because she's
18:00
like you know you're drained so you turn
18:01
off and it's like you got to be on like
18:04
you gotta until until you know yourself
18:05
you got to be on you got to like be
18:07
learning and figuring yourself out and
18:08
challenging yourself and that's what it
18:10
sounds like you're doing I am every day
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every day let's play this boundary
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survive Mighty is here you want to speak
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with her
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888-742-3345 kavaya mighty
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y'all hear that vibe great project it's
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called crying crystals and um yeah man
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listen and then she's really really
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exploring you know just life in general
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when you when you do you ever go back
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where do you stay now
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I live near Toronto just outside
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Toronto's outside Toronto people
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recognizing you in an area now yeah I
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can't live in the city it's you got
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there you already did was that a stunt
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right there
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I've been trying to stunt it's just
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uncomfortable you know like I'm in the
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city a lot and yeah over the last year I
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would say like it's I could walk around
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I just can't live there okay it's just
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they proud of you though I think so yeah
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like I feel like a lot of people like
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sometimes they don't even know because
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they don't even know what they saw
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they're just like are you so-and-so like
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so you know we get some brief privileges
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you know like you know they put you in a
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better section at a restaurant because
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you know they remember something you did
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in 2018 or something like so stuff like
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that which is really cool or like you
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know you go to the dispensary and the
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guys like yo you make music right like
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so it's it's not anything crazy where I
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need security or something but it's
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really nice to see the city recognizing
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they're giving you free pre-rolls
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so are you touring this album or what's
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the deal yeah so you know we just put it
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out in July yeah so uh tour We are
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touring in November but like a light
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tour
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New York at last I got my manager orders
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in New York Atlanta and Chicago
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um so we those are like uh some
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Stateside shows that we planned like
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post putting the album out but in June
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we did like a lot of shows as well so I
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toured with sampa the great San
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Francisco yeah yeah so
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um wow we did we did five shows one of
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them was in New York actually and then
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we did a couple others like Chicago and
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whatnot so that was like really really
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dope and I was like previewing some of
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the songs before the album dropped but
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yeah like I feel like
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you know like when you put a body of
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workout that you believe in like you
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should spend time with it so I want to
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spend like a year plus with it so these
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are just like one-off shows like three
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shows here and there yeah and then it
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would be great to actually tour the
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album like plan out a proper thing like
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but right now like yeah we doing shows
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just to make sure that we're meeting new
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people and they're hearing the music and
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I love that yeah they're getting
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associated with what we're up to and
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make sure you connect with the people
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that's that's rocking with you connect
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with them it's a beautiful thing and
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somebody always tell people like when I
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spend my money to come see you this this
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is beyond hearing your music yes it is I
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want a connection there's an intimate
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connection there so whenever you have
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time I think you're smart what you're
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doing going to places that you want to
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go to you feel the energy you feel the
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audience the people know your music
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spend some time with them afterwards say
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hello take as many pictures as possible
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all of that because that's the extra
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step when somebody took their
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hard-earned money to come see you and
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I'm sure you're putting on great shows
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so just you to do that I'm trying to
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yeah I feel like not only that like like
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it's not just a show it's the sound
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check all of it and then it's like you
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said after the show connecting with the
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fans like I can't tell you how many
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times I've done that that I feel it made
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more of a difference to the night of
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whoever stayed then the people who saw
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the show some people they may even miss
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half the show but that moment with you
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or you signing something and just the
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eye contact and it's got to be genuine
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like you can't be looking down on people
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like when you meet people they're just
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you're P you come on stage and you're a
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person and their person and it makes it
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you know a human to human connection
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which is so valued so like thank you for
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reminding me of that reminding you of it
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it's important because it sounds like
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like you said this is what you're
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passionate about what you care about
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what you planned out but it's those
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little things so many artists skip sound
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check it's like yeah the show suck
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because you didn't do the work you know
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it was horrible what would you do you
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was smoking oh thank you
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[Applause]
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yo Salman turn my [ __ ] up okay uncover
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the mic
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but it's just they don't come to
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soundcheck yeah absolutely
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see it a lot all those little things
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matter so I'm glad you're doing that
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thank you sticking a sound check I feel
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like we should do a mic check right now
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my check my check hold up let's check
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the levels real quick mike check hold up
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where are we right now we got the one
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and only Hawaii Mighty the queen of
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Canada
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we gonna run with that y'all we gonna
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run with the queen of Canada I like that
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queen of Canada the queen of Canada
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Hawaii Almighty is here citizens she's
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done this before she's no stranger to
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bars that's what she does she put
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together similes metaphors syllables
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conjunctions adverbs pronouns nouns
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predicates and adjectives that's what
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she does her name is savaya mighty his
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name is DB DB drop a beat on her
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come on
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tell me
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turn it up turn it up yeah
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Sway in the Morning
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have to be Tracy take off when the beat
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drop When the Beat hit I'm the one to
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the two three I'm the prefix blueprint
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sort of like J I'm a remix Shoot
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Straight yeah I like to race I'm a Speed
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Stick [ __ ] strip when they hear me spit
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then they eat [ __ ] cause I'm real I
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don't even gotta be on Street [ __ ] half
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these rappers deep fake who you buy your
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streams with about who you line your
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team with that's some weak [ __ ] they
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don't mean [ __ ] numbers based on
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employees and plots grown [ __ ] in this
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game with boys they tossed three years
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ago I did my first way two years ago I
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dropped my first tape that won a Juno
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Stock Exchange yeah I dropped them by
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the grace a God I one [ __ ] now that's
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how you raise your stocks too many
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shorties now I'm gay Haram 21 Savage
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ways to play the game oh God no chain
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but I bought a house I stunt different
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been a girl but I love women I [ __ ]
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different the money knew but the love
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isn't my love isn't my aura Sila my
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trust isn't sway I was hit on top of the
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pandemic since then I've been working
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like this was academics I got my brand
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right worked on my aesthetic and I train
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my wrist ladies I do calisthenics do a
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handstand on I made them man ran on her
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intimidate a [ __ ] cause they can't
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stand on them that lack badge on him I'm
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the type to finish I just learned there
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ain't no value when you fight with
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pigeons so yeah I had to return I'm back
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with a sermon I don't be lacking but
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words I'll actually hurt them These Bars
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crack to your back then packed you'll
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sternum I had to eat yeah I stole them I
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had to Desert them for these [ __ ] like
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a creep I had to Desert them same time
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I'm getting bags I had to secure them I
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bought that jeep I had to assure it in
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this life just wants and needs I had to
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insert them now I see the details like
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Daniel Roberto and I run it from these
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trams like Disco Inferno who my dog and
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who is not I had to determine let me
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talk let me cook who my dog and who is
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not I had to discern it
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hoes
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off to Europe again I'm practically
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German what else I gotta do to prove I'm
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attracted to working I ain't slept with
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no exacts I'm actually ending never one
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no damn Awards cause they happened to
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pick me it's cause I'm Ill at the crack
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new album crying crystals I deliver to
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smash I be living out my dreams with
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additional cash it's crazy cause for my
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view ain't no sealing with fans uh 2021
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was my ceiling no y'all don't feel my
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pain a catheter was in my vein infection
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in my blood then it spread to my heart
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then that [ __ ] spread right to
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my brain had a couple strokes and my
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organs tried to tap had to drop an album
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while not knowing if I pass now I know
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this all the ways I'm holding myself
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back
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the target I ain't loading any blanks
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that's why I'm focused and I'm back yeah
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I have never seen somebody pause take a
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sip of the water in the middle of the
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free stuff
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[Applause]
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that is the first it's over here like
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playing levels I'm an engineer shut up a
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DJ though thank you
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Biggie Biggie was the only person
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Notorious B.I.G that wrapped in front of
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us on this show like this and was doing
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his own edits while he was rapping
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you're riding the fader like you mixing
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and putting some making the snares
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warmer or something
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we got a true MC up in here
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[Music]
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why are you stressing on your verses you
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see how comfortable she was in that
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verse
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[Applause]
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uh you have strokes
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yeah
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yeah
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um what happened
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honestly like I guess it was the same no
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it was the next year after it was 2021
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right yeah it was literally I was
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putting out my project Stock Exchange
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like that month or the month after and
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yeah I was in Wales and like I was
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having these crazy symptoms and like I
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had to cancel a show and like I don't do
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that like and I was just like having
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these like I felt like I was gonna die
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but I was like there's nothing happened
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right but the sentence was so bad that
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we like cut the trip short went back to
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the hospital and then like they they had
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to spend time and figure out that I had
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a blood infection I don't know how it
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happened you know that was at the time
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when covet was popping and I had to get
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like the vaccine and stuff so I don't
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know my immunity was definitely in a
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weird place I don't know if it was just
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susceptible to something at the time but
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the doctors can't explain it nobody
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knows um but I got a blood infection and
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I was trying to tour and so it was
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spreading so it moved to my heart and
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then my heart you know your palpitates
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right so it pushed the bacteria to my
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brain so I had brain strokes and I
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didn't even know it and then I remember
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when I was in the hospital we were
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trying to figure out what was wrong with
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me and they were going to do a spinal
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tap oh yeah I was like no I don't want
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to do that you know and they had to CT
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scan my brain to make sure it was good
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so that they could do the tap and then
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when they see the brain they could see I
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had strokes and they're like so that
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helped them move in another Direction
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and figure out what was going on and
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then I had to be like on antibiotics for
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six weeks I had like I had to catheter
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in here yeah yeah yeah you could sorry
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you could still see it to this day and
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like and so that is another reason why
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when I got better like I was like man
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like my heart was weak like performing
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like it took a while to get back to 100
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I don't even know if it's a full 100
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because like I could perform but like
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like I can't play ball the same or like
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could be age though I don't know but
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what were your symptoms
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um like it was like Christina do you
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remember
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fevers crazy fevers sweating I was
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having like double vision and like
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seeing things on the sides of my eyes
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but it was just mostly like I was having
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like I had blood clots in my toe finger
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nails and toenails
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um so like my it felt like I was like on
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ice on my like yeah extremities they
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call it right and then like yeah just
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like puking like I it was it was like it
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just I couldn't discern it at all and my
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mom she worked in the health uh field
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and so I really thank you mom so much
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because she really
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put the value on like you got to do
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something about this because I was like
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nah it's good like I I to me it just
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felt like it was it was gonna pass and
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she's like now this sounds like a
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serious infection she's like the
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symptoms sound like something's in there
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and that's why she was like thinking
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certain things they wanted to check for
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the spinal attack she was right about
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the infection she just wasn't not right
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about the type of infection yeah I think
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she's thinking meningitis or something
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like this because the symptoms so that
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was what they were gonna like go down
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and then yeah and it was like yeah it's
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crazy to think about that time like
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because when I talk about it I almost
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feel like
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because I'm here like don't make it
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don't make it sound like it was worse
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than it was but it was it was pretty
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good no you had Strokes uh you don't
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have to no you don't have to say
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anything from this point don't worry it
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was worth as bad as it sounds it was
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worse than it was yeah yeah because you
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could have floated around ah give it a
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week it'll pass through and you might
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not have made it through that week
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honestly like the doctor said like if
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you didn't come today like we don't know
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and like the thing is the symptoms when
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we came were unbearable like we had we
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were in the UK right and we had
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interviews stuff like this lined up
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which I'm always excited to meet new
30:59
people like you said like meet people
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look them in the eye I couldn't do it I
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canceled all these things I was laying
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in the bed like literally [ __ ] like that
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like so I'm like I don't know what's
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wrong with me but like I can't function
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so my mom was like there's no way that
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you're that you're not coming back home
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early like you have to and my sister I
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don't know Mighty too yeah my sister
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picked me up at the airport Caribbean
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parents yo they know they know they
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don't play they don't play they don't
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play remember you talked all the talked
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about your parents last time you was
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here tell them I tell your mom I said
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salute in your pockets
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I don't know how many siblings you got
31:34
but yeah we're glad you're here amen you
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did what you were supposed to do
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appreciate it if you're here for a
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reason absolutely crying crystals it's
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the name of the album Havana Mighty is
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the name of the artist make sure y'all
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follow and support her anything you
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understand closing honestly swear I'm
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just I'm happy to be here like for real
31:51
I thank you for bringing me back thank
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you it's so beautiful to see you again
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see you again to me I don't know if I
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met you didn't mean yeah great to meet
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y'all uh great to meet the DJ as well DB
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what's up and like yeah just having the
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team out like it feels like family and
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like you know I feel like we this is our
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second time meeting you family I'm
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definitely you you my my sibling you're
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my little sibling now listen I'm like
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now I'm getting familiar with like no no
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no no no no no no you were mentor to me
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there you go I'm getting on more planes
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though so I hope to be coming out to New
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York more and you know hopefully we can
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we can chop it up yeah we got each
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other's info I Believe
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come hang with us
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congratulations on the project
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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