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Jeezy Talks New Book, Working with Gucci Mane and Boosie and New Music | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Aug 10, 2023
Jeezy recently made an appearance on the Sway in the Morning show to promote his newly released book, Adversity for Sale: Ya Gotta Believe. In the interview, he shared insights on his journey to overcome anxiety and trauma as well as becoming a parent. Fans were left inspired by his resilience, as well as his latest collaboration with Boosie Badazz and Kodak Black for “Rocketman.” Jeezy also talked about his experience with anxiety and trauma and how they profoundly impacted his life. He disclosed that one of the toughest moments of his life.
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quote is the foundation of achieving any
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type of success
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on the block or in the boardroom
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industry so the corporate Suites in love
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marriage Family Faith Life Health or
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whatever it starts with one simple thing
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you gotta believe you better say that
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we've got Jeezy up in this [ __ ]
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we're sending them back home baby I'm
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back home you got a police welcome home
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party it's good to have you back yeah
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yes sir we've been waiting on you yes
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sir we've been waiting on you this um by
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the way how you been it's good to see
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you look excellent I ain't doing it
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likewise my brother I ain't doing no
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complaining man as far as I'm concerned
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I ain't never had a bad day in my life
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so yeah even when you went to jail yeah
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you know uh yeah that was yeah
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interesting day a lot of great things
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came out of that though I'll tell you
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that yes and that's kind of the thread
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of this book like yeah you you
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reimagined every challenge
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um every obstacle every wall right we'll
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put that under adversity yes right and
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then you gave it a new definition you
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gave it new meaning you know gave a new
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purpose yeah that requires work though
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you don't yes you just don't land into
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that mindset when you can look at your
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past your present and then imagine it
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the way you needed to be in order for it
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to work what right did you start the
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work you fell yourself into that though
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like you just go you know you just fall
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so many times it's like being a kid like
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you fall and you know and if you
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continue to fall nobody's gonna tell you
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you can't you're not gonna ever be able
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to walk right you know what I'm saying
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eventually you're gonna be able to walk
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and then it's just how cool is your walk
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how confident is it and it's just like I
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kept feeling failing and failing and
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it's just like hold up but let me just
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sit back and think about what I learned
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when I feel I lost some money so I'm
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going to lose money anymore so what do I
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need to do now better accounts lost some
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cases I think you get better lawyers
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have some people do some foul things to
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me now I need better friends yeah you
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know what I'm saying had some people
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that used to you know work for me and
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help me and and they didn't understand
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the vision so I got better people around
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and that's just how I look at it it's
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just like if you win
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and all you ever did is win you know
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that one time you should be a little
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worried because
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the next time you might not be so lucky
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quote unquote you know what I'm saying
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you might
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and and I call it a mental GPS it's
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almost like I always knew in my life if
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I got lost
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I was going to be able to find my way
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back you know what I'm saying because I
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had been through enough so even when I
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had money I'll tell you like I ain't
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like I was just always up yeah it looked
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like it though I know you know I make it
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look good
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but I don't have it and lost it you know
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a lot of times and every time I learned
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something it was just one time like I
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just ain't losing it no more I gotta be
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better with my decisions I got to be
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better with how I'm moving I got to be
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better with how I'm living and I ain't
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trying to preach that on nobody I'm just
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saying but when you get to a certain age
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you're gonna need money to live forever
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you don't never it don't never stop you
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know what I'm saying and it's always
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going to be you know um it's always
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gonna be things that come at you you
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know what I'm saying that you won't have
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to deal with and and some of that costs
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you know a lot of money and some of that
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costs uh what we call like uh social
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Equity meaning like you got to have a a
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village you got to have people around
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you that can make things shake you know
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what I'm saying and if you ain't
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applying yourself and building those
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type of relationships you know it's
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going to be rough that's a fact right
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yeah I'm saying I've been in some court
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cases I've been sitting there like damn
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you're gonna take all my money man you
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know what I'm saying but it just so
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happened I had the right lawyer and he
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really went in there he fought for me
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tooth and nail you know what I'm saying
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and we have a great relationship after
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that and we've won several cases and
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I've learned so much just by
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us building a relationship but this is a
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person who was with me when I was down
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right and people that was around me at
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that time they went with me when I was
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down but this is one individual so
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that's what I mean by you have to invest
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in people like spend time with them get
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to know them build with them because
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it'll be one person to change your whole
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life yeah
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change everything yeah
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being a parent that was that enough to
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kind of change your mentality or you
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would early on you would still well all
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my kids did something different for me
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okay you know what I'm saying I love my
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son
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um that's my first born uh
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he he taught me to be responsible
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because I had him when I was young you
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know what I'm saying so that was
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most of my motivation to get really in
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the streets in the streets you know what
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I'm saying my son lived in the projects
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he came up with us he lived in projects
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He was born in the project so he had a
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taste of that life yeah I'm saying so he
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knows so I can't [ __ ] him you know
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what I'm saying like he's very aware
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um and my middle daughter
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um you know that's my heart you know
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what I'm saying she just taught me how
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to care yeah right and she helped me
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shift and and
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Monaco uh
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my last daughter just taught me about
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patience and my middle daughter arminor
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love of the death but my kids are like
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that's that's my Foundation that's your
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foundation But to answer your question
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um
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they all taught me something different
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in a different stage in my life but I
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have to admit you know I wasn't present
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as I am now you know what I'm saying
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because I was trying to figure my [ __ ]
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out you know what I'm saying so you know
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I could see what my son feel a little
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sliding on certain things so we had
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those conversations and I got to bear
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with him because [ __ ] I feel the same
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way about my moms you know what I'm
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saying yeah she was trying to figure
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that [ __ ] out and I'm getting slided you
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know what I'm saying so I get it so what
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what I what I try to focus on is being
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intentional and breaking the cycle as
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much as I can you know what I'm saying
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but you know just knowing that we all do
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the best we can but you know you don't
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want this [ __ ] to just keep
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you know just just Evol like just
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you know just being the same pattern the
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same yeah get out the cycle you just you
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just don't want that you know what I'm
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saying because these are your kids and
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[ __ ] in this generation man you know I I
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feel for him because I came up when it
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was rough you know what I'm saying but
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they [ __ ] is real you know they ain't
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making it past 19. yeah you know 17. you
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know it's different it's crazy right
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yeah um Jeezy is here man get this man a
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round of applause man yes yes Jay little
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Jay here little Jay the author
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okay
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um how did you approach this book I love
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that you start in the beginnings you
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know you talk about you know uh being a
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little rambunctious kid you used to
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steal a lot yeah I did I was pretty good
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too it was a thief
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um don't leave
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your dog your car doors open around me
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you know what I'm saying yeah I I did I
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did yeah you had cousins who were in the
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game too yeah yeah I mean you know
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pretty much all my family was in the
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game though the people that wasn't
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besides the people that wasn't working
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in factories okay you know what I'm
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saying like my aunties and my cousin
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like it was a you know it was a family
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business if you want to be honest with
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you so for a lot of the time it didn't
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feel like nothing nothing was going on
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wrong until people started getting
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locked up you know what I'm saying and
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before that it was like a thing that we
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do and and these are the first
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entrepreneurs I ever seen yeah these are
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the people that look successful so I'm
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not gonna go work for a factory when I
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can go out here and do this because it
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doesn't seem wrong you're not seeing the
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after effect yeah the consequences yeah
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you're just seeing what's going on in
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real time you know and I tell people all
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the time like I pay for my mom's uh
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first trailer that we lived in 3 500 it
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wasn't bigger than this room damn me and
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my mom and my sister live in there you
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know what I'm saying and before she
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kicked me out I mean how you gonna tell
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me that's not success I went on the
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streets I hustled up this money I helped
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my mom out and my sister that's success
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in anybody's book I'm not looking at the
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consequences of who I might have hurt
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like they don't it don't it don't make
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sense right because to me it's all
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business then you know what I'm saying
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but now I definitely don't right look at
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it like that so you know anybody that's
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going through something like that I I
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respect it because you have to get to a
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certain point of your life where you
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realize like oh okay well maybe there's
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another way I can go about this right
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and and you know just coming for where
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we come from
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um
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you know success is is
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about you you know what I'm saying but
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the real [ __ ] is about everybody else
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yeah that's real success yeah you know
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what I'm saying like that's
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and that's where I'm at pretty much now
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it's just like why write the book now
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I'm like why not that's why that's what
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I want to ask you because you have to
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also be in a certain mind space to me to
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write a book and so how did you sort of
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because this sounds like you're very
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open in this it's not that you're not
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open with us at least but what kind of
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how did you prepare yourself for because
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you're going to check out a little bit
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right so I was saying with success is
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about two significances about everybody
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else is what I was trying to say okay
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okay
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um well I write the book now okay so and
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you can relate to this you know when I
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was coming up and I was locked up in
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boot camp uh you know I love music I was
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listening to music when I was young
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because I learned from it I didn't
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listen to music how people listen to
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music to like to beat like the Rhythm to
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like the rhyme I'm listening for the
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data and I fell in love with Tupac when
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I was um when I was in boot camp I had a
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little radio and I heard them on it and
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I heard the first songs I heard was Dear
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Mama and uh so many tears and I just
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felt like he was talking to me like he
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was sitting right there was on the top
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book I was on the bottom and we having
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to come and I was in I was like this is
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he stood for something you know and I
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wanted to stand for something as well
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because coming from where we come from
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again nobody really stood for nothing
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everybody just kind of did what they
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could do you know what I'm saying nobody
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was
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about to fight nobody was about you know
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rebelling back against the struggle
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everybody was kind of like I'll take
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what I can get right other than the
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people that was taking penitentiary
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chances that I didn't know was paying
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attention chances then so to answer your
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question is like you know
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when I started trying to do music I was
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more so focused on the CEO part and that
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didn't work so now I had all my money
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invested
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um and I had a studio and I had nothing
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but time
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and one of my homies like you should do
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it you know because the artists we had
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when they went to jail everything was
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happening I was just like you know what
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so I worked at it for like 10 years to
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get to a point and I started having some
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success and when the minute I got some
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success
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I immediately you know went from streets
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watching trap or die but if you think
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about top pox movement it was thug life
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that wasn't about being a thug though
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that was about standing for something
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right so thug motivation to me was my
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first entry to that so it was about the
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class yeah so I want to teach and reach
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and build so that's what I did musically
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right and I saw the impact of that so
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now I was a grown ass man and you sit
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back and you see all the melee that you
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caused and all the you know the wrong
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decisions you made to lead people you
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like hold up Adam went out here and
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learned all this [ __ ] all this knowledge
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let me figure out a way right to pour it
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back in yeah to these black men out here
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and these people out here trying to
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figure it out because
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I've been privy enough to get out and
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get some real mentors and and really
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connect with some real leaders and start
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to understand that you have to be
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transparent yeah that you have to be
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open-minded that you have to be
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vulnerable because they're strengthening
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that a real man ain't tripping you know
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I'm saying a light a lion is a lion yeah
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even if he cries he's still alive yeah
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and for me it's just like you know it's
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definitely not about the money
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um
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is is more so somebody gave me Think and
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Grow Rich and it changed my life you
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know the book Think and Grow Rich yeah I
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read it a few times and I'm like damn
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like it is so much knowledge in this
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book and I kept just learning things and
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now mind you you having regular
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conversation with people but you got the
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answers
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you know you got the answers like you've
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been reading this book like a textbook
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and people are going through things and
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they're asking you questions as if you
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are smart yeah
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and you just got the answers and and to
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me I was just like yo this is a lot of
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powering books so during the pandemic
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I really didn't have anything to do
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because the touring stopped you know of
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course I had business stuff going on
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real estate and all that but creatively
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I didn't yeah have nothing to do so I I
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started to write the book and over the
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pandemic I was just writing and writing
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and writing I mind you
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um
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I wrote it the best way I could without
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incriminating myself okay
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you changed some names in the book I
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didn't like I have my lawyers look at a
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lot of stuff like I don't know about
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this one I said we got to change it you
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know right because I don't want to be
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like somewhere sitting down they were
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like gotcha
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because I mean I don't think people
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understood like you know and I'm not you
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know I'm not up here the brag talk but
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like I had a lot of just a lot of
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nightmares you know uh just making my
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transition from the streets to music you
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had nightmares what I used to have the
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worst man what would it be about like
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how because I went cold turkey you know
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when I when I got out of the streets I
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went cold turkey like it's it's some
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[ __ ] out there right now that still
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owe me some money okay literally
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because I had my work phones and I threw
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them away but I knew if I tried to go
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back and collect what people owed me
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that I would be back in the game yeah
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right so it was only one way to do it to
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walk away and you know I shot out the
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tip for that because tip was the one
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telling me like bro you can't do both
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like it doesn't make sense yeah right
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and then you know if you listen to what
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people say in the music you think
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everybody's doing both but they're
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really not yeah you know what I'm saying
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yeah it's like these people right here
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tell you they just own all these mollies
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and Percocets they're not
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you know what I'm saying they're not
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doing that you know they just it sounds
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good so I get it and and uh I threw my
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phones away
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and that was my only connection to the
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streets anyway so I went cold turkey now
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mind you
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um it was a little you know it was it
14:26
was a little scary because that's the
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only way that I was taking care of my
14:28
family and paying my bills and I had
14:31
real bills like it wasn't like I was
14:32
living and the apartments nowhere like
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that you know I'm living you have 550
14:36
monthly bills right okay
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and now I'm dependent on rap you know
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what I'm saying and it's like I ain't
14:43
got a deal yet I'm depending on rap with
14:45
mixtapes you know what I'm saying so
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there's that and um just that process
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you actually the nightmares it was just
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like when you've done something so long
14:54
it don't seem wrong and then people
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around you start going to prison like
14:57
and getting real like Buck Rogers is you
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gotta really like sit down and go like
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okay [ __ ] I know I'm next so I'm
15:03
preparing for that
15:05
me and you hanging out and all three of
15:07
us hanging out and we getting busy then
15:09
you go to prison she go to prison and he
15:11
go to pre like what's what means I ain't
15:13
next yeah we together you know what I'm
15:15
saying we we're moving the group and so
15:18
now it's like oh [ __ ] so a lot of my and
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I don't think a lot of people know that
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a lot of my first half of my career up
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until the recession like I was depressed
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and didn't even know the word for
15:30
depression I had anxiety and didn't know
15:32
the word for anxiety you know what I'm
15:34
saying I was I was I had post-traumatic
15:37
stress and didn't know the words for
15:39
that right how did it show up
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well it started to show when I started
15:43
to get what do you mean like when did it
15:45
happen like how like what are some
15:46
instances where you're experiencing
15:48
anxiety is it before you go on tours no
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this is like real this is before like
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rap okay I'm experiencing anxiety
15:56
because I'm paranoid I'm thinking that
15:58
the fear is gonna kick in my door any
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day yeah I got issues with people on the
16:03
other side of town who are just as
16:04
violent as and and it's about the issue
16:06
as I am
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um I uh I don't know if this rap thing
16:10
is going to work yeah
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I'm running low on money you know what
16:15
I'm saying and I got all my childhood
16:17
trauma and all the things that I've been
16:19
through in the game and did you have
16:20
kids during this time too I had my son
16:22
yeah I had all these things that I was
16:24
going through in the game that you know
16:26
I don't really want to talk about on the
16:27
radio but like it was just real life
16:29
[ __ ] you know what I'm saying and I'm
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dealing with that all at the same time
16:33
on top of the fact that I'm starting to
16:36
get buzzed I just got this depth Jam
16:38
thing going and then I had polyps on my
16:41
vocal cords that's right I tore my vocal
16:43
cords and operation and had that I had
16:46
to sit out for a while and I had an
16:48
operation I didn't have insurance so I
16:50
had to pay for it out of brown paper bag
16:52
Champion paid for it no they I didn't
16:55
want them to know because if they knew
16:58
coach Kaden was like yo we can't let
17:00
nobody know yeah he was right though you
17:02
know what I'm saying he was right
17:03
because he was like you let them know
17:04
they're going they're going back out
17:06
you know you're the hottest thing on the
17:07
streets was Jade there by that time no
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no he wasn't there okay Kevin Lyles and
17:12
L.A Reed was there Shakir Stewart
17:13
blessed so and by the way all these
17:15
things that happened and then um
17:17
so I get over that and then I want to
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make sure I say this right then I I
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because I wasn't taking care of myself
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so I was like 260. you know I'm you know
17:28
65 pounds overweight something like that
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because my whole diet is Crystal and
17:32
Waffle House and wings for Magic City
17:35
yeah that's how I'm living yeah because
17:38
I didn't know anything about health and
17:40
taking care of my I'm not drinking water
17:41
I'm not doing any of those things so
17:44
all this is going on and I'm trying to
17:46
like you know just figure out my life
17:47
and the nightmares that I was having was
17:50
about how I had left the game and I
17:53
needed money
17:55
and I was trying to make one or two more
17:57
plays and I got caught you know I'm
18:00
saying so I'm waking up like sweating
18:03
and heartbeat like this is oh my God
18:06
like no you know what I mean I'm not
18:08
even bullshitting right yeah no it was
18:10
for real bro like and I went through
18:11
that
18:12
for a while and I just like you know
18:13
like I said I just got rid of my phones
18:15
and I just like you know I just trusted
18:17
in God I was like you know I know I got
18:18
a bigger purpose so just show me you
18:21
know and
18:22
by that time you know what I'm saying we
18:24
dropped thug motivation 101 and we was
18:26
Off to the Races man a lot of people
18:28
don't even know like I had to mix the
18:29
motivation 101 with sign language with
18:32
sign language yeah because I couldn't
18:33
talk
18:35
I had to mix it with sign language
18:37
Through the Wire moment kind of yeah
18:39
yeah yeah I was having to write it down
18:41
tell them to turn this up turn this down
18:42
it was serious man and I you know I had
18:44
all the success going
18:46
and um I had all these shows lined up
18:49
like the money was there like I could
18:50
see it it was in a bag it was in a box
18:52
like it was there but I couldn't go on
18:55
the road because I couldn't I couldn't
18:56
talk how long was the recovery time it
18:59
almost took about it I say almost a year
19:01
yeah yeah it was about eight months yeah
19:03
and there's a lot of opportunities I
19:05
could fill up a year yeah and I and you
19:07
know in eight in eight months you can be
19:08
not even relevant anymore yeah you know
19:11
what I'm saying and so you get to that
19:12
and then you know I get my voice back of
19:14
course uh shout out to uh Mama Jan like
19:18
she's a vocal coach for like Justin
19:19
Bieber on them so she had to help me get
19:21
my voice back
19:22
um so I got that and then I went on to
19:24
success and then after that that's when
19:26
the bottom fell out you know when thug
19:27
motivation came yeah I don't got to tell
19:30
y'all about all that dude yeah the
19:32
bottom fell out there now I was like oh
19:33
[ __ ] I'm going to jail let's talk about
19:36
that and if I don't am I going to be
19:39
able to write another album like this
19:40
one because I'm not doing that [ __ ] no
19:43
more there's no way yeah and all that
19:46
was going know man and
19:47
it was just one of those moments and and
19:50
then you know things just started
19:51
happening and
19:52
um you know I just started to
19:55
you know really go into a downward
19:57
spiral because
19:59
I didn't really know who I was and what
20:01
I was doing because I left what I knew
20:03
yeah I'm trying to be a rapper I'm not
20:06
really a rapper I can't really get in
20:09
the room with these guys and because
20:10
this is what they do right you know what
20:13
I'm saying like tip is a rapper you know
20:15
I mean he's an emcee yeah you know I
20:17
mean like this is a skill set they had
20:20
I'm telling stories about my life you
20:22
know what I'm saying and that's how I
20:24
looked at it and it wasn't until the
20:26
recession was why I really came into my
20:28
own like I have arrived yeah and that's
20:31
a big part of my success and then that
20:33
started to happen and then my main man
20:35
you know Shakira Stewart you know God
20:39
bless his soul man from Oakland too yeah
20:42
yeah man this was my backbone like this
20:44
was my go-to guy this was the guy who
20:46
was telling me what I need to do I need
20:47
to do it it was really a lot of my
20:49
confidence you know what I'm saying he
20:51
was a big piece of my confidence because
20:52
I wasn't I didn't think I was that good
20:55
you know he would come in there and
20:56
boost me up like you know what I mean
20:58
like just the one you know he was DJ
20:59
Khaled before DJ Khaled you know what
21:02
I'm saying and um
21:03
you know when that happened and you know
21:06
just going through all these things and
21:07
I don't I don't want to make it sound
21:08
like it's a a bad thing because I
21:11
learned so much and every everything
21:14
that happened was supposed to happen how
21:17
it happened because I wouldn't be here I
21:20
wouldn't be able to look somebody Square
21:21
in the eye and tell them okay even in
21:23
the book like in my experiences this is
21:26
what I know to be true yes this is what
21:29
I understand it could and possibly can
21:31
happen right and this is what I'm gonna
21:34
tell you that even if you've done wrong
21:36
uh 40 50 of your life you still got
21:40
another 50 of your life that you can
21:42
make it right
21:44
you don't have to stay in the same space
21:47
for real just because that's the way it
21:51
was set up you can change the narrative
21:54
you know what I'm saying and that's what
21:57
I was
21:58
that's what I was born to do change the
22:01
narrative yeah right cheesy man I love
22:03
this man um the proof is in the pudding
22:06
you got a beautiful family got amazing
22:09
wife that's my colleague my homie yes um
22:12
and I love seeing you in this role yeah
22:14
you know the the Father the the parent
22:16
the husband yes sir how how has that
22:20
worked for you personally I mean you see
22:23
it baby my skin glowing
22:32
man
22:33
it's happiness
22:35
yeah it looks really good I love my
22:39
family man yeah I love I love my Dynamic
22:42
I love the way we rock I love how we
22:44
people don't understand it because it
22:46
ain't for them to understand and you
22:48
know just as well as I know like
22:49
my wife from the bay so I don't know why
22:52
people get it misconstrued she's just
22:53
like us on the low bro that's what I've
22:56
been trying to tell them
22:58
like I have to calm her down
23:01
I'm way too classy
23:05
leading people alone
23:10
cheesy that everybody's a teacher that
23:13
enters our life in your relationship
23:15
with Genie are there any new habits or
23:18
new beliefs or beliefs that you
23:20
sharpened while being with her I mean
23:22
you know my wife is she loves to save
23:24
money I I didn't you know
23:31
um what I I would say to family you know
23:34
what I'm saying because I came from a
23:36
broken home so I didn't besides my uncle
23:38
house and his wife and I told him that
23:40
they was at a house the other day I gave
23:41
him their flowers that's the only
23:43
besides them in the Cosby's you know
23:46
from what we know that's that's the only
23:49
structure of a family I've ever seen you
23:51
know people sitting down having dinner
23:52
and you know conversing and you know
23:55
cleaning up the kitchen together like
23:56
you know what I'm saying like I've never
23:57
seen that right in in culturally
24:01
um her family they're they're really
24:03
tight you know what I'm saying and they
24:04
really do a lot of things together which
24:06
makes
24:07
um it easier for me to do things with my
24:09
family yeah I've seen my father more in
24:12
the last you know five years than I've
24:14
probably seen my whole life you know
24:16
what I'm saying yeah and even like you
24:18
know some of my cousins and and things
24:20
and it's just like the family part is
24:22
real because I didn't realize
24:25
um how much that affects your life and
24:26
how much that keeps you grounded as well
24:40
people love you for what you do but you
24:42
know you're still human right yeah you
24:44
still have to recharge and replenish and
24:47
you just want to be around and that's
24:48
one thing I learned you know and and I
24:50
should have in the book as well
24:52
I I lost a lot but I gained a lot of
24:55
quality people and my friendships and my
24:58
family ships that I have now I cherish
25:01
them you know what I'm saying because
25:03
good people man that's like that's
25:05
that's what life is I mean you get all
25:06
the money in the world yeah I've seen
25:07
some people that are stupidly rich and
25:09
they just alone like you just be like
25:11
damn dog nobody want to hang out on the
25:13
yacht with you yeah
25:22
I've got a couple callers I want to get
25:25
to it
25:26
says
25:32
free drinks
25:36
look at the DJ who he's spinning for
25:40
um we got a couple of callers I want to
25:42
take but uh just to conclude on the book
25:44
because I know we got to move revolver
25:46
die I told you it was one of my favorite
25:47
childhoods yes yes because we witnessed
25:49
everything I felt like when it came to
25:52
you during that verses
25:55
um with Gucci I knew that would impact
25:57
our community our culture I only saw
26:01
positive things I was hoping to come out
26:03
of it right yeah but I knew that was a
26:05
hard decision to make I know Larry
26:06
Jackson was pressuring you to do it yeah
26:09
yeah Larry was yeah hilarious pressuring
26:13
you yeah
26:14
um but to me it felt like it was
26:16
something you needed to do
26:18
to be the person yeah that you were
26:20
aiming to be well what it was was I had
26:24
already done so much work on myself and
26:27
and
26:28
it was a moment where
26:31
you know
26:33
me a dude would see each other because
26:35
you know when he went away he came back
26:36
you know it was a lot of time between
26:38
that and we would see each other and it
26:40
was just like I didn't feel
26:43
you know
26:44
you know you run into somebody you like
26:46
okay well you know what's up it wasn't
26:48
like that because whatever he went
26:50
through when he was where he was at I
26:51
guess he changed too
26:52
and the energy in the air as far as the
26:55
culture when you lead us
26:57
you can't just leave
26:59
the question mark of what it is right
27:03
you have to get to some type of
27:06
understanding in in some type of
27:09
conflict resolution right and for me the
27:12
verses was let's take it to the music
27:15
right yeah and let's show people that we
27:17
can be in the same building right and
27:20
then let's see where we at with it and
27:22
to me that's what it was about because
27:24
I didn't really want to do it until
27:28
like
27:30
Vaughn died yeah you know fresh had died
27:34
yeah you know I'm thinking about Nipsey
27:37
um you know and it was just a lot of
27:39
people dying I knew in the street and
27:40
I'm like damn like and it's cool when
27:43
you in the streets like that's what's up
27:45
because everybody want to be about the
27:48
issue but it's even worse when these
27:52
kids make it or these young cats make it
27:54
because even like the I don't even you
27:56
know it's crazy because I remember I did
27:58
the Super Bowl party for puff during the
28:00
Super Bowl and I had it at my uh one of
28:03
my compounds
28:05
um Midtown in Atlanta and everybody was
28:08
there Meek Mill Fab and everybody and
28:10
there was this kid standing beside Fab
28:13
and I knew he had something to him but I
28:15
didn't know who he was right and to come
28:18
to find out you know it was pop smoke
28:21
so after he died he just was just like
28:24
damn
28:26
you know what I'm saying and I'm
28:28
thinking about all that as they trying
28:29
to
28:31
pitch this to me and I'm just like yo I
28:34
don't know what they own but I'm gonna
28:36
do this for the culture and I'm gonna do
28:39
this for me and I'm gonna do this for
28:41
the people who out there who
28:44
can't have any type of issues and figure
28:48
out how to work through them because I
28:50
feel in my heart if big and park has
28:53
some real people around them it would
28:55
both still be here you know what I'm
28:57
saying they would both still be here and
29:01
that's the sad part about it because
29:03
once you're gone
29:04
you're gone yeah and everything that you
29:07
had it go with you
29:09
so you taking care of your mama that's
29:11
gone you taking care of you know the
29:15
people that you employing that's going
29:16
what do they do you're a leader yeah you
29:20
know what it said you want to you know
29:21
you want to kill the body kill the head
29:23
you know what I'm saying and
29:26
I'm gonna tell you like this you know
29:28
and and it's real of me like they say
29:30
when you're born you look like your
29:31
daddy
29:32
and when you die you look like your
29:34
decisions so that's what I'm on yeah you
29:37
feel me I like that yeah Jeezy man get
29:40
this man a round of applies man I gotta
29:41
take one caller man I was gonna end on
29:43
that that was perfect like a movie I got
29:46
callers here hey Lane lingo Langley go
29:49
ahead what's your question hey please
29:51
please good morning to everybody how you
29:53
doing please peace
29:55
hey man I just want to give my shout
29:57
outs to the whole tribe of Sway in the
29:59
Morning HB everybody thank you brother
30:01
thank you sir
30:03
um wait once I bought if I get the uh
30:06
Jeezy HB if she's there man I was
30:08
listening to uh my my kind of [ __ ] with
30:11
her and mop
30:18
Ed
30:23
a lot of people don't know Langley um
30:26
shout out to my brother Omar Epps Omar
30:28
Epps directed that video okay absolutely
30:31
did he was like you gotta do a video for
30:33
this song so that's all Omar Epps shout
30:35
out to my brothers
30:36
something else that song was so full of
30:39
fire but my man Jesus Hey listen man so
30:41
I'm up in Connecticut
30:43
and um I did a little six straight a
30:45
little six piece stretch man and I swear
30:47
that that Thug that 101. in my mind is
30:50
is classic that that thing got me
30:52
through
30:53
you know Max Max facility you know 23
30:56
hours in the cell that that type of
30:58
thing man and um even with the content
31:01
or whatever it was it still showed that
31:04
you know our minds are our minds is what
31:08
it is man and and most people go to Ivy
31:10
League schools and learn the [ __ ] that
31:12
we learned outside on the sidewalk right
31:15
I got out got right to it man and when I
31:18
get that feel if I'm slacking or
31:19
whatever man I throw that goddamn
31:21
one-on-one in and I can do it man that's
31:24
what it is I missed the customer service
31:26
but man uh I applaud all of the work
31:28
that you've done man that I've seen of
31:30
course I don't I don't know everything
31:31
that changed okay yeah but that's what
31:34
it is a little
31:38
talks that's what it is man stay up King
31:41
and just stay on your pad baby just
31:43
don't let none derail you all right hey
31:45
man we appreciate you brother you're a
31:46
super citizen too in the morning
31:48
um we got draw D from Detroit what you
31:50
want to say to Jeezy what up dude what
31:53
up though did you there
31:56
homie
32:12
hey man I just want to tell you keep
32:14
doing what you're doing you know what
32:16
I'm saying and uh man stay motivated you
32:19
know cause we from that side you know
32:21
what I'm saying already you know and I
32:23
mean you don't really understand I'm in
32:24
your city on the 14 man so oh man we
32:27
there every time yes sir understand man
32:30
you know what I mean I'm gonna say
32:31
freeze you know what I'm talking about
32:33
uh freestyle and I'm gonna say PA time
32:36
yeah yeah you know what I'm talking
32:38
about already
32:39
you know what it is bro you know what it
32:43
is you know I mean it's enough cryptic
32:45
talk
32:47
yeah hey sway you the coldest though man
32:50
you know what I'm saying for real
32:52
I mean
32:55
hold y'all down you know what I mean
32:58
please
33:01
you know what it is we're gonna go all
33:03
the way up in that [ __ ]
33:31
out of all the times I've interviewed
33:33
you when I was younger um a younger
33:36
journalist right I did deeper deeper
33:38
research right you know yeah you went in
33:41
I used to go in a little deep when I was
33:43
younger and um and I saw a lot of the
33:45
things I knew I know a lot about your
33:48
story even stuff we never even talked
33:50
about just from affiliation people I
33:51
know that know you right but reading
33:53
this book man it gave me a different
33:55
understanding of who you are as the
33:56
person as a human being you know and
33:59
you're not the sum of one thing you're
34:01
the sum of all things right all those
34:03
decisions you made and so it's great to
34:06
see uh to me this is like a love story
34:09
this is like a success story it's a
34:11
motivational story but there's a lot of
34:13
people who walk similar paths as you who
34:15
can learn from it and learn a higher
34:17
frequency of thought that mindset is
34:22
really would be switching yeah it won't
34:25
be not enough change change your mindset
34:27
change your life mindset to change your
34:29
life your whole life and when people
34:31
have that Revelation right they walk in
34:33
the room and their skin shine right yeah
34:35
yeah
34:37
you know the cocoa butter do his job
34:42
you got a manicure you got a pedicure
34:44
you're on that high frequency man do it
34:46
and I want to say thank you man please
34:48
come back
34:49
if everybody out there
34:52
in the world the book is out today
34:54
adversity for sale anywhere books are
34:56
sold and uh if you don't like reading
34:58
the hard copy you can definitely get the
35:00
audio version and I I get it myself so
35:02
hey your boys voices man I just want to
35:04
thank y'all for always giving us a dope
35:06
platform to come and just be ourselves
35:08
man like this is this is real sweet when
35:11
they told me I was coming to see you
35:12
guys I was excited
35:14
we went I'm going to Google that song My
35:18
Kind of [ __ ] that's what it's called
35:19
yeah
35:26
there was a bully rapper bro
35:29
she need to face her adversities my book
35:33
coming y'all be on the beat H Billy all
35:36
right
35:37
oh
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foreign
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