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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Discovering Jon Keith
02:00 - Jon Keith’s Early Music Journey
09:44 - Making Money as a Rapper
09:58 - Thriving Christian Hip-Hop Scene
12:34 - Fans Transitioning from Secular to Christian
14:53 - Authenticity in Lyrics: Why Do People Lie?
18:03 - Minister RJ Calls In
19:50 - Jon Keith's Impact
25:45 - What's Next for John Keith
28:10 - Collaboration with Miles Minck
28:44 - West Coast Representation in CHH Tours
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once a lost youth found himself and been
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finding himself ever since I had a
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chance to go through his discography
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recently with my good friend and my
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sister Jennifer Norwood AKA Jen Boogie
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wow AKA Jin Boogie original member of
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the world famous Wake Up Show s DJ King
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Tech shout out to carita this is
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pre-revolution right Jen Boogie has been
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a sister of mine for for years and um I
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love her to death one of the most
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important people in the music business
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helped establish and promote and market
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and create a lot of some of your
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favorite artist careers right and they
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do not shout her out so I'mma shout her
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out absolutely salute to you Jen Boogie
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because she called me and said sway I'm
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you know I don't call you about artist
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unless it means something I said well
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who's this guy you talking about his
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name is John Keith so why do I know this
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dude's name she said I'mma send you some
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stuff look them up and let me know what
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you think and I looked them up and I and
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I heard the song God's hands was the
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first one one we just played that I uh
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came
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across and I got very interested uh in
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the sort of things that he was rhyming
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about because he talks about faith but
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he talks about relationships and how
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faith is intertwined in relationships he
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speaks on identity he does it really
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well in his lyrics and at the same time
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he doesn't compromise his skill set cuz
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you could get lost trying to stay on
1:31
theme and it might not be entertaining
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you know but he found a way to make it
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entertaining and I want to welcome him
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to the show The One and Only John Keith
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is in the building repres San Diego Zan
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Diego you got to stand up stand that 619
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what is San Diego oh yeah you got you
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got you got it I used to be on z90 yes
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indeed oh show off that okay stop
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playing with me he just smacked the mic
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Citi stop playing with me
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H come on man what is your story brother
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I I you know when I listen to your music
2:06
it it it sounds like you had a lot on
2:08
your mind before you start making music
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yeah man uh man well first I just want
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to say this is
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crazy move too fast
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right let it breathe here you got let me
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breathe bro this is this is crazy you
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know what I'm saying like you know what
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I'm saying I I've you know you you
2:26
already know bro like as as a rapper you
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know I'm saying like I grew up watching
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sway you know what I'm saying like so
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like this is a a real moment for me to
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be here right now this is crazy wow
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come feel in the fles that's beautiful
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and I know citizens want to know about
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your music hit them up at John Keith J N
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keth I love it man um this is my brother
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tund day from Oakland he's a very
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accomplished success successful young
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man and he just came to visit and we
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going to put him to work so you grew up
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in San Diego yeah born and raised born
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never lived anywhere else music wasn't
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your first love or it feel like you're a
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late bloomer yeah so so um my parents my
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mom has always had me and my brothers
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like in different kind of music classes
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and all this kind of stuff um I uh I was
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kind of always singing just like not
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never like professionally but just like
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to myself I was just you know always
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singing songs whatever um and then she
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put me and my brothers in music classes
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so I started playing drums okay I
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started playing drums at church CH and
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then you know I would still be I just be
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messing around i' be singing and they'
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be
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like n what are you doing on drums bro
3:38
you this is you in the wrong path right
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now you know what I'm saying and I was
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still like n I'm not no I'm not I'm not
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a singer so I keep playing drums um and
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then my mom actually at one point
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dropped me and my older brother shua off
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at this
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garage there was a there is a nonprofit
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organization called David harp
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Foundation dope dope uh organization in
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in San Diego um that like lets kids come
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in and trade uh good grades and and good
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behavior for studio time wow right and
4:08
so wow we went there yeah yeah yeah
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shout out David Hart you know what I'm
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saying like that's a good transaction we
4:13
need to start that hey hey you know what
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I'm saying holler at him um yeah and so
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like my mom just dropped me and my
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brother off and it's like it started in
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the garage now it's in like a whole Prof
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facility yeah like it's crazy um but you
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know I went there and that's where
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actually it was in that garage where I
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first experienced hip-hop that I love
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you know what I'm saying there was a
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rapper in [ __ ] his name is clister MHM
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and like I heard him he had a song
4:39
called Beauty and pain they played the
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song and they produced the song there
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and I was like yo what like I grew up I
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was like listening to you know like
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gospel and then you saying like when I
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you became a teenager I was listening to
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like like punk rock that kind of you
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know what I'm saying like not rap not
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really rap it wasn't really rap and so
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when I was when I was 12 is when I I
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finally found like hip-hop that I loved
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and it was Christian hip-hop right okay
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you remember the early groups or yeah so
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so it was like when I found him it was
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it was clis was the first one I found
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okay his rapper named seven and then
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like up at the top of the so like they
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had this door in the studio where
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whoever came in and recorded they would
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sign the door and up at the top of the
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door was lrae you feel me you so I was
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like I seen it and it was like I was
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like yo who's that oh the chis like they
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they're just showing me all of this
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stuff and I was like oh this is crazy
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cuz I grew up in the church you know
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what I'm saying like my parents wasn't
5:35
having us listening to hip-hop anyways
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it wasn't going down like that what's
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going to happen huh no NWA in your house
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okay was the punk rock Christian Base
5:43
too it actually was wow it was and and
5:46
and if it wasn't they didn't know you
5:48
know what I'm saying like they couldn't
5:49
tell because it was just it was
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different kind of content versus you
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know I'm saying like Wayne or you know
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what I'm saying like it was just you
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would have knew immediately oh this is
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not Yo God didn't do this you know what
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I'm saying like that's what they would
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they would have been on and so like
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after I fell in love with Christian hip
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hop I was like okay this is dope so then
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I'm like I need to I need to go back and
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try and do some kind of homework you
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know what I'm saying because I would
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tell people like oh yeah like they be
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like yo who's your favorite rapper I be
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like yo Andy Min and lra they be like
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what like yo you don't know about Pac or
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Jay or what any going on and I'm like no
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I don't you you were a teenager who
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didn't know about Jay-Z and po bro I I
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didn't I knew about him I I never listen
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you know what I'm saying and so can I
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get a what what yeah that wasn't you
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know what I'm saying so like I had to go
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and like going and trying to do homework
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allow me to reintroduce myself my name
6:41
is okay all right
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hold don't do me like that dud I know
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you heard something yeah no I I heard it
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now I heard it now you know what I'm
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saying I had to go go back and do some
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kind of
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homework wow and so that's kind of cool
6:55
though all right you did your homework
6:57
all right as much as I could it's still
6:59
the homie still like they they you know
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they be on my head top because they like
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you know they they'll hop off into like
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some like like I know the big stuff uh
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but like they'll hop off I don't even
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know I can't even don't even wor about
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it but it just wasn't there yeah like
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they'll hop off into like some like
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under like oh yeah you remember this I'm
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like no they're like man you ain't no
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man I'm like bro I told you bro lrae was
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lrae is my Tupac you know what I'm
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saying like let me rock come on let me
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rock you know what I'm saying like come
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on man y black people not a monolith I'm
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talking about history history-wise like
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that was that was my that's what that
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was you know what I'm saying and so cray
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was my Tupac when I told cray that too
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he was he was not happy I was like was
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no not I I was like yeah man like you
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know I grew up on you I was like you you
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was my Tupac he said don't don't don't
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don't say that I was like he was like
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he's like John don't don't say that
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don't tell nobody else that neither I
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was like man I'm honest you just told
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usth yeah absolutely I yeah
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Pac cray P cray laac yeah laac L is yeah
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yeah what CR cray yeah nah could do so
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who would be your big three you know how
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in hipop they they you know they was
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well in Christian rap yeah well in
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Christian rap is different I will say
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now that now now it's not the case you
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know what I'm saying like now like
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obviously to me uh you know what I'm
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saying I'm AES I don't care y people can
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fight me Kendrick Lamar is the greatest
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rapper of all time fight me I don't care
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about none of that across the board
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period I don't I don't want I don't want
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to talk none of that okay but okay all
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right all right in in in Christian hip
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hop uh I you know what I'm saying is is
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Cay Andy and KB cig l c Andy Mino and KB
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for sure easily those are the big three
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that's easily wow easily is it as
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competitive in Christian hip hop as it
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is outside cuz when you mentioned
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Kendrick Kendrick just came off a wild
9:03
battle with Drake um is it more friendly
9:07
competition the the thing in Christian
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hip hop it's it's secretly competitive
9:12
okay what you mean what you mean secret
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yeah because we're still rappers and we
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still competitive and then you know it's
9:19
funny because like there's all these
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like you know there's a lot of like subs
9:24
and there's like a lot of you know all
9:26
that kind of stuff that fans don't catch
9:29
but rappers do they're like oh he
9:31
talking about oh okay that's kind of
9:33
crazy you know what I'm saying like it's
9:35
it's part of that but for the main part
9:36
like it is it's it's very communal you
9:38
know what I'm saying like for the most
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part everybody knows everybody you know
9:42
what I'm saying and for you know I'm
9:44
saying they mainly rock with each other
9:45
they mainly rock with John Keith is here
9:47
get this man a round of applause
9:49
interesting um so rappers you know part
9:54
of what you do is you want to make money
9:56
right yeah yes you know people rap for
9:58
profit that's just call it what it is do
10:01
so what is that like the Christian
10:03
Market is probably more abundant than
10:07
the secular Market be right um like how
10:10
often are you on tour and how does your
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merch do you know and yeah um I mean
10:16
like there's there's definitely space
10:18
for it you know what I'm saying I'm a
10:20
person that like I I thrive in the in
10:24
the music area okay and I'm just
10:27
learning all of the other parts of it
10:29
just I'm just getting the hang of merch
10:30
you know what I'm saying like this is a
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merch yeah this is a hoodie right here
10:33
and I'm like I just I'm just getting the
10:36
hang of this stuff uh I just went on my
10:38
second tour or my I'm sorry my my third
10:40
tour earlier this year with 1K F okay
10:43
and then I'm going on tour in October
10:46
with a rapper named no big deal he's
10:48
dope you really gota you gotta you know
10:49
I'm saying check him out for sure but um
10:52
yeah you know what I'm saying like and
10:53
these are packed houses uh yeah I mean
10:56
like yeah yeah yeah I mean what you what
11:01
you mean to pack a sellout shows oh yeah
11:03
yeah for sure for sure yeah because it's
11:05
more Niche I'm I'm curious to what pack
11:07
house mean to you well I
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mean so you're asking him if he's
11:13
talking Madison Square Garden versus the
11:15
APO oh I mean if the venue whatever the
11:18
venue yeah the the venues that we do
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yeah we GNA pack it out we got a um I'm
11:24
saying a little Shameless plug we got a
11:25
we got a festival that we do um me and
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my homies I'm in a a collective Indie
11:29
tribe and we got a a Christian hip hop
11:32
Festival that we throw every year in
11:33
Nashville called holy smoke I love that
11:36
yeah it's lit and so we got to get you
11:39
out there one day man I would love to be
11:40
out there yeah yeah it's uh it's 13 we
11:42
do it at at rocket town uhhuh it's 1300
11:45
tickets we sold it out this year you
11:47
know what I'm saying which is like it's
11:48
dope we had KB we had Andy um yeah you
11:52
know what I'm saying so like we're we're
11:54
like having to like train uh the
11:57
Christian Hip Hop audience to be like
11:59
okay yeah we do like we do pay for art
12:02
you know what I'm saying because like a
12:03
lot of our fans like came up in the era
12:05
where music is free essentially you know
12:08
what I'm saying so like we're trying to
12:08
retrain them to know like okay even in
12:11
the church and even in uh you know
12:13
Christian hip hop it's it's regular and
12:15
it's good to pay for art so that we can
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do stuff like this you know what I'm
12:19
saying and so yeah but it yeah yeah we
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pack out pack out rooms for show John
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Keith is here you can follow him at J N
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ke i t the fact that it's a and I'm
12:30
inclined to think that his name is
12:31
Jonathan yes indeed all right Tracy go
12:34
ahead this is such an insightful
12:36
conversation bro like every second you
12:38
mention something like wow wow wow
12:41
because this is such a different world
12:43
than I exist in although like um you
12:46
know there's an intersection because I
12:48
am a woman of faith I'm
12:50
wondering the when it comes to your fan
12:52
base as we've seen quote unquote
12:55
Christian rap continue to expand um and
12:58
grow in popularity
12:59
what would you say is the percentage of
13:02
your fans that also love secular music
13:05
or maybe used to be secular and
13:07
converted versus those who grew up in a
13:09
similar environment like you yeah so
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this is like a a huge um Talking Point
13:16
like within like you know like the
13:19
Christian hip-hop Community just because
13:20
I think like there is a lot there is a
13:22
lot of people that you know they're like
13:25
oh I want to listen to Christian hip hop
13:27
um any Christian Hip Hop just because
13:30
it's Christian you know I'm saying like
13:32
there is there is definitely bad
13:34
Christian hip hop how do you describe
13:36
bad not
13:38
good like like sounding like sounding
13:41
like it doesn't like it doesn't sound
13:42
good it doesn't sound professional not
13:44
mixed prop but but people will there's a
13:47
lot of people that'll still listen to it
13:49
just because it's Christian but but what
13:51
we're trying to do is we want to get to
13:53
the people that like they are fans of
13:56
excellent art and they love Jes
13:59
and so like people that can listen to
14:02
you know things like Kendrick or they
14:04
can listen to like uh quote unquote
14:07
secular music and be like I can
14:09
appreciate the art in this without
14:10
co-signing the debauchery you know what
14:12
I'm saying like I can I can appreciate
14:14
the fact that this is excellent and even
14:16
you know take it a step further you know
14:19
uh we're learning how to okay even
14:21
though this is not
14:23
Christian is there something God's
14:25
trying to tell me that through this you
14:27
know what I'm saying like even no this
14:29
is not a even if it's like yo you know
14:32
uh live different than this you know
14:34
what I'm saying like like what is God
14:35
trying to say to me through this even
14:37
though this is not Christian art you
14:39
know what I'm saying and so um yeah I
14:41
mean you know does that kind of answer
14:42
the like there's a lot there's a lot of
14:44
of of that but then yeah we we
14:46
definitely have a lot of people that's
14:47
like yo I I love excellent art and
14:49
that's why I love your music you know
14:51
what I'm saying so John Keith man tund
14:53
day man you want to jump in man you got
14:54
got a lot of degrees put them to work I
14:57
feel like as I've gotten old older and I
14:59
I get to listen to you know what they
15:01
put in the mainstream and understanding
15:03
like you got a lot of people talking
15:04
about things they've never did and I
15:06
feel like a lot of times in mainstream
15:07
hip hop right now it's like if you're
15:09
not talking about shooting people
15:11
disrespecting women regardless of even
15:13
if you're about that life or not it's
15:15
just like that's just what's cool I see
15:17
people who I grew up with
15:19
who squares four corners and they saying
15:22
these things I'm like why do you feel
15:23
the pressure to do this and I'm curious
15:26
though when you factor in now just like
15:29
listenability right A lot of times
15:31
people say ah I would listen to that but
15:32
I don't actually like it even the song
15:34
that was that was playing when we when
15:36
we came in here the first one that they
15:37
played and I heard kind of I'm not going
15:39
to say influence and compared to other
15:41
folks but I hear this like electronic
15:43
rap side of things like Don toer and
15:45
different folks having an influence and
15:47
I'm like I feel like your music has a
15:48
high listening ability and I'm curious
15:50
how you you straddle those two worlds
15:51
now too where it's like it's not just
15:53
straightforward rapping I'm focused on
15:54
the lyrics but I'm making sure this is
15:56
something that people really want to
15:57
listen to and it'll attract you to it
15:59
and then after you're like oh wait a
16:00
minute and he's also has a good message
16:02
and a good word behind this how do you
16:04
think about that process yeah I mean I I
16:08
nowadays not so much like when I'm
16:11
creating like I'm not I'm not so much
16:13
thinking about uh other people gotta you
16:16
know what I'm saying like like if I do
16:19
something I'm like yo I like you know
16:23
it's it's just cuz I like it I think I
16:24
think it's dope you know what I'm saying
16:25
and so it's like um if I if I go in
16:29
record something and I worked on it for
16:32
whatever two hours or so and it's the
16:34
song's finished if I'm not if the
16:36
joint's not stuck in my head after I
16:38
walk away like okay the joints that's
16:40
trash I'm not I'm just it's just not
16:41
going to see it a lot of day you know
16:42
what I'm saying like I like I really
16:44
like um the melodic stuff like Don toer
16:47
and all that because of how catchy it is
16:50
um you know like you know Melody is King
16:53
you know what I'm saying and so it's
16:54
like you know I I
16:57
love yeah I love that stuff you know
16:59
what I'm saying got all right now being
17:02
that you um are considered a Christian
17:04
rapper you can't really lie in your
17:05
lyrics right yeah and you can't really
17:08
represent something you're not about
17:10
yeah that chain is that real diamonds
17:13
this is a fake chain okay all right
17:15
Amazon this is an Amazon absolutely it's
17:17
actually a gift from my from my wife my
17:19
wife so I love butterflies I just I
17:22
think they're dope and my wife I I
17:25
Mariah Carey feels the same just so you
17:27
know go ahead is the game yeah my my my
17:31
wife was like yo I I I got this chain on
17:34
Amazon for $30 I was like I'm going to
17:37
wear it wow cuz it's dope and also uh
17:41
you know a lot of people oh yo that
17:42
thing look at this dancing I'm like yeah
17:45
mean this ain't real at all I tell
17:47
everybody yeah everybody that I come AC
17:49
just so you know this is not I don't
17:50
spend no thousand dollar on no jewelry
17:52
bro like what we talking about we
17:53
talking about Tyrese was just saying the
17:55
same yeah I just seen that joint he said
17:56
y the joints was yeah it's been sad
17:59
times before 50 said it you everybody
18:01
said it yeah so it's just personal
18:03
choice um Mr We Got U Mr RJ On the Line
18:07
you familiar with this man Minister
18:10
RJ yes sir how you doing oh RJ I that
18:15
RJ he's from San
18:18
Diego yes sir
18:21
sir yes sir doing bro doing good what
18:24
you want to say to him man you got a
18:27
question man just want to say keep doing
18:29
what you're doing man uh you're doing a
18:32
great work man I'm proud of you man uh
18:36
from when I started uh gospel hip hop in
18:39
San Diego in the late 80s to where
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gospel uh hip hop is now I'm very proud
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to say uh you know what what God is
18:49
doing in in in in in Holy Hip Hop bro so
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congratulations on y all your success
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and uh hopefully I can catch one of your
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shows soon most def man appreciate it
18:58
dog that's what's up Minister RJ he's
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one of those Pioneers out of thank you
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brother you're a citizen SW the morning
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he's a Pioneer out there right love it
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uh we got C holiday out of Oakland on
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the line C holiday what's
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good actually that's t t holiday T holid
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what's up oh that's C's brother you know
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T holiday okay he just text me you know
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tunay T yeah man I know tunay that's
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that's my that's family um that's family
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family uh family and family man so I'm
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so proud of t T day and and uh I work
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actually with youth I work with young
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black men I work with all youth in
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Oakland and tun day never um never turns
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me down when I when I ask him to come
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and build with the young people when I
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come to ask him to talk about
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entrepreneurship and just uh just about
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his journey so he he's definitely big
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about giving back man and I just love
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love love love love this brother I love
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you too John Keef man thank you how long
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you been a fan of John
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Keef since today since like 10 minutes
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ago there you go take it we converted
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him I'll take it I will take it well uh
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well he has a lot of great music uh so
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lonely an aramos story right yeah and
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then aramos why do I know that word uh
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aramos I you know that word that's
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that's what's up that's a Biblical is
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that a Biblical expression it's it's in
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it's in Greek it's a Greek word um in
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the Bible every time uh the Bible would
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describe Jesus going away to a lonely
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Place yeah that word lonely place is AR
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yes yes wilderness yeah oh swayan is
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scriptures baby don't say nothing around
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hether gole hey Google you can't Google
20:39
that all right um T holiday you a
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citizen man thank you brother thank you
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man this what I want to do thank you
20:45
thank you keep doing your thing John
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keth love you brother all right cool man
20:48
thank you man hey you got a lot of folks
20:50
calling but we only got so much time
20:52
left they say dudes who rap about God
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can't rap
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really they said that people said that
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oh I I I kind of charged that up a
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little
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bit when you talk to J when you talk to
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Jennifer Norwood today Jen Boogie and
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and she told you where you were going
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what did she
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say uh you know she said you you can't
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you can't go on Sway and not rap that's
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what she said yeah and she said what
21:19
building did she tell you you was coming
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to this one what is it called do you
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know Rockefeller nah it's the Valley of
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the
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drop a beat on him yeah we got John ke
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up in here San Diego stand up you love
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God stand up hey look okay look praise
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be to Yahweh I couldn't pay for this I
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Pray though greatest thing that ever
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happened a Dayo the lonely property came
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with the village came with a Halo but
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not the wings if you think I'm fls cuz
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God say so right like I'mma beli but I
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can't imagine dragons trying to step to
21:54
me when they seen what I breathe and I'm
21:56
still out of reach and I don't need a
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key they wouldn't open the door so I
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knocked with my feet I feel like Peter
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out the boat and it's windy I feel like
22:03
Jones I'm that Indie tribe in a Zone oh
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yes Indie till we out also be in sync so
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give me the cheese if you get the
22:09
picture she said I like the way you walk
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I got it from the scriptures right okay
22:14
so what I sight to see it's nice to be
22:16
here on purpose giving light to
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isolation living life living dreams God
22:20
been nice to me it's all too easy who
22:22
set the bar dog I know that I'm the one
22:23
cuz Christ left the 99 for me it's kind
22:26
of cute I got these Sons they trying to
22:27
style on me it's a lot of Ops DM and
22:30
they trying to Vibe I'mma tell them like
22:31
my mom little boy we is not homies don't
22:34
get it twisted cuz this is what I
22:35
witness ho ho ho and I ain't talking
22:38
about St Nicholas I'm trying to skydive
22:40
off of the top of Satan's hit list or
22:42
maybe it's you Pharisees cuz I can't
22:43
tell the difference all your versus is
22:45
my tbts and I ain't feeling reminiscent
22:48
your bars on Cricket Wireless it's not
22:50
connecting to anyone who doubt it if I
22:52
would ever be a legend I don't call them
22:54
haters no more I call them blessings
22:56
look I used to want to be like them but
22:58
now I'm really him they going to respect
23:00
the pen and get the pen this West Side I
23:02
represent who really friends it don't
23:04
depend you come correct cuz I would not
23:05
pretend if he ain't Indie tribe on this
23:07
side then it ain't safe for him that a
23:09
even hate for him it's a fact I'm aing
23:11
them like H&M matter of fact I'mma bury
23:13
them then pray for them Jesus make him
23:15
raise again better than he used to be
23:16
remaking him look you got a faces sway
23:19
all these rappers tasteless I saw this
23:21
coming back when I was doing day shifts
23:23
I'm trying to wake them up and take them
23:25
out the Matrix if you ain't praying for
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me take me off your
23:29
playlist what what take them off your
23:33
playlist take off your playlist if you
23:35
ain't praying for them that's John what
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you
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[Music]
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doing
23:46
great I enjoy that we got a hyena up in
23:49
here hold up hold up holy hyena we got a
23:52
holy hyena up in here I take holy hyena
23:56
I take that I take that for sure says
23:59
it's says it's grace before he eats some
24:01
meal are there any female wait that was
24:04
hot wait hold up yeah no no for sure
24:06
that was dope thank
24:07
you thank you came I was hoping hey Jen
24:11
you was finger you
24:14
know okay good okay imag you had to tell
24:17
him something else I would have looked
24:18
at Jim Boogie all right but go ahead no
24:21
real quick cuz I know we press but I
24:24
hear so many artists come up and always
24:26
and and rightfully so give love to Andy
24:28
and lrae and KB but are there any
24:30
females in in that genre of music that
24:33
we should be on the lookout for we want
24:35
to support here yeah look uh so Jackie H
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Perry is fire uh my cousin porsa love is
24:43
a MC baby yeah no porsa is lit yes
24:47
indeed yeah absolutely I'm saying yeah
24:50
por love you got you got to check her
24:51
out her uh Jackie Hill Perry okay Jackie
24:54
Hill Perry yeah Jackie Jackie can rap
24:56
for show you know what I'm saying um
24:58
yeah yeah you I'm saying there's uh
25:00
there's a lot I mean I'm they slip my
25:03
mind right now just but you know I'm
25:06
saying Jackie Hill Perry right porsa
25:09
love porsa love my cousin we just want
25:11
to put some light on them as well for
25:13
sure for sure get porsa up here yeah
25:15
y'all can sample us saying your name
25:17
Jackie Hill Perry yeah sample that
25:20
Jackie Porsha porsa love pora love yeah
25:24
yeah go ahead sample that all right good
25:27
I want to be I want my voice on some
25:28
Christian
25:29
rap for the vi I interviewed all you
25:32
guys y don't never put you know what I
25:33
mean I got you I'm not even in a
25:35
metaphor I got you s come on I got you
25:38
you got me oh I got you John Kei man hey
25:41
give this man a round of applause now
25:43
yes sir we play God's hand and I want to
25:45
play L Hill but tell me what's next
25:47
musically for you yeah so um I actually
25:50
got a uh a project dropped in in
25:52
September um with an artist named Miles
25:55
minck uh he's actually he's from the Bay
25:57
Area um he is he's right yo yes indeed
26:00
this you know how many people call me
26:01
about this kid really yeah he going
26:04
crazy yo ask him to come tell him to
26:06
come up come see his family T day's here
26:08
he's trying he trying let me tell you he
26:09
trying to come here immediately just
26:10
just so you know that absolutely you got
26:12
his number absolutely call him right now
26:14
call him right now call him right now
26:16
hey if you don't miles if you don't pick
26:18
up this phone bro trying to set him up
26:20
I'mma set him up if you don't pick up
26:21
this phone bro with the FaceTime live
26:24
now with the FaceTime we live on there
26:26
FaceTime this he don't answer don't
26:28
bring him up here
26:30
no was that Holy
26:33
hate FaceTime see if he pick up wait
26:35
wait wait let's see yeah I I've had like
26:39
rude I've had so many Heather said his
26:40
rude that's his homie he could FaceTime
26:42
his homie absolutely absolutely of a
26:45
surprise but but while while while he's
26:47
you know failing to pick up the phone we
26:48
got a project called uh West Indies
26:50
dropping in in uh in September you know
26:52
what I'm saying like you know we we
26:54
really the only two oh snap let me see
26:58
him uhoh hey man what we doing man it's
27:02
time bro look where we at it's time what
27:05
we doing man yo he shocked he saying
27:08
anything you say nothing hey what we
27:10
doing what we doing there you go L baby
27:14
he thought he was still dreaming how you
27:17
doing man you know how many people call
27:18
me about you bro what for real you got a
27:22
network working on your behalf family we
27:24
got to make this work okay let's make it
27:27
happen man I'm coming to New York in a
27:28
month okay we'll be in La the first week
27:32
of September if you want to come down we
27:33
gonna broadcast out of LA but if you or
27:36
you can wait till New York but I suggest
27:38
you come to La let's get to it man yeah
27:40
we'll get to it we'll get to it in
27:42
September in La straight up where where
27:44
where you from exactly I'm from
27:46
Pittsburgh East Bay it's big Vine that's
27:49
where big Vine okay y got a nice golf
27:52
course over there uh and my brother T
27:54
Cal live in that area too man um but oh
27:57
yeah congrat congratulations brother you
27:59
doing you doing it right you got your
28:01
name is rising you carving your own path
28:03
and I'm looking forward to bonding with
28:05
you
28:08
okay honors Minds man John Keef we're
28:11
doing his interview and he talking about
28:13
you hold on you gotta say what up to
28:14
this
28:15
guy hey uh recording versus so we can
28:17
drop this project
28:20
baby say put him on
28:23
BL oh man all right bro I'mma hit you
28:26
good to meet you brother all right bro
28:28
yeah so we me and Miles really the only
28:31
you know you know well not the only but
28:33
like we're really the artist like
28:34
putting on for the West Coast you know
28:36
what I'm saying like cuz like I said I'm
28:37
born and raised San Diego you know what
28:39
I'm saying from the bay area he live in
28:41
LA now you know what I'm saying and like
28:44
we're like bro you know in Christian H
28:46
in Christian hip hop specifically the
28:48
West Coast always gets skipped over with
28:50
all the tours it always gets I'm saying
28:53
and so we're like yo like let's really
28:54
let's really do something for the West
28:56
you know what I'm saying so yeah West
28:57
Indies away
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