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Jwalt Introduces His New EP '2.2.2.', Executive Produced by Sway Calloway | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Sep 14, 2021
Bay Area spitter Jwalt has been in his coming of age mode, crafting more and more gems from project to project. The 19 year old emcee is ascending to a new level on his latest work and collaborating with Sway to Executive Produce '2.2.2.'.
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[Applause]
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give it up ladies and gentlemen
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you may have seen him on the best of
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thisler cipher you may have seen him on
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the doomsday cipher you may have seen
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him on big stages because he's performed
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with a lot of them
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he shared stages with t-pain metro
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booming comedy 42 short sweetie black
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dot to little carly jeremiah and david
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diggs
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but the stage is his today
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the stage is his today as we celebrate
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the release of this new ep
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ladies and gentlemen it's called 2-2-2
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is out today
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give it up for the one and only
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jay
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walks walking hey
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man we gonna open up these phone line
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citizens you've been you've been growing
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with this young man since he first came
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on the show eight eight eight seven four
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two three three four five jaywald how
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you feeling babies jaywalk
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good man i'm good man good to be back
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man i know i know you know we're not in
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the studio but you know it's dope to be
1:04
here virtually you know what i'm saying
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over the phone so definitely definitely
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feels good to be here man i'm excited
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that my project's out you know what i'm
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saying two two two
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yeah man i'm excited just to start
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pushing it and everything so thank y'all
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so much for having me man it's always
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honest
1:18
wow he's straight to business at the b
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you hear him i know and uh his voice
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like it just it just cracks me up but my
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heart is filled with joy and pride first
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and foremost shout out to your mom and
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your dad and your brother love to your
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family your grandparents just a
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beautiful family that you have i want to
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show love and respect to them first and
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foremost because that's your foundation
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as far as i'm concerned um they welcomed
1:43
us sway and i when we were out in the
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bay once into their home and just showed
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us love and so love to your parents and
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your grandparents and for you i i just
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feel proud i mean we remember you coming
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up seriously as like i mean you still
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young but i'm talking about as a youngin
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like
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a group right yeah 1912 so much
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[Laughter]
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wow
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watching your voice squeak and hearing
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and squeaking hearing you get adjusted
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to the mic and flip-flop with the
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headphones and stuff and to i get your
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text messages and i'm always just like
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okay even in this crazy world in some
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pockets of the world the world is okay
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because it's the good people that's
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making it and you're one of the good
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ones and and when you get those little
2:27
confirmation right there it's just
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always that note like okay good at least
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something is still going right in this
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world and so i'm proud of you and that
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that's what i wanna i ain't gotta listen
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to nothing i ain't gotta say whatever
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whatever i'm just so proud of you
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because we knew that you were gonna make
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it like you you gonna make it and it's
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more for you it's more for you to get
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out there too beautiful thank you so
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much thank you thank you much love
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always
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go ahead and cry jaywalk
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right grow up at tears
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he was a youngin
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man and
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was doing it big even then you know he's
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a college student now n-y-u-e-o
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man
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yo we did a um
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video release party for you
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um here in new york right
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yup we did yep last last may i believe
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was that last may may 10th right
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and here's the thing citizens first of
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all folks always say well what's new
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what's going on with music and this is
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one of those opportunities like whether
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you know who jay walter is or not
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citizens call up
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888-742-3345 because this is an artist
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that you helped to build notoriety what
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i like about jaywalk hb and tracy is
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uh what was the video
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the taking the taking the taking and so
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uh jaywalt wanted to do
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um a video for the taking and his father
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uh by the way shout out to his father
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man who's also his attorney and
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man
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sitting on his shoulder like an eagle
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making sure you know
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you know making sure that uh everything
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goes right you know um but you know
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remember we were talking with jay walton
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it was like yo if this is something you
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want to do it's time for you to take
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matters into your own hands you know and
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you were able to acquire a team
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talk about that experience of just
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really bossing up and taking that
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leadership role and how gratifying is
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that for you as an independent artist
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what was that process like
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yeah it was very it was really dope man
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um i really like cop i dropped the song
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probably in january
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and like the song just started to like
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just go up start to do its thing like
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organically just started to be like one
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of my top songs and you know espn picked
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it up started playing it so like a lot
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of like it just started just like really
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getting buds and everything so then we
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were like man like we should do a video
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you know what i'm saying so like um i
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met with my roommate shout out to my
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roommate xavier man he's a he's also an
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actor and a you know a producer at nyu
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we kind of just collab together with
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some other one of my other homies and
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we're just like yo like let's let's
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start you know plotting and trying to
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figure out what we're trying to do so we
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kind of sat down um i tried to i mapped
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out like what i wanted to do what i was
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looking for and what i wanted to you
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know capture in this video and also now
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being in new york and this being like my
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first video i shot in new york
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um so i started planning out i had a
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couple of like meetings with a couple
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like different directors like in nyu and
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around the city um then one of my homies
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um who i actually met who actually dm me
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off of my um after coming up to the show
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uh on sway in the morning probably like
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two years ago after i did the friday
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fire cypher with tr3 and nico brim um he
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hit me he was like yo like whenever
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y'all in new york like i would love to
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do a video for you so like i like circle
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back with him i was out here he was
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down shout out to kizza you know what
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i'm saying that we just started building
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from there um i got all the
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stylists are from nyu
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um we just kind of created like a whole
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team and from there we it probably took
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us like two weeks to really try to plan
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out what we wanted to do and we shot
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that in like four or five days
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and we shot in different scenes so we
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shot you know in queens bridge we shot
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you know front of washington washington
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square park in front of the ark we had a
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little studio shot uh we brought homies
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out it was all just like good vibe you
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know and it was dope to see like my
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vision come to life like i was able to
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sit down and say what i wanted to do and
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then it came to life so when i had the
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video release party seeing that and like
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seeing my vision that was on started on
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paper out into the you know the world
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and on screen it was definitely like a
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you know unreal feeling
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wow man he did all that as a as a as a
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freshman in college
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[Applause]
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look at you
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listen but it also shows like how much
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jade i'm so happy to hear you my guy how
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much like college as an artist can lead
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to great networking opportunities you
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know a lot of times people be like oh i
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don't have connections and they're
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thinking like damn i don't know someone
7:12
like sway i don't have him on speed dial
7:14
whatever and you're thinking of only
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connecting like vertically versus
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horizontally you know what i'm saying
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like a school like nyu
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everyone in nyu or in new york city in
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general is a creative to a degree so
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shout out to you to really utilizing um
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the resources that are around you and
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i'm wondering like now what would you
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say to someone who feels like
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nah i'm not trying to do college like i
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don't need college you know what i mean
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like speak even more remind us about
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what your major is and how that major is
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contributing to you as an artist and to
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you as a man
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yeah so um i met i met nyu for recording
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music i'm in the clyde davis institute
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of recorded music
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and um yeah so i'm out here just still
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steady trying to build up my craft you
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know like i i'm taking i took music
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theory classes i'm taking you know
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engineering and
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um
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a whole bunch of songwriting classes a
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whole bunch of different classes music
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business you know what i'm saying a
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whole bunch of different like classes
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that like it's so helping me so i build
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up my career and everything so like
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definitely college is definitely like
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useful i definitely like it was
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definitely like there was a time where i
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like it was i was really like damn like
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kind of debating i guess but i couldn't
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i didn't know if i was like capable of
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it and then like when i found like nyu
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and so i'm like i could go to school for
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what i loved i was like okay we're like
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this is definitely what i want to do
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especially because like coming out to
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new york was always like the dream of my
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kid
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so um once i found like the school like
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nyu was perfect you know what i'm saying
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um so then like
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you know i'm i'm in the tiss i'm in the
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arts department at nyu so like there's
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always all creatives around you kind of
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like you said like in new york and and
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on campus so like
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it definitely is useful because like
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you're on a campus with people your age
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who i also have the same interest so
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like everyone's down to work and that's
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something that i found um like
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automatically like when i came out here
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like people were down to work people
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were down to create whether it was music
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or just like you know music videos or
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like styling or photography like
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everyone's just so eager and down to
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work so like at least from my experience
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like coming to college like it's just
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like i was able to build like a bigger
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team out here you know and bigger like
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people who are like down to help me and
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i'm down to help them so it's more just
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like a community thing so i definitely
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do recommend um college or people who
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are debating they're like man like i
9:37
don't know if i should go like at least
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for me like it definitely was useful
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like and i'm happy that like you know i
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decided to you know go go and pursue
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that
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man jay walsh citizens
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you can 742-3345 him on instagram at
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official j walt
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w-a-l-t official
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jaywalk um
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so
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this project
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um is definitely an evolution from your
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last project in many ways lyrically and
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sonically the name of the ep is two two
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two what's the significance of that
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yeah so um i named it two two two for
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many reasons so it's crazy i was uh
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i
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finished all the songs um and i was on
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my way to have a meeting in l.a with my
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aunt all right create music group and i
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was like in the car trying to figure out
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like what is the name i was still trying
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to figure it out then i already sat down
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i was like man like each song on the
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project talks about like
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my like my experience of like this my
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new life in new york or like my like
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going back and forth from the bay
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so each two stands for something it's
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like the first two you know i'm bi
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coastal you know what i'm saying so back
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from new york and the bay you know i'm
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saying the second two this is my
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sophomore year you know this is my
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second year in new york
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um and you know the 32 is like you know
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um i'm a twin you know so i'm the second
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20 i'm second twin so like
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two's like has a lot of stuff to do with
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my life um but then like i started
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seeing two all around which was which
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was crazy too so like two like was
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definitely like a significant number at
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least for me in this project and like um
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even though like not everything on the
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project talks about like um like me
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going back and forth like this is like
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that's like the significance of it so
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whether like i'm talking about a
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long-distance relationship i'm talking
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about like me having to slow it down
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because i you know i was like new york
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started to be alive for me or like you
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know bless which is just like i'm
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blessed to be able to be out here you
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know i'm saying being in new york you
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know um so
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that's that's really what it is about
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you know two two two just talking about
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like this is my you know my second
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project you know
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uh you know
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uh two cities and everything so yes
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it's half a four four four
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two two
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listen he's going to have in times
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square today and tomorrow
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two days you're going to have a
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billboard up in times square to
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celebrate your ep
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right
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yo jaywalk got a billboard in times
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square citizens come on man
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yo hey come on down to the universe man
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come on yeah man uh so today if you're
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in times square area around 4 p.m jay
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walter be there taking the beauty man
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for you to come from oakland you know
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for us we're from oakland and you know
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new york always seemed like a lifetime
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away times square is the big apple if
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you can make it here you can make it
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anywhere man the same people madonna
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them been on that billboard jay-z's them
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been on that billboard the biggest names
12:43
in the business have been on that
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billboard so congratulations to you man
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congratulations so much thank you so
12:49
much shout out to creative theory that's
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you and your dad's company and so
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jaywalk you you mentioned uh the
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distribution company that you're working
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with talk about that yeah
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yeah um yeah we signed a um you know
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distribution and publishing deals create
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music group um they're based out of la
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you know working with a lot of dope
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people um i know migos does publishing
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with them
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uh trippy red j lo like a lot of like
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dope artists um i know torrey lane's
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just trying to deal with them he left
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his major in song grade music and so a
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lot of dope um artists are with them and
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yeah so i've i had like a lot of
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different labels and
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and people reached out to me and when it
13:29
when it when create music reached out um
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we had the meetings and everything um
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one of the biggest things they were
13:34
talking about was like y'all like
13:36
like i want like you're you're the main
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focus like you're the artist and we're
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just here to like help you and like
13:41
build you up so like um it's definitely
13:44
like 50 50 and like i want you to like
13:46
be
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be you and that was the main thing like
13:49
you could focus on your art and
13:51
and we'll worry about everything else so
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like it was like when the situation came
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out it was definitely like a you know it
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worked it worked out um and yeah so i'm
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you know i'm really happy to to be with
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them this is my first project with them
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so um yeah shout out to create music
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group shout out to my nrcn you know i'm
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saying how near down so much love to
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them for real jaywalt jay waters here
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222 is out today i'm lucky enough to be
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an ep on this project along with his dab
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okay you know town business we stand up
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for all
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um
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jay water are you purposely talking in
14:24
that deep voice that's what your voice
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is now
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no
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had a little squeaky voice man you know
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so
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definitely the trick jay was there any
14:45
point working with sway where you had to
14:47
disagree with him
14:49
um
14:51
has there been i mean i don't i don't
14:53
think so man every time like he you know
14:55
he puts in his um you know his thoughts
14:58
and everything i definitely take it in
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you know what i'm saying i definitely
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understand sometimes it's like damn like
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i wish i could do this or do that way
15:04
but like it's always like it always
15:06
makes sense in the end like working with
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him and my pops you know i'm saying they
15:09
always see the vision they always have
15:10
like a good plan at the end of the day
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you know i'm saying
15:14
that's right that's dewalt um
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some of the it's a challenge to be um 19
15:20
a sophomore in college
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take something that was once a hobby but
15:24
now man are you in the business now man
15:26
you're up against little tj you up
15:28
against baby keem you up against nba uh
15:32
young boy dude
15:33
are you are you seeing yourself on that
15:36
level now do you this is this is the
15:38
hobby right yeah you know most
15:41
definitely it's definitely like
15:42
sometimes surreal man like especially
15:45
like especially you know back home
15:47
walking around people recognizing me and
15:48
then like now out here too like of
15:50
course like on campus people recognize
15:52
me but then like i was walking around
15:54
just new york off campus and people
15:56
coming up to me and like showing love
15:57
and like noticing me so that's
15:58
definitely like a trip and it's
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definitely like you know surreal and
16:02
everything but yeah this is what i
16:04
wanted to do since the kid you know i'm
16:06
saying like so like me being able to
16:08
like step into this and finally like
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really start
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living my dream you know it definitely
16:13
is like it feels like a dream come true
16:15
man so it is it is dope to like you know
16:18
be being the same you know feel that
16:20
some of my favorite artists and you know
16:22
like you said the little tj's baby king
16:24
shout out to them so like it definitely
16:25
is dope to like you know being that same
16:27
feeling like see myself with them you
16:29
know
16:30
okay man this is jaywalt man you guys
16:32
want to say anything to him
16:34
742-3345 we got the honey jones that's
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three 888
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gonna come up momentarily in a few
16:38
minutes but right now i'm gonna play
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this song
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um
16:43
it's featuring a guy by the name of ian
16:45
kelly he's from oakland as well
16:47
and um
16:48
you introduced me to ian kelly and i
16:51
think the two of you uh along with you
16:54
know rex's life uh
16:56
yeah um you know oh um
16:59
okey junior along it's a lot of
17:02
young artists that are coming up that
17:04
are taking the bait to the
17:06
into the future and to the next level um
17:09
this song is called slow it down i think
17:11
it's a great showcase of your skills
17:13
jay walt has evolved um how did you meet
17:15
ian kelly and what's the concept behind
17:18
the song
17:19
yes so um
17:21
a lot of like the you know the lyricists
17:23
in oakland like really know each other
17:25
um so like we we always connected we
17:28
always liked each other's work and ian
17:30
was always like man we got to work man
17:32
we got to work i remember one time like
17:34
he just hit me he's like hey bro like
17:35
send me send me a song bro send me a
17:37
record man let's do something so i sent
17:39
him the beat um who his name is versus
17:41
he's in he's in nyu too shout out to him
17:44
he produced it but i sent him the record
17:47
and i started writing so i actually
17:49
started writing that when i was on
17:50
quarantine you know um last last year
17:54
and it was kind of just me kind of
17:55
talking about like man i got to slow it
17:56
down man like i'm in new york man i feel
17:58
like i didn't have a time to really just
18:00
like
18:01
focus and really just kind of take
18:02
everything in so i really slowing it
18:04
down it's kind of just talking about
18:05
like me
18:06
like trying to find balance between like
18:09
college and music and then like
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me and this new life and in new york and
18:14
everything and me just sometimes having
18:15
to take it down like taken in and slowed
18:18
down a little bit so um yeah i sent that
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record over to ian kelly he sent it back
18:22
right away
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and
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and you know it's on the project it's on
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two two two so here it is yeah slow it
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down say walk down
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jaywalk ladies and gentlemen slow it
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down slow it down haven't heard his new
18:36
voice there it is right there jaywalk
18:39
the new ep 2-2-2 d-trainee and kelly you
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feeling that tracy absolutely man it
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feels like jay you really are
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understanding
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who you are
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like that sense of of um confidence and
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self-awareness is really there and i
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think it also brings a lot of optimism
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to me and i'm sure as you'll hear from
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the citizens because
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a lot of folks don't believe in like the
19:04
youth carrying the hip-hop torch
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to a positive place you know and it just
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does not feel at all jay that you are
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seduced by any trends you know
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and that's also not to say that you
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sound boring but you sound really
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self-assured were you ever like tempted
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to jump into a trend of any sort did you
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ever find yourself doing that i have to
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stop yourself and reroute
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yeah actually like there was um there
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was definitely times when i was like
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like um damn like like before i really
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like started getting like a good fan
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base and people really liking my stuff i
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was i was so strictly just like
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i knew what i wanted to put out and i
19:45
knew the type of music i really wanted
19:46
to do but i was like damn like do i
19:48
should i start making this type of music
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because i know the other people are
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going to listen to it more and it would
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i definitely was having like conflicts
19:56
of myself and everything and then you
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know i started having um conversations
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with like people like davey diggs he's
20:02
like yo bro like just be you man like
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people are gonna love it and like logic
20:06
shout out to logic got a good
20:08
conversation with him he's like yo man
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like you're you're what you're doing is
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ready to see like someone your age like
20:14
doing this is pure hip-hop like lyrics
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is like keep on doing it and people
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gonna follow so like having
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conversations like with people like them
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um definitely just made me was like okay
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like i'm on the i'm on the right path
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i'm gonna keep on doing me
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and people going are gonna follow i'm
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gonna hear and that's just you know
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that's what happened so definitely just
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trying to stay true to myself has been
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like the biggest thing
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amen hey man the ep is 2-2-2 the name is
20:39
jay walt official jaywalk on instagram
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yeah
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j-w-a-l-t who we got on the line okie
20:46
junior from oakland what up olkey
20:48
okay
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[Applause]
20:52
what's good man what's good jay what's
20:54
good heather hey buddy what up hey hey
20:58
hey i just wanted to call and show my
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support to jaywaldbrad i'm so proud of
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you dawg like keep working keep grinding
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man like
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i you inspired me man i'll be watching
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you i've seen your growth
21:09
and just stay true to yourself man like
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just continue doing what you're doing
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bro because you making oakland look good
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for real
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man that's love bro thank you man
21:19
appreciate it all right thank you we
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gotta link up man we gotta drop some
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more records too man we gotta i gotta
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say you should do it man i'm ready come
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on y'all looking for an ep let me know
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all right
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[Laughter]
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definitely we do a collabo project okay
21:34
love you brother thanks for calling in
21:37
all right
21:38
all right peace big juice in toronto you
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want to comment big juice hey
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yes what up sway what up tracy heather b
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j y
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graham rising hey
21:48
so i i got two points first off j well i
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never heard your music before today but
21:54
i'm definitely gonna dig in the whole
21:55
catalog and you caught me with the whole
21:58
topic of education and i'm so happy to
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hear you bring this topic of education
22:03
and getting a formal education for this
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music business
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i mean
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it's so important it's so important and
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my second part is
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what do you think the benefits of your
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education are
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right like
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everybody wants to learn off of youtube
22:19
i got a bunch of kids sending music off
22:21
of you know their youtube engineering
22:23
skills
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what are the main benefits that you can
22:26
speak of that you've learned in school
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versus going it your own way in the
22:30
youtube way
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yeah no great question um and also thank
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you i'm saying thank you for your
22:38
support and everything but definitely i
22:39
would say i'll tell you two things you
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know definitely like
22:44
with with the workload you know i'm
22:45
saying that i've been getting it like
22:47
definitely having to like you know
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um
22:50
time management and everything that's
22:52
something that i feel like that's i i've
22:54
i've taken in and that's going to help
22:56
me if like
22:57
when i'm at his college and really like
22:59
all in and focusing on you know on my
23:01
music and everything that's something
23:02
that's like that's huge that i've taken
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in time management and learning how to
23:06
balance stuff and like
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and focus you know what i'm saying
23:10
because like you know just like you know
23:12
with music man you're gonna have you
23:13
know these these interviews and you
23:15
gotta do you know shows then you gotta
23:17
go to the studio so learning how to like
23:20
really time manage is key as the artist
23:22
and that's something that i've been able
23:24
to learn in school and college and also
23:26
like you know um learning the business
23:28
man learning music business i feel like
23:30
that's something that like a lot of you
23:32
know a lot of artists should know and
23:34
need to know you know what i'm saying so
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like me being able to like have this
23:37
education and really learn in business
23:40
classes um and learn about the music
23:43
business that's something that like i've
23:44
really been able to really learn and
23:46
take in you know and i'm grateful for
23:48
because i know a lot of a lot of artists
23:51
you know haven't taken music business
23:52
classes so like that's something that
23:54
i've really you know um been able to
23:56
take out of my education great question
23:59
big jews you're a citizen brother we
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appreciate it
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okay i'ma take one more call uh dr
24:04
delores thompson this ain't dr delores
24:06
con
24:07
thompson from the broadcast industry is
24:09
it
24:10
yeah
24:11
this this is how you doing oh wow wow
24:15
how you doing legend
24:18
what's happening family i'm a legend
24:19
well i'm a legend how you doing this
24:21
morning take that title go ahead dr
24:23
delores thompson welcome to the show
24:25
grand rises doing really well
24:28
bless your heart bless your heart hey
24:30
listen i just wanted to call in you know
24:33
as a teacher from oakland school for the
24:35
arts
24:36
jaywalk we are so proud of you always
24:38
have been
24:40
jay walt is one of those young men that
24:42
he's such a down brother you wanted to
24:44
meet his parents who did you come from
24:47
so i was excited to meet his parents
24:49
because not only him but his younger
24:51
brother the way they carry their self
24:53
the way they respect the way they show
24:55
love i just he's i just knew he was
24:58
going to win you know he's somebody
24:59
that's set up to win that's his destiny
25:02
so i just want to call in and let you
25:03
know that oakland school for the arts is
25:05
behind you all the way we love you and
25:08
we're covering you with our prayers and
25:10
and go win for all of us brother thank
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you so much thank you much love always
25:17
and thank you for your commitment to the
25:19
community i know who you are dr thompson
25:21
have a wonderful beautiful day all right
25:24
thank you much love fam much love much
25:27
love hey listen um quentin in chicago
25:30
want to say something quentin what you
25:31
want to say grand rises
25:33
yo i just wanna first of all good
25:36
morning uh sway
25:38
b
25:39
um have it it's your boy defensive
25:41
cookies um
25:44
okay those cookies back i just wanted to
25:46
show him mad
25:48
mad love 19
25:51
in school
25:52
juggling a career and he sounds good
25:55
that beat came on when i hit my shazam
25:58
like i've never heard of him before but
26:00
i'm definitely a fan now and i'm going
26:02
to support there you go the new ep it's
26:04
out right now right jaywalk oh now all
26:07
platforms two three two dogs thank you
26:09
so much quentin you a citizen um sway in
26:12
the morning hold up man let me bring my
26:14
brother up man he a hip-hop here i don't
26:16
want to get his perspective on this i
26:18
know he heard the song man you know some
26:20
of you may know him as a giant you know
26:22
that's how he was drafted into the nfl
26:24
you may know him as an eagle as
26:26
cincinnati bingo but i know him for the
26:28
work that he does in the community as a
26:30
cyclist as well and as a person i used
26:32
to hang out with a lot on the streets hb
26:35
we got dahani jones on the line to hani
26:42
[Applause]
26:50
i need some more music i need some more
26:52
music
26:53
man
26:54
i was like i never heard of jaywalt and
26:56
now you just put them on that's amazing
26:58
19 years old you know
27:00
and he goes to the tisch school which is
27:02
fantastic i love that you know just
27:04
crossing barriers and at the same time
27:06
you know driving your education driving
27:08
your music working in the community now
27:11
he's got a fan of me you know i'm one of
27:12
the old heads like you know
27:14
wait we're probably the only generation
27:16
but we need to see those young people
27:18
bring those good stories
27:20
of their life and how they've
27:21
transformed and how they've worked with
27:23
other people into multiple industries
27:26
and so we continue in the entertainment
27:27
space and that's fantastic that uh
27:30
justin carter walton is doing that j
27:32
walt
27:42
smart dudes recognize smart dudes like
27:44
that's just what it is
27:46
that's
27:52
because you were talking about juggling
27:54
time and being in a new space and all of
27:57
these different barriers
27:59
that you had to find your way over
28:02
around or underneath just to move
28:04
forward and he has a a great series he's
28:06
doing called beyond the barriers and it
28:09
also uh and we'll talk about that
28:11
momentarily
28:12
but it made me think about
28:14
you know one of the things you mentioned
28:15
was your relationship and if i may
28:17
because you
28:18
have a song called time between on your
28:21
album which i think on your ep which i
28:22
think is really great and it's very
28:24
honest and this is what a lot of
28:26
young folks deal with sometimes when
28:28
you're in a relationship and you're
28:29
juggling your ambition and you got the
28:32
expectation from your parents and then
28:33
you got your own expectations that you
28:35
put on yourself
28:36
it could be hard on a relationship
28:39
writing about this uh did you find it
28:41
therapeutic
28:43
yeah no 100
28:45
um because um
28:46
yeah it definitely was therapeutic and
28:48
it was definitely like really organic
28:50
man just like working on that record
28:52
like i was actually leaving a session
28:54
from working undertaking and i ran into
28:56
like the producer of it and he was like
28:58
yo like you trying to like cook up some
29:00
i was in the studios at my school we
29:01
were like yeah and we were both you know
29:03
in a long distance relationship his was
29:05
going really well miles was like
29:07
iffy you know what i'm saying at the
29:08
time but like he just started producing
29:10
i just started writing like i wrote it
29:12
like you know like really really quick
29:14
it was something i was holding on to for
29:15
a while so like being able just to like
29:17
tell my story and like really like
29:20
you know talk about what was what i was
29:22
going through at that at that moment and
29:23
during that time was very like
29:25
therapeutic and like definitely like
29:27
left off like a a good feeling i was
29:29
like damn like i was finally able to you
29:31
know get it off you know
29:32
i think it's uh definitive um for you
29:35
too
29:36
in terms of who you become tracy said it
29:38
sounds like you are confident now we all
29:40
hear the growth in your music from day
29:42
one to now and then the honesty in it is
29:45
what really made me excited about this
29:46
project how honest you're being i know
29:49
the stories you know we've i've been on
29:51
the facetime for hours with you you know
29:55
and so i know the story jaywalk listen
29:58
jay walter being times square today at 4
30:00
p.m he has his billboard that's going to
30:03
be in times square the honey the kid got
30:05
a billboard in times square already um
30:08
and i i hope i hope you got your face on
30:10
there too sway you know just kind of
30:12
like
30:13
a little cameo in the background jay
30:15
waltz come on hook's way up you got to
30:17
do that come on man jaywalk i need some
30:19
light man you know i'm an ep i can't get
30:21
a look
30:22
hey man
30:25
man
30:26
hey you better show up
30:28
i'm gonna show up uh eventually hey uh
30:31
but
30:32
we're gonna close with time between and
30:35
jaywalt really proud of you can't wait
30:37
to see the movement can't wait to see
30:39
you again we'll see each other in the
30:40
next day or two um yeah get up to ebro
30:43
go talk to ebro he's one of us
30:46
all right yeah let's do it let's do it i
30:48
want to say sway tracy had to be man
30:50
thank y'all so much for rocking with me
30:52
from the start y'all really was there
30:53
you know from the beginning really see
30:55
my bro so definitely like it's an honor
30:57
coming back up here and being able to
30:58
talk to y'all you know about my journey
31:01
and what i'm on now so thank you guys so
31:02
much absolutely
31:04
and to the citizens dahani jones is up
31:06
next and if you ever face barriers
31:09
in your pursuit of happiness or in your
31:11
career or in your family or how whatever
31:14
barriers have been presented to you in
31:16
your life and you had to fight through
31:18
them he has a series called beyond the
31:20
barriers um and it's a really
31:22
introspective
31:23
series diving into people's personal
31:25
experiences on their journey
31:28
all of us can relate to that i'm open up
31:30
the phone lines 888-742-3345
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[Applause]
31:34
if you had to face barriers in life call
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us this is time between by jaywalk
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you
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