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May 25, 2022
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going to separate our artists is their
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own true story
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you know and i think our next artist
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that's something he's been able to
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accomplish
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you know in his career uh from his hurt
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project and
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his more recent music that he did we
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played the pop star song you know the
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scoring song when you go back and listen
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to these songs that this man has made
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it's it's
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it's like he puts you in the movie that
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you watch you go to a drive-in movie you
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looking at the big big screen and he
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puts you on the screen
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he brings you into his life and for that
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reason man we want to celebrate his
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career he got a lot of great things
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going on man if you go on his instagram
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page you see he just has some popping
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events you know he's living life of a
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rockstar hb you can see his chains right
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now you can't get chains like that
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unless you live in the life of a rock
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star um he's here with us today man
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please welcome kailyn for real for real
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let's go come on man what's the deal for
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real man appreciate y'all
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we was trying to do this before last
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time we was out here we weren't able to
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make it happen yeah that only means it
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was supposed to happen now absolutely
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everything happened in perfect time and
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it's all up to god damn man do i make it
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all up to god absolutely you talk about
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god a lot yeah yeah you can't do nothing
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did you grow up in the church no i'm
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muslim you're muslim so you grew up in a
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mosque nah not really i converted to
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muslim when i got older it was a choice
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i made oh my
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wow who who would you take on that who
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introduced you to that um probably one
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of my best friends mohammed he kind of
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really introduced me to the um
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the he introduced me to a lot but i've
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always been just infatuated with you
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know malcolm x and just hearing black
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people speak just stuff like that that's
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always been something that grasps my
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attention where did he introduce you
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were y'all in the neighborhood were you
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that's just ended up being one of my
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best buddies in college and um one day
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he was doing ramadan and he just was
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like yeah i was like let's go eat
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something he was like no i can't eat and
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then he explained to me like why he fast
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and what the reasons behind the fasting
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the reason behind fasting is to so you
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can feel like somebody else felt that
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has less than you you know i mean if you
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don't we don't eat all day so we can
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you know take that away so we can feel
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how people that that are homeless or you
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feel me sleep deprived or can't afford
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food and stuff like that then then in
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other ways what you do you feed people
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too so like say i miss a day fast and i
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feed find a brand of person and feed
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them you know somebody that can't take
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care of their self and just make sure
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you're just breaking bread and just the
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reason behind it is just that was
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amazing to me
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you know what i'm saying that's just
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where it started and i just looked
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deeper into it and just the way of
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living i appreciate it you appreciate
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that man i like this and so was that
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where you was at san diego yeah that's
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when i was i was playing football for
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san diego state what position did you
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play i played corner
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i knew it was something about it what
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position you played i'm playing
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we never heard a cornerback story now
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like never juicy fruit voices
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nevertheless number 30 i played for the
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oakland dynamites bro okay ask him how
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old he was
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who's pop warner okay
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that's where it starts first starts
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kaylin you know hey listen pop on your
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um without some some of the stuff that i
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learned in popcorn is like the reason
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why i'm here right now speak to that
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yeah like one of my coaches told me like
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when i was like 11 years old he said
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probably about
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four of y'all gonna play in college
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maybe like none of y'all gonna play in
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the nfl and i was i was the only one on
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my team that went to college and played
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football and did that play d1 football
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so it was just me understanding that
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like at 12 years old that this ain't
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promised yeah yeah i mean that just
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helped me with life period you was like
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five so
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what did you learn i was nine and ten
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you know one year i played cornerback
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the next year i played linebacker okay
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left sideline back up all right captain
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i used to run a 4-3 defense okay yeah he
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was right there
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he was that he was down two on the line
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are you about to use a stand up man i
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was stand up
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you know but i kind of they let me float
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okay
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because i was everywhere like you i have
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speed yeah absolutely i got speed yeah
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what what happened with college i got
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some trouble so i had to stop playing
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ball okay and then that's when the music
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really started
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okay i like how you just went over that
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trouble we ain't got to focus on the
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trouble
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his troubles ain't troubles ain't
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important we didn't overcame all of that
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we ain't going back to that there you go
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and so how did your faith help
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inform the decisions you made once you
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became you know follower of the
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followers of islam well i got to tell
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you to tell it on my chest and say oh
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your faith got to be greater than your
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fear in arabic oh damn you really got it
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looked like that hurt too that was all
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right
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all right yeah but your faith has just
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got to be greater than your fear cause
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you could do anything
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you just got to do it
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you can't be scared to do it and it's
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just like it's no such thing as failure
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because if you start a process you're
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going to finish something yeah you know
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just because you want to be a rapper you
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might not be the rapper you might most
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you might be supposed to be a manager
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you might just got to learn stuff about
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ratbot being a rapper to be a manager
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later
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you know i like that anything can happen
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you just got to look at it's how you
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look at the cup yeah i started as a
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rapper too bro yeah
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[Laughter]
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so you started doing music after you got
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into a little trouble and yeah and then
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who took who was the first to recognize
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your musical talents like how did that
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happen just like people around me mm-hmm
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you know like i always been into music
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when i was young i used to like dance
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like michael jackson and stuff like that
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but really when i started taking music
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serious i used to just send my music to
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everybody like i texted idm like 500
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people a day sending my music link out
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and stuff like that and then we kind of
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gorillaed it like my brother borrowed my
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dj baron he used to dj at like the
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observatory and all the concert venues
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so i used to grab tickets from him to
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sales so i could perform and open up and
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then it just started happening like that
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and i ended up meeting i think i met
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rich the kid got a feature from kids so
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while i'm in school i'm i'm playing
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football while i'm doing this while i'm
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rapping though and performing so while
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i'm doing all of that everybody like
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dang he really a rapper like so it just
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always making sense and you know i'm
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just opening up doing shows and i'm
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getting streams and stuff like that
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nothing crazy but it was just enough to
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yeah to be an artist you know what i'm
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saying to start somewhere so i had like
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a little starting point but then i ain't
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it's just gradually grew
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it just kept growing it was like
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man like every day it's still like i
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ain't stopped doing the same thing since
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i started that's what it feel like then
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i want to add to that because you you
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talked a lot about being an athlete and
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i know as as
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athletes there are regimens there's
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discipline you're up early it's just
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certain things i'm not up early no more
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well i was going to ask you is that
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today though
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listen i was up at six like yo we going
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we finna go do this
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but is it anything like some of your
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regimens that you have now as a
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full-time artist can you share some of
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the stuff i heard you kind of mention
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when your song was playing i didn't
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write this uh and i was like wow i
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didn't know if he said you did write it
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or you didn't write it oh yeah no i
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don't write music down
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i ain't wrote a song down since i
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started making music
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not one song nothing is on paper not
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nothing no paper no phone nothing i just
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whatever i'm whatever i feel when i hear
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the beat is what you're gonna get
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is that how you started like the very
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first song when you did because i used
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to just freestyle like my homies used to
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just be like just rap just rap like lil
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wayne rap like that rap like this rap
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like that whatever beat it was and then
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it just went from me then it really was
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i couldn't afford the studio time
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okay so i had to get done yeah i had to
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get done sitting there trying to write
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that's not going to work like let me let
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me just go in and you feel me say what
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i'm feeling like i got i'm i'm coming up
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with it to write it down let me just
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write like wrap it on the mic first and
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then i just start doing that then what's
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your thoughts on that age because you
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always have this golden rule
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right
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like i just think i've been saying this
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for years now we've been doing a show
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for 11 years and i feel like as artists
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we are creating art right and i just
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think that well i know that one day you
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see these big auctions sotheby's and
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christie's and all these places
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our art will end up selling for hundreds
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of millions of dollars just your
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notebook alone from one song from you
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and i'm wondering that you don't write
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at all do you think you will continue
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your career like that will you is it do
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you ever feel like maybe i i'm i got
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some time two hours tonight maybe i
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should write before i go in the studio
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tomorrow but or you just want to kind of
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i like just doing that i like my process
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because it's
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more comfortable like my like i would
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like okay
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that's your comfort zone yeah but not
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even in the sense of i just don't want
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to step outside of it just where
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and how how i see it like it's a it's
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more of a visual thing for me like when
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i go in the booth and i hear the music
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it's like a movie star like how he was
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explaining it's like like a tv show like
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and i'm not making up nothing
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you know a lot is real i did everything
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mm-hmm i don't got it floating about no
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for what like my lab my name for real
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for it like if i'm lying like oh that's
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gonna look stupid
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because i'm gonna keep it real that's my
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real name caitlin caleb
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yeah that's really me i'm really just
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being me
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that's all i hear you say that a lot i'm
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a fan of people using their real names
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on music i've always been a fan of that
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that's interesting like yeah wow what's
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the biggest compliment you received from
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the the biggest artist you've met
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oh man
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man
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you know a lot of folks just be like you
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hard to be real subtle who
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um
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i think one of the biggest things
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that the biggest person that that says
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something to me and i really like really
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appreciated it
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is when i met
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i think when i met stevie wonder
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just said stevie wonder yeah you met
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stevie what does stevie wonder say to
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you no he's just like he just i heard
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the music and yeah because uh mosquito
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dj monsters yeah that's you know he'd be
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with muskie all the time monsieur played
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and he was like yeah man stevie like
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really like he like like you and then
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when i met stevie it was just it was
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just a warm embrace right that's crazy
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you know and then my grandmother likes
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real my grandmother used to play stevie
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wonder for me
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so that just that was just like surreal
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it was crazy i used to go to like his
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toys for toss concerts and all that like
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when i was a little kid so like i
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remember that full circle moment for you
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man like my whole
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career
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my whole career full circle everything
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like everything
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happened like how i want it to happen i
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ain't gonna hold you like and just
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because i don't expect nothing you know
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somebody was like yeah are you gonna do
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this and this is gonna happen
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nah
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i'm gonna do this and if something
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happened i'm gonna be proud of it
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you feel me i'm proud that i did it a
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lot of people can't get up and do this
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every day facts you know what i'm saying
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i don't have to do nothing but rap
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if stephen wanted to call you in the
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studio to do a song you better write
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songs
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i'm not going to hold you if you do i'ma
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go in with the same process because
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it's going to bring up so much emotion
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and so much so much visual i'm gonna
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have so much in my head that i didn't
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thought of so many times already just
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listening to stevie wonder no i agree
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with you because we we talked about that
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and this really quickly i think there's
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a three-step process of doing music i
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think there's the idea
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then you have to write it and then you
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have to actually go into the vocal booth
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and capture all of that and execute yeah
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now i'll cut it in now i'll make sure
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this is quality okay okay let's go i'm
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not going to just go rapping then oh you
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know it don't be quality
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but a lot of stuff do be i don't know i
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don't even have to go back in on really
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nothing huh
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like going back yeah so caitlyn let's
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just say this was because i know that
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you like to live life without
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expectations right which i think is
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tremendous if this
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was
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your actual finale of your career your
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last lap you didn't realize it but
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tomorrow was all gone would you consider
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this to be success or would there be any
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regrets extremely i came from nothing
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i didn't have nothing and then i did a
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lot of stuff that
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that i lived a lot of people's dreams
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already yeah some people don't see it as
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ever being as big as this you know like
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going through the grocery store people
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stopping my mom taking pictures with my
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mom like just all kind of little stuff
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like i gotta walk around with a security
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guard that is crazy
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who's your security who's in there yeah
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my little brother right there he ain't
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little but he yeah you the little
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brother
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gargantual over here that's your little
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brother did you play sports too
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football
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why are you trying to flex your arm
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knock you out swade
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i know you wasn't no corner
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what city y'all came up in compton or
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where did y'all come up compton carson
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back and forth like i didn't lived all
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over i didn't live all over l.a like
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that's why my experiences are so so
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different you know i mean gang bang a
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lot of dudes coming a lot of dudes gang
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thing i don't do that how did you avoid
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it because i'm just me
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so it's avoidable yeah if you're
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standing on your own team as long as you
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got hands can't nobody make you do
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nothing you don't want to do your hands
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yeah yeah they're gonna work they're
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nice all the time all right anytime
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anybody want to try them they right here
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okay okay
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are you looking at me like that caleb
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so i was watching um
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bobby smirder and we've heard this a few
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times that um i heard him say something
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like man when you get to a certain point
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just you can't hang out in the hood no
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more yeah you can't do that
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um how do you feel about that
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i feel like it's a
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i feel like it's smart to not do it
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in the sense of it's smart to not hang
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in the hood because you don't know
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what's going on but then at the same
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time
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me personally i had trouble with that
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yeah that's something i'm still trying
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to figure out because i love my homies
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and they can't go everywhere i got to go
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and everywhere i'm going all the stuff
14:06
i'm doing they ain't going to always be
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able to come to and that's not their
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fault
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you know they gotta they got to figure
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out what's going on for them and it's
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not no timing on when it is so it's just
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i'm not going to treat them no different
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because of who i am so sometimes i'll be
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in the hood i'll go post up i'll go pull
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up shoot dice go eat my etsy house all
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that every day go get on my dirt bike
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and all that but i just got to do it
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with caution now now i got to do it with
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a black truck driving behind me my
14:30
security people behind me and stuff like
14:32
that sometimes i just you can't be out
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too late just just certain situations
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but
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it just all depends on the person you
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are too yeah you know what i mean a lot
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of people don't
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be
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like staples in a community and it'll
14:45
also depend on what you're putting out
14:46
there i don't put a bunch of hate out so
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i don't really receive too much
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you know too much too much like hate or
14:52
nobody really having no problem with me
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like if you really got a problem with me
14:56
you really gotta have a real problem
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with me you know what i'm saying and i'm
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not running from no problems so it's
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whatever it's gonna be we ain't gonna
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have to you ain't gonna have to find me
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or nothing like that it ain't gonna
15:06
happen here for real for real yeah i get
15:09
it now i'm on it now what's your name
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jordan what's your uh
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george george okay he relative too yeah
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that's me that's bro what up george my
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day today that's your day today that's
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one of my uh roommates from college too
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y'all i met bro outside the dorms and
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kyle
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what's up man i'd like to hear y'all up
15:26
in college seeing different things
15:28
experiencing different folks you know we
15:30
often can live in the box and celebrate
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it absolutely man i feel like education
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is probably one of the that's one of the
15:36
greatest things you can have that's what
15:38
set us apart from everybody else that's
15:39
what make you different is knowledge
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that's the most scariest thing a black
15:43
man can have his knowledge
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yeah say that again that's all
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absolutely
15:47
scariest thing a black man can have who
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gave you that say that you say that mike
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yeah there's this and it comes from
15:53
there's a narrative and a quote out
15:54
there and says um
15:55
a black man who was educated uh is more
15:58
powerful than a black man with a gun
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absolutely so yeah okay did jay give you
16:03
that chain right here man nah this one
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man i got this out the mud this is
16:06
before the deal okay that's before the
16:08
deal wow let's go you see that before
16:10
the deal chain right there hp
16:13
all right
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did you get the rock thing though no i
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don't got one of them yet yeah but
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that's gonna happen i'll sell some more
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records do some i gotta do something
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crazy you to earn it right yeah no
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absolutely yeah i don't want nothing to
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give it no no i understand that but but
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having that backing how has it changed
16:28
things or assisted
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mike oh there you go i love where i'm at
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uh-huh at the in everything that comes
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with it because like
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i watch a lot of labels you know signing
16:39
artists thought they huge a huge artist
16:42
on a song with them
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and then they just blow up it's like you
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don't get no character behind that i
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feel like i got character i got a story
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and i feel like the longer it's taken
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the longer i'm gonna be here oh man i
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like man i like you thinking bro well
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you see three three to five years from
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now just more more just so much more
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because at the end of the day it's a god
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plan
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it's his plan i'm just living i'm just
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here i'm just living it and i'm just
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doing what i think i should do he gonna
17:10
stare me in the right direction and it's
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already set up and it's like
17:15
like rizzo like he do his part i do my
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part
17:21
that's like speak
17:24
i got people that depend on me
17:26
at the label
17:28
you know and they i got people that i
17:30
depend on at the label like everybody
17:31
got to do their job i got to do mine too
17:33
so it's just
17:34
you know
17:36
do everything that i could do to do more
17:40
i love it man caitlin for real for real
17:42
tracy g
17:43
kayla you know what i'll be thinking
17:44
about sometimes when there's like labels
17:46
involved like for instance with doja cat
17:47
who has to get like her tonsils uh
17:50
surgery and so she has to cancel all of
17:52
her festivals and i'd be like dang i'm
17:53
thinking about all the people connected
17:55
to doja that now may have to go without
17:58
a check for the rest of the summer
18:00
doesn't make it hard when your team is
18:02
huge if you need a day off if you need
18:04
time to just like recoup you know what i
18:07
mean how does that impact your decision
18:09
making when saying no it's serious
18:12
that's like so serious at the at the end
18:15
like at the end of the day you can't be
18:17
selfish
18:19
you got to be selfless and i'm not
18:20
saying that she's selfish because that's
18:22
something that she needed to do to be
18:24
able to perform at the best of her
18:25
ability you know
18:27
absolutely and
18:29
if she
18:30
run her vocals draw it mess her tonsils
18:32
up can't sing and she can't perform no
18:34
more ain't nobody gonna pay her bills
18:36
yeah yeah
18:38
it's just gonna be it's gonna be like oh
18:40
so sad you know and at the same time
18:43
though
18:45
i got a great team
18:46
so i don't feel like i've ever been
18:48
faced with nothing like that and if it's
18:50
something that i really just can't do
18:52
i'mma tell them i really can't do that i
18:55
can't do it all i'm really tired i might
18:57
need a day or i'll just take a day the
18:59
next day you know what i'm saying but it
19:00
just got to make sense and then but i
19:02
feel like a lot of me being an athlete
19:04
is where that comes in like no is not an
19:06
uh answer yeah i get that let me ask you
19:09
this i always often
19:11
say when people ask me what's been the
19:13
key to my longevity right and i always
19:16
say preparation when they ask about um
19:18
the work i do i you know
19:21
now i'm a little different because i've
19:22
been doing it for so long
19:24
but on the come up yeah
19:26
if i knew i had to interview a president
19:28
obama right
19:30
my study process started a month prior
19:33
right i'm dead ass like i'll read all to
19:36
say you know mike news 75 90 pages of
19:38
policy i needed to know everything even
19:40
though i wasn't gonna get to it so
19:42
preparation has been the key to my
19:44
big part of my success what's been a big
19:46
part of yours i would say the same
19:47
preparation but even more is um
19:51
faith
19:53
hmm
19:54
faith like just believing like
19:56
you're supposed to be here
19:59
you know what i mean just
20:00
like preparation is so
20:02
important but i feel like
20:05
you know i feel like the the one of the
20:06
most important quotes i i i usually say
20:09
is that you got to do what you got to do
20:11
so you can do what you want to do yeah
20:12
yeah you know so like i live by that i
20:14
tell my little brothers dad my cousins
20:16
that [ __ ] my mama
20:18
everybody that's because you got to do
20:21
what you got to do so you can do what
20:22
you want to do and i didn't learn that
20:24
until in college like the reason i
20:26
probably didn't go to the nfl is because
20:28
i didn't know that at the time like i
20:29
would always say probably my coach my
20:31
coach white was my db coach's name coach
20:34
white that probably was like the best
20:36
coach of life i've ever had like one of
20:38
the best coaches of life i ever had it
20:40
was always the why
20:42
you know i'm saying a lot of people
20:43
always ignore the statement of why why
20:45
they doing things like why you coming
20:46
why are you coming to work every morning
20:48
why did you need to know that
20:49
information before you did it went in
20:51
and did the interviews even if you
20:52
didn't know it yeah you know he used to
20:54
i used to make plays and stuff like that
20:55
he used to be like but why did you make
20:56
the play what happened that you made to
20:58
play
20:59
i used to just be like why did that
21:00
matter like i made the play but now i
21:02
understand why and everybody everybody
21:04
is important the importance you play in
21:06
the significance the significance you
21:08
play into being more successful you know
21:10
i mean so i feel like just knowing the
21:13
why is probably the most in
21:16
impactful thing that happens in what's
21:18
going on you know what i like about you
21:20
one of the things is
21:22
i
21:23
i'm not sure if you're conscious of it
21:25
but i think you are um
21:27
you embrace being a leader yeah you can
21:30
feel that yeah heavy you embrace being a
21:32
leader and it's not i i i don't like to
21:34
leave
21:35
but you embrace it though yeah why don't
21:37
you like to lead what do you mean it's
21:39
like i like to see
21:41
everybody
21:42
doing their thing like you know i want
21:45
to see everybody do their thing at their
21:46
best of ability i don't never want to
21:48
feel like i'm more important than nobody
21:50
else or i'm doing more than nobody else
21:52
because just in the ways even if
21:54
you know it could be a phone call
21:57
that might have been what i needed for
21:58
the rest of the month yeah you know what
22:00
i'm saying it could have just been hey
22:01
man you're doing a good job or or you
22:04
messing up
22:05
you need to do this better and then the
22:07
that little role could be so
22:09
important
22:10
and everything growing you know what i'm
22:12
saying so i don't never want to feel
22:14
like i'm the most important because i'm
22:16
not then you just say you're a leader
22:18
amongst equals that's it yeah but we all
22:20
leaders so i would now i wouldn't say i
22:21
want to leave because i'm gonna go off
22:22
which if you if you're saying something
22:23
that makes sense i'm gonna listen you're
22:26
going to follow that
22:27
anybody that's talking ain't listening
22:29
right you can't learn yep so you got to
22:31
listen to everything around you you got
22:33
to listen to the world i listen to
22:34
what's going on everything you can't say
22:36
nothing to me and i'll not hear you
22:38
like nothing you can't put nothing past
22:40
me you can't say nothing to me and i'll
22:41
not hear you and if i and if i feel like
22:43
i don't understand you i'ma ask you hey
22:46
what you meant by that let me cut that
22:47
train
22:49
did you hear that how you want it oh you
22:51
heard me
23:04
hey baby how are you
23:06
how you doing what's going on is that me
23:08
or uh caitlyn
23:10
okay oh hey katelyn is it's my your
23:13
other mother i just want to say
23:14
congratulations i'm so so proud of you
23:17
thank you
23:18
keep grinding baby i hear you we all
23:20
hear you in the car keep going okay i
23:23
appreciate you so much love y'all so
23:25
much
23:26
okay all right
23:37
yeah he said that is your daughter in
23:39
the car
23:42
no see i was keeping it all under wraps
23:44
yo you a writer
23:46
the mother was getting in the direction
23:48
okay wow all right what up y'all what up
23:51
cass what up bro
23:53
what up they being shy
23:55
over here
23:57
yes they they love you make me proud of
23:59
you okay well tell them they all rainbow
24:01
you and your sons and your daughters
24:03
citizens
24:04
okay all right i'm gonna let mike ask
24:06
one last question mike go ahead real
24:07
quick
24:08
yeah i'm just sitting here listening to
24:10
you man i feel like a vibe with you
24:12
right not like a personal connection but
24:14
just meaning like i'm enjoying listening
24:16
to your story your answers are so well
24:18
thought out and so well constructed
24:21
don't hesitate which i've been noticing
24:23
oh yeah and your answer was such a
24:24
grounded constitution and so i'm just
24:26
curious like what keeps you so grounded
24:28
because you're not boisterous one can
24:30
look at you with the jewelry you're
24:32
wearing the sunglasses and for me i
24:33
identify with that people don't want to
24:34
be vulnerable they're hiding something
24:36
oh no i take them off i'm tired no i'm
24:38
not saying that no no no i'm saying but
24:40
what's coming out of you is such a
24:42
groundedness that's right it's always
24:43
curious what grounds you i'm
24:44
appreciative i appreciate this
24:48
you know this is uh i dreamed of this
24:51
i really wanted this this is this is
24:53
everything i wanted every day i woke up
24:55
and tried to do this i'd been to jail
24:56
behind this i didn't
24:58
everything i've ever done was behind
25:00
this
25:01
like making music
25:03
so it would be
25:05
i would hate myself you know
25:07
to act like i'm entitled to this because
25:09
there's so many people that's doing this
25:11
every day that don't get the same result
25:13
it's somebody that's better than me
25:14
right now at home
25:17
better than me way better than me way
25:18
more talented than me probably work 10
25:20
times harder than me as somebody at home
25:22
right now and they can't be here
25:25
and it's not their fault
25:27
you know that's so good so i really
25:30
appreciate this
25:31
everything that comes with it like man
25:33
first time i ever paid my mom bills was
25:35
like the best feeling in the world and
25:36
it was because of music come on you know
25:39
so
25:40
i really appreciate this like that's
25:42
what it's really about for me it's about
25:43
it ain't even about what i'm doing it's
25:45
about what i can do
25:47
because of it i like that hey man
25:50
stand up fella come on man caleb for
25:53
real for real yeah congratulations man
25:55
thank you i just get it man thank you
25:57
for coming through congratulations on
25:59
the never lose you tour y'all just wrap
26:00
that up right what's the next one man we
26:03
trying to get back on the road real soon
26:05
anybody in particular reza anybody want
26:07
to say who you going out with
26:10
okay
26:12
okay yeah all right um
26:14
cliffhangers i like that so now we're
26:16
established yeah so we're in there yeah
26:19
man how you gonna come to the show man i
26:21
love you i'm here all week you got one
26:23
this week man in the bay you know you're
26:25
going tomorrow you know i'm from oakland
26:27
man i'm from the town we're going to
26:28
east bay
26:29
who you performing with i don't even
26:31
know you know what city is in it's east
26:33
bay that's all i know say he's bay on
26:34
his schedule
26:43
the bay is the bay make sure y'all uh
26:45
say hi to big vine okay big brother gone
26:47
from 106 kml tell them i sent you make
26:50
sure you say hi to chewie gomez chewie
26:52
gomez yep
26:54
gomez and d sharp make sure you say hi
26:56
to d sharp
26:58
type
26:58
all of those names tell them i sent you
27:01
okay okay i'm gonna tell them tell them
27:03
that's family all those my brothers
27:04
every single one of them and they're all
27:06
factors up in the bay yeah okay all
27:08
right i chose some bay area slang you
27:11
know they factors up
27:13
all right
27:16
you saw i got serious on him right there
27:17
i don't know if he can handle it all
27:19
right
27:19
about that all right cool uh
27:22
we want to thank serea for coming by
27:24
today she got the new single revenge
27:25
make sure you check that out and uh
27:27
caitlin man
27:29
kaelin for real for real you know that
27:31
pop star pro that pop star song is big
27:35
i love your videos
27:36
um you you definitely put people in in
27:39
your state of existence and it's fun to
27:41
watch as somebody who's done this for a
27:43
long time
27:44
you inspire me man thank you absolutely
27:47
man well let's keep doing that
27:48
absolutely i'll get a chain one day yeah
27:50
all right
27:52
we got to get him one george no no no no
27:56
no
27:57
don't do that george we but we could
27:58
spend we could put that on some land
28:02
ah man we really gotta we're gonna talk
28:04
we'll talk okay man i'm trying to buy a
28:06
whole city man we're gonna we could do a
28:07
lot wow dude okay we can talk about that
28:10
banking grocery store gardens all that
28:12
oh that's gonna do a lot okay i'm with
28:15
that cause i know y'all gonna be looking
28:16
for investors absolutely i'm dead ass on
28:18
that one all right you see busy building
28:20
the neighborhood yeah and that's that's
28:21
probably one of the smartest things you
28:22
can do the reason why we um you know
28:24
segregation started because they
28:25
couldn't get in on these taxes uh-huh
28:28
you ain't take it all back let's take it
28:29
all back i like that caleb for real for
28:31
real man y'all make sure y'all follow
28:33
him where can they follow you at follow
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me everywhere at k-a-l-a-n dot f-r-f-r
28:38
calendar for real for real man don't be
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scared to be real it's only you
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