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Kehlani Talks New Album 'Blue Water Road', Not Believing In Love/Marriage & Discovering Herself
May 4, 2022
Upon releasing her latest album Blue Water Road, Kehlani stops by Sway In The Morning to talk about the project, family and clears up misinterpretations of her.
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Kehlani Talks New Album 'Blue Water Road', Not Believing In Love/Marriage & Discovering Herself
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as an artist we work through a lot of
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like
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does happiness feel corny
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you know it's interesting you know
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person for so long and you continuously
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get to know them better
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as time elapses
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and i feel like because i met this this
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queen
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at such a early age that i've been able
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i've been privy tracy g from the sweet
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sexy savage days to now yep
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to witness her journey
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so for me it's a little different
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because i feel a little invested whether
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she feels so or not that's just my own
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imagination you better watch your
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pronouns there players okay
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okay hold up i got it
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whether they feel so or not oh goodness
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yes yes i got you work with me please
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you know be patient
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thank you
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thank you very much i appreciate that
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um even
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in that part of your personality under
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that part of your experience your growth
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uh learning and understanding who you
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are you know each project i feel like
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i'm a step closer to you
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i love that
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this project
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for real sometimes i wonder if too much
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information is on too much information
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what you mean
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i'm just joking this project i feel like
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i really not only did i get to know you
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i'm knowing you better but i feel like
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you know yourself better absolutely and
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i could hear it when i watch your
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docu-series the blue water road
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docu-series with the road trip that you
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guys took and i'm sitting there watching
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and i'm listening to you and i'm well
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i'm like wow she's really blossomed they
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really blossomed you can use sheet too
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okay okay
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give me effort for trying
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man i appreciate that okay and so here
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we are to celebrate this third album on
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blue water road i want to welcome her
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back to the show so many questions tracy
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and i just had a whole dialogue about
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your project and you weren't even here
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i hope it was good you know kelani is
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here man give a big round of applause
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it's been a hell of a long time yeah i
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know just off the back so it's okay if
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if if i'm mixing up the pronouns yeah i
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use both she and they it's
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interchangeable i'm not like um
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i'm not tripping too hard on either
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[ __ ] i lost sleep on that
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i have a lot of people that send me down
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there like i just have a serious
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question like which one and i'm like
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well that's why there's both
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it's all good it's optional okay it's
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optional because i really do appreciate
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you guys are the first people to like
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make that emphasis in an interview in
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person oh good yeah cause there's some
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folks where depending on their mood
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maybe on a particular day they're
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feeling more in their masculine side
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or or their parts exactly
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yeah
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i'm easy okay you're easy
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she says she's easy
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oh my god i'm just joking
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i'm just joking this project even the
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visuals are really incredible before we
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get into it
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how's motherhood amazing i miss my baby
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so much right now yeah yeah that's an
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issue right yeah i woke up with this the
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chest pain mm-hmm do you do you
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communicate like how many times a day do
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you communicate i'm facetiming all the
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time and she's like you're at work mommy
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you're at work i know you're at work
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i'm like okay you understand then she's
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like i want to come to work with you and
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i'm like i'm like a six hour plane away
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yeah but i'll be home soon so it's no
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race she's she creative like you
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she's hilariously creative like
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painting drawing singing dancing acting
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like she'll put on a movie and she'll do
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the whole scene in front of the tv for
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you and then like involve you and like
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get name you one of the characters and
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like you have to have full involvement
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all day as whatever character from
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whatever movie of the day it is
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wow
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oh yes i love them the doc um part two
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love of others and how you were
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mentioning how it's been so important
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for you to take inventory of the folks
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in your life because the way that they
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pour into you or withdraw from you then
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impacts how you show up for your girl
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and today is um national teacher
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apprecia appreciation day and although
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we can look at that in a very literal
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sense like our teachers in schools but
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with you being a mother as a parent your
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child is your teacher as well absolutely
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it's always that revolving door of
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teacher and student what has she taught
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you that stands out now um i think she
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taught me how important play is
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um i think in my career or anybody that
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has like an everyday you know
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requirement in their career like we tend
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to get so like one track minded of just
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like work work work
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but my daughter reminds me that like you
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know nothing is more important than than
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play sometimes because in the career
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that i have i can't do my job without
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play yeah if i if i lose my play i lose
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my creativity and then no one's happy
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with what i put out so then it doesn't
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even matter you know so she teaches me
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that i just i also have to have as much
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fun as possible so hey man yeah that's
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what's up how much does that matter like
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you said nobody's happy with what you
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put out how much does it matter well me
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me and my friends that's all i care
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about me my friends my team my family my
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mother you know what i mean i don't
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really care what anybody else thinks god
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bless i love that everybody loves the
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album but my mother told me this was you
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know her favorite album of mines and my
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friends tell me this their favorite
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album and i think it's my favorite album
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so that's really all that matters
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you heard it right here that's town
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business speaking right there that's
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their pronoun town business
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[Music]
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without being from the town being from
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the bay area uh we we always have a
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knack to make something out of nothing
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right we we we got that hustle in our
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blood it's just something about that
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part of the country i'm curious too
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though i watched you grow um from early
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on to now and you become a real master
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of your destiny in my opinion from
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looking outside in
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i'm curious about what you've learned as
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a business person you know in recent
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years what are some of the
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the dues and the don'ts that now that
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you follow yeah um do's
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uh
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make sure you trust everyone around you
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with more than just their job you know i
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think you have to trust people to be
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honest with you to hold you accountable
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i think you have to trust people to tell
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you you know
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what's going on or else you know you
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might just they'd lead you to a train
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wreck or people will let you you know
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wreck your own train if you don't have
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the right people around you to be like
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well you're you're tripping you know
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um
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you also have to just like trust
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yourself a lot i feel like we also get
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into this head space where like we
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invite so many cooks in the kitchen and
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then like we're left at the end like i
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don't even know what i want anymore i
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don't even know what i like anymore i
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don't even know what i want this to
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sound like i don't know how i want to
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put this out and
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you have to always balance you know
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getting the right feedback and the right
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opinions and also being like let me
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remember why i do this is because i know
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what i'm doing a little bit you know so
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that's definitely the biggest things
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that i think i've learned
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um
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what what is the biggest
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unfavorable choice you've made that you
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learned from in business
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uh
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just having too many people in my
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business not even on the business side
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but just like not having boundaries with
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like you know
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anything with the outside world with
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with people that i work with with
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friends with anything i think that is
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maintaining a healthy
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you know like keeping my life to my life
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and keeping business business and where
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i mix the two being super meticulous and
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like you know
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on it about it and just also like
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i guess unfavorable choice also it's
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just like not i guess we gotta check in
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more you know i mean you really gotta
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like sit everybody down being like how
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is everybody actually doing you know
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what i mean like are we actually good
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like are we maneuvering as a team
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properly are we all happy are we all
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eating are we all
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you know
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it starts this crazy ripple effect where
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like one person starts to feel something
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and then like they talk to the next
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person the next person starts to feel
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something and then you have moving
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around this unhappy team and you have no
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idea you know what i mean so i think
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everybody just has to like slow down go
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out one night and be like let's let's
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remember why we do this and let's check
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in we're having lunch we're having lunch
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i'm taking the team to lunch tomorrow
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okay for that reason
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you got to take the team to lunch um
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blue water road is the project it's out
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right now i want to open up the phone
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lines 888-742-3345
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um one of the songs which i never i know
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you get asked about this
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i know you get asked about this
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children's story is one of my legendary
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iconic songs from my hip-hop treasure
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chest
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we're from the bay tracy so you know our
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our hip-hop roots run deeper we gotta
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never forget
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every other line
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i'm not sure if y'all know that people
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in the room we're from the town who
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who's some of your like yo like growing
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up hip-hop favorites like was slick rick
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one of those people it's crazy because i
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didn't grow up on hip-hop i didn't like
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i didn't my birth mother didn't raise me
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my birth mother was a hip-hop head and
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the woman that raised me my eye is our
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neo-soul r b head so i didn't really
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even hear rap unless i was with my birth
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mother on the rare rare rare occasion
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and then she was a super like too short
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e40 like mac dre and tupac head so some
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of the only stuff i grew up listening to
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was those names you know that i just
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said and then i hit this like hilarious
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not hilarious because it's beautiful but
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like for me to not listen to hip hop and
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then i have this crazy random string of
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like
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you know deep conscious rap when i was
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like in middle school and i was like
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really into like most deaf and common
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and i was like yeah i get it i'm
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unpacking you know what i'm saying um
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and then i like balanced it out as i got
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older and i started actually like you
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know diving in
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probably towards the end of my teenage
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years but growing up i really had no
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concept of it so this children's story
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song by slick rick wasn't even in yo it
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wasn't necessarily in my like i didn't
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have a playlist when i was a kid you
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know what i'm saying wouldn't even have
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playlist when we were kids but
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how do you not know that song right you
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know what i mean regardless if you
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listen to hip-hop or not deeply growing
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up that's a song that impacted your
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childhood and then you had the the way
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it was sampled and the way it was
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flipped into an r b song that shaped my
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childhood as well so then it was like
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you know i heard the song i heard i'm
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familiar with the sample my whole life
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you know but really i got to give my
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hats off to my producer pop oneself from
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philly because he's the hip-hop head and
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when he played it for me it was so
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emotional for him playing it and him
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being like yo you don't understand i was
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like maybe i don't understand but like i
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love the song
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that could be enough that's enough yeah
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i love music i know i know what it feels
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like i know i know what it means to me
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when it when i when i hear it
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you know what i mean i knew it wasn't
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like i didn't know the song at all but
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i'm not going to cap and act like i'm a
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hip-hop head either right in front i
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like that okay i'm not lying well let's
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play the song damn it cause i love it
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it's a banger all right wish i never
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knelani is here
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is that the wrong song there we go okay
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which i never right there um
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proud proud proud of this proud of the
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bay area's on fire right now big facts
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barriers on fire you and her ever
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connect absolutely
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like on hangout connection
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yeah yeah cool cool just making sure
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you know a lot of new talent coming up
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shout out to jaywalk
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shout out to the russell
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you know he's so tight
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he's so tired who you watching right now
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i watch him a lot i watch those like um
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i don't know if it's i don't know if
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it's like he's doing it on the platform
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but i've seen him like rap live on a mic
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on camera a bunch of times and those
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clips always go viral and he's
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incredible he's incredible he's super
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tired um
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ian kelly
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s t spitting i'm just naming all of
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these names because you were one of
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those names i know it's crazy to think
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about now now you as young as you are
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you're a seasoned veteran dude
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right you're as young as you are you're
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like a veteran you've experienced things
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people haven't experienced oh man and
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then i'm sure they look up to you uh
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right now do you feel a uh
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responsibility to bay area artists like
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the younger ones coming up or old
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perhaps yeah i mean i just think i i i
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owe it to
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also people who don't necessarily fit
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the mold of what we've been told as a
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bay area artist i think i had a lot of
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struggle with that
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um
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coming up initially because i think
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there was all this pressure to like you
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know fit what the things have been laid
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out for us look like but then again i
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was the one when i was like what about
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guapo and what about keisha and you know
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i'm saying like
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that's also to me the definition of a
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bay area artist and i feel responsible
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to you know showing other all these you
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know beautiful nuances of the bay area
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too yeah i love that i think we and we
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do that to ourselves in the bay we kind
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of do yeah we really do and this is not
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a knock on the bay but i can say it damn
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it we pigeonhole ourselves a lot we box
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ourselves into
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what we are visually sometimes what we
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sound like sonically you know as
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performing artists how we speak the
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whole nine that's why i've always liked
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what you do thank you because it broke
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the mold and i knew that there were
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other artists like you out there that's
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true there's some amazing r b coming out
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of the bay
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there's twee there's rihanna
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um
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i'm sure there's about uh what's your
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name ziya i don't know if it's here zaya
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laren wong like there's so much amazing
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like just like really soulful really
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special like it still sounds like that
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classic like
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not necessarily the sound but like the
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energy that we all possess
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all of them still have that like very
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cool like i don't really care but i care
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because i love it like type of energy
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and i think it's really really special
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well thank you for adding to it
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absolutely are those singers that you
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mentioned and just singers in general
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kelani has it ever like
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kind of tugged on your ego at any time
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in your life something you had to get
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over with just seeing
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other women who maybe have a similar
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aesthetic as you who maybe have a
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similar vibe as you maybe even the
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lyrics you'd be like wow that sounds
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like something that i would pen did you
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ever have to like detangle that form of
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comparison from your soul um
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not really because as soon as they all
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of us are still probably inspired by
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another person a generation above us
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that there it is
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it probably feels that way looking at us
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you know i mean i remember when i first
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came out and it was like me janae and
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tanasha yeah and everybody was like
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comparing us to each other but i'm like
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we probably just listen to the same
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people and we're around the same
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wavelength we're trying to change the
14:17
same things and implement the same
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things and
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you know how we're having fun the same
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ways you know things like that and
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i mean i think it's beautiful that so
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many people can exist at the same time i
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think that that speaks to really like
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community coming together to push all
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these people because i think in
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generations above us in music only one
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girl really could exist at once right um
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and if other women existed they had to
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be completely opposite and everybody had
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like one type of person that represented
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like this one genre yeah
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and i think so many of us exist that
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kind of like are similar and you kind of
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just you can like all of us and i don't
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feel like it takes away from any of us
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at all like a friendship circle yeah i
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feel like i appreciate all my peers for
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different reasons so
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no she said friendship circumstance
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that's a friendship circle because when
15:04
you have like your friends a lot of
15:05
times you guys share the same share the
15:07
same interest you may have like this
15:10
similar colloquial that you guys make
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make up you know what i mean i say
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something all sudden i see my friend
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says it but
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it's just what happens human beings are
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meant to be tribal and we're growing up
15:20
in the same time like the same things
15:23
are happening in the world we're all
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looks like all these people that are
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making music out of the pandemic are all
15:28
probably going to be similar in some way
15:31
in their drive or the way they come out
15:32
of this because we all experience the
15:34
entire world experiences
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absolutely
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yeah
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wow kelani is here blue water road is
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the name of the project
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i feel like we could sit and talk with
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you all day
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um
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i'm trying to meet you at the altar
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that was a lyric in a little story i
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believe um
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what are your thoughts i feel like doing
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marriage did we talk about this before
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i'm saying if it didn't change
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what did i say last time did i say i
16:02
didn't believe in it or something
16:03
something like that i don't think i
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believed in love really i think that i
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think that i went through a long period
16:09
of really trying to figure out like
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what love was and and a part of that
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came from
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having to unlearn unhealthy love and
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realizing all the times in my life that
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wasn't love that i thought it was and i
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was like oh do i even know what this is
16:22
because i keep equating things that i
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would tell my homegirls like ew
16:27
like that's not it and i'm letting
16:29
myself go through it so clearly it
16:30
couldn't be it and i took a lot of like
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growing up and like even figuring out
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like who i like and what i like and what
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i need and like what is healthy to me
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and like what is nuance for me
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to even you know grasp the concept of
16:43
love and yeah i believe in marriage i
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think it'll be it'll look really
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different for me yeah i think it'll look
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like really on my terms and well who me
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and my partner's terms and like you know
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what we both want and and who we want to
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stand in front of and commit ourselves
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to you know
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and um yeah i believe in it though i
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like it i want to be one person forever
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i like that you want to be with one
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person yeah i think that's tight
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i do too i think it's tight yeah and you
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can customize it down the road if you
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change your mind
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i just feel like you had to be with one
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person forever yeah yeah
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what if what if they can be a bunch of
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different people because they grow a
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bunch too barry's i've been saying that
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wow you married 100 people in one yeah
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it's like 500 for the price of one i
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think it's super possible you think
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that's super possible i used to think it
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wasn't though yeah but i think that i
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was like always dating somebody that i
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was actually idealizing
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as like better or better for me than
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they were
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and i was like yeah i can't see this
17:39
because like i'm always prepared for
17:41
there to be something better than this
17:42
and i had to really like
17:44
for real yeah i think you meet people
17:45
and you're like
17:46
oh you try to make like a i always say
17:48
you try to make like a puzzle piece that
17:50
doesn't fit just fit in this last piece
17:52
in the puzzle and you keep trying to be
17:53
like what if what if i cut it this way
17:55
and i like i squish it and i do this you
17:57
know but you have to just wait till you
17:59
find the puzzle piece that actually fits
18:00
and it's not going to be perfect okay
18:02
it's not going to be perfect at all but
18:04
there when somebody has
18:06
99.9 of things and the one percent is
18:09
like we can work on that because it's
18:10
not a character flaw and it's not a deep
18:13
fundamental difference
18:15
it's just like human things that people
18:17
have to go through i think it works
18:19
i remember telling you last time i like
18:21
the way you write because you make grown
18:22
men like me uh be it's relatable to
18:25
somebody like me
18:27
i just feel like i learned something
18:28
from you again she elevates your eq
18:31
absolutely let's go into some lyrics
18:33
tracy you want to touch on some lyrics
18:35
yes i did yes doing some lyrical
18:37
breakdown it's the lyrical breakdown on
18:40
sway in the morning this started way
18:42
back in the 90s on kmel
18:44
i just want to let you know we were
18:45
breaking down lyrics before there was a
18:47
genius
18:48
okay go ahead originals okay
18:52
okay lottie so we were just talking
18:53
about how much we appreciate interludes
18:55
and how i feel like that's been a lost
18:57
piece of the art within um r b so
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shooter interlude yeah
19:03
verse two okay this one in particular
19:06
caught my attention
19:09
so i'ma start off the way you started
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off before you blew up
19:12
knew you before you grew up
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this is where things got a little tricky
19:17
for me personally
19:20
because i listened to lyrics while i
19:21
listened to this i think this confused
19:23
everyone okay so that's why you're here
19:25
i used to babysit you
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dated your baby sister
19:30
wanted babies witcher your daughter's
19:32
supposed to be mine yeah
19:34
none of those none of those lyrics go
19:36
together fluently every lyric stands on
19:39
its own these are all things that people
19:40
have said to me since i've blew since
19:42
i've blown up
19:45
so they're all separate thoughts all of
19:47
these things are like i when i wrote
19:48
that song i imagined myself in a room
19:50
full of people who were just like
19:51
yelling at me
19:53
like headlines just going back and forth
19:55
exactly i have heard i have heard
19:58
in some way shape or form every line on
19:59
that song like
20:01
no one's ever word for word been like
20:02
can you start up my startup but someone
20:04
has definitely been like you for sure
20:05
got enough money to
20:07
to pay for my app idea i've been like i
20:08
don't know what you think this is
20:11
okay right so that takes us to the
20:12
chorus so can i borrow some money call
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me an uber my mama needs surgery my
20:16
studies okay these are all these are all
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standalone lines
20:22
artistry yo that was beautiful everybody
20:25
was like
20:26
you dated i dated your sister and your
20:28
daughter
20:29
how are you gonna babysit and then and
20:31
then do that
20:32
i wasn't with that
20:35
i didn't know how to tell you
20:36
i'm usually on your side but you can't
20:38
be going out with the person
20:40
that's always trying to know i think i
20:43
think there was a bunch of people who
20:44
definitely thought that this was um from
20:46
my perspective and i was like oh shoot
20:48
that sounds crazy when you think about
20:49
it
20:50
so what's your what's your go-to i can't
20:52
do it response when people ask you to
20:54
invest in certain things or how do you
20:56
say it i'm just honest i'm just like
20:59
i'm that's just not where i'm at with it
21:01
right now like this i also really simple
21:04
as that but also like i really think
21:05
that when i really believe in something
21:07
if i don't have the proper thing to
21:08
actually support it how i want to i
21:10
won't do it and i'll tell them that like
21:11
there could have been so many times i
21:12
could have signed my friends
21:14
and i know that a record deal is i think
21:17
you should take a record deal when it'll
21:18
change your life and i haven't been able
21:19
to offer somebody anything that would
21:21
change their life per se so i'm not
21:23
going to sign my friends and put them in
21:25
a messed up position with me because i
21:26
think my friends deserve the best yeah
21:29
i'm saying so if all this is is like a
21:30
bank loan and you know a little extra
21:32
push i could just shout you out all the
21:34
time and push you for free but i don't
21:35
have the bank loan i feel like you
21:37
deserve i'm still
21:39
i'm still working every day i haven't
21:40
retired i haven't i haven't bought my
21:42
mother a house yet you know what i mean
21:44
so
21:44
um yeah i just i just tell people like
21:47
you there's somebody out there that
21:48
actually has that you will buy your
21:50
mother a house i see that in your future
21:52
yes
21:53
i'm going i will be buying my mother
21:55
that's my next purchase for sure i had
21:57
to square away my daughter first buck
21:58
absolutely i like that and do does it
22:01
affect the relationship i've had friends
22:03
who asked me for many of things oh and
22:06
when i said no they no longer i mean
22:07
they're not your friends yeah they're
22:09
not your friends anybody who benefits
22:13
from you not having boundaries is not
22:14
your friend so if i set my boundaries
22:16
and i tell you like honestly this is
22:18
this is just what it is
22:20
and you react negatively to that you
22:21
don't actually love me because you're
22:23
you're not hearing me just be honest
22:25
about something that really isn't even a
22:27
problem you know what i mean
22:28
i'm not being mean i'm literally telling
22:30
you where my life is at and and what i
22:32
can do and what i can't do and if you
22:34
take that offensively you don't love me
22:35
there's no way big facts
22:38
yo man i'm [ __ ] i'm just a student now
22:40
man i think next time you come up here
22:41
you interview me
22:45
you come through so much i love it but i
22:47
love where you are right now let's give
22:49
kelani a big round of applause
22:51
um blue water road trip what song do i
22:54
want to end with
22:59
wondering
23:00
oh nice talk about that song nice i'm a
23:03
big thundercat fan how did this song
23:05
come about
23:06
i was at a studio in malibu and me and
23:08
thundercat have been talking about music
23:10
for a while
23:12
excuse my code i'm all sniffly um
23:15
you you clear it all you're good no no
23:16
we good we got a million tests we're
23:18
good okay cool and um
23:21
i just caught him and i was like oh well
23:22
you know if you do if you're serious
23:24
like just pull up on me and malibu he
23:25
came he came over he took his shoes off
23:27
and he just
23:28
started laying he actually laid base on
23:30
on a couple tracks on the album but this
23:31
is the one that we felt like you know
23:33
was the star and i wanted to keep his
23:35
name on it because he's he's a flex he's
23:37
thundercat he's one of my favorite
23:38
musicians
23:39
and um
23:41
he's just the truth the song is about
23:42
god
23:44
the song is a letter to god the song is
23:46
alert to spirit and it's just saying
23:48
like
23:48
you know you found me you forced me to
23:50
surrender you forced me to have to like
23:52
break everything down and rebuild and
23:54
now you know you found me wandering and
23:56
now i'm wondering you know i feel like i
23:58
went from a place of being very very
24:00
lost to now just being like
24:02
you know very curious and i feel like to
24:04
some people that looks the same
24:06
like there's i meet people now who are
24:08
like you're so removed and you're so
24:10
like
24:11
disinterested in all this and like
24:14
they take it from a place of like uh
24:16
just being really like
24:18
i don't know
24:20
a negative emotion or something but it's
24:22
probably the most positive you know
24:24
thing i've ever experienced i think i
24:25
know myself so much and i know what i
24:27
want so much and i know
24:29
what i want life to look like for me and
24:30
what i want out of my goals and what i
24:32
want my musical career to look like so
24:34
i'm in a constant state of just like in
24:36
awe and like contentment and also like
24:38
curiosity and like fun that i never was
24:41
in before and i've definitely
24:42
experienced people you know
24:44
misinterpreting that all the time
24:47
we got her right here breaking it down
24:48
to facts you ain't got to misinterpret
24:50
any longer okay i'm here i'm here
24:53
they are here
24:55
[Applause]
24:58
and she is here she's here okay i
25:00
appreciate it but it's so funny i don't
25:03
know why it's so funny
25:04
i'm trying yeah i really appreciate it i
25:06
want to respect that you know that's
25:08
something that's new to
25:10
us as a society that we gotta
25:12
you know i don't like when people say my
25:14
name wrong i feel you i think they say
25:16
they say sway wrong yeah they say they
25:19
say
25:20
we've heard it more times where do you
25:22
get shade i don't know shade four or
25:24
five they mix me and him up a little bit
25:27
you know
25:28
i'm confused hey you know um but kelani
25:31
thank you for coming by this morning yes
25:33
thank you we appreciate you always good
25:35
to see you you will always have a lane
25:37
here i will always make you to feel
25:39
hopefully great
25:40
when you walk in and when you walk out i
25:43
saw her when she was a tidbit
25:45
i was there tracy
25:47
i gotta tell the story i introduced her
25:49
at laney college i was there yeah yeah i
25:52
remember wow
25:54
she didn't have leather jackets like
25:55
this she couldn't afford it
25:58
this was not their hair wasn't done it
26:01
wasn't i looked crazy you can google it
26:03
it's google but she could perform and
26:06
that's what stood out
26:07
me mr fab big vine we were all there
26:10
that day you make us proud continued
26:12
success okay thank you thank you
26:13
absolutely blue water road trip uh you
26:16
could find that docu-series on youtube
26:18
bluewater road is out now make sure you
26:20
get the the project it's great listening
26:22
sit with your family dissect the lyrics
26:25
have a conversation this is wandering
26:28
wandering
26:29
shave 4 5.
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[Music]
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you
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