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Kenyon Dixon Talks His Latest Project 'Closer' And Working with Justin Timberlake & Tyrese
Sep 14, 2022
Kenyon Dixon stops by Sway In The Morning to talk about his latest work and new music from Justin Timberlake and working with Tyrese.
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Kenyon Dixon Talks His Latest Project 'Closer' And Working with Justin Timberlake & Tyrese
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every army artist come on up absolutely
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eminem will love it
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the balance
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right
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um
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tyrese is a uh hero in watts i would
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imagine yeah yeah man
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and you got a chance early in your
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career to work with him you sang
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background vocals right yeah i started
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off uh
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working with tyrese as a background
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vocalist um
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it was actually i think my first show
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with him was a tribute to gamble and
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huff and
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we did that
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the norm the narm convention i believe
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it was called and so uh from there i
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ended up traveling touring with tyrese
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for like
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seven eight years maybe that was like my
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first like long
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um gig and then my first major placement
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was actually on tyrese's open imitation
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album and
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got a that was the first grammy
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nomination then i went on to write about
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half of his black rose album
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um
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and you know we just traveled and toured
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you know became a true mentor and
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brother so
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yeah who first told you that you can
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sing
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uh
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it's interesting because it's kind of
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like the family business because my
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mother and father are musicians and i'm
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a youngish of
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uh seven in total and everybody's
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musically inclined so wow it was kind of
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like seven kids that's why they were
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stealing food
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there's a lot of you know a lot of us
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and my family is like rooted in music
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but
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um i actually didn't want to sing like
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at all because it was it was too like
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i don't know if it was like youngest
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child syndrome i want to do something
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else like everybody can do this and so
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um my interest in singing you know i had
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to sing in the choir and stuff growing
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up but i remember one sunday
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um i may have been in like the eighth
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grade seventh or eighth and my mom came
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in and it was you know time to leave for
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church but i hadn't gotten up and she
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was like you want to stay home i'm like
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you're giving me the option to stay home
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right now and
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from that moment on i like stop singing
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stop doing everything because i was only
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doing it because i had to and so uh it's
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amazing now
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years later to come back to it because i
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actually love it and it's something that
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i want to do that's what's up kenyon
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dixon is here closer that's the name of
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the project tracer you getting closer to
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him
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wow
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that's the alley if you take me
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but the album is out now yeah i was
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listening to it last night and um
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i told him he got a couple of bangers i
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mean from from the first from the first
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marvin the marvin gaye song is
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incredible i want to talk about some of
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the songs i want to let tracy jump in
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i always kenny and i always have such a
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fascination with
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um songwriters because you guys have to
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be like studiers of human behavior you
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have to be very selective with your
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words it's got to be able to hit the
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heart but still be like really sticky
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and accessible to a lot of people and um
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i was actually listening to adele the
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other day and i was thinking back when
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her debut came out 19 and how her
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partner at the time believing that he
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had inspired so much of the songwriting
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you know took her to court and was
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thinking he could get money and so as a
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songwriter do you ever have to think
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about how
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much of your personal experience with
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another person you should place on the
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album because it might cause trouble and
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if they are indeed a true muse should
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they be rewarded in some fashion that's
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amazing amazing uh
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question and shut up um
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i think uh
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for myself man i just so most of my most
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of my music is inspired by the music i'm
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like a
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true like filler so when i'm listening
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to music and i'm writing if it's not
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something that i've already like
3:52
produced and there's a track i i write
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based on what that's making me feel and
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so what ends up happening is i never
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intentionally sit down and be like
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i was in a relationship for this amount
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of time and so i want to write about you
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know so what happens is like all my
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experiences kind of go to this like pool
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and when i start writing and the music
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makes me feel stuff i think indirectly i
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start pulling
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those experiences so it's it's like a
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genuine like
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i didn't
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intentionally use the situation but you
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know i think uh
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what what i believe though and i think
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it's like true to the saying of like you
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know kind of
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leave better than you came right i think
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it's important when you detail those
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past situations that you just make sure
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you're doing it respectfully i think
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that there's a way to do it but you have
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to consider other people's feelings and
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the fact that you know this is also
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telling things that may be like intimate
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and and
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you know just personal to them so uh
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even in music and in life i think i just
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move forward with like i only do things
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the way that i would like them done yeah
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to myself and and i know like if i was
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you know somebody came up with a song
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and was like saying all this terrible
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stuff i'd probably be like yo chill
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so
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i just you know do the same thing with
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you know with my music but yeah man i
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just i just be writing like what i feel
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like i don't really think about
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thinking about situations in people how
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much of your writing is focused on what
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you think your audience wants to hear
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versus what your spirit wants to hear
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uh
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i'd say it's 100
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focused on what i like first because i
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think that that's what attracted my
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audience i think i have a very specific
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audience
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and built them from
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them liking what i actually
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do so i think i filter everything that i
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create
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um through and i'm big on like
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um live shows so uh one thing when i'm
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chilling with legacy man one thing
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lettucey said to me is like it's
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important for you to enjoy your music
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and i always think about that because if
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i have to get on stage and perform this
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i gotta like it first like i don't care
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if you like it and you're performing it
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a thousand times you better like it yeah
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so it's like you know if i like it first
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i think that that radiates and
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translates to music so i always
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um you know i have a
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super loyal and like dope fan base and i
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think they appreciate that i'm true to
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what i want to do and they like they
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want me like they want whatever i have
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to offer not what you know they make
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suggestions and stuff like that which is
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you know super that's cool yeah yeah
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yeah
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yeah exactly
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and music is naturally collaborative
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yeah exactly kenyan dixon i'm just going
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to keep saying his name so it's embedded
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on your brain the project is called
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closer we got ed on the line from queens
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new york
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ed what up eddie
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peace
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yo what up family what up good morning
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good morning uh your kenyan i
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you a lot of things he just said and so
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if you don't go listening for music
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let's forget i mean rb is still live
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and it's still good music this young man
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your album is amazing like closely the
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title track is my favorite track but
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that joint with one tell me what you're
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trying to do baby that joint is hot
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that's just moving on the floor type hot
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like
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and like had to be it's joint still that
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you could play in the backyard okay
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thank you for letting me know and queen
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stand up
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yo and i'm gonna tell you like this i
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mean i'm gonna say this because i do
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this for fun i don't do i make mixtapes
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for fun because the music i like and
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there's a lot of music out there that's
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not out there and
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i had three songs three i just named
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like which one i'm going to use out of
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the ten i can't use all three of these i
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only got 10 cuts i got i couldn't make
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up my mind for canyon
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you went with chloe
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no i didn't go any closer because i went
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up tempo so i went tell me what you're
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trying to do baby
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you know you actually found somebody
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you know as a matter of fact yo sway had
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to be when i finish it i'm gonna i'm
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gonna send it to you my dj does i'm not
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my it ain't no playlist i'm gonna send
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it to you wait wait wait wait wait wait
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wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait
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how the hood go again
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tell me tell me what you're trying to do
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baby
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all right you a citizen brother
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you know what the song i like that i'ma
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play closer is actually i brought that
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up to you in the lobby so it got good
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ears you know uh and it's a song with
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our friend d smoke yes sure who's a
8:38
citizen of the show called get high get
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by
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that that means something get high and
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get by
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it's symbolic of what
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uh man me and smoke had had a
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conversation that's actually the
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interlude on the song and we were
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i think as artists people
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sometimes like write us off from regular
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life experiences and so
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trying to bridge that gap to let people
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know like at any level you know we're
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all facing something that we're trying
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to you know it's the song is kind of
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kind of about a healthy
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version of escapism like just finding
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whatever your thing is to get high like
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it may be medicinal it may be meditation
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it may be
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you know just whatever it is but um it's
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just important
9:23
that we find ways to elevate above like
9:26
life's traumas and you know troubles and
9:28
everything like that just so that we can
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keep moving and smoke
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and the interlude made a valid point
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about turning it into celebration so
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here it is yeah
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yeah
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yeah i feel like man i feel like i
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should have been on that song
9:43
doing what the intro like
9:45
bringing them in like just talking
9:48
intro i could have did that huh yeah you
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know sometimes in life man we face a lot
9:52
of diversity that's it right there you
9:54
know people all over the world is facing
9:56
struggle mm-hmm sometimes you just gotta
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blow that [ __ ] out
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you gotta get high um
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that's it i could have done that bro
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you ever need me man hey man say less
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talk to craig shout out to nikki g too
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shout out to g nikki uh worked with us
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for years when i first started on swayze
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universe the platform i sat down with
10:21
nikki at mel's burgers
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up on sunset
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yeah yeah we had a long conversation
10:28
about what i wanted to do in the digital
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space
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and uh she was really instrumental in
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helping me launch the whole swayze
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universe platform and and social network
10:37
that we created um
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yeah you know you know guys those are
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those are incredible artists r b artists
10:47
la as well sure right my brothers and
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they're doing their thing so
10:51
all right so shout out to her for that
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you know
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one of our co-workers here mike muse
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is a big fan of r b and mike you would
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be surprised to know that uh justin
11:04
timberlake has a new project that's
11:06
coming out soon
11:07
and that this man right here is very
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instrumental in his completion and so
11:12
you wrote on this new project how many
11:14
songs you feel like you all you can't
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say that yet right yeah yeah man it's uh
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me and jay's been working he's been
11:21
we've been writing some some amazing
11:22
records and so i'm just uh excited for
11:26
you know for everybody to hear some of
11:28
the stuff we've been working on how do
11:29
you approach
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who's the difference in approaching a
11:33
tyrese
11:34
music as a writer and a justin
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timberlake
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um
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they're both
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very like defined brands which i think
11:43
makes it easy because i can filter a lot
11:45
of it a lot of my creativity through
11:48
them because they have careers in like a
11:50
history of you know records but i think
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uh
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i've toured with both of them so what's
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been really cool to put into the music
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is the feeling when we're on stage so i
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know what it feels like being on stage
12:03
with tyrese i'm able to look at the
12:05
audience and see
12:07
what parts they particularly like the
12:09
most same with jt so i think uh what
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they like with jt
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man jt
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it's a they love dancing everything is
12:17
very like
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he's just a you know classic pop artist
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and
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i think uh
12:22
we we take that into consideration but
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jt also has a lot of like soul funk like
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he has that element like he loves and
12:29
appreciates like that type of music so
12:31
we find
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you know his his thing and the same
12:35
thing with tyrese tyrese is very um
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he's very like smooth he he
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he can
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present finesse really well and so um
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i approach a lot of his records like
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that where i write it and understand
12:50
like what does he look like singing this
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and so it's kind of easy to uh right
12:55
from that standpoint you get to hear the
12:57
secrets too right
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yeah
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does it
13:03
make you want to get married or not get
13:05
married
13:06
the music
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no
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because you have one artist you have to
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write from the perspective of if they're
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breaking up if a marriage is ending you
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have another artist like justin
13:17
timberlake who has been happily married
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and is pursuing that relationship
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i think for myself
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i just i just allow room for my own
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experiences i think like even you know
13:30
anybody that you encounter in life
13:32
everybody has a different perspective
13:34
about something so i just you know learn
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to uh be in the moment when i'm around
13:38
people and then i take that and you know
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uh take the positives and the lessons
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from you know whoever it is i'm around
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and just
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use that to
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live life do you learn from their
13:49
secrets
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uh like have you ever heard like cause
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you're a songwriter so y'all gotta sit
13:55
down and lock in so they gonna open up
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to you you know i'm not asking for the
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secrets yeah yeah that's childish right
14:02
i'm just curious to when you hear them
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do you think oh my gosh this dude
14:07
you're going through it i just never
14:08
thought i'll hear something like that
14:10
like you ever had those moments
14:13
um i mean they they've both share some
14:15
valuable information i think and that's
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the beauty of art you take
14:19
whatever and make it presentable so i
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think uh
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they're you know they're no different
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than any of us than anybody else we all
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have life is about that dynamic you got
14:30
to have some positive and negative
14:31
that's what creates the balance so i
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think you know it's kind of kind of that
14:34
shame i know that it's all yeah so i
14:36
have a positive and a negative so okay
14:39
i have to go to work to another to
14:41
another show is that the positive that's
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the negative
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yeah i want to hang out a little bit
14:46
longer but i thought she was leaving
14:48
throughout the place i believe on the
14:49
position i hear you sing before you
14:51
leave before i leave i just don't want
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to leave but i got my show starts in
14:55
four minutes dj world wise right now
14:57
he's from northern california and let me
15:00
uh re-read i was told you know
15:03
very aggressively that i need to
15:05
acknowledge west coast djs and not just
15:07
say northern california djs are the best
15:10
djs
15:12
in the country you said tripping
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nah t from la terry come here terry from
15:17
melea is here man cause he's gonna come
15:19
out all right okay now t what up man t
15:21
come on heather they're about to sing
15:22
come come come over here t just stand
15:24
next to us man come over here man you
15:26
ain't got to say nothing though
15:28
so i just got [ __ ] out by this la dude
15:30
say man homie you got to talk about the
15:32
middle leg djs too
15:34
man
15:35
all right that's all right we got dj
15:37
world wise he's a northern california
15:39
bay area dj throw something on let's see
15:41
but
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[Music]
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what you think
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[Music]
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mmm
16:11
you're not like them you're so different
16:15
you stay on my mind
16:18
highest stuff highs floating when i'm
16:22
off of your supply
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all the things i
16:28
often dream of
16:30
you bring them to
16:32
life
16:33
love on replay have me your way
16:37
every single
16:39
time
16:40
time
16:41
with you
16:43
it's anything
16:45
i
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wanna
16:47
can't decide
16:49
don't choose
16:51
we'll do it all
16:52
and
16:53
so on
16:55
looking into your eyes till the sun up
16:58
fantasies on my mind never too much
17:02
we just jump and we dive never come out
17:06
and i love it
17:08
and love when yeah yeah
17:10
city all night like them you're so
17:13
different
17:14
you stay on my
17:26
all the things i
17:28
often dream of
17:30
you bring them to life to life
17:33
love on replay
17:35
have me your way
17:37
every single
17:39
time
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yeah
17:43
yeah girl you different oh wow swag
17:46
that's what i like about it mess it up
17:47
i'm just heading to it
17:55
kenyon dixon y'all come on man
18:03
headed to urban view y'all go check out
18:05
me up happy holiday weekend i'm at the
18:07
happy hour whb you know i'm going to be
18:08
cooking follow me all right man we got
18:10
fresco on the line
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oh
18:55
what do you think of this man's album
18:56
closer
18:58
honestly i think it's one of the best
19:00
things i've ever heard um i have been
19:03
i've been a fan of king on for a really
19:05
really long time
19:06
so being able to be a part of his music
19:09
and enjoy my friends and family and then
19:11
like going to the concert the content in
19:13
dallas was with everything about the
19:15
dog's concert with everything
19:17
so
19:18
i think it's amazing he had a great
19:20
performance you say
19:22
yes in dollars that dollar contact was
19:24
the best contact okay
19:27
that's what's up fresco man spread the
19:28
word spread the word he's the best kept
19:30
secret okay he ain't really a secret i
19:32
just said that but spread the word okay
19:35
all right appreciation
19:44
aloha bro aloha i listen to you guys
19:46
every morning at five o'clock am here
19:48
you feel me oh wow man aloha my brethren
19:52
that's what's happening
19:54
i got two things to say you you gotta
19:56
say something early about why people
19:57
think r b is dead well there you go i'm
20:00
not trying to be funny when i say this
20:02
but everybody's doing them but slow
20:03
music that's it everybody's like putting
20:05
everybody to sleep and want to levy dub
20:07
and make fat babies and [ __ ] why what
20:09
happened to the fun songs you don't like
20:11
the this is how we do it and the jades
20:13
and the ushers you know stuff like that
20:15
what up to the fun songs that's what
20:16
that's why r b is kind of dead
20:29
that's what i'm saying i'm just keeping
20:30
it real because because i'm used to the
20:32
dance r and b ch those songs from the
20:34
90s and this and that and
20:36
teddy you tell teddy pendergrass that
20:38
the slow songs was killing r b go ahead
20:40
tell him oh no i can't tell him that
20:43
that's what he's going to do
20:44
you tell marvin gaye that slow songs
20:46
killed rmb tell them that's the heart of
20:49
it yeah that's what yeah that's rhythm
20:51
and blues
20:53
what are we talking about y'all yeah
20:56
there's still a way to have that energy
20:57
in those slow records i understand what
20:59
you're saying i think i think that's all
21:01
execution and delivery though i think
21:03
that there are um records that contrast
21:05
that though it just depends on where
21:07
you're listening that's what you're
21:08
saying right there you're saying no no
21:10
no all i'm saying is that you know i'm
21:12
used to like like though okay you like
21:14
said teddy fingers he had all the good
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slow stones but he also has a song what
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the pop lockers did get up get down get
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[ __ ] getting loose
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yeah then you go tell them the good
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songs i can never ever uh put down on
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legend you don't say it's like you're a
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legend dj sway you know what i'm saying
21:29
you've been djing for a minute i've been
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listening to your show forever and the
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one you got one of the baddest rappers
21:34
on your show all out of all the females
21:36
heather b that girl can spit i like
21:38
listening she can spit so she's gonna be
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at the top five you heard me i said it
21:41
you said it that's right
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marvin gaye yeah what was his influence
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you could turn the music down a little
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bit what was his influence on you what
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made you want to make a song
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entitled marvin gaye uh the finesse he's
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smooth i listened to
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a lot of uh you know og's and greats um
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a lot of marvin gaye a lot of anita
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baker
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and so that record for me i wanted to
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channel the finesse there's specifically
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a video
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uh of marvin in rehearsal singing i want
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you laying down on his back on the mic
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and so
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that vibe i was like how can i put that
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in the song because that's smooth to be
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able to just do it like that and so uh
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literally from the line sexual healing
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when i got to that point even though he
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was the inspiration behind the song i
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was like i gotta call the song marvin
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gaye i have to so yeah it's just about
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it's an ode to uh marvin's energy his
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vibe i think he's one of the smoothest i
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know y'all have seen that uh national
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anthem oh my gosh that's the best ever
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crazy incredible man that was legendary
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um
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usher um to me as long as he's selling
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out tours selling out vegas
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jumping on tracks with the city girls
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[Laughter]
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i love that man you know i love that
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he's cause every that particular track
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reminds me of on the mabu track but yeah
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as long as usher is here r b will always
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have his place as uh you know what are
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your thoughts on him where do you where
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do you see him on the scale of greatness
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when it comes to r b artist man usher is
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probably one of the greatest r b artists
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of our generation um and like when it
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goes down in history like just one of
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the greatest period i think the greatest
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greatest a great performer
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vocalist like he's like a master class
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and like
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here are the components of being an
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artist and an r b artist specifically
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that you know you can study i think uh
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yeah uh sure he's
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working with that guy i have actually i
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did um crazy story so i worked with
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usher in 2012
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um doing
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the bet awards same background for him
23:52
myself eric bellinger and bj the chicago
23:54
kid my boy mavuto we were all on bgv
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the chicago kid yeah man and so uh
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in that in those rehearsals i there's a
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specific instance i remember where we
24:04
were rehearsing in one room and usher
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had to go like uh try on like wardrobe
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stuff he was in the next room he had the
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mic you can hear that like clothes are
24:12
moving never miss the note so he's over
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there in the other room changing getting
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clothes thrown at him and was flawless
24:19
man and so i always think about that
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because i think that's like that took
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some serious like dedication to your
24:25
craft to be able to execute it like that
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i think he's he's amazing
24:29
when i listen to you talk about music
24:31
and just being creative and performance
24:34
and i could i could sense i could feel
24:35
your love for what it is you do your
24:37
passion um and i'm curious to when you
24:40
you give a lot of artists their props
24:43
you know i can tell what your
24:44
personality is like but as an artist
24:46
who represents r b when you when you
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what were your thoughts what did you
24:50
walk away when you with when you saw the
24:52
versus with ray j and sammy and pleasure
24:56
p and bobby valentino in terms of just
24:58
being representing r b art yeah like how
25:01
did it make you feel um ironically i
25:03
think i was like on stage or somewhere
25:05
when that was happening so i caught
25:07
pieces of it um i always appreciate
25:10
an opportunity to bring the conversation
25:12
back up yeah i wouldn't say that it
25:14
helped the conversation in a positive
25:17
way because it gave people an
25:18
opportunity to be like see this is what
25:20
we're talking about yeah but i think
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that
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you know everybody this is you got to
25:25
study your craft and like stay committed
25:27
to it i think uh that's the importance
25:29
of it stay committed yeah you got to
25:31
stay committed yeah you can't jump back
25:33
on the track if you haven't practiced
25:35
yeah exactly and i think that you know
25:36
if there there was that time of being
25:38
committed like cool once you feel like
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you're not in love with it i think that
25:41
you should not take to a platform to
25:44
um engage in it because i think that
25:46
that's what happens in that lack of love
25:48
for it maybe shows you know i think that
25:50
that's what some people thought but
25:52
um i still
25:55
you know show mad love for they gave us
25:57
some great stuff oh yeah i love all of
25:59
them i hit ray j that day and said be
26:01
that star that you are yeah right and um
26:04
he said thank you big homie and at the
26:05
end of the day he was the stars
26:10
he found a different way to get there
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right but he was the star of the show
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you know uh but um then that to me is
26:16
when this whole r b dead
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thing start really growing right yeah
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you know yeah they pick back up right
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pick back up right yeah
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sorry okay now i was gonna say it's uh
26:27
it's a conversation starter too that's
26:29
what as an r b artist who makes the
26:30
music that's the part that gets annoying
26:32
i think people know
26:34
you mention r b and and you get like
26:36
engagement so there are a lot of people
26:38
who actually don't listen to and don't
26:40
support r b music who use the
26:42
conversation as a means to you know
26:44
drive traffic to whatever it is that
26:46
they're trying to promote so it's always
26:48
amazing to have a conversation with
26:50
people who actually are invested in the
26:52
music and understand music because it's
26:54
a lot of just opinions thrown out from
26:56
people who actually
26:57
could care less about the state of you
26:59
know r b
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kenyon dixon man it's a great
27:02
conversation brother i enjoyed having
27:04
you on the show today man i hope you
27:06
enjoyed it absolutely yeah man thanks
27:09
for you know man if you want me to come
27:11
in the studio man we kind of sound good
27:12
together i don't know if you heard it
27:13
man we can go to the record playing
27:14
right now right not right now though
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but we will soon man yeah i want to
27:19
thank you for coming by give this man a
27:20
round of applause man give him a big
27:22
round of applause closer is the name of
27:23
the album citizens make sure you pick it
27:25
up i'm in the show today with the title
27:28
track closer but before we go i want to
27:30
say thank you to los angeles i love it
27:33
here and don't get it twisted i'm a
27:35
resident of southern california too so
27:38
i'm not just talking it i'm living it
27:40
and i'm walking it hey i'm not sea
27:42
walking it or bee walking it or nothing
27:44
like that i'm just walking and looking
27:46
at this all right okay
27:47
terry from l.a man say something to the
27:49
audience know you was here man come here
27:50
man
27:51
ring
27:52
the bell man
27:54
ring it
27:56
there we go we got it man
27:59
how can people reach you brother man
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kenny got sold on all platforms uh
28:05
king on dixon on facebook king on dixon
28:07
most importantly on on the the dsp of
28:09
your choice if you you know title apple
28:11
music pandora thank you yeah spotify
28:16
king on dixon um listen if you love r b
28:19
only if you really love r b and you're
28:20
ready for the effects of real r b that's
28:23
where you can find me and with that said
28:25
i'm at real sway across the board go to
28:27
sways universe you'll be able to see all
28:29
of these interviews get our xm siriusxm
28:31
app and you can go back and listen to it
28:33
on demand i'm at real sway once again
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and we have nothing
28:39
left to say
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you
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