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Killer Mike On Andre 3000 Track, Connecting with God & His New Album 'Michael' | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Jun 20, 2023
Killer Mike just dropped his new album Michael and stopped by Sway In The Morning to talk about connecting with God, his features from Andre 3000.
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Killer Mike On Andre 3000 Track, Connecting with God & His New Album 'Michael' | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
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come on man that's the voice of power
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right there
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Mike news I've said it before he
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transcends Generations
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the message is universal it's pragmatic
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it's grounded in Soul and Spirit and
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Legacy
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pushing it Forward takes on a new
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definition and meaning when you talk
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about this man torch keep the plots
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going man this is a standing ovation
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this is a standing ovation
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this man has been on the front lines for
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his people for his community for his
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family for his entire tenure in this
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culture in this business he's never
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wavered he's never bent he's never
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compromised his morals and his positions
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he's always stayed in form he's always
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stayed educated and he found a really
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great unique formula of intertwining
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that into his music where we are bobbing
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our heads and we are learning at the
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same time that's a new definition of
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edutainment have to be if we talk about
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krs-1 and some of the bricks that he
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laid over the years this man has picked
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up the Baton like he was Usain Bolt
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running fourth flag for the Jamaican
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four by 100 track team
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crossing the line Victorious with his
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hands in the air every time he spits a
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verse somebody is growing every time he
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spits a verse our community is elevated
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every time he drops that album get new
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food they eat I want to welcome my
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brother back to the show with his new
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project is called Michael is out today
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the one and only superhero Killer Mike
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ladies and gentlemen
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[ __ ] I felt like I was given a sermon I
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appreciate you
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man good to see you brother see you all
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always happy to be here with you and
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Heather yeah man that's at home that's
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doubt we figured since the album is
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called Michael we ask Mike Muse you know
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who your namesake to join us in this
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interview yeah well I I'm I named it
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Michael because my family calls me
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Michael my dad is Mike my daughter is
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Mikey my son Pony's name is Michael so I
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got I got stuck with Michael what do you
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prefer I think Michael's are very
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serious about what they want to be Mike
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like if you're born Michael yeah so you
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want to be called that's what my mom and
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my grandma called me Michael and that's
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what the family might yeah my dad I hear
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Mike I think of my dad's in the room
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yeah so I prefer Mike yeah I don't like
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to go by Michael so you're the first of
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the second I'm the first see yeah you're
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a might you get to be Mike yeah I had to
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be Michael I got left with the whole
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night and my grandmother's really
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country so it sounds almost like the
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Hebrew word she calls me Micah oh yeah
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Michael takes their names very serious
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if you call them Michael who prefers to
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go by Michael Mike he would check you so
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quick like it is real I don't check I
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just solely suggest people just Michael
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because I get I get confused like yeah I
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think my old man's in the room of my
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daughter and Mikey you know so have you
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ever met a female named Michael my
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daughter's name is Michael oh you're
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totally her name is Michael Marie rinder
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I think it's a beautiful name for a
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female it is and then she she lives up
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to what she she does like all the stuff
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like she's on honor roll principles list
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off so I get to see my name you know
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it's like she just called me and told me
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her grade point average and all that
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excuses and I'm just like yeah Michael
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rinder yeah what's her GPA man she's
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right she's right at the um at 88 89
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she's right at the High B now I just had
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a talk with her like let's get in the
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mid if you can get the high bees you can
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get the mid yeah the mid 90s right yeah
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but High B is great bro yeah yeah yeah
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it's good it's good I told my grand
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mother once I got all C's I said that's
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average she beat the [ __ ] out of me yeah
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she was like I didn't have nothing
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average so as good as my daughter is I
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know she can be better so well great
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yeah she's temporary she's a rising
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Junior wow man yeah I told her I said
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you scholarship in college you get to
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drive your own car because I buy you a
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car if you're on scholarship you're
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gonna be on the bus because I got to pay
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for college
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great motivation yeah I remember telling
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my daughter if you graduate early I
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don't have to get a tuition to the to
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the college
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and she graduated early yeah
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congratulations I remember when you put
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up the pictures
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very happy no come on man that girl
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young lady man I didn't realize there
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was so many politics behind the name it
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is yeah yeah yeah when your night before
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Angel especially yeah so so when um when
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a Michael Jordan or Mike Tyson became
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prominent you took pride in that or yeah
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I did I mean but I was already pretty
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confident kid you know I was curious I
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looked up what my name meant like third
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fourth grade when I saw his name for the
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Archangel you know what my father was
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essentially and I saw what it meant one
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who's like God who's like God I was
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already I didn't take an athlete you
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know or a famous person named Michael
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but Martin's king's name was actually
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Michael okay yeah Martin Luther King's
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name is Michael it's Michael's Michael
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yeah okay so that that made me be like
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okay I could I could go be you could go
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I don't think they like Mikey I don't
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think Michael's like Mike
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she's like your daughter but like you as
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if somebody a Mikey yeah yeah
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but see at home in Lansing I'm known as
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Mikey okay your mom for my family yeah
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my whole family calls Mikey so when they
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don't call me Mikey it's weird and then
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my church members have pilgrimage
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Baptist Church they call me Mikey and so
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when I go back and they don't want to
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attribute Mikey they say well Mike I
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said no no keep saying Mikey because
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it's weird when you say Mike shout out
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to your church yeah we heard me and sway
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heard Mike Muse mother call him Mikey we
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both turned around and started yeah
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man the title of this album is taken on
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such a different meaning right now
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that's one conversation right
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um this album you have your
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nine-year-old self uh yeah on the cover
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with horns and Halos that's who you were
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I was I still am okay as mischievous as
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ever okay you you said in this um clip
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of the interview when you were speaking
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about the album
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um you didn't have problems growing up
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feeling empowered or I didn't feel
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disempowered of race okay well that's my
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challenges were class you know where
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competence and confidence and it was
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very I grew up in a neighborhood called
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the Collier Heights in section of the
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Adamsville neighborhood in the Collier
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Heights was started by black people in
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1946 for black people it wasn't started
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because of redlining one started because
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white folks pushes and you know it was
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black folks that said yo
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um we're gonna carve out our own piece
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they bought the neighborhood at a 30
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markup from poor working class whites
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they pushed them further west and they
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created the Collier Heights the Collier
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Heights had The Courier Heights
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Elementary School rest in peace to Mr
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Twiggs recently died with the principal
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there he lived in the neighborhood along
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with professors from Morehouse or state
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legislators Cynthia Billy McKinney Dr
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King's parents moved to that
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neighborhood at Ralph David Abernathy so
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I grew up seeing a lot of decent working
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class people around me and my
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grandparents and our neighbors and then
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deeper in the neighborhood you know
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affluent black people affluence right
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who had a good tax base that made sure
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we had good schools I went to Frederick
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Douglass High School then went to
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Morehouse College and you know then
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decided to drop out of college and
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pursue me he's probably done his
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decision and everything but wow drop out
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of college and pursue I beg to differ
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because look how many people you
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impacted yeah through your music but
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when I'm listening to the song Down by
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law
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um am I hearing stories of you sitting
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standing out by the corner yeah yeah
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it was the 90s it was um you know I tell
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people all the time you know because
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their their tends to be you know we hear
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people
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um almost disparagus drug dealer and
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Drug dealings no one knew what was
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happening yeah if you look at snowfall
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you know now that we have a commonality
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people can relate to no no one knew what
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was going on our parents were just
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listening to disco doing a little Coke
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having fun the next thing you know
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rock hits the street Straight Shooters
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hit the streets and the same people that
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were your Camp counselors substitute
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teachers people who were prominent in
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your neighborhood were asking you for
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drugs as you were walking to school now
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kids got Common Sense kids ain't stupid
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I couldn't afford Jordans my
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grandparents weren't gonna buy no
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Jordans but if Mr Tim keep asking me for
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rocks every day yeah then eventually me
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and sleek and fat Freddie gonna figure
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out how to get some rock cause I wanted
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the Jade you know kids are intelligent
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they're not stupid but you know it
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wasn't like we was trying to be you know
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kingpins we were just trying to look
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fresh for the prom so yeah I made I made
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the same dumb choices a lot of kids made
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but we didn't know yeah we just didn't
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know anybody yeah you know and and
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addicts didn't know any better which is
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why I tell people be Grace filled and
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forgiving to your parents your uncle's
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aunts you know because they no one knew
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we didn't know the CIA knew as they
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allowed it into the country and and
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helped growth uh and you know growing
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industry that funded an illegal War the
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Reagan Administration knew George Bush
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knew Joe Biden knew you know
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those folks knew but but we didn't know
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we idea yeah when did it come to you
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when did you come into that
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Consciousness because in the same song
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you talked about I didn't realize that
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I'm you know that it would affected my
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[ __ ] I'm not vicious my [ __ ] you know
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what I mean um you know you you come to
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I man my my mom had a friend that was
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like an aunt to me so something for
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Junkies you hear me have a conversation
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with I remember first time I made ten
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thousand dollars man I thought I was
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rich you know I mean I made ten thousand
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a weekend and I'm out you know Fresh Off
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count money feeling the chest out and um
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you know she said you know you you
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little [ __ ]
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y'all think y'all something it's
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somebody she said man I used to I used
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to [ __ ] all the [ __ ] y'all get y'all
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dope from anyway so I felt like a little
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boy you're a woman say something to you
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a woman can little boy yeah I was like
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oh [ __ ] and then she said you know
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Michael why we shot with you
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she say it ain't cause you got the best
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I mean she said it's because you treat
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us like human beings
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and that never left me from the moment
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it never left me
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um that that that the only reason I was
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getting luck because she helped me make
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the ten thousand that um that that that
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I had not lost my humanity and a lot of
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us lost our Humanity because you see
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Savage things out there and and not even
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Savage by way of brutal and bad it's
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just the person again you were just
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looking up to that was the adult is now
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dancing for an addiction it's now doing
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funny things for you and it decimates
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you don't understand you're losing your
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soul in this decimating your character
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at the same time wow so when you say
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that you said another line that as they
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get done gave up on God yeah maybe she
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gave up on us maybe she angry we
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worshiping all those false Idols so
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Devils keep praying on us yeah you know
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that's the truth maybe maybe we've given
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up on God I tell people all the time I
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believe in God I just hope God still
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believes in US wow so so what what are
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your beliefs because you talked about
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master foreign
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yeah you know can you break that down
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for us um as far Muhammad um is believed
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to be God and the person your man who's
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a teacher of most honorable Elijah
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Muhammad who's the teacher not only in
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our hearts malicious known as Malcolm X
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but Minister Louis Farrakhan and I have
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studied with the Nation of Islam I
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studied al-islam I've been involved in
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Christian Church from Baptist
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Pentecostal and what I absolutely
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believe in is black people I believe
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that we are Earth's original people I
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know that to be fact that can be proved
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up by scientific facts so I don't have
10:51
arguments with what I call I don't care
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if you call yourself a more or black or
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some more or Amor it doesn't matter to
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me it matters that you know that
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whenever God decided to create a human
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being they looked like you you are
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Earth's original people and you're not
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confined to one land mass you were
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everywhere on earth the earth is your
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Turf and you should act as though like
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Reverend Ike used to say God moves in
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you God manifests through you God ain't
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outside of you you ain't praying to
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nothing in the sky you ain't praying or
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nothing you ain't fear none down below
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everything rest in you so that's what I
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believe I believe in the god that
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believe put black people here I believe
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in the god that created creation and I
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believe in whatever I tell people all
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the time I believe in you know if you
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look at Christianity Islam and Judaism
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Judah the Jewish Hebrew Faith you're
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looking at they're all worshiping the
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same God they're worse from the god of
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Abraham Israel and Isaac so I don't get
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in those arguments over who's writing
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who's wrong I just know whatever put us
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here put us here to be United and we're
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doing a poor job of you 19 and we can do
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a better job of that I believe that
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whatever Africans were doing the day
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before the first Outsider set forth in
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Africa that's what I should be doing so
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I practiced um I practiced the worship
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of the creator that put us here I
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practiced the honoring of the ancestors
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paved the way for me and I also practice
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on being a good Steward of that while
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I'm here for my children
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um and my family being obedient my man
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Killer Mike man damn it
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you see young Kalani that's my nephew
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over there what's up how you doing man
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just want you to talk so he can hear it
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what's up good morning how you doing you
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were here last time I was here right
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yeah why do you what do you do besides
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look mean
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that's my job okay
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you're the shooter okay I always got the
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skinny Shooters like those two guys over
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there they get out of here quick yeah
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they well dressed
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for the skinny ones yeah yeah that's so
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nice would you want to ask your namesake
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you know you want to get in there
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you know I I uh I love this conversation
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I love what we're having right now
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um and particularly talk about the
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history of it right like in this time
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now where academic freedom is under
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assault right where they want to remove
13:03
books and banned books like How do you
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encourage people to stay knowledgeable
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take your ass to the library
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you know
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um
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again I grew up in all black
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neighborhood I didn't have no excuses I
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didn't have you know I didn't have I
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didn't never felt like a minority didn't
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have anybody overlooking my shoulder
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tell me they didn't have no white
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teachers trying to be cool to say [ __ ]
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no dumb [ __ ] like that what I had was
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black teachers that had came out of
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historical black college and
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universities and they demanded
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Excellence of us from our kindergarten
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teachers Miss Compton Miss Murray Miss
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Pritchett to my art teacher who now
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teaches his students how to grow food to
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my hormone teacher who challenged me and
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said you weren't good enough to go to
13:42
Morehouse if you go I buy all your books
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[ __ ] lied and died on me you know what
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I mean
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I didn't know teachers were broke at the
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time though so I didn't know he wasn't
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trying to lie but I [ __ ] him up when I
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got in so shot rest in peace to Mr
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Arnold but I think this is what black
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people need to do we need to stop
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arguing online yeah and we need to get
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in rooms in our living rooms and our
14:02
dance in our basements like our
14:04
grandparents and parents used to do and
14:05
we need to read and have discussions you
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know you should not my daughter and I
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read 1984 together you know my son and I
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read a message to the black man by the
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most automatic Muhammad because we need
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to be reading and discussing we need to
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understand we only 60 years into real
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Freedom so all the problems won't be
14:22
solved in in in in now but we have a
14:25
tenure we should have a 10-year plan
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what are the 10 books that black people
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need to read what are the three books
14:30
about economics what are the three books
14:31
about spirituality what are three books
14:33
about whatever else we need to do we
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need to make these decisions and do it
14:36
and we need to focus on being hyper
14:37
local we can't fix all black people at
14:39
the same time but what can I do in
14:40
Atlanta to make sure that that City
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stays a city that can produce rappers
14:45
that build 143 unit affordable housing
14:47
projects like TI heat a Dropout yeah and
14:50
he's the real estate developer how can
14:52
we create a situation where the hbcus
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are fed directly from Atlanta Public
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Schools I think that's what our focus
14:58
should be you know there is no you know
15:00
magic wand and wave but you know what we
15:02
have the ability to do is to get by
15:04
ourselves and start to talk and start to
15:07
discuss and start to grow new Solutions
15:09
Killer Mike but joint get a library card
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get a library close to the library
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hey who's that this is my wife Shayna
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hey Shayna
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all right so you're on the air and I'm
15:25
on the air you couldn't be here but you
15:27
want to say hello before you go
15:29
where are you I'm at sways exactly where
15:32
I told you I was going Heather B's to my
15:33
left Vice vers
15:35
and you're here you didn't FaceTime so
15:37
I'm I'm just holding the phone
15:39
hey what's up
15:43
hey hey look I got to get back to work
15:46
I'm okay all right goodbye have a good
15:49
day bye Santa now I ain't got a shout
15:51
out she's already done
15:53
hey man I love that Dynamic right there
15:56
Mike even had a different tone in his
15:57
voice hey I'm here with sway like I said
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I was have the bees right here if you
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don't believe that you think boy's gonna
16:02
lie on my behalf she know I ain't no
16:05
sucker I was I was just being like you
16:06
should have got up you should have got
16:07
up and come you should have got up and
16:09
come this album is really incredible
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um it's called Michael so many songs one
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of my favorite songs is featuring Mozzy
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um
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man I I you know the during the pandemic
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I shed more tears accumulative leading I
16:25
probably did in my life you know because
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I lost a lot of people I'm a crier yeah
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yeah I cry I fight I you know I wonder
16:31
what like rightful to fight I might cry
16:33
you might cry yeah but I want you to
16:35
know you crying yeah no no I'm not gonna
16:36
get punched I'm gonna punch you okay are
16:38
you just gonna know I'm gonna cry first
16:40
I'm gonna be pissed I'm gonna cry and
16:42
then I'm gonna try to kill your ass so
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for me I crying is just it's it's
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natural for me I'm not I'm wanna guys
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but as you grow older you go you
16:50
understand why your grandfather might
16:51
spend an extra 10 minutes in the
16:53
bathroom working class men are
16:55
underappreciated and working class men
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are such a valuable part of this Society
17:00
my grandfather was a dump truck driver
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his wife was a college-educated woman
17:05
who was a nurse my grandfather was
17:07
functionally illiterate and I've learned
17:09
more wisdom than I have from any of the
17:10
sages and the stoics and the books I've
17:12
read and I just appreciate him and my
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uncles and both my dads because they
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were working class men both my dads
17:19
could have went to college could have
17:20
been something great they chose to be
17:22
you know one of my father was policeman
17:23
early in his life ended up working for
17:25
the gas company my other dad has been a
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truck driver work used to work at Hall
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steel but they were men there are men
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that are noble that are full of
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character and integrity and I in shed
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tears is about that's hard it's hard to
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be a husband it's hard to be a lover of
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a woman it's hard to be a father of
17:39
children it's difficult because your
17:41
life is constantly fear that you might
17:44
be disappointing the people you're
17:45
responsible for absolutely your Father's
17:47
Day days want to come up I on the other
17:49
side who's really went out and got their
17:51
father something that they know he likes
17:52
like I know my mom the flowers she liked
17:55
I know what perfume she's like I knew
17:57
what to get I put a lot of thought most
17:58
of us you just you know get your dad
17:59
something but what is your day I really
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like when my dad's come around you know
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one of my dads I know man if I buy him a
18:04
pistol or firearm he's gonna be hot or a
18:06
piece of gold he's gonna be happy my
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other Dad I know if I buy him a rare toy
18:10
you know what I'm saying or or go to
18:11
your dick so I know the personalities
18:13
and I try to be better about that
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because I realize as a kid I was just
18:16
getting my dad one off yeah whatever he
18:19
got my kids start doing that to me I'm
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just like yo you called me to ask for
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money for you for mother's day but what
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about my day that was like well then I
18:27
was broke but you just asked me for some
18:29
money for mother's day so I just told
18:31
him even if you just write me a note
18:32
telling me how you feel about man I
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remember my daughter Anaya 25 she wrote
18:36
me something and man I just went bad for
18:38
my crowd like a baby you know I did
18:40
because it it men you know it's
18:43
sometimes it's a thankless job but y'all
18:45
worthy and y'all worth it and y'all know
18:47
loved and I want it in shed tears which
18:50
is essentially a gospel song Lena bird
18:51
miles killed it we took we ain't got no
18:53
curse words in it my pastor could play
18:56
it you know I wanted I wanted men to
18:58
know that you loved you thought about
18:59
you cared about and you celebrated why
19:02
did you get Mozzy for it though because
19:04
he's perfect for it yeah yeah why did
19:06
why did why did God choose Saul to
19:07
become Paul you know he used a Christian
19:09
killer to be one of the greatest
19:10
disciples you know you you do that
19:12
because that's God chooses amongst the
19:14
least of us the ones that are overlooked
19:16
the ones that are undervalued unthought
19:18
about you know that's who you big that's
19:20
who you go get yeah that's who you know
19:22
that's who's gonna that's who's gonna
19:23
get people to pay attention because
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they've seen the growth they've seen
19:26
that they've seen the the transcending
19:28
of who I was and who I'm gonna be and
19:30
he's perfect for it I love it on killing
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my kids here I apologize for that Mike
19:34
for stepping on your wisdom
19:37
this is getting confusing one of y'all
19:39
got to become Mike one Mike okay
19:44
um what what did you I did not know
19:45
people are asking about this but it's
19:47
just so great to hear
19:49
um three stacks on the track and just oh
19:51
my gosh obliterating it like that how
19:55
did you play on the track first how do
19:57
you get them to do no he said he he we
19:59
um I we were out where we were in L.A
20:02
right because we were out in L.A and um
20:04
I just called him due to hit a record
20:05
because that's that's the that's bro so
20:07
it's like you won't roll the record him
20:09
and big it's important to me that they
20:11
like yeah what I do and broca in fact
20:14
like the next day like hey man you might
20:15
not come back tomorrow and play
20:16
something so I'm like do I mind like
20:18
yeah come through so I didn't know what
20:21
he was going to play but he played like
20:23
nine ten joints for us and he said well
20:24
just pick what you like and um do
20:26
something with it now over the past
20:28
decade I've sent them records for me run
20:30
the jewels and stuff and he come back
20:32
like man [ __ ] hard he's like I'm not
20:34
into rapping right now but and I always
20:36
appreciated the encouragement
20:38
but I didn't go expecting anything I
20:40
went not expecting anything and when he
20:42
gave us two records
20:45
um that verse was on one and we was like
20:47
whatever you give we feeling real
20:48
absolutely the other record he wanted to
20:50
use instead so he took that one back and
20:52
he gave me another record that's like 11
20:54
minutes long you guys are here in the
20:56
future we got a crazy another crazy
20:58
record together but this record
21:00
um he helped get future him and Below
21:02
help get future on future jump down and
21:04
I'm like okay this is a real Dungeon
21:05
family event now I got to come with bars
21:07
yeah so yeah you know what I'm saying I
21:09
wrote it around listen air um Aaron
21:11
Allen Kane jumped on it and when she
21:13
jumped I was just like the dope locking
21:15
up in the water for all my Dope Boys
21:17
y'all know what that mean like oh it's
21:18
locking like and man when I put my verse
21:20
on it it was through the roof but what's
21:22
crazy I didn't send Drake people have
21:24
heard so I didn't send Dre to finish
21:25
record at first I sent them just like
21:27
the rapper demo and he was like you know
21:29
the rapper demo stuff was cool but you
21:31
know Dre outcasts makes songs yeah and
21:34
then I remember because telling us I
21:36
don't think he into it bro I don't think
21:37
he's Gonna Let It Rock with the cuts if
21:39
you sent him he heard the song because
21:41
my anarch shout out to cuz like you
21:42
who's an amazing
21:44
to hand on his record but
21:46
um because it's like man you sent him a
21:48
song I was like nice they sent him the
21:49
song cuz I sent them the song he called
21:52
back 10 minutes later oh like no you got
21:54
the record he said that absolutely so he
21:56
loved the record and um I'm proud I'm
21:58
damn proud because Dre and B gave me
22:00
opportunity to change absolutely man
22:02
those beautiful dudes and what I'm
22:03
hearing is Drake got an album coming
22:05
yeah
22:06
I think we fly
22:08
to go listen to it wow Andre 3000 got an
22:12
album coming I thought you were joking
22:14
no no no no he said he got he played
22:16
them nine tracks of stuff he already had
22:19
I mean Dre sitting on volumes of songs
22:26
I love you Heather that [ __ ] be up here
22:28
playing the flute right now talking pool
22:30
man who one of the best people ever you
22:32
feel that yeah him that big boy man they
22:35
good people that boy came here but never
22:38
met him before you got to meet snacks
22:39
man let me get two at least couple
22:41
people because I know we gotta go but I
22:43
promise the listeners okay all right
22:46
um Anthony look quick question for
22:48
Killer Mike Anthony and Jersey go for a
22:51
quick question Mike yeah quick question
22:53
Mike hey what's the deal with Greenwood
22:56
and doing VA loans I'm not sure but I
22:59
can get you in touch with someone over
23:01
there and and they'll have they'll have
23:02
we got about a hundred thousand accounts
23:04
open they were in three months where
23:06
they expected to be in two years and
23:07
look out a little overwhelming so are
23:09
expanding and hiring more people but if
23:11
you just hit me on the DM or something
23:13
I'll get you in contact with someone
23:14
over there hopefully cool [ __ ] will
23:15
happen Okay and thanks for your call
23:17
your citizens Tony and Queensboro what's
23:21
going on everybody
23:25
um I just want to say I've been a long
23:27
time fan I remember the first time I
23:28
heard you on the whole world was out
23:30
guys I was like whoa thank you bro he's
23:33
amazing also um DTF radio you've been up
23:37
there a few times so I've met you a
23:39
couple of times and I just want to give
23:41
you your flowers and everything because
23:43
you're definitely underrated thank you
23:45
thank you that change is the day though
23:47
I guarantee you that this album right
23:49
here is killer no pun intended Tony make
23:52
sure you uh stream it download it
23:53
whatever they do it's getting downloaded
23:56
right now
23:58
cool that's what's up um
24:08
what you want to say let's go ahead
24:12
hey what's going on Killer Mike glory be
24:14
to God glory
24:16
always and
24:19
I'm from Dallas and about the black
24:20
owned Banks I'm just wondering if you're
24:22
going to expand down here because there
24:24
are no black owned banks in Dallas are
24:26
you going to expand Atlanta because we
24:27
got to get access to Capital and one
24:29
more thing about that track yes have we
24:31
been tried to the fire yes
24:34
on my playlist everything man shouts out
24:37
to DJ minutes who's in Dallas who's my
24:39
brother Menace did the beat for um look
24:41
back at it with Trina and put me on that
24:43
record so that's how long we've been
24:45
friends and even before that but he
24:47
brought me yes we did yes they used yes
24:49
on Madden then we took it we we mixed it
24:52
again refined it so I promise you this
24:54
you're gonna hear yes again in the body
24:57
work of Michael just right now you got
24:59
what we what what we've given you in
25:01
terms of this first phase so you're
25:02
going to hear yes and there's some more
25:03
stuff we recorded 39 records okay we
25:06
ended up using what 14 of them we have
25:08
14 of them so we got a lot in the war
25:10
chest to um to get out and and thank you
25:12
for thank you for that and being from
25:14
Dallas because it gives me an
25:15
opportunity to shout out minutes who's
25:17
been one you have let me tell you
25:18
something we have friends that can't
25:20
directly say well Heather I can give you
25:22
this it's yours but you ever had that
25:24
friend that call you in the middle of
25:25
night like don't quit girl like I know
25:27
how it might feel but don't quit you
25:29
know you and when they find opportunity
25:31
to check this like minutes has been that
25:33
for me my a r from Loma Vista shout out
25:35
to Loma Vista dark when dark is that
25:37
shady dark would just call me randomly
25:38
at three in the morning like Hey listen
25:40
don't quit this is so when if you don't
25:42
quit if you just keep it up God's gonna
25:45
send somebody amen you know and I truly
25:48
believe it killing Mike man hey Michael
25:50
somebody needed to hear a lot of people
25:52
needed to hear that just now yeah God
25:54
bless you Michael God bless you man
25:55
black man is God yeah man come on man
25:58
amen I'm gonna tell everybody from
26:01
Elijah Muhammad the river Knight then
26:02
tried to tell you now oh come on that
26:04
guy gonna send a bunch of people to tell
26:05
you the same message but eventually
26:07
you're gonna get it you gonna quit
26:08
playing and stop looking outside you
26:10
want to see God look in the mirror there
26:11
you go you want to see God even clearer
26:13
close your eyes and be still man there
26:16
you go man Hey listen thank you Killer
26:18
Mike for coming by the new album Michael
26:20
is out today we need everybody to
26:22
support it yeah
26:25
voice of power of Truth
26:28
grounded in reality and just a jamming
26:30
record I'm gonna tell y'all like put the
26:32
record on you got 55 minutes at the crib
26:34
or you about to take a 55 minute ride to
26:37
the Hamptons just put just put the
26:40
record on it is that it is an audio
26:42
experience but it is a visual um the
26:45
greatest compliment I got
26:47
um was hold hold hit me when and it was
26:49
a steel demo version he hit me last
26:51
night with a congratulations but he hit
26:53
me and said man this he loved the album
26:55
All exclamation point so I'm like you
26:56
know you're right oh man oh that's dope
26:58
but then he said it felt like I went to
27:00
my cousin's house and watched a movie
27:01
you know you go to your cousin house you
27:03
gotta watch the movies
27:08
so I want to say he he helped me
27:10
understand that this is an audio
27:12
experience but it it read like a visual
27:14
I hope you guys enjoy it that makes it
27:16
good art yes absolutely made that
27:18
descriptive you can see it visuals smell
27:21
it you're gonna see it you're gonna feel
27:22
it you're gonna you're gonna be there I
27:24
can ride around Atlanta and see like the
27:26
the the ghost of like nine-year-old Mike
27:29
and the things I want you guys to feel
27:31
it this this is a prodigal son story it
27:34
is a common of age story of an
27:35
African-American boy in his turbulent
27:37
times doing the crack era and him match
27:40
maturing into a man so you know if you
27:43
if you're a man who's come through that
27:45
area you're gonna feel it if you're a
27:46
boy you're gonna feel it if you the
27:47
women who love these men and boys you're
27:49
gonna feel it and I encourage everyone
27:50
not just because I'm already rich thank
27:53
God for run the jewels I [ __ ] around
27:54
and made millions of dollars a lot of
27:56
cool [ __ ] but this gave me an
27:58
opportunity to give directly to the to
28:01
the community that's sprouted God bless
28:04
you man I'm killing Mike man Michael out
28:06
today make sure y'all support it yeah
28:08
and we gonna play the scientists and
28:10
Engineers let's go man and up next we
28:13
got Jennifer Lawrence she's going to
28:15
talk about her new movie no hard
28:16
feelings in theaters next Friday okay
28:18
that's coming up next all right thank
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you brother all right shade four or five
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