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Jul 25, 2023
King Hoodie stopped by Sway In The Morning while in Miami and talked about everything in the Music industry from Miami artists not interacting with each other, rap clones and much more!
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and pause because that song was so
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beautiful give a big round of applause
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for that song in itself
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I love it man it's called out the mud
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Mike Muse and um that was by a very
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talented artist uh Heather as you know
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this man has been supporting us for a
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long time and we've been supporting him
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for a long time as well uh resident of
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this area right he's put out a ton of
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slew of Music he has his own merch he's
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an actor um he's an nft Creator he's a
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model he's a man of the community he's
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been ten toes down and he been rapping
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this music scene in Miami for years and
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uh from the moment we first met him and
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I became friends you know I done giving
0:42
this man advice on every level and he's
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giving it back you know and so whenever
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he calls me and tells me he has a new
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project I get excited for him so um he's
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someone like we just had Catalina talk
0:53
about artists who could become be a
0:55
success and not have to have a top 10
0:57
Billboard hit right you know success
0:59
isn't measured by where you chart you
1:01
know and he's been able to sustain a
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career independently he has his own
1:06
label as well for all of these years I
1:08
can't think of how many years ago when
1:10
we came to Miami and did that broadcast
1:13
pre-pandemic it was definitely
1:14
pre-pandemic and he's been consistent
1:17
ever since and anytime I see him he's in
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a great spirit great energy please
1:21
welcome King hoodie
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[Applause]
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yeah yeah
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yeah yeah give it up for me give it up
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for me give it up give it up so so we
1:44
talk about the last give a rundown um
1:47
since the last time we saw you really
1:48
was was it at the broadcast the last
1:51
time I saw you was in Cali when we did
1:52
the the decipher with Reuben Vincent
1:55
Jason cash yeah yeah
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yep
2:02
yo wasn't that a crazy experience that
2:05
was that was a bomb Guru was behind
2:07
doing the beats that was amazing wow
2:10
what kind of response from your audience
2:12
did you oh man they were stunned like
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just the photos of of it being there and
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Ninth Wonder Guru you like it was it was
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stunning beautiful and I was happy to
2:20
just beat it I was happy to be a part of
2:22
it you know what I'm saying so it was it
2:23
was amazing they were just shocked you
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know everybody was just blown away by
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that What Makes You Happy Now man like
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what what how do you measure happiness
2:29
uh happiness that's such a great
2:31
question
2:32
um I measure Happiness by like the
2:33
people around me how happy they are you
2:35
know if the people around me are like
2:36
doing well like my team like it's it's
2:39
it really makes me happy you know what
2:41
I'm saying that that that really blows
2:42
my mind wow it's really easy for the
2:44
people around you to not be doing well
2:45
even if you are so to make sure
2:47
everybody's around you is straight
2:48
that's that brings me the most happiness
2:50
this was the most people I've ever seen
2:52
around you even when you came to that
2:54
other broadcast and um and here in Miami
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you didn't have that many people around
2:57
you you know how did you select these
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shoes they look they look a little snaky
3:01
to me you sure about These Guys these
3:03
some shady characters man look uh hide
3:05
your iPhones and hide your persons but
3:07
how do you select how do you know who
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you want to have around you all the time
3:11
energy energy is super big for me like
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now I'm at the point where I just trust
3:14
people's instincts you know I don't
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really like I don't really judge a
3:17
person based on their skill set because
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I feel like you can develop a skill but
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you can't develop a value you can't
3:22
develop like a a code about yourself so
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I'm gonna try to work with somebody even
3:26
if we got to like train you up and like
3:27
go through the slow steps just like any
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good company I guess that's really what
3:30
I'm trying to say like I'm reshaping an
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organization around me I'm making it
3:34
like an actual organization we're doing
3:35
the proper things core values weekly
3:37
meetings putting people in positions
3:39
like it's it's really different we want
3:41
to really build it out to make it
3:42
something that's reputable in and of
3:44
itself not really depending on anybody
3:46
else so what do you call a company
3:47
what's the name of the company now
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um so right now it's funny because we're
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restructuring everything when I first
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met you our production company is called
3:54
House of Pain entertainment and the
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acronym for that is hope so if you ever
3:56
seen all the logos and we got this is a
3:58
hope logo that I wear all the time you
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know and I'm probably gonna end up in
4:01
some legal battles you know what I'm
4:01
saying well the original House of paying
4:03
from Jump Around yeah I love them
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they're cool dudes man if it happens let
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me know okay
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man don't do it man can't hoodie is one
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of us fellas you know what I'm saying
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y'all heard him say that right okay
4:16
right we good so what's the name so I'm
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what I'm finding out right now is that I
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was originally pushing that production
4:21
company as if that was everything but
4:23
getting into like these branding
4:25
conversations now understanding like
4:26
what a brand is and how you supposed to
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put things on the Forefront I realized
4:30
that our first company wasn't actually
4:31
the House of Pain entertainment the
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collective our first company was
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actually King hoodie King hoodie is a
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company and it's a brand in and of
4:37
itself that needs its own thing it needs
4:39
to be staffed and formulated around that
4:41
King hoodie is not me King hoodie is an
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idea King hoodie is a feeling King
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really is something that is supposed to
4:45
exist in the room because when I die
4:46
somebody's still gonna be able to Google
4:47
King hoodie and listen to music yeah it
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can't be me it can't be a person you
4:51
know when your mom passed you can't
4:52
reach out to her no she's going off the
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Earth but a brand is something that
4:55
remains so if what we're making remains
4:58
Beyond us then we got to approach it
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like that so that's the way I've been
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changing the dynamic of everything that
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I do it's like oh man we're a brand we
5:04
gotta move like that King really is not
5:05
me is everybody in this room
5:06
collectively pushing their Vision
5:08
forward okay wow I like that I want to
5:10
get a my screen for King hoodie too and
5:12
adjust his level because I hear a little
5:14
over modulation and I want to make sure
5:15
we write because he know he got to spit
5:17
some bars today yeah I already brought
5:20
that up to him he's prepared you know
5:22
it's so
5:23
easy to hear an artist speak about
5:26
commute prioritizing Community
5:29
um above their individualism because
5:31
oftentimes artists you know have been
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known for having these very bloated egos
5:36
you know for everything being me me I
5:39
want the spotlight I want the fame
5:42
um and even the way that you just Define
5:43
the happiness I said wow it's really
5:45
about the happiness of the people around
5:46
you can you trace back the origin of
5:49
that because I think it takes a while
5:51
for some folks to realize it's not about
5:54
them it's about the collective
5:57
yeah if I was to chasing back I would
5:59
probably just say like
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the struggles that we go through on a
6:03
consistent basis like it's a fight like
6:05
like the team that I have around me
6:06
we're on this that's actually one of our
6:07
core values one of our core values like
6:09
is actually says they'll fight we wake
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up every day with understanding that
6:12
we're going to fight today if you don't
6:13
have to fight today today was a great
6:14
day but let's walk into the day
6:16
expecting a fight is going to be some
6:17
kind of dog fight or some kind of
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situation so in all those different
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trials and tribulations the people who
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have stayed and the people who have
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stuck you know what I'm saying like my
6:24
partner Apple this guy right here with
6:26
the camera like he's been with me the
6:28
time that we came to New York he was
6:29
literally in a whole another state he
6:31
like left that state to come to be and
6:33
Sway in the Morning with us and then
6:34
jump back on the plane to leave again he
6:36
was only there for that broadcast and
6:37
went straight back to the airport like
6:38
oh let me take it back he don't he don't
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look Shady I'm sorry
6:43
all right go ahead and how did y'all
6:45
meet we met out of photo shoot crazy
6:47
enough wow my cousin was modeling like
6:49
my cousin works at Comcast so it made no
6:51
sense why he was modeling you know but
6:52
he was modeling one day and apple just
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happened to be working with that brand
6:55
and so I just went just to support my
6:57
cousin and his brother was taking a
6:59
photo of me he's like man give me a meme
7:01
look I was all right so I did a memo for
7:03
him he was like that's an amazing Meme
7:05
and I was like all right he's like man
7:07
where you from I said no Miami Beach and
7:08
the guy started tripping he's like oh no
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man I'm from North Miami Beach and I'm
7:12
looking at this 40 year old white man
7:13
like no you don't know man [ __ ] you
7:14
know there's no 40 year old white people
7:16
in North Miami Beach where they at they
7:18
all disappeared like the Mayans they're
7:20
on the other side like Sunny Isles like
7:22
they they not there you know and so
7:25
it ended up being his brother it ended
7:27
up being Apple's brother and he was
7:28
shooting another person on the other
7:29
side of the shoe he's like you got to
7:30
connect with my brother and so me and
7:32
apple end up connecting and it was like
7:33
Synergy from the start like he loved
7:35
hip-hop he could tell you like a story
7:36
like he knows all of the history of
7:38
hip-hop he's he's a historian apple
7:40
right here look at him look he's ready
7:43
he's ready to talk about I believe what
7:45
you're a Poison Clan come out oh my
7:48
God oh [ __ ] oh
7:50
[Music]
8:17
King hoodie is here man
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um I'm gonna get into the music but what
8:22
is the scene in my Miami at one point
8:25
man this [ __ ] was like Hollywood you
8:27
know uh with the music especially when
8:29
Roland loud became start building this
8:31
brand and a lot of artists from this
8:32
area region where at the Forefront a lot
8:35
of those artists aren't here no more
8:37
what is here now
8:39
I would say man is is to be honest the
8:41
city is like in a strange position
8:42
because I think there's a transition
8:44
between like the South Beach kind of you
8:46
know Miami Vibe and then the different
8:48
kind of underground Denzel Curry pouya
8:51
kind of vibe and then what's going on in
8:53
Broward like the Kodak and and other
8:55
Broward artists kind of a lot so I think
8:56
it's like the city is is not really
8:58
knowing what it wants to become because
9:01
there's so many different people Miami's
9:02
not a place where people work together
9:04
like we barely even talk to each other
9:05
here you know like it's a very
9:07
unfriendly culture here and people know
9:09
there was even an article that came out
9:10
this in mind like a few years ago
9:11
Miami's the most unfriendly city in the
9:12
world so that that that overlaps not
9:15
only just in the streets but into the to
9:17
the Artistry like artists like you never
9:19
met Kodak Black or yeah no Denzel not so
9:23
Denzel I've actually met him I met him a
9:24
few times but he got a lot of mutual
9:25
friends between me and Denzel okay
9:27
that's cool but then that's like his
9:28
Vibe his Vibe is to You'll randomly see
9:31
him at a soccer place just playing
9:33
soccer like what are you even doing in
9:34
this side of the town and why are you
9:35
playing soccer you know it just don't
9:36
mean like but that's his his thing but a
9:38
lot of other people they kind of stick
9:39
to their clicks and that's really what
9:41
it is like Miami is a outside of South
9:43
Beach Miami is a collection of different
9:44
hoods okay Overtown care City Liberty
9:47
City North Miami the poking beans Brown
9:49
Subs these are all just different hoods
9:51
so people who say that they've been to
9:52
Miami who've been to the beaches like
9:53
you've really never been to Miami like
9:55
Miami is a it's a whole thing in all
9:56
those different areas like they just
9:58
stick to themselves like not a lot of
10:00
people don't cross barriers and there's
10:03
a lot of but a lot of people remind me
10:04
just don't speak to each other it's it's
10:05
not hate it's just the way it is though
10:07
they're not hating on you it's just
10:09
territorial it's just the culture right
10:11
right and on top of that like the like
10:12
Miami is also a Melting Pot so on one
10:14
street you'll have like just to add to
10:16
the reason why people don't talk to each
10:17
other you'll have like 10 different
10:19
cultures you'll have a Jamaican house
10:21
next to a Bahamian house next to a black
10:22
American house next to a Haitian house
10:23
next to a Venezuelan house next to a
10:25
Colombian house next to a Cuban house so
10:27
like all them different cultures like
10:29
you know everybody in every single house
10:31
on 10 house street is speaking a
10:32
different language and has a different
10:34
culture it's not like other cities where
10:35
the whole hood is Spanish that whole
10:37
area is Spanish like some areas like
10:38
that but most areas is all jumbled up so
10:40
people stick to themselves out here for
10:42
real what what about the um pillars like
10:44
the you know the Ricky Rose the the
10:47
trick daddies the the uncle Luke's do
10:50
they reach out do they you know try to
10:52
well and it's not a knock on them but
10:54
have we seen that type of energy to
10:56
bring the Galvanize all of these
10:58
neighborhoods and different cultures
11:00
have we seen that yet because imagine if
11:03
that happened it'd be amazing wouldn't
11:05
it that would be amazing even if even if
11:07
one of those like bigger artists would
11:09
have choose to do like a talent show
11:10
like a month yeah that would be amazing
11:13
that would change I've been to Atlanta
11:15
and I would go to the spot called Apache
11:16
in Atlanta and it's like a poetry spot
11:18
but people were known to go to that spot
11:20
and people let me know yo you want to go
11:22
there because you never know who's going
11:22
to be there one night T.I might be in
11:24
there another night Jeezy might be in
11:25
like you never know who's going to be
11:26
there people's lives were changing on
11:28
this in this small room in this small
11:29
place and I'm like man because that's
11:31
the culture out there where people pop
11:32
up to these random places and we'll do
11:34
that so like if Miami was to implement
11:35
that like if some of these these you
11:37
know people with whatever kind of
11:38
platform they got was to do that I think
11:40
it would definitely change the face of
11:41
the city but then again that speculation
11:42
King hoodie is here man give out your on
11:44
social media king Lee raps King hoodie
11:46
raps everywhere King hoodie raps on IG
11:48
King hoodie raps everywhere HP you used
11:50
to comment on his hair when he came out
11:52
here last time I know the first time I
11:55
met him I was almost in tears when you
11:57
were reading his resume because the
12:00
first time I met him obviously we we
12:02
heard him spit when we were at the wood
12:03
was it the woods what Tavern
12:06
um and he was you know talented as a
12:08
artist and I said to him well if you
12:11
don't make it as an artist you can
12:13
definitely be a model and I said that to
12:16
I was like look I got you just let me
12:18
know if it gets too rough in the rap and
12:19
when you said modeling I looked over at
12:22
him and he pointed to me right and you
12:23
you were mouthing something but what
12:25
were you going to say I was yeah you
12:26
claimed it you know what I'm saying yeah
12:27
your exact words were if rap don't work
12:29
out you could sell your buddy
12:36
I didn't hear [ __ ] you said because I
12:38
was staring at your chest the whole time
12:43
it was by way though of jokingly saying
12:46
saying that to you because I mean listen
12:49
we're in a world now where as artists
12:51
it's okay to do more than one thing
12:53
there was a time where if you were a
12:55
rapper that's all you could do was rap
12:57
that they didn't want to see you do
12:58
nothing else film television nothing now
13:01
you could do so much and so it's
13:03
interesting when you were sharing the
13:04
story with apple or something about a
13:05
cousin and a model in the photo shoot
13:07
how did it did you really start modeling
13:09
yeah I mean I model now
13:11
um I got people that just want to sign
13:13
me and get me on to that but I'm I'm
13:14
still more focused on the music but
13:16
again going into The Branding comments
13:17
now I'm understanding I got to do more
13:18
of that and more of just showing the
13:20
lifestyle and I didn't know that was a
13:21
thing I didn't know people was like yo
13:23
bro if you really want to want to get
13:25
people to see you you got to show them
13:27
the things other than what it is that
13:28
you're doing because I leave with music
13:29
all the time like no focus on my music
13:31
pay attention to the thing that we craft
13:32
them right here and then everybody comes
13:34
like yeah but what do you do outside of
13:35
that you know where what are you what do
13:37
you think about what are you into I'm
13:38
understanding like the world that we
13:40
live in people don't really care so much
13:41
about what you do as like why you do it
13:43
and who are you around that like do I
13:45
like you as a person because if I like
13:47
you as a person I'm gonna tap in with
13:48
your music yep and that's and that's
13:50
what happens and it can lend to other
13:51
things and don't be afraid I mean these
13:53
are god-given gifts don't be afraid to
13:55
explore the model the music is one thing
13:58
modeling is another thing Brandon
14:00
television film it all right all writing
14:04
it could all merch it can all live in
14:06
the same spaces and and people just
14:09
appreciate it all you know so
14:11
congratulations that's what I want to
14:13
say I'm happy for you and sorry I put it
14:16
so bluntly back then I do remember now
14:18
having lots of cocktails yeah but I was
14:20
focused you objectified him ah sorry
14:23
I did not know what that feel feels like
14:26
because when I was coming up you know
14:28
you you almost had to do one thing it
14:30
was different if something else they
14:32
thought you were selling out that one
14:34
thing so I had a chance to become a
14:36
naked chess model but I chose to work
14:39
for MTV because I knew I couldn't do
14:41
them both right you know what I mean
14:44
your body
14:46
the hip-hop the world
14:49
you heard that silence so nobody said
14:52
nothing it's a lie tell them
14:55
Cody a lot of female rappers they won't
14:57
say and I won't say names they really
14:59
used to look at my body when I did
15:00
interviews got it got it all right Mike
15:03
Muse you got a question
15:06
yeah
15:08
we need a cricket sound effect
15:25
I'm very interested in the conversation
15:28
that you're having so far is because you
15:30
know you make me curious to learn more
15:33
about you which is I think a point of an
15:35
artist be able to sell themselves
15:36
because when you tell yourself you make
15:38
people interested and hear the music
15:39
he's also for sure you're so self-aware
15:41
you're so culturally knowledgeable you
15:43
have an understanding of history and
15:44
Different World Views what do you rap
15:47
about like what is the Constitution
15:49
because it doesn't seem like you can rap
15:51
about what is popular right now in
15:54
trending but I'm just curious
15:56
that's such an awesome question and it's
15:58
funny because I've actually had to
15:59
answer that question recently because
16:00
before it'd be like y'all rap I just
16:02
make the music don't you get it and now
16:04
I'm understanding people don't get it
16:05
until you tell them so I rap really for
16:08
like the diamond in the rough I rap for
16:10
people who are who feel unseen you know
16:13
I think people might look at me now and
16:15
they think that I'm a certain kind of I
16:16
know people man that will actually tell
16:18
me when I first met you bro I didn't
16:19
like you you like some sexy flexi Rico
16:21
Suave whoever and you up in here on the
16:23
stage is living in your great they just
16:25
had this Assumption of me not knowing
16:27
like bro like I come from a like I I
16:29
historically have very low self-esteem
16:31
when I was like growing up I I
16:33
understood I was ugly women told me that
16:35
I knew I was ugly I had really bad teeth
16:36
it was really poor we was living in
16:37
abandoned buildings in 19th Avenue and
16:39
167th Street like like super poverty
16:42
like outside of I mean Super poverty bro
16:44
like that's the reality of my situation
16:45
so when people try to like put you in a
16:48
box and try to be like oh you know I
16:49
remember one girl she told me like oh
16:51
don't I don't know what we were doing
16:52
she was like don't make it too easy for
16:54
him he gets everything easy and she had
16:55
just met me and I was like dog what are
16:57
you talking about you have no earthly
16:59
conception like do you know what it's
17:00
like to like like have your water and
17:01
your light cut off religiously and not
17:03
understanding why do you know what it's
17:04
like to like wait outside of a church
17:05
for food that's like a day from being
17:07
old but it's good enough to eat now like
17:09
do you know what it's like to know what
17:10
your mother know when the light is out
17:12
in your house on a random Wednesday if I
17:14
come home and my mother's grilling I can
17:15
see it from the stop sign if I see my
17:17
mother on a grill on a random list oh
17:19
the power's out I can tell from here the
17:21
power's out and she's cooking the meat
17:23
so it don't go bad by the night you know
17:24
what I'm saying so it makes I know it's
17:26
going to be a hot sleeping and it's
17:27
going to be a cold shower which is weird
17:29
you you realize that [ __ ] when there's
17:30
no power in hours you realize you're
17:31
gonna have a hot sleeping and you're
17:33
gonna have a cold bath because you need
17:35
power to make this hot and power to make
17:37
this cold you know so like people a lot
17:39
of people don't understand that so when
17:40
I say I make music for people who feel
17:42
unseen it's the inside of me reaching
17:44
out to the inside of you telling you
17:45
like look bro I know what it's like to
17:46
be a good person in a chaotic
17:48
environment I know what it's like to
17:49
want better and not have any conception
17:51
of how to get it and so my job right now
17:53
is to get it myself and then also put
17:54
that recipe into the music like yo
17:55
brother keep and motivate like keep
17:57
going bro like you got it we're gonna
17:59
get this [ __ ] better you know what I'm
18:00
saying so how do you reconcile the two
18:01
because that's not your existence now
18:03
right uh how do I reconcile like my
18:06
present to my past it's just a lot of
18:08
conflict honestly because sometimes you
18:10
don't know where to go like
18:11
I feel crazy sometimes because I have to
18:13
figure out how to succeed in peaceful
18:15
times when I don't know how to do that
18:17
like my team right now they they are
18:19
really mad at me and they get sick of me
18:21
because I like I I'm used to doing
18:23
things with a sense of urgency yo we
18:25
gotta do this [ __ ] right now let's make
18:26
this work it's gonna happen right now
18:28
and they're like oh no bro like we need
18:30
to plan this out three weeks in advance
18:31
and that's something that's foreign to
18:33
me I'm like you got three weeks of
18:34
luxury I don't know what that's like
18:36
yeah I know what it's like to like we
18:38
gotta hustle right now because the thing
18:39
is due now we got to make this happen
18:40
right now so it's it's great I don't
18:43
know how to operate it's still trauma
18:44
minded is that what it's called yeah I
18:47
don't know if it's called I just came to
18:48
mind yeah I remember having a
18:50
conversation with your friends around
18:52
like how
18:53
sometimes the more that you heal the
18:56
less ambitious you feel and that's
18:59
because you realize that you were always
19:04
hungry for significance you know what
19:07
I'm saying because of whatever may have
19:09
happened in the past you're always
19:11
chasing a level of importance because
19:12
you didn't believe that you
19:14
intrinsically had it and so once you
19:17
heal those things you're like oh my God
19:18
I actually don't want as much on the
19:21
outside because I recognize how much I
19:24
already have so that's a part of what
19:26
can make things really tricky too I
19:27
could relate to that yeah that sounds
19:29
real that sounds like a thing because it
19:30
forces you to really look at the true
19:33
motives behind things and to be clear
19:35
about your intentions because sometimes
19:37
the ego is making you think that
19:39
something's pure when it's really
19:41
stained
19:42
um
19:43
that's a bar
19:46
that's a bar if you don't mind asking
19:49
how's the dynamic now with your mom um
19:51
seeing everything that you've been able
19:53
to do and
19:55
my mother is like the most incredible
19:57
person in the world I got so much
19:58
respect for she passed away in uh
20:01
January 2021 of coronavirus wow yeah
20:04
yeah crazy right yeah the thing on TV
20:06
that was like yeah as a conspiracy like
20:10
took my mother in 10 days you know what
20:12
I'm saying it was like you know she
20:13
wasn't all my whole house had at the
20:15
same time so you know we do we just
20:16
gonna okay we on tea and soup Duty let's
20:20
get everybody you know fired up
20:21
everybody's gonna start getting better
20:22
and everybody bounced back but she
20:23
didn't she had like pains in her stomach
20:24
and then we ended up taking to the
20:26
hospital they said it was um like uh I
20:28
guess onset pneumonia like it turns into
20:30
pneumonia after a while and then it
20:31
hardens and and it was crazy man like I
20:33
almost caught a case for that because at
20:35
one point they didn't want to let me
20:36
into the hospital to see her so I
20:38
remember getting into it like I had to
20:39
break into the coveted Ward and that's a
20:41
big No-No during yeah yeah and so yeah
20:44
I'm probably never gonna be allowed back
20:45
at Aventura Hospital but that's just
20:47
what it was you know I'm saying and I
20:48
broke in there because the nurse that
20:50
was allowing me to see her ended up
20:51
stopped answering my calls and then my
20:52
sister said yo they're trying to put a
20:54
tube in her and I was like nah bro it
20:55
shouldn't be that serious so I went in
20:57
there and tried to rip around all the
20:58
machines wow and I was about to get into
21:01
it with the with the doctor getting into
21:02
it with the security guards and I had to
21:04
escape there and then my sister came in
21:06
and you know she got to the hospital and
21:08
tried to do the rest they ended up
21:09
letting her out um because we beg to
21:11
like you'll let it let us take care of
21:12
her at home they released our hospital
21:13
she came back home and she was only
21:15
there for a handful of hours her oxygen
21:16
levels went straight to the ground and
21:18
we had to rush into the hospital she
21:19
passed there at a different hospital wow
21:21
man king hoodie man I'll rest some power
21:24
to your mom man she's smiling on you
21:26
right now let's say her name Myrna Roman
21:28
say it three times for me brother Myrna
21:30
Roman murder Roman Aroma let's celebrate
21:32
her man big round of applies man she's
21:34
smiling on you right now pink hoodie is
21:36
here you got the new uh and thank you
21:39
for being really on transparent and open
21:41
with us you know we're family you know
21:43
and these questions are coming because
21:44
we haven't seen you even though you and
21:46
I communicate and these are genuinely
21:48
concerned and curious and excited
21:51
questions to ask you because you look
21:53
good you sound good your mind is sharp
21:56
you know
21:58
um your body's like mine this is just a
22:01
lot of things going in your face
22:04
[Music]
22:10
I don't know if I'm delusional Heather I
22:12
mean I just got an orange yeah your
22:14
shirt is on and you got a black shirt on
22:16
too like you know what you look skinny
22:21
hey before we go to this next song I
22:23
want to ask you a question how to out of
22:25
the mud
22:26
right um the song out the mud you said a
22:28
couple interesting things in this song
22:30
and I just kind of wanted to get some
22:32
clarity uh of what you meant when you
22:34
talked about artists who struggle and
22:37
then eventually they get tattoos to look
22:39
like Lil Wayne yep so you think
22:46
[Music]
22:50
at what stage did you realize that uh
22:53
believe the artists were getting tattoos
22:55
to look like Wayne hoping that it'll
22:58
make them as dope as Wayne yeah they
23:00
could get the same residuals from it
23:02
like it's obvious in my generation like
23:04
everybody is kind of reaching you know I
23:06
think everybody looks looks the same
23:07
right now and I think it's strange to me
23:09
I don't want to disrespect your life but
23:10
if if I know that I just saw the same
23:13
exact thing as you on Instagram but you
23:14
decided to get it sat on your face it's
23:16
just like damn bro there might be some
23:17
unpacking that we need to do right there
23:19
because there's no reason why you should
23:20
want to do that you know what I'm saying
23:21
but I think I think you know for some
23:23
reason we as a society have come to the
23:25
conclusion that it's easier to get on if
23:27
I just clone myself right if I just hide
23:29
my authenticity and I just become you if
23:31
I just do everything that you do then I
23:33
should get on because my Lane is already
23:35
you know you know what I'm saying it's
23:37
all established exactly I don't have to
23:38
do the work of trailblazing when
23:40
somebody's already stepped that way so
23:41
if I just do that it's easier and and me
23:43
being somebody who like I can't do that
23:45
you know what I'm saying I I just
23:46
suppress them out that's authenticity so
23:48
that I could portray something and be
23:50
some that's just it's not for me and and
23:53
I find that we end up having
23:54
conversation with other authentic people
23:55
we all see the same stuff like we know
23:57
this we know that Lil Wayne is the
23:59
archetype for everything that people are
24:01
doing right now from the rap music
24:02
changing from drug sellers to drug users
24:04
I'm a rock star now I could do this you
24:06
know and it's the mentality behind it
24:08
and I love Lil Wayne Lil Wayne is an
24:09
enormous influence incredible man shoot
24:12
him a round of applause yeah I've
24:14
watched I remember seeing that man with
24:16
a backpack on his back in the middle of
24:18
his rap career going to school oh yeah
24:20
we hanging out at the club I'm like what
24:22
are you doing with a backpack I got my
24:24
books in this way
24:30
no no
24:32
it is
24:37
[Music]
24:39
what the hell did George give us
24:45
[Music]
24:48
yeah yeah you're gonna get it it's gonna
24:50
put you to work
24:52
listen it already did Hey listen
24:54
citizens
24:56
888-742-3345 King hoodie is here give
24:58
him a round of applies to new EP is
25:00
called glass we're gonna play this song
25:02
we played out the mud which is
25:03
incredible featuring nausea Monet Monet
25:07
yep and then I can't pronounce the other
25:09
artists now second Depot it's like a
25:12
librarian name that's a beautiful name
25:14
yeah all right and then we're gonna play
25:16
glass what is glass about oh glass glass
25:19
is my joint glass is the single that we
25:21
pushing right now it's actually my
25:22
favorite song I've ever created in my
25:24
whole life and it should be the world's
25:25
favorite song favorite song what it's
25:27
about yeah uh it's really just a
25:29
breakthrough it's a breakthrough song
25:30
you know like people ask me why I even
25:32
called it glass because there's nothing
25:33
about glass in the song but it's like
25:35
man this song Just Just represents a
25:37
breakthrough and what breaks better than
25:38
glass all right we're gonna come back
25:40
with King hoodie and some bars this is
25:42
glass Sway in the morning I love it man
25:44
that that one right there is called
25:46
glass it's off the new EP King hoodie
25:48
see citizens if you don't well you
25:50
should know who he is he's been with us
25:52
for years King hoodie raps is where you
25:54
can find him on social King hoodie wraps
25:58
is where you can find them on social
25:59
that's glass off the glass EP you this
26:01
is Tracy said this is your first
26:03
produced song yes yeah it's the first
26:05
time I ever produced a song
26:08
I wrote it I recorded it I mixed it I
26:11
mastered it and I produced it there you
26:12
go man so you got hot water in that
26:14
house now though right
26:15
whatever you need it yeah I've got I've
26:18
got it all man hey man let's celebrate
26:20
we in Miami y'all big round of applause
26:22
King hoodie is here he know what it is
26:24
he's no stranger to the show yeah man he
26:27
rap for us in Miami he's rap for us in
26:30
L.A he's rap for us all over the world I
26:33
want y'all to follow him citizens King
26:35
hoodies raps King hoodie raps you ready
26:38
for this bro you know where you at right
26:39
even in Miami man we bring it with us
26:42
the Valley of the hyena
26:44
[Music]
26:46
okay
26:48
[Music]
27:01
[Music]
27:07
come and get me these shoes ain't
27:09
Giuseppe they too heavy they too big to
27:11
feel a monster keep on stepping just
27:12
accept me how a [ __ ] feel people make
27:14
things messy it's expensive when you get
27:16
the real but that'll mean you blessed
27:18
box Chevys moving through the field I
27:19
realize if the real life isn't real then
27:21
what's the point this ain't a real this
27:22
ain't the joint we on the hills and
27:24
making deals and making millions like a
27:25
pattern about to go get some Jordans
27:27
this ain't Rings just like Saturn them
27:29
versus a [ __ ] matter tell them color
27:30
people matter my thoughts is like dark
27:32
matter to the Windows start to shatter
27:34
every time I speak bladder stop in this
27:36
city and try to stop she say bring
27:37
biggie back every time that I'm looking
27:39
at her this evening and every after is
27:41
like turning another chapter I'm reading
27:43
it like a pastor and spitting it like a
27:44
rapper on set I'm like an actor who
27:46
never get chose for acting but show up
27:48
like calling back is expected [ __ ]
27:50
that's a fact but no it's not as
27:51
confidence and confidently I'm on track
27:53
to be the [ __ ] that you have to hear
27:54
it's obvious some that I'm also this I'm
27:56
also one
28:04
coming off the ivy Shore and you know
28:07
I'm balling all these [ __ ] taking
28:08
notice did he banking in the beaming and
28:10
I whip it like I stole it gimme green
28:12
and watch me roll it I can show you how
28:14
to do this up top cause you know I gotta
28:16
do a short shot just like the short shot
28:18
oh it's me and sway each and every
28:20
[ __ ] day and imma show you who I be
28:22
rocking with Heather B um
28:31
like this can I stand up say I hope that
28:36
I could be like you I hope that I can
28:38
make it through I hope that though I
28:40
represent the hope and not the dope
28:42
inside my city streets I hope they know
28:43
how much this city means to me in it
28:45
like a B and B catch me out in NMB
28:47
hanging with the people who know they
28:49
feed off my energy enemies better be
28:52
I'll make it out the jungle where I'm
28:53
from with [ __ ] peddling that dope and
28:55
all the scammers call you dumb what you
28:57
rapping that should take too long we
28:58
trying to get active no subtraction
29:00
division long and money keep on stacking
29:02
ever lacking and never acting like this
29:04
is a wrong but see what happened Karma
29:05
overlaps and one day we'll be gone
29:07
that's why I tell them imma get it man
29:09
on each and every song cause every time
29:10
I'm on the mic might be the last time
29:12
that I'm on true story I remember when
29:14
Zoe and true story was passing flies
29:17
outside in the rain next day in the
29:19
range there's something to my brain I
29:21
knew I had to change to find a way to
29:22
make a change and so I formed a company
29:24
for income house of pain and now I Make
29:27
It Rain I form the clouds on Hurricane
29:28
still remember how I came to be in this
29:31
position I'm in now when I walk inside
29:33
events they say that City that's him he
29:35
be snapping though he rapping all the
29:37
places he been I seen him on that swear
29:39
in the Morningside for rep for the crib
29:40
no I've been super credible I'll make
29:42
this Unforgettable forgetful ass [ __ ]
29:44
ain't forgiving you compared to what you
29:46
did for them compared to what they did
29:48
for you look go and get a better View
29:49
and see what hoodie did for you minus
29:51
all the jokes and all the games and all
29:53
the ridicule when these [ __ ] were sick
29:55
of you who stopped them getting rid of
29:56
you dog you can Envy me an Envy you but
29:59
Imma Be the MVP at NMB until it's
30:02
through
30:03
um feeling revengeful I'm feeling like a
30:05
million bucks shits getting eventful and
30:07
I wanna count a mill for us I'm coming
30:09
along from a long long way away A Long
30:11
Way from my home doing things my mama
30:13
don't condone I'm feeling closer than
30:15
I've ever been before to the feeling you
30:17
can't buy inside no store to the feeling
30:19
you need God makes what's a lassie mix
30:21
with Jesus to get taught to the feeling
30:22
like we winning Awards we winning we
30:24
went to war with the devil and we came
30:26
back with a Baptist went to war with my
30:28
weakness and I came back with an actress
30:30
who went to war with her weekend and lay
30:31
her back on my map I wish that all us
30:33
could see as we jump from status to
30:35
statuses Palace to palaces challenge to
30:38
chalices challenge the Challenger and
30:40
came back in the Challenger army fatigue
30:42
on my arm Bruce Banner to Bannister if
30:44
I'm on with these teenagers on then
30:45
what's gonna happen to us karma is my
30:48
armor like Muhammad Jeffrey Dahmer bring
30:49
the drama while your mama sit outside
30:51
and smoke the ganja look smoking
30:53
marijuana IX Mary if she Wanna Marry Me
30:55
Marry Juwanna and she left me with a
30:57
seat I'm screaming it's a new world it's
30:59
a different place to be I wanna be like
31:01
b i g and 93 I Pusha SUV riding down
31:05
Sunshine with the T-top rapping while my
31:07
[ __ ] makes the beat I'm screaming this
31:09
one hey hey hey we in the five fingers
31:13
that's beat number four we got 10 hoodie
31:15
right here good morning
31:27
Say Say
31:29
you gotta Reese to come and get me
31:32
issues ain't Giuseppe they too heavy
31:34
they too big to feel the monster keep on
31:36
stepping look imma come correct every
31:38
time that I do it These [ __ ] Gotta
31:40
understand King hoodie I'm too fluid
31:42
real rap music this is how the [ __ ] I do
31:44
it imma tell you every day even though I
31:46
go through it I still go through it oh
31:48
coming up the top no pattern pen No
31:50
doubting friends and knowing who could
31:51
depend on way at the end imma do this
31:54
[ __ ] for real I'm a copy Copperfield say
31:56
imma do this [ __ ] for real me I'm a
31:57
David Copperfield I came up here to have
31:59
some fun King video I'm number one I'm
32:01
shining like the [ __ ] son and busting
32:03
like a [ __ ] gun uh every time a [ __ ]
32:06
do it hey hey every time a [ __ ] do it
32:09
hey hey every time a [ __ ] do it hey hey
32:13
hey
32:15
hey hey hey
32:17
hey every time a king do it what we say
32:22
um
32:24
oh I say imma jump on track to bring my
32:27
city back no kitty rap I bring you back
32:28
to life I'm Frankenstein with every
32:30
single thing I write I like to pop out
32:32
late at night and let you know just what
32:33
I like like Hannibal I'm about to bite
32:35
and thank you for your sacrifice [ __ ]
32:37
look God level Talent is what I'm
32:39
speaking on I challenge any [ __ ] and
32:41
balance of [ __ ] I'm speaking on I'm like
32:43
hey I will practice but passionate when
32:44
the TV on can't see me [ __ ] must have a
32:46
Stevie on thick glasses bigger than a
32:49
dream and better than what you imagine
32:50
I've been sitting in the crib writing
32:52
these verses like an attic uh I hold the
32:55
roof up like an attic [ __ ] know I hold
32:57
the truth up so they happy I'm back at
32:58
it look Classic on these flows like the
33:01
show toes they got a good for COV but
33:03
they ain't trying to sell those they
33:05
trying to make a billy Center Millie
33:06
straight to hell they know you silly
33:08
[ __ ] really win quarantine yourself so
33:10
a mathematician give everything I have
33:12
to get it I'm like the future plus the
33:14
past and prison I know you Soldier soul
33:16
for Earth and know you mad you did it so
33:18
on this verse I sent you back to get it
33:20
understand me look do it for the crib
33:22
man I do it for the family I've been
33:24
ripping all these verses cause I gotta
33:26
do it amply uh and you know I gotta kill
33:28
it how I gotta do and everything I gotta
33:30
do everything I call in all these shots
33:32
I'm making [ __ ] notice and everything
33:34
I do requires a great big focus and I'm
33:37
gonna tell you exactly what I'm in until
33:39
that Lotus coming around the street and
33:41
all these pretty [ __ ] notice I gotta
33:43
spit my verses off the top of my brain
33:45
this house of pain and imma tell you
33:46
what I'm doing Liu Kang I'm kicking
33:48
flame off and I've been doing it at
33:50
SiriusXM uh when they say that City they
33:53
gonna recognize that's him uh and I'll
33:55
be killing it every time hoodie drilling
33:57
it no Chicago [ __ ] but I'll be on my
33:59
[ __ ] shout out to Danny Agnew man I hate
34:01
it had to be you but that's my [ __ ]
34:03
from the grave and imma do it every day
34:05
for you and now never [ __ ] play with
34:08
you that's how I be doing each and every
34:10
[ __ ] way I'm through and through the
34:11
realest [ __ ] that you've ever seen the
34:13
coldest [ __ ] on the movie screen and
34:15
you know that is me King hoodie
34:17
[Music]
34:17
[Applause]
34:19
[Music]
34:23
thank you
34:24
[Music]
34:30
[Applause]
34:37
through this man and that's all right
34:40
and that is the reintroduction of the
34:43
five fingers five fingers King hoodie
34:46
just rebranded it we don't say Five
34:48
Fingers of Death no more oh we just say
34:50
five fingers cause it's meant to bring
34:52
your career some life hey okay hey King
34:55
hoodie man you heard that man that's a
34:57
true MC give it up you King hoodie thank
35:01
you thank you thank you for the DJ DB
35:03
man bring your five fingers
35:06
bro yeah all right hey killed it love
35:10
you brother man I love you too sway I
35:12
love all y'all man
35:14
yo this is my first time I mean you but
35:16
I've always heard your voice
35:19
yeah I thought he was a doctor for a lot
35:21
every time I listen I'm like oh this is
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a doctor that they got online
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yo thank you King hoodie listen uh
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citizens this is somebody we stamped and
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approved make sure you get the EP glass
35:38
this man is an all-around well-balanced
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individual who constantly evolves and if
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you ever see him he only gives us great
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energy I have no idea what happened in
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his day today but he always comes with
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great energy and we appreciate it you're
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very talented and the industry needs to
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take note but you don't need the
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industry you got the people and I see
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where you're hitting them from okay stay
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with the people I tell artists that all
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the time I didn't do radio for the
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industry so that's why I don't care what
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they have to say that's right I have no
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interest in what the industry has to say
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about me that's right chart wise or any
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other thing right I always communicated
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with the people from day one and that's
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what you do so you talked about being
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noticed and you talked about double XL
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and all these different places and some
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of your songs rather the industry
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recognizes you or not the people will
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and that's how you will sustain because
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that's what you're talking to okay my
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man and then they'll come on board the
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industry will follow suit right King
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hoodie get that man a round of applies
36:39
make the whole staff here at SiriusXM
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here in Miami yo y'all
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they come they're friendly
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yeah man you walk around New York you
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got a force a hide
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oh my God
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New York man they got it hey we might be
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moving to Miami yeah yeah man salute to
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my team
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