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Oct 17, 2022
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[Applause]
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hold it for me
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now it's only me
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[Applause]
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man since the last time we've seen this
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young man he got Grammys now he's been
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on the Grammy stage yeah Grammy
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nominated been on the Grammy stage
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um became a voice of a generation not
0:21
and not you know I don't even know if it
0:22
was intentional it was just this man
0:24
speaking from his heart uh from in
0:27
different music and we watched it glow
0:29
up to blow up I I played that clip right
0:31
there I think that may have been the
0:33
first time you and I ever sat down and
0:35
talked yeah we did MTV we were doing TRL
0:38
and then you came back on the show that
0:40
time and came here this way in the
0:42
morning and now when I look at artists
0:44
talk about who their favorite artist is
0:45
they say you ain't that something okay
0:48
it's a blessing for sure it's a blessing
0:50
for sure man and then he came in here
0:52
and he don't even have change on Heather
0:53
I think well you make that much money
0:55
that you don't wear chains you gotta
0:57
celebrate that okay keep it up for the
0:59
one and only little baby man
1:01
that's what's up hold up man
1:05
he brought up he brought a I want to say
1:07
a a a Memphis National Treasure with him
1:10
right now
1:11
damn you from Memphis right yeah yeah
1:14
she's from Memphis she signed with QC
1:16
now too right yep okay give it up for
1:19
gloss look at glosses on it
1:23
I like that last time you didn't come
1:25
with an artist that's where we moving
1:27
now what's going on yeah I got it
1:29
already with me yeah man yeah so you and
1:32
that CEO role now yeah you know I'm
1:34
co-ceo you co-cio CEO all right uh well
1:37
good to have you back man are you uh are
1:40
you excited about the new project
1:41
definitely excited definitely excited
1:43
man I'm glad to be back okay all right
1:45
back roller when I when I look at that
1:47
album cover
1:48
um I find it quite interesting you know
1:51
it's only me and I was asking about this
1:53
song Hey when it's a scene in this video
1:55
where I see you surrounding you
1:57
different figures of you surrounding you
2:00
and then when I listen look at the title
2:02
this album it's only me I start
2:04
wondering what is the correlation with
2:06
the goats on the end on the album as
2:08
well do you see yourself as the goat
2:11
uh I see myself running with the goats
2:14
okay break that down what does that mean
2:16
like
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I don't gotta just say I'm a goat but
2:19
I'm with the ghost like me sitting down
2:22
with the ghost I'm actually there with
2:23
them then when we started it was like
2:27
it was kind of like a spin-off from my
2:29
turn my turn the ghost was like on top
2:31
then now it's like they on the bottom
2:33
and I'm like right there where the ghost
2:35
at first I was like on the left I mean a
2:39
ledge yeah now I'm like right down there
2:41
with the ghost like I'm right in the
2:42
mixture with the ghost you're
2:44
competitive like that as an artist yeah
2:46
a little bit yeah it's important to be
2:49
at the top right no it's definitely okay
2:50
all right believe it not even that I'm
2:52
competitive because I don't really see
2:53
nobody else like like honestly like oh
2:56
look at no what nobody else doing that
2:58
so I just go hard for me one of the
3:01
things I appreciate about you man little
3:02
baby is here man it's just good to see
3:04
you met a dude yeah [ __ ] teeth
3:07
look like two million dollars right now
3:08
Jesus
3:16
Dr Reeves
3:18
I got the best teeth in the world yeah
3:21
yeah keep the you keep you know you have
3:24
a chronic allitosis nothing like that
3:25
you keep the breath clean every thing
3:27
Smooth you're pretty good on your oral
3:29
on your hygiene and all of that more
3:31
than anything you shower daily
3:36
yeah for sure
3:38
okay
3:39
all up in his own place some people
3:42
probably don't baby come on I know
3:44
people who don't bathe every day yeah
3:45
that's an honest question right there
3:48
I'm every morning you're a night shower
3:50
or a daytime shower it depends on like I
3:53
know a lot of people don't get in their
3:54
bed dirty but if I'm super tired I go to
3:56
sleep like my people there give me new
3:58
sheets and stuff like that if I know I
4:00
was like super dirty or something I tell
4:01
them to fish my shoes for the most part
4:03
I take a shower in the morning when I
4:05
wake up so you have people now that that
4:07
just kind of take care of the house for
4:09
you because she's good I love cleaners
4:10
yeah they live with you or they come in
4:12
it's coming every day every day yeah
4:15
well a lot of times
4:18
a lot of times a lot of times I'm gone
4:20
so now I gotta come when we gone
4:22
how did you get adjusted to that life
4:24
because you know little baby like you I
4:25
made some money in my career too
4:30
compounds company
4:32
from QC no he's been seeing me do this
4:35
for a long time man you know but I had
4:37
to get adjusted to having an organizer
4:39
come in my house and clean up and you
4:42
know somebody to do my yard in L.A and
4:45
clean the pool that was a flex right
4:47
there y'all you know I I couldn't get
4:50
used to it because that wasn't my
4:51
lifestyle but see it's different now for
4:53
you you're bigger you know bigger name
4:55
bigger brand made more money was that an
4:58
easy transition to you know step into
4:59
luxury
5:01
kind of but kind of not because a lot of
5:04
stuff in luxury is different from where
5:05
I come from on convolution but then it's
5:08
like I kind of wanted this stuff I I
5:10
wanted this I wanted that luxury so once
5:11
I got it it wasn't that hard to
5:13
transform it like that's what I wanted
5:14
anyway okay man do you do you uh my last
5:18
question all right because I saw Will
5:20
Smith once on uh on night on the night
5:23
show I don't know if it was Jimmy Fallon
5:24
or Jimmy Kimmel and he said he only
5:27
wears his socks and underwear once and
5:30
then he doesn't wear them again he wears
5:33
a brand new pair of underwear and socks
5:35
every single day me too
5:37
where sauce tank top boxes I throw them
5:39
away when I get done because most of the
5:42
time I'm on the road so I don't just
5:43
want to carry dirty clothes
5:46
that's why you should do
5:48
that that's a really little baby ask me
5:50
what you how you do yours you probably
5:52
just package dirty clothes
5:54
pretty much
5:56
imagine how that dirty clothes would be
5:58
auctioned though the amount of people
6:00
that would put up bread I'll come back
6:02
yeah what kind of when I watch your
6:06
documentary by the way around whoever
6:07
did that I'm not gonna I'm just okay go
6:10
ahead Heather go ahead because I've been
6:12
talking about that documentary seriously
6:14
since I saw it really I I loved it I
6:18
loved it and I know you don't know much
6:20
about like sway was talking about his
6:21
career I actually did a documentary back
6:25
reality TV back when it first started in
6:27
1992. it's very I did the real world in
6:30
in New York the first one ever she's the
6:32
first African-American reality TV star
6:35
in history so this is before Love and
6:38
Hip Hop
6:39
um
6:40
there was a real world on MTV in New
6:42
York and I did the first season so it's
6:44
very hard for me to watch like any kind
6:46
of document documentaries or reality
6:49
because I know how it's made it just
6:51
don't get my interest like it looks set
6:53
up you can see it absolutely I was
6:56
fascinated by what you did I literally I
6:59
turned it on and I had to sit down on my
7:01
couch and I never took my eyes off the
7:03
screen appreciate it I think you were
7:06
were honest in a way where
7:09
I was surprised because I respect where
7:11
you come from and it's not about putting
7:14
your business out there and putting your
7:15
stuff out there and exposing your people
7:17
and your friend like you handled it with
7:19
so much tact and so much honesty and I
7:22
was like in my living room clapping at
7:25
certain conversation about the Grammys
7:27
and why you chose to just do it anyway
7:29
like it was beautiful and I just wanted
7:32
to say congratulations to you for that
7:34
like you made me my nephew is here he
7:37
made me of like he introduced me to you
7:40
years ago like who you were but I became
7:42
like a personal bigger fan after
7:45
watching you I appreciate that real talk
7:47
thank you for doing it and I think
7:49
everybody needs to watch that I don't
7:51
care how old you are people need to
7:53
watch your dice it's amazing I thank you
7:54
that means a lot should anybody talk you
7:56
into doing it or just something that you
7:58
did you have to be convinced it was P I
8:01
do but we shouted like a little small
8:02
documentary before a couple years ago so
8:05
he was kind of already
8:07
in a group of live streaming documentary
8:09
so when it first came and then that's
8:11
like what he was saying as far as like
8:12
the adjusting and like people around in
8:14
order for me to shoot a documentary I
8:16
had to have a camera guy like wait a
8:17
minute yeah it wasn't my personal camera
8:19
guy so it was like a new guy who I just
8:21
met so and then that's why like
8:23
documentary really don't have a lot of
8:25
to me you don't have a lot of stuff in
8:27
it because I ain't let it count now that
8:29
I see the documentary I wish I would
8:30
have let him like be with me a little
8:32
more so I could have showed more but you
8:34
ain't really getting a lot done because
8:35
he was in Atlanta for like two months
8:37
but I only let him come to my house a
8:38
couple times like I just got you you
8:40
were still a little guarded but I think
8:42
that's what was honest about it if that
8:44
makes sense right okay you know what I
8:46
mean like I could tell right like I
8:48
could tell like it wasn't too much but
8:51
it was enough right and it was like you
8:52
know what you got room for a part two
8:54
you know what I mean so well done y'all
8:57
for real I loved it all right little
8:59
baby is here man Tracy I know you have
9:01
something for him oh yeah absolutely I
9:03
mean baby when you have mentioned not
9:06
coming from luxury which is obvious
9:08
um but it also brought me back to this
9:10
first single that's so strong off this
9:11
new project hey and at the end of um the
9:15
first verse you talk about how young
9:17
boys back in your hood are Walling and
9:19
how they're focused on killing and how
9:22
what to me I interpret as feeling heavy
9:24
on your shoulders because you can't be
9:26
there to fix the problem so you focused
9:29
on being a positive Voice through your
9:30
music and it made me wonder like how
9:33
challenging or maybe not challenging has
9:35
it been at this level of your career to
9:38
make peace with the fact that you can't
9:39
help everyone
9:41
I always wanted to
9:43
the biggest lessons I had to learn and
9:45
then like I feel like that's how I'm
9:46
getting further and further about just
9:48
understanding that like I'm not gonna be
9:50
able to help everybody
9:51
as I want to or bad as I would like to
9:53
it's just not gonna happen or it's not
9:55
good for you just helping everybody
9:57
that's real
9:59
a little baby is here man uh let's go
10:02
let's go back to how you're living
10:05
um
10:08
can't get over the drawers
10:11
change those socks every single day when
10:13
I um look at the album and I you know I
10:16
I see Thug on it you know
10:18
um and it just only obviously we all you
10:21
know wishing the best for him and Gunner
10:23
uh do you maintain any communication
10:25
with them right now for sure yeah what
10:27
can you tell us
10:29
um I think they actually go to court
10:31
today okay so by the time we get off get
10:33
out of the interview maybe we'll know
10:35
some good news yeah
10:38
for the most part it's like the same old
10:40
thing they just trying to get a bun but
10:42
I definitely talk to them I know how I
10:43
feel to be in that situation so I like
10:45
reach out to their parents stuff make
10:47
sure they could okay so you oh you type
10:49
in with the family like what do you do
10:51
like what you've been in a situation
10:53
what works when you're in that situation
10:55
people sometimes who are on the outside
10:57
don't know how to really respond a lot
11:00
of times you're in a tight situation
11:01
like
11:03
you might know your phones might not be
11:05
as easily accessible you know what I'm
11:07
saying you might not have somebody to
11:09
move for you the way you want to move or
11:11
people that you do have moving and
11:13
moving on daytime because you're in a
11:15
situation you never really you can do
11:17
right
11:19
so as far as for me I just know if you
11:22
got somebody on the outside you know you
11:23
could depend on a little bit you can
11:25
kind of sleep better okay that's what's
11:27
up when writing this album how long did
11:29
it take you to put this album together
11:31
well I haven't draw the album in like
11:33
two years so some of those songs two
11:35
years old something on two weeks so okay
11:37
that's why I like put so many because I
11:39
just want to like go on and just put
11:40
those songs out then start fresh again
11:43
start fresh again what what how do you
11:45
see yourself now we telling you how
11:46
everybody else see you in the game do
11:48
you see yourself as still working I'm
11:50
still trying to get to it yeah I feel
11:51
myself working harder than never but I
11:53
look at myself as becoming or slowly
11:56
changing into the man I want to be and
11:58
who is that what do you see what's that
12:00
Vision
12:01
um great father good entrepreneur
12:04
somebody got their business intact
12:07
came before we
12:09
[ __ ] that can't be [ __ ] with them
12:11
that's all I heard right there
12:15
um I I in my experience and you don't
12:18
know what you read about it one day you
12:20
know I've had my hand in a few
12:21
businesses not all of them worked right
12:23
right a few of them failed I made some
12:25
decisions that didn't go good you know
12:28
um have that has that happened for you
12:30
and then how did you respond to that
12:31
definitely it happened to me
12:34
well I feel like I'm a win with like
12:36
investing and stuff like I'm a gambler
12:37
already that's what I do on a way
12:40
smaller levels so to me it's like making
12:43
Investments like a safer gamble so I I
12:46
actually lost millions in this and what
12:48
so I don't make the same mistake um and
12:50
I crypto
12:53
wow and crypto yeah but
12:58
I mean I I made money too okay and
13:01
crypto I made money in crypto before I
13:04
lost it you know what I'm saying so it's
13:05
like an up and down thing how do you
13:07
approach crypto now you know when you
13:09
invest I'm kind of I'm kind of on a back
13:11
end right now for crypto I got a like a
13:13
crypto team I'm trying to see was what
13:16
cause some people I I be just asking
13:17
them like it's crypto dead and like nah
13:20
so my crypto people they got a lot of
13:22
faith in crypto still so I'm not sure
13:24
what's
13:26
gonna happen with it okay would you put
13:29
your kids uh uh in private schools or
13:32
would you let them go to public schools
13:34
right now they go to private school they
13:35
go to private school private school okay
13:37
you prefer that over public school for
13:39
educational reasons for Atlanta reasons
13:41
just because I'm from Atlanta I mean
13:43
like maybe we stayed out of town or
13:45
something we can go to uh not even then
13:48
just like we celebrities I don't want
13:49
them in a public school but if I was
13:51
like a regular dad like I want them to
13:52
go to public school just for more like
13:54
the Privacy and safety in a private
13:56
school private school and the safety uh
13:59
yeah mentioned in Atlanta uh and we talk
14:01
about Thug and we talk about you know
14:03
gonna you know it does seem like Atlanta
14:06
uh right now is uh you know just under
14:08
the microscope you know especially
14:10
artists uh what D.A has been very vocal
14:13
and open about with her intention things
14:15
are what even Gang Lifestyle in Atlanta
14:19
um how does that impact you as a writer
14:21
in the music that you make
14:25
um
14:26
it definitely give me a
14:29
a thought you know I'm saying all that
14:30
type of stuff is always in my head when
14:32
I am rapping so that's what more comes
14:34
in well I I gotta leave rise up I see
14:37
what they trying to do to us you know
14:38
what I'm saying it's not like [ __ ] all
14:40
right
14:41
I'm gonna try to voice something
14:42
different then when they trying to do
14:44
this
14:44
okay at this level though then what's
14:47
the hardest well I don't want to use the
14:49
word hard but where do you feel like you
14:51
spend the most Time When approaching a
14:52
project is it deciding who you want to
14:55
collab with is it having a discipline of
14:57
just going in the studio and just
14:59
working it out or is it actually now
15:01
taking these songs from that point and
15:03
Performing them on stage where do you
15:05
find yourself spending like the most
15:07
time before the project even starts and
15:09
figuring out what direction you want to
15:11
go in or the the collaborative
15:13
uh
15:16
I already spent a lot of time on either
15:18
one of those I kind of just doing like I
15:21
just rap make a song If I feel like I
15:22
want to put somebody on it I put
15:24
somebody on it you don't never have
15:26
people in mind for a song No afterwards
15:29
maybe oh wow intentionally so like after
15:32
I get done or
15:33
after I if I do it's the only time I
15:35
think of somebody else is like if I do
15:37
half of a song and I ain't finish it so
15:39
it's like a half song and I'm like who I
15:41
can send this to in my head and I'll
15:42
send it to somebody but if I make it
15:44
most of the time when I record I make
15:46
the whole song oh wow okay do you decide
15:49
in advance like how long you want your
15:51
project to be because it's been
15:53
interesting looking at the different um
15:54
changes in the soundscape of Music how
15:56
you'll have a lot of people who have
15:58
short projects you know and I'm even
16:00
thinking back to 444 and I think that
16:02
was like eight songs something like that
16:04
and you deciding to have 20 plus and so
16:06
many conversations about you know folks
16:08
saying yo it's best to have shorter
16:11
songs now shorter projects other artists
16:14
that are like nah I'm not trying to cut
16:16
my craft in half how did you decide how
16:18
many songs that you wanted to I honestly
16:20
feel like
16:21
to me
16:23
I would prefer to drop lessons less it
16:26
just seems like it made more sense to me
16:27
but since I hadn't dropped the album in
16:29
two years that's why I got so many songs
16:31
on them but if I had just dropped like
16:33
nine months ago or something or I plan
16:35
on dropping again in like nine months I
16:37
can go for like 13 14 something yeah
16:40
okay that makes sense you want to feed
16:41
the people [ __ ] remember when albums had
16:43
to be an hour long yeah
16:48
it's like a song let me know they got it
16:50
but it only got to be like I think eight
16:52
songs or something to be considered out
16:54
eight songs to be an album now oh wow it
16:57
used to have to it had to be a time it
16:59
had to be at least 60 Minutes long to be
17:01
considered a LP versus an EP right yeah
17:04
a long program versus the edited program
17:07
five songs and you're good people
17:09
mixtapes be big like five songs right
17:12
yeah man I see p here man QC man give
17:15
them a big round of applause
17:18
[Applause]
17:23
little baby liked it look that's the CEO
17:26
with it
17:27
your relationship with QC seems to be
17:30
unique can you talk about that what is
17:31
your relationship with QC I know it's
17:33
every successful platform always has you
17:36
know controversy behind it after success
17:38
but your relationship is seemed to be
17:41
really solid can you can you build on
17:43
that well
17:45
you seem more like a family thing to me
17:47
yeah it ain't like I like I explained in
17:50
the past like I didn't like get signed
17:53
to QC like I was around [ __ ] you serious
17:55
QC you know what I'm saying like I
17:56
remember when P came in the house like I
17:58
need to come up with a name for my
17:59
labeling like he made you seem like
18:05
like some other folks had a number label
18:08
there's like one I want to go with
18:09
numbers I'm just him being in the house
18:12
giving ideas out like oh then he came up
18:14
with like quality control
18:17
so like that makes sense to you like
18:20
that that could kind of like tell you
18:21
how deep I am and this was before I was
18:23
a rapper or anything or anything so like
18:26
QC to me is like gonna always be
18:28
different I don't think you unless
18:30
somebody kind of grew up or came up with
18:32
a CEO like I did I don't think you're
18:34
gonna see a relationship like me and P
18:35
yeah that's good to know I salute that I
18:39
salute that
18:41
hey man I've been in the white house
18:42
before what was that like for you I know
18:44
you was there for a particular reason
18:46
but you know it is the White House it's
18:48
a great experience
18:49
you know growing up and stuff you always
18:52
imagine like what's going on in the
18:54
white house and stuff yeah and once you
18:55
go in there you see it like really like
18:56
them TV shows everybody walking around
18:59
everybody in the office like secret life
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in there yeah it's definitely
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interesting do you got through that
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what's that well they got the uh not the
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FBI who they got up there yeah yeah that
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secret service was they on you though
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all right I actually took a picture with
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a couple of them a word
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that's a different type of flex be
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careful little baby hanging out with the
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Secret Service
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who's gloss I just got it just real
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quick who is she guys is a new Irish
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from Memphis you ready for this yeah
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what's up what's happening how you doing
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how you doing Hey listen give it up the
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gloss you know you can't come in here I
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can't say hi to you you put out some
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music I've seen you on the YouTube how
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long you been rapping I might be rapping
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since I was a little girl yeah who who
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who did you uh who influenced you like
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my mama she was like real screwed
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because I used to listen to girls like
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that was my age like a lot of You Know
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lyrics stuff like people like that yeah
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yeah yeah and then when did you hear her
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uh I actually had a
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um
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so
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um
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I'll be on YouTube I'm saying like I
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seen gorilla first
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then I just started like I seen shoes
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like in a group of like five or six
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months I just started like looking up
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all and I even called people like you
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seen your girl before you like I'm
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already on it and that's how I seem damn
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so y'all really be scouting huh yeah on
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YouTube you excited what you most
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excited about I'm getting ready for
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everything like I'm ready to be in his
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position yeah okay oh damn sound like
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she trying to take your position here
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baby
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that's how I'm supposed to go just real
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quick it must feel like you're in a
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dream yeah doesn't it
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yeah we ain't gonna slap you we going to
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apply
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okay all right when you ready come back
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up here and sit and talk with us I will
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okay we're gonna do nothing to show you
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love absolutely all right but bring some
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bars thank you okay Frank thank you
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bring those bars brother I want to thank
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you for coming through man appreciate
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y'all man man just a few minutes of your
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time brother okay it's always a pleasure
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man uh give it up a little baby it's
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only me it's out tomorrow okay check out
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that Mount Rushmore
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now Mount Rushmore pit let's get it
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let's get it man
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um and uh we're gonna play Hey again to
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end this gloss thank you for being on
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the show thank you this way in the
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morning yes okay uh um also we want to
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thank all the guests that came on the
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show this week can you name some of them
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moo moo fresh today
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G herbo yesterday I mean two days ago
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Nigel Sylvester y'all been lit yeah yeah
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we stay here
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I'm throwing my socks away as soon as I
21:45
get old come back and the drawers in the
21:48
drawers
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yeah these boxers seen a lot
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[Laughter]
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P you gotta come back we gotta sit down
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and talk again man you cool with that so
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okay you oh you off camera today
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all right man thank you citizens um
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Heather B how can they reach you I'm at
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the happy hour with whb h Billy in a
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building it's a feeling Tracy G that is
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Tracy g i t s your a-c-y-g everywhere
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hey yo gloss how can I reach you glitter
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girl gloss everywhere there you go
22:23
Taurus what about you
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add torch and turn
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t-o-r-c-h-i-n-g-t-o-n-d-b
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that's really DB everywhere and y'all
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know how to reach little baby come on
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baby everywhere you know what it is I
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really swear y'all have a beautiful day
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and on that note we have nothing left to
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say
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