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Jan 14, 2021
Lil Kim talked to Sway about narrating the second season of BET’s “American Gangster: Trap Queens.” The series will chronicle the lives of some of the illest female criminals that have lived. Kim called into Sway In The Morning to talk about and much more. Check out the interview below.
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let me tell y'all something let me tell
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you something
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that was on rap fix uh man that was on
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rap fix it was
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uh the first streaming live show of its
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kind and she was the biggest artist to
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come on that show
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and help launch it and make it
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historical to this point we talking
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grammy award winnings
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songwriter tv personality fashionista
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uh trendsetter the one and only the
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iconic give it up for lil kim ladies and
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gentlemen
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[Applause]
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hey kids hey it's always a pleasure oh
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my goodness
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the way you already know you're a family
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yeah you know
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kim kim and i man i never forget we sat
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on the plane next to each other
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and rolled a hole oh yeah and it was
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just an amazing
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you know kim i never talked we never
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when we touched on it but
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that was an amazing moment for me you
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know to sit on the plane with you that
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entire time and then we just really
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chopped off
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as people you know what i mean and i
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thought that yeah
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yeah yeah i know it was a
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yeah it's a real cool moment yo what did
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you think of me
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wow you i thought you were the best
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um sitting partner on the plane to be
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sitting next to
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god yeah yeah she was like i wouldn't
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want it no one else sitting there
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you felt safe uh uh wow
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it's good to hear your voice so much
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that's been going on for you recently
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and i really just wanna
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i'm curious to how did you make because
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i follow you on instagram and during the
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pandemic it looked like you were having
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a lot of fun
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so well you know i mean it's a pandemic
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sound it's not
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always fun you know what i mean
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in a pandemic you kind of have to make
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the best out of
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you know what you can and what you got
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um
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i'm blessed very blessed beyond and you
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know god is
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always keeping his hand on me and that's
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how you you know i make it through
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because
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in this climate with the pandemic
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better thing close to god that's how
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you know for me it's like you know you
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really have to be
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stay healthy and prayed up and you know
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mm-hmm
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i i didn't realize you're um i guess i
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never even asked you about it but how
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has faith played a role in your life did
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you grow up going to church a lot
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of religions well you know
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it's so funny because i mean i went to
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church a lot but not
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like i wasn't you know tuesday wednesday
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thursday friday
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but like when i got when i became like a
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t when i was a teenager
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my father he was engaged to actually
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a preacher's uh daughter
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he was engaged to this woman her i'll
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never forget her name was sheila
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and we used to have to go to choir
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rehearsal and
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and everything we could take bible study
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everything i mean
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and that wasn't you know us we were
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teenagers we wanted to be in the street
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yeah the street was your church
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yeah you learned a lot the church of the
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streets
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not like i'm not like the you know super
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kumbaya you know religious person but i
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you know i definitely keep my faith
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absolutely that's that's good to hear
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lil kim is here with us we're going to
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be talking about
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american gangster trap queens premiering
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tonight on bt
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she's the narrator of season two you do
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such an excellent job i want to get to
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that
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but when i hear you talking about
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growing up as uh as a teenager
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i think of your daughter you know who's
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amazing as well she got so much
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personality
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uh does it make you nervous that she's
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going to do some of the things you did
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as a teenager
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[Music]
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oh jesus i hope let's hope not
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some of the things i did i don't even
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know if it's still on the
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uh the menu to do these days
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don't find a remix to it trust yeah we
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did some different stuff when we was
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coming up
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but you know i don't know you know my my
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baby definitely
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is she is a superstar already like
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she loves tick tock she loves to dance
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she loves to sing
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she loves to rap like she's just she's a
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little that's my mini me
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for real and um i i vouch to never be a
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hypocrite to her
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you know what i mean whatever she wants
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to do you know i'm a supporter
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i'm going to give my suggestions
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you know it's um you know i would hope
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like
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you know she does things differently
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than i did you know
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but i would never deter her away from
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you know her dreams if she wanted to be
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a superstar
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you know she wanted to be a singer or
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whatever you know
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yeah just like her mom i mean
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huh yeah just like her mother yeah you
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should see
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her she really thinks she's me
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i see her she she's so uh
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charismatic and she's not scared of the
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camera
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you know i tell you kim my daughter my
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daughter is 22 now so
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it's different i can't tell you i can't
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tell her what to do if i wanted to
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um and she's she's solid you know but
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early in her life i was a little
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hesitant to putting her on
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social media like i you know i can
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handle whatever they bring but
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i didn't want my daughter to be
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subjected to that uh
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did you have any apprehension about
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showing your daughter
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on social media and how has that turned
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out
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um yeah you know only because
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you as a mom as a parent you know you're
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just always going to be protective over
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your baby
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you know what i mean and yeah i i
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definitely
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even to this day sometimes like you know
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um
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because you know people are just you
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know people
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are you never just you just don't know
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you know what i mean
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people are crazy out here
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and all kinds of things i i remember one
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time
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and we were it wasn't even just on
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social media but i mean
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i thought i could go shopping with her
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by myself and she was a baby and she was
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in the stroller you know in the couch
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and um this girl came
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up to me and was like oh my god little
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kim
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oh my god is that loyal rain and she
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like went
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straight for her like went to
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grab her out of the stroller wow
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i lost it
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i i snapped i didn't realize that i'm
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like
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what like what possessed a person to do
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that
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you know some people like you know
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your fans sometimes just feel like they
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know you and they just
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they can do anything and i was just like
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and you know she looked at me like oh my
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god
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oh i'm sorry but that's your baby you
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know you're gonna be protective
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that's a lot of gall to pick up somebody
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baby out the uh
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the baby carriage though who does that
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right yeah
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who does that that's crazy that's crazy
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i mean like as if
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as if it was her baby like you just went
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straight
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she ain't changed no diaper she wasn't
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there when you was changing diapers that
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ain't her baby
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you know i'm really really proud of my
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baby she does really really good in
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school
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i had to you know get up and go to
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school with her
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uh the other morning and um she
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got you know 100 on everything and
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a plus she's really really you know
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she's very
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very smart and she's focused and that's
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that's all i i want
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you know she's smart she knows the
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difference you know
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she's gonna come up in a good time too
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let me tell you why and tracy g i'm
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gonna let you jump in
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because my my daughter came up at a time
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when let's say
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she got in president obama really um
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really inspired a lot of kids black kids
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people
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kids of color when he remember that when
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he was coming into office it was like
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wow what the hell is you know we never
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thought we'd see that my grandmother
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said i never thought i'd see a black man
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as president so my daughter the majority
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of her childhood she
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grew up seeing that yeah eight years a
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black man president
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she didn't grow up seeing what i saw now
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that was her normal your daughter will
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get to know a black woman
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as vice president right
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and i saw when biden inherits one that
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you posted that on your instagram
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to you how important is this
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uh kamala harris being a vice president
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let me tell you how important this is
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and
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i don't know if you would remember this
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but you know many years ago
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when i was kind of first coming out as
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an artist
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she was one of the women activists that
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was
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against me okay
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yeah she was against me being a feminist
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you know um she was one of the ones you
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know when i first came houseway like
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that hardcore poster yeah
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like it was everywhere and it was it was
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the
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biggest thing ever and people were
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obsessed
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with this poster and as well as they
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were obsessed with there were a lot of
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people who were offended by it
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for whatever reason and um
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she was one of those people and
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you know she said some you know she said
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some
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not so nice things about me whatever but
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for me it was so important
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oh damn [ __ ] her line just cut out
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oh yeah yeah oh yeah yeah
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whoa crux damn
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her line just hung up wow right at the
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cliff
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what the man give kim a round of
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applause for that cliffhanger man that
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was so radio
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i couldn't even wrote that [ __ ]
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and then and then i think i got my
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sister back queen you there yeah
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um
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yo we was talking about kamala harris
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and then you said
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this is important you know that she when
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you came out with the hardcore poster
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that
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um you got a lot of backlash and i was
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asking you about that
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yeah but you know long story short
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even though she was that way to me i
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will never be that way to the first
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black woman vice president i don't even
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care about
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you know what what her reasonings were
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at the time doesn't even matter like
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you know her being the first black woman
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vice president is is just a huge
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stepping stone for us as women in a huge
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you know just change in in life period
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so
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i'm very happy for her and i supported
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her and i
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supported the president uh
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on my page so you know there it is
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uh bill kell yeah all right we got
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yeah supported by harris um tracy tracy
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g is here she's a big fan kim i know she
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got a quick cut some questions always
12:12
banged
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always been happy we could get you back
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on the line kim i was just thinking
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about how
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you will forever be celebrated past
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present future for so many things
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lyricism
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um for aesthetic obviously
12:27
uh just the way that you carry yourself
12:29
your persona and then it hit me when you
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mentioned your daughter in tik tok and i
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was like yo
12:34
we also got to talk about the iconic
12:37
quiet storm dance the quiet storm dance
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has become
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iconic bruh i love you
12:44
with the squad with the arms out like
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the amount of people
12:49
who attempt to do it on tic tac on
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instagram so
12:52
i need the story kim i need the story
12:55
behind the classic quiet storm dance
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please the floor is yours
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i don't even understand how this became
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a thing
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like i just i know i just i don't
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understand it's the craziest thing but
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i i was i did a show in philly i think
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it was
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you know years ago of course and i just
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that part always has been a breakdown
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part for me
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um in the video like people don't even
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like know this is the first time i've
13:29
ever seen this you guys have it
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exclusive
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but you know i was a huge method man fan
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and one thing that i always used to say
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was like
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he had the illest bounce in the game and
13:44
so
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in the video i do this like i clap my
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hands
13:49
and i like shake my hands together it
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was something that method man used to
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always do
13:54
and i love that he like that dance he
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used to do so
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i used to like i i did that in like
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honor of him and um
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because he had the it was about he had
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to it was bounced to me like his bounce
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was so crazy
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so i did that and then
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after that he he he would
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he was so tall people don't know how
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totally he's very tall
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and he would he would like have to kind
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of like
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you know but he bounced he had this
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bounce that kind of made him
14:30
a little you know shorter because he was
14:32
so tall and then you know
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he blended in with his group but for me
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i had to kind of make it my own
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so i had to come up
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so i you know i kind of you know just
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did that little
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dance and then i come and come up but
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you know it's like
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it's just something and a breakdown on
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that beat that i just wanted to like
15:05
give something different but yeah
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that's my little my little beard listen
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i don't
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understand how that became a thing wrong
15:15
that's so crazy
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you know what it is it's you you it's
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hard not to look at
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you know what i mean like it's something
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when you start
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it's a moment it's a moment every time
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you do it though
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like because it feel like you go into a
15:30
zone yes
15:31
what do you be thinking like what are
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you looking at when you're doing that
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dance okay i'm like
15:35
it looked like you in a zone like by
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yourself like
15:40
[Laughter]
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still to this day it's like it's like a
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new song every time i perform it
15:56
yeah man it goes hard wow we talking
15:58
with lil kim
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american gangster the trap queens
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premiering tonight um
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this is an amazing series i want to get
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into that
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but first ray from michigan is on the
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line ray say what up to the legend
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[Applause]
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all right so i just want to just want to
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uh
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say that um will can you work with my
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sister on the uh
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on the vl um for track plans um
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i'm gonna withhold her name but you she
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was the one who um she
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yeah uh and i just wanted to say that
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you did such a uh
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such a great job i was listening to a
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lot of your videos when i was um working
16:38
from home
16:40
so i just want to say her name uh
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andreina oh my gosh she's the best
16:48
the best the best when i tell you like
16:52
her and i we um we actually
16:55
know each other from like bad boy days
16:58
you know she worked
16:59
you know you you know yeah with puppy so
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um you know and then when we reconnected
17:06
it was like we never left
17:07
she makes me laugh we'd be laughing we'd
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be
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we'd be working and laughing at the same
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time
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oh i heard i was like i don't call him i
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was just in the other room i was the one
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who uh said um
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bringing like uh uh the quiet store
17:21
remix that's the one
17:22
that was that's so when she was yeah
17:25
she's like yeah um so for you to um
17:29
just and you just did like a you just
17:30
did a phenomenal job but you know and i
17:32
just listened to it
17:33
and everybody's going to be really happy
17:35
about traveling she she worked as a uh
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she's a producer um actually supervising
17:40
producer i think on this job
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uh so um you guys can um you guys can
17:45
see it she promotes it um but yeah i
17:48
just
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was just i just simply wanted to say
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that never called in
17:52
never called in the uh swing in the
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morning
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i appreciate you ray like i really do
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and
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i did i had it was different for me you
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know i've done
18:03
voiceovers before because i um sway i
18:06
don't know if you remember this but i
18:08
did a
18:09
cartoon with uh bernie mac and adam
18:12
chandler before you know obviously
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before he passed away
18:15
and um it was yeah and it was called
18:17
little pimp
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i remember that yeah
18:22
i remember that yeah that's right it was
18:25
it was so fun i mean it was so many
18:27
people in that that
18:28
that movie um you know it was like
18:31
ludicrous outcast
18:32
carmen electric it was a lot of us in
18:35
that movie
18:36
and it's funny because i started off
18:37
with a little small role because
18:39
i was like on the road at the time i was
18:41
just you know
18:42
super lit and moving and i
18:45
um i only had a little bit of time to
18:49
dedicate but
18:50
they loved the role of sweet chiffon so
18:52
much that they
18:53
started writing me back in and writing
18:55
me back in
18:57
and um that's how i ended up being a big
19:00
part of that
19:01
you know little pimp and so this is very
19:04
different trap queens is
19:05
very different because it's serious
19:08
we're talking about women's
19:09
lives that you know uh you know who
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really risked their lives and have a lot
19:17
in common with a girl like me from the
19:19
hood
19:20
you know um it's it's intense
19:25
it's intense it's very intense hey ray
19:28
tell your sister she did an excellent
19:29
job
19:30
right uh and we appreciate it okay
19:33
thank you your citizen brother you know
19:38
i watched the story of perrian roberts i
19:40
never knew who she was
19:41
and then um and uh she was
19:44
at self-proclaimed the first queen of
19:47
the south
19:47
um because this was a woman who was a
19:51
highly educated woman um
19:54
you know very uh disciplined
19:58
you know god loving came up in a decent
20:01
household and
20:02
had parents her parents mother and her
20:04
grandmother were very strict
20:06
um and she met men in the streets that
20:08
kind of influenced her to start learning
20:10
how to sell weed then
20:12
then cocaine and then she ended up being
20:15
the queen pen
20:16
and having a relationship with the
20:18
mexican cartel
20:20
and she said her whole life
20:24
got turned upside down that right at
20:27
that very moment
20:28
right after very did you meet her at all
20:31
or you just didn't
20:32
feel i did not get to meet the girls yet
20:35
so i you know what hope you know
20:39
we'll talk more about it later about it
20:40
but you know
20:42
moving forward we might want to do
20:45
something like that you know what i mean
20:47
because
20:48
these women are inspiring too because
20:52
some of these women they kind of they
20:54
turn their life around you know what i
20:55
mean
21:00
and so you know um
21:04
someone gave me and i'm starting using
21:07
this a lot
21:08
these women are the three they're the
21:10
three v's
21:11
uh the villain because you know they
21:13
were villains
21:14
mhm and
21:19
they were villains but at the same time
21:24
they became victorious
21:28
you know with a vengeance
21:32
you know so these women
21:35
carry those three v's
21:38
so um you know
21:41
the it's it's
21:45
girls from the hood watching this story
21:48
maybe a girl from the hood i'm pretty
21:51
sure will be relating to
21:53
a lot of these girls story and um
21:56
maybe they could save some of these
21:58
girls lives and you know save these
22:00
girls from going through the harsh
22:02
struggles that they went through you
22:03
know mm-hmm
22:05
absolutely i agree perrian roberts
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uh ended up going to jail
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and the last time she went to jail she
22:13
picked up law and she started helping
22:15
people behind bars
22:16
um pressing lawsuits against the prison
22:19
and eventually they let her out
22:20
you know um gave her a second chance and
22:24
she's been on that track ever since and
22:26
i think that's amazing
22:27
me too yeah and that's why i
22:30
said these girls they're kind of
22:34
in some sort of way heroes and um
22:38
their stories are very very um
22:40
interesting and
22:41
and amazing at the same time and
22:44
i think you know it's funny because when
22:45
i was coming when i was coming home
22:49
from my situation um
22:52
a few of my girlfriends that i keep kept
22:54
in touch with that are my sisters to
22:56
this day
22:56
you know we always said that we wanted
22:59
to kind of open
23:01
a um kind of like a i don't know maybe
23:04
like a
23:04
a center that helped women get back on
23:07
their feet
23:08
i mean get back on their feet after
23:10
prison because
23:13
a lot of people don't know how hard it
23:16
is for some
23:17
of these women especially they have
23:19
children
23:20
you know what i mean um and
23:24
it's it's a hard thing sometimes for
23:27
women to just get back into it
23:30
even me you know this
23:34
big mega star celebrity or what
23:37
you would think that came home and you
23:38
okay everything's good everybody's good
23:40
but mentally even if
23:43
it's it's a it's something you know that
23:46
you have to
23:48
jump back into and figure out on your
23:51
own and
23:51
you know it's it's not that easy you
23:54
know and i'm pretty sure
23:55
my sister remy would probably say the
23:57
same thing you know
23:59
you learn your way because you know
24:00
you're we smart girls we're not stupid
24:02
but
24:03
you know you know it but i'm pretty sure
24:07
it you know you get i'm pretty sure remy
24:09
went through that rough past year just
24:10
trying to figure it out you know
24:12
yeah yeah that part is interesting like
24:16
i
24:16
it's um you know i got a lot of friends
24:18
the only time i
24:20
uh my experiences have been through
24:22
visiting folks but
24:23
i know i got a lot of people who signed
24:25
up
24:26
into the military and went overseas and
24:29
and
24:30
came back you know a little stressed out
24:32
with ptsd and
24:33
so on and so forth they they they needed
24:36
they needed help to transition from that
24:38
military life back to civilian life and
24:41
i think that's the same thing
24:43
that happens when people um spend time
24:46
away
24:47
they need help to transition from that
24:49
mindset
24:50
to get back into the way a thing you
24:53
agree with that kill
24:54
i totally agree with that because that's
24:57
exactly what i'm saying
24:58
i totally agree with that you know you
25:01
know
25:02
like in when when people have to go away
25:04
to prison
25:06
people are given different times for a
25:08
reason
25:09
you know some people may say
25:13
oh this person only did three months
25:15
this person only did six months
25:17
well guess what
25:21
god only gives a person you know what
25:23
they're gonna handle
25:24
you know what i mean that three months
25:26
might have been like a whole
25:27
two decades for somebody away you know
25:30
what i mean
25:31
yeah you know different people can
25:35
withstand different things
25:36
you know what i mean you know one person
25:39
might have did
25:40
you know five to ten years and
25:44
might not you know it might not have
25:46
been as bad for the person who might
25:48
have
25:48
did only a month ah
25:52
damn the line cut out again yo oh yeah
25:58
why is kim lying keep cutting out
26:01
who's her service i gotta ask kim what's
26:03
her service bill kim is back
26:06
hey kim i got i got an important
26:09
question
26:10
who's your who's your phone service
26:16
i think my phone service might be uh
26:22
mattel
26:24
i don't know what's going on yo but you
26:26
know your phone be dropping right at the
26:28
like at the best parts too
26:34
somebody don't want the world to hear
26:35
this that's right that's what happened
26:37
with truth they try to hold it back they
26:39
don't want to hear the truth
26:41
can't stop it though yeah yeah
26:44
but you were saying something really
26:46
interesting about you know
26:48
uh people adjusting
26:51
um to coming out and different folks
26:54
could take on if different things
26:56
and god yeah i think i think the last
26:58
thing i was saying was um
27:00
there was i remember this clearly there
27:02
was a woman it was around new year it
27:04
was new year
27:04
and um she was boohoo crying i think she
27:07
only had like six months whatever
27:08
but she was woohoo crying and she was
27:10
like um
27:12
you know and i said to her i was like
27:14
girl why are you crying i was like
27:17
it's another year down it's another year
27:19
you closer to your freedom
27:21
you know what i mean um and so i was
27:23
just like
27:24
because new year's did not bother me
27:27
christmas didn't bother me i wasn't i
27:30
was inside for every holiday mind you
27:32
i was inside for you know halloween uh
27:35
easter uh you know new year's christmas
27:38
the only holiday that bothered me was
27:40
thanksgiving because i'm very family
27:42
orientated so that kind of
27:43
that got to me but what i said to this
27:46
woman i'm like
27:47
you're a year closer to your freedom
27:50
girl like why are you crying
27:51
and she was like you know what she you
27:54
know she
27:55
she keeps tearing and then um i think i
27:57
either walked away or i meant to do
27:59
something and she came
28:00
over to me like maybe five minutes later
28:03
and she said you know what kim
28:05
i was boo-hoo crying while i came in
28:06
here but then i just was looking at you
28:09
when you were just
28:10
handling this like and i said she said i
28:12
said
28:13
uh is little kim to be in here handling
28:17
her bed like a g what the heck am i
28:19
crying
28:22
that's true right that's what she said
28:26
and i and i was happy to be able to be
28:28
of inspiration to someone
28:30
yeah because you know so it's just
28:34
that's why i'm saying like some people
28:36
just it doesn't matter you know what i
28:38
mean
28:39
i'm little kim i had more time than this
28:41
woman but this woman
28:43
for her that was like a lifetime for her
28:46
yeah yeah well you you well you little
28:49
kim
28:50
uh but you can't take the word lil
28:52
lightly no you know what i mean
28:54
so there's much more to that small
28:57
package you know they say uh big things
28:59
come in small
29:00
packages you know what i mean
29:05
it was good to hear about that kim and
29:08
you could take pride in this
29:09
you know because you inspire you inspire
29:13
people
29:14
consistently to this day especially in
29:15
the music business
29:17
in music entertainment some folks don't
29:18
even know why they do what they do
29:20
and that you did it first right number
29:22
one and so
29:23
that feminism also empowered people
29:26
and continues to empower people and to
29:29
see that even
29:30
under those circumstances which may seem
29:32
like the worst time of anybody's life
29:35
being you know locked up you were able
29:38
to still
29:38
inspire folks and give hope man is that
29:43
you know how does that make you feel you
29:45
know even i asked
29:48
doctor how does that make you feel it
29:51
made me feel like
29:52
extra extra extraordinaire you know like
29:54
i
29:55
it made me feel extra extraordinary
29:58
i mean you know i feel good when i roll
30:00
around the world touring
30:01
and touching people when people are
30:03
crying and they're happy
30:05
you know and they're crying just because
30:07
you know this just here's a joy for them
30:08
but that was even more it was just as
30:12
rewarding
30:13
you know mm-hmm wow little kim is here
30:16
and then also we even talk about pretty
30:19
little thing
30:21
oh yeah yeah
30:24
[Applause]
30:25
selection yes my collection is
30:28
out now with pretty little thing and i'm
30:32
i was very happy i mean if we did so
30:35
well
30:36
it was it was received very well and i
30:39
it was a long time coming for me you are
30:42
are you uh was this a lifelong dream
30:44
like you did this collaboration with
30:45
this line but it's like it's your line
30:48
oh yeah this is a much
30:51
much way overdue
30:55
you know uh it's a lifelong dream of
30:59
mine
31:00
um what i wanted to be recognized
31:03
as was a real designer and a real
31:05
designer
31:07
stays true to that collection i'm little
31:10
kim
31:11
yeah there's there's outfits that i have
31:14
in mind
31:15
that i want to make that are like omg
31:18
like some of them are like you know
31:21
fabulously
31:22
outrageous but i also
31:25
you know wanted to keep in
31:29
sync with plt's following
31:32
and plt's consumers that's important to
31:35
me
31:35
that's why mark jacobs is one of my
31:38
favorite he's my he's also my best
31:40
friend
31:40
but he's also one of my favorite
31:42
designers because he
31:44
stays true to whatever line he is
31:46
creative directing
31:48
he's great at that and then when you go
31:51
to his line he does his own thing and
31:54
you know a mark jacob's mind versus the
31:57
louis vuitton line
31:58
that's what i want to be able to do for
32:01
other companies and as well as my own
32:03
and that's how you you know that's how i
32:06
would define myself
32:07
as a true designer i love it they'll
32:10
kill me
32:11
look at kim it's a lot of people on the
32:13
phone lines that and they say i just
32:15
want to thank her
32:16
i just want to thank her
32:19
i'll go through them fast
32:22
okay i'm okay with that this is awesome
32:25
all right great we're gonna go to kansas
32:27
we got mary
32:28
mary you got you on the line with little
32:30
kill mary how you doing
32:32
hey hey i'm doing great
32:35
hi mary hey
32:39
i'm just so excited to be talking
32:41
talking to you little kim
32:43
you are inspiration um you are the queen
32:46
bee
32:47
and that's real talk you're legendary
32:49
here you are
32:50
number one that's real wow thank you so
32:54
much i really appreciate that from the
32:56
heart
32:57
hey mary and make sure you're watching
32:59
american gangster trap queens tonight
33:02
on p-e-t you gonna watch that mary you
33:04
gonna watch it
33:05
yeah i'm gonna watch it anything dealing
33:07
with little kim i'm on it
33:12
these women's stories it's going to be
33:14
very interesting as well
33:16
you know you're going to really enjoy it
33:18
like and it's good
33:20
really good mary you're a citizen mary
33:22
thank you for your call
33:24
okay we're going to go to illinois we
33:25
got ikea on the line hey akia
33:28
hey ikea hi ikea
33:32
oh hey i just want you to know i just
33:34
love you
33:35
the world loves you you are number one
33:39
like no one you are you are legendary
33:42
you
33:42
are the bomb like yeah i just love you
33:46
i love you back thank you so much
33:50
that like won my heart
33:53
you a citizen okay your citizen nakia
33:56
you know we give our citizenship kim we
33:59
make them citizens for the show
34:00
all right i like that i like that
34:04
let's go to georgia man salute to
34:06
georgia
34:08
georgia you number one in my book uh art
34:11
art what up brother turn your radio down
34:15
all right you there all right okay how
34:17
are you doing babe
34:20
hi how are you my question real quick is
34:24
have you been asked to do a versus
34:27
and if so we're cool and would you do it
34:31
wait hold on wait hold on bro okay so if
34:35
sasha has she been asked to do a versus
34:36
and then so what who
34:40
so if i if i did immerses i don't know i
34:43
mean
34:44
i i always say me and my sister missy
34:47
would
34:47
we would do a really fun verses just
34:49
because
34:50
it should be fun yeah a celebration is
34:53
you know
34:53
celebration of catalogs and good
34:57
music and you know i really just
35:00
you know i feel like her
35:04
and i because my sister she did some
35:07
things you know
35:08
my our catalog together would just be a
35:12
big party you know
35:15
yeah uh especially
35:18
you know what y'all collabed on you know
35:20
what i mean like yeah good songs y'all
35:23
y'all could do those things together as
35:25
well it'd be amazing kim
35:27
because you are who you are and that
35:30
thing was shut down
35:31
streaming records so facts have you been
35:34
have you been approached
35:35
have you been approached well you know
35:38
swiss beats is like
35:40
that's he's like family so i was
35:42
speaking to him all the time during the
35:44
verses
35:45
and there's so he's funny i wish he
35:47
could talk to him
35:49
he was like kim it's dudes that don't
35:52
want to go with you
35:58
[Applause]
36:00
why you got bangers come on which album
36:03
do you want to pick from
36:04
fan base is crazy like nobody wants to
36:08
go with you and i was like
36:09
nobody wants to play with me
36:15
and he was like you crazy yo sis i
36:19
tried but you know he was he's like it's
36:21
hard to get people
36:22
but it's like i don't know who if it was
36:25
a dude like who would i go with you know
36:27
what i mean like
36:28
but there's some guys out there that
36:30
really would
36:31
you know be super tough competition
36:34
would be like
36:35
50 cent like come on like he's this
36:37
catalog is super dope like it's like
36:40
you know what i mean yeah he came to
36:42
mind for me too that's interesting
36:43
50 came to mind yeah that's yeah
36:47
i don't know if it's just like new york
36:48
new york type of thing too
36:50
i feel like the models will be good
36:53
that's interesting yeah
36:54
but i wouldn't i don't think i wouldn't
36:57
i wouldn't want to go with him
36:58
and i know he probably wouldn't want to
37:00
go with me because it's just we have too
37:02
much we have a lot of history and then
37:04
our music is kind of
37:05
i don't know it's weird we make sense
37:07
but then and again it doesn't make sense
37:09
i don't know
37:10
i don't know i get it i get did you
37:12
watch the bay area uh
37:14
too short in e40 versus did you watch
37:16
that i missed it
37:18
that was i missed it i was so mad but i
37:20
saw all the clips
37:22
afterwards and i saw everybody like
37:24
cussing too short out for not playing
37:26
them
37:28
yeah i was like why you didn't play them
37:31
even e40 was like hey you willing you
37:34
walking
37:37
you should have paid you should have
37:38
played little kimber
37:40
but no you know and it's funny because
37:43
me
37:43
too short has the best stories
37:47
about us recording it's so funny
37:50
like i i would love to hear him tell
37:53
those stories again because he's
37:54
so funny when he does it but um he tells
37:57
a story about
37:59
and i i want you to i want him to tell
38:01
her because he tells me so good and so
38:03
funny but
38:04
you know he tells the story about when
38:07
uh he first wanted me to come and been
38:10
on a record
38:11
and um he thought that he was sending
38:14
for me to come and do the record and
38:15
biggie got off the plane
38:21
oh my gosh
38:24
and i never knew that that's what
38:26
happened like i never knew
38:28
because i guess he was like okay would
38:30
you he tells the story and it's so
38:33
funny like wait like what you're sending
38:35
for kim for
38:38
yo how real was that big came off the
38:41
plane
38:43
wow and you never knew that no
38:46
i didn't know i i mean i heard
38:49
something of a fact of you know
38:52
him like you know being i guess you know
38:55
like jealous or
38:56
that too short one through this song
38:58
with me but
38:59
that was funny when i heard actually
39:02
heard
39:03
too short tell the story oh it's just
39:06
hilarious
39:08
when you next time you talk to him you
39:09
gotta get him to tell that story it was
39:11
funny
39:12
oh that's my family too you know we
39:14
oakland dude so
39:15
uh hey yeah so we we
39:20
yeah i know you guys are like that's
39:22
like
39:23
your oakland night yeah man we got it
39:26
hey do you remember to
39:27
actually record the verse though
39:29
actually getting into the session with
39:30
uh short
39:32
yeah i remember it because i love that
39:35
beat
39:35
so bad and you know it's funny because
39:38
big had just did
39:39
um he did um he did the song he just did
39:42
the song with
39:44
bone thugs and harmony he was working on
39:46
that song
39:47
and um he was working on it and i was in
39:51
the studio and i had heard him
39:53
and he was like doing that flow and i
39:55
wanted i i i jacked it i'm not gonna lie
39:58
i jacked the flow a little bit i liked
40:00
it that much
40:01
i had to adjust the flow a little bit
40:03
and but i put i made in my own
40:06
and i just put a little p a little bit
40:07
of that flow inside
40:09
of the too short you know everybody
40:11
knows between getting down dirty
40:13
it's only oh the phone just cut out
40:17
damn it are you kidding me three's not a
40:21
charm
40:22
little kid him you are the master
40:25
you are the mistress of suspense yo yes
40:28
i mean damn
40:32
yo every time you about to get you bout
40:35
to hit the home run out the park in the
40:37
line cut and then
40:38
the phone cuts out man yes every time
40:42
it never fails every time wow
40:45
oh and i think yeah that's my management
40:47
connection they didn't they
40:48
use the toys r us
40:54
right they use the christmas gifts
40:58
so now okay so let me ask you this
41:01
um so you were saying that in this flow
41:04
in your second verse
41:06
[Music]
41:18
okay all right wow you can
41:22
[ __ ] me till i bleed damn oh
41:25
that's a powerful line right there kill
41:27
oh thank you
41:31
don't get embarrassed now
41:36
okay that was a powerful light so you
41:38
notorious thugs was the uh song that
41:40
biggie did with bone thugs and harmony
41:41
and they had that flow in there
41:43
and you said you took a little bit of
41:45
that flow and made it your own
41:47
yeah i did because i loved that song
41:50
like i just
41:51
loved that flow and i just loved that
41:52
song i you know and i always wanted to
41:54
use that style you know what i mean
41:56
because i just
41:58
i'm always i was always known for
42:01
flipping my style
42:03
and except for me it was just perfect to
42:05
come in on it a little bit
42:07
and everybody was going crazy when i did
42:09
it and i was just like
42:10
yeah yeah yep that was the one that was
42:14
weird
42:15
that was the line you know there's only
42:16
one ghetto queen with a guillotine
42:18
real business [ __ ] that carry that
42:20
that's by the spleen
42:23
yeah that's that line right there
42:27
oh man it was deep in that pocket i love
42:30
that
42:30
i love that i love that that's one of
42:33
the things i always
42:35
i like the collaboration especially when
42:37
folks from different parts of the
42:38
country would come together
42:40
and you and that that that was a moment
42:43
for folks you know what i mean like
42:45
especially in california
42:47
you know that was a big moment man that
42:49
was that was a big
42:50
moment and you know there's a classic
42:52
picture of me and sure actually in the
42:54
booth and you see me i have a pad
42:56
and the pen and he's like sitting across
42:59
from me i've been going on the couch or
43:00
something
43:01
and i got a pad and a pen and um we just
43:04
like
43:04
we just focused you know what i mean
43:07
it's a classic picture i wish i could
43:09
find that picture because i i
43:11
i come across it every now and then you
43:13
know it gives me
43:14
memories i'm like that i remember
43:16
because i was like
43:18
blessed to be in such demand that i
43:21
always had to write
43:22
right on the spot so anybody who
43:24
questioned and
43:25
once i worked with them they'd be like
43:26
oh no swiss beast always clears that up
43:29
like oh
43:30
she gets busy you know okay and so
43:34
yeah so i you know i was i just remember
43:37
just sitting there
43:38
just like i thought but that flow was
43:41
all that was in my mind
43:46
i couldn't get it out i said ill ass
43:49
float kim
43:51
well man you know we're going to we're
43:53
going to do i think you and
43:54
you you got to do like a series of
43:57
conversations maybe with us because i
43:59
feel like we could talk all day
44:01
yeah so many stories history lessons
44:06
yes the next one i guess because you
44:07
know i know you know we
44:09
probably do something uh zoom or
44:11
something and make it fun
44:13
okay but you know i can talk to you all
44:15
day for you you already know
44:17
oh it's all love kim i appreciate you i
44:20
appreciate your contributions to the
44:22
culture continuously
44:23
i appreciate i appreciate who you are
44:25
today and who you are to who you're
44:28
moving towards being tomorrow i'm
44:30
looking forward
44:31
to this future that you that you've been
44:33
crafting with bo work with fashion lines
44:36
yes you know you know this is amazing
44:40
uh motherhood all of these great things
44:42
seeing you happy
44:43
makes me happy it's a blessing it's a
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blessing i really do feel like the next
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level of my life
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just really just began and i really feel
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like my life really is just
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beginning like you know it's funny
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because i don't
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people be this is a good question like
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people always ask me
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when is the moment like you feel like
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you just made it and
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you just you know like feel like i've
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i've really
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accomplished everything and nothing and
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i was like i've never had that moment
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i never really had that moment don't get
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me wrong
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i have accomplished some amazing things
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and i'm very proud of my catalog i'm
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proud of my career and all the things
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that
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you know i have done but i feel like
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i've never really got to tell my story
45:30
i've never really got to really
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you know i've only had think about it
45:34
i've only had what five albums
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you know you would you would think you
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know me i could have started as a
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oh god let me find out the phone hung up
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again no no we here we're here
45:49
i'm waiting for that phone i'm waiting
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for the quiet mr tub
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me too we're just listening i don't want
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to interrupt you before it does hang up
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exactly but you know i've yeah i've
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never
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i feel like i've never told my story um
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and you will be seeing me again because
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i got some interesting things
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that i'm working on right now that you
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got everybody's gonna be
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very happy about um i'm working with
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some interesting people
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um but like again i never really felt
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like i've had that
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moment moment where like you know some
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people i know i know some people in the
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industry you know
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my celebrity friends who feel like yo
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you know if
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if it was all over for them today and
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tomorrow they would feel
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pretty accomplished they'd be like look
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i you know did a
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lot but for me i would feel so under
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accomplished
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i would feel so incompleted
46:44
there's so much to me people just don't
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know
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there's so much that i haven't gotten
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able to do and there's so much of my
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brand that i haven't gotten able to
46:52
share
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i feel like i've always been so
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um how can i say it's so
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shielded and protected and so i've never
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really been able to come out of my shell
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and now i'm
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finally being able to do it kinda you
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know
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and you wouldn't even imagine that right
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people wouldn't even know that you felt
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that way
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considering how much you've done so
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listen
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when you start telling that story if you
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we would love to
47:22
either be listeners in in hearing is
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spectating it or we'll
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love to help you facilitate that yes you
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know what i mean
47:29
so you can always come up to here you
47:31
don't have to be loved you tracy do you
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love you i love you
47:35
you know i love you too i love you
47:39
you guys are just awesome my gorgeous
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girlfriend
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yes indeed man come on uh kim listen i
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want i want to thank you for being on i
47:48
know this was supposed to be a 20
47:50
25 minute convo we did a whole hour wow
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wait we never have a 20 minutes
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come on man uh kim keep it going
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uh everybody watch american gangster
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trap queens tonight on b-e-t fall lil
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kim
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yeah come on man don't forget shop
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pretty little thing little kim
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collection and pretty little things
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little kim times pretty little thing i
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mean you know
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it's affordable that's what i'm most
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proud of too
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you know in this climate you still want
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to look pretty because all you have now
48:29
is your
48:29
look you know but you want to be smart
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with the climate that we and so
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affordable clothing and
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yeah pretty little thing there it is
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love you kim have a beautiful day i love
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you guys
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okay you too all right lil kim y'all
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little kim the ice cream ken the icon
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little kill
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you still my love take care
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all right
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wow all right
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you
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