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Luck Talks New Single “All The Diamonds”, Listening to N’sync and Being Classically Trained
Feb 10, 2022
Luck is a breath of fresh air with so much talent. She stopped by Sway In The Morning to talk about her upbringing and her latest single. Check out the interview to see what to expect from Luck.
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Luck Talks New Single “All The Diamonds”, Listening to N’sync and Being Classically Trained
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creating fop for our people we are not
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foreign you know like i really want to
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push that message forward and uh
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all my visuals yes all my songs
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represent that
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wow that powerful voice right there it's
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a young lady who um who's extremely
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talented to hb and tracy g she was
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brought to my attention by my brother
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adrian miller i love to tell the story
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uh one of the first times i came to l.a
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actually the first time i came to la
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adrian miller let me sleep on his floor
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wow he said come stay with me but you
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can't sleep in the bed or the couch you
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must sleep on the floor did you go on
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his refrigerator of course i did it was
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nothing but you know nothing in there
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but old arm and hammer um boxes
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baking soda
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i'm joking this man but no that's a true
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story but the man has went on to do so
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much great work he's been responsible
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for breaking a lot of tons of careers
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most notable most recently anderson pack
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you know he
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brought me anderson before anybody knew
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how to say his name right you know what
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i mean and so when adrian hit me and
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said i got somebody you have to know you
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have to have on the show
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we did not second guess it we was just
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waiting for the right moment to happen
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he sent me this young lady's music and
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citizens i want you guys to really get
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to know somebody that's new fresh on the
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scene and when i say fresh i mean fresh
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because of her approach to music hb
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tracy g her vocal tones she's trained
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how you say opero
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operatically trained i don't know if i
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said that correctly me neither okay but
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she could sing opera all right
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she's here with us today we got luck her
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name is luck
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what
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[Music]
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so can you correct sway what is the
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proper term when you have been trained
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in opera is there a term for it uh
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classically trained
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for classy yeah
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words right classic
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way off wait
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i mean it is opera
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it is yeah yeah it's what's that
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go ahead go ahead yes it's it's called
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opera but yeah it's like the the
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foundation of it is um it's classically
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trained okay so she kind of looked at me
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like classically
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don't confuse me with some of these
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regular r b vocalists
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you know i mean trace did you learn
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anything in the church most of us i i
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honestly i grew up my parents had me in
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and out of like church like we would go
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like maybe once or twice a month um so i
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definitely got the anointing that's for
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sure
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yeah we're very very oily over here but
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uh
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i definitely had to make my my rounds
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you know like i had to go out into the
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world i mean because we talking about it
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you went there
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i had to go out into the world and and
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and and uh come up with my own
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perspective you know and yeah i made my
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way back uh to
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my lord and savior but yeah the uh uh
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the church
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uh
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just also just like in terms of what i
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was inspired by like my family my aunts
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and uncles like was soul like you know
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anita baker and stevie wonder and
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i mean the list goes on but also i went
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to school and i was like listening to
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like you know uh instinct and all those
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guys all the pop guys and also was
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classically trained so like we we're
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i've definitely been inspired by the
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world and it's it's authentic because it
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was rooted in me at such a young age you
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know her name is luck when you're
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classically trained
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do your ears do you feel like you're
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allergic to voices that think they sound
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good
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but they don't like i just wonder if you
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have even like keener ears than the
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average to hear when someone desperately
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needs a vocal coach
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yeah well i used to give vocal lessons
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as like a little side hustle you know at
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one point so i uh i've definitely had
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all different types of uh
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you know little little singers that were
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were trying to uh
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hear the right notes and get it out and
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all that jazz but some people you can
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work with them but if they're like
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tone deaf you know if
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they can't hear what they're doing you
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know it's like it's not everyone's lame
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but uh i think that music and and dance
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and art is
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obviously like subjective and stuff so
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like by all means have a good time sing
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dance you know do all that i don't know
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we ain't gonna hear you auto-tune
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oh auto-tune yeah yeah we i mean we have
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fun sometimes but i don't need it
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there it is
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you know we have fun with the tunes
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sometimes
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if it's necessary
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we ain't dependent on it
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[Laughter]
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i'm curious though welcome to the show
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it's supposed to be having me yeah yeah
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i've been watching y'all since i was
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literally a kid i said that to uh
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earlier oh my god like i'm just blessed
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to be in such a
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like thank you for sharing your space
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with me you know we're blessed to have
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you we're blessed to have you and you
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have amazing energy so that's always
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good too um i was curious about your
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name because we're rooting to hip-hop
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obviously so when i saw luck i was like
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lady luck is coming on the show tomorrow
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just thinking of a hip-hop artist and
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then i saw you and went to ig page and i
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was like oh wow she's dope this is
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something totally different where did
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the name luck come from um so it derives
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from my last name my last name is
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luckett
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oh god okay yeah and i had to like i was
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i changed it throughout the years i used
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to spell the l u v k then i switched it
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to l u c k because it was like what does
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the v mean right and like
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my you know
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like it's the roman numeral duh but like
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not that many people quarterly right
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right but um my family like i come from
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a really strong proud black family um so
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they're like you know last name they got
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to know your last name you know
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i'm like all right i got to figure out a
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way to keep my name you know right and
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and they've been calling me that since i
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was a kid like everybody has been luck
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or lucky at some point in throughout
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high school or whatever so i changed the
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c to a v at one point because i was like
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the fifth one but that's irrelevant now
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because it's back to c so let me know
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i love it
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any relation to latoya lucky
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no no no but um
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shout out to girl okay latoya
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yo your style is unique down to the
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fingernails right hp people figuring out
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put the fingernails up so we could see
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the fingers yeah let me see that
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how ig
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i literally don't change the style of my
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nails it would be like this probably for
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the next year or two okay and that's
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your habit and then your whole even when
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i watch your videos everything's been
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kind of consistent into this this this
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style that you have what informs your
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style like
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how did you select which direction you
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were going to go oh my style honestly
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has just been curated from like my my
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life experiences i'm very very
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um inspired by like fashion and all like
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the different uh folks that came up you
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know like back in the 80s and 90s and
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all that jazz but
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really fashion for me is like
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it all always like boils down to like
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music and just like my self
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expression you know um and depending on
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what i was going through in my life
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whatever season i was in was a it was a
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reflection like i would show up as that
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right so um
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um
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yeah it's just it's just embodied with
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everything that i've been influenced by
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i do have a brand called fop for the
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people for our four other people for our
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people
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and um it stands for like it's like we
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are not foreign like we're all one and
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the same you know um i like to my dad
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like raise me i'm like a little a little
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tomboy or whatever and um i i kind of
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push the androgynous vibes because like
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i like to be comfortable i like to wear
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heels i like to feel cute sometimes too
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you know and girly but like for the most
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part
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this is what comforts me you know and
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and
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and uh i always say like i i love
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fashion but i don't go for the bells and
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whistles like i like to
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uh
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look dope but not be all loud and
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can i cuss
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out
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kicked off the air don't worry
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i don't like to be loud with my style
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because i want my spirit and i want my
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music
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uh to speak for itself you know um and
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this is just extra everything else well
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the top looked like something i would
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wear right hbo comfortable yeah
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message do you wish to leave in in music
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with this vast space of white noise
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going around with so many new artists i
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know i love that question and i'm really
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glad that you asked me that um i know
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that my purpose uh on this on this earth
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i mean i'm so grateful that
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god gave me the gift of music but i know
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i'm put here to bring hope and and and
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love
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and um
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i know that i'm here to bring hope back
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to the people you know i've needed it
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for so long um it's been really noisy
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out here it's been noisy and
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throughout my lifetime and i never could
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really understand what it was and what
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that meant you know until like i quieted
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the noise and i really went deep within
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and and and and listened to
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um the power that was really inside me
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the whole entire time and i know that
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it's so hard for people to
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you know to even grab that they don't
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even know how to touch that right so
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music
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thank god for music right like
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it just it it helps us it some some
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people need therapy some people don't
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have the means to go to a therapist some
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people haven't found god yet and
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and uh or i don't know the power within
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you know because not everybody
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believes in god but like
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i just think that it's really important
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to
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quiet the noise and if i can be
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a vessel of any sort where i can save
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one soul or allow one soul to be able to
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hear themselves you know like through my
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music because i'm using music i'm using
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fashion as a way to like you know uh
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blend in
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with the crowd but really i'm pushing a
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higher message like that it's it's it's
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like my song is higher than us is bigger
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than us and like you know you can do it
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too it's not just me it ain't just like
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there's a lot of people that can sing
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you know a lot of people that can dance
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and and write books and there's a lot of
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people that's doing like different
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entrepreneurships and all that jazz but
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like
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you know how do we find it how do we lay
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hold of it and
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um i think it's
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it's it's
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it's about time for someone to you know
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uh
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to wear that crown and and it's a tall
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order it's a really really tall order
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but um
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um i'm thankful and i'm just grateful
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i'm just trying to be led you know and
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do what i got to do luck is here
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citizens i love that f.o.p watch it
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watch what we talking about let's go
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into that song higher yeah let's play
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that song higher you love hearing your
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music on the radio
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for the first time first time
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here we go
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here we go
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here we go citizens call up get to know
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this amazing spirit called luck
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three three 888-742-334 five it's higher
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[Music]
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[Music]
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it took him like five seconds this time
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usually he waits but it was just like
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immediate it's so disgusting like come
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on i don't live i'm just saying that
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song is just different citizens
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888-742-3345 the same man that brought
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us anderson pack and brought us the
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amazing reba
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[Applause]
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yes adrian miller brings us luck marieba
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how you doing congratulations i know
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you're expecting
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a lot of great things in your life in
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your near future and um i can't wait to
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be a part of that as well um luck you
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are something special
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you are something special i like it yeah
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um that means a lot coming from you
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everybody knows that means a lot coming
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from you swag oh well thank you thank
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you
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don't gasp
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what is the selection process like
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because i think as an artist like you
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write and you go into your space and
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then you go into the studio and you're
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excited and you release this music and
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you put it out and then you bring it to
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your team or whatever you know and then
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people listen
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how do you process it all and say okay
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this is the one and who decides that is
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it just you do you have it like i am
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really re i i have a super unorthodox
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like situation okay um
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uh not to bring it always bring it back
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here they're gonna be like this girl's
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so deep all the
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your time
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oh like i was very intentional uh like a
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couple years ago uh when preparing for
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the space that i'm in now and the people
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that are part of the team now and my my
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down to my label to of course mom uh my
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go-to producer songwriter um
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vanessa michaels and my team like my
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choreographer and my my manager uh
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adrian and my even my label like we're
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all one big family you know and that's
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hard to find like most of the time you
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hear artists talking about oh my god
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like i'm in this crazy situation
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and i was so blessed to find um a team
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of family that that really believes in
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me and and it's not like it we're all
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pushing the the same agenda like we all
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have we all are in a fight right now
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like the world is at war and and and
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like
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we all feel the the just the eagerness
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to like get this message and to get this
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across so they literally give me full
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creative control
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um and then in terms of what we pick to
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go next i don't know like we'll have one
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idea and then i'll be like god tell me
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what to do
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let go and let god yeah exactly and
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that's what happens and then you know we
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we come through and we like bam and it's
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in a split you know i mean it's again
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it's it's it's new to the world um but i
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really feel like it's going to shift
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it's going to shake the world even if
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it's one or two or three i'm just
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excited to be here y'all you know
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really dope it sounds dope though it
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sounds good tracy all the way in
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brooklyn she got a question
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yes i do and i'm feeling this energy hey
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luck i mean as we get to know you
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through our interview and through your
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music like it's becoming very clear to
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me that you're you are a messenger
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disguised as an artist you know
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especially as i hear your commitment to
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gifting people with hope and so i'm
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wondering
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do you now have like a
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oh like a like a relationship based on
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gratitude when it comes to your
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challenges you know what i mean when it
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comes to like the darker periods because
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for artists those tend to be the
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catalyst for some of the best music like
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sometimes i wonder
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if we were living in utopia how that
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would impact our art
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girl
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i'm so grateful so grateful um obviously
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anytime we're in like
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seasons of like uh crushing
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um or just like or or or you know when
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we're in a pers a persecuted like stage
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um
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that just sucks you know like no one
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wants to go through that you know what i
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mean like
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real about it
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yeah but i
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right
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then there's that
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[Music]
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because you know sometimes
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you know you're still in it but then i
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look back and i'm like dang bro but like
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look what happened like they thought
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that they could you know i think i put
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that in higher you know like you really
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thought like you could take me out but
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like
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nah
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actually
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nah
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no like
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i'm crazy man i'm a fighter like you
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could pick the wrong one you know you're
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a warrior so so so so yeah no it's it's
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it's important that uh anytime we're
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faced in those seasons that we just
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allow ourselves to like i don't know ask
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the right questions ask higher questions
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like figure out
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why you're in that space in the
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beginning typically it's within you you
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know a lot of times like we we i said
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this before like we throw all this
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makeup on and like all these clothes and
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stuff just to cover up all the scars
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that are really underneath all of that
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and like
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you just need to take it all off and
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with you go in your quiet space you know
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figure it out
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trying to tell me to take my shirt off
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for a long time so yeah
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you know for the summer time
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no i get it take it all right yeah well
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because he wants to be a he calls his
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imaginary group the ab gang and then
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he's he's still in the flab gang though
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so
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it's not ironic it's an ironic title
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yeah he's just waiting it's
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manifestation i'm manifesting my destiny
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right it begins with acceptance you know
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what i'm saying so that's why you got to
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do the work too you mentioned seasons
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it's not the it's not the seasons for
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the work
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real quick
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luck are you comfortable sharing like a
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specific experience about a challenge
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that you were able to push to conquer
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shoot i got a whole bunch
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sometimes
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yeah it's all a
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freaking blur now um
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hmm
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i mean this is a very like this one just
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relates to like music and stuff but like
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uh and this is
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yeah this one relates to music it's not
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that deep uh but
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just in terms of like i've i've been
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uh i feel like i've i've
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never been seen before you know
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so i've been i haven't been seen but
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i've been here the whole time you know
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but the world just wasn't ready for me
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yet you know i'm saying like and i
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didn't realize that and and once i
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once i did you know i really fully like
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stepped into my power and i was like all
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right
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you know
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i'm gonna be working i'll be working and
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when it's you know when it's time it's
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time you know yeah to
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release this you know
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but you looked in the mirror and you saw
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yourself you know sometimes that's all
19:12
you need they catch up later you know
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they catch up later sometimes they catch
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up a lot later you got a lot of people
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on the phone lines and i got to hear you
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sing live to make sure that was in
19:22
studio tricks all right we got yo on the
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line from cali yo go ahead why yo
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yo you gotta you want to make a comment
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oh i love it i love it this is just what
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i needed this morning i'm going through
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a little something something and i'm
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headed out to concord and as soon as i
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got in the car you know i got to listen
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to you sway so you know what and that's
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what i got
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there you go that's right that's it yeah
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that's what i'm talking about
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yeah i can't wait i got to download it
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[Music]
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and make sure you support our music yo
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you'll get a lot more inspiration trust
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me
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okay
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that's what's up all right that's my bay
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area people right there heather reggie
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in san diego
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what up reggie set rise this time
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branch what up
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okay good luck
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rise and shine man say hello to luck
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hey how you doing
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hi how are you
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[Music]
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i'm good you know what that song would
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be perfect at the super bowl
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this super bowl
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yes it is just that moving
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yeah it is just moving perfect
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okay thank you stadium status reg
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stadium status
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right hey so look look um you could be
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the first person to like we had we had
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um lyric jones here yesterday she was
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the first to perform a rap song on the
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show yes 2022 it's our second day block
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broadcasting live inside the studio with
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each other we haven't seen each other in
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two years
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right you could be the first to sing yes
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i can yeah what if i threw a beat on
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underneath here here it go okay yeah
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yeah yeah
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throw beat on throw it off a capella
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acapella oh okay all right she
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classically trained we gotta get it
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crystal clear
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uh
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all the diamonds just dropped okay
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i like that
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all the diamonds in the world won't bite
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all the billions in the world can't buy
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my love
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they might make my dance might make my
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eye go on top so wild boy
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[Music]
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i tend to tell i just tell what happens
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but a lot goes on you see and you see
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the argument in the bickering it's like
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yeah brother sister little sister we
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fight swayze an imaginary ab gang
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all kind of stuff
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what that's like right there sway in the
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morning with heather b and tracy g if he
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was to sing that how would that sound
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uh
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i'm luck and this isn't
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don't know sick the remix is over this
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way
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sway in the morning
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with
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heather b
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and tracy g
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i don't know tell them your name tell
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them your name
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i go by luck
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[Applause]
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okay fellas let's make that into a drop
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all right cool
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okay hey listen look um it won't be luck
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to get you where you going it's pure
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faith and talent absolutely um hard work
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and determination all right and the
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world definitely needs you you know and
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i appreciate having you on this show yes
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congratulations on all your success and
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the success to come yes okay
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we see it we feel your vibe is so great
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beautiful you have an amazing spirit
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about you it's gonna resonate thank you
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throughout your music throughout your
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presentation the whole nine and when you
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win those awards
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shout us out that's all i have okay all
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right all right cool give it up for luck
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y'all give it up for luck um
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[Music]
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you
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