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Marlon Craft Talks New Album 'Homecourt Advantage 2' & Freestyle | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Aug 7, 2023
Marlon Craft's new album, Homecourt Advantage Vol. 2, is a work of art that seamlessly blends the worlds of music and sports. The album is a tribute to the mixtape era, and listeners can expect to hear an array of sounds that pay homage to the legends of the basketball court. Marlon Craft is known for his ability to capture the essence of Hip Hop with his powerful lyrics, and he takes things to the next level with this new release. In this blog post, we will delve into the details of Homecourt Advantage Vol. 2 and discuss what makes this album a must-listen for Hip Hop fans.
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And every time he's come, he's blessed us with bars
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He's personified what it means to be an artist in this day and age
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in a way that actually appeals to me and Heather having come into the game as young artists ourselves
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So a lot of my epiphany or a lot of the allure of an artist like him
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is because it reminds me of an artist like myself at one point
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where you're just not really playing the industry game as well as others
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You're not doing the tap dance. You're not puckering up to billionaires' asses
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You're not doing all those different things that people tend to do
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And you learn what a person is in for it, why they're in for it
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have to do a duration of time by how long they're in it. You know, when this man first started coming out with Working and Reason
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when he came out with the EPs and the singles from early on in his career
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and he came out with Funhouse, Mirror, and all of these different things, You know, that was him just expressing him. That's just how I interpret it
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Him finding his voice, finding himself as an artist during a really kind of complicated time when it came to music
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The digital space became prominent. The influencers became prominent. It's just, you know, and then music became, took like, seemed like it took a third seat
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But it's people like him that stayed the course and continued that found their lane
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And now we can still have these conversations seven years later. And he figured it out that you do not have to be at the top of the charts
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You do not have to be the favorite of the best or the biggest influencer
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You do not have to have mainstream radio rotation. You do not have to be on every playlist, on every DSP
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And you can still make a living and build a career and be happy
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And that's exactly what he's done, citizens. Give it up for the one and only Marlon Kraft
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who's back. I'm listening to his album. It's a pleasure to be here, man. Always, man
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Super grateful. How's the family? Everybody's good. Actually, I'm headed out of here today
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I'm going on a little family vacation. That's why I brought the suitcase. I had to bring the suitcase to the..
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Is that what that is? Yeah, so I'm right from here. I'm out of here. I'm going to try to do a little
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family vacation. Everybody's good, thriving, getting older, healthy. Who's all going? My grandma's gone. She's 95
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Oh my gosh. That's beautiful, brother. Outside, yeah. Yeah, yeah. She out there
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Yeah, my sister and, yeah, my family. Your family gonna be there
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Yeah, yeah. Yo, Marlon Craft, man, I know his family, Heather. You know, they know me and his family
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How? You know, I've just been a supporter for so long. Thanks
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Yeah, you know, I done got all kind of gifts from the family, everything. I thought you bum-rushed and maybe went and got a plate or something
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Well, they got a restaurant, right? You still got the restaurant? Nah, nah, nah. We just had the whiskey
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Oh, okay. I thought it was a restaurant. Nah, nah. We not getting money like that yet
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but we'll get there. But you got, you're selling alcohol. How's the whiskey doing? The whiskey was cool
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It was just these limited runs that we did. Right now we just rocking with these new
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these new products, these new like physicals that we did for the project. We sold like 200 of them out in an hour
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So that was really dope. 200 whiskeys? No, 200 of these physical projects out
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So we're going to restock these. And yeah, we're getting the merch going
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We're doing it all. PlayStation sort of like cover that he just photoshopped to match the album artwork
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And I appreciate when people do stuff like this because when you do a limited edition of anything
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it gives people an incentive to want to invest in your career
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because it's like, oh, I can get something physical copy to actually have, which a lot of people don't really appreciate anymore
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Albums, cassettes, CDs, things like that. And so, yeah, you put your money in there. It looks good
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All right, this is dope, man. It's all your money. Well, listen, we based it off the NBA Street Volume 2
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one of the most iconic video games in the culture. ever and so like this was kind of this was home court advantage volume two and it was like
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that era of playing that game and being in the streets in new york playing basketball like
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embodied that for me so it's been really cool to see the response of how many people kind of
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resonated with that and yeah we out here rocking i love it man marlon craft is here the new project
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is home court advantage volume two marlon craft you've managed to craft a career that everybody
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hasn't seen yet but a lot of folks have right you got a uh really strong fan base do you ever feel
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um left out in the music business at all yeah yeah yeah i think it would be hard not to you
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know i'm a human being and like i'm confident in myself and and what i've done and will continue to
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do but um i think the people that appreciate me uh do so in a deep way and they really resonate
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with the music that i make and i think that's important to me more than anything else so
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that's why i've always appreciated you man because like i've always just felt like i belonged here
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and felt like you really dove into the music early and appreciate it and almost feels like
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When I come in here, it's kind of like irrelevant what is going on with me
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like where I am in my ascension. Yeah. It's just like you're listening to music
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Where am I in the artistic growth and how am I doing as a person? So, you know, but I feel like that type of affection is rare in our industry
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Oh, wow, man. Thanks, man. He's right. It is, though. It's rare? It is rare, and I think it's important, too
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Thank you for even sharing with us that you're going on vacation with your family
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because Kalani earlier today when we were going out to get something from downstairs
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he asked me, how do you balance? How do you balance? And I think when you are with your family
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sometimes it'll take your mind away from, well, how come this hasn't happened yet
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What about the accolades? Because to your point, we are human. And sometimes you don't do it for that, but you would like to be mentioned
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You know, you would like to feel like somebody maybe on the outside saw what you did
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and mentioned it it's a it's a it's not a confirmation of your ability but it's a confirmation
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of like this is what i've these are part of my dreams one day like i wanted i wanted to be there
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i wanted that shout out i wanted that feeling um and family and those vacation times it balances
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those things out you get to go back and remind you of what's really important sometimes you know
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because this time with your grandmother you don't you don't have another 95 years you know what i
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mean so enjoy that time you know um she may say something to you on this quiet time when you're
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away from all of the stuff and it's like yo all right i got it and it changes your whole trajectory
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on this industry so i'm glad you're doing that like take time out for moments like that in the
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midst of all of this because you need it these are the things that you'll remember no i appreciate
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that wisdom that's i'm trying to get the work-life balance on point um it's really a challenge
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especially like me like you know i manage myself like i'm doing you know i'm completely independent
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obviously i have some people that help me out but it's like my plate is full you know i want to
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focus on the artistry even more than i'm focusing on it now but one of the things i realized is like
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in our industry there's not like a once you start to really see what's going on it's like there's
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not like a ton of money to go around yeah like relative to other industries so what happens is
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you have like a lot of people that are underpaid and the value that they're extracting is the
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credit or what some might call the clout or what some might call the accolade or whatever and
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that's why there's a lot of like weird temperamental shit that goes on i feel like a lot of time
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because people hold on to that stuff because they're not extracting their true value yeah out
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of the game. And so like for me I just try to remind myself it like now that I see that too cause I extracting a lot of value and making a nice living and doing my thing that I earned And so it like the accolade shit is really just a payoff
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They're like buying you off by giving you like this type of accolade in certain ways that doesn't actually like feed your family or your soul really at the end of the day
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so I try to remind myself that and I try to remind myself that
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how I do things is more important than like there's places that I want
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to get and where we're going every time I come in here we've
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grown massively and I want to keep coming every year being like
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yo look where we at now you believe this shit you always have
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you add to the story that's why I rock with you because I see the growth
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but go ahead I appreciate it and for me Like there's still these places that I want to go
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But it's the most important thing is how I get there Yeah You know what I mean So
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That's what Yeah that's that's that learning man Round of applause That's the learning See this is the information that
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She and I A lot of times we have But sometimes If I said that to you back in 2016
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It ain't go land right You know Sway I'm just trying to pay my rent
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Yeah like what is Sway talking about I'm gonna be like out of here Yeah you know
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Shut up old man You know like you been in it too long
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You chained it man i'm the old man now yo i meet some of these kids they're like 18 19 but they give me life
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because i run into them they remind me so they're like they they don't know what they're talking
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about in the best way yeah like it's so refreshing because they got this belief like and like i'm
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giving game and some of it is landing and some of it's not some of it they're like yeah i hear what
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you're talking about but like i'm gonna be different like i'm really the one and i'm like we all thought that like you know what i'm saying like but there's no getting around it like if you
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want to last in an industry in the game whatever it is you you got to do 10 years of hard work
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yeah like even these people that blow up overnight like if they want to keep it they have to then do
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the 10 years of hard work otherwise it goes away so there's no getting around it so i talked to
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these kids and it's like i feel like the old man now but i feel like i fit better into that role
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to be honest yeah i've always felt kind of like an old soul you know yeah it is a lot of less
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pressure. It's something, it's, you know how they say youth is wasted on the young or something
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Yeah. It's a lot of pressure when you're breaking in the game at that tender age of 17 and 18 that
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you don't really understand. Yeah. You haven't dealt with it. Now, you're a young man, but to them
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what are you in your 20s, right? I'm 30 now. 30, okay. All right, so you're still a baby
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You ain't a baby, but you're definitely a young man. And so to me, I find that admirable
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Give that man a round of applause that you're accepting your evolution
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your maturity, and your growth in a natural way. And here's the thing
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Now you pay yourself, right? For independent artists, we had Russell come up here
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and break down his formula for you. Everybody's formula a little differently
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How do you get to the bag if you're an independent artist? How did it work out for you
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For me, the irony is that I stream a lot on Spotify
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If you look what I do now, and that's where some of the desire for accolade
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or for whatever comes from is when you look at the numbers that I put up on the board
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relative to guys they say that are popping or whatever. On Spotify, I'm right there with a lot of these guys
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and it just happened through being consistent with music and really it was music first
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I'm in this weird phase of so many people have discovered me through songs
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And you remember when I first came in, it was always this aesthetic hurdle to get over with me
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It was like, who's this? Okay, he's nice, but I don't know if I can see myself
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with him, you know what I mean? And then I just wanted it to be about the music
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Like, ironically, I get tweets every day where people don't even know what I look like yet because they have my songs in their rotation because it was served to them
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And, like, I was just consistent and, like, they know these tunes. That's crazy
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So that's fulfilling to me in the sense of, like, I have work to do to close that gap now, but it's fulfilling in the sense that, like, it's music first
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So it was the consistency, really, figuring out how to keep things affordable for myself
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Okay. So I'm not in some big hole where I'm creating content, which I hate that word
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But I'm creating content, creating videos and art, and just being consistent and believing that the music will do the work if it's good enough
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Yeah, that's kind of been the point. That's how you've been making a living. Shows, you're doing a lot of shows
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Shows I'm investing in, honestly, because I like to have the band or some type of live instrumentation. Okay
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So my income really comes from streaming, and then obviously there's merch
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You know, we're getting the merch going even more. There's merch and there's other avenues, whatever
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But a lot of it has just come from, that's what makes me a little different than some of like the super indie guys
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where it's kind of a unique come up that's happening with me
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And that's why I think a lot of people in the industry don't really understand it because it's like a lot of times
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the guys that have like the niche fan base or that are seen as underground or like more holistic or whatever it is
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it's like they'll do the direct to consumer stuff and blow it out the water and whatever
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because the streams, whatever. But I'm making a healthy living off of streaming
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Good. That's good to hear. Did the song, the Gang Shit song
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that got you more exposure than I feel like any other song
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I've seen in your career, right? And it was politically driven, and it was a really carefully crafted conceptual video
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that was amazing that went to it that sold these different perspectives, but it was politically charged
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And that's how it was received. I saw you with Ari, Melba
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I saw you on these different platforms I think I might have called you and said Hey, I see you on this tap
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How did that What impact did that have on your career? What did you say as an artist
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Doing that song Well That song put me on a lot of people's radar
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But then they tried to use it to limit me Exactly They tried to put me into a box
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And then I had to get out of the political box I never really had to get out of it
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Because if you're really paying attention to the music, there was always a bunch of music there that was good and there were fans and stuff like that
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But Topline, they tried to make it about like, well, you know, you can't just do this or it's like it's just a political thing
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And then also like, you know, people don't like it when you talk like like when you when you bring the real like that, you know, in a way that is controversial
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and that actually is not like a layup, like not saying the same five like liberal talking points
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that we all lay up and we're like, oh yeah, that's some woke shit
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Like that song, there's a lot to digest. There's a lot you could disagree with. You could feel weird about how I did it
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And I invited those conversations, but people didn't want to really have those conversations
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They just wanted to like kind of avoid them. A lot of people didn't see a lot of that stuff
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that went on with shit like that. The Ari thing was obviously really dope
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Like when I went on there, that ended up being the most viewed clip on the entire uh msnbc youtube channel for like the whole
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year but again it's weird right because then it'll be like yo we got the most viewed clip on the msnbc
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news channel for the whole year but then we try to call other platforms and leverage it and other
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stuff and it's like so it takes someone like yourself it takes someone like a re like it takes
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people that have platforms that like give a shit yeah and are secure enough in their shit uh-huh
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that they're not answering to anybody that they feel weird about. They're like, nah, this is important
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This is what I do to really shed the light on that stuff. There's very few of those people
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It's one hand. Yeah. Ari, salute to Ari, too, man. He's such a hip-hop head
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He does the research He been immersed in it and he cares So I thought it was great that you matched up with him I going to play a song called Distance and tell me about that song
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Man, that's this producer from Toronto that I linked up with, King Chino
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and he just plays all the instruments live, and that was just the shit
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When I heard it, I was like, this sounds like a Spike Lee soundtrack. And I just was like, this is a vibe, like nighttime New York shit
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You singing on it? Yeah, yeah. I'm singing a little bit on the hook. Maybe we'll come back and give Marlon Craft to sing for us for the first time
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This is Distance on Sway in the Morning, Shade 4-5. Distance. This album is, this album, man, shows a lot of maturity
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You know what it sounds like to me that you're really not, the security is in yourself
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So when I listen to songs like Ups and Downs, that's one of Kalani's favorite songs, right
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What do you like about Ups and Downs? The whole vibe that you bring
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Like, bring us through like a journey on the song kind of thing. Like, that's a vibe. Oh, thanks, man
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I appreciate that. Yeah, and what else? Marathon. Kalani like basmati, too
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And he eats two-day-old basmati rice. Y'all look rice way. Are you going to do me like that
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Did you just eat some old rice? What was it? Yes. I ate some old jallof rice
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Oh, okay. That's not Basmati. All right. When you make music, what is it for now
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Is it to appeal or is it for yourself? What motivates you to make music at this point
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It's definitely for myself. I have this insatiable hunger to just create more music
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Someone asked me at this event I was doing, And they were like, what keeps you going when you, like, how do you keep writing music
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And it's like, I'm a very, like, heady and ytical dude and rational and whatever
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But, like, my need to make music is, like, the closest thing I have to, like, a spirituality for a long time
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Like, because it's just something that I can't really explain. You know what I mean
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Like, I just, I have to do it. It's just my voice, you know
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And then there's like, you know, I got to keep paying the bills. I have goals for myself and my family
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I like to speak to the people that I speak to because people, the music does something for them and they tell me that
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and that makes me want to make more music for them. But at the end of the day, like, I think it's got to be about an artist's personal journey
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because otherwise it could really get tricky, you know, trying to please people
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Marlon Craft is here. You said you're very over-ytical and cerebral. I'm going to throw something out of the blue at you just to get your feedback on this
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A lot of conversation about UFOs and aliens and aircraft. What, Heather
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I didn't say nothing. I didn't say nothing. Go ahead. I was wondering if he saw that, Marlon
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I saw that, but you know what's so funny? I don't like care
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Thank you, Marlon. you trying to say that's so nice yeah i don't give a shit but i don't i don't i don't tap in
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like here's the thing like if we're in such a bad place with information and the distribution of
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information that like if i'm gonna try to go learn about a thing i know that i have to like
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take time to actually invest to go dive into that so when i see shit peripherally like i'm just kind
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of like i don't have the space for this like mentally emotionally like i don't have the time
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until i really so i'm just kind of like unless it's something that's like you know i don't i
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don't know i don't um i don't know and it's also then it's also like man you know i don't know
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it's to cover up for something else i don't i don't i don't think that's i just think it's like
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i think people it's funny people think like oh we need to cover up whatever it's like cover up what
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like all we do is go home and watch netflix like we're covered up like mothers
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is not paying attention like you know what i'm saying like you know what i'm saying like we're
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plenty distracted like you know what i'm saying like that's the irony it's like yo they doing this
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to try to do this and it's like yo you've been on your phone all day just scrolling down an app of
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nothingness like they won that battle already like you know myself included you know what i'm saying
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myself included so it's like i don't know i i just don't i'm really like i'd be busy nowadays bro i
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I'm just trying to not divert my energy too much. I'm never going to ask that question again
20:49
Thank God. Period. Can I ask, though, because you brought up about the way information is consumed and digested and everything today
20:57
but that also sort of applies to you and your position as an artist because people are going to be like, yo, I heard Marlon Craft said this or he posted this
21:04
and then you have to come back and be like, guys, this is false. I didn't do that. So do you ever think about how you conduct yourself online with regards to that
21:11
Yeah, absolutely. it's funny because I was having this conversation with my friend
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EVA, EVA, do you know her? She's a dope journalist. We did like an interview and we were backstage
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I definitely know her. I know she is. Yeah, she's amazing. She's great. And we were talking about
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and I was saying how like we're in this era where like everyone has a microphone in front of their face
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And it's like, you just like, it's all these podcasts and it's all these clips online every day
21:36
And it's like, there's no barrier to entry. And so I'm, people tell me all the time like do more stuff like speak more do more interviews like do it
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and i'm just like i don't want to just be another person talking about shit that i half know about
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like but she was saying this is a problem she's facing with a lot of people right now is that
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right now in the in the current climate the people that have things to say don't want to talk because
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it's so watered down and the perception it's just like they don't want to add to the mix
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and then the irony is that we need those voices more than ever to dilute the bullshit so like
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i'm trying to be thoughtful i guess as we move forward now about adding a little bit more of my
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voice into the mix of who i am but i also think that we've kind of diminished the artist role in
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society it's like yo i make it the art fam yeah like you you you you guys like what i think and
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feel is in there yeah like i'm not reading every day like i'm not uh following the news every single
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day i'm not like accountable to that and when we ask our artists to be accountable to that
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it usually goes well sometimes for like six months maybe a year and then they say some wild shit yeah
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and then you remember they're just a regular guy that spends most their time in a studio
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and probably got a bunch of money and it's actually kind of disconnected from everything
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that's going on with real people so like you know i i've accepted i think i felt a lot of
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responsibility when i first came into the game to speak to certain things and i think i've done that
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and i think i'll continue to do that naturally but i also think that like my agenda i'm comfortable
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now my role as an artist in society like that is what i contribute in like when i speak and don't
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speak it needs to be intentional i'm glad he thought that he thought about this this is something
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that he gave some real thought to i appreciate that marlon craft basically i ain't gonna talk
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about shit i don't know about sway don't ask me about ufo's i feel like i feel like i feel like
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sway said something about this on another segment every day and now i'm making i'm like i'm like
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i'm the only one that keeps telling him to shut up no you with me finally i gotta back up like
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Shut the hell up with all of that. Go visit the caves by yourself. I'm just saying they found, you know, an area in the Grand Canyon that's super blocked off now
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It's restricted. I'm not saying they didn't, by the way, too. Marlon, don't go down there
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Okay I just saying like Marlon don do it Don do it Marlon Let it go The way nobody cares I using my relationship with you I weaponizing
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You feel it all guilty Yeah, yeah Don't know I'm with you, man I think all that stuff is just a distraction
24:22
Yeah, yeah, yeah Really, to be honest with you No, I hear you, I hear you Yeah, it's all a distraction
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I hear you Hey, man, can you sing something? What was that noise right there
24:32
I could rap something You could rap something? Yeah, I could rap something I don't know if we're in studio singers yet
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You know what time of the day it is, Heather B. Of course I do. Okay, now, Marlon Craft, you are a family
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Yes, sir. And because of that, I'm going to take full advantage of our relationship. Yes, sir
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I'm going to ask you to do something, as family often does, that you're going to feel obligated to do and you won't say no to
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Uh-huh. Because not too many MCs can actually enter this realm. I don't ask many people to do this
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In fact, I very seldom ask any to do this one. it's been a long time since i've been asking people but db wanted to bring it back kalani
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wanted to bring it back the people wanted to bring it back they wanted the five fingers to come back
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so marlon craft welcome to the five fingers challenge on sway in the morning let's go i'm
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with that shit let's do it a brave soul has entered the arena seeking to test their lyrical
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ability. Five beats will be chosen at random. No requests. I was so nervous the first time we did
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this. Welcome to the Sway of Mind. Five Finger Freestyle Challenge. Unshake 45. Welcome to the
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Valley of the Hyena. Marlon Kraft is back. This is a great beat. You gonna get crazy with this one, Marlon. Hey
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A.I. was the answer. Now they think A.I. is the answer. Shit, but you can't copy a soul
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Go ahead, copy a stanza. I don't rock with the banta. I ain't cocky. I'm stand-up
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You ain't never felt that. Ain't knocking your mans, but his eyes got him some plans
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That's gonna end up with you jammed up. I retire dame before they turn me into Westbrook
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Want love at my worst, cause they don't know what my best took. Y'all only respect the game when the refs look
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I play the same in the rucka and in the finals. All these whacks getting paid. Y'all must be into the vinyl
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Feel like Vito if he could have seen what happened. to Michael. Look, this a wisdom
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I can't make you hear a fly. I can't buy you in the rap game where everybody says they
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was a hitter. You wasn't in the field. You's a designated hitter. They judge off
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thumbnails. Check the resume. Make it bitter. When they see the score and realize I'm
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Hans Zimmer, I let them argue who white noise is different. Out here doing
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the white boy Olympics. I'm good on that shit. The bar low and the
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bars low. When the lights come, we'll look up like where the stars go. I'm out of dudes weight class with the shit
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I stayed laughing as shit I ain't better than no one as a man But hey, rapping and shit, they ain't lasting for shit
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Eight years in, in that time I done broken the mold, told a lot of objective truths
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Ain't objective who told them, and I get it But my spot is earned, my stock deserved
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A lot's been given to dudes who did a lot less earning So pardon me, I'm taking my respect
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Old-fashioned or is why, are we taking it by check? Dudes integrity, fugazi to your honor, I object
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Try and be less of me for them is all that I regret Shit
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Might catch me deep in meditation In the grass by the river Try and beat my hesitation
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Or on top of beat Critique in my present nation Exemplifying greatness
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Try and lead a generation No surrender, defeat, or resignation In my soul, a estimation elite
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All by design, two feet All in my grind It seemed how they define
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These days is underlined with the standards I subscribe to While y'all was jotting captions
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I was plotting actions To be Michael or the Mike While looking more Johnny Paxson
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They ain't really that, it's more about who's in fashion They ain't really that, it's more about who that faction
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Me, I cashed in the passion and left the casino Sometimes you can tell more by a person's silence
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All that, which he know That's why I never trip when they leave me off the list
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They looked at me and seen a lot of risk Who wanna jump out the window for this
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I never really had a cosign, an OG I did it all doly, undercover till I found my Jolie
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Word Smith found a missus So I've been countin' paper, not countin' es
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But I do it for the art, though And to watch the heart grow All they want is bread, and that's malnutritious Yeah
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Supercalifragilistic-ass rappers Bunch of words, and none of them realistic-ass rappers Made you stars, but you common big-dipper-ass rappers
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The culture's sick, and you the symptom-ass rappers Sheesh Me, I'm makin' no apologies
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I call it how I see it They Tim Donaghy All heart, my bio is biology
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Secret to eatin' good, I cook constantly. Dudes beefing over who got the sauce, man
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I don't speak Balinese. It's all nonsense. I'm more concerned with Thibodeau coaching offense
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Or why it seemed like stupidity equals content. I'm on 10 like I'm gone
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Clive Frazier, part of my abrasion. A pump fake can get you in the lane
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But you still got to finish, got to lay them. They ain't ready to hit the pavement
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I'm saying like, sway. Come on, baby. Come on, baby. That's what's up
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That's what's up. I'm on the craft. The bars have officially reached elite level
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Turn my mic up. I'm not hearing myself the way I want to hear me. The bar is low
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The bar, what did he say? The bar low and the bar is low. The bars, you symptom-ass rappers
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The game is sick, you symptom-ass rappers. Oh, my God. Talking to you, that was a five-fingers, just a five-fingers challenge
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Those bars were exceptional. I feel good I was in a different mood
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this morning I love that shit I feel good I'm going to go out in the world now
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hip hop is alive yo you're so dope I appreciate you Marlon Craft
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thank you man I was looking forward to it thank you man I couldn't make it the other day
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and I was like please hopefully we'll come back Monday what did you bring
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you brought some yeah you got mine slide it back over okay trying to go for the swipe Oakland
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five finger discount I got some for y'all too man Wow, that's a good look
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Yeah, yeah. There you go, DB. Give me one, too. For sure. These are hot in the streets, man. Come on
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I'm going to need my sign, please. I got y'all, man. And then Torch, you want one, too, right, Torch
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I got Torch. Is Torch there? Torch here right here. Is Torch here? Yeah. Okay, there he goes
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Is Torch here? What? Marlon, how can people reach you, brother? Man, listen
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Marloncraft.com. Follow me on Instagram, Marloncraft. Spotify, Marloncraft. Everything Marloncraft. Tap in with the new project
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It's a lot of new stuff coming after this as well. I'm just going to keep it pushing
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I'm in Europe in September and October. Congratulations. Thank you. Yeah, it's going to be my first full Europe tour
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September and October? I'm happy for you, man. Yeah, end of September. So we doing it
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About to go out there and buy tickets to those shows, y'all. I'm not trying to lose a bunch of money
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Come on, baby. No, it's going to be good. It's going to be great. It's going to be great
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I'm excited. Yeah, yeah. The show is when again? The Europe show is September 24th to October 4th
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I'm out there man I'm out there in Europe Oh you got the new album too? Yep
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Home Court Advantage Volume 2 man It's out right now Everywhere you can stream it
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This is dope Thank you Thank you It's the mixtape man This is mixtape craft right here
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This is me on my rap and shit Obviously it's some singing in there
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We getting more musical But this is my rap and shit Yeah man
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Always sing Get the girls Get the money Marlon Craft for the money Y'all can follow him on social
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at Marlon Craft
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