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Nick Grant Talks New Album 'Sunday Dinner' on Sway In The Morning & Freestyles | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Oct 25, 2023
Nick Grant is a refreshing presence in hip-hop today, bringing a unique blend of old-school and new-school flows that have gained him critical acclaim. His latest album, "Sunday Dinner," is a testament to his talent, and he recently stopped by Sway In The Morning to promote it. Grant's interview with Sway was nothing short of entertaining, but what really stole the show was his freestyle.
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[Applause]
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he out rapping y'all I'mma start the
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interview off like that he raps better
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than
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[Applause]
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you open it up with the facts man he
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going to clean my lungs out today boy
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the man raps better than
0:16
you we said it early on his first major
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platform that he came on and started to
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rise and shine I don't care who he went
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to afterwards y'all did it cuz we opened
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the door to your imaginations you was
0:29
probably stuck on wackness and then we
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showed you that dopeness can win and
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Prevail even in the midst of wackness
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damn it I remember the first time
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Heather just like yesterday he rhymed on
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our show I haven't even said his name
0:43
yet and I remember we were
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at drama drama Studios Don Canon the
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drama studios in Atlanta in Atlanta and
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sigh the prince wrapped yep in
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sigh oh my goodness manless sigh if he
1:01
was a butcher what kind of butcher would
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he be before the butcher was coming he
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was the butcher he was okay good point
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good point good point good point and I
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went to this young man I said Hey listen
1:12
young man you know I know about you I've
1:14
heard about you great you know but right
1:17
there what you just saw as a gladiator
1:19
just Shred the mic my advice is wait a
1:22
little bit you could wait you got to go
1:24
now we was standing we told him that
1:25
yeah trying to protect them we was
1:27
trying to protect them and have the did
1:30
he say no I got
1:31
it I'mma go I was like damn and that's
1:36
what you heard the rest's history Nick
1:39
Grant not only did he go he started to
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glow in the dark Nick Grant is here
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citizens Nick Grant is
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back back thank you for that those
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intros are always the best man thank you
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hey Nick what year was that was that
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what year was that 2015
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2015 eight years ago years wow I've
2:03
known Nick Grant we've known him eight
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years brother you ain't even got friends
2:07
in your life that you known longer than
2:09
that man do you you got any left I hope
2:11
yeah I got two maybe two three two
2:13
friends all you need okay that's
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all that's all so so Nick when you when
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you first came in the
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game um as we do now we recognize you as
2:26
wow this is a top Elite Lyricist that
2:29
this generation has to offer in the same
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vein as a Kendrick or or jcole or
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without the accolades and success and
2:37
the years that they put in but of that
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lineage for sure in in our opinion but
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it was at a time when people were having
2:45
arguments about Do lyrics matter right
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remember that remember that doesn't
2:50
matter if someone else writes your
2:52
lyrics and and and people don't really
2:55
care what's in the song they care about
2:56
the hook and the beat yeah but it didn't
2:59
deter you from keeping on that Elite
3:02
level of writing that you stayed on but
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I'm sure this [ __ ] frustrated you oh
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very much so very much so I I think my
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purpose was different though I think my
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purpose was to carry on tradition my
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purpose was to you know um have a kid
3:18
where I'm from see like what I do and be
3:21
inspired the way I was inspired and you
3:23
know not just everything just be about a
3:25
dollar or be about money I like Le with
3:27
Integrity so that's what it's about for
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me
3:30
so you took the long route for sure for
3:32
sure I don't mind it but did you did you
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discover that along the way absolutely
3:36
absolutely I wanted to get in and get
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all the money all the girls I wanted all
3:40
the nice [ __ ] but um I had to realize
3:43
like that wasn't my journey that wasn't
3:44
how it was supposed to be was there a
3:46
particular moment that was like the
3:48
Catalyst you know when sometimes you
3:49
reach a fork in the road for sure for
3:51
sure it was just like different things
3:53
that was happening with the business I
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thought I would come in and like you
3:56
know like a wide ey child I said this on
3:57
the album you say that hold on I think
3:59
on hold on hold on don't go nowhere
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don't recited like you be you know I'm
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do it just read it cuz you be messing up
4:08
people's songs and then we don't want to
4:09
hear them no karaoke hold on that was
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one of my lyrics just read it like a
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wide wide ey oh I remember the lyric it
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was like came in the game like a a wide
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ey wide eyed
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child um and the lyric what came
4:25
afterwards was
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about was that the one you going into
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your egole uh it was uh I I came in this
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industry a wi eyed child it's no
4:33
surprise they molested my style they
4:34
molested my style I was going to ask you
4:36
about that too for sure because when you
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said they molested my style I was like
4:42
who it's a double anandra yeah for like
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for like the executive not
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intentionally um but um just like just
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having so many opinions around that felt
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like this is what I needed to be doing
4:56
um and you know that's a part of like I
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feel like a thing that kind of deter me
4:59
me from like getting to where I want to
5:01
get to this place that I'm in now like I
5:03
could have I felt like I could have did
5:04
this years ago but you know timing is
5:07
everything so what kind of things they
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suggested why would they you would make
5:12
you make great music all along the way
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yeah for sure so what what is it that
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what was the suggestion to not make
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great music I no it wasn't it wasn't I'm
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like what's going it wasn't that it
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wasn't that it wasn't that it was like
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being more intentional I think you can
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make you know God level music or top
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teer music or the people that you know
5:30
you that's how those the guys that you
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mentioned earlier got the accolades like
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they made certain types of record okay
5:35
by being intentional not just yo this
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record is dope like now what's the point
5:39
we're trying to get across like the
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first time I ever came on this show was
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like yo Sunday dinner should be my first
5:44
album yeah so that that was the point I
5:47
was trying to get across early on but
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you know God works in in his time and in
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his way so I don't think I would have
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been been able to tell this story to way
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I'm telling it now so yeah are you still
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surrounded by the same management and
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all the folks you started with n n at
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all how how did that Pro like that's
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always hard you know when you start with
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folks and then [ __ ] ain't aign and then
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it's got to dissolve and they got to
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dissolve how did you approach that how
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did y'all how did y'all depart um I
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would just say like just creative
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different differences you know yeah just
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to keep it sure just creative
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differences okay all right that was a
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real well [ __ ] calculated ass veteran
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answer right there you ain't the same
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that Grant you were in 2015 s they did
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this or that I a couple things okay it's
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a different Nick y'all and it's and it's
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like I haven't spoken to like both sides
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like in in well one side I haven't
6:38
spoken like spoken to in depth so it's
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kind of like I'm I'm not all the way
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comfortable talking about it yet until
6:44
we speak so respect yeah say less I
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won't ask you any more about it except
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no
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just what are their names uh y uh uh so
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one of the things I always appreciated
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Nick when I saw you working with um um
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different artists you know I think it's
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cool when a DJ khet yeah for sure being
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who he is on the levels that he is who
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makes the biggest songs on radio at
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times can still recognize a true MC how
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did that collaboration happen um just
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being on Epic and um I would always see
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him like in the building just see him
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around and um he always thought I was
7:24
dope he just listened to to one of my
7:26
albums on his own time and when I saw
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him he was like yo you just cut from
7:29
that cloth like I appreciate it that
7:31
turned into um him showing up at
7:33
shows um like yo come see the crib [ __ ]
7:36
like that uhhuh oh you went to the crib
7:38
bro yeah crib is nice yeah crib is nice
7:42
motivational did you get to see the
7:44
whole crib or they blocked it off where
7:45
you only could go to certain parts he
7:47
gave me a tour he gave me a tour to Cle
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damn how long did that
7:50
take for a little while but um yeah I
7:53
ain't going in certain rooms I'm like yo
7:55
something end up missing I don't want
7:56
blaming me he would blame you too cuz
7:59
you listen to Sunday dinner you was a
8:01
scrappy little criminal growing up
8:03
weren't you listen I'm going stay
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outside
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coool one of my um favorite songs
8:11
especially because I'm such an
8:13
appreciator of opening lines um Bravo
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where I believe it starts with
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um licked by the devil's tongue and I'm
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dripping in sin yeah something to that
8:26
to that effect and I was like wow my
8:28
attention you completely had it and
8:30
obviously all of us we all are covered
8:34
in sin to a degree you know but you can
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learn from your sin as well absolutely
8:39
and even while you learn and shed some
8:41
of your past patterns we always hear new
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level new Devil for sure so for this nck
8:46
grant versus eight years ago how have
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the sins changed what are the sins from
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eight years ago that are no longer with
8:52
you that's a great question um I think
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that's still there I'm just learning how
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to manage um and just like you know
9:00
learning how to like fight the internal
9:02
War fight and face different things that
9:05
I've been through and just you know just
9:07
figure out who I am as a person I think
9:09
that was the key you know the key to
9:10
like making this album the key to like I
9:12
just had a son so it's like I found
9:14
myself thank you thank you I feel my I
9:16
found myself like correcting like
9:18
certain issues that my my my parents had
9:21
but it didn't start until I start
9:23
looking inside and like yo why why am I
9:25
like this you know um and it was a cycle
9:28
of like just different things that I
9:29
experience and you know I I felt like I
9:32
had to change him and face him before
9:33
you know he got here so yeah for sure
9:36
congratulations on your son man thank
9:38
you man thank you hey who's that
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braiding your hair on your album
9:44
cover for real though you messy yeah
9:47
that's a friend that's a friend
9:49
that's I'm messy but he puts her on
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album
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cover no that's a friend I just you know
9:54
I was trying to create a certain
9:55
aesthetic for the album yeah
9:58
okay why you choose her huh why you
10:01
choose her um somebody recommended her
10:04
no she's awesome for the cover I just
10:05
look like y'all knew each other no no we
10:07
don't know each other just good
10:10
acting it's good acting good way to get
10:12
the point across get way good okay Nick
10:15
ran is here man Nick you ain't got a
10:17
tiptoe with us bro this your family man
10:20
I mean Nick be talking about his
10:23
situationships as well like I forgot on
10:26
what joint but you said something about
10:28
I'll make it friendly but being so good
10:31
in bed that she want to buy you a
10:34
Birkin the F he said that in a song in
10:37
real life he said that in the
10:40
song you you're that good and bad that
10:42
she want to buy him a burger that women
10:44
buying you pures I mean that was an
10:47
actual quote like [ __ ] I should buy you
10:48
one the way you she said it herself she
10:51
said that yeah I would have never said
10:52
that like on my own somebody said that
10:54
to me she should have been on the album
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cover
10:58
right no cuz if he would have asked me
11:00
who she was I would have had to say it
11:01
so ah who was the person that said that
11:06
though you setting yourself up Ni no
11:09
it's all good it's all good who is y
11:11
family you know
11:12
yeah in that same song we hear that
11:17
s let's just hear the song wa hold up
11:20
hold up hold
11:22
up the same song Bravo just the piggy
11:25
backer with Excuse me man Nick I'm
11:28
coming off your lungs was going to
11:31
collapse sway what the hang out with you
11:33
man come on man I'm trying to figure
11:35
that part out I'm trying to get a B all
11:39
that trying to get all that what is it
11:42
called the purse b i right yeah yeah
11:46
okay congrats my father used to sing
11:48
like Luther I wonder what happened yeah
11:51
look look like the look like the
11:54
addiction was stronger than his passion
11:57
yeah yeah look like like he didn't like
11:59
his
12:02
casket yeah um yeah me my father was
12:05
like my father was like my superhero
12:07
when I was younger okay um but as I grew
12:10
I just saw that he like had issues like
12:13
with with certain things in his life um
12:16
I could remember far back like just
12:18
standing outside with him and like
12:19
drinking md2020 on the corner he like yo
12:22
this is good for you grow some chest
12:23
hair all this [ __ ] like just
12:25
conversation that was that was I got
12:27
conversation outside before you know
12:29
what I'm knocked out he bringing me in
12:30
the crib like you know to to you know
12:33
just regular [ __ ] that was like an
12:35
everyday thing um so yeah like I I would
12:39
I would see like different things in his
12:40
character and his personality early on
12:42
to where he was like close and then we
12:44
kind of developed this thing where we
12:46
like separated because you know I
12:48
started to catch on to like yeah this is
12:50
not how the [ __ ] supposed to go and he
12:53
was like a very talented man like I'll
12:55
be upstairs and like hear Luther like
12:57
songs I'm like yo this [ __ ] downstairs
13:00
like what's going on that's how well
13:01
that's how well he sang Luther abely he
13:04
sang Luther so well you thought I
13:06
thought he was downstairs it's I'm
13:08
exaggerating but cuz I knew Luther
13:09
wasn't downstairs that's just how well
13:11
he he sung the song so I was like yo um
13:14
but he had like different things
13:16
like
13:18
um this is personal but yeah he had like
13:21
a pacemaker in his heart from like the
13:22
stuff he was doing throughout his life
13:24
and he kept doing those things even
13:26
knowing like yo the doctor telling him
13:27
like yo he could die
13:29
um and that's what took it that's what
13:31
took his his addiction you know
13:34
superseded his passion for what he loved
13:36
to do and you know like I I remember
13:38
like just being numb hearing about it
13:39
because it's like it's tough to feel bad
13:42
for somebody in that space um and then
13:45
when I when I get to the funeral I'm
13:46
like it's like a regret filled casket
13:49
it's like yo I wish I would have done
13:50
things better with everything throughout
13:52
my life so that was my way of just
13:54
processing processing that in that
13:55
record y wow man and now you're a dad
13:58
yeah for sure for So when you say I want
14:00
to correct absolutely absolutely that's
14:02
what it's about that's what it's about
14:04
for sure are you going to what was that
14:06
y'all used to drink on the corner
14:08
MD I never even heard of that for real I
14:12
did what the hell was that that's sound
14:14
like
14:15
a you don't want to cheap and
14:18
available cheap it'll [ __ ] you up you
14:22
will you wait wake up feeling like ass
14:25
it is terrible mad it's like bum liquor
14:27
bum liquor and they used to have flavors
14:30
drinking that [ __ ] just to put me to
14:31
sleep
14:32
so it's easy outside for him yeah just
14:35
just his saline um yeah md2020 came in
14:39
flavors it was like before lean before
14:43
all of that it was
14:44
md2020 stay away
14:48
man sway ain't want no sway wanted juice
14:52
and
14:53
Kool-Aid yo I used to love fruit
14:55
cocktail as a kid too make sure you give
14:57
your son some fruit [ __ ] for sure for
15:00
sure
15:02
100% sugar sugar free be like that yeah
15:06
right okay hey Bobby what up you want to
15:07
talk to Nick Grant what's up yeah what's
15:10
happing yeah I was wondering on that
15:12
love L album the one that came before
15:14
this one I was wondering if it was
15:15
heavily influenced or Loosely influenced
15:17
by Dungeon Family I heard a lot of in
15:20
intricacies within the music with that
15:22
joint no a million percent a million
15:24
percent you know they like produce like
15:26
uh majority of my first albums I always
15:28
been fans of them um yeah so yeah they
15:31
they definitely influenced that um
15:32
mainly uh the love below that was like
15:35
my favorite one of my favorite Outcast
15:37
albums um so and just the style and how
15:40
he approached that and I was just in the
15:42
space where I was like y'all I want to
15:43
be able to create like that so yeah I
15:45
took that approach for that album y yeah
15:47
I definitely heard that in there thank
15:49
you okay hey Bobby thanks for your call
15:51
man get the new album it's incredible
15:53
yeah man you're a
15:55
citizen thank you Bobby um I don't know
15:58
how old you are you that that you know
16:00
but I just kind of want to figure out
16:02
yeah no no no no I don't I just want to
16:04
kind of do a timeline a little bit I
16:07
think when for me when I first got into
16:09
the industry to your point very brigh
16:12
eyed bushytail excited you just want to
16:15
be at every event you want to all of
16:18
those different things when you come
16:19
into the game and then you start to see
16:22
how the industry part of it starts to
16:24
work and um we were talking to té about
16:26
this yesterday sometimes get happen out
16:29
of your control you may even start
16:31
questioning your own Talent you know
16:32
just wondering if if you cut out for
16:35
this if am I am I crazy you know you'll
16:37
ask yourself that a million times for me
16:40
around 27 going into 28 um I became less
16:46
fascinated with the industry like the
16:48
lights and everything didn't attract me
16:51
as much anymore and just became more
16:53
personal with my music you know um if
16:56
that makes sense did a lot of soul
16:59
searching I realized a lot of this game
17:02
was demonic I mean I I'm not say you
17:06
know a lot of it was demonic and I had
17:07
to protect my spirit moving through this
17:10
industry sure um did you
17:13
experience that um that I'm describing
17:16
at all um do you do was that part of
17:19
your process getting to this point now
17:21
where you're just open and kind of
17:22
unpacking your childhood and different
17:24
things like that a million percent it
17:26
wasn't until like the pandemic where I
17:27
had to sit with
17:29
everything you know what I'm saying I
17:30
had to sit with my thoughts I had to sit
17:32
with you know different things I
17:33
experienced that just popped up and just
17:35
came you know back I like damn I forgot
17:37
about that just just because I'm sitting
17:38
in the house all day you know just
17:40
thinking and there's nothing to do and
17:42
I'm like yo I never realized how much
17:43
these things affected me um even like
17:46
just your point to like the music
17:47
business just getting into the music
17:48
business and it's like now it's like I'm
17:51
doing something every day this is before
17:54
the pandemic but like I'm doing I didn't
17:55
realize this until the pandemic I was
17:57
doing something every day and like not
17:59
taking time for myself it's always been
18:01
working to get into a situation where I
18:03
can make music and get paid and then
18:05
keeping that situation but not really
18:07
taking care of myself and that's the
18:09
majority of my life you know what I'm
18:11
saying and then when you have when all
18:12
that's taken away from you now you got
18:14
to sit and just reflect and yeah it's
18:17
been a lot of things like yo why I'm not
18:18
in this space yet why is I feel like I'm
18:20
better than all of these guys that
18:22
raping why I'm not here why I'm not
18:23
doing this um I feel like when you sit
18:26
in that though it's it's very
18:27
discouraging you kind of forget your
18:29
purpose but the thing that kept me like
18:31
where I needed to be was just staying
18:32
prayed up you know family friends just
18:35
different people like you know people
18:37
like air just telling me different
18:38
things like yo bro you destined to do
18:40
this like you got to you was born to do
18:41
this so keep going you need that and I
18:44
don't think people realize that like in
18:45
the midst of all of these people around
18:47
you it's like where's that one person
18:50
like that light that that that I can
18:52
that is going to sit with me when nobody
18:54
else is around if all this [ __ ] get
18:56
taken away tomorrow who's that one
18:58
person so salute to you as well no doubt
19:02
because everybody needs that yeah
19:03
Community is everything I tell people
19:05
that all the time like even like I'm I'm
19:07
realizing that more like raising the Sun
19:09
so it's like Community is everything so
19:11
beautiful Amir is a good guy man shout
19:14
out toir man he he stays on my neck too
19:17
Nick you know in the friendliest way
19:20
possible you ain't call him back I don't
19:22
know what happened just the way he got a
19:24
little got some magic about him man he
19:26
just makes you feel soon as air text I'm
19:28
like oh [ __ ] what I got to do they are
19:31
your to you need that guy in your life
19:33
bro but but this is what I want to do I
19:35
want to play the song Bravo that Tracy
19:38
brought up and so folks could hear that
19:40
song that does talk it goes in in depth
19:43
every song it is like a Sunday dinner
19:45
Sunday dinner for Nick was the moment
19:47
that his grandmother utilized to tame
19:50
his ass and Center him and ground him so
19:52
no matter where he was during the week
19:55
Sunday after church let's go they go
19:57
have Sunday dinner you know and we lost
20:00
that we don't sit and eat dinner
20:02
together you know and that's why this
20:04
part of why this album I'm sure it's
20:06
called Sunday dinner here the song bravo
20:09
bravo bravo Nick Grant is here listen
20:13
you tune in right now you're a hip-hop
20:15
lover you're a lover of music and you're
20:17
a love lover of dope
20:19
MC's I need I need you to call 888 742
20:24
3345 this man has been putting nothing
20:26
but fire out now if you not not a lover
20:28
of good great music and you're not a
20:30
lover of dope MC's don't call no can't
20:34
even believe you made it on this show
20:35
for this
20:37
one I'm not in a nice move I'm I'm like
20:40
Heather be mean right now and it feels
20:43
gr play
20:44
her to the man she got her own my
20:48
goodness what is that awful sound they
20:51
did this while I wasn't around the sound
20:53
of hate coming from the super villain
20:57
Heather
20:58
be
21:00
[Music]
21:02
me I hate it
21:06
here that's the best they confuse me
21:09
with with with honesty and truth and I'm
21:12
just I be aggravated Nick cuz s be
21:14
letting his corny friends and people
21:17
that he meet come up here and rap and he
21:20
be scrunching his face up like they
21:22
killing it I'm like bro what time is it
21:25
not the people that he meet they be
21:28
meeting and they be
21:30
trash people when you people like you
21:32
come up here of your ilk you know it it
21:36
we don't get to fully appreciate it
21:37
people think sway putting too much on it
21:39
cuz he done gassed up so much trash it's
21:43
it's hard and it's like hot air balloons
21:45
all around the studio and I just got the
21:48
pins
21:50
like stop so that's all it is and then
21:54
when I was out one day or probably came
21:56
late they created a theme about one of
22:00
EOS
22:02
mean be me I could have I could have did
22:06
love it yeah we could have missed out on
22:07
Nick Grant the way you be acting no no
22:09
no no because Nick Grant because I have
22:12
such a high regard for sah and Simba
22:15
like dudes like I like these are my
22:17
favorites you know what I mean Sean
22:19
Smith you know Sean Smith is like I have
22:22
like you're in that my my my guy aoi
22:25
from
22:26
Connecticut
22:28
like rest in power the Fred the Gods
22:31
like I have a certain affinity for a
22:33
type of MC and after sah rap that day I
22:38
saw him I was like you could just wait
22:40
till the next round you know me and you
22:42
was trying to trying to save him White
22:45
Flags everything stop signs he just but
22:47
you immediately gained our respect you
22:50
was like I got it and and I'm always
22:52
just an appreciator of somebody who's
22:53
putting in the work when nobody's
22:55
watching it's like being in the gym you
22:57
you that means this young man was
22:58
prepared love that and it makes so much
23:00
sense for where you are right now
23:02
because back then you were still able to
23:04
block the noise for sure even though the
23:06
best intentions were being shared from
23:08
Heather and sway but you know thyself
23:11
you put your you knew it and that's all
23:13
I be asking like come here prepared like
23:16
you have to or any opportunity because
23:18
you don't know when that opportunity is
23:20
going to be you know how many people I
23:22
ran into here on the elevator you know
23:24
what I mean like it it happened sway
23:26
running into people in the hallway up
23:28
here which is part of our problem and
23:29
then he brings him here in the show but
23:31
nonetheless his intentions mean well but
23:34
no kudos to you I've always from day one
23:38
like you gain my respect cuz I knew you
23:40
put in work thank you so much I
23:42
appreciate that now go ahead Nick you
23:43
sound like he was going to kiss up to
23:44
her no it was it's not we need people
23:47
like that yeah no we need people like
23:49
her man just just honest about what's
23:51
going on I love that I love that no no
23:54
free rides no no handouts like come up
23:57
appear prepared like I love the part you
23:59
said about just being prepared and you
24:02
know not seeing me put into work cuz I
24:03
spent a lot of hours to be this good
24:06
like a lot of hours and you realize for
24:09
somebody like us it it's been three
24:12
decades for sway and I you know someone
24:15
like yourself you're getting that that
24:16
full decade under your belt but from the
24:19
time you started you realized how hard
24:22
it is like it is hard if somebody going
24:24
to be calling your phone 20 years from
24:26
now think about that like it's hard it
24:30
it's not an easy thing so that's an ill
24:32
ass thought do you know people going to
24:34
be calling your phone 20 years years
24:37
from now MH what that look like I'm
24:39
almost halfway you're almost there you
24:41
know what I'm saying not all not really
24:43
you ain't even almost halfway you ain't
24:45
even to a third time starts
24:48
CH good try [ __ ] not here
24:51
though that was a test no free handouts
24:53
no free hand outs bro you don't get
24:55
those two years you know but it just it
24:57
it we just reminding people it ain't
24:59
it's not easy to sustain this thing it
25:01
ain't easy it ain't easy man we got
25:02
people the phone lines lit up when I
25:04
said that let's see how real they are to
25:05
that song Bravo baby hey that's called
25:08
Bravo that's off the album Sunday dinner
25:10
is out now go while we're talking to
25:12
this man stream the album word for sure
25:15
trust me stream the album cuz you're
25:17
already late Tyler is in Washington go
25:20
ahead Tyler what's your question for
25:21
Nick
25:22
Grant Tyler
25:25
Tyler what's good Tyler going once put
25:27
them on whole s cuz you like to hang up
25:29
on people Tyler take us off mute and
25:32
some people be at work dodging their
25:34
boss all right hey line for make sure
25:36
he's awake all right Shaka is in the ATL
25:39
what's up Shaka Shaka Shaka I don't
25:41
think it's our
25:42
Shaka just a lot of shockers in the ATL
25:45
okay that's where the whole Zulu Nation
25:47
lives all
25:49
right it out what's the deal y'all hey
25:53
um also at work dodging my boss so I
25:56
make it quick um
25:59
I I appreciate great music I appreciate
26:01
this hip-hop culture and it lives right
26:03
on this station so much love to all of
26:05
y'all for that um Nick Nick Grant since
26:09
uh you open it up for questions when you
26:11
wrote that line about my neighbors got
26:13
roaches so now we got roaches where you
26:15
pull that from man because when I hear
26:17
stuff like that I said here's somebody
26:19
that's pulling from these experiences
26:21
that we forget we had but that they
26:23
connect us all for sure U my mama kept a
26:26
clean house when I was younger and so if
26:28
we saw roach she just always blame the
26:32
neighbors yo that got that gota be
26:34
somebody next door that ain't this this
26:36
ain't this ain't our
26:39
[ __ ] hey I I know all about it per Homes
26:43
Atlanta man that's that's my mother too
26:45
man well hey peace out y'all I
26:46
appreciate the you know he's from you
26:49
from well you're not from Atlanta but
26:51
you live in
26:52
Atlanta not not you chak I'm sorry you
26:55
gone you're a citizen I'm ni
26:58
um I was I was born and raised in uh
27:00
South Carolina but I grew up in Atlanta
27:01
to I mov I was going back and forth
27:03
since I was seven I moved permanently
27:05
when I was 14 okay okay uh we got pilot
27:08
Dan on the line from Washington goad
27:10
pilot Dan yeah pilot Dan that was my bad
27:14
yeah he must have misunderstood me I
27:16
apologize and then he took my St my
27:18
thunder about the the the roaches but I
27:20
was like that hit me so hard because you
27:22
could extrapolate that to America right
27:24
now like talk about it how let me me
27:29
elaborate so you know like look you know
27:33
I'm 44 I've talked you know I've been on
27:35
the line
27:36
before and you know
27:39
it it's called the Rust Belt now because
27:42
we we shipped all of our manufacturing
27:44
out you know overseas and nothing back
27:47
you know the towns West Virginia coal
27:49
mining just done I mean [ __ ] Newark you
27:52
know like I you know now I'm flying with
27:54
the airlines I'm no longer in
27:55
Afghanistan and I went into Newark and I
27:56
was like yo this is pretty rough and you
28:00
know but there's nothing to backf it to
28:02
fix it and it's so hard to Reg gentrify
28:05
or even build build places back up we
28:07
talking about food deserts all that
28:09
stuff yeah and that song was you then
28:11
you were hitting on all of that it was
28:13
but the metaphor of you know Sunday
28:16
dinner is you know is bigger than that
28:18
and it was it was it was hard man good
28:21
job man thank you thank you I appreciate
28:22
that thank you man that dude said good
28:25
job that's a real compliment right there
28:28
man you're a
28:30
citizen whatever you said um let me
28:34
see got a lot of people on the line okay
28:37
we got a lot of people online let me ask
28:38
you one more question though before I
28:40
took notes did you ask one already yeah
28:42
I want another one go for it okay I go
28:45
right
28:46
now yeah all right
28:49
great well I was thinking about Nick um
28:51
when you were sharing with Heather and
28:53
throughout this interview just you know
28:55
being that wide eyed younger coming in
28:58
thinking I'm So Fire With These Bars you
29:01
have a great image as well that it's
29:04
going to arrive quicker than I think
29:06
especially with all the hours that you
29:07
put in sometimes with artists when they
29:11
believe that this is going to happen
29:13
they may spend their money on things in
29:16
advance because they're like I'mma get
29:18
it in like three months when this whole
29:19
[ __ ] blows up how has your like spending
29:22
saving investing been throughout this
29:24
time if you don't see me I'm writing for
29:26
somebody else
29:28
a lot of times so that's like and I make
29:31
I make more doing that so you make more
29:34
money writing for people do you do for
29:36
myself for yourself what's an example of
29:39
like the biggest check that you've made
29:40
off of writing for someone
29:43
man should I give that out
29:51
y'all don't be I don't say y'all I
29:55
didn't ask that I didn't ask the name
29:57
cuz you didn't y'all y'all be Ops right
30:00
now you know what I'm saying what's
30:02
personal about a price though he said a
30:04
range he a lot he make more doing that
30:07
than his own next question six figures
30:10
though next question wait you're an
30:12
intelligent man next question this
30:15
representative had to step in this guy
30:17
had to be me rocking I'm send you the
30:19
T-shirt no is not me not oh my goodness
30:23
what is that awful sound sorry Nick it's
30:26
the sound of hate coming from the super
30:30
villain hea
30:36
y I hate it
30:39
here terrible promise you Nick I feel
30:43
like the perception in hip-hop anyway is
30:45
that you got bred is it that like for
30:48
not sharing information like that is it
30:50
to protect yourself like what is it that
30:53
makes that so personalit it's definitely
30:54
to protect yourself okay um if I get up
30:57
say the wrong thing they might feel
30:58
anything is too much to say h cuz it's a
31:00
sensitive topic of like ghost writing is
31:02
very sensitive so okay you know that you
31:05
can get a lot of PR why now everybody
31:07
was talking about lyrics Don't Matter go
31:09
they it was a whole campaign at ghost
31:11
writing is okay where all those people
31:13
at now
31:15
CRI spending their checks
31:18
yo spending checks spending checks that
31:20
says a lot if you really paying someone
31:23
like a lot of bread it's worth it I mean
31:25
it it keeps it keeps people out on the
31:28
road it keeps people it only take one
31:30
song you you need one hit most people
31:33
are hit away from their whole life being
31:36
changing you need one hit and you could
31:38
go out for the rest of your life like
31:41
people be playing it's it's an
31:42
investment if I'mma make $5 million and
31:46
I and I got a Ghost Rider and all I got
31:48
to I give him 500,000 I'm up yeah that
31:51
was a great investment yeah for sure
31:54
[ __ ] what you need what you want to
31:55
chain or this I'mma kick you off my
32:02
list easy it's worth
32:05
it I'mma kick you off my list all right
32:09
all right see the best ghost writers
32:11
though don't let other people write for
32:12
them and and that's that's that's just
32:15
the the burden that you bear I'm glad
32:17
you making money because your
32:19
grandmother gave you some really good
32:20
advice Nick Grant what did she tell you
32:23
a lot what the particular song that got
32:26
her name in it right in the
32:29
title uh grandma grandma said Grandma
32:31
said Grandma said yeah and what' she
32:34
say uh I'm From The Trenches I got some
32:37
H I got the I don't know
32:39
what's but I appreciate you trying
32:42
right did you write it did you write it
32:46
[ __ ] you know your own
32:48
lyrics She said to know your worth
32:50
didn't she oh for sure for sure for sure
32:53
for sure for sure since that's what we
32:54
talking about knowing your work
32:56
absolutely
32:58
absolutely he thought it was something
33:00
more specific yeah I thought it was
33:02
something specific my bad got I got to
33:05
catch up no you know what it is you
33:06
probably used to talking to people on
33:09
different
33:10
frequencies right basically I'm just
33:12
going to leave it right there for
33:15
sure I can get personal real quick too
33:18
never had Nas like I never had an
33:21
interview with a spokesperson in my
33:23
interview with
33:25
me y know y it's like yo do I say it or
33:29
what's going on don't don't don't stop
33:31
the chat I'm here for you here no matter
33:34
no matter how close I push you to the
33:36
edge she's not going to let
33:39
you I love that I love that for sure all
33:42
right man let me give a couple call
33:44
Quick callers and uh we're going to ask
33:46
you to bless the mic you okay with that
33:48
yeah let's do it okay hold up we got DJ
33:50
intense in Minneapolis what you want to
33:51
say to up DJ in what's going down family
33:55
this has been a amazing morning
33:57
rolling all
33:59
morning me personally I want to I want
34:01
to give Nick his his his props I've been
34:04
listening to this album from beginning
34:06
to end since it dropped I cannot stop
34:10
playing this I thank you for your
34:12
vulnerability I thank you for being open
34:15
it has been helping me out through you
34:17
know some troubles that I've been going
34:19
through lately you know what I'm saying
34:20
so I thank you for for for honestly
34:24
hitting at the right time for me thank
34:25
you man I appreciate thank you for
34:27
taking the time to listen that like
34:29
means more to me than anything like just
34:31
people like hearing these hearing this
34:33
album and hearing these songs and
34:35
letting these experiences resonate with
34:36
them CU you know that's that's an
34:38
important part too like making people
34:39
feel like they're not alone and dealing
34:41
with certain issues and certain things
34:42
that life so yeah that's big man hey
34:45
intense man I appreciate yall yes sir
34:48
thank you sir for your call all right
34:49
you're a super citizen man in the
34:51
morning okay um Eli is in Charlotte
34:53
quick question go ahead brother
34:55
Eli hey what's going on y'all um I got a
35:00
my home do you still mess with uh DJ
35:02
kerosine from Atlanta yeah yeah me and
35:05
Caris cool yep okay that's what's up man
35:08
that's my homeboy um I don't know if you
35:10
know uh tier we went to high school
35:13
together me and tiar went to high school
35:15
together and DJ kerosene from Atlanta
35:18
came through like maybe 10 years ago man
35:21
we started kicking I known him since
35:23
then and I just wanted he he always put
35:25
me on to you and I just I I just
35:28
appreciate him letting me know about
35:30
your music and getting put on to uh Nick
35:33
Grant so yeah shout out to doing your
35:36
thing brother for sure thank you bro
35:37
apprciate he's from Charlotte no he's
35:39
from Charlotte North Carolina you're
35:40
from
35:42
South that's dope El you're citizen you
35:45
got a lot of South Carolinians calling
35:47
up like L what up what's goody what it
35:51
do hey man you got your native we got
35:54
your native spitter here hey is he the
35:56
I'm trying to tell you hey I ain't just
35:59
a fan I can say I'm a [ __ ] fan
36:02
look it check it out right n boy hey boy
36:06
hey when you got cosigned by Andre 3000
36:08
bro how that felt bro man that was that
36:11
was crazy that was like the dopest [ __ ]
36:13
ever to me cuz he's like boy what you
36:16
talking about he's like he like a real
36:18
outside of that he just like a real
36:20
man's man real black
36:23
man yo I come in the studio one I come
36:26
in the studio one day and he's like yo
36:29
man if we do a record you going to make
36:30
me rap as hard as I ever had to rap and
36:33
I'm like yo what the [ __ ] I'm like yo
36:36
looking around and [ __ ] at the time like
36:38
I went disclose where he was at at the
36:39
time he's like yo when you get out there
36:40
you know let me know I'm going come to a
36:42
show and in my head I'm like yo this
36:44
[ __ ] ain't coming to a show
36:45
whatever I get out there you know he got
36:47
a real distinct voice coming down the
36:49
hall I'm like tearing up cuz I'm like yo
36:51
he really showed up wow in a time where
36:54
I'm hearing horror stories of like
36:55
people never showing up to like anything
36:57
or keeping their word in this business
36:59
um yeah he was like yo [ __ ] it's only
37:02
like 10 people out there let's take a
37:03
picture half people pull up and I was
37:05
like oh [ __ ] that's oh wow so dope took
37:07
the picture posted it you know the crowd
37:10
got a little little little thicker went
37:12
out there perform one of the worst shows
37:14
I ever had the crowd is watching him and
37:17
he's watching me and I'm like oh [ __ ]
37:19
this Andre 3000 in the crowd and he's
37:21
rapping the words to my [ __ ] better than
37:23
me and I'm like yo this is crazy wow St
37:27
was rapping the words to your s rapping
37:29
the words in the crowd I'm like yo this
37:32
is wild did he ever hit you after that
37:34
show have you talked to him since I seen
37:36
him I seen him after that show I seen
37:37
him at a um a function yeah but it's
37:40
been a while since I seen him after that
37:41
but I did see him after that next time y
37:43
hang out can I hang out with y'all man
37:45
for sure I'mma call you for sure dead
37:47
ass man I got
37:48
you I got you gu look look at look look
37:52
you got to see if he shows up all I'm me
37:54
tell
37:55
you he funny he's funny that's why I'm
37:58
here funny guy he's in Oakland A Lot
38:01
show showing in Oakland Nick Nick hit me
38:03
with three stacks in a picture send me
38:05
the picture of you with
38:07
three I'll be showing up like those fans
38:11
shout out to Three Stacks though amazing
38:13
salute to you brother man solid solid
38:15
dude let's give Nick Grant a round of
38:17
applause thanks for your call Fred in
38:19
New York Ray and South Carolina the man
38:22
they they say this is how do you say
38:24
that Tracy a Magnus Opus oh yeah yes mag
38:27
open that's what they're saying mhm
38:30
that's what they're saying for you wow
38:33
yeah this album this is that album man
38:35
thank you so much I put so much time and
38:37
energy like literal tears literal hours
38:40
in the studio literally not bathing
38:43
sitting the studio is like cross town so
38:45
I'm like in there just you know just
38:47
sitting in there for days trying to come
38:49
up with the right Rhymes nobody in the
38:51
studio but me I have a producer come
38:52
through it's live instrumentation it's a
38:54
lot in it it's people coming through
38:56
through the play it's me like you know
38:59
taking this album through uh three
39:01
different like you know sounds and you
39:04
know coming up with just different
39:05
things and you know erasing [ __ ] and
39:08
starting over and writing verses seven
39:10
eight different times just so I can get
39:12
the point across and like you know um
39:15
not mislead people and and because I'm
39:17
not it's it's not my story is not the
39:19
only story that I'm telling if you
39:21
listen my mom is even opening up the
39:22
album um and that and that was a
39:24
conversation that was something conv
39:27
with myself and just with her to make
39:29
sure it was cool to do that so it's so
39:31
much that went into into this [ __ ] well
39:33
you made an amazing body of work Grant
39:37
and don't let this industry dictate how
39:40
you provide your art for sure out to
39:43
people these labels and different
39:45
situations will tell you you got four
39:47
weeks you got eight weeks and this that
39:49
that's [ __ ] this is art art is
39:51
forever however you feel like
39:54
introducing your piece of art or your
39:56
pieces of art to people you do that on
39:59
God's time and let him work through you
40:01
don't let this industry dictate your
40:03
time thank you for that I appreciate
40:05
that thank you I need I need words like
40:07
that just just on the just with the road
40:09
that I'm on and the purpose this new
40:11
purpose that I feel like I'm you know
40:13
I've committed to and I feel like I'm
40:14
destined to you know fulfill so yeah I'm
40:18
I'm I'm happy I love I love the the
40:19
people around me now I love you know the
40:21
way that I'm handling things and you
40:24
know just proud of myself and Pat myself
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on the back just in different areas of
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my life so I'm excited I love it man
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there you go Nick gr man you guys make
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it worth it too thank you man come on we
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still here for sure that's why we still
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here that's why we can talk 30 plus
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years cuz the industry ain't got nothing
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to do with it we've been up for 30 years
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I love that to get get your ass up right
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and when I say up up on a higher
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frequency absolutely I don't talk about
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your bank account and all of that it's
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the way you thinking the way you living
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come on up here
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I'm talking that [ __ ] you know why I'm
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fly up like a MC you know I started with
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the mic Nick you know I didn't just talk
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about this region I don't just talk
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about this destination I don't just talk
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about this place I've been in the Valley
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of the
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hyenas I've been there drop a beat on
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them sway the morning Nick Grant true
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MC
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yeah yeah I say [ __ ] it let's get this
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cake pin game got me fighting with ghost
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like odate real recognize real my [ __ ]
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they know my face from where the shooter
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on to come back for pops like no negate
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can't touch me boy your chances are
41:37
slimit in Co lay Good Times back when
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money was thin as with loners waste I'm
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a raising in the son I don't even go on
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dates better play her cards right if she
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want me to poke her face huh they
41:47
Throwing Shade trying to test my
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patience the street so ugly granny never
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fear Revelations the [ __ ] s the sandbox
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here's the defecation you never
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metaverse this cold this your second
41:56
nature you feel me ain't no doubt about
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it young Nick be whing out this ain't no
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more spit and I vomit and wipe my mouth
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uh to living down the South it ain't
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even about no money these [ __ ] down
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for clout check my style [ __ ] ain't no
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I'm quite gifted right vicious this [ __ ]
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is easy as white privilege life
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different my shooter squating through
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the lens like he light skined this the
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belly of the Beast I'm young Hy Williams
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from where they ding young praying that
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this life fulfilled them enemies through
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the blinds good night cilia yeah the
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enemies good blinds good night tell you
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you keep on bringing Whitey till you
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cookout they do you like the pilgrims
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granny praying I'm becoming one of
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Christ children got my flows even in the
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same building found my eag killed it the
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one not the two the big not the little
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one she say my game cold even no my no
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filter got this rap game in the chokey
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like Matilda rap game in the cuz I'mma
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need some ears float turn the boo cold
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yeah I need some real Qui money as the
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kitchen counter fit these real bucks you
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can get some one world and still a want
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to steal from you young mavick still
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ging bad habit still forming [ __ ] the
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[ __ ] thought boy Sway in the Morning
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[ __ ] some of that is off top
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too y'all better go back and Google who
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old is y'all better go back to figure
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out who old May
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is
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matild for sure yeah
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Matilda on a man you have you got to be
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a movie jokey to know oh that was a
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amazing woo I got to get in the middle
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of it too I was hoping you you know like
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I could take you a pause so I could be a
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part of the verse thank
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you I'm a part of that one that's a
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classic right there y shout out to Nick
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Grant man for holding the the this
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culture up on high standards thank you
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man I appr apprciate likewise thank you
43:51
we need people like you I wouldn't even
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be able to do none of the stuff I'm
43:54
doing if it wasn't for you guys open up
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your platform so thank you so much I'm
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forever grateful no matter how long we
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don't talk if we talk every day I love
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you guys and everybody in this room man
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I appreciate y'all thank you so much for
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real Nick Grant we love you too brother
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love you man yes sir likewise likewise
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absolutely Nick Grant man get that album
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Sunday dinner is out
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[Music]
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now
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