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Nym Lo Talks New Album From The Horse's Mouth with Static Selektah + Freestyle | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Apr 12, 2023
Nym Lo stopped by Sway In The Morning to kick off his press tour to talk about his new collaborative album with the legendary Statik Selektah. He also dropped some bars as well.
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Harlem stand up
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Harlem torch talk to him
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everybody in Harlem knows come on
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everybody in Harlem know everybody man
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oh man yo you was like yo yo you know
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torch I'm like from ape
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[Laughter]
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Afghanistan
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come on man yeah I love it man this
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young man that's Spanish sitting with us
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right now man the lifestyle he lived
0:31
what he write about is how he lived and
0:33
the lifestyle he lives a lot of people
0:35
write about right
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you see what I did with that one finally
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one good ball okay well whatever that's
0:44
all the tank is one a day baby [ __ ] if I
0:47
got one winning lotto ticket it works
0:50
still you know and uh but no I really
0:52
enjoyed uh since we become
0:55
um to know each other a lot better he
0:57
did that overtime freestyle that we
0:59
created this series during the pandemic
1:01
and we came and just him in 183rd under
1:03
beat
1:04
um they came up and just just created
1:06
just a really good vibe and just
1:09
listening to your lyrics I just remember
1:10
asking you man is this [ __ ] true you
1:13
remember that I was like
1:17
yeah and you was like yeah sway you know
1:20
and and the way he was dressed had to be
1:22
you know uh Polo down to the socks you
1:25
know and he's still doing it man you're
1:28
still staying true to that yeah
1:31
all right that high horse he put that
1:34
project out high horse two
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um he's worked with a lot of different
1:38
folks um including uh who we just had
1:40
currency on the show recently right this
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album was put together by the legendary
1:45
man you got to start writing him up they
1:47
don't say enough about this man when
1:49
they talk about producers they really
1:51
don't say enough or recognize his
1:53
versatility as a producer I'm talking
1:56
about my brother static selector
2:00
you just heard these songs we played
2:03
that's courtesy of static selected but I
2:05
want to welcome him to the show we're
2:06
celebrating from the horse's mouth it's
2:08
out right now right give it up for the
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one and only nimble
2:11
[Applause]
2:13
yeah yeah thank you very much thank you
2:16
for having me absolutely man you had a
2:18
caption on your um IG post you said uh
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this is dedicated to everyone that ever
2:22
supported me believed in me listen to my
2:24
music watch my video a rap with me gave
2:27
me beats engineer my session shot my
2:29
video came to see me at a show love if
2:31
they see me in the town just purchase
2:33
anything I was selling that's dope what
2:36
was you feeling that day when you wrote
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that grateful thankful appreciative and
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I mean because there's a lot of people
2:42
that try to do what we do and you know
2:45
for whatever reason sometimes it falls
2:47
on deaf ears most times you know I'm
2:49
saying like this [ __ ] is like the NBA
2:51
like this there's hundreds of thousands
2:53
that's trying to make it and it's only
2:54
like five thousand things that's
2:56
actually gonna get to the league so you
2:58
know I was just feeling appreciative of
3:00
anybody that's ever supported me on my
3:02
journey I mean talk about that
3:04
frustration when you say it falls on
3:06
deaf ears that's what made the legendary
3:07
case slay so amazing because he provided
3:11
the platforms for folks who couldn't get
3:13
places and you listening and you're
3:15
watching these artists come up and
3:16
you're not a knock on them but you know
3:17
you just as nice right if not nicer man
3:20
but how do you work through that
3:21
frustration how do you stay motivated
3:24
um well first of all rest in peace the
3:25
case slave man word that was a big hit
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for Harlem man shout out to the east
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side and um you know consistency
3:32
perseverance man when when when you got
3:35
that Vision you know I'm saying I always
3:36
say Vision the scene with the brain not
3:38
the eyes and I mean so when you got that
3:40
Vision man
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even when things look like they not
3:44
going right you gotta trust that this is
3:46
part of the road to take you where you
3:48
want to go
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[Music]
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even when things don't look like they're
3:52
going right yeah you gotta you gotta
3:54
know that that's part of your road to
3:55
get where you're going that's part of
3:56
your journey you know I'm saying because
3:57
if it was easy everybody be doing it so
3:59
you got to know when those Hard Times
4:01
come this is what makes the Champions
4:05
came in did overtime freestyles with us
4:09
too man he spoke highly of you yeah
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right right
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um and y'all grew up together right yo
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who was the dopest rapper when y'all
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were younger
4:18
between me and him more in our area you
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know him and you oh I was I was I was
4:22
better
4:28
has smoke has came he has came up over
4:32
the years like I'm saying like in the
4:35
beginning in the beginning he wasn't
4:36
like one of the sought after dudes from
4:38
our area because we come from a we got a
4:41
heavily concentrated area of rappers
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like lucks me Rex and Lucas from the
4:46
same block Mook you know what I'm saying
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oh wow wow you're from the same block
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the 116 money
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Wow money yeah Ron Brown yeah Ron Brown
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over there on my side yeah two Avenues
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over 116th and what's money average
5:04
Manhattan Avenue oh Manhattan because I
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used to be on uh a fifth oh yeah fifth
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Linux by Nino Yeah by Nino that's who I
5:12
was running would have the me and Nino I
5:14
wasn't there
5:23
where you be everywhere everybody always
5:26
talk about they seeing you somewhere
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that's a fact check out everybody I've
5:30
heard that a lot of times in many
5:31
different places
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you was outside before outside I was
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outside
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come on uh yeah man um this is all
5:47
interesting to me shout out to your pops
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too because pop pops rock with us man
5:51
that's possibly impossible to have some
5:53
good conversations man we when me and
5:55
your pops see each other we ain't mad in
5:57
person but when we see each other on
5:58
that face time we just started what's
5:59
his name shout them out just pops Ken
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Ken that's that's senior man that's Ken
6:05
Senior all right what was he a Rakim fan
6:07
what was he with grown up when when I
6:10
was old enough to start understanding
6:11
what he was listening to it was a lot of
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Onyx a lot of Wu-Tang a lot of a lot of
6:16
Naughty by Nature you know real real
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rugged yeah I mean so that's what I grew
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up listening to being a fan of and all
6:23
that and um you know he was he was young
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when I was a kid so he was tapped in
6:28
with everything that was current I mean
6:29
so he used to wake up in the morning
6:31
blast the music so you know before I'm
6:34
going to school I'm hearing Wu-Tang Clan
6:35
Ain't Nothing to [ __ ] with like that's
6:37
still one of my favorite songs that's
6:39
how you got your mind right before grade
6:41
school well probably like third grade
6:44
[Laughter]
6:50
but let me ask you this because at one
6:53
point and you say this on the project
6:55
and you mentioned this a few times I
6:56
mean your music that you dropped out of
6:58
high school right yeah that 15. I did
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um actually when I when I dropped out I
7:03
was 16 I dropped out in 11th grade okay
7:07
um I had I had moved out of my mom's
7:09
crib when I was 15. my parents had split
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up I'm saying I was used to a two-pair
7:13
at home and then they split up and that
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kind of like fries with my mind you know
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what I'm saying and I wanted to I wind
7:19
up leaving my mom's crib going to stay
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with my dogs and projects and living
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there no supervision and all that [ __ ]
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and then
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you know life life is crazy man crack
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ERS he says it in the rhyme
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who said it is
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like you know once I'm on my own now I
7:47
need money I'm saying I'm living I was
7:49
living in a force and Foster 70 Linux
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and you know everybody over there is
7:54
hustling you know what I'm saying he was
7:55
living in Foster yeah I was right around
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the corner from you yeah yeah I lived in
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70 Linux in front of the big Park you
8:01
know what I'm saying what yeah facts
8:03
shout out milk and quays my brother
8:05
fresh and I'm saying like we was living
8:07
there you know I'm saying this was you
8:09
know have the curtain over the entrance
8:11
to that's your door like that kind of
8:13
[ __ ]
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come on no no I did but I know you
8:18
talking about but yeah man so you know
8:20
once once I'm I'm on my own doing my own
8:23
thing you know your new kicks turn to
8:25
your old kicks and too young to get a
8:27
job so you know that's how hustling
8:29
started and you know
8:31
you see them have to be I see you
8:32
looking looking at it where was your so
8:35
a lot of times people move out of their
8:38
mom's crib and move in with a relative
8:40
Auntie Grandma whatever or what was your
8:43
fault where did your father go if you
8:44
don't mind me asking yeah my pops my
8:46
pops he he wasn't he wasn't far but I
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was at that stage where I didn't want to
8:51
listen to nobody I don't wanna I don't
8:53
want no rules you know what I'm saying
8:54
my dogs is here I want to chill with my
8:56
dogs right so you went into that
8:57
unsupervised environment willingly yeah
8:59
yeah facts facts like I I didn't I
9:01
didn't even really get kicked out keep
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it 100 you know I'm saying like my mom's
9:05
just once my once once they separated my
9:08
mom's got real tight you know what I'm
9:09
saying with the clam cheese she dove
9:11
into religion you know and all that and
9:13
and it was just like I wasn't really
9:15
trying to hear that I mean so you know
9:18
and a little young ignorant dude
9:22
it happens a lot I mean we we know the
9:25
story everybody got a cousin or somebody
9:27
came to live with them but were you able
9:29
to patch up the relationship later on
9:31
with your mom of course okay I spoke to
9:33
my mom's last night
9:34
that was yeah and like I said I didn't
9:37
get kicked out yeah I felt like any real
9:39
malice towards her I mean it was just I
9:42
I understood the friction that we
9:44
started going through was was because of
9:46
me so I removed myself in that situation
9:49
because I don't want to make my moms be
9:50
crying and all this other [ __ ] and
9:52
that's what started happening you know
9:53
I'm saying like real rebellious after my
9:56
posture because my pops you know he's
9:57
the fixer you know what I mean so but
9:59
you know when he was there keep me in
10:01
line so you know I had to you know I had
10:04
to go through these things to get where
10:06
I'm at though what I'm saying sometimes
10:08
you got to touch the fight you see a
10:10
ring just touch the countertops yeah
10:13
[Applause]
10:19
don't get no idea
10:23
yeah I heard about y'all Bae [ __ ] man
10:34
challenging environment and having to
10:37
rise above that fire and also how
10:39
competitive the entertainment industry
10:41
you know you compared it to the NBA have
10:43
you ever experienced survivor's remorse
10:46
in a sense like a guilt because I'm sure
10:48
you know a katrillion dudes that are
10:50
just as talented as you just as hard
10:52
working but haven't made it to your
10:53
level
10:55
um I won't say I've experienced
10:57
survivor's remorse but what I will say
10:59
to those dudes that I do know because we
11:01
you know sometimes we have these
11:03
conversations
11:04
I'm I'm just now arriving and I'm not
11:07
even where I want to be yet you know I'm
11:09
saying so I tell them listen you got to
11:12
be consistent because that's what I
11:14
wasn't I've always wrapped but I just
11:16
now started being consistent and you
11:18
know even this interview through to that
11:20
labor you know I mean so I always tell
11:22
them like yo if you really want this
11:24
[ __ ] you gotta invest everything time
11:26
money effort you know what I'm saying
11:28
building building your skill level up
11:29
you know is is it is rough it's very
11:31
rough it's still rough for me it's still
11:33
rough for me I ain't you know I ain't
11:35
number one this morning I mean but I'm
11:37
but I'm working at it and I'm gonna put
11:39
out another project in a couple more
11:40
months and another project after that
11:42
and I'm gonna work my way up so you know
11:44
I always tell everybody like yo you got
11:46
to keep working you got to stay
11:47
consistent because that's that's the
11:49
name of the game we're not even really
11:50
Talent no more and I mean this
11:52
consistency you could be very bad but if
11:54
you very bad all the time somebody's
11:56
gonna listen to you well there's
11:58
different forms of consistency
12:01
yeah a lot of gyms that's a lot of James
12:04
facts
12:06
um and then I feel like there's so many
12:07
different types of consistency as well
12:09
you know what I mean even if you think
12:10
about like the seasons like four seasons
12:12
is consistent with New York environment
12:14
versus it being warmer in LA and
12:16
sometimes consistency can be something
12:19
that we use really to rationalize over
12:22
consumption where someone could be just
12:24
completely
12:25
consumed with their career and nothing
12:28
else matters how are you able to find
12:30
the difference between like consistency
12:32
and just being consumed
12:35
it's very hard that's a very good
12:36
question it's very hard to find that
12:39
balance because
12:40
with the consistency it you know the
12:43
consumption is going to happen sometimes
12:45
we just gotta snap out of it though you
12:46
know I'm saying depending on what you
12:48
know where you're at in life as well I'm
12:49
saying that's that's a big part of it
12:51
and I mean I got I got a family I got
12:53
kids I got a wife so they there is a
12:56
certain amount of consume that I'm not
12:58
even allowed to be you know I'm saying
13:00
because that comes with free time I'm
13:02
saying like I got a household to take
13:04
care of you know I'm saying got a
13:05
business I'm running you know I'm saying
13:06
I got a career that I'm chasing so you
13:09
know I I have to find some sort of
13:11
balance but it is very hard you know
13:12
what I'm saying because if you leave it
13:13
up to me me knowing that consistency is
13:16
key I would be in the studio all the
13:18
time I'll be shooting videos every day
13:20
I'll be doing interviews all the time
13:21
you know what I'm saying so it is rough
13:23
but and that's the season you're in too
13:24
because the consistency shifts depending
13:27
on the season facts facts I like that
13:29
you talked about your wife
13:32
um well you know uh you married I'm
13:35
married
13:36
we got we got married on the Mafi Coast
13:39
man um
13:41
you talk about that and you talk about
13:44
your son you know
13:46
um and you mentioned them I want to say
13:47
is it Exuma Island yep where is the Zuma
13:50
Island it's in the Bahamas it's a it's a
13:52
it's a set of islands in the Bahamas
13:55
that's uh all from where like maybe
13:57
Nassau stuff like that is and it's it's
13:59
real nice it's real exclusive it's real
14:02
beautiful yeah yeah I feel like did you
14:04
post when you went there hell yeah
14:06
because you know I thought I saw that
14:08
and I saw your son chasing the lizards
14:10
yeah she did the giant lizards yo what
14:12
kind of parent are you bro
14:24
yeah and it's um it's literally a island
14:27
with nothing but iguanas no humans no
14:30
nothing just trees land sand and iguanas
14:33
and it's like a thousand of them so when
14:35
you're pulling up on the boat they used
14:37
to the tourists coming to feed them and
14:39
all that so they all come to the front
14:41
of the island when they hit the uh the
14:43
motor boat motor yeah yo that look like
14:46
Jurassic Park it's like it's very
14:48
polarizing when you're pulling up I had
14:50
to ask a guy like yo you sure we could
14:52
right he like I'm telling you they
14:53
homeless man so we get off the boat and
14:55
all that and they eat grapes that's okay
14:58
feeding them grapes how did your wife
15:00
handle that well see she was very shook
15:03
she was very sure she she stayed she
15:05
stayed on on the shore for a little bit
15:08
you know I'm saying to make sure no
15:09
nobody got eaten she was trying not to
15:11
let me take cargo with me but I'm like
15:13
nah man come on we gotta experience this
15:15
but um she wanted them was though what's
15:17
it like having a Woman by your side
15:19
during all of this why are you chasing
15:21
this career and going through the ups
15:23
and downs and trials and tribulations
15:24
imperatives man yeah a good woman yeah a
15:29
good woman that understands where you
15:31
trying to go and is not trying to be
15:33
baggage but she's trying to help push
15:35
you too you know I'm saying so you know
15:37
we sat down we talked about aligning our
15:40
vision you know I'm saying because she
15:42
got a lot going on too it ain't like
15:43
she's just a trophy wife like she's
15:45
running a salon that we got now I'm
15:47
saying she's taking care of our family
15:48
and all that the house all that so you
15:51
know we just sit down we talk and I'm
15:52
like yo this is what I'm gonna do I need
15:55
you to be with me and she's like yo I'm
15:57
with you if you're serious because I
15:59
seen you not be serious for a lot of
16:00
years you know what I'm saying so that's
16:02
also a fire under me to make sure that
16:05
I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing
16:06
too because she's trusting me right now
16:09
I mean yeah making you be accountable
16:11
right I love that successful salute to
16:14
her
16:16
kids down there you go what's the name
16:18
of the salon
16:19
the hell off by K Styles 2168 Gleason
16:22
Avenue Castle Hill section of Bronx
16:24
cross street from cyber shooter come get
16:26
you a wig come get you some micro links
16:28
get whatever you need now I mean it is
16:35
742-3345
16:38
come on man I got friends with humble
16:42
beginnings that uh yell out their losses
16:45
and Mumble their winnings yeah
16:51
is trash while I'm just getting lit up
16:54
get it oh damn that was really good
16:57
Tracy got that too
17:00
nimlo is here man we're talking about
17:02
the new album from the horse's mouth uh
17:04
we got fat Dave on the line Dave what up
17:06
baby what up baby hey what's going on
17:08
how y'all doing oh wow Dave
17:11
what's happening the other day I had to
17:14
get it on the date man I want to say to
17:16
the little brother nimlo I appreciate
17:18
your music I mean your story is amazing
17:20
because you know it mirrors mine of
17:23
course I'm not successful as you are
17:25
however
17:29
thank you man thank you
17:32
yeah where you from man
17:35
I'm originally from Amsterdam 147 became
17:39
FM and Broadway are you from Grand
17:40
Amsterdam you're from Uptown yeah
17:42
yeah well wait wait wait wait we're
17:44
building
17:46
right across from 5 19 right across from
17:50
the school oh yeah I was down to 24 34
17:54
minutes I was on Riverside I was I'm
17:56
from New York City that's my spot right
17:58
unfortunately I had to take a um a long
18:01
vacation I had to relocate afterwards
18:04
but um you know I'm still holding I come
18:06
through there like on the regular I'm
18:08
down we probably have some people in the
18:10
city
18:11
fat Dave what's that what's that slang
18:13
word y'all used to use in harlemen oh
18:17
yeah yeah that's right that's some
18:19
Uptown [ __ ] that's some Uptown [ __ ]
18:20
facts facts but I just wanted to say I
18:23
appreciated your sound I heard and being
18:25
honest with you because I was out of the
18:28
loop with a lot of things just like what
18:29
I just heard that I just turned on the
18:31
radio earlier and I'm hearing this sound
18:33
I'm like who is this you know this on
18:35
the mic and then you repeating yourself
18:36
Dave
18:38
fired up oh damn get the album from the
18:41
horse's mouth it's out now
18:45
all right you do have a question for him
18:47
though no I just wanted to say I
18:49
appreciate them I appreciate all you
18:51
guys but I just want to say I heard the
18:53
sound I like it I love it and I can see
18:55
him doing big things in the future
18:58
peace out dick
19:01
hey yo you can't say it like that okay
19:05
I got to be a little smoother than that
19:07
because when you say it like that it
19:09
sounds a little yeah it's like your
19:11
piece dude
19:17
a different meaning
19:20
that's a different context right you
19:22
gotta watch them
19:25
Yo you you brought some gifts you're so
19:29
classy man niblo is classy man you're a
19:32
classy guy man we gonna drink we're
19:34
going to drink something this morning
19:41
it's a different edition of the brand
19:44
because you're still moving but this is
19:47
you know the time for the line
19:59
what's up I'm chilling
20:06
congratulations yeah thank you thank you
20:09
thank you to celebrate you hello guys
20:12
celebrate the album and love to your
20:14
wife and and to your kids your parents
20:17
um because it's also about creating
20:18
these experiences and I think I mean I
20:21
don't have any children but I I can only
20:23
imagine how proud your parents are your
20:26
wife you know because it sounds like
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more than anything with your wife you've
20:30
built a partnership that I think that
20:32
people sometimes don't recognize even in
20:36
your Partnerships outside of
20:37
quote-unquote business it's a journey a
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lot of people start out in this industry
20:42
and they got somebody who is good men
20:45
and women sitting there riding with you
20:46
at the beginning of your journey the ups
20:48
and down the losses we took this 2500
20:51
and we lost people didn't buy you did a
20:53
show whatever and then when they make it
20:55
they throw all of that to the side and
20:57
get with somebody else but that person
21:00
who was there with you should be the
21:02
person eating the fruit from the labor
21:04
as well and I I think you have
21:06
exemplified that so much in the story
21:08
that you shared today thank you so thank
21:09
you for that that was a lesson
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more success
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um your rhyme style man
21:22
very very very intricate very unique you
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know
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substantive is what I call it because
21:28
you don't waste bars you don't have one
21:30
wasted bar on this project yeah why you
21:34
take it so seriously in a world that you
21:36
don't have to to win
21:37
because I got a lot to say man I gotta I
21:40
gotta I got a lot to say that needs to
21:42
be heard you know I mean it's a lot of
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people that's not talking like me and
21:45
I'm saying they're not giving they're
21:46
not giving you the real like me you know
21:48
what I'm saying and I feel like I'd be
21:50
doing my my listeners a disservice by
21:54
just you know yo here's a nice car
21:56
here's a nice chain his you know cool
21:59
food or whatever
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all right I'm going like nah I mean like
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I'm a real person I go through [ __ ] I I
22:05
I I got things that's on my mind I got I
22:08
got I got a lot of things that I could
22:10
put you on to like I always say my music
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excuse me my music is motivating me it's
22:14
motivation me I want people to aspire to
22:18
be better you know I'm saying even if
22:19
they're already good just more than what
22:21
you are at the moment this is for
22:23
motivational purposes only you know what
22:25
I'm saying so that's that's why I don't
22:27
I don't waste I don't waste you know I
22:29
don't I don't even I don't even talk
22:31
[ __ ]
22:32
for no reason when I'm not rapping you
22:34
know what I'm saying like every there
22:36
there has to be a direction to to what
22:38
I'm doing what I'm saying where I'm
22:39
going right damn I ain't never heard
22:42
somebody say that intentionality
22:44
intentional facts but I'm not rapping
22:46
I'm not talking [ __ ] right I gotta adapt
22:49
that
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a lot of [ __ ]
22:54
you got to you know what I'm saying I
22:55
finish your job description man okay you
22:57
got to talk that [ __ ] yeah
22:59
thank you for giving me that 183rd on
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the beat man talk about that brother man
23:04
y'all always together man I always like
23:06
to shout him out cause yeah he'd be
23:07
quiet on the cut but yeah that's my dog
23:09
man you can't mess with them big ass
23:11
chains he got on here I'm saying that's
23:13
my man right there you know what I'm
23:15
saying like we coming up in this [ __ ]
23:16
together he's a super producer now I'm
23:18
saying yeah just like me how I'm how I'm
23:20
getting this platform now to Showcase my
23:23
talent I want to make sure that he got
23:25
the same opportunity I'm saying and on
23:27
the flip side of that even when like
23:30
this whole project that I did was static
23:31
don't have nothing to do with him he
23:33
ain't do no Beast no not he was there
23:34
every single session yeah every single
23:37
session let's just walk around before
23:38
they can see you in the camera
24:02
where did you first start what did you
24:04
make beats on when you first started was
24:06
you did you go back to it on FL
24:08
oh really yeah I got that the Scratch
24:10
Magazine knife window nice shout out the
24:13
knife oh have you met ninth yet no no
24:26
[Music]
24:27
hey yo third is like a hip-hop
24:30
encyclopedia
24:33
too last year
24:37
Bronx Academy
24:39
oh snap we got knife Wonder on the line
24:41
you live on there nine nine nine
24:45
are you in class
24:49
so I got nimlo here from Harlem yo yo
24:53
what's going on Legend how you doing man
24:55
what's up brother how you doing can't
24:57
complain and I got his family 183rd on
24:59
the Beats man and he been working with
25:02
him for you know for blames and I asked
25:04
him what did he start on and he said he
25:06
got he read Scratch Magazine and you
25:08
started on what on FL
25:11
ow fruity Loop and he said he got it
25:13
from you so I just thought I'll make
25:15
this introduction brother
25:17
yeah everybody downloading that joint
25:20
illegally yeah
25:23
[Music]
25:27
um
25:27
he got to it I started on 40 News 2.56
25:32
now's on fruit this is FL Studio 20. it
25:34
just updated on his own you just buy it
25:36
and it updates on its own yeah for free
25:38
yeah it gives you for free yeah when I
25:40
started it was it was like close to the
25:42
beta version and that was like back in
25:44
2001.
25:46
wow
25:49
I started on fruity and and you know at
25:53
first it was I would be doing beat Show
25:55
faces on the only person on stage with a
25:57
whole desktop on stage and
26:01
and do all this stuff and people would
26:03
joke me for it or say that it was whack
26:05
or that's not no real beat machine and
26:08
all this and that until I did the Jay-Z
26:10
record and everybody shut the hell up
26:12
wait what's wrong which one threats
26:14
threat yo third no y'all
26:18
asking something that nobody would
26:21
probably think to ask him
26:23
spot yeah that's nice one to something
26:25
why he don't mention he started the FL
26:28
I'll be going to other producers
26:30
nah I mentioned it they don't mean
26:33
people listen I mean okay you understand
26:35
what I mean like I I've never shot away
26:37
from the fact that you know not
26:40
necessarily that I was the actual first
26:42
human being to pick the program up but I
26:45
was probably the first human being to
26:47
like popular popularize it yeah
26:49
popularizer like I was in a like the
26:51
Jay-Z record the three Destiny's Child
26:53
records the Mary J Blige good woman down
26:55
record honey my Erykah Badu
26:58
man salute this man I wonder
27:05
[Applause]
27:07
now right
27:09
um girl by Destiny's Child has been it's
27:14
like becoming their biggest song ever
27:17
yeah because it's like it's on every
27:19
meme it's on every tick tock is is being
27:23
played so much
27:24
and that wasn't my first you know girl
27:26
was my first big single yeah so so yeah
27:29
I told I used to try to tell ninth about
27:32
this song when I was doing XM radio spit
27:34
kicker with Mr Walt shout out to Mr
27:36
Walton evil D when I we interviewed him
27:38
and girl was I was like yo I can't
27:42
believe you did this song like how did
27:44
you I'd like drilled him about it
27:46
because it's so beautiful like you can
27:48
listen to that song any year anytime and
27:51
it just feels fresh every single time
27:53
you hear it and again I think it's one
27:56
of those things where people don't know
27:58
that he did it and it's our
27:59
responsibility sway always gets on me
28:01
knife when he's always running down
28:03
people's resume but his people in
28:05
position and have these microphones we
28:07
just gotta start saying your name more
28:09
and more and more and more and more
28:11
because you're a humble dude I know you
28:13
say things but you humble let us yell it
28:15
out I'll be your campaign manager
28:18
can you follow him can you follow 183rd
28:21
on on Instagram
28:28
he already follows you
28:31
do it right now
28:32
man follow him dude what are you doing
28:34
man I can't call anymore
28:37
y'all follow each other
28:45
incredible beats bro and then uh man hit
28:47
Tech back man we got down to the last 12
28:49
finalists
28:53
okay good all right knife I appreciate
28:55
you brother love you family all right
28:59
knife Wonder y'all come on man that was
29:02
dope that was dope
29:05
man yeah hey man
29:07
let's do what we do man come on man you
29:10
represent Harlem here man I already know
29:12
what it is I ain't got it I ain't gotta
29:14
slide into this he came ready man come
29:16
on man this thing you know let us not
29:18
forget what it's all about man you know
29:20
those elements you know the DJ in the
29:22
dancing you know turn the other mics
29:24
down for me torch all right let's see
29:27
what that be turn that beat up to man a
29:28
little bit right there man them low in
29:30
the building Sway in the Morning welcome
29:32
to the Valley of the hyenas come on come
29:35
on
29:36
stand up it's a big horse
29:40
AKA Grande Caballo
29:42
you know my style Globe trying sham
29:44
popular drop topping uh Sway in the
29:47
Morning
29:50
[Music]
29:52
yeah born and raised in the H residue on
29:55
the bills you could still feel a base on
29:57
the president's face see my future
29:59
wasn't safe until I stepped to the plate
30:01
back up and swung for defenses now we
30:03
pull up in benz's 1080 on my lens is
30:05
Rich Enough From The Trenches dripping
30:07
reap them in the district pimping
30:08
leaving my wrist there's German
30:10
engineering when I hold a [ __ ] staring
30:12
I'll be fly I be living horses all of my
30:14
appearance 500 for the wagyu cooking
30:17
medium in the Gibbon Sunday he talk
30:19
crazy and we beaming him squeezing and
30:21
we leaving him breaking news CNN when
30:23
those dark tender mind your business you
30:25
ain't seeing that rich [ __ ] clipping
30:27
cold he was out in Johannesburg wifey
30:29
get the Russian Sable fur plus the
30:31
latest purse they tried to clown when I
30:33
was down and that just made it worse top
30:34
down bump and hypnotize dropping in
30:37
Reverse I do it B.I.G same [ __ ] off
30:40
waxes on wax like Miyake but we don't
30:43
snitch over here ain't no damn you son
30:45
won't be no 690 we just some hot boys
30:47
that's big Tommy was out in Turks when
30:49
they see me dressed they like Manny
30:50
fresh pulling groupies I've been doing
30:52
that sense of juvie you would know that
30:54
if you knew me were the Bobby I've been
30:56
nice with the pen since [ __ ] was
30:57
rocking doobies copping Coogies from
30:59
Bowlers Boutique dropping loose leaf you
31:02
know the kind of paper get you lined
31:03
that's what it took to get me so I know
31:05
I ain't talking written Rhymes I'm
31:06
talking when you're real like me it's
31:08
the Artistry and they perfectly in the
31:10
twine they rap like they was in the
31:11
streets but they ain't get it down so I
31:13
find it funny when they talking all this
31:15
money we got rich off of crack rock we
31:18
were so young we still love the slap box
31:20
who would have known we become the
31:21
neighborhood weight dealer straight
31:23
Killers clap Ops and we Stack Rock uh I
31:26
was a child that I have nots my dog
31:29
always kept a gumbo was a bad shot he'd
31:31
miss but empty the clip and scorched the
31:33
Flesh on this hip cause he won the tough
31:35
this [ __ ] while the Mac hot that's until
31:37
I got the beam on the strap I witnessed
31:40
him put red on nigga's head like mad guy
31:42
this is coming straight from the bad guy
31:44
rag top on the matchbox and it's parked
31:47
on the grimiest of back blocks I want
31:49
the diamonds I could flash I caught
31:51
myself up and night praying for these
31:53
Jews Like a rabbi I got the game in the
31:56
padlock plus a Mac I bought just the
31:58
book [ __ ] meet my laptop I'm at the
32:01
top of the food chain with a Batmobile
32:03
like Bruce Wayne I'll pull up on the
32:05
Dark Knight sing shorty and I double
32:06
Park like you trying to [ __ ] with the
32:08
winner then get it and then I slide it
32:10
home like the end of the ending money
32:12
get dizzy spinning and spinning hold
32:14
this trip like I live in the river where
32:15
it once and then I forget it I was in
32:18
the business they were sitting in them
32:19
Civics they went to Miami I docked on
32:22
the Pacific cigarettes be both in Hell
32:24
weed smoke that I purchased from the
32:26
natives as I'm rocking Gucci's latest
32:27
I'm a champagne pop a big chain rocker
32:30
far in Colorado driver sister switch
32:32
lanes proper came up in the drug game
32:35
only the real could shine while the
32:36
thugs rain how you washing out blood
32:38
stains gym star give you a buck change
32:40
trying to survive in the jungle had me
32:42
like [ __ ] Fame and I'll bust aim pardon
32:45
me I said that backwards but this is
32:46
just the verbal reenactment of the [ __ ]
32:48
I seen in traffic we was brought up to
32:50
be Savage Harlem where the Zombie tattoo
32:52
let the streets and I'm rapping and I'm
32:54
picking up a backing love
33:04
yo
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[Applause]
33:21
[Music]
33:22
[Applause]
33:38
[Applause]
33:51
rappers who see this right now I think
33:53
you could do what he do think three
33:55
times times three you can't do what he
33:59
does Harlem stand up I'm happy you don't
34:02
want to come up here you have your
34:04
publicist or your PR person hit us in
34:06
advance and say do we have to rap no you
34:08
don't because if you can't rap like this
34:10
don't waste our time give us our time
34:13
back
34:14
from the horse's mouth so good oh right
34:18
now man money ass stand the [ __ ] up man
34:20
it's a big horse man
34:23
oh by the way you know her husband is
34:26
horse big horse home oh yeah
34:38
I appreciate you because thank you nah
34:41
it's not easy to do this you made it
34:43
look very very easy but it's not easy to
34:45
do this and again it's just a testament
34:47
to everything that you going on
34:48
somewhere where everybody else asleep
34:50
you're putting in that work I appreciate
34:51
you it's incredible bro that was Ill as
34:54
[ __ ] yeah I can't wait to go back to it
34:57
yeah yo you was popping on that hey you
34:59
was popping that pocket thank you you
35:01
popped that pocket Into Pieces
35:05
come on alliteration
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