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Principal Akbar Cook Talks Raising & Educating Young Entrepreneurs | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Dec 9, 2022
Principal Akbar Cook continues to build in his community and empower the youth. Cook and his team are now starting ventures to promote entrepreneurship for the youth, from starting their own record label to much more.
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shave four five sway in the morning
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billy talk
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t-money turn her mic on she in a
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different place right now t-money is
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drew make sure you get in case she speak
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make sure the light look right on her
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face if you don't mind
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make sure she's shining for this moment
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that's about to happen right now wasn't
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that long ago
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well maybe it was kind of long ago but
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you know don't feel that it was that
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long ago
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we got a chance to go to
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new jersey
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heather been
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championing this one high school for
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years
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yes west side high school in newark new
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jersey and keep in mind citizens to sway
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in the morning this is not my alma mater
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i am from jersey city new jersey i
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graduated from lincoln high school
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however they say a prophet is sometimes
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not recognized in his own spot you know
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i got adopted by the rough riders
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and then being from the west coast you
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know what you know i know they do
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westside what's
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[Music]
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west side
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high school rough riders went over there
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man and
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we did a talent competition live on
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there met some beautiful young kids from
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young people from that area yes uh
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seemed like a lot of folks been through
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some serious things but they they took
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those serious things and made it into
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art and came and performed for us live
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on the air trash showed up remember that
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absolutely you know the red man show up
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too
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i think he was out of town so his mom
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right red man's mom went to that school
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yeah
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and red yeah right right right right
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1988 he graduated 1988 that's the
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principal cook right there giving you
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the facts and the statistics he had to
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tell you that the year red graduated
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from high school a lot of people a lot
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of artists um come through to that
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school to show love shout out to dave
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east
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shout out to do it all congratulations
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once again to do it all do um any time
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we talk about west side high school in
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north west
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you know a lot of
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artists that made it from that community
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always that shall show love west side
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high if anybody is familiar adjacent
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went there alma mater got kids there
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worked there whatever the case may be
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888-742-3345
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principal cook is here oprah winfrey
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couldn't get enough of him
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ellen degeneres couldn't get enough of
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him
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national syndicated newspapers couldn't
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get enough of him the amazing race
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couldn't get enough for hillary
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today's the educational system across
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the board could only learn from him
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his dedication and commitment to the
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youth that's in that area is admirable
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it's commendable it should be saluted it
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should be celebrated i always see this
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man his purpose is just well out there
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and abundant this man came to my house
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at the bee i love telling the story talk
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to me nicely man
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came up to harlem yes sir jumped out of
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a big ass van looked like they was
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trying to kidnap people in harlem i
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didn't know what it was
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i was like yo why you bring that van
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dawg if you have no van on my street you
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know they looking at me crazy but he
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came to pick up bags of clothes
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i don't know how many bags i gave that
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day it was a lot sweaty
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was it put to use yes absolutely people
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were able to yes yes okay you know we
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got a pantry not to jump in this way but
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yeah
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that you you gave me some clothes for
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plus i have a fashion uh design class
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where we can repurpose some of that
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stuff to get it you know get it back to
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where i can get it to the kids right now
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a lot of new stuff in there a lot of
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stuff that still had tags on it
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[Applause]
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show up
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i'm giving away stuff with tags on it
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[Applause]
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i'm giving away what you trying to buy
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oh you know what but i'm giving it to
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the kids man
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i love principal cook because your
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dedication i think the key to our
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salvation part of the key to our
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salvation and freedom will come through
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education education is a key part
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knowledge collection collection of
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information legacy history knowledge of
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self
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you know people seeing we are talking to
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one of our managers here alex and he
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took a lot of the younger folks in his
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department out to lunch
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and i told him it's different now we got
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to let these young folks know we care
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and when somebody has just that kind of
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support that kind of
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person egging them on sometimes that's
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all it takes is to know that at least
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one person cares and then they help you
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realize your best self especially when
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you're young in those transformative
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years when i look at these young men and
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i think about my high school days i
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instantly get anxiety
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because that's what high school was like
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i'm thinking back uh [ __ ] what am i
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going to college or all these classes i
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hate getting up this morning i didn't do
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that homework this dude has been
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harassing me i'm here
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do i gotta fight this dude you know i'm
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i'm embarrassed in front of this girl
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all kind of stuff my clothes
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you know my well these kids ain't got to
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say that because they wearing my clothes
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but you know what wow
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i don't recognize those suede t-shirts
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in here and those sizes i don't know
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don't look like my jeans dog come on you
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sure yeah okay that looks like my shirt
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that's not my shirt it's a walmart shirt
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give him a big round of applause
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principal cook his backyard focus on
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love baby citizens i'm back i need a
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chair here sway i'm already with hb
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every tuesday shout out to hb live
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citizens i'm here baby back baby come on
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man
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so this is amazing who did you bring
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with you today so today i got i got next
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to me i got coach t this is john c
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thomason he teaches music at eastside
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high school
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he's doing the same i'm at west side
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so we're bringing it together trying to
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get this music going okay i got brick
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silene right here one of monster best
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friends so when monster is over there
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monster b that's my son uh you know dame
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dash is my big homie and he put a
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challenge out he said dream dream woody
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what you do for free for the rest of
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your life and i like you know i love
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music but my son love it even more so
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let me make him the ceo of brigabox
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entertainment i work for him he got with
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his friend lane and we made this project
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because another thing dame talk about is
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being a plug if these kids want to
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aspire to be the drug dealer or this
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person or the rap and all that how do we
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shift that focus to the real superstars
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which is the educators and i was like
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you know what all right i'm showing them
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how to get the bags way with
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entrepreneurship and all the things that
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we got my hot sauce we selling and
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things of that nature right so i got the
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entrepreneurship so we could talk money
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but then was the music i know sway i
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don't have the b i know dame dash so i'm
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like you know what
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let me show the kids how to do it and i
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gave him a platform i became dj khaled
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on his record label when i came out of
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the compilation album called focus on
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the love volume one and it showcases my
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kids past and present
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nice
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[Applause]
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man
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it's called focus on the love focus on
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the love all you want and i'm gonna talk
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my stuff swayed i got 500 000 streams on
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spotify right now
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[Music]
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i've seen it happen before in a year we
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ain't going to be able to reach them
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i've seen this happen before once they
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get half a million streams things change
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yes sir what's that like
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[Laughter]
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a lot of weeds right okay
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great great great great why was this i
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want to start obviously with the with
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the youth and and and you guys and just
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the dream and and the possibility of
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doing music becoming a ceo when i was
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your age and i don't know if sway and
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tracy could have tested us we didn't we
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didn't have that kind of talking
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conversation we just wanted to make it
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and whatever make it meant you know at
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that time it's like good i'm going
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maybe i'm gonna go to college maybe i'll
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do this or that but like that ceo thing
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that executive producer thing that
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wasn't a normal conversation for us and
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you guys are of a generation now where
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it's possible you got a phone you got an
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account you got a llc you know you you
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you guys have these conversations what
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does it feel like to be young like this
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now and being these you know we call
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them minor moguls you know like we we
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love seeing this but what does it feel
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like for you guys i'll start with you so
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uh for me say your name my name is
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monsta b how y'all doing
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hello
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so for me it's like uh
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i've been living in the shadow of my dad
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and he's a he's a big time presence
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where we live so
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seeing him accomplish everything it just
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made me motivated even more so i had to
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go get it
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whatever and everything so seeing him do
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whatever he wanted he
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became a principal he played basketball
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at the highest level he he uh
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coaching he done everything he wanted to
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do so it just motivated me to do what i
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wanted to do
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it was important for you to have that
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example you had you had an example yeah
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beautiful i'm my role model right there
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beautiful
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what about you all right i go by the
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name of bricksarleen mm-hmm uh so the
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reason why i do it is because i want to
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make generational wealth for my kids and
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like you know their future kids and
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everything like i don't want them to
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have the struggle about nothing because
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i never had my parent i mean my single
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dad y'all single dad raising
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[Applause]
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never have to ask for what i had to
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actually you know i want to just give
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everything to him so that's why i
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started everything
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wow
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that's great i'm proud of you thank you
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for sharing tracy you want to jump in
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yeah absolutely especially um break
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because even if you are able to give
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your kids everything the world is still
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going to give them challenges you know
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and monster when you're describing being
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so inspired by your dad who inspires all
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of us who inspires adults the same age
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you feel me not only is it just being
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inspired by the accomplishments but is
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being inspired by the resilience i'm
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sure so can you speak on the challenges
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that you haven't had because you saw
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your dad or others
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be able to step away from them but also
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the challenges you have had and how you
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are able to conquer them
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so the accomplishments um so first
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when i started this music like i wasn't
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really good so when i was sending my dad
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music
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he's a he's a tough if you know him he's
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a tough guy he's a critic
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if i'm sending him music and he's not
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he's not messing with it so it made me
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go back even harder like i got to make
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sure he he really messing with it so
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just those type of things battling
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myself trying to you know get my music
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right so to prove to him that i really
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want to do this like i'm not backing
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down for i'm just i'm not doing it
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because i just want to do it i'm doing
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it because i really love it so
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but for the accomplishments like to to
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complete like
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um
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him being there for me like a lot of
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people don't have somebody that's going
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to drop an llc for you you know some
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people got to do it by themselves or
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they get labels like we doing this by
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ourselves independent so it's way harder
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but
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in the long run it's going to be worth
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it absolutely
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[ __ ] man you make me want to even have
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another kid man
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pack it up you're being right here
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man
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hey dude
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i'm just saying if if your dad ain't
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around man you wanna come hang out in
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harlem man of course let me fill in man
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let me fill in
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they got congrats to the producer don't
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worry about the rats man they'll see you
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don't worry ain't gonna run up your leg
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or nothing
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they will chase you
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homer you've seen my block
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cook been on my block
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i've been there this way
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coach t
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how you doing brother i'm doing well
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brother it's good to see you man good to
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see you man
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a lot of us lose connection with our
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youth because
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the world
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you know you get out you know after high
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school you either go to work you go to
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the service you go to the streets you go
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to college
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uh you get out of college you got debt x
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tracy g you got to go to work you get
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focused on one thing you're trying to
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get your stability together you know
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you're juggling dreams not sure what
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you're gonna do in the process of all
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that you can forget about the youth
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absolutely you know when you get older
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you stay disconnected but really it's
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not that hard to get in tune with the
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youth
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what advice would you give to adults
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because the youth and adults we need
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each other
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you know and folks may not realize how
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to get connected in energy like this
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like what you guys are doing what would
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you suggest to those adults um thank you
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for asking that question because my
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advice to any adult that's listening
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today
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it doesn't have to be financial yeah it
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doesn't have to be big and shiny it
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doesn't have to be something that you
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can just you know they go where physical
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if they just know that you could take a
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second to show them something that we
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take so natural going to work every day
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uh taking a vacation with our kids they
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don't know what aruba looks like they
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have no idea what's the process of
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buying a new car like uh how do i get
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from new jersey to new york and walk
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around like what does times square look
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like some of these things that you know
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i've been blessed to know this guy right
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here and over the years we always just
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talk about just that exposure uh-huh so
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explosion the word exposure
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exposure because yeah i think i mean
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honestly it's something i don't have to
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really think about because one thing
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that uh coach and i always talk about is
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wow man like we blessed our kids are
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blessed and my son is blessed you know
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come on man like my brother lived in
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cali and he's telling me about you know
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what it was like out there and then when
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you finally go and when you finally see
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somewhere else and you talk a different
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language and somebody gives you a
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different food like a book is one thing
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but if somebody can just expose you to
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that and a lot of times our fight is uh
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you know uh uh somebody not signing off
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or you can't go on this trip i'm like
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well i didn't know that you know uh
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hamilton was opened up this week
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let's get 10 kids in the car why can't
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we and it's like ah this has to be
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signed out and that one is in here and
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at the same time we know what's going on
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in those blocks so
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it's just exposure and i would just say
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anything we can show them to it doesn't
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have to be anything huge it could be
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just coming over and saying listen this
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is how we uh custom wrap this car
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this is what cali is like in the
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summertime and guess what uh tournaments
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we gonna try to play uh somewhere else
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so yes exposure exposure coach t thank
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you for that uh man we got liam up in
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here how you saying brock brick the box
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lee
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uh brick sarling
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brickside yeah lean yeah
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brick city
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so listen citizens this is what it is
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this project is amazing
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right it's you know principal cook put
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this together
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um his family are the ceos they're doing
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it independent the kids are featured on
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it the artists that are featured on here
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are all from the community right these
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are all up and coming inspiring youth
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that are trying to do something as well
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as some adults that are on the project
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as well coach t is on the project and it
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was a book to coincide with it as well
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some literature to coincide with it i
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need anybody and everybody tuned in
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right now to support this project
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come on we we talked about things every
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single day on this show how we like to
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support each other
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hear me out if you tuned in right now
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support this project this is amazing
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this type of
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project what he did right here with
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these kids and this youth this is a
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blueprint to me heather b
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right this is the blueprint on how we
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can improve our relationships with our
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youth um expose them to resources that
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they need to develop and mature and
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evolve give them that stability give
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them that support you know and then
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they're sharing in it right the
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beautiful thing about my relationship
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with my daughter we used to do a
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playlist called callaway curated and so
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we would
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populate this playlist with songs that i
16:11
like and songs that she liked but the
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process of it all was amazing it would
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take us days we would debate music that
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would lead to conversations about
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society or what's happening on twitter
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or whatever the process strengthened our
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bond and relationship and when she went
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out into the world and made her that
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much more confident about who she is
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your sons are amazing
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you his son too no okay
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amazing definitely a father figure yeah
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absolutely right so this is who we are
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at our best look at these beautiful
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black men sitting up in here tracy i'm a
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part of the pitcher
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you're getting your live shot right now
16:54
this is who we could be at our best
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and i wanted to i think it's important
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that we remind the citizens um
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this is just not like this one-off kind
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of situation with cook and anything that
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he does when suede said that we had the
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opportunity to visit westside high
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school as as the swain and morning team
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we really did i'm talking about going
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out to a school that was more like a
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village in a community more than just
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what you would picture a high school to
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be they took us through the garden they
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fed us they took us through the kitchen
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we walked through the bank we walked
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through the laundromat we walked through
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the pantry like this was this is such a
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beautiful foundation so how could you
17:32
not support anything that comes from
17:34
westside high school because they're not
17:36
just bringing kids in and shuffling them
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out this is a home for a lot of them
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they care and i listen to cook we get
17:44
the chance to talk every tuesday as well
17:46
on hb live and he's traveling across the
17:48
country giving out the blueprint like
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you said sway to other schools and other
17:53
administrators on how to do this when
17:54
you think it kind of started with this
17:56
lights on program as a safe house for
17:58
these kids and what it's grown into man
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you can't help us support this
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book a kitchen the hot sauce whatever it
18:05
is support it because this is not some
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one-off kind of thing you could go there
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and see the evidence they got a capital
18:11
one bank in this come on run by the
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students run by the students look i want
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the phone lines if you're tuned in right
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now
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and you're hearing what heather is
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saying what we're saying call up if this
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is something you want to support you
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want to see our youth in our community
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grow to be the best people they can be
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and how could your school be a part of
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something like that and if you want to
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know how your school could have
18:32
something like this going on call us
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888-742-3345
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because i know we get a lot of calls
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about a lot of frivolous things too
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i want to see you call about this this
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is real this is culture
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what is hip-hop this is hip-hop it ain't
18:47
those twitter rumors you'll be reading
18:49
about
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it ain't from fake billboard charts
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it ain't that a.i rapper
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this is hip-hop this is what it was
18:57
based on community
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right
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peace love
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community having fun
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progression advancement evolution that's
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what hip-hop is yo tone throw a beat on
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man i'm gonna show you what hip hop is
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oh
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wow don't beat on tone
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i didn't see that coming let's do it
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yes yes who got born dj premier he said
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he's starting
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[Music]
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is this a ticking time bomb in my mind
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dedicated missions help me variate my
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crimes passion for the riches i just
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need to make a dime they want to see me
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miss it like i'm shooting from the line
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flipping and stumbling on these [ __ ]
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just rumbling i can see the production
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cause all these [ __ ] be stunting i've
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deceived your dishonor if you releasing
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some drama i've been waiting for dollars
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to do that my future was karma's
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double up and bring it back i guess i
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found my fate [ __ ] always hating watch
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them plotting where you get the taste is
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lonely at the top i see my idols find
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their [ __ ] place reaching for their
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destination heavens after gates
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yeah it's not the engaged rats but
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slowly dying down that's a conversation
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you can say the wackish ain't get that
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publication i will never hate your craft
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it just got me thinking i'm just focused
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on that money i'll be waiting patient
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i was waiting patient
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yeah i was waiting
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monster b
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he jumped on that
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y'all some classic beasts man
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[Music]
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look steady praying that how far run on
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that court i'm dropping 50 plus [ __ ] i
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can't hit the ball feel like stepping at
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the three i'm knocking buckets water
20:49
wall [ __ ] heisman i'm the mvp yeah
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[ __ ] i do it all i can't fall churches
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taught me to stand ten toes ain't no
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calling [ __ ] brother cause they will
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fold i put my faith into my music that's
20:59
my main goal give a [ __ ] my [ __ ] chat
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and get that chick and run it up into it
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said i got me and that's enough for me
21:05
big lame i'm suffer free this is the
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reason i can't let you [ __ ] [ __ ] with
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me no company i can't trust a soul that
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feeling stuck with me can't [ __ ] with me
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reason why she mad cause we just [ __ ]
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can't get love for me heartbreaking
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getting colder every day can't tell
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what's up with me mama praying for me
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more and more it ain't no luck for me
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trying to get my rightness for my kid
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cause they look up to me yeah my kids
21:23
look up to me always gave my all but
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could never get the same back frieza
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with my heart was ain't no female that
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could change that brother turned against
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me so i gotta keep that dang pack never
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been the shooter but my kids make me
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change that
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[Music]
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never been a shooter but my kids will
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make me change that
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coach
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[Music]
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don't let them tell you the r b brothers
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ain't got that flow either what you got
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the [ __ ] don't let them tell you don't
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[Music]
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come on same thing different day cooling
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out i ran away at the top down drinking
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brew chilling out you know how we do
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with the leather seats flat screens dvd
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plenty cream
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i felt the feeling and i couldn't
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explain this when i heard some money
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call my name and name her name cause
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back when i wasn't making moves she
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tried to front she had me singing the
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blues it's like just because her brother
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didn't have a deal she made me feel like
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i wasn't real what she was into no
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material things like diamonds and pearl
22:44
trips around the world and then she
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heard them hanging out with sway now
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she's trying to throw love my way my way
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she was sending no material things up
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she wasn't feeling all the love i bring
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up and now i know i gotta let you go
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cause you're saying you're trying to
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feel my flow oh no i remember when i
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didn't have a dog and i used to come
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around wouldn't even holler at me and
23:05
now i know i'm gonna let you go see it
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trying to feel my flow
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jump on that come on come on come on
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that was real good the name ain't people
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shorty at me if you nasty give it how
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you want it i'm a freaky boy from
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backstreet loving when i tell you all
23:20
these stories that ain't happy type my
23:22
[ __ ] [ __ ] you while the lacing making
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at me ripping off my draws until you
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start the top one quintin up your first
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gal i won't even stop y'all [ __ ] me like
23:29
you miss me you gonna get the top spot
23:31
promise you won't catch no feelings
23:32
don't have plans the wife yeah i said
23:34
i'm finna call you over so i can bone
23:35
you put your cell on dnd so your man
23:37
can't phone you let you on the wall like
23:39
my favorite poster hope you got enough
23:41
garage for this range rover i supply the
23:44
bread and get you hot like toasters
23:46
ramen in your cat like i was from the
23:47
know ya freak nicely [ __ ] i won't even
23:50
hold ya'll shorty bad call her bark got
23:52
me want a choker
23:54
sacrifice of my timing
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look yeah i said i said sacrifice on my
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time and i'll pray my [ __ ] make it
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started off in the rubble and left my
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[ __ ] shaking no soldiers left in the
24:04
field we started in the basement heavy
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on my mental knew the demons we was
24:07
facing it's a melting pot focus on a
24:09
bigger plot waiting for my dudes pray i
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get to see the image crap ahead of my
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visions i knew my story was to see the
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top i'm getting so cool you could feel
24:16
it when that climate dropper i'm steady
24:18
climbing getting up the ranks trying to
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be the greatest [ __ ] ever call me
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michael j i never wanted fame i just
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want to get up in the banks [ __ ]
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wasn't with me in the gym we were
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shooting blanks
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come on we gone same thing
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lady how you doing
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got my eyes on you
24:37
i love it when you walked in uh chilling
24:40
with your crew oh yeah are you here for
24:43
the weekend what
24:45
maybe just creeping uh whatever it is
24:48
you can change a b oh no you're playing
24:50
with me oh yeah hold up don't hold the
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name of the project the name of the
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project is focus on the love all you
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want hey can i finish that
24:58
volume sweater
24:59
stores now focus on the love shout out
25:02
on all dsps that look for that
25:04
compilation focus on the love coach
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check it
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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maybe just
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[Music]
25:55
i'm stuck reminiscing y'all have been so
25:56
toxic but this bottle make me miss it i
25:58
keep trying to fix it mama told me liu
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long but i would never listen and one
26:02
day another other i would just dismiss
26:04
it keep doing the same i swear to look
26:06
at me tripping monster roll it up and
26:08
ain't no reason to be mixing but i'm
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tired of feeling lonely having sex with
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different women yeah yeah yeah yeah i
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keep trying to change my ways but i just
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get worse by the day feeling like i'm
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insane yeah why allow myself to be
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played should've known the first time
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you wouldn't change falling for the same
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game yeah but it's me who take the blame
26:26
god keeps sending blessings but i double
26:27
miss a shame looking for your tricks and
26:29
other girls feel like a lame swear i
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wanted you forever but you never felt
26:33
the same hey mr dj throw another record
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on replay
26:39
don't stop don't stop not yet still up
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in the club with my same old two-step
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yeah got a party over here hey
26:47
there's a party over there hey
26:49
don't stop playing while the music
26:51
playing keep dancing with me
26:55
they always doubted a [ __ ] had to break
26:57
the curse slow and steady when the race
26:59
had only calhoun first slowly triggered
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i was thinking about that money first
27:02
but i can't think but i had to dream
27:04
about that money so i had to think so
27:06
these [ __ ] on my head so i had to go
27:08
and get it for my people
27:10
we was living but we had to think about
27:12
the money we was always living that's
27:14
the dream about the silence we just want
27:16
to reminisce about them times we was
27:18
thinking
27:18
reminiscent of the days
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yeah yeah bring us home bring us home
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it's about two in the morning right
27:28
ain't got no money for the studio right
27:30
i'm walking around broke as hell broke
27:32
bill collector
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[Music]
27:46
when i'm talking to you if you got a
27:48
dream stay focused follow it through
27:50
never ever will i sell my soul just a
27:53
gold platinum gold gold i got a message
27:56
in my music got a message in my music
27:58
music yeah got a message
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it's amazing what you could do when we
28:37
get together what are you come on
28:39
they're the truth
28:41
are you we just been so indoctrinated we
28:43
can't see it no more yeah principal cook
28:46
can see it
28:47
he's with it every single day man i
28:49
appreciate you man and i know how
28:51
exhausting it could be
28:52
come on coach t
28:54
come on
29:07
i thought i was going to be on deaf
29:08
squad back in the day but never mind
29:10
they're meant to be
29:31
listen that that that what you just saw
29:34
right there was a living metaphor or
29:37
a simile or symbolic of what we can do
29:40
when we work together yes
29:42
we all work together there was no ego in
29:44
none of that [ __ ] right we all worked
29:46
together that we made something together
29:48
that we couldn't make alone
29:50
right
29:50
that you know that transfers for what
29:52
you do with the kids and the youth at
29:54
west side high which you do at eastside
29:56
high i don't understand that but i know
29:58
yeah
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we came together there's a story
30:02
okay we'll do that next time
30:04
this is who we are at our best
30:06
this is who we are at our best you boys
30:08
are nice man thank you y'all beast over
30:11
there you couldn't wait to get on the
30:12
mic monster that's why they call you
30:14
monster yeah
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[Applause]
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surprised you only got two yo man
31:03
yo
31:05
you got a lot of style though man
31:07
y'all both got a heavy skill set for you
31:10
to be your age yes
31:12
yes the only the only time
31:14
when nas was your age he put out what
31:16
are y'all like 16 i'm 24. you 24. i'm
31:20
24. i was wondering i was like what's up
31:22
lyrics
31:23
it's jumping into the 20. i'm 24. listen
31:26
to the lyrics
31:29
you're 24 now
31:33
[Laughter]
31:40
[Music]
31:43
oh man damn okay all right you remember
31:47
when she was like at 24 now it makes
31:48
more that makes sense
31:50
nasty remind me of myself
31:56
i know what you're going through man
31:58
don't worry it won't be like that your
32:00
whole life
32:02
principal cook thank you again brother
32:04
thank you sway i appreciate you king you
32:06
always show me love it's it's i mean you
32:08
invited me to your house man i've been
32:10
to sway birthday party y'all this is
32:11
family man i've been blessed yeah i have
32:14
these mentors in my life yes
32:16
yes sway you know ladies mop dame dash
32:19
man thank you man i appreciate it salute
32:21
the dame dash too i saw the work he puts
32:23
in yeah he's there in person
32:25
you know what i mean and um and all
32:27
those folks you mentioned fame fame too
32:30
fame billy daniels
32:32
dr dennis d mckeezy yeah yeah can't
32:34
forget my book two sway man focus on the
32:37
love focus citizens get the book get the
32:39
project focus on the love focus on love
32:41
is on amazon check it out i did a book
32:44
and i did uh and focus on the love late
32:46
uh sway is only about
32:48
leading with love
32:49
imagine the power how you lead your
32:51
whole team in here with love they know
32:52
you love them and rocking them way so
32:54
that's all it is it's organizational
32:55
leadership i mean you know transforming
32:56
the leadership approach that's it but we
32:59
definitely wanted to do a soundtrack
33:00
because all of us are not visual we
33:02
auditory learners either too so yes
33:04
that's just true
33:06
they got over half a million streams
33:07
let's get them to a million real soon
33:10
the project is called focus on the love
33:12
if you tune into this show i i
33:14
i really want to reach out to you and
33:16
appeal to you to support this project i
33:18
can't say i'm trying to sound as sincere
33:20
as i i'm not sounding that's as serious
33:22
i feel yeah you know but i want to say
33:25
this with the most with the most
33:27
most respect please pick up this project
33:30
support this because it's going to be a
33:31
volume two of volume three and what
33:34
happens is i've been in that
33:35
neighborhood
33:36
did these youth get inspired
33:38
you know you you know you they pick up
33:41
an interest in something and put that
33:43
dedication and that time investment into
33:44
this as opposed to other things that
33:46
could take you down a whole nother path
33:49
especially in new jersey
33:58
uh social media is a monster
34:00
m-o-n-s-t-a-a
34:02
underscore bam
34:04
on instagram and uh twitter
34:06
okay monster
34:07
m-o-n-s-t-a-a underscore bam yes lean
34:10
we'll show us freaky
34:12
talk talk to me nicely all right so you
34:15
can find me on instagram at brickside
34:17
underscore liam so it's b-r-i-c-k-s-i
34:20
underscore l-double-e m there you go
34:23
coach t hey please reach out uh it's
34:26
under production name the lab addicts
34:27
t-h-e-l-a-b
34:29
a-d-d-i-c-t-s
34:32
the lab address the
34:36
well principal cook so i got to thank
34:39
tracy g cause she sent my twitter oh
34:40
yeah i said back all back then yeah
34:43
on twitter on principal akbar akbar i'm
34:45
on instagram principal underscore akbar
34:47
akbar said thank you i told you this is
34:49
my family another reason to keep the
34:52
youth around
34:53
tracy yeah tracy used to keep me on
34:54
point with my social too she gave up on
34:56
me a long time ago tracy i can't even
34:58
reach always citizens twitter instagram
35:00
my dms is open for you let's communicate
35:03
tracy g
35:04
i-t-s-t-r-a-c-y-g another gorgeous good
35:06
news thursday absolutely uh tone they
35:08
want to read you you can read your tone
35:10
at
35:13
i'm on all socials that tone diabetes
35:15
thanks suey no problem tone daviera db
35:17
was out today we wish him well he was
35:19
full of lord of the weather so send him
35:20
some love it's really db
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