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Queens hip hop legend Royal Flush reveals his battle with lymphoma cancer in this exclusive Sway in the Morning interview. Diagnosed with over 180 tumors, his fight requires expensive treatments costing over $700k. Known for his classic album "Ghetto Millionaire," Royal Flush shares stories from his storied career working with Nas, LL Cool J, DJ Premier and more legends. Support his courageous battle against cancer via his GoFundMe. Subscribe to Sway's Universe for more groundbreaking interviews.
CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro to Royal Flush Interview
1:50 - Royal Flush Career Highlights
8:40 - Tragedy Khadafi Feature
12:18 - Caller James Interaction
18:59 - Royal Flush Personal Life Insights
19:22 - Lymphoma Cancer Diagnosis Discussion
21:30 - Healing Power of Music
24:10 - Royal Flush GoFundMe Campaign
26:10 - Celebrity Support for Royal Flush
28:03 - Ronnie's Call from Virginia
29:57 - AB's Generous Donation to Royal Flush
32:50 - Royal Flush Freestyle Session
34:02 - Coco's Call from Brooklyn
36:40 - Humanizing Artists' Struggles
37:55 - Royal Flush Bucket List Desires
39:29 - Royal Flush Interview Wrap-Up
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my brother Royal Flush here representing
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Queens I'm not sure of what district I
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don't want to get it wrong is it far
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Rock Away flush Flushing Queens fling
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representing Flushing Queens let me tell
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you man this man this man represents a
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era in Hip Hop uh that was so unique and
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and so vibrant and fresh and it was
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about creativ being in innovators being
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individuals at the time when his album
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ghetto millionaire came out King Tech
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and I was at our height in our
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syndication so we were syndicated all
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across the world five different
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continents um and I can't even think of
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how many stations we had at that time
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broadcasting out of the Bay Area and
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also out of LA and it was important for
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us to give artists like Royal Flush an
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opportunity um because of what he
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represents he represents the pure nature
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of the the authenticity of the culture
0:57
at a time when he dropped his album life
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after death by notorious b came out
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wuang forever came out um the war report
1:06
by capona norga came out he dropped his
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album in one of those years that
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everything was happening right and but
1:13
the business was bubbling and ghetto
1:16
millionaire came out and he had about 24
1:19
tracks on his album and I remember that
1:22
at that time unless it was a double
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album that was kind of unheard of right
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that that that wasn't because you're not
1:29
getting PA off of 24 tracks that you put
1:32
on an album back then now the business
1:34
of you know in of Music wouldn't allow
1:37
you to be paid for 24 tracks but it was
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more about the art it was more about the
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presentation this is a highly respected
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Elite MC please welcome him to the show
1:50
The One and Only Royal
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Flush here man come on the ghetto
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millionaire welcome ghetto millionaire
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man that's right wow man uh first of all
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thank you for coming on the show yes
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thank you for having me absolutely I
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want I want you to talk about your story
2:08
what's what what's going on in your life
2:10
now but if you don't mind I'd like to
2:12
ask you a few questions about back then
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let's get okay all right so ghetto
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millionaire uh came out at a time like I
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said it was just a lot of Tribe Called
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Quest it was just a whole lot of great
2:23
music on the west coast coming out as
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well right um what was the what was the
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scene like in Queen though man when you
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got tragedy you got yourself you got
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Capone you know mob deep like what was
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it a A hip-hop playground like what was
2:40
the energy like what did y'all like were
2:42
people meeting up congregating I mean
2:45
you know they call me like the governor
2:46
what it was is that I was from flushing
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but I kept the balances through
2:50
everybody Queens like I would bring
2:51
Queensbridge to Jamaica I would bring
2:53
Jamaica the Queens bridge I kept every
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all of us unit so the love in Queens was
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crazy at that time far as hip-hop cuz I
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was able to just balance all of us
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together and at that time a lot of
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artists from Queens was like you know
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the mob deep to CNN they was kind of
3:06
like hardcore street so to make myself
3:09
difference I said you know I'm going to
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be the calm one the fly one the one with
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the jewelry the one that like to go out
3:13
and party so I separated myself from
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that hard part of queens and that's what
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balanced us out right but we was all
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love though but everybody liked each
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other though I tell of Truth as Queens I
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I I made it as I was the best liaison I
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could be at that time okay Queens but
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yeah I did it I mean I did it it wasn't
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too much beef it wasn't it was more it
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was more if it was just music
3:36
competition than than personal so I kept
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I kept it right I kept it right okay um
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who was that guy at that time who who
3:45
who was that art was it Nas um I mean
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Queensbridge was I mean Queensbridge
3:49
they had a million artists like you know
3:51
from Mo you had mob deep and Nas coming
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out of Queens had tragedy you know so
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them three right there was a it was more
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like one project so flushing you had had
3:59
like me you had Mike Jano you had large
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professor you had n the Exotic so every
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everywhere had their own five or four
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artists and then it was a person like me
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that was able to go to all of them other
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places and make all all do songs
4:11
together kicking together cuz growing up
4:14
with with with Capone and Nori like he
4:16
was in high school I was in John bound
4:18
and we would go at each other every day
4:20
his guys and my guys but then once I did
4:21
music what do you mean go at each other
4:23
like beef beef beef Nory people yeah nor
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I mean Nory was a troublemaker back then
4:27
too n n n n we we was just all from
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Queens but we was just you know it was
4:32
just different but being that he was
4:33
from left Rec I'm from flush and we had
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our little problems but I kept it where
4:37
I was able to do songs with Nori and
4:39
kept the piece and stuff like that so
4:41
Nori um IC down medallions that wasn't
4:44
it was more than one version was was it
4:47
was it was at that time Capone Capone
4:49
from um CNN that's my first cousin okay
4:51
yeah Capone Hol that's that's my first
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cousin wow so when he had got locked up
4:57
um Nori had just came out out and uh LP
5:00
did the beat and we wanted somebody on
5:02
the hook but at that time I had problems
5:04
with Nori we had like a little beef over
5:06
what though like when you reflect back
5:08
just just Street [ __ ] just cuz you from
5:10
here and I'm from there you know and um
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he was in the studio doing blood money
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and um I called him Capone hooked it and
5:18
I had on my jewelry and I was with a
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bunch of guys and he was like yo come to
5:21
the studio and I told my whole crew stay
5:23
home and I went by myself with all my
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jewelry when I got there me and him just
5:27
kicked it for a minute everybody looked
5:29
at that mean like 15 minutes later
5:31
became like my best friend you know what
5:32
I mean like wow wow wow 15 minutes later
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right damn that's Nory though right you
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know you you sit down with him it's a
5:39
whole I remember a whole VI a whole vibe
5:41
and so seeing him in the um he did the
5:44
hook right uhhuh and seeing him in the
5:46
video meant something yes right how did
5:49
that help I mean cuz at at that point he
5:52
didn't want to come to my hood and shoot
5:53
I didn't want to come to his so I said
5:54
listen you come to mine I go to yours
5:56
and we just had each other back and and
5:58
it was dope it was dope cuz cuz that was
5:59
like the first even his label at that
6:01
time didn't want him to do you know they
6:03
didn't want you to be on other people's
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videos out and while they promoting you
6:06
but he still did it he he went behind
6:08
the label and still did the video with
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wow wow you you you you rocked with Big
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L as well yes yes I I mean I did some
6:16
big L Big Pun Old Dirty Bastard you know
6:19
um at that point it was like if you did
6:22
an album you tried to round your album
6:23
off on okay I got a street song so I'm
6:25
gonna get this person so when it came to
6:27
like drug dealer Street Music a lot of
6:29
artist called on me from Mac 10 to juvie
6:31
to BG I mean I done did songs with
6:33
everybody you can name but you did songs
6:35
with ma 10 BG at a time where you wasn't
6:38
seeing those type of collaborations with
6:41
a MC like you with a BG you know what I
6:45
mean
6:46
like it it was it was I mean they they a
6:49
lot of them just called on me or they
6:51
just like all right we got this last
6:52
song We gonna do we talking about
6:54
hustling we got to go get royal flush
6:56
uhhuh and and that's how I came with a
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lot of artists like but working with um
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Big L working with pun man that was that
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was that was the best what you learn
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from them those are uh you know arguably
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two of the best MCS to ever do it so
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yeah I mean I learned a lot from from
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pun I learned I learned how to how to
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control a room you know pun pun a person
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like that with with your size you
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already think you coming in with a
7:18
default then he can control the room
7:20
when he walk in the room he make the
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room his and I I learned that from pun
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Big L was just so smooth where the room
7:26
was already his like he already knew he
7:29
could and whatever you could do he can
7:30
outdo you so those are two lessons that
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they both gave me how to control the
7:34
room and ready know you in the room what
7:35
about Guru Guru was crazy Guru was um
7:39
that was my party animal yeah Guru
7:41
salute to Guru I had a lot of Primo
7:44
sometimes but now we going to the studio
7:46
and then me and him go to the club or
7:48
something that was my party animal dam
7:51
you lied to Premiere yeah
7:54
yeah he
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listening from me was just on the show
7:58
not that long he like Premiere was on
8:01
hour ago Premiere hits me all the time
8:03
man he he calls me you know my situation
8:05
right now he calls me and check on me
8:07
every all the time why why why did you
8:08
have so many songs on the on the album
8:10
ghetto millionaire um at at that time
8:13
that was like my my my um get away from
8:15
the streets okay so I kind of like lived
8:17
in the studio I thought that was like
8:19
great adventures to me that was like
8:20
Disney World so I just being there I
8:22
just I want to do a song I want to do a
8:23
song so I spent like maybe eight months
8:25
just like living in the studio not even
8:27
going home so I would just called
8:29
different artists to come through and
8:30
just work and just work and that was it
8:33
I just Lov the work at the time Royal
8:35
Flush is here with us man big round of
8:37
applause man this guy is legendary uh
8:40
for so many U reasons tragedy Gaddafi
8:43
was another person that we played a lot
8:45
um on the show and um intelligent
8:48
hoodlum you know uhr president come on
8:52
man we man uh talk about that
8:54
relationship too brother um me and me
8:57
and TR I mean growing up I was I was I
8:59
was from flushing and I got named flush
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because I went to visit I used to go to
9:03
Queensbridge okay and I had family in
9:05
Queensbridge so when I went to
9:06
Queensbridge it was my real name is raml
9:07
so it was a lot of raml so for them to
9:10
separate me like oh that's flush that's
9:11
raml from flushing so they called me
9:13
flush that's where I got the name from
9:15
and going out there at that point I was
9:17
a I was a fan of trash like trash MC
9:18
Shan you know roxan Shante I was I was a
9:21
little younger so I was a fan when me
9:23
and trash started hooking up it was like
9:25
when he started going on tour with um
9:28
for arest of president M me and him just
9:30
got like real real tight that just
9:31
became my brother like we got albums
9:33
together we got so much history together
9:35
that but I was a fan first I was a fan
9:37
of trash trash music was trash was one
9:39
of my favorite MC's ever okay so you on
9:42
tvt records right M tvt most people now
9:46
would know because of um pitbull was on
9:49
tvt later though you know um um Lil John
9:53
was on tvt right Bounty Killer Bounty k
9:57
um uh what's the what's uh Angela's man
10:01
Angela who Simmons oh um
10:04
yoti he was he was on a label with us
10:07
yeah so that that L that roster was
10:09
crazy I mean tvt Steve gotley he he
10:11
signed anybody but he didn't know what
10:12
to do but he signed the so he didn't
10:13
know what to do yeah he had you know he
10:15
had J uhhuh he had jaw rule yeah yeah
10:18
Cash Money click he had cash money too
10:21
he had everything ran through tvt at
10:24
some point right but um is that what
10:27
happened with you though because guess
10:29
millionaire came out and then it felt
10:31
like nothing I didn't see what was
10:33
happening maybe I wasn't aware no no no
10:35
really um what happened was Mike gano's
10:37
first album came out he did about 15
10:39
songs I was on 13 okay we went on tour I
10:43
had did like a little demo put out and
10:45
at that time when I was on tour my buds
10:48
was getting hot in New York and I didn't
10:49
know it I'm on tour with Mike Jano and
10:51
then Mike gano's label came on tour and
10:53
met me in North Carolina with a contract
10:56
to sign me I didn't know I'm just like
10:57
we're like here we got 50,000 we want to
10:59
sign you right now this and that and I
11:01
was like all right well you know I'm in
11:02
the streets I'm just mikeon Mo hyp man
11:04
then when I got back to New York I
11:06
didn't realize de J was looking for me
11:08
in scope was looking for me it was like
11:10
12 labels looking for me but I already
11:12
signed it over did they do that on
11:14
purpose you think they scoop they
11:15
scooped the deal they knew where he was
11:18
yeah the anrs knew that yo he sound you
11:20
know that's what they say he sound like
11:21
Nas he's dope so they they they came
11:23
they actually came down they flew out
11:25
with the paperwork to sign me they got
11:27
him they got him got
11:29
rule number
11:31
4,080
11:34
compy wow ain't that something and then
11:37
that whole thing to now now you know to
11:41
be compared to NAS at that time wasn't a
11:43
bad deal that was great that was amazing
11:47
and that's why but if you knew the
11:49
culture you I didn't we didn't compare
11:52
you to NAS we just thought you could rap
11:54
dope like Nas could rap dope right you
11:57
know what I mean like you're in that
11:59
dope quotient but did that ever become a
12:01
problem for you no no no to compare to
12:04
be compared to the best was like that
12:06
was the every everywhere I went it was
12:08
to be people you sound like n he's dope
12:10
I mean then you just know I had a
12:12
different style in him but you know we
12:13
just talked the similar words or
12:15
whatever but I loved it I loved it
12:17
helped my career okay man Royal Flush is
12:19
here we got James on the line he's in uh
12:21
James what up James how you doing J yo
12:24
what's going on family what's going on
12:25
everybody Tracy G how it been up t a
12:29
dead shout outs to ro FL what's going on
12:31
everybody chilling man we this is
12:33
beautiful we got this man up here go
12:35
ahead you got a question for
12:36
him oh [ __ ] I don't mean I think it's a
12:39
I don't know I had I had a question but
12:40
I forgot it but I'm just gonna give the
12:41
man his flowers I just want to say that
12:44
um I found you through um Spotify one
12:46
day when I was a suffling like old
12:48
school hip-hop music and you came on I
12:50
think it was um what a shame oh yeah
12:53
another song that that that yeah that
12:56
that song is fire right there but my
12:58
tracks from album basically I would say
13:00
is um I like the song Dead letter um how
13:04
do you yeah act that's a go one what
13:05
inspired you to write that song that
13:07
leather because when I be getting lit
13:08
off I be drinking and I hear the that
13:10
leather kind of makes me like you know
13:11
think about you know someone and uh and
13:15
everything you know like so what
13:16
inspired you to write the song Dead
13:18
leather because that beat is just too
13:19
fire especially on the great sound
13:21
system um U that was my my man Ryan
13:24
Owens AKA magic he had just passed away
13:27
and if you listen to a lot of my songs I
13:29
always say his name um yeah it was just
13:31
it was just a time it was um I actually
13:33
went in the studio by myself that day
13:36
and and I did the song by myself you
13:38
know it was just one of them days I just
13:39
was hurt and I just wanted to talk about
13:41
my man because I miss him you know what
13:43
I'm saying so it was like it it was a
13:46
moment for me so that that's what got me
13:48
there you know I mean one of my friends
13:50
I miss hey James I could tell you a true
13:53
head man make sure he got a new project
13:55
it's called The Royal price show right
13:58
and it's a collab
13:59
collaborative album with sha price the
14:02
great all right so that's that's man
14:06
price too
14:07
yeah yeah Cassidy is on it it's a few
14:10
people nature is on it too um few out
14:13
little vic is on it so make sure you
14:14
check that out brother you a citizen SW
14:16
morning nature man oh that's my boy yeah
14:20
he's he's working on this new album now
14:21
gotong more Queen man you got you guys
14:24
don't you know I'm a big fan of big
14:27
horse too shout out to big horse
14:29
right bravehearts that whole movement so
14:31
I'm in Cali when this queen movement is
14:33
happening all of it we don't understand
14:35
the different factions you know know
14:37
rock away Queens we don't know we
14:39
thought it was all one thing you know
14:41
but it's so much talent you has there
14:44
ever been is that N I even going to
14:47
start that Queen's the most talented bro
14:50
to ever produced out of Hip Hop of
14:51
course of course of course I'm I mean I
14:54
think everybody should agree with that
14:56
it's hard how you going get Brooklyn AG
14:58
it's hard to argue that because we
15:01
didn't even talk
15:03
about um The Lost Boys you really didn't
15:06
even get in like 50 you didn't get into
15:08
like
15:10
a but we didn't get into the
15:13
LMC pepper like it's a lot that came
15:16
from Salt and Pepper is Queens the
15:18
Queens from Queens you know it it's a
15:21
lot you know you talk about Gap you talk
15:25
about it's a lot of people from Queens
15:27
into your point way
15:30
it won't stop it it's it it it was very
15:33
confusing I would say me me even being
15:35
from the East Coast I didn't know until
15:37
I was dating horse at the time how it
15:40
was all broken down I'm thinking it's
15:41
all the same he's like no the bridge is
15:43
the bridge bridge period it's 96
15:45
buildings you got to hear about every
15:47
project time yeah then there's nor
15:50
there's left rack you know then there's
15:51
AP Corona it it's really broken down
15:54
into sections it's almost like telling
15:56
you the B everything is just Oakland and
15:58
and you like no it's the Bay Area you
16:00
know what I mean like it's different
16:02
valo is not Oakland so it's hard to
16:05
argue that Queens is I thought I thought
16:07
in that time when you say you're from
16:09
Brooklyn we just thought Brooklyn was
16:10
Brooklyn so the whole Brooklyn but
16:12
Queens you had to separate and you had
16:14
to break it down where at in Queens
16:15
where you from in que where you from wow
16:18
so let me say Queens is the most
16:21
valuable bur to ever come out of New
16:23
York in terms of Hip-Hop Hip-Hop I mean
16:25
we ain't the creators I give it to the
16:27
Bronx for starting it as far as like the
16:29
most MC's the most Talent Queens Queens
16:32
you know we going to put that up I want
16:34
to see what people say to that um this
16:36
this particular U project the Royal
16:38
price show um what made you this I'm
16:42
glad you did it I sat and listened to it
16:44
twice already what made you put this
16:46
together in in Shawn price your
16:48
relationship um me and Shawn price we
16:50
you know I always knew the buan clay I
16:52
was on tour with them but me and Shawn
16:53
price 13 years ago we both had daughters
16:57
around the same time so became like the
16:59
the dads with the daughters so me and
17:01
him got real tight we started just doing
17:03
for the daughter day and then one of our
17:05
guys came up he built a studio and that
17:08
was when we wasn't with our daughters we
17:09
were just in the studio so we did a
17:11
million songs so once like once he
17:14
passed I gave about majority of all my
17:17
songs to duck down and burn to debt so
17:19
they can have them but I kept my my
17:20
little stash and I wanted to wait till
17:22
maybe like five or six years after
17:24
everybody did what they had to do so it
17:26
don't look like I'm taking his name and
17:28
now I just put it out now with the songs
17:30
nobody like I got verses people never
17:31
even heard from him before and he's
17:33
mentioning my name so you know it's
17:34
personal yeah but that that was a friend
17:37
that there was nobody like Sean like his
17:40
last year and a half it was me him me
17:42
and him every day like every day every
17:44
day it wasn't a day without us we called
17:47
each other and say what you wearing like
17:49
that's how did he write though Sean was
17:51
such a I mean comp to me a his patterns
17:56
his you know his U his choice of words
17:59
but his patterns are really perplex to
18:01
me like he he how did he write did he
18:03
write in front of you or no and that's
18:05
the when when we see like we if we hear
18:08
the beat we be like all right cool I'm G
18:09
write something I'm write something and
18:11
then I'll walk out the room get a soda
18:13
and I come back and there's nothing rent
18:15
but he got the whole rhyme like it he
18:17
never just showed people how he right so
18:19
it was unbelievable it was unbel so he
18:21
taught me how to do that like I haven't
18:22
wrote a rhyme on paper in like last five
18:25
years six years really yeah I don't even
18:27
look at the paper I just go in I
18:29
remember whatever whatever you do in
18:30
life I always say you gotta have a start
18:32
and finish so if you got a start and
18:34
finish then you know everything that's
18:35
going to come between so like okay I'm G
18:36
start here and I'm G finish here then I
18:38
just close my eyes and come on with the
18:39
whole topic Royal Flush is here got a
18:42
new project out um you you you know and
18:45
then I appreciate you know we we've been
18:47
able to go I can ask you questions at
18:49
all I wanted to ask you way back then uh
18:51
when the first project came out uh but
18:54
that's not the only reason why you're
18:56
here right and and um you have things
18:59
you have challenges that you've been
19:01
facing in your personal life and you
19:03
wanted to come up here and talk about it
19:05
which I I commend you for because as we
19:08
are starting to um age um a lot of us
19:13
are starting to uh find oursel with
19:15
certain elments and a lot of times
19:16
people don't want to talk about that
19:18
because it makes them vulnerable or they
19:20
don't want to get stigmatized uh but you
19:22
found out about a condition you have can
19:24
you share with us what it is and how did
19:26
you find out I have um lymphoma cancer
19:30
which is you know if you got prostate or
19:32
you got um breast cancer those you can
19:35
kind of strength the tumors and cut them
19:36
out mine is in my blood you know a
19:39
average person gets 10 tumors if you get
19:42
10 tumors and there's no surviving by
19:44
the time I went to find out I had 180
19:46
tumors 180 180 so like my brain and
19:50
everything was blocked everything was
19:51
blocked so they had to do a rush a rush
19:54
chemo um you know they said I wouldn't
19:56
make it to the second chemo treat
19:58
treatment and I'm on I'm on my third now
20:00
so I'm fighting and fighting come on I'm
20:04
fighting come on you fighting yeah and
20:06
it's just and it was more or less like
20:09
you know and to for me to survive like
20:11
once they said how much it cost they was
20:13
like it's going to cost 700,000 to to to
20:15
to live and you know me and my wife went
20:17
through our insurance and our insurance
20:18
at like 220 180 so she did to go fund me
20:23
which I didn't want her to do so once we
20:24
did it and then I started seeing people
20:26
show me love and all that then I I
20:28
wanted to fight and one thing I wanted
20:30
to tell people with cancer don't don't
20:33
put yourself in a situation that make
20:34
other people happy don't don't sit home
20:36
and die don't sit home not like people
20:39
be like yo if you got that much why you
20:41
got your jewelry on but they don't
20:42
realize I went to my Jeweler and I
20:44
pawned my jewelry but my My Jeweler said
20:46
wear it take go the money but still wear
20:49
it I want you to feel good you know what
20:51
I'm saying so I want people to you got
20:53
to fight you got to fight like I I just
20:55
I'm here to just tell people don't sit
20:57
there and die cuz in my situation if I
20:59
just sat home and felt miserable and I
21:00
wanted to look bad or think people won't
21:02
help me cuz I got tubes in my mouth that
21:04
that would have took me out of here
21:05
weeks ago so I just want to give people
21:07
this Serv like I don't care how it is
21:09
what situation you is you get up and
21:11
fight you don't do it for nobody else
21:12
but you're in your family wow man man
21:15
Royal Flush man I man that takes a lot
21:17
of um courage yeah yeah oh I mean you
21:20
know like I look good now but you
21:22
realize when I go to sleep at night I
21:23
got to wear a diaper somebody got to
21:24
help me go to the bathroom some days I
21:26
can't get up some days I can't eat some
21:28
days my hands hurt so it's a lot but you
21:31
know coming up and doing shows like this
21:33
keeps me motivated absolutely man come
21:36
on man give this man a hug swe I love it
21:39
absolutely salute to your wife oh yeah
21:41
salute to your wife she goes through it
21:43
and salute to anybody and everybody with
21:46
families that you know um who they're
21:48
taking care of because it it affects the
21:51
family like the the part that flush is
21:53
sharing to his point is the part that
21:55
people don't see it's it's the people
21:58
who are with you at night when you
21:59
trying to go to bed helping you get
22:00
dressed in the morning and helping you
22:02
all of that so salute to your wife and
22:04
your family as well thank you thank you
22:06
do do you have a routine that you keep
22:08
is anything you can do physically that
22:10
could help no no it's just it's just
22:13
it's it's it's my mind my my my body's
22:16
already dead now it's my mind keeping me
22:18
alive so as long as my mind stay alive
22:20
then I can just keep fighting and keep
22:22
fight you know wow you know like I said
22:24
they said I went make it to the second
22:25
treatment I'm on the third going on the
22:26
fourth anden
22:28
my my my support system is just dope and
22:30
you look at music as a form of medicine
22:33
keeping that mind alive yes yes or just
22:36
just seeing what people say or like you
22:37
know like I felt the tumors is maybe six
22:40
months before I had it so I I knew
22:42
something was wrong in my body and I
22:43
just didn't I just gave up what did you
22:45
feel the tumors was all around me so
22:47
like if I had a big tumor ha I was able
22:49
to move the tumor wow wow so now and
22:52
then once you got the tumors so now I
22:53
got tumors on my body so once you get
22:55
lymphoma lymphoma is like a ubercab so
22:58
now it's picking the tumors up and
23:00
bringing them everywhere in my body so
23:02
if I got a big tumor here the lymphoma
23:04
cancer would chop it up bring one to my
23:06
lung bring one to my heart so it just
23:07
spread it all through my whole body wow
23:10
yeah I mean it's it's rough it's rough
23:12
but I get up I get up I feel good I feel
23:14
I just feel good you have a beautiful
23:16
spirit thank you come on man I I was
23:18
going to take one of your jewelry pieces
23:19
I'm going to let you hold that now man I
23:21
was think when you walk in I could have
23:24
took go we you don't even be wearing no
23:26
jewelry you don't even wear watch that's
23:28
true but I could have I could have got
23:30
something for it I could have did
23:31
something for it what what when you come
23:33
to that realization you know um I'm sure
23:37
your mind start working oh this is
23:38
something things I want to do these are
23:40
things I want to say you know I want
23:43
yeah yeah kind of like a bucket list
23:44
what what is it you want the world to
23:46
know things you want to say what are
23:47
some of the things you want to do um I I
23:50
just like cuz um when I sit down my
23:51
counselor cuz usually when I go in and I
23:54
got to do chemo they usually a preacher
23:56
that got to come in there with me I got
23:57
to sign a waiver
23:58
the hospital want to be responsible if
24:00
something happened to me while I'm doing
24:01
every time cuz it's it's a double dose
24:03
it's not like a regular dose like you se
24:04
My Nails my skin turn color my head's
24:06
burning like it's just a lot of things
24:08
that happen to you so when they come in
24:11
and do it with me I mean well I mean
24:14
really cuz music I I set I think the
24:16
only thing I want to say is people in my
24:17
situation you can't like me I'm doing a
24:20
Gund me so I feel like a lot of people
24:22
won't look out and do the go for me if
24:24
they don't see me with tubes or see me
24:27
in head and my eyes are swollen and I
24:29
look bad to help I just want to tell
24:31
people don't look for that just do it
24:34
just do it don't worry about it don't
24:36
worry about the the what comes after it
24:37
be beat what some on the table right now
24:40
what's the G fundme um I have a g fundme
24:43
my my G fun me I had my gofund me at
24:45
300,000 okay and it it went to 30,000
24:48
uhhuh but then I just felt like I don't
24:50
know if people see me coming out and
24:53
want to live that maybe they don't want
24:54
to help so I put it down to one 100,000
24:57
okay I just put it down there and
24:59
whether you put it or not I still got to
25:01
fight this battle and I just feel like a
25:02
lot of people that do want to help me
25:04
they don't help cuz they like maybe he
25:05
still walk around with jewelry he still
25:07
drive a foreign car which I can't drive
25:09
my wife got to drive me now but I think
25:11
people just want to see me down and help
25:13
me and I just want to tell people you
25:15
don't got to be down for help nah you
25:17
need to be up I want to see you looking
25:19
good bro I want I want to see you being
25:21
Royal Flush I don't want I don't want to
25:23
see nothing less you know um what's how
25:25
can people donate to the gold me what's
25:27
the address to it do you know um it's
25:29
it's Royal Flush it's it's under I I
25:31
give it to you now it's on your
25:32
Instagram yeah on my Instagram it's yeah
25:35
it's in my bio on my Instagram is
25:37
realore royal flush yeah and anything
25:40
helps man you know anything help um
25:42
matter of fact next Thursday I got a um
25:44
they doing like not a fundraiser it's a
25:46
auction so I have an auction coming up
25:48
with fat Joe's hosting it okay and every
25:50
artist gave me something from like Big
25:52
Daddy Kane gave me his um P sneakers
25:55
coochi rap gave me one of his little
25:57
guns um um Fat Joe gave me the sneakers
26:00
um Matt Matt Matt Premier gave me um
26:02
like a beat
26:03
machine large professor gave me a old
26:05
turntable he's not using so they're
26:07
going to do a auction for me you know
26:10
and I mean PE people willing to help
26:12
people willing to help I don't know all
26:13
the intricacies but I know because we do
26:16
media every day you know Nas has been in
26:18
the news with the foundation and you
26:20
know rim and Scarface was mentioned in
26:23
helping for healthcare has anyone
26:25
reached out to you in terms of that you
26:27
know what that about no I I I studied it
26:29
I have my friends look into it but
26:31
nobody nobody I don't have nobody to to
26:34
to kind of just Reach Out n is my man I
26:36
think he just don't know he's he's on
26:38
tour a lot he's busy a lot you know but
26:42
I mean if somebody could just help me
26:43
with that situation or whoever's doing
26:45
that who get in contact with somebody
26:47
cuz I think my help would be someone
26:49
that's going through it right now so it
26:50
would look good instead of someone that
26:52
beat it I'm fighting right now so if you
26:54
can help me help me I'm here for it
26:56
that's what the culture is about man our
26:58
brother Royal Flush right now look at
27:00
him man he's thriving he's
27:02
striving go and he had and he and he's
27:06
in about with cancer lomia yeaha cancer
27:09
yep and uh but he's winning this battle
27:12
right yeah and it's the Royal flushes
27:14
courageous fight To Conquer Cancer that
27:16
is the GoFundMe right now um I believe
27:19
your wife shaiva yes shaiva um is
27:22
organizing his fundraiser and it's a you
27:24
know you guys he's had over 400
27:26
donations right now you guys can still
27:28
donate well hold up we got Ronnie on the
27:30
line from Virginia we're looking for
27:32
those who want to donate U to this man's
27:35
quality of life this is our brother this
27:37
is the culture we spend a lot of time
27:39
talking about a lot of stuff that ain't
27:41
advancing nothing or helping anybody
27:44
let's get off the gossip rumor the
27:45
gossip meals and let's put some energy
27:48
towards helping our brothers this isn't
27:50
this what the culture is about right
27:52
this is what the community is about
27:53
stepping up for those in their time of
27:56
need Royal Flush is one of us us he's a
27:58
pillar in this game his legacy is
28:00
cemented um and so um I'm going to
28:03
donate we got Ronnie on the line from
28:05
Virginia Ronnie how you doing hey Ronnie
28:08
I'm doing how you doing how you doing
28:10
good man say what's up to Royal
28:12
Flush hey Roy FL how you doing big big
28:15
up I'm all right I'm all right one day
28:17
at a
28:18
time I feel Hey listen I have a cousin
28:21
that's going through the same exact
28:22
thing but I want to get into that I
28:24
start crying I miss him I love him but
28:26
I'm here to support you guy and I'm
28:28
having to miss your Instagram um page
28:30
your Instagram name can you please tell
28:32
me what it is it's realore Royal
28:36
Flush real or real real realore Royal
28:41
Flush real keeping it
28:43
real I got
28:45
you
28:47
yeah r e a
28:49
l Royal Flush yeah matter of fact I want
28:52
to open up the phone lines for folks to
28:55
donate and this isn't why he came up
28:57
here but I'm going to go ahead and do
28:58
this I'mma look who if you any donation
29:02
counts oh yes you know I'mma pull out my
29:05
pocket and see what I have in it what
29:07
you guys and then and then I want people
29:09
to realize that when when you do go
29:11
funme and you have cancer I don't touch
29:13
that money you know that that goes
29:15
straight that goes straight to the
29:16
hospital you we have to sign it like
29:18
that and wow and and every time I going
29:21
for chemo that's
29:22
$30,000 so I'm on my third treatment so
29:25
I'm at 60 already wow
29:28
well well say I just I just want to say
29:31
that I'm here at work at at the shipyard
29:34
right now and I'm about to go up a cou
29:36
of my coworkers I'm gon to make them
29:37
donate because I support that car there
29:39
you go come on I like that man that's
29:41
beautiful okay all right and and once
29:43
again it's
29:45
realore Royal
29:47
FL um Ronnie we love you brother we
29:50
appreciate you okay all right you're a
29:53
citizen brother the morning spread the
29:55
word man very loving gener citizen I
29:57
just went in my pocket royal flush and I
29:59
know you probably don't want to do this
30:01
but I got one two three four five six
30:05
seven8 n here's $1,000 wow all right I
30:08
want to put that towards wow your
30:11
GoFundMe I will all right and we here
30:14
for you brother all right come on I
30:15
ain't trying to cry
30:17
today trying to cry today we celebrating
30:20
man thank you cuz this is this is
30:21
something we going to win this one all
30:23
right and you winning now the fact that
30:25
you up here talking about it yo let me
30:27
say this man it's and and it's it's part
30:29
of who I am today I
30:31
don't I don't tap into a lot of the
30:34
frequencies that the the culture is
30:36
giving us right now because we're
30:38
reaching points we're reaching stages in
30:40
our life that the culture had never
30:42
reached so we have to now start
30:44
incorporating other ideologies
30:47
conversations we're dealing with health
30:49
now we're dealing with mental health
30:51
spiritual health physical health and so
30:54
uh for me to see you here having this
30:57
conversation is powerful and it's
31:00
necessary there's a lot of people
31:02
dealing with health issues that aren't
31:04
speaking out for whatever reason yeah
31:06
especially men especially men the men
31:09
yeah and we got to start talking because
31:11
we have to set examples for our kids and
31:13
our other family members so it's the
31:15
least I could do is donate Brother come
31:18
on man thank you AB but my crew will
31:20
tell you they a lot of people been
31:22
calling me for interviews and what I
31:23
told them if it ain't sway first I ain't
31:25
doing nobody's interview oh wow man damn
31:27
man really he canceled about 10
31:30
interviews wow and I said if it's not
31:32
you I'm not doing it man that's love
31:34
Brother come on man we've been trying to
31:36
make it well I I like to set a tone um I
31:40
like to uh really set a bar in how we
31:43
discuss our lives our culture so on I've
31:46
been on that since the 90s yes
31:48
absolutely you know what I mean La since
31:50
La you know since the bay before we got
31:53
La yeah you know and so I when I see
31:55
hear a hire frequency in our
31:58
conversations in the culture that makes
32:00
me happy I like to think that I'm a part
32:02
of why that happens you know to show
32:04
folks that you could have int
32:06
intelligent real conversation as
32:09
yourself and still be successful that's
32:12
what you do as an artist you know
32:15
abolutely you you have a high Bar St
32:18
style of mcing you know the music you
32:20
make you know everything You' done has
32:22
been so authentic so we got to be in
32:24
your corner brother amen if you cry it's
32:27
tears of joy because we you woke up
32:29
today mhm yes some days I don't even
32:31
feel like I I can get up right what what
32:33
so do you are you able to um you going
32:36
ask him a free St right AR but Royal
32:39
Flush didn't come up here not thinking
32:41
he didn't have bars he said know he
32:43
didn't come up here with no bars I know
32:46
that didn't just happen I'mma turn my
32:49
back on him if it did T drop a beat man
32:52
you got something yeah you got something
32:55
I always do no what turn that up B told
32:59
turn that up come on so what's going to
33:02
make me a better man listening to y'all
33:04
[ __ ] how y'all [ __ ] [ __ ] and dress
33:06
a little bit different but never mooving
33:08
consistent while I'm stuck up in the
33:10
kitchen rearranging the dishes feeling
33:12
like a moreti bodies floating and
33:14
missing water surround the prison escape
33:16
is my only Vision hitting bad like Sunny
33:18
listen like Thomas was on the Pistons
33:20
shoot past and dishing [ __ ] it I'm
33:21
Giller is like I'm playing for the
33:23
Wizards if I die tonight this whole cold
33:25
game is on the [ __ ] strike if you
33:27
plug you know he probably going to
33:28
double up the price so when you see me
33:30
with my son know I got a [ __ ] knife
33:32
and hanging with sway is going to make
33:34
it all right yeah Royal FL Royal FL come
33:39
on I got the freestyle come on I got it
33:42
I got it yo Queen's been representing
33:46
all year we got it from LL now we got it
33:48
from Royal FR come
33:51
on God
33:53
bless thank you bro so so ill man so
33:59
smooth with it different yo I listen man
34:01
I I we got coko on the line from
34:04
Brooklyn you know who Coco is
34:06
Coco you familiar yeah I know the name
34:09
yeah Coco I listening to your show so I
34:11
know
34:13
everybody yo yo Royal Flush is a
34:17
citizen come on Coco what you want to
34:19
say go
34:20
ahead I want to give a shout out to my
34:22
bro raml y'all know him as Royal FL but
34:25
I know him
34:28
Coco you know um you know co coco is my
34:32
heart my my brother that died that was
34:34
his wife yeah you know what I mean my
34:36
brother Sean man so I I love her to
34:38
death rest in power and rest in peace to
34:40
her sister too you know yeah yes my
34:43
sister pumpkin and I love you so much
34:46
and I post your um Gund me I support
34:48
your wife 100% a thousand per and
34:51
anything you need and you know my
34:53
platform is kind of big too I got you
34:56
bro you
34:57
I I got to come over some good food
34:59
that's all yes you got to see jiger
35:02
jiger is playing ball in PA thing you
35:05
know I follow everything I see Coco what
35:08
can you what can you tell us about him
35:10
that that the world should
35:13
know wow uh let me see he got a big
35:18
heart yeah yes he got a big heart and he
35:21
take care his brother shout out to my
35:22
bro Rudy oh yeah yeah yeah shout out to
35:25
my brother man he's he's he he I know
35:28
sometimes he don't even want to change
35:29
my [ __ ]
35:30
diaper that's incredible though he comes
35:33
over he cooks for me
35:36
every you know it's been a lot of
35:38
artists like Mike jono comes over every
35:40
day checks on me uh that's good Kanani
35:43
was saying Mike Jano was the first donor
35:45
yeah oh he is that right it it I thought
35:47
he had cancer he cried more than me so
35:49
you know that's my that's my baby boy
35:51
but y'all got that history together
35:53
right like who put on who Mike Mike put
35:56
me on yeah Mike put me on I was in the
35:58
streets and Mike was rapping and then I
36:00
said Mike hold on I can do what you
36:01
doing uhuh and that's how all and that
36:04
was it that's how it started hey Coco
36:06
thank you uh we appreciate you okay you
36:08
family with us and you a citizen morning
36:11
okay that's Co one more shout out to
36:13
both sides of the violence because we
36:15
out here doing the work with gun
36:16
violence I just came back from a rally
36:19
so shout out to both sides of the vience
36:21
bsv in.org please support usad battle we
36:26
out here for violence that's out here so
36:28
thank y'all I love y'all family man I
36:29
got to come over for a holiday I know
36:31
y'all cooking good
36:33
grits we could cook I could tell
36:36
[ __ ] anybody named Coco could cook all
36:39
right you a citizen
36:40
Coco just have a Coco
36:43
name um that whole act can can you
36:48
humanize the uh uh where people could
36:51
either sympathize in some cases
36:53
empathize with the fact that you you
36:55
need help you need folks to change a
36:57
diaper like how did you
36:59
psychologically get through that it it
37:01
bothered me when I when I um it started
37:04
my my daughter my daughter she's 13 she
37:06
actually um she said Daddy come take me
37:08
out and eat and we went out eat and she
37:10
said Daddy um I know you feel like cuz
37:13
I'm the man of the house so I'm used to
37:15
I got to take care of everything so she
37:17
said you took care of us for so long let
37:19
us take care of you wow and that right
37:21
there was like I got it [ __ ] it yeah you
37:24
know baby wipe my ass
37:26
[Laughter]
37:28
I wiped
37:31
yours full circle good for the kid it's
37:34
good but yeah really yeah but it it it
37:37
it hurts it hurts not being dependent
37:38
for myself man but like like I used to
37:41
drive my kids to school every day which
37:43
I can't no more but I still get up and
37:44
get dressed and drive with my wife so I
37:46
still try to keep my same routines going
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to keep me going man but yeah this is
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this is one of the roughest battles in
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my life though yeah I believe in you
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though and um the fact that you these
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are victories it's like we add up the
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victories what are some of the things on
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your list to do we not going to talk
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like you I actually I I I reached out
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you know cuz I love music so like I
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reached out to Primo Primo where I beat
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at the your DJ Premiere okay we get you
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a Primo beat what other things he said
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and and I mean that that was it I just
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want to I just want to um you know even
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after I finished my album I just want to
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like go to schools and talk and just
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give people in my situation like go to
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cancer hospitals and just tell people
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it's it's it's it's more on your mind it
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a it ain't the sickness it's it's your
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mind once your mind go you go and I just
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want to tell people n don't let that
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happen still go out sometimes you can't
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drink can't smoke but go in the
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atmosphere look at it enjoy it don't sit
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home and watch it on TV and miss it be a
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part of it there it is royal flush man
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thank you brother I appreciate you
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coming up man thank you man you enjoy
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yourself here yeah okay good any okay
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anything you want to say in closing no
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no my wife said uh make sure you give me
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the $1,000 to put it in the go from me
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she said
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that
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she she said that okay okay well I'mma
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donate more let her know I'm it's all
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love brother it's all love man y'all
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make sure now get that project the Royal
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price show also get the sit down as well
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right yes yes down out yeah he got a
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couple projects out so let's support
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Royal Flush man it warmed my heart to
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have you on this show bro you part of so
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many memories for me and let's let's
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make some new ones thank you okay thank
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y'all for having me the whole world man
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Abol pleasure absolutely Royal Flush
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man
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