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Rap Dads Hits 1M Views: Hip-Hop Fathers Share Real Talk š„ | SWAYāS UNIVERSE
Dec 27, 2024
Rap Dads hits 1M views! š„ Hip-hop fathers Esteban Serrano and Sway Calloway celebrate this milestone on Sway In The Morning. They discuss the show's journey, impactful interviews, and the importance of showcasing fatherhood in hip-hop.
Highlights include partnerships with Rolling Loud, viral clips featuring Albee Al, and insights from NLE Choppa on teenage fatherhood. Esteban also talks about his book "The 10 Dad Commandments" and plans for a curriculum for young fathers.
Don't miss this powerful conversation about fatherhood, emotional intelligence, and the impact of positive parenting in the hip-hop community. Watch now to hear real talk from rap dads making a difference.
#communitysupport #youthmentorship #howtoimprovementalhealth #emotionalattunement #mentalhealth
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
01:42 - The Rap Dadās Show
10:35 - Tyrie - Community Reclamation
13:58 - The Rap Dad Show All-Star Weekend Event
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[Applause]
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you were here when the mission
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started when it came AB above the
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surface this has been a plan and action
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for quite some time by a very brilliant
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mind a Visionary I dare say he and I
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have worked together for decades
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creating and telling stories and ways
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that they've never been told and when he
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first had this brainchild and brought it
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um to me mentioned it to me I said
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listen I got to be a part of this I
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don't know how but I'm piggybacking on
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this and he invited me to be join him
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and be an EP on this rap dad's show that
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we do now and from his beginning and
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then also um his amazing wife is also a
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partner with us on this so she truly is
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the boss you know but they we just use
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my name and brand to see what we can get
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in but she cat she makes all the
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decisions but I just want to say to you
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and your family you got amazing family
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your sons everybody are creative people
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I want to say congratulations when this
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started you know we used to kind of
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hagger over damn are anybody going to
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watch this you know how many views did
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it get and I I used to always say it
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ain't about that it's about laying the
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foundation and the views will soon come
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and since then some of the clips that
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you have done some of the interviews you
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have done have gotten over a million
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views yes thank God come on this is less
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than a year yes talk about it come on
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some of the other Clips you got people
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uh Z Sama yes you know we got a lot of
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young men who we don't get a chance to
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hear them speak about being a father and
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the challenges of that and how that's
1:35
changed them made them better people we
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don't you won't hear these kind of
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conversations but you do now on rap dads
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I want to welcome my man es Bon Serrano
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he's back man part rap
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Dad we love rap dad yo man we I we just
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wanted to make sure we ended the year
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the way we started it the 10 dad
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Commandments bestseller in the hood
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that's right all right this is the book
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right here fatherhood through the lens
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of Hip Hop written by eston Serrano this
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is a great gift for the holidays it is
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it's a lot of new fathers out there I'm
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glad you mentioned that if you go to the
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rapad show.com for the rest of the year
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the 10 dad Commandments is $10 oh wow
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perfect so where to go it the the rapad
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show.com plural dads the rap dads show
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all the te's are 20 bucks and the book
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is just $10 for the rest of the and if
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they want to listen to the podcast if
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you want to listen to the podcast we're
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on every single platform search the rap
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dads show we're also on YouTube you can
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see the visual version of it on YouTube
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same thing just search the rap dad show
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man um we we're talking about our
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highlights of the year what what's been
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the rap dad's highlight for you oh my
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God man you know every year around this
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time I start writing my vision for the
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the next year and um high on my rap
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dad's uh bucket list for 2024 for was a
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partnership and we we partnered with
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Roland La March that's right you know
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and we got nle Chopper we got zo AMA you
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know we got some of the the guests that
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were on the bill that will be on the
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bill um coming up um in the Miami
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rolling loud as well that was a
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highlight that didn't take long to to
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execute um yeah that was one of them I
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mean another one was you know hitting a
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million uh views on one clip you know
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amazing in in 28 days I feel I think it
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was we hit a million views on a a clip
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we did with Albi Al where he's talking
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about um holding space for his
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co-partner um his co-parent rather to
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have a bad day and not only that what he
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said was you know his daughter got in
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the car was like you know me and your
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mom just got into a fight I know she's
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fighting something that's not me MH um
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and I'm going to give her space but
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don't think that this is your
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opportunity to try to come between us
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and I'm like whoo like you know like
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that was just just the the and then you
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know later on you know he tells later on
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that she came back to him and said you
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know I apologize you know whatever he's
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like yo whatever you're fighting let's
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fight it together mhm that requires a
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lot of emotional intelligence come on
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how old was a kid um I think she was a
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teenager early teens that's important
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because that shows someone how to deal
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with emotions M right and how to process
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right and how it's not about you but
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what the other person is dealing with
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right and giving them a moment to
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process and to see that at such a young
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age to understand conflict resolution
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conflict Dynamics yes the maturity
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aspect of it that's really powerful yeah
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man we those examples we don't see those
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examples often yes but you do on rap
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dance definitely I made sure that even
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when we were in the moment I was like
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I'm clipping this out yeah and I'm
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sharing it because these are the types
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of conversations that I want to see well
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look you got people on the line right
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now anybody who calls to say anything
5:03
you have to buy the book Kev you got the
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book yeah Kev you and Charlotte you got
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the book hey Kev yeah yeah yeah I
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already got the book what's up y'all
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okay good all right say what's up we got
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the author right here say what's up to
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him hey what's going on Mr Sano how you
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doing what's going on good morning good
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morning brother how are you um what do
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you I'm good I'm well I'm well what do
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what do you think of the book has it
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been useful for you man hell yeah it has
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and you know what I'm not even finished
5:34
with it and I don't even feel bad saying
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that CU I didn't want to rush through it
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okay you know what I mean um being a
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parent is a lifetime and I kind of like
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you know kind of pace myself with it you
5:44
know I kind of refer to it when I feel
5:46
like it but I haven't finished it but
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like I say I definitely read it in
5:50
spurts and I apply it to being a parent
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and like I say a person so yeah wow
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that's amazing man uh we appreciate your
5:57
support man and you have you seen the
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interview what's one of your favorite
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interviews um I haven't really seen the
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interviews but I listen to you sway as
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far as promoting it and like I know I
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know yall have the archives up so I can
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definitely refer to it and it's on all
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platforms so I can get to it that's my
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bad but I do have access to it so I will
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do that okay and then do me a favor
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follow the rap D show on Instagram I
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need all the citizens already do that
6:21
already got so you'll be able to see
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Clips there Kev anything you want to say
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to
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estabon yeah if I could just real quick
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as I said I do have the book and real
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quick I want to refer to something that
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you do have in the book it's called
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being a ride or die dad and we always
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think of that as as adults like being a
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ride you know ride a die person but we
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got to think about as being being that
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as a parent also and the way I've
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applied that to my children is meeting
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them where they
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are you know what I mean meeting them
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where they are my daughter um you know
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girly girl nails and all of that and
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before I had her it was just like you
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know you know that's going to be the
6:55
mama thing that's going to be the mama
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thing let the mama do that but I met
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daughter where she is and she just told
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me the other day Dad you're cool and I
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that just made my day you know she said
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that on her own and that just made me
7:08
smile and the way she looked at me just
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just just made me feel like I
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accomplished something with her and she
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just said it flat out you're cool and I
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was like okay yeah man very gratifying
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it ain't nothing like your daughter
7:20
telling you you cool right that means
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it's true yeah man that's a fact they
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don't they don't off I appreciate it all
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right man Kev we appreciate your call
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brother your support man make make sure
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you follow the Instagram you're super
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citizen all right P Yonkers hey P P how
7:39
you doing Fam I'm blessed I'm blessed
7:41
I'm blessed man heading down to the
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heading back to the crib right now
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that's what's Florida how y'all holding
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up over there yo we are beautiful man
7:48
frequency Fridays it ain't cold we hot
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up in here kid you know what I mean yeah
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so do you have the
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book not yet I will be getting it though
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Dead series GNA be getting it because as
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a as a dad I'm I'm transitioning to the
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to the level I'm about to have a
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teenager yeah like two years so and I
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she's a beautiful little young lady man
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like this year I just happen to really
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look at her as her becoming a teenager
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and it kind of messed me up man because
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now I'm over here with the mind frame
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like man I might have to put hands on
8:23
little boys and all that man like I'm
8:26
there now so but I thank God have a
8:29
really good foundation in Parenthood man
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like I had one of the ill my father's
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one of the illest people in the world
8:36
man for real like man shout out to my
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dad I'm I'm I'm a fourth generation he's
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the third and my dad raised me on
8:45
hip-hop principles you know one thing I
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I remember as a kid when well as a as as
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a young adult I wasn't a grown man yet I
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was just a young adult my Dad pulled me
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to the side put me to the backyard I
9:01
never forget this conversation he played
9:04
krs1 once and needs once in needs okay
9:08
wow once in needs uhhuh and we had the
9:11
one of the realest conversations about
9:13
just how to handle things and how to
9:16
approach things and I it stuck with me
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he always did things like that like yeah
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even when I was a kid he'll play um he
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helped me use the back he helped me
9:27
potty train off of
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um d g it Biz
9:33
Marys sitting
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onet for BS to move I got a
9:39
do that's crazy yo your pop is like
9:42
official rap dad that's a rap dad caps
9:46
rap Dad wow what's your pop's
9:49
name pum bur thei wow man listen Vernon
9:54
third and fourth like he's from the same
9:57
from money really from money earning
9:59
that's that but no my dad is really from
10:02
that block of money earning M
10:05
ver I love how you represent honor your
10:07
father man that's what this whole
10:09
movement with rap dads is all about
10:11
fatherhood through the lens of hip hop
10:13
right and that's exactly what your
10:15
father did you know I think it's
10:18
imperative that you follow the rap dad's
10:20
Instagram pill yep and and that and get
10:23
the book and get the book okay we got a
10:25
deal I'm getting the book today okay
10:27
cool man you a super citizen
10:31
hey this is beautiful let me do one more
10:33
we got Tyrie in New York go ahead Tyrie
10:35
hey Tai Tai what's up hey What's Going
10:38
what's going on y'all hey man long long
10:41
time long time listening long time
10:43
listening hardly get hardly get a chance
10:45
to call in but I'm calling because eson
10:47
man you uh kind of motivated me to
10:49
continue with my program called shelter
10:51
The Rock reclaiming our community taking
10:53
care of young teenage fathers new
10:55
fathers and trying to get them homes
10:56
that they needed getting them the
10:58
resources they
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l a lot of here fors but not many for
11:03
theads especially and I was aen father
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my two oldest kids one is in college
11:09
just bought a house and one is just
11:11
finished the Navy so and I use hip hop
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I've been a rapper since I I can
11:16
remember I did a lot of underground
11:18
stuff and I've been using that to kind
11:20
of like connect with the kids do little
11:21
block do little soap box shows on the
11:23
Block and that's how I get their their
11:25
attention and from there I get I get a
11:27
message to him like look it's more just
11:29
what you see in this
11:31
city don't get stuck here thinking that
11:33
this is where you left and don't get
11:35
stuck thinking like nobody really care
11:36
about you especially with these children
11:38
and being a young father I love that
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listen you you just hit something please
11:42
DM the rap that show um and let's
11:45
connect offline um my goal for 2025 I'm
11:49
actually working on this right now with
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with with my brother Ace Clark is to
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create a curriculum based on the 10 dad
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Commandments for teenage fathers and and
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make that available
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um yeah man growing up I had a brother
12:02
Pedro who was um who lived with me had a
12:05
son in 10th Grade and my my brother
12:07
myself and my my nephew would go to
12:10
school to high school together cuz my
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high school had a uh daycare built in to
12:15
keep the the dropout rate low um so yeah
12:18
man like you know Young Fathers Andie
12:20
Chopper talks about his uh Teenage
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fatherhood Journey um Albi Al also talks
12:25
about it um on the rap I saw Nel Chopper
12:28
video I saw that interview chop yeah man
12:30
we got to equip thank you for your work
12:31
but we got to equip these these young
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men um you know for for the road ahead
12:36
and that's going to have a huge lasting
12:38
impact on our community for sure let's
12:40
do this fact I I really think it's just
12:42
showing them something different than
12:44
what they see online and right in front
12:45
of them the world is huge and a lot of
12:48
them only see see it as big as they City
12:50
there you go I try to show them I try to
12:52
show them that this this world is huge
12:54
bro there's so many opportunities out
12:55
there for you to succeed whether you
12:57
want to be rich or you just want to be
12:58
known for something Tyreek we appreciate
13:01
you man you are officially a rap dad
13:03
abely in a
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citizen n Chopper when I had my child I
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was I was on a verge of um not want to
13:11
really live and once I found out I had a
13:14
daughter on the way I said damn I got
13:17
something to live for right like I got
13:19
something that I can't just check out
13:21
right now for I got something that I got
13:24
to stand stand firm beside God came
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perfect timing with it I was in the
13:28
lowest point point of my life and I
13:30
never went back there and I started
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changing my life went veg cutting people
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off started taking all the right
13:38
measures to create the space where I
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want to raise my child in that's amazing
13:43
and now we doing it that's
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17 hell yeah I needed it that bad I
13:49
needed it that bad God sent it God know
13:52
he doing nle Chopper go to the rap dad
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show on Instagram on YouTube right
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imperative and we got a big event we're
14:01
planning for Allstar Weekend in the Bay
14:04
Area home you want to talk about that a
14:06
little yeah yeah let's talk about it man
14:08
we're going to we're putting together a
14:10
uh live podcast first ever rapad live
14:13
pod we're partnering with uh pure fuel
14:16
blackowned sports drink company um they
14:19
saw the vision early and you know
14:21
started communicating with us and
14:23
they're doing an amazing amazing job in
14:25
the community uh so yeah we're
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partnering with pure fuel you know looks
14:29
like we're having it at Ken folk K folk
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in Oakland K folk I love K folk I love
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kolk too that's my guy yeah aaton de Ami
14:39
and we're partner up with him um at Ken
14:41
folk and um shout out to Katon Davis
14:43
what's up you knowon kon's in town right
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now yeah he is yep so Kayon and um and
14:49
and Aon dades are you know family
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so and uh I'm Affiliated so uh with Ken
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folks so that's um that's amazing bro
15:00
congratulations my brother we've been
15:02
doing this for years and we don't lose
15:05
it's been amazing because the intention
15:08
has always been pure thank you all right
15:10
we appreciate what you do for this
15:11
community CAD thank you for tolerating
15:13
us all right the all right that's T if
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they want to read you uh hit me up the
15:18
rap Das show um the rap Das show.com hit
15:21
me in the DMs I live in the DMS there
15:23
talking to you know all the rap dads
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shout out to the rap moms as well I get
15:27
we got a lot of love and support from
15:30
from the rap moms out there um you know
15:32
shout out uh Charles and LEL our
15:35
partners in out in La shout out to Big
15:37
Bear and Jeff for all of their love and
15:39
support um yeah and shout out to the
15:42
queen cat um you know the OG rap mom the
15:45
OG rap Mom right there and the rap kids
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got big kids too man all right okay
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thank you
15:52
man es love you brother