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Recoechi Talks Community Building in Chicago, New music and Freestyle | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
May 24, 2023
Chicago's own Recoe, aka Recoechi, is making major moves in the music industry, teaming up with legendary music industry icon John Monopoly to bring his message to the masses. He recently stopped by Sway In The Morning to shed light on the struggles faced by his community, and how his music is bringing attention to the unspoken issues often swept under the rug.
As a true lyricist, Recoe raps with passion and purpose, using his gift to give hope to those affected by crime and poverty in his city. Don't miss out as he drops some unforgettable bars over classic Chicago beats - it's sure to give you chills!
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There's a young artist by way of Chicago, Tracy G
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That's right. Got a good friend of mine I've known for a long time, two decades at least
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told me about, he called me one day and he called me early, like months ago
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and said, hey, I got an artist that I feel like need to be on the platform
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that people need to know who he is, what he's done, and know his voice
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And he can spit. You know, that's what they always say to me. He got bars, you know, to make sure I take interest
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But I went and did my due diligence. It wasn't even necessary because the voice it came from was the legendary John Monopoly
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Give that man a big round of applause right there. That was the man that called me
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You're not familiar with him. He's responsible for some of your favorite artists' careers
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I met him managing my good friend GLC in Kanye West. Okay
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And this is early on before Ye became who he is. Right
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This is before Through the Wire. You got to have foresight. You got to have foresight
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And it's certain individuals in this business that have been able to really attach themselves to some really groundbreaking artists that no matter what they say, I'm always going to give it a shot
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DJ Drama and Don Canada are two of those individuals right there. Right. And John Monopoly is the other
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But what I found fascinating about this Chicago artist is that a lot of times when you think of Chicago artists, the headlines usually reflect something that's derogatory
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It's not even the artist's fault. Right. That's what the platforms choose to talk about. But if you listen to this man speak, that's what him him speaking at Healthy Hood Chicago, which was a nonprofit health community organization
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And they're dedicated to decreasing the life expectancy gap between affluent and black and brown communities. He was speaking that truth right there
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He was speaking that truth. And I want to welcome him to the show. Give it up for my man Rico Shy
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What up, Rico? Yeah. Welcome, welcome. Hey, what's up, Rico? How y'all doing
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You don't look like a Chicago dude, man. What do I look like? I look Caribbean
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Yeah, you look like... Yeah, I think it's the locks. It's the locks
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Yeah. I'm Puerto Rico. My dad, Puerto Rico. Oh, you're Puerto Rican? Yeah, I'm Puerto Rican and black
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Puerto Rican and black. My mama, the blackest queen on earth. God bless her, man
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Yeah, because you go to Puerto Rico, you see all different hues
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It's not just brown. It's not just light brown. It's not just that olive color
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You're going to see dark folks. It's different shades. Different shades. All of us want
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You ever go over to Puerto Rico? Never been. Okay, great. Wow. All right, that conversation ended right there
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No, because, you know, the way we came up, my family was kind of like separated
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We didn't know our Puerto Rican side of the family. Okay. We just started getting in cahoots with them like three years ago
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We've been doing them, but getting in cahoots with them just three years ago. So your family, how many people
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You grew up in Chicago? Yeah. Born and raised east side of Stoney Island, 7th Ward
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East side. Say that again. Stoney Island, 7th Ward. Okay. Make sure you got it correct
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In case I didn't catch. Why would we know that area? Because it's one of the main spots, like one of the main streets of Chicago, Stoney Island
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Okay. Yeah. All right. And what artists did you grow up around? So artists grew up around as in like I was connected with
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Just who was in that neighborhood? Oh, Common. Common from my neighborhood
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That's where Common's from? Yeah. Sheed! That's my dude, too, bro. You know, I'm showing off by calling him Sheed right there
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Where Kanye from is like over, like, it's literally down the street
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South Shore, Estonia Island, not that far apart. It's just right then and there, right? So how was your upbringing
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Because, you know, we done had everybody from Bibby to Dirk. You know, everybody's been on this show
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And they always, you know, paint a pretty tense picture. Yeah, so with me, I just keep it a bug with you
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I was involved in the streets, but it was a decision for me to, I want to heal my people
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So in order for the, like I work with kids too with a program through the Nation of Islam
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We work with children called Meals to Men. We go teach the kids basically the foundations and the principles of being a man
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We go to these schools. We just did a school last week where we speak to the shorties
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just trying to advocate to get them, just straighten their minds. But, you know, we ain't going there on no scared straight shit
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We going in there, like, truly trying to heal the children's mindset
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Like, I got a mentor of 15. I got a mentee of 15. He got 30 shot glocks with him
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Posting on Instagram. He feel like he don't need a job because he hit the dice game, you know
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But how I came up, I damn near came up like that. I was in school
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I had a 3.7 GPA. Damn. But let me tell you, I was a conflicted young dude
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Conflicted how? Conflicted how? The streets in Chicago is very easily to get into
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Then you got cliques, gangs. There's no organization. So, you know, the heads are gone
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So, everybody's insane GD, insane BPSC, and, you know, Black P-Stone Nation
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Everybody's insane. So, there's no leadership amongst us. So, when I was coming up, man, my OG and my pops, they did whatever they could to provide for us
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But it was like, for me, man, it wasn't enough. You know, you were a young dude
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You seen everybody come to school with ones on you. You know, so you take measures to your own hands
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I did things that I regret that I had to experience in order to get to where I'm at today to be able to see, man
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No, we as young black men need to be in the schools and in the community changing the mind
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Amen. Let's go, Rico. Okay. When was the turning point for you then
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Because you said you started off in the streets, and then now you've been heavily invested in the healing of our community
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Yeah, so I went to West Illinois University. I went for two semesters
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I had a 3.2 GPA, but I had to come home to work because my mom and I were struggling
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So I just worked at the post office for like the next five years. And that's when I say out there I got pinched for selling weed, basically
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To this day, the felony don't come off my record until June 14, 2023
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Wow. Yeah. So throughout the process, it was like, for me, I started a change when I came back home my first year of college
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And you get home, you're a college student, you're like, man, all these, you used to look around, all your homies, ain't nobody in school, ain't nobody in the streets
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All of us in the streets. But we all like, the bottom line is we men, we must be able to provide for ourselves
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Even though we 18, 19, we still think like, man, we like men. Right
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you know? But I would say, for me truly, that's what, I saw everybody
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not doing nothing. You know? So I'm like, alright, well, what can I apply what I know
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But at that time, I was unsure of myself too. I didn't know who I was as a man. I wasn't grounded
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I had no foundation. You're young as hell still. Yeah, I had no foundation. So it was like, I went through my whole
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I went through a whole process of discovering like, man, no, we gonna take, when I went to Western
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I won five open mic challenges. Wow. Like over seniors, juniors, stuff like that
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As a freshman. Wow. So when I came home, I'm like, man, I'm going to just use this rap
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Because even the guys that I was at school with, like, quote, unquote, beefing with and stuff like that
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Because West Illinois is just another project. It's just Chicago all over again
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So I came back home. I mean, when I was out, the people that was, like, opposed with me, they was, like, they respected my craft
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They respected that I got on the mic and I said what I said, the way I did my delivery, everything
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And that saw, like, these words could be power. You know, let's use this because I went to school originally to play baseball, but I sprained my MCL
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So the PWI show you that. You get injured, see you later
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Right. Deuces. See you. So that woke me up. That woke my spirit up
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I got to use this music. You know, I got to do something. I just I couldn I can do nothing So yeah I love it Rico Rico man Rico shy What is it that you tell now those 15 year olds that you mentor who think like you once thought that I have to man I got to get these ones
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I got to compete with those who have all these shiny things. How do you rewire them to let them know that there's really no real value in that to have that now at the risk
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So the thing is with this, as we all know as adults right now
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somebody could tell you something a hundred times, but until you experience it, that's when you probably don't learn
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until you experience it. So with that, I would say the most thing I tell them is that
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look, man, the streets is dead. the streets. The streets ain't shit
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We need to be rehabilitating the streets. So I tell them, instead of looking at one of the kids
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was like, man, I look around Chicago and there's just so many abandoned houses out here
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man, it just made me sad. He's 15, he's saying this. He's like, it just made
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me sad, like why they don't ever come take care of it? I'm like, man, because your people don't come back and buy the block
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up. They don't come back and rehabilitate. That's why. So in your mind, instead
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of you dreaming of having a car, dream of having this. Dream of having this and making this your property
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You know, because we wasn't taught that. We wasn't taught to see these things like that
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So one of the things I make sure of them is that they have, like, some
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way some source of getting legal money you know putting them through a course where you got to
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work to earn something because a lot of the times these shorties like like the one i mentioned he's
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15 he got two third i'll show you the picture of it before you leave um but he like this we we
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speaking right and we telling them about the importance of like just being a provider you know
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making sure that you could uh you ain't got to be in the streets basically you could work a job you
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got to apply yourself you truly got to apply yourself don't be afraid to apply yourself this
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dude pulls out $2,000 cash. He's 15. He had more in his pocket
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than you had. Man, I had like a good $500. And that's like a million
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to a 15-year-old. He pulled out $2,000. He's like, man, I just hit the dice game
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We're off the bat. I don't need no job. And that's the main dude. Once I rapped my verse
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his eyes went from this to looking dead at me. So, yeah
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I try to, like, I don't try to force him, you know, on that scary straight shit
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because they... It ain't going to work. They'll be defiant. Yeah. You got to receive that
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Yeah. And they love you when you connect with them, when you tell them your story
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Man, I got locked up. That's when they connect with you. That's when they connect. That's something that's relatable
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I love this. Rico is here, man. Now, Rico Shy, is that just because you're from Chicago
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Because I'm from Chicago. Nothing deep. It's hella Rico's in Chicago. So first and foremost, my mama, I used to think I never had Christmas gifts because she would
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spell my name R-E-C-O-E under the Christmas tree and I ain't think I had no gifts until she started telling me
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that's how she spelled it. But it's Hella Rico's in Chicago. Okay. You know, Rico Reckless
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I had names going the whole thing. I grew up on it. Uh-huh. These are all artists too
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Yeah. They like drill artists. Drill artists. So why you didn't take the drill route
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I mean, that seemed to be working for Chicago but it had its drawbacks
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obviously, you know. You experienced the college dropout days, right? Yeah. That's why. That's why
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That healing music needs to come back to surface. It's like the drill route is so watered down
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I know that Chicago is big on it. And, you know, the fact that we on a map right now is we got one of the biggest artists from our city representing us
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But the thing, the power is with that, it's like we got to be responsible with the frequencies we put out on wax
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You know, like you got to understand that your frequency going to make some shit shake, you know
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But, you know, Chicago was violent before the drill music, so you can't only blame the drill music
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But I didn't go the drill route because I started falling in love with Tupac
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Tupac is like an anchor for me, a foundation. Then I didn't even, like, bro, I didn't even start studying Kanye until I was like 16 in high school
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Like, you would think I would have came up on him. Nah. When I first picked up Tupac, I loved Tupac
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I loved, what's his name? I'm talking about what's his name Cole
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I loved Cole but you know I was like damn what's his name
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I love K-Dot yeah but I started coming up and I'm like
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you know at the time Chief Keefe was the hottest shit man Chief Keefe to this day
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biggest influence even on this show one of my favorite interviews with Chief Keefe
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love his music bro to this day you know even though it's drill it's what I grew up on
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I hold it close to my heart yeah but the thing is with that music
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it's like they can't even come to the city and perform, you know
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because they think you're going to cause a riot. They think you're going to do some outlandish shit
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So what I want to bring back to my city is healing, it's unity
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like be able to have a hip-hop festival where we all come out together and be under one umbrella, Rainbow Coralist and stuff
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Do you, like a lot of those artists, Chief Keefe, he's older now
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He's very successful. None of them live in the same places they used to live
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do you feel like they evolved as artists you know from those drill days
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and the conversation the messaging is becoming a little more evolved now
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yeah TK no matter what nobody say TK and Dirt advanced they craft to a T
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even Herb they masters of they craft you know and we grew up
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seeing how they started off like Dirt had this song it was my favorite song
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too many say they drilling well he was just spitting He wasn't even using auto-tune. Dirk would really rap, you know
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But now it's like he done figured out as an artist, okay, how do I get the masses, though
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It's like when you get in the industry, I guess that's what happens. We quote-unquote go commercial
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But it's like, you know, you just expand your crowd. But how do you keep the message pure
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This message is pure and commercial. So it's hidden like crazy. But, yeah, I would say, yeah, yeah, yeah
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You see the evolution in it. The evolution is crazy. Chief Keefe is a real—man, Chief Keefe got good songs
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Yeah. Yeah, man, I'm a big fan of Chief Keefe. I just I'm curious to what would it look like in Chicago now
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I mean, we lost a lot of lives, you know, that would link to rappers and songs
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And how is it now? So let me tell you, the underground scene is on the rise
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Dirty every day. Mother Nature. I said a whole lot of there's a whole lot of people I want to name
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Monty Jordan. So, you know, in Chicago, I'll put it to you this way
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It's real. How can I put it? whatever is hot, people just jock ride, dig ride
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whatever the case may be. But like the true power where, you know
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to go to AIDS and hip hop was to go to AIDS because of the knowledge that was being spread. That knowledge don't exist, but it exists in the underground
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You know what they trying to do with us, man? You know what I'm saying? No, speak that out
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Make sure I know what you're saying. What do you mean by that? So the industry is like at a point where they want to popularize
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popularize and monetize our trauma that's all they just want to monetize our trauma yeah um so
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they don't want to monetize our healing though okay they don't want to monetize our healing
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because if we they see us healing all together bro it's it's it's it's powering it so that's why
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it's like um that's that's how the chicago scene look right now it's a healing wave on its way up
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i'm a part of that wave i'm a part of healthy hood too yeah i'm part of that cadre you're part
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Okay, and that's why I bring that up because, you know, Taylor Bennett, Chance, his parents, that's my family
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I graduated with Taylor. You graduated? You went to school with Taylor? Oh, wow. What was he like
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I'm with Taylor right now. Man, when I first, because, you know, in high school, bro, he would be, man, the boy, we would be passing out Chance 10-day flyers
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He be like man let go downtown He was helping Chance back then promote his music You know But I would say this We would go downtown We would freestyle He was in school We would have the creative writing class together and everything
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But we would go down there. We would freestyle, you know, smoke all weed, whatever the case was
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But Taylor was always, that's my dog. He was a spiller. Like, high school, I ain't care
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But nobody was saying s cold. Yeah. Like, killing. Even when he came over and did the 10 Fingers of Death
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That's how I looked in high school. That's how he was in high school. He was like that. He's discovered himself on this show
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a lot you know what was how different was it his personality in high school um it wasn't really
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different he was always like just a cool little high mother he was just cool yeah he's just
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taylor taylor was all how can i put it taylor was like the the the boat rider he was the he was the
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captain of the boat he wanted to be that for everybody he had his little you know his little
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entourage stuff like that you know when i started going coming around him i was just like damn you
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know you spitting the same shit like i'm going through man i could i could rap too like you know
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and that's how it kind of that's how it kind of came about wow we talking with rico uh you can
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follow him at rico shy that's r-e-c-o-e-c-h-i get to know an artist that's talking about some
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healing yes you know we get a lot of artists come up here to talk about some killing and everybody
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light up that's the that's the duality of it yeah yeah yeah listen now let's talk about some
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healing talk to this artist 888-742-3345 he got the new single with nip say let's do it
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come on man i do it on my own if they try to sell me
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come on man i love it 888-742-3345 let's go to st louis jake on the line from st louis what up
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jay jay jay rise and shine yeah man what's up family i want to say shout out to you sway first
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off you know what i'm saying man between you and ll man man y'all doing big things for us man and
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this hip-hop entertainment just putting us on the map as far as like we are moguls get with us or get
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the gone like y'all doing it man and i gotta salute y'all on that you know what i'm saying you
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know ll's my hero so anytime somebody mentioned me with l i'm smiling the rest of the day go ahead
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man say what up to rico shy man he he he joining the group bro i listen i'm gonna tell you i came
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out on my lunch break just to smoke you know what i'm saying and i turn on the show and i'm sitting
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and smoking and then i'm like damn this brother man i heard the intelligence and intellect i mean
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just exuberant from you, bro. I mean, like, man, I don't with the youngsters
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Like, on some real shit here in my city, I don't with youngsters
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because I take s' heads off when you up. My thing is, though
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I'll with you, man. And that's real. That's real, man. I salute you, man
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I appreciate that, man. Rico feels safe. I'ma tell you, man, you gotta get them
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young brothers grace, bro. They been through a lot, man. You gotta get them grace, bro. You gotta meet them with love
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Don't meet them with that energy. That's all I'ma say. Try that out, Jake. Try that, man
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Just try that. Yeah. I mean, you know, St. Louis and Shire are, you know, quite a bit a lot
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You know what I'm saying? And the thing is, our youngsters, the problem with our youngsters that I have is that they appear to know everything
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They think that they know everything, which is nothing wrong with being knowledge
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You know, the thing is, is that you have to have correct knowledge. And that's where a lot of the youngsters' problems come in, that is that where are they getting their information
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from they getting it from each other and off the top of their head they ain't reading shit
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they ain't listening to shit they ain't remembering shit they just sitting up
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jake jake jake real up man that ain't every youngster right yeah hey but that's what yeah
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but well i understand what rico is saying we got to be present for that reason right you know what
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i mean sometimes just being present while people going through what they're going through and
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eventually they realize you're there they realize you're supporting them you know through thick and
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in, they might ask you the question. You can give them the proper information. But if you
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ain't there, you can't help them grow. That's right. You know, Jay, try that
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There you go. Get them with love, baby. You a super citizen, man. Buy that what Nip say. It's out now
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All right. There you go, man. Look at that. Look what you generating. That's you, Rico. Jay from Cleveland
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on the line. What up, Jay? Yo, wait, is this me? Yeah, that's you, Jay
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He got you up, baby. Thanks for your patience. Thanks for your patience. Thanks for your patience
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man i appreciate first of all i appreciate you guys putting me on the show but rico man
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that piano loop on that beat is crazy man this is just my quick review like i could write a whole
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freaking five paragraph essay about that shit because y'all know i'm a teacher so i've got
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my master's degree in education come on scholar i appreciate a young scholar like i've got young
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scholars over here we just started some bands at school and i've got a concert coming up on
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Tuesday for the kindergarteners and first graders. That's my appreciation Thursday. I mean, the
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good news Thursday. Peace to that. But yeah, I got a question for Rico real quick
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I mean, my favorite Chicago rapper is Twister. But also one real
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quick other thing. Big Punisher, man. Do you influence you at all
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Big Pun? Yeah. Man, I had a phase. I was working at the Post. I was 20
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I was listening to Big Pun. What's my favorite song? But I never stuck
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with it. I never stuck with Big Pun. That's crazy. You just said that
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I'm trying to even think of the word. Yeah, I don't even know what the song was called
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But I studied big porn when I was younger, but I never stuck with it. The rappers that stuck with me, I say I sound like them
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Who's the rappers that stuck with you? Who stuck with me? I'll tell you this
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Andre 3000, Lauryn Hill, Tupac for the show. Cole, KDZ, KDOT, Sid
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And s don't even know. Like, Hov is like, Hov is one of the main ones for me
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Yeah. Yeah. Those are the ones that stuck with me. What's next for you right now
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Hey, Jay, thanks for your call. You a citizen. I swear to the moment. What should people be looking out for with you
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So we about to get ready to start dropping our singles for the new project
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I'm going to put out my debut project. It's called Eastside Collections Value 1
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ESC. Yep. Eastside Collections Value 1 Flavors. so with this project, man
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it's my first debut project. I've been honing on for years just to release a project
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you know, just building, crafting, discovering myself as a man. So that's what they could be
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looking forward to. The project is powerful, so yeah. Flavors. How did you meet John Monopoly
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and decide, I want to work with this man? So the funny story with this
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I didn't meet John Monopoly. I spoke to him at two in the morning on the call
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DJ L called me and I stopped answering the phone for DJ L. He know
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I stopped answering the phone because every time he called me, it'd be about some cap. Just be capping
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So he called me one morning. I mean, at like two in the morning, I'm like
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I'm letting it go to voicemail. I'm like, I ain't trying to talk. He's about to cap
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And he hit me. He texted me, man. Get on the phone for real, bro. I got something
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I pick up the phone. He like, man, I know, bro, what we been going through, man
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But look, I got John Monopoly on the other line. I'm like, , you lying
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I'm like, you're lying. Because I know John Monopoly and his history. So I'm like, , you lying
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You know He Nah I'm not lying I ain't lying man We off the bed I'm about to switch you over
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We about to do that Switch me over And that's what happened
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That's what happened He said It wasn't Nipsey Florida We got on the phone He's like man
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I love your music I love your talent bro I want to just make
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What you got bigger And that's what he said And that what he does Look at that Hey hey That a monopoly Come on man And this is the beginning for you brother I love what you doing I love what you stand for
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Yes. I love your messaging. You know, I got a chance to actually do some research on you prior to you coming here
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It's very consistent. Thank you. You know, stay the path, man. You're always going to have platforms like ours, brother
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Keep that healing going. Don't be afraid to say it. Come on. Don't be afraid to say it
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Talk about it the whole night. Don't be afraid to say to some of those folks who ain't got there yet
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You know what I mean? Because they got influence. They got platforms. They got reach
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So I believe in you, man. So give that man a round of applause. Wait, wait, hold up
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Cut those applause. One more thing? One more thing. What that is
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Where did John tell you you was coming this morning? He said I was coming to Sway Universe, man
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The Valley of the Hyena! Drop that beat on him. Come on
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I know you got bars. Chicago, stand up. Citizens, call in. See if you like these bars
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Rico Shy. Turn that music up a little more, Torch. Yeah. Got no place to run
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Well, you know these schools giving us shorty charity crumbs. s hype about what's on our dog
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I'm trying to flick thumbs. I mean, they getting so much money that I could bury these funds
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And riding through hoods in the coupe producing charity funds. Not by intrigue, by lifestyle, from parody slums
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Bring a lifestyle to the bar fights, spit a pair of these guns Now my lifestyle took a hard ride, I'm preparing this time
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Cause everybody had they chances, everybody made decisions Nobody told to make incisions, just to widen short these visions
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And produce this cut of life and get them something worth a living Not only to these streets, my s dying on prescriptions
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They find it in the child, that shit had died off in they system From days of running wild to fertile, not a system
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They see no future of no spherical ball made out of crystal But I'm sure the cure to whisper, when you down the queue to sit in like that
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Let me get another one, Sway. Come on, come on, man. Come on. Rico Shine
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I like it. Okay, everybody got a good first verse, though. Nice
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How many people got multiple verses? Come on. Let's take them to Chicago right now
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Come on, Chicago. Stand up. Yo, G, what up? Come on. Sway in the morning
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Shit ain't all good, but shit all good. From the low end to the hundred shit, we all hood
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This song black and ice with one tap and dropping fragments. Now this the godly song back with me now
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Say the madness Beat selection foul We local now Think global status But dream about this shit
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Our whole life We forever practiced This that lake so dry Son out AC wood smoke
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Smoking on the sweetest berry pie You wish you could smoke Let this music play
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No berry white flow Cali Gulf Coast Maybe we gon' touch pad No my rough draft Say he wrote those
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Sweetness is my weakness First my last my everything Ain't no shit for me at night
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It's like I'm sleep in bed in jeans We black ones bind together Like we in bed in jeans
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They sent 12 in a flash To compare our dungarees Back then if God would've told me
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Now I still be chasing dreams. Would have followed up behind my cousin in traffic for the screen
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Instead of atomic, Oklahoma bomb or your regime. Somebody got to expose him
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Area 51 a thing. When you see me, you see God. That more valuable than bling
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What I speak on, make me dollars. Know it's value in this thing. My . Let me get another one
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Hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up. You want another one
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Three's a charm. Round three. Let's get it. Rico Shy. Sway the morning
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Shade for five. We got a true MC up here. Beat number three
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Let's go I'ma catch it I'm having fun up here You having fun up here
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ESC, Hustle P Another chapter of my life A turned 26 in summertime to get my slice
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Gonna equate to a cake I couldn't wait to use my knife These turn twisters like flick a blade
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I'm like skin Wesley Snipes I done hit the conscious Christ I done toyed some older s
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And I ain't even scratched the surface The difference between me and them I spit this hill with purpose
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With a urgency, I'm sunning, space be occupied with burners Spit a furnace, who's bump desire's burnin
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ESC, we talk of the town These women see me now, they smile, they get me upside down frown
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Where I'm from at 21, these murders, spite the rape We concentrate, these shorties ain't got no programming
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So they choice to smoke their life away So we adapt to ride a dirty light chameleon
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Contept with smoke in every strand, but never touch the million What the you think I spit it for? I spit it for these children
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And we master shag right instincts, so it's hard to master healing I remember robbing s while my cousin told me dealing
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Right now my dead, so this ain't considered squilling, Yeah, uh, a kaleidoscope of changes
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So many different phases, es straight out bridging basement Like Robin Hood without the cape, it don't take much to be a hero
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The black toes in Neo, I'm trying to tell him I'm the one sway We got a hyena up in the air with the hyena Hyena
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What you think of that, DB? What you think of that, DB? I wasn't even ready to be doing Five Fingers today
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I was just like, I was letting the beat play I'm like, da-da-da-da-da, just wait for him to finish up
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And he's like, give me another one. Every verse was fire. Thanks
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I know this is going to scare y'all. This is what I want. Every verse is fire
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I know it's going to scare a lot of people, and I'm going to rub you the wrong way with this
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But he didn't have to do 10 takes because he came prepared
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Let him know. He didn't have to do it over because he came prepared
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He's dedicated and committed to his craft. He did not have to do it over ten times because he came prepared
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It's too early, Sway. Okay? We are a live radio show. And he came prepared
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Rico Shy. Yes. Rico Shy. Yes. The one. Woo! Healthy hood. He's ready
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Come on, man. You whack rappers. I'm still on your neck. Tell him
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I know you ain't heard this in a long time. I got to get motivated. Come on. You so whack
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Come on. Don't come up here. I don't care if I don't get another freestyle if you're whack
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Come on. But if you got what it takes, you committed to your craft, come on up
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We got the arena for you. The Valley of the Hyena. Hyena. Hyena
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I got it here. Thank you, man. You give me permission to talk my shit
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Thank you. You know I done seen them all. Man, I been dreaming this, bro. You just a dream
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I swear to God. I swear to God. I swear to God. On my cousin. On my cousin
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On my cousin. Come on, man. We got to give it to you, but you brought it to us. Come on
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All right. Thank you. And listen, let that be a lesson to those you mentor
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Yeah. You know what I mean? You manifested this dream. You did that
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Every motion you made, every move you made, put you on that right path to come here and be with us like this
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Testimony. Come on, we hugged in the hallway, homie. Was that in the dream too
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I felt that. Sway, I love Sway, bro. For real. Sway the truest
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I don't care what nobody say. Sway is the truest, period. I love you for that, brother
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No in between. Thank you, brother. You don't get no more pure than Sway. Thank you, brother. I appreciate you, man
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And you help keep me pure, okay? Shout out to John Monopoly
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I appreciate you, brother. Keep going, man. Can I do a shout out right here? Can I do some shout outs
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I want to shout out my mama. Mama, are you watching this interview? I'm shout out my dad, my sister
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What up, Aza? What up, Mariah? What up, Mondo? What up? What up, everybody
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You know, Healthy Hood, Dirty Everyday, Soul Money, The Great Thinkers, everybody, man
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Tribe House Chicago. Jamil Come on Jalil Jalil Okay Jalil The manager that's been with me
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From the start Since I was 19 Jalil Him right here That's solid
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Thank you John Rapper Jalil Everybody Houdini Jalil Like Houdini The rapper Jalil Yeah Okay Yeah Keith
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What up Hey everybody bro This is a dream Everybody know I'm finna get home
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To a lot of hugs There you go man That's what's up Healthy hood I love it healthy hood
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Keep doing what y'all doing man Rico Shy Representing that Shy Man let's play
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Let's play what Nip say one more time, and then we're going to come back with Lecrae
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Lecrae is in the building, so you know what that means. Good to have you on the show, Rico
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Thank you, sir. Thank you. God bless you, brother. Oh, yeah. Stay the path
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