RexxLife Raj & N8's Bay Area Cipher: Raw Talent, Real Stories 🔥 FREESTYLE | SWAY’S UNIVERSE

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One of the illest emcees coming out of the bay, the new era of the bay
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When I tell you, man, this particular artist personifies where I feel the bay is at its best
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We've been having these conversations about sound and indistinguishable identities through the microphone, through production, through DJing, so on and so forth
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how radical differentiation is always important, especially with the Bay. The Bay comes with certain stigmas at times, not saying they're bad or if they're good
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but people have certain expectations when you say you're an artist from the Bay
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And so I constantly look for artists who defy those expectations and always go against the general consensus, the way people are thinking when it comes to the Bay Area
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because I know we're multifaceted, multi-talented people who all have different experiences
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and have different things to offer. You can see it in the history of our music
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When you listen to certain artists, certain rappers, Too Short does not sound like A-plus from Souls of Mischief, right
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Tony, Tony, Tony doesn't sound like Kalani. You know, Kamaya doesn't sound like someone else
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You know, so it's a lot of variety in the Bay. And I think this artist, Rex Life Raj, has done an excellent job in showing us who we can be at our best when it comes to creativity
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And he's here to celebrate his new project. And he brought a gang with him
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Yeah. He brought a gang from the bay. The new project is called California Poppy 3
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Give it up for my brother, Rex Life Raj. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. What up, man
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That's love, man. I appreciate you. You always be showing love, man. You really show love, like genuine love
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and I want to say I appreciate you for that. It's just like, bro, it's genuine. Like, I could text you and you'll respond and be like, it's good
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I was like, I want to have my brother come up and rap. He's like, man, make it a cypher. I said, I don't know if I'm going to make it a cypher
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but he got kicked some off. Always doing the most. Yo, I'm trying to make it bigger than it had to be
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Come on. Next time we'll really put it together, though. I'll put something crazy together
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Yeah, man, but that's your brother, brother? No, we came up together, though
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Okay, so you grew up in Richmond? Yeah. What part of Richmond? The Backstreet's
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The Backstreet's? Okay, break that down for those who don't know, who aren't from Richmond
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California, by the way. Yeah, Richmond, California, not Virginia. Okay. They were all Mike Muses, like, what does this have to do with the band
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I was like, how do you know me? But tell us about the band. Yeah, so that's just an area in South Richmond
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Okay, known for what? Known for producing talented people. My man. Say your name again
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Wantmore and eight. Wantmore and eight. Want more. I want more. N-8. N-8
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Yes. Like Nate. Nate. N-8, yeah. Oh, N-8. I thought it black got to sex
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Exactly. Okay, thank you, Tracy, for being his ventriloquist over here. Tracy does everything you say
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She knows what's going on. She knows. She knows. She knows what's going on. Okay, one more N-8
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Yeah, one more N-8. How many names you go through before you came up with that one
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Nah, that was the original. My name, Nate. That's what they called me, N-8. I put the one more in front of it, though, because it was like, I think it was Whippin
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Nene, or one of them songs, his name was N8. So I had to put the one more in front of it just so there won't be no confusion
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Okay. And then who are some of those early, like, who's out of Richmond, like, would you say
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are the standout artists that have come from Richmond? Jane Hancock. Jane Hancock
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My damn. Oh, I forgot to call Jane. Grand National. That's crazy. I forgot to call
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Oh, my gosh. I was supposed to tell Jane when I was. I was supposed to call Jane. That's when you would know
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Call her right now. Wait, turn Battle Cap mic over. What? What's that again? Come on, man
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You know Jane Jane Snoop put her You hear me Raphael Sadiq did that
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He introduced her to me And I got one order as well You feel me Jane Hancock
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You hear me By and by Come on Where did Locksmith from
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Locksmith from Richmond Don't There's not a doper rapper Than Locksmith Y'all better say his name
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Can I cuss on here? Yeah man go ahead You don't have the vocabulary not to
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Yeah he can Ain't nobody better than rap locksmith and he gonna rap i challenge anybody around the country to go up against locksmith
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we got a joint we just put one together i think it's for his upcoming project really and jay
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hancock on it why why do you think someone like well locksmith is making it you know he's doing
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his own thing when he does the the cab ride mc and then put out music the whole nine but
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certain people don't get that bae you know embracement and i feel like he was one yeah
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Why do you think that is? I don't know if it's just a bae thing, but I think it's when you purely like rapping, rapping like that
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sometimes it's a little harder in today's age, just where music is, you know what I'm saying
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And we are not as receptive to that as we used to be
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But I think when it comes to respect for him and his craft and what he's doing, he gets the most respect
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But I feel like from a consumer standpoint, just rapping like that is really harder to grow a fan base
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in my opinion. Is that something you consider when you've made your music
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Your music is really... All the time. That's why I be singing. That's why I was going to say you sing a lot on this project
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I be singing for real. Yeah, that's why I sing. To make money
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God damn it, give that man a round of applause for us. No, no, no. That was sarcasm
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That was halfway sarcasm. The honesty of it all. It was a little bit of sarcasm
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Was it sarcasm? but you know it's gonna the singing it's gonna open doors the it's mel in my mind melody is just
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like it's an easy way to slip the message into people's brains like they just people are more
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receptive to melody you know i'm saying because it's a feeling and then you could put the message
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in the melody but i feel like sometimes not everybody even me i don't want to be rapped to
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all the time like like i'd be kind of getting tired of just getting rapped at not even just
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like all kind of rap like i need you to at this point sing a little bit do some other shit like
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I just feel like it's kind of more to the game. Battlecat, that's still hip-hop
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Consider it all, you hear me? Yeah, right. Battlecat is legend. Real legend
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I got Battlecat. He ready to play beats for y'all, too, just to let you know. Don't mess this one up
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This also makes me think of Andre 3000, too, and the flute album and his metamorphosis
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Would you go so far out as to completely hit pause on rapping
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and do a whole other genre of a project? I would personally
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I respect that. I think that that's clean. I would like to do that
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I feel like if, you know, especially do like Andre or just artists who have different lanes
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it's a part of you that wants to express just that. You know what I'm saying? So I think it's clean when rappers do that
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I just don't feel like, because I try to look at a lot of things from the consumer standpoint
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Like that throws the consumer off. You know what I'm saying? If you rapping and you come pure flute
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we love you but where them bars at you know i'm saying but also for his spirit and what he's doing
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i completely understand it because you got to do it for yourself at the end of the day well rex with that being said and i have a question you want to be rapped at you want
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people to be more creative and the stylings of it but what about the lyrics and what they're
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rapping about do you want to see that changing in scope too as well or what are your thoughts on that
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man i'm kind of when it comes to me i come from the lineage of s rapping and saying shit
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You know what I'm saying? So it's really hard for me to listen to a rapper who's not saying nothing
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because it's like where you're not saying nothing. But at the same time, I feel like rap has evolved to a place where
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s are sliding and they might not be saying the craziest shit
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but the way in which they're saying it is so clean. It's undeniable
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Like how you think like a lot of s be like, oh, Detroit s are bae s rap off beat
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No, they're not rapping off beat. You just don't get it yet. He's in a pocket
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He's in actually a crazy pocket that you can't even fabricate. He in a three five
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Yeah he in a crazy pocket but people just look at it like he mumble rapping No the rawest s that you listening to one of my favorite artists right now is Vs I feel like V having a moment And like the way V raps there a tone to it that a melody
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but s don't listen to it like that. But he very much has a tone to it
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and his cadence in the pockets he's catching is crazy. And he talking shit
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But even if you don't hear what he's saying, the way he's sliding is like, to me, it's prolific
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It's evolving the way people rap, because we so used to like standard shit
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And I think that's for me why it's so hard to listen to music. if it sounds like other stuff
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It's like, bro, be creative. There's a million ways to say that line. You could sing it
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You could rap it. You could cut it up. You could do, you know what I'm saying? But people have been doing shit the same way
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So I like, you know, where the game is, personally. That's more about the..
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So the mechanics of it, yes, but it's more so about the subject matter. Tracy G kind of made me think about that
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because in that interview that Andre Dawson gave with GQ, he said that I'm getting older
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so I don't have anything to rap about in terms of subject matter. And so I'm just..
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He's like, nobody wants to hear an older person discuss going to see the doctor for checkups
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And so I'm just curious about subject matter. In that case, like that whole interview, I really liked that interview
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I did not agree with that when he said that. Because my thing is like, bro, you have life experiences
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Like how he, I love Andre so much that I refuse to let him like deduce himself down to like nobody want to hear me rap about a colonoscopy
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It's like, brother, you kind of want to hear that. I don't know if I want to hear that. Well, but so you ain't at the age where that might matter to you
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But to Mike's point. I can tell you. Whoa, whoa. Mike, whoa. Whoa, watch out. Okay
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But Mike, even to add to what he was saying, we had the big conversation with D1
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and he called out different older artists about the nature of their lyrics
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and that became a big to-do when he called out Meek, Ricky Rosé
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and Jim Jones and said, yeah, I could do better. Just to add on to Mike's question about that
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What do you think about that as we evolve and get older, the detriment to lyrics and what they mean and how they land by an artist
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I look at it a few different ways. I feel like I understand where D1 is coming from, especially if you're talking about kids and people who are very impressionable
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Yeah. Right? They're looking up to these artists, and they're taking in this. And you got to think s come from homes with no parents, no fathers, all this shit, and they're looking for role models
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And these are the role models they have. So from that perspective, I can understand, like, bro, be on your shit because it's kids looking up to you
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But from the grown perspective, going back to the consumer, I think a lot of it, when you become cognizant and conscious of what's going on, then you as a consumer need to make the choice
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Like, we not on that. You know, it becomes market. It's capitalism. As soon as we choose not to listen to that, then it's just not cool no more
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But it's still a market for that. People still listening. So it's like the consumer has chosen that
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You know what I'm saying? We want that because if we didn't want that, we wouldn't listen to it. You know what I'm saying
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And so I think sometimes it's the rapper's responsibility, but a lot of times, too, it's the consumer's responsibility
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When you become conscious of the game and the moving parts and what's going on and you still listening to it, how you blaming the rapper
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You know better. So what's the place of integrity in our culture then as an artist
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Because if you're pandering to an audience that wants a certain sound that does not cater to your own soul
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wouldn't that mean that you're sacrificing integrity for commerce? A hundred percent, but some s do
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Okay. Some s want to get some money. You got to think. It's people who have integrity and morals and move in a certain way, but some s want to get some money
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You know what I'm saying? This album, California Poppy 3, is it for the money or is it for the integrity
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It's for the both. Okay. So, you know, coming off the last project, I dropped a Blue Hour
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which is about, you know, my parents transitioning. In this project, I wanted to do something that just felt a little more fun
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a little more uplifting, because that album was so deep. And a lot of the cuts off California Poppy 3 were songs I did
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over the past couple years that I just really loved and never dropped. You know, it's a line that I won't cross when it comes to my music
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because I really with my music and I have integrity, like she was talking about. But this one is more fun
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getting the Blue Hour just because I felt like I needed that but also deserved it
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The song If They Told Me, is that one of the songs you recorded in the past? That was almost on the Blue Hour, yeah
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I could tell. You mentioned that you lost both of your parents in that
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but you got to keep going. This album feels inspirational to me
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Through that loss, did it help you find new purpose? Yeah, for sure
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It really made me understand, like we talked about last time, that a lot of people are grieving, and there's a void for that
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and people want to be spoke to in that capacity because they've had these feelings and all this shit in them for so long
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And when they come across art that can express the words that they can't say, they really stick to it
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And it was more people who were receptive to that than I thought. But then you think about it, bro, everybody done lost somebody
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You know what I'm saying? And when it comes to grief, grief hit the same
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whether it was yesterday, a year ago, 10 years ago. You know what I'm saying? So you got people, I had people come to the shows who had lost a parent 20 years ago
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15 years ago, lost their grandparent and was still like, man, your album getting me through
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You know what I'm saying? So for me, I felt like it was meant for me to do that album because I saw literally with my eyes how many people that album helped
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You know what I'm saying? California Poppy 3 featuring LaRusso. Many other folks are in it
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LaRusso. It's out right now. I want everybody to go to every DSP, support it, download it, do whatever you have to do
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Yeah, man, go on and buy that. You got a song called Hook Mitchell featuring Dame Dollar
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My boy, Dame. And Hook Mitchell is a Bay Area, and particularly Oakland basketball legend
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Right, right. Michael Jordan has spoke on Hook Mitchell and had to give him his props
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Had Hook Mitchell went to the NBA, he would have easily been Michael Jordan
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before Michael Jordan. Right. Right? Not that Michael Jordan wouldn't have became Michael Jordan
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Right. Hook was different. Yeah, Hook Mitchell. I was there. I was at Mosswood Park
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I wasn't there, but I seen it on YouTube. You were too young. You were too young
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Look up Hook Mitchell jumping over cars. You weren't all type of crazy. I saw it with my own eyes, bro, and it looked unreal
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How tall is Hook Mitchell in person? He wasn't that tall. Like, it's not that, like, well, six maybe
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5'11", I think. That's pretty wild. 5'11". Jumping over a car? I don't know
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I've stood up. I've seen Hook not too, well, maybe a year and a half ago
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Good guy. I want to say he played at Contra Costa College at one point
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You know, played a lot of street ball. But he was jumping over Volkswagens and dunking, Heather
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So what happened to his NBA career? He had a lot of challenges in the streets
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A lot of street challenges. The streets. You know, whatever comes with that, you can figure that out
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And just to double back a little bit, too, you mentioned an artist by the name of V's
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How could our audience look him up as well? Because I think it's love when artists like yourself show love to somebody else
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What's the artist V's? How can we find his information? Just look him up. V's. V-E-E-Z-E
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Okay. V-E-E-Z-E. He pretty poppin' right now. Dope. They gonna know what's going on
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Shout out to you, V's. Yo, V's, what's up, man? Look at the footage, Sway. We want to bring you up to the show, V's
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Absolutely. Rex Life Rods. Put that stamp on it, man. Come on through. Yeah, that's him
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And that was in the 80s. We're showing video of Hook Mitchell. So you got to
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Some of y'all, when y'all be sending me videos, it be pixelated like this
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Y'all need to upgrade y'all phones. Y'all need to get a new phone. But you got Dame Dollar on
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No, for real. Some people send me videos, low quality. Y'all need to get on Wi-Fi
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Okay. Wow. That's amazing. Wow. Hey, come back to your interview, Rex. Come back to your interview. That's great
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All right. We over here, Rex. Back to your interview. Stay in the moment
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I thought we were watching the video. You got lost, dog. We live on there. All right. You got Dame Dollar on this song with Hook Mitchell, right
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Yep. Yep. And I don't know if Dame ever got a chance to meet Hook, but the theme of this song is what
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Only difference between me and a lot of people was I kept going. Life got hard
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I still step forward. Let go of the shit I used to stress over. Hook Mitchell look at what I left over I had to walk in my greatness It about like to me a lot of it is about just keep going Because I feel like when people look at me especially my story who been following me for a while it becomes
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just like a story of preservation. Or just a story of continuing and
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pushing on, you know what I'm saying? And finding a way to keep going. So I feel
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like that song just really embodies, like, bro, you gonna go through shit, but the difference
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between the good and the great is that the great ones kept going. You know, some people followed it, but you
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gotta keep going. Gotta keep going, man. And you keep going. A new album is called
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California Poppy 3. The artist is Rex with two X's. Life, Raj
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R-A-J. He brought one more N8 with him today out of Richmond
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California. Now, have we met? I don't think so. Man, that's on you
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dog. I don't think so. You wouldn't forget. You wouldn't forget, Nate. Y'all like the in there, though
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Now we have, though. Now we have. Y'all like the in there. You got my family here, too
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Come on, baby. Yeah, it's my uncle right here. That's your uncle? Yeah
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Tell them how we're connected. It's crazy. So our family's connected through on my dad's side
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You feel me? My daddy named Levi, Levi Coleman. And it just, it's earlier this year, we ran into each other up in Emeryville
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At the hotel. And I said, yeah, we at the hotel. He coming off the elevator. I'm like, Sway, I've been telling everybody since I was in high school
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You my cousin. Everybody like, this way ain't your cousin. So then I tell you, I'm like, brother, my daddy, he like, what
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I started naming all our family members, and the rest is history. 56 months later, I'm over here with my nephew
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See that divine intervention? Okay. One more, Nate, that's one more reason
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You can't mess this one up today. I know. Okay, let's do this, man
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Rex Life Rogers here, man. You got some verses? You got some bars for us
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Come on. Hey, where did you think he was coming today, one more N8
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I knew I was coming to Sway. I knew I was coming to Sway. I know I have to be ready. Okay
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Did you know Battle Cat was going to be here? Nah, I ain't know Battle Cat was going to be here. Surprise
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Yeah, I ain't know that. Yo, Battle Cat, you got something for them? I ain't know Battle Cat
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Yeah, let's get into the middle already, man. Rex Life Rodge, one more N8
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You in that Sway in the morning? You in the Valley of the Hyena
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Hyena! Yeah! And that's when I had draw two and made them reverse
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The baby mama choosy cause the baby daddy boosy I'm off of RP but got kale in my smoothie
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Preteen to early 20s my life was a movie San Francisco that was running out of Louis
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Beeping out the stores, we was on the road I never streamed nobody music if they told
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Nowadays they'll make a snitch go gold I could go broke but I never sell my soul
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This play come natural, sometimes you gotta learn it My son already eating escargot and he a virgin
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I wake up, drink peppermint tea, go for a jog You stressed cause your registration doing need a smog
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In North London, Tottenham, I shoulda did a vlog Well you gotta be comfortable with the night for the pause
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Oak Cliff, Dallas, where they call the police laws Waste 32, but 27 in my drawers
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Grew up with a team when some person held a drug That split the clique and now you funkin' with the ones you love
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Holdin' on your boy casket with a white glove Shedin' tears at the cemetery, holdin' dub
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Judge, give you all day, he wanna see you rock Sitting on your bunk, about to stuff a lock in the stock
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Sell coke, the rollers try to rope you from a tree. So I sell coke, we making coke money off the weed
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California poppy, all flavors, no seeds. All legal, clean, get away, no leads
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Had honors classes, AP class, I'm not a dummy. A million ain't nothing if you can't manage money
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Know the time ticking, baby know I'm different. From real Richmond, California, I'm not tricking
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Grab boards, then we fast breaking, transition. Oh, I've got both ambitions
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Baby got a 450 before she sees the foreplay Know I run a tight program like the North A's
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R.P. Lil' Ab in my boy since the fourth grade Used to have to piece up on the T and split it four ways
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Always come in clutch since only the first gear On Mamas I probably rap 20 days out the year
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Well-rounded like 360 degrees in a sphere I told them people to science, I'm just trying to go clear
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Look, I'm really like a Garvia Lumumba I can make a revolutionary out of shooter
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I can birth a whole new nation like a doula Illuminate the whole congregation Hallelujah
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Oh man, one more and a One more and a Yo, hold up
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We got that Free tea, free mac Hey We got that Free to nine from my cousin
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We had that Uchi Wally beat up We got Big Horse right there From the Bravehearts
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Yes, sir Right there Come on That's his song You wanna make sure
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You don't mess that up Okay Yo, Rex Life Rods Representing the Bay
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Northern California Battle Cat on the ones And two What you gonna do for us Hey
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Look, ay, look, ay, I don't believe shit, , all of it's hype
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You can get poppin' with your thumb, just gotta log in and type Sometime the world gets dim when you walk in the light
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You catted off so much that you ain't got a dog in the fight Your manager's ass, the lawyer gives you awful advice
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So you ain't think twice about it when you got offered the life Guess losing pieces of yourself is just a part of the price
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Them little insecurities make you act larger than life Now the label got you pinned cause they upholdin' your image
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You at the bottom of the budget that you push to the limit If you don't own none of your shit, how's you standing on business
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I like large pens, but you done got too big for your britches. I'm overseas building bridges
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Been unique with intention. I grew and flourished in Berkeley. I planted seeds and the riches
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If I never wrote another line, it was written. They knew that from the beginning. Don't be so mad at the world,
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Make better decisions. Instead of chasing attention, you should have been chasing your vision. I'm playing stages out the country
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s just play the victim. You can have anything you want, brother. Just make the decision. All of my blessings ahead
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I keep the Bible that my mama wrote in next to the bed. Sometimes I read the words and I feel like I hear what she said
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When she was with us instead We used to picture everything, I never pictured her dead
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Sometimes I can't comprehend the shit I live through God, we need a blessing after all this shit we been through
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I do this shit for Carlito, I do this for Nindu The way the life got heavier on us from losing M2
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Shit happened fast Still kept it smooth as a Tessie when I tapped the gas
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But they don't play about me, bro, my s be at your ass Hey, save the game for a with a battle tag, huh
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I got some s with more weapons than a battle pass, huh? If they seen what's in my luggage, I get travel banned, huh
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I told them free Palestine, they got shadow banned, huh? You wanna be a rich man or a happy man
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Cause time's gone forever, I can make the money back again Imagine if you focused on your blessings instead of that shit you lacking in
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What's holding you back is the thought of being inadequate Look, it's affecting what your habits is
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You can't get all of the wins come with asterisks But I'd just rather be a star
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I put my life inside these lines, no wonder we the bar We all got vision, I just don't think s see as far
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Manifesting now my life wild as my ideas are The raw several out debate
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My easy call They try to keep it covered up This ain't Sharia law
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Now look at me At the top right where we belong You be writing sing-alongs
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I be writing freedom songs Look Hey this Spirit Airlines you get what you pay for
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We can't hear you flying first class To the Azores Look I made peace in times
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I should have started gang wars When s wanted your whole family did You was in Langmore
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If we judge by follower amounts You might have way more If we start comparing bank accounts
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Guess who's made more Look Real Berkeley California savior Cause I be speaking life when s just lead y'all to the graveyard
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I missed your call, I was getting head watching Braveheart I eat good, pretty women and make great art
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Look, I feel like future, this shit sensational Might take a spa day to Sonoma and go get facials
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Feeling still heavy as shoulder pads, all this weight on me I should be at peace for all the times my mama preyed on me
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This journey full of characters you meet going from A to Z Like s pushing 40 and still talking about some A.O.B
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It's A.O.B. until she there when all your s gone It's A.O.B. until she holds you when you feel alone
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It's A.O.B. until nobody else pick up your phone And all the baggage you land on her
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She can handle cause she's strong You bought that expensive ass fit Just to look tacky in it Hope they can strip you for your chain And then slap you with it Test no matter why I hopped in and did the dash You pay for your whip on Twirl I pay for my shit in cash You was on the scene I was somewhere just kicking back
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Manifesting everything I write on top of pen and pass. Gift of gab, huh? I can sell a verse and buy a purse
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to gift of gab. That's the least I can do cause she held me down when shit was bad. Still I been hitting they souls
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The shit that make the meat and grease just as lit as the shows. This ain't tangible. Can't be measured in numbers and polls
25:05
But if this where you s place your value, I suppose I channel the most high and help them get through the lows help them carry the load and know that they not alone
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it's mind over matter my boy i told you come on it's all about repetitions like doing drills on a
25:18
cone and i eat shuffle i hit the louis store and tell a baby pick a duffel i like your name but
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honestly bae you should pick a couple in every continent we hit let's be a different couple
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hold on hold up hold up pan wine in napa valley seeing the stars tasting differences between
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cabernets and pinot noirs california poppy my weed is legal we large s came a long way from
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Keepin' our tree in a jar. Facts. I used to seein' peas. Now, , please
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You gotta take a trip to Humble. Come pull up on me. Yeah, slight negotiation
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Get you what you need. Good with the communication. Wait before degrees. Look, back when I was sucka duckin' Billy Keys
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And Doggy High had the fire fries with the chili cheese. Hey, ever since then, I've been livin' dreams
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I done hoppin' off through Thailand and the Philippines. A'ight, this ain't Lake Merit water on your knees
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s hatin' on me. I'm all in Belize. Huh, me and Sway icy, frosty freeze
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going too crazy, you can't believe Sway in the morning, I got you morning
26:12
Yeah, now I'm freestylin' and I'm whilin' on the air One, two, what you gon' do when the G's come through
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Real brighty legend, real Richmond legend I'm a dog, but I'm not goin' fetchin
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Shout out Mark, and shout out to Hedgin' Oh my God, I just rhymed with Hedgin
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I'm a legend, it's not a legend Yeah, and I'm still reppin
26:35
I'm in your section. You in the intersection finna get hit. , this is GTA 5
26:47
Hey, Johnny, I told y'all I thought the glasses on. Somebody put on an MP3 for me
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I need to listen to that every morning. Come on, man. Hey. Hey, give it up for DJ Battle Cat on the beat
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Battle Cat. Battle Cat. Battle Cat. I told y'all I'd be singing
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Wow. Perfection. I told y'all I'd be singing. Hey, that was amazing, man
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Wow. I feel like I spit them bars. I'm tired. That's my pick for the year
27:18
You can have those. This duo, that's my pick for the year. Rex Life Rogers gave me his bars
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Sway, Sway Road. Go ahead, Tracy. Yeah, that is our pick of the year
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That's right here? Yes. for the performance that happened at Sway in the Morning
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freestyle, written, whatever. But you just serving us with your gifts like that
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Nate, Rex, thank you. Just love. What a way to close out the game. I'm doubling down
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This is my pick along with Tracy G's of the year. The best cypher that I have witnessed
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These two brothers came ready, prepared, a range of subjects, use words besides the N-word
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use more words than just the B-word, like talk more than just having sex and guns
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He talked about language. My dude mentioned doulas. Birth of a nation like I'm a doula
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My man's talking Sonoma and Faisal. I was like, what are we saying
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In his rhythm and mechanics, he flowed with the beat and gave him a detail. Battle Cat, who knew what type of beats to play for him and made him shine
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which was so good. I want to shout out Battle Cat. Battle Cat, one of the Raw's producers ever
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My favorite beat of all time, like I told him when we came in, is We Can Freak It. We Can Freak It
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That's my favorite beat of all time, bro. Come on, man. Hey, listen. Hey, what is an AOB
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All on the . Oh, AOB. Okay. All trying to be good
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Okay. All right. All right. All right. Okay. Yo, listen. And if you look at Rex Life Rides, one more in a
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and then we have MacArthur Mays come up here. Okay. Well, Ian Kelly and all those guys, and they end up smashing
28:53
and then we talking about Richmond, California, Locksmith. I'm trying to tell you the Bay Area isn't what you think
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Y'all not thinking big enough. You're not expanding in your mental perception of who we are
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We're not monolithic people in the Bay. We're really the rawest people
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The rawest people are coming from the Bay Area. Come on, man
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And y'all ain't even heard. Go listen to my music for real. Go listen to his music
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Because I told y'all I'd be singing too. Yeah, California Poppy 3. And I'll do that better than s too
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I got lined up. If they told me, I got Cleans and I got Hook Mitchell
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Which song do you want to end with? Hook Mitchell. Tom, we're going to end with Hook Mitchell
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I want to thank DJ Cassidy for coming by today. That was amazing. What a great show today
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DJ Cassidy, follow him. Look for the Pastor Mike series coming February 9th and 17th in North Carolina
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Greensboro on the 9th, and Houston, Texas on the 17th. My man, Battle Cat
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Man, Battle Cat just came up here. He stayed the whole time
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Just to hang out. What up? He's fresh off the Grammy Hip Hop 50
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You know, he's fresh off the Grammy Hip Hop 50 celebration. And this is my brother right here, man
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He's come up here. Anytime I'm asked, he's always been generous enough to show up
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Thank you, man. Salute to you. King Tech told me to send love to
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King Tech. King Tech, the legendary King Tech. Hey, my guy. Come on, man
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And DJ Revolution said to send love to you as well. That's all family right there
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That's all family brother One more N8 You got something man I like it
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You got it brother Come back up anytime When you got a project Okay What you got out
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Let him know I got some Oh matter of fact Grill Branzino Featuring Rex Life Rise Okay Alright
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Grill Branzino Grill Branzino Yeah That's your official choice See yeah that's my official choice
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When I'm at RH Depending on where I'm at Alright Alright Alright Branzino Okay
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As long as you ain't doing that tilapia Nah Okay. We've been bad
30:52
Still eating tilapia. Still eating tilapia. Don't go hug. Hell no. Let me fry
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If it's whole deep fry from soul food, throw it in San Rafael. I ain't going to lie. I ain't going to lie. Fry Friday with the eyes on it
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Hood, stop eating tilapia. Stop eating catfish. I'm big for real. Stop eating tilapia
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I'm just going to say it. Y'all go ahead and eat it if you want to. All right
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Rex Life Rod, you are truly a treasure. Oh, man. Thank you. You're a treasure to the culture, brother
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Thank you for having me. Absolutely. Thank you for having us. Appreciate y'all. Thank you. And I just want to shout out Rex Life Raj for even bringing me up here
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Nah, look. Like I told him when we talk about rapping in the Bay, I said, bro
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this is the platform you need to be on. You feel me? Like, you need to come up here and rap
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So I'm just happy he got to come up here and do his thing. You just got the invite back, too
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If I didn't say nothing, you wouldn't have got the invite back. Big Horse came in
31:38
Now, that's Horse from the Brave Horse from Uchiwali. And then Battle Cat just played that instrumental
31:44
How you think they did, bro? You know what? Happy 50th anniversary to hip hop
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Hip hop, we in a good place right now. You know what I mean? We in a bay. We've been in a bay, but you know what
31:52
We in a good place right now. We can kick back. These dudes got it. Pass the mic to these dudes, man
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They got it for real. They got it. I appreciate it. Big horse right there, man. He stood next to Nas, helped coordinate a lot of projects
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He's the visionary behind a lot of those projects. I see how much Nas want for the future
32:09
Yeah. What Nas talking about? My manager right there. No, because I have been listening to him for a long time
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That's why I asked. You should ask Horse how much he want for the future
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Get that horse feature. You get a horse feature. That's rare, brother. I might need that
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Good luck. Get that horse feature, man. But I want to thank you, brother. Tell people how they can reach you
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RexLifeRodge on everything. R-E-X-X-L-I-F-E-R-A-J. This is about California Poppy 3. Got some more stuff coming out
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Man, we're just living the dream. One more N8. One more N8
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N and the number eight. You spell out one? Want more. W-A-N-T-M-O-R-E-N-A
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Want more. One more. Yeah, I couldn't tell. All right, I'm at real sway across the board
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Tracy, I couldn't read you

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