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because of the music he makes or the
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screens that he blessed or the stages
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that he rips apart because of his heart
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and his spirit he's been solid since day
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one hp i used to go to watch his
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showcases before people even knew him
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from the big screen or before people
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even knew him from having 41 million
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streams on a particular song i was there
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way before that db talk tell him what we
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talking about db who we talking about
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man we're talking about a friend of the
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show he's been on several times he even
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performed at our south by southwest
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takeover back in 2016 he did the song
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lotto he's been on the show plenty of
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times he's a citizen a long time citizen
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you might have seen him on favorite sun
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on bet plus you probably saw me coming
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to america the sequel you definitely saw
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him in power i mean the guy is a
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multi-talented artist and he's got his
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new album all or nothing out today and
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it's funny because we just talked about
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candy man and there's a song on his new
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album called say my name but he's here
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with us today here he is ro timmy
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[Applause]
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[Laughter]
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hey man listen man it's good to hear
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your voice i i apologize i couldn't make
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the listening i could break that down
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for you another time but i'm really
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happy about the project you created and
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and just to have you on the show how's
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life bro timmy how's life oh
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life is beautiful big brother life is
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just amazing
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you know it's it's coming together man
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it's all all
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all leading the same way in every aspect
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of my life man and i'm so blessed
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brother i'm so blessed man what do you
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think was the
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the key thread to bring it all together
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what happened in your life that you
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think helped the mesh
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happen in such a positive way
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i think it was just actually sitting
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still and just letting life just be life
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man like the pandemic i was able to just
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bond with my fiance
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make the music i wanted to make
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not have any type of distractions
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it was just a beautiful time that just
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like elevated everything even
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spiritually even grow even more as a man
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uh it was just everything that
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happened simultaneously and and
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the product of all of that is the album
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man the product of all it has um
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man yeah let's do something happy hb
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i love it i'm happy for him and listen
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he mentioned spirituality and mentioned
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you know like sitting down with that
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person that you can trust and is trusted
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in your corner your help mate and just
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having that
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having that union together and growing
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and taking care of your garden together
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i think it's a beautiful thing i'm happy
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for you shoot congratulations bro
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i appreciate it that's amazing
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yeah but
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is everybody happy though because
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you know you get engaged and and now you
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know you different men living a
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different life what what what happens to
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mr butterscotch man what what happens
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like it's butterscotch
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but mr butterscotch is a hater mr
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butterscotch is in the street rotimi is
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not in the streets you know what i'm
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saying
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so it's like
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it's like
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it's like a duality there like you know
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but butterscotch is is
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butterscotch has lived a lot of lives
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and he finally said you know what timmy
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it's time for you to live yours you know
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and so i i'm doing that now big bro
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tell me um
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how this works for you you know power
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obviously the the powers
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have so many different extensions
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um to it uh and now that
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your extension to it your version of it
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is on high i don't even know what's the
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status of power for you oh no drake
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drake got burnt up for your boy
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jj got burned up
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yeah yeah yeah drake got burnt up so
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it's just
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it's a done deal but you know i'm so
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proud of like 50 you know because i've
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never seen a show
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but
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as soon as the main show ends four other
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shows were created and every character
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has its own show like i've never seen
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that ever on tv you know so
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shout out to them because that's how
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powerful we were you know we were
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the reason why everything is happening
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the way it is for for the power universe
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so i'm just happy to be always a part of
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the origin of it and you know i can't i
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just i just wish them the best 50 put a
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lot of money in my life and a lot of a
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lot of celebrations in my life you know
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i'm i'm good you know i'm good and and
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personally like
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doing playing dre any longer it wouldn't
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have worked out for me creatively
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because it would have kept me in a
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certain box that i wouldn't have been
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able to grow
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and now
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in that time while they were filming you
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know the shows i was able to create all
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or nothing i was able to just grow as a
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man i was able to find love i was able
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to just
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build investments you know so i was able
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to just do and shoot movies so
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it's just been a hell of a time for me
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during that time
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rotimi is here citizens the new album
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all or nothing is out today
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i love how it talks to us i love what
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he's saying
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i also love the success of your other
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music like in my bed with wale
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um love riddle i feel like we might have
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played love rhythm first hp when he came
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up here when he came up to promote the
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song i think we were the first uh
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streams that he got now he got up to 41
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million views you know hey man that's
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another status right there as an artist
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it is another status as an artist and i
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wanted to jump in real quick and and
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talk about status and another status as
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an artist did you get any sleep the
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night before pulling up on set to come
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into america knowing the the level of
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stars that was on that set and and just
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knowing the legacy of that film
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i didn't sleep that night no i did not
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there was no sleep in this house at all
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you know because again man like being
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around
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the greatest of all time and comedy and
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there's like six of them all on that one
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movie it was like all right you gotta
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bring your a game and then
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you get there uptight and then you you
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get there and then arsenio all comes up
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to me like yo
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love with him is my favorite record
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whenever he does that baby babe yeah
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that's my joint that's my job and like i
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was like oh this is like a family for
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real no wonder this is a success
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and so we continue to build that off
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that energy and then meeting wesley
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snipes and seeing how kind he was and
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then
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meeting eddie and this thing his aura it
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was like man i i got to learn from each
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one of these people and i just started
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taking how they were like not even like
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on screen but offspring how they were as
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men to add to my arsenal because
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it was different man and then you get on
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set and and you start seeing all right
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oh yeah he's he's really gifted because
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he's a free actor wesley schneids one of
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the greatest i've ever ever been around
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arsenio is just himself and eddie's aura
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is just stupid so it was just a learning
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experience man so that's what i take
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from that i really take just the whole
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experience not even about the movie just
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how they were as men
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when you say eddie's um
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the way he was how was he what was eddie
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like
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but did he interact a lot
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no he didn't he didn't i didn't even see
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him walk he just glided it seemed like
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he was just gliding
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[Music]
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[Laughter]
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this man just gliding like this you know
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like so i'm trying to learn how to glide
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you know what i'm saying like but
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yo
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you double team you got to be at least
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50 before you start gliding yo
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michael jordan did well excuse me mr
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michael jordan did that this way i i
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didn't see him coming i'm like yo he is
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gliding in this room right now
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get ready
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not you got to be at least 50 before you
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start gliding i thought he was on the
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skateboard
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all right cool i didn't know yeah you
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got time bro you got a lawyer you got
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don't worry about it you got time it's
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just everybody want to be young that's
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an old man thing you gotta be you gotta
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not even old man seasoned
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he's okay yes he's an okay gotta gotta i
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i don't know i've never seen that before
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collidability
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you don't want to glide before his time
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it ain't going to be the same thing
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y'all look dumb yo
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yo tv said yo i think he was glided so
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i'm
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yeah you need you need at least 30 years
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in the game before you start gliding i
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start gliding right yeah man you know
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yeah but i i just can imagine being
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around art i'm a arsenio hall and eddie
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and seeing that dynamic because you're
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just such great friends and um
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and iconic people and you could take all
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that data all that information i love
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what you said i want to see what i could
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learn from each individual man in this
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scenario and what i could take with me
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and man when i listen to this album
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i hear
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the most
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balanced rotimi
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voice
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i've heard today
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your voice in this album is very
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consistent your vocals are very
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consistent uh the
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the substance of this album speaks to me
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and i think it will speak to a lot of
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young folks that's learning about love
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and a lot of men
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who are evolving you know uh there are
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songs
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on here like grown decisions
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let's talk about grown decisions and by
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the way it features um tank on this and
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shout out to tank round of applause for
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tank cause
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[Applause]
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got a lot of burn on this sofa can't let
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it show man that thing
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and he came and he said to me he said to
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us rather he said he was trying to save
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rmb
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and this is one of those songs and i was
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thinking about r b um black uh black men
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vocalists and r b genre and and where
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they are right now what what
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i i don't know if you wrote this
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thinking that in mind but what is your
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thoughts on r b right now
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i thought my thoughts on r b bros you
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know it's
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it's i think again it's elevation and i
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wanted to prove it with growing
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decisions i wanted to say okay yeah we
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could talk about sex yeah we could talk
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about this and that but let's talk about
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elevated type of love let's talk about
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buying a crib and having no mortgage
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let's talk about
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setting your life up and having a queen
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in your life you know like i was i
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wanted
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i wanted to show that grown decisions
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are being made personally in my life
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where i never thought of things like
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this before you know i was having a good
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time you know and then now
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i have a tunnel vision on such a
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beautiful woman
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and i was like all right who can attest
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to this who who understands this type of
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language and i just said yo let's let's
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send this a tank
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and big homie just sent it back and
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within within maybe
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a day or two and it came out as flawless
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as it did man but again it was just
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let's just have those elevated
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conversations and music and that's what
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i wanted to focus on with growing
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decisions
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you you accomplished it man and and even
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hearing you two together you know i
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remember when
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not too long ago when
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rap was having this this conundrum
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between older and younger rappers and
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and
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you know it was this divide that was
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happening i believe it gotten better but
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when i see you and tank get together i
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think of r b guys don't really go
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through that as much right that's not
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the same communication gaps people are
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more eager or more willing to work
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together have you found that if you're
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from different generations
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yeah i have i have i have i think it's
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just more being more
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being more open to just making good
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music with each other you know and i and
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i don't i don't know i don't know why i
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don't know why it's changed but
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you know again i just wanted to be one
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of the forefronts of it with with this
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type of record man like
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it just feels so good and and and
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when you have somebody get on the record
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that just matches your energy it's the
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best feeling as an artist you know and
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then
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i feel like it was a it was it was a
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ushering to to say oh man one of the
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best writers in our generation one of
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the best vocalists in our generation is
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co-signing what i'm doing it was just a
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beautiful thing
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okay also so we go from growing
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decisions citizens get this album all or
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nothing
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and i'm listening to the song you can
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play it underneath me too
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beside
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and i'm watching the video too the
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visuals for this project is incredible
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rotimi doesn't age number one um
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pissed at him you know
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what are you talking about yeah well
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tell that to my belly roll timmy um
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[Laughter]
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in this song i love this song by the way
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um it you know i i like to play this a
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little bit decided
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[Music]
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put it all on the camera
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it really that's how that line go put it
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all on the camera
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do it all with no manners
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yeah
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put it all on the camera i mean let's
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let's let's keep this let's save this
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documentation of what you're doing
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word
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okay all right
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that's real
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this this is this is butterscotch this
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is butterscotch it's fine
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okay if you want the juice
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the butterscotch at his finest you you
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ever filmed yourself ro timmy uh that's
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uh
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that's in your repertoire yeah yeah yeah
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yeah yeah the camerawork is crazy
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yes
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yes yes
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blockbuster blockbuster films
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i love it man
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but the but but the point of it all is
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for me this whole album all or nothing
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is a man who's saying he's willing to do
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everything all or nothing he's willing
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to commit for wholeheartedly fully for
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love
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you know what i mean it's that's how i
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interpreted it what did you mean by the
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the title all or nothing
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it was a double on chandra i think it
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for me again it was my life just saying
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exactly what you just said
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all or nothing i found the one you can't
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bull it you gotta just contin
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to consistently be the best you and just
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cut everything out and give yourself you
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know and and
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give yourself to a higher power with the
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woman that you love and then musically
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all or nothing because i have to give
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everything i got for this album i have
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to be
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the best i have to
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not sleep i have to make everything
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just con consistently grow you know and
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just
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yeah just be the best role i can be as
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an artist
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ro timmy citizens uh we got we got steve
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on the line from florida steve graham
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rises
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man what's up
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what's up what's up yo rotimi i i just
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want to let you know that haiti loves
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you man like you know and um
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congratulations for
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everything that you've accomplished and
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um i like the fact that you know as a
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man um you you're teaching others how to
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grow
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and to connect with their inner self and
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especially with someone they love
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because taking that step further into
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accomplishing like a relationship and
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making a grown decision is the best
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thing
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so congratulations man keep shining and
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then
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yo we love you man you know what it is
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all right thank you steve hey steve make
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sure you get that album make sure you're
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tuning in all weekend long don't just
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say don't talk about it be about it we
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got ad on the line from ottawa bro you
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getting calls from ottawa you ever get a
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call from ottawa
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no i never got a call from ottawa okay
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this first it's the first head go ahead
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hey how are you doing sway how you doing
16:43
heather good to be talking to y'all man
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it's been i've been trying to get on for
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years and i finally made it on graham
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rises we did it we did it today's your
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day baby
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most definitely man and uh
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real timmy man um i just want to give
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you a shout out to you man and and the
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journey that that you've been
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uh uh
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going on um i gotta say man dre i had
17:08
issues with dreaming i didn't like him
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sorry to say this but man what uh the
17:18
the when you were
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in that prison cell
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i was a little bit happy but you know
17:23
the character not you
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okay cool you got a question though you
17:28
still seem like you mad at drake yeah
17:29
yeah he's gone
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i just wanted to know um
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how
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it came about that you
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shout out you went to haiti and
17:39
everything and how it came about to
17:41
actually go there and you did say that
17:43
haiti is such a beautiful
17:45
place to be um how did it come about
17:48
where did you get the interest to to go
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well no no i had a show out in haiti man
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and i didn't know what to expect but
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when i got there i just fell in love
17:57
with the culture
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the music the heritage we went to one of
18:00
the museums out there and we saw what it
18:02
was about and then
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musically it inspired me to make a
18:06
record called don't you ever that's on
18:08
my album right now
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and the growth
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again growing as an artist you're just
18:13
trying to just see what connects with
18:14
you and then i listened to kampa and i
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was like all right man you got to make
18:18
one of these type of records and it was
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don't you ever so i was super inspired
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and then i started working with one of
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uh
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haiti's biggest artist b mix and and and
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afrikaan and we had it we did a record
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called t cellar
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so i was just you know engulfed in the
18:33
in the in the heritage and in the
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culture man but yeah if you listen to
18:37
the album you see number three you know
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it's uh
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it's definitely a haiti haiti influence
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all right that's awesome man
18:47
big shout out to you big shout out to
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the morning team as well thank you
18:50
brother and prayers out to haiti man
18:51
prayers out to haiti okay
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you're a citizen brother you're a
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citizen man uh hold on man i'm gonna get
18:58
one more person on the line um you know
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he's he's been hot all day he just went
19:02
viral for his interview with uh ricky
19:04
rosay wrote timmy i got the one and only
19:07
mike muse on the line mike muse mike
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news
19:11
oh what up happy friday people
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yo what's up mike
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mike we got ro timmy on the line he got
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a new project all or nothing that's out
19:19
right now it's the it's the elite of r b
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man it's the the perfect thing
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for you mike
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what's going on brother
19:29
that's dope man congratulations homie
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thank you fam thank you congratulations
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to you my g
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god thank you man i appreciate it we all
19:38
in this together
19:40
this is some good job talking right here
19:42
don't have to be hey what's up my
19:43
brother he said i love that man you hear
19:45
that male bonding right there
19:50
mike is like yo yo i just mike is like
19:52
yo i call into the show to do my my
19:54
wrap-up about my political news sway got
19:56
me on the phone with rotimi blindsided
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real timmy's like i'm in the crib
20:00
telling my wife talking about my album
20:01
sway got this man on the phone i don't
20:03
know he is i just gotta be sway messing
20:06
with both of y'all right now
20:09
but you know that's though
20:10
jimmy just went with it that's why he's
20:12
a great ass that's it
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hey mike we've been homies all our lives
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man like we go to the same barbershop
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y'all was killing me with all the
20:25
salutations man it's like my brother hey
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loved one
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we just kicked it
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i know who you were talking about
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oh hey hey so roll let me ask you
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this man first of all i love you uh you
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you've always been high quality man as
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an individual but also as an artist and
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you consistently evolve so
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congratulations you were meant to be
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here you were meant to be here
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please send my love to your your lovely
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fiancee tell us you got a a a brother
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over here and a sister and have to be
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um amen you hitting the road
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oh man yeah i actually got a show today
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in charlotte like we bout to leave in
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like an hour and then
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we also planning to tour in the next in
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the next two months so
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we're moving and moving bro we'll be at
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the tour okay and where is it in
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charlotte do you know the dress uh since
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people we got a lot of people from
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charlotte that tune in if you want to
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shout that show out tonight is it sold
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out
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yeah so that's the college show it's
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a welcome back to school
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yes sir okay you gonna take your shirt
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off
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at minute 22 of the show
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give this man a round of applause the
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project is all enough and citizens
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something great to be tuned into tonight
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and throughout the entire weekend we
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will support here's the title track all
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or nothing ro timmy you want to say
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anything in closing
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i just want to say i love you very much
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this boat thank you for always always
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believing in me and all or nothing is a
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step up from anything i've ever done and
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i can't wait to see how people just
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gravitate towards it
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just foreign i can't wait to come and
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just kick it with y'all i'm just
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chilling we do this in person man soon
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soon come my brother all right have a
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beautiful day travel safely all right my
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man wrote timmy this is all enough
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congratulations again
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