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Everyone who is here live in Los Angeles
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for the Sway in the Morning Garage
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series. Everyone who is listening on
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air, everybody who is at home, I just
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discovered an artist personally who I
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know I'm going to be returning to many,
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many times because one, he's from the
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continent, Ugandan born, representing
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Missouri, however, but he transcends so
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many different genres. There's a blend
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of afro beats. There's also some guitar.
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There's R&B. And when you listen to his
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lyricism, it literally sounds like he
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has a confession that he just wants to
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share with you. Like his secrets are
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really just for your ears. And so I'm
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very very proud to bring to the stage
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with the fresh corn. I appreciate them.
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The cornbreads are fresh.
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Ladies already talking about your
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No, thank you guys for having me.
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beautiful when you are, bro. Yeah, that
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was a beautiful silence right there,
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though. That That was poetic, right?
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Yeah. My name is Subie
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and this song is called Kra.
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She went and told their friends that I
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more people got out of advice for
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murder. Others may go and conf
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Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
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Watch them turn bit sucking from the
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pain that my brothers deliver. I want to
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know why nobody told me I shouldn't have
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But it's the things we do follow.
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All the things we don't fall off.
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All the dreams we conjure up.
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Tell me why I can't keep up.
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Cuz girls want freedom and girls want
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passion. As you love with an ounce of
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infraction. Talking about a breezy form
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of affection. I bet she going to pay the
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price for love. But she going to give it
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all for us. But she going to wait and
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wait for timing. But she going to give
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you peace of mind. But oh n cuz you just
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You just want to go with matching color.
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You just want to go with another. I'm
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just trying to get easy streaking down
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and be easy. But in the end all position
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So hard yet simple at the same time.
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All at the same time.
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Oh, why you doing me like this? Why you
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taking me I thought you wanted
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love like this. Oh, baby.
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They already told me that you want a bad
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boy. They already told me that you want
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to settle. They already told me you
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don't want no stagnance. They already
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told me you want to take some violence.
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Why you wildly running around talking
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about running apartments, calling me
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out, breaking up with all that nonsense.
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Baby, watching my brown like that.
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I'm talking about the things we do for
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All the things we do for love.
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Tell me why it can't be in the
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That's the way to kick it off.
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Yeah. Next song I'm going to do is
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called Growth and it's a time to touch
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on what my experiences are with love and
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loss. And I hope it speaks to you. Thank
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When I told you that you're perfect,
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take holding on a minute.
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Lost staring through my surface.
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Girl, tell me is it worth it?
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Withdraws up on my bases. Cuz
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you're the one that I miss.
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Oh, I'm better like this. You know I
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Cuz I don't know how.
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I don't know where we went wrong.
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I gave my best, you gave yours.
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Trying to leave alone. Never know.
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Oh, I'm not ready to go home alone
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or living my life on my own. Oh, but I
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guess now's time to let go.
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You made me feel like a G. When I said
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I'm a pleas trying to love you. Oh, I
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lose my mind. Breaking rules every
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night. Trying to make sure your mind
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watching them seasons change while we
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stuck up in our way. They have the day
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up on me. I guess now's the time. I
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guess now's the time. I guess not the
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time for us. I don't know how.
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And I don't know where we belong.
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Oh, I give my best to give you
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Oh. Oh. I'm not ready to go home alone
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or living my life on my own. Oh, but I
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guess it's time to let go.
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Oh, I play a fool. Even in a younger
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God knows I'm the best you going ever. I
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gave you the choice. You said you'll be
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Oh, baby, I guess now's the time.
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I guess not the time, baby.
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I guess now's the time.
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I guess now's the time.
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Hold up. I got to hug this guy. I just
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want to hug you, man. You keep going,
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man. I love you, bro.
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He's on your faves list now. Yep.
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Give it up for Subie, man.
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Somebody take a picture with me and him
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right now because this this ain't going
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He did that. One, two, three.
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You're a powerful artist.
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You You came in here. How many people
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knew him before he stepped on this
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Exactly. How many people know him now?
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You sing about pain like you just struck
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out in every relationship you ever had.
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Where does that come from? How are you
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able to bring that emotion to words?
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I don't know. I think I grew up in a
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very music musically oriented family and
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um you know I like talking about the
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fact that my mother's water broke while
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and I'm like a little superstitious
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about that and I feel like it's a very
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spiritual thing for me. So,
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um, like I wrote my first song at the
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age of 11 and it's been my only means of
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expressing myself in ways I can't really
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express myself with words, you know. So,
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it just so happens that songs like these
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come out and um, you know, I think it's
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a very spiritual thing.
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We feel it. I was watching the crowd.
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They went from huh zoinks to just like
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just begging to hear what you say next,
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you know, which I thought was
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fascinating. Tracy, you was transfixed.
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Yes, I was. That is a beautiful term
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that I connect with. Um
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because you're just able to be so raw
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and vulnerable and it doesn't feel
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performative in any way. and knowing
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that you were born in Uganda and you're
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but also finding out that you create all
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of your music within your bedroom. You
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have like this one man universe.
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That you've created for yourself. And
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I'm wondering if that is a contributing
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factor to the intimacy we all experience
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Oh yeah, definitely is. Definitely is.
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yeah like all that time you spend cuz
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it's taken me a very long time coming to
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this very moment. I started producing at
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the age of 12 and uh you know when you
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have all that time on your hands
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it's very hard know to be very
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introspective and very look inward. It's
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like it's just inevitable. It's always
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I love it man. Uh thank you for agreeing
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No thank you for having me.
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Absolutely, man. We We're your allies.
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Heather, did you want to say anything?
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I'm healing right now. I feel your pain.
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I'm healing, too, bro. I got you. You
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Yeah. She got a cold, so she needs
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healing. You guys give it up for Subie.
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Check out his music, brother. You got
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it, man. Thank you, family.
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Thank you, brother. Come on, man. I've
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seen a lot, too, man. Thank you, man. I
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know. I know to take the picture up