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[Music]
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taking the bankers
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[Music]
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[Music]
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i love black folk
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black look like a revolution
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look like a family reunion
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in the park
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black look like it's a different world
0:37
smell like a crawfish bowl in new
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orleans
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black folk joke around like martin and
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got patents from jj in the living room
0:45
it sounds strong
0:48
it looked like sacrifice it'd be flowers
0:50
blooming in the summertime
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black sound like old songs smell like
0:54
good food but it tastes like heart
0:57
disease
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but it feels like maize at jazz fast
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black sound like something that hurt
1:03
like a hard test black side like skin
1:05
like something dark black sound like
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hair
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yeah
1:09
black sound like rough had good hair
1:12
sound like history feel like spiritual
1:16
black sound like 400 years
1:19
it smell like oprah it ages well like
1:22
cecily tyson look like nina
1:26
got a booty like serena
1:30
black smile like broken homes in section
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a
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smell like cracking collard greens
1:36
feel like big sundae hats and ribbons
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[Music]
1:43
smile like your mama
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eyes like the sun
1:48
beautiful child
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know you're the one
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fly like your daddy
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make me so happy beautiful child
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know you're the one
2:03
[Music]
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it's like big flats swinging and sneaky
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uncles
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sound like tyler perry making money feel
2:12
like hating feel frustrating don't it
2:14
like they won't ever get it huh like
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they won't ever get it like put your
2:18
personal feelings on racial injustice so
2:20
far underneath the coffin that was girl
2:22
you didn't tripped over your own family
2:23
history but i love me some black folk
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i love the rental fees in the hair
2:30
grease
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the police the projects government
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assistance bougie being laid bags of
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hair pressed on now fake gold chain gold
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teeth starting black men and big old
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feet i love me some black balls
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but they're the people that was made
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from the darkest parts of the sky you
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got to smile like your mama
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eyes like the sun
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beautiful child
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know you're the one
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you fly like your daddy you make me so
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happy beautiful
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[Music]
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[Music]
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the day that we met
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[Music]
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la-4
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may everybody from the 504 what you
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think i went to l.a for
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everybody from the 504 what you think i
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went to la for come on come on everybody
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from
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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i count the days
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i
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is
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[Music]
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away
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[Music]
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come on
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[Music]
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count the ways
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[Music]
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i
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[Music]
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[Music]
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give him a lot of background
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[Music]
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count away
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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hey
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[Music]
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[Music]
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catch me on tour
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[Music]
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you know everybody in here is like a pk
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kid
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for a kid to pass a grandchild
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so it's very easy
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to what's been the um
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you and norman y'all met in the church
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right
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then the thing hit my head like this
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but i had a prank i listened to helen's
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bear's story
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it's been like a lot yeah like maybe too
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much
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oh thank you for that tank thank you i
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appreciate you incorporating incorporate
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me in the song
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did you insert yourself what did she
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incorporate
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i thought she was like she kind of
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looked at me in the end
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i count the ways count on this way oh
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oh my gosh she put you in right there
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yeah i got put in you heard that time
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wait a minute thank you josh
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oh josh
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thank you al i got to look at your
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thighs this whole performance
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every day you can't
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[Music]
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he sleeps in those things do you change
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the shorts
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oh he changed the two more shorts okay
8:59
it's okay what's the name of that song
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that is black folk
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she gonna get that silent phone call in
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the middle of the night lord you know
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what that means what does that mean
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so we have this thing here swaying in
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the morning if you ever get a silent
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phone call in the middle of night
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somebody just breathing it's jay-z
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[Laughter]
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[Applause]
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before we start the next song can i ask
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you real quick because i i'm just
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thinking how far you all have come you
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know um from the liberation lounge to
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now what's been the biggest stage
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oh gosh
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honestly to me it felt like when we just
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came from dubai
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that was a huge stage
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[Applause]
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apollo field was just
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big amazing to me
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that was a small stage though
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but it was a big opportunity
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that's beautiful too i guess in my head
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i'm thinking about like the stage size
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am i wrong
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you think you like audience like
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opportunity
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opportunity jazz best accurate stage too
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like um
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it's so many stages it'd be it'd be a
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blur a lot of the times what you
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remember is the feeling
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it's so crazy we'll have a room full of
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people just giving us so much love but
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if we have one person in the corner
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looking at us
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we'll get off stage like this did you
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see the way she was looking at me and i
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poured and um on the left side of the
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stage what was that
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what was that about
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sometimes people get blinded by light
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it's crazy you have a room full of
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positive people one person
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and you feel it the light becomes crazy
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tell them about the couples that fight
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oh my god the couples that fight in the
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front row some thighs sky master
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[Applause]
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there's always a like a dude usually
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like this on the barricade it's kind of
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like this his girl's like trying to
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enjoy tank kind of like looking up she
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always like nudges him she's like baby
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babe
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what you're missing he's like no no
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and then they like fight and then tank
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like calls him out sometimes she's like
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what do you say you'll be like get off
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that phone
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if you didn't please don't bring uh
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energy like this to the front of the
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stage
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she'll be like i don't know why you
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would stand in the front row if you
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didn't come to dance
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[Applause]
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but that ability to like improv and have
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that level of coverage
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go get him go get him if that's not a
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sign
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somebody tell john legend to come on in
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here tracy jordan tracy jordan
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tracy yo
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john to come real quick say hi yes
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he's on the other side we need john to
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do a five-second riff right now
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no we're gonna make that happen we're
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about to
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in the meantime in the meantime
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yeah in the meantime
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okay
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like what i'm thinking about because you
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guys are sharing these experiences of
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when you're on stage and like that
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ability to do improv like the comfort
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you have to have in yourself where
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something is going off script in the
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audience
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and you can point it out and make it fun
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and that just reminds me there's a lot
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of rehearsal that's happening behind the
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scenes
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and with this many people no
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no no she's right meaningless there's
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rehearsal going on behind the scenes so
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that we can't feel comfortable enough to
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go off the script and come right on back
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to where it's belonging
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i appreciate you saying that because a
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lot of people like oh my gosh it's like
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a big freestyle party right right
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i'll be on rehearsal on wednesdays i'll
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be trying it's a couple elements
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happening okay a lot of people once they
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learn structure they got to stick to the
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structure ain't too much improvising
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from the structure unless we came up in
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church you know church they don't get up
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singing any key yeah they're gonna talk
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they're gonna talk or sing and it's
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gotta flow dynamically or be ready for
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anything yeah
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[Laughter]
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okay
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[Laughter]
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yeah it was a preview of what's to come
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it's all right
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yeah
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damn it
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when they're walking that way they
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headed to the studios for a live
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interview but we forgot the private
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elevators that way as well yeah okay
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that was a treat though you'll
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can i ask really quickly um as a
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businesswoman your merchandise i am
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feeling the sweatshirt
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all of it where can people get it where
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should they go just to pour them dollars
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in yes please yes it's tanking the
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bangers.com www everything we have we
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have um cassettes and we love vinyl and
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we have uh of course the sweatshirt so i
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think we may even have them we got
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advisors
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you know what else comes to mind for me
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because we've mentioned church so many
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times during our conversation together
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and obviously so many of you guys that's
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where it all began
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what is your um pre-performance ritual
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what do your prayers sound like what are
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you saying thank you for talking about
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daddy about the opportunity we're here
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for just grateful yeah hoping that he do
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his thing
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to us and let us get something back and
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turn from them you know the energy
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exchange yes
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always praying that somebody finds their
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way too that they're light um that they
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that they find a purpose at this show
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you know it may not be necessarily to
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sing but just just reminds me of the
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purpose you know i think everybody's
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pretty extraordinary mm-hmm
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yeah
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that's a what's the song you talked
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about tracy on this um red balloon
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communion cup communion communion can
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you hear them
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you like it yeah
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and we shot the video at my home church
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in new orleans it
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he was in a hot church all day it was
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amazing
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that is full circle it was so good it
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was very sweet
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that's her uncle's the pastor of the
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church yes
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shout out to pastor bradford
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shout out to pastor
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so can we rock out can we jam out some
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more yeah sure we got something else we
16:34
can do oh this is so special did you
16:36
only have two songs playing
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we will do the whole album
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hold on i know that we have a specific
16:46
song to do but when sway first talked to
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me he told me that he loved roller
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coasters
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and i would love to do it for him
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[Music]
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sway promise us no singing though no
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singing music that's my joy danny abel
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you ready
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he's always ready
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[Music]
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so
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[Music]
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do
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[Music]
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i've always wondered why people wrote
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the biggest roller coasters
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why the feeling of throwing up brought
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about some type of excitement they
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didn't receive on a regular day
18:12
for when did feeling sick become
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equivalent to thrill
18:15
nausea the new x pill i've always
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wondered why people rode those really
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big roller coasters
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and i remember when i did
18:24
it's the twist and the swerve it's the
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up in the swerve it's smiling so
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absolutely wide it's the feeling of my
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nerves on the front edge of the seat
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eyes
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open
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tears coming from the thrill of sight
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moving as fast as light laughing for no
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reason and screaming
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all the things i know i shouldn't have
18:45
said in that last fight those roller
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coasters
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well that's like meeting god
18:50
with a kite in your left hand
18:53
strings still twisted around your
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forefinger right hand still busy
18:57
gripping the safety rail there's this
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moment when you feel like you're in an
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ocean of your own
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lies
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that's the moment you get free and you
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let your arms
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the butterflies
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and the fireflies
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fighting in my stomach
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[Music]
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think i'm ready
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now
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getting back
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[Music]
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to
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[Music]
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the last time i was real brave
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i mean really brave
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i was 12 years old
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and i asked myself why i was so excited
20:29
to be so damn scared
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like feeling my heart roamed throughout
20:34
my entire body
20:36
only to find it in earthquake hands
20:39
but i couldn't wait to get back in line
20:42
i had to get on one more time
20:44
i couldn't wait to tell my friends about
20:46
the drop
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[Music]
20:55
i knew that roller coasters were for
20:57
people like me
20:59
and people like you
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[Music]
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i have discovered
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that everybody wants to know how it
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feels
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to just let go
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[Music]
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ah
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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oh
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[Music]
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flying
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[Music]
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me
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[Music]
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oh
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[Music]
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that's your spirit talking
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let them tears calm i'm about to cry too
22:57
how are we supposed to do radio when we
22:59
feel speechless wow
23:01
sway was just trying to get in with the
23:02
background singing he thought it was
23:04
time for a soul it was
23:06
he like my turn is it my turn
23:10
so check this out
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we we have time for one more what please
23:16
oh my god please
23:18
please
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but i want to thank y'all before we go
23:21
into it because that's how i want to
23:23
float the show i want people to just
23:26
be on the continuation i don't want my
23:28
voice or our voices i want y'all voices
23:30
to be the last thing people hear today
23:32
on this show okay because they're
23:35
anointed man
23:39
i enjoy it
23:40
tanking the bangers citizens you have
23:42
every reason in the world to make sure
23:44
you support their movement yes yes thank
23:46
you support their music
23:52
follow them get with this energy y'all
23:54
everywhere absolutely
23:57
thank you so much thank you for your
23:58
your testimonies today heather
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they've been the thread of this morning
24:03
i'll be scared not to follow the doors
24:05
of the church are now open i'm being
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obedient
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the doors of the chat shall open
24:14
bring your ties and confidence
24:18
tracy g thank you for your infinite
24:20
wisdom that you've offered to the to the
24:22
conversation today your insight and your
24:24
humor
24:27
you know about that more than anyone
24:28
else calloway don't you hey absolutely
24:31
and uh citizens thank you for your
24:33
participation and good news thursday let
24:35
me say this to you sway thank you for
24:39
using your platform to do this amazing
24:41
village
24:42
there's a lot of people who have
24:44
platforms
24:46
and are so afraid
24:47
to follow their spirit on their
24:49
platforms
24:50
and you have done something with your
24:53
platform like no other
24:55
and so
24:56
we are still learning while doing this
24:58
platform you know and so thank you thank
25:02
you for
25:02
for this this is
25:04
[ __ ] dope
25:10
this is it's probably one of my most
25:11
favorite moments going down one of my
25:13
favorite moments i have a lot of
25:15
movements
25:16
this is going down is one of my most
25:17
favorite moments my most favorite radio
25:20
moments come on that's my one about this
25:22
you're one of your favorite moments
25:25
come on man this is this is incredible
25:28
thank you heather b i had taylor bennett
25:30
um and his father they're downstairs
25:32
right now they're about to perform and
25:34
do something too and
25:36
his father said um
25:37
we just had a whole conversation about
25:39
you you know i don't like when the
25:41
sentence start like that because you
25:42
don't know what the conversation is
25:43
right
25:45
yeah what kind what do you mean and uh
25:47
but he he expressed that they were just
25:49
discussing that
25:51
because we've been very instrumental in
25:52
chances in taylor's career beyond the
25:55
microphone we stay in contact cause you
25:58
want to see my text messages
26:00
we see
26:02
in his family and he's and they were
26:04
reflecting back heather on this is how
26:06
heather and i met
26:08
me on the radio her as an artist
26:11
in california
26:13
in the 90s in the 90s
26:15
95 had the bee
26:18
all glocks down
26:21
[Laughter]
26:23
[Music]
26:36
but they were saying that same thing
26:38
that i think that's why they were asking
26:40
themselves why do they do it why does he
26:42
do it you know that's not me
26:45
it ain't me
26:46
oh yeah i'm what you are
26:49
chilling at home watching netflix eating
26:51
ice cream and then when it's time to
26:51
perform you just just plug into the wall
26:53
that's me too that's you
26:56
that's me
26:58
okay
26:59
find your energy to it i am not alone
27:09
breakfast proof of purpose a lot of
27:10
people don't realize that i'm alive i
27:12
don't know what i'm supposed to do you
27:13
got something you just gotta consult god
27:14
come on get into agreement say yes we
27:17
are here because of divine purpose yes
27:19
like the fact that you're inspired to
27:21
have us on head i mean just inspired to
27:23
even put anybody on or just be that
27:25
network man that's all god like oh yeah
27:28
you go man
27:32
i know it's a lot to take in
27:34
ignorance
27:38
that's what i'm talking about it's like
27:41
everybody want to do this yeah
27:43
everybody don't know who they're doing
27:44
it for and that's why they're not doing
27:47
some people that's doing it don't know
27:48
why they're doing it
27:50
but we know why we're doing it we know
27:51
what we work for amen
27:54
i got a mission there you go
27:55
and that's how to be norman by the way
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well look y'all y'all want to take us
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out sure okay you got one more of course
28:08
okay
28:09
citizens this is it y'all have an
28:12
amazing day stay on the right side of
28:14
positivity and listen to what we have to
28:16
say
28:17
tank in the bangers
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[Music]
28:21
shout out to sway thank you sweetie
28:23
absolutely family
28:25
[Music]
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so
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[Music]
28:49
good morning sunshine
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[Music]
28:55
planted somewhere new
28:58
[Music]
29:02
time cannot rewind
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[Music]
29:08
the place from which
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[Music]
29:28
all right
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[Music]
29:48
your roots be golden
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[Music]
30:00
all that was stolen
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[Applause]
30:03
[Music]
30:06
now
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reborn
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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is
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[Music]
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this is
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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this is what we teach our children
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[Music]
31:42
is
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[Music]
31:50
might try to run away
31:57
[Music]
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[Music]
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just
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[Music]
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stay
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[Music]
32:46
stolen from
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[Music]
33:08
me wow stolen fruit
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tank in the bankers
33:15
shout out to kelly kincaid shout out for
33:17
uh making these things happen shout out
33:19
to tone on the board shout out to the
33:22
engineering staff here at um sirius xm
33:25
in production shout out to tracy jordan
33:28
i see you over there shout out to tanks
33:30
whole crew her whole
33:32
jasmine team
33:34
did the whole management
33:37
shout out to kai shout out to rich
33:39
knights over here on the switcher raw
33:40
shout out to
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ty over here on the camera hey
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entertainment can we get everybody's
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name real quick before we go
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who we got on the base
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jonathan
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okay who we got on the drums
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say his name again john
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joshua johnson okay oh brothers okay we
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got on the guitar
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danny what up baby who we got over there
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on that saxophone
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teeny that's right who we got on the
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flute the alto sax the piccolo the song
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albert allen back on the thighs
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talk to him king
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tell her asians to put in the color
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purple they filming that now
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i'm telling you this girl she got an
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oscar coming her way some way shape or
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form oh follow me i'm at the happy hour
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whb instagram and twitter i'm late for
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my next show right now but it was so
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worth it i love y'all thank y'all thank
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y'all tanking the bangers know that name
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boy boy
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you got to come back for the freestyle
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norman yeah all right okay all right
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tracy thank you
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guys
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y'all have just surrounded me with
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splendor citizens hit me up twitter
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instagram find me anywhere at it's tracy
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g i-t-s-a-c-y-g
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and while you find me make sure you
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fight tank in the bank
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brilliantly bang bang
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i'll follow him thanking the bangers
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make sure you follow my i'm at real sway
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across the board we would be playing
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some of this back tomorrow morning i
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guarantee you that and then you can look
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for it on sways universe in the next day
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or so yeah uh thank you citizens for
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tuning in today
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and on that note
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we have nothing sirius xm photographers
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get in here
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left to say
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you
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