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Tekitha & Rza’s Daughter Prana Supreme Diggs Talk About Their Country Music Group ONE The Duo
Apr 3, 2023
In 2014, Tekitha held incredible jam sessions in her home, bringing together an array of talented artists for a night of collaboration and creativity. Her daughter, Prana Supreme Diggs, was a regular attendee, singing her heart out alongside accomplished musicians, poets, rappers, and visual artists. After one particularly mind-blowing jam, the young performer approached her mom with a game-changing idea: "What if we started writing and singing our own songs together?" And so began a dynamic mother-daughter musical collaboration that continues to inspire and captivate audiences to this day.
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RCA's Wife & Daughter Tekitha & Prana Supreme Diggs Talk About Their Country Music Careers
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they were ever able to produce this
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beautiful young star named Prana and so
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um the mother to Keith is the mother and
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she's the daughter and they have a
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mother-daughter duel they're the Supreme
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mother-daughter dude of country music
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and I want to welcome them to the shop
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[Applause]
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thank you yes and if they happen to walk
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in with a hip-hop Juggernaut I don't
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even know how this came to be I was like
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shocked to see him
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everybody forget a career you see them
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all over the hip-hop documentaries
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outside campaigning
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rising to the top the Supreme Team
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documentary my man um big horse
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Heather's life partner and husband
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speaks highly of man I hear the stories
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that didn't make the documentary and all
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the things you've done and so I it's
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great to see this this tent this
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triumphant no pun intended brought
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together so how did the mother-daughter
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duel start man that's that's the story
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um funny enough I'm the one who started
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the duo actually a lot of people when
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they hear him doing music with my mom
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they assume she's dragging me around
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town doing shows but it's very much the
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opposite
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um mom used to host these huge jam
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session parties at our house and she
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would always let me you know express
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myself freely and we would freestyle
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something together usually singing I
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don't rap I want to get that on the
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record right now but don't you rap to
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keep of course she drops me I skipped me
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somehow that's that's what happens we
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have two of that and then it just
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completely evaporated inside of me so
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anyway
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um I I come to Mom like the morning
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after one of these jam sessions and I go
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to her and I'm like Yo dude and that's
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literally how I talk to my mama called
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her bro and do it all the time okay and
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I'm like we should sing and write our
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own songs together like professionally
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and she says no with zero hesitation
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she's like no why and I did throw a
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temper tantrum not a proud moment as a
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14 year old I've never done that mind
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you I'm just not like an emotional
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person and so but I just took her no to
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heart I was like she's attacking my
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character she thinks I'm not good enough
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to work with her the drama of it all
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yeah I am dramatic I'm not emotional but
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I am dramatic
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um and eventually we we sit down and
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talk and I of course have the privilege
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to have two parents that have been in
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the industry and so I know what it is
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like truly for young girls that just
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want to make music and their Starry item
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people take advantage of that
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unfortunately so I knew my mom would
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protect me from that because she this is
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her career this is what she's been doing
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it's what she was always going to do she
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doesn't need to live through me for that
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and then also I've been calling my mom
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my best friend since I was 10 years old
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and I feel like at 14 every 14 year old
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wants to hang out with their best friend
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all day it just so happened that mine
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was my mom and so wow yeah and now and
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now we we made our way to Nashville by
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by happenstance really just wanted to
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explore music freely and not have any
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preconceived notions of what we should
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be as a group and Nashville allowed us
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to do that and we kind of fell into
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country music it wasn't a purposeful
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thing we knew we wanted our music to
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feel like sitting on the front porch
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with us or like you're hanging out in
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our living room and that along the way
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the Nashville Community started to tell
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us nah you guys are doing country music
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or not you're doing Americana and at
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first we were like yeah whatever you
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want to call it but by it having that
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label on it allowed us to dig into the
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history of country music and realize
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just how much black people have been a
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part of the fabric of it and like most
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things in America we got written out
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along the way yeah and so people like
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Charlie Pride and uh Terry Callier and
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even Ray Charles who most people of
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course we know him as you know r b and
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soul but he had an album called modern
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songs
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in country and western music I suggest
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everyone listen to that because it is
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instrumental in what country music
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became and what it is today and so these
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are these are the things that whenever
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you hear black people I was like I love
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every genre except for Country I'm like
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no don't say that you gotta love country
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too because it's us it's us just as much
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as hip-hop is now
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um you do have two parents in the
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industry and I see your dad your dad was
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here last week
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yeah go yeah and uh does he stay keep
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his
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Keepers do you tap into him or yeah well
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and he keeps his distance in terms of
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like music yeah yeah in terms of the
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music he does he's just like observing
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from the outside we send him everything
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of course and that's always been a big
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like pat on the shoulder for me as my
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dad never has any notes when I send him
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the music that's huge if you know
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British
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he's gonna have a note yes and it's
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because he's a perfectionist like me and
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like Mom so I get it but it is always
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like one of those things where I show
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him and I'm like scared I'm like oh God
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what is he gonna say I need to change
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and he never says anything he's always
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just like you're doing it you're doing
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it so yeah he's a girl Dad
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we all just sucker
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to Keith when she's was talking about
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singing on all these Hooks and being in
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the studio and not necessarily always
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getting credit you've been on a lot of
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different tracks yeah can you name some
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of them that people may not realize I
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mean impossible is on the double CD at
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Wu-Tang forever
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um Second Coming was on that record as
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well I did uh black boy with capadana
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all I got is you I did as well but the
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story behind that
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um was more so like a background kind of
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story I still got a feature in credit
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but MCA I think had Mary J Blige at the
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time she's on she's on the version on
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the record the original version and they
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wouldn't let her release it as a single
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with ghost so they came to me and was
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like yo you got to do this record I said
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come behind Mary J Blige and I'm like I
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love her you know it's like a big fan so
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I was like I can't do it I don't I don't
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want the pressure they're like what you
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mean you're like let's get it so that's
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another record that I'm on as well I
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mean every every album except for uh the
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year that she was born was the only
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record that I haven't been on in the
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Wu-Tang ecosystem if you will you hear a
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little bit of all I need issues okay all
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that I got is you oh gosh really
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you got it
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looking for the key ah no no
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all that I got is you
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and I'm so thankful you made it through
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so this is what I want to do because I I
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citizen chance was like told me you guys
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she said hey man would you want to have
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one to do along you know black they
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didn't tell me all the details he just
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told me two black women in country music
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yes bring them up yeah they got a new
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song okay I can at least Play the song
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right yeah right
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and so I'm gonna play the song but then
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when y'all got it I was like wait a
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minute he didn't tell me we know each
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other and then I was like yo that's my
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niece you know uh but can y'all do
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something acapella absolutely okay and
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then maybe you could jump in at when
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they're done with a uh with a you know
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some yeah some stance we're going into
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overtime citizens
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okay and then you just fill it out when
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they're done you just roll in you cool
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with that yeah all right and then you
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improvise I see you just getting water
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okay
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okay
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Rebecca we have called 16.
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I'll give it to you depending on how
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y'all do it all right okay
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we'll do yeah we'll do a bit of um
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guilty it was the first single that we
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released as one the duo okay um let's
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see Feels Like Only Yesterday
8:09
clouds with every shade of gray
8:13
I still feel the midnight chill
8:17
before the dawn the blood of spill
8:21
he pushed too hard and I push back
8:25
got out of control way too fast
8:30
smell a gun smoke filled the air
8:34
have to say that fat was fair
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guilty
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I ain't guilty
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guilty
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I ain't guilty
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saying promise
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pistol fell into my hand
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didn't wanna shoot that man
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in his eyes I could see
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it was either him or me guilty
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[Music]
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I ain't guilty
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guilty
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I ain't guilty
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they judge you before your eyes even
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open off jump they coming for your
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throat before words even spoken when you
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touch down you gotta let them know that
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you get things in motion but be clear
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they feel your dedication they feel your
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devotion they love and hate your skin
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tone treat you like an immigrant when
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you've been home bronze like the pennies
9:47
the brother Abe owned Envy is the drug
9:50
that they own every breath I take is a
9:52
hit cause we're striking like the
9:54
ancient Egyptians they clone not people
9:57
are beautiful down to the bone down to
10:00
the soul control is a goal we in the
10:02
city of God cause the slums is all they
10:04
want us to know and they think we ain't
10:06
know thought she was just Street Smart
10:08
can't understand how you come up with
10:10
this street art didn't understand they
10:11
were dealing with men women mothers
10:13
fathers two years some of I slipped
10:14
through the cracks but the ones that we
10:16
put nothing above the way they look up
10:18
to us man that's beautiful fly like the
10:21
sauce is being flown yo they tapping
10:24
your line so use your thoughts to iPhone
10:25
homes and Mom's a highlight tape but
10:28
it's Twilight Zone home where
10:29
extraordinary extraterrestrial
10:32
ETS got them unease now they building
10:33
space stations trying to police the
10:35
ozone oh no they trying to protect their
10:39
borders from illegal aliens visiting
10:41
from other worlds we were sent here by
10:43
where God's referral peel back our skin
10:46
and see our light peel back the layers
10:48
and see our fight get high off life rest
10:50
your hair on the cloud died some
10:52
Chemtrails if the walls could talk they
10:54
say they wouldn't want to walk on our
10:55
shoes and listen to the tales our Tim's
10:57
tell came from the heavens now we dwell
10:59
in Hell enslaved by a country that still
11:01
hates me wants me in jail discriminates
11:03
the kisses Want to Hold Us Down man we
11:05
too profound that's why they want us to
11:07
behave show us how they feel with 12
11:09
Years a Slave media hop on the field and
11:12
they run their plays all day they say
11:14
and Replay that you a thug you are all
11:17
he wants is our women our gold our
11:19
figures I ain't nothing but an animal
11:21
with his claws on a trigger there's a
11:23
difference between Brands and labels
11:24
they invite you to the table and try and
11:26
label your brand change the B to your
11:28
band to orchestrate the land with your
11:30
hand man the challenges stand balanced
11:33
never too high never too low Stuck In
11:36
The Middle With a mean ass flow a mean
11:38
ass show I see you sis I see you bro you
11:41
can move any room work any crowd they
11:43
can't quiet your loud so keep feeding
11:46
them and feeding them it ain't black
11:48
versus white it ain't rich verse poor
11:50
it's wrong verse writing was right is
11:52
that the babies keep eating and eating
11:55
you ain't never been a fool so just
11:57
remember to use your cool use your tools
12:00
be you and no matter what they do always
12:03
remember that you go be
12:05
cool
12:07
guilty
12:10
[Applause]
12:11
[Laughter]
12:17
wow yo yo that man first of all big
12:20
round of applause one The Duel yes
12:23
that's the name of the group what's the
12:26
meaning behind the name yes so one
12:28
stands for observant noetic effervescent
12:31
and those are the words we like to use
12:33
to describe ourselves how we come into
12:35
life and how we make our music that's
12:37
amazing my niece when you get that CMT
12:41
award make sure I'm there all righty you
12:44
already know you already know what it is
12:45
like how can people reach all they want
12:47
to follow your music
12:49
on socials at one the duo like
12:51
everything on social is at one the duo
12:53
websites won the duo.com Spotify iTunes
12:56
were everywhere everywhere you get music
12:58
we've got we got a little catalog
12:59
rolling too album's dropping the summer
13:02
yeah okay single just dropped last week
13:04
videos out the feel good single feels
13:07
good okay all right we're gonna play
13:08
we're gonna end the show with that okay
13:10
and then when the album drop come back
13:13
maybe we could do a performance and sit
13:14
down and talk okay
13:17
absolutely come on stop playing with me
13:19
I'm text your father like yeah
13:23
wait until after I left so he can be
13:26
surprised oh okay well I blew that all
13:28
right
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hey man she's here right now
13:39
all right and then tari I love you I
13:42
love you too bro come on man I love you
13:44
we travel the world together we had an
13:46
amazing experience together we got to
13:48
get to know each other a little bit
13:50
better yeah yeah you were off the chain
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man I love it too man I feel safe when
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I'm around you
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you wanna you wanna thank you Jay Ivy
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Grammy Award winning Jay Ivy yeah
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okay and tonight at City Winery if in
14:07
the tri-state area yes Oneida City
14:09
Winery we rocking the j-iv Grammy
14:12
celebration Tour live at City Winery
14:14
featuring Tyre to Ray and her music her
14:17
album's called catching feeling so go
14:18
get that right now my album is the poet
14:21
who sat by the doe get that right now
14:23
you can follow Taria
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t-a-r-r-e-y-t-o-r-a-e and I'm Jay
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underscore Ivy the letter J underscore
14:32
Ivy let's go there you go have the B you
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could be reached at
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um I'm at the happy hour whp but let me
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just say this like we are blessed to do
14:39
this for a living and in this purpose to
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be here each and every day but today was
14:44
just straight up confirmation that black
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folks we are extremely talented period
14:49
I'm just gonna say it and I want to
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quote and give credit to Jay Ivy there's
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a difference between the brand and the
14:55
label understand what he means by that
14:57
one Duo congratulations y'all are
14:59
blessed I'm about to follow y'all and
15:01
stand out torque says I got you whatever
15:04
you need whatever you need promoting I
15:06
got you and Jay thank you come on man
15:08
like for real this was beautiful today
15:10
thank you so beautiful thank you to
15:12
everybody I'm at the happy hour wh
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