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The Legend Lord Finesse On Big L Almost Signing with Dame Dash and JAY-Z to Roc-A-fella Records
Feb 12, 2022
Lord Finesse lays down an ill mix on Sway In The Morning, but first tells stories of Big L coming up before passing away.
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[Applause]
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man
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man this dude man i man i almost caught
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a moment right here man i damn they got
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a tear tracy allow yourself to why not
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i've been having the hardest time really
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dealing with my emotions lately
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don't deal with them
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my emotions become so powerful heather
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you know when i started talking about i
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appreciate people so much in their
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contribution i realized that this man's
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production style
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and this man's style of emceeing
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was so influential on a a certain part
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and era in my life
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uh that when i think back i i worked so
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much and for so long i i always looked
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forward so i kind of never would reflect
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on a lot of amazing things that took
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place
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in my own life
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and that led to
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my partner king tech and i creating
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opportunities and space amazing spaces
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for other people
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that help them in their life so i
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usually hear about that but when i
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the
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the funky technician album
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come on turn your mic on hbo is your mic
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on okay say something
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one two okay
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the funky technician album was a
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masterpiece
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a hip-hop but not just hip-hop a music
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masterpiece
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and that was by this man right here
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member of the d-i-t-c crew the
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documentary has to be made about digging
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in the crates crew you know uh it's so
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many amazing um artists that have come
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from that crew including fat joe
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right um that i don't know if people
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really realize that um diamond d oc
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you know all these different big l um
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all these different
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people that showbiz and a.g
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um um buckwild all these different folks
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who am i missing
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oh
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come on what up oh oh see come on man oh
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see jeez my gosh stay fresh too we stay
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fresh and the suns there's a lot of suns
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that's the direct crew there's like
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people that came the offspring the ezlps
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and so many people at the offsprings the
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offsprings this is one of the most
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powerful crews and collectives that most
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influential that ever blessed this
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culture to dig it into crates crew i
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said it like we hear about a lot of
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different other crews juice crew you
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know boogie down productions you know
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all these different crews we might
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wu-tang clan you know all these
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different crews but digging in the crate
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crew
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in so many ways easily could be one of
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the most influential crews to ever come
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out of this culture right and one of the
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one of the and i'm not even exaggerating
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because he's here every time i see him
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man i just gotta hug him and [ __ ]
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because you know the words don't come
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out right well you know i told king tech
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yo bro we got lord
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i told tech who's only 30 minutes away
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but he ain't getting it
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you know i
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thought saying i got lord finesse the dj
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tomorrow will make tech get up you know
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but he still 30 minutes away but he he
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just started laughing it was like what
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because he was such an instrumental part
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of what we set up with the world famous
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wake-up show
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and it took his music
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and his skill set of emceeing
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we needed people like that to set the
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bar you know what i mean
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we needed these kind of artists who at
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that time weren't mainstream right right
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but they were doper than the mainstream
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artists and so that show we've created
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has been able to give those type of
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artists this kind of exposure he became
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one of the most world-renowned djs also
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and and and see some of y'all don't know
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him like i know him i know him as the
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lunchroom terror because in that
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lunchroom was where the lyrics would
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happen it was battles in the lunchroom
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in park west high school that big daddy
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kane went to lord finesse went to as the
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best went to rich nice went to wow
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gangster g from uh from um um um the uh
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uh uh uh uh tim i can't think of the
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name of the group
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but there were so many committee
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master don on the death committee it's
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so many people that mcs that went to
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this school this dude in the lunchroom
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giving out
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late passes like smacksmack smack and
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then the fast forward to produce on
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motown for the motown state of mind
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imagine where he produced uh of remix
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songs with michael jackson marvin gaye
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debarge switch eddie kendricks the
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sisters love the jackson five these are
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the kind of remixes he's doing today
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that motown gives him the catalog and
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says do what you do ladies and gentlemen
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we have the one and only lord finesse
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hey finesse before you start did you and
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um big l ever battle
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no i mean um
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when i was in i was doing an autograph
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signing record store rocking wells 125th
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okay comes in with him and his boy him
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and his boy so he he too cool he sent
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his boy over okay you know my man over
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there he's nice he want to rhyme for you
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i'm like yo i'm gonna give my manager's
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info and you know he work it out from
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there if he dope i'm work with him so he
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goes back and tell al
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he said [ __ ] that he'll run for you
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right now and if you don't like him
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he'll never bother you again
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man he rhymed for me and um
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when he was finished i was getting his
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numbers
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wow yeah i've uh you know for him to be
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that age when i met him had to be like
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16 or 17
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when i met him and
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i know at that age i wasn't that nice i
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wasn't
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you know i was coming within my own but
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he was
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more
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you know i'm saying he was more polished
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you know where i was like
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let's do here you know yeah and
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you know and then
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he started to be around like like you
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said diamond and oc and all of us you
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don't have no choice but to get better
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and if you already at a certain level
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and you're around dudes so you're around
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stunts blunts and hip hops you're around
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runaway slave you're around word life
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yeah you know you seeing
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your crew doing it so it's like yo
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and all he wanted to be was was dope
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like he was like yo again this game is
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over ness yeah it's over you know
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and i remember he did devil sun that was
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when his first demo show produced that
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show beards and aj we had to have him
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tone it down
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why because it was like um
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he was saying some stuff
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he said one line and we oh whoa whoa
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whoa whoa
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you can't do that
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you're gonna lie huh you remember the
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line yeah it was like um f f jesus you
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know oh
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the best thing i like about him or the
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best thing that made me the most proud
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of him is when
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sony ain't giving the biggest push and
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then when nas came out with illmatic he
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had the superstar production lineup they
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they went with that immediately
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and left them kind of ice cold and then
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right after that
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you know came to fuji's yeah and then
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they just let them go
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but he ain't full like the artists go
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well you went from a major label now you
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independent
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nah he started his record label
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and his first record was ebonics wow
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and that was independent that was
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independent
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so then you enter the world of big l 2.0
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and that's when he became the monster
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that we really
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know the freestyles you see and all that
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he's like your word you know but most of
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all when he he went independent he knew
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he could make the records he wanted to
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really make
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and that's when and it's on my own joint
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yeah and that's when he started
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releasing his own singles
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wow and then you know
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you know damon jay was like nah we want
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him here
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and he i remember him telling me like yo
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i got oh i got like six
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six singles lined up so while i'm trying
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to negotiate this situation i'm gonna
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stay hot
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and then you know he got killed he got
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killed you know so he was he was ready
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to take over the world so that damon j
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wanted to sign him the rockefeller yeah
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it was a it was definitely a mutual love
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and a mutual respect especially with jay
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and dame you know
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dame wanting that harlem he wanted
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and and jay you know people don't know
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jay was on big l's first album
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the graveyard yeah that's right uh-huh
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so the love was already there
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wow that's crazy did you ever see them
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go back and forth l and now they they
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they did do it in harlem and then they
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did it on the radio show people don't
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understand that they think just it was
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the
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it was the
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babito show but nah they went at it
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before that yeah so and like i said l
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really admired jay
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and jay loved l so i i
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we i mean all we could do is the wood
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f's right now yeah yeah that's right
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but what we do know is you here with us
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today
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oh yeah lord finesse man you got some
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special plan for us
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yeah man yeah we're gonna have a little
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fun in here i mean
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you know people see me on twitch some
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people see me on ig and you know i'm
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doing it live in front of y'all so it
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goes up a couple of levels like wow yes
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actually to do this live so yeah it's
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going to be fun you see that sign behind
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you too right yeah so yeah swayze
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universe
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you already know what it is
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all right man listen citizens you are in
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for a treat man this is our brother
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legendary lord follow him at lord
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finesse d-i-t-c
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uh let us know what you're feeling
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you're rocking with us this morning we
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got dj battle cat and rascals coming up
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after that but right now we got the one
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and only the legendary lord finesse on
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sway in the morning
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