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TINK On New Single "GOOFY", Third Studio Album ‘PILLOW TALK’, Working w/ LIL DURK & More CHI Artists
Aug 11, 2022
@OfficialTink stopped by Sway In The Morning to talk about her new single “Goofy” and album Pillow Talk dropping Aug. 19th.
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oh
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i have to take y'all back have the beat
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talk to me she ain't no stranger to this
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show she's been here she's been up in
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this building before
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years ago
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been watching her ever since they don't
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know i sit and watch them like the
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muppets in the balcony that watches the
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circus that takes place
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they're a little grumpy though you're
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not grounded i'm not grumpy at all i'm
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happy i feel great i am who i am i'm me
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and because of that
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i get to meet all sorts of talented
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creative people yep and i watched this
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young lady and i was i went way back to
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i want to say 2011 when winter's diary
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came out was it was it about 2011.
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2011. i pulled out that can i joint
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because i was thinking about her career
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and um and watching how she evolves
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serena williams recently said that she
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doesn't like to use the word
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uh retirement she likes to use the word
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transition and evolve because that to me
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is symbolic of growth and expansion and
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so i've been watching this young lady
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grow and expand not just as an artist
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not just as a vocalist you know i had an
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opportunity to
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interview the group pentatonix
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before the vocal band acapella vocal
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band and um and we just happened to talk
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about a feature she did on one of their
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songs
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and i was very impressed
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because she did it around folks who are
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very respected for their vocal skills
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and i like that um and watching her put
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out um heat of the moment and and
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listening to the songs that she wrote
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and performed on that project with hip
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hitmaker i just seen her evolution and
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then when i saw her in the lobby today
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tracy g and heather b i thought diana
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ross just walked in and serious xm i
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didn't know what what did he say you
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said i respect the fact that she
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respected what she was doing today she
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came ready she came prepared she came
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dressed
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we got tink in the building citizens yes
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indeed looking like a superstar that's
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right as you should
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know so much love in here thank you wow
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you're welcome well deserved we got his
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love for you absolutely your journey
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hasn't been an easy one
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no you know it's been a long one it's
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been um like you said so i've been
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making music for a long time y'all since
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2011
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you know
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rapping singing
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so it's a journey it's a journey right
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and um yeah i'm i'm really proud of this
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era though this the era for you
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it's a very new era okay right now okay
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what you learn though the journey i love
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the journey the journey builds the
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character the struggle right come on the
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journey belgium come on yeah i've been
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through a lot um you know i went from
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being independent starting off kind of
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grinding dropping mixtapes
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i was signed before
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i've worked with the labels and you know
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i've been at the office spaces and
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i've been through a lot just you know
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trying to make it to this point i'm
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independent now again
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so that's the best thing i got my
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freedom back i'm able to release my
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music you know when i want to say what i
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want to mm-hmm um and yeah just being
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independent is like breath of fresh air
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for me
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what'd you learn from the label
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experience though right
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you know when i was signed i felt like i
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had a lot of people around that were
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kind of calling all my shots
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and you know i started making music with
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just me and my father so it was
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something real personal to me
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so i feel like when a label came in i
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was having people like tell me what to
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say or you know they teach you how to
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talk and it kind of takes away from your
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authenticity a little bit to me
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so you know i just had to pull back some
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and you know go back into my zone and
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remember what i started it for you know
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but working with a label like i say you
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know you have a lot of people a lot of
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cooks in the kitchen you know they're
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saying y'all a lot of chefs in the
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kitchen
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so it was just hard for me to really you
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know kind of be myself
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go ahead no i love this thank you for
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sharing because i think that a lot of
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artists think don't realize like you
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mentioned independence and that's kind
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of like the beauty like your
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authenticity authenticity it's like
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where you start to grow and create the
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studio is fun right and it's fun
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creating is fun
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and then you you say okay i want to make
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it i want to go to that next level but i
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think the part that people don't really
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talk about is that production deal in
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the middle
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you know yeah it's like
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you can't go directly to a label you
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know or if some middle guy got to come
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around and and by the time the label
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deal comes that's not really your issue
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the hardest part is getting out of that
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production deal
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it's getting out of that and that works
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with film television music it's that
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production deal production deal and so i
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love that artist of your generation now
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and to go through those rough spots you
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start to learn the business of it just
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get your business in order i don't care
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what else you do the record labels and
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the deals will come that middle man yes
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it's the one you got to worry about so
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have you how have you done that have you
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adjusted to getting your business like
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what does your business look like now
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well right now i have a team that i kind
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of built on my own okay amen as opposed
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to being at a label where people are
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just in the office and you have to work
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with everyone so everybody around me is
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for me you know my team is from chicago
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so they understand me they know where
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i'm trying to go and you know they they
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speak my language that was that crazy
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y'all from chicago i know y'all got that
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in your language you can't get crazy but
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chicago we good people
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y'all great people
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did you have to do any development when
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it comes to being a leader because you
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know for some folks it might be natural
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and even if it is natural there's a lot
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to learn when it comes to having a team
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being able to dictate maybe even firing
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someone or if it's someone you're close
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with telling them they're doing
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something wrong like how would you
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describe your leadership style and how
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has it changed i really did have to grow
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into that i feel like when i started i
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was just so young yeah and sometimes you
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know that's the issue i was maybe 16
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going into the game and you know
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trying to get my legs so i was really
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young and at that age you kind of like
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you're kind of listening to what
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everybody's telling you to do um so it's
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easy to kind of get you know swindled a
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little bit people put a deal in front of
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you and coming from chicago i didn't
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have much
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so it was just easy to kind of like
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listen to everybody so the older i got
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you know i started really trusting
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myself more making decisions on my own
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and you know like you get closer to god
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you know you stop leaning on yeah you
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stop leaning on what everybody else is
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saying and telling you to do
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start thinking for myself
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what's your relationship with a lot of
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the chicago artists we just had chants
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up here last week
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you know drizzy when she first came out
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she used to come on the show dirk all
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these guys you know yes you know what
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i'm actually in grace standings with
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everybody from chicago i'm glad you
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mentioned drizzy shout out to the whole
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chicago we have so much talent and it's
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like man i'm bigging up everybody dirk
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is doing amazing things for the city
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you know they they try to put us in this
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box as though like you know we're not
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really uh
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i guess they kind of stereotype us being
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from chicago it's like dangerous and
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you know we're actually good people and
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like you say chance he has so many
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foundations and great things he does for
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the cities and politics you know we
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smart people we have heart you know um
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so i'm in support of everybody doing a
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thing it's hard to make it out that city
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my city you know
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so like if you can't find a way you know
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like it takes a lot so i salute anybody
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that's pushing tank up in here got the
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building smelling really good right now
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i don't know what that perfume is but
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damn what is that perfume tink i might
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get that for somebody yeah it's good
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it's a valentino valentino that's a good
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one hp
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yeah you gonna get it for somebody
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it might not smell the same one
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are you ready to go licking on somebody
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good this way damn [ __ ] how do we go
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from that to licking no i'm gonna do
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that well let's just say it's been for
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his daughter's birthday it could have
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been my daughter's birthday saturday
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right yeah again
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we know this guy take we need to know
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pretty well tink what's been the the
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highlight of your career right now
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what's been one of those standout
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moments that you go i can't believe this
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happened with me
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man i'd have to say last year um
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i had a headlining show and it was at
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the chicago theater so the chicago
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theater is like renowned in my city it's
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probably one of the biggest theaters
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um
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it holds at least it's over 3 000
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seats in a building so that's just very
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very big for an independent artist like
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myself
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and uh i did the show and i also like
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brought along all women to perform
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before before me so it was like a big
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deal we had all r b girls in them in the
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building and i sold it out there you go
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so you know that was a very big
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testament for me like let's go go home
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and sell sell out the chicago theater
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you know it's possible for us y'all
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mm-hmm what did you grow up uh you know
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what like you said chicago does get
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stigmatized we hear about old block and
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all the you know the the gangster street
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stuff that happens exactly but that's
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across the board everywhere right yeah
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did you grow up like that in that kind
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of environment or so i grew up in
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calumet city okay i went to school in
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chicago high school in chicago and for
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anybody that doesn't know that's like
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maybe 10 minutes out of chicago okay so
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i'm still like you know living every day
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we wake up we're going outside in
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chicago okay so you know i was really
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like introduced to the lifestyle of all
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of it most of the guys i dated there
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with thugs or you know they were
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involved in all that activity
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um
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so yeah you you kind of really like
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growing up in chicago you learn a lot of
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things quick
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i had to almost you know
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you kind of raise yourself a little bit
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you know like your parents go tell you
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what to do and what not to do but of
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course when you're young you want to
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have fun
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you're getting into things you shouldn't
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so yeah i just kind of i've seen a lot
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got a lot of experience under me um but
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it also has helped me in this industry
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because i'm like man if i can make it
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out this city
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it's tough you know nothing can really
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shake me now like
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we've seen i've seen a lot of people you
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know
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it's a lot of death in my city i've had
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a lot of pain in me
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so now it's just like man nothing going
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to stop me there you go we here with you
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team dating all them thugs
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you know my earlier days y'all you can
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hear it in my music yeah i'm always
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talking about it i'm very yes we got
10:29
callers
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288-74234 i hear it in your music and
10:32
that song goofy you got that's a hot
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song
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you know
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talking about a lot in that song
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listen what made you guys
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what made you goofy
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can i say
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[Music]
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made you goofy though like like like
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eyes like what is goofy do you start
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giggling or i mean ladies have you ever
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been crazy crazy in love
11:06
or just crazy over over the man you're
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dealing with sometimes
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i don't know sometimes i think like when
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you have a strong connection it can it
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can drive you crazy
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okay ting [ __ ] you sound like you
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thinking about it right now whatever
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whatever this thug
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little tupac you've been dating
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me
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but no but i think what you're doing
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is
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uh very commendable your evolution
11:34
your commitment your resilience people
11:36
would have quit a long time ago right
11:38
yes you've been independent signed with
11:40
a label now you independent again this
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is in your blood this is your destiny
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right here so
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so i'm happy for you kim's on the line
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and she wanted to talk to you about
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relationships because kim said y'all
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date the same kind of guy
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kim what up ken ben goofy hey sway hey
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pink okay
11:59
i have literally created a name for you
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when i listen to him i'm like oh that's
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my thinker like i really love you i'm
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from chicago too so i totally like get
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your music like it
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like first of all let me say
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let me just give you your roses and
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flowers you are amazing every song that
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you have made even though it's through
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your pain i feel that pain and i was
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just speaking to someone and i was
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telling someone that like you know
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music is my soul so it's like when i
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hear your music especially oh my god
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this last situation i was in it was
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insane so it's like uh it wasn't goofy
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it was trying to please a [ __ ] almost
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made me lose my mind i said oh my god
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i'm gonna make you just my mind yes like
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i went through that i experienced that
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and then like it was a part of the song
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you were like i figured it out i'm like
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oh my god we figured it out together
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and that's all it's about as we figuring
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this thing out together we
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ain't going through it together love
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music from from start to finish like you
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literally spoke to my soul like you came
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and has healed it literally has healed
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so much
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trauma from those bad relationships stop
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dating thugs
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whoa
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[Applause]
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if it ain't working for you maybe you're
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not thug worthy
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the word
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i believe that i believe that but it's
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there's not really pink can like vouch
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for me on this one like there's not much
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you know in the hood you know i know you
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grew up in cal city you know my aunt
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lives in cal city i grew up over there
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about a big old yellow smiley sign you
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know i was around there when i was
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little so i didn't grow up over there
13:36
but i like visiting my aunt a lot yo can
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think talk him
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my god it's like a family reunion
13:44
i love it i love kim energy
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i feel you girl
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so i understand this is how i understand
13:50
her music so well i've been like like i
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follow her instagram and i'm like i'm
13:54
always commenting under her stuff like
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oh my god like like i want her to
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understand like i like don't stop like
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keep going like even though you're going
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through pain right now and you people
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may feel like your music is painful that
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pain is cure it's it's helping people
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and it is literally like helping me get
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through the most traumatic relationship
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that i was ever in like like i never in
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my life experienced so much pain and
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trying to like fix someone and trying to
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get someone to like see the light and it
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was just like that song i'm like oh my
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god it was crazy a grip and a curse of
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that album that's the name of your
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outfit and i feel everywhere it says i
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appreciate you so much like you said we
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ended together
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and you know keep supporting me i'm
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gonna keep holding us down okay
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all right
14:35
you cured them
14:38
kim's still talking hold up y'all
14:40
you're healed oh my god
14:41
where's 01 this morning
14:50
he doesn't like me anymore he thinks
14:53
i've talked too much but now that you
14:54
know i have to thank tracy g for this
14:57
she she gave me something to help me
14:59
with permission to talk to him um but
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kim thank you for your call i mean i i
15:04
would imagine tinker anybody would love
15:06
to have somebody like you that's
15:08
invested in their career so
15:10
that's all did you have a question for
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it okay
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no i just i didn't think so
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i thank her so much for her music and i
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love her music and i'm always listening
15:19
to her music when i get off the phone
15:20
i'm going to listen to her music again
15:22
and i'm going to keep streaming her on
15:24
all platforms and everybody's listening
15:25
to her it's amazing okay thank you kim
15:28
thank you you're all right with me
15:29
you're a citizen
15:30
kept still talking i think all your fans
15:32
are probably like that huh
15:34
yes your therapist crazy about each
15:36
other and it's because of that that part
15:38
with therapy
15:40
it's therapy for for us i don't even say
15:42
it like my music for them it's it's for
15:44
us yeah and so are you healed right now
15:47
i have to ask him now kim never heard
15:49
the question
15:50
yeah i am i'm healed i think uh it took
15:53
a long time for me to even say something
15:55
like that like i'm healed
15:57
um but i'm in a great space like
16:00
mentally like
16:01
crazy space y'all
16:03
i'm still human i have days
16:05
but that's gonna always be there's life
16:07
yeah i feel great i know how to get
16:09
through some some [ __ ] there you go get
16:12
through some [ __ ] i like that um and
16:14
that's important that's gonna inform
16:16
your music you got a chance to work with
16:18
some heavyweights um davido
16:20
um uh um
16:22
jeremiah you've done you you you put
16:25
some
16:26
points on the board what was it like
16:27
working with the veto
16:30
yeah so that process was really crazy um
16:32
we actually had that record done
16:34
and it's called might let you mm-hmm so
16:36
the record has a vibe that's really like
16:38
you know nigerian like
16:40
so hitmaker had to play he really just
16:43
gave him a call
16:44
and um
16:46
we dropped the record and he flew out he
16:48
flew out to uh where did we shoot that
16:49
he flew out to la and we shot the video
16:51
so that was my first time meeting him
16:53
just a very cool vibe you know and i got
16:55
nigerian in me too so i was kind of
16:57
feeling like you know
16:59
it's really lit
17:00
exactly
17:01
um so that process was crazy you know
17:03
shout out to davido it was love mm-hmm
17:06
you sample um beyonce right
17:10
for the song catered to you yes okay
17:13
um you got that cleared you see how
17:15
that'll work
17:16
that was very big for me i was so
17:18
nervous before i dropped the record you
17:20
know we waited we had to wait for some
17:22
time just to make sure we had all the
17:24
business handled
17:26
because that's b destiny's child um
17:29
so for a while i was just praying i was
17:30
checking in with my team like is it is
17:32
it clear yeah y'all are we good to go
17:34
every day i'm calling i'm calling them
17:36
um
17:37
so i think it took like a month maybe
17:39
two months maybe a month and a half but
17:41
they called and said you know you got
17:42
the okay from b you know everybody we
17:44
had to get it cleared by michelle kelly
17:46
and everybody involved so i was really
17:49
proud about that that that felt so good
17:51
have you ever met them
17:53
no i haven't
17:54
but you know that's that's the queen for
17:57
any any girl in r b you know beyonce is
17:59
the tear like yup for her to hear your
18:01
song cause she'll tell you i've heard
18:03
like she'll tell people like you know
18:05
change something change things or you
18:07
know she won't approve it
18:09
it felt so good y'all just to get that
18:10
green light yeah
18:12
and there could a lot of it too like i'm
18:14
just listening to you like where your
18:16
energy is right now is good like i think
18:19
other women in the business can respect
18:22
what you've been through and respect
18:24
where you're trying to go and sense that
18:26
from you and so you'll attract different
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things now you're in a different space
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and that's that's part of the healing as
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well sometimes we want all this stuff
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but we're not spiritually in a place to
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even receive it
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you're not you're not ready so good for
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you like i love hearing this and and
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where you are right now and i hope you
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just keep getting blessed thank you
18:46
let's play cater
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can we play that be fitting yeah okay
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let's play that let's play that and
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we'll come back with more tink i'ma end
18:53
with goofy
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[Applause]
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i mean i love a woman that caters to me
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i think every man loves that but not
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every woman
19:13
loves to do that right
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vice versa i'm sure you love a man that
19:18
caters to you yes but you have to be
19:20
deserving there we go yes because
19:22
sometimes a man particularly when it
19:24
comes to women it could be you know vice
19:26
versa but you don't want to feel like
19:28
you're being taken advantage of
19:31
you got to worry about that i guess you
19:33
do yeah you're in your 20s so it's
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different for you for sure yeah yeah i
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think like all ages
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you know you want to make sure the love
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is reciprocated and like you say nobody
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want to be taken advantage of mm-hmm so
19:45
we got to make sure it's mutual yeah the
19:47
catering got to be mutual now you date
19:49
older or you date your age
19:51
i'm older older i used to really like
19:53
guys that were young but man
19:56
i'm so mature now i really need somebody
19:58
to understand me
20:00
or you know can really hold a
20:01
conversation with me
20:03
it's hard out here for us in our 20s
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yeah so yeah yeah my my daughter's in
20:09
her 20s so i'm just picking taking notes
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i'm taking notes right now
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what does your catering look like
20:16
wow my cat around looks like
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a lot of things um and it's not always
20:20
just like physical things like doing
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something sometimes catering is checking
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in on you or
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you know
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telling you you know i'm proud of you or
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i'm catering to your mental health i'm
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i'm literally like giving you motivation
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um but i do like to like buy my guy
20:35
gifts and
20:36
i'm definitely like the person that
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likes to rub your back and make you feel
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you know yeah make you feel like king
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mm-hmm i like that too
20:45
she laughed in that heaven
20:53
because he got a million and one
20:55
questions because he's probably like do
20:56
you cook what do you like to make trying
20:59
to see what they like out there
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it's hard because i'm always working
21:04
and of course i'm always on a road but i
21:05
cook too you cook two you can get in the
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kitchen
21:08
we've been having a discussion actually
21:10
a debate tank about
21:12
older and younger i want sway to be in a
21:15
relationship with somebody who's about
21:17
four years four years in his
21:20
four years um four years younger or four
21:22
years older that's it okay all of this
21:25
10 years older than somebody 12 it's too
21:28
much i feel like you could do it she
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feels like he is too much
21:32
10 is too much
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just right because
21:35
his experience where he is really cool
21:38
though 10 years is not might not be bad
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sweat
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see a lot of people think no tv suede
21:57
radio suede i'm talking about home pain
21:59
in the butt sway
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he doesn't need anybody he's just
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tinkering with him
22:05
four nights a week three nights he
22:07
doesn't need that okay yeah but you can
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go out for three nights
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yeah this is 30 years it's 30 years
22:13
like i'm just telling you and we've been
22:15
we've known each other a long time so
22:16
she she thinks she knows i'm married i'm
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20 years married he's at my house
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right
22:23
this is why i can speak freely take he
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i'll come to the basement
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yeah yeah hey let's talk about that song
22:31
let's talk about that song
22:33
thank you tink ten years thanks tink you
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know
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i'll come to one of your concerts and
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find somebody um
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i want you to talk about making
22:44
songs the science of songs that song had
22:47
a bridge in it right
22:49
a change up
22:50
that song structure is a lost art now
22:53
because you don't have to really it's
22:54
not as formulaic as it necessarily
22:56
needed to be it's really about a sound
22:58
if you could capture a sound that's
23:00
happening now you can get some run but
23:03
you won't last necessarily so that's a
23:06
great point approaching this song it had
23:08
a bridge in it you were a little
23:09
apprehensive about that yeah i was
23:11
telling sway like when we were creating
23:13
a song
23:14
you know we were debating on whether we
23:16
should use a bridge and i was kind of
23:17
scared because like i don't know in 2022
23:20
like he said music is just so fast-paced
23:22
and people make songs that are a minute
23:24
and a half yeah people really don't
23:26
don't want to sit and listen sometimes
23:28
to a four-minute long song
23:30
so i was like i don't know if they don't
23:31
really understand what this bridge is it
23:33
might slow the vibe down
23:35
he was like hey make it tell me like
23:36
really you got to put this bridge on it
23:39
um
23:39
but you know what that's that's like a
23:41
lot of people's favorite part when that
23:42
bridge come in you know everybody starts
23:44
to sting you know they get into it
23:47
so i'm glad i went with it
23:49
you're very you're absolutely right like
23:51
the the way people create music is so
23:53
it's a little watered down a little
23:56
so um yeah it's a challenge sometimes
23:58
trying to flex that
24:00
music creativity yeah that makes me
24:02
curious because like there will be a lot
24:04
of folks where maybe a couple songs that
24:06
they hear from you tank or maybe some of
24:08
your other like peers that they'll just
24:10
say that's vibey and there'll be no
24:13
other like descriptor for it and i'm
24:15
wondering if that's something that you
24:17
embrace or maybe that is even its own
24:19
genre right now or do you feel that that
24:21
kind of undermines everything that you
24:23
could do as a vocalist
24:24
you know it's it's a real thing i've
24:26
been trying to find the balance
24:28
like you don't want to be too
24:30
i guess not old school but you don't
24:32
want to be too
24:33
too far off or they can't understand it
24:36
but you still want to have some soul in
24:38
it and i still got to make it you know
24:40
i want it to last you feel me just too
24:43
easy and simple so my albums always have
24:46
a balance i'll have some songs that are
24:47
just really vibey but you know for the
24:49
girls for the kids
24:51
i like to turn up too so you need a
24:52
couple of those at the shows you want a
24:54
record that get us hyped
24:56
but then you also have a record that's
24:58
just piano keys and
25:00
more like a ballad
25:02
um so that's why my fans are you know i
25:04
have young fans in 18s and some fans out
25:07
30 40 plus
25:09
because i'm i'm trying to keep that
25:10
balance keep that balance i'm not mad at
25:12
it tink is here we're talking about
25:14
pillow talk which is our album that's
25:16
out yes
25:18
friday the 19th let's go yes friday the
25:21
19th this one is coming out working with
25:23
hitmaker who is known for a ton of
25:26
things um including being um you know
25:28
pretty savvy on the internet always in
25:30
some type of um
25:31
back and forth and controversy we've had
25:33
him on the show a few times and talked
25:36
out a whole lot of stuff he told me he
25:37
made songs he didn't make apparently and
25:40
all kind of stuff but that's my you know
25:42
that's somebody i've known for a long
25:43
time
25:45
but
25:46
he consistently makes songs or a part of
25:50
projects that succeed
25:53
what is it about him as a producer you
25:55
think is standout that works for you
25:57
where you guys continue to collaborate
26:00
yeah it's his worth work ethic um he's
26:03
the type of producer like normally when
26:05
i create i maybe make maybe two to three
26:07
songs a day because i'm putting you know
26:09
writing down my words but to him that's
26:11
like a bad day
26:13
he likes to go in the studio and make 10
26:15
plus songs damn or you know
26:17
throughout the week he'll have a goal
26:19
like we got to hit 30 this week
26:21
so he's just constantly writing you know
26:23
what i mean like he he's always in the
26:25
studio and that challenges me to get up
26:27
and go get in the studio too because
26:29
he's knocking out records i'm in chicago
26:31
i'm kind of like battling him like i got
26:33
10 records ready to go too so it just
26:35
makes for greater projects we have a lot
26:37
of music to pull from wow how did you
26:40
guys meet how did you and hitmaker meet
26:42
so we met at uh empire that's my
26:44
distribution company so it's an
26:46
independent
26:48
shout out to ghazi shout out to tina
26:51
it's an independent company and he
26:53
actually came to empire i think last
26:55
year and i've been there for some time
26:56
so
26:57
we just got in the studio and it just
26:59
you know it went from there
27:01
so how does this start when it comes to
27:02
the lyrics like are you bringing a
27:04
journal with you are you being asked all
27:06
right so what's going on in your life
27:07
right now that you want to speak on is
27:09
that maybe like all right i had
27:11
conversations with five of my
27:12
girlfriends and this is what they were
27:13
complaining about or this is what they
27:14
were celebrating like how where are you
27:17
pulling from
27:18
so every day is kind of different for
27:20
the most part hitmaker always has like a
27:22
computer file he'll take his laptop
27:24
everywhere
27:25
and it's just maybe
27:26
thousands and thousands of songs so i'll
27:29
tell him like you know i want to go up
27:30
tempo today i'm turn i wanna you know i
27:33
need a vibe or i'll tell him like you
27:35
know i need to pin a song for the for
27:37
the ladies or heartbreak it's missing
27:38
the album is missing something there
27:40
so he'll go into his bank and if he sees
27:42
something fit he'll always pass me a
27:44
record or if i just say i need i need
27:47
space today i just want to write
27:49
he'll let me kind of like go through
27:50
beats alone
27:52
so it's freedom like it's no pressure
27:53
with him it's not like one way to do
27:54
nothing
27:56
it's like create how you create whatever
27:58
comes today mm-hmm if we like it we like
28:00
it if we don't let's keep working keep
28:02
working you're not judging yourselves in
28:04
the studio no that's important you
28:06
mentioned that in chicago you sold out
28:08
to chicago theater and it was all female
28:11
all women um on the bill if you could
28:13
go on tour with like the women who are
28:15
out there now and the scissors the
28:17
elements like
28:19
who would it be summer walker uh ari
28:21
linux who was one of my favorite of all
28:23
time right now just named the biggest
28:26
headlining tour i feel like
28:29
of the year um something can we put
28:31
kalani on there too yes
28:33
lonnie is my girl okay love her
28:36
um
28:37
you hit it on the head sway scissor
28:40
ari linux
28:41
um
28:43
there's another artist keanu laday
28:44
mm-hmm you know the girls aren't really
28:47
running things money long mm-hmm um
28:50
i can go on it that's a young lady named
28:52
april sashay i want to add to that look
28:54
her up
28:55
one day y'all should i'm just gonna put
28:57
that out there april saturday yeah yeah
29:00
so yeah and i'm all for like going and
29:02
digging up like other artists especially
29:04
females because it's a lot of us now and
29:06
i think that it didn't used to be so so
29:08
many
29:09
you know like women are really like
29:11
paving away and creating lanes that
29:14
you know maybe a couple years ago it was
29:16
harder for us to have a voice in this
29:17
game
29:18
so i'll just be really proud to see like
29:20
the women
29:21
yeah word thing and the tour would be
29:23
great we need to see that
29:24
let's make that happen well look um
29:26
congratulations to you tink yes you're
29:29
doing it you're doing it big and then
29:31
people people want to reach you don't
29:33
let them know how they can reach you yes
29:35
reach me i'm on twitter and instagram
29:38
official underscore tank check out my
29:40
music y'all know i'm on apple spotify
29:42
itunes
29:43
q with me album is coming out august
29:45
19th and i appreciate all the supporters
29:47
i know it's a lot of love out there too
29:49
so thank y'all for the continued support
29:54
you
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