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Join Sway In The Morning for an exclusive interview with hip-hop sensation Toosii as he shares his inspiring journey from homelessness to Billboard success. In this captivating episode, Toosii opens up about his struggles, triumphs, and the making of his new project, "Jaded," featuring collaborations with Kehlani, Muni Long, and Gunna.
Discover how Toosii's determination and unique perspective have shaped his career, and listen as he addresses the current state of the music industry.
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CHAPTERS:
08:01 - Millionaire Mindset
17:35 - Creating the Hit "Favorite Song"
19:23 - Navigating Toxic Relationships in Life
21:51 - Parenting: Toosii's Insights on His Son
25:37 - Touring with Rod Wave: Experiences and Highlights
27:57 - Toosii's Relationship with Lil Durk and Pooh Shiesty
29:31 - Toosii Talks About His New Project "Jaded"
30:10 - Insights on the Music Industry from Toosii
32:47 - Preview of Toosii's Upcoming Album "Jaded"
36:50 - Toosii's Pre-Studio Rituals for Health and Creativity
37:56 - Toosii's Age and Personal Reflections
38:08 - Featuring Raven Raven-Symoné
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why not now that's when I first discovered him this man has been on his journey ever since and it it didn't
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start off easy no he was homeless at one point if I'm not mistaken yeah for sure
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for sure how can you go from homeless to being on the Billboard charts and having some of the most singable songs of this
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era I want to welcome this man to the show right now ladies and gentlemen give it up for the one and only two is here
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man wow yo yo what's up everybody
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yes sir better believe it one of the finest T yeah the toeb back to we got to take
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it way back for sure Mom Dukes ain't call me that in a minute they used to call you Tuda they used to call me Tuda
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butt man Tuda butt I don't know where it came from man in today's time that name will never
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go n that wouldn't work bro black people come up with the most original nicknames
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ever yo and to the butt be normal like the funeral the wedding every
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Thanksgiving just normal yeah and everybody used to call me it too like it was just so regular you feel me no that
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ain't no regular name n i w lie but when did you change it ain't no I I got
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probably when I was like I say like 14 okay 14 but I don't lie even tusi ain't
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the like best name for real for real I don't see muscles you I lie I lie
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I just I just found out my name means some whole other junk too like I ain't never knew what toi meant that in what
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language man n toi is like a drug oh snap really you never knew that I was thinking the Watusi dance that was a
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dance called the wat the slide yeah you got yeah you got that all that see which
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drug is it is sniff or smoke got OG when I said that nobody even heard me when I said I was thinking of whyi dance cuz
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it's such an old classic dance yeah I don't even know what that is it's so many it's so it's so much stuff out here
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that got to in it yeah but like n to it's like a powder it's like pink cocaine pink cooc oh wow that's why I
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asked if was it a pillow or Sniff and he said sniff yeah I'm trying to tell you they going crazy off that
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two real so what you going to drop the the SII or just be two what you going to
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do just let it n n we going to keep the two t s i man you know I mean we we dare
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to be different minus the pink cocaine mine is the pink cocaine you don't do that you don't do nothing maybe a little
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bit you wouldn't be alone n they out here turn I would lie I a man these people turning up out here
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man it's a few people up there toy now that toy something else boy but we talking about the artist when we say it
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we ain't talking about that thing start a rum s or
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to you got that PT on that [ __ ] on that say the [ __ ] you
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man on man stop playing so let me what between why not
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now and then poetic pain that came about 2020 right yeah right right right yeah just give us a synopsis what happened
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from the from going homeless yeah yeah for sure um why were you homeless man we
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I just I I come from Hard Times you know my family come from you know uh a certain type of background okay and um
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the things that we you know we just like any other kid who grew up in poverty um
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you know I was the baby of five my sister was doing some some time my sister and my brother was doing some
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time at the time okay my mom really ain't have no help my dad he was out doing whatever he was doing um so we
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ain't we ain't really have no help and my mom was trying to make everything work but you know times get hard we F on
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hard times and you know we we we figured it out though you know my mom always make away was it shelter homeless car
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homeless we was we was like jumping from like hotel to hotel type Vibe you know and then um didn't have didn't have no
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place to stay staying with like other people you know like that kind of vibe so you know but mom duk's always going
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to find way shout out to Mom duk man come on I see keep giving her that light I love that man were you writing then
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yeah yeah yeah yeah yep yep yep cuz uh so like my motivation always been like my brother and my dad my brother and my
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dad was uh growing up they used to always make music so I've been writing music since I was probably about since I was young I've been singing since I was
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young and rapping since I was young but I've been writing since I was like 13 since you was 13 at that time uh when
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when did you start putting music on the internet probably like 2016 2016 2016 I started putting music
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on years ago you had your Ducks all lined up you know you had the money all the streaming money coming back to you
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okay talk about that I ain't start I ain't start getting paid see everybody think the money just come like instantly
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soon as you start rapping I ain't start getting until I like learn what like real money was I ain't start really
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seeing no money for real for real until like
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202 2020 I seen my first 2019 or 2020 I
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seen my first milia okay and then like after that it was like all right that's when I started seeing like real money
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know so I love that man and Tracy I saw you yo yo yo yo your forehead got wrinkled when he said his first million
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right CU I was like Dam but that ain't you can't look at it like it's a million in his pocket right that's a million
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generated facts facts but that ain't what went home in your pocket facts facts nah no no I had my first I had my
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first m i my okay with them man I with
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you I had my first M probably like 2020 2021 I'll say yeah but it it could have
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been more than that but I I I didn't you know like they don't know like all of that is not what's generated and then on
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top of that like you know with touring you don't start making money on toring for real for real till you get to
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certain a certain size venues like things of that nature like people don't know that like you know when you at the
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2 3,000 capacity venues like that ain't really no no money like you it's not until you get to like the four five
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sixes maybe I say like the five sixes is when you start like making real money so
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I ain't never really like even when it came to the touring side like a lot of my money come from
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merchandise meat and greets um like just other and and other stuff I do I don't I
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don't lie that money you got in this rap game man you got to take that money and put it to use like that's right yeah you got to take that money and put it to use
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what what was the um the song yeah that that that set it set it over the top for
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me um initially for when I what caught caught was love cycle love cycle but my
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first like I guess you could say like you know cuz you got that first song that's like big to the people but they haven't really like made it to like
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radios and all of those other things my first song was red lights um but love cycle was like my first like all right
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we on the radio platinum record like rolling people singing it word for word
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whenever we travel around like that was like my first one so yeah man toi is here man I'm loving I'm trying come on
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ask you this [ __ ] for a long time absolutely this is a lot of game that you give it too with your honesty it's
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it's just so crazy to me the reason when sway was like my forehead was wrinkled is because I'm thinking about someone
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some who unfortunately had to endure a period of time of being homeless but then transforming into someone who
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considers a million dollars to be the start of when you're making money oh yeah N I won't lie like I ain't man I
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see into the future like I see into the F I've seen all of this happening before I even got here like this a this is
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literally just like this going this this is minor things before we get to the major things you know sooner or later
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I'm going to sit back down here and I'm going to be worth a b you know there you go I love that
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come on no doubt what mindsets did you either have to shed or Embrace to even be this
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like Seer of the future um honestly it it it's it's a mentality thing it kind
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of it got to be in you you know it's it's it's not something that's on you it got to be in you and you got and you got to know that like nobody opinion really
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matter cuz I I had some I had somebody tell me I won't lie I had somebody tell me like I never make a billion dollars
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because I'm black like yeah I had somebody tell me that and it was kind of like yeah and it was kind of like wow
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I'm like man you don't bro you do you know what I came from like for me to even make this little bit of money that
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I done made is is worth more and I and and I'm understanding the value of a dollar now so that's even worse you know
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I'm I'm I'm learning how to control my emotion you know I'm learning what emotion is I'm reading now I'm doing
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things I never did like you know so selfimprovement sure for sure so
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selfimprovement but like I got this thing though like cuz I'm a Capricorn I lie shout out my mom's a Capricorn you
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know shout out mom du she she the one but I got this thing to where like I kind of need a little bit of like hate
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for me to get to where I need to the motivat right I need I need the motivation I need it like I need
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somebody to tell me I can't do it so I can do it and when I but I'm I always been a type person though when I do do
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it I ain't going to treat you how you treated me though you know like I want I want people to know I'm always better than that manly I like that man got the
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project it's called jaded J jaded jaded jaded we were talking about your project
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today we was like damn man this dude is he all is is it you know we all have our own interpretations right right so when
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I hear jaded I think of think over [ __ ] uhuh you know I'm over
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it you know I've been Jaded by the music business over and over so I had to write
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it up I had to paint my own picture yeah paint your own picture and live in my own movie while those other movies on
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these other screens my [ __ ] is always running my [ __ ] always run I ain't going be jaded in my own movie but but but
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what are some things that have have and and I I'm just presuming that's the interpretation of jaded but in that
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interpretation what are some of the things that's jaded you about the business yeah yeah I mean you hit it you hit it on the head honest but honestly
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though I feel like I feel like all of the music that been coming out man like I don't feel like it's no it's no I
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ain't going to say no good songs coming out it's just nothing that's Everlasting no more like we used to have records
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that we sing for years you get what I'm saying and and they out for years and we stream these songs for years and and and
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and just I don't lie I just feel like the internet messed up a lot of [ __ ] like it ain't the this world ain't used
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to be like this you know everybody ain't used to be so judgmental or if everybody was judgmental we ain't have the
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internet to be able to see all the comments see everything that's going on it's just a bunch of negative [ __ ] going on so I've been Jaded by like all the
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music that been coming out because I and I feel like the that's kind of the thing I feel like the world been Jaded by by the music that's coming out I feel like
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it's all popcorn music like ain't none of it sticking you you worked with the baby before right yeah yeah that's my
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label mate that's your label mate uh we had him up here the other day and we asked him a similar question about this
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and he made a comment check out what he said I want to get your feedback on this I was like I was at a point to where
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like you know I just didn't I didn't respect like where the game was and I just I did not respect what a music
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business was it was a it was a period of time like shortly after Co like coming back from Co I just feel like everybody
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was just in just a [ __ ] up space just a dark space you know what I'm saying people had too much free time on their hands and he went on to say that
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everybody sounded alike everybody was doing the same thing and I find it interesting because this is y'all era
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yeah I mean it's my era too I'm in this [ __ ] you know what I mean but but it's your era is that a consensus
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that you starting to hear around other artists like man everybody everything's the same y'all yeah I think I think um a
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lot of artists just think it's easy to cut on autotune and sing now um or or if they ain't doing that it's easy to just
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rap about uh popping pills [ __ ] [ __ ] and shooting guns you it's regular I I remember like I I was just
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telling my homeboy like I was scrolling on Tik Tok and it was this song that had popped up on Tik Tok and I was like bro
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like few years ago this was the type [ __ ] that [ __ ] walk upon you and ask you to listen to
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now they blowing this [ __ ] up on the Internet like these like when the [ __ ] did we give everybody the platform to be
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able to do this [ __ ] like y'all taking away this y'all taking away the stardom from from people that's actually out
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here putting in the work cuz I won't lie like this ain't no this game not for
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everybody like this game ain't I can't go and do what a baseball player do I can't go and do what a soccer player do
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I advise everybody if this what you want to do to like take a shot at it but this [ __ ] ain't posted be how it is today
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it's like anybody can do it they they got you making music on your phone now like that's that I don't I don't lie I
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don't respect none of that [ __ ] like get it how you live but I don't I don't know like music was never that that that the
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music business was never like that man get that man a round of applause for thinking like
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me feel me and cuz like when I think I lie swe when I think I just think like I
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think bigger than everything bro I think gramys I think like how the [ __ ] you supposed to get and I ain't saying that
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you can't yeah but a Grammy a Grammy hit off a cell phone is
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crazy that's crazy something something's wrong with that that'll be a new category in five years what cell phone
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songs absolutely I believe it absolutely song made on the it's a lot of people
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doing it doing it yeah right it's a lot of people doing it it's crazy I don't
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know like why why is that bad to you why why is your method you feel better you
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obviously going in the studio you got live instrumentation on your music cuz like I just I won't lie I respect the
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grit like I won't lie we used to have to do we used to have to put money together for studio time to get up and go to that
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studio like we used to have to go outside put put that work and do whatever we had to do to get some money
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and and and go and pay the studio time until or we used to have to go and get this money however we got it and save up
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to buy studio equipment we was buying studio equipment one by one you know and and and that taught me like the craft of
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being able to learn how to record myself I've been recording myself since I was 16 years old I got the whole setup in
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the crib the whole sheam everything that they got in the studio I got it in my house and I and that's where all my songs come from so like I just respect
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the grind I feel as if like and I ain't taking away from nobody I just feel as if like recording on a phone is just
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crazy like it's too easy like get up and go to the studio if you if you respect
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your craft that much get up and go to the studio like I mean it might sound better on the phone but get your ass up
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and go to that studio and put that work cuz like it's some [ __ ] to be done in that in that studio it's just funny
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because every generation has something of ease that may the last did not have
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that warrant it just criticism it get easier every generation right but I think that gives more access to others
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to be a part of it too because sometimes one could argue that the music industry there is a level of exclusivity you know
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what I mean that left some people out and so when we democratize it folks can express themselves but the cream will
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always rise to the top because even with this phone folks that maybe did not have the amount of money to shoot a music
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video with the fanciest most expensive of equipment can use their iPhone to do so and then eventually you'll see an
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artist like I just showed lonni light RPA here of Victoria bod music video
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with Ariana Grande that shot on an iPhone yeah so you might get three or four people who do something great that
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way against three or 4 thousand who do something whack that way and I think visual is a lot different than audio and
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I think there's an energy that's captured in a studio when you when you rocking cuz maybe your engineer or your
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producer might say let's try something different cut that vocal over let's let's try this let's add that you can't
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get that on you know on the phone to your point get it how you live but if you have the opportunity and when you
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have to get in that studio put that work and create that magic and there certain
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moments that just like that can't be made on a phone that you could make in a studio like my greatest songs came from
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me being in studio with my friends me being around with my peers like it ain't come from me sitting plugging my phone
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up to no plugging my headphones up to no phone and and rapping and then passing my homeboy the mic and say all right you
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go n bro like you don't treat it with enough care it's that in the game in the
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game like and this is like but you don't and my thing is like like not even to be
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that [ __ ] but you don't see people that that that don't look like us doing that like they getting they ass up and they
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going to the studio they finding a way to get in that studio we got to respect the game more cuz I won't lie like they
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ain't speaking on it but this [ __ ] declining like it's declining but the quality control quality control there
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isn't any for sure it's not none there no quality control not none and so uh
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and and then we end up with artist like you who's from this era yeah for sure can be jaded it took you a while um a
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few months um to to Really record this project correct yeah you work through a
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lot for sure dealing with stress you know just all all the things I was going through I mean and then last year was
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such a big year I mean with with uh favorite song being as big as it was round of applause that's a beautiful
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song bro you couldn't have made that on your phone thank you thank you fact I'm trying to tell you I'm trying to tell
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you I I remember hitting the highway 6:00 a.m. in the morning 5:00 a.m. in
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the morning writing that song yeah writing writing that song at 5:00 a.m. in the morning on the way uh home as
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soon as I like I was hungry too I wake up in the morning I be hungry I be wanting to get breakfast yo but I was
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like favorite song was so for some reason with favorite song it was just different I couldn't even like usually
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what I do like cuz I used to what I used to do was I to my baby mom house we cuz we ain't Stay Together MH I go to my
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baby mom house stay the night whatever the case may be wake up in the morning and I go home record for the day and
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then I go back over there and do the same thing every night but with with that it was like it was just totally
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different because I woke up in the morning and I wrote favorite I was writing favorite song as I was on the
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highway and I couldn't stop and get no food I'm like I got to go to the studio and record this right now you knew it
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it's something about this song I got to go to the studio and record this right now and I remember seeing sending it to my uh anr shout out Chris Turner and he
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was like this is smash you know I and he don't say smash too often yeah you know so when I heard him say this is smash
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I'm like it's out of here like we got to go we got to go one man so yeah n that
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that that definit that definitely couldn't be made on no iPhone n man sticks and stones for sure that's a song
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you have um yeah man and it it's dealing with toxic toxicity
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relationship right um is that is that based on true experience or you
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reflecting on experience I I like to tell people that everything that I make is 100% true because if it ain't my
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story it's somebody else's you know so all all the music that I make is 100 100% true um and you it's just for the
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people to guess who who it's about if it's about me or somebody else you don't like arguments you don't like
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combativeness and relationships at all huh no I don't do no I'm I'm I'm a earth sign I don't what's your sign what is
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Itor Earth sign yeah okay cicor what what's the what would be like the give
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me an example of toxicity you've experienced you ain't got to name the person give me a crazy moment where
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someone says something crazy to you I won't lie I done I done I done experience some some real toxicity I'm
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talking about I don't got it as bad though cuz like I don't experience toxicity but
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then I look at my homeboys and I'll be like yo I won't lie I be like some of the stuff y'all girl be doing to y'all
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bro my girl ain't never do that to me like y'all be what they be but I don't see that my homies be Wilding so what is
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it like arguments you got slapped like somebody your head your wallet like what
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yeah N I won't lie like I done had I done had a little bit of that though like I I done had I ain't never had like cutting up stuff and all of that I never
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been through none of that like but see I haven't been with a lot of women either okay like I done I probably done had
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three girlfriends my my whole life yo I ain't never heard a rapper artist say that you ain't just a rapper but I ain't never heard artist say that [ __ ] right
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that man quality control I a I ain't just dishing it out huh n facts I don't lie n we ain't never
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playing that game n why is that though that was your upbringing or or your respect for women or I know my worth you
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feel me and it's like uh yeah I know my worth and and at the end of the day like you know I don't know I just feel like
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it's it's it's not too many out there meant for me you know I definitely feel like the world is made for options but
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yeah I mean my options is minuscule it a it ain't it ain't too many out there for me so I don't know I'll just be chilling
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and I'm on a different grind like I had somebody tell me I can't make no B I'm on a different grind like I I got it I I
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got to have it I need it my son my son got to have it my family got to have it I need it you know I love you speak on
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your son man hey you got another dad We call we got a podcast called rap
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that we produced my man eston is the host of I'm can we have you as a guest and just strictly about fatherhood for
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sure and how fatherhood has shaped and molded you as a man sure I will sit and talk to you about that all day long I
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yeah I talk about my son all day long what what kind of attributes has he he
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brought out of you I'm glad you said attributes cuz he Oh I thought you was talking about him he got some real
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attributes I don't lie he he that boy got superpowers or something like my son be bouncing Off the Wall flipping and
22:30
jumping off of stuff he be whing but uh I he he definitely he definitely helped
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like with just my focus and um me me learning how to just control my emotions
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um and get better at that and just outside of that like I like to say my son kind of like turned me into a old
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man you know okay you know I don't like to I never really like to drink uh well
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I never really have drunk before but I don't smoke um I don't really like go
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out to the club like that I I ain't I ain't into none of that but my son really done like turned me all the way
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down like now I he got me reading books doing all type of stuff that I never did before that don't make you old man a lot
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of billionaires don't do that either n for sure I lie ain't old man [ __ ] that's
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billionaire [ __ ] you feel me for sure I don't lie so like he he he done he Cal
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me down a lot man I just my my mind said just be in a different place like you know I think
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um I just I just started reading this book uh the Rich Dad Poor Dad book oh yeah okay in a round of applause about
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to get gang yeah what what tell us something you you you that sticks out from that um in a Rich Dad Poor Dad book
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uh it's it was basically speaking on you know uh learning the value of a dollar you know and um speaking on people with
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fear and desire you know and and talking about how the biggest um the biggest cause of poverty is fear mhm you know
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and that used to like I used to see I was the type person I had fear and desire like I I I used to desire the nice
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things like the change the jewelries the the the cars the clothes like just all
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of those things before my son came around I wanted all of those things and then I used to fear being broke and the
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fear of being broke used to cause me to get money and just spend it thinking
24:22
that I needed to spend this to do X Y and Z and I was just going to get it back and it never happened like I the
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fear just kept causing me to go through the same cycle so I think once people like it talk about using fear and desire
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to your advantage instead of like you using it and and being afraid or or
24:41
being desirable of certain things and just learning the value of a dollar and and talking about how you know it's the
24:47
difference between workers and bosses and how some workers had never be bosses because they just have work mindsets I
24:52
ain't never had no work mindset I always had the mindset of a boss so my son really opened my eyes to that and and
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once he did I just I'm like I got to lock in I love this man to is here man
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it's [ __ ] you mean for sure [ __ ] you mean what does that mean that for
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[Laughter] sure got to put that [ __ ] out there
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slide it in there right [ __ ] you mean play on that pink what you doing heard that [ __ ] you Simone is here so she
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might stop by to say hi Oh yeah tell come That's So Raving you know who that is oh y'all talking about Raven Simone
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yeah hell yeah tell Simone here tell her come in me toy all right that'll be
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great right yeah you about you about to do this last lap tour right yeah y with r wave who is r wave man this dude is
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mysterious man what can you share with us I won't lie and that's that's like one thing about it he's he's definitely
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a mysterious man like you don't know you don't nobody really know nothing about Rod wave like he don't barod a cool dude
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though he it seem like he a cool dude yeah cool dude he just he don't he don't talk much he laidback um yeah he don't
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talk much he laidback he he regular though like he like he like the same stuff to everybody else like chilling
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like you I mean when we on tour this cuz this my third tour with him oh wow yeah this my third tour with him I don't know
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why he keep bringing me back you know but it feels like y'all are aligned
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especially when you're talking about the quality control of your own life entirely you know what I mean and not going out to clubs all the time and then
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depleting your body turn okay yeah R turn up that's what people don't know he turned up he he turned up
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like you feel me he like to have a good time um but like yeah he he uh he he definitely a mysterious man there not
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really much you could say about him cuz he just he just so chill I've been on two tours you just I've been on two tours and I still can't tell you much
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about wow but you know but you know artist be like artist be artist time like you know when I when I I don't lie
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when I show up to the Arenas I got a job to do you know and my job is to you know go out there I mean he brought me for a
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reason but my my job is to go out there and you know try to win these fans over so I mean that's my goal every night but
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we don't yeah n we don't we talk uh we talk on the road we kick it but we don't really talk much he he he he be on his
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side I'll be on my side money bag y was on this one too right yeah for sure yep yep yep y'all don't talk either or nah I
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don't really talk to a lot of artists I don't really talk to a lot of artists man I don't I don't lie me it's crazy
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like me and baby never like really talked that much really nah like I don't really I be in my own world man that's
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man you handle you did for business and the thing is I live in North Carolina so it's like a no about Who coming in North Carol oh you really live in North Carol
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yeah but you work with but what about Gunner y'all work together yeah yeah now Gun gunana N we don't talk much either
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we talk we don't talk much either but like with Gunna like I used to um I used to go to the studio I used to go to the
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studio and have to have a seat
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a SE we got Raven my sister here Raven have a
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SE look look here you go you're [Applause]
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stupid Sushi switching SE RAV right now that's how big the love is this a right
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here nice to see
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H this is my sister brother Raven and I known each other
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since she was little Raven Raven un spit bars on his shoulder before hone I was so nervous that time I
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mess up the whole thing I was like damn it you have fun and then tusi has a new
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project called jaded you know he's had major hits favorite song big
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stepper he's had a lot of hits there's not many people who more experience in
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entertainment no not at all than this person right here I don't know nobody I've been I've been watching you since I
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was yay high thank you thank you I appreciate that for sure this is this this is I feel good yeah right come on
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man you this is the level you on you think bigger and higher most right you see the forest beyond the trees is what
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I'm gathering from you sir this is a person who has a similar Vision most she sees the solar system beyond the moon
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that's how it's supposed outside in the solar system [Music]
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look at this we got know might as we got Holly robins and Pete walking
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up in here too man look at this man [Applause]
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[Music] [Applause] hey in the hallway what where r at he's
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in the hallway tell him to come in
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got bro come on hey it be like this
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though hey hey it's every day you never know what you going to see as way people what's up Legend come on I see you baby
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come on the Michael Vic project yeah you saw it incredible Mano I'm proud of him
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man put that whole thing together his vision but I'm proud of you for who you me both of you for the work you're doing
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with the foundation y' are icons icon family Raven Sim here you got
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hang on Mr Cooper reunion happening perfect believe 100% too good
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this is too good wow love y'all love you too good to see y'all watch watch CW tonight I'm hosting Scrabble oh okay oh
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you are is that the one that you're doing with Lavar Burton is doing Trivial Pursuit yeah that's what you're doing
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yeah sorry to interrupt boo I to tell you to watch the CW tonight uh 789 Central I'm hosting SC always working
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you're hosting Scrabble yes yo how can we get on one of these game shows toy want to do it too let's do it want to
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get on there y I know you got bars let's go you got a Wordsmith over here let's do it let's do it I'm ready I'm ready
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what can you get this young man has been in the business almost 10 years now right well really he been at it I've
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been at it 10 years been in the game about I say five years 5 years what city are you from I'm originally from
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Syracuse New York okay New York let's go let's go um so you're in the music industry
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that's a different yeah education wow so let me click that on CU you know
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they didn't accept me for obvious reasons um it's a hard game that you're going to play for the rest of your life
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and I think you just stop trying to chase the fame just chase the lyrics and Chase the talent because Styles change
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and you know Trends change and the people who actually last long are The Talented ones the ones who go home at
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the end of the night and don't try to stick with whoever's most popular you know what I mean they they they do what
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they need to they play the game where they need to but then at the end of the day they go home and and work on the The
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Craft itself and when you're starting in the industry I know a lot of people like I'm crafty I'm like I know I know let's
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see once you get that money and then you spend it all you'll see how crafty you are then you start doing things you're not supposed to do to keep up taxes and
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so um just you know pay your taxes get a good lawyer for sure and don't give nobody your money I appreciate that and
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don't go to any parties we ain't never do you off the
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chain ain't never doing that you asked you asked don't go to the party sway on that
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pink do his name Raven his name in the
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streets toy mean what does it mean and Heather saying I'm on that
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to come on man careful boo careful Scrabble so you got that guy that's must
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be fun for you you guys I've so I've I've been in the industry for 37 years wait hold up man hold up oh that's
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different ain't even that old oh that's different how old are you 24 oh go go sit
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down been in industry for 37 years and I swear on everything the universe said
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you've been here long enough here you go have one of these fact because if you look at the people who've hosted game shows Classics like and I'm a part of
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that history that's that's
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yes
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little I'm so excited yo I haven't seen her in so long
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God bless you man I love you guys Jo is so genuine because I got a job you guys
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come on and it's a game show do you play games yes you play games I'm Words With Friends I'm Words
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With Friends daily you need to get me come on you out and I do I
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do word word connections connection connection con con con well
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just so you guys know Scrabble also has an app it's called Scrabble go okay and you can play on there as well I'm on
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there we can play together and that is so much fun and um I'm going have to Scrabble go you Scrabble
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go and I'll send you my word results you know I'm I usually two gases three gases
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you know what you must on that s on that
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pink hey we going we got to get him a shirt sway on that P and going to have toy in the back let's do it man sell
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that I'm tell you yeah oh but so yeah we got to do that then yeah it'll be fun it'll
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be fun got to come too n n definitely definitely if we get a second season I'll be like we need a celebrity edition
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and then you can obviously give the money to your fa I mean bring it on you got the new album jaded I can't wait for
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it yeah definitely definitely it's a it's it's definitely a great body of work um how long did it make you to take
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how long did it take you to make it in what's your favorite song that didn't make it I think um it took me possibly
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like I say 2 years honestly to make this project because last year I had such a big year and um I felt like I was tired
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and and it showed in my music and um my fans worth more than that you know I
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think the fans is worth more than that so I took some time to revamp this year I took seven months off good for you
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spent some time at home with my family just did did a bunch of stuff to start taking my son out to like defy gravity
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taking them places that we never been before doing stuff with my kid like and um it just changed my whole perspective
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and I definitely think like this project is one of the best projects that came out this year um speak it outside of
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that I think uh my favorite song that probably didn't make the project it's a bunch but uh I got a record called
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Georgia and it didn't make the project it's about me
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yeah don't even know her name she she going to be in a song for real Raven Raven Simone well what's what part of
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her name I got a lot of just I'm not going to do it
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again but I do have a question right everybody has their ritual before they
36:40
start a song right I got my ritual which I won't let y'all know but you know I'm on Disney so there's things that I don't
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say um keep keep it clean keep it clean
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ask maybe a garden here and there what's the ritual like you wake up you put your
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glasses on you I I need tea I need tea I got I got to have I got to have uh green
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tea you I mean oxidants oxidants I I need me a green tea I get me a green tea
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I I cut back on a candy so I but I try to eat like few pieces of candy I don't
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get the bees now don't n few pieces of candy I mean I'm straight I don't do much I'm I'm simple
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cuz I I don't smoke I don't drink I don't do none of that so you should keep saying that for the rest of your life I'm going try to because my brother died
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last year of colon cancer at 31 and nobody gets checked at our young age because there's so many bad things in
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the in the world that we consume and so like if you stay healthy and take and keep those toxins out of your system you
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can live longer and that now is the most important thing you know what I mean I feel like Generations before it's like
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I'm going to die young it's like no that's not really something to promote you know what I
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mean not a goal like people don't say my my what's your age I am 38 cuz I made it
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here so like stay healthy in the body I appreciate that man that's great man
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