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Vina Love and Kid Capri Talk New Song “Uptown” of ‘The Love Album’ | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Feb 21, 2022
Vina Love checks in with Sway In The Morning to talk about her new music and the work she did on her father, Kid Capri’s new album.
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man i i enjoy so much having her on our
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show the time yeah she's come up on our
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show and showed off her skill set i felt
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like a proud uncle um i loved the nfs
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videos she did that song is uh to me
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it's heated i like the whole vibe of it
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i like the being in the neighborhood and
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just kind of seeing the culture that's
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surrounding her and she's right here let
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me tell y'all something citizens if you
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don't know get to know her she gonna be
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here for a minute doing it big welcome
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her to the show veena love is here y'all
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put it on your next mixtape
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that's right
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put your uncle on you know i'll be
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lurking your instagram whenever you know
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whenever you be on instagram me now then
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i i'll chime in and then the
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conversation get to the point where i
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don't want to listen no more because i'm
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talking about
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um let's talk about you uh we played
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this uptown song with your dad
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how did he approach you about doing this
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song
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um it was actually a very quick
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conversation uh he said i'm doing an
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album i need to get on the song i'm
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sending it right now
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i said okay
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i listened to it i recorded it i sent it
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back he loved it and that was that it
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was a very simple exchange
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that's it huh how important is it for
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you because you're grown now you know i
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got a i got a grown daughter too and
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sometimes i wonder how important my
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opinion is
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when it comes to her creative like life
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decisions there i'm in there she's
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listening to her daddy but when it comes
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to
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being creative in your art because it's
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your art you know just like kid is his
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art you know
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um how important is this is his approval
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when it comes to your music
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um
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i'm so much like my dad that approval
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isn't even like a thing that i look for
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like i kind of just do as i do
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and um if he likes it he likes it if he
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doesn't like it he doesn't like it and
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we just you know
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keep it moving but i don't like to you
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know stop my creative process to
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pay so much attention to what he thinks
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because that's going to make things kind
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of hard that's a lot of pressure so i
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really just like do what i want to do
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and then bring it to him if he likes it
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he likes it and if not and i still want
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to put it out i kind of just go with
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what i feel but now i'm definitely
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becoming more open to
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sitting with him and being creative like
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sitting in the studio and actually
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making music together from scratch so
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i'm excited for that
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okay
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yeah vina what's up it's heather how are
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you thank you so much
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hey speaking of creating
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where are you right now you look like
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you're on a video shoot or something i
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see a bunch of fly jackets in the
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background you ready for a photo shoot
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girl what's happening
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this is actually my bedroom
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oh
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wow
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wow that looked like a whole like a
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stylish just bought racks and racks and
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racks and racks but that's even better
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that is your bag
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it's a lot of clothes
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i love it i love it i love it i thought
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you wanted a video shoot or get ready
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for a photo shoot
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yes i actually have a video shoot today
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for my song options coming out which
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will be coming out next month so i'm
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really excited about that so we can talk
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about that later but yes i do have a
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video shoot today
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that's dope that's what's up richard
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rich
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yeah absolutely yeah what's up venus
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it's your uncle richard hey
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hi
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tell me tell us
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what's it like for you
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um
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because obviously you have an eye for
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creativity you know some people don't
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really know that you you like like
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heather pointed out with the style of
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clothes and fashion and even with art um
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you have all these natural talents
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when did you first know that you wanted
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to sing like
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like did it happen because you saw
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something were you with your dad
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somewhere were you just out on your own
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did you sing in the shower and go wait a
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minute that sounds kind of good maybe i
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could do this like when did you first
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know you wanted to sing
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um i
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knew i first wanted to sing it was
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around like
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i remember like nelly and kelly rowland
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dilemma i just came out
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um i think cheetah girls had just came
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out around that time too
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and i was a dancer prior to being a
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singer and i always
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you know performed and sung around the
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house
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but then i think one day i like heard
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myself like really hurt myself like oh
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i like this this sounds kind of nice and
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then my grandmother had got me like
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really deep into poetry and like just
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write in i was like learning about
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stanzas and all kind of stuff and i just
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fell in love with the poetry part and
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then i figured out that i could sing and
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i was like okay let me see if i can
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write a little song i'm like probably
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like 12 years old like okay let's write
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a little song and it just started to
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like fall in place and one day my dad
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was standing outside the car
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and dilemma came on the radio and i
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started singing and he was looking at me
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like
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okay
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and i could tell like it sat in his mind
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and he just like didn't pay attention to
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it anymore and then once i became
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serious like i know he was just like
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you're not ready kid i'm not feeling
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that and i was like all right no problem
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i'm just gonna go do it myself then no
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problem at all so yeah it was at a very
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very young age and i was determined to
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like really be a singer at such a young
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age so it's just always been in me
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final love is with us uh kid capri uh
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we're talking about the love album
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that's coming out on the seventh of this
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month uptown is a song that they did
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together we'll play it in a minute vina
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you know we're in an age a day and age
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now especially for uh
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female artists are often put under the
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microscope now for how they choose to
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create you know uh you know a lot of
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artists have um
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received backlash uh for
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that people might consider them being
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too provocative in music in the whole
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now however route they choose to create
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do you feel any pressures and what it is
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that you create do you feel any pressure
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to be provocative or pressure not to be
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provocative based on the narratives that
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we hear out here
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i am actually one of those artists who
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don't
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the pressures of everyone else i don't
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even
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think of like i'm so in my own world and
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in my own like creative space of wanting
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to feel right to myself that i don't
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even think about the pressures of
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everybody else so i really just
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write whatever i want to write like if i
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go in the studio and i want to write a
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song about sex or love or not liking
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somebody or
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whatever it is i literally go in there
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and do what i want to do
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and i think that's the like
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i think that's the part
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as artists we forget to tap into like we
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have the freedom we have more freedom
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than regular people because our brains
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are able to do the things that regular
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people can't do so to take the pressures
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of what people think you should do
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that's kind of like a waste of you know
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that creative space that you have in
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your head so i don't even abide by any
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of those things i really just do me and
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i think it's like the best part of my
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life
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okay and any rapper has been sliding in
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your dms to um wow yeah it's too much we
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don't even gotta i'm
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we don't even got to go there
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not in the hold up to do work not not
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anything what are y'all talking about
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um
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yeah um very often but i'll be honest
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with you uncle sway like
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i really don't
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i don't be caring who the artist is and
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i don't care how much like the price is
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if i don't like a song i can't
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bring myself to be like oh yeah i'm just
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going to do this song because it's this
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person like so a lot of rappers do like
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come across me and want to do songs
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together but if i'm not feeling a song
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like i'm not feeling the song if i try
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to work on something different with you
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and
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it becomes like an issue i just you know
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leave it at that but i'm too creative to
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just put out just anything and that's
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why it takes me so long to like
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keep releasing music because it has to
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feel and be right and it don't be racing
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dogs
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okay vina love kid capri here uh we got
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dj nichols on the line from delaware
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nichols go ahead you got a question
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yeah grand rising is everybody man how's
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everybody doing
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[Music]
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uh first time caller long time listener
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uh but kid i got put on to you back in
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1990 uh when i was in college my
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roommate was from the bronx you're like
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a friend in my head because they called
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you pooch
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but
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yeah
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but uh
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and that's when i got put on to your
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mixtape yo since 1990
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i've always wanted your entire
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collection will you ever share that with
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the world
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negative
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um
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i probably would give them essential
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stuff but i have a lot of things that
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are you know
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priceless man i matter of fact i just
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came up on something really really crazy
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where i have a lot of uh
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sessions a lot of people's sessions of
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the actual records they made
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and these the people that i have with
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people that change music forever and
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this fell into my lap um somebody must
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have been pissed off and put this out
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there but it fell into my lap and uh
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yeah so i try to have a lot of stuff
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that people don't have because with with
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shazam out
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with the internet out when i was djing
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on the net before the quarantine
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happened
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i played a lot of stuff that i gave a
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lot of stuff away to people you know a
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lot of heavy things but
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i also watched the quality of people
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stealing stuff from people still
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stealing sets and
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you know just different stuff so
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sometimes you just want to be you know
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you want to have things that nobody have
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so yeah if i was to put something out i
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probably put something out there people
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can get or you know maybe a few things
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they couldn't but overall now
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all right thanks for your call man hey
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kid real quick and i want to ask vina
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about this option song um
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it mixtape if you if you stepped outside
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of who you are right being kid capri who
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would you say well in your opinion your
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personal opinion the top five um most
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influential mixtape djs
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uh boosie b star child hollywood love of
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starsky
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um
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who else uh well those four was before
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me
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um
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and it was pretty much them doing the
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mixtapes
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uh when i came in i did i did it my way
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i didn't want to sound like them i
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didn't want to beat them i respected
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them but i wanted to do do it my way and
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fortunately my way caught on to the
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world
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but they're the they're the mount
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rushmore of mixtapes
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before i came
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uh so if you have a mount rushmore of
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five people of five people
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up there not four it would be those four
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and myself
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because it was them and then i came and
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showed it to the world brought it to the
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world
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okay and then the clues and everybody
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else came after that everybody came
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after that my album soundtrack to the
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streets was the very first album of its
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kind before clue tony touched khalid
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anybody made that type of album it was
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the very first one of his kind um
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and you know it had jay-z and buster and
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nas and lost boy and everybody on there
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and i wonder the grammy
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for um because i gave hard knock life to
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jay-z
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for the valiant two album the hard night
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life record was going
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soundtrack the streets and while he was
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on tour i gave it to him
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and he let me put it's like that which
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was on my album that he likes to his
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album and that's how i won the grammy
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so yeah
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oh know that you gave hard knock life to
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jay-z
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yeah i mean it's out there
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they always ask me about it the story is
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out there is on the net you know saying
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i pretty much i i've said it you know um
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but
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yeah you know and
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it was a that was a very blessed moment
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to have to get
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to to get that grammy
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and at the time i got it and then 20
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something years later
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get on another uh grammy award police
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award album callisto award album with
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the damn album with kendrick lamar that
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was pretty i was pretty happy about that
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you know
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yeah man uh are you working on
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kendrick's new project
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no you got the call
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no i didn't
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i didn't know but you know what i i
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don't i don't i don't ever have to get
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another call to come and do another
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project i did the most important one
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um yeah it's the only hip-hop album that
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won the politics awards so i was hurting
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in countries i've never been to before
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so i'm grateful for that salute to
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kendrick lamar um veena before we wrap
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tell us about this new music you got
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coming out called options
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um option
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options of the song i
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wrote in 2016
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and
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it was like
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it was a part of my first first album
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that i was creating i've like scratched
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all three of them i've like remade
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albums about three times
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and um that was the song of the first
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first album so when you hear it it was
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recorded in 2016 written in 2016 mixed
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in 2016. and i'm in love with how
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just rough it feels like it feels so
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natural it feels like how i felt when i
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made it that's what it feels like when i
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listen to it the song itself is about
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you know um women are going to do as we
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please because as we should but um
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with that being said we have every right
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to choose who and what we want to deal
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with and that's what the song is about
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like you don't have to have it together
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but there's someone else out there who
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will have it together i have the options
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to do so i have the options to be alone
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i have the options to be with someone i
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care about i have the option to be with
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my friends i have the option to do
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whatever i want so that's what the song
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is about having options being free
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loving yourself and yeah just being a
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vibe
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for these daughters kids right
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damn good huh yeah man
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yeah man i know
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i know
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[Applause]
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everything else yes
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everything else but dj knows
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okay uh we got mike news on before
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because we got a rap in a minute but i
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wanted mike news to be able to bring him
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on um mike muse you there rise and shine
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mike what's up man man we got a love on
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the kid capri on the line with us we
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talking about his new album the love
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that's coming out
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next week i think kid capri would be a
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great guest on the mike muse show so
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with vina love you know that's just a
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father-daughter combination of
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navigating the music business and doing
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extremely well you know and just being
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able to
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you know adjust to the times in in the
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whole nine this guy's icon mike you got
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any questions for them
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absolutely an icon uh what's up quick
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and free i will beat us no i don't have
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any questions just want to just give a
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comment and just say capri i've been a
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fan of yours since way back when and i
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remember just watching you on friday
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nights on the weekends on hbo and just
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hearing your voice and seeing what you
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did the way you moved culture shape
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culture had that iconic voice an iconic
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saying man just salute to you man for
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being one of my first at least like
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superstar dj so uh thank you for the
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soundtrack of a lot of my social
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settings and bye
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all right all right means a lot thank
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you thank you
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absolutely man uh i'll take one more
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call man this guy said he worked for you
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um
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i i don't know if he's telling the truth
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or not he's called me scary kid i'll
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i'll i'll be quick on the button if you
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go off if you say something crazy mike
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what up
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mike's in the bronx what up mike good
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morning good morning everyone good
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morning uh yeah i just wanted to say you
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know a congratulations to kate complete
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on his new album and i used to work for
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you at the uh i don't know if you
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remember the barber shop in in on west
16:35
4th street you had a shop there and
16:37
mendel brought me through and introduced
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me to you and then at that point you
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hired me so i don't know if you remember
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that but uh you know i just wanted to
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say thanks for the opportunity and all
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and all the love and support and you
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know congrats with the new album
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absolutely thank you man i appreciate
16:51
that means a lot man means a lot
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sure mike
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mike be safe man you're a citizen
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brother you're a citizen um so kid are
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you going on tour and then when you
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coming up to the show cuz i got to test
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out your mic skills so we're going to
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put you you know um seeing on this baby
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we're going to test it out dude
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as soon as i'm invited i'm up there man
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i'm going to lay something down crazy
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too especially for you
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as soon as i'm up soon everything open
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as soon as y'all ready for me to be
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there uh as far as the tour is concerned
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um
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we're going to set it up i've been
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playing it by ear going on the road with
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all this stuff going on right now you
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know i canceled i cancelled a lot of
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dates
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um
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you know i'm gonna get back into it i'm
17:30
just been playing about here to see how
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everything has been going uh you know so
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but at some point we're gonna do
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something we're setting it up we're
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gonna set it up so you know and i'm
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always on the road anyway when things
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are right so
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you know um
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we're gonna get do something real
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special with it
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but i just want people to really just
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hear this album man and um enjoy the
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album you know um it's coming out on my
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birthday february 7th i'm giving a gift
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to the world on my birthday and you know
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i just want people to enjoy it man
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really like it like i said in in an
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early video we played earlier i don't
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have a big machine you know i'm saying
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i'm doing this myself and it's not easy
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when you want to get it to the world you
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know what i'm saying and some takes a
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lot of money it takes a lot of time a
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lot of strategy
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you know but i really feel like it's
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worth it you know what i'm saying so
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we're doing it you know i'm gonna keep
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doing i'm gonna keep coming with great
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things i got the group the hoodies i
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just finished the album producing the
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album i got another guy named
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that's gonna be really a big guy so i'm
18:31
working man i'm doing a lot of good
18:33
stuff man so we're staying in it
18:35
the hoodies just did our overtime series
18:38
man the boys are incredible yo the album
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i did with them the album i did with
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them is really gonna surprise a lot of
18:44
people them kids is so crazy man and
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it's my pleasure to do it with them
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because
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the first time i did a song with them i
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went down to the studio with them
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knocked it out but what really impressed
18:56
me is when it came to my studio and the
18:58
first four beats i played from usually
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you know you play beats for people they
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like this they played that whatever the
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first four beats i played for they had
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rhymes for each beat they went in the
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booth and rhymed each joint right there
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they didn't have to write it down and do
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nothing when right there did it and we
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did four joints that day that impressed
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me so much i just said you know what i
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just want to do the whole album so i i
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ended up i'm mastering it right now
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let me say that you got kid capri
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talking about them you got suede talking
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about them the hoodies are the next
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they're the now they're the truth i see
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big things for them the boys got bars i
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want to see my niece vina work with them
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too in the future i just want you to be
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a part of that energy gina uh veena we
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love you veena love congratulations on
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all your success i love how you're
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curating your career you're taking your
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time
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all the videos i've seen all the visuals
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i've seen i can tell they're
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authentically you and that's the key you
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know and you're just like your dad in
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that sense you guys are authentically
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yourselves don't take no mess don't
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deviate from it you just you just like
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your dad in so many ways
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[Laughter]
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and i love it uh okay so we're about to
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wrap it up we're gonna end with uptown
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but mike news you want to say anything
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in closing you want to give people a way
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they can reach you this weekend
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yo hit me up sisters at i am mike muse
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mus and sam e and tune into the bike
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commute show tomorrow at 2pm eastern
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standard time on urban view channel 126
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can't wait to be in conversation with
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you all weekend long hit me up all right
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mike thank you i'll talk to you later
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heather b is at the happy hour with whp
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uh or the happy hour with
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heatherbee.com you can check out her
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merch rich knights how can they reach
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you please contact us on instagram or
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twitter or actually both at the a r room
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the letter a the letter n the letter r
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the word room the letter a the letter n
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the letter r the word room and make sure
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you check out this kid capri album i'm
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sure you're gonna like it because i've
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heard a lot of it i've heard all of it
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we didn't get to it all either man uh
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but we'll do it we'll do a part two vina
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how can i read you
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you can follow me on instagram at v i n
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a underscore l o v e v i n a underscore
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l o v e you can catch all my singles and
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videos on all streaming platforms
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youtube and worldstar
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okay that's what's up um kid capri got
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one of the most original unique songs on
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this album that i've ever heard called
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handsome woman
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i just tell you that when you get to the
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album make sure you go check that track
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out it's a whole conversation behind
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that that will be needed to have be had
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and i think it's very innovative that
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you've done that kid so congratulations
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if people want to reach you let them
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know how they can reach you brother
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thank you free 101 on twitter instagram
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and the tick tock and the real kick can
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play on facebook i'm not hard to get at
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me i'm in the matrix and i answer my own
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stuff
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[Laughter]
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yeah people ask me all the time you
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answer your own thing yeah
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who else got it
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that's good capri man i love you brother
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you already know i love you niece um
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you
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