In celebration of the Wu-Tang Clan American Saga final season, Sway's Universe collaborated with Rza and The Wu-Tang Clan to create a contest to allow emcees spit a verse to win a chance to join a cypher on Sway In The Morning. After over 10,000 entries, with the support of DJ King Tech, 9th Wonder and many more there were 11 winners! And those emcees made it to Sway In The Morning for one of the best cyphers of the year!
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A Robs | 2:36
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listen this is the moment we've been
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waiting for citizens to spend months in
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the making and uh this is just another
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opportunity to give somebody an
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opportunity to touch down on a dream
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Richard started like this he needed
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somebody to give him a break he needed
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DJs to provide a platform swaying King
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Tech we started the same way looking for
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the same breaks and opportunity to give
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ourselves a chance to shine over ten
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thousand entries I saw it myself I got
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pissed off when I saw so many entries uh
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we got people we got we got ninth Wonder
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involved as well we went through all
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these selections and narrowed it down to
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12 11 of the 12 showed up today I want
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to give them a big round of applause for
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making that investment into their future
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hope yourselves a big round of applause
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Richard we got some hyena
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Richard you want to say anything to
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these folks man yo it's eat it up kid
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[Laughter]
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all right cool man but that wasn't in
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the script all right so that's what
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we're gonna do man we got we got 11 of
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them we're gonna do three at a time man
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the first up man as I say their names
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the first round will be my man a Rob
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give him a big round of applause
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we all know this dude he's a legend All
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right we got the one and only Bud am I
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saying that correct Bud oh but okay real
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quick HD okay a rob you you're
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Palestinian American rapper yes sir from
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where uh I'm based well I'm from
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Harrisburg PA based in Philly now okay
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and then what got you what made you want
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to be an emcee who made you want to rap
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who made me want to rap kind of Cassidy
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for real okay and then Lupe uh-huh Hove
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M yeah
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in this contest it means everything man
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I was in the getting the games uh
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segment with you a few years ago you put
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me in the game you know what I'm saying
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so I appreciate that hey Rob Mama you're
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a legend man it's great to be here God
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bless you man I stand next to Legends
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ago what's up with you brother yo you
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already know it's great to be here thank
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you for the opportunity Rizza Wu-Tang uh
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sway uh the morning show I'm I'm
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grateful man thank you yeah man you've
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been putting it down for a long time man
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what keeps you in it brother the love
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the heart my heart and my family my my
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girl my my mom's you know people that I
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love you know like I really don't have a
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lot of family left you know but we we
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got what we have we from Brownsville you
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know I come from nothing okay so like
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Blake Ave that's all I got is the homies
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and still we we just trying to get to
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the better place yeah it is man get that
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man a round of applause man he made it
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up here man hey come on my man my man
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Bud where you from yes sir I'm from
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Mississippi but I'll be out in Boston
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now I'm on top of no South to the north
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okay you look like my man 19 Keys gave
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you her some merch right there man yeah
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I'll be with the bwo okay that's what's
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up man talk about that hey man you know
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19 kids you know elevation mental
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engineering that's what I'm on man you
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know to the next level grinding you know
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just figuring it out in this Matrix
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there it is man there you go man we
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about to get this first round started
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listen citizens you want to call up
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somebody stands out to you
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888-742-3345 we got DB you ready DB is
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on the Beats yes sir hey Rob you gonna
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be first to rock everybody got to select
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that beats towards turn those other mics
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down way down for me way down I only
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want eight robs mic to be heard okay DB
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drop that beat on them
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let's go we here baby
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hey Rob a DOT r o b
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y'all ready
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look
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[Music]
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Middle East and from the east side of
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the United States I walk in rappers
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masquerade they start to hide their face
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home on the court I told Honda never
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mind the brakes pedal to the metal
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there's a dream that I've chased since I
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was like 16 rocking Miss skiing now I
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got enough flow to make whiz whiz clean
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no big label big budget a big team still
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I get streamed from Honolulu to Janine
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the aim pristine never shooting Miss
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money in stocks I don't care for shoes
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and whips listen to him spit how could
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you resist rat blew a kiss I fell in
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love with the music Biz now make the
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whole world stand up it's Ludacris who
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is this that's what they all ask when
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they hear the ball spaz the Summers on
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tell them to fall back on their head
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like a ball cap because they all cap
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with that false rap I ain't knowing that
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I promise it's all fact never told the
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lie in the book that's why I'm the truth
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no use denying the proof I'm fly is a
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goose might head south for the winter
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treat the devil like the professor in
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and out my Defender I'm past due I scarf
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down beasts like fast food I'm like a
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lonely fat dude on the couch eating
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dinner it's a robber a DOT or OB some of
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y'all know me if you don't promise
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you're about to remember I'm not done
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I'm the nicest this year we got
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different prices they rob on all
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continents platforms and devices million
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rappers are out there I promise they're
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nothing like this ashore betters I typed
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it's a core set is my tightness of
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purebred shepherding the room full of
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lap dogs who only act hard on their
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laptops have for instance the blacktop
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give me like a phone that you trap off
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now they see me and cover up they face
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like a mascot that's your asphalt I'm on
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the road to Greatness which is cities
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like the Oakland Raiders this ain't
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nothing imma show you later no debating
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I've been a wizard this [ __ ] since
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Rolling Papers independent I don't own
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No Labels I don't own no favors who's
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that whipping up Matt Black and Paula
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why would I load up all this diesel into
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a Honda breaking down trees I got a room
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for lassar that's applaud us you might
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not believe in the dream but God does
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what's up sway what's up
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hey Rob
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hey Rob first just to pitch
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what you think yeah yeah yeah sharp
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blade right there see what's going next
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what's going on you didn't choke either
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I like that a-rob yo MC 16 bars 16 bars
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okay 16 bars oh the email say you can go
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up to 40.
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yeah
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[Music]
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all right all right all right let's go
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all right
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yo yo it's your boy Aguilar to Dawn I
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got Shockey shot the swing yo yo
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I feel like Nas when he made it out of
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Queensbridge he planted the seat like he
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left police the kid I'm on my Tupac that
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Makaveli [ __ ] got three-day Theory watch
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me as y'all develop this this is what
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the product is at lyrics is Dominus We
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Stand Tall like monuments only see the
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obvious the truth be concealed like
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where the dead bodies is wherever them
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commas is that's where the Piranhas is
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yeah Desert Eagles and where the llamas
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live I know what time it is who the
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false promises false promises my
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argument I'm Madonna that's the one who
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started this I'm a master amongst the
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novices yeah never do Queens only
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goddesses I make it easy I swear to God
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how hard it is you don't want to ball
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football with the flow is that article
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instead of making deathbrushes should be
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telemarketers yo I plead the fifth so
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[ __ ] stenographer visual thoughts no
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need for the photographer the flow is
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marvelous your reaction it's astonishing
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if you ain't got the bread at least give
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me acknowledgment the coonery Foolery
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[ __ ] the day you rappers took over just
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like The Chronic did keep a bad [ __ ]
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exotic something neurotic like melodic
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you see the star dust from the comments
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I'm on my Elijah Muhammad no running
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around the thoughts Masonic gotta keep
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the planets alignment Sahara Desert the
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corner take the sky and design it put
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the waterfall and jungles everything
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else behind it I Mastermind it all a
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solitary confinement in the name of the
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law we deal with power of Sonic
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depression diamond from coal now you
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look at it Shawna it's Immaculate
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Masterpiece no other way to describe it
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the largest what yo
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[Applause]
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I wouldn't punch Reza
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[Music]
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right there man salute salute budge you
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next to rock
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[Music]
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sway
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you already know it's your boy bud
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huh yeah yeah yeah
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yo I'm in the kitchen just like a chef
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pass me a blender Pockets getting fed
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all year never done a four course meal
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breakfast lunch and dinner it's hot
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outside but my heart colder than when
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the number one Contender LED razors with
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the chin UPS could you sit on top of the
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linen boy I've been up parked the car
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and smoke Haze in the lobby halls I keep
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a gun like John morent but I ain't got a
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ball I'm chasing checks I just do it
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like night airs the VBS Charming the
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charm case talk fears I'm on the dark
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side of town the Hunter Hills everybody
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wanna put on the sightseeing pop pills
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I'd rather catch a fight overseas and
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smoke trees with a dick Queen feeding me
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grapes and Belize can you believe
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knowledge is the key to succeed I'm
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building with acre boys and 19 Keys you
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know elevation part of the plan did it
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all for the fam this that old school
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muscle tilted out Trans Am all these
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zombies I feel like willing I am I can't
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listen to them they put hairs like a ram
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I'm in the two Cedar ain't no room for
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the suckers out of you been a Rucker so
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what's better than butter it gotta be
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the bread and you know they say a hard
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head make a soft bed for life like
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Casino we can roll the dice he bluffing
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with a poker face but when it folded
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twice when it come to riding better get
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a grip reveal my hand with three queens
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I'm on all trips my mind says stay
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pumped like some Reebok classes camera
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stay rolling but we not active baby girl
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this fashion stick together like Madness
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heart heart like metal I can't bend like
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plastic got the cops harassing cause my
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money relapsed and how you bringing them
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Stacks in I don't know why they absent I
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told him to beat it got me feeling like
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Jackson and I speak with the accent
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anything come negative I still Farm like
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Madden yeah
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hey we got some hyenas up in here let's
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get it
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I love it that's our first round Bridget
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what you think that's the first round oh
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man sharp Blaze black Trans Am yeah we
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need those back on the streets
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all right cool real real quick give out
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your a-ron give out your social media at
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a Rob's Music everywhere and ADOT Rob on
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all streaming platforms Aguila yeah
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www.agalogmusic.com you can find me on
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uh Instagram agasaki low
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I like that all right okay but you know
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bud three man b-u-hd3 you catch me on
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Instagram there it is man I saw round
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one give them a big round of applause
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for round one
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coming up next we got CR we got King
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flow we got loose logic it's the Wu-Tang
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Clan Challenge on shave four or five
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man you know the cool thing about what's
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going on is hearing all these different
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voices and these different styles and
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approaches to the mic you know what I
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mean so the same thing like that song
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that just went off saying you hear old
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dirty Method Man rayquan All had
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different flows and approaches and uh
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this group of brothers we got here is
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bringing that I think that's why y'all
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made it down to that to that last 12. so
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let's continue the party
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yeah yeah we're in the round two of our
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Wu-Tang Clan challenge we got CR right
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here give him a big round of applause
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CR Bronx yep yep okay we like planes Gun
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Hill what I'm from the sixth line in the
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Parkchester area damn you know you got
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detail now I'm about 174th like with
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Corey Guns is that okay that's what's up
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man it's a nice chain all right all
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right run that all right
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I'll see you when it's over all right
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King flow what up baby yeah yeah you
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already know what it is King flow that's
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a bold name yes sir who gave it to you
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uh it came from the streets man before I
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started rapping man I was a king on the
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streets and um I got I got a nickname
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King flow on the street before I started
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rapping my man I can't [ __ ] Law and
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Order you heard there it is what's your
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Instagram the real King flow 360. you
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heard okay CR what's your Instagram
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underscore okay loose logic yeah what up
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man what's up man who does he remind you
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of Tracy
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little static selected a little bit
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[Laughter]
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all right Solomon all right all right um
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how long you been spitting brother
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20 years loose loose logic is that is
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that a reflection on your mentality or
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yeah yeah yeah it's a reflection on uh
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just thinking outside the box you know
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what I mean I like that where you from
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Orange County California my gosh that
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boy flew all the way from Cali West
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Coast right put in that game
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come on man I don't see in the building
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yeah what's up what's your social loose
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logic there it is okay let's get to this
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next one that's simple man that's a lot
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of a lot of quick answers simple about
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it this is his handle you know her name
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is logic man he got a nice Channel too
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all right we gonna do a cr-u first all
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right all right here we go man Wu-Tang
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Clan challenge Sway in the morning shade
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four five have to be Tracy G we got the
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ribs up in here yeah DB on the beat [ __ ]
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look
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times here yeah I'm ready to go knowing
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I'm ready I get bald heavy [ __ ] could
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get deadly for show and be a pro who is
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pro fishing a dog who ain't faking no
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kidding them quotes hidden you won't get
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them if you don't listen this whole
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system is [ __ ] to those who've given up
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I just wish him luck in this dope Rhythm
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you sure know how to dig yourself in a
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hole but all I know for shows that none
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of these hoes is gonna dig em don't get
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your man involved do not interject see a
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threat you can't evolve and don't got
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disrespect so if you challenge yours now
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you got big regrets cause you crew
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embarrass y'alls like the locks did the
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set imma leave from a fabric you can't
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compete with and that's the exact reason
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why you pick on someone weaker to
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challenge won't believe in the damage
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you'll take a peeking Advantage ten toes
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down hey they increasing my balance I
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just lay back with Shorty when there's
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nothing to do bumping some tunes then I
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told her I got something for you through
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on some pot smoke she said yeah I [ __ ]
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with them too then she said feed the
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cream guess you wanna [ __ ] with the woo
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it's that dollar dollar bill and y'all
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are not for real my squad is out the
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camera when your homies go to war they
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fall and dropping on the field I'm sure
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you're not as real you starving out your
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damn I'm trying to board by 2024
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performing got Brazilian and friends
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here when I leave my driver pulling out
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the wheels my foreign
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just stop it dog that [ __ ] that whack
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you can't authenticate them lines that
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you said was that facts if you ain't
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claiming to spray we expecting less cap
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try to show them more that there is more
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to show than showing off to all your
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Bros your goals is lost and gotta lost
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control and those of course who flush
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your broke if all is Hope and haven't
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lost your soul know for sure yeah that
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you playing an important role to evolve
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the coach and come with bosses more than
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holding llamas toaster shooting on your
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options think the time is closer don't
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play Hero and give them reason to take
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it the never when it's Killing Season
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dark but ain't no drone to vote to [ __ ]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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yeah yeah
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turn their mic on what was that HB over
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here in the corner and I like it thumbs
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up it's being the cut HB in the cut
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watching y'all with a side eye
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King flow yeah yeah you ready to rock
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you already know what it is
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you
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it's your boy King flow
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Street [ __ ] live in the boys
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oh yeah
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hey yo these rappers ain't real they
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speaking and hypotheticals all four
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Aesthetics the cabin is unacceptable
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ain't no more message and music it's so
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forgettable but I Spit with purpose my
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verses are so impeccable they'll Vine
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with the cause they bless me with God's
16:58
Gift Sublime with my thoughts the rest
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is beyond sick thin lies that I walk you
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stress me I might flip I would die for
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my dog if he text me I'm John Wick see
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most of these artists still belong on
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the shelves and the so-called heart is
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getting caught up in tail it's a problem
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when grown men can't fend for themselves
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I ain't worried about followers Jesus
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only had 12 my bars from the afterlife
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that's what I'm saying I'm not playing
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hit him one time and I'm spraying or for
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the top of the Dome I'm popping the
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Chrome I be like Method Man in the wood
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waiting at your home in the kitchen they
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know that I'm cooking you don't want to
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take this lyrical whooping
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these [ __ ] and suckers
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I can't do no sucker [ __ ] we don't play
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pretend yo y'all relationships be paper
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thin we ain't [ __ ] with you
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they playing with me I just stuck you to
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them yeah I rhyme like I'm overdosing
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overloading components with a half is on
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the boat and that's just for the smoke
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and I'm talking look I ain't trying to
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be the dopest I'm trying to leave my
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soldiers battled up on their horses I'm
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of course trying to get the horses I'm
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talking about the Porsches I'm living
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life from lossless I'm really spitting
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freestyles off the top they can't stop
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me I guess that's why I'm so cocky
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Street heating the chain that [ __ ] is so
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Rocky and imma do this [ __ ] until it's
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done properly yeah don't make me put the
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lead of the Dawn and telling me Shoulda
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kept this Teflon on I'm the best in the
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flesh so respect my charmer test my arms
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are fresh hoes in your v-neck plus chest
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and Mama comma Kamikaze Hammurabi
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Illuminati eye for an eye case a [ __ ]
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wanna watch me I be ducked out in the
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lobby mini shot of your body a sloppy
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boppy don't even copy it try to knock me
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only offspring of the Anunnaki with a
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samurai sword tongue
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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let's go
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baby
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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look here we go
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oh
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Barbarian Barbara can burn boots boss
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arrogance God sharing his work through
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the Prodigal Son check the methodical
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one and yeah brief sales like a nautical
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lung
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[Music]
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straight from the freaking Asylum taking
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the planet for water under the bridge
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and burn it just for the landscape yeah
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take pride and only the fake side I
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could throw you in the trash you can
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fall by the wayside who the man is
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success I put a ban on the rest stay in
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your lane like Superman having sex what
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you do when I pick apart at the ruins
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the secret sauce to prove into kicking
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out of platoon in them raw but I'm up to
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do it I miss business with pleasure like
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prostitution I don't really care what
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people say about me anyway saving
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opinion the way I'm offended on any day
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when I'm rhyming might as well put the
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pen away like a [ __ ] a chick but I
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write the way that they penetrate yeah
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there's an odd to this and I really want
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to kill your confidence honest it's a
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bit of common sense that logic not
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winning will just contradict I'm about
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to blow feel it coming any minute now
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say I won't find a seat for your ass
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cause I'm thinking you'll have to just
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go on and set it down you're an appendix
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something I can live without I'm so
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confident most often just at home person
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they hold problem is they don't jump to
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conclusions so whatever the [ __ ] they
20:45
doing they pole vault to them I keep my
20:47
circle tight don't need to mention this
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but you're probably a fan if you're
20:51
listening just pay attention when they
20:53
start to mention I make light work these
20:55
herbs like photosynthesis when I spit
20:57
it's like the pain will bust the gold
20:59
stand they get paid in the blooms and
21:01
such Bank on me got a fortune the Tunes
21:03
the bum I have you swimming in bars like
21:05
Scrooge McDuck I could say that I'm
21:07
barely not with my Pinnacle just put the
21:09
sway in the front of rizzut appendico
21:11
but these callings are manifest by the
21:13
free-falling it ain't a book on tape but
21:15
it'll speak volumes yeah
21:18
loose logic
21:20
[Applause]
21:27
give it up for King flow give out y'all
21:29
social one more time at CR double
21:32
underscore that's about Instagram the
21:34
real King slow 360. loose logic
21:37
everywhere all right man it's a Wu-Tang
21:39
Clan challenge man give them a big round
21:41
of applies it's shape four five big
21:43
round of applied got hip hop in the
21:45
building come on man yes indeed got 12
21:49
finalists 11 out of 12 out of 10 000 for
21:52
the Wu-Tang Clan challenge we got the
21:55
Rizzo up here right in Arizona what do
21:56
you think of all them seeds we heard so
21:57
far man hey yo they dropping balls
21:59
dropping flows and dropping different
22:01
voices and tonation I'm appreciating it
22:03
and I really want to thank my man loose
22:05
logic from traveling all the way from
22:08
Southern California bro that's that
22:10
that's that passion I mean passion is
22:12
important in our culture absolutely man
22:14
absolutely man we got three more
22:16
stepping up to the deck right now we got
22:18
the one and only Max Spielberg what up
22:20
Max yeah where you from family North
22:22
Philly Badlands North Philly came all
22:24
the way from North Philly how long they
22:26
got nothing but spitters to North Philly
22:28
bro
22:29
you know okay you got to represent no
22:31
pressure all right what's your social
22:35
Max Spielberg
22:36
Instagram okay all right you ain't used
22:40
to saying that huh huh
22:42
[Music]
22:42
[Laughter]
22:45
stop asking me questions
22:48
why are you looking at me like that like
22:50
you're trying to bond [ __ ]
22:57
shut up
23:00
all right uh Nefertiti peace Brother
23:04
peace to you what's the origin of your
23:06
name what does it mean it means star in
23:08
what language
23:09
Arabic how long you been spitting for a
23:12
long time in different forms and places
23:13
there it is that was a bar just from her
23:16
answer where are you from
23:18
BK to the fullest all right rugged and
23:21
raw peace peace
23:23
rugged and raw FBI you got a lot of kids
23:26
none yet
23:28
oh you saw his face
23:34
no I know what you mean yeah no no kids
23:37
yeah no kids yeah okay uh um what's your
23:39
social uh everything at Rugged and raw
23:42
the letter N not and or with the
23:43
Ampersand rugged the letter N raw and
23:45
he's from where you say uh I'm from uh
23:47
Uptown New York I live in Boston but I'm
23:49
born and raised uh in New York City
23:50
Washington Heights okay Washington nice
23:52
all right okay man Max you ready to rock
23:54
always ready BB you got a B for him yes
23:57
sir let's do it
24:02
let's go
24:08
four on the track I used to stay up
24:12
every Friday night vibing and swaying
24:14
Tech wasn't in the cars for me yet had
24:16
to wait a deck waiting for the moment to
24:19
burst out of that Chrysalis for
24:21
crystallized fate I was meant for this
24:23
what I paid to make it in here real
24:26
talent and I've been waiting for this
24:28
moment my whole life Phil Collins hell
24:31
of a drive sticking long as my wheel
24:33
balances barbecue and chicken and balls
24:35
[ __ ] my grill solid never show your
24:37
blueprints to a novice they will doubt
24:40
it let them see the bodies It's Magic of
24:42
how you kill shrouded pressure mounting
24:44
official to climb and still shouted take
24:46
the condom off and [ __ ] all them haters
24:49
feel about it
24:50
leave them lying in the wet spot Cuba
24:53
links know but they be ghosts from a
24:55
neck shot I can only give you what my
24:58
chest got what I'm letting on something
25:00
not even the best stop straight to the
25:03
heart of the matter that's what I'm
25:05
getting at ain't no fudge in the data
25:07
you gotta be living there atheists when
25:09
it come to limits you gotta show me
25:11
Raider still in that then it's just a
25:13
spot to start drilling that bound to
25:16
reset I gotta exceed those that we could
25:19
treat a hater like a problem I need
25:21
those till the day I'm lying in the
25:23
morgue feet froze the heat is gonna be
25:25
on get your marshmallows ready and keep
25:28
close that's what your enemies play
25:30
their best role lack of no way in that
25:33
fact we're the best full snakes trying
25:35
to hide it in silence I got impressed
25:37
old hard work material lies they think
25:40
it's Presto listen to deceiving I am
25:43
y'all cooked for this evening after it's
25:45
said and done I shook up the season any
25:47
beef that you bringing bound to be some
25:49
lunch meat in the freezer my
26:03
[Music]
26:05
should have left me alone home Kevin
26:08
McAllister Faye threw me back in the
26:11
fields just in my caliber knocked out
26:13
pain waiting the next Challenger
26:15
treading water wait too long is where
26:18
the drowning curve
26:19
[Music]
26:30
all right
26:35
nasma yes yes Nefertiti
26:40
Queen Nefertiti peace peace you ready
26:43
I'm ready okay DB drop that beat on it
26:49
I'm the dangerous type I'm nice got the
26:52
vaporist bite be mangle and mics I'll
26:53
strangle your life hazardous put them
26:55
down and raise them again like Lazarus
26:57
dust yourself off and place your bets
26:59
I'm getting ravenous the rapping is
27:00
holding me over by just a fraction kid
27:02
the Pharaoh Queen Nefertiti known for
27:04
the elaboratiness a bag of this a bag of
27:06
that eating on these banana wraps get
27:08
saddlebacked imagine that screaming like
27:09
you a Man attack the snake and cream
27:11
secret you best just remain seated get
27:13
your brains beating time in the reason
27:15
the slaying season it's hell singing I'm
27:17
bringing the Scorpion it's stinging the
27:19
bells ringing you King and now off your
27:21
whole Dominion Queen of the North Star
27:22
there the goddess beware the brightest
27:24
diminish Adonis I'm Lawless whatever the
27:27
course is finish I'm Flawless another
27:28
day at the office another day in the
27:30
Kingdom black tea with dim sum steady to
27:33
the Rhythm got bars you better bring em
27:34
black stars stay peddling and watch ours
27:36
they'll dead the victim poke the fiction
27:38
replace it with a dope encryption no
27:40
commission let's face it I invoke the
27:42
big guns coalitions I'm out of control
27:44
blow up your mission like you my kid son
27:46
teach you to fish and roll a big one
27:48
nice with the dice drop I'm like when
27:50
the ice pops so refreshing like draconia
27:52
moisturize where eye drops in tune with
27:54
the future but I ain't make a deal like
27:55
Cyclops row a [ __ ] you [ __ ] is as weak
27:58
you can't buy props once upon a time you
27:59
had to be dope again hit with ripe crops
28:01
I made it out the hood they thought it
28:03
was gonna be in a pine box a magnifico
28:05
I'm black like they're like saturnico my
28:07
bag to beat yo worry like I'm black
28:09
tuxedo
28:11
Queen several
28:13
and there's my Nefertiti
28:16
[Applause]
28:20
I thought I like that bouncing on that
28:23
beat
28:24
I also know that bouncing on that you
28:27
take it out oh yeah she's definitely in
28:29
her Chambers you know I mean anime
28:31
martial arts science egyptology all type
28:35
of wisdom up in there yeah I like that I
28:38
like that rugged in raw ready okay
28:41
enough said
28:45
oh an introduction for those who think I
28:48
don't exist I'm Robin Hood for people on
28:51
the donor list
28:52
one hit will knock you to a deep slumber
28:56
damn the sidewalk got your sleep number
28:58
ignore everybody I don't need them No
29:02
Label no manager all I got is freedom
29:04
call your squad I seen them by myself I
29:07
defeat them to the Lions I will feed
29:09
them this the Roman Colosseum you can
29:11
get laid out on the ground this ain't no
29:13
picnic when I do my numbers you'll be
29:16
coming a statistic yeah let's do it now
29:19
I'm extra hyped this is real life tender
29:22
smacking faces left and right
29:24
fight make your own battles I don't ask
29:27
for backup words paint a picture of all
29:29
around that's Panorama each fish the
29:32
designer better have your hands up or
29:34
get two black guys panda panda what's
29:38
yours is now mine I'm a clap though no
29:40
chance you taking it back I ain't retro
29:43
and I ain't afraid to use my muscle four
29:46
rights four lefts four kicks I do the
29:49
Cupid Shuffle I ain't famous but a lot
29:51
of people know me
29:53
stay blessed there were many things are
29:55
holy
29:56
don't talk a good game just show me or
30:00
get a shot to the head that's where the
30:02
voting bang damn you gonna die your
30:05
nasty death one slap you lean back
30:07
that's fresh prince and Jazzy Jeff Stone
30:09
face I ain't stargazed ever I'm just
30:12
after net profit like Barclay Center two
30:15
paranoidal failure to make a mistake
30:18
when there's pressure I put on like
30:20
relationship wait my girl and your girl
30:23
together in the bed with me I'm a New
30:25
York Sports Fan used to have it two of
30:27
everything and though I moved you will
30:30
never catch me sloppy I'm Boston's best
30:32
transplant since Big Papi after Show's
30:35
groupies audition for me to lock the jaw
30:38
my right hand Strokes the [ __ ] like Dr
30:40
Clark my flow straight gutter take cover
30:44
I spit Roy you Cliff Paul you fake
30:47
brother murder of opponents mercy
30:49
killing while they're weak or I could
30:51
leave them one hit away like Memphis
30:52
bleak
30:55
welcome
30:58
[Applause]
31:15
he definitely got the Showmanship award
31:18
I'm here for it
31:20
give it up for Max Spielberg citizens
31:23
give it up
31:24
Nefertiti rugged it wrong all right that
31:27
was Ill we gonna come right back Rizzo
31:29
what you think of him yeah yeah bong
31:31
bong y'all doing it yo more to come yo
31:34
more to come man we got one more round
31:35
coming up next is the Wu-Tang Clan
31:37
challenge Sway in the morning shade four
31:39
five have to be Tracy G
31:41
yeah Sway in the morning shade 405 is
31:44
yours from Tila Rock the Wu-Tang Clan is
31:47
Shores
31:48
Rises up in here man couple
31:50
announcements were made 30-year
31:53
anniversary right 30th Anniversary yeah
31:55
we're going to give a celebration
31:56
November Gramercy theater we're going to
31:58
do a residency there and keep the
32:00
culture moving okay 36 Chambers into
32:03
those chambers also got a new song out
32:05
called Claudine that's right Claudine
32:08
produced by law mathematics featuring
32:10
the Wu-Tang Clan Method Man and go spit
32:12
in the cold bus what up girl yeah I
32:15
didn't want to just do this next to them
32:17
to make them nervous our next to them
32:19
seeds but I just kind of want them to
32:20
feel the gravity of what's happening
32:22
right now the greatest hip-hop group of
32:25
all time
32:26
the Wu-Tang Clan
32:28
the Abbott is right here next to you
32:30
respect much respect hey sway before we
32:34
get into these last two yeah just want
32:36
to make a note to all of y'all who's in
32:39
this room you know what I mean as you
32:40
hear all these different spitters you
32:42
know I mean you don't know who in this
32:43
room might be your your the peanut
32:46
butter to your jelly you know I mean
32:47
peanut butter makes a good sandwich but
32:49
when you put jelly with it you know what
32:51
I mean who's the first man who put the
32:52
cheese on the burger you know I mean so
32:54
you don't know which one of y'all could
32:57
come together and make something special
32:58
not just for individualism but
33:00
Collective unity all right so keep that
33:02
in mind I like that man yeah I like that
33:05
y'all y'all exchange information before
33:07
you go
33:08
make sure y'all part of a special
33:14
all right
33:16
because this is y'all part of an elite
33:20
special tribe
33:22
right this is the first time this has
33:24
ever happened and it'll be the last time
33:26
it happens like this right so y'all here
33:30
for a reason and sway it was ten
33:32
thousand y'all remember in Django uh
33:35
with Jamie Foxx say that one out of that
33:38
one mother [ __ ] out of ten thousand I'm
33:39
that one y'all the jaw the 12 out of ten
33:43
thousand all right and and that got
33:45
combed through sway Tech ninth Wonder
33:48
yeah knife Wonder was put extra time in
33:50
listening yeah he did you know what I
33:52
mean yeah so bunk bunks ninth Wonder
33:54
went out this way man we might owe them
33:56
breakfast or something
33:58
man that dude is True to this man last
34:01
round seven complete where you from man
34:04
I'm from Cleveland I'm from L.A by way
34:07
of Cleveland Ohio the land all right I
34:09
like that man
34:11
um how long you been spitting I've been
34:12
spending a little over a decade maybe a
34:15
little longer okay cool man all right
34:17
how long you had your locks I had the
34:19
last for like two years two years yeah
34:20
all right he's a Neo fight oh
34:33
oh
34:35
I know what that means right smoke did
34:39
you Pat her down
34:42
I'm good I promise that old shorts
34:45
okay all right what's your social what's
34:48
your social social elect fuel ENT on
34:51
Instagram elect few ENT pretty
34:54
underscore bully that's b-u-l-l-i on i-g
34:58
you hear that heaven
35:00
you got a cousin in the house
35:03
[Laughter]
35:05
all right DB you ready seven complete
35:07
you first The Rock shade four five
35:09
Wu-Tang Clan challenge yeah
35:12
going back turn that beat up a little
35:13
bit hey uh hey Mr executive I don't need
35:17
a record deal drop bird turd on my city
35:20
I'm a rep of Steel not gun eating yet
35:22
working on my second meal skills is
35:24
exceptional plus I keep it extra real
35:27
can I kick it I'm on my David Beckham
35:29
dick let a couple checks clear imma
35:31
leave my second gig tall dark and
35:33
handsome so they say I got sex appeal
35:35
natural aphrodisiac no X pill been a g
35:39
and I bring the energy with visual
35:42
imagery swag so electric ill just like
35:44
an electric ill do I electric you shut a
35:47
flow down your throat I don't even let
35:49
you chew
35:50
huh and my lady extra cute we be the
35:53
elect fuel homie who elected you watch
35:55
the way I run my place look at how I
35:57
execute fresh eight bar hook who I'm
36:00
gonna text it to
36:01
I Aspire you to MC check your mail homie
36:05
I just wired you a 16. call me the
36:07
county jail homie I got bars for sale or
36:10
even Steven Seagal cause I'm hard to
36:12
kill but if I do die it'll be a martyr's
36:15
tale Papa Smurf bout to drop a verse on
36:17
you garga Mills
36:19
and my Cleveland fitted I'm like he man
36:22
with it when I re-transmitted get it bus
36:24
lines like Regional Transit it get it
36:27
bus lines like Regional Transit is
36:29
southwest side connect Midwest surround
36:32
sound
36:33
10 plus foul down it's one of the illest
36:36
what about one of the realists for my
36:38
folks in the village pokes it up in the
36:40
Villas saying in the morning epic
36:42
complete I'm gonna kill it elect if you
36:44
in the building we opening up the
36:46
ceiling homie hold it in hide your
36:48
emotions don't show no feelings move a
36:50
hundred thousand units stop seeing there
36:51
goes a million I'm seeing my destination
36:53
exceeded the expectations opportunity
36:56
knocking treat it with preparation going
36:58
deep in the Bible no I'm keeping it
37:00
tribal for showing Cleveland Ohio just
37:02
click the link in the bio my cousins all
37:04
my pleasure and pizza Michi and style
37:06
holy guacamole homie the flow is pico de
37:09
gallo black beans red rice so free throw
37:11
Rick I ether adobo Versace
37:17
Costa Rica from Panama
37:19
my people in Puerto Rico to all my
37:21
Asians and hating no hating it's for my
37:23
Creos to my Hawaiians Ohana they're
37:26
stitching Lilo to my belisions believe
37:28
it you probably see me sipping Tahitian
37:30
noni and Fiji with Polynesians
37:37
[Applause]
37:44
let's go
37:46
again
37:55
let's go
37:56
what folks
37:58
solid sharp Dodge pretty bully yes sir
38:02
take us out of here
38:06
I want to thank you all for this
38:08
opportunity real [ __ ]
38:11
buffalo in a building
38:14
12-4 on the track
38:16
whoa
38:19
bars for breakfast
38:21
716 is in the building
38:25
[Music]
38:26
yeah
38:27
let's go
38:30
[Music]
38:33
straight in the morning whoa
38:37
see see most of these [ __ ] Can't Even
38:40
rap but my ink come out in the Splat
38:42
stating facts on the wax while they
38:43
thinking I double spec match two and two
38:46
were divided by what we do I've been
38:48
crafting in the cut waiting patient to
38:49
make a move oh I'm seeing food and I'm
38:52
knowing just what to do trying to chew
38:53
some [ __ ] up spit them out like
38:55
bulimics dope no ridicule I'm Different
38:57
I was born to be blessed and it's my job
38:59
to wrap these [ __ ] into vocal distress
39:01
I'm coming to flex homies I'm delivering
39:03
that they probably think I'm 12 the way
39:06
my foot on their necks who want to
39:07
contest I'm waiting for a chance to
39:09
express don't interrupt my sway this
39:11
morning I'm enjoying my reps I died then
39:13
my mind swims in the form of a Heisman
39:15
buff chick is up the bat like I work for
39:17
devices the Titan impeccable time and
39:20
it's like that never come in half kotlin
39:22
gonna do it with a side Rim they playing
39:25
wrong got nothing to stand on and I
39:27
ain't vouching for no [ __ ] that's
39:28
putting no pads on oh geez giving passes
39:31
to [ __ ] without a hurt and no an
39:33
animal was in me but without the Earth
39:35
it's simple I'm spitting dirts they
39:36
scribble I'm pinning it ain't mandatory
39:39
for me to wiggle I'm pretty perk I ain't
39:41
gotta Flex I kill cats with versatility
39:43
balls be on deck like a correctional
39:46
facility talking out your neck only you
39:48
stretch from boys here for me leaving a
39:50
bunch of tight bloody cats like lost
39:51
virginity finicky with them names I'll
39:53
be choosing to entertain just to refrain
39:55
from undercover Lanes in the game I'm
39:57
trying to break records get a little
39:59
space in the book again I can spit
40:01
longer but it's safer for a couple
40:03
minutes Cut From a Different Cloth I'm
40:05
talking [ __ ] through my lip gloss I'm a
40:07
lady but I spit like a boss my aftermath
40:09
is a mess for any [ __ ] that test me I
40:11
man handles this [ __ ] all I'm missing is
40:13
testis let's go
40:19
is
40:28
don't have to be what you think of that
40:30
let's go sis my girl I love it
40:35
nah it was a combination of things from
40:38
a lot of the artists that came up here
40:39
but you definitely I'm glad when uh
40:42
Rizza said take us home because you
40:44
definitely exemplified so many things
40:46
Showmanship Clarity confidence it was
40:49
all right there and it was almost like
40:51
you were spitting so Converse like we
40:53
were in the conversation with you and I
40:55
love that the way you delivered it one
40:57
point wow man that was amazing seven
41:00
complete congratulations wow man seven
41:03
complete man almost went to war for you
41:06
I don't know what I was fighting for I
41:09
just felt like [ __ ] let's go I'm ready
41:11
turn my mic up a little bit towards
41:14
listen
41:15
I say the name you give up the love okay
41:18
a Rob give up the love y'all
41:21
Aguilar give up the love y'all but give
41:24
up the love y'all CR come up the love
41:27
King flow blue slide to Give Up the Love
41:30
Southern complete Give Up the Love Max
41:33
Spielberg Give Up the Love that's my
41:35
Nefertiti Give Up the Love rugged and
41:38
raw Give Up the Love and pretty bully
41:41
give up the love and the one and only
41:43
renza give up
41:49
[Applause]
41:51
on behalf of our show Tracy you want to
41:54
say anything to all MCS first of all
41:56
this is very Advanced skills that y'all
42:00
possess yeah and also this is such a
42:02
beautiful birthday gift to hip-hop man
42:05
celebrating our 50th anniversary and you
42:07
guys clearly take that so seriously so
42:10
it's a hell of a pleasure to be here and
42:12
especially that y'all are able to handle
42:15
yourselves at such a high caliber in
42:17
front of Rizza that says a lot so salute
42:20
to all of y'all no weak links no
42:22
weaklings so shout out to the whole team
42:25
I can't name everybody that went through
42:27
the the MC's but King Tech my brother uh
42:33
I love you thank you for just being so
42:35
passionate and it's just really Hands-On
42:38
when it comes to this culture one of the
42:40
purest people
42:41
um that I know to this date when it
42:43
comes to this culture is my brother King
42:45
Tech in the relationship that him and
42:47
Rizza has makes so much much sense and
42:50
God bless that we're able to have these
42:52
platforms still as long as we've done
42:54
this and we still have these platforms
42:56
to continue to do this and then reason
42:58
Nobody Does it Like Us and respect you
43:00
know Wu-Tang an American Saga you know
43:03
was a show that chronicled you know the
43:07
rule rise you know I mean and and King
43:09
Tech came in as our music supervisor and
43:12
on our final season you know we was like
43:14
yo we got to do something just for the
43:16
people and this is it and for for me
43:18
personally the the sit here and listen
43:21
to all these dope MCS coming from all
43:23
around the country and and different
43:25
parts of you know Philly Mississippi you
43:27
know I mean inhering the evolution of
43:29
voices Styles and personalities yo it's
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an honor for me to watch this keep
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sharpening it up like I said connect
43:35
those bonds you know I mean and just
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rock the world Hip-Hop Hip-Hop what are
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your thoughts there's 50 years of
43:41
hip-hop for you personally what does
43:42
that mean
43:43
to me hip-hop is a mountain you know I
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mean and 50 50 years to me is just
43:49
marking the base of the mountain let's
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keep going let's keep going your one
43:55
liner has been hot today
43:58
your bombs been hitting hard today
44:04
shout out to
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[Applause]
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umcs
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seriously you came up here
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and you did what you dreamed about doing
44:18
you lived a dream right and you came up
44:21
here prepared this ain't a place you
44:23
want to come unprepared even under the
44:26
lights and with all the pressure even if
44:27
you kind of fell off your path you were
44:29
able to get back on your path that's the
44:31
true definition of an emcee there are no
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[ __ ] ups unless you [ __ ] it up you just
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keep going right microphone control
44:40
microphone control so congratulations
44:42
man y'all made us look good thank you
44:45
damn it all right
44:46
let's do this right now we got a special
44:49
this is part of this whole Mr chair
44:51
where you at Mr Chestnut
45:00
[Laughter]
45:05
this wasn't a contest you know I mean so
45:07
you don't you know it's not for nothing
45:09
to win but yourself satisfaction but we
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do want to let y'all walk away with this
45:13
gift
45:20
one of these you know what I mean
45:24
pull them out pull them out Mr Chestnut
45:26
and share them there we go coming out
45:29
right give me the side who got an Excel
45:31
who's the XL so raise your hand
45:34
XL 1l X whatever I'm just letting us let
45:37
them flow pretty bully exhale right now
45:40
XL XL another Excel
45:43
uxl
45:47
U2 XL somebody XL we got y'all sizes
45:50
this thing that might have been the guy
45:51
who didn't show up okay what's this
45:54
what's this 2XL right there 2XL
45:58
might have been the guy that didn't show
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up huh
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real New Yorkers
46:03
so what we're doing is
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where
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has some um jackets specially made for
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these MCS these are these are unique
46:14
jackets especially made for these MC's
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courtesy of woo wear man Wu-Tang man
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give it up double XL who's a double XL
46:22
hand that over there all right man
46:28
to all umc's man stay to pass state of
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course I know you're living your dream
46:34
this is the success the journey is a
46:37
part of the success you're living your
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dreams you came up here and you showed
46:41
off and you showed out know that you
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have the capabilities of doing whatever
46:45
it is you set your mind to in this
46:47
entertainment business congratulations
46:49
you are all dope
46:53
thank you
46:55
foreign
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