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Young Devyn DESTROYS Freestyle + Opens Up About Dark Times 🔥 | SWAY'S UNIVERSE
Young Devyn returns to Sway In The Morning, delivering a jaw-dropping freestyle and sharing her powerful journey through music and personal struggles. The Brooklyn-Trinidad artist opens up about overcoming addiction, finding her purpose, and creating her debut album "BOD GAL MUSIC."
Watch as Young Devyn discusses:
• Her hiatus from music and spiritual awakening
• Battling depression and substance abuse
• Creating her own label and rediscovering her authentic sound
• Collaborating with Egyptian on her new album
Don't miss Young Devyn's electrifying freestyle that left Sway speechless! She proves why she's still one of the most talented young MCs in the game.
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citizens we've been rocking with her for
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a long time now Heather be I know I
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remember the baby goat herself yes yes
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the baby goat herself yes she was 15 16
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years of age when she first came on this
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show that crazy I remember we did the
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cipher and she jumped in that Cipher
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with all those sick ass MC's coming from
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BK yep we had her up here on her own and
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she just sliced and diced the microphone
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they still pissed at me and it's
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interesting about this young lady
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because we're seeing this wave of um
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women MC's that's amazing first of all
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give it up to all of these women MC's
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but before a lot of those people were on
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the scene she was Paving she was
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pounding the pavement breaking down
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doors and raising the bar I canot
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believe Mike Muse how skilled she was at
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16 years of age yes baby gok came out in
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2021 M baby go two came out in
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2022 now we're in
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2024 headed to
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2025 the new album is called bod gal
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music there it is Young dein is in the
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building young de is in the building
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back we are back it feels great you and
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I have kept in touch periodically
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through text messaging first of all I
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want to say I appreciate you yes I
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appreciate you and your family cuz your
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family all always looked out for me
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whenever I was at the airport absolutely
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always looked out for me people all kind
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of strangers are run up to me yeah what
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up sway what's up man we good yeah I'm
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with young de Deon Uncle I'm Deon Uncle
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I'm deon's neighbor I mean I was like
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[ __ ] all right but um I think that was a
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testament um to your upbringing and um
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the people that you surrounded yourself
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with which is very important in this
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business because young Devin in my
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opinion you were one of the people who
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to to start this uh to help initiate
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this movement we're seeing would you
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agree Heather of the new MC's we were
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actually talking about you yesterday um
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yeah just I I remember specifically you
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coming up here and still having to go
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back to school yes you know and I was
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thinking about that on my way here I
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said well I don't have to go to school
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today I Lally said that um but when sway
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broke down like the order of time when
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your music and everything came out um I
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noticed I don't like to call it a gap
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year or you took some time off because I
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don't think artists ever really take
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time off if you're a creative person
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you're always thinking you may not know
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where to put it or where to place it
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what where this song going to go but
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what did you do between baby goat 2 and
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now well that actually wasn't even a gap
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year I actually wanted to stop doing
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music um it wasn't even like a break so
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I was going through like a lot in just
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like my life my career just being like a
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young woman just like in the industry
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and just growing up in front of the
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world like you know I've been in front
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the camera since I was like 8 years old
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I'm 22 now so it's like I win in front
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of the world but I also make mistakes in
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front of the world as well and it's like
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you know when you're in a position of
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leadership you get persecuted more
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judged more for certain things so it
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just started weighing down a lot on me
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and like I just got to a point where I
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just felt like it wasn't worth like the
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crown that I had on my head it wasn't
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worth the cost that like it was taking
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from like my life and my family and like
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my day-to-day like mental so I had kind
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of just took a step away from like doing
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music and I had walked away from it
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completely and I like for like a good
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eight months I was like in hiding like I
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wasn't posting I wasn't taking shows I
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was like declining offers for things
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because I really just it wasn't about
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the music for me anymore and I really
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just sat down and like I asked God I
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said God if this is like what you've
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called me on this Earth to do if this is
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really what you've put me here to do
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then like just show me that like you're
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in it like just make your glory like
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undeniable like for even me like leave
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me speechless and sometimes you it's not
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really challenging God but God is so
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powerful that like you have to sometimes
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ask for that power like you can't just
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sit there and think you're going to just
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get it or like cuz faith without works
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is dead so you got to kind of put you
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demand that power and that's what I sat
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down and I did and I said God if this is
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what you want me to do you going to show
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me and like a month later slowly but
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surely he just started putting like
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little ideas back into my head and like
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depositing like little moments of like
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happiness for me and then like I slowly
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just started gaining like a team of
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people and then like a group of like
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just like people that was helping me get
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through my dayto day and eventually I
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formed my own label and then I started
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like having a roll out and just doing
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everything myself I ended up on MTV like
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last week and like all these things
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happen what was your um I don't no it
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was what did I do I did women and rap
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okay yeah I did women and rap and I
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performed like a couple of like new
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singles and things like that but just
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looking back on how I came into this
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year of not wanting to do music to like
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the ending of the year having a debut
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album out and like I'm back where I feel
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like it's like places like home it just
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it gives me the confirmation that God is
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in it so it like lets me know like okay
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like you're back you're doing the right
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thing and you're doing it in purpose I
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feel like before I just wanted to like
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get known be famous show the world my
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talent but that's you know you being
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young and just chasing your dreams but
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then it gets a point in your adulthood
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where you have to align your passion
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with your purpose and that's exactly
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what I think started happening for me so
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that's what that break was young Deon
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sheez my gosh it's I think it's good
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though it happened at the age that it
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happened because you're still very young
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young yeah I'm a baby I'm only my
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birthday is in like a couple days like
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two
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weeks happy birthday happy happy
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birthday you you you got a song when I
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hear you talk it's a song I believe it's
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pronounced daily on yes daily on you
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talk about you had a cousin you lost a
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cousin during that time rest in peace to
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your cousin and um you resorted to pills
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the cope yeah um how how long did that
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last and and where are you now with that
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um you know what I don't take pills
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anymore Uncle I'm good okay good okay
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cuz I was about to Uncle you right now
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you about to feel that Uncle s it was
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like a couple it was a couple of months
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like I was really like taking like pills
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and like drinking certain substances
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that I felt like looking back and like
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that you're insane but in the moment
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when you really in it you don't see how
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dark it is so like you really just do
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anything to escape it but like looking
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back on it I'm not ashamed I look at as
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like a testimony and I'm happy like I
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wasn't so deep in where like I got so
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addicted and dependent and like I would
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have to like go to there so I'm really
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thankful that I was kind of able to
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shake my own self and be like girl
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you're bugging like that's not you yeah
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and so I kind of how you shake it though
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um that was kind of like cold turkey I
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would say also to the person I was
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dealing with at the time they told me
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they said um you're because I was taking
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the pills and I would sleep all the time
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and they would tell me like you're
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boring like cuz all you do is sleep cuz
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you be high and I didn't like that like
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it rubbed me the wrong way and then like
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that was kind of like what the positive
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in my brain to be like okay you got to
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stop and then slowly but surely I just
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like cut it I love this young Devon man
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not so young anymore but still young
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young with an old Spirit story um this
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album um b
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g is you went back to your roots yes you
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went back to your roots this doesn't
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sound like everything else okay was that
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part part of your transformation yeah
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absolutely I think um a part of like me
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just like figuring myself out is is also
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just figuring out how to authentically
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be Devon in front the world and not like
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conform to like the waves of the world
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like it's okay to like absorb the things
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that are going on I feel like that's a
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part of being an artist and a longl
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lasting artist but you always have to be
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yourself within anything that you do and
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I feel like beforehand when I was
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younger I was just letting I was
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conforming to the rooms instead of
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transforming them so I would be really
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good for example like drill rapping but
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it's like there's so much more to me but
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I'm really good at this one thing and
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people are like seeing me for it I'm
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going just keep doing it stay in that
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lane for a second but then it's like
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you're now conforming to what's going on
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when people liked you because you was
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different yeah so I kind of had to just
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remember all of that like and I had to
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remember who I am and whose I am so when
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it came to create in bod music I just
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looked back at my entire life and my
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entire career and just put it all
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together in a story of like who I
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authentically and genuinely am and the
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album took me like two years to make
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like some some songs on there I made
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like two years ago other songs I made a
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week before the album came out so it's
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like it was that's kind of how it came
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together that's what I meant like even
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when you don't feel like it as an artist
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you're somehow yeah like even when I was
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in darkness I still was making the noise
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cuz when you can't see all you have is
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sound so that's all I kept doing was
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just creating music like even when I had
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no idea how to put it out I just was
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recording yeah like I would just feel
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depressed I'll go to the studio make a
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song but then it'll turn around and be
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the hit that's on my like album so you
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know I'm happy how like my my pain
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turned into purpose but yeah B music was
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just like a overall perspective of just
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everything that I always wanted to put
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out that I never got the chance to or
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the team I had at the time was trying to
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Market me a certain way so like I
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couldn't even make certain type of
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sounds that I wanted to for example like
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I've been wanting to do like my
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Caribbean thing or like my melodic thing
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but my team at the time they told me it
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was too early and I'm like I don't know
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how that's early I came into this game
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singing
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SOA but you know it's like sometimes you
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got to just go through the motions and
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get what you can out of situation so
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that when it's your time you could you
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know learn and do it how you want to do
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it I can't believe this girl is only
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this woman is 22 22 still super young
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Mike you want to jump in man yeah so
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much but so mature so congratulations to
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you in your journey I'm just curious I
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know you wrote a lot of that music while
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you're in a dark place you're so happy
9:50
right now you're finding Joy how do you
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reconcile and balancing when you're
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performing and hearing that music when
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you're in your dark place m i mean I
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look at all my music as like a testimony
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so like I'm never really too ashamed of
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my pain and there was a point in time
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where I was so I wouldn't be able to
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even speak on certain things but like
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now it's like when you know that God is
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using you every piece of your story is
10:11
for a testimony like even things that I
10:13
might Overlook in a sentence or
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something I might say that I might think
10:16
is minor and that might be something
10:18
that like deposited in somebody's Spirit
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like so I don't know I really just I
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just appreciate everything and I think
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that's what keeps me very happy and like
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humble because it's like I take every
10:28
opportunity for like what it genuinely
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is cuz there was a point where I didn't
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even want any of this anymore so it's
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like to be back in this room it's like
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girl this is crazy like for me like when
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I go home I'm going to cry you know but
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it's more like tears of joy like wow
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like look at where you got yourself back
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too you know what I'm saying so amen yo
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young Devin is here man come on I got
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chills for this she got gypson on her
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album hello come on I don't know how
10:53
they did that God you know what's so
10:56
crazy I don't even know Egyptian
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Egyptian doesn't know me I was in the
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studio and my DJ's dad is like his
11:03
friend right so like they're in a
11:04
backyard party he's in like Brooklyn
11:06
chilling somewhere so his dad facetimes
11:09
me because his dad loves me so he's like
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yo I'm Egyptian I'm like yo I'm in the
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studio tell him pull up he's like all
11:15
right and then like in 20 minutes dyon
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pulls up so I'm I was already making the
11:20
song uhhuh and I didn't have a second
11:22
verse on it so I'm playing him the song
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I'm like yo he's like y I like your
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voice your tone of voice is very nice I
11:26
was like you want to get on it he's like
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yeah then he jumps on the song and he's
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like yo let's do a swap so like I'm
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going to do one for your album you do
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one for mine so then I did a record for
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him and then that's how I always kept it
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but I just always had the song in the
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tuck cuz I knew like that's a gold mine
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right there like people don't have songs
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with [ __ ] yeah so I always knew like when
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it was time for me yeah mood mood got
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you know um now that's incredible you
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say Egyptian on your project um Jay the
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kingdom yes you know who did the
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production um it was like a a
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it was everybody shout out to Angel on
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the boards he did like a lot of my um
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production for a lot of my singles but a
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lot of these song like this entire
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project every single thing about this
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project was like authentically me which
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is why I'm super proud like I made the
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cover art myself like the track listing
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I put it together I an anr my project I
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didn't ask anybody to find me beats like
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I just I wrote everything put the
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records together the features mixed the
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songs down like everything fully came
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from like me my team I created my label
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B ENT and we really just like been
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working and put it out so it's been
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rocking like a socket I like this man
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young de man I'm man I love it man and
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she got the coat on Heather I KN I know
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why she wore the coat New York because
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sometimes it's it's freezing and when
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you walking through the valley of the
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hyenas you got to cover
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up you ready for this I'm ready this is
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what I came here for Uncle way I've been
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waiting like five years for this I took
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a break I actually rap better let's just
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do this [ __ ] shut it down
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turn that
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up this a volume yeah Brooklyn Trinidad
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get stand up it's my story a tell all
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they wanted me to stop but I sped off
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the only phrase that don't apply to
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mention I is fell off really a head off
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most of all these rappers I'm bet off my
13:17
shows packed like I done set me some off
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yes I'm really hurt never be confused by
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what you see cuz I done been it worse I
13:23
was trying to take you watch your GLE
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how the devil work haters looking
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miniature L Body pick a b still got it
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never curse we slide and get them hurt
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but I done leveled up to new Arenas I
13:32
can't afford a crash already spent a
13:33
couple racks up on sneakers in my neck
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and steady sitting on Katrina a pretty
13:37
liid triny from the East I give respect
13:39
off my demeanor I'm so stable had to
13:41
treat the game like it's my roster on No
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Label my old team tried to eat without
13:44
me had no table can never say a static
13:47
when they see me it's no cable sh I tell
13:49
my ex who try to down me I don't hate
13:50
you I've been on top can never see me
13:52
under pled to the haters where the
13:54
Stevie Wonder Jus looking peanut butter
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had to stash the bread between the seat
13:57
and covers still AOS are right up in
13:59
trenes from the east on S how the hell
14:00
she still up in the leag God got me why
14:03
I'm even walking on this beat ask foxy
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really know the queen DM me I said copy
14:07
I hit a f s and call a team did it prop
14:10
I be with a top be trolling in my
14:12
comments but you posted with a ox be
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never been nowhere see nothing but watch
14:16
me if I feel funny do something they
14:18
flocking PS are still popping went from
14:20
EBT to be rapping on BET left my label
14:23
on myself and I stamped it as BGE got
14:25
your favorite rapper crushing I'm making
14:26
them BG I'm no bomb it's no discussion
14:28
I'm St out of TNT yes sir I've been in
14:31
it for a minute cuz y'all tried up Ricky
14:33
pants tied up Lou Duff will probably
14:35
mash the belt to make it wild CR fit
14:37
that I'm up about to make it known to
14:38
raap a fashion y can't try her but
14:40
listen I can tell you about the days
14:42
before rapping was a living I was
14:44
trapping in the rain of storm ask about
14:46
me had the city jumping like if Angel
14:47
scored I want to get to details but
14:49
ain't trying to get my ankles caught
14:50
rail hitter that's why I'm respected
14:52
from the hood to Andy Hill figure step
14:53
in any room I know I'm good these is
14:55
real killers next game feet up on the
14:57
wood so I could feel bigger yeah I took
14:59
lost and resurrected I'm a real Winer me
15:02
come on man we got
15:04
young that was great we got L this up in
15:07
there get get them get them get them I
15:11
want to put my sun on I ain't put my sun
15:13
on all year get them good get on all
15:17
year get them get them you going to keep
15:20
going you going keep doing it get she
15:21
made me want to bring this back you got
15:23
to bring it back you whack rapper oh
15:27
popy Uncle I'm ready I'm ready you whack
15:29
ra your time is limited your days are
15:32
numbered wack rap is not allowed your
15:35
Deon is
15:38
back
15:39
ofuse come on y
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wow that [ __ ] was SI that's how you do
15:45
it that's how you do it that's how you
15:48
ain't high five nobody this year no no
15:51
no no I gave her I gave a high five rap
15:53
city was here yesterday shout out to
15:56
love you got to love rap city um yeah
15:58
cple a lot I don't give out a lot though
16:00
but that's why I said from you that
16:02
means a lot cuz you're a tough
16:05
cookie always been that way I was say I
16:08
know I say like you're a tough
16:11
cookie make that into a drop she's not
16:14
lying at all okay young Deon I'm proud
16:16
of you I need everybody to support this
16:19
project she has her own label she got
16:22
her team look at her team they they
16:24
Garden Her Like She's a Precious Diamond
16:27
what was that the 13 the oh yo y'all in
16:30
town Scotty y'all in town next
16:34
Friday we said we live in town Uncle
16:37
wherever you call us we there BGE will
16:39
be in attendance the whole entire family
16:41
okay BG BGE bent know I said they'll be
16:45
there next Friday we doing our year in
16:47
wrap up I want to have y'all we going to
16:49
set up a mic too hello okay young Devon
16:51
will be there okay yo I love you I love
16:54
you Uncle I thank you for all your
16:56
unconditional love I want to always give
16:57
you your roses and of the world even
16:59
though I do it behind the scenes you've
17:01
shown me nothing but love over the years
17:03
and you let me be crazy be a wild little
17:06
kid and come back home to myself so I
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always will thank you and love you
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forever and I'm super proud of you and
17:11
you inspire us thank you I appreciate
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young DAV
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