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[Applause]
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yeah that voice right there both voices
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um
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the first voice you heard was a man
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who's a true pillar in the community of
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oakland
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um his storyline is that of many people
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who grow up in the environment that we
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grew up in you often hear me talk about
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where i grew up at um in east oakland
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i used to go to places like tony's
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liquors and sharpest market to get my
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food
0:24
[Applause]
0:26
an edge liquor come on
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yeah that's what you got used to be a
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hamburger spot i can't think of the name
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across the street from as liquor when
0:35
you get the big fat ass french fries and
0:37
the juicy burgers since closed down but
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a lot of people that um were in our
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community have huge names you know
0:44
because of just the footwork they put in
0:46
on the community that environment is a
0:48
challenging environment to grow up in
0:50
when you're in oakland it's a lot of
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pitfalls that you might end up going
0:54
through and some of those things might
0:55
get you caught up into um
0:57
into a world that is just hard to break
0:59
from you know and that's the same story
1:02
we see in a lot of inner cities across
1:04
our country and then there's people who
1:07
take something bad and make something
1:09
good out of it you know some people who
1:12
get a chance to redeem themselves have
1:14
tremendous redemption stories realizing
1:17
that choices they may have made as
1:18
younger men or women
1:21
can be rectified as adults and when i
1:24
see that in my community i don't judge
1:26
anybody for what they've done if you
1:28
from oakland you've probably done some
1:29
[ __ ] we've all done something right and
1:32
so when i see my brothers just rise
1:34
above it and then take that same
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influence that they had on the streets
1:39
and then it transcends into something
1:41
that's positive and inspiring
1:43
i have to salute that and i want to say
1:46
peace to zoda roaster yeah give that man
1:49
a big round of applause
1:51
23rd ave og trumps dubs whatever you
1:55
want to call it 250 foot hill
1:58
to be exact 25th foot hill yeah it's
2:01
over there garf what's that school down
2:03
there garfield garfield garfield over
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there on 23rd
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the car wash the car wash 24 for the
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foothill 25th for the right next to it
2:14
he does this to me every time too he
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makes sure i get the blocks right there
2:18
come over here
2:19
you can't be a block off with zotero
2:21
roaster man because it can make a
2:23
difference but i'm proud of you
2:25
um so as what you've been doing with the
2:28
podcast and telling your story this man
2:31
was set up by the police department
2:33
years ago i remember this and i remember
2:36
what i remember is that he he won a
2:38
lawsuit and and that we had never seen
2:41
that we hadn't we had never seen nobody
2:44
who was set up right you know go to
2:46
court and win a lawsuit and to us we
2:50
thought that was was amazing police
2:52
planted a gun on them tried to say
2:53
wasn't that they planted a yeah they
2:55
planted a gun and i represented myself
2:57
and he represented himself
2:59
and by doing that you empowered a whole
3:01
lot of folks to let them know that you
3:03
know
3:04
that end ain't so certain you know
3:06
there's always some there's always a
3:08
light at the end of the tunnel
3:10
and so zoda roaster has been telling me
3:12
about his son
3:14
for a while we've been trying to make
3:15
sure you texted
3:17
songs
3:19
answer your phone sway come on man
3:23
do i not answer no you do you do you do
3:25
he he answers his text he has his phone
3:27
he
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and you know just i understand the um
3:33
you know you when you're busy you're
3:34
busy man and you got a lot on your plate
3:37
but at the same time though
3:39
i'm relentless
3:40
yeah that's true
3:43
i had to answer it wasn't like he was
3:45
going to stop the hostile chicken i love
3:47
it
3:48
keeping it 100. even 100. it's a hostile
3:52
takeover that's his podcast too by the
3:54
way
3:55
to talk about the give up shout out to
3:57
the podcasters yeah keep it in 100 with
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joe the roaster
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and um
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we about 56 shows in
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um uh um my content is very very simple
4:08
i keep it 100 we ain't coming up in
4:10
there with no lies and no jibber jab we
4:12
just hey we're gonna we're gonna have a
4:14
nice conversation conversation to avoid
4:16
confrontation that's c-tech and um we're
4:19
gonna make sure that we are entertained
4:22
at the same time absolutely uh i wanna
4:25
commend you as a father i always salute
4:27
parents who come to me about their
4:29
children and supporting their careers
4:31
he's a grown-ass man but he's still your
4:33
child hello right and so
4:35
it's it's great how god works because we
4:37
have been talking about only enzo who's
4:40
his son get that man a round of applause
4:42
for a long time
4:43
and i was i was back home couple weeks
4:46
ago and um
4:49
i was really there to um
4:51
to um my grandmother passed so
4:53
we were there to send her off properly
4:56
and in the process my mind was just kind
4:58
of boggled you know at that time she was
5:00
108 years old
5:02
lived in the 90s and
5:05
and then mr fab
5:07
who is the mayor of oakland to me right
5:09
now who's always foot down into the
5:11
community ten toes down
5:13
was like swayze hey you gotta come by
5:14
the studio you gotta come by the studio
5:16
we're doing something amazing and
5:18
truthfully i'll say man i have no
5:20
mental space to go by the studio but
5:23
something told me
5:24
i'm supposed to go by the studio right
5:27
and i can't what's the name of the
5:28
studio the grill the grill we went by
5:31
the grill i remember recording some um
5:34
vocals for the
5:36
mac wanda did uh the documentary about
5:38
her son and i remember recording some
5:40
vocals there so i shot over there
5:43
and lo and behold i meet your son
5:47
and i know i know i know he probably was
5:49
looking at me like dude what's all this
5:51
energy man i was on him i was on you
5:53
because we have been talking about you
5:55
so much and then when i met you i felt
5:57
your energy i felt you got an aura
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you got a light about you and sometimes
6:02
people might not even realize it and
6:04
take somebody to tell you might take
6:06
somebody like me who i've seen like for
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decades
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you know what i mean i've been pointing
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out they got lauryn hill got a light on
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her let's play her on kmel you know i
6:14
mean all the loonies are i used to play
6:16
basketball with them at maxwell and
6:18
maxwell park you know man they got a
6:21
light on them you got a light on you and
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it just so happened that uh a friend of
6:25
mine's daughter was hanging was with you
6:27
i'm not gonna go too deep into that
6:29
unless you want me to but a friend of
6:30
mine's daughter was hanging with you and
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so that coincidence told me that i was
6:34
supposed to be there to meet you
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and that's what my energy was about and
6:38
i called your dad and said your son got
6:40
it your son got energy now and fab had
6:43
all of these local artists
6:45
in this one studio just creating music
6:48
all day and teaching folks how to
6:50
construct prop songs properly how to
6:52
make hooks bridges crescendos how to you
6:55
know make your bars more concise more
6:57
impactful yeah we call it a writing
6:59
session a writing session and then i
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heard you rap and was like yo let's do
7:04
it and i called you now we made an
7:06
appointment for you to come down here
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that day i i knew you was going to come
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down here when he was in l.a so i want
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to welcome you to the show properly man
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thank you are definitely the future
7:16
you're the now of the bay area it's a
7:18
lot of great artists coming out the bay
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right now and you are one of them that
7:22
people need to watch give it up for only
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enzo
7:26
only enzo
7:28
welcome come on
7:30
come on man what's it what what's it
7:34
who inspired you to rap
7:37
my father yeah
7:38
yeah
7:39
he better [ __ ]
7:51
somebody asked him
7:52
his son
7:54
who
7:54
who who he was inspired by he
7:57
talking about kendrick lamar and
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[ __ ] though right he didn't
8:02
like that [ __ ] he didn't like it yeah i
8:03
told him that so you gotta you gotta say
8:05
everything
8:06
he started listening rappers you gotta
8:08
say no particular order
8:10
definitely him like i can't even get
8:11
away from him because it's a fact he
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told me or he he made me learn to rap
8:16
when i was three years old
8:18
you know what i'm saying and maybe
8:19
performing whenever i was in front of
8:21
somebody
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wow
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and
8:24
would occasionally add a run right now
8:26
let's add some to it you know make it a
8:27
little longer
8:28
so i've been rapping you've been rapping
8:31
um
8:32
knowing who your father is and so i
8:34
think we got to have a separate
8:35
interview yeah no doubt you know what i
8:37
mean because this is about only enzo but
8:39
i just wanted to make sure i gave you
8:42
your recognition
8:44
and so we could come back but but
8:47
how different was your childhood from
8:49
how he grew up in oakland
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uh from what i know it was the complete
8:53
opposite
8:54
you know uh
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i was basically
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i was with my mother you know she made
9:00
sure i was at school she made sure i was
9:02
clothed fed she made sure i knew how to
9:05
keep myself safe stay out of anything
9:07
that i don't need to be in
9:09
you know what i'm saying so i
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grew up going to school going to work
9:13
that's it you don't you ain't got a
9:14
police record or nothing
9:16
not that i know
9:17
okay all right
9:18
[Laughter]
9:21
okay you ain't got it okay that's good
9:23
and what kind of work were you doing
9:25
work i just worked like like nine to
9:26
five work
9:28
i had more jobs than uncle ruckus for
9:31
real okay like give me an example what
9:33
kind of what's the what's the hardest
9:34
job you had the hardest job i had was
9:36
the military i was in the military i was
9:38
in the national guard for two years and
9:42
i was able to get through it but it just
9:43
was
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i don't know i thought i was i was going
9:46
for discipline but then and seeing how
9:49
it made me see how rebellious i was or
9:52
how
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i like to do what i want to do uh-huh so
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i was like yeah this ain't for me uh-huh
9:57
i got to do everything by the book by
9:58
what y'all talking about every by the t
10:01
or it's a wrap
10:03
let me go control my own life real quick
10:05
i'll make my own choices and decisions
10:06
uh-huh
10:08
and what is that what age was that went
10:10
to the army like 20 20 19 to 20. uh-huh
10:14
and did it teach you any discipline it
10:16
did teach me discipline
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so
10:19
of course i learned physical discipline
10:21
i had 300 pt scores that's the perfect
10:23
score okay you know what i'm saying um
10:26
i became more cleanly about myself
10:28
because i was messy
10:30
so
10:30
my mom loved that because i came home
10:32
from the military and went to my mom out
10:34
okay but i'm in there cleaning stuff up
10:36
she's looking at how my bed is man she's
10:38
like oh i'm sorry i'm saying that's what
10:39
she was happy about but besides that i
10:41
literally just worked like you could
10:42
start naming retail jobs and i didn't
10:45
yep yeah i worked taco bell kfc amc 30.
10:48
i don't work the ann taylor i used to
10:50
like to be at the mall so i'm just going
10:51
if i if i start working at one job in
10:53
the mall i'm gonna go get a job at
10:55
another one bro what was you doing that
10:56
aunt taylor man what you selling no no i
10:58
wasn't that's funny i was in ann taylor
11:00
for
11:01
probably a day
11:04
i can't put that on your resume yo that
11:06
lunch break you never come back from
11:08
yeah yeah i was in there for a day they
11:10
put me in the back uh they was like we
11:13
need you to steam these clothes
11:15
i'm like all right i got it or the
11:16
steamer right and you know they got the
11:18
big steamer you just put them in there
11:19
and hit a couple buttons in the steam
11:21
it was broke
11:23
so they rolling low standing around
11:25
standing up on a rack and i gotta
11:27
literally hand steam every piece of
11:29
clothing that was on the wreck
11:31
in the back with the apron on uh-huh i
11:33
burned my hand i'm like yeah no
11:36
it just walked out yeah yeah i'll be
11:38
back
11:39
and never came back no i'm back right
11:41
now this is it yeah you're back right
11:43
now only is though get to know the name
11:47
i like that
11:48
at that time
11:50
i i'll tell you this quick story when
11:51
when king tekken i first started who he
11:54
was grew up in hayward right and uh at
11:56
that time i was at oakland high when we
11:58
first started and didn't quite wasn't
12:00
quite sure where i was going to go so i
12:02
was working at um brockway glass company
12:04
you know
12:06
in the teepees i work my first job was
12:08
at ways over there by the ville and they
12:10
kept robbing it every 1st and 15th
12:13
and so i couldn't do that i feel like
12:14
that's not gonna work for me you know i
12:16
worked at um in alameda at the naval air
12:19
station putting up pipes and all kinds
12:21
of [ __ ] you ever had one of your friends
12:22
coming to your job and try to get you to
12:24
help you i told this story last week
12:26
digital underground came into anita's
12:28
creole restaurant in hayward
12:30
um off of foothill i think it was and
12:33
and me and keen tech had just opened for
12:35
them at the omni remitta omni in north
12:37
oakland we just opened up for him bro
12:40
you know and we had a song called on we
12:42
want to rock you on cameo at that time
12:45
and shot g and then walked in and i got
12:47
an apron on washing dishes and i had to
12:50
bust their table and i did like you did
12:53
with ann taylor that was the last day i
12:55
worked
12:57
a regular job i got on the bart came
12:59
back got off on fruitvale walked to my
13:02
mother's house and decided i'm gonna
13:03
keep going but
13:05
while i was doing it i had to dream of
13:08
doing this right right while you was
13:10
doing that what did you have the dream
13:12
of doing this too i did i did i
13:14
definitely did and when it comes that's
13:15
funny because i have a similar story my
13:17
last job
13:18
i was changing somebody's battery
13:20
because i was working at triple a
13:23
it was about 40 it was about 40 minutes
13:26
right
13:27
we talking 40 minutes i'm changing
13:28
battery real cool you know
13:30
uh when i'm done
13:32
he gets to walking all right fella see
13:34
you later i jump in my van
13:36
and i turn my music on and i start
13:38
pulling off and he i see him running
13:40
back around the man hey
13:43
you smooth with the movement that's one
13:44
of my songs uh-huh he's looking at me
13:46
and you know i'm saying jumpsuit i'm
13:48
pulling off in the yellow van he's like
13:49
that's you man i
13:51
love your song
13:53
i ain't supposed to have this on i went
13:55
straight to the studio and took it off
13:57
yeah and got right back in the studio
13:59
that was enough to tell you that you
14:01
wasn't in the right place right right
14:03
exactly come on look how that happens
14:05
man meet tracy g right here how are you
14:07
doing tracy how you doing i'm super
14:09
swell i'm now
14:11
wondering because you grew up under
14:15
the site of a hip-hop architect and
14:18
obviously you learn about yourself
14:20
through your craft but you're also
14:21
learning about yourself through the
14:23
feedback that you receive what was some
14:25
of like the initial criticism but
14:28
strengths that you found out about
14:30
yourself through your father
14:32
uh criticisms but strengths as a artist
14:39
so as far as my strengths go i mean i'm
14:41
just
14:42
i feel like genetically i'm just you
14:44
know i'm saying he's a great rapper
14:46
you know i'm saying and of course i
14:48
practice but i i just everybody i feel
14:50
like it's natural because every time i
14:52
do it it's always a positive reaction
14:54
and a response
14:55
and then you know we look just like two
14:58
so
14:59
like that's the first first thing fresh
15:01
it looks just like your daddy man you
15:02
seen me before
15:05
you saw me before you saw him
15:09
still look like a man you know getting
15:11
getting looking more like them
15:13
every day
15:16
as far as like negative
15:18
areas of improvement we'll say okay
15:20
areas of improvement
15:23
consistency work ethic that's my main
15:25
thing he he's had that
15:28
for a good while and me i i really just
15:31
never developed a good work ethic until
15:33
i stopped or i tried to stop working
15:35
regular jobs and just you know what i'm
15:37
saying figure life out like i know
15:39
that's not gonna i'm not gonna do this
15:40
forever and never clocking in and you
15:43
know what i'm saying i'm gonna take my
15:44
take care of myself take care of my
15:45
family so i need to figure something
15:47
else out real quick
15:49
okay and he's figuring it out mike muse
15:51
you want to jump in there yeah i just
15:52
like this your your origin story about i
15:55
love how you said you don't have a
15:56
record right i think your story is
15:58
showing other mc's that are looking to
16:00
get into the into the game is that you
16:02
don't have to do illegal things in order
16:05
to get into the game and i love how
16:07
comfortable you are
16:08
talking about working a mall job a lot
16:11
of times these people looking in the
16:13
game i think they have these boisterous
16:16
origin stories about like crime and
16:18
fighting and gangs and the fact that
16:20
you're like yo i just love working at
16:22
the mall i went to the national guard
16:24
and i think that's huge brother that's
16:26
why i say i'm proud of you i don't even
16:27
have a question i'm proud of you
16:28
appreciate it hopefully other people are
16:30
listening would know that you don't have
16:32
to choose that route
16:33
in order to get on sway in the morning
16:36
in the morning
16:37
[Laughter]
16:39
yeah you have to have some link to 23rd
16:41
ave though that that's why you know okay
16:44
i don't know
16:47
only enzo this man right here is the
16:50
first rapper ever signed to motown
16:52
records he was very instrumental in
16:54
signing 50 cent he's worked with
16:55
everybody from jay-z to mariah carey to
16:59
r kelly to whoever you named ludacris
17:01
the whole nine this is the one and only
17:03
legendary rich nice right here rich nice
17:05
nice nicest in the studio he's looking
17:07
at he's sizing you up right now as an
17:09
artist all right cool all right go ahead
17:12
it's a twofold question it start it
17:13
starts with you it starts with you do
17:15
you ever hear music sometime on the
17:17
radio or just in passing and say to
17:20
yourself
17:21
oh man my son is better than that and
17:23
then get on the phone and call him and
17:25
say hey man what you doing
17:27
i need you to get on top of this and get
17:29
does that ever happen i think you got
17:31
our house bugs
17:34
dead to me
17:35
[Laughter]
17:38
yeah i hear stuff all the time
17:40
and i'm a real critic though
17:43
like i'm a hip-hop head i like
17:45
real music that tugs at your heart right
17:48
you know what i'm saying
17:49
this dude right here
17:51
he's somebody else
17:53
i hear things that he he he makes songs
17:56
and i don't even know it's him
17:58
i'll be like who is that
18:00
man that's me
18:02
like boy you are amazing wow yeah no
18:04
doubt about it so
18:06
he his project right now coming up right
18:08
now
18:09
and all the songs that he make
18:11
he do it
18:13
according to his life
18:15
you know he's a breath of fresh air he
18:17
don't have to talk about killing nobody
18:19
he ain't got he ain't talking about none
18:20
of that right he's still he's still a
18:22
soldier in life and he has his stories
18:25
but he's amazing as an artist displaying
18:29
his artistry for the world you know what
18:31
i mean nice there's some national [ __ ]
18:33
right it's not no this is not nothing
18:35
that just for oakland right you know
18:37
what i mean right or dallas right you
18:39
know i mean this is for everybody now do
18:42
you
18:43
ever get tired of him calling you saying
18:45
hey man get on this beat you like that i
18:47
got it i got it
18:48
no you get tired of me um
18:51
rebelling
18:53
i'm one of the people who i don't always
18:55
answer the phone i'll really be doing
18:57
something everybody else gotta answer
18:58
the phone though so you ain't got that
19:00
same you know what i'm saying cheat code
19:01
i got but yeah like it's just because i
19:05
like to do stuff
19:06
my way
19:07
but i always had an answer mm-hmm
19:10
why are you looking at me
19:17
i don't always had an answer
19:19
looking at me man what you doing man you
19:22
know you saw what happened last time
19:25
he should be going into i'd be having an
19:27
answer see he got to be coachable that's
19:30
going to be cultural so
19:32
i'll go to my you know he'll come with
19:34
something and you know i hear him but
19:37
then i want him to hear me because i
19:38
already got something in my mind
19:40
but you know this knowledge and wisdom
19:42
right here and
19:44
why rebel against it you know right but
19:46
i give him a hard time i'm gonna do it
19:47
anyway every time i should be giving him
19:49
a hard time are there any of his songs
19:51
that you want to remake any songs that i
19:53
want to remake of his yeah
19:55
you know uh no
19:57
no all his songs are his songs yeah and
20:00
i probably couldn't even emulate it
20:01
anyway because
20:03
we lived two completely different lives
20:05
now if we was on a song talking about
20:07
uh i got like i could rap about whatever
20:10
but
20:12
we could make songs together like new
20:14
songs that's what i rather do nice you
20:16
know i'm saying instead of trying to
20:19
revamp something that he's already did
20:20
because then they you know somebody that
20:22
doesn't know our story is going to get
20:23
confused
20:24
and expect him for me right you know
20:27
yeah i don't know what that does zelda
20:28
roast is hanging out with us only enzo
20:31
and he has a new album on everything
20:33
that's coming out he got a new single
20:35
out today but i'm gonna play with a
20:37
monster songs that that that really uh
20:39
um really stood out to me and and then
20:42
we're gonna since i got fresh here we
20:43
might as well do some basics might as
20:45
well you might just do some bay
20:46
ciphering this song is called chess tell
20:48
me about chess
20:50
uh chess is just about i mean it's you
20:52
know you know how people play chess you
20:54
move strategic it's not checkers
20:56
checkers look way easier than chess you
20:58
know you gotta really learn chess you
20:59
gotta learn the pieces you gotta you see
21:01
every piece moves different
21:04
so you just really got to use your brain
21:05
when you're moving through life making
21:06
sure you come out triumphant talk about
21:09
your strategy before we play this song
21:11
you say you got to move different how
21:12
are you moving to get your career off
21:14
the ground like being in places like the
21:16
grill being in the studio working around
21:18
all these different artists the bay area
21:19
got such an amazing renaissance
21:21
happening right now okay when you look
21:23
at the jay waltz when you look at the
21:25
russells all these different folks ian
21:27
kelly's all these different folks that
21:29
have come yourself
21:30
that are coming out how are you moving
21:32
what's your plan
21:34
stay in there everybody's face
21:36
everybody here
21:38
just be outside whole time
21:40
and if i'm inside i'm creating so i
21:43
could go outside with it
21:45
okay that's it that's well that's chess
21:47
that sounds like chess to me to here it
21:48
is 888 742-3345
21:51
let's play it loud only enzo
21:54
oakland's finest
21:56
these back man yeah let's get those back
21:59
on so the roadster is here too
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[Applause]
22:02
so it's good to see you man how long you
22:04
had your locks bro
22:05
and did i inspire you to grow locks you
22:07
most definitely did why like you were
22:09
one of my inspirations i used to be like
22:11
boy that boy swayed long come on you saw
22:14
him
22:16
stuff him up in his head like
22:17
you remember him playing too much yeah
22:20
i'm gonna wear mine out today
22:22
i'm gonna give him some memories
22:37
look i'm glad you admitted that i was
22:39
shaking them dressed before 40 said it
22:41
in a song come on come on now when i had
22:43
the locks and everybody over there from
22:45
the town they could tell you rich when i
22:47
had the locks wasn't a lot of folks with
22:48
the locks no and they was like what is
22:50
he doing he was one of the originators
22:52
yeah you know i knew i was going to
22:54
stand out i know check it out
22:56
yeah king tech b-boy original b-boy tech
22:59
used to break dance on pier 39 with
23:02
rocksteady crew and all these guys would
23:03
come to town
23:05
let me say this right quick though so
23:07
i've been watching a lot of
23:08
documentaries yeah about hip-hop
23:11
you were with everyone
23:13
really
23:15
i say man
23:17
if you ain't no legend i said they call
23:18
me a legend
23:20
they calling me a legend for the wrong
23:21
[ __ ]
23:22
yeah then every documentary man
23:25
interviewing everybody hall of famer you
23:28
don't have all the answers
23:30
y'all keep going back to that as a
23:31
family though
23:33
this morning
23:40
you know when i was doing all of that
23:41
especially when i went to mtv it was
23:43
really for oakland everything i did it
23:45
was just like for oakland i wanted
23:47
people they stigmatized us they put us
23:49
in the box i was like man we ain't just
23:51
one thing we we are everything
23:54
right and we were super proud of you and
23:56
still is thank you man i'm excited about
23:58
it
23:58
thank you man i appreciate that brother
24:00
and i'm proud of you too
24:02
rich we grew up in the same neighborhood
24:04
come on man that's up for 25th and
24:06
foothill murder all right
24:09
murder it's all the dubs though that's
24:11
all it does that's all it does right
24:13
yeah okay uh on the end zone man i yeah
24:17
i mean i i really like your style you
24:19
know and um i want to know what's your
24:22
purpose like
24:24
what do you rap for
24:27
i rap to entertain i rap to entertain
24:29
because i i i just love the reaction i
24:31
get when i'm doing it yeah you know so i
24:34
rap to entertain
24:36
and the fact that i know this is
24:37
something that i always hear hey man do
24:39
what you love you know as your career
24:41
why not
24:42
take care of my family like this
24:45
it's the definition of true success yeah
24:47
you know when you're in a position to
24:48
take care of your family yeah most
24:50
definitely god gave you a gift to
24:52
sustain yourself
24:54
and yours so if you don't utilize that
24:57
to to
24:58
to to make it happen then you you're
25:01
doing the wrong stuff
25:03
you're not successful if you're not
25:05
getting up in the morning and doing what
25:06
you love
25:07
you know i'm saying he loved to do it we
25:09
have these conversations all the time
25:11
it's crazy and she asked him that though
25:13
because that's what it's about
25:15
you know i probably sound like your dad
25:17
in many ways in terms of this the way
25:19
the way i think probably because we grew
25:21
up in that same environment right yeah
25:24
and i find it interesting that you said
25:26
well legendary for two different reasons
25:28
right
25:29
um and and and zoda rosa is legendary in
25:32
the streets right
25:34
it's a lot of legends in the street you
25:36
know that came came out from oakland a
25:37
lot of them aren't here
25:40
and what he learned in the streets has
25:42
now transcended into corporate into the
25:45
business world above ground now and all
25:48
of those lessons
25:49
to me are transferable
25:51
if you grew up in the streets and you
25:53
was running some type of drug rink or
25:55
whatever so you know oakland some credit
25:57
card scam or you know we used to do cars
26:00
and switch them vin numbers and license
26:02
plates
26:05
different [ __ ] you know
26:06
um then you got really you got the tools
26:09
to run your own business legitimately
26:12
and so the information you've been
26:13
sharing with your podcast and
26:15
interviewing folks is to me uh all
26:18
transferable information from trials and
26:20
tribulations that you went through
26:23
and so i want to say come i want to
26:24
definitely sit down we got to have a
26:25
conversation about all of that as well
26:28
but once again this is about on the end
26:30
zone hello only be like man when y'all
26:33
gonna stop talking to my dad man come on
26:35
every interview though i've been like
26:36
man
26:40
individually we push it on the end zone
26:43
man till the wheels fall off and i'm
26:44
gonna tell you like this you know y'all
26:46
can find out about me later on let's
26:48
talk about this cat man let's do it man
26:51
um okay cool so have you met who are
26:53
some of the artists you met that aren't
26:55
from art from the bay area that that
26:57
know your music and is giving you props
27:00
um that aren't from the bay area
27:04
you mentioned t.i earlier and uh so t.i
27:07
uh let's look i keep taking the bay area
27:09
artists i've been out here for two years
27:11
straight rapping
27:13
uh it was t.i i gotta scroll my
27:15
instagram who else snoop
27:18
snoop uh 40
27:21
no for 40 from the base see okay 40
27:24
still 40's global he's definitely
27:27
just born in the bay globe global big
27:29
verifier yeah absolutely
27:32
um i don't know man
27:34
everybody like it man everybody
27:36
everybody like it y'all hear that what
27:37
have you been learning about the
27:39
business side of this
27:41
like i feel like in some ways or maybe
27:42
in a lot of ways the artistry side is
27:45
the easiest because that's what comes
27:46
natural that's what draws you to the
27:48
game right right and then for a lot of
27:49
folks what changes is seeing all of
27:52
these different structures or hearing
27:54
all of these tale cautionary tales and
27:57
just having your business right right
27:59
what are you learning in that regard
28:02
learning that you got to have your
28:03
business right or it's not going to go
28:04
for at all and learning that you gotta
28:07
once again consistency was a problem
28:09
with me
28:10
but consistency works like if i'm only
28:12
making one song or just trying to make a
28:14
hit
28:15
and spending a bunch of time on and
28:16
that's the only thing i do that one day
28:19
i'm not working like i'm supposed to be
28:21
i'm supposed to either be doing it every
28:22
day or doing it so much and one day that
28:24
i could take a break
28:26
but yeah just consistency and work ethic
28:28
is my main focus got you only enzo how
28:31
can people reach you give out your
28:32
social real quick only enzo on
28:34
everything o-n-l-y e-n-z-o
28:38
don't turn table still on yeah instagram
28:40
spotify apple music youtube
28:43
tick tock all of that turn the mother
28:45
mike's down let's turn his up we got dj
28:48
fresh on the ones and twos right now
28:50
we're gonna take them back to the bay
28:51
area this is gonna be like a slash 10
28:54
o'clock bomb slash world famous wake up
28:56
show cipher right now we putting the
28:58
focus on one of oakland's finest the
29:00
next up to do it the one and only only
29:03
enzo is here man dj fresh throw that
29:05
beat on man throw that beat on
29:11
[Music]
29:15
okay
29:15
[Music]
29:17
hey
29:20
only
29:22
look
29:23
she said get your flight back i flew out
29:25
[ __ ] four days now i'm right back how
29:27
you on your ass all day y'all like racks
29:30
trying to get a bag i'll pay cause i
29:32
like stacks [ __ ] talk bad to your face
29:35
[ __ ] fight back [ __ ] talk to me like a
29:37
plumber with a pipe at damn this girl
29:40
anxious i like that i like that might
29:42
lack height on site but the pipe hung
29:44
properly none of that matter when you're
29:46
on top of me on top of me apostrophe
29:49
i'ma pop for free i don't drop a feed
29:51
interested in what you can offer me came
29:53
a long way from only having a pot to pee
29:56
i'm trying to cop a property y'all be on
29:58
that monopoly in zelda i'm just trying
30:00
to get all of my promotion and sales up
30:02
grind and get a store for my clothing so
30:04
i can sell stuff all my [ __ ] hard your
30:06
[ __ ] softening well blood
30:08
running it up i'm about to have a swell
30:10
summer why you [ __ ] ain't getting no
30:12
money damn bummer you had a plan [ __ ]
30:15
it up put your plan under now you trying
30:17
to rob something from a bag owner pick a
30:20
damn number don't send those [ __ ] over
30:22
i send your mans under gas burner turn a
30:25
slow [ __ ] to a fast runner a ass rubber
30:28
but i can't [ __ ] with it if the ass
30:30
rubber
30:32
[Music]
30:37
you're a nasty dude on the end zone
30:39
[Laughter]
30:41
for you only four days and then you out
30:44
she can't get a week it was a vacation
30:47
quick trip okay
30:49
okay that's the warm-up though all right
30:51
dog i told you don't come down here with
30:53
one verse
30:55
you did i didn't tell you that keep my
30:57
mic on john yo and i told fresh don't
30:59
come down here with one beat
31:02
here we go
31:21
dj fresh
31:22
[Music]
31:23
hey
31:25
look
31:26
hold on
31:27
[Music]
31:29
just a quick how long did somebody for
31:31
real
31:34
fresh
31:36
fresh send this to me later on
31:39
i want to record on this hold on give me
31:41
something give me something a little
31:42
slower though
31:44
fresh showing
31:46
give me some uh
31:48
[Music]
31:50
i want to do a different style you know
31:52
i just did that you know what i'm saying
31:54
something little scratch what you got
31:55
man
31:56
i want to show off
31:58
some boom bap or something
32:00
yeah i want to show off
32:03
man yeah let's get it off let's get it
32:04
popping you could go to
32:07
we're going to take our time with it we
32:09
got destroyed coming up next destroy i
32:11
got everybody
32:15
yeah come on man we got to do this who
32:17
who did y'all bring with you man we got
32:19
to give the family props man
32:21
man big c that's my uncle i know him
32:23
come on we go way back
32:25
we go back to the kml day
32:28
hope you know hope i know hella juiced
32:30
510 on instagram
32:32
yeah you hear me y'all get y'all pressed
32:34
juice mark j here in the back that's my
32:37
uh my code my co-artist last engineer
32:39
y'all gonna hear a bunch of us man we we
32:42
great together y'all right here yeah i'm
32:43
happy about it auntie cousins i hear
32:47
cherie what's your name
32:48
cheri
32:50
kilo kurt uh-huh yeah i'm saying hello
32:52
kurt legendary dj frank oh he ain't come
32:54
with me hope and now we used to all hang
32:56
out back in the day yeah
33:09
[Music]
33:12
look
33:13
i do it with my eyes closed no vision is
33:16
needed i just envisioned the flow so
33:18
wicked and call it enzo vision no
33:21
kidding the flozo spitting to get
33:26
i never needed a pinky ring to bring it
33:28
to the hotel motel and turn your girl
33:30
into a singer now she's taking requests
33:33
i tell her do i need a baker then i
33:35
pause for a second thinking do i need
33:37
her not at all i need money i got a ball
33:40
probably as talented as aubry but i'm
33:42
not as tall trying to get a pipe
33:44
prescription from dr hall had to send
33:46
her to the clinic she's suffering from
33:47
no acetone unattractive my [ __ ] rocket
33:50
won't be blasting off only way she get
33:52
action is if that ass is fat the song
33:54
style fresh meat considering that it's
33:56
raw your shit's rancid i'm not [ __ ]
33:58
with it that is all
34:00
no it's not i changed my mind i changed
34:02
the rhyme a little bit i make my mind
34:04
consider [ __ ] i take my time with little
34:06
[ __ ] or big [ __ ] so i don't have to turn
34:08
around and have to mix it i don't do no
34:10
engineering i get someone to mix it flip
34:12
the track twist it make sure y'all don't
34:15
have me sounding like no dip [ __ ] make
34:17
sure y'all hook me up with the nine
34:18
stuck up women that i ain't gotta show
34:20
that big stick to get with can i please
34:23
get a witness to the way i spit and cook
34:26
sick [ __ ] looky in your fist quick mix
34:28
it bake it serve it at the party so
34:31
everybody can taste it and know i'm not
34:33
to play with i'm not a toy but i am the
34:35
small soldier they called over to finish
34:37
the fight before the brawl's over so i
34:39
grab a small boat and crack it over your
34:42
shoulders and i'm the last man standing
34:44
when it's all over i'm saying it's all
34:46
over you [ __ ] who couldn't help but
34:48
fall over like alcoholics because we all
34:50
sober they got a x-file on me you better
34:52
call mulder and scully cause shit's
34:54
about to get gully when it comes to this
34:57
rap [ __ ] i'm a damn bully [ __ ] who
34:59
challenging me they must not understand
35:01
fully rap battle me you gonna provide a
35:04
doctor cause you're gonna need one when
35:06
i close you inside a locker after i
35:08
empty your pockets give me your lunch
35:10
money you're laughing at my accident i
35:12
don't see what's funny
35:15
i don't see what's funny
35:16
[Music]
35:18
i don't get it
35:20
only enzo
35:22
i have to put the sunnies on rich i
35:23
brought him just in case there's a lot
35:25
of light in the room right now only enzo
35:28
he said he loses
35:30
in the bisquick
35:32
i don't know if i want breakfast with
35:33
you bro
35:35
y'all ain't trying to eat with me man
35:39
hold on hold on check this out
35:42
what i love
35:43
is acapella
35:45
give him my acapella nasa
35:48
all right
35:52
nasa when i put the shades on that mean
35:54
you shine it
35:56
okay i mean we
35:59
[Applause]
36:07
uh i can't let this opportunity pass me
36:10
freak on the beat i'll be doing it nasty
36:12
i love for my buddha harass me i'll body
36:14
your weapon she using that ass chicks
36:16
hey what you smoking they ask me i'm on
36:18
that gray but no i'm not passing i'm
36:19
gonna go hard like i'm off a viagra you
36:21
must be a nut if you think i'm not
36:22
lasting used to be happy i knew how to
36:24
box but it don't even matter they're
36:25
coming out blasting guns yo ass you run
36:27
diarrhea i'm grown i'm the daddy i'm the
36:30
leader i'm the captain [ __ ] can't top
36:31
the rap and lots of captain [ __ ] can't
36:33
stop the acting want the baggage but i
36:34
want it not for bragging got the stack
36:36
i'm gonna try to cop a cabin working too
36:38
damn hard for it not to happen dog
36:40
nassau better watch them blasting off
36:41
brown brown with the rock the basketball
36:43
one man's show this is not a casting
36:45
call this is my flow y'all could grab a
36:47
wall better yet flagged down the cab for
36:48
y'all no competition when i heard his
36:50
cash involved so i'm reaching until i
36:52
could grab it all cannabis cough then i
36:54
laugh it off grab a safe at the handle
36:56
and snatch it off you think you spitting
36:57
fire on wax eye grab the base of your
36:59
candle and snap it off watch out shoot
37:00
my shot with no strap at all when it
37:02
comes to the stash i'm a rabbit dog
37:03
money power respect yes i'm at the all
37:05
trying to ride with no ceiling no cap at
37:07
all
37:08
only end zone only enzo yeah
37:11
only enzo give him a round of applause
37:15
yeah come on man yeah i just keep trying
37:17
to rap man i like that
37:19
man you're incredible brother i'm i'm
37:21
looking forward to watching your career
37:24
and being a part of your journey
37:25
appreciate it i'm looking forward to
37:27
what's next when is on everything coming
37:28
out on everything coming out tomorrow
37:30
it's tomorrow oh man
37:33
everything come on man y'all get out
37:36
yeah i'll get him
37:38
didn't he say chess
37:40
chances
37:41
yeah i feel like checkmate right there
37:45
exactly so available at midnight yeah
37:47
yeah there we go oh man and i promise
37:50
you if you're in northern california
37:52
everybody who support music should be
37:54
supporting this movement right here okay
37:56
and i want to thank zola rus roaster for
37:58
coming by today salute to you king i
38:01
appreciate it thank you very much
38:03
thank you for having us oh it's a
38:04
hostile takeover
38:08
it really was come on man oh man check
38:11
out that podcast too man y'all doing
38:13
great work over there shout out to gotta
38:15
go have you seen laura rap my cousin
38:17
most definitely y'all y'all did y'all
38:18
sat down yeah okay cool okay cool no
38:21
voters should allude to no voters
38:22
podcasts as well the town is up hey a
38:25
couple cats i just want to say yeah
38:27
what's up to um
38:29
chris lockett okay you know what i'm
38:31
saying ricky styles shout out to them
38:33
they working hard you guys keep your
38:35
ears in your eyes open for them and
38:37
another cat who's working hard and is
38:39
investing itself heavily as buddha
38:42
avenue
38:44
from north oakland he got the song
38:46
walking like you're talking and um just
38:49
uh you guys stay you know keep the ears
38:51
open for these cats man they're real
38:53
guys and they deserve it absolutely man
38:55
only enzo congratulations i see you man
38:58
don't forget me man i need tickets to
39:00
summer jam oh this is good
39:03
always give me my tickets you know what
39:05
i mean you're a very talented gifted mc
39:08
thank you yeah i see it all right and i
39:11
hear it and i can't wait to hear more
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all right appreciate it congratulations
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only enzo man that was great all right i
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want to thank sue taylor too for coming
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by
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berkeley uh she got pharmacy berkeley
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she's the mother teresa cannabis so make
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sure you support her as she spread the
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medicinal message um behind cannabis
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pharmacy berkeley uh they gave us glass
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house
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also the glasshouse company um thank you
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sue taylor for coming by dj fresh i
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appreciate you man you did your thing
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check us out on instagram or twitter of
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the a room the letter a the letter and
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the letter r the word room and i just
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want to send a get well to my sister and
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her husband they both have kovitz so i'm
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hoping that they get uh well uh speedy
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recovery get well soon
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i want to spend uh send a speedy
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recovery to hope's mom yeah yeah i was
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mom she was in a car accident but she's
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having a speedy recovery right now she's
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almost back to 100. okay cool [ __ ] my
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love
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send my love man yes yes what's this you
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want to go off there
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put it together so proper
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planning my play with precision i'm on
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point my nerves is all along stuff a raw
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cone now i'm hitting a long joint i put
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my ambition in this [ __ ] and when i get
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riches i'm getting that rolls royce you
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[ __ ] save money over women but i don't
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get it i went with the wrong choice
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cause i got a queen getting green she
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cooking she clean and she sing with a
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strong voice
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tomorrow you're gonna see this on sways
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universe make sure you support the
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youtube channel we will be posting this
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and you'll see it all over our platforms
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i'm glad we made this happen okay and
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then i'll see y'all in the town all
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right yeah i'm sure y'all play that um
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on that note we got nothing left to say
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