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May 30, 2025
đ„ Donât miss Amanda Reiferâs EPIC live performance on Sway's Universe! This intimate session on Sway In The Morning showcases the Bajan sensationâs raw talent, magnetic energy, and powerful storytelling through music. Watch as Amanda lights up the stage with her hit single "RUDUMB?" and other captivating tracks, all while sharing her journey from Barbados to collaborating with icons like Kendrick Lamar, Pharrell, and Rihanna. Amanda opens up about overcoming writerâs block, the lessons sheâs learned from working with music legends, and the inspiration behind her unapologetic artistry. This exclusive interview dives into her creative process, her roots, and her upcoming project, "The Reifer Files." Subscribe now for more unforgettable moments on Sway's Universe, where exclusive interviews, live performances, and real conversations come to life. Amanda Reiferâs star power is undeniableâwatch, share, and be inspired! #kendricklamar #sza #travisscott #nipseyhusslelegacy #kendrick #tracyg #barbados #music #heatherb #rap CHAPTERS: 01:24 - Amanda Reifer Performs âIn And Outâ Live 08:32 - Amanda Reifer Performs âRUDUMB?â Live 10:25 - Amanda Reifer on Collaborating with Kendrick Lamar 11:40 - Amanda Reifer on Collaborating with Pharrell 14:00 - Amandaâs Final Thoughts and Reflections LINKS: Subscribe Here! http://bit.ly/SubscribeSU
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this one who is going to grace the stage
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first is hailing from Barbados
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And so you already know that she brings
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the spirit of those gorgeous sads to all
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of her craftsmanship to her songwriting
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to her style to all the different genres
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The way I first discovered her was from
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one of my favorite songs Kendrick's Die
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Hard And I was like who is that gal and
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somebody was like it's a man And I was
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like "Oh shoot." And she's continued to
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collaborate with Kendrick She's
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collaborated with Farel She's
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collaborated with Shawn Paul She's been
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on tour with her Beijian sister Rihanna
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And she is someone who's so deserving of
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our ears and our eyes Blessing the stage
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Amanda Reaper
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Hey thank you Thank you Thank you Thank
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you Oh my gosh Nice So excited Head
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what's up what's up LA how are you
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wow I'm so blessed to be sharing this
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intimate space with space space with
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y'all Y'all look gorgeous It is tight
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The energy is good It's warm in here
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Thank you so much for having me I I am
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I'm honored Welcome back to LA Welcome
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back Thank you Thank you Thank you All
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right so I'm going to start the vibe off
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tonight Y'all Y'all Y'all ready for that
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i I don't know about that one Are y'all
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ready for that
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okay All right We could
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go like a Jedi Look at me Dead eyee I
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ain't never said I wouldn't be a Jedi
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Trigger like a like a semi Sweet like a
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daylight I ain't in your head Right In
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and out In and out In and out I stay in
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and out in and
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out in and out in and out in and out I
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stay in and out in and
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out The logic's a false prophets looking
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to profit off money [Â __Â ] power through
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your optic skin out Mayday have it
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endorphins break down in portions You
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like an addict who pass you want to
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party on your high horse like a party
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Take what the sharks say I'm Desolinis
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in the shadows You never see me I do it
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my way You can stand it It's in your
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psyche like a Jedi Look at me dead eyee
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I ain't never said I wouldn't be a Jedi
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Trigger like a like a semi Sweet like a
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dead I am in your head right
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[Applause]
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Wait Hold up Hold up Pull up Hold up
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Hold on Hold on Hold on Hold on Hold on
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Come on now Come on now All right All
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right All right So y'all know I come
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from Barbados and I want to tell y'all a
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little bit about where I come from
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because some of y'all don't know me in
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here and I appreciate the introduction
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Thank you so much Heather But this next
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one going to tell you about where I'm
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from
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[Music]
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Where
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it
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get born and I raise up in 246 I cut
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through the kiss and judge his finest
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The Lord give me life and I swear never
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dim I don't fear none and I don't got no
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limit Got big ambition on me can't it
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down Many men try but they can't keep me
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down All of them too vex with a woman
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but can't cry to the lyric on the sound
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I'm run this town running loose It's
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coming now Labor but induce me for he
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thought is how I live it Sister Nancy
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show me how I got to give it This
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woman and I trouble no
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one I never trouble no
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one So tell me where to get that
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from Talk your talk You could do it all
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day I'm not impressed with a word that
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you say Even a black belly sheep could
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tell your bluffing Come wrong can't tell
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me nothing I'mma run this town Yeah I'm
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running loose It's coming now Lay
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button for head to toe This how I live
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it Sister Nazi show me how I got the
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living This
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woman never trouble no
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one I never trouble no
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one Tell me where she get it from
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Yeah cuz some of them ask me where get
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it from Some of them ask me where get it
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from I said no is from creation I said
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I'm not know it's from
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[Music]
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creation What the
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[Music]
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bum what the bum
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bum what
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the What the bum bum let me hear you
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What the bum all right real
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quick What
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[Music]
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the
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bum hey what the
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bum what the bum bum louder What the bum
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bum what the bum
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bum
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yeah
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Yeah Y'all sound good Y'all sound good
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Y'all sound good The energy is right The
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energy is right I got any Caribbean
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people in the house tonight hey All
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right All right All right My people My
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people All right This is the last one I
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have for you guys today Um this is Are
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You Dumb This is my new single that just
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dropped And listen I don't know if any
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of y'all have had this experience at
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least every day but have you ever just
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had to go like "Are you dumb?"
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Like "Are you dumb?" You know all right
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we're going to hit this one Ready go
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Let's go
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ahead [Â __Â ] through the doorway Why wait
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for you one way me in the room for the
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fun That's a cold face I ain't done yet
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Putting trophies down You ain't won yet
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20 minutes down the road Where the fun
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at don't get up [Â __Â ] I ain't come
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yet They be celebrating Tell them pray
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to the [Â __Â ] for the salvation Ice with
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man like Dalmation Drop everything you
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got for bad Hey crew like a pharaoh
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Straight to the heart like a arrow It's
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a hazel eyes with a halo Don't stare too
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hard That's f I mean I get it but I
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don't Are you dumb boy what do you want
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are you done boy what do you want are
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you done boy what do you want i mean I
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get it but I don't Are you done boy what
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do you want are you done boy what do you
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want are you done boy what do you want i
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better go celebrate live I'm an element
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Can't let it fly Give me someone I can
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level with Down for the ride Let me show
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you where the pedal is Want to know the
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tea let me show you where the kettle is
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Take a little dive in the lake I know
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you want a bite every [Â __Â ] got a low
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percentage rate Why well they just want
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to sit and watch the doves cry You want
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to eat the fruit like Adam from blow out
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my candle Still here looking for me like
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I never had him You know all the yapping
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not attractive Who there boy pump a
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break what you going to do when I snake
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it what will you do for a headline it's
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a good head It's your best I get it but
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I don't Are you done boy what do you
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want are you done boy what do you want
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are you done boy what do you want i mean
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I get it but I don't Are you done boy
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what do you want are you done boy what
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do you want are you done boy what do you
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want thank you so much Thank you Ellie
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Thank you Thank you Heather
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Ahead We got you here Come on Here Go
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ahead Let me get that chair for you Hold
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up I'm a Oh I got to spend more time
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with y'all I love this I love this
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Let me take these out so I can hear
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y'all Good Yes Yes Give it up for Amanda
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y'all
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Thank you
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You know to ask somebody "Are you dumb?"
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uh could be really embarrassing You know
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I've I've never really been asked that
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If are you dumb
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i must ask you that all the time on the
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radio and I think I repeat it It
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sometimes comes in the form of a look
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like that's that's okay So you a to use
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words to say are you dumb use words all
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the time No Okay Okay When the last time
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you actually ask somebody are you dumb
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oh this morning Yeah At least twice a
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day It's a doctor's requirement Right
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Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah You don't you don't
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feel be like you're being abrasive to
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ask that question no Absolutely not You
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know at one point in my life I would
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have said so I would have said yes I
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would have felt like I couldn't speak up
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for things about about myself and things
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I needed and things that were offensive
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to me But as a woman and I've grown
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through experience now I feel like I'm
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in a place where I'm unashamed to say
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what I think And that's what this record
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is all about It's about taking up space
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It's about saying what we need to say as
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women in spaces unapologetically Are you
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dumb are you glad that was so eloquent
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and mean all at the same time
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That that sound like something DJ Head
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would like to You seem like you say that
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all the time to people Oh I love the
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record Oh thank you Yeah I say it all
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the time But I don't say "Are you dumb?"
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It's more aggressive when I say it Oh
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you say "Are you [Â __Â ] stupid?" Oh my
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The ass bomb The ass bomb Okay All right
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I'm sorry That's No man It's okay man
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Don't come to me then Okay I know You're
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You're right I did that to myself right
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like it is
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One of the things you two have in common
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is your uh your relationship with uh you
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have a relationship with Kendrick Lamar
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you know and as we know DJ head has been
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the spokesperson for Kendrick Lamar
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right uh
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hey you got a chance to work with him
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right i did I was I'm so blessed to have
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that opportunity And every time someone
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ask me this question I make sure and say
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that same thing because I really want
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people to understand that that came at a
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time for me where I was in a place of
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self-doubt I have been doing this for a
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really long time I moved out to LA I I
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had only just met some good people
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Finally my manager Carmen she's in here
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Carmen's off the chain Where where's she
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carmen where are you from carmen
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Oakland
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And I Yeah So I mean Carmen is amazing
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and we had just linked up but I was
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facing some serious writer's block at
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the time And I had been praying for
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opportunity for the right people in my
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life And for God to play that big joke
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on me to give me the biggest opportunity
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of my life during the worst writer's
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block of my life really just um made me
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realize that I have to rely on him for
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everything and I have to walk in trust
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and walk in faith and to be able to show
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up and work with him on the record die
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hard and to work on Mr Moral and the Big
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Seers and to learn from him and
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Soundwave and Dahi I name them all the
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time because they're so incredible Um
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it's a great gift and that has flowed
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into my work as well and filtered into
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my work as well I love it Go ahead And
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you guys have collaborated more than
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once because you guys help with writing
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Both wrote for Are You Dumb Yeah As a
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co-writer as well as Forel producing
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which is just crazy It is to have those
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two names on such a record Girl you
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telling me you telling me i'm still you
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know I'm still little Beijing girl in
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the inside like running around barefoot
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in the country and just admiring all of
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these great artists and producers and to
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be able to work with them to be able to
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u sharpen my pen become a better writer
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to be able to grace a forel track I I'm
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I still am in I don't want to say
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disbelief because I got to believe in
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myself and believe that we're here but
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I'm in in in great reverence for for
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what I know the magnitude of the gift
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and opportunity I've been given And I
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know that you're such a studio rat Was
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Amanda Reaper i am You called her a rat
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Tracy
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It's a saying Don't get me in trouble
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Are you dumb exactly Oh mama Sweat too
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nice I can't say I have to sweat today I
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can't do it Amanda I'll do it I'll do it
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Just in case y'all wanted to see an
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example of how it's done Well I felt
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dumb I felt dumb Oh I love you But I'm
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I'm interested because I can only
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imagine when you are in the presence of
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such greatness have so many decades of
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history of just doing hits by hits um
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what did you take that really helped to
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shape your current style with
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songwriting from Kendrick and then also
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perhaps for your ear when it came to Fel
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or engineering or anything like that
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yeah I mean being in that room I think
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when it comes to writing and and
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creating music the biggest takeaway I
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got was don't judge it um to just be
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free and be candid and the the people
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like that of that level and that
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expertise will bring out the best in you
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and you have to peel back the layers and
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you have to be vulnerable and that's
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where the best work comes from and this
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album the reaper files that's come
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getting ready to come out you know it's
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that it's it's pulling everything back
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to get to that uncomfortable place to
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talk about the uncomfortable things but
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also the things you've been dying to say
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Um and it's and it's a full spectrum of
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moods and emotions and some good some
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bad some ugly some flawed some beautiful
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Um that's I think that's the biggest
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takeaway I took from them Love um I just
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want to say um whatever God is doing in
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your life right now is so beautiful Yes
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And um your work you need to be you know
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applauded for your work and your
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strength because this is a hard game It
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it just say is it's a hard game any
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profession is hard but in particular the
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entertainment business because people
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are so quick to judge You know everybody
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has a microphone right now And as
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someone who just seeing you for the
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first time and meeting you for the first
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time I was flawed You are so ready for
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whatever God has for you I will never
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forget you Your hard work has paid off
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sis and I hope God just blesses you
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through the roof It is beautiful Give it
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up for Amanda Reaper y'all Oh thank you
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Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you
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