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Keyshia Cole’s Epic 20th Anniversary Tour Plans Revealed! 🚨 | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
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Jun 10, 2025
Keyshia Cole joins *Sway In The Morning* for an exclusive interview, sharing details about her highly anticipated 20th Anniversary Tour celebrating two decades of her groundbreaking career. From her Oakland roots to her rise as a Grammy-nominated artist, Keyshia opens up about her journey, reflecting on her legacy, resilience, and the iconic moments that shaped her path. She reveals exciting plans for the tour, including innovative stage designs inspired by Broadway, heartfelt performances, and special guest appearances from artists like Lil' Kim and Tink. In this candid conversation, Keyshia celebrates her fans' love and loyalty, discusses her creative process, and reflects on the impact of her debut album, *The Way It Is*. Don’t miss this powerful look at her evolution as an artist and her plans to bring unforgettable performances to the stage. Subscribe to *Sway’s Universe* for more exclusive interviews with legends like Keyshia Cole, and stay tuned for inspiring stories, music insights, and behind-the-scenes moments from your favorite artists. #KeyshiaCole #20thAnniversaryTour #SwayInTheMorning #SwaysUniverse #OaklandLegend #RNBIcon #ExclusiveInterview #rawhighlights #farcrynewdawn #farcry6 #mondaynightrawhighlights #farcry5 CHAPTERS: 01:51 - The Way It Is 06:16 - Reset 08:15 - Future of Live Performances 09:55 - The Way It Is Tour Insights 13:20 - Balancing Family and Success 16:55 - Keysiha’s Style and Beauty Standards 27:27 - Hearing God's Guidance 34:30 - Lord Rav from No Vultures Podcast 36:15 - Influence of D'wayne Wiggins 38:55 - Sway Day Celebration 43:20 - The Last Original Tour Experience
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[Applause] oh man oh my god i had to dig in the
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crate for that one god bless you god bless you cuz you heard that voice i
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know he ain't about to ask me to do that right now i I swear it crossed my mind this morning i was like wait a minute
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hold up i forgot who I was dealing with you good money with me she's here
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yeah I've been excited for a couple of days now i've been trying to sing her songs i said I'm not going to sing in
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front of her i'm not going to do that to her but you know that that was 20 years
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ago it was when that clip I just played yes and that was a huge moment for
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Oakland California and the entire Bay Area oh my goodness that's when we brought MTV into the hood yes we did yes
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we did good job good job that was the real spot right oh
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my god and this young lady showed so much promise back then um we knew that
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her star was just it was inevitable for her to become the huge star um that she
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is today uh Grammy nominated u multiple multiple awards um tremendous songwriter
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tremendous performer u tremendous survivor we watch her sustain her career
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over the years over the decades and face adversity and through it all she still rises and we celebrating something many
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artists won't get a chance to celebrate a 20th anniversary of her first album and she's here to celebrate it with us
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today um the way it is the one and only the legendary now Kesha Cole
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more fire more fire more fire yo we sitting there talking when you when you from the town man it's it's just um
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looking back at that time man what do you remember from that that day we had MTV come what do you recall from that um
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I had we dig we dig the crate as well like we had to see that that moment i'm
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like "Wait that I remember being so scared and I remember you put me on the spot like you always did." And I was
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just like I was like I mean a lot of these moments that I see from back then and I was like petrified of those
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moments they look so good they look like I'm like like how far I've come now is
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just to look back it's like you shouldn't have been so afraid like damn just do your thug fizzle man just enjoy
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it and enjoy the moment so that's where I am now but looking back I mean it just looks beautiful i'm proud right right
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you could look back at 20 years ago and go "Yo I did that shit." Right 20 years
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later you've been famous ever since um so congratulations on that is it what
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you imagine it to be fame uh I mean I don't know i don't know i
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don't I don't know i don't My fans are so awesome i'm not going to lie they are so awesome they don't bother me no more
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i think they're used to me now it's like you know just love you know they don't really I mean it's not craziness it's
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just cool it's chill you know you say they don't bother you yeah they don't bother me they be like "Ke what's up how
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you doing?" "Yeah I'm going to the show." You know what I mean and they don't really be tripping but like you
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know some people just be like "Hey can I take a picture or whatever?" Or write an autograph down be like "I they Yeah
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autograph seriously heck yeah i put that on my refrigerator." They're like "Okay." And they still asking for
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autographs right from the older older generation yeah I want an autograph before you leave like
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an autograph they people don't do that no more fire though that is insane that's actually a novelty now we're not
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doing autographs autograph would be like a novelty in a sea full of selfies a autograph is supreme well yeah like an
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album or something like but like a little random piece of paper like that's how they do me it's like bro it's not you know I I
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was um the other thing that's You got so many bangers now when you reflect on this project right you know you got a
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classic album yeah yeah really i I mean the fans love it so that's all that
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matters man that's all once I'm done with it I I I release it just like you know all that pain and hurt I just get
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it out and give it to them and see what they do with it that [ __ ] was real huh for sure
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always is man always is everything i love I was telling Kesha when she walked in because I I watch you i I feel
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affinity towards you i don't know i think it's just that Oakland Bay area love you know we want to see you win and
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um your energy levels are on 10,000 to me right now you know yeah i like it man
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i like what I'm seeing from you i mean I'm blessed to be here shoot and do a 20th year anniversary tour i'm excited
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about and actually being able to get some of my ideas out and like really come up with this stage plot that I've
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been wanting to do what can what can you share well she said I could share so um
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I really wanted to do this big heart i wanted to sing on a heart and um some
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some cases have it a broken heart and some cases not a full together vibe and
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then I mean I don't know I want the dancers that like I want it to be like a screenplay sort of to see like um
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Broadway in a way i do I mean that's always been my dream to like have it
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like um like a like if you went on Broadway and you saw a play and like it's telling a story more so to speak
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than you know cuz a lot of my fans come from my the way it is era with the reality show as well and like know a lot
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about me obviously I've been realizing uh over this last couple days like I've
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been here to talk about the tour and talk about me like really doing a 20th year anniversary run and nobody's asking
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questions about that it's like so how is your family how is your how's your relationship how is the love how's this
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i'm like all right so let's get into it but like nah you know like we like I mean I
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appreciate it all so it's all good but I'm just like you know like I'm excited about this run and having um being able
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to express all the things that I've been through in my life so it's awesome it feels like a resurgence to you what's a
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resurgence let me go a reboot oh a reset okay I like that i like that there I go
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there leave me there leave me there i I can get the second level
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like a reset because when you when you go there's so many kids like young kids that was the last album actually seven
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eight years ago yeah i've been working on that for a minute the the reset yeah 11-1ven reset yeah i know all your
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albums i'm all up on your town town business i got I feel protective over
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you i shouldn't but I you know I naturally do like I'm I'm always going to protect you know i'm never going to
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Yeah you know I put me out there like that thank you so much god bless you you can come here you're going to be safe protected yeah i I would call you off
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Mike you know hey man check this out you know hey homie what we doing but you know check yourself you know what I mean
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right but I I love seeing all these young this younger generation that's picking up on your older music man
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that's insane ain't that something it is it is it is man i'm like geez okay mhm
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well I mean no you know they don't touch it leave it alone no but
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um No because I've always felt like I want to perform my music i want to live with my music like and I and I and I
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haven't been ready to record another album for a little while like I've been going in and I've been doing stuff here and there or whatever but it ain't
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really been like a feeling thing like I'm like "All right all right all right that sounds good to me." Like with all my other albums I've been in that mode
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like I feel it you know what I'm saying m but sporadically doing things here and there i have maybe about eight or nine
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records you know what I'm saying that I actually like okay i don't know when I'm be ready to release them you know I'm
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taking time with it but it's been seven or eight years anyway like you know I don't know i just think that um it's
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awesome for the ones that I do like you know um I I think yo um I was Heather
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and I went to see the um this made me think of you too heather and I went to see the um Queens the Queen's tour with
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Miss Patty Leel Glattus Night yes uh Stephanie Mills and Shaka Khan but
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finish your thoughts cuz I'm wondering if you going where I'm about to go okay let's see if this [ __ ] is in sync right okay cuz Stevie Wonder yeah i can see
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Kesha Cole decades from now talk about it big facts still being on stage still
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being big relevant where people want to come see you singing songs that you made
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decades ago oh big facts is that Is that how you see yourself well I want to know what you was going to say and then I'm
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going to tell a story I said yesterday actually okay okay so we actually put together a fake tour while we was watching the the the Patty and and and
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Glattus but what I personally wanted to say to you is that I saw you perform in
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Jersey at DJ Cassid's 50 Hip Hop oh yeah yeah yeah and you bodied it and it
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wasn't the first time I saw you perform and I said to my husband her stage
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performance and how she sounds will continue to give her longevity like it doesn't matter if you put out music the
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way you sound live on stage people will just keep coming back to watch you perform and I don't know what you doing
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before you get the stage or hit that stage but sis continue because you sound
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amazing live and I've been to a lot of shows and I've I've walked out mid show
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you know yeah because I didn't come to see that so you know I walked out miss show but you sound amazing and I think
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goodness thank you more people should put effort in their live shows oh yeah you know and so I know you're here to
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talk about the tour but I would just encourage everybody to go see you on tour you were dope oh thank you so much
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and I um I I encourage everybody to put into their live performance as well
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because the fans is where it's at and they come to get a great show and I
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literally will have an anxiety attack and break down if I don't do it the right way like it's a real thing like I
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have those are the only nightmares I have about life like it's my fans not being satisfied but um so my story was
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Stevie Wonder had um pulled me to the side i did the Grammy um Clive Davis
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party last year with um with Stevie and Dion Warwick and um Glattus Knight damn
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legends yeah and I and I and um Stevie told me "You are what we were to the
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generation before you." And I was like "Wait said what?" Right what do you mean like how is that possible because the
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world needs love Kesha the world needs love and you are love and um I was just
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like I just was taken back by that thought because it's like it's it's kind
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of happening but I'm like I'm just not I think I get really shy and it's really
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um a weird feeling for me to for people to like say that kind of stuff because it's just like remembering the person
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that set out to accomplish I mean that for real yeah and and and now it's here
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wow and a lot of the things that I ask for and pray for and um ask God for to
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bless me with um happens i mean pretty much everything you know with the
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exception of a couple things I wish I could still have my mama to hold on to but Amen power though you know so I mean
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it's a blessing you know to to to be here 20 years later doing The Way It Is
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Tour and having so many amazing artists on the road with me um performing as
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well i'm going to be a fan yeah man that's I can't wait yeah yeah yeah i
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can't wait to see yeah yeah friday is super awesome can't wait to see that um he's gonna be in
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Oakland when is the Oakland day jeremiah um August y'all can say it loud august it's
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in August it's in August okay i'll be at that one as well you know on Google okay
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so So boom so I'm going to do my own P podcast on the on the show okay i'm going to um interview artists and I'm
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going to also interview radio host at the tour yeah I want to do that i want to do that so that would be awesome
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allow me to interview you that would be awesome
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i like how you look that you get to approve the questions no you can approve the questions yeah I'm not going to do
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y'all come to me for the question how y'all be doing me not you but some of
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y'all got nervous when you said that yo it's vicious i love you know some things you know oh man I count me in that's ill
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so Kesha is um in Oakland August 2nd performing at the venue at Thunder Valley Casino Resort in Lincoln
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California july 31st oh July 31st okay oh do I have anything on August 1st yes
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damn it las Vegas i guess Tobias having his birthday in Vegas okay we'll be
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there too um I I love that you incorporated you
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brought up your mom rest in power but one of the things you got to do that uh a lot of us don't get a chance to do is
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incorporate our family members into our success jesus Christ you know what I mean and uh you you know but good or bad
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ugly or you got a chance to do that are you happy about that hell yeah i'm I'm happy
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about it i wish it would have ended differently for sure um a little happier
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you know um but it didn't so it's the way it is yeah oh damn no pun intended
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no pun intended that was Damn yeah it's the way it is man that that landed well right there it always does yeah right so
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you you manifest all this i did mhm i definitely wanted um my own movie um
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unfortunately it wasn't the movie I envisioned mhm um but I did it and um this tour and
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like the last time you know I was like I wanted to headline my own arena tour i was just like "Okay yeah right." Like
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you know what I mean um I think I opened up for Lil Wayne in his arena tour for sure uh Different Me that was amazing
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and I just wanted it you know and um shoot you know like everything in between for sure for sure right mhm what
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what what is you know because obviously you know you got a lot of fans that fans say they they love it when you in pain
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right but I love it when you in purpose hello you know what I mean and that's a better way to say it yeah when you're in
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purpose and um and specifically to Oakland if I may be selfish in the Bay Area um you're a light you're someone
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that young women and just youth as a whole could look at and go man you know what we don't have to be shackled by our
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environments those environments echo all over the country you know same thing I said yesterday but that was a little way
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better to say i had to write that down i could be your writing partner you could do that like literally I said that in 18
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more words yesterday but that is what I meant yeah but what
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did you what he said "Shackles and held by the delight of the Okay so I like that poetic." Yeah yeah i can't say it
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twice so that was off the top we got it we got it we got that it's recorded take that i am taking that i don't want no credit no publisher none of that but
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it's true i said the same thing it's like to be able to like that was the whole purpose of the reality show was to
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show the girls exactly what you just said that you are not binded by your shackles like you can get out of the
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hood you don't have to stay there and and I know they say we either rapping singing playing ball or whatever um but
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it is a way out and you don't have to you know do certain things i had big
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boobs i could have did my thug this but you know it wasn't like that was the vibe that ain't the vibe you never
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stripped or nothing like you know what I'm saying i mean you could have like I mean could have i mean I'm a little small maybe not but you know I'm like no
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skinny ass left but you know like I mean not knocking a stripper but I'm just saying
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preferences yeah you know what I mean like but no it's cool it's cool for no
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no disrespect to the ladies that that did that because I mean you have to be mind strong for that you know what I
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mean um but I just you know I just didn't have that in me and I think some of the girls don't and it's okay not to
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go that route it's okay to go ahead and put that work in and you know be down them blocks no point do that thing do
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your thing you know and here I am 20 years later celebrating that success kea
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Cole man 8887423345 trigger you want to jump in oh my gosh absolutely kesha love you
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girl god bless you god bless you as well when you were talking about how you know you have different options even as a
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woman if you decide you're going to put in the work what's crazy within the industry is you can do everything be productive be focused but you can still
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be scrutinized or be policed for what you wear and when I think about like
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Yeah tours how much style comes into it and as Sway said all of us echo you are
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a legacy artist now you are a legacy artist does that come with its own kind
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of a own kind of pressure on how you showcase your style or are you still
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like I wear what I want to wear period um you talking about the diapers and
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stuff like that and all that thing everybody's been saying we can say it it's cool I don't have a problem with it
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Like I I laugh a lot so it's all good like I don't find anything personal or anything like now so I um I definitely
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wear what I want to wear what I want to wear it and sometimes what I wear is not
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like okay it's the last minute and maybe something's not working out and I rather be on time and be there than to like try
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to take another 20 15 minutes to wait on something or you know like so I mean it
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is what it is i'm rolling with the punches right now like I'm literally like whatever happens is like happening
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and I'm cool with that like so if it if it makes me look dumb then cool if it makes me look extremely intelligent
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thank you God i hope that comes more um then we do that but if not I mean you know it's just it's just whatever it is
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right now like I'm legit happy to like just be doing my thing and being loved
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on i accept all love you know no matter how it goes I accept it thank you for that and that's it absolutely damn Kisha
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i want to be in this place right now man that's the way it is that is the way it is damn man that's a great place to be
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you going to sing now for her you ready here we go no no I'm not no I'm not no no no i'm
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not saying that are you kidding me i'm not doing that in front of the kids i changed my mind it's cool that's a little lower i changed my No I can't
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i'm not doing I sang in front of um Melanie Fiona melanie Fiona nice cynthia
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Revo cynthia Revo oh uh who else some OG glattis patty glattus knight oh so I
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ain't make the cut is what you I can't hit your notes that is not true if you sung in front of Patty that is not a
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real dude [Music] yeah let's go come on light it up stop
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light it up that was good that was actually on the
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note damn it here we go i was trying to give you some time to
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shine i didn't want to do that it's okay but I stepped out of my comfort zone to do it god is the greatest i'm really
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proud I got that moment with you 20 years ago on MTV you know and when you posted that and I saw you post it I was
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like "Oh shit." Yeah yeah so I feel attached i love that shirt I had on i mean I just was like I I held on to that
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shirt very long yeah man you know what I look at too cuz I think we was on 85th I think 84th or 84th and then I look at
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all the people in the background hell yeah charlie Feifer right and they were just looking they didn't know what was
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happening but they knew what was happening something was happen everybody came out i was like I was so shocked i
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was like whoa i never I mean come on i used to knock on doors in that
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neighborhood like "Can I think it's crazy i don't really go." You know what I mean like those people were my family
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i mean they still my family like you know so for them to come out like that it was so many people that were so proud
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i was just like I got to stand on top of the car i got to see this yeah man that was incredible and so when I think of
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that HB yeah no I think it's dope kesha you may be one of the first artists to come up here and say you don't mind like
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looking back and stuff most artists they cringe they don't want to hear their music they don't want to hear their freestyle they don't like looking at old
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videos we was just talking about that with Red Man on Friday just like looking back and seeing yourself back then but I
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think it's healing like even Red Man said that a lot of that could be healing sometimes like I've grown so much since
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that point or I've learned so much since that point so I think it's dope that you embraced all of that and you hear now to
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talk about it like I keep a lot of [ __ ] too like she said she kept that shirt i know ex I connected with that right away
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because I know what it feel like you know I'm a hoarder for sure a hoarder though well I was my house was not no
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longer like I had stuff from the love video okay yeah like I held on to like a lot
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from like from the beginning how did you let it go like how did you park down you
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know what Ka the Aladena it was the Aladena fires or what malibu oh my god
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for real yeah and I was like legit um saying that I like I was walking through
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the house and I tell the story i'm walking through the house and I'm all like I got to get rid of this [ __ ] like
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I can't like I'm tired of having it like it's too much like why do you still have the jacket from the love video like it's
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like giving like put this stuff in the storage give it away sell it whatever i
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don't know whatever you could I'm just over it like I want all new [ __ ] like
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that's what I just kept saying out loud you feel lighter from it
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um well I didn't mean fire burn everything down
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but like not like that but like it's just like I thought it was going to be
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some time and then I get rid of things slowly and then it was just complete start over everything new my kids mine
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you know we lost the lizards the guinea pig oh yeah i didn't think it was going to happen and I was just like "Yeah I'm
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going to come back and feed him in a second." And went to the up the street
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what the fudge what yeah man we got We got the legendary Ricky Smiley just
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walked in here man come on man
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yeah my brother Ricky Smiley perform he's promoting this new comedy special Foolish May 30th yo that's my boy hey
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man that's my Come on man that's my man come on man that's right how we could
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create somebody was telling you from your camp to be quiet the way you looked up well I wanted first of all hey she
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know our brother yes she know her brother we got the legendary iconic just
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saying that this man is a Hall of Famer the one and only Ricky Smiley is here
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come on man hey babe i figured we might as well join forces you know for for this legend
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right here Ricky man this my sister that's your sister we we hang out this just like my sister you have you have
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your colleagues but you have your brothers and your sisters and I was just sitting over there i said "Boy Machine
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Glance over here." You know I love I love you too he didn't made me fix my wig before like hold up
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you know what wait wait what do you mean yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah y'all ain't tell her no no no no no no y'all don't
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be doing that around Hollywood people touching me and then trying to figure it out last time we hung Last time we hung
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out we was at crazy we was at the improv on the flats and stuff i I had I had
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used your music in my uh boom in my I used it but uh but but we you you'll see
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it you'll see it i've seen it a million times for him yeah yeah yeah he talking about you
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i've seen it a million times okay okay yeah that's what's up Ricky man congratulations brother on all that
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you're doing thank you man what makes Tisha special to you bro oh man she's legendary when when kids when kids that was not
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born uh uh when when she made made her music is singing her songs and making
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making videos that's legendary that that like she is a staple in because if you
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think about it Glorilla sample in my record my album is 20 years old yes yeah
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and when I made it a couple years before that she was still in Pampers facts so
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the fact that she come on man we we have all sung her song
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in the shower and violated man law
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what's man law man go ahead and you know that I was
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missing and you know once we start kissing I found
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I had a you went low it's a little high I can't sing I Can't go high the feta
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the way to go yeah thank you like in the morning you trying
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[Music] now for she be singing from her kidneys oh my god the kidney kidneys but the
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other thing I I like about the two of you is because both of you you know uh
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in your shine and in your success have faced a lot of adversity and you face it in front of people and then you showed
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people that that's just what comes with life right i knew I knew her mom i knew you know
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you know I knew your mom we would all be together and and stuff and she would come by and uh do the morning show love
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I know and and and miss and stuff or whatever we all put that in the movie uh right we we uh you know she went you
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know through that in her time and then I lost my son and stuff and and for us to still be able but God but God that's it
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you know but we thank God for keeping us you know what I'm saying and I just hope people look at when they see Kesha Cole
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they see myself that they can be in uh inspired because we had to get up and do radio every morning my son died on a
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Sunday i was back on the air Wednesday yeah man now why cuz somebody else's son died also much is given much is required
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and it's your job and your duty to get up and help people because God and allow God to use you as a tool cuz somebody
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lost two sons i had a lady lose two sons the week after my son died and did not
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have resources to bury their sons and God said do it even in your time of of your grief he said do it and you have
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you know you have to be obedient and do what's right man and that's why God continuously How do you know when you hear huh god how do you know when you
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hear him oh man it just in your in your inside of you you know you just you just your instinct is going to kick in to do
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what's right and to do with that uh you just feel compelled to do it you just got to do it you got to do it that
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Wednesday I went and served uh served the homeless at the Salvation Army with my son closing the car to take to the
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funeral because I wanted to show God that even through my trials and tribulations that I was still willing to
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serve i ain't trying to ser but let people know you can't make it about you
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you just got to continue to serve and God look at all of the stuff when you lost your mom when you lost your house
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and everything all of this is a test what are you going to do during your your the midst of trials and tribulation
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it's a test i almost clocked the hell out come on now i almost clocked on out now take it Lord that ain't right yeah
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but he ain't going to put more on you than you can bear you know what I'm saying and uh and so here here we are
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here we are and that's a Here we are look at us now come on come on man for
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real like come on fora kesha Cole right what you drinking some tea okay you
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sound What you warming your voice up or something i'm trying i mean just every day i got to in a month one week okay
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okay so you take care you actually you know you you do what's required definitely do i saw you saw the video of
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her jump roping yeah I saw that bro look at here yeah i got to get back to that and you know I almost went and got ass
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shot so this is the thing what you don't need I thought about it i thought about it so then when they start getting on me
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about this little last video with my ass they said I had butt shots hanging that
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was my ass that was your ass that was my literal You said it ain't that little i actually
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said well they thought I had butt shots so that must mean that I got a little butt back there i knew that was key all
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right cool i'm cool i saw you out there on the back of the jump roping and and uh hell I start jump roping too i was
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starting open but do you you feel pre I mean why why
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would you I mean what what were your what was your thought process about I'm not scared to get asked i'm I'm a joke
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you know I like joking but no it did make it did it did it was a compliment i ain't going to lie it was a compliment
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cuz I didn't know that they thought that that I could have butt pads back there that that didn't look but if they say it
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fine i like that ricky you ever thought about ass hell no
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i don't even really care for them when they get them cuz it just Some guys do though yeah right they get the calves
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shot you want to put them on your cal titties they get the the the pecs they
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sure oh you might as well go get a blowup doll at that point cuz they sell them they do it they call I don't know
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where this interview going but they do i don't know man we having a conversation that's all you know we got a couple of
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phone calls plus I wanted to invite Ricky Smiley in here man he got the comedy special Foolish is premiering on
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Hulu right may 30th he got his book he published Sideshow Living with Loss and
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Moving Forward with Faith this is my brother we still got to go fishing bro
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please i know man i just You got to go fishing but you got to go swim with the shark fishing at in his down in the
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Bahamas man i I was bagging the boat in and Lisa Ray I was kind of said where is that in the Bahamas in the Yeah Lisa Ray
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jumped off the boat didn't tell nobody and I'm trying to do a head count we look over there on on the uh starboard
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side of the boat and there she's laying in the middle of the damn ocean like if you don't get your ass out of that we over here to feed the shark we No no no
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it's not scary i'll make sure you safe no man i got you we got uh Marissa on the line what up Marissa marissa's from
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the Bay Area what up Marissa okay let's go listen I was crossing Dumbartan
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Bridge like please don't let this phone cut off you on a Dumb Barton Bridge okay that's what's up damn i just got off the
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fridge okay say what up to Kesha i know you proud of her hello i am i was like I
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had to call hi Kesha i'm really geeking out right now like you don't even understand geeked out i grew up
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listening to your music in high school and now I'm an assistant basketball coach in addition to like what I do as
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my day job oh nice um and one day I had my girls they I was like "Choose any
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hype song before the game." And they chose Love and then I started singing along with it and I got so many cool
31:47
points from them they were like "How you know this song?" Uh oh so that's insane
31:52
but my question for you is if you had to choose a word or a phrase to describe
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what it feels like to spend generations like what would you say
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i don't know that's a good question that is a great question right do this for a living
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right oh okay okay she's an author very inquisitive i don't want to grow
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children by the way my twins started basketball last week they're six oh no
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you got twins yeah i got six-year-old identical twin daughters they're beautiful scotties man god I was gonna
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say that yeah you do got those babies be just popping them out man yeah i mean this this last pop
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out the album title the last pop out that's it marissa she going to think about that question i got to think about
32:44
it okay you hold on we'll come back that means it was a good question you did an excellent job okay we got Oi Jr from the
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town on the line what up Oi Junior everybody from the town what up man how
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you doing the Hey hey Kea Co i just wanted to say I'm from Oakland California and I
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remember watching you on TV and MTV Jams and BET and being at Elmherst Middle
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School and like seeing my friends on TV it was just crazy like a crazy moment
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and what Stevie Wonder told you was absolutely right you definitely is a
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generational talent and doing especially during that era or that time cuz we had the hy movement we had all that stuff
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going at that time and Sway and when Sway used to come to do the My Blocks on MTV that was inspirational so I'm I'm
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excited i'm about to go to the show in Oakland i'm want to see that show with with you and Wall and everybody was just
33:41
And Friday yep friday yeah friday yeah yeah friday yeah and and just so and and
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I'm just I'm just just want to give gratitude and just express some love oh God bless you thank you so much wow oki
33:54
Junior is an amazing artist out of the town too what you got what you got out right now Oki Jr oh man i mean we just
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did Bottle Rock this past weekend man justice Timberlake was out there it was pretty amazing it was a pretty good show
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wow just Yeah yeah so we just working to
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the cookout yeah justin Timberlake yeah justin could come to the cookout yeah for sure you should collab with Justin
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yeah i love Justin he is always so sweet if he knows you want to collab with him I'm sure he'll collab with you
34:25
definitely think about it too let me know we're gonna put that on hold too okie you're a citizen man i appreciate you god bless you we got Lord Rab from
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No Vultures Podcast out of Oakland California on the line laura R yo what's going on good morning y'all
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good morning what up Rav we got Ricky Smiley in here too r Ricky Smiley man what's up what's up Ricky man how you
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doing hey hey Ricky Fley was uh Lil D when Lil D was in jail he was He was Lil D on stage little Daryl little Daryl my
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name Little Daryl my name Little D huh same thing a lot of people were not born
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when that joke came out that joke is legendary yeah legend forever wow go
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ahead rab talk to him i gota I gotta say this man like Sway for one you know you
35:11
you a hip-hop connoisseur one thing that people don't know you sitting next to Kha kha is a hyena keith M i remember
35:18
them freestyles ether she might not remember this but I
35:25
was actually there when she battled my partner on 60th when she was at Wana
35:30
House she ain't She know where I'm talking about but she probably don't remember the battle but she sat there and battled him i didn't even know she
35:36
was a singer until I heard the songs later on i thought she was just a rapper wait you was rapping did you rap yeah we
35:43
thought Kesha was like a hybrid you cuz you you I remember you freestyling over
35:49
yeah you freestyled over Tupac beat you did something over um Ether you was a
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rapper first db drop a beat on her hell no hell no i have survived as a R&B
36:03
singer i am cool but R what's your question yeah come on kisha had bars
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right Ryan yeah no she had she had bars she had bars for real but my my question
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was uh we had talked about it before on the show with uh Dwayne before he passed
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rest in peace how much of a impact was that on your life and your and your
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whole career how much uh of an impact was Dwayne Wiggins well the fact that he
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allowed me to stay in um grassroots home studio while I didn't have a place and a
36:38
job until um I got a job for his wife at the coffee shop and his wife allowed me
36:45
um to get a $500 vehicle from her dad and a Toyota Celica um that I couldn't
36:51
drive because it was a stick shift and I just burnt Toyota Corolla four-speed 79 i had one i drove my bucket
37:00
but his cool like but um yeah just giving me that opportunity to work on my music in the studio while everybody was
37:07
gone was amazing and um him not pacifying my situation making sure that I got a job and knew that um you know
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like they work with Beyonce and Destiny's Child before that and giving
37:18
me that word of don't get my head wrapped into these boys and guys and like really focusing on my craft and
37:26
Dwayne did that like he I always love for Dwayne he came to my um movie
37:32
premiere and um we just sat and talked like this about the old times and how
37:37
far we've come so rest in peace to rest in peace to Dwayne Wiggins man come on
37:43
man so many everybody who come out of the bay got a connection to Dwayne for sure you know he not letting nobody slip
37:48
through yeah you got to check in you got to check in i used to go to that coffee shop at the Malonga Center I think it
37:54
was called back or it was the Alice Art Center at that time right Raph yeah it was yeah I remember that coffee
38:01
shop my sister used to teach um um West African dance oh yeah in that building
38:06
on fire yeah yeah so that's that's a great question rap you got to get Kha come do your podcast yeah we got Soie at
38:14
East My Across the street from the across the way from the movie theater right there
38:19
little dollar movie and shout out to the shout out to the Paramount Theater the Paramount Theater
38:25
downtown Oak but Lenel used to work on Soulbeat at that time she did yeah
38:31
lenell used to be the person you call up call up the soul beat right now i was with her last night so damn
38:40
she's incredible she headlined a um Apollo again oh she did raphael Sadika
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be at the Apollo this Saturday oh my god the town is pollinating rob we
38:51
appreciate you no vulture podcast man i got one request i got one request Kesha
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i'm from 85th you from 84 for sure kha cold day this year we need Kha back in
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the hood for the party what i know they ain't told you i No no
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no no we still need Kha Cold Day we ever since everybody let Son G talk bad about
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me on the radio I kind of just I thought I thought I thought we talk bad about you sana G no we caught the blues for
39:20
that just in case you didn't know so I just thought the love was gone i just stopped going no the love ain't
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ever good sway don't be going to Sway day oh you got Sway
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day y'all be telling Ricky what yeah he he don't go he don't go so y'all can
39:38
make y'all return this year sway don't go it's like February 4th or something sway day in Oakland he only
39:45
came one year i don't even remember if somebody give me a date I'm going you don't do that don't Don't buy the
39:51
shenanigans man listen you know how blessed you are to get a day i don't care who talk about me i'm showing up to
39:57
my day no February 4th would be the same day as the Super Bowl cuz everybody going to get a day with it but it's
40:02
going to be ofuary you know what I mean you can't do a sway day on the
40:09
Super Bowl you got to go to sway day because your when your real name comes it's going to be obituaries printed so you make sure you go to your sway you
40:16
need to stop that and the Super Bowl only happened that one time on that February
40:22
4th it ain't been the fourth kea some tea i'm knocking on rap i appreciate you
40:28
man you're a super citizen man you going to see Sway at Sway Day this year yeah I'll be there
40:34
okay citizen is insane okay come on man showing up to your day [ __ ] better go
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to their day hey go let me get a day i'm there ricky you ain't got a blow up
40:46
balloons i'mma be Where you from Ricky birmingham alabama they ain't gave you a day in Birmingham
40:52
nense date yeah it's coming they got to have a Ricky's Mauy day they crazy they late you in the Hall of Fame super late
40:59
radio Hall of Fame mhm no they're working on that i won two Maronei awards
41:05
okay so they say once you win three Yeah you'll probably be considered a radio hall of fame because it's been like 25
41:11
years okay yeah you you you're iconic homie you remember coming during the morning show like we had we done did so
41:17
much stuff together we toyed together we we was on the road together like yeah you're another protector for me like
41:22
Yeah like they won't ask they be like "Okay we ain't going to ask."
41:28
But so it's so much you you you know it's it's so many other ways to recognize you it's easy to ask those
41:35
things we're talking about but I like to reflect on the flip side of those things
41:40
right how you come out on the other side of it right because the adversities you face we all face in our own way
41:48
personally privately right but you like what Ricky was saying you know faith carried you through it and now that's a
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fine example that people can follow so I'm super proud of you i knew what it's like i I'm 23rd
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you know so we Yeah mur murder i don't even like calling it that that's insane yeah i never called it the murder dubs i
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I didn't like none of that negative connotations they would put on our neighborhoods because that [ __ ] resonates you know so I always look at
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that flip side right i got out of that i go home my mother still live there you
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know we still got property in the area uh I go Oakland all the time i walk the streets you know never had a bodyguard
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no you good if you there from there you Yeah you there and you good when you come back for Kha Cold Day all right kha
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got to find out the day though she said she forgot i think it's in August okay okay yeah i want to go i believe you'll
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come well but what I what I used to do is like take you know go do a zoo or go do like a little live performance where
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people could come and dance and celebrate their talent and do you know bubbles for the kids and all that that
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was like the way I wanted to celebrate my day with the family and the people they they'll put it together for you all
42:59
you have to do is show up the last one I did was was was amazing yeah grabbing them put it together express got behind
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it it was It was amazing he got some It was like a hundred thousand or something they put towards it i'll come do little
43:10
Daryl for you and that would be amazing that would be amazing cuz that joke will forever live just out of just out of
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nowhere I just show up my name my name come on you got to do that man
43:23
kha I want to thank you for coming by of course you are always welcome yeah homie
43:29
you always going to feel good when you come up in here 20th anniversary the tour is starting July 1st who's going to
43:35
be on tour by a Friday
43:40
tink's coming yes were coming little Kim little Kim little Kim
43:47
little Kim in Brooklyn yes yes yes yes and she going to be in um Sacramento she
43:52
is yeah and then we going overseas wow so y'all y'all kept that relationship going you and Kim yeah it's been it's
43:59
been a road but we but we here baby yes and we outside baby let's get it man and
44:05
she and she beautiful with a R and a beautiful we taking it there we are taking it there show up go see her live
44:12
y'all telling go see Kesha live it's a dope show you sound incredible thank you so much and Ricky and Ricky and Ricky
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got this book come on now what's up with that the book is on grief the book will help you make sure you read it it's book
44:24
on grief it's going to help you through you know cuz I know you've been through one thing about Ricky he love the Lord oh you know it you love the Lord cuz he
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heard my cry cuz he heard your cry i knew you was going there i knew it i knew it all right let's give it up for
44:36
Kha Cole y'all we coming back with Ricky Smiley
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