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you listening to that voice like damn
0:02
that's different wow that's
0:05
original wow that's unique right mik M
0:09
damn all day all day the T the tonality
0:12
of that voice is signature it's so good
0:15
it's amazing it stand out when you hear
0:17
her the first time I heard her I didn't
0:19
know what I was listening
0:23
D one of the most recognizable voices on
0:27
the planet Ice Cube one of the most
0:30
recognizable voices on the planet come
0:33
on one of the most recogniz nobody can't
0:37
imitate you they have a hard time doing
0:39
it but but I want to say about this
0:41
young lady I've just been watching her
0:42
tear up freestyles and watching her put
0:45
in that work that ghetto and Ratchet
0:47
work um that really kind of catapulted
0:50
her to fame but when she jumped on the
0:53
track with my Oakland Brethren the
0:55
Oakland native himself can you hear can
0:57
you okay the Oakland native himself knew
1:00
it was something true about her because
1:02
being from Oakland have the be born and
1:05
raised in Oakland when I saw her team up
1:07
with Dame dollar I said oh she's a real
1:10
real one on that song we just played
1:13
called raid um with my man Toni first
1:16
signed her to death Jam he was the she
1:18
was the first person he signed she was
1:21
the person that set off the new era
1:23
there I said I knew she had something
1:25
when I seen people jump on her remixes
1:27
but most importantly U one day I caught
1:30
a conversation she was having about
1:32
growing up in in and around the Bronx
1:35
and I said I like how she articulates
1:37
herself I hear it in her music I see she
1:40
loves what she's doing and it's been a
1:42
while now we've been playing her music
1:44
over the past how long we've been
1:46
playing past year like a year about a
1:48
year now and we finally made it happen
1:51
Connie diamond is here citizens come on
1:58
man and you're so polite thank you oh my
2:01
godbody always say that I don't mean it
2:03
like an insult right but but when you
2:06
hear some you rap like your rap your
2:08
style and how you rap is really you know
2:12
Gruff if you will aggressive in my
2:14
opinion and to me that to me that
2:16
equates to confidence right that that
2:19
equates to somebody who has a lot to say
2:21
and so I I was imagin if somebody
2:23
punching me in my chest sway what up man
2:25
how you doing everybody always say that
2:27
it's so funny I think it's just the
2:28
Taurus in me it's like when I get into
2:30
artist mode when I get into Connie
2:32
Diamond like the the artist that's when
2:34
I start activating that when did when
2:36
did you meet Connie Diamond the artist
2:38
met Connie Diamond when I was like
2:40
probably like 14 15 14 15 yeah what what
2:44
was inspired that what inspired the name
2:47
um I wanted I originally wanted it to be
2:49
Black Diamond but um Connie Diamond kind
2:52
of still like played on like my like
2:54
original name which is constant so it's
2:56
like nickname that my family calls me so
2:59
yeah I kind of just like merge them
3:00
together Connie Diamond I like that it's
3:03
got a big a nice ring to it when you
3:06
your family how well tell me about your
3:08
upbringing like what what kind of
3:09
household did you come up in um I had a
3:12
pretty decent household um I was back
3:14
and forth between Bronx and queens uh my
3:17
aunt raised me um my my my whole TI
3:20
family is in the Bronx though like my my
3:22
mom my dad was born in the Bronx uh
3:24
grandmother everybody's out there um it
3:27
was cool you know I I I love listening
3:29
to hip I love listening to dipet missia
3:31
ludicrous all of the like the OG like
3:34
legendary spitters those are my
3:36
favorites um and I started doing poetry
3:40
I was going to a lot of poetry slams um
3:43
downtown in Lees Poetry Slams poetry
3:45
slams in my school I always used to win
3:47
always get first place every time so I
3:48
just like kind of like you never lost I
3:50
never lost no I never lost stun right
3:53
there you a't never lost I ain't never
3:55
lost that's a title of a new song you
3:58
never lost no I haven't poetry informed
4:01
your rapping though right by through
4:02
doing poetry that helped you uh learn
4:04
how to write songs yes it helps me um
4:07
help me pretty much like you know
4:09
structure up how I'm like what I want to
4:12
say how I want to say it and um yeah I
4:15
it was a cool transition I think I
4:16
transitioned over like probably like at
4:19
like 16 like probably when I was like
4:21
got to like like like sophomore year
4:23
high school sophomore year in high
4:24
school how did you get into poetry
4:26
though because I think it's a different
4:27
type of artist that'll go into like
4:29
poetry slams and do that every a lot of
4:32
people say home yeah I got bars I write
4:34
bars whatever whatever but I think a
4:36
different type of artist goes into
4:37
Poetry Slams what got you into poetry
4:40
actually my aunt her name is um sandre
4:42
she used to do a lot of poetry um back
4:45
in the days like a really like a lot
4:47
like and I used to just always watch her
4:48
go with her to her um poetry stuff and
4:50
that's really what inspired me to to do
4:52
the Poetry for real like but yeah CU
4:54
that that doesn't just come from
4:56
somewhere you know it's is like heavy
4:58
with that like really good mhm okay so
5:01
the UN influenced you into poetry Mike
5:04
that means you focus on writing then
5:05
because if you are a poet that means
5:07
you're good storytelling you focus on
5:09
your writing yeah I was pretty good that
5:10
was I was never good in math and science
5:13
writing yeah I was good wri so uh you
5:16
don't know what the pagam theorem is or
5:18
nothing like that I don't can't I F this
5:22
read this about three times no okay a
5:24
square plus b squ no that ain't you
5:27
acute angles no n what but she can write
5:31
better told you today what one was I did
5:33
learn from one of our listeners there
5:35
Connie Diamond I didn't
5:37
know what was it like for you though cuz
5:40
um I as a when I started in the game I I
5:43
I started as an artist as well but when
5:45
I started writing was in high school and
5:47
I I really used writing to escape I I
5:49
really did grow up in Oakland like Dame
5:52
dollar did um and but I just remember a
5:55
lot of angst you know being nervous and
5:57
in high school a lot and so the writing
6:00
somehow helped me out did you go through
6:01
any of that when you first became an
6:03
artist or you just was excited about
6:05
like like stages of being nervous well
6:08
um yeah stages of when you were younger
6:11
writing what was going on in your life
6:13
that was informing your writing
6:16
um I was I kind of was back and forth
6:19
with moving like with my family like
6:21
back and forth with my aunt and my mom
6:23
and my my mom so I kind of like I felt
6:25
like it probably was something to lean
6:26
on and just kind of like keep my head
6:28
like level or whatever but I I always
6:31
love music um so I I I probably was just
6:35
to help me like stay levelheaded for
6:36
real from just like moving around a lot
6:38
with family members and stuff like that
6:40
but you but so you didn't really have a
6:41
struggle story though CU excuse me you
6:43
don't really have you don't you're not
6:44
really telling me a struggle story which
6:46
I find is great you know because
6:49
everybody got a struggle story you know
6:50
what I mean I mean yeah I I mean my um
6:54
my aunt actually adopted me so like I
6:57
was kind of like you know it was like
6:59
you you know your your your um siblings
7:01
or your family was kind of pick up for
7:03
where the others fores sure at yeah so
7:06
yeah so it was it was other things going
7:07
on I'm just not like digging deep but
7:09
you know I get that that kind of kept me
7:11
levelheaded though yeah when did the um
7:13
when did you realize that wow my career
7:17
can blossom like what was the song that
7:19
set it off for you in your opinion when
7:20
you start really feeling the reaction um
7:23
I did a freestyle to Jer summer 16 okay
7:26
and that my that was my first viral
7:30
it was when we had um we still had
7:32
Tumblr and we still had all the other
7:33
apps and it was I was just I was working
7:36
outside everybody was like you the girl
7:37
you're the girl from the video and
7:39
actually led me my my very first paid
7:41
show in in the UK in the UK your first
7:45
page show was my first page show was in
7:47
London yeah I'm going say pay I I don't
7:50
even remember but I know they I know I
7:51
got a Magazine spread I know I got a um
7:54
I got a magazine let's get that tissue
7:56
for you there you go man she she's so
7:58
happy she crying my allergies
7:59
oh that's your allergy I thought you was
8:01
crying tears of joy for being up here
8:06
sway like Connie so happy she she crying
8:09
she she here y so nice that's great
8:12
that's great did it surprise you though
8:14
that you went overseas for your first
8:15
page show and how much they knew of you
8:18
yes I I mean enough it was a headline
8:20
show and then like all everyone else
8:22
there were like like supporting acts so
8:24
I brought like some of my peoples with
8:25
me from cuz I only had like one lit song
8:28
at that time so I I need towards I feel
8:30
like needed support so I brought some of
8:31
my friends out doing music with me they
8:33
cover my BNB um I got a Magazine spread
8:36
with notion magazine I met DJ simex who
8:39
was very popular at the time out there
8:41
it was lit it was lit for my first page
8:43
yeah it was lit Connie diamond is here
8:45
man we going to open up the phone lines
8:49
3345 I want to play this single
8:53
jodessy all right do we we got that we
8:56
got that I want to play this single talk
8:57
about this song J see um man um right
9:01
now the state of New York City we're in
9:03
a sexy drill era so shout out sexy drill
9:07
okay who we we we just heard about sex
9:09
young Devin just mentioned sexy drill to
9:12
us so that's the that's with sexy drills
9:15
that's one when a sexy drill is like if
9:17
you are familiar with the regular drill
9:20
music it's more aggressive it's more
9:22
like it makes you want to like jump up
9:24
and down and makes you want to like you
9:26
know like fight music you know just G
9:28
get your energy really High sexy drill
9:30
is more like calm and you know just you
9:33
want to like you kind of want to Just
9:34
Vibe and just you may see somebody in
9:36
the party you want to get a little
9:37
twostep with it's not aggressive at all
9:39
it's very like soothing and and and calm
9:41
wellit hold up people still dancing at
9:43
parties oh yeah I dance at a party I at
9:45
the party okay all right cool I like you
9:47
Connie Diamond uh you got cash Coan on
9:49
this right on the remix yes on the remix
9:51
okay y'all are y'all you know comrades
9:53
how did that happen yeah we cool um I
9:55
actually um cash sent sent me some Beats
9:59
like a while back when I first got saw
10:00
him before he was like really like um on
10:03
his artist like wave and then we kind of
10:05
stayed in contact I'm really cool when
10:07
to somebody else is in his Camp his name
10:08
is Von the singer that's the bro and you
10:11
know we we cooked up he came to the
10:12
stool he hopped on it and we just got it
10:15
done you're excited right now for things
10:17
yeah I'm I'm I'm in I'm in I'm in
10:19
between you know it's the end of the
10:20
year it's kind of downtime but I'm
10:22
excited cuz I'm cuz I know what I got
10:24
coming next year so and what's that I
10:26
got album and album mode I got a lot of
10:29
I don't want to speak on but it's a good
10:31
it's VI some next year it's going to be
10:33
like 20 times like more and it's a good
10:35
time you saw the billboard um top 10
10:37
female list it was it was beautiful
10:39
amazing right I love it get that a round
10:43
right beautiful man your voice is
10:45
something else man make sure y'all doing
10:47
voice over work too okay all right we
10:49
going to play this JY come back Connie
10:53
3345 yeah girl come and talk to me I
10:57
think I could do I think I could be at
10:59
I don't know why some of these artists
11:01
don't hit me up to do some ad lips on
11:03
that sexy drill that's that's right up
11:05
my Lane oh you're a sexy drill guy now
11:06
I'm a yeah I always was a sexy drill guy
11:09
but they just didn't have a
11:12
title it wasn't a genre yet you know but
11:15
you know people like Connie Diamond what
11:17
what Heather this is where you need a
11:19
friend to keep it the buck with you this
11:21
that's not your area yo what do you mean
11:23
I couldn't sound good play that beat
11:25
play that beat go ahead throw that back
11:31
NOP yeah yeah intro yeah communication
11:35
is important can I talk to you something
11:41
Connie you know who you are I like it I
11:44
like it I'm sorry thank you Connie don't
11:47
this up thank you Connie listen you
11:50
interview sway You intro sway that's all
11:53
you got I'm no not at lives intro you
11:57
can intro somebody all day I kill that
12:00
but the ad libs is going to be like who
12:02
is this guy but damn he the Connie say
12:04
she liked it the intro it was an intro
12:07
in crazy all right okay call me next
12:10
time you in the studio I'm around I'm in
12:12
Harlem I ain't far all right all
12:16
right what I like about sexy drill is
12:19
because drill obviously has a u stigma
12:21
to it you know a bad reputation because
12:23
the the the content of drill um
12:26
predominantly has been murderous very
12:28
dark and very violent this is love this
12:32
is sex this is all of those things right
12:36
is New York in a different place in your
12:38
opinion right now New York is definitely
12:40
in a different place right now because
12:42
when drw first came out it was it was
12:45
about um when I run down on you and I
12:48
see you and I catch you you ain't this
12:50
you ain't that it was very aggressive
12:52
everything was very very aggressive
12:54
about it but it was still good it was
12:55
cool you know we from New York we
12:57
aggressive people but it slowly evolved
12:59
into like like you said love and just
13:03
chilling and vibing and seeing somebody
13:05
you like or want to love somebody or
13:07
want to be with somebody it turned into
13:08
that and I think it's in a good good I
13:10
this is a great space for it because
13:13
when it was at its height um it was a
13:15
lot of things going on with the um with
13:18
the younger kids in the community where
13:19
they were like beefing with each other
13:20
and then it turned into like it it
13:22
wasn't it didn't they didn't leave it in
13:23
the booth it was and it started to get
13:25
into the streets so where we at now is
13:27
like we're in a party and every body's
13:29
vibing no matter where you from you
13:30
brong spoken Queens whoever it's just
13:32
something everybody can vibe to it's not
13:33
about where you from I like that right I
13:36
like that get that a a round of applause
13:38
right there and then how how are you uh
13:42
navigating love in your with this big
13:44
career you have now how does that is it
13:47
harder to find love for you find
13:50
companionship um it's cool you know I'm
13:52
my my focus is not really on on being
13:55
with anybody right now mhm so you single
13:58
yeah con Diamond single yo let's get it
14:01
popping y'all get out her stupid she
14:05
single all right but yeah you single
14:07
yeah I'm single yeah that's just not a
14:09
part uh part of your focus right now not
14:12
right now not okay so how do you avoid
14:14
it though you're a beautiful woman what
14:15
happens like you just I mean I go on
14:17
dates here and there yeah yeah what's a
14:20
good date for you I haven't been on a
14:21
date in a while what's a good want to
14:23
say con you should ask him about his
14:31
what's a good date for you cot he want
14:33
to know what's a good date for you um I
14:35
had a good date not too long ago I was
14:37
it was I got you know picked up big big
14:39
Bou blue roses okay I love blue blue
14:43
blue yeah that's your thing I mean it
14:45
was nice it was really cool went to
14:47
dinner yeah and then we went to like a
14:49
little after party it was viby yeah did
14:52
you call them back yeah we cool we still
14:54
cool all right why the hell I'm just I
14:56
don't know what you got you got when you
14:58
picked the girl up what you going to
14:59
bring yeah what you bring whatever
15:01
Connie don't be falling for that you
15:04
just flip just like that H it take
15:06
nothing for you to flip uh but I don't
15:09
do I do I'm pretty I'm generous you know
15:13
I want to have a good time too I want to
15:14
make a person feel great you know and so
15:17
I that's about yeah I've done surprises
15:20
my conversation is decent I try to
15:21
provide fun conversation that's my thing
15:24
you know try to make them laugh y'all
15:26
know what I mean fellas in the room you
15:27
know oh now maybe not yall rless over
15:30
here but I rless you know damn you know
15:34
what funny what I try to do con Diamond
15:37
um okay cool well I'm glad to have you
15:39
here and I want to say congratulations
15:41
to you yeah sure I really thought it was
15:44
something special when you and Dame
15:46
dollar hooked up how did that even
15:48
happen I God I get asked this question a
15:50
100 times Well whoever asked you before
15:52
ain't from Oakland you're right you're
15:55
right Dame is so cool man I met him
15:58
doing ual friend we were we were hanging
16:01
out one night um and we started
16:05
freestyling and he was going off and I
16:07
started going off and he was was like oh
16:08
right hold on so then he was like yeah
16:10
let's cook up so I thought he was joking
16:12
until one day I actually like sent it to
16:14
him and he he literally gave me the r
16:15
back like two days later Dam's dope he
16:18
wasn't playing he went crazy too yeah
16:21
man I remember he used to do four bar
16:22
Fridays oh yeah Fridays he went crazy
16:25
every time he came up here too yeah yeah
16:27
damn yeah that's that guy he's really
16:29
he's he's a really uh he's a really dope
16:31
guy he's mad cool he actually like
16:33
hooked us up with the NBA 2K so our
16:35
records on the NBA 2K game I got a
16:38
relationship with them now so I was able
16:39
to get like three more records with them
16:41
like he's mad cool very resourceful very
16:43
respectful and he's got at what he does
16:45
that's Oakland dude for he stay out of
16:46
the [ __ ] stay that's Oakland guy for
16:49
you Connie Diamond Connie Diamond man I
16:51
I I've seen you my brother C Mel give
16:53
that man a big round of applause he's
16:55
told me about you that's my that's a
16:57
legend yes he is that's a hip hop staple
17:01
that's a hip hop brick right there he's
17:03
the foundation Philadelphia stand up
17:08
Kev his platform is impeccable I love
17:12
him Uncle Kev Uncle Kev that's my
17:16
brother I call him my brother Kev I was
17:18
on Power 99 for a few years we did our
17:20
Syndicate King Tech and I did our
17:22
syndicated show Connie Diamond can I get
17:25
you to spit a verse we could do we could
17:27
do a little say welcome to the Valley of
17:35
her turn up a little bit there you go
17:40
that's all right s in the morning Connie
17:42
d y I'm getting eight in the back of the
17:45
ma said he from Houston he keeping my
17:47
hotti he at the bank trying to pay for
17:48
the body I'm telling my [ __ ] I get
17:50
plotty to be like a r your [ __ ]
17:52
straight to the bank then I'm slide on
17:53
[ __ ] show me a group of her [ __ ]
17:54
that's solid me and my on [ __ ] I let
17:57
your [ __ ] be box on the COO and T theop
17:58
C me in millio pooie you and your
18:00
friends on the ground from a fake pace
18:01
and me threats it's giving [ __ ] who [ __ ]
18:03
next bad I'm Bouie I'm from the city
18:05
girl I keep a Uzi that's word of my
18:06
mother I'm packing a to arguing [ __ ]
18:08
ain't an been swimming in money my [ __ ]
18:10
need deep Tre ppps like EBT let them hit
18:12
once might let them hit twice but I
18:14
never let the [ __ ] me [ __ ] I'm about
18:15
money come C me take a look at my next
18:17
St VV want to [ __ ] with a g no d p in a
18:20
bad boys no p d ho huh ay huh allas do
18:23
it dark skinn forign oh you a Buick you
18:25
[ __ ] boring ain't making no music
18:27
back on the T turn on [ __ ] the booty
18:28
you know how I do when I get the
18:29
recruiting and dump on the news if we
18:31
getting the shooting [ __ ] think [ __ ]
18:32
calling my students all of my dick here
18:34
they want the blueprint hey but don't in
18:37
the circle call me sipping on purple
18:39
throw [ __ ] back don't let [ __ ] hurt you
18:42
hey but thr in the circle don't add
18:47
don't hey but don't add in the circle
18:50
huh she sipping on purple don't let [ __ ]
18:53
hurt you hey I'm tight [ __ ] up
19:03
tight thank I don't know what happed we
19:06
don't know you mess we didn't know that
19:08
FL I thought that was the hook I did too
19:11
your ass in the circle the [ __ ] thank
19:15
you we got a hyena up in here no
19:20
doubt talking about she C the track my
19:25
up crazy thank you might get him twice
19:30
threepiece that's all you
19:33
heard y get your thing thank you baby yo
19:37
yeah yo I was pleasantly blown away when
19:40
you first jumped on that track thank you
19:42
bodyk you you body that thank you Connie
19:48
her the [ __ ] we talking about y'all got
19:52
2025 the gig is up they should have been
19:55
rapping you should have been rapping you
19:56
talking about 2025 they l
19:59
the industry screwed you up told you you
20:01
were dope but you wasn't streams screwed
20:04
you up streams all them fake streams you
20:06
got to Tau you was dope you can get a
20:08
stream from [ __ ] on the
20:11
street hey yo go home now it's it that's
20:14
it you see what I tell you he [ __ ] out
20:16
of here Connie Diamond got Bor yo your
20:19
style is crazy yo that was thank you you
20:22
was in the zone right there we was
20:23
looking at you like what the [ __ ] just
20:25
happened right here I'm glad I got to
20:27
witness that in person you you're
20:29
extremely talented thank you so much
20:31
very unique thank you so much thank you
20:32
for talking with us yes I appreciate you
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Connie Diamond tell you I begged to get
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up here oh word show the messages I
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begged to get here oh great well I'm
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glad I'm happy to finally meet you I'm
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happy to thank you so much for having me
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absolutely and you'll be back I will
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promise promise there you go Connie
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Diamond man come on for me
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guys all right man it was a great day
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today frequency Fridays Heather what
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Connie Dy why' you want to come come up
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here real quick you said you begged to
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come up here let us know why um what
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does Sway in the Morning mean to you why
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you wanted to be up here this is some
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this is a person that like you know when
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you're when you growing up and you like
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you hear all your your family members
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and they they talking about oh yeah did
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you see the freestyle did you catch this
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interview did you he this is that gu
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like I felt like I have a couple of
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people on my list that I grew up
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watching Interview people or just
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basically just become that person that's
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Bridging the Gap between the music and
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and and the people that we you know that
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we that you know that we love that we
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that we consider excuse me that we
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consider um our family and our friends y
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y bridge the gap y give us the
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information y give us the the knowledge
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and Y you know set the tone for this for
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the industry for the for us for Pioneers
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for um rappers and people like me you
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know so I I I I look I see I look up to
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you I look up to flex these are all
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people that are fun Master fle you know
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like you know they set the tone they
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bring the up you know so it's like I was
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like I got to get on this way like I got
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I got a list of everybody I want to
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touch I touch touch Flex I'm with you
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then Cosmic Kev I got Kev I got to got
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people on my list I want to hit
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everybody up and you should hit them all
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you did uh on the radar I did on the
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radar I saw that right um You got to go
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do Gina views G in LA on the west coast
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I want I want to do um just incredible
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is it is that the same as leakers la
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leakers la leakers yeah do just incred
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and you want to do G views trust me
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you're amazing thank you I love your I
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love your demeanor I love what you're
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about and I love your energy I
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appreciate you Connie Diamond man make
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sure y'all support her