Cordae Drops INSANE Freestyle + Talks Kanye Collab 🔥 | SWAY'S UNIVERSE

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one of the most skilled MC's of this
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generation I said it before I'll say it
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again I'll say it in his faith it's
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worth your
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repetition thank you absolutely that's
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high praised this man been dropping bars
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for years yes sir I was on it from the
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mixtape to the last album The Crossroads
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very powerful album thank you very
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vulnerable on this album very
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introspective I have a lot of questions
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about the album we going to do that
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another time right now while I have you
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here one of my dreams uh-huh and I still
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have dreams oh no don't do that to me I
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dream all the time man for day I dream
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all the time they simple dreams I'm a
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simple man yes sir I don't need a whole
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lot I got a whole lot but one of the
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things I do need is fire bars come on I
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need fire bars I got this is the last
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freestyle of the year on Sway in the
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morning it was only appropriate ladies
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and gentlemen that I got a sniper I
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needed a sharpshooter for this I need
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yeah I needed something more than a
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hyena I needed a lion for this one
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welcome to the Valley of the hyena we
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got C Day in the building what really
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good DB a
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on
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wow oh that's a crazy beat you like that
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one after that introduction that's a
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crazy beat turn the beat up a little bit
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for me in my ear
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brother yeah yeah okay we here with it I
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guess we going to ease into it right do
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it man let's ease into it yeah hey yo
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I've been a cold [ __ ] since the
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beginning I cannot help it the cause I
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was dealt with my flaws are embellish my
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mistakes are gorgeous I didn't celebrate
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it all when I made the foress private
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Villa but I should have resorted to
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something cheaper now I'm all on the
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cakes like Aunt Jima exir ain't want me
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but I ain't want a neither now that's my
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pride I'm lying girl you really the
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Queen of funk not Shaka kind with your
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stank ass attitude bad [ __ ] bumping
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Boos and she from batting rude girl
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remember I used to clap them things
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after school popping perks class of zoo
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make me act the fool fresh as [ __ ] plus
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my raps is cool now we doing shows at
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Manchester middle finger to my ex my
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favorite hand gester so many whips I
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swear that [ __ ] upset my ancestors but
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what I make a show is reparations and
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extra now back to the story that I was
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telling before the moment I relishing
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those pray to God today this until your
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last my [ __ ] you never will know so you
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focus on your highest moments [ __ ]
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instead of your lows but if [ __ ] [ __ ]
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everyone smoke my [ __ ] we ready to go
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but um hold on on I want to be where you
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are uh ain't nothing wrong with dancing
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my whips are so outlandish
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W yeah
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yeah shy I'll [ __ ] you in my Mansion wo
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wo wo wo wo wo yeah yeah we
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got hold up man come on hold up man you
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different come on I can't treat you like
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you normal thank you brother I
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appreciate that no I won't do that come
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on look at my eyes man I've seen the
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best of the best behind the microphone
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and I could tell when they got what it
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take I put you in that category young
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man I've seen them all n came up on the
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show spit bars [ __ ] done spit bars I
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know yay is on the album yay done spit
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bars they all done spit bars I put you
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in that category TR MC's got more than
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one verse that's right of course TR MC's
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got more than one verse
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hey up in here
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sh me B this one real quick okay yeah
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hey look I'mma tell my story how they
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ain't tell it before my legacy forever
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will glow keep Berettas and POS on my
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let them Co you never will know I've
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been going harder than the [ __ ]
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for better results I'm most step black
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on both sides love my Mel ho all white
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whipped cream seat that colorism my
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cousin stay in jail I'm like damn [ __ ]
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you love the system homecoming gift was
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a 100 inch television the crossroads out
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out niggaer y' ain't [ __ ] with him
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nah [ __ ] we back in it new wh black
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tant new CRI in it just bought my 48 cuz
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everything that you have R it rapping
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like the [ __ ] rers do I'm a bad
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tenant come around my way you get robbed
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they Jack kennedies [ __ ] ass [ __ ]
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switching sides you the black Benedict I
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get sad and drink Hennessy that's a bad
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remedy and please don't come near [ __ ]
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with bad energy uh and is bad cod as
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[ __ ] but that Boi laini do c bang [ __ ]
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suicide I was just in the crib playing
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Dragon Ball Z buai when you stack your
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first 10 Mill you know you nah niggaer
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we back in it new wh black in it new CRI
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crash in it just bought my 4 AC CU
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everything that you has rent it rapping
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like the [ __ ] rent do I'm a bad in it
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hold on now hey SAR in the morning woke
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up happy as hell [ __ ] gang in the
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morning now I ain't mean that theory I
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get God the glory every time I hit the
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bank it's depository on this song 06
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dreaming told my mama story send a big
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shot like a Rober or I'm so [ __ ]
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crazy I'm so out the ordinary got these
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[ __ ] morning than scary for these
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[ __ ] [ __ ] hey hey sway yeah what the
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[ __ ] do it do a sway look a sway he from
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Oakland he don't do no joking bad little
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[ __ ] hey Grandma stroking pause though
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got a lot of balls though hey got Bank
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where Faro hey and you already
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[ __ ] know cuz we a swaying I'm
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on it let's get it morning yes
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sir
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got
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over is over over the show is over
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get wow yes sir thank
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you Ovation yes sir true MC Mastery
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thank you that was
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great it's hot in here man take that
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jacket off brother I a got mine on [ __ ]
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created that heat yeah wow man that was
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amazing
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wow yo bro let me just let me let me fan
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out a little bit here let on some MC
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[ __ ] in those two
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verses you might have heard a good 10
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different styles to me yes okay right um
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that you you feel you seen oh yeah I I
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like um I think the MC's who last the
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longest are the ones who can Master
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Styles M right and then make them their
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own yes sir you know we seen Jay do that
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uh red man is somebody I think is
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tremendously talented um I hear this on
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your album too the crossroads yeah I I I
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hear the effort and how you interpret
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your lyrics and tell your stories um I
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want to say I want to commend you on the
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crossroads this is a very um intro
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respective project yes sir right I'm a
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father sir you know and I played the
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song I want to say Shai aini yes sir y
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yep um and real hip hop lover real H
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really yeah now I'm saying like I name
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my daughter my daughter's middle name is
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aeni like that's how much I love hipop
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for Tupac's mom yeah yeah absolutely so
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that's why you did that yeah yeah
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literally wow okay yeah yeah right okay
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okay how how is how is she changed you
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though easily um time management
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schedule
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no procrastination you can't afford it
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anymore you know what I'm saying so
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that's really it just making the most
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out of my time respecting my time
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respecting other people's time I know I
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was late today but before I would have
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been two hours late versus 15 minutes so
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I say this to say um just having yeah my
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mistakes are gorgeous my mistakes are
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gorgeous you know what I'm saying but
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he's accountable for him right I didn't
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even know you were late so see I talk
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too much I need to shut that up sometime
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you snitched on yourself yeah I know my
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goodness that's couple of songs I want
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to ask you about I know we only got a
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few time time time but I I wrote this
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[ __ ] down so I'm going to get it off um
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nothing's compared yeah nothing's
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promised I yeah nothing promised right
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the lyrics um y'all don't understand how
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crazy it gets where's this from from the
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life thing I done seen the craziest [ __ ]
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yeah I'm still a baby but I'm a I'm F to
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have a baby baby and [ __ ] I thank God my
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baby mother ain't crazy as [ __ ] at least
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for the time being
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yeah that was an ill ass line thank you
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bro appreciate that yeah but that's a
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real ass line yeah now 100 right but uh
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I'm assuming that you have the type of
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relationship where y'all communicate
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where you don't have to take that line
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too seriously how how did the mom
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receive that line you know I just try to
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be as vulnerable as transparent and as
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relatable as possible and I know it's a
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lot of people that can you know relate
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to that in some sort of way you know
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what I'm saying um yeah n so I just try
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to be as vulnerable as relatable as
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possible and put things out there that I
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know like is going to connect with
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people Hearts like my whole goal with
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this album when I spit you a verse from
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this album it had to be either it touch
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your heart it touch your soul like this
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is my like tester of like whether a
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verse is good or not when I spit it our
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capella is it hard okay you get what I'm
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saying yeah and it either has to touch
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your soul or just make you have the sank
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face or both you know what I'm saying
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and so uh nothing's promise shout out to
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yay and his team for clearing the sample
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on that one you know cuz that sample's
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um heard him say and um yeah that's one
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of my favorites of the song of the album
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so I'm glad you pointed that one out
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that's a great song oh man man I could
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point a lot of them out young nav is
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Young nav is stepping on me right now he
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he's he's eager to ask you a question
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he's one of our citizens from Iowa they
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flew in first flight to come be a part
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of the show today and that's his mom
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star go ahead young na you got a good
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question for young like what was one of
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biggest like who was one of the biggest
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people you made a song with cuz I seen
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you made a song with Lil Wayne like who
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was other big people you made songs with
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um on this album I mean you might have
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heard of a few it's uh Wayne Uh yay
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formerly known as Kanye West um and I
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mean those two I mean you know respect
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to everybody I mean I got Joey bad on
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the album amazing one of the dopest MC's
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ever got Anderson pack my brother so I
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got a lot of dope you know all friends
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too that's what makes it a little easier
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when you making music with your friends
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yeah and um yeah that's it really that's
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a good question young nav give young nav
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a big round of applause all right okay
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Wayne man when when you and Wayne work
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together is it in person no I send them
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I send them the stuff we do like work
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together and kick it in person but when
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it's records I just send it to him and
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let him do what he does uhhuh lying okay
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right headline Mufasa headline for sure
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muasa for sure I'm curious to your like
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when I was always kept a hot five MC's
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in my pocket not your top five okay but
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your hot like I would have feral Minds
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from my era you know what do you mean by
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hot five there people that I go to okay
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mine okay my hot five MC's definitely
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got Wayne on there all day is it early
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Wayne all Wayne all Wayne from like cuz
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Wayne is like Hip Hop's Michael Jackson
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in the sense of like there's only like
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four artists period that were child
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Superstars but became more successful
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and better as an adult that's very hard
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to do by the way
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very hard who are those artists you
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think LL or Wayne Beyonce okay Wayne
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obviously Michaelson Stevie W those the
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biggest four I can think of just off the
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rip as in Usher Yeah of course but all
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of them were child Superstars but became
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even again more successful and better as
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adults and um so I got Wayne is one um
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self-explanatory obviously I have yay
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mhm I have HOV mhm I have n
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mhm in that fifth
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spot
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my that fifth spot gets really tricky
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okay because I got three and and this is
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in no order obviously but sometimes is M
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we are at Shade 45 m in M I got you hold
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on you got Kendrick that's
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right yeah and Big L my personal I love
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big L Big L God bless how did you get
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into Big L like where were you when you
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got into Big L that that's something in
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the car okay you know what I'm saying
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like in the car listening to it like
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what like I'm like yeah in the car like
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yeah big L's one of them ones and then I
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heard it in the car and I went back on
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YouTube and like went crazy but I mean
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you know what's funny I seen this
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interview I think it was Vince Staples
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they was like when do you fall in love
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with hip hop he said what type of
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question you know respectfully like
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that's for white people like black folks
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is like what are you talking it's just
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there just wake up is so I say that's to
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say that's how I find the Big L because
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it was just he was just there that's
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good you know what I like too man I I
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see you you working with the yays you
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know um you're working with the Wayne
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who all intents and purposes old school
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now no I wouldn't say that they're
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Eternal gold don't get old okay all
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right I'm on swing in the morning gold
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don't get old that's a good point man
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I'm not gonna debate that yeah but you
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know he's he's from you know there was
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we I I think I think the point I'm
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trying to get to is I when you first
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came out yes sir where the music
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business was and there was the Divide
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between older artists and younger
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artists feel like right that divide has
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dissipated in my opinion when I see
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people like you working with the Kanye
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the Wayne of the world having a
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relationships with the LL Co Jays and
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and those sort of things would you agree
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with that that that bridge that Gap that
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generation gap I feel like we worked on
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shrinking that and people are starting
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to see the importance of working with
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people from different eras definitely n
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for sure um I I don't have like a uh
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just a correct so I'm not like out here
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capping I don't have a relationship with
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LJ but I met him before it's love one of
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them one of them ones it goes without
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saying there nothing I can say I mean
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the [ __ ] came up with the phrase goat
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you know what I'm saying so I say this
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to say but I did me meet him it was a
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bunch of Love hella cool he shouted me
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out on one his interviews too shout out
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to LL for that but um so I say this to
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say to answer your question definitely I
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see more of a combining Thing versus uh
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again when I came in it was just like
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polarized yeah it was like opposite and
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versus now it's like the Gap is closed
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for sure yeah you got a lot to do with
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that and I appreciate you for that you
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know whether you glad you said it oh I
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got to say that man all right man we got
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cord day bro we we we unfortunately we
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got to wrap it up okay uh but the new
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album is the crossroads there's so many
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tracks on this and this is a great time
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to listen to this project at this time
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of the year very introspective yes sir
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uh the music is incredible to me um and
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I love the progression I've seen you
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making your albums U from that first
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mixtape I heard to now absolutely man
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are you taking this on the road
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absolutely uh the tour is February the
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5th to like March 19th so it's all all
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American tour we going all across
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America then we going to Europe then you
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know world domination there you go world
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domination man I got to see you perform
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it Live Tracy you want to say something
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before I wrap I mean Cai is absolutely
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incredible bro you're so impressive you
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have so much ambition but you also have
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humility if I could squeeze in a
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question really quickly because it was
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coming to my head no worries I was
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wondering um if you just write just to
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write sometimes because as introspective
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as you are and as much as your music is
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not only cathartic for you but cathartic
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for The Listener thank you I just be
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wondering okay do you ever just write
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for the journal or does every thought
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idea feeling expression do you save it
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for a
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song you know that's a great question I
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write all the time and what I've learned
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is every verse is equity every so I
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write Just For the Love of music for the
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love of writing but I've learned every
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verse every song that you write is
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equity because let's say you got this
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song that may not fit this album but
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it's a song you can give to another
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artist for them to sing you know what
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I'm saying or you can give it for them
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for them to use on their album or like
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for a snc you know what I'm saying so I
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might have this verse that cuz one like
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this song I got called mad as [ __ ] I can
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curse right okay I got a song called mad
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as [ __ ] I got like seven different seven
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different second verses for that uhhuh
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and one of those vers you can say like
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dang I just wasted six verses but one of
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those verses I use for a guest feature
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you know what I'm saying so I say this
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to say from a business perspective
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staying in that studio is very conducive
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it's like you're just stacking up Equity
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you know what I'm saying building stocks
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but also just from a love thing more
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than anything I just have to get it out
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of me you know what I'm saying it's just
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like I got to write down my thoughts
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like I'm not not really the best with my
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words verbally but I can write them
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things down you know what I'm saying
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with the best of them and so it's um
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it's just one of my my gifts from God
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and I I I I try my best to live in that
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absolutely we love receiving those gifts
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man smart young oh I'm sorry go ahead
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young na you got another question
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bullying you for the mic come on man
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ball don't be ball hogging the mic man I
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like um like I like rapping and things
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in that category so like if it's any
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advice you could give me what would it
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be um put
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the
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um the love must come this going to all
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sound like cliche but it's just the
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God's honest truth they say it's cliche
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for a reason right but make sure your
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product is good whatever that product
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that you're trying to sell whether it's
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a clothing brand whether it's music
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whatever that you're trying to sell put
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all your time energy and effort into
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perfecting that worry about the
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marketing promotion social media all
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that later because once you have a good
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product because you can have the best
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team in the world you can have the best
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managers in the world you can have the
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best in the world but if the music ain't
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hitting then it's not going to connect
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like you want it to so yeah exactly you
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cooked and so I say this to say I would
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just hyperfocus on the music and right
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now I would also if I was you I learn
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how to make beats bro I would learn how
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to make beats too as you like writing so
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you don't got to like wait on no
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producer to send you beats you can be a
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oneman band machine you know what I'm
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saying and get all the publishing all
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right now if you want to let them hear a
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little bit of your bars our capella ooh
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no pressure man uh yeah sure okay true
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story by the way okay no Capa in his
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RS
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um it was 7:15 first day of school I
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walked in nice fit thinking I was cool I
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went in class first hour math I walked
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in took a whip someone needs a bath but
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then I remembered that I was fast so I
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ran like you syo out of that class now I
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get home and I'm trying to watch TV but
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then remember that the living room needs
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me I'm only so young put it in the
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basket hoping by 16 I'm not inside a
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casket I shoot I score I dribble the
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ball but most times I feel like like I'm
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shooting over a break wall they laugh
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they crack jokes they try to make fun of
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me but nobody to tell me what I am going
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to be but sometimes it make me feel a
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certain way just remember my favorite
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radio is s Callaway bars bars bars you
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heard that bars how old are you bro I'm
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11 going on 12 oh yeah you got bars you
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got confident the sky is the limit yes
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sir and storytelling skills it's not
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just punchlines yeah no no and you got
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the Charisma the confidence you got it
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bro you got it man I'm glad you had the
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you was the closer yeah of this you know
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what I'm saying cuz I want have to
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follow that up I knew what we were doing
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bro yes sir did you a solid man all
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right all right yo wonderful that was
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hard though y'all clap it up for
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him that takes some yeah than yo young
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nav you all right man thank you for
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joining us today brother you made the
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show something special man couldn't have
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been like it is without you man does
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does he got social media we're not doing
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that right at 11: no he got one oh jeez
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okay what's your social media young nav
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it TS von1 123 v o n
19:31
t von1 123 okay all right man damn it's
19:36
Von cord thank you brother n thank you
19:38
appreciate N I appreciate you you're a
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real one man you're solid one man we'll
19:42
do more in La yes sir let's do that okay
19:44
all right can I hang out with y'all man
19:46
easy we here okay I'm a cool hang guys I
19:48
play for my own food come on you
19:52
self-sufficient yeah that's it I could
19:54
get us in clubs too come on let's go for
19:56
sure I got a little juice big juice for
19:59
sure thank you man uh appreciate you
20:01
cord n thank you you when I say I say
20:03
you're a real one because I I I
20:05
definitely know that you're asset to
20:07
this community thank you're definitely
20:10
something that the community can't do
20:12
without no thank you and this is a long
20:14
run you going to be here we'll be doing
20:16
this 10 years from now absolutely okay
20:18
yes sir all right I already see that I
20:20
know how intelligent you are how you
20:21
curated and navigated your career and
20:24
even that analogy about business and
20:26
assets and stocks um being compared to
20:30
versus is true that's all Equity right
20:32
yes sir okay give it up for we got a lot
20:34
of that the crossroad shout out to the
20:37
LA leakers man that freestyle was fired
20:39
we got one too yes sir you're in yes sir
20:43
that's right okay

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