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one of the most elite scientific skillful MC's in the game who
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came out with her own style i can look at this list and tell you the style that
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most of these artists were influenced by but you can't tell me a style that this MC was influenced by she created her own
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style i got to know her through my brother the one and only DJ Clark Kent
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rest in power yes and I remember the day he called me and he just banged my ear
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like "Yo Sway blah blah blah you got to" And I'm like "Clark come on man i know
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it's me dog we've been doing this for decades you're not going to convince me right?" And then her uncle Chino Excel
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called me rest in power that was my brother as well and gave me her history
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like "Nah man since she was little you know and I'm not going to tell you cuz Tina would not give anybody props unless
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they deserved it and I got a chance to hear her and and and honestly I haven't
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been as involved in her progress as I possibly could be because I enjoy
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watching her I just said it as a fan like and watching her figure it out
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going from social media clips and doing poetry and making herself extremely
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popular that way but using her intellectuality to know how to make that into a brand and then go against the
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grain and do it her own way uh and built up her own foundation and not being
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thirsty not chasing anything and then putting out projects that count ain't a
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thousand projects you going to get from her but the ones that you do they definitely count that soul project was
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one of my favorites uh especially when it starts off with that intro that never song you did too was one of my favorites
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as well but we watch her devour microphones over the years i didn't even
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ask her to come up here to rap right i reached out and said "Damn we got to get together i miss you i miss you." And she
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said "Suay i'm about to fly out of town but I'll stay an extra day to come and talk with y'all please welcome somebody
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who should be on a real list the one and only Lady London is here." Yes yes yes
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yes our little sis man for real where she from Sway um her mama
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wow after the stunt you pull with Ryan and we had to hear about Oakland yeah
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where you from originally big J you know oh damn starring the star set i keep
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trying to tell you about female rappers from Jersey it's different but it is it
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though is it it's It's up there i mean we got Lauren we got Latifah we got Heather B you know we got Whitney so I
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mean we not even talking about rappers we got Whitney that's true hey Whitney around the corner too right there right
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did y'all live in you East Orange and you I was Jersey City but it's not far
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it's not It's over a bridge did you feel the the the influence of Jersey female
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MC's coming up is that like you could have went a whole another route yeah i mean I wasn't really interested in that
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growing up but I always love hip-hop like I didn't think I was going to be in it i just was always surrounded by it you know from my uncle to you know being
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in Loud Records when I was younger moving around just being in the New York City area during um hip-hop's
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renaissance that's all you know that's all you felt you know so I didn't think I was going to be a part of it let alone
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make a a staple here like this so yeah you made a a huge staple it's hip-hop
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has changed though you know uh from that time to now and and I often even as a a
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veteran you know I'm I I I humble myself a lot and like I don't feel like I know
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everything or that I have to know everything i'm just curious to you right
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now having gone through that renaissance and now you're a big factor in hip-hop culture h how has it changed for you
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does it look the same does it feel the same like what is it now hip-hop is such
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in a weird place I think right now i won't say weird it's just it's changing it's it's always the movement in it and
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and this may get me in a little bit of trouble but I would say hip-hop is rap is the only sport where the people who
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good don't get no playing time wow it's probably the it's probably
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um it's probably to me at least um I would love to see a little bit more inclusion um and a little more diversity
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in the space mhm so yeah I was thinking of you i want to say it was the never
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song where um um they correct me if I'm wrong where
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there's there's a part where people are just kind of ridiculing you about the sound of your voice you know all the
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time right and is she going to write another book you know did she really go to medical school all these different
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things and then I was looking at Will Smith's album brand new i don't know if you heard it yet i didn't get a chance
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to but I've been seeing clips okay and and it's the intro of his album he does the same thing he confronts every
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criticism that he's received in the past few years head on right is that is that
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why you did that and do you still get these criticisms absolutely um the criticism continues to roll in but I
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mean critics without credentials right it is what it is it's it's something that I've grown u tougher skin for but I
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think purposely but never I structured it where in the beginning of the song you hear all this ridicule and at the end of the song you hear all this praise
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and so that basically was me showing the duality of how I think the world
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eventually can see somebody like you can start as somebody's biggest critic but end up really deep inside you're
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actually a fan so I kind of want to create that environment where it's like you go from hating to praising or
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whatever but I mean yeah I still face it on head on and the crazy thing is it's like almost you beating somebody to the
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punch line with with something if you address it in your music and you address it in your art form it's like I said it
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so y'all don't have to keep saying it i I hear the crit i hear y'all i get it i can see what y'all saying about me so um
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I love that he did that that's important yeah you got a um based What is it true story what's the name of the album yeah
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based on a true story based on a true story that's a great story do Do you seek out validation with your music not
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anymore i think I validation is for park and not people i I'm seeking an affirmation from a higher power i think
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this was the seed that was planted in me that um you know before it was 10 people
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before it was 100 people before it was a thousand people or 10,000 people that supported me the seed was planted in me and and with or without them here will
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still be in me and I think I have to keep that level of almost delusion in order for me to not to fold under the
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pressures of what it takes to make it here like as long as I know this is mine this is my seed to that was planted to
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make a harvest here then I got to just go in that space yo Heather B I swear
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man I feel like I need you for a therapist
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go talk to the lady yeah talk to the lady cuz you you always
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um I'm so super proud of you you know and um and and then those guys you know
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I don't I don't want to go too deep in it but you know um cuz I'll tear up but those two men you know uh were very
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special to me obviously and so uh but I watch you and it's like man niece always
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got it really got it together and I remember reading tell correct me if I'm wrong that when you got baptized yeah
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right how old were you 23 23 yeah 23 you made a decision u to get baptized and
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that's an age where people are really running a muck you know what I mean what what what drove you what made you decide
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at that time in your life to do that and then I want to ask you how your spirituality plays a part in your
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creativity um I don't think you come to repentance without something exporting
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you there mhm so I had man my knees in the dirt it was so much going on and I
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felt like I just didn't have no direction i had no source like I would go through things and I didn't know where to direct
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my my request to like I didn't really grow up in like a super religious household it was like very kind of like
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do what you do be who you are i want you to you know be expressive of that but I think I don't know something happened uh
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pivotal I feel like in my college time around like 1920 and I just went on a
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journey there where I wanted to learn everything i read the read the Bible full through and through i wanted to understand all the elements of it before
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I committed myself to doing it and I got baptized um September of that year
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September 23rd or something like that and then um as far as like how it moves
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in my music now it's everything it's literally how how I navigate everything
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like from the titling of my albums to the transitions the interludes um even my album that I'm working on right now
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is begins with God and ends with God it's like the intro and the outro the alpha the omega the head and not the tail just like my spirituality is the
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sole backbone of who I am it's my identity uhhuh yeah if if you have friends who are on that frequency or
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even men you know Uhhuh do they do they still have a place in your life that are on what frequency that that that's you
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know they they have faith they believe they're a believer yeah yeah absolutely
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absolutely you have to be in order to be around me okay i think there's there has to be some type of belief system in in
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place whatever that is just make sure you believe that there's a higher source cuz if you don't have no belief in that I don't see how far friendship
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relationship anything like that can go with me because you you're just looking at me like I'm crazy and I know I'm not crazy so but you got a crazy outfit on
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today she grled out right now and you knew where you was coming today huh i love it the
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microphone screaming shout out to Custom Creators in Atlanta for doing this create design custom for me i appreciate
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it you you you also have a a savvy sense for business you know is what I noticed
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and the business um has constantly evolves like you got to you got to find your way in you know how to fit in if
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you were to be interviewed now by a group of upand cominging artists what would be the the things you would tell
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them to to watch out for make sure you do this and this can amount to this this is how you actually make money today you
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could get a lot of views but you ain't going to make a lot of money like what what kind of things have you learned around the in the course of your career
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i think the most important thing for an artist to do is understand that artistry goes beyond your creation like beyond
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your music or whatever first you're an artist then you're a brand and then you're a business and if you structure
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your life like that you have infinite potential um excuse me uh man it's so
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much consistency in anything is important um establishing yourself as a brand allows your reputation to stay in
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rooms for longer than you do so if you have like this great way that you brand partner with people then other brands
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will want to partner with you forever all your money is in brand partnerships okay it's in touring it's in merchandise
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product is key making sure you're always selling something even if it's not under your name you can sell anything and be
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the face of a product that you're you know like not necessarily like a public
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owner of if that makes sense um there's no money in music there's no money in
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actual music yeah there's no money in music there's no money in actual music because in the digital era that in the
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era that we're in now streaming era Yeah i want people to understand it takes 80
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streams on Apple Music to make $1 you have to listen to this song 80
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times to make a dollar wow so if you understand that listening to the same
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song at each time that that's what the machine is that's where you get people to like all the bots to listen to all
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your stuff a million million times that's how you get it up but if we just looking at the streaming numbers we're not in a place where music itself
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grosses from streaming so you have to have physical copies purchased you have to have merchandise you have to tour you
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have to do brand partnerships um and you have to establish yourself beyond your artistry so So what is the music is just
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like a a billboard or is it you know it's your foundation it's what you it's what you market is what you uh what your
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face is too but it's not the way you make your money right and that's the worst case scenario is somebody who
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invests fully only in their music and have no other ventures because you'll be dead broke dead broke because what you
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put into music you don't always get back you almost never get back never get back when last time you've been dead broke
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how long ago was that dead broke dead yeah broke broke Not too long ago uh
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maybe 2019 maybe 2019 yeah six years ago she
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said not too long ago that wasn't too long ago yeah well when I once I got emotion in it it worked and I mean Clark
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Kent used to tell me how to you know manage my money all the time if you can't if you can't buy it 10 times don't buy it once it's like it's I can hear
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his voice in my head saying it a million times he's like and I remember telling him like I heard twice i heard if you
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can't buy it twice he was like 10 times 10 times 10 times that means you can't afford it yeah you can't afford it he was like even if it's down to a
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McDonald's fry for a dollar if you don't have $10 you can't have that fry and it's something that like stuck with me
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like constantly you know what I'm saying so Clark said if you can't buy it 10 times
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you can't buy it you can't afford it you can't afford it can't afford it write that down [Â __Â ] i Oh Sway you the main
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one about the fries that's all you buy is food right
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also lunch on that always lunch or he will buy you food no I need you to buy her groceries to get my food talk to
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your man cuz I've been meaning to go stop by to get a head plate anytime he's
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there now we We actually live in the same building across the hall from each other and I went to sleep y'all cannot
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separate it's him it's not me it's him it's this guy i went to sleep last night when him on my brain as he closed the
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door did somebody call me to come eat that was the last thing he said last night i had some
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I made some rice and peas and and brown stew fish and he said "Did somebody call
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me?" Nobody called him well actually Keelani called him but I didn't somebody call me where my phone at because I'm
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going to show you what the meal look we got time wow sway you really need to get your life together wait so drop the
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address cuz I'm not too far you know I'm like in Glendale so you're in Glendale yeah I've been
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here for seven years but I also I own another house in Texas too so I'm kind of back and forth that way hold up she
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owns another house man give that a round of applause that's what I was trying to get to why Texas um cost of living um
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I've just created a like peace oasis there that I just really enjoy so was it a place that you visited and fell in
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love with or somebody just said this this is the spot where you need how because I'm always curious how we pick
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places that we're not from to live like we're in Cal Well I'm in California because of work i've always loved it in
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the back of my mind but I'm here because I work and deep down I always knew God told me I would live here one day he
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told me that didn't know how long it would take but it happened for me what was the inspiration behind Texas um I
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actually was in a relationship like two years ago and um the guy who I was with
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I remember like 3 months into us dating I was like "Yeah you can't come over here cuz there's bills everywhere you
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got to have to pay some bills for you to come over my apartment." Right it's a funny joke now but whatever um so he's
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like "Man how much this little rent whatever whatever." So he ends up paying my paying my rent or whatever and I
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remember him texting me and being like "You don't want to own something like I feel like you know we paying into
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something that you don't have like you don't have ownership of." He was like "I'd rather buy you a house like this is you know whatever whatever." So um I had
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always kind of wanted to get real estate in Texas this is crazy no for real for real just something in your spirit i
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wanted to get real estate in Texas i felt like you can actually own there you know like where we from a lot of people don't own like you know for your whole
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life so um we ended up going down there looking at some properties we were picking some out or whatever um and he
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was actually murdered like that same year oh my god so I in in the midst of the process I continued on to source a
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house um and just saw the vision through so that's really like that was the whole thing it's okay everybody's all right
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but um it's it's like you know I have so many protectors in the spiritual realm
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you know what I'm saying so the the last like year and a half for me has been like okay like just give me two seconds
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to get my foot in a in a good place but um yeah so I just you know sought out the vision thoroughly and um I think I'm
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I have a special hedge of protection there for that exact reason amen i like how you say that the protectors in the
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spiritual realm sure and I tell people all the time when they say "What's been the key?" What do you think the key of
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your longevity has been and I said "My protectors that follow me in my spiritual realm." I mean my spiritual
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realm is um how I find balance um and I thank I thank you for saying that too
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because that that helps me out because some of your protectors are my brothers am I your protector across the hall with
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the food well look let me show you this lady London look at this this is Kehani who's right there is texting me this hey
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Uncle this is what we're eating tonight and so I was I didn't get no text i
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didn't get no nothing nah I wasn't going to text you so good wow uh but I was I was eating at Raw Fast and Okay you know
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Raw Fies i'm very familiar yes yes last night in Glendale and so I was full so I
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didn't I didn't get this meal that Heather cooked oh wow yeah she does this all the time so instead you said I'll be
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over tomorrow which is today oh wow yeah so I'm going to eat it so what's the meal today he getting leftovers i'm not
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thinking about him i ain't thinking about him sis she's thinking about herself she ain't even thinking about me
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either you know all right so what's the meal you know asking for a friend yeah yeah okay you when you leave uh tomorrow
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tomorrow done done that's Listen I love her
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jersey i love her i love it here jersey jersey yo Tracy all the way in New York with Mike Muse tracy you want to dive in
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this yeah d absolutely boo we rock with you so easily i love hearing from you i
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love the intellectualism you have the layers that you have i think it's important that you naturally showcase
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the range of a woman because you have very boss energy and I feel like you can
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tap into your divine masculine that doesn't take away from you still being a woman but then there's also like a
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tenderness and we know that our femininity can show up in different ways
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depending on the room that we're in depending on what we're creating how do
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you feel like how would you define your femin your femininity as an artist and
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your femininity when you're at home when you're with your core like intimate crew
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talk to us about that um I think that femininity as a whole
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blossoms when you feel safe um I think it's a it it opens itself up to you know
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a comfort zone and so definitely when I'm amongst familiar spirits I'm always in my divine feminine i feel like I'm
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always just kind of maneuvering in a very like soft and nurturing way i'm also super cancer so you know the vibes
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yeah so it's I'm definitely the mother you know I'm I'm a big sister i'm the oldest you know so it's a lot of things
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that I just feel like have nurturing motherly qualities as it is um but in my
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music I love to be the softspoken like maniac like I cannot
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believe that's what you just said out of that little voice you know what I'm saying like that's what's important to me i can't help the fact that my voice
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is light but I'mma say something that make you feel like okay well softspoken
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but you heard me you know what I'm saying so I think um I am I think I have
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a great duality of that you know to be hard and soft at the same time it's it's a good like sweet and sour mix it makes
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me think of Sway when we were talking about the importance of spending time in nature if Sway likes to show off about
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all his makeout sessions with mother nature and how she'd be kissing on his skin
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but you know even though mother nature is is gorgeous I'm screaming it
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creates you know the butterflies and the lakes but mother nature also lives within the tornadoes as well that is
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still like mother nature and I think sometimes we forget that and so when that manifests through like uh a female
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artist and she does something that maybe is very provocative or showcases that
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she also owns a spirit of bravado it makes people uncomfortable because they
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only see one side of us as nurturers yeah I agree and I I too love the nature
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well not super nature i like water i like the sound of water i like um being
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next to water i love the frequencies that exist in it um not so much the dirt i don't really into that side of your
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thing you ain't grounding much water sign not earth
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no camping no glamping no none of that you ain't going fishing damn bring the fish back though i like
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fresh fresh food but I'm just a girl are you excited about the tour and how did
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that come about because that's coming like in a couple weeks i'm so excited i'm equally as nervous it's a lot that
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goes into a tour as you guys know I'm doing all 33 cities and so Dope i didn't know that yep yeah man doing all 33
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cities this will be my first time on the road blessings blessings yes this your first time on the road yeah this is my first time like in a series i did like a
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four city tour last year that was like okay get a little taste of how whatever but this will be my first time i'm
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opening for Coco Jones she's incredible i just love her man i just hope to be an asset to the tour for real you know like
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okay bet y'all are a great pairing i want people to make sure like when they come out if they didn't know me before
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that it becomes one of them experiences that's like okay like I'm a fan now you
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know um that's the goal actually it's so funny cuz um I was I seen uh Guap dad
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yesterday um and you know where you from Heather oh I told you it was bad here i
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seen him yesterday at this uh Puma event and he was he was like man you about to go out on the road how you feeling i was
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like I'm good i said "You have any advice?" He's like "Nah not really." And we end up having a a regular talk or whatever and he's like "I will say not
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every city going to like you like you're not going to get every like the love that you expect in every city but don't
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take it personal." And I was like "Why you say that?" He was like "I went out on the road with Wle and you know people
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that came came to see him." He was like "So I had to understand that you know it wasn't really my show." He's like "So I
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didn't really take it too crazy." He was like "But if you can grab 10 people 15 people in the audience grab them." them
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he like "Meet me at the merch table." You know what I'm saying like do what you can with what you have control the
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controllables with that and so he was like "And there'll be cities where people really like you as much as they
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like Coco." You know what I'm saying you just got to know how to navigate and this the best advice I got cuz everybody
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sugar coats you know it's like "Oh Tor be you're going to have a great time you're going to like love the fan." But
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it'd be nice to hear like man one day might not go how I think and I don't want to internalize it so it's funny i I
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learned a trick um shout out to KRS1 cuz it's something that he taught me he was my music mentor and that was the first
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time I've been on tour with him um so bomb no well what it was I I didn't So
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there was no social media there was no way of building yourself up i didn't have any followers i was on a bonus
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track on his Edutainment album nobody knew who the hell we were yeah but what I learned through him um on this tour he
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was like "Your strength is in your lyrics and your voice write ac cappella
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freestyles." And at any given moment if you know you got that freestyle in the back of your
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head in any city you could drop a beat you going to win that crowd over cuz they may not know your music but if a
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freestyle and you kicking some bars whatever it is you going to win that crowd now they listen to your music so
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nobody ain't got to tell you to write you already got that that gift that God gave you have that in the chamber as
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well cuz the sound may go out this may happen somebody may not be feeling your music to Guap dad's point but when they
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realize that you could spit is over game cut all this [Â __Â ] off and listen to me
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spit something you got them so take that gym there's a KRS1 gym that's yours now
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take it put that in your crown sis you deserve it that tour kicking off in May by the way okay um Mike Mu would you
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want to jump in yeah I've been really enjoying this conversation i have a question for you because you seem so
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very centered um you mentioned that the and the spirit the spirituality and the ancestors protect you i'm just curious
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in the physical realm um do you have a group of friends and family that centers
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you because it seems like it's coming from a source from somewhere you don't have to name names but I'm just curious
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yeah I mean definitely um my family my sisters my grandmother my mom and just
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like the chosen family that I have here in my in my camp they keep me grounded we all pray together we we're all very
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very aligned in what we do i don't have like um celebrity friends i have like
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friends that I've been friends with since for years i mean 10 plus years went to college with um have experienced
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real life you know trials with you know I think if people can't be along for the
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drive they shouldn't be there when you park so I'm in a very like specific like
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space of who I have around me because I don't want to win and look around and
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see that nobody who I anticipated this win with is around me anymore so real um
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yeah I mean I'm I'm extremely centered um or at least I try to be as much as possible um touching grass in a in a
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very like not actually touching grass lately you know what I mean like I try to stay Thank you so much even in your
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in your choice of words that you're very measured with your words oh thank you she's she's like you Mike she's very
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intelligent and educated uh how was it Howard University of course there you go hu you know is that what I am is that
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the real HU yes the only Harvard not even as HU as us yeah man you know I I
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you know I take pride in that i'm a I'm a HU dad now i know
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right i got the I got She chose up i love that for her it's so lonely at the
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top like she I'm so happy you gang sis congratulations baby bison her name Her
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name is Komi shout her out for me yes shout out Komi oh my god we love you
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baby bison hu the real Howard you will never experience anything like you are
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at Howard University so why you say that because I was happy when she made that decision and I've been to the campus a
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couple times felt like I was back in school you know and um I'm she's in u
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she's she's getting her u she's in grad school and going get her MBA in finance and she just made student of the week
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there we go i don't know if that was important to say to y'all oh that's very important congratulations
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congratulations yeah thank you guys it's like I did it uh but that the impact of a HBCU like
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how how has how does that still play a part in your life today man it teaches you everything about this world it's so
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funny because a lot of people that attend PWIS will insist that like 72% of
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the world is white and like that doesn't teach you anything about the real world and in fact it actually does teach you discipline and tenacity and resilience
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and fortitude mental fortitude more specifically to fight for your place in rooms and and for your um what what's
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due to you you know uh it doesn't it teach you not to feel guilty about speaking out or organizing or taking
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issue with the conditions of black people in America and beyond and um it's
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a place where you no one can tell you no like you don't understand the world the word no at Howard i speak for Howard
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specifically like no no no just means I gotta find another way to get this done like that you know I was told I had 44
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credits left to graduate when I was a senior I called my mom I told her she was like girl I paid for four years now five I don't know how you about to get
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up out of there but I'll be there in May I bought my ticket took 23 credits my freshman year I mean my fall semester
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and 21 my spring semester and got right over that stage they were telling me there was a cap 18 credit cap cool I'm
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going to overrides after override I'm going to talk to advisers after advisers because no is not a thing and when you
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transfer that into the real world you are unstoppable so damn 45 diabolical
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um all right I want to ask you about one line in the um in the song um
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um is you crazy and you say what's the line I wrote this down
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you said oh you said um on the record you rap I'm a beat to Jay-Z
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Z i didn't get that line it's actually I'm a B to a Jay-Z but
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Oh that's why I didn't get the line well it could be it could be See okay triple
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on Tundra don't even ask me how okay cuz you uh a beat to a Jay-Z is like I'm you
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know I could pretty much do anything the way Jay-Z does to beats but I really originally wrote it as a B to a Jay-Z
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and by a B I meant his wife and a billion wow yeah a billion okay yeah like it's
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nothing you know what I mean like it's you know yeah it's nothing so it And so
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you talked about the album coming right um what what kind of information can you give us about it oh my god it's you can
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see the growth in the album you can see me being stretched beyond my own
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imagination in it it's I I broke it up into categories okay so it'll be like
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the cloth talk is what I call this one a portion of it that's like super elevated the Jay-Z bag if you will um and then
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there's like the brunch vibes and then there's like the pain in it and then there's the interludes that go in
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between it and then it's like this strip club [Â __Â ] you know what I mean like we having fun i'm having fun with music again good or learning to you know cuz
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it it comes to a point where you get jaded over time like man I don't know it's hard to to do this like people not
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messing with me people not whatever whatever then it's like you know one thing I've learned if nothing else is
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that life is so short it's like one day you can do this one day you're not don't obsess over what you can't control in it
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so I just been having fun with this album it's good it's going to be good i love it man give her a round of applause
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my niece Lady London right here catch her on tour she going to be on tour all
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cities y'all all cities uh I don't know if you and Coco going to be around for the BET Awards at all absolutely we are
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performing in LA on June 6th they actually BT Wars used to be on my birthday but I'm glad they moving it up okay so we'll we'll be doing some stuff
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here i'd love to have y'all come we could I could that we got a whole big gigantic studio downstairs we can do
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performance components all of that so J1 our guy is around here somewhere if
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y'all have time we would love to do something um J1 something special you know J1 so I love to do something
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special and something different all right we can figure out what that is we first met Coco here she came to the LA
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studios here yeah coco came here and sang we had her do something acappella uh something just off the cuff and that
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thing went stupid viral acappellas be it though i'm trying to KRS once told me
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that in 1990 that's it yeah we got to get one in we got to do something yeah you ready so
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not now but when I can do one now you can do one now do one now oh man that's
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my right there let's do one okay all right let's go wait hold up welcome to
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the Valley of the Hyena lady London Lady Hyena
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Green i just want to dedicate this to Clark Kent the infamous and my uncle
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Chino XL keep it real you know this death ship been hurting a minute cuz people I
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climbed the steps with further rescended i never question the Lord no purpose intended i just wonder why he did it
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when the work wasn't finished it's been a hell of a year this level of stress and since I never say a word I bet you
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never could guess i see the ink and let it bleed but nevertheless don't wear my feelings on my sleeve them [Â __Â ] never
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could dress look I got visions of my uncle in suspension i know it's hard to mention i'm picturing my name scripted
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in his final sentence like I miss you and I love you i'm sorry I couldn't hug you but I just been in a struggle so long I don't have the muscle i believe
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him cuz I'm grieving with him trying to reason with him tossing turning in my sleep wish I could see what he was missing i'm so sorry that I couldn't
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know i didn't know for every time you said you couldn't come and I didn't go um mentally gone for real they took
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Uncle Chino they took Clark for real that put the needle to my heart for real i see how people could go dark for real
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i know a loss could kill when I'm when I'm having an off day i think what would
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Clark say you keep the focus and I'll pray cuz cheeseburgers are good but God's great it was like that with him i
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couldn't fight back with him i tried to quit this rap [Â __Â ] he brought me right back again it was almost like he had me by my ear we need you here and I ain't
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only talking Lady London i mean Z Jehovah meetings these are rooms you deserve to be in top five dead are alive
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on the road to being y'all believed in me when nobody would seen the vision back when nobody could so I guess I'm
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good if y'all good i love y'all oh man my gosh lady London man
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god bless you man give it up for Lady London give it up for Lady London man hold up give me a kiss
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how when I need one we Everybody in here can I give you a hug niece yes ma'am yes
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man yes yes lady London she is going to be on tour with Coco Jones is kicking off in May it's going to be incredible
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album is dropping and as I said she's a lyricist every city come get those bars man man y'all also got to tune in i got
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a documentary coming out on Tuby yes produced by Macro on Tuby um coming out
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around the same time as the album so we looking at that August September i want y'all to tap in we in it so come talk to
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us we'll talk to you as an actor next time there we go there we go well it's a documentary so it's following my album
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process of it and so it's called Always Lady London all right k if you need a narrator voice on there I'm always you
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know you know all right you know what I'm saying might had to tap in you let me know man give it up for Lady London
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catch her on tour the tour kicking off in May is you crazy i love you that's the new single love you too love you too
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and uh congratulations on everything that you doing