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The DARK Side of Comedy: Earthquake Speaks Out! 💥 | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
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Apr 18, 2025
Comedian Earthquake drops a bombshell on "Sway In The Morning," revealing his SHOCKING career breakthrough that’s set to change everything! From starring in the Netflix Home Team special with Dave Chappelle to landing what he calls the BIGGEST opportunity of his life, Earthquake shares how faith, patience, and persistence have shaped his legendary career. Hear exclusive insights about his upcoming projects, his journey through the comedy world, and the challenges of staying authentic in the entertainment industry. Plus, hilarious takes on social topics and life lessons you won’t want to miss! Subscribe now for more exclusive interviews, celebrity moments, and unfiltered conversations only on Sway’s Universe. Don’t forget to tune into Earthquake’s unforgettable stories and laugh-out-loud moments that prove why he’s one of comedy’s most respected icons! 🎤🔥 #Earthquake #SwayInTheMorning #NetflixSpecial #DaveChappelle #ComedyLegend #earthquake #standupcomedy #netflix #standup #comedy #earthquake #standupcomedy #naomiekperigin #comedycareerbreakthrough #billburr CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Earthquake Talks About His Biggest Break 01:20 - Earthquake's Netflix Special 02:12 - Earthquake's Biggest Break 03:35 - How Often You Need to Re-Up 06:53 - Earthquake's Patience and Faith 08:34 - Number One on the Call Sheet 10:46 - Earthquake Insights 13:57 - Vibez Cartel Discussion 17:12 - Britney Spears Impact 21:45 - Tracy G Commentary 22:40 - Final Thoughts and Reflections
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hey man this is one of the reasons why I
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love this man i've been watching this
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man for decades and his language speaks
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to my life right you know I told my
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daughter who's 26 the same exact thing
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and never heard that joke right our
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relationship is different it's different
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i'm now your advisor
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and you ain't got to listen to me if you
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don't want to man you You got to Well
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turn this mic on for me well welcome
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ladies and gentlemen one of the most
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reputable respectful
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um honored comedian who's spanded the
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the the realm of decades in this game
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and has sustained i mean he's been on
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Quakes's House Radio come on man he come
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from what we do Heather B that's right
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okay he's been on Death Comedy Jam Comic
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Few i mean the All Shacks Allstar Comedy
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Jam i mean from the outhouse to the
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White House i mean he's done it all man
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and uh I want to say congratulations to
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him uh for being who he is even a
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Netflix special Chappelle's home team
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Earthquake legendary the one and only
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Earthquake is back in the building
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heather I told the man I said "Hey
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anytime you want to come up just let me
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know." Pulled up and he pulled up yes
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pulled up and he got a flight to catch
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yeah got to get up out of here man first
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of all it's always an honor a pleasure
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to be in your company brother uh keep
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doing God's good work keep doing being
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who you are is always seeing a brother
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uh doing positive things and and I
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admire what you do um being on Kevin
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Hart's Laugh Out Loud being a part of
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the Sirius XM family it's an honor to be
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just one of uh on the same dial as you
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you know it isn't truly honor um God has
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been good man um you know uh Netflix
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special we brought to uh film another
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one me and Dave Chappelle okay may 28th
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in Atlanta at the Buckhead Theater
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everybody's coming through um last night
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I got the biggest break of my career
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that was um I can't um you'll be hearing
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about it in the next seven days it's
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exclusives going out to Wait wait you
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said the biggest break in your career
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bro breaker ever yes but this none none
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compared to I mean compares to this and
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especially for a person um in power to
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recognize the comic that I am and told
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me he wants me on his platform and he
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instructed everyone this the decision
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maker to say I want
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earthquake him do not dilute him do not
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touch him find how you can do this for
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earthquake and it was it was godsense so
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I'm waiting for it to get dropped out
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you know I let my woman listen to her so
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she'll stay longer okay you
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know she was starting to lose the faith
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no she wasn't going nowhere she got a
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good deal just reconfirm it you know
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with black women you got to re you got
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to re up yeah it's like it's like a
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video game you get one two two lives you
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got to put a couple more lives on there
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you can't stay with one life you get put
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out with one life
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yeah you need three four actually
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they kill off two of them you got Yeah
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you got to re up you got How often you
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got to reup though man oh man soon as
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you see her move her neck
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every time she move your neck you need
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another You need another life you need
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another life you need another life i'm
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telling you earthquake get out
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you need a life i love that man how many
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lives you have you got to re Oh man when
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you meet him you up there you know you
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got six seven you can't do no
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wrong you know you just see your life
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just go you get down and you got to reup
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man but but it's worth it for that black
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woman right oh it's the best thing in
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the world if you find the right one i
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had always had the joke I would never
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ever I'm always one good black woman for
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making it i would never ever and um
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until I met the one that I'm with now
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then everything came i'm having the best
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uh year of my career and the opportunity
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see the only difference I tell people
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all the time people always come to me
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and say "Qu you funnier than all the
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rest of these people why you ain't got
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no TV show why you ain't got no movies?"
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And I be trying to tell them "Ain't like
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I turned it
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down." Ain't like they say "You want to
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be on CBS?" No man i want to go to
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Arkansas you know what I mean it's the
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opportunity and uh me being a urban uh
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comic like Bernie uh the constituents
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that come see us give us all their love
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and everything but they're not in a
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position to give us the opportunity to
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um to um be on bigger platforms and I
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tell people all the time the only
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difference between any great comedians
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is that they was given an opportunity
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and they was able to cash in on and
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allow them to get bigger opportunities
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we as comedians are the only one that's
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dollar for dollar everybody else get
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paid for their potential to beat
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something you got the NFL draft that
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came these brothers are about to get
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millions and millions of dollars and
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never played in the NFL right no one
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never ever gives a comedian movie or TV
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um just based off potential they had you
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had to prove it i sold this many tickets
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and I got this fan base in there and I
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got all that so it's it's a different
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it's a different role and you have to
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have the faith in God that you will get
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that opportunity and thank God in 2025
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if it came and it's the key part about
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it more than anything is a person in
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power that allows you to be you all the
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other opportunity i didn't had many TV
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and movie deals but I was always
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auditioning the play myself i had other
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people who the writer be there this how
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I see earthquake i said well I think I
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should be excellent on telling him I've
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been with him for 39 years you know I
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know I know one better than most yeah
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yeah so yeah you do your own thing but
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it's it's been a blessing i like that
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the person in power that allows you Mike
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speaks to that a lot mike Muse you know
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uh a person in power that is confident
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and secure enough in themselves to allow
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you to be you right yeah well Eddie
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Murphy told me a long time ago we're not
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actors we're movie stars as a comedians
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you allow Martin to be Martin you allow
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Jamie to be Jamie you allow Bernie to be
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Bernie you see what I'm saying jerry
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Seinfeld to be Jerry Seinfeld well the
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problem is when they bring you and you
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Jerry Seinfeld and they try to make you
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Earl Seinfeld you know you got somebody
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else people ah this is how you should be
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doing they like listen man I know what
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I'm doing just put me this actual person
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in a fictitious world and then allow us
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to do what we do yeah but you got to
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have a person that have the vision and
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also have the authority to say this is
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what I want and able to do the part and
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it took me this 30 over 35 years to get
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to this position and God gave it to me
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yesterday do you think your patience
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maybe has something to do with it too
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because Sway and I talk about this a lot
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quake like you you less stressed like
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you the [ __ ] that used to be real
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important i got to do this now i got to
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get this now somehow that that goes away
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you have a few more experiences you
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don't bite at every dollar you don't
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jump at every opportunity they got to
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make sense for you do you feel like that
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happened to you too well for me more
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than anything is my faith is the relief
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you can't say you have faith and then
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don't have it right you get what I'm
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saying a lot of people just use it just
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as a monitor and just keep saying
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throwing it but I It really is my faith
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i know why God ain't give it to me i'll
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be dead yeah i wasn't ready for it you
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know what I mean come on now ready for
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it not ready for it wow i know now if
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he's giving me the things that I have
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now that I'm about to have now then I
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wouldn't be here so I I never throw
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stones at other people these 21 year old
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brothers that get it the 30s and rest of
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it you never had it and nobody around
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you never show how to do it you can only
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you can only uh guess what it go through
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you know what I mean you're not in that
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you Kevin Hart said something that was
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so poignant he said "A lot of people
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throw uh stones at me and let me just
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paraphrase what he said but I'm here on
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top of the moon looking down until you
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see that perspective from the top of the
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moon you can't say nothing to him." Wow
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so the first thing I said he's right i
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don't know what he's going through but
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once I get on that moon and I'm there
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I'm like you could have did something
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else cuz I see it now
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you go and you're headed towards that
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moon yeah I'm heady um you know it's
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interesting and I was watching Eddie
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Murphy on that documentary that Jamie
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produced what is it called first on the
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call sheet um uh first uh number one on
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the call sheet number one on the call
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sheet beautiful thing it's a series that
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I think everybody in the business should
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be watching and learn the theory of the
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call sheet yes who's number one who's
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number two so wait what is this about
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it's a call sheet where the call is
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shows in where you rank as as Yall know
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what the call sheet is but it's a show
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it's a it's a documentary of all the
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people once you actually achieve number
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one on the call sheet and they gave
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their perspectives how long it took to
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get that point how it changed their
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perspective and it it's beautiful i just
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watched I'm about to watch the females
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version of it so the men at first and it
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just sit there and it just gives you all
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the things that you need morgan Freeman
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Eddie Murphy Bill Smith Martin Don
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Cheeto Jamie Fox all of Kevin Hart all
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of these folks The Rock on Dwayne
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Johnson they all talking about their
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experiences and Eddie Murphy talked
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about when he was coming up and on the
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rise being a teenager getting SNL uh
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getting Beverly Hills cop you know doing
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all he had reached heights at his stage
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that no one had reached ever
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ever had reached and he said he was
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getting advice from people who had never
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been to where he had been trust me right
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exactly and so he had to follow his own
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instincts and impulses and I think
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Sydney Podier told him you know cuz they
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wanted him to play Malcolm X I believe
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or something like that alex Haley alex
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Haley in the Malcolm X movie and Sydney
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Podier told him what he said "Don't do
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that you don't do that you're a breath
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of fresh air you stay into your lane."
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And that comes back to what Eddie told
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me is you know we're not when I met
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Denzel he said he's a movie star he's an
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actor we're a movie star you know we we
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we come in with creation we are created
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we are with a with an actor they have to
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give the lines to and allow them to
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create off what it's already been made
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we already have the creation in ourself
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and that's the difference oh man
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Earthquake is here i saw too Damon
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Williams who I just have nothing but the
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ultimate respect for sit down with
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Shannon Sharp and they were talking
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about the jokes and the stealing of
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jokes right and and Damon said "Man why
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y'all tripping so hard?" Back in the day
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we'll be in a room it'll be Arsenio
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it'll be Seinfield it'll be Eddie Murphy
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and it'll be me and somebody you know
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it'll be Jay Leno and Earthquake might
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do a joke and he'll come off stage and
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Jay Leno might say "Hey man you did that
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joke what if you added this to it?" And
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then they'll have a circulated
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conversation eddie I told Earthquake
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this what do you think man maybe you
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should do this with blah blah blah and
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people hold on to jokes too much she
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said Robert Williams is to steal jokes
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and his manager would just write $75
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checks to those who joke he stole
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because they would make it into
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something else what are your thoughts
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about that i mean I'm like m I'm like
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McDonald's i'm over big jokes toad so I
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I never
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understood you know Ronald don't get mad
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over one
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hamburger if you're in the hamburger
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business yeah right you see what I'm
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saying so I don't I don't understand
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that evil and especially when the joke
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was so long ago you know what I mean and
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you made it um I think uh certainly
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those um people that does that thing
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it's a masquerade for other reason why
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they want to go at a person and they
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just use that as a as a vehicle to go at
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them okay uh people such as myself I
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done had more of my jokes stolen and I
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just com I just make more you know what
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I Because what I tell them is you can't
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steal me you might can steal a joke but
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you can't steal the founder yeah you
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understand it's me it's how I say it
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what I say it the way I say it you might
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could take the words but you can never
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take me so I need to keep going and just
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put all my effort being the best me that
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I am and don't worry about the
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duplicated or the thieves that on it and
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don't mess with it there aren't any like
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rules in comedy so yes it is oh you
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don't supposed to steal jokes okay oh
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okay no no you don't supposed to steal
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jokes um I get it certain people you got
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to understand jokes to comedians is like
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raising your child you take it from a
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concept and you work it over and over
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and then you finally get it right only
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for somebody to come steal it and go
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somewhere else but see I feel sorry for
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the people that does steal it because
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you giving yourself a a a false sense of
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comfort cuz soon they're going to put
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you in the room and say "Be funny." And
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you're not going to have my tape or cat
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tape or Jamie or anybody else's material
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you able to fall back on so you're going
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to lose there it is you're going to lose
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you're going to lose earthquake is here
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man he's performing at Sony Hall New
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York City April 15th there may be a few
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te tickets left if I need you guys to go
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to the
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realearquake.com the doors open at 700
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p.m
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therealearquake.com if you in the
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tri-state area I need all of y'all to
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hit him up hit him on his email this is
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personal email i don't know why he did
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it like that but the real
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earthquake.com earthquake while you here
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man I love your social commentary and
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your view on on entertainment you mind
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joining us for Celebrity Wire please
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let's do it man let's get into that
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Celebrity Wire with Tracy G okay tracy G
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what you got for us man so I want to
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talk about Vibes Cartel because actually
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tonight um my sister who's pulling up to
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New York she is going to be seeing Vibes
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Jamaican dance hall legend um doing his
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first performance in the States in like
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24 years we know that Vibes was in jail
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for 13 years um for a murder that he
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maintains he did not commit but it's a
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really big deal is going to be out in
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Barclays and so he's been doing some
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press and he was talking to Ebro
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recently and the subject of skin
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bleaching was brought up because I'm
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sure many recalls a time where Vibes
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Cartel was a loud and proud skin
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bleacher even to the point where he
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manufactured his own skin lightening um
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kit he had a brand the whole nine yo my
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bleach my bleach bleach up them skin
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don't like it you need to change yo he
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was taking it casket bro and now he has
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a completely different tune and some
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completely different skin at that and
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the issues that he was referring to is
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um a euro having a desire to appear more
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euroentric in these European beauty
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standards not only being something that
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sometimes tempts women but he got
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tempted as a man as well but he said
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quote that he is now living a fully
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melanated lifestyle
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[Music]
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you ever thought about doing that no man
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burnt black slave
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black slave black lay in the bed look
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like a hole in the sheet black that's
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the kind of black I'm into you
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understand me and slavery told you to
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get out you understand that's the kind
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of black I'm down with man bleach now I
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don't even like bleach on my white
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clothes so you know I don't like it on
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me it ain't no way man right yeah man
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you would see people who would do that
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right yes and it it's to each his own
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but at the end of the day it's going to
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be what it's going to be and um the
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accepting they're never is going to
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accept you if you're not you you know
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what I mean so you can try to uh be a
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part of them or uh emulate them and I
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mean am the gatekeepers the shot callers
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the people that you feel that's keeping
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you from achieving what you have and at
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the end he'll come to the same
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conclusion that he came to right now
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that it has to do with self and
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I mean is the individual god don't make
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mistakes and that's why he made you so
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we all uh in my humble opinion is flawed
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beautiful people and I I I wear my flaws
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there you go man you wear them well i
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wear my flaws too i can see all of them
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all right thank you like you over here a
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model you see my skin i got you come on
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slay bleaching i'mma say that i'mma
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start that rumor slay so cool he he be
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pose while he sleep in the house you
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already know i'm ready for him man all
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right Tracy G what else you got well
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somebody who organically has the skin
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that uh Vibes Cartel once used to bleach
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for is Britney Spears and Britney Spears
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has a message to everyone who goes on
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her Instagram account who peruses her
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different posts which many of times
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happen to be let's say eccentric right
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and she has no issue no qualms against
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wearing a very skimpy say bathing suit
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and doing her dance and twirling her
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hair but that also leaves the floor open
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for some derogatory messages and some u
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energy of suspicions too and so she put
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up a post and she said "For the
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incredibly sad comments that say that I
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look bad I feel sorry for you guys i
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thought my hair was beautiful." And she
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also went on to say that even folks who
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are my best friends all of y'all y'all
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are jealous y'all will do anything to
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keep me from living my life and in my
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highest manner i feel sorry for people
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like that and since that post it has
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been deleted
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yo I know Earthquake you was a big
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Britney Spears but Yeah I was going to
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knock her off when I was behind on my
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rent cuz I heard she was a hazy comer
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wow
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no I'm talking about you know you know
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what I mean help you out on your ends
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that's what I heard the word on the
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street man backup dancers can get I know
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a comedic so I like my chances you like
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but I ain't into that um
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I'm just I'd be surprised i'm I'm very
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surprised person of her uh of her
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achievement that she even listened to
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the outside noise i mean if you're doing
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it for whatever reason you're doing it
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then do it for yourself and don't listen
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to people that don't even know you i I
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don't read my comments at all i just
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don't cuz your opinion I'm only on this
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earth to live up to one person opinion
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that's God and everybody else's option
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and our option is not say [ __ ] you i
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don't care about you you know it doesn't
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matter so you need to talk to somebody
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that depend on your opinion for their
19:23
standard of living and you don't deal on
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mine so it's I don't understand how they
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even listen to them i knock it out
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that's why I don't understand how you
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get uh bullied on social media just
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don't go on it cuz they cuz it's a log
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on the fire and they going the fire
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needs to burn and it's going to be
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another log back on here yeah they need
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somebody else you know just let it burn
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you simmer out and you sitting there you
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going to answer to it because they don't
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care about you anyway no that and that
19:52
ain't even why they doing it they doing
19:53
it for attention themselves exactly
19:55
right yeah and you they don't know you
19:58
they don't know them and you elevating
20:00
them by bringing attention to them so
20:02
everybody that knows you going to know
20:04
them because you put the light on them i
20:07
earned this you going to have to earn
20:09
this you going to have to hate me from
20:10
the cheap seats i'm not I'm not coming
20:13
up there to argue with you i don't even
20:15
hear your boo i'm not I'm not going up
20:18
to the cheap seats to argue with you you
20:21
have to get on this level for us to see
20:23
eye to eye that's a fact
20:25
you going to have to boo me from the
20:26
cheeks yeah man i It took me too hard
20:30
that P be hard on you man that P be hard
20:32
on you oh it wakes you up at night
20:35
oh Lord when you pour yeah oh that P
20:38
wake up you can't get no good i got to
20:40
get up and out of here
20:42
yeah that Oh you know it girl you know
20:45
you hate that job you be hanging on a
20:47
Saturday and you just stop dancing
20:49
what's wrong man i got to go to work on
20:51
Monday it's Saturday i know oh I'm just
20:54
reminding me man i got to go in there
20:56
and serve you just hate it you get what
20:58
I'm saying oh man i'm not going to enjoy
21:01
a meal you're in the middle of biting
21:03
into a sandwich you just eat a sandwich
21:05
you like "What's wrong man man I got to
21:06
go to work Monday." It's Saturday
21:08
morning man i'm just I know it just hit
21:11
me man you know black people we'll stop
21:12
in our tracks
21:15
got to go to work on Monday got to go
21:17
back to that funky ass
21:19
car Saturday you can be at the club just
21:21
stopped dancing with a woman what's
21:24
wrong did the song go off no man i got
21:27
to work Saturday morning just hit me man
21:30
i hate my supervisor i hate my
21:32
supervisor this dude walked by where
21:34
that cologne that same day goddamn
21:36
cologne about to be having man give me
21:40
another drink man hey man you got a
21:43
little Hey Earthquake man give him a
21:44
round of applause earthquake man i know
21:46
this dude got to catch a flight tracy G
21:48
but thank you for that celebrity wire if
21:51
they want to reach you out can they
21:52
reach you uh they can follow me at the
21:54
real earthquake yes beautiful go ahead
21:56
baby tracy go ahead go ahead Tracy
22:00
thank you hit me up citizens gi a cy and
22:04
quake where can find you at the real
22:07
earthquake Instagram for all free
22:09
tickets just slide in my DM you say you
22:12
will sway and you my man and we I only
22:14
have one stipulation on my free tickets
22:16
i am all out of men tickets so if you're
22:18
a grown man don't slide in my DM oh wow
22:20
get down like that so if you're in the
22:22
tri-state area you want to come see
22:24
Earthquake April 15th that's Tuesday at
22:26
Sony Hall you can get free tickets if
22:29
you go to the real Earthquake on
22:32
Instagram and sliding but you have to be
22:33
a woman put your mom on there your
22:36
sister your daughter yeah you lie about
22:38
it earthquake thank you brother for
22:40
coming through man congratulations on
22:42
this big deal and I'm going to call you
22:43
back on it if you allow me man it's one
22:45
of the biggest things you Absolutely
22:47
call us you can do Celebrity Wire on the
22:48
phone we'll do it governor I'm proud of
22:51
you man
22:52
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