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ladies and gentlemen we got a real one
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in the building right now Heather be we
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got a real one in the building I already
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love the aggression yes you know I'm
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here when it comes to bars I like that
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aggression I like that aggression that
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comes from a long list of just putting
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in work for years now AB absolutely you
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got to want it you got to want it I
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remember she was a troublemaker back in
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the day I'm going back in time with this
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one we going to walk our way up Miss
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streets is in the y'all we going to walk
0:31
our way up let's do it take us on the
0:33
journey s we going to walk our way up
0:35
early baby Bully rap come on who's the
0:40
yeah I hit her up and said I was
0:43
listening to her project and I said damn
0:45
it you got to come see us come see us I
0:48
like what you doing I like where you
0:50
from okay thy will be done is the name
0:53
of her project I was sitting on that for
0:55
a minute I might have came we played
0:57
music the next day I was like Tor you
0:59
got to play this you got to play that we
1:02
got a true MC in the building and her
1:04
journey has been royal to get to where
1:06
she is today but let me explain
1:09
something to you we tried to do this for
1:11
a while and because of whatever
1:13
circumstances have not been able to she
1:16
called us this week and said there a
1:18
snowstorm where I'm at and it's thunder
1:20
and lightning wow snow and thunder yes
1:24
snow it's called a snow squall when it's
1:26
like thundering and lightning like
1:28
Buffalo we get this Lake Effect it's
1:30
like it just it just blast you in
1:32
certain areas of the city it's crazy wow
1:35
a snow what it's called a snow squall I
1:37
I had never heard of it so I started you
1:39
know seeing the lightning and the
1:40
Thunder it was like last year was like
1:41
the first time I seen it and she buckled
1:44
down with all that courage and she got
1:46
on that plane man that plane was shaking
1:48
like a stripper man I was like it was
1:51
shaking like a stripper I couldn't
1:54
listen I've been up for 24 hours I've
1:56
been up since 4:00 a.m. yesterday oh my
1:58
gosh and I was like oh I on the plane I
2:00
could not sleep cuz it was like it was
2:02
shaking that bad it was shaking that bad
2:04
but that didn't stop her she needed to
2:06
get here to talk to these citizens she
2:08
needed to get here to tell her story
2:10
ladies and gentlemen all the way from
2:12
upstate New York and she did what she
2:14
had to do and came all by herself give
2:16
it up for the one and only Michelle Visa
2:20
P MV I said where's the P you got to put
2:23
the PE on the MV where's the P
2:27
MVP she got to marry somebody with the
2:29
last they out okay I like that MVP MVP
2:33
yeah I got to use that I got take it
2:36
take it take sh put in in a metaphor or
2:39
something like that you were Miss
2:42
streets ah yeah I was M streets what
2:45
what was the lifeline of M streets I
2:48
mean it started from the troublemakers
2:50
Miss streets was like when I was like
2:52
teenage years going into adulthood and
2:56
um I kind of knew I had to I couldn't I
2:57
didn't want to keep that at the time cuz
2:59
I'm like you know I'm transitioning I'm
3:01
getting older so that's where Michelle
3:03
Visa came along but the streets the
3:04
streets is gutter that's that's my roots
3:06
that's where come from from the trap
3:07
From The Trenches yeah you was in that
3:09
you was in that trench move move the
3:11
family out though I don't like to stay
3:12
you know what I mean I want to be safe
3:13
when I lay my head so that's what's up
3:15
you moved them out you was able to yeah
3:17
so well you know I'm trying my hardest
3:20
you know what I'm saying right now so
3:22
yeah and the troublemakers that was the
3:23
first group you were in right yeah so
3:25
that was a group me my sister my cousin
3:27
and we used to rap at like talent show
3:30
and downtown and wherever they say oh
3:33
yeah yall performing they give us $5 and
3:35
stuff like that so we used to like
3:37
perform and stuff like that it was fun
3:38
that's see when you were a group um you
3:41
never started with a group you you was
3:43
always early early my professional
3:45
career always solo but early very early
3:48
on early um definitely a group you had
3:51
to have a crew I mean you if you going
3:53
to start m sing shout out to FMC female
3:55
Midtown Crew That's who yall were y
3:58
female Midtown Crew That's where started
3:59
don't do that it was that's so
4:02
unnecessary sound like a gang sound like
4:05
crew it's no reason for that Michelle
4:08
does that not sound like a gang the
4:10
troublemakers sound like a gang that's
4:13
so how can FMC sound like a gang if
4:16
female Midtown crew it was a crew of
4:19
female MC's from Midtown Jersey City
4:22
that's a section in Jersey City we was
4:24
from Midtown okay now you started
4:26
rapping you was I was in a b boy crew a
4:33
namic there you go again flynamic Force
4:36
right but we had a bunch of folks and
4:38
then we broke off but I remember
4:39
branching off wondering is it going to
4:41
work for me away from the crew right as
4:44
it did will it work for me being on my
4:47
own did you have any reservations about
4:49
that when you left the crew um I was so
4:51
young and it's kind of not what like my
4:53
sister wanted to do like she's an
4:54
assistant principal so it's like
4:56
everybody went in their you know
4:57
different different Lanes I was a
4:59
teacher I used I substitute I have my
5:01
own transportation business now I left
5:03
teaching cuz you know it's it's just
5:04
like a conflict of interest with the rap
5:05
and stuff like that but um yeah
5:08
graduated college was a teacher
5:10
substitute like I'm don't throw that
5:12
away that's big that's that makes who
5:14
you are like when you think about it you
5:15
got your you're an entrepreneur as well
5:17
as an artist right yeah so um I still
5:20
get to work with the kids I have a team
5:22
program called uh teen talk and it's
5:24
just a broadcasting journalism program
5:25
before I did rap I wouldn't say before I
5:27
did rap I did rap before but
5:30
in the middle is when I got into radios
5:32
I worked at wblk up in Buffalo for
5:34
several years intern I mean I did like
5:36
red carpets like black girls rock and
5:38
BET Awards and I was on the other side
5:40
interviewing people so I knew I wanted
5:42
to teach the youth you know how to do
5:44
that so I they we do podcast video
5:46
production and all that stuff so I still
5:48
get to work with the kids oh look at
5:49
that energy give it up from Michelle she
5:51
is here baby give up here round of
5:54
that's beautiful yeah I'm in a couple of
5:56
different high schools up in Buffalo um
5:58
and I have a a medical transportation
6:00
business that that's crazy like I
6:02
literally drive like 10 12 hours a day
6:04
sometimes it's insane you do that now
6:06
yeah how many days a week um I'm really
6:09
technically I drive probably six days a
6:11
week Sunday I do my I do my billing on
6:14
Sundays so I really don't have a day off
6:16
and then I do rap in the middle of the
6:18
night when I can keep my eyes open so
6:20
how do you how are you able to focus on
6:21
rap with all of those things because
6:23
your your bars are intricate details
6:25
similes and metaphors like you put a lot
6:28
of thought into it yeah I got it's like
6:30
and that's why sometimes it takes me a
6:31
while to drop or to come out I don't
6:33
drop as consistently because it really
6:35
takes me time to think and digest
6:38
everything and I I I'm an overthinker so
6:39
I want to I want to make it sound good
6:41
so most of the time it's at night um
6:43
like like I'm used to staying up 24
6:45
hours no it's not good but sometimes
6:47
that's just what I have to do you know
6:49
what I mean to get the job done this is
6:51
the dichotomy of Michelle Visa is
6:53
amazing because you could go on your
6:55
platform go on your Instagram and you do
6:57
see somebody looks like she's in the New
6:59
York Fashion scene and you know modeled
7:02
up and bottled up you know what I mean
7:04
you look really you look you look
7:06
outstanding right and but then when you
7:08
turn your bars on you seem like you're a
7:12
murderer it's like two sides of the
7:15
spectrum you got the Glam and then you
7:17
got then you got the villain is that the
7:19
is that the formula yeah yeah speak to
7:22
that you how to develop that I mean I
7:24
just I turned villain um so my brother
7:27
died a couple years ago and it just
7:29
changed a lot of things it changed the
7:30
family Dynamic it just every what
7:33
nothing seemed like what it was and I
7:35
just was like I'm done listening to
7:38
anybody negative I'm done taking [Â __Â ]
7:40
from anybody like I'm just going to do
7:41
me I don't care and I just like went
7:43
villain mod I just you know what I mean
7:45
he he he told me to go hard and he he
7:47
would have wanted that so it's like you
7:50
know I just I just changed I feel like I
7:52
changed that was 2020 so since 2020 I
7:56
just been going crazy like and I had
7:58
stopped rapping and I took a break
8:00
because I was doing radio but then Co
8:02
shut everything down so then I'm like no
8:04
I'm going full force with the rap and
8:06
it's been since 2020 I feel like I'm
8:07
just going up and I'm here like this is
8:10
a like one of the major accomplishments
8:12
to me like this is a dream come true so
8:14
come on I'm I'm trying to prolong the
8:16
dream for you I'm make making sure I'm a
8:19
good part of the dream your family U
8:21
being adjacent to the business though
8:23
right your father yeah your father
8:25
worked with Rick James my dad was a
8:27
bodyguard for Rick James it's crazy cuz
8:29
like have you seen the Chappelle Show
8:30
when he talks about Rick James um my dad
8:33
was like in one of the episodes like
8:34
they my dad himself wasn't in it but the
8:36
character so basically I guess they were
8:38
about to beat up Charlie Murphy and it
8:40
was they were joking like but you know
8:42
Rick was kind of you know he made it
8:44
seem like he was serious or whatever so
8:45
they like hey chubby and my dad is like
8:48
cockeyed and he came in and you know
8:50
what I mean like it looks like him
8:52
because he got hit in the eye with a
8:53
dart but it was like it it was a joke
8:55
but basically it's on the Chappelle show
8:56
The Skit is on the Chappelle show so
8:58
Charlie yeah with Charlie Murphy have
9:01
you did y'all see that
9:04
episode and they said Charlie Murphy was
9:06
really scared but they weren't really
9:08
there to beat him up they were just
9:09
playing playing they were just were you
9:11
able to also get game about the industry
9:14
or any lessons like heads up from your
9:16
PO you know what I was from my
9:18
dad yes he just basically and he has
9:21
like a immense uh record collection so
9:24
I'll be going in there trying to find
9:25
samples and stuff like that but um he
9:28
just he's is good and evil yin and yang
9:31
peace and love like he's that type of
9:33
guy it's like you know what I mean do
9:35
the right thing follow your dreams
9:37
that's just the stuff that he tells me
9:38
like every single day thy will be done
9:41
he inspired that like you know what I
9:42
mean it's not our it's not in our hands
9:44
it's in God's hands I can't help what
9:47
you know what's meant for me so that's
9:49
your dad sound like me I tell my
9:50
daughter the same thing D that's our dad
9:53
there you got to love it Michelle Visa
9:56
is hanging out um at one point I feel
10:00
like why do I affiliate you with mob
10:02
deep did you did mob deep yeah so Havoc
10:06
a couple years ago um basically he was
10:09
giving me beats this you know what I
10:11
mean I was rapping off of them and just
10:13
trying to go hard you know what I mean
10:14
like I just Network you know what I mean
10:16
I just try to network with a bunch of
10:17
different people I've met so many people
10:20
and even though I don't have a label
10:21
situation or a deal I'm thankful for you
10:23
know what I mean everybody that I come
10:24
across and all the opportunities that
10:27
was presented to me so yeah shout out to
10:29
have man it was he he hit me with some
10:31
fire I had a track with Fred the godson
10:33
he produced rest in peace Fred the
10:35
godson and you know I really enjoyed it
10:38
that was uh grisela Blanco that was a
10:41
couple years is that even the goal right
10:42
now like to get a deal and be with a
10:45
label like I don't think so right I
10:48
don't think so now like if you get a if
10:50
you get that one song you go viral like
10:52
you you going to be rich for Life
10:53
probably but um you know I don't think I
10:56
don't think you want to get signed into
10:57
a bad deal like we know the industry can
10:59
be you know take advantage of people so
11:01
it's like if I'm doing everything myself
11:03
like why would I why would I you know
11:05
what I mean sign to to a label I mean
11:07
they'll give you the platform give you
11:08
some money you got to pay back but you
11:11
know what I mean it's kind of like if
11:12
you like I really was on my way here
11:15
sending my bio my one sheet trying to
11:17
send in music like I don't have nobody
11:19
like I don't have no no manager no PR no
11:21
nobody like I do everything myself it's
11:24
extremely overwhelming sometimes but you
11:27
know what I mean it is what it is I just
11:28
got to keep fighting and keep pushing I
11:31
was going to ask how is your mental
11:33
health because with you mentioning that
11:35
loss I can't even imagine the level of
11:37
impact of losing a brother a sibling and
11:41
all of these jobs that you have as well
11:43
then looking at my nieces and nephews
11:45
faces and it's just it's it's crazy it's
11:47
like I mean I feel like we all go
11:49
through it we just got you just can't
11:50
you can't stay there too long you got to
11:52
you got to come out of it and I'm much
11:54
better than I was four years ago so you
11:56
know what I mean yeah I was just going
11:58
to add it may be best to continue to do
12:01
it by yourself um as much as you can
12:04
without burning yourself out rather than
12:06
have the wrong people around you like I
12:09
think that's more damaging than anything
12:12
in this industry um the wrong people
12:14
around you will have you signing the
12:15
wrong deals being in the wrong spaces
12:18
all of that kind of stuff and just like
12:20
you mentioned thy will be done God pray
12:23
on the right people to come your way you
12:24
know be very selective about your team
12:27
because this is your dream you know
12:29
coming true and and you want the right
12:31
people around to support that definitely
12:34
definitely I'm I'm real selective like I
12:36
really don't even go out like when I go
12:37
out I don't really drink you know what
12:39
I'm saying I just like to be aware of my
12:40
surroundings there just be so much going
12:42
on and people just try to take advantage
12:44
of you like for real so that's why I
12:46
just got to be on point like you know
12:48
what I mean so sometimes I may come
12:50
across like oh she's this that but it's
12:51
like I I'm really just focused I don't
12:54
have no time for for for nonsense what's
12:56
your goals like when you sit back home
12:59
now you think about man this is where I
13:01
want to be where is that what does it
13:06
mean my main concern is I want to retire
13:09
my parents like that's my main thing
13:11
like I want to get enough money to you
13:13
know what I mean make them straight so
13:14
they cuz they still working and you know
13:17
what I'm saying I just feel like they
13:18
shouldn't have to at this age or
13:19
whatever so that's my main thing retire
13:21
my my family maybe be on the top of the
13:24
Billboard charts get like a compound for
13:26
my sisters everybody on the same l like
13:29
that's that's my goal that's what I want
13:31
I love that goal get that a round of
13:33
applause write that down write that down
13:35
I like that come on y'all got to hear
13:38
her talk you got to know her a little
13:39
bit Michelle Visa is here Upstate New
13:42
York stand up we going to open up the
13:47
3345 going to Jersey we got my manawe on
13:51
the line quawi what we talk
13:54
quaa what up what up what up what up
13:56
what up what up yo we got a spitter in
13:59
here hey hey how y'all feeling y hear me
14:03
righte what you talk to Michelle talk to
14:06
her nice though Michelle Michelle Visa
14:09
baby girl what's good what's going on
14:11
hey y I'm feeling I'm feeling I'm
14:13
feeling you thank you I'm feeling your
14:14
song Thank you so much I appreciate you
14:16
got it going on keep doing what you
14:18
doing you hear me I will all right Qua
14:22
we check it out listen to our whole
14:24
project thy will be done right and
14:27
that's on all da d wait wait till you
14:29
hear it bro it's going to put you in the
14:31
zone I actually went to the gym with it
14:33
one day that's how I really got the
14:34
rocking with it all right you a super
14:36
citizen morning lightning rod is um all
14:39
the way in Buffalo go ahead lightning
14:41
rod what up what we doing what we
14:43
talking good morning y'all taking a call
14:46
listen Miss Michelle Visa oh my God she
14:49
was really on the air I know her from
14:51
from B okay right from heing her and be
14:54
okay yeah never knew she had bars like
14:56
that congratulations young lady thank
14:58
you so so much I really appreciate
15:00
everybody everybody thinks I just did
15:02
radio but no it like I was doing music
15:04
before radio but I had took a break so
15:06
it's always nice to hear people say they
15:07
heard me on air like that's crazy wow
15:09
but how but radio prepares you for this
15:11
though it's like a boot camp right cuz
15:13
you're a great interviewee thank you you
15:16
know what to do before y'all disconnect
15:18
me can I say something sway can I say I
15:20
mean yeah can I say something to you Mr
15:22
sway I met you years ago and I'mma tell
15:24
you where we met I met you on Pico at
15:28
Rock G Chi Chicken and
15:32
yummy yes well it wasn't no problems I
15:36
just ran up on you talk to smack about
15:38
my radio show and your radio show was
15:41
friendly you could have got the Ops on
15:42
me but you didn't what did I what did I
15:45
say how was I acting cuz Pico Pico and
15:48
LaBrea that we talk in La Rosco's
15:51
Chicken and Waffles I'm always on alert
15:54
but I do remember you you were you were
15:55
at the um you were at the um cash
16:00
right no okay a good
16:05
shot I tried man hey man what's the name
16:09
show well I the show's not currently on
16:11
but can I can I say one more thing yeah
16:14
on all right we got Denzel from Kentucky
16:17
on the line Denzel Denzel go ahead what
16:19
up Denzel hey what's going on y'all
16:21
what's going on family do good man
16:24
Michelle Visa here what you want to say
16:26
to um well you know I just heard you
16:29
know a couple little s snap Snippets you
16:32
know samples and whatnot what you what
16:33
you just played but uh man I would love
16:35
to hear you and rap city do something
16:37
together man she's one of my I know that
16:38
Tak time and progress but you know I
16:41
just want to say um I'm I'm digging it
16:43
you know what I'm saying bars is there
16:46
you know what I'm saying it's it's real
16:47
gritty you know I feel like you got more
16:49
of a story to tell so appreciate
16:51
everything and uh keep doing what you're
16:52
doing for real keep gr thank you man
16:54
that's love I'm Telly rapity is on my
16:56
top five MC list like top three she she
16:59
she's top three she might be one like
17:02
for real she's that girl she
17:05
is yeah listen listen you know she her
17:08
I'm sorry got kids in the background I
17:10
do apologize never apologize for the
17:12
kids in fact that's why I'm keeping you
17:14
on I said Miss Elliot Miss Elliott is
17:17
one of my top five MC's of all time you
17:20
know what I'm saying and then all of a
17:21
sudden I heard R I'm hearing you hey wow
17:25
all Praises do keep doing what you're
17:26
doing for real dope [Â __Â ] man Delle we
17:29
appreciate that hey hug the kids for us
17:31
too man tell them Uncle sway said what
17:33
up all right hey I said what's
17:39
up okay okay tell them they be tripping
17:42
all right dezel you a super citizen my
17:45
man one one more car let's go to Ohio
17:47
Gino go ahead talk to us
17:50
G yo what up what up what up what up
17:52
what up up what up yo how y'all doing
17:55
today happy New Year to everybody thank
17:58
you sir we got Michelle Visa in here we
18:01
do Michelle so look check this out now
18:04
y'all know Ohio I'm from Cleveland it's
18:07
the me West so we really don't get a
18:09
chance to hear your music in our Market
18:12
if you think about it unless we listen
18:14
to syndicated radio so that's why I
18:15
listen to sway you feel me because I get
18:17
a chance to hear different hip-hop and
18:20
listening to you made me feel hip hop
18:23
again I mean it's a lot of excuse me man
18:26
I a this ain't no PR to nobody it's a
18:28
lot of female artist out here that's
18:30
doing their thing but it just seemed
18:32
like most of them on stage you seem more
18:35
real to me and I can appreciate that as
18:37
an artist myself I'm an artist myself
18:39
but before me comes you I like that
18:43
thank you I used to live in Ohio have
18:45
you ever heard of Stubenville it's very
18:47
small a very very small City yeah it's
18:50
very small but I'm here to Stubenville
18:51
they call me uh Mr Ohio 885 because I I
18:55
I love my state like I love the mid west
18:59
what they call the cult G when you say
19:02
when you say they call you that who are
19:06
they man you know you hey s you know who
19:12
is Gino you a citiz man all right man I
19:17
love it man yo Michelle Visa is here I
19:20
want everybody to follow her at Michelle
19:22
Visa the way it sounds is the way it's
19:24
spelled the way it's spelled is the way
19:26
it sounds happy human a human you know
19:30
regardless of who we are in this
19:32
business and all of that that don't
19:34
Define who we are as people as a whole
19:36
right not only am I proud of you I got
19:40
supreme respect for you you know that's
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why I reached out to you you know I got
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supreme respect and when torch told me
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that you caught a flight out here cuz
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you didn't want to miss you could easily
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reschedule I told me and didn't know if
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we was going to reschedule that's why I
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was like I got nervous you know what I
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mean I been thinking like Dam I miss my
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chance like that's how I felt I'm like
19:59
no I got to go I got to go even if mhm
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well you always welcome here and you
20:05
always welcome to come back and this was
20:07
quite a treat man you are hip hop you
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are the quintessential version of what
20:11
this thing is all about okay and you
20:14
slay it your bars are undeniable your
20:17
bars are undeniable but it's like now
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I'm thinking like it's it's like you can
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have all these bars but you still trying
20:23
to get to the next level you know what
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I'm saying like you it don't even matter
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how hard you spit do it yes in the
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industry I don't yes [Â __Â ] the industry
20:31
people right you're doing it for the
20:33
people the people will know there are
20:35
people who ain't never had a album or
20:37
song chart but sell out crowds every
20:39
single day absolutely last time you
20:41
heard currency on the
20:43
air come onone when you last time you
20:46
heard Tech 9 on the air he Rich getting
20:49
that show money okay so that don't worry
20:51
about the industry worry about your
20:52
audience and the people absolutely the
20:54
industry flipflop the finicky they don't
20:57
they don't know they going on analytics
20:59
only that's all they go well what's her
21:02
numbers like that we can hear you and
21:04
see what your talent feel like so keep
21:06
going don't give up you nice yeah and
21:10
there's a lot of people calling saying
21:11
watch this we go to Canada Gerard what
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do you think of that those
21:16
Canada yeah that was that was topnotch
21:20
MC uh rapper you know what I mean
21:24
everything level like uh I'mma repeat
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what my man said earlier she got that
21:29
raps City type flow like when you hear
21:31
this is bars that was bars there you go
21:33
so this is budes I'm going say that was
21:35
greatness right there and don't worry
21:37
about like the industry thing like sway
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saying I don't even know nothing about
21:42
it but I know when I hear bars I'mma
21:44
listen so keep doing your work there it
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is valid Geri you're a citizen brother
21:49
did I say more that hit me right here
21:51
there you go you be happy today you be
21:53
happy for the remainder of the year and
21:55
you could always come back okay all
21:57
right yes up from Michelle Visa y'all
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tell them the name of the new project
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yeah th will be done that's the album
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it's on all streaming platforms oh and
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I'll be on February 13th with Onyx and
22:10
Lords of the Underground in Toronto we
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got a big show coming up so okay damn I
22:13
could have got J tickets all right and
22:15
if the people want to follow you tell
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them how they can follow you follow me
22:18
at Michelle visa on everything that's
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Michelle like Michelle Obama and then
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Visa like like the credit card you got