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Wiz Khalifa Talks Kush & OJ 2 + Taylor Gang Tour 🎤🔥 | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
May 30, 2025
Get ready for an exclusive interview with Wiz Khalifa on "Sway In The Morning" as he dives into the making of *Kush & OJ 2* and the upcoming Taylor Gang Tour 🎤🔥. Wiz reflects on the legacy of his iconic mixtape *Kush & Orange Juice*, shares the challenges of creating its sequel, and reveals how embracing wellness and balance has transformed his creative process. He also discusses his chart-topping hits like "Black and Yellow" and "See You Again," his business ventures with Khalifa Kush and Liquid Death, and the impact of Taylor Gang on hip-hop culture. From nostalgic stories about his rise in the mixtape era to his thoughts on longevity in the music industry, this conversation is packed with insights you don’t want to miss. Plus, hear about the Taylor Gang World Tour and how Wiz continues to inspire with his music, mindset, and entrepreneurial spirit. Don’t forget to subscribe for more exclusive interviews from Sway’s Universe, featuring your favorite artists and groundbreaking discussions that shape the culture! #music #wizkhalifakoj2intro #kush+orangejuice2 #kobebryant #hiphop #pittsburgh #seeyouagain #weed #snoopdogg #wizkhalifa CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Wiz Khalifa Sneaks Sway 01:40 - Wiz Khalifa's Impact on Hip-Hop 07:52 - Taylor Gang’s Legacy Explained 11:16 - Marketing Strategies for Artists 12:45 - Transition from Physical to Digital Media 16:18 - Super Bowl Halftime Show Insights 18:11 - Wellness and Creativity Connection 21:09 - Elements of a Classic Album 22:19 - Creating Cushion OJ 2
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hb that's the last time we talked to him on air i don't even know what year that was maybe 2018
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yo I would start that seven years ago way too long i know that is too long
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that's crazy well what's that about man did Heather say something that No no no we We talked we We're cool you I don't
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know if you still No I'm just playing you know no it's true when Whiz walked in the first thing
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I did is I threw a punch at him just to test to see if to see if the MMA was
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real you know I seen him on videos and stuff we go all fake a video and I threw a punch at him Tracy right at it right
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at his solar plexus and Whit came back with a counter that I didn't even see he
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wasn't ready for it it was like automated controlled too though it was controlled
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he kind of pulled back that would have been a ugly headline where's Khalifa knocks out beat the [Â __Â ] out of sway in
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his own studio knock out
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this [Â __Â ] is real he tried to sneak me cuz it was dark and I had sunglasses on
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song called Black and Blue
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wow hey but it was crazy Wiz cuz that was good yo you you you had no idea I
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was going to do that and we ain't seen each other in seven years that's funny and your your your counter punch was so
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fast like and you sleepy and everything this [Â __Â ] is just in you now huh i mean
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you tried it you seen yeah yep i love you though
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yo I love you too Whiz beautiful whiz Khif is here man it's one of my favorite people oh for sure when people say
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"Who's some of the coolest people you ever met in the industry?" You are you are definitely in the I don't have a
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list but you're in the top five people I mentioned and I and I watch how you navigated and and how you evolved and
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stayed the same person where is this i don't even know i'm not going to admit that one on air i remember going on tour
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with you once and you got me to indulge in something I've never indulged in i don't know if you recall that yeah
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little breakfast show was good exactly a little breakfast food i'm not I don't usually eat breakfast okay
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serving some broccoli right and eggs and we we did that whiz welcome back to the
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show whiz Khalifa is here cush and OJ too we talking about that man and um and
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we're just catching up man i got to ask you first though we were talking about the NFL draft and a lot of us thought
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that your Steelers were going to pick up Shador Sanders man that did not happen i
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know what are your thoughts on that man did was you hoping for that or um I'm with whatever the city wants man
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you know yeah I'm I'm political when it comes to that
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but that was good for the city good for the city but then that would have been dope man prime Time would have been in
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in Pittsburgh yeah yeah it would have been cool it would have been fun yeah yep damn this dude is good now
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he ain't speaking on it he going to leave that to the to the Mike Toblin and the and the and the owners okay well
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let's go back to uh Black and Yellow um when it first dropped in 2010 off that
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rolling papers project that's 2010 that's crazy that's 15 years ago and and
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to this day it's still an anthem since you mentioned the city u not just for the Steelers but for the Penguins and
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the and the Pirates they all play it today man have you gotten used to that man does that still blow you away it
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still uh trips me out like if I'm watching the game or something like that and they play black and yellow I'm like
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"Hey they're they're playing black and yellow." Like it's like an honor to me you know and they could have it could
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have just happened at that time and then went out of style or whatever somebody could have made a new anthem or
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something like that but to you know be a part of the city's legacy like that and
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to really get that much love I really appreciate it yeah man that's that's big man that's one of those ones that's
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going to play forever i think so right i think we good is that your biggest song to date would you say in terms of impact
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see you again see you again oh yeah see you again yeah yeah see you again is my biggest song as far as Impact as far as
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views on YouTube as far as uh streams all of that it's See You Again see you
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again did you feel that i mean I know sometimes as an artist you can walk out
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the studio and like I think I got one you know I feel good about this one but with that see you again being your
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biggest did you feel something after the song was mixed mastered and complete what were your thoughts um I was really
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excited because of the process that I went through to get to make the song
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because they had a bunch of artists who they wanted on the song as well but they ended up uh well the producers for the
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movie for Fast and Furious you're right okay yeah so they they they put that whole song together um Charlie had
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written it and you know played the you know the pianos and all that and then they made the beat together but um I was
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only supposed to write one verse it was supposed to just be eight bars but they liked my part so much that they just
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kept giving me more and more sections to write and then it just ended up being me and Charlie on there and then um so I
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knew that they were going to go crazy with it but I didn't know it was going to be number one for like 12 or 13 weeks
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and you know just continue on it was to honor uh Paul Walker right m but it
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connected with so many other people who had lost somebody or you know were moving to different stages of their life
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where it just became the song that represented that and um now it's you know still up there as one of the most
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you know streamed and viewed songs in freaking history that's crazy where's
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Khalifa man yeah yeah thank you went from making a project called Rolling Papers to having one of the the biggest
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How many How many views is that that's something billion it's like 6 billion i had to wait i don't know say that that's
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almost everybody on earth has watched that song six billion that says 6 billion almost every person on earth has
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watched that song bro put that in perspective almost every person on Earth yeah that's enough views
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to cover nearly everybody on Earth yeah you're Wiz Khalifa yeah yeah yeah how
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How crazy is that because I told you the last time you were here that I loved your doc like I watch that series and
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I'm hoping for more that you do something like that and I remember a specific clip where you're like in a
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backyard performing for maybe like less than 20 people and now Sway makes this
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note that almost every person on Earth has viewed this like the jump from 20
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people to almost everybody on the planet come on Whiz like that it's awesome like
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talk about being like the chosen one you know what I'm saying like you got to be you got to be chosen to be that person
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amen and um you know my work and my talents and the way that I treat people and the things that I find important and
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put my time into i think that's you know why I continue to get blessed as well like that's that's not it for me um
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that's just one of the great things that I'm able to do with my platform in life
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and I'm just blessed with that and I also value just being able to still go outside and walk around like even though
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every you know person on earth has seen my video they're not at my door like you
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know trying to take my time so I I live a really normal life um along with that
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and I think that that's the real blessing that goes with it well Khalifa is here man you've done really well with
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your business thank you your businesses uh that you that you started and when I
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think of Taylor Gang when I and I think of his legacy now when you think of the
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Juicy Jays who was already a legend by the time he got with Taylor Gang Tai
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dollar sign um when you think of Burner you know all of these different uh folks
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we had Leon Thomas on the other day and he was talking about his affiliations as well yeah um what what are your thoughts
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now what is the Taylor Gains legacy to you taylor Gang's legacy to me is uh we
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just contributed a lot to the culture um whether it be style of dress uh music
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influence or lifestyle as well uh we created a lot of bosses um whether it's
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um in music or behind the scenes too there's a lot of cameramen who watch
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daytodays who were like "Man I'm super inspired by you and I bought my first camera." You know see my man was like
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"Yeah me." You know what I mean there's a lot of different people um you know
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not just music oriented but just a part of the culture who we influenced to boss
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up and motivated to make their own moves and I think Taylor Gang had a lot to do with that just watching us and seeing uh
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how hard we work but also how much we put our friends on how peaceful we are you know we weren't pushing anything
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that's going to you know hurt you or send you to jail i went to jail a couple times but it was just for weed it wasn't
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for anything like you know what I mean it it was just me making a stance for what I believed in and you know a lot of
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that attitude you know goes through just the whole Taylor gang in general just how you know you could see them
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supporting me um on our promo runs you see the homies in the vans with us and we had the radio stations together and
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we're doing it in a way where people can look up to us and be like "Man I want to do it like that." And that has also
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spawned really successful careers so I think that's what our legacy really is i love it man you went you went to jail
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for something you believe in weed yep and and now weed is legal it's legal yep
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because you went to jail Wiz thank you man
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solid citizen right there that's a citizen in the morning don't even trip
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what's that you drinking Whiz it's liquid death it's water okay yeah yep
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you never seen that before i You know somebody came by the show was talking about the name of that water liquid
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death yeah yeah yeah what's that about it's a company that I'm invested in as well okay yeah yeah okay it's everywhere
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though like in stores uh we have a a deal with Live Nation so all the Live Nation events when you go there they
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serve Liquid Dev oh [Â __Â ] um every time you say that my heart palpitate what the Liquid Dev oh [Â __Â ] it happened to me yo
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who came up with the name uh it the company did already it was kind of pre
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premeditated just their whole marketing is well our whole marketing is it's
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really extreme it's it's to appeal it's to shock but it's also just water it's
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just water it's just water yeah it is water when you talk about marketing you've
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done so well uh marketing whether you talk about Khalifa Kush or now Liquid Death Taylor Gang um you got the Jin
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right as well how much did what you learn promoting mixtapz where it all
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pretty much started for you how much of that learning how to market and and promote mixtapz Yeah was uh was able to
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transcend into other products all of it um yeah because it's it's promoting a
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lifestyle and as soon as I found my identity through mixtapz and social
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media I was able to promote myself better than anybody could and it's still
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like that and that's why any company that comes to me to help grow their company they know how you know good I am
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at that and how important that is to growing companies and any company that I have that's uh successful you know you
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see me out in front of it and you see me working it and you see me you know on Zoom calls and doing meet and greets and
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the stuff behind the scenes as well as you know uh pushing it on a on a larger scale because that's what you know like
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you said in the mixtape game that's what really matters is the groundwork you can't just slap your face on something
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or put your name on something and expect it to go to the top right anybody you know if they have a tequila business
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whatever it is you know you'll see the difference between people who just put their name on it and people who actually
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work yeah and um that's what that's what I do for my companies i really work the same way he started it's the same way
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you're doing it now yeah yep i want to take you back to like 2010 uh in the
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mixtape era when it went from physical to digital yep you remember that time period a lot of people were scared a lot
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of people embraced it and I was thinking back to what was out when Cush and Orange Juice came out and
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um you had Meek Mills Flamers 3 uh Rick Ross was out with that Albert Anastasia
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chris Brown and Tiger had Fan of a Fan Mac Miller Rest in Power I said his name clap your hands please um he had the
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kids mixtape jcole will have Friday Night Lights Kendrick Crit Cameron um Jada Kiss they all had mixtapz and I
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remember Kush and OJ became the number one tape that year yeah you remember
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that yeah I do we were all over it with our mixtape Mondays MTV and I really appreciate it cuz that helped push it to
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the top man oh yeah rob Markman going out there ra cuz I was just a kid like watching
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y'all in the in the crib and I'm like man I hope that they they'll play it and they did and I And I remember we shot my
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own footage and sent it to y'all y'all was y'all was used to like coming out and seeing fools i was like nope we
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going to shoot it we'll send it to y'all y'all looked at it i was like it's actually good yeah it was great yeah
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yeah yeah yeah yeah and I remember that time and you got mixtape of the year man
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and what how did that like how gratifying what did that make you feel at that time that made me feel so good
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because mixtape were mixtapz were the most popular thing at that time they were more popular than fool's albums and
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that's what made labels really start to consider us and look at us like okay wow maybe there's a new wave because we were
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doing something on an underground level that you know they were paying millions
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of dollars to try to do and um you know it we gained a lot of people's respect with that so you know for the fans it
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was a good moment too to let them know how strong their support was it's like man y'all pushing us to the top y'all
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are making us so popular that you know these people are starting to pay attention to us so it was just a good
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moment for the uh for for everybody it was a shift it was a shift i'm glad I was there man i've been a part of a lot
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of shifts you helped it yeah thank you man that's why you threw the punch that's why I threw the punch at this counter punch yeah just
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wondering i'm still scared of that counter punch and I remember it was JCole but it was a young Kendrick you
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know a young you and you fast forward and look at y'all now but young Drake
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too you know and look at y'all now man that you guys um um to sustain 15 or
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more years in any business let alone the music business let alone as a MC as a
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rapper is rare right yeah for sure you're in rare company yeah definitely
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i'm proud of us and it doesn't even seem like that long cuz like if you would have said you know from the '9s 15 years
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before that like there's a huge difference in those eras absolutely so it's like to just be cool still
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is enough but like we're successful we're able to sell out tours we're able to release
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albums our fans are still you know uh hungry and embracing our music we're
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making new fans we still got love for each other we're all still you know sharing our platforms and things like
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that so it's a beautiful thing congratulations HB with so many accomplishments um wish lists i'm I'm
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wondering I'm listening to you talk um just personally you already know like I adore you like I consider you a little
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brother in my heart and spirit same um thank you uh Super Bowl i see you
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hitting that stage one day is that on a wish list of yours at all if you don't mind sharing i think eventually I just
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want to keep building up like that's just that's just my main goal um especially with this album I feel like
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it's kind of like a reset and like a chance for me to do what I've done again
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but just at a different point in my life and where people might not consider me for that stuff earlier on in my career
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or now in my career I think the second time around or maybe even the third time around I could be considered for that
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type of stuff yeah cuz I could just see it i mean I I said the last time he's the only artist I feel that ever that I
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can remember Sway maybe you could correct me that had two anthems for two separate professional football teams you
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got Black and Yellow with the Steelers and then we them boys with the Cowboys i've never seen anything like that
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before you know so to have two anthems you could do a Super Bowl at any point
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you know what I mean any given point at any given point and they'll go crazy i mean it's why you shaking your head like
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it's a crazy No I didn't even think about the Cowboys thing but yeah you're right at any point so it's like hit that
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stage hey Jay what what you doing it's cool give me Give me like 10 years i I'm
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going be buffer i'mma look better my hair is going to be longer so okay I'mma be even more of a superstar hey you said
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I'mma be buffering a little muscles now
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throwing counter punches well on that I'm going to look better in 10 years so invite me then i
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believe it Liz i believe it cuz I feel like in recent years it's almost like the W and Whiz has stood for wellness
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you know because just as You're so welcome i love that i'm a big time wellness junkie and so seeing that you
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invested in something like Liquid Death that is all about hydration you know how you're showing your fitness routine that
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I'm sure is inspiring sway after that punch everything that you're doing to just
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maintain not only you know the preservation of your muscles like you're saying but also what sounds like mental
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health you're also a meditator i'm wondering when you really embraced your
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wellness routine did it shift your relationship with creativity or
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performance like does a healthier whiz approach songwriting and being on stage
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differently than the whiz earlier um I think just lifestyle
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um motivationwise it changed um I used to get a lot of energy from the chaos
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and just sleeping on couches and traveling and not getting sleep and
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that's kind of what you know this business promotes and yep you know they
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tell you that that's how you have to live to succeed so you know I just threw myself all the way in there and uh the
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older that I got and the more I started to take care of myself the more I realized that that's not what I need i
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need some rest i need some time to detach i only got about three days of
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going hard and you know what I'm saying and then I need to fall back and you know recalibrate and just being
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comfortable with those things and not having to chase this you know these
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results all of the time i think um the wellness part you know helped me to be
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more comfortable with that and now when I do go to create I'm just happy with what I what I can and do at the time so
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I don't put so much pressure on you know um the things that I can't control and I
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really just focus on what makes me happy at the time and sometimes it might not be going to the studio or sometimes it
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might not be doing a feature or whatever whatever and those are the times where I just use that for myself and then there
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is time where I do have to grind and I do have to go hard and I do have to make myself uncomfortable but I'm already
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doing that you know by working out and by pushing myself and by centering myself so when it comes time to do that
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I feel way better and I have the energy for it so it's just like a crazy little balance that when you
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understand your body and you understand breathing you understand your energy and you understand your mind and all of that
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stuff it kind of just works together and you don't feel like you're missing out on anything it's all intertwined right
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versus compartmentalizing all aspects of your life that's a beautiful note thank you for sharing i love it where's
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Khalifa is here lines are lit up 8887423345 before I go to him Cushing OJ
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was such a um undeniable classic and now you
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got part two yep before I ask you the question why part two for you off mic we
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were talking about what what what makes a classic album for you what makes a classic album what makes an album class
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a classic album is something that you have to listen to over and over again
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and it reminds you of the best times of your life um a lot of the times it'll
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remind you of discovering your first classic album like when you find your
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cousins your older cousin's album that you ain't really supposed to have or you might look at the cover and not even
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know who the artist is but you see the track list and you see all these names and you're just discovering and you're
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like I like this one i love this one i love this artist i like this beat this intro this interlude like everything
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about the album just takes over you know your your your existence at that time
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that's what makes a classic album well you you put together some classic albums yeah uh what was your biggest challenge
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with putting together this one part two my biggest challenge with putting this together was just letting go and letting
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it happen okay um when I started it I I had to check
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myself cuz I was really trying to make concepts that weren't there what do you
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mean by that like um I was looking for the inspiration that I had for the first
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one okay and I was forcing the inspiration instead of just being the
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inspiration and then I had to just get off of social media and I had to detach
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and I had to look at old pictures of myself and watch old dayto days and old
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videos and really just check myself and like it wasn't a I wasn't forcing anything i was happy i was enjoying
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myself so I had to just enjoy myself i had to have a great time yeah and as
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soon as I started having fun and you know challenging myself to do things
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that I told myself I wouldn't do uh which was you know revisit Kushorn's
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Juice anyway i told people I would never do that so that was the first thing was like really revisiting it not just
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making something that I call Kushner Norris Juice 2 but really revisit Kush
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Orange juice and make a number two mhm and as soon as I um you know figured out
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what that was and what that pocket felt like I started enjoying myself I started
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you know doing things that other people enjoyed and I was getting really good feedback from so when I'm getting
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feedback I know how to work off of that really well and um it just made the process you know something where I
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started a little you know not knowing where I was going and it just made it very clear mhm mike and Keys um Problem
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you you you hit up a lot of guys from out here to help with this project right yeah I did why why was that it just
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happened that way i wanted to work with Problem because uh well Jason Martin is his name now no Jason Martin yeah my bad
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Jay yeah I know right yeah um I went to work with Jason because
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uh early in my career before anybody even knew who I was uh when I was doing
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I was promoting this song called Say Yeah it was my first single when I was signed to Warner Brothers um I worked in
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the studio with Terrace Martin and and Problem and they were like my first you
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know industry homeboys who kind of like showed me um you know the game like just
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out here is a little bit different there's radio there's this there's that there's just relationships are a little
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bit different and I always admired their sound as well and I just felt like it was really important for me to lock in
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with some people sonically who looked at music the same way that I did because
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doing Cushion Juice 2 the album I wanted it to have a certain sonic you know uh
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integrity to it i didn't want it to just um be something that came and went or
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like even blended in with what was out now i wanted it to stand out because of the nature of the music it's really
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funky it's soulful it's jazzy it's like ambient like you know what I mean so
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there's a lot of stuff that you have to treat it the right way and those are dudes uh in including DJ Quick those are
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dudes that I really trusted as far as taking the sound and making it sound the way that it's supposed to i love it man
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we got Whiz Khalifa here i'm going to open up the phone lines 8887417
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888742 3345 you never look at my signals okay my bad Heather B um I'm going to
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play How We Act with OT Genesis all right cool okay then we'll come back and talk more about the project is where's
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Khalifa Kush and orange juice too shade 45 sway in the morning shade 45 sway
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couldn't remember the phone number to his own studio and station it's okay citizens if you want to holl at where is
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8887423345 and I think the coolest thing about listening to this music we were all just nodding our head in the greens
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is like it's that summertime music this is the perfect time of year for this project to drop and we all just going to
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be riding around and rocking to this music and check it out man they going on tour for this too what's the name of the
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tour Whiz it's called the Taylor Gang the World Tour okay and just so happened that Whiz and I and Reggie and Quy we
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all teamed up because we're giving away tickets to the tour on Sways Universe.com crazy whiz you want to say
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that yeah we launching a concert ticket giveaway on suesuniverse.com and uh the giveaway is
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launching today and it ends on May 1st okay make sure y'all get Hey look up at the camera too Whiz i'm about to use you
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like a commercial oh yeah uh enter enter on Sways Universe and we'll be picking
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the winner to go to Cushion oh to the Taylor Gang the World Tour all concert dates are listed on the site all right
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universe.com i'm about to use you like a commercial you're crazy
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hey man you got a Max B interlude on this album i do i do man you talk to Max B bro yeah I do yeah shout out Shout out
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to Bigville that's wavy yeah probably like once or twice a month actually really yeah yeah yeah yep how is he he's
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doing good he's supposed to be coming home okay yeah yep tell Max I said what up bro yeah for sure man you know I know
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we've been waiting all waiting on that for quite some time yeah yeah i mean me too uh I'm just happy that he was just
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you know so generous with the verse like a lot of people probably hit him up i haven't heard him on anybody's project
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like like that so when we hit him up and he sent us the vocals uh and his team
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too as well shout out to his team but um yeah they that's family right there yeah
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and what's dope is he can make you know he can make money because he put this on your project right absolutely that's
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part of the plan too yeah he's going to get a lot of opportunities when he comes home so you know amen all right man okay
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we going to the phone lines where's Khalifa here za is on the line what up Z z what's going on what up Z what's up
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how you doing man hello everybody i'm doing good i'm doing all right what's up Liz what's happening i want to say man
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shout out to the to the album yo I was listening to the first one at the age I probably shouldn't have been but
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you've been one of my favorite artists for a minute man but I had a question for you so I recently won a startup
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competition for my business Saber Wellness is a cannabis uh business and I wanted to ask you like you know what
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what challenges have you might have seen when you first got into the industry you know Khalifa Kush and everything what
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challenges you faced and overcame and then where do you see the the industry heading towards um the main challenges
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are just the laws um how much they change and you know just doing things
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legally so you can be in business long term um I've had some partnerships with
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some people and you know there's been some agreements that turned into disagreements and a lot of that you know
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it gets in between the business but as long as it can be worked out in the long run um you know just try to do things
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the the most legal way so you can so you can last in this thing because people will try to try to come for you and um I
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think just the industry in general um you know I see it growing and I see it
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being something that is uh worldwide that we can all benefit from and um even
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on an independent level not even just on a on a large scale so um just definitely keep growing keep pushing and um just
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learn as much as you can about everything so so so you can stay stay
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down in this thing for a minute okay Z appreciate you no doubt z go
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ahead and ask him about the collaboration you wanted to talk to him about with Khalifa Cook go ahead man you
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don't want to do that now you want to save it why you No this is my nephew for real this is like nephew this is a real
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nephew you did a happy birthday video for him like the first time when he was like 10 cuz he was way too young
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listening to your music for real and Sway is egging them right he literally just won a competition won $10,000 at
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his college he's about to graduate next week and he's in the cannabis industry
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congrats man get your get your grow on yeah khalifa Cush subsidiary brand i
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just threw that out there all right all right one of these days you still pushing to collab you one of these days
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we ain't We see Wiz once every seven years we got to get this off man z congratulations you congratulations
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nephew i love you and uh I'll see you next week at your graduation yeah congratulations okay we're going to go
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through these phone lines jasmine in Iowa go ahead what up Jazz how you doing
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hi good morning everybody hey um good morning to you Liz um I just wanted to
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tell you that your music was like a huge part of my like high school soundtrack like every time I listen to Cushion
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Orange Juice or Burn After Rolling I'm just like taking back to my first car and riding around listening to that with
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my friends and yeah you were just really huge in my my high school years and I'll
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never forget I got to see you October 4th 2010 in Iowa City Iowa um I had my
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parents drop me off two hours early just so I could get their front row and yeah it was a really cool experience so just
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want to give you your props and let you know that um I was a huge fan of yours thank you i really appreciate it and
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that's what I do it for fans just like you and to try to make new fans making
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new memories and just being the soundtrack to the best times of somebody's life so I really appreciate
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that wow Jazz I appreciate you sis man jazz you Yo you and Whiz go together like 15
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years now you feel me
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you a citizen all right uh we got Lucas in Montana lucas what's your question lucas oh Whiz
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what's up what's up hey nobody calls from Montana i never hear it yeah man you it you know there you go you
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starting to the crew much love to Whiz hey Whiz i just want to say you you and Matt got me through a big part of my
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life much love i want to give you guys your flowers but what motivates you to stay in the gym besides the flower
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um I just really like going to the gym it's not a chore for me i I really enjoy
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being in there um it's a challenge it's not easy but it's something that every
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day I get a little bit better at and I I like feeling you know accomplished when
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I'm done yeah there it is all right that's right that's right hey can I give a shout out to my wife it's my
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anniversary tomorrow seven years in the bag chelsea what's her name i love you oh Chelsea yeah shout out to you and Chelsea man happy anniversary that's
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dope lucas and Chelsea sitting in the tree all right man all right Lucas you a super citizen brother chelsea in the
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morning all right hey first time caller first time caller first time byebye
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first time caller welcome to the Taylor gang all right i
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love you guys love you have a great weekend one more in there man everybody is nostalgic so many calls my goodness
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wow man you just represent such a great time in everybody's life and I think it's the way you held yourself too i've
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seen you in adversity you stayed the same person i've seen you in conflict
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you stayed the same person i've seen you broke same person as I see you unbroken yep
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you know I see you complete and you say you stay the same person thinking about what Jasmine was saying and I even think
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back then when when music festivals start becoming a thing uh for me at least I used to go to all of them and
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you guys were synonymous with festivals right uh festivals don't feel the same
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for me as they used to are they still the same to you or what have you seen I
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think it depends on what you're there for but for me I I kind of agree they're a
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little bit different yeah um um do you have to adjust just your show i mean is the audience
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different or just the run of show no no no for me if uh if I'm there um the
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audience is still the same even if I do like a rolling loud or something like that where it's like you know a mixture
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of different crowds um I think just music in general you know you get
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respect for a certain type of presence up there so it doesn't matter whether it's old or new if you still got that
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presence people going to walk away you know feeling something and um I always
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make sure you know we deliver like I got a cold ass band i don't really do too
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much crazy [Â __Â ] with the production um because I'm like cost efficient but you
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know moving forward I may bump up the production a little bit but I don't feel
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like the best shows are always the best production either you know what I'm saying there's shows that are really great where it's like man that
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production was crazy but sometimes you don't really need all of that like sometimes you just need to like command
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mother you know what I'm saying like people and and and like have them experience that [Â __Â ] on another level
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that they that they didn't know that they could experience on so um no I don't I don't feel a
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difference in my crowds i just know that the kids they want to be entertained a little bit differently mhm and um I seen
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the evolution because it started um you know really chill like smoked out vibby
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you know what I mean but then um our future they changed a lot with other
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element when they started just jumping in the crowd and then um when we started
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traveling and going overseas I know like Rocky he loved the mosh pits
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and like all of that stuff and And so Cardi and all of them come from Rocky
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mhm so that's where you get more mosh pit more you know the aggressive more
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aggressive a little more physical yeah cuz that's how they rock over in Europe absolutely but they'll do that to any song though
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like they just love it over there like see you again they rock pit yeah like you're they throw
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stuff on stage if they like you like you know what I mean like they're aggressive over there like what's the craziest
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thing you got thrown at you on stage would you say it i don't know i don't know what it was bro it hit my foot and
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I thought somebody shot me up i was I was like I'm
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hit but I just had to keep going
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i'm hit but yeah so I I think like the the
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energy and the aggression from Europe and like how much they appreciate the music that like translated over here to
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where it's like we rage now like you know what I mean so it's cool w Khalifa
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is here man we talk about cush and orange juice too man i I want to thank you for coming through man thank you for
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having me i'll pop back up you know some more i miss you guys too man i'll be
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around y'all live in LA now what the heck for real oh that's perfect yeah you in LA you been here in LA yeah I live
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here what you got a studio at your house yes so I could come to your house and get a
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freestyle pull up say what notice I threw that [Â __Â ] in there
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i'm with it dog i'm with it i'm in my bag right now so pull up that would be incredible okay I'll pull up and get it
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yeah yep you want me to do it that way now get it now how you want me to do it with
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it's early yeah it's early man invited you to his house yeah I know hell I got
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the invite now I'm going for more that's all that's why he blocked you with the Yeah he's like I'm in his house he's
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trying to get that freestyle you know but uh I'll come by honestly I would
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love to come by and hang with you dude bro we known each other so long now yeah yeah for sure we just need to build and
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bond homie yeah I'm with that yo I'll be on some chill stuff i'd be hanging out with my dogs okay you know just just
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chilling bro that would be dope all good i appreciate you whiz you uh you're here man that's what's up yeah man yeah tracy
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in New York we go back and forth but we're primarily here all right give it up for Whiz Khalifa you're a hip hop
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icon brother super Bowl on the way y'all there you go you said it okay we want to thank y'all all of y'all for tuning in
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this week had a crazy week this week we had a fun week sway it was a great week it was an encouraging week sway sang a
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duet with Cynthia so we're never going to hear the end of that whiz he hit the note from Wicked you did you ever see
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Wicked i did you see the end where she hits that note you did that she came in yesterday john play it back for Whiz in
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case he wanted me to do some vocals on this next project oh gosh wiz all right [Applause]
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sway that's actually amazing that wasn't bad
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there's no ad to this man we heard it 80 times today already it was No it wasn't
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bad oh gosh bb make right
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oh man yo I got it from my brother Will you got it from ain't got nothing left
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to say you don't have a good weekend that's it that's it y'all know how to reach us all right stay on the right
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side of positivity end with a weird song all right anyone okay stay on the right side
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of positivity we ain't got nothing left to
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