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Speaker 1: What's up? Its way up?

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Speaker 2: But Angela yee, I'm Angela yee. And okay, Mayno's here

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Speaker 2: with us, stop it the old one, and Lady Lendon

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Speaker 2: is here. How you doing, hi, Lady Leonard, she already

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Speaker 2: checked you manaw so she yeah she did. She said

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Speaker 2: leave her team alone, relax. This is what we call

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Speaker 2: the soft sided Maya, you know. And so we're working

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Speaker 2: on that. But Lady Lennon, congratulations, new album is out

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Speaker 2: right now.

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Speaker 3: Yes, no project, not exactly album.

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Speaker 1: You like a project, It's not an album, it's a project.

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Speaker 4: Congratulations though you So I know how hard you worked

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Speaker 4: on that. Yeah, we watched your grind. Yeah we watched it.

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Speaker 4: You know, people was looking even even though you think

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Speaker 4: we wasn't. We saw you. We saw you coming up

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Speaker 4: those freestyles. And I know how important it is, you know,

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Speaker 4: to finally get a deal major and finally be able

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Speaker 4: to be in a position put out a project. Right,

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Speaker 4: So congrats to that.

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Speaker 1: Yes, there's so.

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Speaker 4: Many artists come from here and don't even get the opportunity.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's heavy.

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Speaker 1: Well let's start off with this, mana, what's your sign?

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Speaker 4: Virgo?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so what are your thoughts on Virgos.

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Speaker 3: Virgos, that's crazy, I do. I think that well. As

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Speaker 3: a water sign, I think we really get along. Word's signed.

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Speaker 3: So I love virgos.

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Speaker 1: And what's your sign?

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Speaker 3: I'm a cancer?

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Speaker 2: She's a cancer, okay, because I know that this album

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Speaker 2: is all about the different signs, So you believe in that.

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Speaker 3: I believe it governs your temperament.

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Speaker 5: I don't like swear by it, but I do think

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Speaker 5: it has a certain characteristics that define you.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So what defines you as a cancer?

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Speaker 5: I would say on the positive side, cancers are the

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Speaker 5: mother of the zodiac, so super nurturing, very like caring

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Speaker 5: and the mother of the of the crew. We are

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Speaker 5: hyper sensitive and very moody. On the other side of things,

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Speaker 5: I've I got you know self. Yeah, I'm very self

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Speaker 4: So they wake up angry.

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Speaker 5: No, I'm very rarely angry, but I do get moody,

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Speaker 5: you know.

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Speaker 1: All right, sometimes you just won't be left alone.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and especially okay, so you get along with virgos,

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Speaker 2: who would you say you're most compatible with as a

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Speaker 3: Scorpio.

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Speaker 1: Who I do not get along with Scorpio.

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Speaker 5: I'm a Capricorn okay, okay, yeah, yeah, kind of close.

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Speaker 4: I get along with everybody.

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Speaker 1: No, no, you don't. Okay.

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Speaker 2: One sign for guys, would you say? Is the biggest hose,

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Speaker 3: All them, all the niggas A twelve. I'm gonna go

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Speaker 3: to all twelve on that one, for sure, for sure.

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Speaker 2: All right, So let's talk about Lady London. So you

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Speaker 2: are from You're from the Bronx and Jersey, right, all right?

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Speaker 2: So you were born where New York? You were born

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Speaker 3: No, most of my time was I grew I basically

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, so you know it's funny because I'm from Brooklyn,

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Speaker 2: but I did and high school moved to South Orange.

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Speaker 1: Oh.

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Speaker 3: Nice, you went to Columbia.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I went to Columbia. We were just talking about that.

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Speaker 2: I was on Sherry Shepherd. I actually went to school

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Speaker 2: with Lauren Hill, Jennifer Williams and basketball wise and that's

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Speaker 1: All went there whe'd you go to high school?

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Speaker 5: I went to all girls Catholic High School and Clark,

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Speaker 5: so it's called mother seating. But now it's like kind

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Speaker 1: Okay, some of the guys were coming up there after

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Speaker 3: We far out.

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Speaker 5: We kind of like in the middle of the highway,

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Speaker 5: not far out, but we like, uh Clark or railway area.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So a little bit further, howd it go into

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Speaker 2: Affects you as a as a child growing up and

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Speaker 3: I ain't have to get dressed every day. I'll getting

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Speaker 5: I was just in school getting what I need to

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Speaker 3: What a uniform?

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Speaker 5: But my uniform was fly though, real fly pride is

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we was. We was fly.

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Speaker 1: So what made you parents send you to that school?

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Speaker 5: I think I was like really really bad as a kid,

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Speaker 5: Like coming in, I was like a little rebellious. I

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Speaker 3: Girls Catholic high schoo you know you're gonna figure it out.

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Speaker 5: I'm so grateful for me because I don't think I

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Speaker 1: So you went to Howard, right, I did. I rt

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Speaker 3: Yes, sports medicine and chemistry was my double major.

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Speaker 1: Now how did you even come into that?

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Speaker 2: First of all, I will say I was a good student,

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Speaker 5: No, I've always wanted to be a doctor since I

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Speaker 5: natural to me. School has just always come very natural.

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Speaker 3: Like I was.

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Speaker 5: A bad kid out on the behavior side, and like

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Speaker 2: A lot of times kids are bad because they're also

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Speaker 1: Yeah, may know you was a bad kid too.

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Speaker 4: So they say allegedly agedly.

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Speaker 1: And then so how did they feel when you made

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 2: Because you went to school, you went to Howard Sports medicine, chemistry,

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Speaker 2: but then you started doing spoken word poetry, right, So

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Speaker 2: tell me about that transition and what you got, what

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Speaker 5: Poetry was my outlet too, just to express myself, you know,

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Speaker 5: As a transition to Howard, it was just a big thing.

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Speaker 5: So I used to sell out poetry shows when I

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Speaker 3: I'm like, I got twenty dollars to my name. I'm

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Speaker 3: definitely getting this for sure. Chipotle order vegieable.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't eat meat, veggieabole, but yeah, so that

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Speaker 5: So yeah, that's that was pretty much my transition. But

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Speaker 5: I was already viral, I had already been getting twenty

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Speaker 5: I'm telling you, it's it's some I'm trying to bust

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Speaker 4: Let me ask you what was it? Was it the

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Speaker 5: It was just freestyles for a long time. I hadn't

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Speaker 5: I hadn't put out any music at all. It was

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Speaker 4: Yeah, people started the patching. I mean, listen, when you

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Speaker 4: that that is a thing, right people, no matter what's

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Speaker 4: to hear you know. We we salute it. We love it,

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Speaker 1: Wow, she smiled, and she said it to death.

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Speaker 2: Jam is like such an iconic place to be able

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Speaker 3: Kevin I definitely hip hop. My house was a big

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Speaker 5: I would say, like little Kim Foxy was like early

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Speaker 5: early on, I was singing. I was I sick of

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Speaker 5: that's the culture in New York City like we were,

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Speaker 5: we was there, you know, like I grew up in

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Speaker 5: the studios, like in loud lobbies.

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Like really grew up here.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: Obviously my uncle Sheino Excel, my.

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Speaker 4: Uncle Excel from where he's from La right.

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Speaker 3: No, he's from the Bronx originally.

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Speaker 4: The real I remember him.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's wild Okay, So Tina Excel is your uncle.

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Speaker 5: That's my uncle. Clark knew me since I was like two,

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Speaker 5: So just like Clue like years like so, I've been around.

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Speaker 3: The game, freaky.

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Speaker 5: I was born in hip hop. I didn't I didn't

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Speaker 5: always loved the culture.

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Speaker 4: And this is why you you wrap the way you rap.

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Speaker 2: And you'd like to call it a project not an album? Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I don't think this is like album work. I think, granted,

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Speaker 5: but for our purpose sake. Like you know, it's really

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Speaker 4: You know those that line got blurred though, right, So

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we like mixtapes because people get super creative and

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Speaker 4: You know what is mixtapes used to be? They used

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Speaker 5: I mean, that's the age of streaming. You know, when

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Speaker 5: you know how it is like when they want their money.

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Speaker 3: It is what it is.

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Speaker 5: You know, we used to mix tapes out of the

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Speaker 3: You don't even know how.

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Speaker 5: Much your soul I bought. I bought Meek mil dream

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Speaker 5: chases off the men up the street, Like so you

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Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. It's just it's a different era now.

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Speaker 2: It be content you can end up and you want

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Speaker 2: you're doing at the seague time, right exactly, how did

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Speaker 5: I love like intimate crowds because it reminds me of

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Speaker 5: new to performing in like big spaces. I've done like

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Speaker 5: this is like crazy, but like something like an s

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Speaker 5: OB's for me just feels good. It feels like me

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Speaker 5: in here. I can see y'all, I can interact with y'all.

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Speaker 5: Festival stage, you can't even pass the lights. You can't

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Speaker 1: So it's a nice check.

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Speaker 3: It's nice.

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Speaker 5: The check is nice, the engagement is cool, and the

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Speaker 3: It's still nerve wracking.

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Speaker 2: You also have a lot of Chicago artists on this project.

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Speaker 2: I noticed Tank is on here, Dreez is on here,

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Speaker 1: Do you feel like you have a special connection with Chicago.

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Speaker 5: Chicago reminds me a lot of New York. It feels

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Speaker 5: Like what you see is what you get. Yeah, they

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Speaker 5: But also I wanted to touch every base so low key,

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Speaker 5: every feature on the project is from some point of somewhere.

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Speaker 5: So there's La with me Lejay, there's Houston with Brook Valentine,

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Speaker 1: And I really like Mila Jay too. What made you

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Speaker 5: She's just really incredible. I feel like I used to

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Speaker 5: you know. And of course I love Jenneaiko too, like

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Speaker 5: I just love her and she's like such a scorpio.

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Speaker 5: So of course every feature is a member of the

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Speaker 3: A way.

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Speaker 2: She's not playing with that now. In the intro you

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Speaker 5: I would say it's a tie between gifts and words

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Speaker 5: of affirmation. Okay, yeah, I think I love receiving gifts

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Speaker 5: as much as I love giving them, and that could

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Speaker 5: like certain things, yeah, like small gestures just you know,

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Speaker 5: but also just words of affirmation. I think oftentimes when

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Speaker 5: I'm just more so like hyper focused on myself. But

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Speaker 5: that happened fast, you know what I'm saying, Like, okay, cool,

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Speaker 5: but salute to them. I'm always about giving people flowers

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Speaker 5: because you know, God just preordains everything that happens in

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Speaker 3: Period.

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Speaker 4: It's important to keep that mind stat. I'm sorry, but

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Speaker 4: to keep that mindset as an artist, because that's going

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Speaker 4: to happen. You want to see people that came out

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Speaker 4: after you, you know, maybe with starving to be around you,

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Speaker 5: Though, understand, I'm actually really happy for them to be honest,

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Speaker 5: Like it's hard in this game. This is like really

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then listen, you did the BT Cipher. Yeah

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Speaker 2: and people loved that. What was that experience like for you?

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Speaker 2: And you Lola brook and then you and Lola Brooker

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Speaker 3: I love Lola. That's my girl. It's just good to

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Speaker 5: You know, we the rap girls have such unity now,

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Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. I think it's really dope,

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Speaker 5: because when I showed up, I'm like, oh, Gloss here,

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Speaker 3: But the Cipher itself, I was so nervous. I cried

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Speaker 3: after that site. You do a lot of people don't

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Speaker 1: Like, sweet, you killed it.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, but I thought I didn't.

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Speaker 2: Just like everybody was like, oh I was stressed out.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm very hard on myself. I called my

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Speaker 5: I swear I was so aggravated because I just felt

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Speaker 5: The BPM on the beat was three three too high.

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Speaker 5: I'm like, oh god, I don't know, but it came

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Speaker 5: right before premiere and he was like, I'm telling you

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Speaker 2: Who was the first person to reach out to you

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Speaker 1: Was it? Buster?

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Speaker 5: He was amongst one of the first, for sure, Tam

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Speaker 5: Do I remember the first first person?

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Speaker 5: They kind of all were coming around the same time,

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Speaker 5: kind of around the same time. It felt good, though,

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Speaker 5: did it was like unbelievable, like no way like this

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Speaker 2: And so when def Jam signed you were there are a

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Speaker 5: Oh my god, Yes, it felt like I was doing

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Speaker 5: a draft, like I was feeling thokay, yeah, it was

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Speaker 5: for the under the right terms and conditions. But I

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Speaker 5: oldest hip hop label ever because in Green Thinness is

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Speaker 5: just excellence. You know, we go from the Rockefeller era

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Speaker 2: And when we talk about this project, and you know,

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Speaker 5: I actually draw from many many of my friends' experiences.

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Speaker 5: I've actually never been heartbroken, but never Yeah, No, I

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Speaker 5: don't play like that. Yeah, I don't really get to

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Speaker 5: I don't believe in getting involved past a certain point

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Speaker 5: I can be all consumed by something that like really

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Speaker 3: I don't claim that sport. I don't know. I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I like that.

443
00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:16,400
Speaker 3: Not my ministry.

444
00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:19,240
Speaker 2: And so you also talk about aquarius Is on the

445
00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:21,920
Speaker 2: album and how they're very nonchalant.

446
00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:24,000
Speaker 1: So what's worse for you?

447
00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:27,240
Speaker 2: Okay, if you had to choose somebody who's nonchalant, somebody

448
00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:31,679
Speaker 2: who's smothering right, or somebody who treats you great, but

449
00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,760
Speaker 2: they may step out.

450
00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:36,800
Speaker 3: So what's worse? What's that last one was the worst?

451
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Speaker 1: Okay?

452
00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:41,000
Speaker 5: Please don't cheat play with somebody else. Please do not please,

453
00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:41,880
Speaker 5: That's all I ask.

454
00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:44,160
Speaker 3: Just stay with your chest. I'd rather just leave.

455
00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:46,760
Speaker 5: I'm really like very big on like I'm not happy here.

456
00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:49,960
Speaker 5: Then let's just you know, call a spade a space

457
00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:52,400
Speaker 5: or can we see other people that way? At least

458
00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:55,280
Speaker 5: I get the option to, you know, stay, Some people

459
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Speaker 5: be cool with it.

460
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Speaker 3: Me I don't.

461
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Speaker 5: I don't like the devious portion of it though, Okay,

462
00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:01,760
Speaker 5: you don't want to be like, yeah, that's the part,

463
00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:03,240
Speaker 5: like you talk to her and how you talk to

464
00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:05,199
Speaker 5: her with your whole chest, you big about it.

465
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Speaker 1: You know, have you ever called another woman and had

466
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Speaker 1: to like.

467
00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:13,119
Speaker 3: I don't claim that sport either. She was like, she

468
00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:14,040
Speaker 3: doesn't owe me anything.

469
00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:16,600
Speaker 5: That's what I always like tell my friends this too,

470
00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:18,639
Speaker 5: Like they be blacking on women that deal with They

471
00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:22,840
Speaker 5: meant it's like they're they owe you nothing unless that's

472
00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:25,480
Speaker 5: your homegirl, which is crazy. That's just crazy. But like

473
00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:27,120
Speaker 5: if that's somebody who's a stranger, you need to take

474
00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:28,840
Speaker 5: that out with the man that you share your bed with.

475
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Speaker 3: But that's just my thing.

476
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Speaker 4: Now.

477
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Speaker 2: You also said you touch yourself how to wrap in

478
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Speaker 2: three months? Yes, right, So what was that process like

479
00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:38,160
Speaker 2: for you? How do you teach yourself to rap?

480
00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:40,159
Speaker 3: Hard? I heard that I couldn't wrap.

481
00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:42,760
Speaker 5: I was like I was doing my poetry on a

482
00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:44,960
Speaker 5: beat and it was not catching none of the pockets.

483
00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,920
Speaker 5: Like I was like over talking, because the thing about

484
00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:50,320
Speaker 5: it is wrap. They have what we call pockets and wrap.

485
00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:53,520
Speaker 5: It's just really like these spaces that can only fit

486
00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:55,639
Speaker 5: certain amount of syllables in it. When you do poetry,

487
00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:58,920
Speaker 5: it's so free range you could just keep talking and whatever.

488
00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:01,679
Speaker 5: But in music it has to be structured, you know,

489
00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:04,760
Speaker 5: like you count meters, you count syllables, And so for me,

490
00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:07,280
Speaker 5: I was always like, dang, it don't sound right, like

491
00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:10,159
Speaker 5: how like how can I do better? And so I

492
00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:11,960
Speaker 5: used to just listen to Jay, listen to the Locks,

493
00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:14,960
Speaker 5: listen to Big L, listen to you know, styles, listen

494
00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:26,360
Speaker 5: to stacks, listen to like all my favorites, rapt, listening

495
00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:29,360
Speaker 5: to my people and like really downloading that like their

496
00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,439
Speaker 5: algorithm and things, and then putting my own spin on it.

497
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Speaker 2: You think that going to school and like being structured

498
00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:36,960
Speaker 2: and in the way that you helped you with your career.

499
00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:38,960
Speaker 5: Yes, absolutely, I'm a scholar and I apply it to

500
00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:43,160
Speaker 5: every portion of my life, like absolutely, yeah, for sure.

501
00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:43,959
Speaker 3: I don't even know how.

502
00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:46,120
Speaker 5: It's so funny because I think without college at least

503
00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:48,280
Speaker 5: the way that I like went, I don't know how

504
00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:50,560
Speaker 5: I managed my career right now, right the way that

505
00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:54,880
Speaker 5: my group chats be like it's overkilled, Like it's like pdfiles,

506
00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:57,000
Speaker 5: DOCU signs you out of turned this in and I'm

507
00:20:57,119 --> 00:20:59,200
Speaker 5: very like like on it, you know what I'm saying

508
00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:00,560
Speaker 5: I want to be a part of every email chain

509
00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:02,280
Speaker 5: my team, know, like, do not leave me out the

510
00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:03,520
Speaker 5: email and everyone.

511
00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:05,600
Speaker 1: To see everything I want to see it.

512
00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:08,280
Speaker 5: Yes, I get literally if I start to work approved

513
00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:09,920
Speaker 5: in my phone right now, it comes up more than

514
00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:11,600
Speaker 5: anything ever, you know.

515
00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:13,600
Speaker 1: So that's great. You're very involved in your career and

516
00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:14,760
Speaker 1: your mom is your manager.

517
00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:17,439
Speaker 3: Yes, my mom handles a lot of like my day

518
00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:18,680
Speaker 3: to day stuff right now.

519
00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:21,760
Speaker 2: Does that cause any how is that at home too,

520
00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:23,600
Speaker 2: because sometimes it's hard to turn that off when you're

521
00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:25,320
Speaker 2: like I don't want to talk about business for a moment.

522
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Speaker 5: Yeah, my mom, she yeah, she got an interesting way

523
00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:31,439
Speaker 5: of approaching it. She's definitely still a mom all like

524
00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:34,439
Speaker 5: all day. That never turns off her. So she'll be

525
00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:36,600
Speaker 5: like trying to check me on stuff and I'll be like, girl,

526
00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:38,520
Speaker 5: like we.

527
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Speaker 3: We are in working space right now. If anything, I'd

528
00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:43,560
Speaker 3: be like we're working. It'd be like to me like

529
00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:44,760
Speaker 3: not today, not today.

530
00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, So we definitely be on that. But you know,

531
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Speaker 5: she's she just wants the best for the whole situation.

532
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Speaker 2: So and look a lot of the women, like you said,

533
00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:55,520
Speaker 2: are supportive of you. How did you feel when CARTI

534
00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:56,520
Speaker 2: talked about.

535
00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:57,800
Speaker 3: You love Carti so much.

536
00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:00,960
Speaker 5: I've always loved Cardi from day one before. Really I

537
00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,320
Speaker 5: was following Collie before she started rapping, like when she

538
00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,400
Speaker 5: was just funny. It's like when she's doing the vines

539
00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,960
Speaker 5: like way before. So it was just beautiful to see

540
00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:12,399
Speaker 5: her her come up because so many people that counted

541
00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,159
Speaker 5: her out, and I feel so attached to that. A

542
00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:16,919
Speaker 5: bunch of people just was like, you know, they never

543
00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:18,600
Speaker 5: really saw the potential on what she was trying to do.

544
00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:20,919
Speaker 5: And she works harder than a lot of people, Like

545
00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:22,840
Speaker 5: a lot of people wouldn't know how hard Cardi really

546
00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:25,919
Speaker 5: works day in and day out. And so her speaking

547
00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:28,480
Speaker 5: highly of me is beautiful because she is always the

548
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,639
Speaker 5: same person in every room. I've seen her out, you know,

549
00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:33,359
Speaker 5: walking through the club where she cleared the whole thing,

550
00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:36,720
Speaker 5: and she seen me like like move security out the way,

551
00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:38,880
Speaker 5: the whole nine, And I just I feel like, I'm

552
00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:42,040
Speaker 5: so happy that she never lost how authentic she was,

553
00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:43,880
Speaker 5: how authentic she is, you know.

554
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Speaker 1: And you passed the major highlights.

555
00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:49,200
Speaker 2: I mean, seeing your face on a billboard in Times Square,

556
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Speaker 2: did you cry at that point?

557
00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:52,240
Speaker 3: I didn't cry. I just saw it yesterday live. I

558
00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:54,239
Speaker 3: saw it in La first, but I just saw Yesterday live.

559
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Speaker 5: It's funny. My driver was like, there you go. Casually

560
00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:58,919
Speaker 5: we were like driving, there you go.

561
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:01,919
Speaker 3: I was like, so we got out the car. We

562
00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:02,760
Speaker 3: took some pictures.

563
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,120
Speaker 5: I notice I don't meditate in my successes as much

564
00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:10,240
Speaker 5: as I analyze my failures. So I'm always like next move,

565
00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:11,800
Speaker 5: next move, next moe. I don't never sit in there

566
00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:14,080
Speaker 5: and be like, wow, this happened. I be more so

567
00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 5: like defeated. Sometimes when I feel like something didn't happen

568
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:19,040
Speaker 5: longer than I'll be like, wow, that happened.

569
00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 1: You got to celebrate that everything.

570
00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:27,040
Speaker 4: Celebrating today that the clock is going back.

571
00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:33,399
Speaker 5: You know, it's not a lord that cancel that yet.

572
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:34,440
Speaker 1: I don't think it's happened yet.

573
00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:36,920
Speaker 4: We celebrate that right now listen.

574
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:40,880
Speaker 3: Basically get your cake.

575
00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:43,719
Speaker 2: You know, every day I'm always say, yo, we got

576
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,439
Speaker 2: to celebrate something. I'll make something up to celebrate just

577
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,719
Speaker 2: because I think it's nice, just because life can be

578
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:53,040
Speaker 2: really really hard. We all work really hard, and sometimes

579
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:54,600
Speaker 2: you do have to take the time to be like, man,

580
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:55,600
Speaker 2: I did this, I can't.

581
00:23:55,800 --> 00:24:00,520
Speaker 1: You know it could be little things too, you know that.

582
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 3: So I'm definitely learning it all right, Well.

583
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 2: Listen, we're so excited that you had a chance to

584
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,439
Speaker 2: come through. Also, congrats. We saw the new video with

585
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 2: well jeremized. He's not in the video.

586
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:11,919
Speaker 3: He's not. He was on touring Europe.

587
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,600
Speaker 5: We weren't unable to get him on that, but we

588
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:17,320
Speaker 5: have so much other stuff planned to incorporate him.

589
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,119
Speaker 1: But however, you did have some steamy scene.

590
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,240
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was.

591
00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:25,200
Speaker 3: I got some terrible text today, terrible text when.

592
00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:27,639
Speaker 4: Part of the script that you just went you just

593
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:29,800
Speaker 4: got caught up in the moment, committed to the moment

594
00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:30,640
Speaker 4: came out and you.

595
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,080
Speaker 5: Was I'm about the art form. It was acting too

596
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:38,440
Speaker 5: good about the art for I love a good na. Yeah, absolutely,

597
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:40,440
Speaker 5: tell me about these texts.

598
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:42,359
Speaker 3: Everybody's like what you know?

599
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,480
Speaker 5: Of course, the niggas and things, it's all like, what's

600
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:48,320
Speaker 5: going on? This is making my stomach hurd?

601
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 3: Who is this?

602
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,760
Speaker 2: So it's just yeah, how was it on set like

603
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:53,560
Speaker 2: for you to have to do that acting?

604
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:54,640
Speaker 3: It was cool?

605
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:56,560
Speaker 5: I really want to get like a lot of my videos,

606
00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:58,520
Speaker 5: I will just love I love the narrative. I love

607
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:01,120
Speaker 5: having like a storylin and being painted and that's kind

608
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 5: of like the theme of my overall thing. I never

609
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:04,600
Speaker 5: wanted just to be have a regular video where I'm

610
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:06,399
Speaker 5: like in a gas station, wrapping in front of a

611
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 5: car or something like that. Like for me, I'm like,

612
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 5: let's do let's make it a movie. Let's make a movie.

613
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:12,920
Speaker 5: And I want to tap more into TV and film.

614
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 5: So I really want that to kind of be like

615
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 5: a little bit of a you know, like an icebreaker

616
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 5: into that space. So I'm about the art form, whatever

617
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 5: it takes to get to get it done, and that's

618
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:22,919
Speaker 5: what it is. So I wasn't really nervous that I

619
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,159
Speaker 5: was actually talking to him like y okay, like if

620
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 5: I forget, you know, he was.

621
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Speaker 3: Just like yeah, he like I'm good, Like I'm good,

622
00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:29,960
Speaker 3: So you know, I.

623
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Speaker 1: Think we need to try this one again.

624
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:32,680
Speaker 3: We actually did.

625
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,040
Speaker 5: Shoot that same scene twice, which is like crazy, but

626
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 5: it was cool, you know, like what else.

627
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:42,960
Speaker 1: She's so professional. Well, Lady Lennon, thank you so much.

628
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:46,120
Speaker 2: We appreciate you, and congratulations for this new project that's

629
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:47,720
Speaker 2: available right now, soul.

630
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:49,879
Speaker 4: Right, congrats, thank you so much.

631
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:50,480
Speaker 3: I appreciate you.

632
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 1: Shout out to all the Capricorns.

633
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 3: Yes, I like cafcorns, so yeah, I get it.

634
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm a Capricorn man, but that let's celebrate.

635
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:01,959
Speaker 4: Being our sign the worst. Another shot shot.

636
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,520
Speaker 1: All right, Lady London, check her out. It's way up,

637
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 1: way up,