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Speaker 1: Hey, man, welcome back to the eighty five Self Show.

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Speaker 2: Hey, my name is Carlos Miller, twenty twenty five b

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Speaker 2: e Z Awards.

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Speaker 1: We're live here at the Media House. My man, now Green,

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Speaker 1: I'm here, come.

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Speaker 3: Man, and I massed the tone. At least you have

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Speaker 3: the word right here now.

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Speaker 2: Nah man, We got very special guests in here with

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Speaker 2: us today. Man, Hey, pick you one of these cameras

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Speaker 2: to tell them who We got.

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Speaker 4: A j McQueen. So glad to be here telling them, Lord,

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Speaker 4: that's me, that's me.

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Speaker 2: Don't come over here being over this really were renaming this.

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Speaker 2: You know what we're gonna call this pop your ship call?

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Speaker 4: Oh, I don't do that too awesome.

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Speaker 5: So let me tell you a j McQueen, a J

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Speaker 5: the great you hear I am, I'm him been here

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Speaker 5: for a long time and it's my first BT, and

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Speaker 5: I feel like everything happened the way it's supposed to.

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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, your first time at the

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Speaker 4: be first time, first time?

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Speaker 1: What you expecting? What you want to see?

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Speaker 4: Bro?

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Speaker 5: Honestly, Bro, just organic conversation like the you know what

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Speaker 5: I mean? Like I uh, I've been I've been making

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Speaker 5: this music. Bro in my crib, bro, when ain't nobody looking,

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Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. So I was saying somebody earlier.

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Speaker 5: Ain't that I it ain't. I don't like stuff like this.

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Speaker 5: It's just that, you know, I'm so confident in my

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Speaker 5: faith in God, bro, I don't feel like I need validation,

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Speaker 5: you know what I mean?

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Speaker 4: And not that, not that, not that it's about it,

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Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. But I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: You know, you know how it is as an artist,

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Speaker 5: like you feel like if you not need spaces, then

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Speaker 5: something ain't happening. But I feel like everything happened the

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Speaker 5: way it's supposed to.

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean.

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Speaker 5: I'm still I have what I have, but I've also

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Speaker 5: meeting you meet and you you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 5: meeting other people it feel good though.

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Speaker 1: All right, look at it like this right? Say, for instance,

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Speaker 1: somebody watching this right, yeah, no idea? Who you are?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Where would you tell him to start? If you had

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Speaker 1: to give him some music to say to introduce yourself?

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Speaker 3: What song would you want them to hear?

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Speaker 5: I'm be honest, I'll tell you started my interviews because

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Speaker 5: you know, listen to how I have my mind work

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Speaker 5: first you know what I'm saying, and then go to

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Speaker 5: the music. Yeah, no, learn my story.

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Speaker 4: You know what I mean. If that, if that resonates

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Speaker 4: toll you did put press play?

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Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, Like, I want you to

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Speaker 5: know I came from the streets and you know, got

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Speaker 5: shot and was abused as a child, and I made

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Speaker 5: it through all that and sent away homeless. I want

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Speaker 5: to I don't want to get on just arrive like

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Speaker 5: all he heard, Bro, I want you to notice a journey,

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Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, Cause the trophy don't mean

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Speaker 5: no out of the journey. But then after that, then

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna tell you to go to my album God Body,

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Speaker 5: or you know what I'm saying, go to Sorry Mom's Distracted,

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Speaker 5: where the whole album is about me navigating mental health

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Speaker 5: and as a black man while while remaining a masking

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Speaker 5: black man but also being in tune with his emotion

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Speaker 5: how he feels. Then I'm gonna tell you to go

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Speaker 5: play that. But I'll say go go see how my

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Speaker 5: mom work. First, you know what I'm saying. I faced

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Speaker 5: value in that man, Like I'm a mind, bro, but

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Speaker 5: all you a wrap, I'm a mind, you know what

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Speaker 5: I'm saying. You're a rap I'm a writer, bro, and

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Speaker 5: I feel like it's more depth to that. And honestly,

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Speaker 5: if somebody watching it, I want you to be inspired

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Speaker 5: because when you're by yourself, that's who you really is.

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Speaker 4: So I just I want you to see how I

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Speaker 4: operate when I'm by myself.

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Speaker 1: All right, So let me ask you this.

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Speaker 2: Say you want people to be inspired, Like, what are

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Speaker 2: some of the things that inspire?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Growth, bro, Like, uh, I got fifty plants in my career. Bro, Like,

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Speaker 5: I love plants, you hear me? And uh, it taught

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Speaker 5: me a lot about life.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: Coming from the.

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Speaker 5: Streets, bro, I the cribs I used to grow up in.

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Speaker 5: I used to be locked in the house.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 5: We used to have to have a key to get

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Speaker 5: out the house type ship. So yeah, I know, bro,

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Speaker 5: it was crazy. So now that I got on my

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Speaker 5: own as a man, I'm able to create my own life.

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Speaker 5: I used to play the SIMS when I was when

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Speaker 5: I was a.

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Speaker 3: Kid, Bro, There's a lot of people don't know about that.

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Speaker 5: I love the SEM because I used to be able

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Speaker 5: to create. I used to be able to escape through

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Speaker 5: a game. You know what I'm saying, and uh, alternate

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Speaker 5: reality at in reality, Bro. So Now as a man,

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Speaker 5: I'm able to choose man, plants inspired me.

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Speaker 4: Bro, I got four sisters. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: That is, you got fifty plants.

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Speaker 4: I got fifty plans.

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Speaker 1: What's some of your favorite man I got? I got

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Speaker 1: a whole nation.

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Speaker 4: I got you with this show Birds of Paradise.

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Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. One my favorite man, that's

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Speaker 5: that's a roster Frightian plant. You know I'm a roster.

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Speaker 4: So what's the.

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Speaker 3: Most expensive plant?

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Speaker 4: Ah, what's the most expensive? I wouldn't. I don't know,

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Speaker 4: because it's all.

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Speaker 3: I might not buy it, but I might just pop

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Speaker 3: that ship on the man.

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Speaker 4: It's all about it's all about.

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Speaker 2: The best thing about plants, as long as you know

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Speaker 2: any name for.

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Speaker 1: You ain't got no philodendriums.

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Speaker 4: Of paradigm, Bro, I got an eucalypsis in the bathroom.

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Speaker 4: I got you. I got you.

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Speaker 5: I got you in a shower. Now that's a bar

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Speaker 5: now because you can tell her on their mind. But anyway,

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Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, Like plants, you know what

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Speaker 5: I mean? Uh, things that grow, Bro, Like I was

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Speaker 5: telling somebody earlier shout out to that bro were on

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Speaker 5: West Coast. And you know, I think that we've had

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Speaker 5: too many great things uh make an early exit in

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Speaker 5: his life. And I and I think that you know,

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Speaker 5: if gods, if God say the same, my journey is

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Speaker 5: gonna be one that you see the fullness of it.

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Speaker 4: I want to get old. I want to get one

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Speaker 4: hundred years old. Bro, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but you know God, Simon, that's true. So that's

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Speaker 5: why I tell you I talked to God. I'm basically

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Speaker 5: I'm asking if it's your will. I just want to

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Speaker 5: show you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: On the human side, right, time only matter to us, right,

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Speaker 2: but you never know, You never know.

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Speaker 1: God, he already got your time.

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Speaker 2: Like what you're supposed to do in this life, it

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Speaker 2: might not take you one hundred years, This is true.

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Speaker 3: And your work like last one hundred years.

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Speaker 5: I did Bluelet Kill yesterday, right, we were talking about

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Speaker 5: we were talking about naip and Parking all them. Right,

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Speaker 5: It's amazing how your work propels after the real ones

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Speaker 5: leave early.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 5: But I'm talking about the generation right now, the crash,

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Speaker 5: our generation Hawaiians, all those that feel like I need to.

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Speaker 5: I'm saying, when the last time you've seen an eighty

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Speaker 5: year old, ninety year old form of reform gang member,

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Speaker 5: somebody who did that. You know all that, they get old,

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Speaker 5: You see their kids, city wife, you see all that,

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Speaker 5: and able to show you this a different trajectory. So

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Speaker 5: when I'm talking to God about it, I ain't saying

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Speaker 5: it in normal vanity. I'm saying, God, look, use me

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Speaker 5: if you need somebody to use take my story. I'm

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Speaker 5: gonna be honest about it. I ain't gonna get up

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Speaker 5: here and a lot of y'all and all that and

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Speaker 5: now it's really me though, and let me show them

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Speaker 5: that you can get old.

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Speaker 4: Bro.

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Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, You can get old. You

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Speaker 5: can get eighty, Bro, you can you can. That's what

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Speaker 5: I'm I'm just I'm just saying. It's great her I'm

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Speaker 5: embraced mind bro, Yeah, Carl, Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: So I'm I'm embracing And that's why my music sounds

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Speaker 4: It sounds like a.

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Speaker 5: Man navigating the world. Don't don't get me wrong, I'm

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Speaker 5: I'm I'm definitely one of the ones for sure. You

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Speaker 5: know what I'm saying I can out wrap anything in anybody,

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Speaker 5: but it has to have a purpose to it. I

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Speaker 5: don't want to just be up her, you know what

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Speaker 5: I'm saying, saying ship, I mean saying stuff that don't

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Speaker 5: really matter. You know what I'm saying to nobody, and

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Speaker 5: they won't be her.

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Speaker 3: You want to fall in line with the brand, like

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Speaker 3: this is me when you talk to me, when you

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Speaker 3: listen to me.

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Speaker 5: Because it's because it's thousands of them. It's thousands. I

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Speaker 5: won't say thousands of me, but it's people that feel

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Speaker 5: the same way. But they in they crib when ain't

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Speaker 5: nobody looking. I'm saying, let your camera phone, let your

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Speaker 5: phone be a fly on the wall, and let it

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Speaker 5: show who you really are. That's marketable, bro. I be

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Speaker 5: in the cribs making smoothies on Instagram live and juicing.

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Speaker 5: I'm a black I got churd droughts on my fact,

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Speaker 5: I got bullet holes in me and I I'm just

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Speaker 5: showing you, like, nah, you can really do that. So

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Speaker 5: that's why that's why I'm hurt and really furthering the story.

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Speaker 5: It's a part of the story, bro. So I appreciate

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Speaker 5: even y'all giving me the platform.

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Speaker 1: No, but I was gonna ask you this though.

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Speaker 2: It's like a lot of the things that you say

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Speaker 2: that you shied away from are It's ninety five percent

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Speaker 2: of people in the rap game with glorified. Yeah, what

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Speaker 2: gave you the motivation or what gave you the insight

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Speaker 2: to say, Hey, maybe this ain't the shit to talk

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Speaker 2: about because I'm really living this shit?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: You know the mirror, I don't. I gotta look it up.

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Speaker 5: I need to see when it was inventive. But the mirror,

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Speaker 5: like the physical mirrors was It's a man made inventure, right,

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Speaker 5: But for the sake of the earth. The earth been

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Speaker 5: there longer than the mirror was created. So one day

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Speaker 5: I was sitting there, right, and I'm like, man, how

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Speaker 5: was people seeing theyself? If it wasn't No, you couldn't.

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Speaker 4: It wasn't no mirror.

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Speaker 5: The only way they were seeing themself is through the

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Speaker 5: odds of somebody else, or through a body of water

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Speaker 5: or something.

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Speaker 4: But for the most part, somebody else. Right.

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Speaker 5: So I've taken an a while. This world is so

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Speaker 5: advancing technology. Whatever I choose to go internal, you know

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Speaker 5: what I'm saying, And then outside is just reflection on

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Speaker 5: what's happened on this side. So people see these nineteen

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Speaker 5: year of locks. But that's that's how my soul is

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Speaker 5: telling you know what I'm saying. So I'm just choosing

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Speaker 5: I ain't gonna ever get up here and present ultimate

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Speaker 5: The most gangster thing I ever did was hell, Bro,

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Speaker 5: So it's taking that and marketing that and if that, Bro,

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Speaker 5: That's why if y'all ever, I would love for y'all

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Speaker 5: I'm here to tell.

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Speaker 4: You know, you don't.

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Speaker 1: the mirror theory, Like what if we was never supposed

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Speaker 5: Everybody has their own system inside of them. Social media

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Speaker 5: It literally studied people to figure out when the's time

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Speaker 2: That social media ship is like now that that ship

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Speaker 2: So now that's why you hear people an Now it's like, man,

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Speaker 2: I'm getting off social media, healthy, get off this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you exactly what the so when you click back

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Speaker 5: What to show you a vacation or something something some that.

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Speaker 5: But that's why I broke. I started solo traveling this year.

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Speaker 4: You hearing me. I went to the d R for

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Speaker 5: get on that yoga mat Bro, eat healthy.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 5: And it's sad that when you start talking like this,

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Speaker 5: I'm showing.

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Speaker 4: You the other side of right, I'm showing you the

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Speaker 4: I post a video today, Bro, encouraging black men to

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Speaker 3: Bro.

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Speaker 5: Something something that's crazy as I ain't watching my face

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Speaker 5: intentionally intentionally to out like thirty something Bro, Like I

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Speaker 5: my music, you're gonna heard me saying, hey Bro, go therapy,

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Speaker 4: Hey Bro, sit with yourself solitude.

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Speaker 3: And sometimes people don't even realize. I'm glad you're bringing

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Speaker 3: it up. Sometime we have so much like built in.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes you just want to just talk. Ain't about like

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's good for the soul. Bro.

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Speaker 5: Even the good books say confess your falks to one another.

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Speaker 5: And that's a powerful thing, confessional false to one another.

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Speaker 5: I'm called call I'm sorry, Bro. I done crashed out, Bro,

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Speaker 5: And it's power in it.

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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: But everybody, you know, uh, vanity is popular, suppression is popular.

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Speaker 5: But that's why I know it's my time because the

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Speaker 5: world everything repeats, so bro, and people tired of down

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Speaker 5: every song? Bro, they are people tried to. I mean,

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Speaker 5: I love the duality of it, but let's get real, bro.

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Speaker 5: You know they wanna raise your kids to that. Bro,

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Speaker 5: So who were gonna listen to? Who We're gonna put on?

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Speaker 3: Bro?

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Speaker 4: Put on some aj McQueen.

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Speaker 5: Bro, you know what I'm saying, And rob out you

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Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, and I ain't saying do it

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Speaker 5: because I'm I got faith, you know what i mean?

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Speaker 5: Because this because you know this, because you know God

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Speaker 5: on me your music hard, Bro, I'm saying, when you

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Speaker 5: really listen to it, like.

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Speaker 4: Nah nah yeah Bro? If you yeah, yo, if you don't,

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Speaker 4: you don't. But I wrote my first book when I

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Speaker 5: I got award the White House of Servant Achievement Ward

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Speaker 5: from Barack Obama when I was twenty four, so I

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Speaker 5: didn't even start music.

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Speaker 4: It wasn't music first. I was a youth activist. BRO.

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Speaker 5: I was on BT one on sixty Park when I

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Speaker 5: was nineteen. They made a Team Bolence special about my

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Speaker 5: life about gang banging and surviving. And this is time

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Speaker 5: where social injustice was high, the police rutality was high,

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Speaker 5: and I was rapping. I rapped, but they never nobody

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Speaker 5: ever want to hear me rap at first, They like, nah,

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Speaker 5: talk to the people. So what I started doing at

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Speaker 5: these shows, I would start doing a cappellas in between

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Speaker 5: So I'm like, okay, cool, I'm gonna write a book,

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Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. Then I wrote a book,

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Speaker 5: started non profit.

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Speaker 4: Bro.

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Speaker 5: I just started doing music for real, for real three

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Speaker 5: years ago, and it's brought me to places where I'm

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Speaker 5: traveling the country. I put my team on and it's

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Speaker 3: So that's why you quit to tell people watch my

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Speaker 5: Because because I want I want you to be like,

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Speaker 5: damn all kind of fine to go check out you

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Speaker 5: know what I'm saying this album.

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Speaker 4: But man Liten is the way I think I study minds.

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Speaker 5: Bro, I got a I got a sticky note eleven

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Speaker 5: eleven eleven about eleven sticky note in my in my yard,

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Speaker 5: in my crib, and uh, it got minds on it.

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Speaker 5: It got it, got a Napoleon the Great Kobe Tyson Like,

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Speaker 5: I'll just be writing down different minds I come across. Bro,

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Speaker 5: Ain't broke great Bro brow a great mind.

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Speaker 3: Bro.

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Speaker 4: I want to be a great mind because you can

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Speaker 4: study your mind for millions of years.

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Speaker 3: Bro.

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Speaker 5: I want you to put this in a museum, Bro,

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Speaker 5: and then in and from the street so I can

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: That's what's something that's Lord j we damn show.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate you stopping, glad to be here, Bro chopping

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Speaker 5: game man, Yeah for sure. AJ McQueen on all platforms. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: that's my real name.

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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: People asking me that stage man, that's really me, bro

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Speaker 5: uh AJ McQuinn all platform he had a great You

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Speaker 5: know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: If you want the music.

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Speaker 5: All all platforms, if you want the mixtape, you gotta

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Speaker 5: go to even because they'm all directed to consume more.

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: Proud to pay I just saw a mixhafe for nineteen

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Speaker 5: hundred dollars. You know what I'm saying a week ago. Bro,

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Speaker 5: So you want to mix, say you can't stream, you

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Speaker 5: gotta go buy it?

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Speaker 4: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 5: You get nineteen hundred, bro, you start bro my mixed.

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Speaker 5: I just dropped the mixtape Cob. I just made ten

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Speaker 5: k off of it, you know what I'm saying. So

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Speaker 5: if you're looking for the independent game and following man

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Speaker 5: like teen Hunter.

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Speaker 3: I feel like you spoke to just go wrap to them,

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Speaker 3: like to the house with you to listen to this

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Speaker 3: ship is a j can't this ship to you?

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Speaker 4: You know what I mean? So not following me, it

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Speaker 4: is I following God for real. Man, I'm saying, we

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Speaker 4: appreciate that.

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Speaker 3: We ain't gonna see see what going on? Oh oh

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Speaker 3: come on man, yeah listen.

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Speaker 2: So for the twenty twenty five bats, me and came

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Speaker 2: up with our own say and it's called what the.

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Speaker 3: Fuck you got on?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: So you just let us know what you got on

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Speaker 3: and how you rocking your ship?

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Speaker 4: You cold? So We're gonna start with the with the rings.

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Speaker 3: Bro.

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Speaker 4: Huh. This is Saint Kulpher Bird. This means to go

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Speaker 4: and retrieve. You know what I'm saying. So you go

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Speaker 4: go get the knowledge, bring it back to your people.

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Speaker 4: You know what I mean. We got a black pearl,

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Speaker 4: we got tiger's blood, and we got ferrol. You know

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Speaker 4: what I'm saying. That's my energy.

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Speaker 5: So people like, man, you are rings and all that

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Speaker 5: is because it's black ferrol energy. You know what I'm saying, Like, Uh, Man,

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Speaker 5: I'm a gangstander, gardener, bro, I'm a I'm a I'm

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Speaker 5: a I'm a gangster and I'm a guy.

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Speaker 4: Like I show.

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Speaker 1: You know, not that need to be the name of

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Speaker 1: mixed taper.

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Speaker 4: You're gonna fish on my bit of event. Sorry, So

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Speaker 4: me caller, got something dropping soon, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: And then uh uh, you know what I'm saying. This

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Speaker 5: is really my herd bro. Like I'm a minimalist bro,

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Speaker 5: so I don't really put too much focus on what

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Speaker 5: I'll be wearing, you know what I'm saying, Cause I

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Speaker 5: feel like this right herd, the rings, bandana always. Man,

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Speaker 5: it's not the pop, but it's also you know, not

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Speaker 5: to just me connecting to the streets and where I

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Speaker 5: people they passed in the back and now I use

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Speaker 5: that the reason you went through because God want you

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Speaker 5: use it, you know.

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Speaker 4: What I'm saying. Then I got on some card uh

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Speaker 4: overall man, the tatted up.

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Speaker 5: I got like six seventy tats and it's all hieroglyphics,

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Speaker 5: and I got Nefer Tid. I got Lauren Heel on

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Speaker 5: the chest. You know what I'm saying. Like, I just

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Speaker 5: work skinning, bro, you know what I mean. I work

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Speaker 5: skinning and energy.

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Speaker 4: You know what I mean. So I ain't really wearying nothing,

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Speaker 4: but I'm wearing out my spirit for you know, I.

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Speaker 1: Think you you you really hit the concept of what

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Speaker 1: we were saying, ain't about what you're wearing. It's about

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Speaker 1: what the fuck you got you. You ain't about fashion.

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Speaker 5: You ain't a body. You ain't a body with a soul.

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Speaker 5: Your soul with a body, man. So we're your soul, man,

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Speaker 5: your raw soul. Like authenticity. If you funny, be funny,

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Speaker 5: if you if you loud, be loud, if you just

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Speaker 5: be that, because that's who God wanted.

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Speaker 4: You know, when you know what I'm saying, You all

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Speaker 4: whoever you are, when you all on, you know what

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Speaker 4: I mean?

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Speaker 1: So yeah, twenty twenty five b Awards.

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Speaker 4: Any fash I got, he got that eucalyft I got