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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.

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Speaker 2: UK singer and rapper Bakar is writing a wave stateside

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Speaker 2: thanks to his international hit Helen Back ahead of his

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Speaker 2: highly anticipated sophomore album, Halo. When it came to recording

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Speaker 2: that project, he stayed true to its title, telling nmy

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Speaker 2: we wanted to make music in the light for Halo,

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Speaker 2: that was a big deal, not studios, trying to go

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Speaker 2: to these environments and make a lot of it in houses,

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Speaker 2: airbnbs while we were traveling on the move. I think

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Speaker 2: that comes across on the record. There's a movement and

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Speaker 2: an urgency to it. It's a lived experience. Lyrically, I

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Speaker 2: don't really change. I just carry on explaining what's going

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Speaker 2: on in my life and in my friend's lives. I've

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Speaker 2: just gotten better at writing songs. Halo is out everywhere

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Speaker 2: September twenty second.

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Speaker 1: That's Direct from Hollywood.