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Speaker 1: What's upsway up? But Angela Ye, I'm Angela Yee. And

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Speaker 1: Jasmine from the Jasmine brand dot Com is here. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I'm here, and Ioj is here. What's up?

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Speaker 2: Yep, I'm good. How you doing, I'm good?

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Speaker 1: Thank you? Listen. Well, first of all, I'm excited that

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Speaker 1: you're going to be an Angela Yee day this year

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Speaker 1: for the first time. I am excited to I know

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Speaker 1: you've lived all over New York City too, Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: I have to ask you what was the best out

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Speaker 1: of all the burrows that you lived in.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I spend the most time in the Bronx,

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Speaker 2: So I'll say the Bronx. Angela.

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Speaker 1: How do you feel about that? Not great, but that's okay.

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Speaker 1: He be in Brooklyn, outside the birthplace. But listen, we

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Speaker 1: love the Bronx too. Okay, if you're in the Bronx,

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Speaker 1: come on down, you know, check us out. But listen,

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Speaker 1: I love that you're doing this because you know, I

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Speaker 1: feel like when you first blew up right, Afrobeta is

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Speaker 1: not where it is today, definitely at all. So let's

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Speaker 1: talk about you just breaking into the business. This is

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Speaker 1: your first time on Way Up at the Angela Yee.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we've ever sat down.

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Speaker 2: I don't think for you, I don't think so. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I don't think so. But I mean your number is

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Speaker 2: you know, it did this thing. It blew Up in

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Speaker 2: twenty sixteen is one of the first songs to cross over,

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Speaker 2: you know, the Aprobeat's song. I've been doing Applebe since

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Speaker 2: like twenty twelve. You know, while I was in school,

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Speaker 2: I moved back to Nigeria to push other sounds, and

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Speaker 2: then your number took off. You know, you know, I'm

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Speaker 2: here still doing my thing, you know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And when's the last time you've been in Nigeria

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, yeah, yeah, it's five years. It's it's been

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Speaker 1: And you actually worked with FEddi Wap early on too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, FEddi was the first remix I did for your number.

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Speaker 2: So that's the one that that's the remix that I

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Speaker 2: credit that took off the song you make, the song

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Speaker 3: How did you meet Eddi Wap?

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Speaker 2: It was it was people, you know, just mutual friends. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And did you always know that music was your calling?

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Speaker 1: I know you grew up and you were in London.

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Speaker 2: Just a few months, that's it. Yeah, there's a few months.

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Speaker 2: And then my parents moved moved back to Nigeria. Then

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Speaker 2: School? I came here for college. You went to Peru College.

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Speaker 2: That's my dad went, oh, really, it's nice. It's nice school.

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Speaker 1: So you came all right? And so at that point, right,

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Speaker 2: Yes, definitely. And then you know, while I was in school,

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Speaker 2: that's when I, you know, pretty much developed the passion

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Speaker 3: Were you working while you were putting on music initially

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Speaker 2: it was always just music and school. Just music in school.

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Speaker 1: That's the dream right there.

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Speaker 1: Most people are like, yeah, I had eight jobs McDonald's.

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Speaker 1: When you came to the United States? Was that was

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Speaker 1: All right, because that's a really big difference.

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Speaker 2: You know, I was already I was already. I was

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Speaker 1: Isn't it crazy how things have changed? Because now I

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Speaker 2: Well, apple beets, right, yeah, Apple beats is popping.

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Speaker 2: That's a lot of pressure. I mean, definitely it is.

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Speaker 2: She's like my child, right yeah. Yeah, and she did

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Speaker 1: So that's the point of kids. I feel like this

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Speaker 1: And now let's talk about because you do have an

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Speaker 1: EP that's about to come out. Yes, so right before

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Speaker 1: and so let's talk about that for a second and

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Speaker 1: the whole process of you and I know you work

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Speaker 2: Yes, Fab is on is on track too. Paranoia, Oh,

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Speaker 2: talk about paranoia a little bit. Paranoida is U. It's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, ago. It's a song that I wrote a while ago.

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Speaker 1: second because we talk about like, you know, guys feel like, well,

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Speaker 1: have their own motives, right, question, Angela, I mean.

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Speaker 2: It's a great question. I mean, I mean to be

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Speaker 1: And so that's because when a girl meets you, she

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Speaker 3: Get to give the women a break, please, we need

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Speaker 2: We need to respect exactly definitely. But you know, I

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Speaker 2: just that's that's just my point of view.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm just teasing you. Put you on the

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Speaker 2: My friend passed away. Actually, my friend passed away last summer.

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Speaker 2: That's who I named the EP after. Tommy. He was

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Speaker 2: We were just out, you know, having fun last summer,

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I'm sorry. I am so sorry to

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Speaker 1: hear that. I know you said that's like your brother.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, my my friend m brother. Yeah. So I

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Speaker 2: So I just feel like, you know what, it is

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Speaker 1: Were you constantly writing music during this whole time?

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Speaker 1: Okay. So does this mean that now you're fully back

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Speaker 2: Definitely? Okay, definitely back pretty much. I just find a

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Speaker 1: And what about with a lot of the other afrobeats artists,

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Speaker 2: Definitely, I'm going back next month. Wow, Okay, I'm going

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Speaker 1: Yeah. We were just playing a new snippet of his

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Speaker 1: City Boys.

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Speaker 2: Just said Burning Boy for sure number one. Definitely, Tams

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Speaker 2: I would love to hear some with Tims definitely, definitely,

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Speaker 1: And what about like afro pop because I know there's

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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I have this argument. Even within my

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Speaker 1: How did you even learn how to sing?

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Speaker 1: Are you still signed the r C A.

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Speaker 2: No, I'm not. It was a singles deal?

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Speaker 2: It was a singles deal.

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Speaker 1: So that song was already out and then they signed.

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Speaker 2: Brown definitely, yeah, definitely. Would you want to do another

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Speaker 2: deal or do you Yeah, I'll do, I'll do, I'll

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Speaker 2: well for me. They put me in places that maybe

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Speaker 1: What's the next ideal deal look for it look like?

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Speaker 2: Uh, what's the word.

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Speaker 1: Like the next deal that you have? What would ideally

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Speaker 2: Or I want to be an independent artist for sure.

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Speaker 2: I don't mind doing single deals here and there.

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Speaker 2: Stuff like that. I don't even mind doing a label

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Speaker 2: want to be. I don't have an artist, but I'm

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Speaker 2: looking to sign one right now.

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay. That's so you're really back in it.

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Speaker 1: And you also don't post much on social media.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm introverted, but but I'm going to have somebody

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Speaker 1: Because people need to see three posts a year.

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Speaker 2: We need to see Yeah, I know I need to

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, listen, ij We're going to see a

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Speaker 1: lot of you and I really appreciate you. I was

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Speaker 1: very excited when they said that you were down to

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Speaker 1: do Angela, so that's really hyped for me.

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Speaker 2: So I listen to you for for a few years

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Speaker 2: so on to be here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, as soon as they said, I said, yes, please

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Speaker 1: lock it in. So thank you so much. We're appreciative.

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Speaker 1: It's an event that is for the community. It's free,

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Speaker 1: it's for the kids, you know. So I just am

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Speaker 1: glad to also celebrate your new EP with you. Definitely

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Speaker 1: on that day, so we'll make sure that everybody knows.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: All right, Iod, thank you so much. Y'all follow him

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Speaker 1: and pressure him to post, make him pot all right,

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Speaker 1: EP is coming out Tommy on Friday

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Speaker 2: Definitely, all right, thank you,