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Speaker 1: What's up Its way up with angela ye, and I

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Speaker 1: mean way up. DJ Nextel Next Day is joining us

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Speaker 1: today and our money and you really got it popping

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Speaker 1: right now, so super lit And before we even get started,

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Speaker 1: I just want to say we've been watching everything that's

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Speaker 1: been happening in Jamaica with Hurricane Melissa and the after

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Speaker 1: effects of that. One thing that I noticed that was

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Speaker 1: amazing is how much people have been coming together. And

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Speaker 1: I know you were out there, so can you just

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Speaker 1: talk about your experience and seeing everything in the devastation

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Speaker 1: that happened.

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Speaker 2: It was life I would want to say life changing,

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Speaker 2: but it was from my perspective, it was sad to

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Speaker 2: see because you know, I know what my country supposed

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Speaker 2: to look like and then on the phone doesn't do

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Speaker 2: it just this the plain person It brings you, like

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Speaker 2: in an emotional stake, because like, wow, this is sad,

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Speaker 2: you know. But as you said, there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: hands on board, you know, to help. Glad that Jamaica

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Speaker 2: is loved all around the world because we're just being

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Speaker 2: helped from every angle possible. Of course, I had to

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Speaker 2: go out there and do my piece because you know,

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Speaker 2: that's where my main support comes from and without them,

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't really be here. So I think we're gonna

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Speaker 2: bounce back. Well, I know we're gonna bounce back. It's Jamaica.

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Speaker 2: We've been through whereas you've been through stuff and you

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Speaker 2: always you know, managed to come about the rebble.

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Speaker 1: So we're blind and you're hosting Nick Sale is hosting

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Speaker 1: an actual event.

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Speaker 3: Benefit concer going on in sixteenth December. Law Job King,

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Speaker 3: Yella maun of A set, Red fox S, Creachy Done,

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Speaker 3: Johnny Osborne.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, everything that people can do. And I want to

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Speaker 1: say I saw your video for Champion, and you start

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Speaker 1: off the album a Champion, yeah, and that is a

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Speaker 1: love letter to Jamaica. But one thing you did, you

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Speaker 1: had a budget for the video, but instead of using that,

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Speaker 1: I just want you to break down the whole series

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Speaker 1: of events that happened when you were filming that video.

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Speaker 2: Oh so we got a budget for the video. I

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Speaker 2: was like, I'll just use the budget to help rebuild

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Speaker 2: because the house is there's really no houses in the

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Speaker 2: Western End, you know, like ninety percent no rules and stuff.

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Speaker 2: So I feel like I'll feel better to know that

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Speaker 2: somebody had a house or has a house like they

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Speaker 2: could go back and restart and start fresh again. So

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Speaker 2: I just used the budget. We got all the materials

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Speaker 2: she need. We asked what she needed and she told us.

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Speaker 2: We got it all. Went down there. It was like

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Speaker 2: a three hour drive. What we made it through. We

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Speaker 2: got lost for like like three hours too. We got lost,

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Speaker 2: but I said, all right, we got to find this place.

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Speaker 2: Found her. She was so grateful. You know.

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Speaker 1: I thought that was such a dope video, like to

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Speaker 1: be able to see that because it really captured the

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Speaker 1: moment of everything that's happening, but also the coming together,

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Speaker 1: like I was saying earlier of people who are like

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Speaker 1: really looking at I remember seeing people at hotels that

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Speaker 1: and work on that. And I know it's a long

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Speaker 1: process that has to happen now. And that's why they've

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Speaker 1: been encouraging people because tourism is a big deal, and

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Speaker 2: Yeah. The thing is, though, Jamaica is loved, and that's

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Speaker 2: the perfect thing about the country. You know, it's loved.

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Speaker 2: So I feel like we're going to be back in

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Speaker 2: no time. For sure.

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Speaker 1: All right, now let's get into some of your background

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Speaker 1: in your life now. Our mine is even sitting here

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Speaker 1: today as what people are like saying, is one of

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Speaker 1: like the next generation you know up there. I saw

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Speaker 1: you were at the Caribbean Music Awards, which I know

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Speaker 1: is an amazing experience. But you grew up in Jamaica, right,

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Speaker 1: and what did you think your life was going to

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Speaker 4: Did you You didn't think you were going to be

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Speaker 2: Uh, it was always in the back of my mind.

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Speaker 2: But you know, the default setting is like a pilot

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Speaker 2: police soldiers, you know, growing up in the Caribbean, and

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Speaker 2: a book, always in the books. You gotta be books.

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Speaker 2: So being an artist wasn't really on the top of

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Speaker 2: the list until I got my first job. I was like, no,

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Speaker 2: I can't do this. What was that Golden Crush.

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Speaker 4: Ooh shout out to gold and crowd, yeah Hawthorn.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, but it was just I was like

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Speaker 4: I was like, no, we appreciate you because I love Golden.

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Speaker 2: I love Golden, you know, yeah, Coco Bretty so well.

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Speaker 4: I was in the kitchen okay.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, only boy in a Jamaican.

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Speaker 3: Boll fishing tire room.

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Speaker 2: Huh you boy fish in the tire rim No no

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Speaker 2: no no, not not not far.

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Speaker 1: So Golden crist was the first job, and so you

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Speaker 2: No, So what I actually did. I worked and then

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Speaker 2: I used to pay to pay for my first music video.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like I'm out of here, like somewhere,

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Speaker 2: and then I just started. I had only an iPhone

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Speaker 2: six and a wire band lab recorded to me two

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Speaker 2: months to mix each song.

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Speaker 4: But I was like, I'm gonna that's determination. What was that?

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Speaker 4: What was the first video?

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Speaker 2: But Vengeance? Yeah, it's my first first ever like EP.

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Speaker 2: Like I had no songs out there to drop the EP.

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Speaker 2: I was like, okay, you know, I just wanted to

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Speaker 2: feel how it felt to go into DSP's and see

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Speaker 2: my picture and stuff. So it was like, let me

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Speaker 4: How did it feel for you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I felt like an artist with my two listeners.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Because.

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Speaker 1: First of all, I think that's so dope that you

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Speaker 1: went on your own, did your own money, put it,

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Speaker 1: all your own resources, put this EP? Out with no

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Speaker 4: And so that's why I was wondering at that point,

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Speaker 1: Or does it feel discouraging that You're like, how do

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Speaker 2: Well, for me, it was I always loved the music,

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Speaker 2: you know, and I feel like my talent is spoken

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Speaker 2: and then from there we just came up with a plan,

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Speaker 2: like We're gonna move back to Jamaica and start all

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Speaker 1: And I saw that you were singing a Romaine Virgo song. Yeahs,

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Speaker 1: which Romaine Virgo song?

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Speaker 2: Was it?

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Speaker 4: When You're the teacher? Was like, you can sing?

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Speaker 2: Uh? I think it was? Is it? Him? And Christo

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Speaker 2: Martin had a song It's called Chatticha something that I

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Speaker 2: love that chatty chatty, but it was it was. It

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Speaker 2: was one of the persons I grew up listening to,

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Speaker 2: so I always I know his whole catalog, you know,

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Speaker 2: because my mom also being a pastor, I can listen to.

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Speaker 1: The he's like a really nice guy too. I follow

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Speaker 1: his YouTube and his family and everything and his wife.

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Speaker 1: I think it's so dope how he always like highlights

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Speaker 1: is better to be like a player. You don't want

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Speaker 1: people to know you have a relationship. But he's always

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's like a person, you know, He's a

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Speaker 2: to me. He is one of the legends before my generation.

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Speaker 2: To me, you know, like he really made it possible

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Speaker 2: for us to be like, Okay, we're gonna sing no

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Speaker 2: of Singing Show Rising Stars.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Christopher Martin, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Both of them music. So that just gave me motivations

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Speaker 1: So and you actually won a competition, So how did

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Speaker 1: that change things?

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Speaker 2: I just I was like, oh, I'm gonna just take

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Speaker 2: it serious because I was. I tried to do track well,

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Speaker 2: I was good at it. The track I did the school,

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Speaker 2: I was smart, like, but music just always you know,

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Speaker 2: it was like calling me like instead of just ignooring,

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Speaker 2: and I just embraced it.

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Speaker 4: Mm hmm.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, so far things seemed like they're going really

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Speaker 1: well for you. And another thing that we were talking

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Speaker 1: when it comes to your music because you can sing.

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Speaker 1: But I also clearly with the Fiesta song, yeah, you

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Speaker 4: And I know you were like, how.

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Speaker 3: Did that even come about? Because it's originally all Kelly beat.

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Speaker 2: You know what's funny about the beat. The beat sent

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Speaker 2: to me is called Fiesta, but the Fiesta that I

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Speaker 2: knew was the Elephant Men Fiesta with the Beanie. No,

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Speaker 2: it was it was the Elephant Man, So I ain't know.

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Speaker 2: So when I came up with a hook and the

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Speaker 2: hook is saying Fiista, I was referring to the beats name.

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Speaker 2: So when everybody was telling me you say archads, I'm like, no,

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Speaker 2: I sampled Ephant.

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Speaker 4: That's hilarious.

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Speaker 2: So when I when I went I was like, wow,

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Speaker 2: I really yeah that was my people didn't know that.

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Speaker 2: But it took me like ten minutes to make the song. Dang,

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Speaker 2: yeah it was because it was just a And that's

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Speaker 2: why I always I don't put or overthink my music

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Speaker 2: because it's like I never know what's gonna? You know

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Speaker 4: Did you know it was gonna? Did you feel like

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Speaker 4: this is it?

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Speaker 1: And cause you know sometimes it's people around in the studio,

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Speaker 4: This is a song like you could tell by people's reaction.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I sent it. I sent it to my to

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Speaker 2: my friends and my people. It's just like this is fire.

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Speaker 2: But they didn't hear it while I was recording it

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Speaker 2: because I recalled by myself. Everybody got to get out

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Speaker 4: Always still to this day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I recall myself. My whole album recorded myself.

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Speaker 1: Most people don't do that, Like most people like to

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Speaker 1: have people around get some feedback.

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Speaker 4: I just chill. That's why it takes them so long.

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Speaker 2: You know, you could be in the studio and then

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Speaker 2: somebody you you hit a wrong note, and then somebody left.

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Speaker 2: Let's out of it. It's like, all right now, I

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Speaker 2: don't want to do it no more. So I just

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Speaker 2: try to make sure none of that happened. So I

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Speaker 2: just kick everybody out. My manager doesn't even hear the

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Speaker 2: songs until I'm ready to drop it. More recently, I

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Speaker 2: sent them on release list.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's actually really dope, did you? Were you even

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Speaker 1: familiar with the r Kelly version because you're a lot younger.

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Speaker 2: Uh, you know. The other percentage is just going to

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Speaker 1: It felt like this was a big year for you.

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Speaker 2: It was my show, It was my last EP release.

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Speaker 1: And TikTok has also been really instrumental in having that

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Speaker 2: that's that's who helped my fan base, because then I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's one thing to have like a great

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Speaker 4: And then people be like, oh the music is it? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: You also are a father now yeah, so how do

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Speaker 4: Congratulations? How has that changed things for you?

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Speaker 2: There's a motivation? Is any motivation for me? You know?

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Speaker 2: Now I have to I have you have to make

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Speaker 2: But because even so I never I know how to

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Speaker 2: This is new to me because you know, no pity party,

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Speaker 4: Do you do you know your father? Have you ever

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Speaker 1: Okay? But he just wasn't that present. He not trying

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Speaker 1: to come around. Now, Yeah, that's what what's happening is. Then,

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Speaker 1: Is that something y'all? Blessing man, God, God bless them

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Speaker 1: because sometimes it's like okay, but all right, yeah, we

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Speaker 4: Ye So listen, yeah, in the future. All right.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I want to understand like what's going because there's

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Speaker 2: My free will and the creative process, you know, I don't,

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Speaker 2: As I said, It's why I quit my job. I'm

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Speaker 2: this is this. I always have a vision and instead

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Speaker 2: you know. And that's what I like. They don't try

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Speaker 2: to make it about them. They keep the artists as

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Speaker 4: Where there are a lot of labels trying to come

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like because fear still was when the summer hit,

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Speaker 4: For me, it was about free freedom.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. It's like, I don't want to be, you know,

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Speaker 1: You said you don't like being told what to do?

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Speaker 1: How does that working relationships?

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Speaker 2: Oh? You know, I'll wear the pants, you know, but

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Speaker 1: Say that, I'm always like, how do you get in

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Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not like, I don't feel like I

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Speaker 2: That being said, lip lip.

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Speaker 4: Be careful what you send out. Men, you know, alright.

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Speaker 2: I don't even think I got to snatched up for her.

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Speaker 2: I can't believe you, no, But relationship me and relationships

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Speaker 1: He's like, you could tell me what to do because

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Speaker 2: That's really it. I don't really go outside. And if

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Speaker 4: You know, like unders good music though, yeah it does,

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Speaker 2: I don't know why she threw her brow on the stage.

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Speaker 2: You know, it comes with it, and not a lot

441
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Speaker 2: of people understand that. So I feel like for artists

442
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Speaker 2: have to be really picky with who. You know, I'm

443
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Speaker 2: really sharing my space with my heart. You know.

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Speaker 4: You know you were at the Caribbean Music Awards.

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Speaker 1: I was looking at some of the footage from that,

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Speaker 1: So talk to me about that experience and how it

447
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Speaker 1: was for you to be there.

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Speaker 4: You were nominated, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder you won the Impact a word. It

450
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Speaker 2: was just the name of my album too, But that

451
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Speaker 2: on purpose? Is that I don't know? No, it was

452
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Speaker 2: a full to me. It's a full certing moment because

453
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Speaker 2: I didn't announce the name of the album or anything,

454
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Speaker 2: So you.

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Speaker 4: Already knew the name before you won the award. Yeah,

456
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Speaker 4: that's dope.

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Speaker 2: I knew the name of my album before I announced it.

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Speaker 2: So I won the award in August and I announced

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Speaker 2: my album December.

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Speaker 4: That's wow.

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Speaker 1: So you won the Impact the word, but already had

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Speaker 1: the name of the album as the Yeah And why

463
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Speaker 1: is that the name of the album.

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Speaker 2: Because it's it's to me. It's gonna be very impactful

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Speaker 2: at least one song you're gonna be able to relate to,

466
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Speaker 2: you know, like I have Lose Your Love, which is

467
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Speaker 2: a rude trot reggae song on it the lead.

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Speaker 1: Track, and the video is coming out on Friday Friday.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see that.

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Speaker 2: It's like a song where it's like, you know, you're

471
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Speaker 2: in a barbecue. You have to hear Barr's Hammond. You

472
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Speaker 2: have to hear Yeah. So imagine hearing a new vibe.

473
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Speaker 2: You know, it's the same playlists over and over then

474
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Speaker 2: Ourmani's and it's still the same vibe. It's gonna give

475
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Speaker 2: me a you know.

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Speaker 3: You don't work with any older artists too, because I

477
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Speaker 3: know that I want to work with Yeah, I want

478
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Speaker 3: to see I love music.

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Speaker 2: Man. I don't work with everybody, you know, but I

480
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Speaker 2: definitely want to work with like Bears Hammond being the

481
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Speaker 2: man killer I work with him.

482
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Speaker 4: Have you reached out to any of them or how

483
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Speaker 4: does that work?

484
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Speaker 2: Yeah? I have, you know, I have songs with them.

485
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Speaker 2: I have a song with Gyptian. I don't release Egyptian. Yeah,

486
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Speaker 2: you know it's crazy. Yeah, So it's like it's it's

487
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Speaker 2: a work behind the scenes. Is something that I'm not

488
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Speaker 2: afraid to work with anybody.

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Speaker 1: I like that you said that and O my because

490
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Speaker 1: sometimes people will be like, oh, oh the artists, you know,

491
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Speaker 1: let the younger artists through, and.

492
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Speaker 2: There's a thing like that. I don't think anybody can

493
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Speaker 2: really stop what you're doing unless you stop what you're doing,

494
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Speaker 2: you know. So I don't really pay attention to older artists.

495
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Speaker 2: This this, this, this, this, this. Yeah, it's cool. They

496
00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,640
Speaker 2: gotta do you do what you did already. Whatever you

497
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Speaker 2: you did is done. It's my time to do what

498
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Speaker 2: you had the opportunity to do. So I'm not really

499
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Speaker 2: if you If you don't like my music, cool, five

500
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Speaker 2: other people like it. Like that's how the people like it.

501
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Speaker 2: So I just look at life like.

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Speaker 4: That instead of focus focus on the love.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it just feels like, you know, just thinking

504
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Speaker 1: about everything that you've told us, I feel like there's

505
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Speaker 1: a bigger picture for you, because I can see you're

506
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Speaker 1: the type of person that thinks, like, five years from now,

507
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Speaker 1: this is where I want to be. And I feel

508
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Speaker 1: like it's not just music for you. What are some

509
00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:55,359
Speaker 1: other things that our money is dabbling in or you

510
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Speaker 1: feel like it is on the horizon for you.

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Speaker 2: I want to act in a movie, you know.

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Speaker 4: I can see that.

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Speaker 2: I want to be the one part two. Yeah, oh

514
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Speaker 2: my god, yeah you know this is part two. I

515
00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,359
Speaker 2: want to want a model. Yeah, I want to do

516
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Speaker 2: it all man.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I can see that you would be good all of.

518
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Speaker 2: The streaming, streaming. You know, I stream a little bit

519
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Speaker 2: too on twitch, but I don't really take it serious.

520
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Speaker 2: But but why not, because I shoink.

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Speaker 4: Streaming is a big Yeah. You have to be consistent

522
00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:28,960
Speaker 4: and you have to really like build up that.

523
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Speaker 2: And as I said, once i'm inside, like my mood changes,

524
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Speaker 2: I'm my social I'm not a social butterfly. And then

525
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Speaker 2: I be on streaming and my social body as I'm

526
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Speaker 2: just looking at the camera laying, Okay, what.

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Speaker 4: Do I say?

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Speaker 1: No, your trailer was pretty awesome for the album too,

529
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Speaker 1: And so you're very are you very into chess?

530
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Speaker 4: Because I see the chess board, and it's just the idea.

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Speaker 2: And the thing about chess is what I'm really funned about.

532
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Speaker 2: I know how to play it. Not really more of

533
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Speaker 2: a dumbing type, I got it. But yeah, chess is

534
00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:06,080
Speaker 2: really a mind things, really a mind thing. And I

535
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Speaker 2: feel like mental strength. Like the champions, you have mental strength,

536
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Speaker 2: you can't be drawn out. And so that's what chess

537
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Speaker 2: represents for me, you know, mental strength and strategy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I saw in the trailer you think

539
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Speaker 1: people are ready for this?

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Speaker 2: I don't know, well find out, you know, but I

541
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Speaker 2: like it's it's it's my best work yet. I say

542
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Speaker 2: that it's filled with different vibes. Have a song with

543
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Speaker 2: bas gonna sexy, you know, sexy drill.

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Speaker 4: We heard that high class, Yeah, high class.

545
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Speaker 2: So it's it's gonna it's gonna come over to.

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Speaker 4: Anybody, my girl Data Kingdom A nice sexy there he goes.

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Speaker 2: You don't have a snatch out, remember I don't.

548
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Speaker 1: Well, congratulations on on everything that you have accomplished so

549
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Speaker 1: far this album. I think people are going to be

550
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Speaker 1: ready for it, and I'm excited for the world to hear.

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Speaker 1: We got a little sneak preview, you know, earlier on.

552
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Speaker 1: But just love to see everything that you've been doing.

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Speaker 1: Is there anything you want to have for last words

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Speaker 1: on for our listeners.

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Speaker 2: Uh, stream the album when it comes out. Man, I

556
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Speaker 2: love you guys for the support and everything. And to

557
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Speaker 2: the new listeners. My name is Armani and you can

558
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Speaker 2: find me everywhere at A R A and I am

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Speaker 2: you s IQ and tour. Yeah, we have a show actually,

560
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Speaker 2: tour kicks off to Friday. Yeah, the twelve the Loft,

561
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Speaker 2: Brooklyn sold out period. Yeah but you can probably come

562
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Speaker 2: in the door and try to get a ticket, but

563
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Speaker 2: we sold out. I loves you so yeah, so we're

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Speaker 2: gonna go crazy Friday.

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Speaker 1: You know what do you think you've had your best shows?

566
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Speaker 1: Like as far as your audience, London?

567
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Speaker 2: I love London. My favorite place before London is the

568
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Speaker 2: vibe is different there, and then it would be New York. Second,

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Speaker 2: and probably Anti You got thirty.

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Speaker 1: Ooh okay Antia shout out to that. My family's from

571
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Speaker 1: master Rat so you know you gotta go to Antiga first.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I love Antiga.

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Speaker 2: Antiga is like a gateway, like a porta no everywhere.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Well, thank you so much. We appreciate you for coming,