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Speaker 1: We're here to celebrate fifty years of hip hop it's

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Speaker 1: impact on sports, fashion, and culture, especially here in New York.

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Speaker 1: And I have what I consider the two trailblazers of sport,

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Speaker 1: hip hop, and culture. I have the God MC, the

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Speaker 1: LT of lyricists, the great Rock Kim, Thank you, sir.

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Speaker 1: And I got the purveyor of all things hip hop,

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Speaker 1: our tour guide over thirty years now, mister ed Lover.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Carl, appreciate it. Nice to be here, Welcome in.

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Speaker 1: But before I get into the sport the culture.

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Speaker 2: Wait, man, I'm trying to First of all, we're trying

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Speaker 2: to act like we don't know you. Right, Let's go,

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Speaker 2: let's get more comfortable with this God saying I do.

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Speaker 2: We've been out, You've been my dude since forever. Understand this.

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Speaker 1: There is such a high level of respect and regard

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Speaker 1: that I.

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Speaker 2: Hold for you guys. But Carl war Hole is saying him, Bro,

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Speaker 2: this is what we're not. We we love the giants, bro,

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Speaker 2: this is real what I'm at.

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Speaker 1: I understand that, and I love you guys. But that's

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Speaker 1: that's the part. I found out Rock Kim loved football

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Speaker 1: before rap, Right, how did that happen like they tell

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Speaker 1: me you was ill.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Man, I thought I was going somewhere and Man,

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Speaker 3: been playing football since PO played half act the first year.

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Speaker 3: I love running the ball. I got up to Junior

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Speaker 3: High and one of the half acts was like, coach,

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Speaker 3: you know gwiff got on.

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Speaker 2: It's like your shut up, man.

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Speaker 3: The coach ain't saying nothing. Later on the practice, I

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Speaker 3: ran a touchdown. Coaches like gift throw the ball. I

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Speaker 3: wasn't even thinking get over there with the quarterback and

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Speaker 3: that was well, it was ball.

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Speaker 2: But I claim to fame. Man.

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Speaker 3: I thought that was it for me.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 3: Then Eric b knocked at my door.

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Speaker 2: Man, So how did that? How did that switch over

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Speaker 2: from you playing football to your love of hip hop?

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Speaker 2: Were you all at the same time when you still yeah,

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Speaker 2: I was all yeah. I was always rhyming.

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Speaker 3: But I had got to a point where I got

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Speaker 3: real serious with football, Like I didn't. I didn't think

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Speaker 3: i'd be able to make a record, being honest, you

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Speaker 3: know what I mean, on the outside looking in. So

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Speaker 3: you know, I booted up one year and said, yo'

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Speaker 3: I'm a workout hard this summer and I'm going to

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Speaker 3: college and you know, hopefully I can get in. I

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Speaker 3: wasn't thinking about how short I was, you know what

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Speaker 3: I mean this job. All I seen was quarterback. I'm

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Speaker 3: playing quarterback. But thanks having for a reason.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 3: I met Eric B And I think I made the

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Speaker 3: right decision.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you made the right decision. How did Eric find you?

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Speaker 3: What's funny is the brother I played football with that

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Speaker 3: I grew up with. Her brother named Alvin Tony just

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Speaker 3: passed away.

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Speaker 2: Yeah recip EPMD fault. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And you know I ain't like people bringing nobody.

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Speaker 2: I ain't no to the house.

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Speaker 3: So I went to the door, peek up the out

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Speaker 3: the window and I see my man I standing there

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Speaker 3: with somebody I don't know. So I'm like, I open

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Speaker 3: the door, I'll get out, and look like he was like, yo,

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Speaker 3: I know, I know Roy put this brother right here.

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Speaker 3: He know Mally's mall and Magic, and he said he'd

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Speaker 3: you know he looking, So I gave him a look.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, alright, man, come in. Man. So luckily I

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Speaker 2: had this tape.

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Speaker 3: I said, when I go to college, when people start

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Speaker 3: popping off, I'm just gonna put my cassette in, let

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Speaker 3: her speak for self. I ain't even gotta you know,

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Speaker 3: get get get involved in it.

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Speaker 2: So I had this tape. Eric Beat came.

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Speaker 3: I played that tape for Eric Beat. It had the

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Speaker 3: melody on it and a bunch of other freestyle.

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Speaker 2: My melody was on the tape on.

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Speaker 3: The tape already, Wow, melody was done.

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Speaker 1: Ed. I had the good fortune of being here in

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Speaker 1: New York and I got a call one day. It says,

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Speaker 1: it just was right after one of our Super Bowls.

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Speaker 1: Somebody wants to meet you, right, And it was you know,

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Speaker 1: Burpadel's has come down to Maten Lane. So I come

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Speaker 1: and it's Rock Kim and I'm like, do you remember.

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Speaker 2: That, yes, sir?

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Speaker 1: And I was like, when you talk about athletes and

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Speaker 1: I'm a champion, right, and you talk about athletes idolizing artists,

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Speaker 1: I'm there, I'm an artist, dude. And he's just like,

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Speaker 1: and I couldn't wait to tell everybody I'm a kid

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Speaker 1: from Flint, Michigan. I got lucky, right. So the reason

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Speaker 1: I call you the conductor, the tour guide, the purveyor

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Speaker 1: of culture and hip hop and fashion, is because we

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Speaker 1: didn't know what people in New York dressed like. We

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Speaker 1: didn't know in some cases what they sound like. But

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Speaker 1: because of your platform at your MTV raps, you opened

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Speaker 1: up the entire world to how people dress in the

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Speaker 1: Bay Area, in New York. In Chicago, I saw I

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Speaker 1: think it was leaders of the New School wearing a

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Speaker 1: Cleveland Brown Starter jacket, and I saw it on MTV right.

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Speaker 1: So if you can imagine somebody in Cleveland seeing that

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Speaker 2: Mind over these jackets.

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Speaker 1: We wore Starter when I played, and I remember you saying, Yo,

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Speaker 1: Dre wants a jacket to wear on air. We want

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Speaker 1: to west Starter on air. Yeah, Like it wasn't my

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Speaker 1: brand at that time.

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Speaker 2: I was just win.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, I'm gonna go get that so you

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Speaker 1: can get it. I went to the equipment manager, I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I needed three accent man, and he wore it all

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Speaker 2: You guys wore it on the source cover where it

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Speaker 2: started all the time, on their own TV rats all

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Speaker 2: the time. But then we used to get in trouble,

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Speaker 2: so we used to hang the started tag off the

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Speaker 2: that everybody could see that it was a star. It

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Speaker 2: was still Started because we knew that when we was

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Speaker 2: doing your own TV raps they get being quite transparent.

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Speaker 2: They gave us nothing, right, they didn't give us a

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Speaker 2: wardrobe budget. It was like whatever you had, you had,

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Speaker 2: whatever you can muscle up from whoever you could get

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Speaker 2: it from. That's the kind of clothes that we wore

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Speaker 2: and started was what was popping. That's what we wanted.

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Speaker 2: We want to help make start a pop more than

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Speaker 2: it was already popping, because we already we had our

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Speaker 2: teams that we loved. Yeah, we're giants. You know, I've

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Speaker 2: been you know how long I've been a Giants fan.

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Speaker 2: I love the Giants. So if I could wear a

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Speaker 2: Giants jacket on and let the rest of the company

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Speaker 2: see that, this is what I represent. I represent the

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Speaker 2: New York Giants. I represent New York to the fullets.

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Speaker 2: I'm New York to the heart. And you can't take

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Speaker 2: you know, New York out of your heart. It's what

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's it's crazy because talk about that. There's

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Speaker 1: a different level of pressure to before. They say, if

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Speaker 1: it this where it's true, like the New York City lights,

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Speaker 1: that's real.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like this, the energy that New York has man,

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Speaker 3: if you born here, you quickly understand it and you

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Speaker 3: would out that feeling, you know what I mean, Like you.

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Speaker 2: Know, you know the role.

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Speaker 3: So it's like, oh, yeah, there's New York man, you know,

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Speaker 3: let me act a part, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 3: the energy, you know, everything to come with it. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's a level that we got to keep.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 3: So I think it was just you know, understanding that,

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Speaker 3: being a part of that feeling that and yeah, a

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Speaker 3: They let the energy get to them. Like you know,

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Speaker 3: a lot of sports you know, has come out here

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Speaker 3: and the New York life is a little too much

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Speaker 1: So speaking of it was like another teammate, like when

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Speaker 1: we talk about you know, it's legit, like when there's

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Speaker 1: guys got bodyguards now and it's a lot different.

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Speaker 2: Right, there's the layers.

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Speaker 1: Right for us, there was no layers, Like once we

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Speaker 1: knew there was love in it, and I didn't know

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Speaker 1: and said to me over dinner, He's like, as soon

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Speaker 1: as we knew, y'all was on this rap game, y'all

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Speaker 1: were one of us, right, y'all listen to our music

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Speaker 1: at first?

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Speaker 2: General, we like you artists of athletes that liked hip hop,

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Speaker 2: right Jordan them was R and B Dudes, Scottie Pippett

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Speaker 2: and all of them, and ours Grand News R and

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Speaker 2: B dudes. Yeah, y'all with hip hop dudes, So that

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Speaker 2: that really made a difference to us because we would,

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Speaker 2: what you're saying about today's artists, they travel with the

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Speaker 2: entourage of bodyguards and all of this because the Internet

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Speaker 2: and how much money they got, so they have to

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Speaker 2: protect themselves. And I totally understand that. But if we

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Speaker 2: going out and I'm with Call Banks and Peppa Johnson

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Speaker 2: and Big Dog Robins, what I need security. I got

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Speaker 2: the biggest dudes in the world. I got world champions

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Speaker 2: These dudes are six three fifty two seventy five solid.

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Speaker 2: We don't need no security, y'all worded security. What you're

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Speaker 2: talking about, Yeah, but it wouldn't been about nothing.

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Speaker 1: But we would all be from dinner to each other's

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Speaker 1: houses all night, two nightclubs that we can't even speak

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Speaker 1: of right now because it was a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: But we saw any and everybody there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: For someone who changed how we consume rap music intellectually, yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: And someone who changed how we consume hip hop as

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Speaker 1: a culture from a fashion standpoint, even from down to

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Speaker 1: how it's played on radio. I wanted to make sure

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Speaker 1: that as we celebrate fifty years of hip hop, that

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Speaker 1: you two living legends, get the love you deserve.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Carl, appreciate that brank you for me. I

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Speaker 2: told you this over dinner. I still pinch myself and say, man,

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Speaker 2: you're so lucky that I am on a first named

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Speaker 2: basis with rock Kim. I never thought that would happen

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Speaker 2: to me in my life. Rock Kim and every being

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Speaker 2: rock Kim came out before I was on you on

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Speaker 2: TV Rocks. Now I'm on a first name basis. I

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Speaker 2: remember sitting in the studio watching Molly and Read Alert.

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Speaker 2: It was just me Read Alert and Molly mal in

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Speaker 2: the radio station and I was sitting in there and

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Speaker 2: they was like, Hey, what's wrong with you? I'm like,

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Speaker 2: I cannot believe that I'm in this room with y'all.

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Speaker 2: I can't believe that y'all know me. I can't believe that.

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Speaker 2: Half the time I can walk up and say what's up, Rod,

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Speaker 2: and he'd be like, what's your name again? No, it's Ed,

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Speaker 2: Like you know, yeah, telling somebody. He did Louisville, Kentucky,

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Speaker 2: and I was hosting one time and I introduced him

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Speaker 2: But if people don't understand, Rock Kim changed hip hop.

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Speaker 2: But that sentigy between music and fashion was it was

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Speaker 1: We was looking for that. Yeah about that. It's still

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Speaker 1: The fact that guys like Cana I could say, Okay,

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Speaker 2: All hip hop morning show in America. Well, look I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Like the Big started. They show a lot of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And the thing is that was the beginning. Yeah yeah,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and then that was he outpaced Howard Stern.

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Speaker 1: Yeah great, Howard Stern. Like, if you're tuning into a

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Speaker 2: Hip hop became became a universal thing. Yeah, you know

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Speaker 2: Have something to talk about, or you have something to

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Speaker 2: And when you're in New Yorker, you're a New Yorker

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Speaker 1: And that's the energy that was talking about, right, New

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Speaker 2: so here in New York the lights are brighter. Yeah right,

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Speaker 2: The New York City lights stay shine. They illuminated that

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Speaker 2: Yes, sure, Oh wow, oh my god, oh wow, that's crazy.

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Speaker 2: Look at that. Thank you Bro, five voe in the building.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, sir, Thank you all so much. Started, thank

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Speaker 3: Got to get me one more and put the five

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Speaker 2: Me, Man. That's incredible. Guys.

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate you, man, and I just want to

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Speaker 2: Bro my life.

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Speaker 1: Like you talk about influencers, you guys have been that

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Speaker 2: So much, man, that we can't even begin to thank

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Speaker 1: But you know what, I'm happy, and I bet you

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Speaker 2: We don't write the ship, but I'm still I ain't

436
00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:23,120
Speaker 2: going nowhere, no doubt. Every time I say, don't realk

437
00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:24,800
Speaker 2: it in the game, no more to chance to make

438
00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:30,240
Speaker 2: me shick that Sunday. Come on now, y'all, come on, yeah,

439
00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:32,800
Speaker 2: I'm hooked, man, I'm done this right well for life.

440
00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:37,600
Speaker 2: Thank you fellas, my man. This is so dope.