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Speaker 2: So I was sitting in Atlanta when I was on tour,

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Speaker 2: and I was talking to this guy and I was like,

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Speaker 2: you know, saying all these different things about where I

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Speaker 2: want to go, and he was like, I said something

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Speaker 2: like I'm an African American man. He was talking about something.

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Speaker 2: He was like, oh, you ever been to Africa? And

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Speaker 2: I was like nah. He was like, so you're an

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Speaker 2: African American man and you've never been to Africa And

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Speaker 2: I was like damn. And it hurt even more that

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Speaker 2: a white dude said.

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Speaker 3: It was like damn.

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Speaker 2: So I was like, I need to go to Africa.

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Speaker 2: So I started looking into like, you know what I

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Speaker 2: could do to go and all these different things. So

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Speaker 2: I got a homie named Io who's from Nigeria. I

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Speaker 2: met through my guy Frank shut out Frank, and Io

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Speaker 2: was telling me he was actually getting ready to go

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Speaker 2: back over there and do some things for the kids,

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Speaker 2: and you know, telling me how like everybody comes over

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Speaker 2: there and they usually bring like clothes or money, but

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Speaker 2: they never really bring things to like help these kids

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Speaker 2: or whatever.

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Speaker 3: So I was like, man, let's go, Like I'm down

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Speaker 3: to go.

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Speaker 2: So we all go over there, and immediately when we

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Speaker 2: get over there, we realized like, well right before we

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Speaker 2: kind of knew like it was a uh, they're not

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Speaker 2: as advanced in technology as we are over here right

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Speaker 2: as far like they got computers and different things like that,

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Speaker 2: but they don't have it in abundance like we do.

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Speaker 3: So we was.

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Speaker 2: Already talking about bringing laptops over there for the kids.

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Speaker 2: But I got a homegirl who works in AI. She

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Speaker 2: has a dope program, and we was like we could

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Speaker 2: put onto the laptops where it could help the kids

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Speaker 2: learn to navigate through the computer faster. So we go

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Speaker 2: over there, Bro, and immediately, Doug, when I get over there,

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Speaker 2: it was like a culture shock. It was like a

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Speaker 2: real culture shock because the first thing is so hot.

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Speaker 4: At the airport.

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Speaker 5: Bro, the airport like a bus term and no disrespect,

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Speaker 5: but I'll let you finish.

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Speaker 4: But we got a story, all right, Bro.

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Speaker 2: It was so hot to where immediately like it make

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Speaker 2: you take the labels off. You feel like you're not

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Speaker 2: You're not worried about getting fly every day. Nah, you

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Speaker 2: ain't worried about your outfit. You ain't worried about that.

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Speaker 2: So that process puts you in humanity, you know what

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Speaker 2: I'm saying. So now you moving like how you don't

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Speaker 2: have to move over here? A lot of it over

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Speaker 2: here is about elitists and status and all these different things.

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Speaker 2: What kind of shoes you got on over there is like,

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Speaker 2: you know what you really contributing to our people? You

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Speaker 2: know what I mean? Like, how are you helping us

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Speaker 2: as a people? So I get over there, man, and

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Speaker 2: I'm moving through. So we were staying on the island

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Speaker 2: and then we were going to the mainland every day.

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Speaker 2: So he going into the mainland and I'm seeing just

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Speaker 2: like cows and like people just like selling everything they

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Speaker 2: I met this kid kids in front of the stories

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Speaker 2: I ended up posting the kid or whatever. Yeah, posted

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Speaker 2: them went up. Everybody in Nigeria start start tagging them everything, right,

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Speaker 2: so I immediately start getting hit Yo, we want you to

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Speaker 2: come to this radio station.

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Speaker 3: Yo.

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Speaker 2: He wants you to come to this thing. Like Yo,

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Speaker 2: he wants you to come to Africa today. It's like

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Speaker 2: to see and in Africa over there. So now I'm

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Speaker 2: on an organic press run, just like literally went there

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Speaker 2: I'm bringing Lucky with me, bringing them with me, talking

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Speaker 2: some food and I'm like what you want to eat?

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Speaker 2: And he like like I don't know, you know what

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Speaker 2: I mean? Like, I'm like what you mean?

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Speaker 3: So my homi? He like lucky.

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Speaker 2: You ever ate at a restaurant? He like no, how

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Speaker 2: was he fourteen? He was like, you ever had a hamburger?

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Speaker 2: And he was like no, pretty much like east Rice

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Speaker 2: and like these things called bones every day, which is

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Speaker 2: like these like small chicken uh, like they like chicken

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Speaker 2: gizzards kind of. So we get him a hamburger, bro,

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Speaker 2: And I watched me at the hamburger, and it immediately

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Speaker 2: made me just be like, Bro, we got life fucked up.

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Speaker 2: We got life fucked up over here. Bro, we be

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Speaker 2: so consumed with the bullshit to where it's like we

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Speaker 2: don't even really see the life in front of us.

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Speaker 2: So from that day, from when I seen that, I

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Speaker 2: just started living in it, bro, you know what I mean, Like,

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Speaker 2: I just start going where the people was at if

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Speaker 2: people was hitting me, Like yo, you got this going on?

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Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm pulling up the veto had a concert.

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Speaker 3: I pulled up. He brought me out on stage. You know.

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Speaker 2: So one thing I noticed was just like the love

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Speaker 2: I'm doing all this movement. I ain't looked over my

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Speaker 2: to rob me one time. I ain't feel like Nobody

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Speaker 2: was finna take my jury or do something to my son.

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Speaker 3: Not one time.

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Speaker 2: Now they gonna ask you for some money. They're gonna

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Speaker 2: ask you for some money, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: I saw when you pulled up with the van.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they gonna ask you for a little money.

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Speaker 2: But it wasn't like I felt threatened if I didn't

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Speaker 2: give him any you know what I mean? It was

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Speaker 2: just like God, like, this is this is how it

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Speaker 2: should feel with us amongst our people. It shouldn't feel

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Speaker 2: like I gotta have a gun to go to this

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Speaker 2: spot because Bro might take my chain, or I gotta

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Speaker 2: park my car over here because you know, like it

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Speaker 2: didn't feel like that now. One time, it just felt

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Speaker 2: like love. So it just really put me in a space, Bro,

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Speaker 2: of like living and just letting life happen instead of

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Speaker 4: How long was you there for?

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Speaker 3: Two weeks? Was there for two weeks?

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Speaker 2: I was supposed to go to Ghana the second week,

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Speaker 2: and then I just fell in love with the people

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Speaker 2: in Nigeria. I was like, Bro, I'm staying here. Fuck it,

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Speaker 2: I'm familiar with the people.

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Speaker 1: You said something, So is that what you found because

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Speaker 1: you said this quote. You said that we buy things

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Speaker 1: here to showcase a part of ourselves that we never

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Speaker 1: took time to find. And so I'm wondering, is that

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Speaker 1: what you found that in a piece of saying like

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Speaker 1: this is what life should be?

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Speaker 3: Bro?

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Speaker 2: Like, I ain't really if you peak like the last Like,

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Speaker 2: since I got back, I ain't really been wearing jewelry.

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Speaker 2: I wear my watch, you know what I'm saying. But

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Speaker 2: it's like I don't really wear it because over there

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Speaker 2: it made me realize like, like, bro, this shit don't

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Speaker 2: make me a better rapper.

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Speaker 3: It don't make me a better person.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Like it's just something to

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Speaker 2: show people to get them to pay attention to me.

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Speaker 2: I could find another way to do that. I'm creative

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Speaker 2: enough to find another way to do that. So it's like,

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Speaker 2: I ain't about to just feel like I got to

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Speaker 2: just put on jewelry every day to go do an

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Speaker 2: interview or make people rock with my music. You're either

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Speaker 2: gonna rock with it or you're not. I'm at peace

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Speaker 2: with that. I'm not trying to impress you.

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Speaker 4: No more liberating a feeling.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is what it is, like, Let life happen however,

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Speaker 2: it's gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna happen.

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Speaker 4: And that was because of Nigeria.

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Speaker 3: Oh, because of Nigeria. Bro.

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Speaker 2: The whole time, like the first two days was rough.

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Speaker 2: Why because you can't really shower the way we shower

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Speaker 2: over here, because we can't drink their water. So as

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Speaker 2: nice as a house that we was in, the shower

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Speaker 2: thing was still like a sprinkler. So it's like I'm

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Speaker 2: washing my body, but I can't really wash my face.

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Speaker 2: I'm washing my face with a bottle of water, brushing

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Speaker 2: my teeth with a bottle of water, you know.

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Speaker 3: So it was just like it was. It was a

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Speaker 3: culture shot.

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Speaker 2: But it's like once you get used to it, you

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Speaker 2: get used to the heat, you ain't really tripping off

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Speaker 2: like clothes and what you gotta wear and like all

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Speaker 2: these different things. It's just like like it's people in

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Speaker 2: the club.

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Speaker 3: Actually party, yeah, not a party, dance.

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Speaker 4: You didn't move around with any security.

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Speaker 3: You know. I had security.

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Speaker 2: I had tops, like yeah, I'm like like security of

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Speaker 2: the world.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, you know what, we had cops yeah yeah, yeah, Like.

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Speaker 3: I ain't want them rappers to becoming on my jewell

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Speaker 3: every day. No security ain't. I was running around. I

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Speaker 3: got my son out there. I gotta get back home. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I got to get back home.

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Speaker 4: Bro, that's a fact.

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Speaker 3: Get home.

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Speaker 4: That's how we was moving, man, everywhere.

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Speaker 1: They slept at the house yeah yeah, yeah, outside waiting

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Speaker 1: for us.

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Speaker 3: They was at the crib like it was serious. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I was like, I thought that part got left out there.

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Speaker 3: I was like, wait, did you have.

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Speaker 2: Noah, I definitely did, but safety first, no going over

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Speaker 2: there like it showed me. And then like I shot

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Speaker 2: the music video that we just dropped top g over there,

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Speaker 2: and even how.

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Speaker 3: That happened, Like I was in the projects, like one.

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Speaker 2: Of the worst hoods over there is called Legos Island.

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Speaker 4: How that happen?

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Speaker 3: Dog, I'm in the I'm in the crib.

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Speaker 2: Now, keep in mind, I bring a studio over there,

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Speaker 2: so my crazy ass, like I brought like a laptop

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Speaker 2: with like a mic and like a studio setup. So

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Speaker 2: my ass over there finding random people on the street

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Speaker 2: that's singing, like, bro, come to the crib, like get

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Speaker 2: on the sprinter, like, come to the crib, like I'm

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Speaker 2: to the point my homie, I was like, shit, you

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Speaker 2: can't be you got chill, Like yeah, like everybody coming

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Speaker 2: bringing people to the crib bro, and they just recording

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Speaker 2: like they recording, they recording, and I'm like, damn, these

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Speaker 2: dudes is talented his hell, Like you know, they talented

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Speaker 2: his hell. So the engineer who engineering, I kept telling

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Speaker 2: Even if we can't figure out how to do it,

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: Da da da da, Like they sold you to slavery,

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Speaker 5: And then the Africans is like, well they're slaves, like

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Speaker 4: Now, that's unstoppable.

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Speaker 2: It's very unstoppable. It would make us like the most

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Speaker 2: How the kids supposed to learn when you in the

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Speaker 1: That was one of the conversations we had with Acon

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Speaker 3: But we got to realize it though.

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Speaker 4: I think that was done intentionally.

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Speaker 2: My graduates from my school being false back drop drop

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Speaker 4: Drop back drop.

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Speaker 4: What's up?

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Speaker 1: You ever walk into a small business and everything just

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