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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. While he's certainly released

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Speaker 1: plenty of music, including number one songs and mixtapes The Kids,

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Speaker 1: Leroy still has yet to put out a full Link

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Speaker 1: studio album, but that's all about to change with his

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Speaker 1: upcoming debut LP the first time and to say he's

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Speaker 1: been putting in the work to making something he's proud

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Speaker 1: of is a serious understatement. The hardest part is knowing

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Speaker 1: what to focus on, he tells Billboard. I've been making

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Speaker 1: the album over the past two years, not every day,

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Speaker 1: but two years in between other stuff, making little ideas.

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Speaker 1: There's the stuff that I started with at the beginning

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Speaker 1: that I'm going to see through to the end with

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Speaker 1: this album, and then there's the stuff that I made

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Speaker 1: three days ago that I feel needs to be on

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Speaker 1: the thing. So it's just been a slow process. Now,

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Speaker 1: it might be a slow process, but it's also been

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Speaker 1: a fun when Leroy adds, he's super happy to be

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Speaker 1: putting out music again and preparing to go on tour.

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Speaker 1: The album's two lead singles, Love Again and Kids Are

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Speaker 1: Growing Up, both out now That's Direct from Hollywood,