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Speaker 1: What's up?

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Speaker 2: His way up with Angela, Guie and Cauzeem is here

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Speaker 2: today and look who's in the building.

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Speaker 1: Walle How you feeling today. I know you've been working hard.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, man, I'm feeling good though. It's good Monday, back

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Speaker 3: at it still up.

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Speaker 4: Man has pooped.

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Speaker 3: A minute, but I'm good. It's good to be back.

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Speaker 1: In New York doing all these interviews that I know

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Speaker 1: you hate.

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Speaker 2: Doing allegedly, but I appreciate you for coming through. And

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Speaker 2: I know we were supposed to do this like a

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Speaker 2: little while ago, but I'm glad that album's out and

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Speaker 2: to see the reaction to people and also for me

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Speaker 2: to get a chance to live with it.

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Speaker 1: Also, I feel like that's a big deal.

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Speaker 2: And when I tell you, and I know everybody's been

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Speaker 2: telling you this, but it still has to feel good.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing.

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Speaker 5: Thank you very much. I'm full of gratitude. Everybody was

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Speaker 5: feeling a lot of love, so.

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Speaker 2: They've been doing lists and think pieces, you know. So

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Speaker 2: happy National Walet Day, because that's what for everybody who

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Speaker 2: wants to celebrate. I saw you posting about it too.

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Speaker 6: Though I couldn't stop posting about it, and obviously you

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Speaker 6: know that's that's my friend. But on top of that,

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Speaker 6: I get to be a fan of it too, and

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Speaker 6: knowing him as all as I have, I was glad

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Speaker 6: that like I got to listen with the world.

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Speaker 4: And like get the experience at the same time.

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Speaker 6: And it's just it's dope to see, like especially everything

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Speaker 6: like you've gone through with like media and everything and

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Speaker 6: how you know.

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Speaker 4: The bs that you've had to deal with.

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Speaker 6: Like it's the first time, I guess in my eyes,

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Speaker 6: and I've just seen like universal acclaim like undisputed, just

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Speaker 6: like everybody really messing with this album. I think the

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Speaker 6: jury's still out a little bit, but it's I like,

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Speaker 6: what if the jury's out, he is very small.

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Speaker 1: Trash. I have not seen that one person say that.

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Speaker 1: I would. I would give you that.

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Speaker 2: I've seen people say top three of Walet's albums of

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Speaker 2: all time. I've seen people talk about your consistency. But

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Speaker 2: I know sometimes you don't feel that, Like sometimes you

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Speaker 2: feel like people kind of forget about you at certain

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Speaker 2: times and don't include you.

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Speaker 3: I just nah, I just not. I don't.

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Speaker 5: I don't think about it like that. No, Moore, just

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Speaker 5: you know I deserve everything I do. You know what

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Speaker 5: I'm saying, I just.

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Speaker 2: Set myself that one of those thing pieces I saw

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Speaker 2: was like, we don't discuss yle enough when it comes

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Speaker 2: to afrobeats.

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Speaker 1: Did you see that post?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought that, and I thought that was a

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Speaker 2: great point, and we talked about that too before you

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Speaker 2: came here. I was like, you know, Wilet has been

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Speaker 2: using afrobeats and talking about it before it was afrobeasts

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Speaker 2: to the world like it is now. So I think

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Speaker 2: even for some of the songs on the album, like

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Speaker 2: Big Big Head and YSF.

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Speaker 1: I know those are your favorites now.

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Speaker 6: I feel like that's typical while Ago like he kind

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Speaker 6: of always sets a trend before like it becomes trendy,

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Speaker 6: and like he's been doing records of afrobeat guys since

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Speaker 6: like then their first second album, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 6: So it's like it all it's dope to see it

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Speaker 6: all kind of come back around, Like do you at

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Speaker 6: least feel some sort of like satisfaction or some sort

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Speaker 6: of It.

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Speaker 5: Was just it was kind of like, you know, you know,

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Speaker 5: I had a lot of conversations with Kaus and them

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Speaker 5: about afrobeasts and like what I wanted to do, Like

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Speaker 5: I don't think they really understood, you know, like with

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Speaker 5: like you know how the levity like how powerful the

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Speaker 3: So it's an uphill battle for a while.

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Speaker 5: But I'm just glad that like death Jam, let me

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Speaker 5: get it off, like I want to get it off.

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Speaker 1: And this is your first album on death Jam.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is.

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Speaker 5: Kind of like my first album ever, like do Low,

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Speaker 5: because my first jump Mark Bronson was kind of like

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Speaker 6: Well that makes a lot of sense because in my eyes,

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Speaker 6: I think this is your best work. And I've known

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Speaker 6: I just think the way it all came together, like

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Speaker 6: I think was key because I think a lot of times,

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Speaker 6: So the giving people less to talk about outside of

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Speaker 6: And then when you gave it to him and it

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Speaker 6: was satisfactory, I think it's I think you're you're seeing

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Speaker 6: the fruit of that. Right now, you at least feel

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Speaker 6: I know, it's Monday, is.

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Speaker 4: Still early and ship.

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Speaker 5: But men and I do the feedback, you know, Like

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Speaker 5: I mean to be honest, like all the my timeline

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Speaker 5: when I drove out is normally like positive, like good, like,

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Speaker 5: so you really don't know to zoom out, you know,

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Speaker 5: but like like I said, it do seem like it's

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Speaker 3: So no, I ain't zoomed out yet, but.

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Speaker 5: Like I let it. I just wanted to just stay

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Speaker 5: like this, i'bi you know what I'm saying. No more

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Speaker 5: crashing out, No crash outs.

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Speaker 4: Crash the first song on the album of Conundrum right like.

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Speaker 2: You started it off immediately, let's get into because you

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Speaker 2: know me, I'm nosy. So when I heard a conundrum

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Speaker 2: first and foremost, I was like, Okay, that's what he's

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Speaker 1: But did you feel like okay?

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Speaker 2: I got to explain because a lot of times when

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Speaker 2: women become mothers, they take a little step away and

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Speaker 2: a breather and deal with that. And you're your dad,

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Speaker 2: and you've been a dad, but it feels like you've

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Speaker 5: Yeah, life man, Like you know what I'm saying. I've

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Speaker 5: just trying to catch everybody up to where I'm at.

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Speaker 5: So I came out with them lines to start down

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Speaker 5: just to let you know, boom, this where we're at.

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Speaker 5: Let me take a seat, right, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: Like I'm gonna be expressing all kinds of things on here.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, what did you did you give an opportunity for

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Speaker 5: No, I mean, I mean I talked to her husband,

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Speaker 5: like I talked like you know what I'm saying, but none

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Speaker 5: good place, you know what I'm saying. Like he's cool,

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Speaker 5: We're good, like we get along good. Like it ain't

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Speaker 5: no never gonna be no disrespect, Like I don't I

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Speaker 5: don't plan on having no nothing like that in my life.

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Speaker 3: Like I don't want none of that.

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Speaker 2: I like that because sometimes people don't don't want to

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Speaker 2: talk to the other person, but you do want somebody

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Speaker 5: It's weird at first, but you get I mean, if

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Speaker 5: you got good intentions, you know you can figure it out.

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Speaker 6: I think you were really intentional with this music. And

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Speaker 6: I think the reason why people have been so accepting

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Speaker 6: hop artists. Is here, right, like the clips they put

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Speaker 6: out an album, the first thing they talk about is

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Speaker 6: losing their parents, and you know, for a chance, the

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Speaker 6: rapper comes out talks about his divorce with his wife,

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Speaker 6: and after putting out the Hole of My Wife album

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Speaker 6: the album with the same sort of energy. And I

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Speaker 6: was it just like people like vulnerability, They like hearing

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Speaker 6: and they pretty much relate to it because it's a

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Speaker 6: real life situation that so many people go through. Is

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Speaker 6: that something you're trying to tap into with this album

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Speaker 6: or with his song?

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Speaker 7: So?

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think you know, like I mean, I've

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Speaker 5: always been always like share my experiences with everybody. I think,

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Speaker 5: a little bit of chance to like get ready to

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Speaker 5: like you know what I'm saying. And also, ip, I've

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Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, don't nobody really want to come outside?

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Speaker 5: And like you know what I'm saying. So I think

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Speaker 5: I think that's something.

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Speaker 3: To do with it.

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Speaker 4: But I think it's good.

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Speaker 6: I think I think post chaos, post hip hop chaos,

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Speaker 6: like we've been very open to hear like music with

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Speaker 6: you know, I always said history is going to be

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Speaker 5: I feel like it's the perfect every time you say

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Speaker 5: it would be kind like I always be like, man,

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Speaker 5: I hope, So you know what I'm saying. But I

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Speaker 5: think it's just like with me, like I just I

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Speaker 5: don't know, I don't really have no other hobbies I

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Speaker 5: do like make music. I just stay at it, stay

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Speaker 5: at it, stay at it, stay at it. And like

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Speaker 5: it seemed like because like like that the resilience is

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 2: You know, I got to ask you this because I'm

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Speaker 2: trying to figure out Yle because in so many ways,

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Speaker 2: and I know on the album you talk about your

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Speaker 2: mom wants you to get married, like have a wife

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Speaker 2: and all of that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's what you want.

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Speaker 5: Uh yeah, I think sometimes I've been leaning more into it,

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Speaker 5: like like the past couple of years, the idea.

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Speaker 1: Of it, because even for you letting your guard down.

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Speaker 5: It's really hard to do with when you were public

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Speaker 5: figure and you gotta write music and you gotta tap

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Speaker 5: into the different parts of your mind, your your past,

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Speaker 5: your trauma and put it all out.

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Speaker 3: It's a lot for somebody to deal with.

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Speaker 5: So I know I'm the problem like in most instances,

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Speaker 5: because it's hard to deal with the artists.

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Speaker 2: And also even you. This is one thing that stood

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Speaker 2: out to me where you said passionate sex, but you

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Speaker 2: don't cuddle.

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Speaker 1: I was like, dang, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: How it's good. It's like like, you know a lot

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Speaker 2: Like they got like can sex be great if you

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Speaker 2: don't love a person the service.

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Speaker 1: Listen.

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Speaker 2: That was one of my favorite episodes of so we

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Speaker 3: And it's difference. It's a lot.

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Speaker 5: There's a lot of different characters in this business that

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. And I know I'm built

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Speaker 2: Did he Did anybody from MMG hit you up like

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Speaker 3: I ain't.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I ain't heart from nobody yet. But I

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Speaker 5: I know I hit you up, you know as busy guy.

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Speaker 2: But still it also is something that everyone it's the

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Speaker 2: so it's not something that you don't know about that

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Speaker 5: I mean I probably see him when I see him more,

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Speaker 6: This is not no you know what I think, man,

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Speaker 4: Just like collaborating the folks, and you collaborate with a

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Speaker 6: And you know, everybody that you hear from when they

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Speaker 5: Mean, I just I really just get in it, like

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Speaker 5: Like so I just like I just get deep in it.

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Speaker 5: But also like when I'm done making music, like my

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Speaker 3: I can't. I can't do nothing but lay down.

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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: I just give him all every day in.

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Speaker 4: That jont it sounds like some rain Man stuff.

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Speaker 3: It is. I made a beat on the MPC. I

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Speaker 5: We got the footage somewhere, but I was making I

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Speaker 6: That ain't something you want to especially off the success

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Speaker 5: There's something there's some things we might get into, like

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: What about for other artists? Because you see yourself doing

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Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah for show, Like I mean, I co

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Speaker 5: don't listen. Our artists don't listen, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: They think it's just Wila the rapper coming in and

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Speaker 1: It's interesting.

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Speaker 2: I was, I got my makeup done this morning and

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Speaker 2: this woman, she's from Virginia, and she was like, oh,

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Speaker 2: what do you have to do today? And I said,

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Speaker 3: She isn't gonna be weird at all.

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Speaker 1: No, it's not.

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Speaker 4: Set up.

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Speaker 3: It's not I don't never have nobody say like, yo,

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Speaker 2: To, listen, just listen. It's nice, all right, Shade.

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Speaker 7: I'm from Virginia seven five seven, And.

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Speaker 7: I was saying that I love that he loves R

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Speaker 2: So anyway, I just thought that was nice because she's

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Speaker 1: Having a Walley.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of so much pressure that like

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Speaker 5: D have the homecoming show. I'm sure it's a lot

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Speaker 5: Felt like I felt like the battery was recharged. I

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Speaker 5: Bro ain't nothing like a theater kid from d C. Bro,

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Speaker 5: That's when Dave Chappelle went to high school and Johnny

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Speaker 2: You got a job waiting for You lived a lot

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Speaker 2: of different places though, right, Obviously you lived in New

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Speaker 2: York for a while. You've also you lived in la

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Speaker 3: Chicago, Chicago, Maryland? I was in DC.

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Speaker 1: What's your favorite? You would say besides DC?

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Speaker 3: Minus the cold?

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Speaker 5: In New Jersey minus the cold, okay, because we had

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's not much warmer in the d

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Speaker 3: I'll be trying to get out of there.

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Speaker 4: So you might get like a ten degree different from me.

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Speaker 2: Now, you ended the album with Lonely with Shaboozi, and

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Speaker 2: so what Shaboozie already.

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Speaker 5: On it when you the crazy thing is like the

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Speaker 4: I do I get.

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Speaker 3: And it's just you know, he jumped on it.

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Speaker 2: I love that, and I know I can tell from

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Speaker 2: So to close it out with that. I saw somebody

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Speaker 2: is going through so much, but I do love the music.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, my tears watered the flowers for thousands of meat guard.

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Speaker 5: That's why I sit on power problems. I know it's good.

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Speaker 3: It's entertainment. My pain is entertainment. It's good. It's cool.

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Speaker 3: At least I can monetize.

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Speaker 6: Off right, that sounds dark, though You're good, though, right,

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 2: You know, power problems. You did say your power is

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Speaker 2: that you never need no one, and your problem is

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Speaker 2: you never need no one. That is an interesting way

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Speaker 2: to put it. But I do think it's good to

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Speaker 2: not feel like you need anybody. You just know that

447
00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:33,560
Speaker 2: you can rely on someone. Yeah, but then sometimes, like

448
00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:35,639
Speaker 2: you said, the problem is that you never need nobody.

449
00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:37,159
Speaker 2: Sometimes people don't feel.

450
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Speaker 3: It's crazy necessary.

451
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Speaker 5: The brighter the lights are the lonelier things get, you

452
00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:45,320
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, Like you're already in this like

453
00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:48,879
Speaker 5: zero zero point one percent of people that do this

454
00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:52,080
Speaker 5: music at this level, and then it's even smaller because

455
00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:55,119
Speaker 5: you from this place that that nobody else is like

456
00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:58,080
Speaker 5: doing what you're doing. So it kind of just gets

457
00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:01,280
Speaker 5: like really really lonely at times, you know. And that's

458
00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:03,879
Speaker 5: why I value like the real friendships that I do have,

459
00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:05,399
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, you know.

460
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Speaker 1: Speaking of with you and cas haile Mania. Yeah, I

461
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Speaker 1: want to hear about.

462
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Speaker 2: And so when I knew you were coming, I was like,

463
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Speaker 2: in Caz coming guest host sometimes, but I thought this

464
00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,640
Speaker 2: would be nice to have him here since you weren't

465
00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:18,680
Speaker 2: doing seven PM in Brooklyn. I was like, it'd be

466
00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:21,040
Speaker 2: nice to have him up here, So talk to me

467
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Speaker 2: about that because I know we're going to w w

468
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Speaker 2: E tonight.

469
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Speaker 6: Well, big part of that was to focus on this album,

470
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Speaker 6: you know what I mean, Like I remember I remember

471
00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:29,880
Speaker 6: we was just talking about it, and you know, that's

472
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Speaker 6: my friend first and foremost, you know what I mean.

473
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Speaker 1: So how did y'all get so tight? I'm just carreious.

474
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Speaker 3: I don't even remember, like it was like a moment

475
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Speaker 3: like like I think I was.

476
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Speaker 5: I was.

477
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Speaker 4: I remember the I remember when we got tight, like

478
00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:41,920
Speaker 4: we first met.

479
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Speaker 3: I think he was performing at my school. See I remember,

480
00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:46,199
Speaker 3: but we got tight.

481
00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:52,400
Speaker 4: I thought that the source purchase source articles.

482
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Speaker 6: I remember like when it did it like it was

483
00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:56,639
Speaker 6: some it was some step brothers, But I think it

484
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Speaker 6: might have been around like time, like I think we

485
00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:01,520
Speaker 6: was one of the releases and he was just talking

486
00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:04,520
Speaker 6: about like wrestling and then we just like it was

487
00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:06,040
Speaker 6: just talking and I don't know.

488
00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:07,800
Speaker 4: There was some step brothers. He can't get rid of

489
00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:10,320
Speaker 4: a lot of things in common.

490
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Speaker 6: But like I said, like he's my friend first and foremost,

491
00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:14,320
Speaker 6: so like when I felt like, you know, he really

492
00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:18,320
Speaker 6: wanted to focus on his album above anything like that

493
00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:21,160
Speaker 6: was that was the that was the focus. So it's

494
00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:23,360
Speaker 6: like Willimania is gonna have to take a back seat,

495
00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:25,480
Speaker 6: like if at all, if it comes back at all,

496
00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:29,000
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying, Because just squeeze exactly right,

497
00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:30,840
Speaker 6: Like there was so much we were putting out and

498
00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:32,840
Speaker 6: obviously you see what happens with the You know, I

499
00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:34,600
Speaker 6: think West Side Gun's going through it right now where

500
00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:37,320
Speaker 6: he's like putting so much effort into like getting you

501
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Speaker 6: know this, can we still go I'm still I'm going

502
00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:46,280
Speaker 6: on after Netflix, so I'm still gonna roll. But you know,

503
00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:48,800
Speaker 6: like he's seeing it too, like and and I and

504
00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:50,800
Speaker 6: I feel for Wes because you know, while A was

505
00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:52,600
Speaker 6: at that at that same point with them, at that

506
00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:54,560
Speaker 6: point when it was just kind of felt like it

507
00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:58,080
Speaker 6: wasn't worth doing all this and not feeling like, you know,

508
00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:01,440
Speaker 6: any real residual benefit, It's like that, so you know

509
00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:02,040
Speaker 6: it didn't.

510
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Speaker 3: It didn't.

511
00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:04,560
Speaker 2: You got to appreciate the people who are really like

512
00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:06,679
Speaker 2: organically of course, and.

513
00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:08,760
Speaker 6: Then that's and that's what it's always doing while the

514
00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:11,159
Speaker 6: man and not to say it'll never come back, but

515
00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:13,040
Speaker 6: at that time, it was just like, nah, man, let's

516
00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:15,760
Speaker 6: just focus on what's important, which is the music first

517
00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:18,679
Speaker 6: and foremost, and then what comes from it comes from.

518
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Speaker 5: It whatever, if you can make it easy and like painless,

519
00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:25,159
Speaker 5: like of course, we we love to do it for

520
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Speaker 5: the fans. We allowed to do it for the athletes,

521
00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:29,600
Speaker 5: like we love it. But it's just like, man, like

522
00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:33,480
Speaker 5: you got other stuff that's going on that might have

523
00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:35,800
Speaker 5: like more urgent things going on than that.

524
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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. It's like that's.

525
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Speaker 5: Actually a little bit more fruitful for us, like not

526
00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:42,440
Speaker 5: to like not to feel like we a bother or

527
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Speaker 5: something or we got to call make a hunting and

528
00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:45,200
Speaker 5: calls and do all that.

529
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Speaker 3: Like it's just you know, but I like W N

530
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Speaker 3: B A two.

531
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Speaker 4: I like I can go out in places you tap

532
00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:54,119
Speaker 4: through for that that collaboraly in the year though, how

533
00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:55,880
Speaker 4: is that control together?

534
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Speaker 3: Man?

535
00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:59,200
Speaker 5: Like you know, lightning in the bottle man, Like you know,

536
00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:03,320
Speaker 5: it's good to have records laying around because man, like

537
00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:04,640
Speaker 5: some of you, you know what I'm saying.

538
00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:06,800
Speaker 3: So you know that was we made it real easy,

539
00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:07,840
Speaker 3: real easy.

540
00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:12,000
Speaker 2: Now, Blanco, we heard that song a while ago as well.

541
00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:16,040
Speaker 2: And so now that you're abstinent, right, what does that

542
00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,560
Speaker 2: mean for drinking.

543
00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:21,920
Speaker 3: As little as possible?

544
00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:25,000
Speaker 5: Unless I needed to be one of the industry rooms

545
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:29,600
Speaker 5: where it's like you know what I'm saying, Like you know,

546
00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:33,280
Speaker 5: it's the great equalizer and it make because like I

547
00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,480
Speaker 5: don't be really I'm a man of a few words

548
00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,760
Speaker 5: in these rooms like you no, it just eases the easiest.

549
00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:41,159
Speaker 3: To tension a little bit. But I don't not not

550
00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:42,360
Speaker 3: I don't just be waking up.

551
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Speaker 1: Like like, yeah, have there been times that you're like, damn,

552
00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:48,960
Speaker 1: what did I do yesterday? Oh yeah, I already know.

553
00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:52,040
Speaker 3: I'm making this album, Like you know what I'm saying,

554
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:54,240
Speaker 3: I made that song yesterday. Yeah.

555
00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:56,520
Speaker 6: Man, you talked about how hands on you were, and

556
00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,040
Speaker 6: not just the writing of the album opposite the production

557
00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:01,320
Speaker 6: and then beats and all that type of stuff, but

558
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,879
Speaker 6: the sample selections throughout the album I think were extremely

559
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Speaker 6: im poorant had pretty way maxwell And.

560
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Speaker 5: The crazy thing is they not It's not like intentions.

561
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:13,200
Speaker 5: It's just like you know, you go through beats, yeah right,

562
00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:15,800
Speaker 5: some days you like to be some days, you know,

563
00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:18,600
Speaker 5: some days you have something on another beat and it

564
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 5: just kind of played out like that, you.

565
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:21,359
Speaker 3: Know what I'm saying.

566
00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:23,879
Speaker 5: I didn't even realize how much samples was on there

567
00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:26,320
Speaker 5: until like it came out and people was mentioning that.

568
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 6: But they were quality though, like it weren't just like

569
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:31,760
Speaker 6: you know, there's something about like a well placed sample too,

570
00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:34,200
Speaker 6: especially when it's when it's coming around like, like you

571
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,119
Speaker 6: said on Blanco feels very bluesish. Then you come out

572
00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:39,639
Speaker 6: of another song and you hear that like super specific

573
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:44,200
Speaker 6: sound that everybody sort of knows for you for it fits.

574
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:45,680
Speaker 6: It doesn't stick out like a sore thumb, you know

575
00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:47,520
Speaker 6: what I mean. And that's I mean, that's I guess.

576
00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:50,159
Speaker 5: It's just like because you know, I don't really be

577
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 5: mostly I don't think I was with any of the

578
00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:54,800
Speaker 5: producers on this joint, Like I was just going through

579
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,040
Speaker 5: the emails or whatever. So I really just try to

580
00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,680
Speaker 5: like put them all there and just keep going like

581
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,880
Speaker 5: this to something like resonation, you know what I'm saying,

582
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:07,280
Speaker 5: Like that, like the fly away, like it just jumped

583
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:08,680
Speaker 5: out like and I was like, I got right.

584
00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:09,560
Speaker 3: To this, Joe, you know what I mean.

585
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:12,159
Speaker 6: I just knew one of my favorite songs that album's

586
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,119
Speaker 6: called Tomorrow Today because it's such a simple it's a

587
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,959
Speaker 6: simple premise. It's about being thirsty, and I don't think

588
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,119
Speaker 6: thirsty enough anymore. And uh, something as simple as like

589
00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:24,200
Speaker 6: a late night text or like just be an extra

590
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:26,159
Speaker 6: about it, like tell me about that.

591
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:26,399
Speaker 4: Right.

592
00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:29,320
Speaker 5: It was just it was a time man, like everybody

593
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,399
Speaker 5: was making these really contrived toxic songs like that. It

594
00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 5: was like like we get it, man, Like all right, bro,

595
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,160
Speaker 5: like we get it like everybody. You know what I'm saying, Like, yeah,

596
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,840
Speaker 5: I'm toxic too, like everybody got how about an absolute

597
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:42,320
Speaker 5: left song?

598
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 3: How about that? How about that?

599
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:45,760
Speaker 5: Like an absolute left song? Okay, I like you now

600
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:50,119
Speaker 5: what like cool? No tricky stuff like what's up? I'm

601
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:52,080
Speaker 5: I'm interested in you. I'm trying to court you, now

602
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 5: what we do instead of like just like yo, like

603
00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:57,600
Speaker 5: I'm gonna cheat on you. Go shoot, And I got

604
00:24:57,640 --> 00:24:58,600
Speaker 5: a bit of it, you know what I'm saying, Like

605
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,200
Speaker 5: I just I just needed to break from that. So

606
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 5: I made smart today like that, like I just seen you,

607
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:05,240
Speaker 5: but I need to see you again.

608
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,840
Speaker 2: Right, It's hard to focus and concentrate. That's a good

609
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 2: feeling though. They call it the honeymoon phase.

610
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:12,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely does that last?

611
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:14,440
Speaker 1: What's the longest relationship you've been in?

612
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:19,639
Speaker 3: I don't know. I didn't have a calendar stop it.

613
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 2: I celebrated an anniversary and been like we've been together

614
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:22,920
Speaker 2: three years.

615
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,240
Speaker 3: I don't know if I really celebrate Maybe I don't know.

616
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 3: I don't know.

617
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:30,479
Speaker 5: Probably like I don't know, I don't I'm actually now

618
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 5: that I'm starting to know, I don't want to say.

619
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:36,680
Speaker 5: When it started coming to me, I'm like, yeah, maybe

620
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:37,119
Speaker 5: you don't want to.

621
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 1: About that one.

622
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,199
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't. Yeah, So let's just an a.

623
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 1: Now belly you sample back to life, back to reality.

624
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I got three hundred person that's sample that joint.

625
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:48,640
Speaker 2: But you know, as soon as it starts, it gives

626
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 2: you like a time period feel because that movie was

627
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:54,960
Speaker 2: so iconic for that. But part of that song is,

628
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 2: and I feel this, everybody's showing you love when you're

629
00:25:58,119 --> 00:25:59,640
Speaker 2: doing stuff for them, when you're giving them shit.

630
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 3: And then and as soon as that and no longer

631
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 3: pretend to be friends.

632
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. Mm hmm, I lost I

633
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:09,000
Speaker 5: lost friends along the way. That's still with us, you know,

634
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:11,639
Speaker 5: And it's part of the whole everything a lot like

635
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:15,680
Speaker 5: that's part of like carrying this bag that I have

636
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:16,600
Speaker 5: to carry everywhere.

637
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:19,480
Speaker 3: Like it's like people mad because.

638
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 5: They couldn't get they didn't get a personal invite to

639
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 5: a show. People mad because you can't.

640
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:27,280
Speaker 2: Pay this thing for them, Like yeah, the first time,

641
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,040
Speaker 2: as soon as you say no, you could do everything.

642
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,159
Speaker 5: We're going through that now with somebody that's entitled that

643
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 5: was around us, like you can't do everything.

644
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:36,440
Speaker 3: Very far all the time.

645
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to cut it off sometimes because I

646
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:41,880
Speaker 2: think I always think it's great when you can put

647
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:44,960
Speaker 2: people deserving people in position, right, But then I also

648
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:46,720
Speaker 2: feel like once people get in position, it's kind of

649
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 2: up to them to figure.

650
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 1: Out, like how to you know, make themselves.

651
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,720
Speaker 2: Out of just being in one position and growing into

652
00:26:57,840 --> 00:26:59,639
Speaker 2: like being able to have a business doing what they

653
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 2: do for you, instead of just thinking that all along

654
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 2: you're going to be taking care of everything, right.

655
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:09,200
Speaker 5: Right, I mean we all fall into that. All everybodist

656
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 5: have ever knew because fell into that.

657
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:12,119
Speaker 3: I feel like.

658
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 5: Some some success athletes, musicians, actors, We all go through it.

659
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 4: I want to get your thoughts on this. Man. There's

660
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,359
Speaker 4: a lot of talk about Billboard charts.

661
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 6: First time in however many years there was no hip

662
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:28,879
Speaker 6: hop songs in the top whatever, whatever. But if you

663
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 6: ask any like hip hop connoisseur, any writer, anybody who

664
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 6: covers us for a living, they're all like, has it's

665
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 6: it's as good as it's ever been, you know what

666
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,440
Speaker 6: I mean? Like music wise, quality wise, I mean Grammy

667
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 6: nominations came out lots of rappers on there, Like, what

668
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 6: are your thoughts on you know, just I guess the

669
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 6: slow down sort of like hyper commercialization.

670
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 5: I mean I think we might did it a little

671
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 5: bit too much and it got stale and repetitive and

672
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:59,680
Speaker 5: like it like the innovation We lost innovation somewhere along

673
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 5: the way, or we just celebrated low effort and it

674
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 5: put us into place, you know what I'm saying, Like

675
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 5: people like like liking stuff, liking songs for ironic reasons.

676
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:14,920
Speaker 5: It's all types of stuff that's been you know what

677
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 5: I'm saying, like put us to where we're at right now.

678
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 5: And then you know, the Great Battle of two thousand

679
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 5: twenty whatever, whatever year it's just been going on, were

680
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 5: on loop with that, Like a lot of media outlets

681
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 5: only consume that content, only talked about that content. They

682
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:34,159
Speaker 5: lost the plot. Like so I think that hurt it

683
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,920
Speaker 5: a little bit too, because I'm both of them do

684
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 5: probably tired of it too, you know what I'm saying, Like,

685
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 5: and I think they like it almost like cannibalized itself.

686
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 5: Like like you know what I'm saying, Like nobody wanted

687
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 5: to hear nothing that wasn't like about another person for

688
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 5: a long period of time, and then we come up

689
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 5: for air and we realized, like it's only country on

690
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 5: the charts. You know what I'm saying, it's nothing going on.

691
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 5: So you know, it was you know, things is necessary,

692
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 5: but I think like media took it a little bit

693
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 5: too far, like you know, and it just got things

694
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 5: just got out of hand.

695
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 2: I think, how much does all of this matter to

696
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 2: you when it comes to numbers, Because as much as

697
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 2: people are saying I love this album, like I told you,

698
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 2: number one album that you have, you know, right now

699
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 2: on the charts, but then sometimes those numbers come out

700
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 2: and then people are like, oh, this person so x

701
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 2: amount and it's so different to understand because people are

702
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 2: streaming and what those streams mean when it comes to

703
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 2: an actual.

704
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 5: Fifteen hundred for one joint is a task, you know.

705
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 5: And then you know consider demographics, like you know, certain

706
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,239
Speaker 5: fan bases is like thirteen and they got all day

707
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 5: to listen to the song their favorite song, where like

708
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 5: older fans they got to be on the clock. You

709
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, They can listen to it on

710
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,320
Speaker 5: the way to work in the gym and on the

711
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 5: way back. You know what I'm saying that's three streams.

712
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 5: Like I had to let that go because I really

713
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 5: had to realize like when it became streaming, like because

714
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 5: I I consider myself more of like a blue collar

715
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 5: I don't.

716
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 3: It's not like not super g not super like just

717
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 3: kind of like.

718
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 5: Every day people used to just lying around corner to

719
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 5: just get to see these CDs. When it went to streaming,

720
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 5: it's just kind of just like all right, these people

721
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 5: ain't going nowhere, but it's just how we consume music now.

722
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 5: It took some time to just get used to it,

723
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 5: but now it's just like whatever, Like the music good

724
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 5: is in God's hands. I can't really do nothing about it.

725
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 1: Man.

726
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 2: And the other thing I was going to say, you

727
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 2: talked about country and then we've seen on the R

728
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 2: and B and gospel charts AI artists.

729
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 5: I just interviewed the woman who we Gotta Unplug her

730
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 5: man wire AI Heart Surgeon or something something useful.

731
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, I'm gonna tell you what she

732
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 2: said that was interesting to me though. That made me

733
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 2: be like, okay, because she's on that platform, so you

734
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 2: know right where you can. She writes the lyrics and

735
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 2: then she has this artist, this AI person. But she

736
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 2: said there's so many people on that platform that haven't

737
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 2: reached the success that she has, and so and she

738
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 2: said she's done. Like but she said, she's done like

739
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 2: hundreds of songs and none of them have hit until

740
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 2: you know that she didn't.

741
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 3: And it's an agenda.

742
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 5: It's an agenda, like of course somebody gonna make some

743
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 5: AI thing hit because they don't need they don't need

744
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 5: to sleep, they don't need to they don't have met

745
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 5: they don't they have to rest their mentals, they don't

746
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 5: have to go through nothing, So they could just be

747
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 5: like ten albums of slock like you know what I'm saying,

748
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 5: Like there's no human emotion. We make art for to

749
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 5: connect with other humans. I'm not connecting no robot, you

750
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying.

751
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 1: But I guess her point was that she wrote the songs,

752
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 1: it's her poetry.

753
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 4: Then write write it.

754
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 5: For the write it for somebody who can really like, like,

755
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 5: you know, she got a three million dollars.

756
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 3: I don't believe that.

757
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 1: You don't believe it.

758
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 5: I could just be like, y'all, I made ten million

759
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 5: dollars a day, y'all saying, yeah, three million dollars for sooner.

760
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 3: Don't like bro come on like she probably she might.

761
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 3: I don't know.

762
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 5: I ain't trying to like talk down on the young

763
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 5: lady or nothing, but I'm like that sounds like something

764
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 5: like she gets a weekly check or something like like

765
00:31:58,400 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 5: it's an AI.

766
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 3: You're not I don't know us. You're going tour with

767
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 3: a teller, a little hologram.

768
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 4: Or something like.

769
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: Even in country the number one song on the country

770
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 1: charts was an AI song too.

771
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:11,239
Speaker 4: That's a lot.

772
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: We pulled it up in here and it was it

773
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 1: was bad.

774
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 3: I was like, that's what I'm saying.

775
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 5: And we were fine close to the sun now, and

776
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 5: then we're gonna be in this jo next next, next year,

777
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 5: it's gonna be robot Angelie right there, robout cast And

778
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 5: I'm like, here, you want to look this a country?

779
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 3: Look what you look where we're at now?

780
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 1: And you'd be sitting here talking to us.

781
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, Angelie, what do you think about I'll be the

782
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 3: only human in this. I'm like, I totally.

783
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: You can send your AI get you.

784
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 4: You first. You can never do me.

785
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,239
Speaker 3: I'm the most unaiable person you could. I got too

786
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 3: many styles.

787
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: You know what he might do?

788
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got too many, too many styles, that is.

789
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 2: You know what, It's still cohesive though, even even though

790
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 2: you have so many styles, the way you put this

791
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 2: album together, I felt like it flows. Sometimes when artists

792
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 2: do that, it feels like it's all over the place,

793
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 2: but this feels because you know what it is about, Wila.

794
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 2: It is all who you are for real, you know,

795
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 2: encompassing like go go afro beats, even like you said,

796
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 2: it's not necessarily country, but it's even the R and B.

797
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 2: Like you heard my girl from the d MV say

798
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 2: she loves when you lean into and how well you

799
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 2: do that. I saw people doing also lists about like

800
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 2: your top R and B collapse and all of that.

801
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 2: Now that this project is out too, Yeah, and she

802
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,120
Speaker 2: said something else. I didn't put it in the recording,

803
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 2: but she was like, Wila is the artist that such

804
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 2: and such wishes he was.

805
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 1: So I didn't want to put it out there.

806
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 4: You don't want to say.

807
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 1: I don't want to say no, because then it's going.

808
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 4: To say in addition to that, though I do want

809
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 4: to talking about.

810
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 6: Back to that, I don't want to applaud you for

811
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 6: putting out an album and not this and anybody.

812
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 4: I feel like that's been the theme for ever.

813
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 6: Sure everybody, Yeah, I gave a few spends, but it

814
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 6: feels like every major rap.

815
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 3: Anybody was just on that album is they know exactly

816
00:33:58,920 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 3: who they are.

817
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: Unintentions, it's just for them.

818
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 3: Got you the fester and that sit in that so

819
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:08,319
Speaker 3: you won't pushing pushing positivity, but.

820
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 1: You're always there for them still, right, this is a reason.

821
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 2: Well, while I really appreciate you for coming up here,

822
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 2: I know that you've been grinding it out doing all

823
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,879
Speaker 2: these interviews, and I have to say I've I've watched

824
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:25,439
Speaker 2: some of them and it just makes me laugh because

825
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 2: I'd be looking at you like why I like doing

826
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 2: this ship?

827
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:30,839
Speaker 1: So I know this is painful for you being here.

828
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,320
Speaker 5: So I mean, just like you know, you come to

829
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 5: a point where you just don't be like y'all got

830
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 5: it man, y'all can think what y'all want. I don't

831
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 5: know what to say to y'all, but it's different. I

832
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 5: know you, so it's a little different. Like I try

833
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 5: to give it my all in.

834
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 2: The interviews, but no, I know your intentions are always good,

835
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 2: but I also know you know how I know that

836
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 2: you overly critique yourself.

837
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 1: Virgo Yeah, that's what she said to She said he

838
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:53,479
Speaker 1: got to be a virgo the way.

839
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 5: Like you mean, I'm over critiquing y'all right now. It's

840
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 5: just it's in our nature. Mean, dude, we don't mean

841
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 5: nothing by it. It's just me, Michael Jackson, Kobe and Beyonce.

842
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:07,399
Speaker 4: It's chill. We just chilling, reasonably successful. Just some chill,

843
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 4: Just some chill.

844
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 3: There's some chill virgos just doing doing what we do.

845
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:12,240
Speaker 1: And are your parents impressed?

846
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 3: I don't even know. I don't.

847
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 4: I don't know.

848
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 3: I can't. I can't read them no more.

849
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:20,240
Speaker 4: They don't bump, they don't bump the songs, they.

850
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,360
Speaker 1: Don't, man, bro, Because isn't this why you do what

851
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:22,759
Speaker 1: you said?

852
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 3: Just want you you know, we wanted, we want we

853
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 3: want a fit validation for my parents. Oh we all do.

854
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 2: I always say that's how I know things are good.

855
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 2: When my mom and dad be excited about something. They

856
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:33,800
Speaker 2: may not tell me, but then other people tell me

857
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 2: they said it.

858
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 5: That's what That's how I might have to investigate it

859
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 5: like that, like you know what I'm saying, I'll be

860
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 5: trying to just get a reaction out of it, Like yo, yo,

861
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 5: just that's mess steee wonder hell, Like you know what

862
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 5: I'm saying, But I mean, I hope she is. You

863
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, Like a lot of a lot

864
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 5: of Nigerian parents are not like they're not the best

865
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 5: with like emotion, emotions and stuff like that.

866
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 3: And I've felt the I felt it too because I

867
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:01,880
Speaker 3: I don't.

868
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:03,919
Speaker 1: Get know I'm there like dang, you're a Nigerian parent.

869
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 5: I'm not the best with emotions sometimes, you know what

870
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 5: I'm saying. When I put put them in song, it's easier,

871
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 5: but in like like personal environments, I'm not the best

872
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 5: like conveying my emotions.

873
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 2: How about that as a dad though, as far as

874
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 2: you being emotional and nah.

875
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 5: That little girl be making me, she'd be making me

876
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 5: cry sometimes she's like it's really put put you in

877
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 5: a space like you know means it means the world

878
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 5: to me, you know what I'm saying. But like I know,

879
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 5: she sees like it's just seeing your dad on TV

880
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 5: and not and not being able to be around like

881
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 5: as much.

882
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,879
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. It's a it's a it's

883
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 3: a it's quite the conungum.

884
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 6: And you mentioned Nigerians before, that and they're usually notoriously

885
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 6: tough critics.

886
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:52,320
Speaker 4: Especially parents or something like that.

887
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: You can say that because you're I guess, But at the.

888
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 6: Same time, you know, it felt like with this album

889
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 6: and just your recent moves, I feel like there's been

890
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 6: a lot more embracing of of not during you know,

891
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:06,479
Speaker 6: the fan base.

892
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 4: You know, the collaboration.

893
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 6: I don't know what it was, but because you've always

894
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 6: you've always made musical other than artists, like you put

895
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 6: me onto the Vato when we went to I think

896
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 6: you had a music video shoot in Atlanta one day,

897
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 6: like years.

898
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:21,400
Speaker 3: Ago, Jared Jack, House Jack, That's what it was.

899
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, and this is before we had to pay for

900
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 4: that video.

901
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 3: We had to pavot our own pocket because Atlanta cain't believing.

902
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 4: I remember that.

903
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:31,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, Nous always be like man that Shane was like

904
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:33,319
Speaker 5: five months too early, like.

905
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 3: Whizy, like everybody we.

906
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 6: Push Shine out Now it looks completely different than Man.

907
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 6: But at the same time, it's like, yeah, like you.

908
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 4: You've gotten a lot more embracing on the on the

909
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 4: fan side, felt it's.

910
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 5: The team though, like yeah, like management, like they like

911
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 5: we knew what this was, but they knew it was

912
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,240
Speaker 5: being mishandled before. So you know what I'm saying, We're

913
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 5: making sure we tell the story to proper this time

914
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 5: because I wasn't able. I never was able to tell

915
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 5: a story for real. You know, like when when can

916
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 5: you squeeze in the hey legas some of those states,

917
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 5: where can you squeeze that in?

918
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:10,400
Speaker 3: And on that self made project?

919
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:12,319
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, Like where can I had

920
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 5: to You know what I'm saying, I had to move

921
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 5: a certain way and now it's being handled with like

922
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 5: kid like I always wanted it to be.

923
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 1: So you know, how is it when you're in Nigeria?

924
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:22,400
Speaker 1: I know you were there recently.

925
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 3: It's expensive.

926
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 5: Uh, people ask you crazy, but it's good, like it's

927
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 5: good like this is like when we go down those

928
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 5: states that's where my family from, Like we go. It

929
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 5: definitely puts things in perspective, like the lights be going

930
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 5: off at any time, like you know, there's not it's

931
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,799
Speaker 5: not like you know what I'm saying, it's not that many.

932
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 5: It's not the resources that we have in the amenities

933
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 5: we got here. Like it put things in perspective, you

934
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. But it's always it's like a

935
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 5: recharge though.

936
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 3: When I when I come back from it's just that

937
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 3: airport though, that airport Nigeria.

938
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:02,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, everything else, look at the airport is crazy and

939
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,240
Speaker 5: it's wild wild West in airport.

940
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 2: Well, listen, I appreciate you so much for coming through.

941
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 2: Like I said, it's always a pleasure to see.

942
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:11,240
Speaker 1: You in the flesh.

943
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.

944
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, and make sure y'all. I mean, I know everybody's

945
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 2: buying it, streaming it.

946
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: But keep it going?

947
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 4: Are you everybody?

948
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: Are you listen?

949
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,399
Speaker 2: Trust and believe like I'm always a wild a fan.

950
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 2: And are you going on tour?

951
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:26,959
Speaker 3: I hope?

952
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 5: So?

953
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 3: Okay, when well, let's look at these analytics.

954
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 1: Spoken like an industry guys, that's the AI hope right there.

955
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, AI AI club.

956
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 3: Promoter, come on, let's lock in all right.

957
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:43,279
Speaker 1: I appreciate you so much.

958
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:43,800
Speaker 4: Thank you,