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Speaker 1: What's Epicswell, for Angela Yee, I'm Angela Yee. Jasmine brand

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Speaker 1: is here.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 3: Now, to be clear, this show has only.

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Speaker 1: Been on since February, right, so we don't have many

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Speaker 1: repeat guests.

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Speaker 3: But however, however, Friday.

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Speaker 1: Is back because how could he not be facts, you know,

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Speaker 1: so welcome back to Friday.

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Speaker 3: Album is out.

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Speaker 1: You know, last time we spoke to you, it was

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Speaker 1: I think right after the Grammys performance.

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Speaker 3: It was before the album came out. But now your

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Speaker 3: album has come out.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, your album and Siss's album were

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Speaker 1: the top two R and B albums in the country

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Speaker 1: major when it came out, and people have been really

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Speaker 1: talking because you showed improved.

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Speaker 3: So how you feeling.

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Speaker 4: I feel great, I'm blessed, feel good to be in

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Speaker 4: New York taking all the love and.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll show you at the VMA's.

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Speaker 1: What was that experience like, because it looked that was

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Speaker 1: a it was a pretty good year.

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Speaker 2: Was that your first BMA or no, this year my first?

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Speaker 5: Everything?

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Speaker 4: Okay, it was crazy though, like like you know, last year,

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Speaker 4: it's just been like even when you said after the Grammys,

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Speaker 4: it was like more of an introduction, you know what

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Speaker 4: I'm saying, so like being at the Grammys and being

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Speaker 4: at the VMAs and being in Fashion Week, it's like

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Speaker 4: a total different reaction. Right, Like when you interviewed me

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Speaker 4: last time, he was like, oh, that's him, and they

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Speaker 4: was like, oh that's him, cameras out, you know what

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Speaker 4: I'm saying, Like I'm at VMAs. Yeah, Like Grammys, it

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Speaker 4: was like people like people would try to interview me,

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Speaker 4: like we had to explain this Friday he sung, guy,

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Speaker 4: did my prother have to explain that ship?

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Speaker 3: That's so funny that you say that, because that is

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Speaker 3: so true.

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Speaker 1: It's a different feeling when they when they're trying to

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Speaker 1: get your interviews on the carpet, and it's a little

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Speaker 1: bit embarrassing too at first uncomfortable.

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Speaker 4: It's uncomfortable, but it's still I was still grateful, but

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Speaker 4: it was just like who that, Like you know what

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Speaker 4: I'm saying, but now amazed, Oh that's Friday.

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Speaker 1: That you were nominated for four Grammys, right, four time

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Speaker 1: Grammy nominated artist.

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Speaker 4: BT hip hop would it's coming too, I'm nominated for

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Speaker 4: three God they're too listen.

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Speaker 3: Now that's gonna be super lit.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited about that party and stuff.

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Speaker 3: For that too.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 3: Are you a party person?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm a party person.

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Speaker 4: It depends what type of party though, Like I just

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Speaker 4: just gotta be my own vibe.

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Speaker 2: Do you like a kickback or do you like an

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Speaker 2: industry party or.

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Speaker 5: Do you like a I do like no industry party.

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Speaker 4: I like industry events where it's like everybody just chilling

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Speaker 4: and it ain't too crowded and you could just walk

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Speaker 4: around and talk to everybody need to talk to or

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Speaker 4: like industry parties aren't I'd rather like go party with

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Speaker 4: my brothers.

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Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying?

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Speaker 3: Like right makes sense?

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Speaker 1: And I think about even like with the EP and

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Speaker 1: people really being able to connect with you and hear

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Speaker 1: your story when you first put that out Lost and

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Speaker 1: Melody like a song like empty Stomach. You know, we

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Speaker 1: discussed that previously, just to see the blessings and then

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Speaker 1: now look at where you are, you know, I think

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Speaker 1: that's nice.

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Speaker 3: It's like a diary kind of effects.

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Speaker 1: And so let's talk about the new album now because

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Speaker 1: we're still learning so much about you, right, I feel

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Speaker 1: like I want to hear some Friday stories and maybe

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Speaker 1: we've never heard before. So I'm going to ask you

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Speaker 1: about different time periods in your life, and you're going

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Speaker 1: to give us some examples. Okay, all right, let's talk

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Speaker 1: about Oh, let's talk about a time when you were like, God,

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Speaker 1: I know you did that for me, thank you that

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Speaker 1: you could think of right off the top of your head.

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Speaker 5: Uh, it was a lot of a lot of times.

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Speaker 4: I'll probably like the first deal I signed as a

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Speaker 4: as a songwriter, and then when I found out Chris

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Speaker 4: Brown wanted two of my songs. Cool, that was like

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Speaker 4: the first time I was like, God, thank you. You

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Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, Like I always knew. I was

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Speaker 4: like I always knew I was one of them guys.

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Speaker 4: But it takes like somebody you look up to for

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Speaker 4: you to be like I'll mess with you, bro, and

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Speaker 4: then it just gives you.

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Speaker 5: Like a whole boost of confidence.

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Speaker 4: Like the people I looked up to, no, I'll be

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Speaker 4: along with them, so I'll say, like Timberland and then

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Speaker 4: Chris Brown, Wow, was like.

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Speaker 5: The first people like that was like, bro, you one

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Speaker 5: of us, Like challenge.

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Speaker 2: That is especially somebody like Timberland as multiple things.

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Speaker 4: Exactly like and he was one of like the producers

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Speaker 4: I looked up to like growing up watching my whole life.

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Speaker 4: So that was like one of the ones like damn,

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Speaker 4: like I really belong here.

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Speaker 2: Did Timberlin give you any advice because he's been in

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Speaker 2: this industry forever, as has Chris Brown.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he ain't give me advice, but it was like

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Speaker 5: he gave me a lot of advice.

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Speaker 4: But the most thing I'll be like learning from people

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Speaker 4: is like what they do and like now what they say.

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Speaker 4: So it's like with him, it was like I remember

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Speaker 4: I was making like I was sending him like hooks

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Speaker 4: and samples, and every day he would just make like

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Speaker 4: three to four beats, and it just made me think,

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Speaker 4: like bro, like he don't need nothing, Like he good

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Speaker 4: and like he got his family, he got millions of

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Speaker 4: dollars his mansion, but he's still working hard.

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Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. Like you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: He love it, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: That just motivated me to even go harder, Like bro,

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Speaker 4: like I'm nowhere near this man, So I gotta I

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Speaker 4: gotta make ten beats today. I gotta make ten hooks

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Speaker 4: today if he making four. So he really love it,

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Speaker 4: and that's the same with me. That's what I learned

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Speaker 4: from him and ca.

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Speaker 1: See that you love it and what people are saying

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Speaker 1: about you. Even when I read comments because I always

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Speaker 1: do that. People are like, he's got such a unique voice.

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Speaker 1: He's here to stay. I can't wait to see where

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Speaker 1: he is ten years from now. You know, to keep

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Speaker 1: on this path all right now? In your music, we

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Speaker 1: all know nobody's perfect, right, and so you've talked about

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Speaker 1: times that you haven't been perfect.

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Speaker 3: What's tell us the time when you lied and got.

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Speaker 2: Caught, lied and got caught.

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Speaker 3: Because you know you're a man.

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Speaker 5: Are you a good liar?

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Speaker 2: Most men aren't.

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Speaker 5: It's a lot of times with my mom we.

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Speaker 3: Talked about relationships. It was a good one.

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Speaker 5: It ain't even caught.

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Speaker 4: It's just like the phone ship like the phone, so

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Speaker 4: it's not even like a caught situation. It's like, damn,

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Speaker 4: I don't even lie. It's just like finding me in a.

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Speaker 3: Certain compromising situation.

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Speaker 2: You have photos or something, or you have like little

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Speaker 2: messages like that, Oh man, I don't.

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Speaker 5: It really ain't no reason for me. A lot of

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Speaker 5: but they might catch you, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: Caught me and some shit.

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Speaker 2: Like you need a better password?

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Speaker 1: Are you the type of person that like when you

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Speaker 1: get caught doing something. Are you like a beg for forgiveness?

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Speaker 3: Are you quiet?

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Speaker 1: Are you the type of person that tries to be

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Speaker 1: manipulative and turn it around like.

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Speaker 5: I'm a man?

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Speaker 4: So I'm like, all right, we're here now, So it's like, now,

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Speaker 4: what do we want to do?

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Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: I ain't about to spin your head and make up

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Speaker 4: all these lives. So it's just like, we're here now.

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Speaker 4: This is how I feel and what we're.

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Speaker 5: Gonna do from here now.

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Speaker 1: I think one of the best songs on the album

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Speaker 1: is when It Comes to You.

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Speaker 3: That's the one that is the one.

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Speaker 1: So can you tell us about what you were thinking

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Speaker 1: about when you wrote that song, what type of experiences

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Speaker 1: you were drawing from.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember the day of the session when I

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Speaker 4: heard that guitar. Me and my guy producer co Fo,

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Speaker 4: we worked on the guitar and I just pulled it up.

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Speaker 4: As soon as I heard the guitar, I was like,

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Speaker 4: just feel like an old wedding song. Like you know

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Speaker 4: what I'm saying, You just feel like a inspirational love song.

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Speaker 4: So you know what I'm saying. But and I when

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Speaker 4: we was writing it, I was just telling my the

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Speaker 4: girls I write with Emeralds and Babay. I was like,

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Speaker 4: I don't want it to be on some like you

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Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, some old school shit. I just

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Speaker 4: want I still want it to be me, you know

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Speaker 4: what I'm saying as I'm writing it. So I just

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Speaker 4: wanted it to be like a song where we I'm

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Speaker 4: uplifting the girl that I love, you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 4: in a good way, but in a way that young

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Speaker 4: people still could relate to it, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: So I knew that song was gonna be the one,

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Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, especially like today, it ain't.

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Speaker 5: A lot of music out like that right now, you

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Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. But yeah, you're right.

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Speaker 4: Even that's why I really stuck on like the lines

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Speaker 4: that we was making in the song where it's like

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Speaker 4: there's not a lot of music like that, and people

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Speaker 4: really feel that way, you know what I'm saying, Like

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Speaker 4: everybody got that person that they love, that person that

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Speaker 4: they won't waste no time with. But the music today

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Speaker 4: is not being pushed at you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, everybody's outside everybody.

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Speaker 5: Everybody outside so tough.

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Speaker 4: You think everybody outside, even even the artists that's making

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Speaker 4: the outside records they got.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they hold up.

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Speaker 1: They booed up different now because we had Rashida and

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Speaker 1: kirk On here from Loving Hip Hop Atlanta, and he

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Speaker 1: was talking about how they were married for ten years

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Speaker 1: before anybody even knew that they were in a relationship

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Speaker 1: at all. And you know, they used to say, oh,

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Speaker 1: you can't be in a relationship.

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Speaker 3: But I feel like now.

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Speaker 4: I feel that it ain't no rules to this initiative. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: everything they said back then is the opposite.

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Speaker 3: Now, how did it feel?

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Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying?

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Speaker 1: How did they feel doing a video that's like a

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Speaker 1: wedding didn't make you think about your own wedding?

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Speaker 4: And it was just like I remember my manager, Edgar,

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Speaker 4: he like, let's do a wedding, and I'm like, bro,

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Speaker 4: I can't do this video.

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Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: I was just telling him, like, why why were you

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Speaker 4: I believe in marriage, like I believe in love and marriage.

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Speaker 4: So I believe in love and marriage like my parents

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Speaker 4: But I just didn't look want to look like one

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Speaker 5: Stop in your music. Every song that you have is

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's an interesting take on things. That's too because

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Speaker 4: Yeah, people walking down the aisle, celebrities like there's married

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Speaker 4: So even the people that you think that you people

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Speaker 2: We needed this, Like do you think, like, do you

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Speaker 4: Tis definitely people getting proposed to it, people get married

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Speaker 2: Okay, I can be making money off like that song.

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Speaker 4: I'm telling you, like the most people that you think

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Speaker 3: Was it weird to be though?

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Speaker 5: You just gotta find the right person? Want you find

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Speaker 2: Is this song gonna be played? Are you gonna play

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Speaker 5: It depends if it's up to me. I'm playing that.

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Speaker 1: For you just acting, I mean, are just showing an

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Speaker 3: And feeling like, damn, this is what it's going to be.

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Speaker 4: Like it wasn't weird because if you watch a video,

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Speaker 2: Know what I'm saying, did you play this for your

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Speaker 4: Yeah, my brothers heard it and my parents heard it.

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Speaker 5: My brothers loved it. It was like this is the woman, bro.

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Speaker 1: This the people really cry like emotionally listening to when

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Speaker 4: Almost? Almost, I'll be sowing to my own world. I

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Speaker 4: It's just like it's like a it's like therapy to

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Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, a man putting his wife on

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, So feeling to create emotion because you know,

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Speaker 6: Talk like ye talking the beginning for a while to listen,

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Speaker 5: I started. So you said that I'm thinking about boys

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Speaker 2: I feel like for your music, I feel like for

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Speaker 2: I feel like, yeah, you gotta be chilled.

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Speaker 4: But if you're around the right people, you can listen

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Speaker 1: Right do you think about when you're writing a song?

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Speaker 1: Do you think about okay, this is the type of mood,

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Speaker 3: Right do you think about those things?

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Speaker 4: Are you just I said everything they said back in

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Speaker 5: Yeah, look at Rihanna song. Listen me up.

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Speaker 4: That shit come on the radio, slow as shit. Everybody's

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Speaker 4: We got don't give it away. We've got you featuring

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Speaker 4: Fireboy Got.

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Speaker 1: I like that every time lesson, you got the afrobeat,

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Speaker 1: you got dance, so everything that I love.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, you know your mom is on here.

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Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, that's so dope. So how many

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Speaker 5: That was?

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Speaker 3: That was one take? Okay?

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Speaker 2: I was like, because look that's where you get it from.

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Speaker 4: Because I remember we had that song and I was like,

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Speaker 5: Yea. My manager was like, just put your mom on there.

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Speaker 4: I was like, that's a good that's a good idea,

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Speaker 4: She didn't even know. I was like, keep pray for

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Speaker 5: Recorded the joint.

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Speaker 4: Oh wow, I like, keep pray for me and give

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Speaker 1: That's so amazing because if you would have told her, man,

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Speaker 1: I want to put you on this album name you did.

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Speaker 5: Some hype you she said, I gotta get ready her

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Speaker 2: First of all, Definitely this thingson was super sincere and off.

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Speaker 4: She didn't even know the album came out. She's like,

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Speaker 4: And like people be playing the prayer like people on Instagram,

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Speaker 4: good to see. I wasn't even thinking about that. I

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Speaker 4: when people listening to it, what she's saying there, they

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Speaker 4: they driving to it, it's like they just they treating

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Speaker 2: It's an ongoing thing that the music is bigger than you.

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Speaker 4: That's what it's real, bigger than me. Like even like

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Speaker 5: Know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: Like when before I drop the album, I'm like, we're

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Speaker 4: don't understand right now, I'm not even thinking about charting,

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Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, Yeah, just doing like this

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Speaker 4: is great music. Let's bring real music back. But it's

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Speaker 4: just showing that the music is bigger than me. Like

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Speaker 4: I only got four hundred thousand followers, but the music

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Speaker 4: is charting bigger than you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: But sometimes it when people chase a certain type of

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Speaker 1: this is what I want to achieve, it sounds contrived.

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Speaker 3: But when you're just doing things that are natural and.

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Speaker 1: You're like, like, I just love what I do and

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Speaker 1: this is what it is, that works even better. It

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Speaker 1: feels like interludes are important to you too, you know,

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Speaker 3: So why is that?

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Speaker 4: Just growing up and the people I listened to like

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Speaker 4: that was a very important part on the of an

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Speaker 4: you get like personal, you know what I'm saying, Like

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Speaker 4: like that's that's important. I feel like a full album

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Speaker 4: you gotta have like an interlew you gotta have a

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Speaker 5: It touched people.

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Speaker 3: No, you've done a great job with that.

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Speaker 2: Is there any songs on this project that you had

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Speaker 2: the you know, the label didn't think was the best fit,

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Speaker 2: but you really wanted to push for it. Now you do.

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Speaker 4: One thing, I like, shout out my label, shout out

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Speaker 4: tund wn.

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Speaker 5: They just let me do the music, bro, like they

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Speaker 5: trust me.

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Speaker 4: Everything else, I'll listen to y'all like Friday do this,

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Speaker 4: like get out to get out there more, like you

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Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, But when it comes to the music,

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Speaker 4: let me have my weight, bro, Like none of y'all

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Speaker 4: gonna tell me about this shit, right, you know what

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Speaker 4: I'm saying, I'm wonder them niggas when he like, I'm

445
00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:54,359
Speaker 4: producing writing, I'm like hands on my music.

446
00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:55,840
Speaker 5: So I take that personal.

447
00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:57,960
Speaker 1: Now I've seen you say that it feels like everything

448
00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:01,760
Speaker 1: happened really fast for you. Yeah, from and most people

449
00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:03,880
Speaker 1: will say it took a long time, like for them.

450
00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:06,000
Speaker 1: I hear a lot of artists say I was doing

451
00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:08,040
Speaker 1: this and this and that it took forever. But for you,

452
00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:10,879
Speaker 1: it feels like even for you, it feels like things

453
00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:15,000
Speaker 1: just happened so quickly. So can you just talk about,

454
00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:18,480
Speaker 1: like how life has changed from last year until now?

455
00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:19,760
Speaker 1: What are some of the differences.

456
00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:22,399
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's crazy. I ain't a cat.

457
00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:25,879
Speaker 4: Like this week made me like realize it even more

458
00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:27,560
Speaker 4: like Fashion Week.

459
00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:30,760
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. Going into the events, I.

460
00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:32,680
Speaker 3: Said, you're a Tommy, He'll figure like.

461
00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:35,160
Speaker 4: The people all look up to the most know who

462
00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:37,639
Speaker 4: I am, Like I'm a humble guy. So I'm like,

463
00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,000
Speaker 4: I'm introducing myself. I don't know if you know who

464
00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:42,320
Speaker 4: I am. My name is Friday, Like, yeah, I know

465
00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:44,840
Speaker 4: who you are, Like I got songs with you. You don't

466
00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:46,280
Speaker 4: even know about it yet, you know what I'm saying,

467
00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:47,879
Speaker 4: Like I got beats from you.

468
00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:49,840
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. So it's just like this.

469
00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:52,399
Speaker 4: Week just made me realize like damn, like I'm really

470
00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:54,719
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, Like I'm really here and

471
00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:57,520
Speaker 4: respected by the people I admire, you know what I'm saying,

472
00:18:57,560 --> 00:18:58,520
Speaker 4: The people that like, who.

473
00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:02,040
Speaker 3: Are some people you ran across that she was like shit, all.

474
00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:05,080
Speaker 4: Set showed me love to see scissors showed me love.

475
00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:07,439
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Like, he's all people that

476
00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:09,800
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, Like, I know what you

477
00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:11,359
Speaker 4: got going on? Yeah, I know you bro, like you

478
00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:14,719
Speaker 4: fired bro, like everybody. You know what I'm saying, Like,

479
00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:16,840
Speaker 4: it's just it's just it's just I'm grateful for.

480
00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:19,840
Speaker 1: Real all right now talking about more things, because there's

481
00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:22,639
Speaker 1: times you talk about fighting your inner demons yea, and

482
00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:25,400
Speaker 1: getting sidetrack. What are sometimes that you feel like you've

483
00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:28,000
Speaker 1: gotten sidechrack and had to refocus?

484
00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:33,840
Speaker 5: I don't never lose really like lose focus. I would

485
00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:36,080
Speaker 5: just say it's like the.

486
00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:40,280
Speaker 4: Whole industry, the whole industry stuff like like sometimes I'll

487
00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:42,280
Speaker 4: be having them like take a step back, you know

488
00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:44,760
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, like and go home to my family

489
00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:48,360
Speaker 4: and just be a regular person, right cause, like I'm

490
00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:50,760
Speaker 4: telling my John, like being here fashion Week, I'm like this,

491
00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:55,160
Speaker 4: it's like, bro, like this industry really like real small

492
00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:58,600
Speaker 4: and like being going every place every day.

493
00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:01,320
Speaker 5: It's like, damn, It's just it's like you could.

494
00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:03,000
Speaker 4: Get caught up in it, you know what I'm saying,

495
00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:05,280
Speaker 4: caught up in a flashes, caught up and being in

496
00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:07,920
Speaker 4: a party. So I feel like that's the only place

497
00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:10,520
Speaker 4: I really I just got to take a step back

498
00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:12,320
Speaker 4: sometimes and just you know what I'm saying, go home

499
00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:15,280
Speaker 4: to my brothers, the niggas that treat me regular, you

500
00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:17,680
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, rather than like, oh you Friday.

501
00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:19,800
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. But that's the only time

502
00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:22,320
Speaker 4: I really like kind of lose focus. I don't really

503
00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:23,320
Speaker 4: be losing focus for.

504
00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:27,199
Speaker 1: What are some things that you have coming on the

505
00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:29,600
Speaker 1: way now? Because look, you've put out this project. People

506
00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:32,760
Speaker 1: absolutely love it, right, It's got a tremendous response.

507
00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,600
Speaker 3: So is there a tour? Like what's next? What's happening?

508
00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:39,080
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I say tour. I'm excited about that for sure.

509
00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:42,600
Speaker 4: That's the next that's the next step from everybody see

510
00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:45,000
Speaker 4: me live. You know what I'm saying, I'm excited for that.

511
00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:47,320
Speaker 4: See how I carry it live for sure.

512
00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:49,760
Speaker 3: So is that tour already planned out mapped out?

513
00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:51,600
Speaker 4: No, we in the works of it. We try and

514
00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,360
Speaker 4: find out, like you know what I'm saying, exactly exactly

515
00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:54,880
Speaker 4: where to go.

516
00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:57,280
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. But that's the next step.

517
00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:59,680
Speaker 3: Did you not expect it to go this well?

518
00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:03,040
Speaker 5: That I didn't expect it like this?

519
00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,359
Speaker 4: You know, like I really didn't like I just like

520
00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:08,399
Speaker 4: I told you for it is just I just wanted

521
00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:11,840
Speaker 4: to put out this my debut album. Let's let it

522
00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:13,600
Speaker 4: grow for like a year. Let's you know what I'm saying,

523
00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:14,280
Speaker 4: to grow.

524
00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:14,520
Speaker 2: For a year.

525
00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:15,879
Speaker 5: Let's let it like build it.

526
00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:19,360
Speaker 1: But that's been that you've been saying. You've been saying

527
00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:20,360
Speaker 1: you didn't expect.

528
00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:23,639
Speaker 4: That at the stage I'm at, like I'm a new artist,

529
00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:25,600
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. So it's like, let's just

530
00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:27,320
Speaker 4: build it up. You know what I'm saying. Let's build

531
00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:29,679
Speaker 4: it up to get number one. Let's build it up

532
00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:31,920
Speaker 4: over a year, you know what I'm saying. But when

533
00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:34,080
Speaker 4: we dropped it, it was just so special, like people,

534
00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:35,000
Speaker 4: it touched people.

535
00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:37,320
Speaker 5: They just share it and share it and share it.

536
00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:39,800
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, like my fans just daily

537
00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:42,439
Speaker 4: like just posting it share like I appreciate my fans.

538
00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,439
Speaker 4: So it did what it did, Like I didn't expect

539
00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:47,800
Speaker 4: it to do that or be doing that right now.

540
00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:52,040
Speaker 3: So the tour you're planning that right now?

541
00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:54,880
Speaker 1: Is it going to be just you like or would

542
00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:57,080
Speaker 1: you like to go out with people open?

543
00:21:57,119 --> 00:21:59,520
Speaker 4: I definitely won't go out with somebody, but right now

544
00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:03,960
Speaker 4: it's headliner for sure. Okay, we're looking for somebody to

545
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:04,480
Speaker 4: open up.

546
00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,919
Speaker 1: You hear that he's looking for somebody to open up.

547
00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,439
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to think of who I would like

548
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 1: to see open up. Somebody you think hip hop or

549
00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:13,680
Speaker 1: R and B.

550
00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:16,199
Speaker 5: I just think like you gotta be in my.

551
00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:19,679
Speaker 4: Like even when I was like we was trying to

552
00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,679
Speaker 4: plan the tour, like go out with somebody, it's just

553
00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,600
Speaker 4: like you gotta be somebody in my house.

554
00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:26,320
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.

555
00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,760
Speaker 4: It gotta be like not will something that makes sense

556
00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:31,720
Speaker 4: makes sense? You know what I'm saying, Like my music

557
00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:33,560
Speaker 4: is different, you know what I'm saying. It's like people

558
00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:37,400
Speaker 4: coming for experience and like a therapy session and like something.

559
00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:41,159
Speaker 1: Because he could do gospel, he does he could R

560
00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,320
Speaker 1: and B, R and BPS.

561
00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,639
Speaker 3: It could be anybody in that case.

562
00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:50,240
Speaker 1: That's gonna be dope, though for you to to be

563
00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:52,440
Speaker 1: able to do that. Do you remember your first ever

564
00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:53,919
Speaker 1: live performance.

565
00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:56,040
Speaker 5: Church? Yeah?

566
00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, what about for this normal this music?

567
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,880
Speaker 1: Like as far as your songs, your music, your EP,

568
00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:04,040
Speaker 1: your first EP.

569
00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:06,520
Speaker 5: My first performance with Meek Mill.

570
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:08,880
Speaker 3: That was that's a big one.

571
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:10,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah that.

572
00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:11,960
Speaker 5: I was nervous as ship bad.

573
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:16,040
Speaker 4: I mean that was when I dropped my last my

574
00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:20,000
Speaker 4: last EP, Lost Melody, and Meek was coming to Philly.

575
00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:22,000
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, because he just dropped Flamers,

576
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:23,960
Speaker 4: but he did the remix on Don't give Up on

577
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:28,000
Speaker 4: Me my song. So he just tweeted, I hope Friday

578
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:29,640
Speaker 4: in the city to come out.

579
00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:32,560
Speaker 5: Look I seen that tweet. I act like I didn't

580
00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 5: even see it. I was bitching.

581
00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:38,000
Speaker 4: I was like, oh no, but everybody everybody text me

582
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:39,600
Speaker 4: to me. Everybody text me bro.

583
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:39,800
Speaker 3: Bro.

584
00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 5: Look look we just tweeted.

585
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:43,040
Speaker 4: So I was like, all right, let's do it, bro,

586
00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 4: Like I texted me, I text his team was let's

587
00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:50,360
Speaker 4: do it. I'm in the city. Like he was all, yeah,

588
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:52,960
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be there regardless, Like I gotta do it.

589
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,760
Speaker 4: For the city because especially after God did it was

590
00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:58,040
Speaker 4: like a lot of people.

591
00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:00,280
Speaker 5: Didn't know I was from Philly, Like I.

592
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:04,360
Speaker 4: Got blew up worldwide before it was like a come

593
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 4: up in my city. Yeah, you know what I'm saying,

594
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:09,040
Speaker 4: So people like he's from Philly, Like it was always

595
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 4: that little question.

596
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:11,399
Speaker 5: So I was like, I gotta do this, you know

597
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:13,359
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. So when he brought me out as

598
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,200
Speaker 5: well as far ago twenty thousand people.

599
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:15,960
Speaker 2: How would that feel?

600
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 5: I was nervous, bro.

601
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,800
Speaker 4: Like, I was nervous as hell, But as soon as

602
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:22,080
Speaker 4: I got on stage, it was cool.

603
00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,159
Speaker 5: It was love. He was giving me that energy and

604
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:25,720
Speaker 5: the people knew the song too, so.

605
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,720
Speaker 4: It was like that was just like a big stint

606
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:31,400
Speaker 4: for me, even for me being from where I'm from.

607
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:32,280
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.

608
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:35,199
Speaker 1: I tell you posting London that everybody when you were

609
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,480
Speaker 1: performing in London and everybody knew all the words to

610
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:40,399
Speaker 1: your side, that has to be an amazing feeling of

611
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:44,080
Speaker 1: your songs, you know, your project and everybody singing along.

612
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was like probably like I think that's like

613
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:50,560
Speaker 4: number one in my in my in this year for me,

614
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,960
Speaker 4: like cause it's like, bro, like, even when I'm saying,

615
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 4: like the music is bigger than me, people may look

616
00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:58,919
Speaker 4: at it like a right, he coming up, but like

617
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 4: what and that's coming up? I have twenty thousand people

618
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:05,119
Speaker 4: singing word for it in London. Yeah, you know what

619
00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 4: I'm saying.

620
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:07,720
Speaker 3: That's when you realize you're international music.

621
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:08,840
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.

622
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 3: You don't thinking about it thinking yeah.

623
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:15,240
Speaker 4: But it's like everything that I do, even collaborating with Asake,

624
00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,200
Speaker 4: collaborating with boys. You know what I'm saying, blessings, It's

625
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:22,679
Speaker 4: just like my music is like it's a it's a

626
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 4: worldwide sound, you know what I'm saying. So I didn't know,

627
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 4: Like I remember being backstage at a SA concert.

628
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:31,360
Speaker 5: I'm just asking everybody, like you think they're gonna know me.

629
00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:36,439
Speaker 4: Bro, Like all the Africans, they're like, trust me, trust me.

630
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:38,639
Speaker 4: I'm just thinking, like you know what I'm saying, They

631
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 4: like trust me. Bro's word for word, trust me. I

632
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 4: walked out there word for word, and it was like

633
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:47,440
Speaker 4: it was like a shock, like nah, he ain't bring

634
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 4: off Friday like I was.

635
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:50,400
Speaker 5: I'm hearing it like no, that's not Friday.

636
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:52,919
Speaker 4: As soon as I sung that first line, I'm not

637
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,880
Speaker 4: where I want to be, but I think got crowding crazy.

638
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,520
Speaker 4: So I was like, probably like the biggest moment of

639
00:25:58,560 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 4: my career right now for.

640
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:02,920
Speaker 3: Me, so fun, so much more to come for sure.

641
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:03,480
Speaker 3: You know.

642
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:05,879
Speaker 1: Well, listen, I just want to say, we're so happy

643
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:07,199
Speaker 1: that you're not too Hollywood for us.

644
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 2: Yes, no, I ain't never going to be.

645
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 5: Ain't a lot. I ain't never gonna be too Hollywood. Bro.

646
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 4: I feel like a lot of people even have that

647
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:18,399
Speaker 4: problem with me, you know what I'm saying, Like, Bro,

648
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 4: you's supposed to be doing this, Like bro.

649
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 5: Act like this, like you one of them niggas go

650
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 5: to that party.

651
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 4: I'm cool, bro, Like just let me. You know what

652
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,360
Speaker 4: I'm saying, I really be chilling, humble now.

653
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 1: Listen, every time I see you, it's all love all

654
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,480
Speaker 1: the time. But we do appreciate you because super early

655
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:35,199
Speaker 1: on we definitely wanted to have you on here. We

656
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 1: know how important you are. And listen, it's a big

657
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:40,399
Speaker 1: deal for Philly, you know what I'm saying. Philly is

658
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 1: definitely a musical place to just the history in Philly

659
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 1: of music, the sound of Philadelphia. You know a lot

660
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 1: of really big people from Philly. So I think you

661
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:52,000
Speaker 1: know you represent for your city really well. Thank you,

662
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: and I cannot wait to see what else you have

663
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 1: coming and who you're going to bring on this tour

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Speaker 1: with you.

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Speaker 3: But everybody put a bit in right now if you're listening.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because I no speak up?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 1: Is there anything else that you want to make sure

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Speaker 1: that we know about in case we missed it?

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Speaker 5: Not an album out right now, you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 5: touring away.

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Speaker 1: That get your Kleenex in case you're going through something

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Speaker 1: you cry album. But if you messed up with your girl,

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Speaker 1: it's a great album to.

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Speaker 3: Put on too, you know what. I'm sure we like listening. Girl,

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Speaker 3: don't give up on me.

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Speaker 2: And if you need a prayer, his Mama's in there

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Speaker 2: for you.

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Speaker 3: All right. Well, it is way up at Angelae Friday.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much,