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Speaker 1: It's DJ Envy Angela Yee Sharloman, the God. We all

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Speaker 1: the breakfast club. We have the independent King in the building. Yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: you know it was cool to be independent. Everybody keeps

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Speaker 1: saying that, man, everybody, it is the truth. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, we have tech minie in the building.

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Speaker 1: And you still haven't sold out and sold to a

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Speaker 1: signed to a major. No, never, never will. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, man, it depends on how many millions

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Speaker 1: even now, and this climate is like I don't really know. Man,

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Speaker 1: Like somebody just called and offered the sixty million one enough, wow,

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Speaker 1: sixty million. Yeah, I can't say who it was. I

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Speaker 1: need my phone to ring like that. I talked to

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Speaker 1: my partner. I talked to my partner, Travis, and he said, man,

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Speaker 1: but we're about to do this year. Sixty million a't

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Speaker 1: gonna sound like nothing. I was like, yeah, you're right,

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Speaker 1: a deal worth sixty million, like advance everything up here?

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Speaker 1: Ain't nothing know for what for our blood sweat and

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Speaker 1: tears to me? I mean, I know, y'all sell a

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Speaker 1: lot with merchant and you gross a lot and show

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Speaker 1: how what kind of range were talking? Man? What do

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Speaker 1: you mean money wise, he makes the Forbes list, like all,

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Speaker 1: I know, you know last year, you know, I was

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Speaker 1: on the fourth list for eight millions, so you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, we do we do? Okay? Yeah? To

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Speaker 1: turn down sixty million dollars, I'm sure yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I've never turned down sixty million. That was the

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Speaker 1: first time I ever did it. Day before yesterday was no, no, no.

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Speaker 1: I was just flabbergasted, you know what I'm saying. I

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Speaker 1: was like, wow, that's what they want to say. And

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Speaker 1: he was like, man, but what we're about to do

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Speaker 1: after May fours, you know, after the album dropped. That's

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Speaker 1: not gonna sound like a lot of the money. I said,

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Speaker 1: You're right, though. Was it an easy decision of easy? Hey?

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Speaker 1: It was really, it was really easy. We laughed about it,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. We laughed about it. Is

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Speaker 1: that bad? No? Yes? Yeah, you regular people absolutely. Oh

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Speaker 1: somebody last thought that was funny? Yeah yeah yeah yeah.

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Speaker 1: But you know, things change all the time. Man. You

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Speaker 1: never know, somebody might call with the right number, and

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Speaker 1: it's probably easier for you to sell records, which makes

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Speaker 1: more money because of the internet, because yeah, it's doing

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Speaker 1: it before it was so easy to pres Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we had to start, you know, like Steve Rifkin did

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Speaker 1: it when with the Big pun thing. You know, we

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Speaker 1: have street teams, we still have everything grass roots. So

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Speaker 1: it's like the internet thing got for it because I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to go over to Australia like I

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Speaker 1: just did in New Zealand and Honolulu for the first

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Speaker 1: time and have all sold out shows, you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. And you know, it really is important, I

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Speaker 1: think for an artist like Tech nine to show these

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Speaker 1: other artists how important it is to have a great

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Speaker 1: live show exactly. You know a lot of people don't

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Speaker 1: understand the importance of having a live show. They get

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Speaker 1: sold out with Without the live show, man, you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna last, you know what I mean. And back in

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Speaker 1: the day when we were on the road, like early,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, it wasn't too many people

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Speaker 1: on the road, but toilet quality was on the road,

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Speaker 1: you know, atmosphere was on the road, Citizen Cope stuff

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Speaker 1: people like that. But then in later years I got

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Speaker 1: that the youngsters is getting out their touring now because

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Speaker 1: one thing to be real told me a long time ago.

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Speaker 1: He said, they could try to take away djan and

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Speaker 1: buying on everything, but be able to take away the

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Speaker 1: live show. And if you have a great live show,

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Speaker 1: people will talk. Word of mouth really works, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean. So when they say you gotta go

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Speaker 1: she tech now you gotta go see this. People come

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Speaker 1: and we're still on the incline because of that, because

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Speaker 1: we gave a damn about what the show is and

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Speaker 1: you did. Just don't ance your tour. Mers is on

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Speaker 1: the tour. Yes, I wondering was here. I had a

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Speaker 1: scriptle here for you to eat up. He's morderlized for that,

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Speaker 1: and I feel responsible people what happened. No, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: of the maddest people don't know. It's explaining to people

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Speaker 1: what happened. I had a show called Lift Service and Merds.

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Speaker 1: I saw him at Rock the Bells, Yes, and he

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Speaker 1: told me, he said, bring some strippers up there. I

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Speaker 1: was there as well. Really close mouth, don't get fed, bro, exactly. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you know, no problem. I set it up and I did.

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Speaker 1: We had two shippers there for you. Yes, you came

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Speaker 1: through Roxy Reynolds. And still remember the name can Vine

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Speaker 1: But though yeah I didn't do that too as you

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Speaker 1: just get random. But it wasn't it was it smelled,

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Speaker 1: It smelled great. She was clean, very like you know,

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Speaker 1: you inspect before you, you know, dive in you know what.

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Speaker 1: I'm drunk. Nah, so I was okay, you a little crazy? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he was definitely nervous. Was this your first sexual experience? No, No,

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Speaker 1: first on air, you know, on live on the internet. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I did too. I got I had to take a

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Speaker 1: sidebar with the boss. Mostly what most people get when

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Speaker 1: cheap coffee or whatever. Yeah, but then he ended up dating. Yeah, Roxy,

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Speaker 1: You know a lot of people do that for her barely,

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Speaker 1: And I guess I weren't high up. Yeah, you make

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Speaker 1: it come in the studio. I don't know I should

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Speaker 1: long en Afterno, No, it wasn't that. It wasn't that long. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but Murray says he's always told me that he gets

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Speaker 1: a lot of recognition for that. Yeah, people stopped me

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Speaker 1: with my wife. Now, I was a what did your

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Speaker 1: wife say? She hates that question because they'll just ask

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Speaker 1: me what it tastes like? What roxy Reyntals tastes like?

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Speaker 1: I'm here in the video. Yeah, she saw it all

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Speaker 1: before you got married, before he got married, some conversation

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Speaker 1: like babe, I want to shake you this just so

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Speaker 1: you know, she knew. She knew me who I was,

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Speaker 1: so she knew what had happened. But it's still awkward

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Speaker 1: when you put going to Walmarts and a dude walk

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Speaker 1: right up to you. Hey man, what roxy Reryntals taste

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Speaker 1: He was just talking about murders. I can't remember who

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Speaker 1: it is though. We're talking about what was it? Who

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Speaker 1: y'all got going on? No, I was. I was working

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Speaker 1: with him on this label before, while I was living

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Speaker 1: I haven't taught the damon in a while. Oh, that's

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Speaker 1: what it was too. It was it was Lucan Lucan. Yeah, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I might messed with them. Tell but well, Lucan Bookie

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Speaker 1: out on the lag? Yeah, I put, I did a

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Speaker 1: single form of years ago. No, it was done years ago,

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Speaker 1: opened the restaurant. That's what you're saying. The tech now,

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Speaker 1: They've done a long time ago. You know, it sounds

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Speaker 1: like it just happened. Technic. Yeah, now Techno and this

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Speaker 1: new album you have special effects here. You're saying this

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Speaker 1: is going to be your biggest album to date. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I know for a fact. Everybody else is gonna know

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Speaker 1: after May fourth too, you know what I mean, not

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Speaker 1: just because of all the major um collaborations. But it's

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Speaker 1: just the music is bigger, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: The concept. You know, my mom just passed. H June

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Speaker 1: said to Lupus, you know what I mean. So they

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Speaker 1: I really have a real angel. You know what I'm saying?

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Speaker 1: things over the years of my music career. Man, it

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Speaker 1: just so happens when she left, all these things started

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Speaker 1: it's all on my album. And we got the people

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Speaker 1: that are at the hilt of it the best collaboration. No,

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Speaker 1: I didn't say that. Why does everybody get saying that?

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Speaker 1: Why does everybody get saying that? That's so funny? Now?

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Speaker 1: I said, no, technog would never go mainstream, but mainstream

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Speaker 1: I'm sizzling. So it's like I just fight with him

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Speaker 1: little Wayne? Oh yes, oh yes, I mean I had

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Speaker 1: And after a while I went away. It always goes

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Speaker 1: away if I stand strong, and I'm always stand strong. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I did Riker's Island. That's how y'all the relationship for him? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: because he says something about me out of the blue.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know he knew me, you know. He said

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Speaker 1: something the mass reflection somebody I don't know, and said

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Speaker 1: he wanted to work with me. So when I came

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Speaker 1: went up there to see him. Ogs hooked it up,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And I went in it's beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Soad you explain the afair that Jimmy Kimmel situated, because

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Speaker 1: I would be happy that my guy who look oh

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Speaker 1: lot of them were happy for me. But the ones

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Speaker 1: you said that, oh, he's on TV now, you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. He's not underground anymore. It's supposed I

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Speaker 1: told him. I tell him, real music is supposed to

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Speaker 1: we started, me and my partner Travis o'gwen, when we

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Speaker 1: started this, our goal was world domination. You know that

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Speaker 1: get from the comfortable. You know. No, I ain't never

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Speaker 1: gonna wear no parachute pants ever. Again. When you said

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Speaker 1: the song Fragile you did, has that been your biggest

422
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Speaker 1: song as far as radio? And yes, yes, yes, yes,

423
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Speaker 1: yes yes, Fragile is the biggest song that I've ever had.

424
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Speaker 1: Um they saying the Huggles Craize is gonna be even

425
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Speaker 1: bigger than that, so we'll see. I just do music

426
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Speaker 1: and my people put it where they think it should go.

427
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Speaker 1: You know, do you think about like, Okay, this song

428
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Speaker 1: could go on the radio or does that not matter? Well,

429
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Speaker 1: it don't matter to me. But when I hear a song,

430
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Speaker 1: we've been a dancer. When Bob sent me that beat

431
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Speaker 1: with this go Craiz, I'm like, ah, hell yeah, it

432
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Speaker 1: makes me want to move, So it's gonna make other

433
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Speaker 1: people want to move. And I know that much. So

434
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Speaker 1: that's why I do the party track and the things

435
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Speaker 1: down there. They got the hair that's missing. Keep bear,

436
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Speaker 1: I promise, and never tear that kitten. You know, I

437
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Speaker 1: know what that beat is doing because I'm a dancer,

438
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So the fact that it

439
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Speaker 1: makes other people move is a wonderful thing. You know.

440
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Speaker 1: Is it hard to deal with a lot of the

441
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Speaker 1: stuff that regular artists have to do it because you're

442
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Speaker 1: so successful, like dealing with the radio and I guess

443
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Speaker 1: asking DJ's to play records, talking to music directors. You're like,

444
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Speaker 1: I really don't have to be doing its front say this,

445
00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:57,520
Speaker 1: I should say. I should be real, right, absolutely, Okay,

446
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Speaker 1: So I'm never politically correct. So if I could just

447
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Speaker 1: do music in the studio and go on tour and

448
00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:09,359
Speaker 1: not have to do any of this, I'd be cool.

449
00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:11,960
Speaker 1: I'd be cool. I love seeing you guys faces. But

450
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Speaker 1: it's like, I just I just want to do music.

451
00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:18,520
Speaker 1: I don't care about you know, I'm promoting and all that,

452
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Speaker 1: but you have to write, you know what I mean.

453
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm just an artist. I just want to do

454
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Speaker 1: I love being on stage. Man. When I go out

455
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Speaker 1: there and I see everybody's smiling, I feel like Kevin

456
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Speaker 1: Hard or something. I don't know, man, you know what

457
00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:31,919
Speaker 1: I mean. It just feels good that you're making everybody smile,

458
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And that's what I love.

459
00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:37,720
Speaker 1: I love showing out for my fans. I remember the

460
00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:39,800
Speaker 1: first time seeing a tech Nice show was it Paid

461
00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:43,040
Speaker 1: Dudes Festival? Yeah? Because of him. He made it happen. Yeah,

462
00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:45,959
Speaker 1: and it was incredible. It's even better now I got

463
00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,160
Speaker 1: a live band with me, now, you know what I mean.

464
00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:50,800
Speaker 1: But I would just do that, man, you know, but

465
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Speaker 1: I'll keep on coming out here talking to everybody though.

466
00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:55,639
Speaker 1: You know, whatever it takes to get everybody on it.

467
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Speaker 1: You know. Actually you don't think directly the consumer is

468
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Speaker 1: good enough, like just talking to him online. Yeah, I

469
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Speaker 1: think I think it is. I think it is. I

470
00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:04,800
Speaker 1: think I think Jaycole proved that. I think Beyonce proved that.

471
00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:06,760
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. You know, when you have

472
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Speaker 1: a good product, man, you know your people are in tune.

473
00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:11,080
Speaker 1: You know. I went to Pandora and they showed me

474
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Speaker 1: how many people are playing my music and all these people,

475
00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:15,919
Speaker 1: these millions of ingiers and people that are tuned in

476
00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:18,480
Speaker 1: to Tech nine and have Technine stations. I'm like, wow,

477
00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:20,960
Speaker 1: my dumbath. I'm like, Pandora's a place. But he was

478
00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:29,359
Speaker 1: like talking about the album was out already and I

479
00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,680
Speaker 1: just didn't know about it because well I wasn't supposed

480
00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:35,520
Speaker 1: to put out the intro to the album, but it

481
00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:38,000
Speaker 1: was so now that I couldn't wait to make for it,

482
00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:39,639
Speaker 1: to get that message out to everybody. What I was

483
00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:42,760
Speaker 1: trying to say to God. You know what I mean? Yeah,

484
00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:45,720
Speaker 1: I did. I said, Um, so many circles will send

485
00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,200
Speaker 1: robbed me. That's why we go angel to grim Cosby's.

486
00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,320
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. Bad things happen and turn

487
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Speaker 1: us crazy. I guess I don't know. You know the

488
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Speaker 1: fact that you always give glory to God because the

489
00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:58,800
Speaker 1: deception don't look like you even believe in God. We

490
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Speaker 1: talked about that last time. You know, I'm saying the

491
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Speaker 1: devil worshiping thing, but my mom would kill me. I mean,

492
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Speaker 1: I grew up in the church. You know. I was

493
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Speaker 1: a part of the Sunshine Band. I go to cry

494
00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:10,240
Speaker 1: rehearsal with my aunties, you know what I mean. I

495
00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:12,199
Speaker 1: was at the sewing circle at the church. You know,

496
00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:15,560
Speaker 1: we're a breakfast, lunch and dinner at Barker Temple Baptist Church,

497
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Speaker 1: you know Bishop Moore. So it's like being in the

498
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Speaker 1: Bible belt. You know, we express our spirituality, so that

499
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Speaker 1: might when you hear the Holy Ghost that's dark. So

500
00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:27,119
Speaker 1: that's where the darkness is coming from, you know what

501
00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,920
Speaker 1: I mean? And people that don't understand and not to me,

502
00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:34,240
Speaker 1: people express their spirituality. I mean Tupac did Kanye does?

503
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean? You know a handful of

504
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Speaker 1: people do it. But sometimes when you do that, you know,

505
00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:41,480
Speaker 1: you can scare people. And especially if you got red

506
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Speaker 1: spiked hair and bishops row, they might If somebody say

507
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Speaker 1: he's a devil worshiper, everybody's gonna agree. But nobody knows

508
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Speaker 1: what the devil looks like. I don't know. I don't

509
00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,200
Speaker 1: even know what God or Jesus looks like. A picture

510
00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:53,040
Speaker 1: that they painted. It's not supposed to be the right

511
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Speaker 1: picture of Jesus. Jes might look like me. He's supposed

512
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Speaker 1: to you know, if you're talking about where that region? Absolutely,

513
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Speaker 1: can we have some bars? I know we usually don't

514
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Speaker 1: do this, but this is it's a pleasure when we

515
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,159
Speaker 1: get an artists like tech nine and Hire. Do you

516
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Speaker 1: have some bars on deck? Um? Can? I curse? Yes?

517
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Speaker 1: Lately I've been like grab what did he say? Grab?

518
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, I'm a writer a boat and plus

519
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:20,280
Speaker 1: caps grab because all these tough cats really don't have

520
00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:23,480
Speaker 1: no nuts. Sacks. Trust that enough scratch does back much wackness.

521
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,440
Speaker 1: Flush that down with the gowns, with the sounds for

522
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Speaker 1: the clowns not in a good way. You can drown

523
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Speaker 1: underground with the pounds where they gust that oh so

524
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Speaker 1: low we stole Joe holding donegro we flow though. Let

525
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Speaker 1: the soul glow mo Joe pillowcase over the head of

526
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Speaker 1: the industry. Illustrate with my mouth and murders my ministry,

527
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Speaker 1: seal the fate of my end, and me feel the

528
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:47,480
Speaker 1: way of my energy. I hear the hate, facilitate this

529
00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:50,520
Speaker 1: jockey's what scriller. Make them play your records until your break.

530
00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,720
Speaker 1: Radio ain't nothing but real estate. It's still affect deal

531
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Speaker 1: of maso. Ain't rilla wick. But the midder is greater

532
00:23:55,920 --> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 1: than eight that can kill a yates. There you have it,

533
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Speaker 1: ladies and gentle don't pull it over here there, ladies

534
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Speaker 1: and gentlemen, tech Na, we appreciate you joining us doing

535
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:18,359
Speaker 1: nothing my body man and the and the tour. Just

536
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Speaker 1: let people know when the tour starting. It starts April eighth.

537
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,600
Speaker 1: It's called the Special Effects to support. It's in support

538
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Speaker 1: of my new album, UM Special Effects, and UM I'm

539
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Speaker 1: gonna let merders talk because my body is jittering right

540
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Speaker 1: now because I just screamed on everything I really felt. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Chris Webby zeus k A well know myself. Chris Calicos

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Speaker 1: Special Effects Tour album and Stories May for Maye four.

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Speaker 1: There you have it club, Good morning,