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Speaker 3: Me to take you back to a simpler time. The

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Speaker 3: losing steam. I am energy, energy, not in limits me

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Speaker 3: when I bring the heat, homie, I am a piece.

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Speaker 3: You take a seat away from the cipher, but as

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Speaker 3: more and more of your classmates join in, the rhymes

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Speaker 3: eventually reach you. No, no, you insist, trying to look

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Speaker 4: Everybody got a hot sixteen.

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Speaker 1: This year, hip hop turned fifty years old. What started

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Speaker 1: as an underground youth movement in New York has grown

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Speaker 1: into an international juggernaut.

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Speaker 3: Now hip hop is one of the most popular and

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Speaker 3: commercially successful music genres worldwide.

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Speaker 1: Hip hop's ubiquity only continues to increase year over year.

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Speaker 1: It's studied at colleges and universities, and rap songs are

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Speaker 1: used in movies of all sorts, action, horror, even period

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Speaker 1: films set when hip hop wasn't even dreamt of, and

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Speaker 1: rap has literally changed the way people use the English

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Speaker 3: World, much to my sagrin. Hip Hop is used to

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Speaker 3: sell everything from soda to laptops to shoes, liquor, cell

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Speaker 3: phone coverage, fast food, water, ride share apps, and cereal.

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Speaker 4: The list goes on and on and on.

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Speaker 1: Hip Hop is easy fodder for viral social media trends, dances, memes,

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Speaker 3: Those TikTok dances. I'm still trying to get that savage

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Speaker 3: dance down. Pat hip hop change the way we see speak.

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Speaker 3: Phrases and words coined by hip hop artists often find

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Speaker 4: So pretty like, hey, guy bleed going it really, Katie,

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Speaker 4: that's your idea.

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Speaker 1: Of everyday conversation yolo. Anyway, You may think of the

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Speaker 1: biggest artists when you think of hip hop. You know

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Speaker 1: the Drakes, the Kanyes, the Nikkis and the Futures, the

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Speaker 1: multimillionaires and billionaires who can sell out arenas the world over.

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Speaker 1: But hip hop's ubiquity also means that everyday people not

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Speaker 1: only love to consume rap, but also love to spit

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Speaker 3: You'll find amateur rappers in the classroom, the cubicle, hell,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, not all rappers are gonna hit it big, and

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Speaker 1: making endeavor. Rap began in community anyway, a heartful outgrowth

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Speaker 3: What's your relationship with amateur rappeves?

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Speaker 1: In middle school, I would write raps about out anything

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Speaker 4: It was fun.

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Speaker 1: I love writing, so it was an outlet for me

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Speaker 1: could say because I wrote some raps about you that

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Speaker 1: weren't so flattering, but I feel like you were part

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like you definitely brought me in. You

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Speaker 3: You would write me raps and then you know, give

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Speaker 4: And in front of nobody.

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Speaker 1: Also like it was a completely contained events that only

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Speaker 1: Not like I was out here like I was, like

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Speaker 4: No, I don't think that.

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Speaker 3: We were probably privy to that aspect of rap then,

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Speaker 1: No, we weren't, which is honestly very very suburban of us, so.

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Speaker 3: Very innocent, like we're going to rap a bell our

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Speaker 4: The minivands our moms are driving.

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Speaker 3: You weren't the only rapper in the in the hallways.

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Speaker 3: Growing up, we had amateur rappers all around. Like we

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Speaker 3: went to school with these folks. In elementary school they'd

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Speaker 3: be in the cafeteria or the gym, and in college

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Speaker 3: they're probably performing again in the student center. And this

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Speaker 3: hyper local rap, it just it's something that does it

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Speaker 3: for me, Like, yeah, you'll hear rappers talk about like

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Speaker 3: the stuff that bigger rappers are talking about, like haters

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Speaker 3: Like I'm generalizing, but they often have very specific community

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Speaker 4: Modern day grios of sort.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and amateur rappers are such an important part of

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Speaker 3: the hip hop canon that folks stay writing them into

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Speaker 3: fictional worlds. Take Tariq from Abbot Elementary, for example.

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Speaker 1: You know, I haven't seen that show. We talked about

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Speaker 4: So who is Tarik? Remind me again?

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Speaker 3: So in season one, Tariq is Janine's longtime boyfriend. Janine

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Speaker 3: a teacher at Abbot Elementary, and Tariq is an aspiring

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Speaker 3: a campaign similar to Dare. He performed at Abbot Elementary

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Speaker 4: Drug free raps. I'm intrigued, Go be hypnotic? What was

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Speaker 1: Wasn't sure? Filling with plot?

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Speaker 4: Drugs al real No, No, if you're ready to go,

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Speaker 3: Bars, he was switching in the flows like they don't

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Speaker 4: He ain't one of them.

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Speaker 3: I love the Tarik character on Abbot. The actor who

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Speaker 3: often in the characterization of amateur rappers.

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Speaker 4: That they're around for comedic relief.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like they're either there to make the audience laugh

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Speaker 3: you're a rapper, why don't you actually get a real

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Speaker 1: Conform and get a normal job. And while Tarik is

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Speaker 1: used for comedic effect, there are also examples of amateur

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Speaker 1: rappers who are taken seriously and move the plot of

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Speaker 1: Black Stories forward.

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Speaker 4: More on that after the break Welcome Back. Do you

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Speaker 4: remember Q from Alicia?

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Speaker 1: How could I forget Malsha's longest love interest who her

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Speaker 1: father hated for reasons of respectability, even though he had

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Speaker 4: Point him out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Frank, we know about you, But yeah, that's the one,

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Speaker 3: and Q would be rapping.

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Speaker 4: The name is true.

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Speaker 2: Queens getting money any means getting.

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Speaker 4: Creams som and Ha Kim could green with the lights on?

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Speaker 4: How be mad faced?

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Speaker 2: Rims Oh ahead, camauflog.

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Speaker 3: Tim Oh, I'm still mad The group on the show

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Speaker 3: didn't re least an actual album, and while Q's rap

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Speaker 3: career wasn't written as a butt of a joke. I

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Speaker 3: remember watching the show and being led to think that

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Speaker 3: Q was a bad influence on Militia because he didn't

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, Frank Molisha's dad was super antagonistic towards

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Speaker 1: Q and Mosha's relationship, and the fact that Q was

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Speaker 3: Thincas can't even express themselves no mo I mean.

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Speaker 1: Even though Que and Moesha didn't end up together, he

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Speaker 4: Mind you Messy, Messy.

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Speaker 3: I really like the duality of being an amateur rapper

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Speaker 3: because oftentimes you do have to have another job, even

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Speaker 3: rapping as a hobby. Like anybody can be a rapper.

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Speaker 3: You're a mailman, you're a therapist, the bus driver, those

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. You know, an amateur rapper. That's the

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Speaker 1: epitome of duality logic. Shady guess I wouldn't consider him

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess that's true. Well then who as D

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Speaker 3: and mirror bitch? You don't know me, Manida five years

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Speaker 4: AASA would be hype in the mirror, attack a herd shit,

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Speaker 4: some steam. Is it my m o? But to be honest,

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Speaker 4: it seems like it might be yours guilty.

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Speaker 1: When AA gets in that mirror, she's a different person.

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Speaker 1: She's hyping herself up, saying things she wouldn't be saying

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Speaker 1: to other folks. It's given alter ego.

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Speaker 3: I think that's what I love about amateur rappers so

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Speaker 3: much like big rappers do this too to a certain extent,

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Speaker 3: Like Meghan the Stallion has Tina Snow, Lil Yachtie has

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Speaker 4: Tiya has t Ip right.

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Speaker 3: But the amateur rappers, the dichotomy can be so much

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Speaker 3: more stark. When I was in second grade, my vice

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Speaker 3: principal was a rapper. Like I don't remember none of

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Speaker 3: his songs, but I'm sure he was a different person

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Speaker 4: How did you know he was a rapper? He told us?

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Speaker 1: In what context were y'all at? Like, okay, we're in

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Speaker 1: Just at what point did that need to come up? Okay,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, to be like, why do you look like that?

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Speaker 4: He he might have been pulling y'all's legs. Why would

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sure. Okay, So my principal had his alter

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Speaker 1: I feel like my rap alter ego would be willing

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I might actually be very nice. Okay. Why'd you

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Speaker 3: So, Frank Moish's dad really wasn't feeling cute and was

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Speaker 4: That's just my theory. You heard it here first.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I see my rappers be like rapping about people

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Speaker 4: Like boy, get out my face. I'm trying to get

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Speaker 4: So it's like the flip in order flipped in either one.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, like everyone had to start somewhere unless you're

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Speaker 4: But like you said, it is a numbers game.

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Speaker 3: I feel like I have the same like inclination to like, boy,

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Speaker 1: But also I feel like most of the people I

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Speaker 4: Like if it was a woman, I'd be like, you

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Speaker 1: It's not but I'm saying that's why I feel like

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Speaker 3: See I feel a little bit differently just because we're

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Speaker 4: Okay, we're a little older, not to now, but not

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Speaker 3: what aniche has this audience geriatric crap? So let me

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Speaker 1: Do you think there is an age, even in this

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's so tough because you don't want to

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Speaker 3: like you want to want people saying that to you.

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Speaker 3: But even looking at these examples, these people are like

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Speaker 4: If it is a older person, they would turn into

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but like right now, like Q, it's like, Okay,

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Speaker 3: he's working, he's gonna keep doing his thing, you know, Tyreek, Like,

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Speaker 3: oh he's kind of a goofball, he does his drug

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Speaker 3: free us. But okay, he's young, he can still explore.

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Speaker 3: But if it's someone who like has like, you know,

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Speaker 3: there's just so many different levels of all types of jobs.

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Speaker 3: Right like your basketball example, there's a G League. There's

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Speaker 3: people who just coach little league but can still hoop

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Speaker 3: a little bit. You know, there's so many ways to

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Speaker 3: the same thing with rap. I don't think you have

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Speaker 3: park on Juneteenth. Yeah, and people will rocking with.

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Speaker 1: You, and people are listening to you, and you're still

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Speaker 3: Hm.

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Speaker 1: So it says something that all these people who are

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Speaker 4: Because they're important. They're important. You see them all the time.

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Speaker 1: You feel like they have something to say or something

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And if they weren't around in real life, you know,

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Speaker 4: It's like they're doing a cameo and it's like, oh

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Speaker 3: Like they're not really contributing anything to the storyline in

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Speaker 3: that way. Like the amateur rappers are so we need them. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: we like seeing them. We need to stop telling them

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Speaker 4: Definitely, do you.

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Speaker 3: Boo was all these examples of amateur rappers doing their thing,

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Speaker 4: I don't think I remember that one.

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Speaker 3: I remember first seeing Chance the Rapper do it, and

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Speaker 3: over Monica's Soilgan beat. This challenge was full of people

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Speaker 1: Rapping is one of those art forms that is so enticing,

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Speaker 1: even if it's not your thing, you low key wish

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Speaker 4: Do you low key wish it was your thing? Yes?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, you know, being able to lay down a few

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Speaker 4: There's no time like the present. To my rappers out there.

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Speaker 1: Who do it for the love, just know that we

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Speaker 4: We gonna listen. Yeah, we hearing what you say like

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Speaker 4: some diamonds. You gonna listen. We know you gonna make

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Speaker 1: Don't even listen to the haters who out there plotting

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Speaker 1: on your fall. Keep your head up, keep your chin up,

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Speaker 1: You know, we love all the niggas who got some

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Speaker 4: It don't matter who you are. Yes, my nigga, you

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Speaker 1: Ey oh my god.

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Speaker 3: First take is never take two, but you still take

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Speaker 3: to it.

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Speaker 4: You did that. Thank you very much that I try.

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Speaker 3: You did that. Shout out to the amateur rappers. Shout

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Speaker 3: out to Eves. She been the one, never the two. Okay,

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Speaker 3: top two is she's not too Stop playing with her.

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Speaker 1: I mean I wouldn't call myself that, but no, I

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Speaker 1: do a little sum every now and then.

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Speaker 3: You did the thing, beriod. Don't play with her And

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Speaker 3: now it's time for all credits.

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Speaker 4: Eves. Who what would you like to give credit to

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Speaker 4: this week? This week, I would like to give credit

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Speaker 4: to good socks.

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Speaker 1: My feet are always cold and I feel like having

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Speaker 1: a good pair of socks.

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Speaker 4: It really comes in handy.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes so very unseerious credit this week, but that's what

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Speaker 1: it is.

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Speaker 4: It is what it is. I would like to give credit.

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Speaker 3: To the Tony Morrison this week. I miss her one

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Speaker 3: and two. It feels like she stays with us in

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Speaker 3: a way because she's just so small and has like

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Speaker 3: given us a lot of directives that I think only

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Speaker 3: she could give. And we were talking earlier about how

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Speaker 3: I felt about what's going on is your legenocide of

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Speaker 3: Palace Side and the Palestinian people in Gaza, and it's like,

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Speaker 3: I don't know if we should still.

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Speaker 4: Be like doing this silly little podcast.

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Speaker 3: And he told me it was like, this is the

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Speaker 3: time to create art and there's like always things going

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Speaker 3: on and it's important as artists to create art, and

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Speaker 3: so Toni Morrison has this quote that says, this is

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Speaker 3: precisely the time when artists go to work. There is

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Speaker 3: no time for despair, no place for self pity, no

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Speaker 3: need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write,

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Speaker 3: we do language. That is how civilizations heal. After talking

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Speaker 3: to you and like seeing that quote, I was like, okay,

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Speaker 3: m hm, okay, I'll keep going for now. So wanted

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Speaker 3: to give credit to ms Tony and to you.

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Speaker 4: I love that.

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Speaker 3: And that's that's our show. We will see you next week.

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Speaker 4: See you next week.

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Speaker 1: This episode was written by Eves Jeffco and Katie Mitchell.

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Speaker 1: It was edited and produced by Tari Harrison.

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