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Speaker 2: Is dreking a call from Poor Minds and licks P

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Speaker 2: and we here with ZC and eighty five South at

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Speaker 2: Mackwood's backstage and we have the beautiful knowledge someone.

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Speaker 3: Here, Yeah, hey, guys, not have a top.

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Speaker 1: It's just your toes.

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Speaker 4: And I was like, damn this nigga.

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Speaker 1: She said, let the world see. No, come on my job,

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Speaker 1: you know, showing up to the camera. Period. That's right.

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Speaker 1: I know I have you. I can appreciate the confidence. No,

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Speaker 1: that's a that's that's a band. That's a nice Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you got a nice little arm. Did you use the dance?

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Speaker 1: Are you a former dancer?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: No, I know I heard you. I was just asking

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Speaker 1: you a nice point.

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Speaker 5: It's yeah, you got to you knows, get down, okay,

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Speaker 5: b back to you.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 5: So you are at DJ on the most epic show

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Speaker 5: that has been around, Breakfast Club. I feel like as

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Speaker 5: a person in the industry, like once you get on

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Speaker 5: Breakfast Club, that's like the pinnacle of you know, media.

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Speaker 5: So talk about that link up and how that how

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Speaker 5: you got that opportunity.

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Speaker 3: So I was working at Power for the past eight

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Speaker 3: years prior to working with Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 4: I worked on every other show.

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Speaker 3: I worked with Angie Martinez, That's who like really brought

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Speaker 3: me in the game. I worked with DJ Clue, That's

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Speaker 3: the building. And when I was doing overnights, I used

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Speaker 3: pm shift. So I would just sleep at the station

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Speaker 3: or like just read books. And while I'd be at

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Speaker 3: the station. Me and Charlemagne realized we had similar interests,

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Speaker 3: Like I'd be really asa, He's like, what you know

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Speaker 3: from there he would just book me to DJ for him.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, So then when the opportunity came up for

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Speaker 3: me to like promote new music on Breakfast Club, he

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Speaker 3: was like, Yo, are you interested?

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Speaker 4: I'm like absolutely right.

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Speaker 6: Can you explain how like certain times in the in

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Speaker 6: the radio business are more popular than others, So you

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Speaker 6: really gotta make your you know what I'm saying, like

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Speaker 6: your like like an image known when you have a

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Speaker 6: certain time where you're like, you know what, I'm gonna

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Speaker 6: get people to listen during this time, I'm gonna show

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Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like you just always gotta do

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Speaker 3: that all the time. I don't even feel like it's

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Speaker 3: I feel like because it's so competitive and because everybody

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Speaker 3: I don't know, I can't really be like this is

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Speaker 4: You just never know, never know.

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Speaker 1: So how did you get into DJ?

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Speaker 2: And have you always just really been into music and

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Speaker 1: You try something. So how did you end up.

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Speaker 3: Always been a nerd about music, like awkwardly nerdy about music,

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Speaker 3: like YouTube, rabbit holes, watching your m TV raps when

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Speaker 4: I've always done it.

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Speaker 3: So it was just a hobby that I picked up

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Speaker 3: it just triggled into a career, thankfully, Like I'm so happy.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to school for computer science. I was going

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Speaker 3: But no, like I'm a DJ, I'm at dream of

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Speaker 6: But like mixing records, bro, it's like super duper hard,

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Speaker 6: even though I'm artist and I be trying, Like how

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Speaker 4: It don't feel hard to me, to be honest.

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Speaker 3: It probably took me like a month to really master

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Speaker 4: I have playlists for days.

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Speaker 3: Playlists are essentially create, like you're create, like if you're

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Speaker 3: I think I've always that represents you.

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Speaker 4: I was always doing it. So when it came to me,

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Speaker 5: So as a DJ, when you're hearing music, do you

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Speaker 4: Yes, all day long.

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Speaker 3: I'll find one song that I haven't heard a while

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Speaker 3: and it aspired me like about ten other songs like

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Speaker 3: I'm excited and like to expand my DJ portfolio. I'm

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Speaker 3: about to drop a tape. It has all New York

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Speaker 3: who's on tour right now, Foggy Baby, like it's it's cool.

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Speaker 3: We're trying to usher in just like a new era

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Speaker 3: of rap, and I'm like a rap head.

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Speaker 4: I love rap and I love R and B, but

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Speaker 4: rap is my ship.

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Speaker 1: So, who are some of your favorite artists right now?

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Speaker 3: Well, cold, I'm a cold stand but favorite artists right now.

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Speaker 3: I would say Ruben Vincent, I would say Rhapsody, I

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Speaker 4: Nico Brim the guys on my tape.

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I'm so committed, Like I feel like mainstream media gets

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Speaker 4: I'm kind of tired of talking. Ye I hate.

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Speaker 3: About Drake Kendrick Cole, Respectfully, I'm tired of the conversation.

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Speaker 3: Change the conversation. There's so many other dope people we

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's like that too. She listens to a lot

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Speaker 5: So we have a segment on our show called Bop

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Speaker 5: of the Week, and I've like literally made it a

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Speaker 1: Artists, small artists, cause that be I got.

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Speaker 5: I got to get in my bag because I hate

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Speaker 5: when people say R and B music is dead, and

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Speaker 5: I'm like, R and B music is actually probably the

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Speaker 5: and I'm like, yo, you actually like really dope, you

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Speaker 4: So Lou is really dope? I know los around here.

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Speaker 3: Yes, lou is super dope.

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Speaker 1: I said, I.

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Speaker 5: Said, noy, but we got cold, you know.

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Speaker 4: Cold, that's my favorite. I went to Saint John's University

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Speaker 3: But all I'm saying is the other niggas we could

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Speaker 3: That's why I really felt with the fact that you

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Speaker 4: Who's your favorite R and B artist right now?

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Speaker 5: Though? So honestly, I discovered this guy probably like two

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Speaker 5: Aaron Ray, He's not like super, but he's indie.

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Speaker 1: Ye, it's a lot. It's so many.

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Speaker 3: No, we need to share a playlist, oh for sure.

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Speaker 5: Yes. So I do have one more question being a

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Speaker 5: heavily male dominated field. Do you feel like you being

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Speaker 3: Man, I think whatever you are, male, female, whatever race,

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Speaker 4: Gotta work what you got.

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Speaker 3: But I will say for sure, when I first started

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Speaker 4: People like.

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Speaker 1: What type of threat?

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Speaker 5: Yeah music, These are like older touch by five twelve.

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Speaker 1: That's why I got to I got a copy.

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Speaker 3: But it was intimidating because these are like older New York,

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Speaker 3: like these niggas been DJing for like twenty years, and

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Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm not from here.

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Speaker 4: I just started. It was just a lot to like digest.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: But and I will say, for a minute.

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Speaker 3: I did believe them, like I did believe like I

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Speaker 3: wasn't enough, and I did let it take my confidence.

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Speaker 3: But I would say Charlot Magne was somebody who was

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Speaker 3: in my corner like them niggas is hating in their

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Speaker 3: fat like you're pretty that's what you said.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, man, so shout out to Charlemagne for real.

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Speaker 4: He's talking a lot.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So what you got coming up next? Where can

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Speaker 5: people find you all that good stuff. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Man, oh so we just at our very first I do.

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Speaker 3: I have a music collective where I'm going to be

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Speaker 3: dropping the album.

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Speaker 4: Through the collective. It's called Certified Vibe.

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Speaker 3: We just threw a party out here yesterday in order

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Speaker 3: to dream Bofest and it was really cool. A lot

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Speaker 3: of like Riley artists came out, like painter artists and

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Speaker 3: then artist like artist artists, producers. So we've just been

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Speaker 3: heavy on like building community with that. We have our

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Speaker 3: next Battle of the Beats in Brooklyn April eleventh, and

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Speaker 3: then we have our next showcase in May.

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Speaker 1: Huh twenty third, right, she mean through the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: You do good.

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Speaker 3: That's not even my manager, but that's just my left hand.

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Speaker 3: Shout out to Sydney. But yeah, so more events on

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Speaker 3: the way just follow us that. It's a Certified Vibe

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Speaker 3: because every week we're doing the same thing, like listening

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Speaker 3: through indie submissions, shoutout them out and then the best

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Speaker 3: ones I just shout out on Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 4: Oh urry, thank you guys.

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Speaker 1: Oh thank you so much, thank you.

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Speaker 5: Period