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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard to know what songs you're going to do.

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Speaker 4: I do. I'm blessed. I've said it too many times.

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Speaker 1: That's right, because you know, sometimes we don't know what

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Speaker 1: No, there's not like what's your address if.

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Speaker 2: You wanted to now.

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Speaker 1: So the album is Fuji that's out right now, and

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Speaker 4: This is why I made the album. Yeah, So Fuji

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Speaker 4: So Fuji came from a sound that's called weary. Warri

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Speaker 2: No, that's really deep. So what made you?

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Speaker 1: Bring in that history to the modern day, but no

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Speaker 3: From, understanding the legacy and history. That doesn't come with

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Speaker 4: finding uncharted journeys inside. So when I was making this album,

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Speaker 4: Yeah. So one of my favorite thing to do now

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Speaker 1: You know, where did you film the down currently our

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Speaker 4: It's so I showed you the Palace at our place.

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Speaker 4: My name is said already and because of course used

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Speaker 4: to be king of Legos in eighteen hundreds, so that's heritage.

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Speaker 4: Yeah so they're real name. You're in press if you

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Speaker 4: a palace right now in Legos. It's called Erico. In Arico,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's I feel like, that's it. That's it.

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Speaker 1: Honestly, you know what I want to ask you, this

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Speaker 4: And I saw a picture of it, like it would

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Speaker 4: So I feel like people didn't understand what was happening

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Speaker 4: And when I saw the reaction, like this might be

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Speaker 2: That's marketing, genie.

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Speaker 4: I've been dropping songs before then nobody paid. I mean

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Speaker 4: Don't even get me started down. It's hard.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure it is. But thankfully, I mean, there's there's apps, now,

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Speaker 4: And that's another conversation entirely what you.

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Speaker 4: I don't think we ever spoke about you. You have

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Speaker 4: like we've seen so many times that it doesn't even

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Speaker 4: I did. I did more than Julian celebrities, more people,

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Speaker 4: It's got to be and it just it just it

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Speaker 1: Think about like everything that you've manifested, you know, just

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Speaker 4: I've used I've used my words, right, A man said,

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Speaker 4: I didn't. I didn't even learn about I didn't even

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Speaker 1: What have been some crazy fame stories that you've had,

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Speaker 1: But have you had like some crazy things happen along

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Speaker 4: It's different things. It's shows like you perform, so maybe

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Speaker 4: It was fine. Leaving the show, it was so chaotic,

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Speaker 2: To put your way through.

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Speaker 3: They want money from you.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I mean just fans. Yeah, all of that.

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Speaker 4: Everybody will be so there's no.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they have security with you.

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00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:46,760
Speaker 4: They couldn't do anything. There's a lot of people, but

438
00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:49,960
Speaker 4: you know, it's it's love, but it's just how to.

439
00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:52,600
Speaker 2: Could make it.

440
00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:58,399
Speaker 1: Somebody could get hurt, somebody exactly, Yeah, in the middle

441
00:21:58,440 --> 00:21:59,560
Speaker 1: of some type of mayor.

442
00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:03,560
Speaker 4: That that one is always it's gontant by the.

443
00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:05,400
Speaker 2: Way, it's just did you have footage of it?

444
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:10,160
Speaker 4: I think no, I know you where you did?

445
00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,160
Speaker 2: Like you need some footage because.

446
00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:13,240
Speaker 4: At that moment there was no time.

447
00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:17,320
Speaker 1: Okay, by the way, yeah, somebody did.

448
00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:19,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead.

449
00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:22,560
Speaker 3: But getting back to the album, you know you also

450
00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:23,720
Speaker 3: signed a death Jam.

451
00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:26,399
Speaker 2: What is there sign jam?

452
00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:26,680
Speaker 4: Yeah?

453
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:32,760
Speaker 3: So so when did you when did you leave four?

454
00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,120
Speaker 4: Yeah? Okay, yeah so.

455
00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:37,640
Speaker 2: You only said one album with Death Jam Yeah okay.

456
00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:40,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I mean they the work was done there

457
00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:44,600
Speaker 4: and I wanted to do something else, you know, and

458
00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:45,960
Speaker 4: that's what. Yeah, I'm independent now.

459
00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:46,840
Speaker 2: We like that?

460
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,920
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I love it. I love it. I love it.

461
00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:52,600
Speaker 4: It feels like Jam was great, everything went well, but

462
00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:55,160
Speaker 4: it's just the new journey. It felt like I needed

463
00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:58,080
Speaker 4: to know, do on my own team, you know, do

464
00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:01,520
Speaker 4: something entirely different. And yeah, we started our own label

465
00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:02,280
Speaker 4: something different.

466
00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:04,639
Speaker 2: Okay, there it is to do something different.

467
00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then that's what we're doing.

468
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,440
Speaker 3: So what's that journey, man like? And what's the difference

469
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:12,720
Speaker 3: between putting out this album sixth album under your own label?

470
00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:17,359
Speaker 4: Because I've done it like three three, four times. So

471
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 4: if she was like, I'm back to it again, let

472
00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:20,000
Speaker 4: me do it myself.

473
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,680
Speaker 1: But you when you first you got an album deal first,

474
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,159
Speaker 1: like when you first came out, you gots signed, right.

475
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:29,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I got signed to you know, laid by

476
00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:30,280
Speaker 4: Ali Date.

477
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,199
Speaker 1: Okay, so how was it being signed to Alami day

478
00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:38,160
Speaker 1: because sometimes like artists to artists, it could be a vibe,

479
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,400
Speaker 1: but it also can be I always know artists. Ay,

480
00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:42,439
Speaker 1: sometimes it's a little weird of being signed to an artist.

481
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,400
Speaker 4: No, it was good. He was very good. He allowed us.

482
00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:47,800
Speaker 4: You know. I think that's where I first learned about

483
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,640
Speaker 4: freedom to create because it was never like in your

484
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:53,440
Speaker 4: way of creating or anything. He didn't have any influence.

485
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:55,560
Speaker 4: Once you're aready with the single, you know what you

486
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,680
Speaker 4: want to drop, he just you know, does the right

487
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,560
Speaker 4: necessary things you will pay for, pay a video, you know,

488
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 4: the promotion and all those things. So he told was

489
00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:08,160
Speaker 4: freedom very okay, So it was he was there.

490
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,040
Speaker 3: How did you freedom to create on the deaf gym too?

491
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:12,680
Speaker 4: Oh yeah I did? I did? I did.

492
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,160
Speaker 1: I mean they were riding away that was already there

493
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:18,680
Speaker 1: right yeah, but god, how did you and alamidae even?

494
00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 2: Like, how did that even happen?

495
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:22,600
Speaker 4: So I was it was when I was being a

496
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:25,920
Speaker 4: king of for the show. So he noticed me as well.

497
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:29,919
Speaker 4: But I started to design for his label. I designed

498
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:30,879
Speaker 4: the YB and logo.

499
00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:32,600
Speaker 2: That's how you get in there, look at you.

500
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 4: So when I when I when I released the song,

501
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,440
Speaker 4: you know, what's crazy is during when I was being

502
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:40,639
Speaker 4: king of for the show, I sent Alamida song that

503
00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:45,159
Speaker 4: I wrote for him. I sent it to him but

504
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 4: obviously because first of all, I don't I don't even

505
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 4: know if it was great. I'm not gonna lie it

506
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:54,639
Speaker 4: was great, remember I think I remember. But to me

507
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:56,920
Speaker 4: then it was a vibe. I mean. I sent to

508
00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,440
Speaker 4: him like, yo, I know he wrote the songs. He

509
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,040
Speaker 4: I think he's written all this, all the songs, right,

510
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:04,600
Speaker 4: But I said, let me just try sending a song.

511
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,320
Speaker 4: I think he listened to. I don't honestly, I don't

512
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 4: know if you listen to it. But he didn't. He

513
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,119
Speaker 4: didn't really respond. I'm like, let me just focus on

514
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:15,119
Speaker 4: in order the work that I was getting. So when

515
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 4: I when I did, dropped obviously heard it right then,

516
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:23,960
Speaker 4: feels produce producer. Then sent him the song like I

517
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:27,320
Speaker 4: think you should sign this guy. Okay, that's that's how

518
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:27,800
Speaker 4: he signed me.

519
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 2: That's dope and the rest is history.

520
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:33,600
Speaker 1: How did you believe it when you got the message,

521
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,240
Speaker 1: because you know, sometimes I couldn't.

522
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:38,080
Speaker 4: I couldn't believe it, Like, wait, what do you mean

523
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:39,840
Speaker 4: when to sign me? When he said when he sent

524
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 4: the deal I'm like, bro, yeah, sent to the lawyers.

525
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:44,200
Speaker 4: Listen to this.

526
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 1: Now, Yeah, what was your situation like then, because I

527
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:50,320
Speaker 1: was just.

528
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 2: Even financially, I know you had a job, you were working.

529
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,400
Speaker 4: So I didn't have a job anymore that time. Yeah,

530
00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:01,880
Speaker 4: the company that I was going I was working laid

531
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,480
Speaker 4: me off because we weren't making money and it was new.

532
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,679
Speaker 4: So I was in a position where I'm like, you know,

533
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 4: say that sink and sink and swim. That's why in

534
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:16,639
Speaker 4: the song big Fish, I said, like I was, I

535
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 4: had to make a decision, make it or what am

536
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 4: I going to do? Because I didn't have a job.

537
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:25,120
Speaker 4: I knew I could do freelance graphics, but I knew

538
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 4: that it was time to push my music. So he

539
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 4: came at the right time when I was ready to

540
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 4: go all in. You know. So I had a job.

541
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,679
Speaker 4: I didn't have a job anymore. I just had my space,

542
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 4: my one bedroom apartment, my my baby boy. On that

543
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,880
Speaker 4: nineteen ninety nine I remember that was that was yeah,

544
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 4: I had my girl.

545
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:51,920
Speaker 2: Yeah.

546
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,600
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's get to this because so Simili, it

547
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 1: was way too before.

548
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:57,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, or you blew up, it was.

549
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:00,760
Speaker 4: Twenty thirteen.

550
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 1: Oh wow, you're been together and she blow up like that. Okay,

551
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: you know she's see you.

552
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't know.

553
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 2: Now how did you get her? She's an amazing songwriter.

554
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 4: Amazing, amazing Simi already similarity was a big artist. You know,

555
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 4: when she was making gospel music. You know, she was

556
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 4: already big. Okay, and when she decided to do uh,

557
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,879
Speaker 4: you know, to do go mainstream, right, she was. She

558
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 4: had the song before before I blew, she had teeth

559
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 4: and then you know, go funny. She was working on

560
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,160
Speaker 4: the album already, so she already had the moment she had.

561
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 1: Question how does that feel for your ego too? Because

562
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 1: I know for men sometimes it's hard when your woman

563
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 1: is like six doing it and you're like, dang, I

564
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 1: don't have a job.

565
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:51,439
Speaker 2: I'm trying to.

566
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:55,360
Speaker 4: You have to understand, I don't care what anybody says,

567
00:27:56,240 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 4: Sims number one fan, So I mean, what does the

568
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 4: fan do? You just want to see them when so

569
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 4: asis being just because I'm married to her, it's not

570
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:07,879
Speaker 4: this has it has nothing to do even just in

571
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 4: the Union. I'm a fan and this talent. The world

572
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 4: most hear this person. So any way, let's go. I've

573
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:18,639
Speaker 4: been like that since since I met her. If I knew,

574
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 4: I knew about seeing when I heard a song called Ogaju.

575
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 4: It was one of when she was making gospel, and

576
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 4: I listened to that song too many times. I'm like, no,

577
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 4: this is incredible. That's why. That's why I said that.

578
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you didn't know her personally.

579
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 3: Want so you a fan of her and you do

580
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 3: her as a fan yet.

581
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 4: I said a long message, long yeah, and that's like, wait,

582
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 4: this song is incredible.

583
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 2: Were you shoot on your show or were you.

584
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 4: Just I was just being a fan, just being a fan. Wow.

585
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 2: And then you guys became friends first.

586
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 4: Then I don't, I don't even know. I don't. I'm

587
00:28:56,240 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 4: trying to remember. Yeah, I think we maybe I'm trying

588
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 4: to remember how we linked. Eventually we then we we

589
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 4: She had the show at Bogle, someplace in Legos where

590
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:13,719
Speaker 4: you discover like underground music, people that have incredible songs.

591
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 4: You know, they read poems. It's a very nice and

592
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 4: so I she had a show there and I think

593
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 4: I saw it on the Instagram or something. Then I

594
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 4: so I decided I was going to go. I think

595
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 4: I SENTI mythic to the outcome, and then that's why

596
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 4: I saw her perform, like, yeah, I became even bigger

597
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 4: than like is just nice? It's not fine, yo, what's

598
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 4: going on? Then we became friends and I was shooting

599
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 4: my show, my show, and finally happened.

600
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,239
Speaker 3: Right did she kind of like rejected you a little bit?

601
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 4: She did, because.

602
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 2: Then she went back and saw all the messages she

603
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 2: didn't respond to.

604
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, I still I still do have a

605
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 4: replied today.

606
00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:59,240
Speaker 2: Right she still let you read?

607
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 3: But how has me really inspired your work, your music

608
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 3: and your creativity?

609
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 4: See me, I said, nobody writes.

610
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 2: Like to me. She got this song. I just she

611
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 2: was previewing it for her single friends.

612
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 4: Listen, nobody. I've never seen somebody write about ten songs

613
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 4: on one beat before. I've never seen anybody like that.

614
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 4: Me and I've seen all the artists work like you

615
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 4: have a connection to one beat and then what about

616
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 4: you dropping that moment? It feels like the right one,

617
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 4: you know, So trying to write something else on the

618
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 4: same beat, it must be like it must be so

619
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 4: giant because it is to me like, please send me

620
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 4: something else. I need to hear something and so I

621
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 4: can create see me as written too many songs on

622
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 4: one different beats and then most times it's like maybe

623
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 4: the fifth one that will go out and then it

624
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 4: becomes a do the care. I think she wrote like

625
00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 4: two three times, and so there's too many songs like that.

626
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 4: I've seen her work. I've seen that when she had

627
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 4: just USB mike that was that she both for twenty

628
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 4: dollars to make incredible EP make incredible songs. That he

629
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 4: first album she had recorded those songs on a USB

630
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 4: mike before. I've seen somebody build a career out of

631
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 4: like just having too and not complaining. So she she

632
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 4: inspires me and work ethic is incredible. Nobody writes likes

633
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 4: to me, and it's no, absolutely nobody nobody. That's that's

634
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 4: one of my that's one of my favorite songwriters in

635
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 4: the world. And she so when she when she started

636
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 4: to really enjoy my music, it felt like it felt

637
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 4: like an approval that I that I was waiting.

638
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 2: For some point so a while for her to enjoy

639
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 2: your music.

640
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:50,959
Speaker 4: No, so she she loved She loved myself because when

641
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 4: I was making when we met, I was making pop songs.

642
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 4: She said this is says this is good. But I've

643
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 4: heard you, she told me. She said, I've heard you

644
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 4: sing your songs in Euroba and I think you sound better. Okay,

645
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 4: So she she really made me start to do.

646
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 2: She pushed you.

647
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 4: So when I made good album, she pushed me to,

648
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 4: you know, try high life. Don't wrung from this thing

649
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 4: you have it. It's you, It's a part of you,

650
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 4: and you want to make pop so bad. But this

651
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 4: is you. She she told me, said, you you sing

652
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 4: it with so much joy that I feel like this

653
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 4: is what you should do. So she's like, yeah. So

654
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 4: then I made so I made the cover of Flavors

655
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:34,960
Speaker 4: that I did my versions called the Alady. And when

656
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 4: I did that, she she mixed the song. She did it,

657
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 4: she took my vocals and we put that out and

658
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 4: I saw the reaction that that. I'm like, okay, I mean,

659
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 4: I guess she's right, yes everybody. Then I made gold

660
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 4: album off of that.

661
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 2: I love that. Did your daughter sing at all? Or

662
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 2: do you see that this?

663
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 4: I think she's the biggest one fan of the album.

664
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 4: She knows at least ten songs on this album right now. Wow,

665
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 4: and coming from because when I when I dropped out

666
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,760
Speaker 4: of school, sometimes I play my songs and she just

667
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 4: tell me like, this is man. She said. Some one

668
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 4: times she said, she said, Daddy, please play kids songs

669
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 4: like but now when I played, she wants to listen

670
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:18,239
Speaker 4: to the album, like, oh you like this?

671
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 2: One's five? Only five?

672
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 4: She sings. She can't she can hold the notes. I

673
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 4: already know that. Yeah, this is the start.

674
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 2: What do you think is her favorite one? I would say, believe, I.

675
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 4: See she loves, she loves, believes she loves Lilo. Okay,

676
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 4: I believe she loves because she can sing that one.

677
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 4: She can sing my whole verses. Yeah, I believe. Believe

678
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 4: she loves money, she loves you know she loves the

679
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 4: beginning of cook Morning. When she got to the chorus,

680
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 4: she tried to sing, I note you say you say

681
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 4: please better.

682
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 2: I like that please version please, So.

683
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 4: I since then she's been singing please because I know

684
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 4: she wants to sing that. And she would look at

685
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 4: me like.

686
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 2: You know you can know better? Does she have a

687
00:33:58,240 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 2: voice already?

688
00:33:58,920 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 4: You think she does?

689
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 2: Okay, she does.

690
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: It isn't nice to be able to work and like

691
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 1: do music with your wife and videos. That's got to

692
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 1: feel like the ultimate.

693
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 4: It's we don't even do plenty of that, but it's.

694
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,799
Speaker 1: It's comfortable but I think they'll stand out too though,

695
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: Like people love to see it, and I think there's

696
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 1: like all pages dedicated to your guys' relationships, Like people

697
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 1: look at y'all and like fans of the two of

698
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 1: you together.

699
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 2: That's got to feel a little like it's amazing me.

700
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:30,240
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't want there's more pressure.

701
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:31,800
Speaker 2: We're there's no pressure.

702
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 3: But I mean, you guys are a Nigerian power couple,

703
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 3: you know.

704
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:37,919
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's what people say and I find

705
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 4: out very it's sweet. But it's just like we were

706
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 4: just doing our things.

707
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:44,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it looks naturally.

708
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: I saw the video she posted you like the dated

709
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 1: album came out, and it was like a celebration, like

710
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 1: you know, it just was nice to see at home.

711
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 4: Just yeah, it was. That was a moment for me

712
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 4: as well. It's listen, we create, we create, we have

713
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 4: on when we're making music. I when it's time to

714
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:04,720
Speaker 4: be a family with family.

715
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that.

716
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 3: The best of both worlds is a family. Another thing

717
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:10,359
Speaker 3: I know we wanted to touch on is you've been

718
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 3: very vocal about your your journey with Sickle Cell. You

719
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 3: made a song about that. I know you were just

720
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:19,839
Speaker 3: here at NYU last month talking about that, to talk

721
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 3: about why that's been so important for you to be

722
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 3: public and to try to really invest to help other

723
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 3: people who may have sickle cell.

724
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 4: I mean, because first of all, I'm grateful that I

725
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 4: have a platform and I have the voice, you know,

726
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:35,879
Speaker 4: to speak about something that's that's not talked about enough,

727
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 4: you know, little people. You speak to people today, and

728
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 4: then you realize people don't even know what sickle cell is.

729
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 4: And that's crazy to me because he affects like a.

730
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 2: Lot of people, Black people, especially black people.

731
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 4: And people living with sickle cell. That we have the

732
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:54,359
Speaker 4: most people living with sickle cell in Nigeria, you know,

733
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 4: like Nigeria has the highest people living with sickle cell.

734
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 4: And if it's kids, you hear about year olds having strokes.

735
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 4: It's like, that's no normal and it's painful. It's painful,

736
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 4: you know. So it's it's in in a normal blood cell,

737
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 4: it's supposed to be a circle, you know, but in

738
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 4: a sickle cell, patient's sequel, so it allows it doesn't

739
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:18,919
Speaker 4: allow blood flow verable and that that brings pain. There's

740
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 4: a lot of pain, pain in your joints, pain because

741
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:24,839
Speaker 4: of less oxygen that you have yeah, you know, so

742
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:29,359
Speaker 4: it's crazy and I've I've lived with all my life.

743
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:34,759
Speaker 4: I've experienced the pain. I've seen stigmatization where people look

744
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 4: at you like you have a death sentence if you

745
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 4: say you have sickle cell because they know it's not curable.

746
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 4: It's it just goes on for the rest of your life.

747
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,919
Speaker 1: Is it as far as being manageable? Is there any

748
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 1: way you could prevent you know? Or is it just

749
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: like sometimes you just never know what's going to happen.

750
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 4: So people have been working so right now, I just

751
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 4: partnered with n y U. You know, there's making researches,

752
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 4: you know, the making well we're making they are currently

753
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 4: working on drug sale. Yes, that's that's some drug that

754
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 4: you can use to you know, manage the pain, and

755
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 4: that I think the hope is that that reduces like

756
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 4: the crisis drastically. You know. So there's there's big complaces

757
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 4: fully cast drugs that people take, you know, but thinks

758
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 4: they're not even affordable for more people. And that's why

759
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 4: my foundation what we do is bi monthly we do

760
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 4: our treaches where people come you know together. We see

761
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 4: about five hundred people every bi monthly when we do

762
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 4: it so we give them three drugs that will last

763
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 4: them till the next outreach.

764
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 2: That's great.

765
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 4: You know. So we see children, we do, we have

766
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 4: sessions where we we make arts. You know. It's just

767
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 4: like a place where they can come and feel good

768
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,840
Speaker 4: because it's painful. What the life that they living is.

769
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:49,880
Speaker 4: It's constant pain, constant feeling depressed because you feel like

770
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 4: there's no help for you, you know. And to add

771
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,360
Speaker 4: to that, we just did we give out. We have

772
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 4: our healthcare insurance called five Stars Care, So we gave

773
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 4: a one thousand people living circle sell free health.

774
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 2: That's great for a year, you know.

775
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 3: So we were Yeah, I had a girl friend Rescircle Sound.

776
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 3: She was constantly in the hospital as well as that's

777
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 3: something that you had to go through as well.

778
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 4: Constantly. Man, there was a night where I think I

779
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 4: was twenty, I had the craziest crest of my life

780
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,919
Speaker 4: where I just said, you know what, yeah, take my life.

781
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was that pain.

782
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 4: I wasn't even my mom couldn't even stop me, because

783
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:32,759
Speaker 4: she would normally she would like, you know, say you

784
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 4: don't stop saying you know, stop saying things like that.

785
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 4: But it got to a point where that night it

786
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 4: just felt like the only thing that makes sense. It

787
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 4: just happened, you know, and people go through that constantly, bedreading,

788
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 4: being in the hospital. So I'm I'm glad to you know,

789
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:53,400
Speaker 4: like glad, I'm glad you're doing this. They all need

790
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 4: to know about it and then help needs to come.

791
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 2: Now.

792
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 1: I appreciate that because that is something that people need

793
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 1: to talk about more, like you said, and it does

794
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: disproportionately affect black people, and sometimes you feel like that's

795
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:08,240
Speaker 1: why not enough is being done, you know, because I mean.

796
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, it might be also also attention is on other diseases,

797
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 4: I know, like this is a big one as well.

798
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 4: I wanted to know about.

799
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 2: What do you what do you look at like the

800
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:19,800
Speaker 2: United States?

801
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: I'm just curious what do you think about was like

802
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 1: going on here with the president and do you like,

803
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:26,800
Speaker 1: do you look at what's happening.

804
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 2: I always wonder how people view us, and.

805
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 4: I don't think it's because every country has what they

806
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 4: deal with. Yeah, I think that.

807
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 1: Seem like it's a little crazy here now though in particular, like.

808
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 4: I mean, I know, I just it's it's the people

809
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 4: losing their homes, you know, their families that have to

810
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:45,799
Speaker 4: go back to places. I think that's very Yeah, that's sad,

811
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:48,799
Speaker 4: and my heart goes to anybody that had to go

812
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 4: through that, because imagine having building a whole life here,

813
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 4: probably buying a home, you know, having kids, raising kids here,

814
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 4: and then one night, all of a sudden, you have

815
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 4: to go back, Yeah, and to work. I feel like

816
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 4: that's very that's really sad. You know that that one

817
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 4: touches me the most.

818
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like there's a lot of people who

819
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 3: are really hesitant to come to the United States, whether

820
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 3: it's like on Viso, like because of how crazy it

821
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,400
Speaker 3: is and how Ice is literally snatching up people.

822
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 2: I like, watch the news.

823
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 1: It makes me so sad, Like there's times that I

824
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:24,360
Speaker 1: want to cry just been watching the news and seeing

825
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:25,440
Speaker 1: what they're doing to people.

826
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, people through that.

827
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:31,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like even if you look at like bad Bunny right,

828
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 3: like he was protesting, he didn't want to do anything

829
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:37,400
Speaker 3: in the United States. He wanted to do things in

830
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 3: Puerto Rico, which is a part of the United States,

831
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 3: but it's not the homeland. So you do have certain

832
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 3: artists that are taking a stance like, look, I don't

833
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:48,319
Speaker 3: like what's going on in the political scene. I want

834
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,920
Speaker 3: to make sure that dollars are flowing to my country.

835
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 4: You know, so man, I just pray, pray for I

836
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:58,799
Speaker 4: pray for the world to man, it's yeah, it's a

837
00:40:58,840 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 4: lot going on everywhere.

838
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 2: You know.

839
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,279
Speaker 1: What I have noticed though, everybody from here is what

840
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: is traveling to Africa?

841
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 2: Now to Africa are South Africa.

842
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 4: It's about time you guys need to understand that.

843
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:15,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Africa, African ancestry.

844
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 3: Come on out.

845
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, I did me.

846
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:20,280
Speaker 2: And what's the percentage?

847
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:23,240
Speaker 1: It doesn't give you percentages, just give you your lineas

848
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:29,919
Speaker 1: African ancests. No I am I've been to South Africa only,

849
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 1: but I do want to go.

850
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 2: I need some time though, because that's a.

851
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 4: Long flight to go to Tonna, go.

852
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:42,319
Speaker 1: To let somebody's first time going where would you say

853
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 1: it would be the first stop?

854
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:49,760
Speaker 4: Please come to Legos Legs of course, though it's nothing

855
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 4: compared to what you guys have here. O R traffican

856
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:58,720
Speaker 4: Legals is crazy boy here, that's.

857
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 1: My afrobas playlist. It's a night in Legos. It's a

858
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 1: whole playlist Legos.

859
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 4: It's high energy, it's it's crazy vibes, it's beautiful and you've.

860
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 1: Got a street named after you. Period yeah, December.

861
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I mean every time you come to Legos

862
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 4: it's a good time, but December is. Yeah.

863
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 2: But with we go, I'm gonna be like, I'm friends

864
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 2: with a Lego pull out.

865
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 4: You need to know, let's go, let's go, let's go. Ready,

866
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 4: we can't so's be ready. We can't go to like

867
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 4: we can go to like maybe three four clubs in

868
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:33,279
Speaker 4: the night. Are you down? Are you ready for that?

869
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 3: Oh?

870
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, okay, all night. I'm a photo shot myself

871
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:38,799
Speaker 2: with you in the picture, and I'm like.

872
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 4: You know, people, we Legos. It's crazy during December. They

873
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 4: are clubs are twenty four hours party. I've seen it

874
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:53,880
Speaker 4: on and then sometimes there clubs you go like and

875
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Speaker 4: you don't come out to like eight am and people

876
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Speaker 4: go to work.

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Speaker 2: And they go to work listens different. That was New

878
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 2: York in the nineties.

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Speaker 1: Yes, oh wow, we got to do like a Legos

880
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 1: in New York night or something like that, Like that's

881
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,279
Speaker 1: what it means to be New York. Yeah, for one

882
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:14,919
Speaker 1: night and be out all night long. I could see

883
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 1: it all right.

884
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Speaker 2: I appreciate you so much for coming through.

885
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 1: Honestly, I know it's been a long time coming, but

886
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: I think this was the perfect timing.

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Speaker 2: You know.

888
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 1: Congratulations on an amazing project, really great and fun to

889
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 1: listen to, but also it has the depth that it

890
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 1: is that we need just a lot of range, and

891
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:32,480
Speaker 1: I'm enjoying it.

892
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 2: So thank you.

893
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 4: To be here. Thank you, and this was a great conversation.

894
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're welcome any time period. All right. Yeah that.

895
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 4: Okayn't seen everywhere.

896
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:51,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is eight and this is this is it.

897
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Speaker 4: This is Cloky friendly.

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00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:59,239
Speaker 2: You better catch on to me. Okay, it's way up.