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Speaker 1: The real key, real celebrity, join the Breast morning. Everybody

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Speaker 1: is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Scholamine the guy. We are

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Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. Now we got a special guest. It

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Speaker 1: looks like he just came from the Empire's All white party.

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Speaker 1: Oh yes, oh yes, what's good with it? What's going on? Baby?

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Speaker 1: What's up? What up? You know what I'm saying. Good

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Speaker 1: to see you. You're doing your independent thing now? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: fill it did get leagod like a week before, but

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Speaker 1: we are. We just put the new version out, you

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Speaker 1: know how to get it right for radio. That's what

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Speaker 1: I was drinking on my birthday. Fireball. Yeah, I had

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Speaker 1: a bunch of those at midnight as soon as turning

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Speaker 1: my birthday. Named after the liquor na. No, actually, it's

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Speaker 1: what I was drinking in the studio when I was

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Speaker 1: doing it. So the producer Parker walked in, you know,

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Speaker 1: with the red cups. It was like, you know, four

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Speaker 1: or five of us in the studio chilling at the

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Speaker 1: cribout and I tasted it, and during the hook, I

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Speaker 1: was singing, We're spending all live Benjamin Man is to

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Speaker 1: night and that I tasted it. I put it in

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Speaker 1: a dream like what made you leave JA That was

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Speaker 1: your long standing label home and from day one, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, that's FAM, always Fam, you know they. I

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Speaker 1: was blessed to have an opportunity to make it out

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Speaker 1: of bottomore and be able to label like that and

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Speaker 1: get signed by somebody who was a legend in the game,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But yeah, it was just

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Speaker 1: it was time for us to, you know, to part ways,

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Speaker 1: just in terms of me growing up and wanted to

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Speaker 1: want more for myself as an artist, you know, And

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Speaker 1: I was blessing negotiate it out of the deal, and

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Speaker 1: instead of jumping right back into another deal, I did

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Speaker 1: some research and a few of men and my other

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Speaker 1: friends in the industry started this new company, car Rivers

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Speaker 1: Media Group, new digital distribution. But outside of distribution, we

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Speaker 1: also manage artists as well as publish writers and producers.

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Speaker 1: Manage writers and producers as well, and a lot of

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Speaker 1: writers and producers do need some management, yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: everybody does. Everybody needs you know, the right team. Team

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Speaker 1: is everything. Did you feel like the labeled labels just

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Speaker 1: can't do what they used to do for artists? Because

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Speaker 1: you were you, I mean you were you were at

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Speaker 1: the beginning when labels were good. Yeah, I mean really

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Speaker 1: but absolutely. I mean I remember spending you know, five

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Speaker 1: hundred six hundred thousand dollars in the video, you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, and budgets was crazy, you know, you

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Speaker 1: know envy, But um, now was what was on the video?

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, technology and you know a lot

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Speaker 1: of things, but I think it's about you and the

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Speaker 1: label being on the same page as far as your

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Speaker 1: brand as an artist and having an incredible team and

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Speaker 1: just you feeling like, you know, the support is there,

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Speaker 1: you know. Um, for me, it was more about me

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Speaker 1: having a vision for myself that was bigger than just

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Speaker 1: the you know, niche audience that at the time, you know,

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Speaker 1: my label was you know, pushing me to you know,

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Speaker 1: and also the music that I want toute let me

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Speaker 1: let me ask you that you did the whole album

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Speaker 1: Rico Live. Yeah, we did a project together. Now, Um,

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Speaker 1: so what's what's going on with that? Well, it's it's

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Speaker 1: technically owned by you know, another label. Okay, So it's

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Speaker 1: never We're never gonna na that's never gonna come out. Nah, nay,

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Speaker 1: I got, I got, I got new music. You know.

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Speaker 1: The whole prod the new project. I got a whole

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Speaker 1: Rico to Homie. You know, So the music music, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's good music. It's it's good records. You know. Again again,

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Speaker 1: it's just it's just my direction and the type of

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Speaker 1: you know, it's more universal, and it's just it's just me.

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Speaker 1: Like every record that you every record that you you're

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Speaker 1: gonna hear from my project, is I'm writing on every record,

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Speaker 1: is you know what I'm saying, It's all me. So

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Speaker 1: it's like you just like even with Fireball, the way

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Speaker 1: big speakers, so a lot of times just for entourages

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Speaker 1: or but you're wasting the money and I just felt

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Speaker 1: not it's not really a direction I wanted to go

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Speaker 1: Is it more worldly? Like what direction does Marria want

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Speaker 1: like it's just more me writing on most of my records.

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Speaker 1: Like at the time, I don't think that the team

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Speaker 1: when I'm writing records that I could have written in

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Speaker 1: because I mean even like when Kanye came up here

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Speaker 1: young and it's hard for them. The did that look

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Speaker 1: just you know, and it's it's just business. But you

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Speaker 1: end of it, you just said, this just isn't me.

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Speaker 1: more of that. Well, it wasn't a whole album. It

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Speaker 1: was like seven songs, okay, and um nah, it just

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Speaker 1: it wasn't it wasn't a direction. Okay, you know the songs,

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Speaker 1: You know, it sound like you've been paying attention to

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Speaker 1: all these years. What you mean, like it's soaking up

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Speaker 1: You know, it's crazy, Like I travel a lot, you know,

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Speaker 1: just being an artist. It's not just being you know,

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Speaker 1: Like it's it's about building something that will create some

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Speaker 1: create a situation where I can really use all of

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Speaker 1: can go buy a Rolux and a Bentley and house

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Speaker 1: like nah, like I want more more for myself. Nothing

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Speaker 1: accidents though for a period of time. Really are you?

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Speaker 1: Why did you? Yeah? I did? I did. Yeah that

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Speaker 1: spiritual thing. Yep, you right on point, mental thing and

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Your sexual energies. You know you can

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Speaker 1: or do things like that if that's what you're into

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Speaker 1: I have before? You know? I meant during that yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've tried to suck my own penis. Hey, yo, that's

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Speaker 1: I tried. It didn't work. What you was saying this

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Speaker 1: and you and we was sucked. Man, man, look man,

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Speaker 1: about defended. That's more money you got to pay on

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Speaker 1: the album course and all that cool with invested in yourself. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: I've been, like I've been kind of investing in myself

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Speaker 1: even when I was at the label, to a certain

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Speaker 1: costs that I had to, you know, but it's business.

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Speaker 1: You invest in yourself, and um, you know, I've never

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Speaker 1: I I've seen so much, bro since I started like

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Speaker 1: And then like I grew up in bottomore my like,

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Speaker 1: I've kind of seen how money works from a young

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Speaker 1: it's like nobody that you like seven Street a song,

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Speaker 1: you'll be able to download music and some phones will

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Speaker 1: automatically have the app. Downloading to it. We're working that

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Speaker 1: out right now. And um, I'm gonna release singles for

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Speaker 1: this project, bro, not a whole album. I'm gonna wait

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Speaker 1: until after this project to do that. And um, yeah

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Speaker 1: you know I'm being a city near you real soon.

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Speaker 1: Oh yes, Blighton Board tour and we're doing a video

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Speaker 1: in like a week or so. Get and oh this

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Speaker 1: this Friday. Man, make sure I'll come through the mixed lounge.

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Speaker 1: What I say? Yeah? So Hi Park, Long Island. We're

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Speaker 1: York you know what I'm saying. Oh yes, oh yes,

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Speaker 1: Mario on Instagram, Twitter, Yeah, it's Mario. It's the Breakfast

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