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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.

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Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club warning, everybody is DJ Envy, Jesse, Larry Charlamage,

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Speaker 2: the guy we are the Breakfast Club. Jess is on

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Speaker 2: maternity leave of course, the Lauren's holding it down. And

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Speaker 2: we got a special guest in the building.

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Speaker 3: We got the brother.

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Speaker 1: How's it going, brother, I'm good.

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Speaker 2: How you feeling?

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Speaker 1: Thank you? I'm good, am.

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Speaker 3: I am a fan bro. I appreciate I rock with

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Speaker 3: your music.

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Speaker 4: Heavy, heavy, calm down, first afrobeat song in history to

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Speaker 4: earn over a billion on demand screams in America?

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Speaker 3: How that feel? Gay? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Glory to good?

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Speaker 5: Does it? Does it like annoy you at all? Would

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Speaker 5: calm down? Because like here in the US, people talk

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Speaker 5: about Selena Gomez on the song so much and like

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Speaker 5: kind of throw some of the the success of it

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Speaker 5: her way versus you, But she gives you all of

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Speaker 5: the credit. Does that annoy you at all?

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Speaker 1: Sometimes I don't really see that. I don't really see

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Speaker 1: this has has been just throwing on hard because like

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Speaker 1: the collaboration we booked to it, Yeah, we will put

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Speaker 1: the same like effort. You know, it felt like a

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Speaker 3: You did her a favor, Yes, you did her a favor.

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Speaker 2: They did each other face.

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Speaker 1: Like, yeah, she did me a huge favor as well.

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Speaker 1: Because she don't have to do that. I reached out

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Speaker 1: to her, you know. You know, she has been a

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Speaker 1: new you know, there's been a lot of great people

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Speaker 1: who hit me up and yo, like what you're doing.

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Speaker 1: She was one of them. She's pulled up shows on

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Speaker 1: the low key just butt you're in the young glad,

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Speaker 1: just like grow and become this person.

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Speaker 2: Tell us about your inspiration, what got you into music,

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Speaker 2: what made you start doing music, and when was your

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Speaker 2: that that aha moment that she was like, oh this

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Speaker 1: Mmm. You know I started on the church, and the

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Speaker 1: church really made me believe like I was doing something good.

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Speaker 1: You know, I used to draw like it wasn't like

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Speaker 1: giving me so much vision. As I say, I was

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Speaker 1: getting more applauds from music. And then yeah, the church

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Speaker 1: embraced it and just kept doing it. And then you know,

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Speaker 2: But yeah, you knew music was always the thing that

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Speaker 1: Uh. I mean I always saw myself as someone who

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Speaker 1: I just believe in God's grace in my life.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're from Nigeria, you know, a lot of times

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Speaker 4: music isn't It was probably changed now, but there was

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Speaker 3: They want you to be a doctor, you know, go

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Speaker 4: So how did your parents or your family were they

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Speaker 1: First, it's just my brother, you know, my brother going

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Speaker 1: My brother used to throw parties and I used to

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Speaker 1: And his friends used to help me and in school

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Speaker 1: But over time, my mom got to like understand, you

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Speaker 1: But when you know, I started like going to competitions,

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I was.

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Speaker 1: Back and take the exam or I took it. But

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Speaker 3: To wrap slock. I mean, do that America slutch the

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Speaker 4: So listen when she smacked you, right, did that did

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Speaker 4: to really focus on this music. No, it was like

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Speaker 4: I have to make up my mind. What I really

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Speaker 4: And and I was just trying to be realistic. Inside

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Speaker 4: know you don't have money to do in colors.

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Speaker 1: Let me just like no. That was what was in

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Speaker 1: her Look that's a single mom taking care of like

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Speaker 1: I ticked that his arms. Boy, I just didn't go.

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Speaker 1: I was just like at the time I stood on business,

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Speaker 1: not going Yeah, do it for me? Do you let

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Speaker 3: I wanted to hear sound.

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Speaker 1: I mean she just heard everything.

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Speaker 3: She heard sound gathering everything.

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Speaker 2: Tell her the line he's been talking this line.

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Speaker 1: There's a line on.

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Speaker 4: Sound guys and says tapping on that pussy. You said,

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Speaker 4: you're tapping on that pussy like you killed a motherfucking insect.

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Speaker 2: Your mom hear that line from the church, from the church.

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Speaker 1: Probably why I whispered. I'm not sure she just that yet,

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Speaker 1: but I mean she heard my song. I'm moved it.

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Speaker 3: She's like, what inspired that line? Was a big click?

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Speaker 3: You was just like to kill what.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I said in a couple of interviews. At

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Speaker 1: you know. I was like in the hotel, I got

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Speaker 1: my producers. We we had almost the whole floor, like

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Speaker 3: So we're locked in.

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Speaker 1: I work on one side and phone on one side,

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Speaker 1: and then I just popped out my room and I

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Speaker 1: It was chilling. I was like, yo, you're still making

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Speaker 1: betsa you up? It was like, yeah, pull up. I

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Speaker 3: But what was her name?

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Speaker 1: Why do you want to.

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Speaker 3: Howld you?

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Speaker 1: I'm twenty four.

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Speaker 4: You achieved so much at a young age. What drives

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Speaker 1: Thember one thing. My driver has always been family, and

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Speaker 1: I feel like my family has grown bigger. But by

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Speaker 1: you see that there's all the responsibilities that come with

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Speaker 1: being an artist and being a chosen one. Not everybody

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Speaker 1: that's uh, they're just different people that call, you know,

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Speaker 1: just like, what do you want? What do you want to?

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Speaker 1: Where do you see? What's going? What's what's the prophecy?

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Speaker 4: Like you call yourself the children that I can't pronounce

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Speaker 4: it h I he is, he is, he is, I'm idiot,

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Speaker 4: but it translates to someone are chosen. Right, So when

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Speaker 4: did you become aware of like your own special, divine

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Speaker 4: unique qualities? When did you realize that, damn, I am

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Speaker 4: the chosen one in my family?

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Speaker 1: I would say, it's just like I'm a spiritual person.

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Speaker 1: I don't lie to get too deep.

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Speaker 3: But we can tell everybody in this room loves God.

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Speaker 1: But I just feel like there's just signs of comic

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Speaker 1: prophecies and you you just be chilling and the prophecy

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Speaker 1: thing or it's like, you know, you had to happen

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Speaker 1: to you. Sometimes it's just visions. You know, it's just

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Speaker 1: have visions. And it's like if the vision was never

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Speaker 1: in the beginning? You know, So I just like take

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Speaker 1: hold of it. And when you like put efforts and

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Speaker 1: faith in that one vision and it comes to life,

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Speaker 1: it's like, oh, probably they might do this to the

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Speaker 1: rest fifty visions I've got, and just keep coming to that.

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Speaker 1: I feel like my name also like holds that bandma.

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Speaker 1: That's a revelation for another dimension. It's like a know,

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Speaker 1: the award for an idea. When an idea hits you

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Speaker 1: that euphoria that's Raalma and you feel that feelings like

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Speaker 1: it's just like it's just like an adrenaline pump. I

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Speaker 1: heard that in church and I feel like, you know,

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Speaker 1: that name just stuck with me and I feel like

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Speaker 1: I leave the name. Yeah, you know.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to know, you know, with the success of

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Speaker 3: And you're just not afraid to take chances, you won't

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Speaker 5: I just what example, what's an example of something that

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Speaker 3: You're talking about me while I'm making money. What inspired

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: I feel like over time, even with my faces and

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Speaker 1: A little bit. You know. It's just like sometimes you

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Speaker 2: But you said you you know, you said you were

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Speaker 1: being good, Like like me, I keep being good. Like

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Speaker 4: You mean like here we say there's no permanent friends

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Speaker 3: Is that what you mean?

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Speaker 1: It's like, let's make money. It's like and another thing,

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Speaker 1: it's like it's like years ago I didn't know a

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Speaker 1: Why would I make that like huge thing, Like I

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of the hate. You get it from

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Speaker 1: No, my city love me?

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, so who so who's the hat?

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Speaker 4: So?

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Speaker 3: Who hated?

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just like I mean, it's not really

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Speaker 3: It's just like social media Twitter, Twitter.

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Speaker 1: People just don't People don't like a kid who just

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Speaker 1: You would say that like not being scared, Like they

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Speaker 1: don't they really like that? Beg us for your flower

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Speaker 1: for the next generation, Let me do it, and whatever

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Speaker 2: You feel like you get the respect you deserve when

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Speaker 1: I feel like this success came too quick that people

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Speaker 1: the first time two weeks ago. But it's like people

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Speaker 1: it's just it's something called grace. Though it's like I

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Speaker 5: Do you feel like when people have the top three

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Speaker 5: know they right now they include burn a Boy with

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Speaker 1: That respect to the ojis? But yeah, one of them.

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Speaker 3: Once you do no more Big three, there's not a

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. And if you look at it, my impact

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Speaker 1: You know. I mean, I don't even want to say

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Speaker 1: You understand. It's like India as a country, like being

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Speaker 1: to like fuel myself with that ego. I don't. I

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Speaker 1: oncet I be thirty years ago to give me that

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Speaker 1: Flower Times has changed. You don't need to be telling

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Speaker 1: It's just what it is. Whatever Fifi is in all

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Speaker 1: of that, it's like that's on them. It's like everybody

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Speaker 4: Though you said, you said a lot of labels are

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Speaker 4: trying to clone you. You said, tell your stylists to

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Speaker 4: stop sending males to me.

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Speaker 3: To get closed.

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Speaker 4: Artists really sending stylist mail with your name to get closed.

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Speaker 4: You said, I'm gonna pull up to your show and

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Speaker 4: script you on stage because that's my ship.

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Speaker 3: Hold fakes celebrities, fake industry.

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Speaker 4: Are they put it up able to get creative? Stop

442
00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:04,040
Speaker 4: trying to clone me? Then you said, Rema made afro

443
00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:06,600
Speaker 4: BTP a big statement every new artist in twenty nineteen

444
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:07,880
Speaker 4: eight from the same template.

445
00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:11,920
Speaker 5: That was pretty worthy for someone.

446
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:17,359
Speaker 3: What motivated all of that?

447
00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:22,560
Speaker 1: I mean it's like sometimes the most times I'm knowing

448
00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:28,280
Speaker 1: the intendant, yeah, my management, I don't know my social media. Well,

449
00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:35,040
Speaker 1: I'm very true person into the couples, fool like might

450
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:36,920
Speaker 1: as well. I just say a few things, just get

451
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:41,320
Speaker 1: a few things out of my chest. I don't really

452
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,359
Speaker 1: want to embarrass anyone. And sometimes the times where he

453
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:48,040
Speaker 1: needs to make a statement, Uh, it's the saying that

454
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 1: when the lizard uh shakes his head like he his

455
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:57,680
Speaker 1: like adjusting his own ego. His prison is his own

456
00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:00,840
Speaker 1: self because nobody want to get hims. No one wanted

457
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,480
Speaker 1: to get in. But I'm not here in this entire

458
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 1: be too big for flowers or anything. Sometimes I just

459
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 1: like to clear the air, you know, like reaching out

460
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:14,760
Speaker 1: and seeing your Randma stylist and stealing my clothes month

461
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 1: water close and like brands that I've created a relationship.

462
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,800
Speaker 1: I think they're sending close to me, and they're setting

463
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:26,240
Speaker 1: close to you and seeing some funny shoe sizes. It's

464
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:37,520
Speaker 1: like whoa got his tiny legs some funny I was

465
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:42,120
Speaker 1: like about the EPs is just like I mean when

466
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,200
Speaker 1: I came to the game, I came with the template.

467
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:51,160
Speaker 1: I just like the way like new artists come and

468
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:55,040
Speaker 1: have a have a dominance. Mine was just different from

469
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:59,800
Speaker 1: they want. I started, you know, the whole EP trail.

470
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:04,359
Speaker 1: I mean every artist is twenty nineteen, like walked on

471
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,439
Speaker 1: that path. Like if you new artists just had to

472
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 1: like when you come out, you pop out with that

473
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:12,679
Speaker 1: EPI But a lot of people will argue it. You

474
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 1: know a lot of people just don't want you know,

475
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 1: sometimes this is it.

476
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 3: This is the word.

477
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 1: I don't like to feel like some afrobeat messiah or

478
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:25,880
Speaker 1: someone just sometimes they don't really like you being quite

479
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,640
Speaker 1: young and saying something sometimes it's not for you to say.

480
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's the truth, but it's not for you to say.

481
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,240
Speaker 1: Sometimes I just want to leave it, and sometimes I'm

482
00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 1: quite I just can't wait for it to be in

483
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,600
Speaker 1: the air because I just can't wait for maybe like

484
00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,120
Speaker 1: the old used to say it, and I'm like, Okay,

485
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,439
Speaker 1: no one's saying it, so I might as as well.

486
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,080
Speaker 1: But slowly it's just like I really don't want that

487
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:53,160
Speaker 1: picture of afrobeat Messiah. Oh, let's do it for afrobats ave.

488
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, I really don't want things to

489
00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:58,920
Speaker 1: be that serious, and I just want to express myself,

490
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,359
Speaker 1: that's all. And when things are not looking good and

491
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 1: I want to clay something, I just want to clear

492
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 1: and leave it at that. But starting to make an

493
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:15,199
Speaker 1: agenda on Twitts that I felt at the moment, I mean,

494
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:17,640
Speaker 1: the tweeters has cleared whatever I need to. I don't

495
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 1: really need to like embody it in interviews. It's not

496
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 1: so much of a big deal.

497
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,520
Speaker 4: You get me, what's your relationship like with the with

498
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 4: the old gis, with that, with the Burner Boys and

499
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:29,680
Speaker 4: the Beatles and with kids do you have relationships.

500
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, big respect. One thing I'm happy about is that

501
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 1: we all respect each other's respect. You know, there's a

502
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 1: difference between being a boy, a friend, a friend. It's

503
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:50,479
Speaker 1: like I got friendship, I got respect. Yeah, a lot

504
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 1: of people got friendship from big dogs. I ain't got respect.

505
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 1: I got respect, and if if I ain't, don't even

506
00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,440
Speaker 1: got friendship. But I got my respect. That's okay.

507
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,679
Speaker 2: You feel like the US watered down a lot of afrobeats,

508
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 2: Like it just seems like they just took a couple

509
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 2: of records and made him big and almost like that

510
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 2: was it to see.

511
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 3: But when you go to.

512
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 2: Africa, South Africa, Nigeria, all these different places, it's so

513
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:18,880
Speaker 2: much more. You feel like it's watered down at all.

514
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,400
Speaker 1: Give me an example of the US feel all.

515
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,359
Speaker 2: Right, a couple of years ago, all you heard was

516
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 2: Da Vito, like he was the only artist. Then two

517
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:29,720
Speaker 2: years later all you heard was burna Boy, like he

518
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 2: was the only artist. Do you feel like that that

519
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 2: affected at all?

520
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:40,920
Speaker 1: No. I think they through it thing. The one aultmost

521
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 1: mission I forget to the world right, Everyone had their

522
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:54,639
Speaker 1: own mission to play right. I just feel like I

523
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:57,919
Speaker 1: like to enjoy the ruinness. I like to see the

524
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 1: ruiness slowly, you know. When we know, when we start

525
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 1: like doing a lot of having a lot of international dominos,

526
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 1: we sometimes the little influence from the outside coming and

527
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 1: sometimes you just want to like make it more understandable

528
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 1: for the people to digest the music better. Maybe slow

529
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 1: down on a little local dialect and like put in

530
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 1: a little more English so that they can't understand you,

531
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,360
Speaker 1: or like maybe the beats, maybe maybe it's too intense,

532
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:34,919
Speaker 1: like maybe this is want something like you know, but

533
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,719
Speaker 1: at the time, like you know, we never really used

534
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 1: to care for anybody think like they like it, they

535
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 1: like it, they don't, right, It's like we just go

536
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 1: to the studio and be free. You know. I didn't

537
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 1: know if America was going to like come down, you know,

538
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:52,719
Speaker 1: if Europe was going to like it. I just do stuff.

539
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 1: They're some of my songs that are more successful in

540
00:28:55,920 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 1: France than they are in a country to hours away

541
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 1: from France. It's just like different crowds pick whatever they

542
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 1: want to pick. India they got what they like, you know,

543
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 1: all the African countries to go what they like. You know.

544
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: I would say, like my first album did so well

545
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: internationally than they did locally. Understand, I was just making music,

546
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: but the international crowd grasped it more than.

547
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 3: The locals.

548
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 1: My new album, the locals grasped it more than the international.

549
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 1: It's just like it comes with the face, right. But

550
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 1: I really don't have a place in people's decisions when

551
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 1: they create. Some people create what they want to create.

552
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 1: Some people actually plan to create because they plan to

553
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: be in a territory, you know, and sometimes could prompt

554
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 1: several features, or I need to feature this artist too. Oh,

555
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 1: these people just what they like to listen, So let

556
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: me do this, but in the aprobate version that will

557
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 1: be more digestible to them. It's different concepts, but generally

558
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 1: I hope over time it don't be the norm. It's like,

559
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 1: come on, it's not us now. We're very raw, get

560
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 1: like we're wicked with the beats, with the flow. It's like,

561
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 1: let's stand on that because that was the main foundation

562
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 1: of aprobeats.

563
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 4: I like what you said about that, because when I

564
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 4: tell people that I listen to you, that's one thing

565
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 4: they say about especially with the new project, they say

566
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 4: that you highlight the local roots of Afro beats with

567
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 4: your drums and your sound.

568
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 3: Patterns. So that's that's intentional to do that.

569
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was intentionally. See it's just has it's just

570
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:39,720
Speaker 1: through it someone that has an outter buddy experience of

571
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: that look at the game from like oh what go

572
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 1: going on? You know what go going on right now?

573
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 1: But sometimes it's like another thing is like think about it.

574
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 1: Some people will be like, Okay, you feel like you're

575
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 1: gonna make this move because you already have your international song.

576
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 1: Why don't we we want to have our own international

577
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: song too. While you think it's like I never like, yeah,

578
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 1: come down is a softer beat. It's like I have

579
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: a lot of songs just soft beats, like I make

580
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 1: love songs that make all types of chances. But it's

581
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: just like that runness. It's just something that was just

582
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: like being lost. It was like what they call it

583
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 1: lost art. It's just like yo, got mind. Like because

584
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 1: also if you think about it, I'm not trying to

585
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 1: be selfish because I have a huge song. Also think

586
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:32,720
Speaker 1: about the guys in the underground if we lose this art,

587
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 1: like you know, the streets is this is the bump

588
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: that's like you gotta also make them know like this

589
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: person who's so huge is still willing to tap in

590
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 1: so low to the roots.

591
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 2: You know.

592
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 1: It's like I see, It's like it's also possible for

593
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 1: you guys, like don't make it like because now the

594
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 1: guys on the ground, we think like, oh, after water

595
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 1: done mine.

596
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 3: Stuff, I want to hear traditional air beats.

597
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 1: You get it. You get it, And it just takes

598
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 1: someone who's very confident with it, who's who's not gonna

599
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: shake with any judgment. I got so much judgment, Like

600
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 1: when my pressure job, like people were just like going

601
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: at it. Like my manager was telling me because I

602
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: really don't be caring what people say. It's just like

603
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: it's like, I know he's trying to be positive. It's

604
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 1: like people are not happy. People are like, oh, like

605
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: there's not the remodey.

606
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 4: You know.

607
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 1: It's like I don't care about the room. I come

608
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 1: with phases. I've not been the same person since twenty nineteen,

609
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm becoming a man. So he's like

610
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 1: the kid they used to know and when I was

611
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 1: nineteen is not the kid right now.

612
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 4: You know, fame can be very overwhelming, especially at your age.

613
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 4: Right to have the fame, to have the fortune, how

614
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 4: do you stay grounded?

615
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 3: And missed all this do found success?

616
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 1: M hmm. First of all, is hustling in the in

617
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: the streets just to make a couple of birds already

618
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 1: kind of I felt what money?

619
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 5: It was like you was getting money before the song.

620
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I was not like when I made my

621
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 1: first fifty million from fifty million narrow for music.

622
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 3: Let me google this.

623
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: Yeah not that much. Yeah you mador person. Fifty million

624
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 1: fifty or fifteen million, fifty million?

625
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 5: There, Okay, you had already felt that, but that's not

626
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:30,600
Speaker 5: us dollars.

627
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 1: He's checking out converser rates.

628
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 3: What's the conversar rate? Thirty thousand, Yeah, thirty got Wait, but.

629
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 5: This was a street and I still open because.

630
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 1: I got to this out. That's thirty thousand this year

631
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 1: because inflation. Yeah, but it was better. It was much

632
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: like like forty fifty thousand. Yeah, it was like it

633
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 1: was good money.

634
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 3: Right.

635
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: But first of all, like when I got that was

636
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: like I was not freaked, Like I know a lot

637
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: of young people that for the first what do we buy?

638
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:04,640
Speaker 1: I would we want to do whatever? My first my

639
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: first bag, I got my moment car because I just

640
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 1: couldn't stand her trekking my car. Yeah, you know, h

641
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:14,399
Speaker 1: it's to buy a lot of instruments for the church.

642
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 1: And it's just like just the upper game, you know,

643
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 1: because I had a grap group, but yeah, and I

644
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 1: had enough wanted to go to the studio. It's like

645
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: because I stopped music because I just needed to grind right.

646
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 1: So being in the game right now, like since twenty nineteen,

647
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 1: it's just like, first of all, I was not freaked

648
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:39,919
Speaker 1: about nothing was it's surprise to me. You know, even

649
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:42,800
Speaker 1: when I was like making bread at the time before music,

650
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: Like I wasn't even with the shorties. I didn't really

651
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,319
Speaker 1: care about the shorties. This is I just wanted to

652
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:52,560
Speaker 1: make the bread, see my family happen. So when I

653
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,359
Speaker 1: was here and seeing the shortes, just like it's it's

654
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 1: not surprising to me.

655
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 3: You know.

656
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 1: I don't really have like dirty rags in the streets.

657
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 1: I don't have no story made up boddies like we

658
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 1: don't know nobody in my life. I don't even got

659
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: a time. That's just it. It's like it's like the

660
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:14,760
Speaker 1: game is so since then, I just been grounded because

661
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 1: I know what it's like and how hard it is

662
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 1: to make money. And then I have good people around me.

663
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 1: You know, I have really good people around me.

664
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,880
Speaker 4: I saw you say once that you you felt like

665
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 4: you were forced to sell your childhood just to provide

666
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,959
Speaker 4: for your family after you lost your brother and father.

667
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:36,800
Speaker 1: Condolences on that.

668
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 4: So you feel like you grew up too fast? Yeah

669
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 4: you didn't have a childhood. Yeah I didn't. I didn't

670
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:47,279
Speaker 4: really have each other. I didn't do a lot of

671
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 4: things like a little young people do. Didn't really grow

672
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 4: up at a point where I was being conscious of

673
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,440
Speaker 4: friends and didn't really have a lot of people my age.

674
00:35:56,600 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 4: I always was drawn to people mean, and I'm losing

675
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,839
Speaker 4: my brother and my daughter's two people. I looked up

676
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 4: to anything you listen to, Listen anything you say. I say,

677
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 4: if you have a new slang, I'll go to school

678
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 4: in my class. I'm like, yo, you know anything my

679
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 4: brother does, I do. I wear his clothes. You know

680
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,280
Speaker 4: all of that, Like even when the shoe was bigger

681
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 4: than me, I put my foot in there, the stack

682
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 4: it up, he stack it up.

683
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,319
Speaker 1: And you know, you know I looked up to It's

684
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 1: just like I ate, I lost my dad and my

685
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 1: brother was holding me down and we just keeping insane,

686
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 1: and then I lost my brother. I was just like

687
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 1: I was confused and I held I held really tied

688
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 1: to the church. The church was like my last like

689
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 1: like chilled boy. Music was doing this thing, but it

690
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 1: wasn't paying. I ran away from home. I was just running,

691
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: you know. I just needed to grind the so much

692
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: pressure my mom could not pay me. It was like

693
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 1: we're just softening. So like from fifteen especially just like

694
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,759
Speaker 1: worse imagine from eight it was really bad. Everything went

695
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 1: downhill from having a provider, no provider, and everyone is

696
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 1: just like my mom was just like hustling so hard.

697
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 1: So first of all, like and also I had all

698
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 1: rights to be wayward, and I feel like I give

699
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 1: myself that little pro I had all rights to be

700
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 1: a stupid boy. You know, the doors were open. There's

701
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 1: nobody to beat me to say, don't go out and

702
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 1: do whatever I want, right, boy, I just stayed grounded

703
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:35,839
Speaker 1: because and I just needed to, you know. I just

704
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 1: felt like, especially when my brother Dade, I was the

705
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 1: only one. I really didn't want my sisters to be

706
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 1: fooling around to make some bread. I was like, y'all

707
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: sit down, I'm out.

708
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 2: Became the man at the house.

709
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I go to them and nobody hid from me

710
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:53,320
Speaker 1: for like a year or two's gone. I was just stacking, stacking, saving,

711
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,799
Speaker 1: you know, just came back home and just put things

712
00:37:56,840 --> 00:38:00,080
Speaker 1: in place. Your hustle comes from their absence.

713
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 3: In a way.

714
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 1: Oh really, it's just like the drive seeing your mom

715
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 1: being assaulted and my mom's being assaulted. Laughter. You know,

716
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 1: it's just like it's not your fault, you know, it's

717
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,879
Speaker 1: just life, you know, and me soffering right now, it's

718
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:21,319
Speaker 1: not my fault either. It's just like just but it's

719
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 1: what we decisions we make to make things better, right,

720
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:26,239
Speaker 1: And I just feel like I lost all of that,

721
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 1: no friends, spend a little months alone in my head,

722
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:34,359
Speaker 1: and you know, and the only thing I can hold

723
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 1: onto this card. I'm grateful to be.

724
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 5: What are the conversations like now with your mom because

725
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 5: you know, knowing all of that now when you guys

726
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 5: are like looking back at that, like what does she

727
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 5: say to you in those moments where y'all are like

728
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:48,240
Speaker 5: reflecting on that stuff.

729
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, me and my mom have a relationship. Like when

730
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 1: she cried cry, I don't know if I'm like that

731
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: when she cry, just like I don't know, I just

732
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 1: can't hold it and I feel like you say a

733
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 1: lot of things with our tears. It's like she just

734
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 1: kind of like say a lot of words. She's just

735
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 1: looking at me, just like, and I don't understand, you know, yeah.

736
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 4: Do you dang me? I lost my I was like,

737
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:16,400
Speaker 4: oh you see I could. I can tell you A

738
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 4: very spiritual person, right like.

739
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 3: And you say you have visions? Do you see your

740
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,360
Speaker 3: father and brother like in dreams now like guiding you?

741
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 1: I love? I love the visions are personal. I would say, yeah,

742
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:33,319
Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like I've number one. I've

743
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 1: relieved a lot of the moment they've lived, and it's

744
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 1: like I've been here. It feels like I have that

745
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: little dash of that I've been here before, and it's

746
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 1: like a second chance to make the decision. I was

747
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 1: just recently with the King of Yah, you know. And

748
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:54,319
Speaker 1: I remember years ago after I lost my dad, looking

749
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,360
Speaker 1: at his photo book and seen when he was buying

750
00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 1: down to the king at the time, and I've seen

751
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:03,240
Speaker 1: how I walked my way up to that same moment

752
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:05,359
Speaker 1: of my dad kneeling to the king at the time.

753
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 1: I was shaking just like he did it, like everything

754
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 1: like he wanted to. Like I remember when he was

755
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 1: working on a visa for us to go to the UK,

756
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 1: and the first country I went to when I blow up,

757
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: what was the UK? It's just like you did it.

758
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 1: And to my family to the UK, it's like it's

759
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 1: like every moment like it's just like they're living through me.

760
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:31,799
Speaker 3: You know.

761
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:37,799
Speaker 2: You talk about bad health care in Nigeria and you

762
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:39,839
Speaker 2: always talk about giving back to the church, giving back

763
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 2: to the kids. What do you think could be done

764
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:45,239
Speaker 2: to change some of the stuff that you and your

765
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 2: family went through to make sure the next generation doesn't

766
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 2: have that problem or you're working towards that as well.

767
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 1: I mean, I've done a lot that, you know. I

768
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 1: really don't even want the media to take everybody even

769
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:58,440
Speaker 1: didn't even like seeing me giving to the church in

770
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 1: the media. I don't like. Really, I really feel like

771
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: the media like to twist a lot of things, you know,

772
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 1: But a lot of things have been held down by

773
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:13,800
Speaker 1: the government, you know, and I think the government is

774
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 1: starting to understand that they're not as influential. I would say, Hm,

775
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 1: we are the ones having a real influence on the youth,

776
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 1: you know, and a lot of times they have to

777
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:30,239
Speaker 1: bring us close to know what the youth wants, and

778
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 1: maybe some might have to have us close for their

779
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 1: own agendas, but it's just your decision to stand with

780
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 1: the agenda. There's no amount of money the government want

781
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 1: to give me. I be like, oh, like, no government

782
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 1: money can freak me. I've said in a lot of

783
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 1: songs that I think I was starting to make more

784
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:53,799
Speaker 1: money than politicians. It's like it's like, you know, I

785
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:57,720
Speaker 1: feel like with the influence that I have, I feel

786
00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: like we are now at the point where we can

787
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 1: tell them, like, yo, you're not doing your job. If

788
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 1: I'm stay there with the governor, I would whisper to

789
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 1: his ear. I'm like, I don't think you're doing this right.

790
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:12,719
Speaker 1: I'm sorry it's coming from a twenty four year old,

791
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 1: but was like, I think I tapping with what their perspective.

792
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 1: You can't see that. I'm sorry. You know, policies just

793
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:26,840
Speaker 1: help like convince them about policies and the little we

794
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 1: can do, like we're investing with the money we make,

795
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 1: bringing back home, giving kids life a meaning. You know,

796
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 1: a lot of times I've been telling my manager, because

797
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 1: we have a lot of deep talks, it's like it's

798
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 1: not about giving rice. Everybody just want to give rice rice.

799
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 1: It's like, you just want to go make some food.

800
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:48,480
Speaker 1: Do you know if some kid got some allergy to

801
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 1: rice and then yes, you gave rise, but then you

802
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 1: leave and then the kid got to go to the

803
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 1: hospital to sort at that auritude, do you understand? It's like,

804
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 1: are you like this is a whole different perspective to

805
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:03,720
Speaker 1: me giving back. I don't like to do the basic

806
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 1: giveback that, oh, I give you food, that's it. It's like, no,

807
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 1: it's like what about tomorrow? What are they going to

808
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:13,840
Speaker 1: eat tomorrow? It's like i'd ratter create a platform that

809
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 1: will consistently provide. Yeah, you know, create a platform I

810
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:23,720
Speaker 1: will consistently educate. Create a platform now consistently clothes created platform,

811
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: BECAUSETI shelter. It could be one hundred people, could be

812
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:30,320
Speaker 1: five hundred people. But if it's one thousand people or

813
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:32,839
Speaker 1: five hundred people, but at least it's quite consistent, then

814
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:37,800
Speaker 1: I'm giving one million people food today. Tomorrow they'll be hungry.

815
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: That's my perspective of giving back platforms policies, and.

816
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 4: They should listen to you. I mean, you just had

817
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 4: to show on your city. You had twenty thousand people

818
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 4: come out.

819
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:49,320
Speaker 1: I think it was steady, even though a lot of

820
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:50,040
Speaker 1: people outside.

821
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 3: Wow, it's like, what do I feel like?

822
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 4: We're doing it in your hometown, even not your hometwn

823
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 4: but ben in city.

824
00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:00,879
Speaker 1: There's a country called Ben and the same spelling been

825
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:08,359
Speaker 1: in here. It was really beautiful, iconic. Then there I

826
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:11,720
Speaker 1: just I felt I love joy, love anger.

827
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 3: Sorry to say it's just oh.

828
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:18,719
Speaker 1: Okay, it's just like this place has struggled so hard,

829
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 1: this place has stomped on me.

830
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 3: You know.

831
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: It's not really like you're blaming the people. It's just

832
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:30,440
Speaker 1: like you're just blaming the environments for your struggle, you know.

833
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:38,279
Speaker 1: And it was just like I have to give back

834
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 1: in some way. I didn't want that money. First of all,

835
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:44,759
Speaker 1: it was not about Ay, I'm the star, come on

836
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 1: watch me. I paid to watch me. It's like no,

837
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 1: It's like I made sure the tickets were affordable because

838
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 1: life is harder thandia tickets affordable. And also I don't

839
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 1: make myself the center of the event. No, the people won,

840
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:04,439
Speaker 1: and then everything that has to do with the show,

841
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:09,280
Speaker 1: giving them an iconic show, the great stage, great sound, great,

842
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 1: Like you know, if I had bad sound in that stadium,

843
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 1: they'll be like, yeah, it was a great show regardless.

844
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 1: Why because I didn't put my all into the stage

845
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 1: or the sound, because I was so focused on me

846
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 1: being the talk of the town, like it's all about me.

847
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:29,319
Speaker 1: It's not even about the sound. People will take it.

848
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 1: Those still say it's a good show. But I always like,

849
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 1: I made sure you know the security of the people,

850
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:38,319
Speaker 1: even the security or the people outside that cannot get in,

851
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:40,919
Speaker 1: because I know that would be a possibility. Just making

852
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 1: sure that they have a good show and making sure

853
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 1: that can impact, give back and inspire as much use

854
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:50,759
Speaker 1: as I can. I think I did that.

855
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:53,720
Speaker 4: Is it true that you got paid three million dollars

856
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 4: the performer at the world's most expensive wedding of twenty

857
00:45:57,719 --> 00:45:58,720
Speaker 4: twenty four and Mumbai?

858
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 1: Okay, I said to move by. If you even asked

859
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 1: me about sure at festival, I would not even tell

860
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:10,320
Speaker 1: you smart. Yeah, I wouldn't even tell you. It's not

861
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 1: just move by all your money, Just like I feel

862
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 1: like people guess my wealth is like you can never

863
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 1: find out.

864
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 3: I can smell them with money. Man, leave me a

865
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 3: couple of hours, leave uncle a couple of irons. Man,

866
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. But ns and Iyrius, you.

867
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 2: Ask me, let's let's get into a joint. That what

868
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 2: you want to hear? What joint you want to want

869
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 2: us to play this morning?

870
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:40,680
Speaker 1: He I know he wants to play the Monday morning.

871
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:44,680
Speaker 3: Look you want to do?

872
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 1: I want to do? Here is the actually, here is

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Speaker 1: the song here?

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, we appreciate you for joining us. Next

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Speaker 2: time you can come back.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, don't be letting them take your outre say fly,

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Speaker 1: don't know.

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Speaker 4: Let nobody them your life like I like. I like

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Speaker 4: your confidence. Man, you know what I'm saying. And your

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Speaker 4: belief in God. I can see I can see God

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Speaker 4: in you. Brother, Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate Bredma, ladies and gentlemen. It's the breakfast Club.

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Speaker 1: Good morning.

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Speaker 3: You wake that ass up in the morning. Breakfast Club.