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Exclusive! Inside Eric Bellinger’s South Africa Sessions 🪘✨ | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Apr 18, 2025
Grammy-winning artist Eric Bellinger joins Sway In The Morning to discuss his groundbreaking Afrobeat album, "It’ll All Make Sense Later," now available on all platforms! 🌍🎶 Eric shares the inspiration behind crafting this vibrant project in South Africa, collaborating with the best Afrobeat talents, and blending his signature R&B sound with Afrobeat rhythms. From his journey in the music industry to his passion for uplifting positivity and authenticity, Eric opens up about his creative process, his family life, and even his exciting debut as an actor in "Soul of a Sister" on BET Plus. This exclusive interview dives into the energy and intention behind his music, his love for his wife and family, and how staying true to himself has shaped his artistry. Plus, hear Eric reflect on his impactful tour, the importance of cultural connection, and his thoughts on maintaining balance in life and work. Don’t miss this uplifting and insightful conversation filled with pure energy and good vibes! Subscribe now for more exclusive interviews and unparalleled energy on Sway In The Morning, only on Sway’s Universe! 🎙️✨ #EricBellinger #AfrobeatAlbum #SwayInTheMorning #ItllAllMakeSenseLater #SwayUniverse #GrammyWinner #SoulOfASister #RNB #Positivity #afrobeattypebeat #afrobeatinstrumental #tems #afrobeat #afrobeats CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Eric Bellinger is Here 02:16 - Eric Bellinger's Acting Debut 04:29 - Importance of a Supportive Partner 06:11 - How Eric Bellinger Met His Wife 10:18 - Celebrate Your Wife 11:56 - What's The Vibe 29:59 - Eric Bellinger on His US Tour 30:34 - Eric Bellinger and Mario Going on Tour 31:35 - Mario’s Mount Rushmore 33:36 - Eric Bellinger Performs A New Song
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one of my favorite people um in the music that I met through the music business But you know whether we doing
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music or not he just one of my favorite people He here today HB the highly critically acclaimed Grammy
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award-winning singer songwriter and producer Eric Bellinger
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Let's go man E up man man Hold up E We going
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to come back I want to play one of your songs first from the new project it all makes sense later Yes Go It's available
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today on all platforms Nice
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Yo that was crazy right there I like that though Like full circle Full circle
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We went from that song pure Well in the song he talking about energy that's
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released today 2025 Yes Back into a five fingers of life clip Right Yes Come on
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from 2018 where he talking about energy Lonnie Light Energy energy energy That
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thread is crazy right there Wow That's that's authenticity That's living in my
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truest form That's it And always never wavering Pure Wow Pure energy That's all I got
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Pure energy bro Come on We going to have to run that back Sheesh We was in here partying That song right there right i
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love it Like new song to cook to Come on Word Yeah It's just that it got everything in it Come on man Got
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everything in it New song to cook to Yeah that's a Listen Oh that's a title Listen I was cooking in the studio and
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now she about to be cooking in the kitchen Listen that you have to create a playlist when you cook It's important
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what I listen to while I'm preparing because that's that's my way of giving back and putting out my energy So yeah
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that's going on there baby Let's go Eric Bellinger is in the building Yes Once
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again Grammy awardwinning singer songwriter and producer and the PN Mhm
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We're checking all the boxes He's acting Yes He's acting now Soul of a sister
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Hello Come on Make sure you check that out man What's that on BET Plus that's
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on BET Plus man Make sure you check out Soul of a Sister Yo how was your acting
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day is that your debut yeah debut Did you did you go take classes for this or
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I feel like I've been prepping my whole life um intentionally unintentionally
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surrounded by actors and actresses My wife um we always did lines together
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that prepped me I shot videos all the time and have been in any situation and scenario and that has prepped me So I
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think it was all just you know studying loving movies you know just loving to go to the movies That's my only time when
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I'm like the phone doesn't exist Yeah When you at a movie you know what I'm saying so it's like just being able to
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tap in and man I think being surrounded by a dope cast as well man Shout out to
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V Boseman Um man shout out to my brother Jason Shout out to the director Dale Rest and Jeie Jasha They really like
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they they welcomed me and it was just easy to just tap in to lock in because
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as I'm you know doing the scenes and the lines with V it was like they're so
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great Certain people just you know challenge you to just rise up to a
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version of yourself you didn't even know you had How did movies become that space for you like I was talking about food
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and that being my space How did movies become that space for you i think I've
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always wanted to do it It's crazy cuz I would I would say I want to do it but not yet I would you know what I mean
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that would be a thing of mine maybe like six seven years ago because I just had so much respect for the craft that I
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knew I just wasn't ready you know and as time progressed I think it was really like a time when I was like yo I'm ready
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You know I made that decision and started putting myself out there doing the self audition tapes and sending them in And maybe if those parts weren't
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landed I understood and learned that it was familiarizing me with the different
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cast and directors you know so now it's like oh yeah yeah we saw him last time Maybe we didn't but let's check it out
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this time And then now I'm getting these calls that I just stuck in it And now it's like I'm prepared by themsel
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audition tapes reading with people practicing lines with my wife It's like oh yeah this this is prepping me as well
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You know Heather when I listen to Eric talk about this he's a he's mentioned his wife twice already We only It's only
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been four minutes man Get I love that rightfully so It's called The First Fruits Okay
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But Ryan Cougler was here with his amazing wife and and and she produced
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this latest film Sinners Yes The wife doesn't get enough acknowledgement Oh
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man Today let's acknowledge the wife Yes It's the muse It's the energy It's the backbone It's the backbone Eric
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Bellinger couldn't be quite who he is today No no no way No way I'm I think
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I'm freely me Um because she's truly her Amen You know what I mean it allows me
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to to do what I need to do Um and
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feel no way What do you mean by that feel no way I
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feel no way about like guilt Mhm I feel no way
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about man I hope she's cool You know what I mean and I think that alone can
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stress um a man out outside working doing what he has to do to provide for
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the family if he feels that stress and tension from his partner It
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magnifies the uh you know the the toughness of it all
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You know it really takes a lot of grit to be a man and truly provide and be
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there So I think the grace that she allows me just because she is who she is
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That's what I mean She's her Yeah And her purpose is her purpose How did you
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guys meet if you don't mind sharing yeah So when I was um like probably 18 18 Oh
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damn All right Young Yeah it was back in the day So she was in a group called ISIS Oh
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yeah Yeah And I was in a group at the time called a new We had the same
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manager Billy Moss Shout out to Billy Moss And we was just always around each
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other I was like five years younger though So it just wasn't time yet Another full circle moment happened
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in LA Like you know what I'm saying we ran into each other again like hold up Hey wait hold on Pow You know what I
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mean and it was just like that was the time was like "Let's go now That's good." He got an older woman man Yeah
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But like it takes it takes another step to say marriage cuz it sounds like you guys had an amazing friendship I I can
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imagine running into each other being around each other same field You know you you just click like that But then
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what made you say "No I need to make this union spiritual almost and and
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acknowledged by the most high." Man growing up train up a child when he was young as always you're not a part you
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know that is embedded in me is you know see you see you see the lights off as
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soon as you you know say something that's you know I I I I grew up sing uh
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with my parents you know married you know uh PK sitting on the front row
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every Sunday since I was a baby you know what I mean singing in church since I was three like that was just the only
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thing I knew you know so when it was time and I'm like yo you are the one you know we was probably dating for like a
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year really before it was like "Hey God is um you know telling me this like okay
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I'mma go for it." You know and at the time it was like "Yo but you R&B singer you know a lot of people around me was
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like yo you shouldn't really be doing that That's going to mess your career up That's going to slow you down." Like man
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if anything it sped me up You know what I mean he put me in a lane of my own so people knew what time it was when you
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see Eric Bellinger standing with the first lady next to his side Man give this dude a round of applause I want to
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I want to be Get married Sway Oh damn Talk to him I'm just telling the truth What was my story it worked for me It
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made history Thank you Eve I appreciate you giving me grace right now Cuz I'm
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not I like that man It's my story It's my role There you go I I'm not Listen I
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I I really enjoy you you know I I like how you live your life and and how you
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express yourself Even just reflecting on the conversations we've had in the past they've always had a certain energy on
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it I want men to celebrate their their wives for a moment man 888742
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3345 If you believe your wife is special that's when he But notice what he said
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That's when it all sped up for him That's when that spark you know it's been there The stick has been there but
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it got lit literally and figuratively It took a wife Yeah It took the wife you know to to light that spark and and sort
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of you know you even though you guys are in a partnership but the balance it
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sounds like as well you know cuz when you said I could just authentically be me Yeah It take it yo that person just
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know you ain't even got to complete the sentence right exactly You know that's it Cuz cuz it's like even when I am gone
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at one point it's like ah what I feel bad but she assures me that I'm in my
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purpose Amen She tells my kids it's not like daddy on here It's like your dad is
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doing you want to call him oh he I'm sure he misses you Let's text me on the side Hey can you FaceTime about to It's
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like man you just doing it all right You know what I mean so it it you know what I mean it helps me feel powerful in my
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purpose Not just like I'm in my purpose but powerful in my purpose That's dope Eric Bellinger is here We're celebrating
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a new project It all makes sense later It's available on platforms now We just played Pure You feel like your wife is
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special Impure We got a song just for you DB Drop it Run it I see how you did
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that See how I did that call us up and highlight your wife Man I had a whole another plan for this man but I just got
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into his music It was like I scrapped the play I went with the spirit and the energy I went with the spirit and the
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energy that is so important especially now man Music is such a medicine You
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know music is such a medicine right now And this album citizens come on man This
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album man I really want y'all to like man lean on this I know sometimes like
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music industry conversation has gotten so far away from music now you know and
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man we going to stay on our dean with it You know what I mean we going to stay on our dean with this Citizens I really
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want you to check out this album It's all it all it'll all make sense later It'll all make sense later Thank you so
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much It's not a It's not a cringe in the It's not a It's not a uh uh a
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dysfunctional vibration Yeah It's not something that's going to turn your vibration down Right Right Right Every
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song is it's not it's lifting I don't know if this is making sense No it is cuz that's what it's for Intention is
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like happy music You know like when you hear for real happy you know what I'm saying when you hear step in you know
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what I mean when you hear them songs it's like man it just takes you to a place you can put it on at the party and you know everybody's on the dance floor
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There's no there's that It's all love It's all positive vibrations and the
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music done in the motherland intentionally You went to South Africa for this yes After after my last tour I
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didn't even go home I just went straight to Africa and and let it all out in music How long did you stay out there
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two weeks Two weeks Cape Town Cape Town Cape Town And so how to to now listening
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to you know this I don't want to pigeon hole it but you know obviously it's the Afro beat sound um uh is at the
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foundation of a lot of these songs but you got to be in the culture to do this So who who did you bring in to
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collaborate with for sure man So we got the best of the best on here You got Phantom you know who's killing it over
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there You got Baker on the keys You got Vcript Um you got Luke Goliath You got
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uh features everyone from Oxlay to Ricardo Banks um to bro Timmy is on
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there I got man conscience Conscience is on there I got Giaki on there Um Gecko
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and it's different artists from all like I said around Africa to really
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make a fusion that still has a R&B feel but it's still
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you know it's done there by it's like all the writers all the producers all the studios all the recording they're
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all out out there So it was like you know what I mean i needed the real and they they they were happy to to
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collaborate I mean they probably appreciated it every single day A camp A camp We did a camp for two weeks So it's
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three studios I It was like 10 to 15 people there every day Everybody in a different room We had like 40 records to
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choose from And then it was crazy Every day three joints being done at least minimum There's 20
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on this project right That's what I'm saying I had so many and part two is coming So that's It'll all
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make sense later Out now Coming soon It all makes sense
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Okay I get it man It's a two-part It's It's exclusive It's exclusive Exclusive We got another Yeah There you go Part
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two in one I'm on it I'm glad you are I love really quickly I love the title of
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it It's something that I say to my best friend all the time Um and I use it more of as a spiritual reminder It's faith
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based for sure Yep Thanks for the confirmation That's all I had to say So that's it That's it I he just he
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confirmed the thing I wanted you to know that I knew what you meant before you asked it You know what I mean and I hate
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cutting people off I feel like it's disrespectful No it's confirmation I wanted you to just know we're on the same page Got you Anyway why you looking
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at me man oh no He make this dude makes me happy
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Let's go He already and you already put the bat signal out for all the men to call up and salute their wives You got
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that energy Let's hear it Come on man Let's hear it Come on man We got Jay
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Prince out of Houston on the line Man your name is Jay Prince and from Houston And you from Houston Somebody say I'm
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I'm from Detroit originally bro Okay N this you talk way too fast Hired out the military in uh in Texas And real name
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Jay Prince Yeah real name Be careful out there That's my brother name No doubt
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You imitate my family bro If you want if you campaign you might get elected That
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part Well you never know Distinguished gentlemen Yo Hey Jay Prince let me say
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this First and foremost before you say what you're going to say I need you to promise me you going to check out this
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project It'll all make sense later That's the That's the only way this is going to make sense to you Okay I got
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you All right I got you sweetie That's your word That's my word Got him Okay there Got him Got him Okay go ahead man
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Talk who's your wife to talk why she's special Ah so look uh first of all good
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morning uh to you all I hope everything's going well It's going well Thank you
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Appreciate you Uh she so I was diagnosed with diverticulitis which is a a a
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stomach um uh condition where I can't eat certain foods or whatnot Um so we've
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been together for a while and she just been helping me change my diet Um and
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right now she in HB getting food for me right now while I sit in the car and talk So um you know she's just a a good
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woman after I retired from the military She just you know she held me down and made sure my stomach was right Um I
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don't know what happened but something happened man You see what I'm saying yeah man Hey man You're helping us shift
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the narrative on love on marriage and thank you for calling in just because
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you know it's one thing to hear about it you know from us here on the radio but
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to have somebody really just call in and be on our wavelength right now it feels
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like we connected uh spiritually Thank you brother Jay Prince Man well I thank
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you I appreciate you for bringing this topic up Yo you'll be a Hey man You would kill it right now if you pull this
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up on your phone Pull up this album and when she get in the car yo this guy play
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special Yo play special on the way home and dedicate it to her All right All
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right Jay My man citizen brother Okay man Let's go to Sacramento My man Earl
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is up there What up Earl [Applause] hey hey hey Yo talk to us man Good
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morning Good day brother Well hey good to good to hear It was just inspiring to
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hear Eric on the on the uh speaking on his wife and uh how she has elevated uh
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his world and my wife has done the same Um you know yeah we we uh kind of like
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Eric uh we kind of met and were friends We we met through school Um and we were
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just friends We graduated Uh we both passed the bar Um and uh we just stayed
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connected and um you know I was kind of at a crossroads in my life I was actually living in San Francisco and
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just kind of the hustle and bustle of the city was kind of getting to me and she just had an opportunity to move us
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out to Sacramento and uh we were just dating at the time But you know uh I
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saw how she really brought me to be my better self And so I kind of just
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latched on and uh Wow nine years later we've been married We have a kid We have
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a home in Sacramento And uh life is lovely That's dope man Man Errol that's beautiful Where' y'all graduate what
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school you went to uc Davis UC Davis What high school you went to
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uh I went to Santa Fe High School Oh me too I know you did I know you did Eric Did
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you go to school with him santa Fe High Chieftains I went to school with him and
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uh we played on the same basketball team together Um we may have gone skateboarding on occasion together Wow
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And um you know it's it's f coming full circle Um what was your number Earl wow
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What was your what position you played on the team um they were foolish enough to put a
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Filipino man at center Um but you know I was scrappy I was scrappy Wow Wow
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Man that's crazy Small world bro That's beautiful And you know um I'm I've been
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listening to the show for six years It's my first time calling and my wife was the one that encouraged me to call He
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said "Maybe you should just say hi to Eric and uh make sure that uh he knows that you you know we're very proud of
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you man." Wow Very proud of you Eric Earl man you all right with us for real
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man Yeah man You got me fighting tears in trying to like be cool man Cry It's
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okay And everybody called And everybody called you Errol in school as well
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Errol Oh Errol Errol Yeah Arrol This is my dog Yeah Yeah we was Yeah we switched
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over to Arrol Arrol of course man A I
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thought you was black at first cuz we were same complexions when I first
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Hey but no this is my dog Wow This is my dog You remember of course Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah No like 100% Like
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basketball everything I remember skateboarding Yep Skateboarding cuz we was in the same like neighborhood and
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everything I had a rant back in the day Hey that's fire day I remember That's so
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dope I really do dog Like wow Yeah Like that's He used to hype us up He used to
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call us He used to sing us up uh before pregame He get us hype He would sing and
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it was We still talk about him man We still talk about it Like man look at this guy Yeah Yeah No I remember so
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vividly bro The yellow jersey with the black shorts bro What type of attorney are you Errol
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uh I do employment law So I take care of uh uh companies that uh need services uh
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to support their human resources Got it Okay Amazing Smart too Wow And his wife
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is an attorney Yeah man And his wife encouraged him to call Shout out to the
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wise saying cuz I'm feeling like different than I felt on any interview right now Like this is what I do This is
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what like I live and it's not been the popular vote when I was on it You feel
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me like of course now it's lovely to see everyone you know in love and but I'm
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telling you it was like why are you getting in a relationship it was like crazy he was frowned upon to the point
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where I had to consciously make a decision like it's either me and my
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family um or me trying to chase this you know what I'm saying system
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rabbit hole And I'm just happy that you know what I mean doing what I felt in my
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heart you know is panning out in hindsight to be exactly what I was
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supposed to do Thank y'all for this confirmation Yeah brother Man thank you Hey man Thank you man I promise you I
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was gonna go in a whole another direction And shout out to Toby and I as well cuz he's another one who is just
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always always always being an example of that as well I'm loving Toby Toby goes
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hard He take the Toby and fat Yo love to y'all Kids are performing now That's
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crazy I've seen his daughter per doing a Michael Jackson routine Earl what's your
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wife's name if you don't mind rachel Rachel's 100 bro Shout out to you
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Rachel Come on man You're a super citizen Earl Get get Eric's new project brother Player special Yep All right
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Love Errol to you and Rachel Y'all are citizens of SW in the morning Wow man That's a man Hold on Why you over there
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crying a man I want one man I want one of what he got
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now man I keep telling you I mean he's a little picky Well he's a lot of picky and rightfully so I don't know if I'm
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picky I'm just vintage now You know you've been around so long Nah man Hey
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I'm telling you it's it's really people out there that want it It's really
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people out there that would love to do it but the mind of our culture is
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tainted It's bad You know what I mean and I think it started off with you know
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maybe I don't know the men or the women but whatever it is it's like people it's like it got worse and worse as people
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tried to do their getbacks you know what I mean and women became so independent and then men you know was kind of like
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on the outside looking in and then men women you know was venting to the home girls and then it was like "Fuck it I'm
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just be a juke." You know what I mean and then fellas was just like "Yo where does that leave me?" and you got you know so many different
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situations just unraveling like from what it was originally intended to be
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You know what I mean so I was just like yo no matter what I'm going stay deeply rooted in the foundation what I know is
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true and nothing is ever going to waver that And regardless of what happens as long as I'm good and I'm I'm feeling
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like you know what I mean like the positivity cuz I've tried the whole thing I've done it all done the the
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let's have some you know what I mean like beef with this artist let's do this or let's but it's like yo don't nothing
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make me feel like a winner but actually doing the things um that
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winners do on the inside on the inside You have no idea how aligned with the
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conversation we've been having all morning Yep That you are today Leaning on positivity Yeah Understanding that
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the wind comes from what did the caller say from your skin in Yep From your skin and in From your skin and in bro The
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exterior the external uh perception of the people Yeah You can't you'll never
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even feel you'll never feel anything from that Mhm what they think cuz you're
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not them You you physically cannot feel what someone else thinks So it's like you might as well tap in to instead of
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being a people pleaser be a self-pleaser Be a selfleaser Eric Bellinger is here
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The new album is all makes it'll all make sense later You cannot talk to us today unless you go get this album and
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listen to this album Dex Dex you're in Oakland my hometown Dex what up Dex dax
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come on Dax what's good what's up with it what's up Dax shout out my wife
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Come on Go ahead Go ahead Do your thing Dax let me get out the way man Oh yeah Yeah Go ahead Dax
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Yeah So my my wife she uh Dr B man she's a head of school at Lowe'sar right
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outside of Sbrandy Park Yeah So uh she just elevated my life uh by setting
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example you know She she didn't have a a good upbringing wasn't treated right didn't have her parents but that didn't
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like change her heart She had every reason to be That's good Just a cold person That's good And that like
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motivated me to not hold graduates and not let people affect me Um she graduated college uh got her masters
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then went and got her doctor from USC all while having two kids with me plus we got three other kids Mhm And then um
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in return you know I started my own business in 2020 and I ain't have to work for nobody since And um I never
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imagined my life being the way it is now as a kid you know growing up in the town You know you don't think things are
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attainable to you and I've obtained everything I wanted and more And um I mean my kid my oldest son about to
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graduate from Bishop Odow uh going house and um all my kids in private school cuz
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everybody flourishing and still while owning my house in Oakland So you know
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telling you we fighting tears in here Yo bro Hey because Brandy Park first of all growing up in Oakland in the in the 70s
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well in 70s and the 80s was a very challenging environment to grow up in
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Right And I get what you mean Dax you feel like you don't you're not going to be able to obtain the same things you
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see h people you consider to be happy have you know uh two parent household to
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own a house Damian Lillard is from that area so brown so Brandy Park he does something every year that I've been to
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where he gives back um backpacks and everything okay I didn't know the area but I've seen the videos yeah and your
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kid graduated from Bishop Odal he graduate uh next month from Bishop
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Odal and to be able to go to Bishop Odal Wow that's a step up Okay Right And so
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to come from Sbrandy Park which is a beautiful place but you know it's the psychological challenges and you know
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the environmental challenges man I'm super proud of you Dex you know because
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you like like what Eric was saying like we got to change this narrative bro Mindset that whole mindset And so Dr B
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salute to Dr B Doctor Doctor got you a doctor That's some respect on her man
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Come on Hey Yeah man She Hey you got to get somebody smarter man Yeah Get somebody smarter than you man Learn
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something in every conversation Hey man You You'll be smart when she
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walk in today and you got this album It'll all make sense later Listen you playing special is good Hey hey hey
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Promise me you going to do that Dex Come on Dex I'm I'm defin one more thing Uh one more thing
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Yeah Yeah I when I used to work in healthcare man I had to commute from uh Valleo all the way to Palo Ala So I used
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to listen to you guys but um now that on my business I don't commute no more Wow But uh something told me to uh start
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listening again Man y'all always got positive vibes And um like I appreciate you getting me through my hard mornings
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three-hour commute each way Wow And um now I'm just you know driving 15 minutes
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take the kids to school check on my clients and go back to the house So yeah I appreciate y'all Man appreciate you
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Dex Man I'mma be in the town the next couple of weeks man I probably I probably I like walking over in that
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Sranny area sometimes I do LL CoolJ did a tour maybe a year and a half ago where
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he was going to every burrow in New York City and just doing video clips just I think it was just to get him grounded
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for his that new album that he had put out I do that anyway when I go to the town I go to different neighborhoods and
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just walk around just like to walk the blocks and just get that grounding man You'll see me Dex All right Yes sir Yeah
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man Go to Go to Lowar Lowar Lowar Okay And I'mma ask for Dr B All right brother
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You're a super serious way in the morning Come on Look at Eric Bellinger man This turned into something different
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I don't know what just happened here They said he had something else planned Hey man we pushing P positivity That's
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we go I ain't mad at you man You just wrapped up um you just wrapped up a US tour Yes sir Just wrapped up a tour Big
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big big vibes man This is the um most different tour that I've ever been able
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to do because of the new album you know having all these afro songs I had to get
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the dancers I had to get on my coro I had to get on the You're dancing yeah man Like turned it up Now the whole show
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is like it's just a different show It's an elevation It's entertainment And just
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like that boom rebooked We outside week Next week Congratulations man Mar you
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and Mario doing something too yes Me and Mario going on tour man Overseas starting off in Ireland Double I love
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Mario Yo Mario Kaio Ka can you pull up that Mario um sweeper we got
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And I want to play that for Eric Is that possible Ka yeah I think it's possible
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Give me a second Give me a second Ka is our first ever producer woman female
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producer on the Sway in the morning show Like it's not a lot of female producers in the game Yeah But it is here It is
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here man He's a smart man Okay You got that Ka
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smart man We'll see We still working over here We still working We still working Okay take your time Ka Because we got a lot of callers too Um Mario the
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reason why I want to play this is because I've been seeing this conversation which is a fun conversation about the Mount Rushmore of R&B artists
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right and you know it's all arbitrary right we all got our own Mount Rushmore
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you know Um out of the ones you worked with Y Who's your Mount Rushmore nah for
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sure Mario is in there He's in there for sure It's effortless with him Usher
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Chris Brown Tank Bonk Bam Yeah Usher
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Chris Brown Mario and Tank So this is interesting because I didn't know what I was seeing I was seeing like these memes
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and these different like faces at like the Mount Rushmore but I didn't know what was going on about it Do you think
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the criteria is different in um R&B than it is hip-hop because they're always the
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greatest these lists that come out but for R&B a lot more of the artists don't necessarily write their songs you know
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Um but in hip-hop to me that should automatically be a criteria to even
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begin to make the list Um but for R&B what what do you think some of the things should be absolute in terms of
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that Mount Rushmore i think the you have to say it Commercial
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success I think it's important because it's like but are you touching people you know
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what I mean so you know those guys I think they all have different abilities
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You know what I mean like Tank don't look like Usher on stage Usher don't look like you know what I'm saying mario
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on stage Mario don't look like Chris Brown because they they all doing their own thing And I just think it's at the
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highest level um when it comes to connecting you know what I mean and
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their gifts as well Like Tank may be singing you know uh more and he may be
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producing more and riding more you know what I mean but then you got Chris Brown who's going to be dancing more who's
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going to be you know flying through the air more you know what I mean then you got Mario who's going to stop the beat
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and sing a capella and give you more And you know all of these songs are classics
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All of these songs are hits and they're undeniable um when it comes to everybody just
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agreeing in what I'm saying for them How much do you think then R Kelly was an influence i know people don't talk about
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him because of the personal issues and and rightfully so but I think if you're talking about all of those things that
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you mentioned how much would you say he was an influence on all of those artists i think all of them I'm just talking
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about competing currently Currently Yeah You know saying but if you talking about like what you saying as far as writing I would switch my list to Neo Babyface R
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Kelly and Eric Bellinger Put you better put yourself on that list man I know
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that guy too And it's true I'm not even real I put myself where I belong
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Like like now if we creating if we writing Mhm You know what I mean like I'm actually writing Neil baby face Neo
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is doing the same Baby Face is doing the same R Kelly the same You know even um
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Neo too Eric Bellinger Yo play that Mario drop for me I think Neo wrote You Should Let Me Love You for Mario Exactly
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That's what I'm saying You got to say Neo too Look what I had him do live on the air bro I know We going to see what
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happens Mario's here Yeah Got to take this back off Making me
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muff [Music] Listen to this Eric Listen to his voice
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I just want you to open up your mind I just want you to open up Your heart is
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getting real out here It's too real out
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here I lost some good ones I missed those good days Yeah
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Yeah Freestyle No sway Every day is the only way You got to really hear what I
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say [Music]
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Watch the shadows baby Talk to him Mario Talk to him
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Yeah man We only want the best for you Got the best for you The haters A We
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ain't got time for the rest of you haters Stand up Baltimore
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Be more in the building We just need y'all to feel it
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[Music] We got to come together on this one Mario Come on baby Yeah All right So I
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have to pull my I noticed I didn't hear Sway in the backgrounds Okay You have to
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listen You'll miss something Yo I normally sing I try I try to sing Eric
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but you see what I'm saying like come on I backed out for that one Bro man he sound good Yeah Yo you know what db you
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there right here sir Hey did you send John a beat here in New in LA yeah I
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sent him uh made cooked up some little R&B stuff that I thought Eric might be able to uh bless for us today Maybe give
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us one of those uh Sway in the morning sweepers if you feel so inclined Did you do that DB
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what we got going what we got going sway playing Is this a freestyle kind of sip let him sip some You got something John
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let's see what happens here man Oh okay Let's see what DB did with it It's
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original A DB original It's a original DB Sweet in the morning Eric Bellinger
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[Music] Okay Oh I could spit on
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anything Yeah That's why I deserve a wedding
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ring Yeah I could lick on everything
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baby Yeah Oh won't forget about anything
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N we talking about some [ __ ] on the [Music]
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radio I'm telling
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you [Music] everything better better
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[Music] gets
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everything better when you're doing it
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together Yeah Damn man Tell them sway in the morning Come on
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Hey talk to them man Let them know where they at man Hey Yeah man Have to be up
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in here too man Hey Hey hey you waking up [Music]
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with a good
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day Waking up the crack said it's a good
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morning when you're waking up with Bet
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Come on West Come on Come on Hey Eric Bellinger man Wow Wow
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Man you said Westside DB Westside Hell yeah
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Anointed man That voice man You put me like right in a pew at church I know you
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were was singing about a particular thing but that spirit just dropped down and hit you and it just it was amazing
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Wow Thank you man So calming Gosh man I mean I I had all kind of crying Swear
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you over there Get it together Get that out of all Yes sir Get it together A
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whole another direction Get it together N man if I'm crying it's tears of joy
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man Confirmation man You You're special brother Thank you man Keep going man You
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got an ally in us homie You're part of your disciples brother Thank you It means I mean it means everything to be
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honorable citizen Oh man There you go Eric Eric Bellinger And on that note
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it'll make sense later man I'm telling you it all makes sense I'm cooking up today I think I'mma do some snapper Oh
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man Yeah man Yeah Some snapper some finally get in the gym this year
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man Look at the music is doing better What you going to do Lonnie like what
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you going to do i'm with you I'm with you Here in the gym You going to write a song or something
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DB what you going to do eric got us in the mood got a feeling away What you going to do with it hey man I'mma continue making hot beats so we can have
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guests like Eric spit some fire over it Yes man Yo this dude done had spit over
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your beats bro Uh Common uh Tash Smith and Wesson Uh we just had Randall Park
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yesterday Uh I think I might be missing someone but those those are some of the big ones that have uh rhymed so far Now
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this one right here man you going Hey that's hard Yeah you like that beat That was all right Yeah that was hard I was like "Where should I take it?" I can
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spit on anything Yes he did Like hey come on man You got to follow me I had
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to back up It was a manifestation from jump Hey I had to back up off that one
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Come on Yo E man Love having you here brother Thank you Thank you Thank you
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man Salute to your your partner too Please send our cards man Yes And the kids And the kids man Well this
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conversation went somewhere else but man look for this man on tour Yes Right Um
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BET Awards Yes Oh yeah He's going to be doing some stuff Swing him on the garage
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series Yo we just I just took him to the garage I showed him the That's why I was late coming up at the mix We was down
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there Okay We was down there playing Yeah Yeah I done already requested a date and everything Let's go I'm I'm so
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excited Yeah Yeah Got the date Got the date Well that part Yeah Yeah We going
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We going Yeah we going Can't do everything together Pass it on to J1 You already know man Yo
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um Eric thank you for coming through today brother It's amazing Congratulations on the project Thank you Anything you want want to say to folks
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before you cut man ah just thank you people listening you know what I mean
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you know hearing my brother Arrow to to know that somebody from over 20 years ago is proud of me you know what I mean
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just just I hope that motivates y'all to to just keep going You never know who's watching You never know who's listening
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And you know as long as you're doing it for you it's already a victory There you go man
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