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Live and Let Fly 🎤 The Musalini & DJ Fresh Talk New Album! | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
May 24, 2025
Get ready for an exclusive interview on *Sway In The Morning*! 🎤 The Musalini & DJ Fresh stop by to discuss their highly anticipated collaborative album, “Live And Let Fly,” dropping this Friday on DSPs. Representing both East and West Coast vibes, this duo blends unique styles, storytelling, and smooth beats to create a groundbreaking project you don’t want to miss. In this conversation, The Musalini reflects on his journey from Washington Heights to working with legends like 9th Wonder and Pete Rock, while DJ Fresh shares his evolution from DJing battles to producing for major artists like Nas, Larry June, and Mazi. Learn how their paths crossed, the creative process behind the album, and the deeper meaning behind “Live And Let Fly,” inspired by James Bond and hip-hop classics. From real talk about overcoming distractions to the importance of building a female fanbase, this episode is packed with gems for music lovers and aspiring artists alike. Plus, hear exclusive stories about working with icons, crafting beats on analog tape, and staying true to the grind. Don’t miss the live freestyle and insights from these talented creators! Hit that subscribe button for more exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes content on Sway’s Universe. 🎶✨ #LiveAndLetFly #Mussolini #DJFresh #SwayInTheMorning #HipHop #SwaysUniverse #ExclusiveInterviews #remix #live #mussolini #dnb #djfreshhowlovebegins #themusalini #mussolini #50cent #interview CHAPTERS: 00:49 - Musalini’s Persistence and Co-Signs 04:21 - Crisis In LA on Collaborating with Mussolini 06:36 - Super Citizen B from Denver 08:38 - DJ Fresh's Journey as a DJ & Producer 13:16 - DJ Fresh on His First Album ‘The Tonight Show with Mistah F.A.B’ 14:53 - Early Collaborations: DJ Fresh & Larry June 16:55 - DJ Fresh Plays Nas His Beats for the First Time
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[Applause] come on man that boy he's something different right there have the BK judge a book by his cover you hear his style
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his flavor right there that was the Mussolini right there appciate that on the radar uh shout out to them boys the
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men those those giants over there on the radar i love what they're doing salute to them give them a big round of
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applause come on man special guest today we celebrating the album Live and Let
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Fly that's out Friday mussolini is here representing East
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Coast right now facts facts we outside money it's an honor to be here man for
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real come on man this man been putting in work for quite some time heather B um
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and something he's different man we'll get into the difference man he sound He's from New You from New York born and
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raised man it's crazy you said like I got that I got love for the West like I'm real influenced by what they do and
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they culture you feel me like my big bro Planet Asia when he first met me he's like "Yo you remind me of like the East
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Coast Snoop Dog is what he told me." I was like "Oh that's crazy." You feel me so how many years ago was that i was like 2 years ago when I first started
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getting like real active with this [ __ ] but you've been at it for how long forever so I've been writing since high
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school and [ __ ] you know what I mean but like it it all just started coming together like these last I would say
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four four like you know four or three years has been coming together in a major way you feel me what made you stick to it because since high school
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from high school to now is a long time what What made you go "Okay I can't let this go i I can't give up." [ __ ] i I had
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tunnel vision from the jump and like it's like I what I bring to the game I feel is special like is unique you feel
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me so I mean you know I just stuck to it the legends started like taking notice to me people I respected that I was once
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a fan of started like showing me love i was like "Yo that [ __ ] just motivated me to keep going." You feel me planet Age
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is on your album right yeah he's on this album that's the big bro man that's one of the the OGs also that took a liking
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to me and just took me kind of under the wing and he been like any door any opportunity um Planet could could
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squeeze me in and give me a look he official that's why I [ __ ] with homie you feel me man I'm going to do this a little different Heather B but go ahead
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jump yeah I was going to ask you i mean a legend is a legend period when you don't want to but what was the most
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surprising when you was like "Oh my gosh wow I just heard from so and so today or shit." I mean the two most biggest I
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would say is like Ninth Wonder and Pete Rockck you feel me like Yeah absolutely yeah like I'm I'm Ninth Wonders artist like you feel me like he found me shout
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out to Knife all the way from North Carolina he found me out here and he just took me under the wing and then the
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the second biggest cosign was like getting to rap with Pete Rock like you I'm a I'm a new cat in this [ __ ] for me
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to have a Pete Rock verse and it was produced by Ninth and he gave me the blessing to um remix Carmel City which
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is like one of Pete Rock's most legendary songs with CL Smooth and [ __ ] so yeah man that [ __ ] was motivational
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congratulations absolutely melini where you get your name from [ __ ] man i mean I used to go by basic the general man
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people was like you too you you like you a fly cat like you you shouldn't call yourself basic so I like I heard
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Mussolini was always in the cut it was always in the back of my head so I was like you know what I mean let me let me snatch that ain't nobody was using it
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and I reinvented myself and ever since I did that everybody now everybody call me Moose to be honest now so yeah everybody
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like "Yo Moose what up Moose?" Like you feel me so Okay but all right what do you know about Mousolini man i know a
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lot man i know a lot man but you know I'm trying to put like a positive spin on it you feel me i'm like I'm doing my
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own thing you feel me i'm You know I know what you're talking about though you feel me well you know rap we we
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sometimes we take on monikers of people who did some horrible things depending on who you ask your names have power
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right so I'm just curious to that one that's all i'm not saying I just like I just kind of really liked
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how it sound you feel me i was like Mussolini I thought it sounded fly you feel me almost like when Pac had Maveli
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he used to be he that was his aka like yo Mac and that was my aka Mousolini back in so I just made it my my thing
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you feel me okay and it just people gravitated to it now it's like you know Moose Dawn my man Moose is here y'all
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come on sway in the morning with Heather B tracy G man yo it's hard to believe I'm here
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i'm looking at Hela B i'm looking at Sway i'm like this is crazy she in a good mood today so you lucked out all
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right thank you okay we got other guests here but man these phones lit up when you touch the mic so Crisis in LA is on
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the line what up Crisis crisis what up yo yo yo what up what up what up man talk to us what up Crisis man you know
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what it is man hey man moose what's money money what's going on man man
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nothing much man just finishing up these last minutes touches on this record we got going bro yeah that's my brother Crisis out there man i mean he he he a
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dope producer in LA and [ __ ] we got a project coming out too this year man look out for my boy man okay hey Crisis
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um where you from you from LA right no I'm from North Carolina man me and Moose
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you know what I'm saying i came up uh yeah I came up with Ninth Wonder Man i was down there you know I was I was rocking with them back in the Justice
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League brother days man and then um Soul Council one day yes soul Council you
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know what I'm saying with my brother Ninth KN uh hey Crisis did I meet you at the uh Did I Yes at the studio right at
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no the Mad Live show the Mad Live show okay my man Crisis give it up for the
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one I hosted yeah yeah with Lonnie Light lonnie Light was there yeah Bloody Light was there wild Child
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okay yeah shout out to Soundtrack he's also a member of the Soul Council as well damn that Soul Council is probably
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one of the illst collective of producers and creatives man Sway tapped in for real for real it is man been that way
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for a minute though yeah crisis know i know hey Crisis thanks for calling in man what makes
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Mussolini so special what makes Moose special to you bro to me man he's like a
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supernatural talent man like you know what I'm saying he just get in the booth man and we just work man it's almost
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like we just we just we just breathe records out when we get in there man you know what I'm saying and you know it's
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just natural bro like you know what I'm saying you know some cats man they get in and you know they got to like you know get into this super zen mode and
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all of this stuff and they have like whole rituals it's none of that man we go get some food you know what I'm saying we light one up and records just
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start pouring out matter of fact man we got another project our second project is coming it's called Pureism 2 that'll
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be out in the fall so yeah y'all out here working man i love that man give Crisis a round of applause man we'll
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cross paths brother you're a super citizen man that's way in the morning b is in Denver Colorado what up B yeah B
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what's good Money hey hey Money what's good
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what's good y'all i'm a hip-hop head so Moose has definitely become one of my favorite artists for sure what you like
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about Moose what's a standout song for you all of them uh Cat Daddy one of my
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favorites um I think he definitely relates to you know just being out in
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the streets dating and all that uh he got the best beats best flow
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something catchy every song is catchy that's what's up b know what's up be tuned in to our show she a citizen b got
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it be's a hip hop head so say absolutely yeah b says it's real it's real co shout
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out to B man shout out to the Colorado hey B yeah Colorado loves him out here
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okay make sure you follow him tag us on it and he'll start following you right
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oh we already we already logged in appreciate you he's going to get the recognition he needs with this uh this
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DJ Fresh album dropping this Friday so he's up next for sure let live and let fly thank you man we appreciate you
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being a super citizen that's way in the morning girl speaking of DJ Fresh hey ladies and gentlemen one of the greatest
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creators to come out of Northern California even though he wasn't born there he is there he's from there when
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you look at him he reeks of town business he's teamed up with the
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legendary the Jack of Rest and Power give him a round of applause come on man his litany of artists is so varied
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whether it be from Isaiah Rashad to Raycoin to Larry June to Whiz Khalifa I
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mean the list goes on and currency uh the list goes on and on and on and I I
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just want to say man he's somebody I'm known for trader Truth he's someone I've known for a long time
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and I just want to say Mazy that that I'm just thinking of all the
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different people you work with yeah his brother is my brother DJ Dummy i want to welcome him to the show man give it up
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for the legendary DJ Fresh man thank you man legendary status man thank you for
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those words of power in life man well you done a lot man um what working with
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Yuckmouth and and and different people u with the Tonight Show series you brought a lot of people jay Stalin a lot of Bay
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Area Oh thank you man heather wouldn't have did that thank you got a a lot of Bay Area artists that folks wouldn't
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know otherwise you know you brought them to to the forefront but and what but
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what is your beginnings i mentioned DJ Dummy what talk about that well my beginning started with my pops my pops
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was a DJ okay and um you know he had the Jerry Curl you know back in the day like we all listened to music records my
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family was one of the families that kept all the records you know what I mean and so I got the story of like going down to
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the basement my cousins they were DJing and I would go down there in the basement way past bedtime and I would
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start learning how to DJ i'm 9 years old learning how to DJ i'm I'm uh it's 1991
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at the time uhhuh and that's when my journey began just um learning how to just DJ records and just you know what I
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mean and uh when I turned about 15 I started I started entering uh DJ battles
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in Virginia uh Zulu Nation battles you know what I mean and um I started I started I started winning and I'm so
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young at the time you know what I mean i'm I'm I'm I'm I'm using records to
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make the record speak and I'm talking big [ __ ] you know what I mean to grown men you know what I mean and um that's
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where I started i was just telling Adam Perfect Time Music i was telling him like you know back in the day we didn't
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have YouTube it wasn't no internet so if you weren't there you might have just heard about it or if it wasn't on a VHS
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VHS tape then you know what I mean so I started from that from you know two
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turntables and and a mixer how did that help inform you as a producer see I
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think people who started off as DJs had to dig in the crates find certain music from the 70s or even the late60s learn
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how to sample learn how to sample and key you know all of those all that that
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whole process helped you as a producer yeah absolutely and um yeah because even when I make beats now like I'm always
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trying to like keep the attention of the listener you know what I mean and um you know so just um from that time I moved
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to I transitioned to uh production because like I had placed third best DJ
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in the whole uh United States in the ITF actually out here in New York at the time in International Turntable
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Federation i hosted one of their first events in Hawaii back in the late '9s go
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ahead i'm sorry go ahead yeah yep you know what I mean moose he going to show off other people's
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conversations moose you see what he doing trying to give cont hey hey but but it's all based on
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the true story and inspired by actual events so you know what I mean so uh but that's where I started with with that on
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third in the nation then I went on tour with Nas i did uh Stillmatic with Nas and I also did um God's Son with Nas and
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what happened was I started to know like so when when I wasn't on tour it was
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like "All right what am I going to do now?" You know what I mean so I was working at a uh a clothing store in San
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Jose called Elements Boutique yeah right and um you know I'm just trying to just like figure out how I'm going to get you
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know make some money and when I'm not on tour and then I discovered production cuz I'm hearing samples like "Oh okay
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this is where they got this from this is where they got that from." So I had got a EPS 16 plus you know what I'm saying
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in Sonic um uh the EPS16 is what Rizza used to make 36 Chambers which was the
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first version i had the next one was the EPS-16 Plus and the one after that was called the ASR10 that most people know a
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lot but I had the middle one anyways so I started making my beats and that was around I want to say
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1999 1998 you know what I mean and then I here here come me learning the independent game and pressing up the own
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CDs and pressing up tapes and going to TRC distribution in the bay and city hall distribution in the bay and just
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learning that and selling it out the trunk you know what I mean i'm I'm still in high school at the time mhm you know what I mean and so I got into that's
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when I started like going into production and then yeah I dropped my first production CD like around 2001 it
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was called Searching for Mr green it just had like like like in basic instrumentals on there like pause tape
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style instrumental this is old school right and that's where my journey began maybe six years later I came up with the
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first Tonight Show with Mr fab mr fab give it up for FAB what's on that um
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who else you had on that was Jack on that one jack went on the first Oh the Tonight Show period yeah oh yeah i done
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had everybody on that i got 200 of them you know what I mean i got two I got 200 albums to this day i had 200 albums i
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got over You got 200 albums you done yeah yeah instrumental albums how many
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instrumentals uh maybe like 30 or 40 of those wow yeah yeah yeah yeah so So do
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all of those albums monetize absolutely yeah yeah yeah the long way is a shortcut okay break that down it just
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means that like you know like if you just keep working for it it'll keep working for you over time you know what
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I mean you know that I I was just telling again I was just telling Adam like I remember listening to Sway on the 10:00 bomb you know what I'm saying on
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the 10:00 bomb and y'all need the context for that one y'all know the wake up show the 10:00 bomb was something
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different though that was Monday through Thursday we two hours 10:00 p.m to 12
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midnight and I'm breaking all kind of artists then you remember them days huh moose don't know this man keep talking
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fresh keep talking fresh i told you Moose he was going to keep sliding backies in somebody else conversation
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but the 10:00 bomb was a great show though yeah and I'm just saying like but that look how long ago that was even
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your progression like and you still moving and kicking and just doing every you know what I mean like so the long way is the shortcut like I'm trying to
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do this for the long I'm going to do this for the long haul until I can't breathe no more you know what I mean so
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that's what I mean you're going to like this man dj Fresher is here you've had a chance to work with such an array of
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artists like I mentioned everybody from Whiz Khalifa to Raycoin yeah to Jay Stalin to Jacka to Mazi yeah you know
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it's Mussolini you know it's just the there's not one type of artist do these
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artists who was the first artist to come to you for your production oh uh the first one to come to me for uh
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Man that's I would say I would say Jay Stalin uh-huh yeah me and Jay Stalin uh
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but I will say this though Yuckmouth was the first one and not to discredit nobody but like he was the first one to
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be like man this is my album right here okay you know the whole mixtape the mix the term mixtape back in the day it was
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kind of looked at as like oh we just maybe the artist feel like they wasn't taking it as serious as maybe as they
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main album or whatever i always took it like serious as an album though you know what I'm saying but Yuck was the first
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one to be like "Nah this is my album right here." You know what I mean and so that was that was a big moment too and
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then Messy Marv too and the Messi Marv legendary Messi Marv these are names some folks may not know so you got to
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put context behind the Messy Marv you know Messi Marv would be in the conversation as one of the greatest to
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come out of Northern Cali for sure you know and there a lot of people don't know even know who Messi Marv is let's
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let's talk about like Larry June people starting to find out about Larry June past couple of years but you known about
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him for how long oh man since he was young June yeah you know what I mean but again the long way is the shortcut but
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what was he like then oh he was you know he he's finding his way you know what I mean finding his way and and he he you
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know I'm so proud of I'm so proud of him i'm proud of everybody that's from the soil that's that's doing it you know what I mean but yeah he just his
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progression is just like you know just kept going kept going you know if you from the bay you just going to keep going anyways because ain't nobody
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coming to coming to us like that we got to make a way and then create the lane and then then they come you know what I
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mean so tell me about the first time you played Nas Beats okay
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so my first first beats right oh man um we were I want to say like Las Vegas or
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something this is my And this is my early days too like this is my early days this is me like I know this tour is
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going to end and like let me try to get some beats tonight you know what I'm saying let me try to play up some beats
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so we didn't actually do anything but you know I'll put the headphones on and just him like rocking to my beat like
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that was enough motivation for me to be like man this is crazy this is you know what I'm saying one of the best doing it
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and I'm again I'm like 18 19 years old you feel me i'll be 44 November 2nd you
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know what I'm saying so man wow that just just to hear him nod and and turn
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down even even though he turned down your beats he rocked to it yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah he would he would just be like "Man just keep making them
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just keep making them just keep just keep making them i don't want any but keep making them why you rubbing i'm not
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rubbing it in talk to your man yes it is man it's still a moment." Yeah
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yeah yeah and also too I want to add that uh uh I did um there's a song by uh
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Don Toiver named uh No Pole that just went diamond oh [ __ ] he just came back
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at me yeah see I like how you do it tap him tap him [ __ ] yeah pop your
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collar fix your collo i see how you did that yeah yeah
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when diamond me and Cardo Me and Cardo did that you know what I mean and so Congratulations yeah yeah yeah diamond
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that's the 10 million bro yep yep that's beautiful here here's a note fresh that I picked up that you said you were
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working um at a clothing store while you were trying to figure it out for all the artists that's listening now and
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producers uh would you encourage that because a lot of times people feel like this is all or nothing i'm in this music
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thing but you still have to pay bills and do what you have to do maybe people have kids what would you say to that uh
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yeah do what you got to do and I I was I was DJing in the store though so I was I I like my my last regular job was I was
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I did I did cleaners and I worked at like a sandwich sandwich by like 15 and
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I just never went back one day you know what I'm saying but absolutely like you know do what you got do what you got to
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do you know what I mean do what you got to do and I would say cut out all distractions and strengthen your
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discipline you know what I mean cuz laziness is always right there waiting on us like gravity you know what I mean
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what kind of distractions though would you say for people who are on the come up what they may not we say let go of
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the distractions but we're in a position where people think we made it but when you you're not in a spotlight on the
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come up what would you consider distractions who's jumping there too i would say I would say I would say lead
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the ladies alone if you're a young fella lead the ladies alone i'm not saying don't you know but I'm saying like that
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need to be like number 15 on your list okay you know what I mean of 10 yeah
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yeah make it 15 that need to be the number that need to be last like you got to really like we know we got like what
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what we get back what we put forth so like you really got to have a foot on your foot on the gas and because this is
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a long it take a long time to to achieve to win so women tend to or just dating
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tends to take people out of their course yeah i would I would just Yeah just like man just leave it just leave it alone
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man i mean I'm not saying don't see it don't see them at all but it's like it's guys out there that's like they they just really just like not focused but
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like you know they want these like astronomical success but doing the most minimal effort to get there that's crazy
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moose what would you add to that [ __ ] i say sacrifices man like you got to ask yourself every day how bad you want it
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you feel me like if you don't want it then go you know go go go do something else but if you believe in yourself I
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feel like man you got to go hard you feel me cuz ain't nobody going to believe in you more than you you feel me you got to block out the distractions
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the haters you feel me you got to figure it out you feel me and also so I want to add like in this time in 2025 like I say
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this like if you're not out here winning right or at least going in the direction
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of winning you just don't want to win because all these tools that we have we've never been able to have at all in
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history like we literally have everything in the palm of our hand with the technology and the tools that we have today you know you just got to just
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stay the course stay focused and so if you're not winning you just simply just don't want to win
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man we got DJ Fresh is here mussolini is here michelle's on the line go ahead Michelle what you like to say what up
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Michelle what up i'm here with my girls we love you
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Mussolini thank you thank you thank you what the hell is that they showing love
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sweat oh okay money i appreciate y' money michelle it don't work for you i
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believe in you thank you thank you i appreciate y'all money
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you saying it like you got it yeah she hung up yeah rich man money i said it
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like it's annoying me money like who's asking now like said it like he full
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already you know what I'm saying damn more more money that's what I need to aggravated he going to get it he going
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to get it thank you man thank you Moose man we going to come back and talk more with DJ Fresh town business Oakland
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representation right here man what is it that I said to you you said I said something to you when When was this and
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what's so uh so this was uh like a little bit after the pandemic when in LA
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in LA um and it's funny because Moose said the same thing that I said when it was my first time coming here he was
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just like "Man I can't believe that I'm actually here." And I said that the last time and what you said to me was the
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words of power that you said you said that it ain't crazy it's destiny
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that's what you said to me because I was like man I was like man it's crazy i was like it's it's crazy even even be here
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you know what I mean and you was like it ain't crazy it's destiny you know what I'm saying and you know again that was
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like those those were words of power to me you know what I mean so we I'm really big on words and the words that we cuz
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we all have a fully automatic weapon in called a mouth you know what I mean the words is the bullets yeah you know what
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I'm saying and so like when people share words of power I always like to share words of power with people words to
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build people up you know what I mean and um those words that you said to me like I always think about that like it ain't
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crazy it's destiny like when you doing the work it'll work for you you know what I mean so DJ Fresh Mussolini shave
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45 yeah man i like that last night that's
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off the project live and let fly we got DJ Fresh in here mussolini is in here
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yes sir you know give these guys a round of applause
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live and let fly reminds me of Live and Let Die
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of the James Bond series right um and and then when I look at the cover it is
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definitely influenced by James Bond why is that there's a deeper meaning okay okay okay talk to him first first of all
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I want to give you I want to give you one of the vinyl thank you man you got DJ French oh look like Yeah look at that man boys got vinyl man come on DJ nice
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that's beautiful i got I got turntables me and King Tech keep turntables dj Revolution you know my son right you
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know my crew all right go ahead okay so there's a deeper meaning um so Live and
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Let Okay so uh Coogi Rap and DJ Paul have an album called Live and Let Die
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that's right i was going to get into that too right yes yes and so when me and Moose are making this album I'm like
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"Okay uh that Coogi Rap one of my favorite rappers too." But that particular album Coogi Rap uh and DJ
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Paul Live and Let Die was produced by Sir Jinx who's a West Coast producer
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right ice Cube death certificate all that right and so I'm like "Okay well I'm a West Coast producer he's East
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Coast lyricist let's do that same concept." And when Stella calling it Live and Let Die we going to call it
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Live and Let Fly right cuz he's on some fly [ __ ] you know what I'm saying and so that's how we had came with that and
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then like I was looking at the Living Let Die James Bond cover and it kind of had like the you know the the
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exploitation look but I was like we're going to make eyes kind of be like a black exploitation look and he and Moose's covers are already kind of have
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that look so I was like let's just build on that you know what I mean and so you know we recorded this album on analog
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tape really 2inch reel yeah yeah ampex a stutter okay yeah yep yep all right
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where' you how uh so it start so I'll tell you so so when I did the Tonight
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Show uh so before this album was uh tonight show with uh currency part two and then the encore which I had a
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Mussolini on right and those were the first two albums that I ever recorded on analog tape right and I just like the
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sound and the sonics of it so in San Francisco there's a studio called High Street Studios right and I my guy It's
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on Hide Street huh hyde D y you know what Sway i get it oh yeah not High
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Street that's in the town that's in the town that's like I got it yeah yeah high street man yep and so that's a legendary
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studio like Pac used to do a lot of his music there there a lot of legendary bands recorded there but anyways my guy
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that's there uh his name is Jamon Drew was my cousin and um upstairs there's
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another guy named CVS and he does all the analog he used to do it for like the Beatles so like even when you see him
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like he looked like he's in the Beatles like you know what I mean and so he so I just started sending all the songs to
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him and I just love the sound on analog tape and we also had the album and as well as the spit album master by my guy
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Million-Dollar Snare who mastered Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us which he just got a Grammy for why is that so
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important all these these intricate details you talking about you know analog uh who mix what you know the
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coalition correlation between Coogi Rap DJ Polo Sir Jinx being a West Coast
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producer you being a West Coast producer you know Moose being an East Coast rapper why is all of that so important
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because I guess it's right here man you know what I'm talking about that destiny that destiny that's that
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destiny they ain't mad at it you know I mean I've been wanting to work with DJ Fresh so it's just it all happened at
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the right time [ __ ] you feel me like I reached out to DJ Fresh years ago when he kind of just dubbed me or some [ __ ]
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like you know what I mean i don't want to say dub but he ain't he a he wasn't with it you feel me and then magically
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like like I'm going to let you say but like two three years later he hit me back up and he's like "It was time Moose
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i see you." You feel me so yeah and it was time it was it wasn't that at all like cuz I unders like I remember when I
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wanted to work with certain artists at the time um you know they just didn't they just couldn't work just because of
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the the timing you know what I'm saying and I always took I never took it like uh no no always meant to me just not
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right now yeah and I'm going to just keep working you didn't take it personal yeah yeah yeah yeah and and so when I
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and so when I saw his when I saw the message cuz I reached out to him this this time around like I heard his album
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with Cook and Soul and I was like "Oh this is dope." And then as I'm as I'm messaging him I see that we had talked
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like years ago you know what I'm saying and I always respected him for not having the energy of like oh you ain't
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want to work with me then like like that's a losers energy you know what I'm saying like everybody got a timeline of
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when things are supposed to happen right and so and that's how we reconnected and
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you know here we are today word living fly man this Friday on platforms you
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feel me it's a breath of fresh air you feel me moose since you've been on the air we've had nothing but ladies call
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you kind of lean into a a fan base that is with women you know and you kind of a cleancut type of guy yeah I make music
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for the ladies too i'm like I love the underground i love getting my bars off but you know I'm a I'm a lifestyle
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rapper you feel me so I give people my everyday lifestyle you know i'm really active and attractive out here you feel
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me i'm really I'm really you know what I mean i'm really mashing and making it happen no 10 toes down you feel me like
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yep hell yeah only active and attractive out here but a lot of folks aren't
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considering that like there's a lot of rappers that's rapping for their homies how important is the female fan base i
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hate going to underground rap shows and being just around bunch of dudes all the time like there's few like there's a
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they're applauding in the room man standing ovation right there there's a few artistices I picked up a lot of game
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from and I noticed how when I go to certain shows there's girls there and I'm like "Yo you It's a lane where you
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can still get your bars off talk your fly [ __ ] and still holl at the girls holl at the females man cuz you can
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never I mean as far as me I can never forget about the females." How important though are women to the hip-hop audience
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it's they're super I feel like they it's getting lost in the sauce with a lot of other [ __ ] that's why I like when when
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Fresh linked with me he was like "Nah we gonna keep this [ __ ] player man." And I feel like me my rhyme style over his
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kind of like melodic West Coast production it just blended perfectly you feel me so you know I like it you got to
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fit the part though too yeah like anybody can't just rap to the you know rap no you have there's a look and the
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attitude and the confidence that goes with that i mean I'm sure a lot of male artists want a female audience but you
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It's a lot that goes into that you have to look a certain way i mean sound a certain way and your confidence got to
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be there even last night we had a listening session in New York City and it was a bunch of females that came out
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to listen to the album and usually at like those kind of events they just like lingering around like everybody kind of
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like when we played the album everybody came together and listened to the whole album man it was a vibe you know what we
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got James from New York City he said he was at the listening party last night what up Jay how you doing man yo what's
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going on in the morning family mussolini and DJ F i was there last night that
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party was lit it was great appreciate y flowers again i just want to give y
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flowers again yo that was this album is fire um y this is a great duo in fact is
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he hot on the album too as well yo I can't wait for y'all to drop this album it needs to be Friday now i know it's
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only Wednesday but it needs to be Friday now and I just want just thank you for having me at the party and I was glad I
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was able to even spin at the party for 20 minutes as well that was good too oh you was He DJed the party all right cool
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20 minutes he got 20 minutes he got 20 hey hey listen he got 20 minutes off yeah 20 hey give him up give it up for
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that 20 man come on James what's your DJ name man well [ __ ] i mean I Well I go by
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DJ 007 i have to probably change it but I just always thought of myself as like a smooth DJ with like you know blending
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and you know of course cutting and scratching like smooth stuff and always with the underground hip hop and
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everything i've been doing it for some time i just been like camera shy but after hearing you guys talk and everything and even with Give Me the
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Light from Lonnie yesterday about fear I was going to try and start putting it out there and I'm going try to send the mix to you guys you know one of these
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days send the mix man yo matter of fact hit up Lonnie Light send that mix send it send this weekend all right send it
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over man if it's nice I'll run it all right okay make sure it's nice though all right you'll super citizen over the
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morning um Mazy man how important is Mazy as an artist to the West Coast scene to the
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music scene i ain't even gonna Yeah Mazy i mean I remember so people don't know I did I did uh Okay before he was Mazy his
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name was Lil Tim and so when he transitioned to Mazy um his first album
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as Mazy was the Tonight Show with Mazy yeah and so I did Mazy's first album as Mazy you know what I'm saying and um you
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know just at the time I just was like he's he he's going to be the new king he's going to be one of the new kings s
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uh surging up from you know northern California just California in in general you know what I mean so his progression
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like I'm so proud of him as well you know his truth makes him special like cuz when you listen to music you know
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that's who who's rapping is who who he rapping about he is who he says he is
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you know what I'm saying and um yeah you know he I'm I'm I'm proud of him i'm proud of him the way he's transitioned
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to where he is now and just his his progression from where he started from to now is just is just crazy you know
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what I mean okay cool mussolini you've been waiting for this day man i know you've been waiting for this day man
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let's do it of course it's legendary let's go yes from Washington Heights yes man uptown shout out to the whole Uptown
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New York City man yo if you in the Heights man y'all got a y'all got a new hero right here he been putting it down
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for a second man i appreciate it we got DJ Fresh the one and only Moose Mussolini is in the building man welcome
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to the Valley of the Hyenas let's go baby
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dp uh okay the man using the
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idiots so in the morning listen uh [ __ ] uh yeah on tour bubble baths on the top
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floor players club back on the concourse let the dawn score she came for the encore the guard pure pay me hand in
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hand never compromise the brand watch a player do his dance surfing over avalanche you don't stand a chance we
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working now the catalog perfect no lie I had to level up the fly you still pepper
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dry i'm chilling side she brought a friend just to slide get it right all this ball work got your bra out her
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skirt you call it rhymes is real is a main line made her toes curl private flights out the world brought the
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feeling back ain't no telling what we do with rap portal goats notice with our pens noted could have been a poet till
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I'm pulling up and lotus gave them all money jack Frost yeah I'm golden legendary moments got me feeling like
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I'm next my voice over beats just tend to connect what else me and Fresh we a
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threat what up hey man
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come on i don't like that man 3 in the morning man that was some smooth ass [ __ ] right there man what just happened
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right there man it has to be a whole package you just can't say you for the ladies it's a It's a whole package thing
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coming from Heather B come on i got the coign from Heather you know what it is already she give out two cosigns a year
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bro so you got one don't do that i'm just saying no but Fresh you also
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said something about um that low energy you you spoke about that and uh I think
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that's a distraction as well you know it people can fall into that trap and they don't realize they're surrounding
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themselves with people with low energy oh yeah yeah you know I have a saying that I say uh I say it ain't lonely at
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the top it's peaceful meaning um I don't have don't got nothing to do with money and everything to do with mindset so I
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look at life like climbing a dangerous mountain right figuratively right like living your life every day is like
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climbing a dangerous mountain right mh so once you reach a certain level mindsetwise right I'm not going to do
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anything that's going to have me like going back down this dangerous mountain just so I can climb right back up this dangerous mountain to the level that I'm
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already at right because as you get older it take more energy to get right back to where you once were right so
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yeah low energy is a real thing it's a real thing it's a real thing and and I say that because I think you guys have
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great energy i think this this is a beautiful to see man and congratulations with everything real talk yeah thanks
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for having us man for real for real respect each other and just and just to add on to the energy thing like like I'm
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you know I'm on I'm on the West and he's out here in New York and so it's a three-hour difference so like you know we'll wake up in the like when he wake
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up in the morning we in album mode right and so he at the gym right i'm calling him i hear the clink clink in the
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background like "Oh you at the gym huh?" And I'm like "I'm on my way too." And so like you late you late bro i'm late you
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know what I mean so you know and we you know we so we challenging each other like you know just kind of tapping in with each other on the fitness and all
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that type of stuff too so like cuz it all it's all connected you know you can feel that though for sure yeah and Fresh
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man one thing I like about working with Fresh he gave me concepts he ain't just send me beats and [ __ ] he was like "Yo
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Moose on this beat uh rap about JFK to Lex man some East to West [ __ ] on this
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beat write write about like a double life like girls that live double lives and shit." Or you know what I mean and I
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thought that was dope that [ __ ] added to the you know I mean to the project you feel me word i love it man give it up
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for DJ Fresh Bay Area fighters man much love hey bro you one of those uh
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those unsung heroes from the Bay okay okay you know I I I consider me and tech that too okay man cuz we had put in so
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much work and it was it didn't only up until recently people knew I was from Oakland i feel like that's why I scream
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it so much but our the work we done isn't always acknowledged and that's okay that's not why we did it the work
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you done isn't always acknowledged that's why I wanted to give people example of the array of artists that you
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dealt with over the years and that working on Mazi's first project as Mazy
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working with Jay Stalin who was just a pillar in Northern California jay Stalin
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is the he's the quintessential Northern California artist right look up Northern
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California rapper his face should be right there working with the legendary now Jacka rest in power you know yuck
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mouth all these different people E40 you know all of them manique sneak Larry June come on man
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whiz come on Khalifa Paul Wall oh stop man I mean don't stop but you know what
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I mean all right Moose man congratulations I'm glad we finally got you up brother man I've been I've been
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waiting Sway man I'm like damn I hope Sway tapped in you know how it is as an artist like this this about to just put
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the battery in my back to go even harder harder bro so thank you you feel me absolutely been tapped in homie you know
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just in all in due time it ain't crazy it's destiny yeah yeah yeah yeah come on
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come on man what about those kicks i saw somebody was telling me about those kicks what kicks we We giving away um
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for anybody that pre-orders the album now on iTunes those we got some custommade Air Force ones yeah and um Oh
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those are dope what size are those they they What can I give away the size they
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a 10 and a half and [ __ ] i wear 11 but I can fit it to Wow sway and it's uh it
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represents uh New York City you know what I mean living left fly then he got
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then he fresh got the bay on his side you feel me and um how do you win them but basically you got to pre-order the
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album take a screenshot so we know you pre-order it and um just send it to the email livefly perfecttimemusic.com
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again live fly at perfectg groupoup perfect time perfecttimemusic.com
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ladies do that because that's a dope gift for your your man your dude for Father's Day like that's just some fly
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[ __ ] to do yeah yeah drew let's make this a uh IG clip too this part of it so we can put that up
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and lively at perfecttimemusicgroup.com db you got a question yeah real quick
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cuz Fresh um I'm a big fan of your production like I I just started getting back into prod that was a beat that I played for Mousolini to rap over and so
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I was talking to T torch we have a lot of conversations about like getting out of your own way and um with the output
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that you've had you know 200 albums and that sort of thing has there ever been a moment where you had to get out of not
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the distractions is not what I'm referring to but just like get out of the doubt and sort of like overthinking
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the process and just put the music out and just you know get get it out and just you know be done with it let the public have it yeah is there ever been a
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situation where you or even you Mussolini where it was just like "All right I don't know what to do with this I'm just going to put it out and whatever happens happens." Like has
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there ever been a situation like that yeah my motto was everything must go you know what I mean like if I made it I'm going to just throw it against the wall
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and and see if it stick because it ain't going to do nothing sitting in that damn hard drive yeah sometimes people be like
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"Yo Moose you drop a lot." Like it's hard to keep up or catch up to your catalog but I'm like I I'm like all my
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favorite artists that I listen to they drop a lot and I never complain you feel me so I don't like sitting on music cuz I feel like if you a fan you going to
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want to hear that new [ __ ] anyway so I'mma put it out regardless you feel me like yeah moose you make a living off of
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rap yeah man full time is a blessing man i went from from having 9 to5s hustling
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doing all kind of crazy [ __ ] to now I just wake up and write rhymes and you know what I mean call legends like DJ
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Fresh like "Yo I need some beats fresh what up?" So it's it's a blessing bro and I want to I want to speak on that too because I again I'll be 44 this year
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and I started when I was 9 years old and you know I had a lot of ups and downs on
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this journey to where I'm at but you know it took me over 30 years to get to
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where I'm at right and it's right on time you understand that's why I always say the long way is the shortcut like
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dedicating and this is this goes back to the distractions about people trying to get on but you know dedicating 20 to 30
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years towards something that you say you want to live your life for the rest of your life that's not a long time
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you know what I'm saying you going to spend more time wasting time not being consistent you know what I'm saying and
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so you know 30 years later it's right on time you know what I mean there it is
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right on time right on time dj Fresh people should follow him too cuz he does
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a lot of like live streaming tutorials on his like beat making studio stuff like that can I plug that real quick
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yeah man man y'all check out the sound of DJ Fresh sessions it's Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays at 5:00 p p.m pst
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time i got all my synthes all 20 of my synthesizers in there it's all plugged in nice i just bought a Hammond B3 organ
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a real one from 19 uh 40 something 42 I want to say she's 84 years old i call
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her grandma you know what I'm talking all all the all the synthesizers
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all the sounds that you hear on my albums like you can see me make these beats in real time where's the platform
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uh it's on YouTube it's on YouTube just go to YouTube and just search DJ Fresh DJ Fresh DJ Fresh all together and then
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you'll see it you know what I'm saying y'all tap in y'all subscribe we do we do uh the format is I let the crowd pick
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the samples i do three three beats they pick the samples and I'll make it right there on the spot you know what I'm
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saying what days and time mondays Wednesdays and Fridays at 5:00 p.m pst time so it won't be this week cuz I'm
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out here in New York with Sway and Mussolini and we dropping the album in less than 48 hours and with Heather B
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right there too you know what I'm talking about but hold on though man you know what I'm saying but Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays the sound of DJ
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Fresh sessions it's on YouTube 5:00 p.m psc time just search DJ Fresh DJ Fresh DJ Fresh and I'll give you a shout out
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you know what I'm saying it's love up in there and it's a beautiful thing dj Fresh three times Heather i don't know if you counted that all right um man
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listen moose thank you man thank you you're very welcome man congratulations
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i'm just hyped man welcome to the show we got a hyena up in here come on man
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give it up for Melini give it up for DJ Fresh
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