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Malik Dope: From Street Performer to Global Star 🌍 | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Feb 12, 2025
Subscribe now for more exclusive interviews and inspiring content on Sway In The Morning! 🥁 In this episode, we sit down with the extraordinary Malik Dope, a multi-talented percussionist who has transformed his life from a street performer in Washington, D.C., to a globally recognized artist. 🌍 Malik shares his incredible journey, from the roots of Go-Go music in D.C. to making waves on America's Got Talent, where he wowed audiences with his unique energy and powerful performances. 🎶 Discover how he turned street performing into a platform for community impact, mentorship, and entrepreneurship, all while staying true to his passion for music and innovation. Get an inside look at his creative process, his custom drumstick designs, and his upcoming projects, including performances in Brazil during Rio’s Carnival and the highly anticipated release of his "Sticket" drumstick holder. Plus, hear heartfelt shoutouts from Malik's community and his reflections on his role as a cultural trailblazer. Stay inspired by Malik Dope's story of perseverance, creativity, and the power of music to unite and elevate. Don't miss this exclusive conversation on Sway’s Universe! 💥 #MalikDope #SwayInTheMorning #HipHop #Music #CommunityImpact #AmericasGotTalent #Entrepreneurship #Drumming #GoGoMusic #musicmanagement #musicbusinesstips #lifeofamusicmanager #musicmarketing #musicpublishing CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 01:13 - Malik DOPE 07:27 - America's Got Talent Journey 10:08 - Jared from DC Calls In 12:47 - Peach from DC Calls In 14:08 - Coach from DC Calls In 14:42 - Malik Dope's Unique Style and Jewelry
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is Tracy G the man is a Dancer too I
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know this for a fact he's not just a
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dancer he's a producer as well C he's
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all purpose renissance guy and he's also
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an educator you got to know what I'm
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talking about to know who I'm talking
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about Tracy G also a recording artist as
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well um this man is somebody who I've
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known since
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2017 wow and we reached out each through
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to through Instagram mhm well actually
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we met at the Brooklyn The Hip Hop
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festival and then we stayed in
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communication uh from there he let me
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know when he had merch and when he was
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dropping music and he just kept in tune
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with UNC you know what I mean and um
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this dude is so gifted that I wanted to
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invite him up he told me he was coming
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to town I got I cannot let this
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opportunity pass by the citizens have to
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hear him they need to know his story uh
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Po Folks aspiring artists has to hear
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him they need to know his story right
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and then plus I had to see him it's been
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a while give it up for the and only
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Malik dope ladies and gentlemen
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Malik o that was a real drum roll oh man
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we going to get some sound effects today
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oh yeah Malik welcome to the show man
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it's Malik do yes man hey thank y'all
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for having me man you is a real one you
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be out here in the field tin toes down
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everywhere you know in the community and
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just everywhere you know so thank you
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for having me man I was like is he is he
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serious is it going to be real I'm here
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you here bro
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thank it didn't take much at all huh n
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just DM and then you just you a real one
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that's all I can say yeah flesh and Bone
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Brothers a few of us left in this game
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just a few you know I had to put the
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spotlight on you I I just feel like
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you're a person who was born to perform
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you know what I mean and and when you
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hear him play and if you see how he
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plays uh you'll understand what I'm
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talking about even the music you've made
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the albums you've done um in the past
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you know I was like this guy really
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loves to perform at what point in your
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life did you know that this is what you
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wanted to do um well I think probably so
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I'm from DC right okay and you already
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know we known for Go Go music I've been
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you know you know you know about some go
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go okayu Brown some bounce beat um and
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then like really I started I was in
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Howard University's drum line as well
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shout out hu you know what I'm saying
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you know my daughter is at grad school
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at Howard right now oh yeah bless bless
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so I'm a Howard Dad I just got to say
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that that's a blessing I'm from Le Droid
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Park I'm from that that area you're from
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that area first Adams but um yeah I
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started after like the band and stuff I
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started street performing because I I
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just wanted to get my sound my energy my
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spirit out to the people I felt like
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like you said that calling I felt
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something cuz I would walk by after
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practice and see people street
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performing and I would like join with
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the little brass bands or whatever and
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then people was like rocking with like
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hm so then he let me take it over to New
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Orleans too right shout out to Super
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Bowl and Kendrick too lit that was lit
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but mhm I um I basically me and my mom
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would go out to uh the Essence fest Jazz
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Fest and all that and I I took my snare
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drum out there and I was like that's a
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place where they always Street perform
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and always do that right and so next
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thing you know I'm like I'm taking it
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out there I'm 19 years old put that
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drone on Canal Street and all that start
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street performing 19 years old I made
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like $200 I was like wow I went back
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home I quit my job Home Depot overnight
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stock and I just pursued street
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performing I even like left the band
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after a while cuz I'm like man I'm about
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to speak to this whole world blessings
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to the band blessings to everything go
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go but I got to like speak to the
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community to the whole everybody you
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know and um that was my calling man
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through street performing um and that
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was like an AC of like not only
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entrepreneurism but like community
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service how how how break that down how
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did you see it as community service
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because like um DC is you know the
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bucket drums the go go this on the Block
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you know we came from like that the
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roots and that that culture that
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Afrocentric energy right and then um
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just for me to be modern but still
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respecting my elders um in that way I'm
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doing that service in that way but also
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there were youth that looked up to me to
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uh go start street performing as well
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and stuff and there's some youth that
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were from like the hood and stuff right
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and they you know they might just
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looking for a meal or something so I'm
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I'm distracting them from maybe robbing
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somebody else or doing something crazy
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getting their self in the wrong
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situation so you know it's uh you know
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Community Rehabilitation that community
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rehabilit
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I never because I always look at street
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performers and wonder where the hell do
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they live you know what I mean like like
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where where does this dude live yeah
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people think that maybe they're coming
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from like trouble past sometimes there's
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like stereotypes like almost adjacent to
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those without homes and sometimes it is
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that um and I was helping to break that
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you know that that stigma of like you
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know no like there people that I was
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coming from I was living in my parents
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basement at the time but you know it's
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it's just a thing that culture that and
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it's like yo it's free promotion like
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even you know you ain't got to F no
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taxes until you you know
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I don't file no taxes but how you don't
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know how many bills is in that bucket in
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that hat right yeah so it's like you
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know but um what was a good day for you
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like in terms of what could you generate
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on a good day man I remember in DC is a
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little different than New York now New
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York I got some numbers out here right
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but um I remember one time was me and my
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friend Damian right and we was
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performing in like Maryland like Silver
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Spring and we made like $1,200 man that
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that helped him of course I I had some
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money but you know we had like $1,200
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and like uh he was able to pay his first
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down payment on rent you know what I'm
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saying off of the street performing you
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know what I'm saying he was a little
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older he in a different you know what
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I'm saying so I'm like this is real
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money that we can get um and that's
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something that we would have been doing
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in the house for free but would it be
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daily like do every day like you know
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what I mean like I could give a range of
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like 200 to 400 200 just to be real how
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did you like a lot of times when people
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see folks on the street their first
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impulse is to pass them up walk them by
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they must be up to something right you
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know it's always a frown how do you how
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did you cope with the rejection of being
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on the street well it's it's all mental
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right and you have to become an
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alchemist very very early you know you
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have to use that energy and convert it
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into something that's motivational um
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you know even the parents or anybody
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like that's not a real job I'm saying my
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parent they've been supportive but
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sometime they could be like all right
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now but the goal was like you got to set
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like some goals too I was like okay
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first let me make sure I can pay my
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phone bill off of this okay let me make
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sure I can get something to eat off of
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it like you work your way up and now
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it's like you know I'm full time but I
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don't Street perform anymore but I
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started from there and it's just it was
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mental you know I'm studying I'm looking
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at you you know I call it YouTube
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University right but um I'm looking and
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I'm just like soaking up the stuff and
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and also I was dressing like I was
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already on the big stage already I saw
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the vision be see that's important you
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were dressing like you were already
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where you want to be as his future self
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yes yes so I spoke to my future self in
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that way through my present uh you know
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just you know promotion of myself wow
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Malik dope is here let's give out your
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social if people want to follow you how
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can they follow you oh D just go
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everywhere you know Malik dope just
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everything Malik dope my website which
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is my company is dope.com d o
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pw.com and yeah we got you know this
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music merging I'm going talk about some
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stuff but yeah you know let's talk about
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it all man cuz you you went from Street
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performance to making your way to
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America's Got Talent oh yes how did that
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happen what was the day that it first
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got initiated man I just know it was
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like during like the beginning of the
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pandemic you know what I'm saying I had
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some some producers already been
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scouting and everything you know and my
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name being passed around through the
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reals and then um yeah I sent them like
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you know once they reach we built like a
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producer I mean like built a a show deck
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you know like of different videos and
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all that and they sent it to the network
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and they approved me I'm like it's doing
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a pandemic so I'm like it's like I could
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just be like on whatever trajectory I'm
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on but or the pandemic I turned up you
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know and so yeah I was like I'm supposed
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to be here what was that process like
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did you how manyan how many rounds did
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you do I did so I did three shows which
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is basically I made it semi-finals and
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um which is very far for anybody from my
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area DC that's that's done that and um
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and I did it my way too like uh you know
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of course they assigned your producing
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all that stuff you you know you have a
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team but I was able to breathe in in my
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own skin of performance you know and you
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know I'm talking about I drew the shows
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out I drew the drums out on the white
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computer paper with the pen I'm like
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this how I want to do I want to come out
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with the I want to like the sticks on
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fire I want to slide down this I want to
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do that I want you know what I'm saying
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and they rock with it because the idea
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was dope who was your coach um I I I
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know I can't remember I I know I had a
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producer named Alexa but I had uh this
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guy named Tyrell um and he's a dope
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dancer CU like they give you like like
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coordination like he's a choreographer
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and stuff he can dance with ush he can
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dance with everybody you know and yeah
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shout out Tyrell man you know what I'm
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saying Tyrell latrina man they was they
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was locking in with me they out west
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side you know okay as Community Driven
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as you are do you also have a spirit of
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competition within you too always you
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know we from drum line you know what I'm
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saying you know but what do you mean we
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from drum line you you come from that
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lifestyle yeah I mean because like the
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drum line it it's like it's not just
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about drums it's like a whole lifestyle
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and life is competition nature is
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competition right don't you see them
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lons hunting for that that gazelle they
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like I'm getting him you know but yes
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it's just naturally there competition
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wise you know and uh um and also like
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I'm a I'm a black belt first black belt
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and shin Wu Kung Fu Dennis Brown okay so
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I I was coupled with good part uh um
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sportsmanship you know early like from
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6:00 to 13 you know and um in that
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discipline and also competing you know
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getting kicked in the face kicking back
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but also respecting your brothers and
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sister in in that gym you know so um I
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don't know if I'm like everybody but
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that that grounded me enough to also
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also uh compete in in the the stages of
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life you know all right Malik dope is
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here we got to get you to play some he
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actually brought the the drum and and
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while we're doing that I want to go on
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the phone lines Jared is on the line 888
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742
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33445 Jared is from DC what up Jared hey
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Jared hey hey Malik you knew I was going
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to call you uh yeah you already know
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brother
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yeah y know look I just want to tell
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y'all that
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I yeah yeah I know I've known Malik
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since since the days he was performing
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in DC at Gallery Place where he used to
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just be a street performer so I've
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watched him go from being a street
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performer to rock in a DC with everybody
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going out of the country and then going
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to America's Got Talent like man you're
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awesome I'm so proud of you what you're
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doing man he's he's a real one y'all
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he's a real one all right that's what's
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up man it's a pretty impressive because
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to your point Jared to see him do all of
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these things you kind of carve there's
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no blueprint for this you know like
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Quest love had the roots yes you know
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what I mean different people came in in
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a different way but the street performer
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to reach these Heights is kind of
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anomalous it's different right yeah yeah
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I just had to really I you got to study
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history and stuff too I'm talking about
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I'm looking it Michael Jackson of course
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Fred is stair or something or like you
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know all the you know just drum drummers
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from go go to Jazz to anything dancers
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I'm looking at just entertainers seeing
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how you know what I'm saying C Callaway
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you know all these different stuff I'm
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like putting it all together putting my
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own formula on and my own coordinate a
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swag on it and you yeah that's that's
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what Jared you're a citizen man
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appreciate your call all right um this
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is what I want to do we're going to play
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a song off of your album life being yeah
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yeah light being yes yes and uh light
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being I'm sorry I apologize and we're
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going to play the song Elevate okay okay
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you got a video coming for Elevate right
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so um to all of y'all listening I have a
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video coming soon for the song elevated
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I shot it in Egypt at the pyramids I
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almost got locked up for that you know
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you know they don't play out there not
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at all I was with my good peoples and I
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was representing some positive you know
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so they was like all right they let me
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rock but yeah I shot it right at the
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pyramids this ain't no green screen y
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I'm right in the sands for real you know
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so it's coming out like next month next
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month okay this is Malik dope it's
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called Elevate off the light being album
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he's going to come back and play Live
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shave
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45 light being that's Elevate brand new
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well it's not brand new but got a new
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video coming out my man Malik dope is
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here you can follow him at Malik m a l i
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k dot dope do dope um Peach on the line
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from DC go ahead Peach hey
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Peach hey hey real quick real quick man
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hey Malik hey bro I love you my [ __ ] oh
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everything I love I love you bro
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you give me hope bro yeah you hear me
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yeah you give me hope bro this is your
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man Peach bro I'm out here riding around
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doing
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my and I and I hear Malik I hear Mal on
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the radio yeah oh no PE you know we was
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in our I was my very first goo band with
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Peach Peach you you y'all were the A Go
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Go band together yeah he I was my first
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goo band with him Mar I know I know him
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since I was 14 years old and real quick
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you asked him about being competitive
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you cannot get him off you cannot get
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him off the drum set young you cannot
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get him off the drum set young since 14
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years old he kept them drumsticks in his
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hand wherever he went yo or everything I
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love slim I was not expecting to hear
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you on Sway in the Morning sway I listen
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to you every day s every morning I
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listen to y'all I listen to y'all slim
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every morning and I was not expecting to
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hear my childhood friend on the radio
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this morning he gave me hope you gave me
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hope Malik you already know there you go
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keep doing what you doing I see you when
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you get home bro yeah we lock in on the
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line too coach on the line too hey coach
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yeah
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coach what up Malik we part of you bro
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keep going bro that's that's my BMW
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brother we had we had the
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BMWs yo what up
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coach we love you brother I love you too
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man I love y'all man Peach coach you
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both are citizens morning just happen to
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be listening they happen to be hey we
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going to let them play for a second
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y'all we going to let them play y'all
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going to hear them live all right okay
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that's what's up let's do this man
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before I have you do this you got a ill
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the way the the way first of all your
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style is just impeccable you got to see
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Malik dope style we I can't wait for
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people to see you I don't even know what
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this chain is it's not is Stones
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crystals what is it so uh I I travel all
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around the world collecting different
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Stones through my journey even um shout
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out to Big Sis Erica Badu she even
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blessed this one with a worry doll she
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got from Philippines I got stuff from
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Egypt I got stuff from Atlanta I got
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stuff from Tunisia I got stuff from my
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my family my parents I even got my locks
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in it it's is a oh wow this is a a very
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spiritual piece you know what I'm saying
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that I build straight from like scratch
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through my journey wow and your tattoos
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they all significant you got chords
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notes yeah I got my logo so this is my
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percussion brand definition of
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percussion entertainment which acronym
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dope and then this is my my brand dope
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way which is my multimedia production
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and Consulting agency you know what I'm
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saying so I'm like you know we out here
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doing it you know what I'm saying I'm
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trying to uh sign a scientist I'm trying
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to sign the person that's going to heal
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us I'm trying to sign yeah you know what
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I'm saying I'm trying to tap in like
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help to help the the people of today you
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know impact tomorrow amen and you got
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these and I love your entrepreneurial
15:52
Spirit these these sticks you know if
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you if you're percussionist if you play
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drums he got his own sticks right so I
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and these are a gift I brought to you my
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big brother oh wow wow I I'm where you
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at right there what kind of what is this
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what kind are they so see so um that's
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what's up this I had a I did a signature
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drumstick a signature marching drumstick
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deal with one of the top drum uh drum
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manufacturers and stuff like that called
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Vic f um and these are the Malik dope
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chop X1 Signature Series sticks they are
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now discontinued but I had to like get
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one out the Vault for sway one time and
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I signed them right here
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say stay dope sway that's like Hank
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Aaron's bat yeah and um I'm the also I'm
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the I'm the first and only uh melanated
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percussionist from the DMV area to have
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their own marching
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drumstick okay sway we we got to see
16:46
what sway got some beats you know what
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to do with that
16:49
sway okay hold on that we we going to
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get busy real quick play with me right
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there so you don't get bus those S need
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to come with drum lessons too oh they
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look look he just did it they already
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supercharged come on that's in my
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melanin okay don't have me tap in So
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yeah so another thing is I got some some
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gifts um well not a gift uh it's a a
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product that soon will be a gift I'll
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send this to you as well what is this so
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this um ladies and gentlemen boys and
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girls all my people for one I'm just
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going to talk about intellectual
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property it's very important when we
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think of dope uh ideas and stuff like
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that especially throughout history we've
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been slighted we done created all types
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of stuff through our history you know
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what I'm saying that we haven't got our
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right patent protections rights we had
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stuff stolen from us bro so I made an
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idea um for a a drumstick holder that
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you can wear right on your belt loop and
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um you know just identity wise
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culture-wise and just utility wise this
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is called a sticket this is my apparel
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brand that's dropping this month well
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just I just already dropped it but like
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this is the first piece this is the
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accessory it's called a stick it and how
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this works is of course you'll clip it
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you know that little clip right your
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belt buckle
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your bag you know what I'm saying but
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then you stick it right in there boom
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boom you know what I'm saying and that's
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a conversation
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starter stuck what he did is he stuck um
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each each the sticker provides a way
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where you can hang your drumsticks so
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you ready this like nunchuck it's like
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your sword you know draw MRA we ain't
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doing stick bags no more we ready like
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somebody want to chop like uh bow pop it
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out and also got the one that's for the
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marching sticks and then I got the other
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one for the uh drum set sticks which a
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lot of people you know the SK ones they
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they play their their drum sets you know
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what I'm saying so you pop it in as well
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this one she a little more fresher so I
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got to so okay and you did it like that
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and so those are a little thinner so
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marching band sticks are typically more
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thicker than than the regular drum set
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sticks right and then how important are
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the sticks like can anybody pick up any
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great drummer use any sticks um it just
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depends on preference but it's just like
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the camera it's not the camera it's the
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shooter you know so it ain't the stick
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it's the it's the player get your
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fundamentals get your rudiments up get
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your knowledge up you know what do you
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think uh who are like if I said who are
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the top three drumming entertainers
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right now contemporary who would you say
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wow and I'll just throw some names out
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there if if make uh Anderson pack OH
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Anderson pack bless us to Anderson pack
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I met him one time at Eric Badu's uh
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birthday party he was dope he was
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chopping look at me chop I want to I
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want to do a song with him man Addison
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pack if you listening man let's let
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let's turn up but Anderson pack I love
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how the the the modern Vibe you know how
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he's doing the music and the uh the
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druming and everything you know part
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partly an inspiration of mine as you can
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see I do music and drumming but not the
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sing like him but um him uh I got to go
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way back a little chocolot uh chocolate
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CH what's his uh come toite no no no
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keep going who else um I gotta I gotta
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go a little bit further back to so this
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is my blood cousin haven't met him yet
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uhhuh but my blood cousin is the drummer
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for The Dave Matthews Band oh wow Carter
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bford okay shout out Carter you watching
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he's nice he's nice yeah he's in the top
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like on the list Like Guns and Roses all
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them everything it's been hard to meet
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him you know I got you know maybe this
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good hey Cuzo what's up okay but give me
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one more um yeah I gotta go to Big Bro I
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love big bro's Rock Energy Travis Barker
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that's what I was gonna say you know
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what I'm saying and Travis Barker shout
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out to you too man you tapped in with me
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you know I got a number and everything
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man he really tapped in real one you
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know you know and um um there's a lot of
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other drummers but this just cop comes
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off the top of the Dome people who
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inspired me people are modernly doing
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some stuff and like just adding a little
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diversity in there like different styles
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you know you got rock you got hip-hop
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Vibe you got you know what I'm saying
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you got all of those things Malik dope
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is here man let's get to it man I want
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to get you drumming I need he let me do
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a freestyle little rap real quick and
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then I'mma the mic up real quick all
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right let's do it all right we got Malik
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dop you know him as a percussionist but
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welcome to the Valley of the hyena
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ain't just a drummer throw a beat on him
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let's get that DC in
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there
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hey shout out to my BR crankton reprodu
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this
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J see what he going to do with it okay
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yeah DC
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look I got my talent from DC wait before
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them folks see me on TV always knew I
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could be the anomaly I'm a prodigy andin
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no stopping me feeling Gucci when they
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say they proud of me I just beat the
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beat up battery stick to my goals like
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Tamp tell them in the far they feeling
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me go go gadget the funds I'm counting
21:37
it up to my thumb swo pricing went up
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now I need me a money counter re me
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sound like drum roll and I see they copy
21:43
the sauce them boys just catch up this
21:45
here be that MBO entrepreneurial
21:47
thoughts I'm thinking about real estate
21:49
going go Dumbo whoa face car cool I'm
21:52
building my credit you ask for a pick I
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might charge you like debit they going
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to play with your back if you let them
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can't worry about beef I'm going buy my
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let us they ain't let you in the spot
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but they let us 1,000 Yeezy boost I'm
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Stephan always been special never needed
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EIC shipping a merch straight through
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FedEx huh let me warm up the be I'm dop
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with the be I'm doing it yeah Malik I'm
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King yeah dope with this you know it I
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endlessly beat the beat up with my
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talent wild I'm on the moon with it let
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me war that drum up dop he switching
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over to the drums now okay okay he went
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from him to
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beating okay Malik dope here we
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go okay
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what
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get your sticks get my sticks what I'm
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going
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do
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[Music]
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go follow me look look here we
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go
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ah
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ah let's go
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don't mess it
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[Applause]
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up that was
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fun you didn't mess it up sway I'm proud
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of you I proba did wow the first time
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you jumped in look at here s sweating
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wow we got s swea but yo I ain't never
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drummed in person wow that was my first
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time fire my brother T Callaway was the
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drummer my sister played the fluke uhhuh
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I played the clarinet uhhuh yeah so and
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too and sacks I started with the sacks
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yeah you just killed that though I do
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all right you know what practice you
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feel like I can learn it oh yeah you you
24:52
did it you just got to you got to take
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it on and see what you want to do with
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it I got to get my dexterity correct you
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know my timing or not Jay you know what
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J saw that right I tried to you
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know I like that way you should put more
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energy to that than like your
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vocals yeah I think you found your Lan
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I'm not sure if that was necessary I'm
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not sure where that came from Yo Malik
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dope citizen say his name Malik dope
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Malik dope Malik dop and you can follow
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him at m a i k do dope d o p e what's
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next for you brother um so I'm I'm about
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to go to Brazil um February 20th to 24th
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I'm doing a a performance out there in
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Rio we just did one uh with uh uh event
25:38
DC and the real government in October
25:40
for the G20 uh Summit situation but now
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I'm going back to Brazil again we're
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going to do another uh cultural exchange
25:47
and energy and a performance and this is
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doing a carnival time so we about to
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perform with a Som band all that crazy
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so yeah you know what I'm saying I like
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that man we about to get it crazy so
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yeah I got that like I said I got the
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merch the uh the product dropping the
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sticket these are gonna be everywhere on
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my website you got to get these if you
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play drums get the sticket yes this is
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gonna be everywhere I'm talking about
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kids adults seniors anybody catch dogs
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anybody you can make sure you get it
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Malik thank you for coming through bro
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salute to your man too man this was
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great man shout out Jason you know say
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Urban shots okay cool man this was great
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we'll be posting this on SED Universe
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look for it in the next day or so
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