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Rapsody Drops INSANE Freestyle + Talks Grammy Nomination, Drake's UMG Lawsuit & Billboard Top 10🔥
Dec 6, 2024
Rapsody drops an insane freestyle and discusses her Grammy nomination on Sway In The Morning! The talented MC opens up about her journey in hip-hop, the importance of authenticity, and navigating the music industry. Watch as Rapsody delivers hard-hitting bars and shares insights on personal branding, marketing, and staying true to herself. She also talks about her new label venture and future projects. Don't miss this powerful conversation with one of hip-hop's truest voices. Sway and the team celebrate Rapsody's success and discuss the challenges faced by artists in today's music landscape. Subscribe to Sway's Universe for more exclusive interviews and freestyles with the biggest names in hip-hop and entertainment. #grammynominations #kendricklamar #grammypredictions #sza #grammysnubs CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 01:13 - Rapsody Freestyle, Hip Hop, Rap Artist 07:12 - Grammy Nominations, Awards, Music Industry 14:35 - Personal Branding and Development, Self-Improvement, Career Growth 22:49 - Rapsody on UMG Comments & Backlash, Industry Critique, Music Commentary 25:29 - Rapsody on Label, Platform Expansion, Artist Reuben Vincent 28:30 - Rapsody on Artist Experience, Label Insights, Career Choices 40:47 - Improving Hip Hop Media, Media Critique, Industry Discussion 44:52 - What's Next, Future Plans, Upcoming Projects Subscribe Here! http://bit.ly/SubscribeSU
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lad clap it up clap it up let's clap it up ladies and gentlemen
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this is what the culture is all about right here come on this is what it is when it's at its finest when it's at its
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highest frequency when it's at its most powerful vibration this is what the culture is when it's being maximized
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when it's being committed to clap it up when they honoring the culture when they're being obedient to it clap it up
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when they're being steadfast to it and they refuse to and compromise clap it up when they
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remain themselves as they grow and they evolve and transcend clap it up that's
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who we talking about that's who we talking about the idea of beautiful is manifesting right now clap it
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up come on we've been on this since day one facts only and I've always said keep
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going y we have yes keep going every step every step of the way we need you I
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need yall and it's going to come I've seen it before ladies and gentlemen
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gramy nominated she's here give it up for the one and only raps
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R good to be home feels good to be home good to have you I told you you one of a
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kind One of a Kind this ain't a this ain't a a business
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relationship n this is family this is family this ain't a transaction right here no no no n this is an exchange
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right here right yeah last time she was here
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citizens oh my god let's start there it wasn't my day
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it was it was your day but it was it was my day it was your day for a different reason that was then this is now you
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ain't even got to hesitate if you don't want to get straight to it ladies and gentlemen this is The Game's truest MC
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right here there ain't an MC that's trer to this this is what the culture is all about the basic fundamentals have to be
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they tried to sweep it under the rug and say it a't important you ain't got to tell me nothing twice and when they sweeping under the rug they trying to
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dismiss they trying to ignore they trying to get rid of what makes our foundation so strong but then you got
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the outliers that stand strong and tall like the one we have right here she goes
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by the name of Rap City Rap City rapity we got a lionist in the building DB drop
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a beat on her already oh ready hyenas this is real
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rap turn it up face tell them suck my titties stand
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on they grave and I do the gritty they don't W the grizzly let's make some noise now make sure you don't forget me
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I like the heat I walk on fire with B feet feel like a Greek High be stepping on these [Â __Â ] [Â __Â ] academic affidavit
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entertaining [Â __Â ] who got open cases women charges they say you violated the legend in me you get your payment uh
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look [Â __Â ] a list if it's one thing I know that's what culture don't exist when it comes to me a lot of y'all list
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but I never looked theart to exist yeah in your [Â __Â ] world uh dogmatic when it
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come to my gift sway the gods gathered repeat me like a pattern it's a class they I'm run it back like Madden run it
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back run it back run it back yeah uh it's not enough to be humble so I guess
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I'll be a blood how they read me wrong over microphones me and do the greatest out of qu the outcast of the industry is
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him me and soul don't worry about the verse from ho uh I take it a compliment most [Â __Â ] scared to anyway I'm [Â __Â ]
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with they confidence don't worried about the hardship the people my accomplishments yeah uh it's not enough
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what a real [Â __Â ] at uh too many walking Bluffs the truth come to light uh past the blunt smoking on they top
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five inhale puff puff yeah uh I'm back this a reflex ain't never been [Â __Â ]
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like I came out C-section [Â __Â ] couldn't see Heaven they lost God when they lost me I'm they reflection this
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the voice message a righteous calling they watch me like a pedestrian uh take another L could take another score yeah
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can take another score for people I might free up killing rap y'all I ain't Jesus but I still walk water when I give
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them this thesis I came back with swayed this the real freestyle tell them get out my way when I give them rap style
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yeah uh yeah this is how we do it [Â __Â ] call me queen I'm the one of the music Bill boy put me nine but
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I'm really number one tell [Â __Â ] uh I'm the greatest all time and I do it how I'm supposed to how I'm supposed to
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[Â __Â ] want to know [Â __Â ] huh I'mma show you do them how I'm supposed to do them I'm supposed to yeah rap back I'mma show
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you I'm tired of being courteous these [Â __Â ] lost their mind I'mma hold their head like percus feeling
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[Laughter] virtuous crazy
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crazy at word play at word
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play I'm just I'm just I don't know I'm just here we just
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gosh yo yo yo you got to be intelligent for that
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one oh my gosh I just had a [Â __Â ] real ass hip-hop experience right here yo yeah yo this is
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so [Â __Â ] F we having fun you want to throw that beat back on sound like did you want him to throw that beat back on
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no okay yo huh you're [Â __Â ] amazing
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give it up for rapity thank you I don't get this no you're amazing yes you are
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you [Â __Â ] that little [Â __Â ] I heard [Applause] you I heard what you said you said I'm
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just talking about [Â __Â ] now you got to only you and Kendrick you're the number one that's what you said in your verse
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yeah clap that [Â __Â ] up yo I ain't ain't no question I'm just repeating what you
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said yeah that's what I said yo give it we the outcast in the industry is him and I me and sold don't worried about
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the verse from hold I take it as a compliment most [Â __Â ] scared to anyway I'm [Â __Â ] with their
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confidence that's how I feel yeah man you Soul you mean they walk me like a pedestrian mhm they walk me like a
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pedestrian fear for another score Lauren had the allore you know what I'm saying couldn't take another L I'm two G up put
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the fear in the devil for people I might free up damn killing rap n killing
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[Music] vicious I don't want to talk I just want to keep going what was the when you
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after person what did you have did you have carry their head like percus what
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the I'm just trying to be virtuous I feel like Master splin every [Â __Â ] around
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Michelle God I'm good I'm here let's
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talk yo rapity just said in like four lines I read
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exactly y'all better start reading step your literacy games up hey man the
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pendulum is swinging the pendulum is swinging there's some new energy right here there some new leaders right here
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and this is one of them raps City rapity Rap City I love it man give it up for Rap
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City congratulations on the Grammy nominations for this project thank you that was a beautiful acknowledgement
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yeah man you know like we don't we don't put everything on it but it's it's so beautiful be to be acknowledge that way
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and even more so it's important to me because of my team you know I know how hard um Shantel my manager worked Bianca
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worked um Sher Omar Ethan um the Forefront group got to get one for the
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team y'all Grammy nominated too you know this right yeah you know you get one I'm
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joking but you always putting something on it you know cuz at the end of the day like there's so many talented artists
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and you wish everybody could be recognized but it's it's really in you know how well you market and brand brand
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yourself you know to get your music out that's such a big part of what we do and one of my biggest advice is for
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these artists like yo Talent is really only 10% of this which is sad you know what I'm saying but you had to learn
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that the hard way I had to learn it the hard way I'm still learning it you know my uh day who does my makeup gave me a
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good talking to today oh my God he was in my ass today what do you say can you share he was like I mean the music is
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good I got to do you he was like I mean the music is good but there's so many more parts of you
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they need to see how fly you are like you a fly [Â __Â ] no disrespect
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supposed to say that in front of the disrespect you know that right you know so he was like you need to take
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pictures but you know just like allowing people to see all parts of you and your brand your brand is your authenticity
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who you are it separates you from everybody else so don't just give them the one dimension you know there there's
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so many things that make us dope yeah that's amazing it's time for but it's it allows for that now like we were just
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talking the other day up here how I watched on The Equalizer I saw the Lady of Rage in Latifa
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sharing the screen together yo it's crazy and there was a time when that
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really wasn't allowed it's like if you're a ra just rap they don't want to see you doing nothing else but I agree
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with your makeup artist your family that's your extended family you always fly like I I follow you on Instagram I
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see your pictures I love it like just keep showing God gave you so much thank
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you just just keep expressing that cuz you never know how more creativity will
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come out you from from different layers that you've been blessed with I love it keep going and congratulations as well
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on everything that's coming your way cuz there more that's coming and everybody on these lists I saw a list of the women
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you know Billboard's list yeah yeah congratulations great year congratulations everybody yeah and I
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dare and you were number nine on it and I was glad they recognized you uh I believe nine was it n n yeah not out of
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10 out of 10 on term in terms of hot but not in terms of skill set and all of those different things but I hope a lot
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of those young ladies who came in the game after you uh and people not just
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the young ladies the men everybody realizes the sacrifice you know the
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doors you had to break through the nose you were told the ignoring you had the
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lack of support you had and you stayed in the reason the fact that you went
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through these things helped this new generation of women MC's break through that door you should recognize that and
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know that you have a lot to do with the success of the most recent women in the hip-hop game right now so
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congratulations for that I know this for a fact it was important to keep playing you because it was important that for
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the the general public to understand that skills do matter you know that it
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doesn't matter what your gender is you have something great to say and you do it in a great way you know and so your
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your talent is what survived you through all of this than at the end of the day Talent may be 10% but if you don't have
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that 10% not Las that's the foundation nothing to stand on if you ain't got the
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Talent come on man you can come in and get it how you get it for a little bit but you going to be right back out
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you're going to be right back yeah you know and to village Village is super important you know you are super
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important you know Tracy um all of y'all Heather like the village and the people
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that that hold you they're important too they're important to y'all remind us uh why it's important for us to keep
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going and you know we never alone on this track you know so that's what it is
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tribe Talent God you know have some spirituality about you got to do it you
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got to got to you know it it could get dark you know so you know you always got
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to have some light about you so you can see [Â __Â ] yeah and if you're not careful just basically what's shown to us so
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much and what we hear a lot on the radio it'll as a MC MC it'll make you question
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yourself it's like should I start dumbing down my [Â __Â ] just to you know
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just to start being recognized to some degree I've always had a problem with list personally I don't think people who
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have never um spit bars or wrot RH should even put list together that's my
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own personal opinion um but it'll make you start questioning your talent and
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you know you got talent but when you see the people sometimes that get listed in these rap lists it's like yo what the
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[Â __Â ] what what am I doing am I what am I doing wrong cuz I don't know what I'm doing right nobody even telling me what
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I'm doing right but what am I doing wrong to get the radio play to get the the acknowledgements to get all of this
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so I love that to sway's point you always stay true and people hear you the
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ones that know know and they hear you and every time your name comes up it yo
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we're like yes Rap City Rap City yep Rap City so salute again can't give you
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enough hug today no I was happy when she you know I was it ain't about Awards but
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I was happy to hear your name me too you know like [Â __Â ] yeah no cuz it don't make you just
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like yo man what I got to do and not as a surprise just on some duh
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yeah exactly I mean it's it's it's a surprise for me sometimes CU you know I know how the business works you know um
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and i' I've been that artist where it's it can be mentally tax and when you you know like what is it about me like what
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am I missing but you know I had to free myself and I think I talked about that the last time I was here you know just
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the illusion of all of all of this like you have to understand what's the truth in this and I think once you understand
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what's true in it then it's not as you know it's not as taxing as it could be it's like it's a list it's a list I know
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what the list is made of you know it's it's numbers and it is impact it's this and that and you know it's not all about
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your talent or how you impact people or how much you mean to a culture um you know it's it's a list it's a list it's
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just a list and people make list every day I see them and I'll be so sick of these list I'll be like because it you
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know people like why is this person here I'm just like yo at the end of the day you know it's people's preference you
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know so it's it's great to be acknowledged though you know I'll never take that away like it's great to be
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acknowledged and people acknowledge for different things I'm happy that I can be acknowledged for my art and my skill cuz I know numbers wise I don't play the
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game you know I just don't flourish there as of yet um you know but for anybody that breaks that I break through
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congratulations there it is rapity going back to when you were mentioning learning more about marketing
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leaning more into marketing um and there I say enjoying more of marketing I think
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about how personal branding in a lot of ways can tie to personal development
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yeah you know and often times I would say folks who are like you who are known for dropping gems often right and maybe
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perhaps it's like okay let me Focus so much on the depth the ocean of who I am
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where maybe you can forget that the sure of who you are is just as valuable you know like the flyness what are as you
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continue learning how to navigate this business to best suit you how does that
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also reflect on rapity at home do you see a connection between different
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lessons here in the business and how it may reflect I don't know if it has to do with um family or if it has to do with
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even self-esteem but do you see how it plays into your personal growth yeah I mean I think you got to know who you are
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you know and and anytime you have to dive deep into who you are and accept that person and love that person and and
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want to give all of it to the world like that's healthy you know um and that that
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just flies into The Branding part you know like if you don't know who you are how you know how to tell the world who
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you are you know what I'm saying and one person I've to um recently who's been a great example that is B
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Erica oh my gosh give her she don't care about nobody you can't just say her
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name you don't give a [Â __Â ] I remember we was um we was talking about 3:00 a.m. and she called me and
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talk about the business of it we was we was just talking business um but I I
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made a comment I was like you know I don't think that's a even trade I said you know you're so much more valuable
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than me right and she said hold on she was like no we're equally as valueable my brand is just bigger right and I was
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like damn that's a gym like I just never looked at it and so I just watching you you know like uh her spiritual side she
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likes boxing you know uh she's a DJ she's fly as [Â __Â ] and I'm just like she
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knows and accepts completely who she are and that's that's what you get she don't give a [Â __Â ] right and that inspired me
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like yo really dive into who you are what do you like to do like you do like to get you don't look like none of these
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other people and that's what's dope about you and you know like was saying like there are young girls who are
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looking for somebody to feel feel seen in you know and it's just like yo you
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just let all the all the world and things that don't matter go and that's that's the healthy part and I think
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that's what you were speaking to like I'm just more comfortable even around family like you know our group is
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Jehovah's Witness we talked about that later and you know I feel like I had to walk the straight and narrow but now I'm
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just like who I am what I believe what it is is just it's just it I'm just
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again at peace always about that man give up man give it up man man it feels great
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man let's take some callers man let's get the celebration going man let's get the celebration going John in Cincinnati
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what up John what up John yo what up S what up yeah hey what up
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brother I just wanted to say congratulations um Rap City and you know you're you should be un apologetically
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uh you and you know your rap album is just you know not just this one but all
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of them are just inspirational oh thank you thank you thank you for listening too I appreciate your ear on this
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journey thank you I appreciate you all right man support everything she does she got merch coming she just sold out
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some tours us I didn't sell out no tours you didn't sell it out no I just put that in the
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universe going sell out some tours though we going to sell out some tours John fromis you a citizen the morning
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all right we got uh Toronto in the building we got Wayne on the line what up Wayne hey Wayne hey hey what up man
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what up S what up family yo yo way what you in a
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locker I'm painting I'm I'm I'm at work I'm on the job I'm painting so I'm you
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going to hear a little bit of echo but uh I just wanted to speak peace to all y'all um I really wanted to you know big
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upap uh congratulate you on all your success you deserve it um I spoke to you
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I think it's it has to be about three or four years ago you was on your live um I
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happen to get through you happen to accept me and um uh we had a good conversation about music about breaking
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through as you said and um you know you gave me an opportunity I wasn't able to capitalize at that time because life is
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liing life is still liing but uh so you you know you're definitely going to see me in DMS but I just wanted to say you
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uh you're definitely one of them on I I hope you never doubt yourself I
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appreciate the fact that uh you did choose your journey and you CH chose to be you uh when I think about you I think
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about you as an MC has nothing to do with being
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we'll return right after this commercial break dude did a Grammy like he want a
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Oscar hell s he don't know when he going to speak to rapity again he to everything right now don't say y'all
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don't say y'all that's s be be S rity got to smell every Roose yo love one if
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you listening thank you your time is coming everybody got their timeing yo
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y'all are funny not y'all hey Wayne
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that's a dog laugh you deep in that back cave with
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that one hey Wayne you're a citizen we appreciate you brother man jesz my God
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he s let's go to ER song need a cleans yo man yo I get I get
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bothered by it rapity here 888 742 334 sway going hang up on you
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she's amazing I've done nothing but compliment
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rapity since the first day it's easy to though I love you so much I tell you but
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I told you you you the one you know kind y'all like yeah this I'm the one with an
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amazing team everybody in here we the one we the one look at these powerful wi
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I feel the most comfortable when I'm here yeah man good this this is the
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place where I'm just like chill living room I could be as open as I want with y'all like I feel
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safe here you know it's it's just real very real man it's and it's in this um
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we took a liking to you early on you know and and and it wasn't just because of your skill it's just what you
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illuminate yes and that's when I was telling you years ago CU it was hard years
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ago and we'll talk and we'll text and I'll say going it's okay I even told you
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that the time is coming it's ahead of you and now you're starting to experience those things and you've had
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an authentic true hip hop Journey not many have had that lot of people cutting
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in line lot of people using cheat codes you know you've had a full hip hop
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journey and for me that's what appeals to me you know you talked about Lauren Hill and that alore and they wasn't
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ready for another l or something like that you said in that lyric yeah I like that they walk me like a pedestrian they
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couldn't take another score they couldn't take another L Lauren had theore they couldn't take another L I'm
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to G up put fear in the devil for the people I might free up like wow that's how I feel I love it man
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rap city is here um El what I want to ask you about the comment your comment
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about uh when the with the umg in the umg petition I saw you speak fast like
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that some people ain't like that what was it that you said you said the first part yes I said um suing
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for a rap beef ma ma ma they really not like us yeah yeah well and you you felt
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compelled to say that yeah I never say nothing I don't know I was just I just felt it that day so I was like I just I
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was PMSing too so I was well I do say I I tweet when I'm on my
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period BL it on the horrible n i just it just that's I just rolled out that's what it that's how I
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felt like you know um who didn't like it people backlash you got a lot of backlash boy they be on my head but I
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don't I don't care you know that's why I had to get academics I said dumb ass Rap City I got your dumb
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ass oh I don't know about all of that and you kept it Up N it's um it's you
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know it's just what it is like we just talking about culture like we had beef after beat after be and you know it's
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one thing you know people like oh it's good for us and I'm just like it's not for us it it's just not like you know if
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you going to do something that's going to make a change for us and stand on something that you know you can win I don't know if you can win that because
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that record is a real culture record you know and if we talking about Bots like
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come on bro you going you going to talk about him potentially using something that we know you've used and so many
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other successful artists like come on we in this business we all know how it works you know like I I got you know hit
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up recently we was we was talking about all right which IG post like budget wise you want I was like we paying people to
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post stuff I like I don't want to pay them to post I don't want to be authentic they like well that's like that's the business now like P poola is
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happened with radio you know long time it's happened with blogs now it's happening with IG post like what are we
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talking about if we really going to do something for artists and make sure like we getting paid like why don't some of
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the biggest artists get together and like we not putting our music on streaming like where's the movement these are just ideas that's just how I
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looked at it like you know I was like ah yeah come on like it's a b what yeah but
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you know I it ain't my business let me let me mind my
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business buy Mone M get your money get your money hey so that that's what makes
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people like L Russell so important would you agree yeah I love L Russell I love how he moving the Independence I love
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how nipy you know uh was a great foundation in that too like yeah you
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know you don't you don't need the machine like when you have a real honest connection with people that follow you to the end of the Earth no matter no
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matter what like they want your art they'll go get it and you got to create that for yourself you know and demand your value demand your so would you you
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you now um have expanded your platforms uh you have a label yeah right yeah I do
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and you have artists that are going to come NE or uh artist I can say Nico give
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it up for Nico BR that's my brother my brother right they W together yeah but I
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at one point I knew I wasn't supposed to say nothing man charlot man got me I went yeah I went to breakfast club we
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took him a vinyl he looked at the vinyl he's like what logo is this I was like you would why would you ask that why you
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look that's funny so yeah um I have a label we each other is really a creative agency um we have a label leg so ni's my
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um artist along with Andre Meo my co-partner but we also want to get into film um I want to write films produce
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films get into acting um we want to do marketing and advertising like I have a great love for ideas and helping artists
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uh you know with their brand and their creativity and telling their story and marketing you know their projects or
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whatever it is they have so yeah if if your artist wanted to use well first of all congratulations on that that's all
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part of those layers part of those layers um and I kept the secret so I just want to say that you're a real one
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you're a real one the realest I love you see the guy that's the homie that's the homie um
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if your artist wanted to use that route though they wanted to use Bots they wanted to pay for post would you stand
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in the way of that um no I wouldn't stand in the way um it would be a
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discussion on what makes sense not Bots I'm not Bots we don't I would never do bots we're not doing that but like you
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know uh if it's a marketing advertising thing and it and it makes sense to maybe help
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you cut through then you know we'll assess it I'm just a situation by situation you know some people want to
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play that game you want to play the game play the game you know um and if we see we can get you know some traction and
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benefit from it you know that's just that's you yeah speaking like a boss you
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hear this boss talk right here you got to be open-minded you got to you got to you got to approve budgets now yeah yeah
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got to you got to have one too cuz right yeah I remember when he came in he was
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asking for things like we a have a budget I said boy right I a I ain't that uh that
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successful financially like would relax Nico came in with that you know he I
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love it he has great ideas he has big ideas and I tell him I always dream big it's easier to scale back and to start
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small and try to scale up so yeah like come to me with your grandios idea and we'll scale it back and do what makes
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sense for the budget I like that man come on I like what what would you what are some if you could think of a
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specific thing that um being signed to a label as an artist you want to do
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different for the artist signed to your label yeah um man uh I think the freedom
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part okay you know I remember when we first started um you know I had only
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gone how gone through my journey how I gone through my journey but everybody has a different experience in different
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ways and so I only had me to pull from and so I be like yo let's do this do this and he'd be like I don't want to do
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that right and so I had to I had to learn like yo you may be seasoned in
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this but you still can learn from him in the same way he can learn from you so that's the biggest thing like you know
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um I don't look at him as like yo this just my artist let me show you I'm just like we have real conversations and you
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know I tell him about the business but I also from his side being a younger artist and like what your generation
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doing like I learn from him too and I allow him you know to make mistakes too I might not agree with you know there's
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some things I'm like you know if I'm putting money in it then I'm going have the final say but there are some things you know I like if you don't want to do
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it this way you want to try do it your way go ahead make them you know make the mistake or succeed either way like we
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all going to learn from it at the end of the day so just you know a little bit more freedom in that way um and trusting
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his you know ideas um and and learning a lot more about the business I feel like
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I'm just starting to learn so much in this season where I was like man I wish I had taken time to reach out and ask
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more questions and learn a lot more in my earlier um days of my career but
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those are the biggest things for me love that what the last time you were here you were talking about going overseas to
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Europe for your tour how was that and what did you learn from that because it looked so freeing to me I felt like from
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what you posted like I was right there in the audience it was so dope the way you captured it what did you learn from
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it and take away from that experience shout out to grety man um for capturing those
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moments that was my third fourth time in Europe um the European experience is is
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a little bit different than us they have such a a deeper appreciation it's true
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for the for the culture um you know we've had conversations on why that is
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but you know it w it was a great way to start the tour you know I felt like okay
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I'm what whatever I'm doing is this is who I am what I'm supposed to be doing there are people that love it we have to
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think outside of the United States the we got to think globally like the world is so much larger you know with the
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Internet is you know it's smaller um and I think I just think just being that
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just free you know um and people that don't even speak your language they feel you so it just affirmed the authenticity
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of what we do yeah you look like you were having funo man we had a great time so when we got back to us in the first
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first three days I was really frustrated like why we back
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here was it the same reaction or what energy you know like it was just the
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energy and you know some of the shows in the first three days were a little light and I was like ew you
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know um you know but I understand like you know some of it it it could be me and marketing and some could just be the
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season that we're in could be the promoter could be the promoter it could be people are really financially going through things it could be a miror of
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things um um you know but Europe was such a high energy was always crazy and
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we come here and it's like people are into it but they just they really so focused on you sometimes like you know
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so I just I had to get out of my head and allow myself to get back to really
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being in the moment we got in New York and I found it there you go man I love it rap city is here Tracy G I see that
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bag in front of you what does that mean what does that mean me I don't think rap 3 has ever as many times if you sto by
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Sway in the morning I don't think that you've experienced the mystery SEC now you're
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this good morning go ahead and reach in dig deep
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dig deep put your hands into sway's sack that sounds gross it's sway's mystery
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sack on Shade [Music]
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45 so it's Christmas time Santa Paul put your hands
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in in your sack now you know what it means you know it's a double
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unton that's like the one time I enjoy a pause at least it's a bigger bag you better know got a big he said don't
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bring your little sacks over here talking about your got glitter on
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it a collection of questions inquiries yeah from the citizen strip of juice
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golden out loud and answer honestly she said answer honestly don't come up here
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playing talking about you feel safe and you going peace she tried to disarm us it work it works for me every time now I
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feel safe I ain't going to ask that [Â __Â ] has a family member or friend ever caused friction in one of your romantic
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relationships oh [Â __Â ] no family member no my family don't move like that but
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they'll be ready to beat a [Â __Â ] down quick like um a friend a friend a friend ever
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called let me ever ever like since the beginning I can say yes you know um
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ever's early though like high school ear high school early yeah but how did they do it did they did they man it was it
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was one of my good friends I was at home one day long head ass Marquee we call him football
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head but he he got night I like [Â __Â ] with track legs so he had nice
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legs he get out you say you wanted me to be open no no be that's good this was long long time
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ago I don't like [Â __Â ] no I'm just um I was at home one day and she
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called me and we was talking she was like yo I just I you're such a kind person and I I
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feel bad if I don't tell you this but I slept with your boyfriend and I was I was like damn you
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know I don't even you know so and that was a friend hang out yeah yeah you
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don't hear about confessions like that though you don't but you know I I told her I respected her for sharing it with
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me you know like she didn't have to do that and as wrong as it may be um I
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could live with that you know cuz we we going to make mistakes we not perfect as we know I've made my own um you know
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so was I uh upset yes but we're still
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friends to this day oh y'all still friends so was cool because at the end of the day
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like it's more about him you know what I'm saying so yeah like I I handled it
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at that age better than I thought I would but other than that n like I I got for the that I know of good people
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around me so so your friend like track legs too basically I guess so she like that
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football head shared interest number two oh oh he's more than one yeah like three
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five of them these sa questions are nuts I'm see the house I'm see the house
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stupid that's my time folks that's my time putting you to the testicle
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what's yo that was a good one that was a good one that was a good one you got the
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balls for that yeah all right what's the shadiest
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experience you've had in the entertainment industry that's great you
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made these questions what's the shadiest experience you've had in the in in the
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entertainment that I can share yeah that means several came to lot of shadiness
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boy there's one that came to top but I you know I'm a protect old boy um I ain't going to put him out like that
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he's been through enough [Music] okay the Shady is
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I it hasn't been a a lot that I don't retain these things you know like there
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a lot of things that just don't feel good I don't I don't hold on to them so I don't n i don't I let them go so I
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remember a lot of great things um I would probably say D I ain't supposed to know this so I
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can't say I I can't share this get chance or nothing you can't you can't really okay no they'll know that
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somebody told me this in confidence not just don't do it don't do it but it was it was it was an opportunity that I had to
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connect with this brand in a in a sense and um there was a black woman that was
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uh a lead for me like you know my my point of contact and I was supposed to go to this brand and just have a meeting
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and for me I really love the brand but it was just like I just want to goe and build a relationship but um they blocked
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the black woman blocked the meeting from me yeah and that one that
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one is one that stick out that cut deep you know like and it was on some like I
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wasn't big enough for whatever you I she may have thought that I thought I was going for and it was and I was like I
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wasn't even thinking about I just want to build a relationship and have the meeting that's already even go to before a black woman to block that for me yeah
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that cut deep like that was that was shady for me that was super Shady look Heather getting mad right now got see he
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getting fired us it it yo we some we put our guard down sometimes when we see us
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so we feel like it hurts more when it comes from one of us certain people we expected so we ready for you like for us
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as as much as we had to struggle like you going to block that for me every the men and everybody else like yo we trying
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to make this happen and you going to block itra cuz I was at the hotel last night I was in I was taking a nap and the the the lady uh to come do uh turn
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down came in I didn't hear her open the door I was like oh she was like oh my fault I was like it's cool I didn't hear
38:56
you knocking away whatever she was um I had a blanket on me she was like don't use that blanket right she was like you
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know when it's when I see us in these hotels like I made sure I take care of us and we just started building on that
39:10
and that's just like that's how I think all of us should move absolutely there ain't a black woman I'm not going to look out for absolutely whether I like
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you or not you know that's just how we are facts that goes back to high school you proving it can I ask you a question
39:24
though yeah what was wrong with that blanket oh she was telling me like I be thinking sometimes you look at stuff you
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know like they don't clean that but this one I was like oh I'm sure this probably get washed every day and she was like
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the sheets are the ones that we change every day but this little over blanket if it looks nasty we will clean
39:43
it but other than that don't touch that I was like lot of ski weat on those y lot of
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ski we they don't they don't cut they don't clean those let me get in this shower yeah what the hell let me see just take
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it all off your bed throw it on the side they just do the sheets and the pillowcases what I do is when I go to I
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peel everything off and ask them to clean it like I the sheets the pillowcases the cover all of that I peel
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it off myself and put it on the floor Y in a way that they got to clean change I
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don't do cuz think of how many bodies been on them sheets come on you just thought about that you was wrapped up in
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it all right what else the last question [Laughter]
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about that blanket yo damn would you stood up the blanket stick to you
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y Li experience I'm thinking about the blanket all right I'm sorry rap go ahead
40:40
you gra me nomin some of the nicest hotels yeah like that's what I thought I
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was like oh thanks for the game but I should have known better um okay if you can make a suggestion to Hip Hop media
40:52
on how to improve their coverage what would it be that's a great question for
40:58
that's a good one a you can make a suggestion to Hip Hop media on how to improve their coverage I have nothing
41:04
for y'all oh word okay we're good I mean I think y'all do an amazing job I I
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don't I mean y'all masses the authenticity of it um it's it's crazy I feel like for the
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most part real journalism is real journalism they know what to do I just I just I think the
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thing that frustrates me and probably a lot of of artists and people today is they're not real journalists now and
41:32
everybody's like no factchecking I just want to put this up you know because I
41:37
want the clickbait I want to be the first like you know I mean let's just be real for example the puff situation did
41:45
okay there are so many different stories every day that's on my time like this this this and I'm just like yo I know
41:52
that man ain't no saint but I know all of this is not true either and at the end of the day like it's just a lot of
41:58
[Â __Â ] just being thrown up because it's like clickbait it's you know it's the talk now and and people are so
42:03
programmed they don't know how to critically think you know for themselves so you know it could be with anything
42:10
but that you know that's just one example it's like yo like for any situation whether you got a situation
42:15
like that like how do you protect real victims of any situation if you got all this other stuff that's just muddying it
42:22
up so it's just like yo like I just wish there was more space for real journalism
42:27
to really exist and we get rid of all this clickbait blog I'm a podcast I just want to speak my opinion everybody got a
42:34
mic now yeah I don't need to hear all y'all I just don't look at H been saying
42:39
this years please shut up shut up don't I know you got a gift like you could
42:45
probably make amazing egg rolls like you know what I'm saying do something
42:51
else saying like enjoy the group chat open your journals yeah you but this is just it's
42:58
just so much and it's just like what is what is all of this yeah I love that shout out to Rob Markman out to that's
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the easy one to shout out a real one well he does the work yeah thoroughly he does the work very much so yeah
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thoroughly um rap we just wanted to see you today man I'm I'm so happy you came
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in today um thank you y always make space for me any any and every time
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we've been doing it for I I never forget I got to keep bringing it up we co-hosted uh the finale of one shot you
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know y one shot like 2016 on the rooftop on the
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rooftop on the rooftop I don't know if you ever hosted anything but I was like I want her to coost with me and then the
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people was it Death Jam or what was it remember whatever whoever it was was
43:49
like why why why you want her I said well this is what I do that's love you
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know what I mean and I know who she is you real yeah and so let co-host with me I
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don't need a I didn't need a co-host necessarily but I wanted one yeah and um
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and I wanted to and I wanted a black woman y you said that you said that intentionality intentionality like damn
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that's so important man and look at you now man I can't wait to go to the gramy scho come on do not invited I was
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invited the team is right there they doing something else I'm takes away my date man yeah come on let's go get it
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don't feel don't feel no pressure don't feel no PR go viral don't feel no pressure that be
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fire dop stop playing is in the build building I'm just don't don't try to interview me either I'm standing behind
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her no beside me what are you talking shoulder to shoulder El to Elbow
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locked there you go there you go give it up for Rap City yo I love you what's next where you headed next
44:57
where am I headed next from here M uh home okay okay um I got a uh an event
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with Styles P next weekend oh shout out to Styles P here in New York yeah uh
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it's it's like his yearly holiday Community thing something like that yeah they reached out asked me I
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like anything for Styles anything for Styles it's family so I'm going do that next weekend back in New York it's going to be cold bundle up what day you coming
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I guess here on the 13th oh that's so that's crazy what's that and and the
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team is here too it's just what happened that the 13th that we are all during our year in
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gathering and we rented a space five floors state of the Ark equipment so on
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and so forth and we just have an experience with our friends Heather's cooking BB's going to be DJing you know
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you know I would love to invite y'all to come hang out with us rap and we gonna have exclusive citizens only a handful
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of people will be there it was by subscribership only yeah and if y'all around next next Friday come to our
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Suare It's Already Done rap party a year in rap party you vegan for real yeah I
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got you I got a pimple cuz I hadn't eaten meat since the end of July and two days ago I've been working out my body
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was like give boy give me some protein I was like boy this pimp came so fast I was like that's my body telling me what
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are you doing yeah that meat that carcass yeah okay easy all right that's good rapity yeah hopefully we'll see
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y'all there all right I know y got veg not vegetarian V vegan yeah no cheese no ber yeah okay well look we're super
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proud of you yes thank you I and and 2025 yeah no we we gearing up we gearing
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up I want to drop another album next year okay yeah it'll be with all the things film label uhhuh yeah what up
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