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Smino Hints Towards New Music & Top 5 Sneakers & Why He's Giving Away His Collection
Dec 4, 2024
Smino stops by Sway in the Morning to share exciting news about receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from Harvard's Black Men Forum! The St. Louis native opens up about this incredible honor and treats listeners to an exclusive preview of his upcoming album "Maybe in Nirvana." In this candid conversation, Smino discusses his approach to authentic friendships in the industry, his musical collaborations with artists like J. Cole, DOI, and Fat Man Scoop, and reveals details about his pre-"Love For Rent" project that's finally seeing the light of day. Get ready for raw, insightful music as Smino premieres "Taquan," a track from his forthcoming album. He also shares his perspective on maintaining genuine relationships, developing a green thumb, and his journey of personal growth through music. From his sneaker collection giveaway plans to his views on building lasting connections in hip-hop, this interview showcases why Smo continues to be one of music's most genuine voices. Watch as he breaks down his creative process and explains why this new project might be his most personal yet. #waterloosunsetcloudsessions #waterloosunset #musicforstudying #harvarduniversity #musicforstudying CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 01:14 - How You Been 03:45 - Honored at Harvard 06:50 - Relationship with Doja Cat 09:19 - Who Did Your Hair Today 10:20 - Love's Influence on Smino’s Music 12:55 - Collaborating with Artists 14:56 - Importance of Solid Friendships 16:34 - Celebrating “NOIR” Anniversary
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[Applause]
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yo this guy is back Tracy G uhhuh you
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could do the research you do the
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research you put his name up put our
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name up you see that we've been we've
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been meeting up for years and one of the
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things I've always said about his I
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always enjoy listening to his music and
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I always enjoy his features because he
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introduces people to folks through
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supporting people who just his friends
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that we was talking about am earlier yes
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absolutely 100% glad that they
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collaborated um and all his many
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collaborations um have really landed in
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my musical pallet my personal pallet
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Mike M J Cole yeah jcole right DOI Saba
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DOI all these different people are
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artists that um I listen to Just because
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right and so it's always great to have
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him come back by the show always an
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interesting conversation also a
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celebration this man is getting
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acknowledged for something pretty damn
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incredible we going to talk about that
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he got a new project that's coming out
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no date on it just yet you know no we
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ain't got a lot of information on it but
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we got a lot of anticipation on it
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welcome back to the show The One and
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Only
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[Applause]
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s family man how y man how you been
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young man I'm good black people I'm very
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good you good yeah I'm real good I like
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that GRE in black people yep feels good
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we need that today man um we need that
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today yeah we need that today um how how
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how did you participate in the election
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this year um yeah I did I did okay good
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just a round of applause I ain't going
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even ask you who just a great way to
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kick it off you ain't got you ain't got
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to ask who
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man you know what side we on okay there
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you God damn it I did not get I might as
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well go ahead and
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act we we we we voted for women for for
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change they godam come on man voted for
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women I got it pink on today that's what
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that's about that's interesting because
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I I I said that and I won't dive too
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deep but I I said that to some of my uh
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comrades and some of my peers why part
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of why I was voting for U KLA Harris is
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because she's a woman right when may
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have been a hindrance to her Victory um
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um ironically might may have been a
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hindrance we know it was a hindrance to
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her Victory but damn it is it's been
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nothing but beautiful women who raised
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us who brought us into this world you do
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the stats and you find out how many
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women are heads of companies and you
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compare their um results and the success
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rate as heads of companies um you will
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find that women make great CEOs business
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Mogul Leaders The Whole Nine and I think
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the country um for those who didn't vote
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for this person because she was a woman
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the country definitely needs a reset and
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hearing you say that especially folks
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that come from our community and come
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from our culture really lands well for
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me Mano man I [ __ ] with you love bro I
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mean you know I got I grew up I grew up
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I got four big sisters my mom I grew up
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around a bunch of women my my my pops
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got six five six sisters like you know I
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was raised by a lot of women and and you
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know I just seen this statistic that
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said uh young women are out earning
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young men right now in the in the
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workforce you know what I mean so I just
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I mean hey it is what it is and if you
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my man over there you know we love
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hiring you know women to just kind of be
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on the team because it's a little extra
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detail that they just go about you know
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taking care of some stuff so yeah I mean
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yeah that's where we at with that but
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real man right here come on man let that
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breathe for a
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second now I talked about a celebration
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that's happening and um there's
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something going on with Howard no not
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excuse me Howard I'm so I'm thinking of
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my daughter Harvard my daughter goes to
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Howard grad school I'm talking about
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every day but Harvard you're being
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honored at Harvard uh yeah the black men
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Foundation of Harvard they wanted to
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give me like a Lifetime Achievement
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Award um black man Forum my bad excuse
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me the black man Forum at Harvard um
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they giving me a Lifetime Achievement
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Award so yeah I'm going to go see what
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it's about cuz I figured a bunch of
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black men in Harvard got to had
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something good to say you know come on
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man but but what is it based on did they
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tell you why they chose you they
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basically was saying when I read through
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it it was pretty much saying that it was
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um for my excellence in being and and
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how I like uphold myself as a black man
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and what I do for my community back home
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in St Louis and things pertaining to
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that like you know I I can't really go
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into DET about what it is cuz I I still
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I'm still figuring it out I'm just going
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to see what is you know what it is for
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real for real but yeah I'm I'm honored
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honestly I like that cuz I know the
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things you do you don't do for
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acknowledgement or recognition so uh
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it's kind of a to me you're anomaly in
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the sense that don't you don't live to
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me like a regular rap star you know what
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I mean is that on purpose it's a lot
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it's a lot getting caught up in the
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circus or everything it's it's such a
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it's such it's too fun almost like it's
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like sometimes you get into this part
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where you just like it's really you you
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kind of start feeling delusional like I
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know these ain't my friends like I know
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these ain't my people so I just try to
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spend more time with the people that
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actually like you know feed me and like
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you know make me feel more better as a
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as as a dude like not even no rapper
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just a dude like I'm like that's my boy
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I'm proud of you you um I don't know did
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whatever like you got your license
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finally me I'm proud of you like people
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that tell me stuff like that type people
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I try to be around what are the
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qualities that you look for and friends
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that you make now at this stage because
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as we continue to expand and evolve we
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also have the opportunity to meet people
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who mirror where we're at but of course
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to your point you have to be Discerning
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to understand like what their motives
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are who they are perhaps behind a mask
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what do you kind of look at as um
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qualifiers or how much time do you take
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before you can call someone a friend at
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this stage it take a long time for I be
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like you my friend you know what I'm
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saying my mama raised me like that you
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ain't got no friends but I'm from the
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hood so you know how that go like you
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got to be careful but um yeah man I
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think my main quality is how you treat
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other folks like you know what I'm
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saying cuz a lot of times I meet people
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that's pretty successful so they
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probably think they just up her and
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somebody down here and I just don't I
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really don't rock with that so anytime I
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can find somebody that's just solid like
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with everybody like from the biggest to
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the like you know just that Community
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grocery store personal like we out with
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the Uber driver you ain't treating the
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Uber driver all bad and stuff like that
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I rock with you you you good people
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great quality to have I can bring you to
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my crib if I can't bring you to my crib
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you're not my homie straight up that's
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just how it that man another you about
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to get a lot of applies you put me in a
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good ass mood to I'll be honest with
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youo a little rough um I understand bro
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I understand uh we brought up um DOI um
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I know y'all did that um want to say Pro
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freak that also featured U fat man scoop
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Long Live scop come on Long Live scoop
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man man what do what do you recall about
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just being even having that affiliation
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with school man I I really just was was
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crazy in the studio all right so if you
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ever been to a Smo show my hype man
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sounds like fat man school so like I I
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asked my hype man I was like uh his name
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Jeff on the bush I my boy Jeff on the
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bush Charlotte I say Jeff bro I need you
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to hit that big booty girl I need you to
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hit that J like fat man Schoop he did it
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and then I hit my manager heny and he
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was just like yo you know I actually
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like know fat man scoop I could just hit
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fat man scoop and he hit fat man scoop
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and scoop straight called my phone wow
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he was so excited to do it you know what
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I'm saying he was like me on man did one
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part when you you know what I'm saying I
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don't know if youever talk to school but
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you know he be turned man so like he was
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just like yeah that one part when you
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getting down I figured I could do it
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like that you know he just holling at me
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I'm like bro you fat man School bro
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whatever you want to do we going to do
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it bro so yeah I mean he got it the way
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and we just added his vocals to the song
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that we already made and then it was
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just like this empty verse and I just
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sent her to DOI and she just took flight
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so that's how it went a't something how
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DOI is taking flight though bro oh yeah
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I knew that from the man what from the
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jump like I like ain't no way she ain't
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going to go crazy like what she she's a
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pure Lyricist a pure singer a pure star
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just literally yeah she's special though
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she she's something different to me like
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I I see a ton of projects coming from
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her you know oh yeah absolutely do you
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concern yourself with that like
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longevity I think that that's all I've
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concerned myself with is longevity like
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I never try to think about this week or
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last week when it come to music because
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it's supposed to be timeless you know
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I've been playing show I've been playing
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shows for a while and I've been playing
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songs from like 2017 since wow forever
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you know so I feel like it's important
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to just put your heart into the music
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cuz from there people just going to you
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know people going to decide if they want
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to listen to something anyway or not so
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I feel like the more you give them to
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like listen to and to decide about the
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better off you are so yeah that's really
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that's that's my whole spill on
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longevity know who did who did your who
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did your
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bra ask you was going to ask go ahead
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after you ask yeah no because we talked
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a little bit before we um Came live on
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air but this to fit everything just A1
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but the hair like who who who did your
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hair today my little my little baby did
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this nice she did tell her she did no
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because hair is energy and you can't let
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everybody in in your hair you just can't
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I could probably count on one hand how
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many people have done my hair before
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like literally wow straight yeah you got
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to be careful with that energy so no she
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did a good job salute to the CIS salute
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and and speaking of your lady I gotta
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say I'd love that you just I love that
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you're so committed to your girl I love
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when there are those in the culture that
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are like claiming the love of their life
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for us to see and obviously it's still
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important to have your privacy you know
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because that pours into the intimacy but
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I think that's really important
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especially because we had a culture for
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so long that was rooted in misogyny you
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know what I mean a culture that was
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allergic to monogamy you know and
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anything that felt like a union how do
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you feel like your relationship and
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shout out to da um how do you feel like
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that has helped to shape your strength
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as an artist or how you view the world I
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mean I grew up seeing love so I figured
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not I mean I didn't even do it for that
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but like you know expressing it and
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showing it to the world is like it's a
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lot of people that probably don't get to
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see that and they might think that I'm
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pretty cool so I'm like I'm going just
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show that too that portion of my life
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you know and um also I think write my
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best songs when I'm in love you know
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what I'm saying I think I write my I
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make my best music when I'm in love
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honestly yeah my best music has been
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about that's some type of girl SW you
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over there crying
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almost man man yeah man I ain't I ain't
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I love my daughter so may you know I I
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understand man love right now girls man
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yeah I got a daughter so um anyway man
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um I'm sorry how old your daughter 26
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bro okay got a grown ass daughter I know
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you wasn't expecting that number right
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there cuz I look so you know young wow
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young wow how you get to compliment
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yourself in that I was on mind he was
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like damn swiggy I didn't know you got a
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26 old you know uh but um always how did
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you inab hookup did that ever know name
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what happened was I was in what had
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happened was just playing I was in
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Chicago living in Chicago transplant
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from St Louis obviously and then um we
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all played Pitchfork the same year
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and this literally how it happened first
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of all we all dropped albums in 2017 I
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dropped black swine she dropped
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telephone sa dropped what was sa
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type comfort zone right I think it was
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comfort zone H he act like he was going
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to
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remember so so we all dropped in 2017
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and it kind of uh just that was all of
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our like takeoff projects and we played
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Pitchfork and Lauren Hill was there I
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never forget we met Lauren Hill and all
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that she was like y'all the ones push
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for keep pushing and then somebody took
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a picture of all us and we posted it and
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it went mad viral and everybody was like
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this the super group rap needs and stuff
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like that so um we tried to just you
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know come up with a name and all that
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and we came up with ghetto Sage cuz
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ghetto Sage you know we all like burning
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sage and being ghetto yeah so do baby
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yeah little do yeah we came up with
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ghetto sage and all that and yeah that's
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how we came together the people made us
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a group for real we still working on the
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album right now still working on the
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album what what I appreciate about you
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collaborate with a lot of folks you
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right and uh not everybody do that some
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artists just sitting the studio by
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themselves and but that seemed to be the
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formula that work for for you then yeah
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I ain't going to stunt sway I'm fire
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that's one thing I know like I'm fire
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like I I can I can get on anything I'm a
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I'm a drummer I'm a musician so a lot of
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music inspires me so people will send me
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cool stuff and I just be like I'm about
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to find my way on it you know that's
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really how this is really how I look at
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stuff it's more about the music than the
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person always what you saying and all
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that I don't care how big you are I
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don't care if you just got a th000
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followers if I like the song I'm
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probably going to do my thing yeah and
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you come from a music family so that's
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in your DNA my daddy still playing at
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church every Sunday come on man shout
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out to Pops man you are fire and um I
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don't critique your music you know what
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I mean I receive your music you know
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like a lot of us who work in the
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business tend to hear songs and want to
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pick the [ __ ] apart or whatever a lot of
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those folks never made songs I I come
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from a background where I made songs so
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when somebody's giving you something and
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I receive it like if I'm at your home
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and you put something on the plate I'mma
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eat it cuz you made it you know what I
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mean that's tight you know and so I
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definitely think you fire I always tell
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Smo like yo man you make the kind of
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music that gives us the feeling we felt
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that we always talk about when we were
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coming up but I don't like to put I
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don't think that feeling is um
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is a feeling that couldn't be repeated
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so to speak you know and so I don't like
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to put it on the old school I just think
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you make great music for now that
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reminds me of what I felt like when
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groups like De La Soul and tribe call
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Quest and all these guys are coming out
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because you knew it was something
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special you know what I mean not because
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it sounds like it but it gives me that
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feeling that's hard yeah Mano Smo was
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here man U Mike Muse go ahead yeah it
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kind of goes to the question I had
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wanted to ask you Smo particularly when
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sway when you're talking about how he's
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a great collaborator I'm going make a
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big assumption here and it's dangerous
15:04
to make assumptions but I feel like you
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have such a strong sense of self and
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agency and vulnerability that I feel
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like you have a good group of guy
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friends um if you could talk about that
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and and then benefit of how that's
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helped you define and own your agency
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yeah you can tell I don't have to worry
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about my homies doing something weird
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and I'm like hey yo why you do that bro
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I got a dis on I don't got to worry
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about that ever you know what I'm saying
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I think it's all just uh I don't know
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how I don't know that's just a straight
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blessing from God cuz I ain't try to do
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that or nothing I think it's
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like personalities meeting each other
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and stuff but all my homeboys just good
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good guys raising their kids or you know
15:44
making their music staying out the way
15:47
they don't really be off to all the you
15:49
know extras like that like I got some
15:51
wild homies but they they pretty much so
15:53
still respect women and all that like
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yeah bro I don't know I I don't really
15:59
know how that happened like honestly
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it's straight only a blessing I can't
16:02
put words behind that I'm so grateful
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for how that benefited you uh they just
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got my back I don't never feel weird
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when I'm around like they they know what
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I'm with and what I'm not with so let's
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say we having a show and it's after the
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show and obviously people start you know
16:17
wan to come backstage and you know the
16:19
homies might collect some cool girls to
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come backstage just like we don't be
16:23
with certain stuff though you know what
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I'm saying and I ain't got to go too far
16:26
in on that but you know what I mean like
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yeah I ain't got to worry about them for
16:31
real me no man um give this man a round
16:34
of applause celebrating the two-year
16:36
anniversary of um love for rent and I
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was just thinking about how many people
16:40
was on that album fat man scoop jcole
16:44
Uzi Lucky Day DOI like all these people
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were on that one project bro yeah can't
16:52
forget r l come on yeah my sis that's
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your sis yeah that's my sis That's a
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classic man
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and it's only two years old
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congratulations man that's a classic but
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let me ask you I read you know um did I
17:05
what I wear today what I didn't wear
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nothing today hey come on bro I didn't
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do nothing today I should have he KN you
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know to do know normally I have my
17:17
sneaker game on point I should have I
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should have wore them but I wor the Y
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I'm in New York I got the Y on you got
17:23
to get ready I got on y but but you you
17:28
you you announced that you were giving
17:29
away your sneakers right on Instagram
17:31
did did that happen what size you were
17:33
11 dog all right I got some stuff for
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you I I get too much shoes to my house
17:39
like no no no complaint shout out to
17:41
Nike and all of my good peop that send
17:43
me shoes but I just got too many shoes
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and you know going on tour I can't wear
17:48
that same shoes every night I I lowke
17:50
getting my shoes out every night cuz on
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my rider I got a pair of white forces
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every night you know I sound I'm about
17:55
to sound a real real privileged for a
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minute I got all my you know not on the
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ride I got the white forces so I sign
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them just throw them out but sometimes I
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don't and then they just end up piling
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up in my closet so yeah I'm giving it
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away I'm doing this partnership with
18:08
this uh company called Grill it's a
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company where you can resell your stuff
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but I'm about to basically have a whole
18:15
Smo closet for sale towards the end of
18:17
the year yeah and you can get whatever
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you seen me wearing probably oh can you
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is it like a fa PA like is it against
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the rule to where your your ones more
18:27
than once
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they car ons
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bro that's crazy for the one you can
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only wear them on the white ones the
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white ones you can wear the black ones
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all your life you can you going have a
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same part of black forces for 25 years
18:44
if you want to bro cuz yeah you could
18:46
only wear on one when that line come
18:48
across way it's over like you know what
18:51
it really is though it's when that
18:53
little bottom that little bottom get a
18:54
little brown from walking and then you
18:57
you take one step and you just like you
18:59
got on some white and brown shoes so St
19:01
yeah supp are there other ways that um
19:04
you express yourself outside cuz clearly
19:06
we see it when it comes to Fashion
19:08
obviously when it comes to music what
19:10
other forms of creative Outlets do you
19:12
tap into it's not really a thing that I
19:14
share though it's like I I love I love
19:17
like um I like all right so I recently
19:20
developed a green
19:21
thumb that's great yeah so I like I like
19:25
planting stuff you know and growing
19:26
stuff come on Gardener that's great man
19:28
yeah that's dope all kinds of stuff yeah
19:31
a lot of metaphors in that practice too
19:33
what you growing like you said turnup
19:35
I'm I'm growing some turn up right now
19:37
I'm gr a whole lot of turnup going a
19:40
whole lot of turn up yeah bunch of turn
19:43
up okay yeah six turnup plants I like
19:46
salad so we get it popping man okay so I
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wear a size 11
19:50
sneaker we we going to get you together
19:53
we going to get you together I'm 112
19:54
over here okay okay you heard Hy handy
19:57
going write that down man That's My Boy
19:59
over there okay no Andy don't write him
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down write me down oh
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wow okay I'm Miss I'm I'm your plug uh
20:08
what's your what's your top five iconic
20:10
sneakers top five sneakers yeah I first
20:13
laes obviously okay number one number
20:16
two shelto Adidas number three
20:20
um um the Jordan flu
20:23
games um four I'mma go with um
20:29
the beef and broccoli
20:31
Tims and five I'mma go with the beef and
20:35
broccoli Tims five
20:38
bapes baby yeah some bapes any Pat and
20:41
leather though Pat leather Pat and
20:43
leather B I just went with my good I
20:44
ain't really want to think about ain't
20:45
nobody ever asked me that question so
20:48
good good man that's what it is come on
20:50
man size 11 dog wow so we got all that
20:55
bro okay just case y'all didn't hear
20:56
that part what can you tell us about
20:58
about the new project yes the new
21:00
project um was made before love for rent
21:06
really timeless music yeah that's what I
21:09
could tell you and um can I say the name
21:13
all right it's called maybe in Nirvana
21:16
maybe in Nirvana yeah because um
21:19
basically I felt like I would I would
21:21
never be at peace if I didn't put this
21:22
project out so I felt like all right
21:25
maybe it'll be a good time when I am at
21:26
pece to put this project out so it's
21:28
called Maybe Nirvana but I it's it's
21:30
very very very very insightful music
21:32
about my life at that time of my life
21:34
and it's yeah it feels I love it is it
21:37
is it a closure project for that time of
21:40
your life or yeah yeah yeah so I can
21:42
move forward cuz I got so much music to
21:44
put out right now like literally
21:47
literally I left LA from the studio to
21:49
come here but I got so much music to put
21:51
out and I can't wait to put it out but I
21:52
was just like bro this burn in my
21:54
pockets you know how you got some your
21:55
pocket I need to show everybody this fit
21:57
you wonder where this fit that's how I
21:59
am right now with this album so yeah
22:01
it's like nine 10 song 10 songs 10 songs
22:04
man I feel like since you here it's been
22:06
a couple of years man like you know us
22:09
man we know you yeah man turn your air
22:11
drop on man turn my air yo DB uh torch
22:13
turn your air drop on so is it on we got
22:18
got it we got it he got it oh you
22:20
already got the song no you air dropped
22:23
it yeah I air dropped it yeah that's the
22:27
it take one take you got it take one
22:31
hold on okay you want something else
22:33
okay I like that I don't know I honestly
22:35
I don't even care you pick any one or
22:36
they all five you could curse it don't
22:37
matter serious you talking about I ain't
22:39
going to St I've been trying to stop
22:40
cursing so much oh you want to stop I
22:43
commend that trying to I ain't said I
22:45
did okay my music n i really for real
22:48
I've been trying to try to say more
22:49
words it's it be wild it's wild how did
22:52
you come to that conclusion I cuss a lot
22:54
I was listening to this video of me talk
22:56
I'm like damn why I cuss so much I'm
22:58
like
22:59
all that's cuz just I don't know I just
23:01
do and I'm like let me just make a new
23:03
habit I be trying to like bend my mind
23:04
around and stuff like now and then you
23:07
know I like that you right-handed or
23:09
left-handed right here's a something you
23:12
should try um too cuz I do that too I
23:15
try to shock my mind and and not and
23:18
break out of habits when you wake up in
23:20
the morning you go to the bathroom first
23:23
thing you do is you brush your teeth
23:24
with your left
23:26
hand and start doing that utilize things
23:28
if you're okay trust me it kind of wise
23:31
slowly through the day I'm sipping
23:33
coffee with my left hand smoking weed
23:35
with my left hand put you exercising
23:37
different parts of your brain now you
23:38
said smoking we just started to sound
23:40
like a hook we learned a new word today
23:43
what's that prattle yeah that's right
23:45
yeah and it means to talk at length
23:47
about insignificant matters
23:49
M so just shooting the [ __ ] yeah
23:53
basically it's like small talk yeah not
23:55
so much small talk though I guess it
23:57
could be interpreted as small talk I
23:59
interpret it as just like time wasting
24:03
conversations prattling okay all right
24:06
we'll hear that in a verse all right so
24:08
what we going to play what we playing
24:09
what we playing taquan I believe this
24:11
how you pronounce it or yeah taquan it's
24:13
basically tequila and wine taquine T
24:16
this is brand new we're only going to S
24:19
Play a clip of it for the fourth
24:21
cominging album right and it's called
24:23
maybe in Nirvana the iso a world
24:27
premiere premier exclusive all right man
24:29
I love it man that's a VI that's a win
24:33
12 out of 10 Lonnie like what you think
24:36
fire more
24:38
fire Smo is here maybe in Nirvana that's
24:43
the name of the project we don't even
24:45
have a date
24:46
[Applause]
24:48
yet s seen it I heard the antic I wasn't
24:52
even looking at word the appetite is
24:54
present yeah it's on the way it's on the
24:56
way on the way man I'm looking forward
24:58
to it early Christmas gift next time I
25:00
come back up cuz I'm putting out another
25:01
album Top of the Year too okay so next
25:04
time I come up here hopefully y'all have
25:05
me back at the top of the Year bro you
25:07
come this your hey this is Smo in the
25:09
morning bro this this is your platform
25:11
Now dog especially when you slide those
25:14
I'm just
25:17
trying especially when you do that
25:19
trying to tell you uh no you know what
25:21
it is it got Beyond it gets Beyond
25:24
industry and business I I I recall one
25:27
time years ago seeing you in an
25:30
interview where you talked about all the
25:32
different stuff that comes to rap you
25:34
got to go here you got to do this you
25:35
got to do that and that's part of the
25:37
process that's part of the business for
25:39
us we've done this so long we connect
25:42
with people because of who they are you
25:45
know what I mean like even if somebody
25:46
came up here with a song I didn't
25:48
necessarily uh align with I can align
25:51
with that person fortunately for you we
25:54
align with you and I truly align with
25:56
your music so as as long as I have a
25:59
platform she has a platform she you have
26:01
a place to come to all right that's love
26:03
that's why our family is family brother
26:05
you [ __ ] with everybody fck y we Country
26:08
Cousins now I don't know if y country
26:10
but we country cousin country yeah man
26:12
my my folks from Louisiana outside we
26:15
got Carol Parish you know we all got
26:18
there the same way man Smo keep going
26:21
brother the the m the m music needs you
26:24
the community needs you yeah uh we need
26:27
you brother
26:28
appreciate it man N I appreciate it man
26:30
I love where you are mentally the whole
26:32
n that song sounds you can just hear
26:34
your Evolution you consistently make
26:37
music to me that signature music to you
26:39
and I appreciate that keep rapping homie
26:41
for sure man love give it up for Smo man
26:44
all right love it
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