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Why Symba Says Hip-Hop Labels Are Failing Artists! | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Apr 7, 2025
Symba drops bombshells on "Sway In The Morning," exposing the drama behind his exit from Atlantic Records and the struggles of being boxed in as an artist during COVID. In this exclusive interview, Symba opens up about being pushed to create a sound that didn’t represent his authentic voice, the cultural disconnect with industry executives, and how he reclaimed his artistry. From Freestyle viral moments reposted by LeBron to being told "nobody cares after Monday," Symba shares the harsh realities of the music industry. He also celebrates the release of "Freaky Tales," his big acting debut alongside Hollywood legends, and recounts his transformative journey to Ghana, where he provided laptops to underserved students, embracing his roots and uplifting communities. Plus, don’t miss his powerful freestyle and announcement of his first independent single, "Lonely," dropping April 25th. Catch Symba’s raw, unfiltered truth, his cultural pride for the Bay Area, and his plans to inspire the next generation of artists. Subscribe to Sway’s Universe for more exclusive interviews and insight into hip-hop, culture, and change. Don’t miss this eye-opening conversation! #Symba #AtlanticRecords #FreakyTales #SwayInTheMorning #BayArea #HipHop #navigatingthemusicbusiness #musicmoneymakeover #musicmarketing #howtopromoteyourmusic #trailer #sym #freakytales #resultstaketime #movie #freakytalestrailer CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 01:12 - Symba on His New Movie “Freaky Tales” 03:18 - Bay Area Recognition in Film 11:05 - Relationship with Will Smith 15:21 - Channeling Too $hort for the Role 22:26 - Transformative Conversations in Life 25:08 - Symba's Aspirations as a Father 26:42 - Freestyle That Changed Everything 28:10 - Symba's Journey to Africa
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let's just reel it up real quick yes sir db find that Uchi Wall-E beat for me too
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man yes sir that freestyle find me that one while I talk a little bit while I talk my [ __ ] a little bit here man
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family in the building family in the building town business is in the building northern California ye from the
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north to the south he represent the whole entire state citizens he been putting this down for a long time over
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10 years in the making man they don't know it they just discovered it recently we knew it from day one they loved him
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in LA but we love him in the Bay now come on man he's making his debut today
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freaky Tails man he's making his acting debut today man give this man a big
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round of applause man he been putting it down for quite some time man two more
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words mixtapers when you first found out about him but we knew him way before then ladies and gentlemen Hollywood's
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finest now look at him give it up for the one and only Simba
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i love you for that old baby baby come on standing old baby thank you i got to
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I I reached out to this man i said rap i woke up shout out to Lord Rab no
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vultures brownie blends the bars podcast they killing it right now man shout out
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to my brothers the bars podcast i love that collective of just amazing thought
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process and these two guys have just really done their due diligence and they're very opinionated but they're
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very informed at the same time you know they get it from you well you know man I
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know they get it from you i mean I go that far but but if you say it man I'm blushing over here tracy G you know
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Tracy what's up girl what a dude simple congratulations bro we're so honored
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thank you so much for real thank you thank you so much we got a lot to talk about today Tracy we got a lot to talk
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about let's get to it too man first of all I want to start off um today is a big day man uh it's a it's a movie
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called Freaky Tales it's a film it's in theaters today man and it's starring too short is in it um he's a EP it's an
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executive producer um he's a narrator of it all it's loosely based freaky Tales
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is a famous song that came out back in the day if you're from the town you know about it i met this girl her name was
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Joan she loved the way I rock on the microphone
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hey tonight a date you know uh and and I'm really
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proud of you because to come from where we come from and to be able to accomplish what you have accomplished
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it's I won't say it's rare any longer because we've had a lot of people do a lot of great things u but it definitely
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furthers the legacy of amazing eclectic artists that come from the Bay Area that
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have not allowed themselves to be pigeonholed or boxed in and you weren't afraid to leave the bay to go get it and
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then the best thing about it is you come back to the bay all the time to give it all right so congratulation simba has
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his debut film out today freaky Tales man what does that feel like for you man
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it's I can't even explain what it feel like for me because I'm so concerned about what it feel like for us okay
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right short getting his flowers while he's still here you know what I mean ryan and Anna coming to the Bay Area
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lionsgate Macro coming to the Bay Area tom Hanks who's from the Bay Area pedro
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Pascal jay Ellis jake Champion from Avatar like all these people coming to
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the Bay Area on streets that we grew up on what streets did you have them on i know oh man we was over there over there
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by New Parish off Broadway we was on Telegraph uh me and Dominique and
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Normani was moving through uh University wow like we was we was moving through shout out to Stunnman O2 because he
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actually was taking the cast around the bay like taking them to like restaurants and like different clothing spots and
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different things to show them the culture of the bay so just to have that experience because you know how we feel
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we feel like we overlook a lot of people take our sauce and they go put mayo on it you know what I mean and they they
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run off with it that's so deep there's a lot of layers to that that one right there they they do it every time so it
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was like for Ryan and Anna to come back to the Bay and Ryan's from the Bay shout out to Ryan Flack he was like "Nah we
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doing this." Like and Angus Cloud angus Cloud yeah rest in power sleepy Floyd
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come on right like these were things to where they were told that they should go
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build a Oakland in Hollywood they were told to go to a production studio and build a Oakland ryan was like "No we're
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going to Oakland." Yeah like this is going to happen in Oakland it wouldn't have worked any other way wouldn't have worked no other way it had to be
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authentic to Oakland oakland is a very it's almost esoteric in a way like if
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you know you know you could not do a movie on Oakland outside of Oakland we
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the most we the most diverse place in the world in my opinion yes I could be wrong but in my opinion we're the most
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diverse place in the world to where you got all these different cultures different ethnicities different
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restaurants different club owners different clothing brands all these things like we we make this melting pot
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of a gumbo that's so tasteful that you can't get away from but you've been everywhere you've had your you've been
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to New York you know you've been you had your your roots in Atlanta you had your feet in Atlanta as well here in LA as
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well you know you've done a lot of work in LA with Mustard YG all these different guys early on you connected
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with them and that's still your opinion that this is the most Oakland the most diverse place on the planet 10,000%
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really and no no place I've been to Spain uh anywhere in Europe New York like it's
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no place like the Bay it's no place like the Bay like we're the most unique thing
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to us mhm like we don't care about what's going on in the world as long as we happy as long as them warriors
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winning i just saw that last night please no need to bring that up no need yeah as
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long as them warriors winning short got movies out 40 got albums dropping mr fab taking care of the city lord Rab out
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here putting paint where it ain't we happy we have California now let's make
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some noise for that right there back on the west man we back on the west i I do my Oakland work outside of the bay a lot
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you know so I've been like a satellite that's just been I heard about that Grand National you just bought you did i heard about Well man damn they telling
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you about that huh now shout out to my brother Ed Wise i I'll be rolling his Grand National when I'm in the town you
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know the wise guys man uh but yeah but just my my mission was to go outside of
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the bay and plant seeds in different places so when me and King Tech came to LA back in the early 90s and started
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syndicating the show in different places like Philly the Carolas you know um the
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Midwest Chicago and then moving to Oakland I mean moving to um New York in 2000 you know to do MTV that's always
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been my mission to just plant these Oakland seeds everywhere and by the time folks caught up to that movement when
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they when they arrived on the soil they were surrounded by blossoming blossoming
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garden y of opportunity because I've been in places that folks hadn't been to
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and so I wanted to prep the door i wanted to prep that arrival for folks and then people just start like yourself
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this is what I admire about you you from the town but you're from the planet
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the earth is my turf yes the earth is my turf being somebody from the Bay Area man I got confidence you know the things
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we come from how many times they told us we wouldn't be nothing right coming from
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this place oh y'all just on an island over there ain't nobody worried about y'all so I was like you know what let me
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go touch the world let me go really get on these platforms and show the world like y'all think we just all this y'all
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think it's just all hy and it's all dance and it's all No we really come from some game it's a reason Tupac came
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to this place and got his aura it's a reason 40 got his deal in the early 90s
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it's a reason Short was popping in the 80s we was the inventors of a lot of this game that y'all use today you hear
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people talk about broccoli we smoking that broccoli woke up looking for that come from 40 that's from 40 that come
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from 40 that come from that come from our soil so as somebody that's proud of
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that I always felt like you know what if I can't make my sound regional let me
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get out here in front of the world and show them that I'm still from this place and what we represent as a community
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sa's here man you could catch them on Freaky Tales make sure you go in the theaters draymond Green draymond
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defensive player of the year let's talk about it salute to Draymond Green i saw you guys having a on that bar podcast
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having a conversation with Draymond i saw Rab and them talking with him talk about when like people like Stephen
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Curry and some of the professional athletes like Draymond Green or people who played on different football teams
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and baseball teams come to the Bay and a lot of the Bay embraces them and then
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you can see their growth you know and then their love for the Bay what have who have you seen really attach themselves to them man Draymond is
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definitely one of those guys steph Curry is definitely one of those guys even though we lost them klay Thompson is
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definitely one of those guys um these are people that's not even from here but
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came here and just adapted the culture you know Draymond just opened up a new restaurant in San Francisco wow
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congratulations to him for that yeah spot fire spot you know the name of
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it i think it's called like um mis I don't want to say yeah rabac call
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but it's um Indian fusion food wow and we actually went there for Allstar
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weekend i had took my family there and um the food was phenomenal the service was phenomenal and it's something that
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we missing in the Bay as far as like where can we go to get something to eat after 9:00 and the Aviance is sexy right
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the drinks are available the food is good the music is blasting we got somewhere to sit so Dre has been a um a
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big blessing to the Bay and so has Steph Curry steph Curry does a lot of community work um with Mr fab you know
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they just recently Fab just repainted the courts in North Oakland yeah man
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hooping yeah he be out there hooping with the kids so like they mean so much to the community because we forget that
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they're not from there they're so entrenched in the community and what they do we forget sometimes like oh
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they're not from here but they move like they are and we truly appreciate that we Hey Simba's here man we going to talk
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about a lot today but I want to make sure certain things you know I want to make certain certain
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things get mentioned because we were talking with Will Smith last week my big brother that's your big brother man and
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this dude's been in the business for almost 40 40 years plus Will Smith has right and um I made it a point to bring
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your name up in that conversation appreciate that brother yeah man i I had to because I know you have been working
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with Will yeah and and Will I've commended him for being open to that right and I'm curious if you could share
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with us your relationship with Will Smith how it started and and moments
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that you've actually got a chance to sit down and give him advice yeah no um I've
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never gave him advice okay okay okay so let's get that off the table he always
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gives me the advice um I met Will through Omar who is one of his guys and
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me and Omar have a great relationship on the music side and he had called me one day he was like "Yo we getting ready to
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go to Aiza." Um Will was feeling inspired i just want to get some energy around him you know what I mean just to
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kind of like inspire him to really just get out and be the best version of himself i'm like "Easy call." So we go
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to Aiza and um I'm kind of just thrown off like through the whole experience
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like from the minute I get there to the army style security to just everything
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that's going on like I'm just fully thrown off so I get to him and I'm
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like "Nigga I love you." you know that's real
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i just tell him straight up and I told him about Freaky Tales and I was like "Man I just got my first movie roll like
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I'm super excited like I don't even know if it's going to come out like I'm just excited to be a part of this." And we
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got into a conversation about King Richard yes and I was like "How did you channel that like how did you He said
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"Well you know I went to the grocery store and I was pushing grocery carts."
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And I'm like "What you mean?" He was like "If you watch the way King Richard walk he he walk with the grocery cart
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walk like he pushing the grocery cart." And I was like "Damn I never thought of that." So we got into all these
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different conversations of different roles he's played in different things and then he started telling me I asked
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him I said "Why do you still want to do music?" He said "Because I still have something to say." And I'm somebody
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that's done it to where I can offer a level of information that won't be heard from others because they haven't done it
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at my level and when he said that I was like "Okay this cat already know where he's
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going with this album." You know what I mean he already know what he wants to talk about so we went downstairs and he
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started playing me these beats and he's playing me the beats and I'm bobbing to the beats and I start coming up with
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lyrics and he started playing me his lyrics and I'm like what are we changing
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yet like like what are we what are we doing so he literally was like I want to go in this direction i I want to be
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direct with things i want to do this so Will is somebody that already knows what he wants to say okay it just may be a
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thing of and it's the same thing with me sometimes I send him songs I'm like big homie what you think about this he like
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you should change the hook you should change the verse or you should you can make this better and it was the same thing with me and him i would hear a
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certain line and be like "Oh we can make this line better." But he already had it
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ready to go like his album was ready to go it was just small things like "Let's change this word or let's tweak it yeah
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let's tweak this or let's do this." And through that we developed a great relationship to where he's taught me
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just so much as a professional and what it means to be blessed in this industry right a lot of people watch us
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every day and they like "I wish I could live that life i wish I didn't have to get up and go to this job or do this or
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do that." He's somebody that really made me understand how to take advantage of
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that and every moment is an opportunity no just means the next opportunity so when somebody tell you no or nothing
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can't happen just keep going cuz it'll happen and I solely got that energy from him from Will Smith and I'm curious to
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with these well two-part question so if Will used the shopping cart to channel
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King Richard where did you use the channel too short life experience okay
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all right all right so Short you know it short is somebody that's been a player
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in the Bay for years yeah like he's literally been our blueprint to follow as a kid like I used to steal two short
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lines to try to talk to certain women any any in particular any in particular
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any particular i'll buy you any damn thing that you want you want flowers
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you know he was he was always a gentleman in his own way and um when I got the call to actually go for the
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role they had told me about there was this movie that was being shot in the bay it was called Freaky Tales and it
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was all these different characters and I'm like "Okay I'm thinking I'm about to go for like a action role like I'm going
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out for like you know me fighting or doing something crazy." And they was like "Um we want you to go out for two
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short." And I'm like "Are you kidding me like this is somebody I grew up on like
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y'all serious?" They like "Yeah like Tom Hanks is from the Bay the director is from the Bay." feel like they want to
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make it a poignant point that too short was a part of their process and a part of their comeup i'm like "This is easy."
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Not only was it easy they sent me the script and the script was Fight the Feeling the song Fighting Song Fight the
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Feeling the song the literal the lit the literal song Fight the Feeling i'm like
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bro I grew up on this song so literally we go downstairs haley's filming as she
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is now there go Haley right there beautiful partner right there Haley what's up Haley she brought Aiden with
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him the the artist that's That's is your son your amazing son all right so she's
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filming and she's like reading the script back and I'm just rapping the lyrics just literally rapping the lyrics
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i literally posted the audition yesterday on my Instagram uhhuh um and I'm rapping the lyrics and I send it in
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and like two days later um Mark Cheetum shout out to Mark Cheetum from CA he hit
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me back and was like "Yo you got the role." And I was like I know you already knew it i know well nobody going to be
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able to duplicate aunt the way I could do it i watch aunt grow up you know I watch my aunties now my auntie Teresa
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cuz she hate when I say this my auntie Teresa always my auntie had a My other auntie had a crush on Too Short but I
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got an auntie in the beta everybody knows my auntie so when I say auntie they automatically think my auntie Teresa this is not who I'm talking about
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but I got an auntie who had a big crush on Too Short so as a kid I seen how
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women idolize him and wanted to like chorus with him and talk to him and different
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things so once I got that role swear I already knew what to do i knew what the assignment was do you ever thought you'd
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be acting yes you knew it was coming yes yes i always knew this i got a lot more
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that I'm about to do amen um and I was I was held back the past two years that's
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what a lot of people don't know i was kind of held back on the music side a lot of y'all met me through Sway met me
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through a funk flex met me through Results Take Time and LA Leakers and these platforms that helped make me and
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then I was told to not go on them platforms no more by who your record label we ain't going to say that right
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but we're going to say I was told to not go on those platforms no more because I was being considered freestyle man and
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nobody took my music serious so now it became a thing of if I don't have a hit record we can't put music out so So you
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were you were uh with Atlantic though right okay you still with Atlantic no no
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I'm not and shout out to Atlantic i'm not pointing the finger or putting the blame on anybody i think there was just
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a lot of um miscommunication with where the industry was at the time okay you
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got to think where I go viral in a co time right to where I do a freestyle and
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LeBron reposted my album's coming out that following week changed your life yeah changed my life i got a record with
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two chains that's doing 400,000 streams a week but I can't go outside and do a
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show oh because of because of Yeah i can't go outside and capture audience so it was a
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struggle for a lot of people to understand me and then me and the label would kind of combat because they was
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like "Oh we need a song for streaming or we need a song for this." And I'm like you guys sign me as like the cultural
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guy and speak up for the culture what am I doing making songs about the strip club now that's not that's not what I'm
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standing on and nothing against strippers because I love Magic City you know what I'm saying anytime I'm
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in as an artist that's not who I speak for i don't make music for the club i
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make music for us as a people i make music for young black men to be able to say "Hey I don't got to jump in the
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streets hey I don't got to sell drugs you know hey I might not go to the NBA but I still got a shot in believing in
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myself." Yeah i make music for my son to get up one day and look at me like my daddy was an example for me to be a
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better man i don't make music for us to stay in the same place that we come from
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you know what I mean so when I was kind of being forced to do that it's kind of like what are we doing what are we doing
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but who's forcing you like if it's not Atlantic is it it's not a forcing thing
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what it becomes is a curated thing so what you'll realize is the ANR start
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putting certain producers in the room okay they start trying to get you to work with certain writers that produce a
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certain sound and certain writers that write a certain thing and I'm like bro this ain't me you know what I mean this
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[ __ ] just shot 30 people in the hook i ain't never shot nobody in my life
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come on you know what I'm saying like that ain't what I come from so it was just a big confusion and then for me
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when you fail so much on the come up you start listening to these people because you feel like they got the answers
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because I failed so much on my journey coming from the Bay moving to LA trying to get my name known and I'm failing at
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this so when you meet somebody that's like "Hey here's how we get it right." As artists sometimes we listen to the
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last person we had a conversation with because that advice might be a a an
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inspiring moment for us to push forward right but that advice can come from a
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place of somebody's own narcissistic energy of
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what they're trying to do and what they trying to move forward within the building and I fell into the habit of
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that of listening to certain people and making certain records and it confused the consumer and I told myself like once
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I get out of this I will never ever ever put myself in this position again me and
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one of my partners um shout out to Chase Fairbanks we had a conversation last night and it was one of the
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most difficult conversations we ever had because what we realized in that moment
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was a lot of people used our distance against us he's in Philly I'm over here
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and a lot of people use lies and manipulation tactics to be able to make us look at each other with the one eye
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up and it was separating us in the building and once we got to talk about that we figured out okay this is where
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we went wrong here's where we move forward to get it right there you go you know it's interesting because you made a
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lot of great music but there was the sentiment that this doesn't necessarily align with who Simba
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is like you'll hear you on some great songs but it sound like it's some songs that were meant for someone else and
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this is what you're speaking to and I can't I can't fault anybody because at the end of the day I'm my own man that
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decided to play a part of that yeah right so naturally as a young artist Heather B when you seeing some of these
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young cats like I come from having a courtside seat to Rody Rich success i
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seen how it went for Rody i'm I'm seeing Rody go from nothing to something in a
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matter of months like off hard work and in one minute nobody's listening to his
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music and then the next minute he doing this and the crowd screaming sc word for word you know what I'm saying word for
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word than his diamond and he on tour like I'm the person right under that i'm
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watching it i'm watching the Meek Mill and Rody Rich thing like I'm I'm watching it and I'm like you know what i
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gotta I gotta get there but my journey was different it was different from how
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I was supposed to get there it wasn't that I was supposed to follow what Rody and Meek was doing that's what people
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was telling me to do and that's what was confusing the consumer who came to me as
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a cultural guy that speaks up for black community and black men i'm really the wallow of rap the wallow of rap i like
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that i'm really the 19 keys of rap the 19 keys you know what I'm saying shout out to wallow but when they But when
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they telling you like oh people don't want to hear that that's not cool enough like the tempo is it doesn't fit
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playlisting it doesn't do now you going into the studio recording with this in mind so now I'm looking for the beat
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that fits within rap life playlist i'm not looking for the beat that make me feel something fire right you know so I
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kind of lost my way i lost my way of failing within the industry and I had to
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get back to myself in this movie and certain brand deals is what did that for me amen give it up for Simp man come on
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definitely what kind of father you want to be what example are you setting for Aiden and Haley just be better
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be better man just as men as black men you know we we got this veil on us you
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know they all think we just one way they they see black rappers and they think we all shooters you know we all gangsters
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like everybody ain't a gangster that's in the black community i know black doctors i know black lawyers my mama a
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black real estate agent amen you know what I'm saying like I don't I know more black successful professionals than I
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knew black criminals so when I hear terms like black-on-black crime it's like it's more white people killing
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white people than black people killing black people but that's something we put on each other you know what I'm saying
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so it's like for me it's helping my son understand that like the pressure you
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got on you as a black man you got to get out here and show up bro every day so
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even when we in baseball practice like some of the kids they running faster than him they throwing up i'm like "Son
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run catch the ball." Like you you got to show up as a black man yeah man so
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that's some of the things that I try to install in him every day is just showing up as a black man and not letting the
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world make you feel less of yourself but come on we just had this whole conversation we started the show off
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with this morning and I literally said similar exact same things you just said
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and because Heather was giving thanks to a lot of men including horse because
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shout out to horse man you know what man matter of fact let's take a trip back
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into time man this is one of the moment full circle moment this is one of the moments that catapulted Simba's career
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db drop that beat on them man okay let's do this wow that was a day that changed
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my life remember when we first heard that horse that's the oochi Wall-E beat and we got
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Big Horse right here which is crazy from the Ouchi Wall-E song man let me give y'all another story imagine doing that
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right imagine being a new artist um getting your first freestyle and you hitting the label like
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"Yo I just killed this freestyle we should turn it into a song."
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We should turn it into a song because this is going to go viral and this can be a record for me and they like "Oh
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it's just a freestyle." Don't want to care after Monday wow it's
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cool someone from the label said this yeah and it went viral lebron James
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reposted it how many millions of views [ __ ] over 12 million now and it's just a
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song nobody will remember but but imagine if we put a hook on that right
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and we attach that to something that comes out on the album while that freestyle is going now I have the record
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everybody said I didn't have who was the per like sometimes
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it's just the people in position yeah i think Atlantic suffered from within these really the COVID time because a
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lot of this happened during COVID yeah so we kind of gotta look at that as well i don't think it was any one person
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particular fault but but Simba I know you you you light stepping in here whoever
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said that doesn't matter they're going to forget this by Monday probably shouldn't be in the position that
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they're in i agree i'm I don't want you to call that person out okay that's the issue I'm saying is sometimes it's wrong
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people in the right position right you got the wrong person in this position
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like I would have saw that and knew that oh yeah let's put the hook on it let's run with it matter of fact let's get a
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remix we get big horse to jump on it you know yeah cuz people was hitting horse and horse was like "Yo some kid jumped
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on the uchi wall beat like listen to this." And we sat in the kitchen was like "What the who is this?" And went
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crazy it was crazy so we had a whole sit down about that like we was literally trying to put a record together and they
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was like "No it's just a freestyle." And this is what's funny a year later they like "Let's turn it into a record." Nah
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swear to God a year later like "Let's make this a record." And it's like at
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this point it's over with so this is when I go to Fire in the Booth so I said
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"Y'all want to do it again i could do it again." So I go to fire booth and I do it again
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right this time we release GOO goat with it right so it lined up the immediate
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thing I'm kind of like taught to do next totally goes against GOAT and what's
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that matter of fact I'm speaking too soon i'm speaking of Top G top G top G i do Top G
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i go to Africa i came to the label and it's family so we just gonna share and this no offense to Atlantic i love
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everybody that was up there regime change but this is how it went down i went to Atlantic and I said um I got
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this idea i got this song called Top G i want to go to Africa it was like what
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you want some Malcolm X Martin Luther King i'm like no I want to go see my people i want to go touch the soil i
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want to go touch my roots i'm a man of the people put me around my people if
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you put me in the jungle the lion's going to come out i promise you every time I go to Africa I'm like "Give me
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the video budget to pay for my trip." They wouldn't do it i booked the trip
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myself me Aiden Haley we go ourselves i go out there i met this guy named IO
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whose dad had a school out there and it was 1,200 kids at the school and they was using one computer i had a friend in
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Silicon Valley that was getting ready to upgrade their tech system and he had 300 laptops they was getting ready to throw
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away i said "Let me buy these laptops and take them to these kids." He gave me a great discount i took them laptops
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over to Africa to them kids we provided them kids with 200 laptops wow so instead of,200 kids on one computer now
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you had 1,200 kids on 201 computers right so we out there and we moving
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around and I'm meeting a kid named Lucky who tells me he's never ate a cheeseburger black kid 15 years old
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never had French fries and a cheeseburger this is stuff we look down on mhm i buy him a cheeseburger i asked
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him I said "What's your dream?" He say "To go to school." Wow our dream was
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basketball players rappers like all these different his dream was to go to school he's never been to school so when
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I seen this I'm like yo I got to do something i got to say something i got
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to speak up for this like I gotta do something about this it's people living this way in the world i got to say
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something i met this guy named Vector the Viper shout out to Vector he run
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this whole hood in Lagos Nigeria and he comes to me he's like "Yo most of these
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rappers come around bro they give these kids $20 and $100 a pair of shoes and
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they leave and we don't see them ever again he was like "I've never seen somebody that brought laptops to our
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community i appreciate you." He like "Is it anything you want to do?" I said "Man I did want to shoot a music video but I
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didn't want to feel like I was taking advantage of the culture i respect what y'all got going on here and I don't want y'all to look at me like I'm over here
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to get a music video." He said "If that's what you want to do we going to help you do that." We shot the Top G
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video on my way back I'm leaving Africa two days later my layover was in DC they
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send me the video while I'm at my layover i was supposed to fly back to LA i said "You know what i'm about to move
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my flight to New York i need to go holler at the label i need to drop this Friday this got to come out this
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Friday." I move my flight i go to New York i play him the video one of the executives is like "Yo this is genius we
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need to put this out let's go give us six weeks i say six weeks
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wow what do you mean give you six weeks well we got to work it we got We need a roll out i just did the roll out
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i've been in Africa for three weeks you don't see what the hell going on what do
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you mean we need a roll out well we need to do man f that roll
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out put this out Friday we put it out Friday it was my highest viewing video
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to this day right wow two weeks later they come to me they say "Hey um let's
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put out the song with you and the Russell." So I got the idea cuz they looking at it
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like "Okay it's two rappers from the Bay we'll get engagement off this they're the guys on socials boom boom boom." But
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the video with me and Lar Russell was a dream with 12 women in the video totally different me and Africa was man of the
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people mhm y'all confuse my consumer again and when I'm trying to speak up to
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say this ain't the way to go they telling me I don't know what I'm talking about i'm not urgent enough i'm too old
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i rap like a OG wow i'm not I can't make music for streaming i can't do all these
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things so I said you know what i'mma go be an actor i'mma go be an actor because y'all think
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I'm one thing this [ __ ] in me it ain't on me m I can go be an actor an
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influencer a rapper whatever it is I want to be because that's what my mama told me i could believe in myself to go
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be whatever it is I want to be yes sir so y'all could never hold me back y'all think y'all got me with this rap watch
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this freaky tales in theaters this Friday come on man simple in the building man come on come on man and
34:53
guess who we got on the line right now on Northern California's finest no vultures
34:58
podcast and the one and only Lord Rab is on
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yo yo what's up my brother wow family team
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man it's amazing story is going on man as I'm sitting here listening to Simba
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talk it reminds me of something I used to say to him all the time and and Heather B and Sway Tracy y'all going to
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know this can y'all please explain what industry rule number 480 is
35:29
record company people are shady i call Quest tried to tell us a long
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time ago you know so and so while he was protecting those relationships y'all
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know I was in the back being militant man trying to like trying to get him fired up because Simba is a great man
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and I think he understanding of everybody even when he wasn't being done so right at the labels man he was still
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keeping it all positive and keeping it you know great for everybody not making anybody uncomfortable so I think that's
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to his credit you know even though it could have been uh detrimental to his career he still kept those relationships
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intact that's one of his superpowers though facts and it's people like Rad
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man who kept me going you know what I mean rab used to call me i'm like Rab I'm done with this bro i'm gonna go
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start a podcast like what we f to do bro let's start a show he like bro you can't do that like you can't you got to keep
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going like you mean too much to what we represent as a culture so it's like when it come to Rab Brownie like we got a
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group chat shout out to the big homie stretch like it's so much I put in the group chat rab be like don't do that
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like don't don't say that don't do that so it's like ra really my big brother
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that's like Heather with sweat oh yeah heather my rap listen i'm going to ra
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you pick up the phone yeah yo Bar would call me too cuz uh we
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would we would I would have conversations i would be curious to what's going on with you because the
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flip side of all this and Horse maybe you could chime in you your MC status
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you as a skilled MC for me is exciting being that you're from the Bay because
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it breaks any pigeon hole or stereotype that people had of Bay Area MC's because
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there's so many styles i used to say "Yeah what's that style you might not be into?" We love that style in the Bay but
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we got spitters you a lot of them Locksmith Russell Lar Russell St spitt
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you know we got spitters Ian Kelly you know we got spitters coming out of the bay man and that was always important
37:42
did you get Was people apprehensive of the way you rapped that was kind of the
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reason I moved out because it was like in the beginning when I was in the Bay a lot of people would like tell me like
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"Man don't nobody want to hear that." You know what I mean like "We want something to to bop to." So I started
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kind of moving around in different circuits from Philadelphia to New York to Chicago and different things and just
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start developing a name of being a great rapper and when I did that I was like "What's a way I could represent my
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city?" You know what I mean when I went to the LA Leakers a lot of people don't know this that was the same week that
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Sweetie was saying "If he don't buy you a Birkin give him back to the streets." And I was speaking up for Bay Area
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coaches when I was like I never let a woman make me feel less of a man if I don't want to buy a Birkin because we
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come from something to where you going to respect me before you respect my finances my finances is one thing i'mma
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always take care of you my woman you with me you next to me but at the end of the day our relationship shouldn't be
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based off my finances you know what I'm saying based off what we communicate with as each other so I've always tried
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to no matter how lyrical I am whether I'm on Funk Flex or Ebro wherever I'mma
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always stand up for the Bay and what we represent as a culture there you go man had to be you want to jump in here man i'm proud of you thank you i'm just
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proud of you i'm so I'm happy and to hear this growth and to hear what you had to stand on artists just don't know
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sometimes you so excited to be accepted to be loved to finally get off that
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futon to get off that floor to get off that couch and that's what it be Heather
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like you be so happy to be here you don't even see the business that's going on behind your back that's where I was
39:27
going right so you'll have you'll have ANRs that got different deals they doing
39:33
behind the scenes now they putting people they didn't sign on your features when you really needed a bigger feature
39:38
to make this record bigger they putting producers that they got production deals for in the room with you that ain't even
39:45
on the level with you as a rapper because it's cheaper to pay for the beat when I'm asking for top-notch man put me
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with just Blaze put me with them put me with no ID
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put me with them people where I can deliver why y'all got me in the room with little buddy from Cincinnati that's
40:03
did something for NBA Young Boy that's cool but that ain't what I represent you know what I'm saying put me around what
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I represent but it's a whole play going on behind the scenes and I had to get away from you and a lot of times they
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using code they'll tell you that you too old but really you too experience i
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can't get over on you i need you young and dumb i need you ready to sign this paperwork and don't ask no questions
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take this 25,000 take this 50,000 take this 100,000 for the work you already did i'm signing you because I see your
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numbers you did all the ground work now we going to give you some [ __ ] paperwork as a thank you and you happy
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to take it so you know what I mean like you I'm old i'm 30 i'm I'm 25 i'm
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old who you talking to but that is a code you got to be able to read between uh oh this these they starting to know
40:53
too much you asking too many questions now i'mma hurt your spirit you old you get too You sound old and it ain't It
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ain't that you old you classic you know I'm experienced i know my stuff
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i ain't signing that now they want to start playing with you psychologically and spiritually and that's what I I'm so
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proud of you like that's why I challenge I challenge us as a community as a hip-hop community this ain't a a
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ethnicity thing i challenge us as a community to stop writing our OG's off
41:23
stop doing that because when y'all do that y'all y'all allowing the information to dissolve we need our OGs
41:30
to be 50 and rap to be able to give us something to look forward to and give us game when we get that age if we all just
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living as young [ __ ] and out here whing and doing this at what point do we
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grow at what point do you get your credit up at what point do you go buy a house and stop renting at what point do
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you buy a block at what point do you start a business for you and yours to be able to grow so we ain't all out here
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suffering and if we ain't got our OG's from the Jay-Z's to the uh Steve Stouts
42:02
to everybody giving us that information why are we calling them old why are we
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saying things about Killer Mike i don't know who Killer Everybody know who Killer Mike is if you don't know who
42:12
Killer Mike is you ain't hip-hop that's your fault that's your fault so for y'all to be bashing somebody like
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Killer Mike winning a Grammy at his eight that's experience that's growth we should be growing in this thing we the
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only community in music that does that you don't see rock and roll writing they
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OG's off or pop writing they OG's off we the only people that say he too old or
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he too this man he ain't too old he got experience and we need that experience so this young [ __ ] don't go through the
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same thing he went through 20 years ago and if we stop that we stop a lot of things from growing i I remember when I
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was in Africa Vector said something he said "Man," I said "Man you know a lot of black of a black America felt like um
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Africa don't rock with blacks." He said "No." He said "The main thing we be mad about y'all is y'all put the information
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in retirement homes." I said "What you mean?" He said "When y'all grandparents get old y'all send them to retirement
43:08
homes they supposed to be with the babies they give them the information but y'all send them to schools and these
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daycarees with these people who don't give two shits about them you see what I'm saying we got We got
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that same mentality in hip-hop we want to go get with the next person the young dude this and we already got what we
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need right here amongst us let's keep it right here we got sway in the morning come on why we ain't pulling up pull up
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you pulled up today man simba up in here freaky tales in theaters tonight horse holler at you man simba man real talk
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when I first heard you rhyming Yeah i never heard nobody from the Bay ROM like that honestly honestly because you
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didn't have that that extra bay on it like they do at Bay Talk you just was spitting game right
43:53
were you signed to Atlantic when that freestyle came out cuz I thought that when that freestyle came out you were viral it might have
43:59
been a bidding war was there other labels that wanted you besides i was signed before that freestyle came out oh
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you were signed to Atlantic before that i was signed before that that's what a lot of people don't know so I was signed
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and it wasn't announced so a lot of people didn't know a lot of things that was like when I was out
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moving around it was me trying to force the label's hand to push me i call Just
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Incredible nobody set that up i ran into Charlie
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Slaw i got um Wallow booked Tiny Desk through Abby O'Neal wow called me at
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Broccley City Fest and said "Man I had a meeting with your label and I told him they should push you." They said "We
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ain't worried about that." Damn he said "You know what come to Broccoli City Fest we going to show them." Wallow told
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me to come to Broccoli City Fest i flew to Broccoli City Fest on my own dime me
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my cameraman three people who I thought was my friends at the time we all went
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out there i get there Wallow throws me the mic i don't even know what song is about to come on wallow plays big homie
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abby O'Neal who works at NPR at the time hears it and was like "Who is
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this this is Simba he dope he just he not getting the proper push he deserve
45:15
you know what we gonna get him a tiny desk." Abby takes my number abby text me two weeks later hey I'm coming to LA
45:23
i'mma come pick you up i pick Abby up we go to Marina del Rey she telling me "I'm
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just tired of this hip hop i'm tired of this i'm tired i want to see you win i
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want to see you do something you're an example for my child like I want to see something work let's figure it out ab
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two weeks later she called me we got Tiny Dez but the label looking like how
45:48
did he do this and we didn't line this up we ain't supporting this fully like
45:54
that like we we going to help but it's like this was supposed to be something we lined up so it was a lot of things
46:00
that was going on to where we was forcing hands of just hustling relationships now they did pour gas on
46:07
things i'm not going to sit here and act like a guy that act like they didn't do anything shout out to Jason Davis Marsha
46:14
they did a lot of great things for me but it was a lot of misunderstanding of things to where we could have hit the
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target so many times and it was just miscommunication we got Simba here man and and got his
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lovely partner here haley is here um we got Aiden here and Aiden wanted to go to
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school today yeah he did he He didn't necessarily want to be here but he's such a great artist i told him "If I
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give you a pad and some pens can you draw me something?" He drew something haley can we see what he drew aiden can
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you bring us the pad so I can show what you got bud can you show us what you drew come on bring it to daddy man come
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on man come on man my guy man that's your chair right there adorable little guy too man such a cutie got his peac
46:58
coat on and true show what you drew tell me what you drew man hold it up wow he
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drew that oh my goodness wow that's my young artist right there man he drew all
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of those characters tell them what it is baby what what is that nightmare Tales
47:15
what is it nightmare Tales nightmare Tales yo look at this you are We got You
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getting this uh TV you're a real artist okay look at this i'm sorry i got on the wrong It's your fault i know right look
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at this you're a real artist man can you see that wow you're incredible Aiden thank you can you sign this for me can
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you sign your name too give them your autograph you got to put your autograph on it for me is that for me can I take it home okay thank you say I got you
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Sway okay you can drop the S and the W
47:46
heather B they tried to tell us he was autistic really yeah they tried to tell us he was
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autistic cuz he had a real bad um speech delay he had a tongue tie that was latching his tongue to the bottom of his
47:58
mouth so when we use words like T and D you need your tongue to touch touch the top of your mouth he couldn't do it and
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then once we got the surgery he just started going off but they tried to convince us to put him on they tried to
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tell us we didn't have he didn't have a tongue tie and so we had to really advocate for him and go and find
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outsource other you know dentists and surgeons and doctors because nobody
48:22
would listen you know they they want to just put you in a box and on the spectrum and which is great you know we
48:27
have awareness for all that and everything but it's not always the case especially in this community it's so you
48:34
got to advocate for your own kids man it's great that's your advice to parents who looking for those kind of answers follow your mom gut your dad gut like
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you know your child best yes haley you got bars too i see everybody else got
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bars but that was that was even a tough thing you know being at the label and trying
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to write music and at the same time she in speech class with them you know what I mean texting me things they saying and
48:58
I'm trying to come up with the best lyrics I could come up with and do things to get us out of this
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circumference we in and stuff like that so once we got that news that it was a tongue tie and we got it fixed man dude
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start talking bro and it's been a blessing ever since like see what he doing he going to draw the album cover
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too we got a new album on the way we going to talk about that i I love this man we got Simba up here wait can I jump
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in real quick go for it rap i just wanted to say this real quick it made me
49:28
think about when y'all was talking about Simba saying the baby on the island and thi this is a part of the reason I stay
49:34
boots on the ground here with everybody is because I was able to see you and King Tech build what you build and
49:42
people not understanding what you were building only for it to later on birth people like Simba people like Lar
49:48
Russell this is what what what you guys did was considered going against the grain at the time and it turned out to
49:56
be a lovely thing because people grew up knowing that they could be real MC's from where we from that they didn't have
50:02
to be pigeonholed into a certain style and so from that movement this is what we got i just think it's a beautiful
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thing man wow man thank you Rap and I don't I don't talk about the Sway and
50:14
Tech story a lot you know as much as I probably should and I will start talking about it but you know ain't nobody more
50:21
Oakland than me man we know that we know that everybody ra makes sure everybody
50:27
know that this is Oakland from the hospital to the
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to the high school you know what I mean to the college and and and to the family
50:38
but I like you that's why I'm fascinated even with Rav people don't know Rav got barreds rav was a rapper first and I
50:46
used to I grew up as a savage yeah half of Grammy Records you know
50:51
what I mean cousin and we used to try I used to try to push rap put more music out what we doing but he he had the
50:58
wherewithal like you I started as an MC we all had to do something different
51:04
right and create our own spheres our own ecosystems you made more money at one
51:10
point outside of rap than you did in rap y% right I made more money in other
51:16
spaces than I've ever made in rap and here we are right I literally just talked about that on um bars with rab
51:22
and brownie i said "I made a million dollars last year without dropping any music." Yeah brand deals you know what I
51:28
mean understanding partnerships understanding like quit finessing your partner for taking these people for
51:35
these monies and not delivering your deliverables you know what I mean and you you you got them feeling crazy
51:40
because they came to you for a partnership they came to you to bring people to these platforms so any
51:46
innovative way we could figure that out me and Rab just recently did some Allstar weekend with Monster Energy they
51:51
was like "We want to do something that's a part of the culture." I called Rab I called Shell Hart i'm like "Yo what's something we could put together?" Rav
51:58
tell me "Well Shell already got something going on a bowling night you know what let's make Monster a part of
52:03
that we don't even need to Yeah do a separate event shell already got it let's do that." And it's about us coming
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together as a culture yeah and I love that about And you guys are taking this baton and now we all still here right we
52:16
all stay here and we going to stay here tracy I know you in New York did you want to chime in before I I mean of
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course of course of course i've been boopping my head up and down i look like I should be on a dashboard of a car
52:27
because of how much I'm just really feeling everything that you're you're saying Simba from you know the warnings
52:35
of outsourcing your intuition you know and how that can steer you away from your own self-awareness and also how
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some folks can use your gratitude against you with all of that adversity and I'm so happy you're in the clear in
52:50
so many ways did it injure your trust in others
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definitely i lost a lot of friends a lot of friends um it it made
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me look at things like man people will really take the 20% of a
53:08
narrative of you and ignore the other 80 right so it's like let's say I play
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basketball and let's say I go shoot 10 shots in a row and I make eight of them
53:19
somebody might be like SSA shoot better than Steph Curry they just might only pay attention to that one part they
53:25
don't pay attention to I probably shot a thousand shots before that just to hit them eight and Steph Curry do this in
53:32
his sleep you know what I'm saying so people will take a narrative and they'll spin it on you and then like it'll it'll
53:39
really mess with your confidence because it's a public thing like I remember when I did the Eminem thing right i went
53:46
viral for saying I rap better than Eminem people didn't see the context behind that right i'm literally being
53:52
pressed by people in the crowd saying "I don't know none of your verses i don't know who you are i don't." So I'm like
53:57
"Well rap me a Eminem verse." But they only posted that one part so it looked
54:03
like I was taking shots at Eminem you weren't taking shots and I wasn't taking shots i really admire Eminem you know
54:09
what I'm saying but some people took it that way and because they took it that way it allowed the internet to think I
54:14
don't rock with Eminem when I actually study Eminem right reggie Jay-Z Tupac
54:20
and Biggie Andre from Outcast Jada Corrupt Nas and Demi but in this industry I'm a cause of a lot of envy so
54:27
when I'm not put on this list this [ __ ] does not offend me that's somebody I studied that's a great I would never
54:33
disrespect him but it got taken the wrong way and I understood that and by understood understanding that it allowed
54:40
me to understand where to place myself and how not to put myself in vulnerable position positions for somebody to take
54:46
advantage of my ignorance in that moment man I love this big round of applause for Simba the new movie is out today go
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to theaters freaky tales he's a star we got Haley we got Aiden right here he's a
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star too hey hey Aiden do you rap too you do rap yeah go talk on that mic talk
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on that mic sing you want to sing something you want to sing pianoaurus okay go ahead baby sing aloud
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[Music]
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that was terrible man no that was all right yo we got a young hyena up in here man yo yo John drop that beat on man
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drop that beat on them now listen [ __ ] i just want to answer if I don't want to be here no more can I just transfer if I
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ask for something you say no then that's your answer i'm a small [ __ ] but this [ __ ] right here ain't adding up i'm
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worth a lot i cut her off she want me bad enough i figured out why I was broke i wasn't mad enough my pockets had me
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looking skinny now I'm fat as [ __ ] they turn on me you my brother that was tragic but I be dumb to take on other
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[ __ ] habits i just make it happen i pull up and get active fast i am attractive when I hit that gas I spaz
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and get to rapping when this [ __ ] turn up they going to depend on me when I wasn't eating they ain't ask if I was
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hungry wish I had receipts to show these [ __ ] what they owe me before I go back broke i swear to God that I be
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lonely hey yeah I'm lonely throw your LS up
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with me sway yeah I swear that I be lonely yeah
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swear that I be lonely yeah swear that I be lonely
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yeah okay let me talk to him i tell him it ain't that hard to cut you off i do that all the time the hardest thing I
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ever had to do is control my mind these [ __ ] think cuz I'm a rapper i won't up the I just ain't into shooting [ __ ] up
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or killing mine and why the [ __ ] do black folks got to sit around and wait until a [ __ ] rap good to come and gun
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him down it's more to the world than this hood that hood most [ __ ] don't know cuz they ain't cross county lines i
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turned 30 last year i ain't got lots of time the rap game don't show no love until somebody dying we can't retain
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information if it ain't rap to us we sell our soul to white folks who sell it back to us my cousin got a 100 pounds
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he's about to board the plane i told him tempt the TSA they let you do your thing i know he don't want to do it but he got
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to do it till something change when he was trapping I was rapping and we ain't complain i miss them [ __ ] I was with
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when I jumped in the game but everybody ain't going to make it do fortune and fame i told my story this road got slow
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leagues before I go back broke i swear to God that I be lonely
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hey I'm lonely yeah hi yeah say it with me sweat
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sweetheart i be lonely yeah swear that I be lonely yeah swear that I be
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lonely i'll be lonely yeah that right there going to be my first song I'm
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dropping independently now with my label Star
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i'mma give you the date can I give you the date right here on Swear in the Morning february 25th lonely my first
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song independently shout out to Star Island shout out to Orchard wait February 25th i say I meant April april
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25th my bad i said February april 25th april 25th man we back outside we back
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outside hey rap what you think of that song i a
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Oh there you go that's a rapster that's a rapster call we got a hit i'm calling it right now we got a hit i'm calling it
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right now cuz I get lonely you sound good with that one
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come on yeah man that's beautiful that's dope man i like that man yeah that dude
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is amazing bro thank you thank you man i You know what it's two days ago i don't even know if it was two days ago feel
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like 24 hours ago I hear Rabbit said "Man I got to have you on the show i want to celebrate your career man thank you i want to celebrate your life
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brother man you are amazing you are an asset to us you are an inspiration to us
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and it's not just because you got bars it's the way you father the way you partner." Yeah the way you think the way
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you persevere your commitment to you your life and your commitment to your talent you never gave up on you and I
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want to say something man cuz you know a lot of people would take what you say and look at it as you know I'm this
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perfect person i ain't perfect you know we all learn we all grow every day is a
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um a growing experience for me and every day that I'm alive I'm looking to grow so if it's something I can learn from
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you Rad Brownie Stretch uh whoever it is my big homie Cash Chase Donnie whoever
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I'mma take that information in because I know y'all seen the side of life that I'm trying to get to and I appreciate
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you for always allowing me to be up here i appreciate Heather B for always checking on me heather B always DM me
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and she always hit me up i'm just checking on you shorty i'm checking on you i'm just making sure you okay and
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that go a long way so that's why I brought y'all some gifts yeah yeah man he brought us Shout out to my brother
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Omar Bailey and Factory Labs man we got some great things we working on
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factory Lab you know go ahead HB no it's just beautiful thank you thank you so much pull them out yeah pull pull pull
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them up yeah man let everybody see that and while you were speaking yesterday we had Kai Cash here i don't know if y'all
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have a relationship together but I would love to hear y'all do music together let's do it yeah man i rock with Kai
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Cash yo man i would love to hear y'all on the track together beautiful conversation with him yesterday and
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y'all the the growth that y'all both experienced over a short period of time is amazing and I would love to hear
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y'all do something together so I'm just putting that in the universe we going to make that happen say no more we going to make that happen seen a shoe box like
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this i know it's like a little capsule i love it man factory lab baby you see what they say the prototype everybody
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ain't even got these yet baby oh my gosh look at that there you go come on
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and that's a that's a blackowned shoe company right there 100% blackowned made
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in his own factory downtown Los Angeles shout out to Omar Bailey shout out to NLE Chopper they just released the first
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duck boot that's been going crazy me and Omar got some great things on the way we stomping on business
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shout out to Omar Bailey man and I got a new place out here in LA i'm only wearing new things there we go there you
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go i'mma show you around some new restaurants there you go love it man hey
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little love you brother for always checking in man appreciate you R
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all right love you R so Cousin Cle I love them all right i got y'all all
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right man are the shoes available for purchase yes you can go to factorylabs.com um they're all on there
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you can get the red ones the white ones the lime ones the black ones we got a collab we working on as well that's um
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going to be coming out real soon that's going to shake the shoe industry up so I'm very excited about that he got horse
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some size 15 i didn't even know they on call i hit Sway yesterday i said "What size is
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everybody?" He said "Man Horus a 15." I said "Say no more." Wow say no more thank you brother brought them through
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man hey what a wonderful way to uh conclude a beautiful week amen all right Tracy G how can they reach you yo Simba
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man rock with you bro the long way appreciation like runth over for real
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and the whole team too this was an incredible week hit me up it's Tracy Git Ts R A C Y G i get lonely mike M
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yo first I say Simba it's amazing watching you and your family in the way that Aiden loves on you the way that you
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love on Aiden i think it's beautiful sis I can't wait for you to watch this video and watch this family in action with the mother too as well it's absolutely
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beautiful but with that being said hit me up citizens at I am Mike Muse Mu SNME Twitter Instagram and threads and tune
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tracy were y'all able to see the uh the billboard we got in Time Square this week yet i seen it yeah oh you saw it i
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seen the Time Square one and I seen the one out here yeah billboards are big huh
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yeah come on man beautiful here baby come on yes indeed man y'all look for
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the Time Square billboard i'm not sure which which street is on in Time Square sway I want to say something before we
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get out of here you know Super Bowl coming to the Bay next year what we doing we need Sway in the Morning in the
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Bay we need Sway in the morning for Super Bowl in the Bay we could do the whole week i want to see 40 i want to see Fab
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i want to see everybody i want to see everybody in the Bay on Sway in the Morning man for what this mean to our
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community where we going to be what Super Bowl means i want us all to be there for Super Bowl we did a great job
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this year with NBA Allstar Weekend um but you know Super Bowl is a little bigger than Allstar weekend and I want
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us to really put our foot down we're going to put that together i'm incorporate you in on that thank you i
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appreciate that we'll put that together we'll we'll do it together make sure all the the players are involved you know
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E40 that's You know the brands love me so we can find some sponsorship okay well that's a conversation shout out to
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Underdog Fantasy hey Underdog another arc is here
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