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[Assistant] Honestly, it's been more, uhm, exhausting than I thought it was going to be because I wasn't expecting to go this long into the offseason, especially during week one, to discuss, hey, we know the week one starter, we don't know the week two starter. It's really an odd quarterback situation at Ohio State right now.


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[Assistant] 30, 40, or 50, that is the only true question there. Uhm, the Hoosiers are bad and the Buckeyes are good. So you're thinking covering the spread? Great! That's cool! Uhm, I do think it'll be a blowout. I won't put a number on it just yet, Mike, but I do think it'll be a blowout though. The Buckeyes defense...


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[Assistant] I think the biggest thing tomorrow is going to be the defense is going to take a step forward and show that the guys that are returning are making the right steps forward to be better football players overall. Also when you add in the guy in Sonny Stiles who's going to start, who has the skillset that he has, that's going to be a wrinkle that


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[Assistant] The Hoosiers who had their own quarterback battle between two guys that really aren't experienced, that could be something that messes them up as well. So a 30 or 40 point, 30, 40 or 50 point win, that is the only, uh, true question. What, how big is the Buckeyes blowout tomorrow?


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[Assistant] I got friends listening to this and they're gonna be like, Jay, you're crazy. I think that they have caught up with Ohio State though. I do think talent-wise,


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[Assistant] You're looking at a team in Michigan. Now the quarterback one's interesting because I am not the biggest JJ McCarthy fan.


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[Assistant] However, when he needed to make plays a year ago against Ohio State, he made the plays. A year ago when I was saying, hey, Ohio State's D-line


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[Assistant] It's up to the task to play Michigan. They were not up to that task. The Buckeyes offensive line, uhm, struggled at times during that game as well. This is back to back years where the Buckeyes have had issues with the Wolverines in the trenches. And we all know if you want to win a game, it all starts with the O line and D line. If they play well, if they play up to the standard,


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[Assistant] That has been set at Ohio State or even better. There's going to be a good chance that they're going to win, not just the game against Michigan, but every game that they play in that schedule. And so I do think the talent gap has


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[Assistant] That Ryan Day, we want to see the Ryan Day from Georgia in that game. Not the Ryan Day that we saw during other games with the aggressiveness and play calling or...


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[Assistant] The intensity that he had on the sideline in the Georgia game, we didn't see it throughout other games. I would hope to say we're going to see that Ryan Day that game or all year long. We just don't know. So the talent thing is there, but also we have a coach in Ryan Day who I want to believe in.


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[Assistant] But we, we really only seen that aggressiveness, that intensity in Ryan Day once. Once in his tenure at Ohio State, so.


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[Assistant] The talent thing is there, the talent gap is tighter. I do think Michigan has, uhm, caught up with the talent that Ohio State has.


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[Assistant] I wanna believe the Buckeyes will win the game in the fall. I know you didn't ask my prediction, but it's in my head right now.


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[Assistant] I can't make that prediction right now and say yeaah, Buckeyes beat the Wolverines November 25th. I gotta see what this team's gonna do against Penn State, against Notre Dame, on the road in Camp Randall before I make my final prediction about what's gonna happen November 25th in Ann Arbor.


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[Assistant] So with Harrison Jr., it's- I think it would be easy to say it's his work ethic. But all-


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[Assistant] Receivers work hard. Excuse me. Most elite receivers work hard. So I can't just say the work ethic, but I think it's the attention that he puts to working on the minor, even the smallest details of a route.


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[Assistant] And then once he figures out that small detail, he works with another and he works with another and he works with another. So it's not just his work ethic that puts him out there and makes him better, but also he's able to work


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[Assistant] His dad did great things in the National Football League and at Syracuse as well. And so you have your dad who's a pro football Hall of Famer. That's one thing. That's only a small piece of the pie. It's not the whole thing, not the whole picture. It's just a very small thing. We see guys whose dads are Hall of Famers not saying any names.


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[Assistant] They're nowhere close to being anywhere near an elite player in high school, in college, or in the pros, because that's a very small classification to fit into. So Harrison Jr., I think it's his work ethic, which is elite, but he's able to work on these minor details. You add in his elite body control, and I was at the game a year ago.


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[Assistant] I'm sitting here like, how in the world did he make that catch?


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[Assistant] He constantly works on his body control and practice doing different drills by himself or with his teammates and his coaches. And it shows why on the field he might be the best Ohio state receiver Ryan Day has ever coached.


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[Assistant] I think they're all the context we need.


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[Assistant] I love ham. Thank you very much.


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[Assistant] Shao Kahn? Long have we battled against his minions. It would benefit all the realms to further suppress his advance. I am Commander Hotaru. I would pledge my aid to the outworld city, but I still have work to do here.


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[Assistant] Help me end this riot by defeating the leader of the resistance and I will defend this overlord. I would think a champion of the gods could end this uprising with ease.


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[Assistant] Excellent. We will first need to train you to be a Satan Guardsman, for you may not partake in an assault unless you are a deputized member of the Guard. That is our law.


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[Assistant] Congratulations. You are now an honorary member of the Satan Guardsmen. Go now and defeat the leader of the Resistance. His name is Darius. When you have completed this task, meet me here.


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[Assistant] Well done. It seems the rioters have been demoralized. Your service is no longer required. As promised I will now depart for the city of Lei Chen in Outworld.


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[Assistant] It makes no difference. The agreement is binding. As punishment for his forgetfulness I have stripped him of his position. I now rule this town in the name of Sado.


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[Assistant] Now, if you will excuse me, I must see to its governing if I am to keep this town under control.


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[Assistant] Hotaru! It is good to see! You have violated my ordinance. You were to go indoors when the toll sounded. Ordinance? I just recently arrived. I had no knowledge of any ordinance. Ignorance is not an excuse. I am placing you under arrest for disregarding the laws of this city. Your trial will take place in the realm of order.


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[Assistant] I thought I had trained you to appreciate order. To obey the law.


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[Assistant] Now you are consorting with known felons to free yourself.


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[Assistant] What we found was a fragile barrier that gave Israel a false sense of security, leaving it blind to its own vulnerabilities.


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[Assistant] There were red alerts for more than 30 communities near the Israeli side of the war.


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[Assistant] And the, the security fence, you can see it running along there, and there's the towers with the machine gun.


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[Assistant] I think some of the earliest rockets came over just round here. All around.


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[Assistant] Three of the balloons were out of service on the day they weren't working. The cameras needed to be repaired, but they're old and out of production.


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[Assistant] The balloons are supplemented by surveillance towers containing HD cameras, laser and infrared sensors, and radar.


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[Assistant] But that's not what happened elsewhere. Hamas fighters had come prepared to evade the towers.


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[Assistant] Other videos from the 7th show towers being attacked with rocket-propelled grenades and gunfire.


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[Assistant] Hi. Thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate you coming and seeing us.


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[Assistant] Was unveiled. Some of the political and military leaders made very firm, quite bold claims for the barrier. They said, this will protect the residents in the South. Hamas will not get in. And was that a mistake to promise those things?


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[Assistant] Were you surprised? You personally surprised.


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[Assistant] The Israeli government says Hamas broke through the fence in around 30 locations. We obtained videos from 14 of them.


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[Assistant] In the months before, practicing specific...


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[Assistant] Tactics that were then used on the day, blowing up fences, paragliding and so on. Did Israel not see this?


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[Assistant] October 7th says about the integrity of that barrier.


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[Assistant] Yes, the sword guides me. Over the years it has shown me the way to use my other senses in combat.


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[Assistant] Now I have but one goal. To slay the sorcerer who blinded me. Doing so will free the consumed souls of my ancestors. If you provide me with his location, I will teach you to fight without your eyes.


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[Assistant] My search for Shang Tsung will continue here in the north. I suggest you look in the southwest.


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[Assistant] Although I have sensed Shang Tsung's presence on many occasions, I have not been able to locate him.


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[Assistant] Where will submit to the rule of the deadly alliance?


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[Assistant] No Jumper, coolest podcast in the world. And today I'm in here with Life, who you might not know about just yet, but I tell you, very interesting guy. How you doing, man?


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[Assistant] We out here. You want to take a drink just to start this thing off?


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[Assistant] Oh man, I'm supposed to go to a party after this, so me taking that drink right now really makes me think there's gonna be a lot more drinks throughout the rest of the night.


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[Assistant] But it's not like an Irish bar though, so I don't know how cool it's gonna be.


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[Assistant] What was your upbringing like out there? I understand that your dad had a pretty heavy presence in the streets.


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[Assistant] So he was like a gangster, but very much during the era where, you know, people tend to be a little bit more low key. Exactly. Careful.


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[Assistant] And so from your perspective as a kid, are you kinda, did you feel like you were getting mixed messages in the sense that you maybe have like your mom telling you how to do right and you got your teachers and everything and then you're just aware that your dad is like totally on the other side of life?


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[Assistant] There's such a, an environment that's so dangerous, whether it's like getting yourself shot or getting into trouble with the cops and ended up in jail for however many years, but you're in this environment.


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[Assistant] Where there's not a lot of opportunities to go in the straight and narrow, but then meanwhile, it's like, you're learning, as a kid, you're learning the lessons, but a lot of times the ramifications of those lessons, like, you fucking up.


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[Assistant] Your first attempt at gangbang and if you don't really have somebody who's really putting you on game and telling you what you need to be doing, the consequences are so devastating.


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[Assistant] I don't even care if you fucking, if you're a 16 or 17 year old and you kill somebody straight up.


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[Assistant] I don't see, even like 10 years seems like a lot of fucking time in that I feel like a huge percentage of people are gonna be able to like, that that's a fair punishment. Even less than that, I feel like, I don't know, maybe people think I'm trippin' but I really feel like,


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[Assistant] Keeping someone in that environment for that long is so much more likely to turn them into someone who's really dangerous.


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[Assistant] I got a friend who died like almost exactly the same way where he was like, basically he was in the same position where he was almost maybe like 30.


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[Assistant] But he was like out of the hood and he like ended up in the neighborhood one night, ended up getting in a little argument with some like young kid in the neighborhood or whatever. And that kid just comes and fucking shoots him in the head. And it was like, it feels like that's what's crazy is that dudes get to the point in their life where they 100% shouldn't have to worry about that shit anymore. But then just somehow it just still ends up following them.


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[Assistant] It's crazy. It's crazy too because I feel like, you know, Nipsey's a prime example of that too.


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[Assistant] He was way past all that time during his life where something like what happened to him seemed likely.


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[Assistant] Facts. So, you started getting caught up or you started getting more into the streets at what age? When did it really start that you started getting into shit?


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[Assistant] And so, are you looking at it like you've, you just, is there no choice? Like you gotta get down with something and are you feeling like you gotta be a crit because you're dead?


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[Assistant] That's how it works. You felt like they, you weren't worried about them sort of being upset with you for that?


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[Assistant] Did that slow you down a lot or did that make you think like, holy shit, I don't want to get into this shit?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean that is the tough thing when you really think about it too because kids that come from like rich families and shit, they get fucking arrested for shoplifts and are caught fucking, you know, pushing somebody's


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[Assistant] Fucking mailbox over or something. And then they, the parents like.


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[Assistant] They barely, they get suspended, they barely have parents around to really like enforce the fact that that's a bad thing to have.


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[Assistant] Definitely. So, side note, you grew up going to high school with Kendrick and shit?


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[Assistant] So he was just a super regular guy at that point, was he even rapping yet?


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[Assistant] He was just a dude rapping in school though, you weren't like, oh this guy might sell ten million records in the future?


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[Assistant] It's hard to predict that shit though because I remember when Kendrick was supposed to be the next dude where people were talking about him online and shit. Talking about him for a long time before it actually started to happen and then it's like dudes keep getting to higher and higher levels but it's like you can always like I could look at somebody and be like he's mad talented I think he's got a future but that doesn't mean you know.


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[Assistant] Cause you might have wanted to make music, but you weren't thinking of it like a fucking scientist. It was really good.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? Yeah, that's so true. It's so much easier to get like a fucking solid upbringing like that. So, when do you start going to internet prison? When you get your first case that actually ended in prison.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that whole lifestyle of just doing burglaries and robberies and shit, that shit just, it just seems so crazy, like, in terms of, like, it's easier for me to imagine running like a cocaine empire. Yeah.


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[Assistant] And not getting caught, whereas when you're doing the robberies and shit, it's like, it's just, it's just, every single time you do anything, the cost of living is just getting caught up in that shit.


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[Assistant] Bro, were you getting addicted to that payday of getting, you know, a significant amount of money?


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[Assistant] That's crazy. Before we get into the music, uh, should, was like your OG or how would you describe this relationship?


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[Assistant] I feel like I've watched enough Vlad videos about the Tupac shit that I get it now, cause I've heard so many different people talk about it and shit, and also this podcast, Mob James and them, called Gangster Chronicles, I've been listening to.


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[Assistant] How do you feel about like the reputation that he has in rap at this point where it's kind of like, you know, you feel like...


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[Assistant] A lot of people just kind of view him as like the devil and like, is it hard for you to view that when you've had positive experiences with him?


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[Assistant] It's crazy because when I listen to people talk about the Suge shit, basically it's like,


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[Assistant] He just chose to make Death Row completely surrounded. Everybody involved was like gang bangers and largely people who had never been outside the hood.


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[Assistant] You should be careful about just associating yourself with a bunch of people that really don't play by any fucking rules, and are just doing their own thing, and it's like, yeah, I think Shug was addicted, and I'm saying this as somebody who doesn't know him, but he seemed like he was addicted to just having the toughest motherfuckers around him, and kind of ignored the fact that there's a lot of bad shit that can kind of come with that.


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[Assistant] I got homies who like pull up to the studio and sell you a couple perks. They're not killing anybody, I don't think.


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[Assistant] Then you'd be literally able to catch a murder case off selling somebody like $10 worth of pills.


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[Assistant] But I do get it when it's like people who's like serving fentanyl and shit like that.


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[Assistant] I guess like the only thing that's good about it is that it might make people not want to sell drugs at all because they're scared of that, but really they should just be smarter and get burner phones and stop fucking texting each other when they're committing these crimes.


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[Assistant] Motherfuckers will really be running a whole drug empire off their phone and just not think twice about it. Like, like, really.


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[Assistant] Sometimes I'll see the homie and he's on a burner and I'm just like, damn, I'm like, you really selling coke. That's crazy. Cause like, you know, like they have, you actually give a fuck. You must be selling a lot of coke if you really bothered to go get in that phone. Cause there's a lot of people I know that are selling all kinds of drugs and they ain't got no burner. Ain't got no burner. That nigga selling keys, boy. I mean, or.


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[Assistant] Dudes live their whole lives just praying that the cops will never get interested in them.


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[Assistant] Cause if the cops get interested in you as well, they just pray and pray and pray that the cops will just never actually want to look into them, which hey, you might get lucky, you might never run into that.


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[Assistant] That's crazy, I know, that's why I can never get into it no matter what. Once in a blue moon I'll hear about how much money people are making selling drugs and I'm like,


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[Assistant] Am I really turning that down? And then I remember what a 10 year jail sentence would feel like, and I'm like, yeaah, alright, I guess I'm out.


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[Assistant] For sure, but I'm saying like, you could get 10 years for...


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[Assistant] So when you make the decision that you really wanted to get focused on music and step away from other shit.


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[Assistant] So, your style is a little bit more lyrical than what we're used to. How would you define your style?


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[Assistant] I kinda skipped over, like, you were involved with Black Wall Street? Or is that, was that your introduction to be involved in the music world at all?


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[Assistant] Okay, so sort of later era in games career, but.


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[Assistant] You came out like 2003, 2004, but that was June-ing.


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[Assistant] And so you were young, you were around from that super young age.


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[Assistant] So when you, so you get locked up and then you come back and you still have association with them?


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[Assistant] Okay. Pull up like, was it, was it beef when you pulled up?


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[Assistant] Okay. What was his brother's name? Faizo? Bigface.


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[Assistant] Okay, so then, uh, you started to be a writer for a period of time? Were you helping out?


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[Assistant] But in general, yeaah, I mean that's, I don't know how much of a secret that is. I mean...


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[Assistant] And everybody laughs. I'm like, man, time's unchanged.


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[Assistant] I feel like there's been so many people, like the Drake thing was such a big deal when that happened, but now like...


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[Assistant] Cause like, I have actual evidence that's happened on my show on other people's shows of 6ix9ine not writing his own shit. To me it's like concrete evidence. He doesn't write his own shit. Nobody even wants to talk about it. Nobody wants to make videos about it. Nobody gives a fuck.


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[Assistant] Everybody just accepts it from him. It's like, of course he doesn't write his own shit. Why would he?


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[Assistant] In terms of you writing shit though, were you just looking at it like, well fuck it, I'll do it, I need money. I'll write some fucking shit, I don't care.


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[Assistant] So you feel like you had to leave behind the writing shit in order to sort of become yourself publicly?


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[Assistant] I mean, it's like a good position for somebody who's not trying to be out there on Front Street, but at a certain point it's like you want the respect for the shit that you're capable of. To be a Ghost Rider is to permanently not get the respect.


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[Assistant] I mean yea, it's like writing shit for somebody makes a lot of sense if you are making a lot of money out of it.


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[Assistant] And certain people as songwriters get to the point where they're making a lot of shit, a lot of money. But like, being just like an in-house dude who's working with some other artist.


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[Assistant] Right. So now that you're fully like in the game, you signed and shit, right?


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[Assistant] So now, how do you feel like you have to move as, in terms of like actually building up your solo career for real?


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[Assistant] Nah, that's true for sure. I mean, nowadays, if you're not gonna be a rapper who's basically just gonna be


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[Assistant] If you're the kind of guy who just is like a real person, a real rapper and you're not chasing after the money from getting 12 year olds to stream your shit, you gotta be willing to like sign up to like really build a career, you know?


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[Assistant] It's crazy though when you realize how many people's streams is fake. How many people's YouTube views is fake.


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[Assistant] There's a rapper that I still to this day cannot fuck with because he bought 100,000 views for his interview back in the day.


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[Assistant] And uh, even though now I don't think that's that out of the ordinary, it was just like so obvious and I know he did it and every time I see him in person I'm just like, uuuh. Nasty motherfucker, I don't, uuuh.


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[Assistant] Nah, it's just like, and now he's like, he's got like a real career and stuff, like, I don't know, a real career, but...


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[Assistant] Shit seems like it's going better for him, but I'll never be able to forget them fake views he bought. Whatever. So what do you got on the way?


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[Assistant] That's dope though. I mean, I feel like you, you definitely have the talent to be like one of these sort of long term L.A.


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[Assistant] Hardcore, actual rappers that doesn't have to like, try to fall back on some bullshit.


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[Assistant] Nojumper. Coolest podcast in the world. Check us out on YouTube, Soundcloud, iTunes. Like, comment, subscribe. Nojumper.com. Request the Nojumper cushy at local dispensary. Appreciate y'all.


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[Assistant] So now we're here, we finna go to the Mozzie show. The homie All Black's here too. I think Mozzie got a couple other dudes opening up for him, who I'm excited to try to be fans of. So we finna walk over here and get some tickets, man.


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[Assistant] That's fire. I just wanna know how you're feeling after killing it. This the first stop on the tour. What's your energy for the rest of the tour going into?


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[Assistant] Mazzy and his old camp. I'm with no jumper right now.


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[Assistant] Hey this my nigga Mads, the nigga I grew up with. He been hard since we was kids and he hard while we grown. And that's just it.


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[Assistant] Ayy, now I'm finally with the man who I wanted to secretly reveal. All Black.


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[Assistant] Ayy, and I'm here with the dumbier dog that bite. All black. Search him up on everything in all black.


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[Assistant] Thank you so much. Alright. Ayy!


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[Assistant] The set was amazing. Shout out Maji's manager, Davo. Shout out Adam 22 from Nojumper for having me. Shout out to Nojumper as a platformer. My name is Guapdad 4000. We in front of the El Rey in the middle of Hollywood. There's cars that probably want to kill us.


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[Assistant] I ain't movin' for nothin' and you don't movin' for nothin' cause if they hit me, we rich off insurance, baby. All my niggas scammin'. Go watch that on YouTube right now. Squop that 4,000 featuring Myzi. Ah!


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[Assistant] Okay, okay, he made a deal with Penguin. Weapons in exchange for some stiff, uh, uh, Ferris Boyle. He's in Godcorp, last I saw.


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[Assistant] What? No, I, uh, Garth Korn, I swear! Look, I've got the entry codes!


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[Assistant] These joggers think that we can catch us. We're unstoppable.


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[Assistant] The Separtists? Separtists? Separtists? So...


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[Assistant] Sopotis. Sopotis. The Sopotis. Yup. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Once again, I have no idea what this is. It's...


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[Assistant] Getting a little bit harder to know who's gonna get akumatized in certain episodes, just because we did akumatize a lot of people in season one, and now I feel like we're kinda getting some new people, sometimes some characters who didn't get as much love, so... Oh no!


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[Assistant] Please keep in mind if you like my reactions then you should check out my Patreon page. Link down in the description below to get access to the full reactions over there and you can see the next week's episode of Miraculous Early as well.


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[Assistant] And you should go support the official release of Miraculous Ladybug either on Netflix or Disney+, depending on what country you're in. But without further ado, let's get started!


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[Assistant] That would taste nasty after brushing your teeth. Orange juice and cantaloupe? That'd be so nasty after brushing your teeth. Go brush your teeth again. Little nasties.


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[Assistant] This is a big mess, like, there's a lot of them. How are we gonna find, like, the original two?


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[Assistant] Are we gonna burn children?


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[Assistant] Oh my god, you look amazing! Honey, look at you! You are glowing, literally glowing!


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[Assistant] I'm curious to see what other powers, we know she has illusion, but what else can she do? Cause she has like, the flutes.


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[Assistant] I love it. I love the design. I love kind of the more like red hue in her hair. It's very very pretty along with the like white kind of tail like wisps as well. Uh, very pretty. I should guess like


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[Assistant] The ends are like, white. I don't know how to describe it very well.


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[Assistant] But, I love it, I love the, uh, style, I definitely like it more than like, Lila's look.


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[Assistant] Like, the belt wasn't a bad look, don't get me wrong, but I like that it's just kinda more of a...


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[Assistant] Falls back into like, a tail? Versus like...


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[Assistant] A tail belt type thing. I like that it's more of the like,


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[Assistant] Uh, what is it? Like, like a tail on like, like a, like a suit jacket, like type of thing, uh.


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[Assistant] Uh, like a cocktail coat or whatever they're called, I can't remember. Uhm, I like it more. I think this is a much better look.


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[Assistant] I don't know if I did or not. I don't remember. I don't think I did. Uhm, but I guess I should have figured, like...


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[Assistant] We don't really know anybody else that would have like, oh I did, cause I was like, I hope the blonde one is not, uh, like, blonde, I hope the yellow, like,


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[Assistant] Brett looking one isn't Chloe. I did, okay, I did talk about that. Uhm. Oh my god, I hope it's not.


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[Assistant] Like why would they ever give one to Chloe? That seems ridiculous. Maybe Rose? But that seems odd. I feel like, I feel like we have to give it a character that's more like, forward on screen. I don't know. Uhm, but.


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[Assistant] Overall, I love that Alia got her time to shine. I do like the fact that like, Alia is super great, super trusting, super dependable.


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[Assistant] But if you are given a miraculous that gave you incredible power,


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[Assistant] It allowed you to basically live out your dream of being a superhero. I think it'd be very hard to give that back.


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[Assistant] So I can't fault Alia for like being like, I could just keep it.


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[Assistant] I could just hold on to it. Like, I could help you.


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[Assistant] Like, I can't blame her. And then our, our little tricksy or, like, it was tricksy?


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[Assistant] Yeah, our sly fox was like, you wouldn't make a great member of the team and you're so trustworthy and dependable. And it's like, ugh, right. Ugh, I gotta give it back. But I mean, obviously, as, you know, a viewer of the show,


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[Assistant] She's gonna get back again at some point. I don't know if anyone will ever get to keep them miraculous. Like, I think Master has made very clear that he doesn't want them out and about and to be held and he wants to protect them since he is the Guardian.


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[Assistant] So I'm guessing no one will ever truly get to like, keep their miraculous. But if Oliya gives it back this time...


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[Assistant] There's a high possibility that, you know, Ladybug will come back again and trust you to be, uh,


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[Assistant] Rina Rouge again, which is fun. So I'm curious, uhm,


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[Assistant] Ollie is probably not coming back this season, right? Maybe? I don't know. I would love if Ollie came back again this season, but I don't.


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[Assistant] Now she would come back again this season. It's a little bit disappointing.


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[Assistant] She is dating someone, you sly cat. I was gonna say dog, but he's not a dog, so sly cat.


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[Assistant] Uhm, what else, what else, what else? Uh, I feel like I'm just like, my brain is running around so fast, I just cannot even process. Uhm.


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[Assistant] I really think Hawk Moth needs to stop akumatizing children. Yes, Puppeteer got really close. But I feel like it's just not going well with kids anymore. I think maybe we need to focus our, uh,


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[Assistant] Our ventures into maybe more adults who are maybe a bit more capable and don't


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[Assistant] Backsass Hawk Moth is much though. I actually really love like the backsass. I love seeing Hawk Moth.


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[Assistant] Get like, flustered? I think it's very enjoyable. Uhm, but!


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[Assistant] It's really bad cause now Hawk Moth knows that there's a guardian. He knows what guardians are.


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[Assistant] Uh, because of the book, I'm guessing. So he knows there's a guardian.


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[Assistant] I don't know if it really helps that much because he already has a miraculous and he needs the ladybug and cat miraculous.


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[Assistant] Forget his wish, I don't think it works with any of the others. But I guess if he got the miraculous, like, like he could give one to like, Laila.


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[Assistant] Uh, or Chloe and things like that and essentially have like an army of Miraculous users to get the other Miraculous. So I guess it is pretty bad if he does get them because he could just...


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[Assistant] Basically do the same thing Marinette did, but, you know, basically be like, you have to take their miraculous and be not a hero.


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[Assistant] So it's interesting.


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[Assistant] I'm curious to see when we'll use...


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[Assistant] Another Miraculous again, or if we'll just kinda chill on that for a while.


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[Assistant] I, I really liked that fact, I found that very interesting, uhm, especially getting to see the new design and everything was very fun.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I am a little surprised, but I guess, no, actually no, I'm not.


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[Assistant] It makes sense that we would see the fox miraculous.


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[Assistant] Like, the true Fox Miraculous before we would see Lila's Volpina again. If she even becomes Volpina again, technically, I don't know. Like, we-


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[Assistant] We did see her at the end of that episode, like, grab the like, fake jewelry, uh, miraculous, and basically like, clutch it and like, leave with it.


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[Assistant] So I'm guessing she must have kept it, especially because, you know, it technically made her a superhero.


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[Assistant] I would assume she's gonna keep it and probably just be a fulpina again.


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[Assistant] You can just reuse your previous volcano design, which was a very good design. Uhm, but yeaah, I would expect to see.


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[Assistant] Volpina back again just because of resource wise as a character designer. Utilizing that again is cost effective.


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[Assistant] And of course allows for callbacks, which everyone loves a callback. So I'm excited. So.


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[Assistant] I feel like now that we have seen the Fox Miraculous and uh, Rina Rouge,


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[Assistant] I think we can expect Laila at like any point, though I'm guessing Laila's probably gonna be towards like the end of the season. I would assume.


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[Assistant] That's where that would probably go, cause it's probably gonna be like this big epic thing. But I feel like we could-


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[Assistant] See her at any point now and it would make sense that now that we know what the Fox Miraculous is with Trixie and kind of what the hero version, the real version of it looks like. So.


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[Assistant] Was nice for setting up and understanding everything, but season two has been incredible for getting more into the story and creating a lot more


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[Assistant] Interesting scenarios and things to kind of be hyped about and adding more of like, why I want to keep watching this show.


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[Assistant] So, I've been having a wonderful time. I hope you guys have been enjoying it just as much as me.


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[Assistant] This episode might air somewhere on Patreon, you know, sooner, but.


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[Assistant] For me, like, this is the middle of January, not even the middle of January yet, and I just feel like we're really, really far in season two, which is awesome.


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[Assistant] I've been having a lot of fun. Hope you guys are as well. Please remember if you like this video to like, share, subscribe, all that fun. Just comment down below. Let me know what you guys think. Uhm, what was your initial reaction to meeting, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, Rina Rouge, and what do you think about all of you getting the Miraculous? It's really fun, so.


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[Assistant] Can you remember anything at all?


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[Assistant] Wait, how can this be? I already had one baby.


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[Assistant] Come on in for a bit and we'll talk.


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[Assistant] You probably have questions.


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[Assistant] Get this, they're calling Dawes, America's police chief.


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[Assistant] Think we hit the motherlode. That's 9.9 million dollars worth of coke.


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[Assistant] What are you, drug rain man? Come on, let's leave it for the cops. I'm not letting cops take this. Then what are you gonna do? We're in Los Angeles. I can unload this in six days. What am I talking about? I know a pro basketball player. Four days.


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[Assistant] Tyson, I'm not kidding. Let's go. I'm getting this out of here. You can help me if you like.


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[Assistant] Hey, come on, come on. Hey, you know I actually haven't robbed a place in probably eight days. I'm sure. And I think you two are nuts.


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[Assistant] She hit me the other day and I was like, I got on with her and I was like, she wasn't supposed to see this.


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[Assistant] But we felt like each other's vibes and I was like, well, I don't want to do this virtual shit anymore. So like, when can I see you? And then she was like, I want to see you too. And I was like, all right, cool. Well, let's book the flights for tomorrow.


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[Assistant] To second, wait guys, listen, listen, listen. Second of all.


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[Assistant] Sonny the jeweler told me he only paid $5,000 for the fucking chain.


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[Assistant] He also said it was appraised for $8,000. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, and fuck you.


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[Assistant] No, his pupils are really small, unless it's a tolerance that's


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[Assistant] I unleashed a beast.


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[Assistant] Oh, how I curse my own spell. Forgive me, child. I meant well.


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[Assistant] The top nominees for your favorite female comedy performer should all be placed under house arrest for scene stealing. And here's the evidence.


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[Assistant] And I've gotta go to work, I say. But the truth is, when I go to the studio, I'm going to be with my friends. And I'm going to have a lot of fun. And I wish everybody could have the kind of job that I have, in a sense, because, uh,


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[Assistant] John Huston who gave me my first job in films almost 20 years ago and John Milius who followed suit and thank the great production crew


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[Assistant] And I thank you all, especially those of you that view this show religiously. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Alright. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Everybody thinks that the easiest part is pulling the trigger, and it's not. That's the hardest part. But you gain so much respect and so much appreciation for that animal.


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[Assistant] And you believe the Reaper invasion really was a threat? No doubt about it. We literally had minutes to spare. I'm sure all the details are in your report. I won't lie to you, Shepard. The Batarians will want blood, and there's just enough evidence for a witch hunt. And we don't want war with the Batarians. Not with the Reapers at the galaxy's edge. What are you saying? You did what you did for the best of reasons, but...


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[Assistant] There were more than 300,000 Batarians in that system. All dead. They died to save trillions of lives. If I could have saved them, you bet your ass I wouldn't. You're preaching to the choir, Commander. If it were up to me, I'd give you a damn medal. Unfortunately, not everyone will see it that way.


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[Assistant] So what do you suggest? Evidence against you is shoddy at best. But at some point, you'll have to go to Earth and face the music. I can't stop it, but I can and will make them fight for it. I'll gladly stay in trial once this mission is done.


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[Assistant] Do whatever you have to do out here. But when Earth calls, you make sure you're there with your dress blues on, ready to take the hit. In the meantime, you keep this. I don't need to see a report to know you did the right thing.


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[Assistant] I'm a cattle farmer and, uh, this property is in the north, northeast of Namibia. Our income is basically just coming from cattle.


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[Assistant] If your children are between the ages of 2 and 13.


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[Assistant] Here's great news for their teeth. Introducing gentle cleaning formula Aquafresh for kids. Now 30% gentler for kids' teeth, yet still cleans effectively and gives clinically proven fluoride protection. New gentle cleaning Aquafresh for kids.


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[Assistant] With a taste that makes kids want a brush. AquaFresh for kids. Now 30% gentler for your kids' teeth.


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[Assistant] Each low-fat shake has the protein of a chicken salad sandwich and more calcium than this yogurt. Plus the very best chocolate taste. Nestle Sweet Success. For lunch.


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[Assistant] Yeah, man, I honestly didn't think I was gonna get it over either, man.


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[Assistant] I mean, when I say legally, uhm, when I was coming in with the boy previously, uhm,


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[Assistant] It's just a thing where they never ask me any questions about anything.


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[Assistant] Oh man, yeaah. Uh, I guess you could say like I was just troubled youth, you know? Coming from a broken family. Parents got separated. One lived in Montreal, one lived in Toronto.


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[Assistant] And it never worked out, cause I guess he was on the road a lot or whatever, but uhm, yeaah. Got into trouble, early age. Uhm, got a, got a prison term. But what age was that?


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[Assistant] My first prison, I did two prison, two federal bids. My first one was when I was like, uhm, 17.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's still kind of the same thing, but what happened was, uhm,


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[Assistant] Sorry, they send you down to the feds. So I got two years and I think it was six months or something like that. Uh huh. For robberies and stuff. Right. And then I got out and I was out for 30 days man on parole.


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[Assistant] Always church, church, church, and I didn't get no time to do my own thing, so that was a rebellion in itself. And then my mom was just...


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[Assistant] I guess that's what kinda caused the rebellion and then I just started, I was just in the streets.


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[Assistant] Basically, uh, she took off like when we were young, like I think I was like 15, 16 or something like that.


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[Assistant] You know, like you have a mom and a dad and you would expect like your dad's supposed to be the, the G, the gangster. Not saying, I'm not taking nothing from him, but he was just in the church. So he didn't, he wasn't on that street stuff. But my mom was. Really? Yeah, so she was just involved in the street stuff. I believe she took like a whole bunch of money from the government and said,


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[Assistant] Fuck you, Canada, and just went back to her country, which is Barbados. What? Yeaah, started her new life. Just left her kids and everybody.


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[Assistant] That's when like that whole student loan shit just started and they were just giving money away and I guess she found some type of scheme and it worked for her. She got her bag and cut.


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[Assistant] Maybe now it's, it's, you're starting to see that pop up now, but like, back then it wasn't like that. Back then it was just like, yo.


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[Assistant] I grew up with some dudes in your neighborhood that you guys bonded, maybe another one or two other guys from...


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[Assistant] Another neighborhood and you guys just come together and you guys just bond and it's just, it's, we never called it a gang. Like, you know what I mean? Like, Bloods and Crypts. It wasn't like that, but.


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[Assistant] It would be like a name for the set, I guess, but it wasn't like a gang, like Bloods and Crips, but now it's getting like...


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[Assistant] I'ma tell you straight up man, it's the same thing everywhere, brother. I mean, I know everybody has this stigma about Canada, you know, like you guys probably think that we all live in igloos and shit like that.


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[Assistant] Where I came from was, uh, Scarborough. So it's like, like the burbs, I guess. A little bit like that. But uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, it's not, it's not like downtown, but it's, uh, it gets rowdy, man.


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[Assistant] To be honest with you, I wasn't, because I was, by the time I got down to the federal system, I was 18.


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[Assistant] It's just a thing where like, bro, if you're real, I mean it's just a situation where you land, you just gotta get yourself together man and figure shit out quick. You gotta learn a lot of things by yourself.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's race in prison. It's all, like, that's how the groups are sectioned off.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, I never did timeout here. I thought that's how it ran out here though, I thought it was the gangs.


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[Assistant] Yo, I'm basically married to this shit, man, because you can't, you can't, you can't,


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[Assistant] Step into this and be halfway in and halfway out. Right. Cause you're gonna lose your life or you're gonna be fucked up or labeled.


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[Assistant] And once I came to terms with it, then it is what it is. I just keep it real. All the way through. I don't change and I haven't.


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[Assistant] But again, like back then when I was doing time, I wasn't...


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[Assistant] Like I tell everybody, like music has always been a part of my life. Like my dad's a musician. He plays the guitar and he sings. So I've always heard music since I was a youngin' till now. Like in the house, you know, just always playing different types of music.


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[Assistant] See that's the thing man, like where I come from, like my neighborhood is a very small neighborhood. It's basically one street.


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[Assistant] Right? And there's only like maybe 20 guys in the neighborhood really that are active and


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[Assistant] I don't know man, like a day or two later they came back to the neighborhood and they just came to my house man. They had a warrant for my arrest and arrested me.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, they had a disclosure and they said they had proof, which is why I won my appeal because basically they're saying that the individual that got shot was in the hospital, they took a statement from him.


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[Assistant] We don't know who shot you, but there's this guy from this neighborhood and he's really bad and maybe we should just go along with this.


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[Assistant] You know? Cause there's no other alternative for me. Like, I know the guy didn't say that I shot it.


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[Assistant] So, I sat down for like about a year and a half.


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[Assistant] You guys get bail, like you guys could get bond, I think that's what you guys call it. Right, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Over where I come from it's really hard to get, especially for like violent crimes and stuff. Right. It's not that easy to get bail.


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[Assistant] It's just a big deal because I guess we don't see...


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[Assistant] As much as you guys get, but it's a big deal because it causes the public to be in an uproar, you know, because they're not used to it, you know.


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[Assistant] And, and people have kids going to school and it was during the daytime it was just, it was just a bad scene.


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[Assistant] Second time, uh, I had to figure stuff out as well because when I went down the first time, I was young and I only spent like, I think, like, uh, 10 months. Oh, okay. So like, when you get time in Canada, it's not, I don't think it's the same as here.


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[Assistant] In Canada, say they gave you 14 years, you will do two thirds and you'll be able to get out. Right. So there's no like, you're doing the whole, you gotta do the whole time and then get out.


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[Assistant] And I was just, I was just trying to come to terms with like, what I was gonna do. And like I told you, I was thinking about starting the label.


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[Assistant] But then again, I'm like, how am I going to do that? Because I don't really know anybody in the music industry and I know it's not an easy thing to start. But I was just always in my thoughts and saying, you know, well, if you have talent,


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[Assistant] You know, good things should happen for you, you know, and I, and I know that when I got out on the street just from making connections while I was down there for all those years, and I knew that I'd be able to get the right people that I needed to make this happen if I wanted it to happen.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's, that's where I was thinking about, like, I was, while I was down there, I was thinking about getting out and starting a label. Right. That was my thoughts. I didn't, there wasn't, I didn't have any other, like, what's the word I'm looking for, uhm, like, like, you know how people go to school to get


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[Assistant] To learn all the plum and all that shit. I didn't have none of that one. No backup plan. Yeah, because, like,


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[Assistant] I was in prison when everybody was doing all that shit, like going to high school. I was in prison.


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[Assistant] Dating. Dating when you're young. Dating girls and all that. I miss all that shit too. Like even down to just using a bank machine.


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[Assistant] Basically man, honestly when you, when you get your time and you go down below, it's like time stops.


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[Assistant] That's why, like, I don't even feel my age. Right. You know, I feel like I'm still...


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[Assistant] How I was when I went in, to be honest with you. I mean, time has passed since I got out, but...


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[Assistant] I went in, when I went to prison, I went to prison with the guys in my era. And the guys in my era, obviously now there's a younger generation that's coming up in our neighborhood. And they were into the rap stuff, so they had...


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[Assistant] Uh, met up with Drake, and I guess there was some type of affiliation and stuff. This is all happening while I was in prison, I didn't even know about it. So I get out now, uhm, being the OG, not the only OG from my neighbourhood, but one of them. Right. And obviously, you know, the younger guys are gonna gravitate to you because they wanna learn obviously and shit, so.


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[Assistant] We, we, we grew together and they brought Drake around me. Like, I think it was a video shoot that we were shooting. Uh, Prem, you know Prem? The artist from Toronto? Yeah, he was shooting a video and we got shut down.


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[Assistant] He respects it a lot, is that right? Cause he has friends from the streets.


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[Assistant] It's just, imagine like, you know, okay, I'm the biggest rapper in the world now. I'm going all over the world. I wanna have people around me that I grew up with and that I can trust and I know have my best interests at hand. Why am I gonna go and hire all these people to be around me that don't know nothing about me? Just wouldn't make sense.


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[Assistant] I'd rather have a couple people around me that have been around me from the beginning. It just makes sense.


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[Assistant] I, or normal people do, I swear man, his, his hearing for things is totally different man.


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[Assistant] Well in the beginning man, like, I was doing the quote unquote security thing, right? And I was like, yo, you know.


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[Assistant] I just gotta, I gotta figure out my life. I mean, I'm not gonna do this forever. You know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] And I was just, I was doing a lot of things, trying to figure out things. I even tried to do the label thing like I was telling you about. And then by me doing that, that's how I found myself.


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[Assistant] I started doing this music thing. I wanted them to start making music because my goal was for them to make as much music as possible and then just bring it to OVO, to Drake and be like, listen, this is what my plan is. Can you guys help me? Can this happen? You know? And go from there. That's smart, yeaah. Right? But in the midst of that, these kids, shout out to Hypa, these kids,


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[Assistant] Uhm, wanted me to go into the booth one day. Cause they, they, they must have put on a beat and I was just snapped into the beat. I was like, yo, go, go in the booth and say something. I went in there and...


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[Assistant] I laid some crazy shit down. Crazy shit for me because I've never done it before and I was on time. Everything just, it just flowed nice. I mean the bars were probably shit, you know, but just the fact that


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[Assistant] I felt in my mind that I could flow and I could keep the timing and I felt that it sounded amazing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was just crazy. But I just, like, that's why I bring that back to my father, like, him playing all that music while I was a kid. All those melodies. Because sometimes I'm in the studio and melodies come in my head, like, I'll hear a beat and then a melody will just pop up in my head. I'm like, how?


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[Assistant] And then I have to remember, like, this is why, man. Like, when I was a kid and all those songs were beating in my head for all those hours and days and nights, that's why.


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[Assistant] Yo, when I tell you I love music, I really love music, I have a passion for it, but I was also upset with it as well because I'm saying, okay, I love it and all this stuff, but why won't, why don't I know how to play an instrument? Why can't I sing? Why can't I rap? Like, I was just confused with it, you know?


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[Assistant] I keep hearing that, man. But yo, could I be honest with you, man? I look up to Gucci. When I got out of prison, I was listening to a lot of Gucci. And when I was listening to Gucci, when he dropped that song with Jeezy,


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know? But bro, I just, I don't know, it's just about, I can just tell he was a real one. Just in, even if the words weren't like blending how they should be like how he is today,


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[Assistant] Just the shit that he was saying was resonating with me.


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[Assistant] Oh, you mean when I started rapping? The music, yeaah. The first song that I made? Yeaah. I didn't present that song to them.


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[Assistant] But what happened was when I, when I was grinding, uhm, the boy, cause my friends, like we're all friends, you know, so like, like say, the boy says, yo,


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[Assistant] We're doing dinner at my crib tonight. Tell the men to forward over.


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[Assistant] So everybody will be over there and then like, he'll probably be in the studio in his house somewhere doing something and we'll be over here, or the guys will be here doing shit and playing music and just run one of my songs that I did. Yo, Baka just did a new song, listen to this. And he'll be in the next, and trust me, this guy does not miss a beat. Okay? When you think he's not paying attention,


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[Assistant] That was it, bro. That was it. He basically told me like, yo, like,


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[Assistant] Keep making music. Don't stop. Because at that time too, even though my friends were playing the music, there was a lot of my friends that didn't like the fact that I was doing this.


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[Assistant] Two things, I feel, I feel like they didn't want me to fail, right? I look stupid in front of the world, because I am baka, not nice, the street cred's already there, why you gonna go fuck it up and look like a loser rapper? Cause that's what could happen.


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[Assistant] No, not until I made the song that I wanted to push, which was, uh, Live Up To My Name.


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[Assistant] But all the other songs, like, they were just like, I was, it was like going to school for me. It was like, cause man, my flows in the beginning, right, were pretty crazy. Right. So, it was just like learning, it was teaching me. Cause I would, yo, one thing I would say, if anybody ever asked me,


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[Assistant] About if I had advice for an artist. Like yo, just make sure you like your own music. Make sure you love your music. And that's how I feel about my shit.


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[Assistant] When I make music and I like the song, I love the song.


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[Assistant] So, if I love the song, I believe that that song is a good song that I can put out to the world that everybody will appreciate because I feel in my heart that it's a good song because I know music.


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[Assistant] And, and, you know what, honestly, man?


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[Assistant] One thing with OVO sound, one thing with Drake in particular, yo, if it's not right, he's not going nowhere. Right. It's just like either you just shelf it or you start over again. Right. Period. And when it comes to my music,


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[Assistant] All my music, I make sure that he hears my stuff first before I do anything. I want the criticism. I can handle it. That's the difference between me and a lot of these guys.


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[Assistant] I guess you can't tell these guys that their song is shit, you know, and them not feel offended by it. I mean, you might not have to say it like that, but you know, I take criticism and I want my boys to be real with me. It's not gonna work if you're not. Don't be a fucking yes man to me.


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[Assistant] He's not gonna, especially if a man's like, okay, let me put myself in the situation then. I make a hit song.


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[Assistant] He's not gonna come and be like, yo, I need that song. He's not gonna do that.


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[Assistant] My personal take on it is I don't know him to be like that. He wants his artists to thrive and to flourish and to be great. He wants that.


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[Assistant] I want features from him, but early in my, early in the stages of my career, I didn't want it, I swear to you, I didn't want any features. You don't want it until you're ready. No, I didn't, I feel like, because bro, what am I gonna do, go on, start doing features with rappers all over the place and get blown out of the water? Like that's not gonna work, you know?


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[Assistant] Plus, I wanted my fans to love me, bro. Love me. You love me, then all that other pretty fancy stuff, we can get into that later.


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[Assistant] In order for me to know that I can last in this business, you gotta love me. You gotta show me that you love me. Cause then that makes me know that I'm doing something right. So then like the features and all that stuff, that can come later. Fall in love with Baka first. Get to know who Baka is.


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[Assistant] Right. So listen, this is what uhm, my dad told me since I've been a kid. He said, yo, he said, don't hang your coat where you cannot reach it.


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[Assistant] Being greedy. It's patience. I learned a lot in prison.


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[Assistant] I think that's the, uh, that's the sauce that I have that a lot of these guys don't. I have patience, man.


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[Assistant] I fully agree with what you just said, like, you know, sometimes there's too many chiefs and not enough Indians, you know? So, I know how to play my position. Listen, at the end of the day, man, Drake didn't have to sign me to OVO. He didn't have to sign me. Drake didn't have to say, yo, come, come roll with me. He didn't have to do none of that stuff. He made that decision on his own.


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[Assistant] My loyalty to him and this whole movement is different. A lot of people might not understand it, but it is what it is. So I'll know how to play my position.


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[Assistant] Cause at the end of the day, I will have my time. Everything's on timing. So maybe today's not my day. It might be tomorrow. It might be next week. But be patient.


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[Assistant] I'm, I have a few big singles right now and...


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[Assistant] So like I was telling you, like, I just, this is my introduction to America right now. Like,


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[Assistant] I was in Canada, I went to Europe and all that stuff. Now I want you guys to know who I am. And then we can talk about the project.


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[Assistant] Not taking anything away from Canada or, or overseas, Europe or anything like that, but I'm telling you,


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[Assistant] I didn't feel like I was actually an artist until I came to America because you gotta do it here. You gotta, if you do it here.


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[Assistant] You can do it anywhere. Right. That's my take on it. You know what I'm saying? So I feel like I gotta work really hard right now.


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[Assistant] Because this is my first time in America. Like, I mean, you guys have heard my music and stuff, but you haven't seen me. Right. You haven't gotten to know me yet. And this is my chance to show you guys who I am.


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[Assistant] Yo, like Canada, America, we're used to like guns and stuff. We got a lot of guns. Just remember, in the UK, it's not really like that. I mean, there are guns there, but these guys work with shivs and knives. Right. And that's real up close and personal. That's an intimate shit.


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[Assistant] I got a lot of surprises coming, I can't really speak on it, but America, I'm here now, and uh, it's on and poppin'. I'ma show you what can happen.


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[Assistant] I have a new weapon and we'll soon have a chance to use it. Besides, Templars are usually well guarded.


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[Assistant] He's at Fort William Henry, facing impossible odds.


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[Assistant] Madame old Murphy is supposed to be quite the charmer. Hello Murphy, is it the French King's bed? Now I know you're pulling my leg.


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[Assistant] I'm no fool, Colonel. The assassins won't come after me next. We're both targets now.


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[Assistant] King George's men will take care of those pirates. We've got our own battles to fight.


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[Assistant] Did you hear that? Cannon fire, deep within the fog. Could it be the Lavarong 3? Perhaps. This secret expedition won't be keen to leave any witnesses to their voyage.


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[Assistant] National Geographic is known around the world for its iconic photography. Now we're asking you to inspire us with images you take over the next three days.


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[Assistant] This is the basis for our editor's awards. And to present the first one, here's the heart of Knott's Landing, as Karen McKenzie, she's the friend we've always wanted, the neighbor we'd always welcome, Michelle Lee.


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[Assistant] I hereby dub thee Lord Post Malone of Medieval Times.


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[Assistant] By the time the Brills came to Jacobian Myers, they were being harassed by their creditors, their wages were attached, and their home was in foreclosure. We stopped all that.


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[Assistant] Why shouldn't we? The Braille's just needed a chance to get a fresh start.


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[Assistant] Gunned down in cold blood and, and Erica sat at his bedside and gave this tearful farewell.


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[Assistant] In this past year with Travis, the brilliant senator who I might say is, uh, wrongly, uh, under investigation.


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[Assistant] One of the finest actresses I've ever seen and in 17 years, I have never seen this actress hit a false note. You can hear one moment.


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[Assistant] Doctors know there's more medicine in extra strength Tylenol than regular aspirin. It's stronger relief for the aches and chills of the flu. Tylenol, the doctor's choice by four to one, and the pain reliever hospitals use most.


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[Assistant] And the most gifted, gifted actors in the business, and some of them are sitting right there at that table, and I have to take my hat off to that lovely lady, Michelle Phillips, who is one of the, one of the nicest women I know. And my hubby!


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[Assistant] I love you both. And you. You're lucky too because you have our executive.


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[Assistant] You fans out there who watch us and support us and voted for me and for all of us.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I wanna thank a very special and elegant lady who is beautiful inside and out.


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[Assistant] And, and a legendary casting director who, uh, really went to bat for a young, very unproven


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[Assistant] Actor, uhm, sporting a full bushy beard many years ago, uhm, and who refused to shave it off unless they gave him a contract because he was in, I was in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway at the time and I just couldn't stand the thought of spirit gum and if I didn't have something to show for it. Anyway, thank you forever Betty Ray. I had to say that. Thank you Dr. Gamble.


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[Assistant] Of course Ed Trott for bringing poor old Rotten Roger back from the near side of the grave.


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[Assistant] Uhm, thanks to a terrific group of people that I work with, uh, cast, crew, uh, production staff who's, who's, uh, just great sense of humor and everything. Makes it a pleasure to come to work in the morning. Thank you, Marika and Helen and my daughters and Susan, my wife, who make me the luckiest guy in the world. And last but not least,


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[Assistant] He's the reason I watch the show. I hope you hear that, Brad. Uhm, he's got a body that won't quit. He's the solar flex man. And I look for his underwear commercials.


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[Assistant] I've had a great reaction from that and I was honestly really scared about losing.


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[Assistant] A lot of people, you know, especially like people that support me and people that listen to my music, so I was like, fuck.


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[Assistant] How are they gonna take hearing like what you just said, like knowing that there was like this whole other thing going on? And uhm,


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[Assistant] I was like ready to have that kind of like quote unquote backfire, right? And uh, but there's like so much power in...


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[Assistant] That part of YouTube that I saw, which was like people being honest about their shit, because like it, it's really hard for me to...


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[Assistant] It's really crazy just to see the transparency of people because like, there's a whole side of YouTube that's so fucking fake. You know what I'm saying? That you just know, you're just like, god this is so like, such a setup.


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[Assistant] The stigma on social media like kinda happened to me. It's like, I feel like it is real. Like, there's a fucking mental illness with that shit.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. Oh yeaah. And then there was like that whole, the whole last year of my life was like, there was like a very public moment, you know what I'm saying? And...


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[Assistant] Like the transparency that people are starting to come out with, like vulnerability bruh, I've always looked up to that so much and I felt like I wasn't being vulnerable ever because like, you know, you know, like the first thing you asked me how you're doing today, like I still,


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[Assistant] In that person that's like, this is the greatest day of my life, right? Because I don't want to be dead. Period. I don't want to be dead. Like, you know what I'm saying? And, uh, there was like a long time where I was really, really, really afraid of death because of how I was living. You know? Like I was really, I was, I was feeling shame. Like every time I did a fucking line of coke, bro, I felt shame.


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[Assistant] Exactly, I wasn't, I was, I was shameful of it bro and like.


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[Assistant] I got addicted to cocaine the first time I did it. Literally the first time I did it, I was like, holy shit, that's the one. That's like the one for me. Like, you know? And, and as time goes on, like,


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[Assistant] The amount that you do of that will fucking kill you. Like it will. Especially now, where there's all this shit being mixed. Like bro, it's scary. It's really scary. So like, I'm at the point now where I'm actually, finally like, kinda scared of.


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[Assistant] Fuckin' miss it. I mean, everything you watch on TV, especially now, it's like, yo bro, I had to pick up so many new hobbies, like, to, to remain, like, focused, you know?


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[Assistant] You think that you're like, no, I got control over this shit. You know, I'm not going to be like that. Like, like I have addiction passed in my, you know, it goes through my bloodline with addictions to things. And I was so aware of that, that I was like, that's never going to be me.


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[Assistant] It's like the Van Gogh's Ear Syndrome, like I was talking like, you know, every artist feels like they need to be tortured, right? You feel like you need to cut off your fucking ear, no one wants to buy my art while I'm alive, they're only gonna appreciate me when I'm dead, blah, blah, blah. Like you get into this mindset and I feel like no matter what artist you are, you honestly, you, you want them


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[Assistant] You almost wanna feel, like, their, like, their sympathy.


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[Assistant] You know, you wanna say it's all good and that and this and that, but then there's also like that crutch that you're just like...


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[Assistant] It's so easy to be like, yo, I feel like fucking shit right now. Right. And want sympathy. And I think that's, that's what I was holding onto for so long was that like, I felt like,


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[Assistant] Because I write books and I write poetry that I was like letting out a little bit of that realness there. Right. And keeping my music so, you know, it sounds like you're on a beach, right about being on a beach. Like that was my one-sided


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[Assistant] Artist stigma, cause I was kind of doing everything very unrelatable, you know? I was talking about this life, which is like, the best thing I've ever done is spread the word that like, when someone says, how are you doing today? You say, this is the greatest fucking day of your life, right? And then now I'm spreading the word that like, yeah, because you're not dead, but like,


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[Assistant] I'm not 170 days sober, I'm really sober today, right? It's like, that's what I'm learning in stuff like AA is like, you can't hold on to this thing like, I'm...


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[Assistant] I'm different than you because I'm 170 days sober. It's like bro, I could fuck that all up right now. I could go outside right now and fuck all that up and like I'm, I think about that all day. Right. I really do and I'm trying to distance myself from it and like, you know, hobbies and, and uh,


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[Assistant] And like bro, I got, I got, I jumped right out of drug addiction into sex addiction. Really? Right out of it. Right out the gate.


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[Assistant] Just, just straight up, just, just needing, needing someone around and then like, yo, like if, I mean, okay, when you have a fucking orgasm, that's like, that's a, that's a drug.


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[Assistant] It's a dr- it's like the- it's a high. It's a high, right? So it's like...


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[Assistant] Like, I jumped from one addiction to another and I immediately, like, like, I had to, like, basically, like, swear off fucking...


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[Assistant] Having sex for a while and shit and be like I can't fucking just jump from this to that and like be caught in this whirlwind of chasing shit.


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[Assistant] I've been to rehab before. I didn't go to rehab this time. Uhm, but uh, I went on an eight day bender. Right? I tried two different drugs that I've never fucked with. Heroin? No. No. I didn't do that. Nope. Nope.


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[Assistant] One beautiful thing about your past and your journey is that you've been pretty upfront about it. Oh yeaah. Very genuine about it, so I think we've all seen, and like yo, you know what I do, I definitely don't


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[Assistant] Wanna be this like preacher of fucking sobriety and shit like that. So I really do look up to someone like you just said, like you've been a year like removed from that shit at the minimum and you're not like pushing that and like, you know, it's become a part of my story and, and I know that people wanna follow that journey.


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[Assistant] But I'm trying really hard to not be a preacher with this shit.


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[Assistant] I really do be praying for the artists that have passed away.


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[Assistant] But like, you know, one of the other things is like, I think what's, what's working best for me is that like all of this talking,


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[Assistant] You know, I do therapy sessions, I do this AA shit where they fucking call you, they, you don't want to talk, they just point to you and say, get the fuck up here, you have to talk. Like, and like I do all this stuff and it's, it's actually bro, it's actually really, really helping. And I'd love to just be.


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[Assistant] Not the person saying, yo, stop doing drugs, stop drinking. I don't, I don't, I really don't.


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[Assistant] into what the drug does, you know? And like I just want to be that person that's like telling people like, bro, like give yourself a chance at having a future because how you feel now


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[Assistant] Like you will feel so proud getting through the turmoil and you'll realize that like there is no greatness without a struggle and like what I thought were my struggles have all turned out to just be beautiful things and like my life turning around and being better, you know what I'm saying? Like I've really gotten better.


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[Assistant] I really tried to have a relationship with people now, like I actually care about people in this room. I care about you, I care about the people that live with me, like I actually care now. And I didn't give a fuck about anyone before. Like my ego was so on overdrive and I wasn't a piece of shit, like I wasn't a bad person. I know the difference between right and wrong.


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[Assistant] If it was up to me, like I don't need rules, I don't need laws and that shit because like my instincts tell me what's right or wrong, right? But like,


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[Assistant] Looking up to someone that's not telling you the full story. And like by me being out here telling everyone like, be happy as fu- be happy.


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[Assistant] Like, if they knew what was going on the whole time, which is why I didn't tell them, they'd say, bro, you're on fucking an eight ball of cocaine right now and you drank a bottle of whiskey. Yeah, we get it, you're happy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we get it. How you gonna feel at 5am when you're by yourself?


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[Assistant] It's so funny because I do make it a point to go out, I try to go out once a week and still be social, but like I see that 2am thing hit.


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[Assistant] And I see everyone looking like they're just starting their night, like just making their plans, and I'm like...


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[Assistant] You don't need to chase it anymore, like, yo, this amazing thing.


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[Assistant] By the way bro, you look fucking awesome on that cover. On that magazine cover.


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[Assistant] I heard this thing the other day and it was Akon talking about Eminem's work.


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[Assistant] Uhm, schedule and how he works. And it totally flipped my mind and it was the opposite of what I thought it would be and it gives me, it gave me a great example of what I think an artist should strive to do right now which is like,


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[Assistant] Akon was talking about how like he had a session with Eminem and so he shows up at like 6pm thinking it's like a night time session. And he's like, yo, what up? And he's like, I was like, I just left, I just left, but I'll be back tomorrow at 9am.


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[Assistant] So he comes, he gets there, Akon gets there at 9am, Em's there at 9am, ready to go, they start working on a verse, he goes and takes lunch, they're in the middle of a verse, it's 5pm, hits on the dot, Em's like, alright I'm out, I'll see you tomorrow at 9am. And he's like, what the fuck?


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[Assistant] Right? Like, this is a fucking job. This shit doesn't need to swallow you whole.


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[Assistant] And as a, what I was thinking for so long was like, the tortured artist thing.


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[Assistant] They're like, yeah, 5 a.m. I'm going to be alone in my room. I'm going to be like crying into a microphone, slamming whiskey, doing drugs.


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[Assistant] And that's, and that's the, that's what artists do. They give up, like, yo, you know, you're, you, let's say you're in a relationship and you're a girl calls, she's like, yo, it's 3am, what's she doing? You're like, I'm working, I'm working, I'm working. It's like,


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[Assistant] I was doing that. I was like, fuck everything else, I'm an artist. That's all I am.


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[Assistant] In our heads we're like, you don't understand. You don't understand how, how creativity works.


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[Assistant] Honestly, any kind of relationship is hard out here, even with the motherfucking dog. So, even with humans out here in Hollywood, it's crazy, but like, if you're trying to self-will all your miracles, if you're like


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[Assistant] I'm, this is, this is my song, it's gonna blow the fuck up, take over, and I'm gonna be on. If you're trying to self will miracles, right, you can say God, the universe, whatever you believe in, I, I have a feeling


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[Assistant] Human condition wise, we all kind of have a belief in something. You're taking away the fun of the universe, bro. You're not supposed to be able to do, put all the pieces together. So if you're like, I need to force this creativity out, force it, force it, force it, you're not leaving any room for a miracle.


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[Assistant] And like, the universe or God wants to surprise you. Wants to be like, you didn't see this coming?


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[Assistant] You didn't, you didn't try to make this happen yourself. You did everything you could, but you didn't force it to happen. And forever, I was self-willing everything. I was like, I'm in charge. I'm gonna do it. And like, at a certain point...


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[Assistant] For me, the beauty of it, a lot of it came from being more clear-headed, but like, you just give up the fucking control.


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[Assistant] You just stop trying to control everything in your life. And like, that's what's giving me some peace of mind is like, dude, the fucking music will be there tomorrow.


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[Assistant] The music will be there tomorrow. And that's like what that story said was he was like in the middle of a fucking verse and he's like, nope.


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[Assistant] Do you wanna go to your fucking job and work overtime every fucking time you go to work for nothing?


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[Assistant] That's why that probably clicked with me so much, is that I was like jumping, you know, as soon as I switched from...


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[Assistant] Being addicted to one thing is like finding the next thing to get addicted to and it's like, it's like, I think that's part of that control thing. I think that's a big part of that control is wanting to control everything. And uhm,


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[Assistant] And, you know, the one great advice I can give is like...


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[Assistant] What changed me is like, what really changed me is I was feeling very bad for myself all the time. Like feeling pity for myself, you know what I'm saying? And it went from pour me, pour me, pour me another drink. Right? Every time.


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[Assistant] I'm feeling bad for myself, I'm gonna run away from everything, get fucked up, and uh, and not running from shit actually like feels really good bro.


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[Assistant] What I was, what I was starting to get on is that like my life started turning around and my career.


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[Assistant] Immediately, immediately is following suit. Really? Immediately. So like, advice out there to artists, like, cause I know one of the great things that, that I love about what you do is that I would say 50% of your audience are a part of the industry.


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[Assistant] Right? They want, they actively are watching this to learn. You know? They're not just like, you know, feeling an importance to learn about people. They're learning about how to do their shit. Cause I feel like your audience really is entrepreneurs and musicians and artists and all that. So it's like my one, my one advice on that is like,


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[Assistant] If you focus not just solely on your art, but you focus on yourself, you focus on treating other people right, you start praying for other people,


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[Assistant] Not just say, I want this, I want this, I want this. You start actually giving a shit, you know, there's all these fires going on in California, like I'd be praying for the animals and the people, you know, obviously everyone involved, but like I'm praying for, for everything involved. And I've never done that before. I might've been like, yo, like I feel you, like,


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[Assistant] Like, that's horrible, but I've never been like actively taking time out of my day being like, yo, send a little love their way instead of my way if you need to.


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[Assistant] Like, the professional people are getting fucked up.


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[Assistant] That is where it happens, bro. That is where it happens. I mean, yo, rest in peace to the Sunset Jesus. Do you remember him? He died? He died. What? He died, and uh, yo, I used to walk up and down the strip with him.


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[Assistant] Twice, three times a week. For hours. Hours. Just fucked up. Just walking in. He wasn't fucked up. I would be fucked up. He would be talking to me like he was Jesus for real. Like telling me all this shit. Mod, you gotta do this. You gotta do that. You gotta do this. He was in one of my music videos. He's a legend.


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[Assistant] There was this guy that walked around sunset for fucking, I don't know, maybe 15 years dressed up as Jesus looked just like Jesus. Crazy shit. How'd he die?


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[Assistant] I don't know man. But he was, he was actually well off. Like dude was actually like really well off and just decided to like just walk around.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. Shout out Mike Posner for real, that's love.


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[Assistant] So much fucking money. I mean I can tell you how much I've saved right now just being 170 days here and it's like crazy. It's crazy cause like the track like for anyone who's interested in this shit there's a thing called Sober Tool. You write it and how much you think you were spending each day and uh, and it keeps track for you and like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, here, here, we, I didn't even get to, to actually finish it. I didn't finish, like, what was the change and what was the moment.


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[Assistant] And uhm, I was alone in my house, and uh, I was past the point of retiring, and uhm, This is after your most recent relationship? This is right after.


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[Assistant] So I was on, yeaah, I was on that mode, just like, yo, like, uhm, I'm outta here, and it was, for the first time, it was really on some, like,


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[Assistant] Like I was bad bro, like that whole like relationship thing really, really threw me into this.


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[Assistant] Fucking hurricane bro, like for real. I was feeling everything and uh, and I kinda wanted to fucking check out bro.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. And I've never been like that before. And uhm, I'm very scared of that because there's something in that mentality that also runs in my DNA. You know what I'm saying? And like, I'm the type of person who's been


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[Assistant] Trying to run from all the things that are inherently in me, you know? And, uh, I wanted to check out, bro, and I, uh, fucking did more.


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[Assistant] One little go, and I fucking passed out, bro. I'm fucking straight up passed out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like went down, came up, like fell backwards, woke up on my bathroom floor.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and- And so that was- That was it. That started it? Once I got up, once I got up from that floor, I went and I wrote a song, uhm, and I was like, I'm, I'm-


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[Assistant] I woke up on my bathroom floor, I was alone at the time, and uh, like I didn't, you know, I don't have a recollection of exactly what happened, you know what I'm saying? I just feel blessed.


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[Assistant] Oh, yeah, well like, it's like this bro, it's like as soon as I...


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[Assistant] Soon as I basically, you know, it was kind of like this, beds over, come up, and I, and I fall backwards. And uhm, that was like,


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[Assistant] I was sure I was done then, like really done. I was like, fuck, I just did it, you know, I'm done. And, uh, and I was blessed I came out of it and literally right then, uhm, I stopped bro, right then. That was the last...


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[Assistant] Line of cocaine, that was the last sip of alcohol. You know, I still smoke weed.


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[Assistant] I did a stint of like 30 days, or I'm sorry, like 20 days without smoking weed. I tried that.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, I literally right then, that was it, right there. Right there I stopped. Cause I knew, I knew what was, you know, next. And I felt blessed bro, I felt really blessed to just get another chance cause I was, I was actually for the first time just...


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[Assistant] Ready to feel sympa- like ready to be like, it was awesome like I told you so.


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[Assistant] It was like, y'all are gonna miss me, right? It was like, y'all are gonna miss me, and I told you so, right?


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[Assistant] And that's, that was my mindset. And it was a horrible fucking place to be, bro, because it was constant pity, it was self pity, and it was like, I'm so focused on a legacy.


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[Assistant] That we've seen, you know what I'm saying, recently, obviously with our brothers that passed recently, like in the music shit, like, you know, we've seen that and, and that was, you know, obviously people have passed away over the years, but there was like a really, that was a fucked up time, you know?


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[Assistant] That's what I grew up on, is watching motherfuckers die at 27. Literally the people tattooed on my arm, they all fucking passed away at 27. Bob Dylan's the only person tattooed on me that's not fucking dead, you know? And uh,


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[Assistant] It's romanticized as a motherfucka. It's like how, it's like how when you hear the Smiths, you like think of London as this like...