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[Assistant] The recent high volume of ICOs caused Ethereum's price to spike and also overwhelmed the Ethereum network. This caused delayed or failed transactions, leading to the suspension of Ethereum trading on several exchanges and problems with ICO funding.


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[Assistant] The worst example of a disastrous ICO is the Dow. The Dow, or Decentralized Autonomous Organization Project, managed to raise $150 million worth of Ethereum. However, shortly after the ICO ended, a hacker managed to drain a third of the amount raised due to a bug in Ethereum's code.


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[Assistant] This crisis and the different opinions on how to handle it led to a split in the Ethereum network and the creation of both Ethereum and Ethereum Classic altcoins.


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[Assistant] Just like with any other financial instrument, where there is the possibility for great reward, there is great risk as well. And ICOs contain a huge amount of risk.


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[Assistant] ICOs can be considered as high-risk gambles on cryptocurrency startup companies. Many people today invest in ICOs not because they believe in the project, but because they just want to make a quick profit.


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[Assistant] This in turn creates a general hype before the project launches. But as the buzz fades away, project creators and early investors want to take the money off the table. So they start selling massive amounts of the token, and this can cause the price to sharply drop.


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[Assistant] Another thing to consider is that the bar for creating an ICO today is pretty low. While conducting an IPO requires to comply with a lot of regulation, ICOs skip this entire burdensome procedure by raising money exclusively in the cryptocurrency which has yet to be regulated.


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[Assistant] Want to create an ICO? Just create a shiny new website outlining your concept, create a digital asset, get some crypto celebs to say nice things about it, and sell your project's assets directly to people around the web. You don't even have to have a working product.


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[Assistant] These low barriers to entry bring about a massive amount of low quality projects that will never see the light of day. This could be due to the fact that the founders lack the skills required to execute the project or that the ICO is just a plain scam to begin with.


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[Assistant] As you can imagine, this is a scammer's dream come true. With minimal investment of time and money, they can get tons of people to send them money without any legal exposure or liability to the public.


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[Assistant] In order to emphasize the absurdity of how much dumb money is spent on ICOs, one developer went so far as to create a site called Useless Ethereum Token.


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[Assistant] The website states, you're literally giving your money to someone on the internet and getting completely useless tokens in return. There are no white paper, no products, and no experts. It's just you, me, and your hard-earned Ether and my shopping list.


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[Assistant] Amazingly enough, even the useless Ethereum token project managed to raise over 60,000 US dollars.


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[Assistant] In some cases, you may lose money in an ICO not due to an intended scam but due to a hacker manipulation.


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[Assistant] For example, not long ago, a hacker managed to hack an ICO website and changed the Ethereum ICO deposit address to his own Ethereum address. This caused over $7 million to be sent to him. Of course, that money is now lost forever.


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[Assistant] To sum it up, ICOs should be considered as risky as gambling.


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[Assistant] Due to the irreversible and unregulated nature of cryptocurrency, you have virtually no recourse if an ICO turns out to be a complete scam or goes bust. So how do you know if you should invest in an ICO?


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[Assistant] Well, first of all, you need to know what you're investing in. This means you should take the time to actually read the ICO's white paper, research the project and founders, and get involved with the community around it. Also, make sure you understand how the tokens for the project will be distributed.


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[Assistant] ICOs, which hold a lion's share of tokens for the founders, may end up selling these tokens in order to make a quick profit after the ICO ends. Another important question to ask is how much money is being raised and for what purpose?


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[Assistant] If there's no cap on the amount being raised, the project may get overfunded.


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[Assistant] Getting more money than you need can also hinder project development, as laziness and no clear focus may arise as a result.


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[Assistant] Some projects have managed to raise tens of millions of dollars before the first line of code was even written.


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[Assistant] Most importantly, don't ever invest in something you don't understand.


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[Assistant] To sum it up, ICOs are a new form of crowdfunding which very few people understand. If you're just getting started with cryptocurrencies and ICOs, you probably should do a fair amount of additional research before committing your money to any project as exciting as it may sound.


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[Assistant] That sums it up for today. I hope you've enjoyed this lesson of Bitcoin Whiteboard Tuesday, and I'll see you in a bit.


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[Assistant] Hello? Yes, I'm doing a documentary right now, could you please give me a call back?


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[Assistant] Food and uh, Hennessy. Oh really, okay. Blend. So you're still on the Hennessy? Oh yea, I'm still on the Hennessy. The Hennessy wasn't the reason. I was turned up off the Hennessy, but uh, food.


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[Assistant] Just got my stomach fucked up right now. My stomach is mad at me. So you don't trust?


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[Assistant] Nah, it's just spicy. The spicy be killing me sometimes. But I'm not, I'm, I'm West Indian, I'm Trinidadian, so, like.


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[Assistant] I was raised eating spicy food, but yesterday that shit just...


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[Assistant] Right. Yeah. So do you smoke still? Nah, I'll smoke. You're over it? Were you ever like big on it or? Nah.


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[Assistant] Not big on it, like I dibbled and dabbed with it, like I ain't never really- You get paranoid? Like, hell yea.


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[Assistant] Yeah. You smoke? Oh yeah. You get paranoid.


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[Assistant] Yeah, last time I smoked, I was in LA and I just was like, man, this shit ain't for me. Really? Because, uh,


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[Assistant] It was just, y'all weed is different out here. Yeah, for real. It ain't that chocolate tie that you buy in the park. Yeah, Buddy come through and he's smoking everything.


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[Assistant] And he's like normal with it. Right. Yeaah. Yeaah. I can't keep up with him.


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[Assistant] I might have known him around that time too. Like when he was jumping a million stairs and shit. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I was, I was, uh, we, we got this thing in Harlem called Maury Gators.


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[Assistant] I feel like the skater style period is just, they just making so much money off.


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[Assistant] It's like street wear and like skater shit. Like now you can buy like dunks. Well you been can buy dunks for about, SBs for about four or five hundred dollars. Right. Now they two thousand, three thousand. It just gone crazy. Yes. Clothes in general, like.


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[Assistant] Right, yeaah. Nah, skaters, the whole swag of skaters is fire, like, it's about, it's almost like, uh,


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[Assistant] It's like when you ride your skateboard, it's a certain swag that comes with it. When you ride your bike, there's a lot of dudes that ride bikes and ain't got no style.


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[Assistant] It's like when you ride a skateboard, like, you could wear dickies every day with a baggy white tee and it's just like, the vibe.


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[Assistant] But I'm changing that for bike riders, BMX bike riders. Now you can get Jiggy, you can buy ASAP Ferg Redline bike now, you know what I'm saying? Now you got the good merch to go with it, the clothing and I'm showing them that. We could be Jiggy on the bikes too.


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[Assistant] Like I didn't pursue it to that level of like, you know, being in like different


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[Assistant] Yeah, I didn't do that, but uhm, I used to watch Dave Merrill on TV. Rest in peace to the goat. Yeah, rest in peace to him. And uhm, I used to just watch like mad YouTube videos of


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[Assistant] You know, Nigel Sylvester and just different, uhm, dudes that was nice on the bikes going crazy and the kids that was in my neighborhood that was going crazy. So uhm, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, for sure. Uhm, I had a lot of practice too before like I dropped Trap Lord. Like it was a lot of practice. Like I, man, I was, I remember I was doing Rick Ross ad libs and shit like that. Oh, okay. Yeah, I was like,


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[Assistant] Rocky was going around and playing out with music, the team, and like when he go sit in these label meetings and...


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[Assistant] They wasn't even feeling me at first, they was like, oh, we want you, we not really digging this dude, whatever, whatever.


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[Assistant] But I guess he seen it in me and he seen that I could, you know, be different and develop my style. And when I had quit my job, I was working security. I had saved like $3,000 because I knew like we was going to pop. It was just a matter of time. So I just quit my job and I'm like, yo, I'm just going to use all of this money.


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[Assistant] To like develop my style. And that's what I did. So it's a lot of songs. I got computers full of songs that ain't even come out.


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[Assistant] Until like I really mastered who Ferg was to the game and my style and everything and I put those songs out.


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[Assistant] Hell yeaah. I mean, yeaah, I was, I never thought that I'd be even dropping an album or a mixtape. That wasn't like a plan for me. It was just, I was always doing music cause I loved it and I was battle rapping and just doing shit like that. I never thought I would be like recording a song cause I just write 16's just to go battle rap. But like when I,


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[Assistant] We said this is what we gonna do as the mob and we gonna make music and do this and do that. I had stopped putting in the effort and the work to like develop my style.


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[Assistant] I mean, they just, obviously Rocky was the only one that was like really putting out music. I wasn't pursuing music. I was like, I was stuck on like creating art and I was doing art shows and designing clothes and shit like that. I knew how to rap. So Rocky wanted to, he wanted to be a duo at first.


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[Assistant] So I didn't really have, I just started getting into the whole recording thing and he been like pursuing it and wanting to do it. I was just like, yo bro, if you do it, then I'll come along with you type shit. And then I just started recording.


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[Assistant] So I didn't even really know who I was identity wise to music. I just knew that what I liked to hear like rapping on different beats and shit, but like he already had his shit figured out and who he was and what he wanted to do.


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[Assistant] I think yams was like our puff, and meaning like...


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[Assistant] Yeaah wasn't physically making beats and things like that, like he was executive producing and A&Ring and-


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[Assistant] He was, he would reach out to different producers, the Beautiful Lou's, and I guess Clam's Casino or...


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[Assistant] Like, oh, like, you know, Rockies, cause that's how people discovered Rocky at first was through like, real nigga Tumblr.


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[Assistant] I was never really on Yam's Tumblr. Like I was on Tumblr, but I wasn't.


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[Assistant] I'd never, I didn't, I don't even know if I followed yams. At the time, like, I was already, we was already in a process of.


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[Assistant] Turning his Tumblr into the business. So like I was more so a part of the business and the new movement that was happening. I think Rocky and him, they was building on the Tumblr thing way before like I was involved.


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[Assistant] Man, I used to get anxiety going outside, like because it was like, I'll be with my girl, we go to the supermarket and shit. And like, I would have to brace myself to like have to talk to people and because it's not normal no more. It's like, before I went from


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[Assistant] Like somebody looking at me and it being a problem. Like we couldn't like, growing up in Harlem, you couldn't just be like staring at somebody. You'd be like, yo, you got a problem? Like it's always a problem.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but now it's like I had to realize, like, Desus fans are, you know, they not looking at me because they got a problem, they looking at me because I look familiar or some shit.


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[Assistant] Exactly, but, and also even just like, not on no beef shit, like it's just, it's just a, uh,


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[Assistant] To be adjusting, like adjusting to fame is just a whole nother psychological thing because I feel like we are conditioned a certain type of way.


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[Assistant] So it's like, we have to break that condition and the tradition of how we think in order to move how we move. Right.


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[Assistant] You know, you have to be able to, even for you to have this business and this platform, you have to, yeah, you do what you do and you turn up and do all of this shit. But at the same time, you have to have real conversations with people that like, you know, you have to talk with.


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[Assistant] Intellect. Yeaah. And, and, and know what you're doing. Versus just, and you had to condition yourself to do that.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I mean, I never really had that problem because it's like...


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[Assistant] I just, I know consequences. You know what I'm saying? It's just like, it's so easy to get into shit. I ain't saying like we ain't never really get into shit like cause.


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[Assistant] When we first came into the game, we were just, we was trailblazing and we was just kids and, but I always had the mind frame as easy to get into shit and hard to get out of. I was never the one, like the first one swinging this, that and that. I always thought like, man.


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[Assistant] If we do this, it's gonna be some repercussions after this.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? We could swing and we could go crazy, but at the end of the day, like, we gonna have to suffer some consequences.


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[Assistant] Bullshit that happened earlier. Exactly. And it was a fight. It wasn't even nothing crazy, but it's just like that one fight from when I was younger.


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[Assistant] Led up to me being 30 years old, still having to check in.


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[Assistant] You know, with them and tell them like, all right, yeah, that was years ago, whatever, whatever. I'm good to, I came to Canada yesterday, like last week. Y'all let me through. I'm good.


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[Assistant] And that was one of the first things that I realized, like, yo, this shit can, like, leave scars, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, bullshit you do as a, and a youth can leave scars, like, later.


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[Assistant] It's never really you like, whatever, whatever, but like, for real, it's easy to get into shit and hard to get out of.


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[Assistant] That's crazy, right? Like you get older and you just start really being conscious of all of that type of shit. Cause we, as you get older, you just be afraid to die.


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[Assistant] You start putting the brakes on, like, hold up, let me get more spiritual, let me, that's why I used to always wonder, like, why old people always go to church or, like, whatever.


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[Assistant] I'm like, man, you can have church, you can pray in your house. You ain't got to go somewhere actually and sit in worship. But like people, I guess as they get older, they get more worried about like whether they gonna make it to heaven or not.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think that's what we all here for, really, is that human interaction and feeling togetherness and get through shit together and all that. I think that's what church and shit is for, really, honestly.


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[Assistant] I feel like it's a more concentrated group though that can kinda like get you through those different tough times I feel like.


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[Assistant] Uhm, hell yeaah. I mean, it's not like more than the usual. I think I've always appreciated my family. Uhm, yeaah, kinda, kinda yeaah, yeaah. I do, I appreciate like my uncle and shit because it's like...


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[Assistant] He's the only, he's my OG. So like he's with me all the time. He done been through the streets. He did time in the jails and like he understands life on a whole nother level.


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[Assistant] He sees things I can't see. So it's like, uhm.


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[Assistant] I couldn't imagine being in this game and not having them around. And I understand why so much kids get lost being in the game because they don't got those OGs or experienced people around them or people that just kind of guide them.


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[Assistant] Because sometimes like these, everybody get rich and famous or whatever and they be like, 17 year old kids get rich and famous and then they start telling people around them, even older people what to do.


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[Assistant] That's not what I got around me. I got like, no matter how rich I get, no matter how famous I am, I got real people around me that's like nah, that shit is wack.


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[Assistant] Do you feel like that? Hell yea, but that's what like people around you is supposed to be for like, like my uncle I just spoke about or like my cousin or my manager, they keep


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[Assistant] Like, it's a community that helps keep everybody connected.


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[Assistant] Cause they know I'm out here like trying to, you know, shake and move, so.


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[Assistant] Like it's hard for me to personally sometimes, you know, keep in contact with people, but


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[Assistant] What I do is, the best way I do it is like, the moment I think about somebody, I just hit them and be like, yo, what's good, just shouting you out. But for the most part, they keeping in contact with people like, yo, I just spoke to so-and-so, like they gonna be in the city. So, because even when it come to artists, I'm not even.


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[Assistant] I'm not even talking to like YG all the time or talking to whoever like, but he might be talking to their security or talking to like the homies that's part of their crews and making sure that we connect whenever we hit these cities.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like that's with everybody though. That's with your mother. That's with anybody that you care about. You just, you just gotta make the effort. Like no matter how busy they are, how busy you are, you just gotta...


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[Assistant] And don't tell me, I know you've been busy, like, I'm gonna, I'm ASAP Ferg, I'm gonna be busy all the time, but like, you could come hang out with me while I'm busy, like come, like do these interviews, come sit in a room with me or whatever, and we'll go to lunch and catch up and, and that's just how


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[Assistant] It has to be for me cause that's how my life is structured right now. I guess until like I get older and things are slowed down and I'm, I'm running my business from the crib or something like.


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[Assistant] I feel like we still see you frequently. Yeah, so that's the thing, like,


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[Assistant] Like, and we strategically did it, like I sat down with my team and we was just like, I was feeling burnt out. I ain't stopped since I had started. Uhm, touring.


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[Assistant] I'm seeing cousins that like, you know, I'm, I'm not seeing my cousins, but when I see them, they're like fucking big and shit. I'm like, damn, I'm not seeing, do they know me? Like, do they know me through the TV? So it's just like, I had to slow my life down. I had took more corporate gigs because it's like, you could get the big bag doing corporate gigs.


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[Assistant] She got the heavy hills. We might have to move out of here, I'm not gonna lie.


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[Assistant] Yo, but yeah, so like I just took more corporate gigs because you could get like the, the,


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[Assistant] The price of three shows, or the money you'll get from three shows, you can probably do like one corporate gig and get that. So I just started working smarter and not harder and not burning myself out. And it allowed me to like spend more time with my family. I did take a step back because I needed to like, and I needed to get inspired again.


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[Assistant] Your shows? Corporate shows is way different because it's like...


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[Assistant] Like say like a Hennessy event or something like that. Like I'll pull up and, or like a Tiffany's event, I'll pull up and do a show.


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[Assistant] But it's really like I'm kicking it with everybody versus like the full on like lights and the production and all of that. So it's more, very more, very much more intimate and you can't expect them to like


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[Assistant] Go too crazy as they would go at a show show. Because like they might be, it might be after work, they got on shoes still, like, it's just different. There's white people basically.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. So that wasn't even, that wasn't a show. Oh, you did it just for the video shoot. I did a show. Well, I did a, well, it was a show, but I put on a show. Right. Basically. I forget the band names. Oh, I forget too. Yeaah, but my boy Adam Degros, I'm not sure if you know who that is, photographer, he


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[Assistant] He's shot like a lot of my stuff now. He's like shooting like Post Malone stuff. Okay. So yeaah, he shoots a lot of those guys. So I'm like, I want this to be the theme of the video. So I'm like, yo, how can we like grab these people when?


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[Assistant] And I'm like, we just thought about it on tour and he was just like, yo let's just do a show. So we did a show, I was the headliner, and that's when I performed the song.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but that shit was fire. That shit was amazing. And the energy was amazing. Like fucking seeing people really pull up with like the crazy mohawks and like the clothes and like they was in only fashion shit too. Like, so it was just so much stuff that we had in common.


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[Assistant] But I feel like that, that took a conscious thought too, like, you thought you had to think about that, like, ah, this is cool, like, because I got all my bands. And also, I do think that they think about their fashion because I was looking at, like, an interview on Sex Pistols and, uhm, this dude, uh, McLaren.


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[Assistant] Exactly. That's how he was meeting the kids. Like all of the kids would come buy their clothes from his shop. So they, they had to consciously think about what they was wearing, whether it was colors or like a fucking whatever it was, like a latex mask or whatever the fuck it was.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I always, I always think about that too because I like wearing bands shirts and sometimes I don't be knowing like who all the bands is. And I used to be like, damn, like, am I going to be like considered a poser? It was like, nah, I can't cause I really, I'm a fan of the art. The art looks dope, but I do think it's, it's cool to discover the shirt.


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[Assistant] And then like do research on it to just know why you like it or why you're wearing it.


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[Assistant] Because it's like a raka, it's like a raka shirt, like Iron Maiden and just different shit that I see people wearing, but they don't really know the background behind it. Like for me, uhm, I love the artist that does like all of the, uh, the Pink Floyd


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[Assistant] Like art and shit like that. I haven't really dove into the catalog of Pink Floyd, but I know it's like die hard Pink Floyd fans out there, but like I'm really a fan of the art.


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[Assistant] Of the covers, the whatever, the stage, like when they had the plane crash into the stage, all of that shit. I didn't really even get into the music yet.


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[Assistant] Nah, cause people like to call you out, they be like, oh, you got that shirt on, like, what you know about, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Bro, like, uh, that's, that's what I think takes the music so long to come out sometimes. It's just like, when I don't have the rollout and the proper, like, photos and the videos to go with it, like, that shit is a hundred percent the reason why, like, sometimes it takes so long for me to put music out. Cause I, I believe that visually people need to see


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[Assistant] You know, something that represents the music you're putting out. Like it, it just all comes together to me.


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[Assistant] Like I could, like I'd be dropping songs every day out of the year if I didn't have to shoot videos. Right. But like to me the visual is so important.


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[Assistant] I feel like that's what makes the hits.


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[Assistant] You like discovering something, you coming up with a style and then you finally like it hits and you're like, oh, this is, this is what it is. I discovered it. Now I'm going to keep practicing this style until like I really get something golden out of it. And then that's the one that you, you go with. Cause I record so much.


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[Assistant] Everything I record don't go out. Like, the, uhm, Rod's song that I did with Ty Dolla Signs, that's four years old. Really?


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[Assistant] It was a different song for me. One, it was very like, I don't know, I probably overthought it.


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[Assistant] I mean I'm pretty sure I heard like some songs from them.


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[Assistant] Melody. I just brought something back, like if you listen to Kissin' Pink.


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[Assistant] Uh, with me and Rocky, I'm singing on there, if you listen to like, uh,


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[Assistant] If you listen to a lot of my old shit like Cocaine Castle I'm singing on there, uhm, even a song I got called 402, like where I'm just full blown singing like an R&B singer.


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[Assistant] It's just like these different bags I go into and I just decide to bring that bag back.


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[Assistant] Well, with the ride song with Ty Dolla, I was just like, man, I love this song. Why wouldn't I put this out? It's time for the world to experience this type of ferg. And then, because that was something completely new. And also as an artist, sometimes you get locked in and pigeonholed.


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[Assistant] Who bring these songs back? Uhm, it's like, uh, Salam Remy, he just took it upon himself to get Brent Fires on it. I wanted to work with Brent Fires for a minute, but he just, they was...


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[Assistant] Working with each other already on a song that I did, and he was just like, yo, I put Brent Fires on it and I re-did the beat. Listen to this shit. And I'm like, yo, the song we did four years ago? He like, yeah, it sounds crazy.


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[Assistant] I listen to it and it really sound crazy, so I was like, cool. Me, I just do the music and sometimes I just leave that shit with people and shit just pops up and it's a thing. You worry about leaks and shit?


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[Assistant] Nah, I ain't worried about leaks and shit. I mean, I do. Like when it comes to like the new, new shit, but if it's like some shit that I had did with somebody most likely,


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[Assistant] We did it and I loved it, so if it leaked it's like, alright whatever.


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[Assistant] Oh, shout out to Bodega Bands. We got a tape we never put out. It's called Trappin' in the Bodega. Right. Yea, shit is crazy. Yea. Shit is honestly crazy.


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[Assistant] When you are an up and coming artist, you like, you just tryna, you tryna work with whoever wanna work.


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[Assistant] At the end of the day. And Bodega Bambs is not like a light artist neither. Like, you know, people, a lot of people would want to work with him.


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[Assistant] It's not bizarre to me though. I think 6ix9ine wanted that hippie crowd that like we, you know, that weird like gangster hippie crowd is like the same crowd ASAP Mob have, the same crowd that Schoolboy Q have, Danny Brown have.


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[Assistant] That was his lane. You know what I'm saying? He came out with colorful hair, colorful teeth and whatever the case may be. So he wasn't the, like a regular


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[Assistant] Hood artist, you know what I'm saying? Not at all. I think him collaborating with the Bodega Bams, it kind of put him more in that category of the hippie, like different kind of vibe. You never met him?


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[Assistant] I met him like, I met him once, yeaah. Nothing, nothing too interesting or?


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[Assistant] Uhm, it was like quick. It was just like a wassup. Uhm, I fuck with your music type shit and that was it. That's why I think it's so interesting about where you're at.


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[Assistant] Six years? Longer than that, probably. Yeaah. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] I'm not surprised by it because like me and Rocky would talk about like...


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[Assistant] The fucking pints of lean and like we already was on all of that.


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[Assistant] It was a whole new thing and it was like natural for us because we were just being ourselves. We was really on some fashion shit. We was really on some-


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[Assistant] Fuck what anybody else thinks shit. This is what we on shit. Like with the attitude, everything with it. So I think...


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[Assistant] And like really, like what you see is really what we painting. Like we was really like going to underground fashion shows, hood by air.


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[Assistant] A thing to like have like New York dudes rapping on like Midwest or Mississippi beats or, uhm, Houston. It took a lot less.


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[Assistant] Yeah, even like when we was wearing the jalabers, like the, the, the things that the, the Muslims wear, like when that became a thing, when KTZ was designing these long things, people were like, oh, they got dresses on it. It ain't dresses. It's just another form of a, a style. Like you go to Dubai, like the, the sheiks wear this type of,


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[Assistant] They mods wasn't elevated to that point and then like they would just always get in, they would just always have to play catch up. And that's just literally who he was in the hood. Like literally like even like before ACG's was a thing.


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[Assistant] I wore ACG's cause I seen people in Philly or uhm.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the DMV wearing ACG Nike boots and I, like I brought it to the hood. And they like, yo, where you get them Power Ranger boots from? You know what I'm saying? And then like when they got on the Nike boots and True Religions out, we moved on to like something else. Just like when they was on throwback jerseys, I was wearing like diesel jeans and seven jeans and antiques.


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[Assistant] Bringing style into the hood, like, people just didn't understand this shit. It was just like, yo, like, why are y'all wearing colorful skinny jeans, or this, that, and a third, or whatever, like.


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[Assistant] And we just, we was just doing what we wanted to do. We seen something, we thought it was cool.


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[Assistant] We knew ourselves and we was just cool with that. And that's just what we continue to do. And as far as like where the state is now, I think people are just, it's not even stylish what they're doing now. I think what they're doing is just trying to make noise. Period. So you got people just doing shock value shit and playing they self.


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[Assistant] That's why I could just wear a white tee and be cool. Because it's like...


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, we gotta regulate, like, what's happening. And we gotta, like...


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[Assistant] I'm gonna continue to do things with style and continue to do things, but it's just like everybody is, everybody is trying to be so different that it's not different. Right.


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[Assistant] Yo, I'ma, I'ma be honest with you. I'ma be honest with you. I did not know what forthcoming meant.


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[Assistant] When you look at that, it's like, yeaah. Yo, we laugh about that shit all the time, like, I deadass ain't know what forthcoming meant.


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[Assistant] And we, and every, people was probably laughing and act like, aw, this nigga's self so stupid, this that a third? Like, did you know what forthcoming meant to you? You were fresh up off the block.


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[Assistant] And I know that's some ancient shit. It was just a, it was just a fucking crazy fight that happened in Miami.


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[Assistant] The shit happened so fast, it was like, it felt like ten seconds. Right. Yeah, it was just...


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[Assistant] They was, and it happened so fast and when we, it was after a show and like.


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[Assistant] It was like a fence and people was hopping fences and shit. I don't even know how many dudes was there on that, on the other side. Like I just, this shit was a blur, honestly.


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[Assistant] You never were a fan? Nah, we was all fans. We was crew. Like he was, he was coming around and...


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[Assistant] He was screaming, I knew it was something up when he was coming around throwing up ASAP and screaming Raider Clan. Like so he had his own ideals and he had his own mission or whatever he was trying to.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? You was coming around with us screaming, Rated Klan, who's your Klan? Like, where are they?


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[Assistant] We all lived in the same house. You did, huh? For how long? Uh, this is in the beginning so it was like a few months.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that beef was really inherited because it was like, I had a...


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[Assistant] Everybody had a problem with him because I guess him and Rocky.


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[Assistant] Fell out, cuz Rocky brought him around like, I ain't know that nigga.


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[Assistant] First of all, I'm not gonna argue with him. I'm just gonna...


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[Assistant] I'm just gonna like, I forgot what I said, he said, uh,


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[Assistant] I got a story though. So he said uhm, I said something about him being washed. That was how I answered that. And then I went on a breakfast club I think and I was like, yo, he should want me to like,


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[Assistant] Mimic him or want me to, you know, embrace...


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[Assistant] A younger, you know, he the Trap God, I'm the Trap Lord. But also my argument was my name was the Trap Lord before he started claiming the Trap God. Because if you look back on the date of my album and the video work, I was always


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[Assistant] So that was, that was a lot of argument, but I seen Gucci.


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[Assistant] And Miami. Recently? No. No, no, no. I'm cool with Gucci now. Okay.


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[Assistant] But like he apologized and everything. Yeah. We laughed about that shit. But the, um, I went during that time of that Twitter shit when he was wilding on everybody, I had seen him in Miami and I was by myself for some reason. I didn't have no security with me. I have no manager with me, nothing. And I was in the airport and I seen this motherfucker. I hope he don't see me. I hope he don't see me. Don't see me right now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but like, shit. At that time, like, Rocky was telling me Gucci was looking for me and all of that shit. He ran up on Rocky in the club like, where that nigga Ferg at? Yeah, so it was, he really had it out for me.


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[Assistant] What do I gotta do to get abs like that? What do I gotta eat? Like his belief system, whatever he did.


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[Assistant] To like, that's what I'm talking about conditioning, like I read his book too, like he was just fucking up, fucking up, fucking up, fucking up, going to jail, figuring out a way to record music while he was locked up in rehab just down to third.


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[Assistant] I feel like that's where music is going now, it's like shortened. Like some people just put out singles.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, that's what I feel like music is going more towards.


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[Assistant] Like I guess like when I put together a project of work like and it'll be like 12 songs. Maybe it's like skits and just me trying to tell a story. But this is like really was about the Sonics and me working with more females and just getting off songs that I really love. I just put them out.


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[Assistant] Different angle, like, you know what I'm saying? It's not compromising at all.


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[Assistant] What a dude can do so like, it's good to see it happen with females.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, I do that shit now. It ain't like I got like the, like my stomach is hanging over my dick, like I got, I'm stocky, like my shit look nice, my shit sit up.


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[Assistant] He definitely got a team though. He should have a team. Like when you got that much money, you got a team that's making sure you doing the right thing.


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[Assistant] It all starts off with you though. It's like all in what you want. I remember I had my trainer on tour with me.


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[Assistant] It's just all in like your decision making. It's like, you could either decide to have a rack of bullshit around you, or you could just have people around you that's gonna make you a better person.


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[Assistant] Even, cause even when you try, you get results. Even when you try, like even if you, the moment you start, you wake up, you're like, I'm fucking tired of being lazy. And you do some pushups.


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[Assistant] But do you feel good about yourself too because you knocked out the shit that you just didn't want to do? Nobody wants to work out.


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[Assistant] Showing self love when I do that. Uh. Or you could, you could just kill yourself in a gym and then have like pancakes like, I killed myself so I could, I could have some pancakes today.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but you can have your days where you dibble on that one, the bullshit. Definitely.


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[Assistant] Amazing songs and y'all know that shit because y'all make me go double platinum and triple platinum. Uhm, yeah, go get this album because it's great.


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[Assistant] Really? As soon as I plug this shit up, the weekend just come on. I used to hate that shit.


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[Assistant] Wow, that's funny. Uhm, yeaah, that happens with a lot of people because, like Asa, that's a blessing. Even like in your phone.


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[Assistant] Tonight, I wanna talk about video games, alright? Video games were a huge part of my life growing up. My console was N64. Mario Kart, Smash Brothers, and my personal favorite, Goldeneye. You guys know the rules, right? License to kill, slappers only, no odd job.


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[Assistant] Now the gaming industry has grown faster than anyone could have ever imagined. It is now a 139 billion dollar a year business. In terms of revenue, that's bigger than worldwide box office, music streaming and album sales, the NFL, the NBA, MLB, and the NHL combined.


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[Assistant] Now one of the biggest reasons video games have blown up is live streaming, which is exactly what it sounds like. Gamers stream themselves playing games in real time, even during natural disasters.


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[Assistant] Millions of people watch Gamers livestream on Twitch, the world's biggest streaming platform, and it gets 15 million visitors a day, which has transformed games like Fortnite, PUBG, and League of Legends into enormous sporting events.


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[Assistant] The Rock. Video games have become a cultural force unlike anything since the creation of television. Two and a half billion people play video games. Business is booming. Gamers are treated like athletes. And yet, the gaming industry is filled with stories like these.


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[Assistant] Geez, game companies treat their workers like pedestrians in Grand Theft Auto.


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[Assistant] They're like, there's just gonna be some collateral damage. Many of the most profitable American game companies routinely lay off huge chunks of their staff, and it's part of a larger pattern of labor exploitation in the gaming industry. Because it turns out, the games that we play to relax are built on ruthless worker burnout.


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[Assistant] That's what I want to focus on tonight. Video games and labor. In the past two years alone, we've found over 20 companies that have laid off thousands of workers, sometimes with no warning and no severance. Like in the case of Telltale Games, best known for The Walking Dead, which is based on a TV series that just won't die.


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[Assistant] Now you may not have heard very much about this, and that's not an accident. When we were researching this story, very few people were willing to talk to us on camera.


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[Assistant] A lot of game workers sign NDAs and they're afraid of getting blacklisted, but one worker agreed to talk to me.


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[Assistant] Emily Grace Buck, a game developer who used to work at Telltale, she was there the morning they fired everyone. Tell me about the horrific day at Telltale.


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[Assistant] So he opened up the meeting to fire you guys by doing a set.


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[Assistant] To me, Telltale sounds like a really bad boyfriend, who was like, I'm telling you, like, this is great, we're gonna go the distance. And then two weeks later, it was like, this is the end of our journey.


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[Assistant] That's what every gaming company is. Cyclical layoffs are just the start though. One of the worst issues in gaming is


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[Assistant] Wow, leading up to the release of a game, companies often work their employees for months non-stop with no overtime pay just to hit deadlines. Almost every major gaming company does this. EA, Rockstar, Epic, Activision, BioWare, there's actually a term for it.


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[Assistant] It's called crunch, and it's practically mandatory if you want to work at a major studio. 95% of game developers say that they've crunched or worked overtime, and over 80% of them say that they weren't paid for the extra hours.


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[Assistant] Crunch wrecks people mentally and physically. Workers say months of crunch have caused PTSD, memory loss, and ulcers that make them cough up blood.


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[Assistant] Which is frustrating when you find out how terribly he spends his money.


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[Assistant] Now look, games like Fortnite, Apex Legends, and League of Legends are making crunch even worse.


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[Assistant] Because they have built their businesses on something called the microtransaction model. Now look at Fortnite. They let everybody download the game for free, but then they charge you for additional features, like dance moves for your characters, skins, and tools like axes and hang gliders. Fortnite is using the same business model as drug dealers.


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[Assistant] Epic workers say that their managers expect them to crunch without complaining, otherwise they might get fired. On top of all of this, players expect graphics to get better and better every year. Just look at GTA. It went from a Chuck E. Cheese arcade game to a deep fake of murder. Here's the thing people don't realize. Graphics and animations take a lot of work.


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[Assistant] And I'll be honest, I haven't been great about giving our team enough time, but you know what? At the end of the day, I can go to sleep at night knowing that I've made a lot of progress. But the thing is...


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[Assistant] Crunch and layoffs aren't two separate issues. Games have hard release dates. They can't just fall behind schedules. So companies staff up, crunch their employees, then they lay people off when the game comes out. They're given so much work and then none at all. They basically treat people the way all of us treated Freddie Prinze Jr. It was just everything and then nothing.


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[Assistant] By the way, that last ad couldn't be further from reality. First of all, I'm pretty sure tightening up graphics isn't a thing.


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[Assistant] But the most unrealistic part of this ad was the fact that these two chads had a female supervisor and they treated her with respect.


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[Assistant] Even though women now make up half of all gamers, the industry is almost 75% male, which is obvious when you look at any female character.


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[Assistant] Riot Games is a huge player in the gaming industry. This lawsuit, plus three more filed since then, claim that women were routinely passed up for promotions and sexually harassed. Some were also given some very strange pep talks.


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[Assistant] These lawsuits were the result of a bombshell investigation from Kotaku, a gaming news site that exposed widespread sexism at the company. And because of Kotaku's reporting, the state of California is now investigating riot for gender discrimination. So I sat down with the woman who broke the riot story.


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[Assistant] I mean, this is sexism at its worst. How? Women should be in the room.


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[Assistant] He's still the COO. He was just suspended for two months without pay. That's it. Riot punished him the way corporate America punishes women who give birth. They're like, think about what you've done and come back in two months.


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[Assistant] But it's also bad for games. Video games are amazing because they're made by people who love making them.


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[Assistant] Which is why the workers that haven't quit yet are finally considering something that has never happened before.


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[Assistant] Game workers have talked about unionizing for a long time, but the last few years,


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[Assistant] It is becoming a rallying cry, especially for Game Workers Unite, a grassroots organizing group that has actually unionized game workers in the UK. And now, they have 19 chapters in North America. This is part of an even bigger wave.


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[Assistant] America is going through a historic swell in collective labor action. In 2017, 25,000 Americans went on strike.


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[Assistant] In 2018, it was almost half a million. And this year, it could be even bigger. And the gaming industry is riding that wave.


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[Assistant] After Cecilia reported on the sexism at Riot, employees at the company were furious and finally did something about it.


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[Assistant] This is why unionization is so critical for the team workers. Just look at the issues they're facing. Insane hours, no severance, unfair contracts, sexist work environments, these are all issues that unions were built to solve. They also make sure you don't get humped from behind. Now,


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[Assistant] Look, I get there are people that might be seeing all of this thinking, oh, boohoo, you want me to care about video game workers? Look, I work all the time, man. I don't get overtime. I've been fired.


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[Assistant] It's no longer just coal miners and steel workers lifting up heavy shit. Yes, those workers need protection, but so do people who work at desks.


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[Assistant] Right? This is the future. If you work in front of a computer, what's happening in video games right now affects you. Other industries are figuring this out.


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[Assistant] Nothing in tech. That's why this push to organize game workers is coming at such a critical time.


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[Assistant] Do you think if one of these video game companies unionizes, there will be a ripple effect across the entire industry?


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[Assistant] Gaming companies don't want this to happen. And a lot of people outside the industry either A, don't care, or B, have no idea what workers are going through.


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[Assistant] Do gamers realize there are all these problems within the industry?


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[Assistant] The only way the industry will change


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[Assistant] Is if players know how their games really get made. So to get the word out, I had to go where the gamers are.


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[Assistant] This is great. Finally, someone wants to just talk in private about worker protection. Hey!


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[Assistant] I assure you, Mademoiselle, that only the vow of fidelity prevents me from accepting your invitation.


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, my lady, my duty compels me elsewhere.


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[Assistant] Tell me, monsieur, about the Lord Chancellor. What is it, Marquis? Sir Lucan and Lady Ygraine were adopted by him, yes? As they were. Why would he bring them into such struggle?


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[Assistant] I promise to remain at all times the picture of chivalry.


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[Assistant] Bien sûr monsieur. As a matter of fact, we were just looking for the code class.


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[Assistant] I have just a thing, monsieur. If one of you ladies would reach into my pocket.


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[Assistant] Mon Dieu. There is enough firepower here for a small army. Some of this ordnance was manufactured for the order.


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[Assistant] Oh, mademoiselle, I never doubted for a moment that you would prevail over these miscreants. However, the same cannot be said of your gallant knight.


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[Assistant] The path looks clear of guards. We should hurry. Wait for my go ahead.


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[Assistant] Maki, we need to hurry.


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[Assistant] Sergeant. Sir, what Her Majesty's nice to- Why haven't you secured the perimeter? We heard things up there. Safe as a safe bank. Like a safety.


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[Assistant] What did I tell you, monsieur? We'd almost given you up for lost.


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[Assistant] And how would you suggest we do that, mon général?


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[Assistant] And now this!


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[Assistant] Yeaah, sir, SuperboyD Savage, man. Shout out to NoJump. We're going crazy. I rollin' out with the motherfuckin' gang. Call the gosh, Molly, yeaah, sir. Chapeau! Yeaah, sir. I rollin' out camera.


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[Assistant] I feel I'm lost, honestly, because I'm nowhere. I end up in Guantanamo 20 years old. I am still 20, my mentally I'm 20 years old. The way I'm thinking, the way I'm talking, but physically I am 36. Because when I stay in jail,


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[Assistant] I mean, your mind and your intellectual, everything stays the same.


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[Assistant] And the worst thing in Guantanamo, like what I have experienced, you didn't know, I didn't know why I was there. And for how long are you going to punish me? Until when? What's my, what's my crime? I wish if I had done something wrong, then yeah, I deserve that. But nothing.


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[Assistant] It's just capable and indefinite for no reason. It's not right at all.


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[Assistant] Imagine you are in a place where you are like all totally disconnected to the world outside, to your family, to lawyers, to anyone.


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[Assistant] They were extracting the worst of us to see the world. This is bad people.


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[Assistant] I was afraid, scared, afraid to be honest with you because the historical conflict between Serbian and Muslims in the 90s, this is like, God, I'm going to that country.


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[Assistant] You threw me in a country which I knew nothing about, no language. I mean, it's total chaos.


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[Assistant] Serbian government told me that after two years you are leaving.


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[Assistant] And who is going to accept ex-guantan with it after what had been said about us?


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[Assistant] And I tried to push the door, they pushed the door, and one of them like, uh, pushed me, I pushed him back. And I couldn't resist because I'm on hunger strike.


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[Assistant] I really, I feel humiliated. I hit my head on the wall here. They went, I think they were more than three. They checked the apartment, they took my phone.


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[Assistant] If you want to stay here, you have to keep your mouth shut. You are lying. You are playing games. If you can stay in this place, we're going to take you to some place where you don't like. That's it.


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[Assistant] In Guantanamo, when they put you under pressure, under very bad circumstances, like 72 hours under very cold air condition, and you were tied to the ground, and someone came and poured cold water, whatever, tell him what you want, just okay, get out of my skin.


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[Assistant] Why I should even lie about Serbian? I'm living here. Why should I create problems for myself with Serbian government?


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[Assistant] Honestly, last night I couldn't sleep. I had nightmares all night. Even today, like, uh, I put a lot of stuff behind the door. And, uh, I think I'm going to keep doing this all the time.


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[Assistant] Like I have thought about it to hide among the refugees, but it's not a good idea.


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[Assistant] The idea of the book, to let the reader live the life of the titans.


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[Assistant] If you have problems, you have to create other problems. You have to protest. You have to start, behave crazy. You have to kick the doors. Why people behave like this? They're not crazy. They're not crazy. This is the way how people behave.


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[Assistant] This is the way how actually the place make these people behave. I mean, we were like animals in cages. Literally. Just animals who can behave like humans. That way we're treated. I mean, I was wondering always what they want. What they want from us.


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[Assistant] Okay, we didn't want to go there first. I was sold like you than anyone else. You're sold. Sold by Afghans to, uh, to CIA.


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[Assistant] Okay, let us say wrong time, wrong place.


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[Assistant] I need to write it and put my past in my separate book and separate story. You will see it one day, I promise you.


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[Assistant] The governments here, or every government, they get a picture from the United States government that the stereotype, those people are liars, they pretend they are psychologically ill, blah blah blah.


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[Assistant] And I was shocked and surprised. And everyone repeated the same thing. And


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[Assistant] I'm afraid that you'll get affected with the disease here. Liar, liar, liar.


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[Assistant] I didn't want to talk to you more to appear a liar, a liar here.


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[Assistant] We have seen throughout Britain and around the world.


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[Assistant] An overwhelming expression of sadness at Diana's death.


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[Assistant] First I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh.


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[Assistant] I admired and respected her, her energy and commitment to others.


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[Assistant] I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss and gratitude for her all too short life.


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[Assistant] And from the extraordinary and moving reaction to her death.


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[Assistant] It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.


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[Assistant] To start off, I mean, there's so much that we don't know about living animals, and so that's kind of the first piece that the puzzle is.


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[Assistant] And so a lot of that work, for example, is done, uh, using XROM, x-ray reconstruction of moving morphology.


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[Assistant] Which is a technique that combines x-ray, uh, basically two different x-ray systems and 3D computer modeling and animation, so software called Maya.


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[Assistant] And so with that, you can kind of peer underneath the skin and underneath the muscles to look at exactly how the bones are moving and driven by the muscles. And so only after understanding that and living organisms can you then apply that to the fossil record. And so that's where, you know, 3D scanning methodologies come into play to then.


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[Assistant] You know, capture that data from the fossil material and then bring that in silico into the computer.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so uhm, it's kind of like, uh, Moore's law with computation where, you know, over time, you just have this exponential increase in computational power.


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[Assistant] It's somewhat similar in our ability now to kind of peer into the molecules and the microstructure of these fossils, thanks to advances in technology. And so, for example, with both the feather and the skeletal fossil that we scanned,


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[Assistant] In both cases, we actually had to try three different times with three different scanners to get data.


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[Assistant] Uh, that we can then use for the various studies. And so for the feather, for example.


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[Assistant] It took a specialized type of SEM. So an SEM is a scanning electron microscope. This was a field emission gun.


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[Assistant] Scanning electron microscopes is a much more precise beam of electrons.


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[Assistant] And so we're able to, uh, image the melanosomes, which are the pigment structures within the feather, uh, without having to coat it in some sort of metal. We actually tried aluminum foil, wrapping it in that and placing it in one of the previous scanners.


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[Assistant] But it really, you know, was a story of perseverance and just kind of failure until you succeed.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and trying different types of scanners until, until we got, uh, like I said, the data that we could then proceed with for the analysis.


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[Assistant] Um, for example, the teacher course called digital dinosaurs where biology students are able to learn various scanning techniques like laser scanning and structured light scanning. Um, and there's a lab where they use their smartphones to take photos of a velociraptor skull to create a 3D model with. So it's a.


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[Assistant] A great way to, you know, paleontology is a really good gateway science to get, you know, students interested in STEM fields and, you know, dinosaurs are obviously very charismatic characters themselves.


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[Assistant] And so it's a great way to, you know, really harness that childhood wonder and inspiration surrounding dinosaurs.


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[Assistant] For, you know, the next generation of scientists for shorter.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, ever since I can imagine I've been, you know, obsessed with dinosaurs. I mean, I also love all animals, as Nizar said, but dinosaurs and birds in particular. And, you know, I remember going to the


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[Assistant] Science Museum of Minnesota and drawing the Triceratops Mountain, you know, drawing dinosaurs, uh, all the time.


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[Assistant] And you know, I still love animation, and so when I went to undergrad, I did an art degree where I learned


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[Assistant] Maya took a year of that and was able to combine that with my other degree, which is paleontology.


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[Assistant] You know, money to fund your research project doesn't have to be just paleo, but just great funding opportunities with much higher funding rates than other agencies. So they can, anyone at home interested can check that out at natgeo.org slash grants.


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[Assistant] No, she hit the nail right on the head. Um, yeah, of course there is going to be a bias in that melamine fossilizes so well. I mean, it's kind of nature's super molecule that does all this crazy


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[Assistant] You know, photochemical, electrical, there's a lot of properties that uh,


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[Assistant] You know, it absorbs radiation. There's fungus that uses melanin to eat radiation at the Chernobyl site, for example. So does melanin, there's a lot of crazy stuff.


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[Assistant] That's what allows it to survive in the fossil record for so long, and so that's why we do end up getting this bias.


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[Assistant] You know, melanin-based coloration is the primary, uh, type of way that, you know, plumage, for example, uh, is colored, but it's not the only one. So there are other types of, uh, like crotinoids, for example, or structural color as Jamie, uh, mentioned. And so,


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[Assistant] You know, with exceptional fossils in the future, as well as new methods for refining, for example, probing the molecules that are preserved.


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[Assistant] Uh, an instrument where we can then image, uh, them properly without any contamination and sort of, like she said, add additional colors onto the palette of reconstructing ancient life.


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[Assistant] The thermopolis specimen, uhm, right across the street, literally from where they keep the weapons grade plutonium, the guard towers and all this stuff. It was quite a, quite a sight to see. So that would have been the craziest.


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[Assistant] That's it. Put the feathers on dinosaurs. Not all of them. Not all dinosaurs have feathers, but come on.


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[Assistant] Very quickly, I mean, dinosaurs are the most eaten by humans animal on earth. You know, when you think of chickens, it's dinosaurs that we consume more than any other animal.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, really making these, especially the digital tools and the digital data available


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[Assistant] Uh, to anyone around the world, you know, so, uh, whether it's educational materials, whether it's the raw data so that people who don't have the opportunity to visit a museum or go to one of these fossil field sites could download a dinosaur skull that they're interested in learning from or studying and, you know, printing that out in the classroom.


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[Assistant] Uhm, really one way forward to really grow the field on a worldwide basis.


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[Assistant] Not just from an academic standpoint, but also a political one. So I just wanted to add by making sure that everyone, at least in the US and


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[Assistant] You know Jumper, New York to L.A. shit, ABG nil. You know the line. You know what's up.


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[Assistant] It's kind of messed up for leaking it. They should have their, uh, time to release it. But then again, it helps them, uh, grow as a rapper.


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[Assistant] What do you like? Who you like? I like, uh, Big Sean, Meek Mill. Guys like that.


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[Assistant] We had a bunch of trailers for us to live in.


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[Assistant] And we had a all purpose building where you eat, didn't have TV, didn't even have a radio.


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[Assistant] All they would tell us was we had to go for a pressure suit. So we knew it was going to be high altitude stuff. Your blood boils above 50,000 without having pressurization. So if you were to


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[Assistant] Lose pressurization, just your engine, con count, you're above 50, that suit saves you.


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[Assistant] There was no trainer. There was no two-seater. There was no simulator.


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[Assistant] If not conventional aircraft then, what did they see?


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[Assistant] Seeing something flying way above, they may have called it in, but they'll still get nothing other than, uh, evasive stuff.


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[Assistant] What do you want? Sorry, sorry, that damn Krogan's love poems are getting on my nerves.


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[Assistant] He's serious, serious, as in talking about kids. Char is a great guy to date, but...


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[Assistant] Krogans live long lives. It's not like dating a human where you just stick it out for a century till they die. Uh, no offense.


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[Assistant] I- I guess I hadn't thought about it like that. And I do trust him, if he said it. I'm going to talk to him.


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[Assistant] Here, I've given you a discount at the terminal. Thanks for the help.


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[Assistant] Look lady, this motherfuckin' knows how to get shit done. Don't you worry about me.


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[Assistant] Markov here thinks he's on vacation. My base, brain fire. You're in faces. This ain't a vacation. It's fucking paradise.


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[Assistant] So any help you can give with gathering information on systems in the simulation would be useful. I'll leave any tasks I have for you in the quest section of your hub.


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[Assistant] That should be enough. Let's see what I can do here. Check your hub.


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[Assistant] The good news is they didn't get everybody. Just a whole bunch of people.


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[Assistant] Once you're free from this simulation, I can sever your connection to the Zen Matrix. This will allow me to retrieve your body here in the real world without you suffering permanent brain damage.


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[Assistant] So you should be able to hack it from right outside the door. Good luck.


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[Assistant] The Zen are using CIDs to bring a downed hotspot online. Once you have a CID from them, get it to a safe spot and wipe its old programming so the AI can upload its personality into the new shell.


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[Assistant] Sure, go with that. Just get one and take it to a safe spot. You don't want to deal with Zyn while trying to hack that device.


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[Assistant] At this point, the AI is purely information. It's entirely digital. You could download him to your phone if you wanted. Why? Does he want a body?


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[Assistant] I'm doing just fine without Matt Miller. Thank you.


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[Assistant] I'll see what I can find. There might be additional access points we can use to increase the bandwidth.


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[Assistant] Oh god, I'm gonna regret getting Sid a real body, aren't I?


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[Assistant] I was shocked when the boss picked you to be the vice president, but you ended up working out.


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[Assistant] Putting a guy who betrayed you in the number two slot seems like a great way to get killed.


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[Assistant] Your powers only work in your simulation. You're on your own.


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[Assistant] Boss, you and King should head back down the street to where you came in. It looks like Tanya's on her way.


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[Assistant] Because if we're going to pull off King's plan, we're going to need all the help we can get.


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[Assistant] Main parts I'll need to assemble the key are the central processing unit, memory modules, and gravity inhibitors. I've located a CPU at the old steel port guard armory. While you get that, I'll look around for the other stuff.


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[Assistant] Here's the deal. You're gonna need three teams to help you defeat Zinyak. The first team will help you get the key into the mainframe. The second will help you overload the simulation. The final team will get you into the Zin mothership so you can get to Zinyak.


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[Assistant] But at least it would be friendly. Hold on, you don't know? Well, to be fair, you had two parts of yourself in that simulation. I'm really not sure which one this will access.


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[Assistant] Okay, this is it. Start clearing the area. I think I figured that one out. I'm trying to be helpful, you know. And I for one approve.


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[Assistant] We had to get it away from you to shake off those creatures. It turns out, that's how they were tracking you.


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[Assistant] The ones who attacked you, you remember?


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[Assistant] The darkness in people's hearts. That's what attracts them.


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[Assistant] Yes, officer, and what an impressive list of nominees we have. The nominees for outstanding primetime supporting actress are Barbara Belgettis of Dallas,


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[Assistant] And also Susan Howard, also a Dallas. Officer Christian, the winner, please.


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[Assistant] Well, you shouldn't be, kid. Because, uh, there's a lot of nice people out there.


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[Assistant] And the outstanding daytime villain is John Aniston of Days of Our Lives.


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[Assistant] To all the people that voted for this award, I want to say that you've made me very happy and very proud.


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[Assistant] Paired quantum phase sets. Slip space coordinates for a forerunner map.


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[Assistant] Where is Alfred Hitchcock when we really need him? You know, he's probably hiding from some soap psychos who sometimes make Hitch's own Norman Bates seem like Norman Rockwell.


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[Assistant] Then he proceeded to murder Marie and Cal and indirectly caused the death of Kevin. Before finally, you know, getting his in a shootout.


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[Assistant] You know a bomb, a shootout, a facelift, in the, uh, world of soaps, there's more than one way to get rid of a wacko, or an actor.


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[Assistant] Yes, you know, all it would really take is that special he.


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[Assistant] And Christina Malandro and Jack Wagner, Felicia and Frisco on General Hospital. Shannon, would you do the honor?


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[Assistant] Tarzan. Tarzan. Go.


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[Assistant] I know the nesting grounds are secret, but I trust them. You see, I want to help them, because, because, well, they need us.


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[Assistant] Friends. Same heart. Clayton. Lose heart. No heart. No see friends. No heart. No friends.


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[Assistant] They sure do. The finalists are Finola Hughes, the chief of police on General Hospital, Patsy Peas, retired prostitute who now runs a home for abused children on Days of Our Lives, and guiding lights Kim Zimmer, a woman with two ex-husbands who's currently looking for a third. Sally, would you announce the winner?


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[Assistant] Mother, I'm gonna miss you. I just wish we could have done it with less dialogue.


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[Assistant] Our three courageous finalists, Dallas' Linda Gray, Notts Landing's Michelle Lee, and Joan Van Arp.


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[Assistant] Coming to get you warm. Wee. Who's wee? This is it.


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[Assistant] His journey finally over. Johnny Gatt was once again able to hold Aisha in his arms.


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[Assistant] But the reunion was soon over as the street tough remembered the tragedy that claimed his love so many years ago. Thanks for playing.


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[Assistant] Keith, you know better! I'm telling you, you dumb son of a bitch!


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[Assistant] I'm trying to save your life! You couldn't even save your own! Keith! Listen to me!


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[Assistant] I'm giving you a choice! Get away from me!


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[Assistant] Let him go! They have him bad. Hey, I'm Roddy.


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[Assistant] Roddy Pipe. Hey, I'm the President of the United States. Sure. Why not? Well, Prez, we got visitors.


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[Assistant] What is this place? A television broadcasting tower. The hell's he gonna do with a broadcast tower? He's a crazy man with a micropole. What do you think he's gonna do?


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[Assistant] Listen to me, this Zinyak guy is bad fucking news! You! I told you to get away! Get the fuck away from me! You're not gonna kill me, motherfuckers! Shit!


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[Assistant] Satellite's down, did it work? No, the brainwashing is too ingrained. I'll have to beat him at him. If you wanna know where your friend is, now's the time to ask.


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[Assistant] I think I'll put that on hold until we reach Agrabah.


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[Assistant] Oh, why a prince? You see, there's this girl in Agrabah named Jasmine.


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[Assistant] But she's a princess! And uhm, ugh, she could never fall for a guy like me.


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[Assistant] Jasmine? Oh, that's right! She's in trouble, Aladdin! What?! Well come on, let's get going!


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[Assistant] For your freedom, Genie! Ow!


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[Assistant] A deal's a deal, Genie. Now you can go anywhere you want. You're your own master.


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[Assistant] But, if you can, it'd be great if you could go along with them and help Sora find Jasmine.


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[Assistant] Alright. Air it out. Ball it out. Yeah man, I mean, a bunch of, bunch of people.


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[Assistant] No Jumper, coolest podcast in the world. Today, I'm very, very happy to bring the world an important interview that has been long overdue. This podcast is often times sort of credited as being like a Soundcloud rap podcast, or at least we came from that.


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[Assistant] You basically, Ronnie J, were like the pioneer of that kind of sound. Even before X and Pump and the whole era that people kind of call SoundCloud rap, you were sort of there from the very beginning of it.


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[Assistant] So, I agree with that, we can get into that, but I just, I'm interested in the early days because it's like you, when you think about you and Denzel,


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[Assistant] And did you say that at first you thought that making beats was kinda like this nerdy thing where you'd just be sitting on the computer and shit and then you kinda like unlearned that mentality?


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[Assistant] Well, I think it's funny too because I think that if you're going to make something out of yourself in life, that you have to really get into that mentality of like working your ass off and being willing to kind of like be a nerd for however many years it takes. Like that's not true for anything as much as it is producing really, because it's like, if you want to get to be a good producer, you realistically are going to have to spend at least like a year, a couple of years just posted up learning.


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[Assistant] That sacrifice. So you go down to Florida and then you're not really feeling the school thing, but are you starting to like go to shows or like what's your opinion on hip hop out there?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it was like, it was weird because it was like all of a sudden.


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[Assistant] That Florida, that SoundCloud era all of a sudden made it like underground rap felt really, really cool in that moment. Like it just felt different. I remember going to see, uh, like Wi-Fi and Pump and, and, and, uh, like Young Semi, like maybe six months before Pump started blowing up.


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[Assistant] And it was like the energy in that room and just a random ass, I think it was in West Palm Beach or something. The energy was insane.


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[Assistant] And it just felt like, holy shit, this is really important, like there's so much interesting shit going on out here.


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[Assistant] Right, definitely. Uhm, so when you were looking at,


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[Assistant] And Denzel's like basically unknown at this point, but did you hear his stuff and you were like-


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[Assistant] And so did you guys hit it off on like a personal level or was it more just like a musical thing where he needed a good producer at that time and you were hungry for a rapper who could do justice to the beats you were making?


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[Assistant] Did it, did it spiral into like you working with a ton of other artists from that scene? Like how did you eventually end up working with guys like X and Ski and shit?


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[Assistant] He wanted aesthetically that he wanted something grimier that had that sort of distorted vibe to it.


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[Assistant] See, that's interesting because a lot of like the rappers who came out and people were sort of, you know, crediting them with doing all this distorted beats and shit like that, you know, there was like certain pump songs where the bass just sounded so crazy, but it seems like almost everybody sort of like cleaned up their style over time. And then, you know, and you have seen stuff like you've seen, like,


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[Assistant] Am I right that Kanye kinda like took the distorted bass thing and ran with it to a certain extent too?


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[Assistant] But not in the exact same way, but I feel like he sorta, and a few other like people, they kinda like adapted some of that feel without maybe necessarily making it so abrasive.


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[Assistant] So you go from working with Denzel, how do you end up meeting X and skiing and that whole shit? Because I'm sure there are stories associated with that time period.


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[Assistant] Okay. And so what was your, wait, before you met him, did you know him as being a dude who was fucking people up in these videos that were going viral on Twitter and shit?


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[Assistant] You know, there's, cause there's like when you watch those videos, it's like you see Rob Banks like in the video and shit. So it's so obvious that this is going down like at Florida rap shows and that like, it was just so fascinating to me. I always kind of like discount that when I talk about like when I met him and stuff that I had kind of known about him for a little while, even though I didn't know his name.


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[Assistant] What was it like working with Exo? Did he stand out to you in terms of just his fucking manic, intense personality? Did he like make any particular impression on you when you were working together? Or did he just jump on whatever beat you played for him?


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[Assistant] But at the same time it's kinda weird to be sorta like in the shadow of that in a way.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think in a situation like that, it's important. It's almost like a reminder, is that...


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[Assistant] You know, don't have petty beefs with your friends.


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[Assistant] But that's very early and he was very young to know that it would have that kind of effect, you know?


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[Assistant] That's so funny to picture him being able to do that cause like the latter part of his life he couldn't really just go to the corner store like it was all good.


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[Assistant] So talk about your life changing there too, because I mean, you must have gone from somebody who didn't have a lot of money to somebody who had a whole shitload of money pretty quick there, right?


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[Assistant] Cause a lot of times you're waiting for these checks from the streaming services and everything, right? Or, and also did you not have your, like, paperwork and everything in place with a lot of the early music? Like, did you not necessarily know how to structure everything?


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[Assistant] It must have seemed wild for all that shit to be taken off on such a big level where we're used to like music blowing up because it's backed by labels and shit and that was such a time where shit was going up without any kind of help.


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[Assistant] Just paints or draws whatever is gonna sell the best. So he's gonna, you know, whatever celebrities up there and stuff. And I'm like, that's so crazy that X is like what these kids are coming in asking for that that's their hero that they want so bad.


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[Assistant] That's an icon of our generation. It's like the way that you still will see a kid wearing like a Kurt Cobain shirt.


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[Assistant] You know, fuckin' Jimi Hendrix shirt, some shit like that. Like over time,


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[Assistant] It kinda even becomes less about the music and it just becomes more about just being like this figure that changed the world. And that's what matters.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Uhm, and it's kinda weird from your perspective too because it's like you were making all this music in this completely organic setting and then


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[Assistant] Yeaah. It's interesting too though, because do you feel like, you know, you were coming in the game with a lot of like originality as a producer, and then, especially with producing, pretty quickly, people will just start copying your shit non-stop.


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[Assistant] Do you ever look at the relationship that certain artists have with producers? Like when you think about Drake and 40 or...


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[Assistant] You know, like, early, like, Cartier and Pierre or whatever, where it's like, you know, art, and now, like, you hear about that a lot, where artists want to get a producer and make them their producers, so that they're not really able to just run around and do whatever. Is that the kind of thing that ever appealed to you, or how you feel about those sort of situations?


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[Assistant] And it's crazy to think about like, think about those early days where you guys were just, you know, hanging out in the house, making music and stuff. Everything felt so simple where you could just have a party, have people just come over to your house, it's all good, you're not really like worried about people like that. And then in the course of like a year or two, you guys all just sort of went from just regular dudes to just famous as fuck where all of a sudden,


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[Assistant] It makes everything feel a little bit more complicated in the sense that, you know,


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[Assistant] You don't want to just be having a conversation with a bunch of random people in the room. You can't just be having all kinds of different people coming over your crib to party and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Nah, it's definitely like a safe bet. Uhm. Thanks. So, this whole time, were you feeling like you wanted to do your own thing as an artist as well, or was that something that sort of emerged in your head later on?


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[Assistant] There's a lot of hot producers that are just dumpy ass looking dudes who don't look marketable at all. But you, you're kinda like, you know, I got the look too, buddy.


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[Assistant] I think he could design great hotels. I just feel like his time is probably split between a lot of different things. Bro, he's designing stuff.


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[Assistant] Really? And you witnessed that? Are you like making beats right there in that environment?


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[Assistant] When you're making beats with somebody like him, are you coming in with a bunch of shit you already made or you start cooking up in front of them typically?


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[Assistant] That's amazing. Is there anybody else who you've worked with that really stands out as the most interesting or just fascinating people that you've been around through this whole thing? Kanye and X, those are pretty like extreme examples.


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[Assistant] Right, so you made that song with Kanye and then he showed it to Pump afterwards?


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[Assistant] I remember they premiered that shit at the Pornhub Awards, and the second Pornhub Awards is this Friday. So it's been almost exactly one year. Assuming that they are doing the Pornhub Awards on the same day, which I have no reason to actually think that.


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[Assistant] But yea, I don't know, that was, that must have been a crazy one to be attached to just because the memes were so strong with that video and stuff. Were you around for them thinking up that fucking video concept? Nah, I don't even-


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[Assistant] It's rare to come up with a song that has a hook that is that catchy.


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[Assistant] Even if they barely speak English, they know that. Ah, that's so crazy to think about, man. That music is that powerful, you know? And that it comes from like, just people hanging out, making music in the basement.


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[Assistant] Definitely. The song banded up with X. Did you guys actually make that song together or how did that go down?


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[Assistant] That's so sick. So the girl that came up with the, the girl who did the OMG Ronnie thing was just a random ass girl, you don't even know who it is.


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[Assistant] Uh, some random girl. So you could never, so there's no chance of her coming around and being like, yo, I need like all the money you ever made off every song? I mean, she tried. She did already?


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[Assistant] Yo, I gotta admit I'm super curious about how you linked with 6ix9ine to do that fuckin' Latin song, the Bebe song.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like him and his friends, like yeaah. Okay. Cause I've always, and I know that as a producer, you don't ever want to snitch on nobody, but.


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[Assistant] And that song really stood out to me when I first heard it too, where I was like, oh my god, like this is a real problem, like this dude can make hit songs that don't sound anything like gummo.


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[Assistant] I remember him saying, like, I only ever made, like, I forget what number he said, but it was like 8 songs, or like some crazy low number that he had not really recorded much. At least he said. Like bro, like Lil Key just hacked the industry, bro. Like for real.


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[Assistant] Man, that was a fucking weird situation that I've never really seen happen in hip-hop where the snippet came out and it had Pierre's tag on it and then the full song came out and it was removed.


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[Assistant] And at some point, Pierre just sort of had to be like, alright, whatever, like, I'll take the money. But he didn't want that situation to play out like that. From your perspective as a producer, could you ever imagine that happening to you? Yea, I mean, it happens.


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[Assistant] Your music to a totally different market where you have people listening to your beats that had never really even heard it before.


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[Assistant] Oh man, her mom is hilarious. I totally forgot about her. Yeah, I did a vlog where I was talking to her mom and then the label hit me and made me cut out a big chunk of it because she was just talking super reckless about how wild her daughter is. That's crazy, right?


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[Assistant] That's fire. Uhm, is there anybody in the industry that you think about and you're like,


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[Assistant] That's one person that I still haven't managed to get in the studio with that I really respect and I would really like to work with.


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[Assistant] I wanna have a career like them. Like where you really kind of have modeled yourself after what they were doing or the kind of moves that they made.


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[Assistant] What, that Roddy Rich video made an impression on you? He just put out a new one with him that was a pretty ballin' affair, I think. I didn't even see it, bro. I gotta check it out, though. Yeah.


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[Assistant] That's what's up. No, I seen Mustard when I was in England for Wireless. And I was like, damn, that's fire to fly all the way to England just so you can come out for one Migos song.


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[Assistant] Yeah, when you have a young kid hit you up and say like, you know, I admire what you've done so much and I want to get in the game.


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[Assistant] What do you kind of tell them? Because it's tough. It's like a lot of times the advice that I got to give them is basically just the sacrifice.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so how did you end up getting inserted into the MGK and Eminem thing? Like, who did you do a B4 first out of that whole situation?


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[Assistant] Oh, this is funny. I'm gonna get on the same beat from the same producer just to sort of troll him in a way.


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[Assistant] I mean, you're definitely the only person out of that who's clearly only benefiting.


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[Assistant] Fire. So, uh, what are your big aspirations going forward right now? What do you really want to see in terms of shit that you can bring to the table in the next year or two?