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[Assistant] Yeah. But that's also part of the beauty in it. You know, you watch something on CBS. I mean, I don't want to give, I mean, jeez, I shouldn't have said that. You say something, you say, I meant to say network television. Uh, and it's just so overproduced and you know, sort of like,


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[Assistant] Uh, I think that's one of the things that's cool about podcasts is that we even think that way or looking ahead and, you know, trying to just, you know.


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[Assistant] That's always the stuff that has always really intrigued me. Like my favorite, uh, my favorite artist of all time that I think, you know, is truly just the thing I could listen to anytime is Pink Floyd. And the two creative forces of that, the two, the bass player,


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[Assistant] Creator, Roger Waters, and the guitarist, usually lead singer, but sometimes Roger Waters would be the lead singer too. And they didn't even like each other.


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[Assistant] So a lot of the stuff that happened there was them trying to outdo one another.


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[Assistant] You know, you have these, this real, you know, fire, this real passion.


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[Assistant] That was behind it, instead of that's good enough, it was, I'm gonna show you, I'm gonna show you. I mean, literally they hated each other. And these were the first people to, you know, add real...


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[Assistant] They were always so far ahead, adding these to their music too. And uh, they still do that nowadays. They invest heavily in going way over the top on visual and anything. Have you ever seen Pink Floyd Live? I haven't.


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[Assistant] They literally, they're the biggest broken up band of all time. They truly have always hated one another. They got together once.


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[Assistant] And played three songs together at Live 8.


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[Assistant] That's it. They did three songs. They fucking destroyed and got out. Wow. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Give Dark Side of the Moon a re-listen. I think that's a thing that, you know, anybody should really listen to. To think that those guys made that album. Turn it up real loud and realize it was made in like 72 or 74.


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[Assistant] Right. I mean, it really started because I don't really know if there was any specific one thing. I just think they never really, I think Roger was probably a tough guy to get along with. A real, you know, alpha, I mean a real probably tough guy.


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[Assistant] Dude, creative force. I mean, you see these guys way back in that day and you're like, oh.


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[Assistant] That's something crazy. And also neither one of them were the original frontman. The original guy, Sid Barrett, was a musical guru.


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[Assistant] That Pink Floyd have done are about their former frontman, Sid Barrett. And it wasn't until Sid Barrett was gone until they gained extreme success. Wow.


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[Assistant] That's crazy. When I, when I was in high school, I just got off on this stoner tangent and that was one of the main things. I give them a lot of the credit on getting me into art, period. You know, some of these tough cities in the country, you know, like the dilapidated city I'm from, uh,


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[Assistant] I mean, it's so crazy. It's like in a normal apartment.


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[Assistant] Like I always, I can't always, I can never help, even back when I was in high school and I was looking at the No Limit albums and everything, like it's always intrigued me. I'm sort of a fan of getting things done big on a low production value. Like I respect that.


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[Assistant] It poured down rain, downpour, and I went back to my tent and it was flooded. Wow. And my sleeping bag and pillow and my backpack that were all in the tent were flooded. Right. Everything's just soaked.


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[Assistant] You realize you have nothing dry to your name.


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[Assistant] Because like the car that we drove was still there but everybody else was doing something and I just wanted to like gather my thoughts so I popped the backseat and it's pouring down rain outside, right? You can't hear anything or see anything.


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[Assistant] I'm sitting in that backseat just sort of tripping my balls off and I'll never forget sitting behind the driver's seat and I look up and I'm looking at the front windshield and then I look up a little more and there's the rearview mirror and it's pointed right back at me.


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[Assistant] And I stared at myself. All I could see were my eyes because it was just already there. And I stared at that little rear view mirror right in my own eyes for like, I don't know.


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[Assistant] I haven't made it to Coachella yet. I'm always working when those things are happening.


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[Assistant] No, no, it's cool. It's like this, uh, it's just a, it's just an all out fucking...


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[Assistant] You know, multiple shows going on at once in one big giant venue. Right. And monster comedians. Really.


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[Assistant] But yea, it's just, I mean, it speaks for itself, like any room that you walk into, you don't really wanna, like, it doesn't even matter if you're, if you're not a big comedy fan, you're just gonna have fun no matter what, cause you don't need to know what you're even going into.


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[Assistant] It's exactly that because, and you have to see it live once, and that's all it really takes in my opinion, is seeing it live. Not, you know, when I, I didn't even get it when I was really watching it on HBO as a kid.


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[Assistant] No one tells you that you can do it. I always assumed, for some reason, I remember always thinking that like comedians must be like the rich sons and daughters of like the people that make movies and TV.


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[Assistant] That's what I always assumed when I saw a newer comedian. I'm like, who are these people? When I was in high school and stuff and you'd see somebody on, I don't know, Conan or whatever. It's like, what? How do you even, jeez. Unless it's one of the legends. How did you crack the code?


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[Assistant] Uh, as far as- To even start or even get into that environment, what led you there? It's really wild. I just always wanted to do it. Uh huh. Cause I just always loved that feeling. But uhm, I actually got talked into it. I got like really pushed to do it by sitting at my local Starbucks.


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[Assistant] And uhm, I'm sitting there and I had made friends with Shia LaBeouf's dad.


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[Assistant] Wow. At the time. He would always sit outside of this Starbucks. There's a whole, you know, a whole community thing. Basically, yeaah.


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[Assistant] And if you hang out at the right coffee shop a few times, you find out like, oh, you know, dice goes to this coffee shop. You know what I mean? It's just literally like.


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[Assistant] You know, there's people all around in LA, it's nuts. Look, we just found out you and I live probably within blocks of each other. As big as the city is, it's also real small. Anyway, and he basically explained to me that


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[Assistant] Uh, cause I'm like, yeaah, he's like, you know, what are you doing artistically, ba ba ba, and I'm like, I'm about to start stand up, I think I'm gonna go to an open mic around here and start, and then eventually, you know, work my way up to be able to do something else, and he's like, no, you should go to the comedy store and you should just start there.


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[Assistant] Especially back then, I mean Shia LaBeouf's on top of the world just signed a six picture deal with Steven Spielberg. There had been nothing like it yet.


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[Assistant] I love it. They were filming Transformers back then. And that's before every remake had been made. You know what I mean? Like Transformers being made 13 years ago was a huge deal. And so, you know, I didn't really have any other


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[Assistant] Buddy with any like artistic credit at the time, I was just hanging out with my brother who, you know, is a bartender and a baseball umpire and a badass motherfucker, but he didn't know anything about the industry.


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[Assistant] And, you know, when Shiloh Buff's dad told me to go start at the comedy store and try my hardest there and sink or swim, I just fucking, I just did it. Were your, uh, were your first attempts?


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[Assistant] God-awful. Actually my first attempt to ever perform there went great.


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[Assistant] Yep, signed up for the open mic, nobody knew who I was, uh, and I got up, and...


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[Assistant] Uhm, it went well because I actually forgot my set. I blanked out. I got so excited.


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[Assistant] And all the blood just rushed out of my brain at one point as I'm walking on the stage and I literally forgot everything that I had prepared for two, three months before that to do for a three minute set, mind you. So it's like all I had to do was remember the topic or anything.


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[Assistant] But I just completely blanked out. So what came out? That, my opening line was, you know, something like, hi, I'm Tony Hinchcliffe and, uh, and, um,


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[Assistant] Uh, I just forgot everything that I wanted to talk about.


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[Assistant] Well at that point I would be listening to how they're saying it and, and if it's real.


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[Assistant] Cause if it's real, that's amazing. Right. Right? If they're faking it, then it's...


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[Assistant] The worst shit ever. There's a charismatic way that you could be saying that. Absolutely. And, but, but my point, my point is that if it's hitting them that hard, that's exciting. And by the way, that Kill Tony crowd would love that. And that crowd that night loved it because they were watching people go through well rehearsed, like,


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[Assistant] You know, these people, probably 12 of the best open micers at the time in LA just went on Before Me. Right.


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[Assistant] So they're seeing these people give these performances one after the other. And I go up and blank out.


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[Assistant] And, and, and I just sort of stayed in that pocket. I go, yup, still don't remember. Not even, you know, but I was sort of like working the room naturally. And it's basically, that whole thing's really part of my backbone is being able to just sort of sometimes


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[Assistant] You know, take chances creatively by letting go of letting go of safety.


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[Assistant] Absolutely. Oh man, I just did a whole weekend in, uh, in Dallas specifically because I had already done Dallas. Uh, I've already done, I've just, I'm just, I've basically been doing Dallas too much.


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[Assistant] So, instead of repeating any jokes, I did a new 30 minutes that I haven't written, or that I hadn't performed there since my last time there, which was only


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[Assistant] I think basically six months ago. Right.


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[Assistant] And, uh, specifically designated the other half, whether it be before or spread out or sandwiched between the jokes to just have fun with that audience and riff some things and tag some things in ways that I haven't before, you know, work the jokes differently.


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[Assistant] And Texas it up a little bit, cause it's, you know, a lot of fun down there. Those people know how to enjoy, it's unbelievable what places.


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[Assistant] I fucking love art and respect art in some places that don't.


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[Assistant] It's just so, that's, that's exactly why Jeremiah is so great is cause he just hits it right head on, stays in that pocket, doesn't show any fear or reaction. They love that. His George W. Bush. I forgot how fucking funny George W. Bush was, man.


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[Assistant] We were laughing earlier in the day because he wore that leather jacket out of the airport and we land in Texas. It's literally a hundred degrees a week ago in Texas and he's wearing that jacket. And I'm like, what is going on here? And then I,


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[Assistant] He told me like, oh, it has to do with the character. I'm like, all right. I started making fun of him. Can't wait to see your Rocketeer, your Indiana Jones and all these different making fun of this jacket. I had no idea though.


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[Assistant] It's definitely like covering all my bases.


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[Assistant] You know, if that makes sense. Sort of having, not a plan, but just making sure that my sort of like, my checklist is done.


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[Assistant] Zippers up and my belts fasten and my fucking, you know what I mean, just all the basic shit.


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[Assistant] Uh, but anxiety? Not really. I mean, I've been really lucky to get to do a lot of fun gigs, and I'm not really getting...


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[Assistant] There's not even at all nervousness, because now it's the things that I would get nervous for, I'm the most excited for. You know, like on 420, I opened for Rogan and, uh, and we did an arena, 420, San Diego.


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[Assistant] Nighttime arena, right in the middle. It's basically, and it was in the round, which means, you know, it's in the middle of the middle of the arena surrounded by the.


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[Assistant] Something like that. A little bit less than that, I think. Just a touch less than 20. I think 20's a big one.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and yeaah, and I'm moving around and looking at everybody and taking my time and all that and it's like that's something that you would think I would get nervous for is doing 20 minutes in an arena by yourself just plugged into a microphone.


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[Assistant] But that's the most exciting shit. You know, that's me, I'm on a show like that, I'm making sure that I don't get out of breath backstage, if that makes sense. Like it's like, I don't want to over...


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[Assistant] Do how excited I am because what I want to be doing is fucking jumping jacks and you know, drop steps and fuck, you know what I mean? Just fake air, you know, shadow boxing right before you go out there. It's hard to not do these things.


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[Assistant] So that you can literally take your brain to exactly, you know, where you wanna be. Right. I think that's what everybody wants, right? That's crazy.


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[Assistant] Well I feel like, and a crazy part is, is that I always thought that those people that are like that are the ones that, what, they come from nothing and this and that, right? But the more that I've been paying attention to things lately, and again I'm thinking also about my own story too, is like,


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[Assistant] There has to be a correlation to me struggling out here for a long time. You know, I slept in my, in the backseat of my car.


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[Assistant] For a few months, uh, you know, a whole summer out here in LA and a 92 Ford Taurus, you know, when I first started, again, 12, 13 years ago, and uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, there's something about going through that grind, not getting things too fast, having a real appreciation that I think really helps. It helps.


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[Assistant] Cause here's, here's the adverse to that, right? Is like, I think that if I was born in a great situation, had a big house with all the toys that I wanted, two parents that really loved each other and all this shit,


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[Assistant] And then I got thrown into this and I got something too quick. Like I don't see, I could see how those people end up really messing things up.


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[Assistant] Maybe it's especially in stand-up comedy too. I mean, there's a thing in this business where you don't really make it until you've gone through a lot. Bill Burr, you know, popped late. Louis CK popped late. At least, you know, in this YouTube age, you know what I mean? It's sort of a different thing.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean I guess, but it's still in the real comedy world, it's different. You know, comparing YouTube and real stand-up, you know, it's a different thing. But my point is, it's sort of like,


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[Assistant] You know, those paying dues really help. It helps every


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[Assistant] Yeah, pretty much. I mean, not trash trash, but, you know, it's one of those things to where sort of almost everything


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[Assistant] Has already come out of a comedian's mouth at some point. Right. You know, so...


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[Assistant] I just, I haven't, maybe it's just me, I don't watch a ton of YouTube, I don't watch a ton of content.


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[Assistant] A lot of times they'll repost stuff that's like comedy. Right. And it's so stupid. Right. And the thing I love that they're doing now is just like basically the videos with all the freaks. Like I just love that shit.


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[Assistant] Whoa. Are you down? No, too much for me, man. You couldn't handle it. No, I couldn't handle it. I'll be honest with you. She's a pretty girl.


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[Assistant] Man, I don't know. I don't know. What would you do with that? Would you kiss it? Would you start your first night with her? Would you give her one?


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[Assistant] So you're doing some sets tonight? Yep, at the Comedy Store tonight. Fun times tomorrow. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I was just in it a few months ago. I didn't perform there, but uh, but it's a cool joint. That's just a few blocks away from the Soho Theater that does really fun shows. That's where I performed at.


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[Assistant] It's, that's another thing. Like that's, I'll put that up there with Dark Side of the Moon. Like that's something people, in my opinion, there's a few things out there that people need to absorb. Right. Art-wise. Right. I think Book of Mormon's one of them.


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[Assistant] I think, I think it would and I think it could. I think it, there's a beautiful science to making something undeniable. I think that's what that is. I think that for as many things that make fun of, that's what that piece of art really is. They're making fun of absolutely everybody.


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[Assistant] It's under the disguise of Book of Mormon. So you think they're going to, you know, make fun of.


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[Assistant] Absolutely, it's beautiful like that. It just makes sense. Not only did those guys not get in trouble for that, they won Tony Awards. We're talking about the South Park guys. Right. About a group of guys that if, if Broadway, you know, didn't want to...


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? Why would they? It's crazy what happens.


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[Assistant] And by the way, they weren't that offended. Like that must have been offset groups because the actual Mormons bought programs in the thing, like they rolled with it. They rolled with it really good. I think they looked at it like great publicity.


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[Assistant] Religion. That's so crazy to me. It's unbelievable. I went to a, uh, I went to a Catholic school growing up. How about you?


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[Assistant] Going to a Catholic school messes you up, man. Really? Yea, it changes your view on religion completely. You didn't get diddled, but you just saw a lot of fuck shit? Yea, it just makes you anti-religion, cause like I said earlier, all my teachers were mean. They were all just evil haters, like bad, mean people. Not every single one of them, like 94% of them.


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[Assistant] And so, they're trying to push this while doing that at the same time. It's just like, oh, this is, I can see.


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[Assistant] It's crazy because a lot of the people that I know that went to Catholic schools from wherever they're from, uh,


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[Assistant] If our teachers are assholes, then we're showing these people that bad people are religious people, and the people that aren't religious are the fun people and good people.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think people saying that they're atheist is giving too much credit to all the other religions. Like, it's like, you're just saying that you're something that isn't religious. Just don't say anything at all. The weird part is just...


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[Assistant] Do something, right? Something meditative in your life. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Something that takes you away from everything. You have to be able to maybe get a little exercise, maybe eat a healthy snack.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, doing a lot of, uh, a lot of road shows, uh, doing stand-up comedy and kiltonies in Philly, Pittsburgh, uh, Dallas, Texas, uh, again, uh, Miami, Key West, doing stand-up there in the next month.


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[Assistant] And, uh, yeaah. Check out Kill Tony on, uh, Mondays at the Comedy Store, live, 8pm. Come by any time.


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[Assistant] If you default on a federal student loan, you will be hounded for life.


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[Assistant] They will sue you in court, there is, you become ineligible for federal employment, you become ineligible for any other kind of federal benefit, increasingly many states piggyback those prohibitions, so it is, it is, it ruins you.


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[Assistant] We constantly hear declarations of good news.


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[Assistant] All of the official stakeholders tout what strikes one as impressively low default rates.


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[Assistant] Well of course the reason is because we're not counting all of them.


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[Assistant] In federal financial aid, because of very heavy lobbying by institutions, default is defined as non-repayment within a very narrow window.


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[Assistant] Currently only two years from the first date that you enter repayment. So if you can push default outside of that window, they go away. They don't exist. They don't count.


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[Assistant] It shouldn't surprise anybody that a tremendous amount of money goes into lobbying here.


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[Assistant] Requirement here for all of the rest of their practices to ensue.


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[Assistant] Is that billions of dollars of federal money flow with no accountability, no oversight, and minimal regulations.


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[Assistant] Renewables weren't quite there yet. Natural gas could provide continuous 24-hour generation.


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[Assistant] The nuclear projects were just proving to be too expensive.


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[Assistant] Natural gas could provide continuous 24 hour generation.


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[Assistant] To pull out raises a question of where does the whole effort to reduce emissions go?


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[Assistant] We are very concerned about the amount of debt that students are taking on, whether that be federal student loans as well as private loans.


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[Assistant] She's like the hardest girl rapping right now to me.


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[Assistant] Exxon is in the room, Chevron, Southern Company.


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[Assistant] With various think tank officers, communications professionals, and right wing libertarian professionals.


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[Assistant] The plan is a wide and concerted effort to install uncertainty around climate science, to decrease political pressure by sowing doubt around the science. Their targets include media, members of Congress, school teachers, average citizens,


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[Assistant] We need people to not care so much about climate change. We need uncertainty to rule the day


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[Assistant] Over 30 million dollars into think tanks that were proffering, uh, uncertainty, that were questioning the climate science, questioning policies that were being proposed, really casting doubt on anything to do with climate change at the state level, at the national level, and internationally.


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[Assistant] When we see a problematic institution being acquired and being changed, we put it on a very short leash.


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[Assistant] We've elevated the scrutiny tremendously. It is really inappropriate, uh, for accreditation to be purchased the way, you know, a taxi license can be purchased.


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[Assistant] Every so often an institution can't or won't measure up and accreditation is withdrawn.


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[Assistant] I have the high privilege and the distinct honor of presenting to you the President of the United States.


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[Assistant] The politics of trying to help. This story and more on the next Frontline World.


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[Assistant] It may be the most critical time in our nation's history to have a group of conservative, rule of law, Republican attorneys general in office. These issues matter.


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[Assistant] That's gone up so much in correlation with the rise in tropical ocean temperatures.


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[Assistant] My name is Darren Woods. I'm the chairman and chief executive officer of Exxon Mobil Corporation.


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[Assistant] Exxon Mobil provides an essential component of modern society.


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[Assistant] ExxonMobil has long recognized that climate change is real and poses serious risks. But there are no easy answers.


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[Assistant] ExxonMobil is committed to being part of the solution.


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[Assistant] To commercialize carbon capture and other technologies.


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[Assistant] In 2009, Coke Industries is the second largest privately held company in the United States, whose annual sales are bigger than that of Goldman Sachs, U.S. Steel, and Facebook combined.


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[Assistant] Coke is just deeply embedded in the fossil fuel infrastructure.


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[Assistant] Anything that would reduce demand or increase the price for fossil fuels, it's a tremendous threat to Coke's business.


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[Assistant] That's why you saw the Koch political machine kick into high gear.


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[Assistant] We had just had the biggest economic collapse since the depression.


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[Assistant] The Tea Party movement was animated by a lot of genuine political passion. Coke.


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[Assistant] Very cunningly stepped in and channeled that energy to Coke's end.


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[Assistant] Coke took that passion and also told these people, oh hey, by the way, the government is trying to regulate greenhouse gases, which is another form of socialist tyranny, and they're trying to take your country away from you.


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[Assistant] This is where you saw the perfection of the primary strategy whereby Koch would, would give money to a primary opponent to take out a congressperson that had crossed Koch on climate change.


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[Assistant] Coke Industries was able to reshape the Republican Party into one that identified with the idea that climate change is not real, that the science is a hoax,


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[Assistant] And that is a position of zero compromise and total opposition, not only to any laws, but even to an acknowledgement that the problem is real.


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[Assistant] What the court has always said is that where any kind of delay or where an abortion restriction risks a woman's health in this fashion, you need to have an exception.


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[Assistant] To be able to avert harm. That's been the rule.


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[Assistant] The likely outcome of the New Hampshire case is not Roe versus Wade were first. But for some women, for some category of women, the world really did change when Casey changed the standard.


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[Assistant] And AIOT has the potential again to really change the world for some group of women. The right will remain, but for whom does it remain and in what circumstances?


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[Assistant] It was a bloodbath for Democrats last night. It was historic, sweeping, stunning Republican victories all across the country.


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[Assistant] Take a picture with you too, bro. You're gonna love this shit, I swear. Ready? One, two...


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[Assistant] Would you like to have something to eat?


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[Assistant] It's getting late! Time to start winding down for the night!


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[Assistant] Would you like some milk in your bottle now?


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[Assistant] Is that he only really wants to make a channel to build up a community with which he can point in the right direction and get to do


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[Assistant] And the great thing is that the bigger the community gets, the more good we can do. Obviously that's, you know, not really in question. But the problem is that there are so many people, it's hard to point you guys in the right direction.


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[Assistant] I've had markiplier.com reserved for a long time now. I just didn't know what to do with it and there were other things that were planning for it and I've just decided to forget all of that and just get this place, markiplier.com, as a


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[Assistant] It's animalistic, it's brutal, not all, but I mean some of them are just like, they're constantly fighting, and they're constantly bickering with one another, and I've never seen that with ours, and I read a lot of the comments that get posted on my videos, and so I know what you guys are saying, and it really does warm my heart that you guys have been non-stop supportive, so I wanna make a place where we can all channel that effort.


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[Assistant] So thank you guys, and that'll be up very soon.


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[Assistant] Here's us customizing!


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[Assistant] I like the whole questioning tone throughout the entire stuff.


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[Assistant] Sincerely, thank you all so much for watching, and as always, I will see you in the next video. Buh-bye!


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, my earliest memory of creation, I would have been about four years old. And I remember, like, all I remember is it being mad noisy.


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[Assistant] And I had this really quiet moment where I was drawing and the world felt fine.


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[Assistant] I don't remember what I was drawing, I don't remember like if it was any good, I just remember the action of it. Always kind of felt comfortable. And then like throughout the rest of me time on this planet, uhm,


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[Assistant] I just kind of treated it like whatever I was meant to do next I was meant to do because it all contributes to this greater idea of it being art. And it's like the same reason why like nobody likes


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[Assistant] This is literally the area where everybody comes to for everything is where I grew up.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's over there from Ghana and then they moved over.


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[Assistant] They met here, but they're both from Ghana. They both migrated at different times and met and collaborated, it made me...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean like, they're supportive within their understanding and I think certain things they didn't understand, I'm grateful that they didn't let me go down. Right, yeah. I remember at one point I had like an alright paying job and I came in and told my mum like, I'm gonna quit that and be like,


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[Assistant] An assistant at a gallery, and she goes, like, what do you mean? I goes, you know when people help you understand the painting? She goes, you wanna...


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[Assistant] I always understood balance. If I was going to do a madness outside, a madness on the road or whatever, the home has to be cool. Home can never be affected. If I wanted to go off and do a bunch of creative things, cool, make sure the education was patterned.


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[Assistant] I went to university, I finished with a first, like, I finished like top 6 in my university. Wow. And then as soon as I was done, I just said to her like, yo I'm doing music now. And like that was another weird one, cause like, I wasn't musical. Right. I wasn't the musical kid that was like, mum buy me a piano, buy me this.


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[Assistant] After poetry, so I was in college, I was writing poetry.


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[Assistant] It was definitely, when I was like, when I was going to see it and visit it.


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[Assistant] A big thing, like, to see somebody come from the ends that you come from using poetry to escape the ends. Right. You feel me? So like, I remember when George the Poet first got signed, it was like,


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[Assistant] I remember going to that, like those kind of things when I was young, jumping up there, trying to do what I was doing.


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[Assistant] And it was like work and I built a little name for myself. Uhm.


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[Assistant] But like, I never felt fulfilled doing one thing.


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[Assistant] It was like, right, I've got poetry, how do I now make people see the poetry? Okay, let's do these like short films, like these creative films or whatever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, 100%. And I think that was the confusion for people when I started making music.


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[Assistant] My approach to music was, came from how I approached art, which was like, be inspired and then create. So it wasn't like, I have to be the hardest this and the hardest that.


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[Assistant] I was just trying to make a good product. Uhm, so when you listen to it, it didn't sound like anything else. It didn't sound like what you would typically hear, so you had to interpret it. And then the argument was like, he's not a rapper, he's a poet, or he's not a poet, he's an artist.


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[Assistant] And it was confusing for a long time, I think, for a lot of people.


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[Assistant] The first four years would have been like... Do you know what I mean? The first four years would have been like...


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[Assistant] Deciding whether I was a music artist, if I was a poet, if I was a dissed at any other, but like for me, I didn't give a fuck. I just cared about being good, didn't I? Right. If I was, like at the end of the day, there's no MC, there's no artist, there's no music artist from nowhere that's ever met me or heard my stuff that can't tell man, I'm not one of the special ones, like I'm not a chosen one. Right. That was my concern. The numbers, the money, all that stuff.


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[Assistant] I always knew I'd have that, I'd get that, you get me, so. It was like the third concern in the list, it was like, alright.


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[Assistant] Yeah, 100%. I think at the time, especially, I only really knew how to write from what I was going through. And in England, there was these massive political shifts and these like, these things as a young black man growing up, you start to realise that you are responsible for certain things and kind of have to say something.


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[Assistant] But we all gotta grow through this. You get what I mean? So like, it started to become more of a commonality rather than it being like a political, like, point in this, point in that because like,


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[Assistant] For example, one of the videos I remember got picked up by, uhm, Black Lives Matter. And, uhm, cause at the end I had a scene.


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[Assistant] Where I was holding my nephew and I was painted completely black, uhm, and he's holding a sign that says, uhm, my life matters. And like, I, when I, when I wrote that scene down, and I've said it to the guys or whatever and I'm like, this is how we're gonna do the scene. My concern wasn't the political, like,


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[Assistant] Like, and then, kind of opening the door, you know what I mean? Like, saying alright, have a look. You get what I mean? It's weird man, like.


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[Assistant] I don't know why half of this stuff came out the way it did, it just, I was just creating it as I felt it.


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[Assistant] I have an, like, I have an amazing team and I like, with everything else, I'd like hold the mantle on and say, yeah, like, ah, creative director, artist, da da da, blah, whatever the list is that people see.


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[Assistant] With directing, I've directed videos, but I always give the credit to the people around me, do you know what I mean? Because they facilitate the ideas. I'll come, I'll have things in my head that are like, just rattling around in there.


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[Assistant] Louis and Alex, amazing directors. They was working with me during the early part of my career. They actually branched off and ended up managing, well, Louis manages, um, Slow Tire. Okay. Uhm, and has massive success, massive, massive success with Slow Tire.


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[Assistant] Literally, nothing makes me prouder. Do you know what I mean? Like, seeing people have come up and come up around, uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm like, I'm, do you know, my advice to young people is do everything. And then when you get older, you'll find a way to just simplify it because you realise there's a lot of time in a day, but there's not that much time in a day. But yeah, no, creative direction is something that I still operate on.


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[Assistant] Do you know, I haven't worked with Chelsea Bravo in a while. She was the first person that comes from, basically, Chelsea was the first person to ever give me the shot. Do you know what I mean? I hail her up.


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[Assistant] To like the end of time because like she discovered me, well we discovered each other when I was just coming out of university.


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[Assistant] And she could tell I had a skill or an eye for like art direction and creative direction. And I was, I went to fashion school. I went to London College of Fashion. Uhm, and graduated in...


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[Assistant] Super duper far. She took it, uh, relocated to America. She's doing amazing. Uhm.


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[Assistant] I was way more in the world of kind of like collaboration, so I'd partner up with different brands, come in for a little bit, work on a project and then like, do you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Do you know what? Yes, yeaah. I think I was more interested in what people could make and why.


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[Assistant] Everything has a purpose, do you know what I mean? So, in one sense, like, something as simple as a t-shirt can be designed 50 million ways.


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[Assistant] There's so many things that you can pick apart now that just become like individual fashion trends. Like everyone nowadays are wearing holsters and all that kind of stuff. But all these shapes and these designs come from reference images from products that were designed with purpose. Right. You know what I mean? So that was my obsession was like, what was the original purpose? And like, how do we keep it true to that?


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[Assistant] Out at war, or they're not like on a farm, or they're not like where half of these shapes, like these actual fashion shapes and these trends come from.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's weird. Yeah, it's so strange. And like, it goes in and it comes out and like, but like, it happens with everything and like, even down to women's wear fashion and things like that, like, all these styles and shapes and like, they just happen in cycles, you know what I mean? Like even prints and, and like,


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[Assistant] There's the interest in it. Do you know what I mean? As a consumer, you're interested.


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[Assistant] And then as a creative, there's something you want to add to anything that you


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[Assistant] Do you know what I mean? Like touch or interact with you. There's always an idea because your mind doesn't relax.


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[Assistant] And then in theory you should be able to like, just do. And you actually can.


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[Assistant] It's now the approval thing, which was like...


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[Assistant] So quickly. So quickly. It's like, you could, and that's the saddest part about seeing a lot of like, like I'll see a lot of young designers come up now and they'll spend years, and I always say it's too, like,


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[Assistant] Think and do. Like, if, if you, within your means, think and do. Because they'll spend a long time creating these ideas and these shapes and it's whatever and then.


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[Assistant] Somebody would just make it. Because like, as much as it was your idea,


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[Assistant] You are not the only human being in the world capable of conceiving that idea, do you know what I mean? So for whatever random set of coincidences that flew past you that made you think of that, it can happen for somebody else, and it might if you wait too long. And when it does, there's nothing you can do about it.


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[Assistant] That's why you gotta like salute brands like Trapstar, like, cause I remember Trapstar from like, when I was in school. And like, it's weird because like, I used them as an example of a modern day heritage brand.


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[Assistant] Do you get me? So like, when you think of heritage brands now, you think of all the ones that are kind of operating and tailoring and kind of like the old, kind of like, more suiting and all that stuff that


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[Assistant] But they're still not seeing themselves as a heritage brand, as something that has been a part of people's lives. Like when I was downstairs, I was looking at the shoes and I saw one of the Air Forces.


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[Assistant] I just remember it so vividly, like, I remember him doing the feature verse on, uhm, is it Slum Village?


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[Assistant] Uhm, I don't feel, do you know what, they don't really overlap until you get to the videos or the visual content where you're trying to tell the story. Right. Like, part of the process of getting into music was like, ay, I didn't, like, my greatest fear was like,


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[Assistant] Being one of these Donnie's that just jumped into it to jump into it for it to be like.


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[Assistant] If it's the way out, like sick, if it's the way out hard. But I want it to be good, do you feel me? Like at music, like making music. So the process of making music became about everything.


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[Assistant] Like even down to when you think about like when you're about to make merch. Right. It's like...


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[Assistant] You gotta think of what font actually describes the sound of music that you're referring to.


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[Assistant] People go crazy on merch. But it's sick, man. I love the fact that people are going crazy on merch right now. Octavian just dropped those, um, bowler shirts with the endorphin print on it. Fire. Like, you get me that? Buy it, I'd cop that.


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[Assistant] Really well, with a lot of respect, with a lot of admiration. Slow, uhm, but grateful for the slowness because that allowed me to grow as an artist. I would definitely say I feel the love way more now, like within the last year or so.


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[Assistant] They love it. Like, you could ask them lot about Dear Daisy from 2014 when it dropped or like...


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[Assistant] Kwame and Krumah or Bamboo or Gallens or any of them records and they'll give you a whole thesis, like people have written dissertations on those.


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[Assistant] I think that the internet makes the world smaller. And I think what it helped me realise is that the, that when I made, so I made a project called 23 Winters.


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[Assistant] I want to say it was 2015 or 2016 when I made that. Fully can't remember now. But uhm, might have been 2015. And uhm, that project was uhm, essentially about a conversation between me and my dad.


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[Assistant] And my dad, uhm, essentially narrates the project. And you hear him talk about, uhm,


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[Assistant] So, these experiences you had when you was young are similar to mine but they happened in a completely different space.


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[Assistant] And, and that is now my first inclination into understanding Ghana and taking that side of like my blackness into a consideration because I didn't speak the language. When my parents came over here, they taught me to.


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[Assistant] Between how I understood myself. And that was, that was uhm, the narrative for a lot of the early parts of my music. Uhm, it was that confusion and that kind of like, I'm not sure. And then trying to explain that I'm not sure to a country that is predominantly white is difficult because like,


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[Assistant] Some of the imagery's a bit shocking. Some of the, some of the messages or some of the things I'm, like, there was one video we did where it's just us, like, breaking into this house, tying this white guy up, and like, you saw that video? Yeah, I think so, yeah.


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[Assistant] That video's about gentrification. You feel me? Like, without like, looking like, without looking into it and all that stuff, you might just watch it and be like, why is he doing that? And I'm like, because I grew up in this area.


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[Assistant] All day. What's happening everywhere out here, huh? All day, like, I live in Hoxton, like, H-O-X-T or when, like, that is the definition of gentrified, like, they got us first, we was number, we was out first, they got us first, they got us so quick no one even cares.


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[Assistant] Done, nah, shortage is just shortage. Right. You get me, but like...


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[Assistant] Anybody that's lived here for more than 10 years can tell you there's like, there's still, it's almost like, I say it like, there's almost like, ghosts of old Hoxton. Like, if you walk through Hoxton, you'll still see like, old paintings, old painted adverts.


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[Assistant] It was one of the most surreal experiences for me because I thought to myself, I now officially live in the middle ground of understanding what's going on.


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[Assistant] Living around people that don't understand what's going on. So I'm in this same cafe, because I thought, let me visit one of the ghosts of the area. Let's go to Dad's Barber Shop, now known as The Buck, so I can eat some avocado and sit in the sun. I'm sitting there, living my best life. I'm on FaceTime. And, um,


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[Assistant] And like, surrounded by tourists, per se, if we're talking about the area. And uhm, some people bussed around the corner, ballied up, about three men ballied up, one was shirtless, uhm, two on bikes, one was walking, but he was holding something, you couldn't see what he was holding. They've come onto my road,


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[Assistant] I can't remember what shop it was that they took a picture outside of, but they took a picture to say, yeah, I'm on your strip. Right outside the cafe.


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[Assistant] Like, like, not caring the world, yeaah. Wow. But back in the day, you would see 50 men fly back up the strip to answer that. You get me? Like, in a heartbeat. But man, I just, you know. Right.


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[Assistant] The conspiracy was, uhm, smoking in pubs. Someone said that to me, ah, they ban smoking in pubs because they know people go to pubs and they sit down and they talk.


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[Assistant] And they talk about what's going on and they talk about the politics and they talk about the common man struggle.


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[Assistant] No disrespect to anywhere else, I love like England, like there's other major cities that are, have their own personality and they don't actually want to be London. Right. You get me? Man from Manchester don't want to be London. Man from Birmingham don't want to be London. They have their own thing going on.


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[Assistant] Yeah, my brother, as soon as, once he was ready to settle down, he moved over to Birmingham, got a nice big house, two beautiful kids, a wonderful wire, dog running about, chillin'. This is the rat race. This is the rat race. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was over it. Right.


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[Assistant] The way that we think and feel over here is like, you can't really do a madness like that.


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[Assistant] 14? Yeah, 14. Yeah, about 14, 15. And I see them building Hoxton Station.


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[Assistant] Can you imagine? I was sitting building a train station and in my head I thought to myself, that's weird.


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[Assistant] Sick now, obviously. Love the train station. Overground is very efficient.


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[Assistant] That I used that as my benchmark as soon as I saw that station being built.


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[Assistant] I used it as a reference point, man. Now there's no more, uhm, like.


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[Assistant] Buying property in the 70s and 80s was the smartest time to do it. So if you did it then, you're probably still in your head.


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[Assistant] It's either you're still there because you own the house. Right. Like, I'm still in Hoxton, we own the house.


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[Assistant] But like, you might have either sold it or moved, you might not have, and then the rent got too crazy and you left. What's crazy though with, with, with London, actually England, but London, because I'm from here.


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[Assistant] Because when you're from an area, even if you move, it takes a long time for you to stop claiming your old area.


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[Assistant] You get me, like, huckster man in south are still huckster man in south. Right. You get me, they're not south man all of a sudden. You get me, like, it takes a while. So, you're kind of like, in the back of your mind, you're still where you're from. Right. Even if you go back there and it's all coffee shops.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, like I, like, it's weird, like with you, I've used the normal slang that I would use. Because I know that you get it. Yeaah. I get to LA and I feel like it's going to be a struggle. So, it's all like, hello. Yeaah. Hi, how you doing? I'm Koji. There is a lot of that. Lovely to meet you. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Come out yesterday, you get me, but uhm, nowadays where the, again, internet's made the world smaller.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, yeaah, yeaah, that was crazy. I remember when that whole Drake thing started happening. It was... I was one of them purists in it. I was one of them right now. Lao Arting. But now, now, big up Drake.


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[Assistant] A lack of means that I think people underestimate. Do you know what I mean? So I think when people really have to do what they think they have to do, in the back of your mind you're like, nah, nah, nah, they won't. But when push comes to shove, they will.


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[Assistant] And uhm, and I had to learn that slowly because there's people in your life that you go...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I expect, not expect that, but like you'll lose them and you go...


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[Assistant] I had a feeling as much as I didn't want to, I was going to lose my man at some point because he was living for the roads. And then it got to, I got to 25 and one of my best friends,


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[Assistant] Amazing person, his name was Harry Yuzoka, uhm, big, big model, like literally was doing bits all over the world, like world famous as a model, was in jail at one point, come out, changed his life.


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[Assistant] Nothing but good energy. Do you see what I'm saying? Like, he booked as much as he booked because he was a fantastic person. And he got stabbed. Really? Start of... has it been two years or one year? I think it's been a year now. It's mad because you know, since it happened,


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[Assistant] I've almost refused to kind of grieve about the situation. I just write songs. And every song is kind of fueled with this idea that seeing Harry go,


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[Assistant] Reminded me that my time on this planet is so temporary. Because if there was anybody that was promised a world, it was him. You feel me? Like the same week he got like taken or whatever, uhm.


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[Assistant] He booked a film. He was about to be an actor. He was about to be a big, big actor, bruv. He was about to do red carpet and robes and fuck this shit up. You get me? Like, if there's anybody, it was him. But like, with that...


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[Assistant] It's mad. It's mad because I see him as like a real angel for me.


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[Assistant] Without Harry going, I would have never in a million years written 25, water, 97, pure, or this next project. And I guarantee that's all the music that's gonna change my life. You get me? So, I know that's H.


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[Assistant] Nobody wanted it. All the UK blogs turned it down. This was back when blogs was like the thing. You had to be on a blog otherwise it was like...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know, right? None of them wanted it. They weren't feeling it. I've shown it to H after one shoot.


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[Assistant] And uhm, and he's lost his mind. He's called Charlie, he's like, yo, Charlie ended up being like my film producer from then till now. Do you know what I mean? And like helped me make half the visuals that like, people have like gone crazy for, got awards for, all that stuff like.


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[Assistant] It's mad like you make music as a way to express yourself and for me making those records, none of those records are particularly sad songs because Harry weren't a sad person. You know what I mean like, you celebrate life even when you lose it.


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[Assistant] Right in 25, right in 97. All of those bare tunes on the next project that's coming out, that's like...


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[Assistant] Surge again in knife crime. Right. So it was, it was very frustrating to have to have the conversation about hatred death in relation to the conversation around knife crime because there, I almost feel like that's one situation where a knife was used and then there's knife crime. Right. You get me?


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[Assistant] Because like, the knife crime that they're talking about on the news and all that kind of stuff, they would love to have you believe that it's just this big gang.


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[Assistant] And like, sadly, this is the way that they're, they're handling it. And like, the, the things that we had when we was younger that kind of let us know that thing is long, don't exist no more. You get me? And people always say it's as simple as like, oh, they shut down the youth clubs and da da da da.


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[Assistant] There's youth clubs, youth clubs is definitely, um, a thing, but it's olders. It's the older generation that could lift up a shirt and say, look at this. Look, I can't even piss properly. Come off the road below.


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[Assistant] You get me? We had that. So there is, there's a clear vision to say, nah, actually, I might not be that you. You feel me? Nah, the internet makes everyone feel like they have to be that you. If you're not the one that can say they've dipped down a million man or boom, boom, boom. Who are you really? How are you supposed to get on?


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[Assistant] There's loads of different things, man. There's loads of different things. And every time I read a story, my brain goes into mad speculation and conspiracy mode where I try to write the script before I read the story. Right.


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[Assistant] What was the- I saw one interview you did with, uhm, Donk.


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[Assistant] I think it came out clean, I think. I think, you know what, like, I wonder what it is, cause it seems like people dying ain't enough. Yeah. To stop, like, really people jumping on it.


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[Assistant] Alright, well basically what I can talk about is the new project. Uhm, two years out, the last project I made, In God's Body, long story short, went through head of shit.


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[Assistant] Very deep in a depression that basically meant I just didn't feel the point in doing anything creative anymore. Had to work myself out of that mentally, emotionally, financially, uhm, and I got back to a space where, uhm, I was cool to wear both hats. Because I found that like, like, me as a person, I was low. I was depressed. I understood Koji as, as a,


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[Assistant] I found myself in a better position with a better outlook.


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[Assistant] Understanding certain things aren't necessarily weaknesses, uhm, and just, and just choosing more methods of healing, uhm, and one of those things was making music. And for me, I think the coolest thing about this project was like, it almost felt like some like, like,


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[Assistant] Like a holy ghost had hit us on some crazy sh- like it was me.


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[Assistant] Swindle, KZ, who's been producing for me since the very beginning, he's one of the best in the world. Swindle's one of the best in the world. Q out of Paris, 404Human family, best in the world. Some musicians, uhm, Neil, like, Dana, like, just people that just


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then, then we made that project, we made the project in February.


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[Assistant] You step out into the world now after coming out of the studio of making some great stuff and your spirits are on high and now you're releasing and you gotta watch for this metric and that metric and this.


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[Assistant] And it's like, and it's like, the enjoyment doesn't come from hearing it. Once you hear it, you enjoy it too. It's how do we get people to hear it? So it's like, you got to run that race for a bit. So originally we was going to drop much earlier in the year. And then I was like, do you know what? Let's enjoy the summer. Like I've got a bunch of festivals.


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[Assistant] The tour's planned, the project can come at a press of a button. Do you know what I mean? So it's gonna come. Like that's, that's the fun I've been having is letting people know I've got the best one this year.


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[Assistant] Do you know what? I'm not normally a shoe guy. Uhm, big up Louboutin. I've got a chance to meet him. Speak with him. Yeah, man. Big up Manny. She's on the Louboutin team as well. They're just, they're just like, they're bringing man through.


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[Assistant] That's the difference innit? Like, it's crazy because as soon as you start making money, you figure out the best way to spend it.


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[Assistant] And you know the ones where actually, as you're sitting in there, you know when you actually feel for man, cause I know as an artist, there's certain shows that you have there that you're like, let them do whatever. If they want money, I'll pay whatever. Let me go do that show.


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[Assistant] Of course man, especially in London man, he's got like, he's got love for London man, Rocky's got love. And that's the thing, I'm not even saying that because I've met him, like he's one of the people I ain't even met yet, like opportunities been there but I've just not met him yet. But I can tell from all the situations and the times that I've been around him or the people that I know, he's got love for London.


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[Assistant] He's just got a lot of New York in him. And it don't matter where in the world that he is.


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[Assistant] First I took my city over, then it start slowly but surely other cities. Shit feeling good.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Philly is the trenches, you feel me, like it's hard for everybody, everybody understand that's from Philly. But I mean, you really gotta starve, you gotta starve, and you gotta really grind to get whatever, to, you feel me, like whatever you wanna get, so.


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[Assistant] I mean, it was cool, you feel me? Like, my mom was my dad growing up, you feel me? Cause my mom, like, she was heavily involved in the streets. Right, I heard she was locked up for a while? Yea. My mom did a nice couple bits.


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[Assistant] It's Philly. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's Philly. I mean, my pop got booked for, uh, life from me before I was even born. Really? Yeah. So like, my mom, she always made sure we had whatever we needed from like, she actually...


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[Assistant] I mean, but that ain't even just me, feel me, like, a lot of kids in Philly, like, really grew up at a young age, feel me, so.


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[Assistant] They understand my pain, I understand theirs, so. Right.


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[Assistant] Uh, not really, because of the fact that when I was younger I had a dream of playing ball, like basketball, you feel me?


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[Assistant] But when I got to like a certain age and I realized, man, this shit, it ain't going really.


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[Assistant] We all was rapping that shit before he died, that shit, so we like, that's when we took it like, alright, oh come on, we gonna take this shit serious.


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[Assistant] Yeah, for sure. From like childhood friend. He only died when he was 15, so that shit was like, wow. That shit was wild.


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[Assistant] I don't even know the story, I wasn't there, but from what I heard it was like some shit where...


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[Assistant] He thought he was playing or something, like he was drowning. He was like, oh shit, somebody really drowning. He pulled him out the water and shit, so.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, that's exactly the first thought, you feel me? Like nah, like, he gonna live through us.


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[Assistant] Before anything, the death of my mans was like, alright, that was the biggest motivation I ever had. You feel what I'm saying? Uh huh. But like, who I look up for, the rabbi, me. I mean me.


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[Assistant] If you from my city, so it's like, you can actually relate to this motherfucker more than like a lot of people, you feel me? But that's with anybody, like if you from wherever, you got a rapper in your city, you on.


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[Assistant] Be able to relate to that person because he actually from the city. You gotta look at it like, damn this nigga made it out the hood.


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[Assistant] Exactly, so you know, man, like, we strong at the end of the day, you feel me? Like, we go hard. No matter what else, like whatever we do. On the block, we go hard. In the booth, we go hard. You know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Like back in the day, it's a lot of people, like, who was rapping, who was actually doing something, you feel me? But they only got to a certain point. And they slowly made their way back down, so it was like...


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[Assistant] In this day and age, like, you got ooze, you got meat, you got rock. Like, these motherfuckers who was grinding, they didn't stop. So like, that shit gave a lot of motivation to the young niggas in Philly and shit like that.


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[Assistant] I mean, not really for me, cause it's a lot of people who...


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[Assistant] You think we're in a shit and then they probably fuck you up. You feel me? So it's like...


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[Assistant] Slowly we just, me and my whole crew, we just grindin'. You feel me? At first we just...


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[Assistant] Like, taking over little areas of West Philly, like, with the music in there. Like, some people in our side of the city was fucking with us. They were like, alright, boom. You feel me? It was like, more as though, like,


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[Assistant] Our friends and they friends. You feel me? Like small shit.


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[Assistant] I can say they really opened the doors for us as a whole, for me. Uhm, about three, four months ago, somewhere around that time, I made a record called Flexing and Flashing. It was like this little, uh,


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[Assistant] Oh, I just, I got a track called Silly.


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[Assistant] And that shit was like about a year ago. And some shit happened, feel me. So I just had to take time and get my mind right. And I was like, no, I gotta feed the streets, feel me. So, my main goal with this song,


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[Assistant] Like, after I recorded it, like, man, this jit won't pass Silly, cause Silly was like at like 25,000. I'm like, alright, I just wanna push this shit to 100k.


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[Assistant] That shit got some 100k and like that, you feel me? And that shit just not stopping, keep going.


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[Assistant] Record, Silly Y'all. That's my first ever video I shot, like, by myself. You know what I mean? As a, like, a single song and shit.


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[Assistant] And uhm, that did, it did art for me. Like, at that time I wasn't really.


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[Assistant] Feel me doing those major numbers over it. Like that shit was big to me, but now I'm hitting like, well damn near 4 mil. You know what I'm saying, that shit crazy.


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[Assistant] That must've felt crazy. Oh, that shit was wild. Like, Meek followed me on the gram, I didn't even know. Like, my homie texted me like, yo bro, you know Meek followed you?


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[Assistant] Yeaah, it's like this main strip in Philly called South Street, you feel me?


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[Assistant] It was this video. Alright, we had a TLA performance. We did a little show at TLA. I performed my song in the fucking crowd one while after that.


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[Assistant] But like that same night, it was people who were on South Street. South Street's like this crazy ass strip in Philly. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Somebody just turned on my song and shit. Like this ad that I left to LA, somebody turned on my song and somebody sent me the video. It was like,


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[Assistant] Cause everybody gonna be trying to do the dance and, feel me, they front, I'm like no I'll do it better than you, let me make a video.


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[Assistant] I don't give a fuck what nobody say. You ain't too hard to dance. I know you be feel me doing your little grooves in the crib by yourself.


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[Assistant] Churches to Riches is like, feel me, like, we on a grind right now, you feel me, and all we know is the churches, like, we don't wanna be doing this shit our whole life less.


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[Assistant] Let's go about it the positive way. We trying to get rich out here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, for sure. Like, uh, I ain't gonna lie, that shit catching a lot of, like, older people, uh, still, like, I'm just chilling on the street and shit. It's like 50 year old lady come here, jumping that shit. She don't even know I'm right there, I'll start cracking the fuck up.


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[Assistant] I mean, I support it. That's all I can say. I support it. That's the attitude. You feel me? Like, that's your opinion. Nobody, you feel me? You're entitled to your own opinion. I ain't gonna say shit to you. Nine times out of ten, I ain't gonna see that shit. So, go ahead. Calm it away.


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[Assistant] Not too long ago they'll actually lock you up for that shit. Yeaah. But now they'll just take your ass and throw it, whatever they do, give you a little like $25 fine. Uh huh. And shit like that. But at the end of the day like, damn I gotta pay $25 for something. I'm working for like $15. I'm working for $10. But, it's cool.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, for sure. No, like, I know Philly like the back of my hand. I wanted some shit I ain't used to, you feel me? Especially when the vibe right. So, I really see myself moving out here.


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[Assistant] I mean, I'm open to work with anybody if you hot like, but.


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[Assistant] What started, I wanna work with people from our city. You feel me? Like, meek.


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[Assistant] Uh, Rock, Uzi, motherfuckers like that, you feel me? We on some shit like Philly support Philly at the end of the day, no matter where you go.


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[Assistant] That's what I'm trying to fuck with first for now, you feel me, but there's a lot of artists I want to do shit with, you feel me.


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[Assistant] Man, shit gonna come your way soon. That's all I'ma say.


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[Assistant] For the labels? Yeaah. I mean, they was, but I already made my decision for the labels.


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[Assistant] I talked everything over with the lawyers, everything was cool and it was like, after that it was uh, damn I'm happy, like I got a chance to change my life, my family life for myself.


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[Assistant] Since I'm in LA, like, this shit is wild. You feel me? Like, just the view of everything. Like, I don't hear no ambulance sirens, no cop sirens, no shootin', no none of that shit. It's just like the fog is way different over here.


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[Assistant] Feel me, that's something, like the studio vibe is just different now. Feel me, like everything just different.


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[Assistant] Uhm, shout out my thugs. First, Khadi, shout out Hugo, shout out Gotti, shout out Sheem, shout out Eula, shout out my mom, my sisters, my brothers, all the other gang, Lone, Ski, Kyle, everybody man. Shout out the whole M block. You already know how we carried. Shout out Philly.


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[Assistant] With a combination of talent, experience, and luck, she landed a part on Broadway in a prestigious play with an internationally famous star.


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[Assistant] For almost a year, times were tough. The dreams seemed to be elusive.


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[Assistant] But Judith refused to be the stereotypical soap star, both in appearance and performance. This was the first role that would make her a star.


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[Assistant] She turned what was considered a pathetic, manipulating woman into an empathetic character. But she was warned it wouldn't be easy.


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[Assistant] The audience embraced Karen Wolek and Judith's career took off.


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[Assistant] Herb would have a profound influence on Judith's work and life.


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[Assistant] He soon became her friend, later her manager and occasionally her acting coach.


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[Assistant] Judith's performance galvanized viewers. She got stacks of mail, some from prostitutes who wanted to get off the streets.


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[Assistant] And she was about to meet the actor who would change her life.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, nah, for real, do you know what? I was saying to my manager, Jay, I'm not even really on this interview thing, like, I just want people to hear my music. The whole mystery thing, I'm a family man, I don't want people to know all my info, I just wanna put out bangers, but, you get me? Said no jumper, I was like, yeah. You had to do it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, so must, so must.


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[Assistant] Fuckin', man's from Northwest London, Swiss Cottage, Northwest Free. Man's been doing music for a long time, but not officially. I ain't been releasing shit. You know, just doing tracks with the guys and that. It's only like last year I took this music thing seriously, you get me? I've only got out like four or five songs. Right. So it's proper to start right now, he's it. So there's a lot to come, man.


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[Assistant] Yeah man, it was from young man, like from when I was in, in school and it was all gram like, not like gram nowadays, the original gram again, like Dizzy Rascal and Skepto and all these people used to listen to that, used to write gram bars on our fucking Nokia's and that. And then...


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[Assistant] I didn't realize that. Not so much nowadays. A little bit though. A while ago.


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[Assistant] And that's the whole thing in the UK right now, man. They're saying they're closing a lot of the youth clubs. There's not a lot going on as much as there used to be for us back then. That all the youth clubs are open. We'd be in there making bangers and that, you know what I mean? Before music was even how it was now.


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[Assistant] Surrounding areas, but no one really from my, from my, my set you get. So we just used to do little grime tracks and then rap, you know, when gigs came about, we was all doing rap and that, but we didn't, no one from our hood released nothing. So it was pretty like, unknown, you get me?


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[Assistant] I don't know, man. A lot of my people are telling me, oh man, your tracks are cold, bro. Like when you're doing this music, it's in for years. And they say, you know, soon, man, soon, soon. But I thought, fuck it. You get me? I dropped a little audio track called Laika. You get me? It done all right. And then I thought, need to do a video. You get me? Get out. And then that's where it started, bro. Got the first video out. I thought, yeah, fuck it. Like this could work. You get it.


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[Assistant] Nah, do you know what? It's a mad thing with a mask here. It's like, this specific mask wasn't, it was no plan.


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[Assistant] I just, like I said, I'm a family man, I've got two kids, you get me that? I don't want fame, such or, when I said I wanna do a video, I didn't have a mask at the time when I made the decision, I had the track, I didn't have no mask.


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[Assistant] But uhm, I thought, I don't want to show my face. So, what kind of mask can I get that not everyone has? Like, you see in the UK, hella people have masks, man. Right. For whatever reasons, they've got their masks in them. Me, at the time when I was doing these first songs, I was, you get me, doing my thing, so.


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[Assistant] I don't want to speak on other people, it's techy. I mean, some people do what they say, some people don't. All I can say is when I was making my first tracks in that, like paper chase and take it, and I was really doing things. So I had to cover that, not even just for the family thing, but.


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[Assistant] The oboe is real, man. It happens. People have been convicted and shit because of music videos and shit. That shit's real.


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[Assistant] Like I said, like, it's mad, bro, like, I used to have, like, pictures of my kid on my Insta and that, and kids at McDonald's are coming up to me saying, yo, you kilo, I'm recognizing you from your kid and that, so I had to scrub all that, and it just shows this mask thing is...


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[Assistant] It's, it's needed for men right now, like we're just going to the shops. I like being with my kids, just being around, not having to worry about people trying to, you get me? There's all these people that kind of sculpt us from the people I'm around. I have the same faces in my videos.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it happens. I don't even think, for me, I haven't been in the field hands on like that since I started this music, so I don't do that as such.


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[Assistant] You get me? If you've got your mind right, you can do your thing. But it's easier said than done innit? We was young, people used to say that to us, and you know you get sucked in innit?


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[Assistant] I wouldn't advise on doing any of that shit in my bars, you get me? No, definitely.


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[Assistant] No, I was, I was really just looking for a mask on Amazon and I saw this and it looked, it looked nuts. So I clicked on it and I fought.


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[Assistant] You get me, like, it's something, if someone sees this, like, they're thinking, yo, like, what's this? And you click on it, you get it, like, and then when they can listen to it, they're thinking, yo, fuck with it. So I've got this, I've got a, what's the, I've got a grey one.


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[Assistant] And then when I was rapping, I was doing a video and I had a, I had a lyric and I said, um, I was like, water my wrists on my neck, Davy Jones, and I've got the fishes on deck. Like, you know, like Davy Jones. And I was thinking like, I was like, yeah, that's coming. Like you're actually Davy Jones. So I ran with this whole thing in it. And kind of, there's another story to it, but.


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[Assistant] Again, like, the oboe is real, like, it's, I don't want to say too much, you know what I mean, but the name Davey, Davey.


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[Assistant] It has other meanings in that as well, doesn't it? Really? Yeah. Okay, I don't know if I'm following necessarily. Yeah, yeah, yeah, uhm.


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[Assistant] How can I put this without being obo? Alright, so. When I was hands on.


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[Assistant] Like, the young people, so you know, they smoke weed in that. We smoke weed, I smoke weed all the time. Yeah. And then you got the hardest shit. What weed was trapping in was either coke or light and dark, you get? Right.


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[Assistant] It's the same as America, I guess. Yeah, same as everywhere bro. Every, every country has the same drugs, the same issues. Obviously some of them wild ones, but that was our lane, innit? Yeah. All the ones.


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[Assistant] Again, I don't even want to talk too much because you get me, it's mad. Well it's not hypothetical. Yeah, hypothetically London's got a lot of rich people, you know. They're the ones you want for that. And then for the harder stuff, it's not in London. It went out of London. That's what we use.


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[Assistant] Do you know what it was? It was like, I was juggling the family life and the trap and it's like, it got to a point now, my little boy, he lives with me now. So around that time is when I dropped my first video.


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[Assistant] And it wasn't even doing numbers like that. My first video I got like 10k or something and in a while I was gassed, you know what I mean? I was so happy.


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[Assistant] No, when I was in jail, Smarties were mad expensive, like, mad expensive. It was an iPhone 4, iPhone 5 days. The last time I was in jail I was at 4 years ago, 5 years ago. Okay. So, since then I haven't even been bagged, like, I haven't even been arrested since then. You get that, man? You get me?


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[Assistant] It's kind of, it's here so you can go jail for mad shit here. There's so much little, like everyone and their dad's been jailed. In the circles that we're in, it's so easy to go jail for such a minor thing.


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[Assistant] And it's like, to them, it's nothing. To the young people, to the police, it's nothing. You get me? Everyone's been jailed. But it's like, you get sucked in. Once you've gone that first time, it's not easy to get out of that cycle. Because once you've been that first time, you get nicked for something else.


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[Assistant] You've already been there. Yeaah. Or you might be on license still. You get me? It's hard to get out. Like that was me for a few years. Yeaah. I've done one long one for 18 months. At the time I was as long as 16. And then another short one for like a couple months. And then one for 6 months on Roman.


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[Assistant] I don't know, that one was difficult because I was 16, so I was in youth drill. So I was gassed, you get me? That man was out here, fam. That was calm, everyone's out here fighting. Right. We just, it's like youth club, bro. Did it seem fun? Yea, for a little bit, but don't get me wrong, like,


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[Assistant] The way I'm trying to put it across is that this is my story. This is what I had to go through, man. Really had to do these things. But it's really not for everyone. Not everyone has to go through this shit. There's a lot of people that force it, man. You get it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like see me, uhm, I try to cool my shit. It's like drug music. I don't, I don't want to just be an autotune rapper. Like I've got other stuff.


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[Assistant] I've got rap stuff, drill stuff on drill beats, but it's all the same message. The beat don't matter. Man, fuck up the beat. It don't matter which beat it is, but the message is the same. You get what I'm saying? I don't really have much inspiration in the UK apart from like gigs and that. That's who I used to...


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[Assistant] When man started this rapping thing, man used to listen to gigs a lot, so he was like the main, main rapping guy, so that's where it all stemmed from, that writing, sitting out writing mad bars, you get me? But uhm, yeah man, I just try to do my own thing.


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[Assistant] Exactly, like, there's quite a few people doing this autotune thing in the UK right now, doing their thing, but it's like...


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[Assistant] I feel like mine's a bit more different. It's less wavy and like, singy, more focused on the bars. Right. You get it? I'm not even that great at melodies and that, so like, I'm still learning. I got you. Me, it's more the message, the bars and it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, like, my guys call me Kilo from a long time ago. Not even, not even from when I was moving kilos, like, at them times I wasn't moving kilos, and now it's called Kilo, you get me, but.


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[Assistant] That's what I'm trying to be on man, I'm trying to be on. You know that mad presence, you're just so up there. Like, that's what I'm trying to be on man. Definitely.


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[Assistant] Yeah, when I put on my first video, like I said, I didn't get too much numbers, but the message was good. A lot of people were comparing me to other rappers in the UK and that.


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[Assistant] The overall, like, the general sense was yeaah, this guy's kind of wavy. So I thought alright, cool, let me drop a next one.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's around the same kind of people as me as well.


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[Assistant] His music is very similar to mine. A lot of people tend to compare our music and that, but again, I think his is more...


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[Assistant] Wavy, melodic, and singy. Mine is more like, a bit more focused on the lyrics and that, but shout out, shout out Hanjo's store.


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[Assistant] It was, it was when my kid man, when my kid came to live with me, and then I think I went, I went on a mission, like the last mission I went on, and it was like, there was a very close call, and when I came home, when I was with my little one, I was just thinking man.


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[Assistant] It's a wrap, fam. I can't, if, if, if I get bagged, I've got too much at stake, you know what I mean? If I didn't have family like that, I wouldn't, I wouldn't care. Like man, I had to trap because I didn't have peace, you get it? So I had to do what I had to do, but when, you know, you've got your kid living with you, like it's a whole different ball game.


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[Assistant] And plus the music, I dropped my first video, I thought, let me just try and take a step away from that.


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[Assistant] Survive with the peace I've got and just pursue this music thing full time and it's just been growing from strength to strength so, like I said, man's trying to stay, stay away from all that things but, the people around me, we're still doing, you get me, we're still out here. I'm still a normal civilian, like I'm around, like I'll go out and take my mask off and go out the street and I'll just get on with my day, go Sainsbury's and that.


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[Assistant] It needs, it needs me right now, man. You know what I mean? I've got something to offer. It's a bit different to everyone else, you get me? So, I feel like I can do well, man. I'm trying to be at the top, man. I mean, I want to get some... I'm not really a feature guy either. I ain't got a lot of collaborations. I don't think I've got any collaborations at the moment. I've got a few recorded and that coming. Can't really say with who, but...


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[Assistant] Uhm, that was through Shoutout Volk, my guy Volker from Brooklyn, New York. Uhm, basically, he was fucking with my music from a while back.


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[Assistant] It's just a love thing innit, we've been chatting and that, and they was on the tour or something, playing my song. Just getting turned up man, the wild like, shout out Vogue man as well.


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[Assistant] But fucking, yeaah, that was pretty much it. Like, I ain't even spoke to Koda.


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[Assistant] That man, like, I spoke to him, it's the same kind of thing, it's just real recognisable, you know what I mean? Man really came from the jug, I'm just trying to do right for my family, so shout out vote.


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[Assistant] Just when Kodak was playing that, I got like hella followers and a lot of different people tuned into my music. Yea, a little thing like that could do a lot to get you energized, right? Exactly, exactly. Just a little shout out. Like this whole Instagram thing, I'm not even social like that. Really?


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[Assistant] I don't promote my shit too tough, like I'm not too, I don't care about Insta that much.


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[Assistant] That was live story. See, when that happened, my daughter was being born. I was in the hospital.


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[Assistant] My girl's like, ready to give birth and my phone's just going ding ding ding ding.


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[Assistant] Social media, yeaah. Exactly, I just try to give my fans, like, I do the occasional, like, question. I've got a Snapchat account that's, like, open. So I try to, like, you know, when my fans will just message me.


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[Assistant] My fans, I wouldn't be here for my fans, you know what I'm saying? Again, with the interview, like, I'm not a talkative person, bro, like, I'm about the whole mystery, I don't want people to know the info, but you know, shout out Adam22, you know, no jumper, I had to. We had to. Get me, give the fans a little insight into me, where I don't talk about shit like this much.


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[Assistant] Like I said, you wouldn't scold me. Like if people knew my lifestyle, they wouldn't think that the way man talks and that it's like about the things I used to do and the things that we've done. But if you saw me now, I'm a civilian, bro. People wouldn't expect how much of a normal guy I am. You get what I'm saying? I'm just a family man. You'll just see me with my kids and that. You wouldn't know it.


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[Assistant] Nah, do you know the maddest thing? I smoked a fat one before I came here, but I didn't bring loud, because I had one zoot left.


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[Assistant] It's a calm- I- I ain't really nervous, but, you know.


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[Assistant] Uhm, do you know what? I'm trying to stay away from the chicken shops and that bro. Really? Yea man. I'm even trying to do this healthy thing.


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[Assistant] And uhm, I'll take you to one spot. There's one spot, uhm, one burger spot, yeaah. Okay. I'm fucking thankful. They do like mad burgers and mac and cheese and wings and all that stuff. But my phone all got sucked there the other day. Really? A nightmare.


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[Assistant] Nightmare, I ain't even got insurance for dying fam. Really? Yea man, you know these little thieves like, some womans will come in the shop with some McDonald's bags, she's like, please, 50p, please. Let's tell her that, nah, nah, nah, like I ain't got nothing if you, she'll put some mad fucking hieroglyphics on the table saying like, yeah please. She's left now, 10 minutes later, my phone was gone bro.


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[Assistant] Pickpocket is still alive and well in there. You'll see them, man. You'll see them. Trust me, man. It was deep, man. And this was literally like five days ago.


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[Assistant] Brand new iPhone. Yeah, I need some plug, you need to plug me bro.


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[Assistant] Yeah man, I've got a new video dropping real soon, like real real soon. Uhm, that's already been filmed and so we're pretty much just finishing it up and that's gonna be out like in the next week or so. That's uhm, called Five On Me. Okay. Slash Shorty69.


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[Assistant] I used to ride Shorty with six nines on me. Oh. Yeah, Shorty. Okay, had to. Yeah, yeah. That was pretty good. That was coming out real soon and then after that, uhm.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I've got something coming. I've got like a body of work. I can say that. I don't want to say too much. I ain't even there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, it's coming, man. The wave is really coming, man. Hell yeah. This is just the beginning. People are gonna see. They need to tape me in, man.


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[Assistant] Again, shout out to Vogue for getting me. Shout out to Kodak.


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[Assistant] My, my, my American guys, yeaah. Shout out all them. I've been fucked with in New York, the Brooklyn drill and that. You get me? 2 2 G's, Maxi Demon, Siggy Black, all these people. Shout them out. You get me? Shout out my manager, Jay. You get me? Shout out Mixtape Manus, TZ.


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[Assistant] My guy, sickest videographer, come on. Shout out my bro Rage, his birthday yesterday. Get me? That's my bro, he's got more shit coming too. Get me? Shout out.


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[Assistant] Come on man, that's my, you get me? That's my mum. She knows that, see when I make tracks and that, the first people to hear it, she'll be one of them, you get me? She's got a good ear for music, man.


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[Assistant] My mum knows that I used to do, like, fuckery, like, she wasn't happy about it, but you know, you're a man. Yeah. Like, I'm doing what I'm doing, but she's always supported, man. You get me? Shout out to my mum, man.


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[Assistant] Yeah bro, like it's coming. You get me? It's coming real soon man. The wave's coming man. Shout out to all my fans as well man.


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[Assistant] Artyom. Wicked last, I see.


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[Assistant] So Hunter, what's happening in the outside world these days? Not much.


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[Assistant] Don't you go blaming yourself, Kenny. You did what you had to. To protect the boy.


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[Assistant] If there are supplies, we need them. We ain't gonna last much longer without more food. We gotta take a chance.