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Me smoking weed, doing drugs, and like just releasing some of like the craziest flows.
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And then it was right when I quit Jersey Mikes.
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I was looking at Jersey Mics and just like getting loaded all the time.
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I dropped my first hit single called Dirty Mikes.
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I'm not kidding.
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When you look at the night sky.
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Be prepared to think and feel anything.
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There are no forbidden Have the courage to show you.
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Not knowing what's out there.
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And we're back.
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Channel three.
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Are you comfortable in your position?
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Very.
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I like this chair.
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Nice.
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Cool.
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We're back with Chad.
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Hey.
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Oh, yeah.
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Okay.
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We were talking about we're talking about your new band.
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Oh, yes.
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Earlier.
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Chatty.
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Channy! Just joined the band.
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Chani! Chatty, yeah, yeah.
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Wow.
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Um, very exciting.
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Super back.
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I can see what you're bringing to the table here.
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Um, new song came out on Valentine's Day.
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Yeah.
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So how how how'd the band start?
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Sure, that was the background, but yeah, it came it came to be two of my really good friends.
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They were in a band together called Monkey Mode.
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Um, and then one of them, uh, we call him Skinny, he uh has been in a ton of bands, and he's just like a musical genius.
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Oh wow.
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And I would always go over and I would just like riff on the microphone and just like kind of mess around.
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And then they were like, all right, we gotta we gotta find a way to like make this happen.
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And so we just started like noodling, and so I had this chord progression in my head, that's like our first song, um, brought it to him, and then we like made it in like a couple days.
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Wow.
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Like really it was like one day where it was like it all started to come, and then we actually it was interesting, we kind of like worked on it in reverse where I sang the outro first, which is like that really it's um like this organ comes in and it's like this like Hallelujah.
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Yeah.
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Um and I take a lot of like my inspiration from uh like Charles Bradley and um uh a lot of like the blues BB King and like this like very like raspy, very soulful, very like from the core, raw.
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Uh and so I just freestyled like that whole last thing, and then we were like, fuck, what do we put in the beginning of this?
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And so I actually not the biggest fan of like the beginning of that song.
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Um just because I love the outro.
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Yeah, but yeah, you just want to get to the end, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's just like hang in there, just wait.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Okay, so tell us about the band, your current projects with the band.
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Um, have you ever been in a band before?
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No, first time.
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Wow, yeah.
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And it was interesting because I was journaling in the beginning of the year, and um one of the pieces was I want to step more into uh music and creativity and um like just finding some more courage with that.
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Um and then this started to happen, started to like unfold.
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So when we were in a band, the scheduling was really hard.
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It's the it's the hardest part.
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Like one night a week, the same night every week that everyone can do.
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Yeah, and we lost a lot of like the fire that we had going because a lot of us, you know, like schools going out, finals, you know.
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My buddy's seeing somebody in California, so he's traveling often, and so it's really hard.
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Um, still is total boner killer.
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It's a massive boner killer, yeah.
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And uh we want to stay boned up, yeah.
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And so we gotta find ways that we can keep it going.
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Yeah, keep it hard.
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This episode is brought by Blue Chew.
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What's that?
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Oh, it's like a it's like a Viagra.
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Oh cool.
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I figured.
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Um, so then how how do you guys um figure that out then with the Yeah?
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It's just gotten like more casual now.
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Like it was like once, sometimes twice a week.
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Um, especially in like the winter when we like first started.
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It was like so much easier to like really carve out that time.
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Yeah.
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And now we're just like so many things going on summer, and we also don't really have like a timeline.
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You know, it's just like really just like a fun thing that we're doing.
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Um write more songs, release more songs, perform any more specifically make money.
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Yeah, no, no.
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I I have no nothing like that, but I do want to be able to write more music.
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My like whole writing process is so interesting, whereas it's it's I feel the most inspired like in a moment, yeah, and then I just start like it all comes to me, like the almost the entire song.
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And then it's really hard though for me to like get into like a recording mindset and then be able to like actually do it then because it's now it's like alright, now go.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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You mean like the having to perform on the spot?
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Yeah, perform on the spot, or and then now like piecing it all together.
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Um and yeah, because I just like have so much um uh it just like it just comes so quickly.
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And then so I've been trying to like find how do I write.
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And you know, um, so it's just been interesting.
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When you write a song, do you write the music first?
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Or the uh or the words?
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Yeah, um, I'll do the words first.
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I typically like have like the words or like an idea of something.
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Um and then um is that true?
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Are you asking the audience?
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Yeah, I need to phone a friend.
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No, I actually think I um it's more music first.
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Okay.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It's more music first.
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And then you're putting the words to the music.
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Yeah.
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It was just like the that's how I do it nine times out of ten.
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With this last song, it was it was a little bit different where we tried to do um like getting the vocals um in and then trying to build around it, and it was kind of like a one-off because of the outro.
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Oh, okay.
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So you can't wait to hear that outro.
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Yeah, really selling.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It's yeah, it was kind of it's kind of out of nowhere.
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Yeah.
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Even for me, I had no idea.
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I was just like, whoa, I didn't even know I could pour it out of you.
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Yeah, did you sing much before this stuff?
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So I met this woman at um one of our friends' shows, and we were like dancing, and she was super fun and like just hilarious, and she was there with her friend and her daughter, and it was they were all just like it was a they're very fun, very sensual, like really just like cool people.
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And um sh turns out she's like an unbelievable singer, and um I did a vocal lesson with her.
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We did like a two-hour vocal class at her place.
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Yeah, and it like totally opened my mind up to like singing and like what it can look like and how you can just like get better at it if you want to.
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Wait, so you before that had you sang much?
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I mean, just like in the shower.
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Wow, and now you're on a fucking stage?
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I will be on the 27th.
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How can a vo how can a vocal so what happened in the lesson?
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So sensual.
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Open my eyes to the possibilities.
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It was crazy.
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She like lives on this yurt, actually, like over here.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, nice.
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Um really close to here.
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And um we went in and she essentially just like broke down like where the voice actually comes from and how it travels.
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Yeah, how it travels up the body and where it gets stuck.
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And so she had me like find where it got stuck for me.
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And then you just like flirt with that range.
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And uh, where does it get stuck for you?
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For me, it's like right in the back here.
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Hang on, Reggie's outside.
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I'm so sorry.
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That's not good.
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All the doors are open.
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Sorry about that.
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We good.
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Quick dog intermission.
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I just saw her like I saw a splash, and I was like, oh my gosh.
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No, she was like, she probably would have been fine, but oh, for sure.
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Um I'm sorry, so we so where do we leave off?
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Vocal lesson, where where it got stuck in your bunny?
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Yeah.
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Oh, just like going into like my head voice, like in the falsetto.
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It's like really hard for me.
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Um and so I have to like I can either like stay there or like be underneath it, but like that bridge in between is really like yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Um, did she show you your bridge?
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She showed me my bridge to Terra Bithia.
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No coming back from that.
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No.
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Um, yeah, it was very informative.
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Yeah, it was really, really cool.
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Wow.
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Um it's kind of a big deal.
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It was, yeah.
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And it was like everything I was like hoping for, and like all these things just kept falling into my lap with it.
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And so I was like, all right, I gotta like really pursue this.
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Yeah.
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Have you always written music or is this new?
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Well, a lot of rap.
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Like a ton of hip hop.
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No way.
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A ton of hip hop.
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You rip you have written your own?
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I have like probably twelve songs like out on this app called Rap Chat.
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What?
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That I have uh like that was like into.
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Wow.
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Uh-huh.
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What uh what style?
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Like can you drop us some lines now?
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Bars.
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I think they're called bars.
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Can you like I don't know, drop a little line for me?
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I knew.
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Um spitting bars.
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Spitting bars, yeah.
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Stupid.
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Chopping up lines, spitting bars.
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Um, and I yeah, I still I love I take so much inspiration from from hip hop, RB, that kind of stuff.
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Um, I'll I'll play some for you.
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Some of them are insane.
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Like it was just like me smoking weed, doing drugs, and like just releasing some of like the craziest flows.
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And then it was right when I quit Jersey Mike's.
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I was looking at Jersey Mics and just like getting loaded all the time.
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I dropped my first hit single.
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Um Yeah.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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Wait, are you being called Dirty Mikes?
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I'm not kidding.
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What did you what do you rap about?
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That one was about uh quitting my job, or I guess being no, I didn't get fired from that one.
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Uh the quitting quitting my job and just being like, fuck that place.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Um a sub above, a sub for you, a sub, and yeah, well, I won't use I don't know how fr family friendly.
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We check the explicit box pretty much every time.
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So we're not just talking about sandwiches.
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I definitely I definitely lean into uh some of my um my dad's side.
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When you're rapping, when you're spitting lines, uh-huh.
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Um yeah, they're they're insane.
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And they're like it's like also like me like almost like playing a character.
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Like I was just like so not like a flirty, like you know, just like cool guy.
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And I'm like talking, I'm like pretending I'm like talking to this girl's like, yeah, I'll be home around four.
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Yeah, put them panties to the side, and I'm like, just not doing that at all, you know.
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In real life, in real life, my father was never around.
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He's like, what the fuck, dude?
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Yes, I was like, shut up, dude.
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He's about to begin.
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My sister heard it and she was like, Dad like was around.
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It's pretty funny.
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Inventing trauma.
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I was inventing yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's like stolen valor trauma for bars.
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Oh man.
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I was like, nobody wants to hear that.
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What?
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That we had a great dad.
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Yeah, I was actually super well adjusted as a child.
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Doesn't really work.
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Oh no, it doesn't have the same twang.
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Yeah, trauma is uh the the material.
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It's great material.
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But when you're mi writing songs these days, what are you writing about?
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I'm writing about a lot of uh my own sort of just like inner uh uh experience with like connecting with myself and um I've been finding ways to like deepen this sort of connection to myself and like tr finding trust in like who I am.
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Um like feeling this love is this huge piece of like me being afraid to like love people um and uh this like not even really wanting to try.
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And if you do that, then you you actually are numbing all of it.
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You know, you can't selectively target numb something, you will completely numb the whole experience.
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Um and so it's about putting yourself out there and allowing yourself to like feel pain because you can always you always have yourself and that and you can always like have this amazing like love with yourself regardless of how it like pans out, and you can at least try and you know establish something something you know amazing, beautiful, even if it's just for a breather.
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So a foundation of self-love can help you connect with others better, yes.
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Or wait, but maybe that's not really what you're saying.
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Yeah, no, definitely.
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Definitely.
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Um but I think the more that we fill our own cups up and we do our own housekeeping from the inside out, uh just the more we're able to offer because then other people get our overflow.
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You know, and if you keep that faucet on, then it's just you it's such a gift to give to everybody.
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I like that analogy.
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You got two good analogies about water today.
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What was the first one?
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Uh the lake.
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Oh, the lake.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Nice.
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Will someone tell us what to do?
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Oh yeah, all right.
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Well, uh that's we're good.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Do you have a closing quote?
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Oh.
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If you forgot, don't worry about it.
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Give me a self-written quote from your from your bars days.
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You got a sub above, a sub below.
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Alright, let me just pull up.
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Time's been elusive, and you've been confusing.
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The passion for love lies for trust.
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And I've been moving closer to the sun, just trying to seek refuge in anyone.
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Dude.
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Wow.
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I'm gonna I'm gonna download that app.
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What's that called?
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Rapchat for rap chat.
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Greeness underscore trees is greenest trees.
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Greenness, like G-R-E-E-N-I-S trees on Rapchat.
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And it's a picture of me at 19 years old, high on acid and shrooms, throwing up West Coast.
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Can't miss it.
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Can't miss it.
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Damn, wow.
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Well, I'm looking forward to it.
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Thank you for being here.
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Thank you guys for having me.
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This is always so fun, but yeah.
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Bless up.
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Bless up.
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Me smoking weed, doing drugs, and like just releasing some of like the craziest flows.
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And then it was right when I quit Jersey Mikes.
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I was looking at Jersey Mics and just like getting loaded all the time.
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I dropped my first hit single called Dirty Mikes.
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I'm not kidding.
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When you look at the night sky.
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Be prepared to think and feel anything.
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There are no forbidden Have the courage to show you.
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Not knowing what's out there.
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And we're back.
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Channel three.
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Are you comfortable in your position?
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Very.
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I like this chair.
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Nice.
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Cool.
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We're back with Chad.
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Hey.
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Oh, yeah.
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Okay.
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We were talking about we're talking about your new band.
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Oh, yes.
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Earlier.
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Chatty.
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Channy! Just joined the band.
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Chani! Chatty, yeah, yeah.
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Wow.
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Um, very exciting.
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Super back.
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I can see what you're bringing to the table here.
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Um, new song came out on Valentine's Day.
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Yeah.
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So how how how'd the band start?
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Sure, that was the background, but yeah, it came it came to be two of my really good friends.
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They were in a band together called Monkey Mode.
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Um, and then one of them, uh, we call him Skinny, he uh has been in a ton of bands, and he's just like a musical genius.
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Oh wow.
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And I would always go over and I would just like riff on the microphone and just like kind of mess around.
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And then they were like, all right, we gotta we gotta find a way to like make this happen.
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And so we just started like noodling, and so I had this chord progression in my head, that's like our first song, um, brought it to him, and then we like made it in like a couple days.
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Wow.
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Like really it was like one day where it was like it all started to come, and then we actually it was interesting, we kind of like worked on it in reverse where I sang the outro first, which is like that really it's um like this organ comes in and it's like this like Hallelujah.
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Yeah.
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Um and I take a lot of like my inspiration from uh like Charles Bradley and um uh a lot of like the blues BB King and like this like very like raspy, very soulful, very like from the core, raw.
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Uh and so I just freestyled like that whole last thing, and then we were like, fuck, what do we put in the beginning of this?
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And so I actually not the biggest fan of like the beginning of that song.
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Um just because I love the outro.
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Yeah, but yeah, you just want to get to the end, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's just like hang in there, just wait.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Okay, so tell us about the band, your current projects with the band.
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Um, have you ever been in a band before?
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No, first time.
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Wow, yeah.
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And it was interesting because I was journaling in the beginning of the year, and um one of the pieces was I want to step more into uh music and creativity and um like just finding some more courage with that.
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Um and then this started to happen, started to like unfold.
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So when we were in a band, the scheduling was really hard.
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It's the it's the hardest part.
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Like one night a week, the same night every week that everyone can do.
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Yeah, and we lost a lot of like the fire that we had going because a lot of us, you know, like schools going out, finals, you know.
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My buddy's seeing somebody in California, so he's traveling often, and so it's really hard.
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Um, still is total boner killer.
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It's a massive boner killer, yeah.
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And uh we want to stay boned up, yeah.
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And so we gotta find ways that we can keep it going.
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Yeah, keep it hard.
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This episode is brought by Blue Chew.
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What's that?
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Oh, it's like a it's like a Viagra.
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Oh cool.
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I figured.
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Um, so then how how do you guys um figure that out then with the Yeah?
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It's just gotten like more casual now.
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Like it was like once, sometimes twice a week.
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Um, especially in like the winter when we like first started.
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It was like so much easier to like really carve out that time.
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Yeah.
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And now we're just like so many things going on summer, and we also don't really have like a timeline.
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You know, it's just like really just like a fun thing that we're doing.
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Um write more songs, release more songs, perform any more specifically make money.
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Yeah, no, no.
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I I have no nothing like that, but I do want to be able to write more music.
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My like whole writing process is so interesting, whereas it's it's I feel the most inspired like in a moment, yeah, and then I just start like it all comes to me, like the almost the entire song.
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And then it's really hard though for me to like get into like a recording mindset and then be able to like actually do it then because it's now it's like alright, now go.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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You mean like the having to perform on the spot?
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Yeah, perform on the spot, or and then now like piecing it all together.
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Um and yeah, because I just like have so much um uh it just like it just comes so quickly.
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And then so I've been trying to like find how do I write.
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And you know, um, so it's just been interesting.
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When you write a song, do you write the music first?
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Or the uh or the words?
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Yeah, um, I'll do the words first.
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I typically like have like the words or like an idea of something.
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Um and then um is that true?
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Are you asking the audience?
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Yeah, I need to phone a friend.
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No, I actually think I um it's more music first.
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Okay.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It's more music first.
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And then you're putting the words to the music.
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Yeah.
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It was just like the that's how I do it nine times out of ten.
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With this last song, it was it was a little bit different where we tried to do um like getting the vocals um in and then trying to build around it, and it was kind of like a one-off because of the outro.
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Oh, okay.
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So you can't wait to hear that outro.
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Yeah, really selling.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It's yeah, it was kind of it's kind of out of nowhere.
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Yeah.
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Even for me, I had no idea.
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I was just like, whoa, I didn't even know I could pour it out of you.
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Yeah, did you sing much before this stuff?
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So I met this woman at um one of our friends' shows, and we were like dancing, and she was super fun and like just hilarious, and she was there with her friend and her daughter, and it was they were all just like it was a they're very fun, very sensual, like really just like cool people.
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And um sh turns out she's like an unbelievable singer, and um I did a vocal lesson with her.
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We did like a two-hour vocal class at her place.
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Yeah, and it like totally opened my mind up to like singing and like what it can look like and how you can just like get better at it if you want to.
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Wait, so you before that had you sang much?
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I mean, just like in the shower.
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Wow, and now you're on a fucking stage?
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I will be on the 27th.
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How can a vo how can a vocal so what happened in the lesson?
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So sensual.
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Open my eyes to the possibilities.
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It was crazy.
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She like lives on this yurt, actually, like over here.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, nice.
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Um really close to here.
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And um we went in and she essentially just like broke down like where the voice actually comes from and how it travels.
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Yeah, how it travels up the body and where it gets stuck.
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And so she had me like find where it got stuck for me.
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And then you just like flirt with that range.
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And uh, where does it get stuck for you?
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For me, it's like right in the back here.
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Hang on, Reggie's outside.
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I'm so sorry.
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That's not good.
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All the doors are open.
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Sorry about that.
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We good.
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Quick dog intermission.
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I just saw her like I saw a splash, and I was like, oh my gosh.
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No, she was like, she probably would have been fine, but oh, for sure.
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Um I'm sorry, so we so where do we leave off?
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Vocal lesson, where where it got stuck in your bunny?
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Yeah.
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Oh, just like going into like my head voice, like in the falsetto.
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It's like really hard for me.
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Um and so I have to like I can either like stay there or like be underneath it, but like that bridge in between is really like yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Um, did she show you your bridge?
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She showed me my bridge to Terra Bithia.
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No coming back from that.
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No.
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Um, yeah, it was very informative.
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Yeah, it was really, really cool.
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Wow.
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Um it's kind of a big deal.
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It was, yeah.
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And it was like everything I was like hoping for, and like all these things just kept falling into my lap with it.
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And so I was like, all right, I gotta like really pursue this.
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Yeah.
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Have you always written music or is this new?
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Well, a lot of rap.
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Like a ton of hip hop.
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No way.
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A ton of hip hop.
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You rip you have written your own?
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I have like probably twelve songs like out on this app called Rap Chat.
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What?
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That I have uh like that was like into.
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Wow.
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Uh-huh.
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What uh what style?
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Like can you drop us some lines now?
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Bars.
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I think they're called bars.
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Can you like I don't know, drop a little line for me?
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I knew.
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Um spitting bars.
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Spitting bars, yeah.
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Stupid.
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Chopping up lines, spitting bars.
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Um, and I yeah, I still I love I take so much inspiration from from hip hop, RB, that kind of stuff.
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Um, I'll I'll play some for you.
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Some of them are insane.
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Like it was just like me smoking weed, doing drugs, and like just releasing some of like the craziest flows.
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And then it was right when I quit Jersey Mike's.
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I was looking at Jersey Mics and just like getting loaded all the time.
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I dropped my first hit single.
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Um Yeah.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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Wait, are you being called Dirty Mikes?
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I'm not kidding.
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What did you what do you rap about?
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That one was about uh quitting my job, or I guess being no, I didn't get fired from that one.
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Uh the quitting quitting my job and just being like, fuck that place.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Um a sub above, a sub for you, a sub, and yeah, well, I won't use I don't know how fr family friendly.
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We check the explicit box pretty much every time.
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So we're not just talking about sandwiches.
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I definitely I definitely lean into uh some of my um my dad's side.
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When you're rapping, when you're spitting lines, uh-huh.
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Um yeah, they're they're insane.
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And they're like it's like also like me like almost like playing a character.
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Like I was just like so not like a flirty, like you know, just like cool guy.
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And I'm like talking, I'm like pretending I'm like talking to this girl's like, yeah, I'll be home around four.
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Yeah, put them panties to the side, and I'm like, just not doing that at all, you know.
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In real life, in real life, my father was never around.
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He's like, what the fuck, dude?
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Yes, I was like, shut up, dude.
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He's about to begin.
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My sister heard it and she was like, Dad like was around.
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It's pretty funny.
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Inventing trauma.
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I was inventing yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's like stolen valor trauma for bars.
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Oh man.
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I was like, nobody wants to hear that.
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What?
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That we had a great dad.
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Yeah, I was actually super well adjusted as a child.
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Doesn't really work.
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Oh no, it doesn't have the same twang.
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Yeah, trauma is uh the the material.
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It's great material.
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But when you're mi writing songs these days, what are you writing about?
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I'm writing about a lot of uh my own sort of just like inner uh uh experience with like connecting with myself and um I've been finding ways to like deepen this sort of connection to myself and like tr finding trust in like who I am.
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Um like feeling this love is this huge piece of like me being afraid to like love people um and uh this like not even really wanting to try.
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And if you do that, then you you actually are numbing all of it.
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You know, you can't selectively target numb something, you will completely numb the whole experience.
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Um and so it's about putting yourself out there and allowing yourself to like feel pain because you can always you always have yourself and that and you can always like have this amazing like love with yourself regardless of how it like pans out, and you can at least try and you know establish something something you know amazing, beautiful, even if it's just for a breather.
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So a foundation of self-love can help you connect with others better, yes.
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Or wait, but maybe that's not really what you're saying.
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Yeah, no, definitely.
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Definitely.
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Um but I think the more that we fill our own cups up and we do our own housekeeping from the inside out, uh just the more we're able to offer because then other people get our overflow.
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You know, and if you keep that faucet on, then it's just you it's such a gift to give to everybody.
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I like that analogy.
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You got two good analogies about water today.
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What was the first one?
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Uh the lake.
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Oh, the lake.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Nice.
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Will someone tell us what to do?
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Oh yeah, all right.
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Well, uh that's we're good.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Do you have a closing quote?
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Oh.
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If you forgot, don't worry about it.
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Give me a self-written quote from your from your bars days.
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You got a sub above, a sub below.
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Alright, let me just pull up.
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Time's been elusive, and you've been confusing.
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The passion for love lies for trust.
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And I've been moving closer to the sun, just trying to seek refuge in anyone.
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Dude.
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Wow.
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I'm gonna I'm gonna download that app.
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What's that called?
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Rapchat for rap chat.
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Greeness underscore trees is greenest trees.
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Greenness, like G-R-E-E-N-I-S trees on Rapchat.
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And it's a picture of me at 19 years old, high on acid and shrooms, throwing up West Coast.
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Can't miss it.
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Can't miss it.
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Damn, wow.
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Well, I'm looking forward to it.
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Thank you for being here.
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Thank you guys for having me.
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This is always so fun, but yeah.
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Bless up.
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Bless up.
