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#Redman Reveals How Skydiving Saved Him And Why #LilWayne & #snoopdogg Should Do It!
Jan 31, 2025
In this exclusive AllHipHop interview, Hip-Hop legend Redman opens up about how skydiving became his ultimate escape during a dark time in his life. Hear how he went from depression to soaring solo in the sky, why he wants to take Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg, and @ChuckCreekmur skydiving, and the life-changing lessons he’s learned along the way. This is a raw, inspiring conversation! 🚀🪂
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skydiving what's the appeal uh are you
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gonna take people with you are because
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there's there's fans that Jay Boogie Jay
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Boogie love shout out to her uh she
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wants to skydive with you uh I I
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remember when you first did it back in
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the day with the uh photo shoot and and
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then uh in the magazine
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and I was like this guy's crazy um I
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can't bring myself to do it I used to be
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scared of heights I felt like I was
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gonna do that at one point now I I just
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can't wrap my brain around it um at all
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it's it's it's it's definitely something
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that I won't accomplish as as of today
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um what's the appeal how
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it's crazy to me seeing you do it is
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crazy I'm like is is he it it it it went
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through a point I saw yo it what's funny
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is that skydiving plays a major part of
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who I
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am because when I started skydiving I
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started skydiving
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2021 that's when I took my sabatical
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okay and when I started
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skydiving see here's the thing
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uh my girl I was with she used
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to tell me like you know I'm afraid that
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you're going to just be behind that
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board the rest of your life you don't
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know how to treat
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yourself
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um
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and and I didn't understand what she
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mean
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until until I Sat by myself and I didn't
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have a woman and I said you know what
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let me just sit down and if I wasn't
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behind the board working laying lyrics
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yeah I didn't know what to do with
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myself besides go work out in the park
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that was my only life and I said wow
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she's [ __ ] right yeah I said let me
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do something I wanted to do and I was
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very
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depressed I was depressed at the time
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and I said you know what I always wanted
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to skydive I literally got myself up the
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next morning one morning in there said
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I'm going to skyd I Don't Give a [ __ ]
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whether I live or die if I live in the
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sky I I was at that point they asked me
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at Sussex Skydive that is my home that
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is my family Sussex Skydive New Jersey
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okay they asked me my first day why are
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you skydiving I said yo I'm going
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through a [ __ ] divorce me and my girl
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just parted ways I don't give a
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[ __ ] if I I don't really give a [ __ ]
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just really they seen it in my face and
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the first day I went no it wasn't the
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first day I went to do the tandem jumps
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you got to do a tandem with somebody on
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your back I did four tandem jumps that
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day and one of the ladies in the uh in
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the office she said you know you are
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spending a lot of money on on tandem
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jumps because I was going for a fifth
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one they was like you might want to just
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come and learn how to skydive you can
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learn a skydive within a
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week I said okay so when I went to the
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class that's when I told him look me and
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my girl parted ways I'm going through a
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[ __ ] divorce I was very
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transparent
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and they said okay and I started
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learning I started skydiving and when I
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got up in that air and I did my first
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Skydive alone with my two instructors
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because once you
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once you take the course you take the
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written and then you're able to go in
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the sky you can do that within that week
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of taking the course you could go up in
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the sky by yourself wow when I po the
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shoot for the first time to land by
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myself I was in the sky with just me and
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God and when I tell you guys this that
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when you're not on the ground and you in
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the sky it is a different level of Life
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Meaning there's no
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judgment there's no social
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media there's no there's no anything
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that is the anything that will
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deteriorate your thoughts yeah process
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of being
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self-love there's no women there's no
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men there's no anything around you but
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you and the blue sky and your
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Faith right right of Landing yeah
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because I'mma tell you one thing what I
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love about skydiving this is not a sport
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you can Co come throw money at right
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right this ain't a sport that gives a
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[ __ ] about how many cars you got how
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much how much money you got how what
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kind of chick you got this is not a
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sport for that right once you are in
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that
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door and you jump out
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your job is to land safely
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right right the community of skydivers
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is very small maybe 50,000 to 60,000
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skydivers around the world no more than
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a 100,000 very small community yeah why
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because a lot of people are afraid yeah
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but if they understood it what is really
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for yeah and the the the the the and the
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feeling of happiness and secure of
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yourself and most of all your faith of
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Who You Believe in because you're out
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that door you're like God I just want to
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land safe yeah I don't care about
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nothing else yeah when you land you're
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Landing back in the community of people
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who landed with their faith yeah the
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community of skydiving
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is nowhere near of what any other
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community of what we deal with today on
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ground is like for example they don't
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about what you we all skydivers dress
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Sky divy if you
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will bu sneakers yeah you know uh
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clothes that they can [ __ ] up right you
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see people in the same Skydive clothes
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all week long still respected right the
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talk the communication of
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skydivers when I'm around my Skydive
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family we don't talk about none of this
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[ __ ] in the community that's going on in
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the music Community we don't know who's
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getting locked up we don't know who uh
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who uh got touched here or who who
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didn't do this here it's none of that
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[ __ ] none of it we talking about how we
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can heal yeah wow we talking about what
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we can how we can be better in that
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Skydive right we're talking about things
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that have purpose instead of
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generational [ __ ] yeah and that's
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what
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skydiving uh brings to my life right and
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now I'm an official skydiver and I've
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been taught by the best like Jeff
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provano who was like one of the Michael
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Jordans of skydiving right uh uh all the
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team out there in Skydive Arizona all
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those professionals that I had the
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privilege to jump with you know who you
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are um um Skydive Florida uh uh uh Z s
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where I Skydive at I I I had to the
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privilege to jump with professionals I
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got like 200 and maybe 30 skydives in
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but my my boy like Jeff provano he got
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like 23 to
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25,000 skydives in the Red Bull Skydive
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team salute to
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them um I'm planning on a trip this
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summer if y'all want to be a part of it
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follow me at Red Manilla GI L LA on the
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IG I'm planning a trip for anyone that
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want that experience to go up there and
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get a Skydive I want I want to I want to
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not just bring my culture like yo you
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know we need more black people in
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Skydive no we need more people in
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skydiving to help thems mentally yeah I
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want to plan a trip for everyone to have
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that
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experience I
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want I want I want Little Wayne
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Scott that's been on my why why is that
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why is that cause Little Wayne is like
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he's for like little Wayne is [ __ ] is
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an incredible artist yeah and he's not
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afraid do something different like he
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skateboards he uh he he he's not afraid
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to push the envelope like I am right and
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not only him a couple of people but
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little Wayne I would love to get him on
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a first Skydive okay I would love to
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have a trip where like yo I want to
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invite rap artists to come Skydive to
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have that ping and I guarantee you they
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won't let it down right guarante you
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they won't let it down but see one thing
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about that and I say little Wayne as
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well
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because even with me with skydiving like
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I said this is something that you can't
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throw money at yeah mhm this is
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something that you got to be like I like
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I told Snoop like Snoop is my young bro
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I talk to Snoop all the time I told him
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I want to get you in that Sky
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Snoop what he say I want to get he like
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Ed I want to get Snoop in that sky right
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because it first thing because first of
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all I never Skydive High okay I never
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Skydive high right I had seven
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malfunctions in my life div where if I
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wasn't fully aware of my emergency
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procedures no more red man yeah I was
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half and half couple of times my my
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parachute ain't open wow sometimes my
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parachute would open at the side my
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parachute would wrap around me and I'm
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going down yeah and when you're going
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down at that kind of speed at like 130
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miles per hour and your parachute is not
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open the first thing a person would do
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is panic yeah and that's where a lot of
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people be out right but this allows you
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to be disciplined right right and that's
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why I would want to get Snoop in the sky
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right I would wanna get Lil Wayne in the
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sky yeah because it it's it's gonna
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build so much discipline in them they're
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gonna be like wow I see what red mean
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right right you know so don't be afraid
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Chuck when you ready I'm coming to get
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you and we going to Sussex and you G to
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do your first skyd bro and you're gonna
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love it bro okay prayer prayer up prayer
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is up to that prayer is up to that
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that's right that's right okay by the
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way did you ever talk to Wayne did y did
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y'all ever link up I know you had that
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line in in that red bull freestyle
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saying your fans look up to little Wayne
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or something like that uh did y'all ever
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connect on that I know you said no no no
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no we a have to Lil Wayne Lil Wayne
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though like Lil Wayne is like even
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though I don't talk to little Wayne I
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don't hang around Little Wayne but he
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knows some of my connections like my boy
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scoob dooo scoo dooo you already know
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what's good Jersey finest sco scoo is
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Lil Wayne's homie which sco is my is my
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nephew like you know okay okay he he
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knows it's no and plus I did a post
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after that yeah I I said I told
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everybody I said look man yeah don't be
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[ __ ] up the flowers that I'm giving
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this man yeah I'm giving this man his
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[ __ ] don't [ __ ] that up this is big
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boy talk yeah you know this is big boy
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talk y'all don't understand y of course
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you won't understand and look at it
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another way because you're not a big boy
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you know Big Boy grown man talk right
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when I said that line I said new rappers
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their hero is Little Wayne and if you
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look at that that clip I clapped my
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hands right new rappers their hero is
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little Wayne but my hero dancing little
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Fame [ __ ] yeah meaning we're from two
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different eras right and who I and not
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saying that I look up to uh mop but mop
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in the
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90s bro they were just as welcome in new
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New Jersey in my city as I was right
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could have been president of my city
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like I could been because there was that
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fire yeah facts and all the young
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rappers should look up at little r Wayne
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as that guy because he is yeah yeah he
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opened that door yep he did he opened
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that door being fly being fresh with the
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lyrics all that boun [ __ ] he he opened
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that door yeah so yes all the Young
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Artists should look at up at him as
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their hero of that door opening yeah
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that's what I was saying and I was kind
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of and I was like man why would they
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want to [ __ ] my flowers up that I'm
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giving this man just because it's not
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saying I'm not just saying oh Wayne
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here's your flowers no I said it in a
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rap like new rapper day hero was Little
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Wayne and if you look at that clip I
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clap yeah yeah so y'all do the knowledge
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man the internet internet's always
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looking for beef they're always looking
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for something always it is it is it just
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is what it is it is what it is I've come
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to terms with it
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