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Jan 14, 2025
Emanny, an R&B artist, discusses his career journey and recent projects in an interview with AllHipHop. He reflects on his early introduction to the music industry, his collaborations with notable artists like Joe Budden and Jada Kiss, and the challenges he faced in maintaining personal development while pursuing his artistic ambitions. Emanny introduces his new EP, "Before Her," which features three songs symbolizing different stages of his upcoming project. He emphasizes the importance of balance in life and music, expressing gratitude for his renewed inspiration and creative drive. Emanny also touches on the evolving state of R&B, the impact of technology on the music industry, and his desire to mentor and support emerging artists. Despite the industry's challenges, he remains committed to his craft and optimistic about the future. Subscribe to AllHipHop on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/allhiphoptv?sub_confirmation=1 Check out more of AHH here on social media: https://allhiphop.com https://twitter.com/allhiphopcom https://facebook.com/allhiphopcom https://instagram.com/allhiphopcom Executive Producers: “Grouchy” Greg Watkins and Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur AllHipHop.com, a powerhouse in the Hip-Hop world, was established and brought to life in 1998 by the visionary CEOs "Grouchy" Greg Watkins and Chuck "Jigsaw" Creekmur. Over the years, AllHipHop has solidified its position as an invaluable hub for all things Hip-Hop on the web. With its daily dose of news, exclusive interviews, in-depth reviews, multimedia content, a newly-minted expanding community, and a treasure trove of other engaging material, it has garnered immense praise and a dedicated following. Renowned publications consistently turn to AllHipHop for their news and feature references, attesting to the site's unparalleled accuracy and trustworthiness. Additionally, AllHipHop has fostered strong partnerships with numerous offline print magazines, newspapers, television networks, and radio stations, further cementing its influence and reach in the world of #HipHop. #chuckcreekmur #allhiphoptv #allhiphop #grouchygreg
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what's up I'm Skiller baby I'm in here with all hip hop you hear me what's going on world it's dils at
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allhiphop.com I am with uh BET award nominated double XXL Freshman of the
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Year 2024 and Mr by three Richard Millies in a year if I'm not mistaken Skiller baby
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what's going on brother how you doing I'm good man um saying off camera I'll say it on camera congratulations to all
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you've done so far to date man jumping into this game and we're hitting the success that you have such far so far as
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it's commendable and I just want to say that on camera um first and foremost the double XL thing right he was nominated
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you not Nomine was on a double XXL cover and I believe you got the fan vote right if I'm not mistaken let's talk about
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that's that's like a different level like it's one thing when when you know press nominate you for something or you
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get an award based off of of writers but when fans are the ones who are like nah we want you on on the cover let's talk
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about let's start there how did that not want to say make you feel but let's attestment to your heart work I felt welcome like in the hip-hop world CU
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double XL is a big thing because everybody can do it and it's a lot of great artists and then they pick what 14
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or seven how me how many ever there is and um I just got a chance to submit
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myself in hip-hop if I don't do anything else right later in my career then I know I may made that and it just made me
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feel good was accomplishment yeah facts and then I saw you mention um before about being nominated bet wise which is
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also another one and when I was watching a previous interview I was like man I felt everything you said was like there's certain awards that I've never
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been nominated for a BET award so I wouldn't know but there's certain things that you remember like um like you said
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the Chris Brown thing to Tribute there and so when you got nominated for that BET award what was that like for you and
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and I guess where were you and how was the the initial reaction when you found out I was I was actually at home and it
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just felt like being a kid again um just watching everybody get um their Awards
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and um even with the Usher tribute and the Chris Brown Michael Jackson tribute
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it just it just felt like home because like as a a young black man like just
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bet was all I had at a point where I was just every day I was watching 106 apart
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before they changed it from um tiger and watching them them in the basement to
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watching bow and all them I just bet was just at a point in time everything I
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watched and I wanted to be a part of it so bad and now that I get a chance to be a part of it it's just unreal yeah man
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that's dope man and speaking of Hometown SL slit right into it man like Detroit
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Detroit born and raised right um and so growing up in Detroit obviously
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especially in our you know growing up it's it was Eminem it's a lot of prominent Detroit artists that came out
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since then but let's talk about like the Detroit upbringing and and I know s baby you know was a big part of in the
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beginning of your career and it seems like since then like Detroit has been like like moving as a unit right I think
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people talk a lot about Atlanta people talk a lot about La New York obviously Miami even but like to see what you
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Detroit has done over the last 10 15 years um talk about like growing up there and and from there until now um as
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you now that you're part of it now like you're part of carrying the flag for Detroit um Detroit is a real gritty
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place it's like um it's big but it's small um we all either want the rapper
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hoop or play football or sports or something like that um I want to say on camera that I really slept on Eminem m
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is the best artist the world has seen far as rap culture and um no Detroit bias or just in general not even Detroit
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bias I had to really because he's he's a little bit before my time like actually
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my the my um I think it was Renegade that was the name of it um my first my
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mom the first album I ever received I was yha was Renegade but I never really
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paid attention to how big Eminem is and what numbers he do like he sells out stadiums and now that I'm in the rap
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culture I see how big it is and how many records he sold so like just coming from
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that I appreciate being a part of Detroit culture from guys like Big Sean to even d loen t Grizz
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dou all type of guys like we we really on the RIS and like V me Ray PG there's
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a lot of guys and like cash dolls it just our culture is so us and um even
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though we spreading our wings and doing different things we still us like at the
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end of the day we still celebrate Detroit culture and like at a point in time Detroit only listen to Detroit so
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like I just want to give a big shout out to all the artists from Detroit because like we really work hard and um for a
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long period of time we was overlooked yeah no facts and again I think the the verse everybody honestly started in
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Detroit right because now it's like New York vers everybody ATL but I think like the the brand of Detroit from vers every
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versus everybody started in Detroit and Detroit is actually lit right now man the lions are doing great right even
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with stuff like mtown like a lot of the mtown artists was like some of the
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biggest artists in the world that we listen to this date like even Michael came through Detroit like was doing things in
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Detroit like Franklin um my favorite artist of all time Anita Baker like we
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have some real prominent artists in um Detroit is like um I don't think they
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Spotlight that type of stuff for us I think we get a lot of negative coverage because of um crime rates and stuff like
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that but it's all it overshadows how talented these people really are like we
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have some talented people even down at basketball jayen Rose Chris Weber people like that we got real deal talented
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people that come out of Detroit n you incl yourself included and and on top of Detroit like you know meech is home and
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he's also a Detroit Legend and so I think a lot of lot of Detroit is like
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it's going in the right direction from 24 into 20 2025 and you know just speaking on like your ear for music like
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you have a unique ear for me it's not like your typical rapper Who's in his in their mid 20s right you just said Anita
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Baker was your your favorite artist um and so where does that come from is it like I knew you grew up in the house in
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the beginning like you know your mom and your sisters is it is it from that or is it just you studying and doing your
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homework on music and realizing uh you know who's who like I said music was
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everything we had at a certain point and my dad was like born in 46 so my dad was an older guy so he probably like 78 this
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year if he was alive so I got that from him my mom um and like I said like in
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Detroit we all start with nothing so at a point in time we only had music like
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you know so and feel-good music was the best thing for us like now we're in a
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time where drill music is big and stuff like that but it was a point in time where we only had feel-good music and
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music was made off love so right and and speaking of your father and and you know sorry sorry for your loss there but I
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you've speaking about how you was raised with your mom and your sisters and then there was a time where your dad was like
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no you know he needs to come live with me because there's things uh that I can learn that you can learn from a man that you can't learn from a woman and and I
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appreciate someone speaking on that because I think this you know especially now seeing what Deion Sanders is doing with his sons and how he you know is
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raising his sons and and so just talk about like and you know feel you don't have to elaborate too much if you don't want to but I think that's something to
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talk about where it's like understanding like as man and having to be raised by a man versus you know having to be raised
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with a woman but still love your mom as much but just understanding that you needed that uh at the time did you
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appreciate that did you feel like you know cuz a dad could be hard on you at times versus sometimes what you know
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things that you could possibly get away with you know living with your mom um I really thought because when I first
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moved with my mom I mean when I first was like born I lived with my mom and my dad was like you know when your dad
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raised you from kind of a distance MH all you see is the love like and
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everything was out of love but like you don't really get disciplined much I didn't get I was I feared my dad but I
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didn't get discipline it was like when I seen him it was all love so when I moved with my dad like he he started to ins
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steal things like from cuz I moved when I was like eight so it was time for me
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to move with him he instilled things in me that I didn't really appreciate at
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the beginning but now I do because I still live by some of those values and um it was like a quote like he like he
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did things like I couldn't ask him what something mean he hand me a dictionary
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you know right so it wasn't like he wouldn't didn't want me to learn it he wanted me to learn it the right way like
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here or don't ask me here goes the dictionary you don't like he's teaching you how to be self-sufficient or like I
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read something in the book it was like he that will not work shall not eat and I thought it was fancy so I wrote it
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down and brought it home and from that day forward like my dad wouldn't let me eat without doing the dishes like he
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chores had like so he instilled values that I really didn't appreciate as a kid but then when you grow up you're like
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all right I I cook I wash the dishes make my bed when I wake up stuff like
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that and I get up early 7 8:00 in the morning it's just stuff I learned as a
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man just getting my day started early and stuff like that it puts me a head of the curve n and and those are all you
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know shouts to you cuz you know some of the things I'm hearing you I'm like d there things that my dad you know instilled to me as well and some things
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your mom will probably let you slide that your dad probably wouldn't um and I think that like I said when you first
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walked in one thing I said on off camera is like you articulate yourself very well I feel like you're you're self-aware of yourself like you know who
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you are um in the couple interviews that I've saw that you've done in the past and then one thing that I I admired
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about uh just from watching you and and having a conversation before was yourself awareness to like when you had
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a problem with the police last year I believe for your birthday and then versus this year and like instead of
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most rappers or anyone just would be like F the police you know they they hate and they did this I think to see
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you like you know what no let me figure out the why on why I'm being harassed or why this and and like talk about why you
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decide to go the route to like you know I'm going sit down with them I'm figure out how to make this work so you're able to move around in the city and do
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because you're doing great things in the city in Detroit and so uh you talk about how you flip the switch to be able to
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like go that route and not you know bash the police because if it was only um
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solely about me I probably would have went the route work because I I don't need anybody I can stay in the house
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make my money in but it's bigger than me I want to be able to reach the kids I want to be able to be in the community
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without being harassed I I do need the police um I'm not calling the police or
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anybody I'm not that type of guy but I do need my advents to be safe I need
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um that safety net there for the kids when I'm doing stuff for the community for people that who are who are
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civilians that don't have nothing to do with Street values and stuff like that I need them to be safe and I need them to
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feel comfortable when they around I need them to be able to be outside and be at these events and knowing that nothing's
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going to happen or um these events are going to be successful so we do need the
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police in some sorts um like I said I'm not a person that would call the police but we do need them to keep us safe they
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have a job and if as long as they do their job right I don't have no grudge
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against them or anything like that just keep us safe that's all I ask yeah and and on to aside from that right um when
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you sit down and you're working with the community a lot does that affect the way you go about making music cuz there's
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certain things that do you feel like I can't I don't want to say that cuz I don't want rule feathers or imply one thing does that hinder your creative
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ability at some at because of that relationship that not saying relationship but because you're mindful
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of of the things that you just mentioned at first yeah but um I try to um I try
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to live by a standard where I try to give people 100% authentic me um and
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maybe some things I rap about aren't um solely about me so maybe it's something
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seen or experience you can't take that away from a person so um it comes out I
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let it come out some stuff if it comes out too um like too much I won't put it
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out cuz we can go to the drawing board just going to the drawing board you don't have to put out everything that
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you make um but I don't try to let that hinder my creativity at all because um I
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got to give people authentic technically myself yeah no and and that's that's fire because it seems like now with like
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you know looking at Thug's case and then now with they're going through what he's going through and the lyrics certain lyrics are now being Amplified because
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they're going through that um I I do feel like they're trying to take the creative ability from the artist because
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of the fact that I mean God forbid so I'm happen now they're going to twist my words to try to use it against me um so
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so that that's part of it but then the other side speaking of Thug and Dirk like your circle like coming of Detroit
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right everybody can come with you right you also have to make tough decisions on who can go where and who's actually
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going to come along the journey so that it doesn't hinder your growth how how do you decipher that like who's coming with
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you who's not trying to keep yourself out the way so that you aren't looped into any issues or any things that even
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if you weren't a part of it just because of who you are you can get looped into um I try to stay to myself really um I
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try to keep business business um I really Beat the Streets so I I try
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to stay away from the streets as much as possible I'm not trying to um get loop
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back into what I used to be into and I'm not trying to promote that to the youth
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or promote that to anybody that I'm trying to I'm not trying to be a
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dangerous guy I'm not trying to be into that type of stuff I'm successful um I'm
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trying to motivate people to be successful if I say something about something I've seen or something I've
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done maybe in the past or anything like that yeah or maybe it sounded good on the record but I'm 100% trying to be a
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good guy I'm not trying to show somebody I'm tough I'm not trying to um prove I'm
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Street that's not nothing I'm trying to prove it's more if you know you know
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think so I'm trying to promote success and
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um um grit grind hustle I'm trying to promote that um the other side of life
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that people don't get to see cuz people from my neighborhood haven't left my neighborhood so it's like I'm trying to
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promote um positivity and stuff like that stuff that's going to keep the world good and clean and keep us moving
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forward I'm not trying to push us back 20 more years and have um motivate
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people to put their life on the line and um have to be away from their family I'm
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not promoting that I'm not trying to love that man and I think more artists need to to come out because to your
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point if you know you know right um I do want to switch it up um and talk sports right you have Donovan McNab is the
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first song on your new project right um I read something that you and S Gardner used to ball together yeah right um You
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have a cousin that just Bryce Underwood he's the um number one recruit in in the
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United States right now he's committed to Michigan they just gave him a lot of money he's big bag he's a great he's a
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great athlete but he's a even better scholar and a better person and that's that's why I would like to promote about
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Bryce Underwood he's he's a great person a great kid he doesn't get in trouble
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he's not out partying every weekend he's not doing anything like that he's focused he got his mind on football in
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school he gets great grades um he just everything want in an athlete and a
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scholar and as a in a kid like I want when I have kids I want my kid to be
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like that like he's the model student he's the model athlete he's everything
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you want to pattern yourself to be after like a role model sure I to him 17 and I
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look and I you know from the outside I follow Sports so like from the outside looking in I can tell he is a great K so
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to hear you just reaffirms what I already thought and to have him stay local right I know at first he committed
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to LSU and so what it what does it mean since we're talking about it what does it mean to for the city to see to be
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able to have him so close at an arburn he's homeown hero he he hasn't even toen
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a taken a snap and we went to the Michigan game when they just played
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Northwestern and everybody in the stadium wasn't even looking at the game they're looking at him Bryce Bryce Bry
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they so excited to have him he haven't even played a snap yet and it's crazy crazy like the um the hype behind them
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because it's like um it's like all right I'm trying to see what the hype about and the hype is everything like he's
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everything the hype is like I watched him do everything I watched him roll out
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to the left he's right-handed throw a 70 yard bomb like he's he's really that
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he's really that now you were now as far as as Sports sound like you're still knowledgeable talking about rolling out
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throwing being able to throw were you really were you into the sports like that like until you decided to like you know just rap is going to be the the
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thing would you have been continue in the sports if it wasn't rapping um I would have tried um what hindered me
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from Sports is I didn't want to work out so those guys were super athletic and
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things like that I just was talented and I was naturally good at sports I always
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been the best on my team but once you get to a certain level it's like plus life hit me and I I wanted to get some
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money and stuff like that and I started doing other things but once you get to a certain level it's like hard work beats
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Talent you know yeah like every time every single time you could be talented
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but you can go to the club and doing all this other stuff that's distracting you from your craft and there somebody in
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the gym 24 hours a day 23 hours a day 22 hours a day and he's working and he
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wants your spot and if you keep knocking at the same door you going to get it's
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going to open yeah so is just only one thing you got to be you
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got to like with that type of stuff they watching film they working out they um
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working on their craft and stuff like that so that's the I had all like the intangibles but I didn't have that like
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I didn't have the I didn't want to work out I just wanted to play so that's what
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really hindered me yeah and that would do it like you said you ain't working out like and you don't like working out
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like you said at certain point and I tell a lot of people like kids are good in Pop Warner and then they get to high school and they realize it's different
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beat because of that um CU it's somebody that just that just started playing
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football in the ninth grade and he he's in there and he want it so bad he's in the gym every day and you've been
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playing your whole life you just talented so you feel like that's going to get you by but he's going to he's going to surpass you just in do you ever
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get like survivors remorse a little bit coming from Detroit um understanding what's left behind and you're able to
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financially do things that a lot of people from that you grew up with or are in even in the city of Detroit um are
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are able to do does that ever make you like d because I already know you do a lot of stuff for the community you go
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back you do things to help clean up the streets with the guns or helping people go to prom or whatever that may be but
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do you feel when you go back like damn I'm one of the ones who made it and F away a little bit I always F away I feel
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bad um but I had to learn like when I first got a little success it was harder
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on me but I had to learn um like it's a sad reality that
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for certain people to be rich certain people have to have less for certain people to have more so um understanding
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that I come to grips with it I don't really agree with having more than a lot
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of people like I like I that's why I give back so much because I feel like
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I'm I don't want to um just take so much from my community and not give it back
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because they they pour they like they pour into me like whenever I'm
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home I'm welcome whenever I'm in the community um they show me love they make sure I'm okay um mentally spiritually
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and everything like even there like people less than with less than me they give me free stuff like and stuff like
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that like my community love me and I try to show my community that I love like I
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love it like I love Detroit I really that's me like you know yeah
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and it's crazy cuz you said that one of my questions that I had written down um was uh your made it moment and for me I
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know a lot of artists are big when people start name dropping them in songs and I Know Jack harlo and the loving me
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record dropped like I'm big in Detroit like I'm Skil a baby right what was that like for you when you I don't know if he
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sent it to you before he dropped it or if you just found out when we found out they sent me a Tik Tok that was like
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that was the first time found out about yeah like when he was um he was like promoting it on Tik Tok they sent it to
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me I was like that's crazy do you even have a relationship with Jack Carlo at all we talk all the time we was talking
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before that like before he got super big he was coming through Detroit he was um like s my big and then he was coming
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through Detroit and um he was on tour with somebody and we was kicking it and stuff I got his number and stuff but now
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like me and Jack harlo like I say all the time we don't talk about music for real M like we bounce ideas off each
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other but um we talk about life like when I text Jack harlo or he text me
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it's like I ain't heard from you in a while I'm just checking on you like it's that type of stuff like he's genuinely a
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good person he concerned about people's wellbeing and I like that more than just
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having a musical relationship with a person like you genuinely care if I'm okay like I posted something the other
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day he commented on the picture like that's what I like to hear and I was just talk about how my mental is better and stuff that's dope man that's and and
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as was that like was that another reminder for you like man damn I'm cuz sometimes you don't realize how big you
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are and I've seen a couple times you talk about how you just like being by yourself walking down the street and was that one of the moments where you
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realize like all damn like I am like not saying you didn't feel it or you didn't know but was that a reminder to yourself
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like all right I am way bigger than I'm you know what I mean than walk into like the gas station at 2 in the morning to
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get some chips you know what I mean by myself a little a lot of times I be I I
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be doing off the- wall stuff because I'm people be saying I'm a little too humble but like life let me know all the time
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like I be trying to do little normal stuff and people just start chasing me
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and following me and stuff and Sh I be forgetting because you look in the mirror you be like it's kind of like um
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I forgot what they said it was called but it was um um damn what's that word that called
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it's called something I forgot but it's just like when you don't realize how big you are and it's just um I have those
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moments hard the time for yeah n for sure and especially with the ladies right and and like you know you do a lot
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of your music I know a lot of your songs is up and down my timeline with all different type of chicks you know I mean
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because of the empowerment behind it um and you Dro this this this project not too long ago right let's get into that
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uh do you feel pressure like damn I got to get a ladies I got to get a ladies one I got to get a streets one I got to
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get it you or when you go into these your creative Pro process when you're making a new album is it just what comes
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to you are you thinking about like I gotta get a ladies one I Gotta Give streets one you know I got to get
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Detroit one like I um I was feeling pressured at a
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point um and it was kind of like my downfall because I was feeling pressured to just um make another one make another
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one that everybody would like it make another one so it was kind of like my fault and I was I was trying to impress
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everybody also I want to say out loud I apologize to the ladies out loud for what I said on The Breakfast Club um I
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really I really was feeling pressure to um what was said on The Breakfast Club I kind of said like I kind of said like
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all right I didn't want to um keep making girl songs child um a couple people talked to
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me about it and it was like um I felt like I was in a box and it was
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like but that's your box you know right and you got to um live live for that box
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like that's what makes you you and I was only feeling like that because like I'm
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from the streets so people always come up to me like Street guys and stuff like that like I'm getting soft and stuff
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like that so it was like I was feeling pressured to um like make Street bangers
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and stuff again but um I just want to apologize out loud to the women that
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felt disrespected cuz I want my apology to be allowed it's my disrespect and I
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felt like I disrespected them because they was um they just so supportive of me and like all my shows be
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predominantly women and stuff like that so I just want to apologize to them but
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um I feel less pressure now because I'm not chasing a hit I was chasing hit but
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now I'm not chasing a hit I'm just doing what I love um and I was like I kind of
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make that um comment on The Breakfast Club like yeah the ladies music sell but
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I kind of worded it wrong and I it wasn't like I'm just doing it because it Sal it just like I'm a people person I
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try I try to please people so I try to do what my fans want right you know and
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that's why how I should have worded it because I try to put out what my fans want to hear not necessarily what I want
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to hear but what my fans want to hear right because like um I don't really
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have Classy Nails french tips so I can't really listen to Bae and just relate to
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everything I'm saying but a woman can so that's what I was really trying to say like I can't really relate to all the um
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empowerment music for the women cuz I'm not a woman so that's what I really wanted to say but it was kind of early
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was 6:00 a.m. in the morning that's how they get 6 fresh out I say I apologize to the
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women um whether they hear it or not I just want the apology Lou as n it's straight and like I said bro self-aware
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of that a lot of artists aren't as self-aware so I commend you for that and the albums I I mean I enjoyed it um I
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just I know there's some heavy heavy hitter features on there when you're selecting who you're going to get put on
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your album right um is it relationship based is it like no I like what he's
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doing or he or she's doing is it uh you know like what goes into that because I
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know a lot of it when you're putting together songs I'm pretty You Know You released x amount of songs or album but
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there's still tons of music you probably got in the vot so how do you select on which artist you're going to choose when
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you're not going to work with it's relationship based for me um and plus
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sonically it be that too like I want to sound good sonically and I want the
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album to match up and the energy to match up so um a lot of my things I do
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is relationship based because I don't really want to do anything with a person
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that I I might not even know you but I just your energy and my energy might not align and that's cool because like just
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because we not um good for each other don't mean we have to be beefed out or anything it just maybe you're just not
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my type of person and I rather not work with those type of people we could just stay in our own Lanes yeah N I like that
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man and so before we uh get into like what you have next and and and what's coming in the new year I wanted to ask
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you like a couple rapid fire questions if that's cool M all right so the first question I have for you
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is how like as a female right what does a female have to do to get a gift from
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skiler baby for Christmas like what's like what are some things that they have throughout the year to get on your ni list for for for the holidays nothing I
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just got to love you gotta love if I have love for you I can I'm okay Detroit Pistons or Detroit Tigers who goingon to
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win a championship first who might win first next couple years Terk scoble he
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just got the um sa Young Award so um our picture is really good um I feel like if
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we get a couple um if we get a get somebody like Aon judge or somebody like
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that yeah or we probably we probably get a a Tigers championship before the
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Pistons but the Pistons are the Pistons might make a run if we just get um I
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think we just got a young Lo room and we just missing a big K is playing really
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well um um I think he's leading the team really well we got some nice young guys
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pieces that's playing with him I think um Tobias young I mean Tobi Harris he's
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he's he plays really well and stuff like that he's a veteran but I feel like once we get a big and uh uh somebody playing
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on a real Superstar level we get a championship in piness again and before I go to my next question how cuz I know
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in New York right when the Yankees are good the Knicks are good the city different the city moving different when
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everybody's cooking on City soon like I said the lions are doing their thing now but what is the city like when the
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Pistons are good because I remember you know you're old enough to remember when the Pistons won the championship right
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at that parade I was on my daddy neck in' 04 I was at the parade and Ben
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Wallace he was had his shirt off or something and we rasid was on there we
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wild te tripping they had the float coming down Detroit was in a different place but that's how we getting back to
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the lions like it's days where it's a 100,000 people downtown trying to celebrate the Lions so like so you guys
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feel it when the city city different when the C different when the sports teams went I remember when the Tigers
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and the Red Wings was going forgot about the Red Wings when they was on fire what the Tigers and the
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Red Wings was on fire at the same time at the same time right and The Season's overlap in a way so I know it was
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jumping it was going dope and so and [ __ ] speaking of you know Sports Juan Soo just signed a big
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deal he about he got 800 mil like do you have some points you feel like damn I should have should have suck with the
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sports thing or you go with me and Juan was just talking about how so many people so many black kids
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and urban kids are not um playing baseball and that's we just me and we
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just had that conversation before you came behind it just had that com basketball and football
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they're nationally known y like more famous in the urban communities but
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these baseball guys are World known people and they getting contracts like
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that like that's almost a billion dollars for 10 years of your life that's like
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almost 80 millions and on top of the endorsements on top of everything you we
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just were talking about that before you walked in was just like as a as a you know I grew up in City you get guided
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you there's only two Sports basketball or football right then track is to help you get better at football or basketball
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and we're not introduced to the Soccers of the world to The Baseballs where those guys are making ronaldos and the
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Messi they making big money they tried to get him to play for Dubai for 10 years they was about to give him over a billion dollars it was crazy yeah so
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like and he's black and he's black right and so I think kids not looking up to those type
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of sports because it's not the hype around did like you know mhm we not celebrating them like we celebrating the
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um football and basketball players and I don't think it's nothing wrong with it I'm just saying that it's not celebrated
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like we should celebrate it you know like
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baseball they contracts crazy contracts is crazy and I was just telling to him like man 800 you said his kids kids kids
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like forever you did your part and and it's all guaranteed so not saying ju whatever
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he could get injured he can get injured he can say I'm going be mediocre for the rest of my lifeti he going to get his
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back so shouts to him um my last question do you have a New Year's
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resolution uh as we approach the end of 2020 resolution um was just to um be
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consistent in the gym still and um I got I have all gym goals I'm trying to be
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200 pounds New Year's I'm trying to be healthy um get get my body right and
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that's that was my New Year resolution this year dope dope and and lastly uh what's coming up like I said I know you
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just dropped the project congrats on that you can talk about where people can find that I think it's on all platforms
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all platforms I rock with apple music so I've been rocking listening to it there um but outside of that what would you
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have I know you just come off tour um anything else coming up in
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2425 well 25 well I just dropped cm3 to in 24 go get that at all platforms new
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videos dropping for that song 25 I'mma drop my um my album for a label um it's
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going to be big I'm make sure sonically is right the features are right um the right press behind it I just audition
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for um a huge TV show hopefully I get it um I've been doing acting classes um 50
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cents been helping me a lot he put me U with a agency i a they've been pushing me forward they've
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been um on my side give me the right looks um they had me um tur in self tape
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for um Voltron that was a big movie and I'm not getting all these roles but like
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it's just the opportunities are opportunities of a lifetime I'm trying to push myself my acting going like that
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and um just want to be multifaceted 2025 I think it's going to be a big year for me I think I make a lot of money I think
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I'm I want to make this my year where I I make my hall of fame run like I want
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to be an icon by the end of 2025 I love that man I love hearing that but I I do want to touch on something real quick
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you mentioned 50 c before we go and 50 sounds like a lot he has a his handing a lot of stuff behind the scenes but one
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thing I truly admire about him is like there's a lot of that where people are like yeah 50 help me with this or 50
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help me with that and he's not the type to brag and boast about what he does for people so can you kind of shine a light
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on number one how' you get connected with 50 I don't know if it's because of the BMF thing or and that being in Detroit or was it just like I got
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connected with 51st um by my guy um from New York his name TV
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um TV a good guy um he just like to connect the dots shout out to TVV I mess
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with v a lot that's my guy um secondly one of my manager rocket he's with he um
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he's a BMF guy and he's um he works with 50 Cent heavily and um we just connected
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to dots in 50 Cent just to shine a light on him he helps me with a lot um just
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advice any advice I had I need um if I just need somebody to talk to he's a
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great mentor um he's pushing you to do he's um trying to push you in the right
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direction all the time I text him the other day I said um do you have any
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advice for me I'm feeling kind of stagnant cuz you just let let me know what to do um the next week he had an
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opportunity for me and he just blessed me with another opportunity um and 50 Cent just a great guy and I just want to
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shine some light on 50 Cent because I feel like yeah he gets recognized a lot
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for um things that he do for himself but he don't get recognized for the things
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that he do for others like I see him do a lot I see him um help people with
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their legal trouble I see him he do a lot of stuff for people um he just a
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great guy man that's what I like that's what I like about him dope man skillababy dils allhiphop.com go check
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out the music on the platforms we got more coming we got mogul talk coming in 2025 hopefully when you drop that
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project in 25 we Circle back and come kick it with us man definitely will appreciate you man appreciate you my guy
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