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The White MC That Rapped for Bun B, Kool G Rap & DMC and Shocked Everyone: Meet Lil Dee
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Mar 18, 2025
This 20-year-old MC from Coney Island stunned legends like DMC and Bun B with a freestyle that stopped everything He got songs with legends like Kool G Rap and got put on by NEMS. Known as Lil Dee, Danny James breaks down his journey from viral moments to real-life co-signs from Hip-Hop royalty. In this exclusive AllHipHop interview with @ChuckCreekmur , he talks about his father's influence, writing all his own lyrics, battling depression, and staying independent while carrying the torch for real Hip-Hop. If you're looking for the future of lyricism—this is it. 👉 Hit play and meet one of new new voices of the culture. 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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[Music] yo what's good it's l d AKA Danny James and you rocking with all hip hop we here
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let's go Coney Island what's going on world it's your man truck Creek Mary K jigaw all hip hops here at one world
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Studios and we here with a rising star in hip-hop Lil D Coney Islands on what's
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up what's good man good to be here my guy yeah yeah definitely glad we locked this in man definitely sure now I got to
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say man I met you um for the first time few months ago you were rapping you you
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impressed a lot of people uh we were there with Bun B DMC and a whole bunch
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of other people are around we're filming this rap video and all of a sudden you bust out with a freestyle um and kind of
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stopped everything uh first of all like let's give a little where well first of all let's talk about that moment you
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know that moment and did that mean anything to you in particular always I mean you know I I'm I've managed to make
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a lot of connections in this game but for anybody that I don't know that doesn't know about me like if I have an
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opportunity to spit some bars for them I'mma always do it because that's that's hip-hop you know so you know I know DMC
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a long time we were just talking before that dmc's been a support of mine for a long time since I was like 10 years old
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and then you know DJ Trace was there and we had our connection for a little bit me and term know each other for a long
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time but I never met bun bun never knew about me obviously you know if you if
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you rock with all different types of hipop you rock with UGK heavy and and bum B so when I got that moment right
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there where DMC introduced me right I was like you know what I'mma just take this moment to spit my bars and always
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it always means a lot to like spit bars for a hip-hop Legend and have them rock
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with it so heavy you know and as I've grown and as I perfected my craft that happens more and more so it's just it's
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it's a more frequent thing I'd say now than it was when I first started but it always means the same to me like it it's
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it's a dope moment always a dope moment and I was like man I wish I was in the shot like I'm like right out of the
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frame I was like damn but no it was dope it was dope whole day was though like we're all in that video so that should
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be coming out real soon I'm hyped to see the video so many people in that video like if you really know what's good with
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hip-hop and just the culture in general you're going to see all kinds of different people in that video that's just like mhm look who's over there look
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who's yeah for sure that was definitely a day for the culture now for you um let's talk let's let's step back just a
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little bit um and let's talk I want to start with your father right because it seems like your dad really put you on in
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mu in music form and Hip-Hop form can you talk about that a little bit yeah of course I mean look I was very blessed to
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have a great relationship with my dad when I was young you know what I mean like I had a lot of issues I was colic
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you know I had uh all kinds of stuff man the doctor told me that my ADHD was the worst you saw in 40 years of experience
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had a hard time relating to the other kids in my grade but me and my dad was always like this and he had a moment
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where he could have been that like Stern father that gave me tough love or he could have become my best friend he
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chose to be my best friend so we were best friends you know we would hang out every single day drive in a car and when
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we were driving in a car since I'm a little baby he would always play all different types of music but hip-hop
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especially you know Run DMC Beasty Boys LL Cool J big Nas Big L Big Pun all the
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legendary East Coast hip-hop that was coming up that he was cuz he was a fan he used to do graffiti on the trains he
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used to break dance a little bit um you know he was rocking with hip-hop since like cold crush and spoony G and Jimmy
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[ __ ] and like all that so he put me on from the very beginning and you know
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obviously if you love something so much you're going to want to be a part of it and that's what it was for me so you
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know he definitely had a big influence on on me as far as putting me on to the music and one day I was just in my room
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I'm like I'm just going to pen this rap showed it to me he was like yo write another one and it went from like a cool little activity and a hobby to be in
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something where like oh this is something that I could do for the rest of my life like the way that it's going
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so I took that to Instagram and YouTube got reposted by like Michael rport Lord
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finesse Vinnie pass you know and that from there it was just out of here like that's when everything changed but I
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really do owe it all to my dad for showing me all the real hip-hop and
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putting me on you know yeah dope uh what was your like first rap do you remember
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it oh yeah yeah what the first one I wrote uh Air Jordan's every day I'll be wearing high tops punch you in the eye
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people call you Cyclops riding on my segue Paul BL mop like Austin Powers going kind of crazy when I see the
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ladies I say yeah baby all the girls like me I say maybe and like a wild dog you know I'm spitting rabies I'm in your
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house Jason vor's coming to kill you you know the stories always a winner just like Joe Tori call me a dad don't
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believe me ask Mory that was the first rap I remember all my raps man it's you were like 10 years old I
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was it had to be 10 yeah yeah now Nims was in here and he talked a little bit
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about you and uh one thing he said was you know I thought maybe his dad was
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writing his WS cuz it's no way is this kid rapping like this but that wasn't
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the case actually the funny story is me and NS did a song a time ago and like the computer that we recorded it on got
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like all messed up song got lost unfortunately so we never dropped it but that day I remember like he kind of had
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me write the verse there in the studio just to see and I didn't even realize he
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was doing it I was just writing my verse like always and he takes the video after and he's like yo he writes all his own
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and I realized right there I was like oh I didn't even realize he was testing me early on a lot of people used to do that
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to me but you know I I I uh I always showed everybody I've I'm the type of
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person where I'll never let anybody write anything for me like that's the that's the cloth that I'm cut from I
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feel like with singing you could be a dell and not write your own lyrics but your voice is your talent so it doesn't
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really matter that you're not writing your lyrics cuz people are tuned in with you for your voice like nobody's going
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to say Michael Jackson's not as good of an artist cuz he wasn't writing all the songs because Michael Jackson was a
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dancer or singer but with rappers I mean I guess today it's a little different from what it's what it came from but for
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me a real rapper and a real like real hip-hop you got to write because that's
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your talent yeah you're not singing some of them do sing but you're not singing you're spitting bars and you rapping so
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the word should be your own because that's what people are listen to you for at least that's what I'm listening you for and we also look at rap for being
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real and being an authentic representation of who you are as a person as an artist not just loveby duby
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songs or whatever I mean that's kind of what we look to most rappers for so um
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now talk about your uh your you know your sort of well back to Nims real quick though he uh he kind of put you on
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Front Street too cuz he posted like you said but I think it was more of a sort of like one of those freestyles like in
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a park or something yeah so uh yeah man it it the the history runs deep I went
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to before the fyl store when nems was just moving his merch by himself um he
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was selling that Golden State Warriors hat where instead of like the the Golden Gate Bridge it was the Wonder Wheel and the Cyclone okay I was like that's dope
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so we went to go and uh buy a hat and I was like a little 10-year-old kid yo NS I got bars for you and whatever he's
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like all right whatever kid you know go ahead I I spit the rap and he shut down the whole street he had people get out
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of their cars he was telling people come out the barber shop he was just like yo everybody's got to listen to this kid
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fast for a little bit of time he was doing his thing at the con Island handball courts um he brought me out at
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that brought me out of my first show so very early on he was the first person in
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rap music to begin with that ever show love it was a Coney Island connect and it was just I had grown up on his music
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being that he was to me at least the rap the rapper for from Coney Island always
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so to have the cosign from him early on it definitely gave me a level of confidence that I don't know if I would
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have ever had to started and keep pushing through all the [ __ ] and the you know the the roadblocks and
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everything so now now you've been rapping on this high level for for for 10 years basically 10 years um have you
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been trying to get a deal have you like what's been your goals like in that in
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that 10 years has it been to you know get us get signed or or were
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you just like yeah you know I'm just rap or at first I mean obviously you don't
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know what the industry is like so at first it was just I want to rap as good as I possibly can I want to perfect my
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craft to being the best that it possibly can and that's what I ended up doing but once you're in it you realize that it's
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so much more than that like the music business is so different than being
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talented like Talent especially in this day and age is only going to get you so far like you need the connections you
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need to have that roll ofex you need to have those cosign you need to be outside and you know people say luck doesn't
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exist but you also have to have a little bit of luck you know for the right things to come your way and for me that's just staying close to God and and
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continuing to grind as hard as I can but I mean look obviously my goals are just
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my goals were are and always will be eventually to just bring that real
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hip-hop [ __ ] back to the mainstream that's my goal and no matter if a label is a part of that then that's great I
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mean you see how many times that these artists get screwed over by their labels because they didn't look through the
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right deal I've been offered plenty of deals in my life but it's just about waiting for the right one I believe in
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my craft and I believe in the music that I'm making so much that I'm going to
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wait until I get the right deal that comes in where it's not people trying to use me me to make money off me but
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people trying to work with me to get me to a level that will allow me to do that
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I mean every single I've never had a label I never had a manager I never had a publicist all every single thing I've
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done since I started this [ __ ] was all me like nothing when I was a little kid
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my dad obviously used to help me out cuz you can't be like an 11 12 year old kid dming grown people back like so he would
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help me out but around 15 16 I took the range on everything as far as the business side goes and I just been
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handling my ever since and if I I'm saying to myself if I could perform on
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stages like Lyricist Lounge and you know sobs and Radio City and uh the LA
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Coliseum at rhymefest and I could do stuff with the New York Knicks and get on joints with cool G Rap and have
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co-signs from Big Daddy Kane and red men and all these legends that I'm saying to myself if I can do that by myself I'mma
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wait till the right people can come in to connect the dots to take me to that next level and honestly like that's my
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whole thing like I I honestly feel like if I get the right people on board and
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I'm just waiting for those people to come then that's when it's all going to go up but until them I'm on the grind
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247 and I'm always going to be that's always how I've been I feel like you're uh always ready it seems like you're
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literally always ready to just perform or or show up you know at at uh
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something but you're starting to perfect your Technique your writing your songs
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and things like that so you dropped an EP tell tell the people about the EP that you just dropped and what that
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represents to you so uh I just dropped an EP called Where Do We Go From Here produced by my guy Matt Ekko basically
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uh it's my fourth EP I've dropped I wanted to get it out at the beginning of the year to be honest it's all different
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songs to kind of just once again showcase my versatility I have a song on there you know rapping over a drill beat
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spitting that lyrical rap on it I have a song on there that's I'm doing melodic rap but talking about real stuff and I'm
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just kind of showing people before I really tap into this next part of my career make no mistake don't put me in a
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box because no matter what type of hip-hop it is I could fit into that
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category and do it so that's what that is if if you like any different type of hip-hop whether you like old school pop
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or you like The Trap songs or you like melodic rap or drill rap like there's a song on that project for everybody so
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before I tap into this next kind of gear that I'm about to get into and start making music that I feel people can
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relate to that tells a real story that can relate and touch on real topics Over
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beats that I feel like are going to make people feel real emotion I just wanted to get this project out and let people
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know listen this is what I have in store this is what I have to offer you can't put me in a box that's what this project
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is what were um from from Hip Hop A hip-hop point of view you know we talked about
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you like a lot of different types but from hip-hop point of view what who got you into that lyrical that like really
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focused lyrically looking back on it like I I would have to say Big L and
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jcole and Big Pun were like the probably the big three for me as far as inspiring the way I rap I mean when I go into like
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my favorite rappers obviously like big is one of my favorite rappers M these are my favorite rappers but I
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don't know if they necessarily inspired the way I rap they just inspired my love for the game right but Big L the way he
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put together punchlines where he was trying to say something dope on every single different bar and Big Pun where
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he was rhyming the craziest in the wildest way where he could put together words and syllables to make a great flow
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and then jcole where he was kind of bringing that all and I I'll give the credit to NAS too who was big for me J.Cole and Nas was putting both of those
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skills together to make really dope and amazing storytelling songs that people
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were relating to so I learned a different thing from the four of them
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and then when I started to perfect my flow I got a little more into studying like Biggie and uh you know that kind of
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put me where I am today those are the artists that really bridge the gap and when I started
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you know obviously like there's a a different different type of hip-hop out now when I was rapping on trap beats and
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whatever I was kind of looking to I give the credit to like Jay Co and join Lucas is another one where he does that real
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lyrical hip-hop over those types of Beats and he kind of taught me how to flow on those beats so those would have
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to be The Inspirations that inspir me how to like rap right gota so um you're
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you're still a young guy but uh would you say you've lived enough to to to to
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to tell people you know or to inspire people or and who are you trying to
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inspire definitely I mean I feel like I felt that way when I was 15 I
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mean I've only lived 20 years of life but I've been through so much in these 20 years that I think I've experienced a
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lot that many people could relate to I've been through you know somebody that you love that's very close to you
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passing away I've been through uh people that where you're closest people turning their backs on you I've been through
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family issues of all different kinds and uh so much deeper than that you know even
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depression anxiety Suicidal Thoughts I've dealt with all of it from one Spectrum to the other I've really dealt
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with so much in these 20 years that in this moment now I I really do feel like I can in inspire people and that's what
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this music I'm making is looking to do but my music that I'm about to drop is
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really and it's kind of like a broad category of people but if you've
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ever been in a position where you've been trying to follow a dream no
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matter if it was your friends or the teachers or your boss or your family or
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your peers and co-workers whatever and people were trying to block you from
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doing that and doubt you and not believe in you and that brought on a level of depression and you dealt with that
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trying to move through it my music is for those people to say listen I'm 20 years old I basically had almost every
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everything in the world stacked up against me to not do this and I've done it and I've pushed through and if I
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could do it everybody could do it whether that's trying to pursue a dream in music or you're trying to just get a
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raise at your job or you trying to make ends me for your family and you trying to be in a comfortable position in life
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like my music is about to be motivation music my music is about to be let's tap
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into our emotions let's see you know what's making us feel this way and now
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let's overcome that to take it to the next level and make our lives what exactly what we wanted it to always be
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you know let's fulfill our dreams I've had so many people in my life doubt my dreams more people you know friends and
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people that weren't friends and the crazy thing about it is like I'd prefer people that weren't my friends doubt my
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[ __ ] because it takes longer to realize when somebody that's in your circle
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actually isn't in your circle like that but I've been through it all man and for me it's been fuel so if I could make my
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music and turn that into fuel for people to do exactly what I do and what I did and what I'm going to continue to do and
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that's all I want that's what my music is for okay now you talked earlier about bringing hip-hop back bringing that real
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rap back um how you gonna do that that's it's it's crazy it's a crazy it's
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a crazy thing to say because listen it's not dead people say it's dead but there's people out here like nems was
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just in here nems is doing his real hip-hop you know you got guys out here like Benny The Butcher and that that
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whole Camp doing their thing you got OT real out here making moves you got there's so many people I could list
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that's really out here doing their thing but I want to take it to another level there's people that are my age that see
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me and they're like yo you're this age doing that maybe I'll listen to you a little more because you're from the same
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era as me you know so that's that's a big thing I'm all about Bridging the Gap yeah you know when you a kid you don't
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want to listen to nobody that's that's older than you tell you what you should be down with like that's just that's
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just but if you feel like it's coming to you from that grew up the same way as you
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from the same generation as you I can't tell you how many people have come up to me friends and fans and people in
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general that were in my age group and even younger and even a little bit older telling me like yo you really put me on
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to to real hip-hop like I didn't even you know I knew about like Biggie and Tupac and 50 Cent right and and you put
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me on to Nas and Big L and Big Pun so that's my goal the way to do it I used
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to think it was going to be like getting the whole you know look as a kid you dream big you know I used to think it
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was going to be getting like the whole previous generation of of hip-hop to to
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to Rally behind me and be like yo this is the guy but man you know there's there's a lot of you know people people
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got ego man you know yeah there's a lot of politics politics it's a lot of politics you know you're going to deal with that no matter what anybody who
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does their thing and is grinding like it's scary for people a lot of the time because you see someone whose
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entire life is revolving around I mean I guess they may be see it as getting their spot or surpassing where they were
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or what they are or whatever but for me it was always just it was never about competition against anybody I've never
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felt like I was in a competition with anybody I always just felt like I was trying to make the best product that I
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possibly could yeah so I used to think that that was going to be and there's a lot of people that that really do Val
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behind me and rock with me and then there's people that don't uh at least to the extent that I I would have thought
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but now I feel like with social media and and with the access to so many
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different people where it wasn't that before my time right I'm going to be able to just reach everybody through the
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social media man and that's my that's the way I do it that's my vessel that I use man so so do you have any uh any
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like stands or fans or you know you know you know social media gives people immediate access like I have I have
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basically a stalker and I'm like oh God this person is trying to call me and
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video call me yeah I got it man Valentine's Day was scary really oh my God yeah it was bad bro that's funny I
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got some bad messages yeah yeah that's that's crazy you know how it is bro yeah yeah uh definitely and some of them I
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love them so much you know and some of listen I'm going to love anybody who supports me but you know it's gets a
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little over the top sometimes but yeah I have I have people who really rock with me so much and I'm in a position right
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now where I'm not like I keep myself as humble as possible you know I know that
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when I was in a the previous position where I was really trying to make things happen to get where I am now I wish that
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a rapper like at the level that I'm at right now would kind of just like even speak to me or give me advice if anybody
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ever hits me about advice in my DM like I check my DMs every day I respond to comments whenever I can I interact with
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my fans on a daily basis multiple times a day because I'm not in a position where I'm flooded with like like Drake
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or somebody that's that's getting all these different messages you know so until I can't I'm always going to and I
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think that's why my fans rock with me even more because they realize that I really am doing it to bring back the
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genre that they love so much and I'm I'm not only doing it to bring back that genre but I'm also doing it in a very
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like appreciative way like I've been to you know you can go to a concert and if
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somebody's saying thank you to their fans it's going to make you feel a lot better than somebody going on stage like
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I'm the greatest ever you know and listen there's moments for that of course but to to see that gratitude from
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somebody that you've supported it makes you feel good about supporting them and it makes you want to support them even more so that's always what I do with my
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fans and you know fans know I love them if I if you know people come up to me in the street more and more no matter where
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I'm at like not even just in New York like I'll be in Florida I was in Rhode Island like even in the Bahamas one time
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I was I was getting off a jet ski and my dad was wearing a little D hat some guy goes nice little D hat he's like bro
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look next to me and the guy was tripping he couldn't believe it so but yeah if whenever I see my fans I have like 20
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minute conversations with them man I'm I'm I'm like that okay I love them all so I'm going ask you a question we ask
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almost everybody that come to Hip Hop give us your top five dead or alive man it changes every
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day uh top five like greatest or top five favorite because it's different um
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let's do top five greatest okay top five greatest throw Big L in there Big L is
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my favorite ever everybody if you know me you know that that's that's my that's my number one I'mma throw Big L in
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there I'mma throw biggie I'mma put pun in there I'mma put
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Nas damn I guess I'mma throw mem and M in there I got to give it to m i mean M
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is uh his storytelling ability is crazy yes and the way he puts words together
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yeah you know just from a rhyming standpoint like he Rhymes things in a way that you couldn't
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even like fathom sometimes you know so I'mma throw it and you know honorable mention to to Black Thought yeah Black
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Thought gets in there a lot of the time like yeah uh you know he it's it's all interchangeable as whatever I'm
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listening to that week but those are the six that I really be rocking with on a
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on a regular basis that doesn't really change who's your dream collaboration
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damn um Primo man if I could do like a a
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project with Primo wow getting like all those all those real hip-hop joints wow
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yeah I think that that would be a crazy but I mean that's that's as producers like I would probably say just blaze too
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would be another one okay uh you know he's been another yeah Giant and then as far as like a artist goes like collabing
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with an artist I mean obviously like I would say Nas you know
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like always wanted to do a song with Kanye like my whole life man okay yeah
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okay yeah as as far as like the rap like art goes like making real mus with the rap music
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like that was a big thing for me uh Cole J Cole Joey Badass would be great H that
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might beable brookly yeah I think so um definitely eventually I still I've never
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I met Joey one time he was in a studio right next to the studio I was in um
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just cooking up some stuff and he came over cuz he heard what was going on in in the studio with me so he like came in
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and he listened to the whole song and he showed M love so okay that was a dope connect to make I still it's it's
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probably like you know how you were saying you know there there's definitely people you always want to meet in this thing like Nas would probably be that
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one for me I feel like out of all my favorite rappers he's the one that's living that's yeah that's still you know
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those albums with hit booy yeah were the essence man so I'm saying to myself like
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if I could meet Nas even on some fans like yo like you
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thank you for inspiring me yeah and and everything that I do you know so that's
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that would be n would probably be in top one though for for your you know you obviously you're you're kind of starting
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out now you know you've been doing it but this feels like this is the beginning beginning of your professional
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career but uh would you say well what would you say your ultimate goal is in
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in this culture uh aside from bringing you know hip-hop back or real hip-hop whatever you call it back is there is
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there anything else man Legacy y bro everybody listen
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I'm sure everybody says this or maybe they don't I don't know but I want to be the best man that's my thing like I want to be the best I want to end this thing
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like when I'm on my last legs and I'm on the way out I want people to mention my
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name up there with the greats like I want people to say whether it was on a storytelling standpoint or whether it
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was just the bars or the flow I want in one way or another I want somebody to be like yo man D was one of the Great is to
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do it like that's that's that's my that's my honest goal and I work every
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day towards that like I've been saying and it sound kind of crazy but like you know I only know my own experience I
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only know what it feels like to live life through my body to see through my eyes to hear through my ears to feel
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through my hands and it's like I don't know what it's like to be anybody else I know what it's like to be me and when I
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think about that I say to myself you know God must have made me me for a
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reason yeah and if I'm me and I'm seeing through my eyes I I like it's hard to kind of Express in the words but if I'm
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seeing through my eyes and I'm feeling through my body and I'm living life as me there's a reason for that and maybe
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the reason for that is for me to change the world maybe the reason for that is to be the greatest that I possibly can
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be why wake up and waste my life when I was given this gift and I was given the gift of life and the gift of rapping if
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I have those two things you only get luck enough to get one of them the chances of being born man it's
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ridiculously impossible so if I can have that and then on top of that I was blessed with this amazing gift yeah why
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am I going to waste my time not doing it I'm going to make a run for it and try and be the greatest ever yeah and that's
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that's that's what I'm going for that's my goal and you know that comes with inspiring people to move past the
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roadblox and and follow their dreams and that comes with the trying to bring real hip-hop back but Al together like that's my goal at the
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end of the at the end of the line I want to look back and even if I don't say like I went down as one of the greatest
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you know I made a I made a run for it man okay you know all right um You Like
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Big Pun Big L biggie but your name is l d yeah I'm
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changing it man all yo yeah definitely I was look I was 12 I was rapping in the
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ciphers I was little kid so Little D like my dad's name is D my dad's name is
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Darren my name is Danny I'm Italian so in Italian family like if you have two people with the same name or two people
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with the same first letter it'll be like big and little like so it was Big D and Little D like no weird you know what I
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mean but uh so when I was like that was just the first name that came to mind and the first time I was very young so
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the first time I ever heard like a joke about my name I had already had like 25,000 followers under this name so I'm
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like you know what I'm going just keep rocking with it but I'mma change my name probably within the year I would
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have to say to Danny James okay cuz I feel like it fits better and anyone who even like listens to my music I say
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Danny James like all my songs I have a project called they call me Danny James on all my social medias it always says
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like Danny James AKA Lil D so everybody's going to know once I make the change it's not going to be so crazy
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but okay yeah bro you can only be l d for so long uh by the way I have to say Nim
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said uh suggested mediumsized D he he was saying average Siz D all time yeah
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yeah every time I see him man yeah he's he's hilarious he's hilarious anyway thank you man appreciate you it was uh
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you know you know after after uh seeing you rap man I was like yeah we got to get this guy at at the studio for sure
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definitely bro I'm glad to be here you know and if anybody uh if anybody's not familiar with me like obviously if you
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rocking with all hip hop then you like real hip hop and if you like real hip hop you're going to rock with me so just
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check me out l d on all streaming platforms l i lde e and uh yeah man you
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know Instagram Tik Tok YouTube Spotify Apple wherever you listening music check me out you know I got a lot coming I got
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a lot already out there you know let's bring this back all right let's do it
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