Shadowing Practice: Kai Cenat’s New Stream Is Honestly Just Depressing - Learn English Speaking with Video
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A year ago, Kai Sanat became the first streamer to reach a million subscribers on Twitch.
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I'm glad I've got family around me.
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I'm glad I've got my friends around me.
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I'm glad I have y 'all.
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A year later, almost to the day, one of those friends left.
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I put everybody before me for so long.
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And for the first time in my life, I'm about to put myself first.
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I just feel like I don't got no friends and I'm going to isolate myself, bro.
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Less than a month later, that friend was being served court papers.
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I thought the Cloverboys was my bro.
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Long before he could buy a house for his friends, Kai Sinat spent part of his childhood in shelters with his mother and his siblings,
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before establishing themselves in an apartment around Cortland Avenue in the Bronx, New York.
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He posted his first YouTube video on January 14, 2018, while he was still in high school.
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Two years later, he left college because he was struggling to keep up with classes and videos at the same time.
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I'm dropping out of college.
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College is not for me.
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I feel like I could really pursue my dreams with this YouTube.
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I know y 'all.
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Around then, a YouTube group from New York called AMP was filming an outfit competition in a Walmart.
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Kai was the last to join AMP as a trainee after being invited by Phantom.
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Yes, sir.
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Let's go.
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And the next winter, he started streaming on Twitch.
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Two years after that, he became the most subscribed streamer
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Twitch had ever seen with over 300 ,000 subscribers.
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I don't mind is this.
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The next time he ran another
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Mafia -Thon, he finished with over 700 ,000.
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700 ,000!
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In the spring of last year, he showed his viewers around an empty house in Atlanta.
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I done bought a house for my friends.
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They are about to go crazy.
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There were six of them.
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He'd already bought every one of them a queen bed and a new PC.
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If everything goes like how it's supposed to, This is probably the best thing I've ever did.
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Some of them he'd known for years, and some he'd recently met.
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For some reason, I just know when people are going to bond together really well, and these six people are going to bond together really well.
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And when he got to Reggie...
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And Reggie has a lot of potential.
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Mark my words right now, you have to clip it right now.
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I think Reggie is going to be f*ing huge.
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They became known as the Clover Boys, consisting of six members.
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A month later, the group launched a channel of their own.
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They put out five videos in five weeks.
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What it do YouTube?
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We're here with the boys and it's another Clover day.
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Then the channel went quiet for seven and a half months.
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While Kai had become the most subscribed streamer once again before taking a break, Clovers on the other hand didn't last long.
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The band had been disbanded before even finishing a year.
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In Reggie's recent
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The Truth About Clover Boys video, he explained, The real reason why I left Clover is because I felt left out, and I felt like
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Kai didn't want to care about us no more.
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Which is okay, and I'm not mad.
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He did everything for us, but at the same time, if you don't care about me no more, let me go and be great.
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Over the next few days, the falling out turned into something far more serious, until Reggie went on Instagram Live and accused Kai himself.
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That night, Kai Sinat went live.
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Before he got into any of it...
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Ads completely off, I don't want to make any money from this stream, so you better not post this.
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Ain't nobody gotta sub to me.
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Ain't nobody gotta do shit.
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The shit that we are seeing right now is serious.
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He's genuinely losing himself.
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He'd come with notes and screenshots to answer it line by line.
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This whole thing, not supposed to be on the internet.
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But it gets to a point where I'm gonna have to defend my name and I'm done being nice.
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Reggie's been losing his mind for the last five days.
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I was in Iceland handling shit off stream.
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His first item is a screenshot Reggie had posted of their messages.
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He said, but I want to talk to you.
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I said, okay, bet.
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I am here to talk to you.
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He said, yo, answer this call.
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This shit important.
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He sent this at 2 .32 a .m.
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He literally says, why leave me on scene?
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First lie right there.
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Reggie, I called you the same minute you asked for help.
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There wasn't any recording of the call.
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So what follows is Kai's version of it.
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I'm going to say exactly verbatim.
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Reggie calls me.
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He's just talking, blabbing.
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The first thing he says, bro, I am grateful for you.
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I'm like, okay, thank you, bro.
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I appreciate you too, bro.
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I'm very grateful for you as well.
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He going to say, you know I got so much potential, but you know what's crazy? you know I could destroy you, right?
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I say, Reggie, what you mean destroy me?
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He ends up panicking and saying, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you're looking at it the wrong way.
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I said, what you mean, bro?
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He then goes on to talk shit about Talil, Des, and everybody around me.
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He said he's gonna smack the shit out of me when he see me, beat me up when he see me.
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He said I never, ever did anything for him, and I never helped him.
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And to answer that, he puts his spending on screen.
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I've invested 3 .7 million to what I thought was going to be amazing.
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But almost as soon as it's up.
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Take away money, Roke.
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Let's not even talk about money.
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It's already spent.
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It's already done.
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Instead, he gets into the emotions.
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Months of his texts with Reggie, then the calls of the past few days.
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I said, I love you too, gang.
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That's how it should be.
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Inspire each other.
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How you feeling?
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You okay?
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This is back when Mr. B's got every other sh - streamer and overlooked Reggie.
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I made sure to reach out to him and say, how come you not at Mr. B shit?
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By his birthday in April, the texts were getting serious.
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What happened to the motivational you?
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Club every night?
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I'm your real friend.
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Nobody calling you out on that.
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Just remember that.
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He said, bro, I've never been this turnt before.
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Can I live a little?
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Reggie had accused
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Kai of trying to influence his cameraman.
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Kai's account of the past few days starts with that cameraman.
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In the middle of the night.
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I'm in Iceland.
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I get a phone call by his cameraman hiding away from you because he was afraid.
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People was after Reggie in Alaska, Chad.
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Reggie copped from somebody and owed him money and did not pay him.
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I instantly paid Reggie's debt so he would not get hurt in Alaska, bro.
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Later, on a live of his own, Reggie answered that part.
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And to the guy who said that I stole from him in Alaska, I never stole from you, bro.
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Anybody who know me know I don't steal.
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By Kai's account, The calls after that turned into threats, so he rang his lawyer.
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He tried to manipulate my cameraman.
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Okay, Reggie, so now you're sober and this is how you feel.
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He said, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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When I see you, I'm smacking the shots.
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When I heard the threats, I got a professional involved.
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And I called my lawyer.
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He said more than likely he is experiencing psychosis.
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When he's through the texts and the calls.
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Now listen, let's go ahead and address the serious allegations real quick.
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This is calling me a...
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Reginald, you deadass?
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Are you serious?
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You pulled that card?
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Reggie's accusation involved a young member of the group.
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It had started the same weekend he announced he was leaving.
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In a video he called Part 1, he says...
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I'ma just be real.
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He said the truth.
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He set you free.
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And I've been running from this for so long.
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In it, he spoke about abuse he says he suffered when young.
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James, Matt, you know what you did.
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You took advantage of me when I was young.
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You had me questioning myself my whole life.
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And then he turned to Kai.
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Kai, you wrong as hell because you know somebody took advantage of Rekai, and that's why he acting like that.
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He went live on Instagram and went after Kai himself.
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Everybody get in here, and I'm going to tell the truth.
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And I want y 'all to understand this one thing.
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Kai, he run
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Twitch, and that's why I can't be over there no more.
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I'm never going to scream on Twitch again.
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See, I've been crying for days.
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I'm talking about Kha and that f*ing file.
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He been f*ing for Kai.
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Kai denies the accusation, and no evidence for it has been made public.
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Reggie, how dare you play with a topic that serious?
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After all the real conversations we done had behind the scenes, after everything I have done, you going to do this to me?
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Part two, I got the evidence.
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Part two, come no evidence.
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Where is your proof?
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Where is your proof, bro?
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A week later, on another live, Reggie answered that.
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People keep saying, show evidence, show proof, show this.
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Did y 'all see the evidence on Diddy?
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And I'm not gonna lie, Toronto man's reputation.
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Proof all over the internet, that's the good thing about a digital footprint.
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Kai had seemed fed up.
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If you ever felt like I wasn't being a good friend, my messages show otherwise.
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I'm done being nice and I'm done helping niggas.
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And he gives his own reason for it.
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You done been around for so long, but you ain't say nothing?
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You want to say something because you felt left out?
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Is it for the kids?
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What is it for?
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You went from, oh, Kai knows what this person did to Kai didn't.
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Then he goes after the other streamers.
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And everything you calling, they're capitalizing off your suffering.
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And this is fake.
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Y 'all make me sick.
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Y 'all don't have a life outside of streaming and it shows.
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And he answers the reason Reggie gave for leaving.
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And it hurt me to say that he felt left out.
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Gang, I just called you by the Wolverine stream.
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Gang, I just invited you to my fashion show.
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And I was watching YouTube videos.
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And he gets mad at others for being careless.
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On the other hand, Reggie had spoken about that too.
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In the live where he'd announced he was leaving just days earlier.
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are you still didn't care?
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As for the accusation itself, Kai wants it dealt with off the internet.
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Call the cops and show the evidence because guess what?
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I'm calling the cops.
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I'm suing you, brother.
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I still have sympathy for you because I know you're not yourself, but it's gone too far.
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And on the lawsuit in that same live, if Kai says that he's going to sue me, I'm saving my evidence for court.
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Let's do it then.
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I know everything.
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And I'm sorry what happened to you in the past.
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And I'm so sorry to hear that.
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And I wish you just gave me a chance to talk to you about that.
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I'm so sorry that the world had to hear that.
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Once he said his piece, he turns to what it's done to him.
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I did not want to bring this to the internet.
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I'm scared.
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I think a lot of this is premeditated and I'm seeing former SU students reposting it.
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Y 'all so fake.
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I put everybody before me for so long and for the first time in my life, I'm about to put myself first.
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I just feel like I don't got no friends and I'm going to isolate myself, bro.
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And when he turns back to Reggie, I hope whoever around him told him, bro, and you get professional help.
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It hurts
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so bad bro i tried to call reggie this entire time no answer
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i'm one man bro reggie i don't have no problems with you bro
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but i know my innocence i know how pure i am bro i still feel bad
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and sad because bro you turned to somebody completely different
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that i don't know anymore like
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when i started this shit in 2019 i didn't expect all this shit to happen like this
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but i'm done extending my arm i'm done doing it
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and i'm still gonna be here eight years to the day after his first upload, he posted a video titled I quit.
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During his long break, he took off from streaming.
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That is why I quit.
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I quit.
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Thinking in my head of the goals I want to achieve
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and not pursuing them because I'm primarily known for one thing and super scared to step out that box and
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try new things.
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I quit overthinking.
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I'm not sad.
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It's just for some reason I'm having like a lot out of self -doubt
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because it's out of fear of stepping back from what I'm primarily known for, which is constant creation and pursuing another goal.
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About two weeks before
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Let's Talk, he posted
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Don't Quit, a film of the months leading up to his clothing brand's first runway show.
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I think I'm going to just go with whatever feels right within the moment.
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When I said I wanted to put the clothing brand out publicly, like that removed mad weight off my chest.
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Back on the live, before he signs off, he says, And I want every kid out there to know,
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bro, that there's more than life than the internet.
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Get out there and explore.
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Not everything has to be on the internet.
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And then to Reggie.
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And Reggie, get help, bro.
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I know shit ain't gonna be the same, bro, and I love you, bro.
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But get help.
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Can't help you.
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And I have to protect my name.
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I don't even know who I'm talking to anymore, but chat.
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I had to come on here, bro.
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I dropped everything I was doing in New York.
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I got on the next flight and said I had to address this.
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And I'm gonna say, like, everything that happens after this, I'm handling offline.
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I'm no longer gonna help.
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Your mom shut down on me.
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I can't get a hold of you.
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The people around you not even trying to help.
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I'm just done.
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I'm over it.
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Two minutes after the stream ended, Reggie posted part two.
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Stop playing with me.
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And I'm gonna let everybody know, Kha Sinet is a PDF.
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Yes, I said it, Kha Sinet is a PDF.
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The reason why all of this is even coming about, because a man can get to his breaking point, bro.
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At what point is it ever okay to abandon your friends?
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Bro, they left me by myself on things given I didn't have nobody.
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My dad died, my homie.
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I don't care about money and Kha never gave us a salary.
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Yes, Kai put us on and Kai is talented but that doesn't mean he's not an evil person.
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That same night, Ray, another of the six from that house, said goodbye to the group stating, thank you for everything
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Kai Sinat followed up by officially left Clover.
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Minutes after the stream ended, Kai also followed up with a tweet stating, put you first.
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He didn't stream again for more than a week.
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Then he sparked another stream.
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It was titled, leave me alone.
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Chat, how are y 'all doing today?
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Hopefully you guys are doing great.
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I'm doing fantastic.
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I'm not gonna a lot for the month of october it was supposed to be stacked well it is stacked
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but it was supposed to start off so strong
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but you know you know things happen
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and i had to move things around just to make sure
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i'm good in real life you feel what i'm saying midway through a story about
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that weekend's booth he shuts chat down about a fight like
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bro leave me alone gang shit shut the up shut up
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you're not talking about no bullshit bro
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i'm on a new frequency game later talking about a trip he has planned it's amazing bro
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and you know with me
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and rey going back to japan like you don't know what's gonna happen bro like us returning to japan
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but i was traveling in 2023 bro later opening a viewer's gift like you know bro
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you you want to know what gets me
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so emotional chat y 'all actually love me bro like
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that is so crazy gang
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and i just want to say thank y 'all chat
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i ain't a lot of chat thank you guys bro like
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y 'all know how to make me happy bro like anytime I want to cheer up, bro, I just, I just turn the chat on, game.
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In four hours, he doesn't mention Reggie once.
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While Kai was still live, Reggie went live too, for a few minutes, and stood by what he'd said.
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He said he'd spent months trying to get the group to make videos together.
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He said he was finished with streaming.
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I really, I was really getting to a point where I thought I feel like everybody who just texted me now,
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if it's not genuine, please just leave me alone, please.
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I'm not bothering anybody, bro.
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But I've been going through a lot lately.
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I'm finna get therapy i've been trying to get better i've been slowing down on the news
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so i appreciate everybody who support me
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i've been praying a lot the truth will always sound crazy in the world for the lies
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so i'm just waiting on the court case
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and god willing i got my lawyer ready
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i'm just ready less than two weeks later the four members
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still in the group went out in new york together live still wearing their clover chains
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The next night, Kai went live from Tokyo with Ray at the 7 -Eleven where
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Ray had first walked up to him three years earlier.
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Reggie, that week, was still waiting for the court papers.
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Within two days he posted that they'd come
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and the same week he put out a music video
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and it opens on the moment he was served travers yes sir i'm serving you talking about temporary protective order
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the papers he held up looked like a request from kai's side for a temporary protective order
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he tried to say all these weirds.
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He tried to send a cease and desist.
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This won't stand in court, buddy.
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But I'll see you in court.
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And I do have my lawyer, Mr. Cotsinette.
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Thank you for this, bro.
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That Saturday, he went live on Twitch and called it his last stream there ever.
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I'm gonna miss all y 'all n, all my real members.
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Miss y 'all n.
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I can't even lie, bro.
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Genuinely, we came a long way, bro.
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Know what I'm saying?
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I reached a million followers on here.
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I reached a million followers on here.
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That's all I ever wanted to do.
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I just wanted to make my mom proud.
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And my mom got to see me shine.
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I thought the Clover boys was my bros, and that's where I lost for that, right?
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Don't ever listen to me.
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All my future creators, people that's creating right now, don't ever be too friendly.
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Always keep everybody at bay.
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Don't tell these people nothing.
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Don't invite them in your space.
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Don't give them your energy.
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Don't get too close to these people.
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Yes, Kyle really did what I said he did.
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Yes.
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Yes, I have proof.
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Yes.
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And I hate that y 'all make it one -sided.
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Y 'all make it seem like now I can't live my life, but he can go to Japan and go have fun.
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When it's me, it's always something, bro.
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Thank y 'all so much for just supporting me over these years, bro.
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It's been a nice ride, bro.
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But the Clover era is officially over.
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You will never see me claiming Clover ever again.
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You will never see me hanging with none of them.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Kai Cenat’s New Stream Is Honestly Just Depressing”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: bro, reggie, Kai. This video has 360 sentences and 3443 words to shadow. The speech runs for 16:22. The speaker talks fast, about 210 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| steal verb | /stiːl/ | To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it. |
| cop noun | /kɑp/ | A police officer or prison guard. |
| invite verb | /ɪnˈvaɪt/ | To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something. |
| pursue verb | /pɚˈsu/ | To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase. |
| accusation noun | /ˌæk.jʊˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/ | The act of accusing. |
| primarily adverb | /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹə.li/ | Of a primary or central nature, first and foremost. |
| temporary adjective | /ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/ | Not permanent; existing only for a period or periods of time. |
| clothing noun | /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/ | Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to… |
| suffer verb | /ˈsʌfɚ/ | To undergo hardship. |
| grateful adjective | /ˈɡɹeɪtf(ə)l/ | Of a person or their actions, feelings, etc.: expressing gratitude or appreciation; appreciative, thankful. |
| announce verb | /əˈnaʊn(t)s/ | To give public notice of, especially for the first time; to make known. |
| protective adjective | /pɹəˈtɛk.tɪv/ | Serving or intended to protect. |
| genuinely adverb | /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/ | In a genuine manner; truthfully, truly. |
| scare verb | /skɛɚ/ | To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way. |
| stack noun | /stæk/ | A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| leave out verb | To omit, to not include, to neglect to mention. | |
| put out verb | To blind (eyes). | |
| cheer up verb | To become happier or less downcast. | |
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. | |
| fall out verb | To come out of something by falling. | |
| follow up verb | To take further actions remaining after an event; to continue, revisit, or persist; especially, to maintain communication or verify. | |
| get out verb | To leave or escape. | |
| go ahead verb | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | To proceed with; to begin. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- He literally says, why leave me on scene?
- I said, what you mean, bro?
- What happened to the motivational you?
- Can I live a little?
- Where is your proof, bro?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | Reggie's been losing · I've been running · I've been crying |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | being served · being invited · had been disbanded |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've invested · I've never been · has been made |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | guy who said · Anybody who know · for, which is |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 139 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: clothing /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/, bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, booth /buθ/, sympathy /ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: accusation /ˌæk.jʊˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/, screenshot /ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/, reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, establish /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/, shelter /ˈʃɛltə/
- Long words — get the stress right: accusation /ˌæk.jʊˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/, primarily /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹə.li/, temporary /ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like steal, cop, invite.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.