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How do you feel about being called crazy?
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Where do you believe that narrative came from?
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From me doing crazy shit?
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disrespect I'm sitting here trying to redirect Why Japan?
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Why is Ye always in Japan?
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What makes Japan so special to you?
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You know, I like, I love the temples.
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I love how people are with you.
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You know, it's just really respectful.
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Yeah.
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And my wife said that in past lives I was a, I was a king.
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I was an emperor out here.
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You know, I see you doing a lot out here.
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How do you prioritize your passions?
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You know, I just put my kids first, you know, all the ideas.
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And then I get real selfish.
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Then I put, I go to me, you know, and then I think about the impact it's going to have on, you know, this lifetime.
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Yeah.
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I've seen your recent Instagram posts about how, you know, you got
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North in training now.
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Yeah, it's good like I was always into the idea of having a school
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and like both my mom and my dad were professional teachers
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so that makes me a natural teacher in my blood
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and I'm just thinking about how her album is going to be like how insane like everything
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that I learned that I could have it flow through her also
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and for her to become the greatest the next the next frontier because we we're like uh
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you know like the kings in Africa or something where it's just passed down.
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Like I'm the hands down greatest, she gonna be the hands down greatest.
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Niggas is gonna think when they see us, the whole three of us in that picture.
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It just can't.
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Movie feel.
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You just announced
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Bully, the new album, Song of Ways, your first project in over three years since Donda.
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Why the title Bully?
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You know, my son was playing with some kid, and then he kicked him.
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And I asked my son, I said, why you do that?
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He said, because he's weak.
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And I was like, this man is really a bully right here.
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Saint, you're the reason for bullying.
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Don't say do that.
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He just kick everybody and, like, push them over and, like, just, you know.
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I wonder where we get that from. Which parent?
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Oh.
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Definitely young gay.
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Yeah.
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When should we expect
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Bully to drop, yeah?
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My oldest said to bring it out in June.
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Your birthday or her birthday?
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Oh.
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You know, didn't Yeezus come out on your birthday?
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Yeah, so we're going to do it on your birthday.
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That's when we're going to bring
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Bully out, because that's her favorite album so far.
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Yeah, she rated it 10 out of 10.
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Yeah.
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Okay, Bully's on the way.
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North's birthday.
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Yeah.
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I want you to tell me how you feel when fans tell you to release the album.
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Fans never want to wait.
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Oh, man.
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If they was a fan, they would have heard the sound, Can't Tell Me Nothing, and believed it.
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I hate I just want to go see comments and see people like, really love the post I just did,
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and somebody be like, release the album, Kanye.
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If you're my fan, you're not even going to call me Kanye.
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You're going to call me my legal name, Ye, Muhammad Ali.
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It ain't Cassius Clay no more.
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Why did you change your name to Ye?
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You know, because my friends call me Ye.
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Okay.
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If someone calls me
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Ye, they never say anything negative.
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Like people, headlines, they use the word
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Kanye, Kanye West, however they want to do it.
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Right.
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Now, if you say
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Ye, formerly known as Kanye West or Ye, you got a certain level of respect,
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a certain level of love for growing up on the music and the work I put into this lifetime.
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Yeah.
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Who was the first person to call you Ye?
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I don't know.
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It had to be like back...
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eighth seventh grade you know okay okay you've been you've been had
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that you've been had that name i thought it might have been
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when you got into the rap game somebody randomly bini sigel
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called me yeezy okay yeah okay how different is your creative process on bully compared to vultures one
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and two first person i think of is quentin miller
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because he'll write something
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and just one -to -one it could go right it could go you know you ain't had to change anything
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and I remember when I met him, you know, before we were doing Vultures,
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before it's called Vultures, and I think before I even decided to do the album with Ty,
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I knew we was going to come for the chip.
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I knew because each team member, we pull them together because I'm a walking franchise, so we need, you know, these teams at this point.
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That's one of the things.
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Another thing is I'm chopping up all the samples by hand.
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How much does this album
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Bully mean to you?
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I remember we was listening to music and you was like, man, this album is just so positive.
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Every word matters.
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Every bar matters.
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Yeah, because you lean on a bar that brings somebody down.
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That was always rap.
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And this is more the way I remember Lauryn Hill album, the way I remember Miseducation.
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I feel like it is my Miseducation.
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It is my Gnarles Barkley, because even 808s and Heartbreak.
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Sound of bully has a title and a connotation that a lot of people are anti -bully, but we can bring it.
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I'm just hyper next -level frequency right now. Who is this guy?
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I want to see if I got enough time to turn my two diamonds for the grandmas.
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That's the most.
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Two diamonds for the grandmas.
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I got an assignment for the family.
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See if I got enough time to turn my two diamonds for the grandmas.
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Damn.
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Angie.
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I'm giving BBLs to the nannies.
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I put a pack on the fanny.
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I put a pack on the fanny.
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I put a BBL to the nannies.
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We're gonna go back to Vultures a little bit.
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Vultures 1, number one album in the world.
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Carnival, number one single in the world.
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You go independent, they remove you off DSPs every nonstop, about three, four, five times in the same week.
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You in the midst of being canceled.
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How fucking good did that make you feel to go number one at 46 years old?
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You know, it was just really about beating a cancellation.
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Like, that was a God -given song.
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And it came from working with a bunch of people.
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Like, we was out in Saudi, right? and Ty had
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Rich the Kid out there.
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He was just playing different songs.
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Everybody had this vision of having a soccer chat.
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Like if White Stripes had this song, and then soccer teams do it.
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So you go, you're like, man, I want to do it.
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So I tried two times to do it.
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The first time I tried was Black Skinhead.
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The second time I tried was All Day.
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All day.
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All day.
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And Paul McCartney wrote that melody.
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He wrote it before he went in the studio with me.
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And a lot of people said, man, he discovered this new artist named Paul McCartney.
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I hope this guy blows up one day.
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He's talented.
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He played the keyboards and the guitar.
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Now the vocals that people like stay away from AI.
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It's a more negative reaction than auto -tune.
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And I remember like I did auto -tune because people thought they're like, man, this auto -tune is trash.
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As an artist, I could take anything.
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I could sell a piece of shit for like $10 million and shit.
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You know, and shit.
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That's another 20.
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So auto -tune, you feel like it's AI as well.
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Exactly.
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It's in the same family, except people have a more visceral reaction.
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Is AI the future of music or is it a crutch?
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It's time for me to explain to people the power of AI in music.
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So I take a sample, and this is like a dream come true.
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Back in the days, you used to have to get the 24 -track stems, the Motown, like the 24 -track reel.
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It was like this, and they would tape it on a CD or tape it digitally, then you got the different parts.
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Right now, you could take any song and separate it.
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Just get the vocals.
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Just get the bass line, the drums completely separated.
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So when I send a song or a sample to my engineers, I just say JSAI.
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Like how the website is.
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So it's like my engineer, John Scott AI.
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So we speak in like digital THX.
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on THX this is the movie that George Lucas did before Star Wars.
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It's only fun at master.
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And then last and all these together vocals.
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Oh yeah!
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Yeah!
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Yeah, honey!
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That's y 'all!
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If you get five tracks, ten tracks, really legendary trackster is the one who really put us on to that.
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You know, he is the key.
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He was the clutch shooter, last bucket at the end of the game on Vultures.
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So even though we're bringing
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Mike Dean back in for Bully, it's like...
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So that's confirmed.
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Mike Dean is coming back in for Bully.
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Absolutely.
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We about to go.
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Yay -Z.
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Change his voice to my voice.
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What the hell?
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Yeah, you love, yeah, you got my love, yeah And she ain't said to date,
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noobies you can get the fuck up on my shit
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Hotter out, David with the block, take the fuck it down
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Hotter out, this way that kid, you know what they now 12, get behind, who know what I do?
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Oh, I don't think I'm afraid, you made me go on the music
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Yeah, you got my love, yeah, you got my love
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There's still a lot to do.
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It's like the next version of sampling.
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Like when sampling happened, like the musicians, they hated it.
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When EDM came in, there was musicians that hated that.
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And there was people who hated it, AutoChomp.
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And there's people who hate the concept of AI.
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It's like people hated the ass shots that became like a stand -up.
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That's what I said about the visuals of AI.
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It's like AI ain't made nothing yet that I could jerk off to.
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I was with you when you was canceled all the way.
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We was always going to eat every day.
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Yeah, we never was un -rich.
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Yeah, ever.
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We were still going out to eat.
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The hotels ain't changed.
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The jets ain't changed.
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Just the headlines got a little bit different.
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The headlines changed.
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What was the restaurant we ate that was closed down?
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Beauty Essex.
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It was Beauty Essex.
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We was going there to eat every day.
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I remember
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when they froze your accounts ah man listen
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i had to put my little american express down
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he was pulling up right they're like hey yeah he's over here eating
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that's the first time i've seen a billionaire have no
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access to money it was crazy it was like some black mirror episode
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they wanted to do everything to prove to me
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that i didn't have a right to say anything out loud that went against people who own the media, people who own the music industry,
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people that Drake is going, you know, up against right now, ironically.
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You know, we could say you know, anything.
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We could say, I'm gonna kill you.
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We could say, I'm gonna sell drugs to you.
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We could say, I do drugs.
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But you can't.
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message that.
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You couldn't even message on a song, you imagine?
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Because it's the censorship still.
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No, for sure.
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I love how you can't be controlled now because, you know, you was in the system.
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You kind of broke free and found other ways to get to money, you know?
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So now you get to be free.
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You own yourself.
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You own your brand.
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And, you know, you posted a clip recently of Master P
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speaking about how he left music because it wasn't no real money
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and he had to create product when did you know like I need more than just music
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Master P was always a visionary like everyone looked up to the fact
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that he could shoot a movie fast
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and everybody in the hood will listen to that how do you know
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when you're entering a episode or when you're in one I watched for it beforehand
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but other times it was just like
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if you get to the point where it goes you're gonna you're stay in that position for a while.
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It might go for three days, four days, a week.
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Some people, if they get into it, you got to put them in like a place that's not in public.
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It depends on the level of what it is.
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But another thing is they call it specifically, you know, bipolar.
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They put that on me.
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I said it, I put it on an album.
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People call you nigga, you start calling yourself call a girl a bitch
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she started calling herself a bitch i went to this doctor one
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that worked with justin bieber one
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that worked with i'm not even going to name other names
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and stuff my wife took me to to do that
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because she said something about your personality doesn't feel like it's bipolar i've seen bipolar before i've seen she's educated
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so i've seen bipolar before and come to find out it's really a case of autism that I have.
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And autism takes you to a Rain Man thing, where you're like, oh man, I'm gonna wear this
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Trump hat, because it's like
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Trump in general.
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And then when people tell you to not do it, you just get on that one point.
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And that's my problem when fans tell me to do my album a certain way, I'll do it the opposite way,
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just because la la la la, I got my money, right?
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You can't tell me.
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But the hard thing I say, like, shout out to Don C.
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He's been in situations where it was so hard on him because he loves me.
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And, like, it's so difficult for them because this is, like, a grown man.
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You can't tell him.
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You can't take control of his bank account.
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You can't control what I'm saying on Twitter.
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But a lot of what was sending me into the episodes, and it's hard my dad a bunch of people said
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you know you can't leave adidas why would you leave all
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that money the constant feeling of not being in control right spun me out of control
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you up against the fashion world still people trying to come on basically oh
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you don't know i'm like none of you niggas out
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there let me tell you all you fashion niggas none of y 'all
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i don't see none of y 'all shit on the street i don't see no y 'all niggas can't
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Fuck with Yeezy, none of you niggas
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None of you niggas can fuck with Yeezy The dead niggas, the niggas Now they're niggas to come,
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none of you niggas can fuck with Yeezy It's Yeezy over everything
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And as far as all these rappers go Dylon, Dylon, Dylon Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it Top 5, Top 100
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Top 1000, Top Million Nobody did, I told you 36
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Ghosts I got another 36
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Ghosts to go
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Nobody, y 'all can play around
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Don't step over the line though.
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Everybody, anybody is up for everybody.
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And that's not, I'm not even, I got bigger fish to fry.
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I got people to save.
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I ain't even on a rap shit.
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I already beat the rap shit.
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I ain't beat the money shit.
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I ain't beat the baddest bitch shit.
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I already beat the drip.
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So I'm not even competition.
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I'm not even competition with Lucien.
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We competition with the French bake that own 85 % of Africa.
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How about that?
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Why are we fighting amongst each other?
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We're in competition with Spotify, get niggas 500 million, say work it out amongst yourselves.
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Y 'all ain't got shit on me.
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Y 'all ran my name through the mud.
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Y 'all took all that position.
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You gave the other niggas my position.
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Coach, ain't nobody king over me.
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Any summer, every summer there's no king.
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I'm the king because I'm the only one against y 'all.
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I'm the only one that's going to go against y 'all.
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That's why.
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That's why.
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Easy over everything.
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to get out of your episode a lot of people like
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medication do you take medication does it work for you what gets
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you out of i haven't taken the medication since i found out that it wasn't
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bipolar that wasn't the right diagnosis that i found out it's like autism
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so how does the does do you feel it working
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or do you just take it just to make your wife happy
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because she says you should take it like do you believe in the medication it's finding stuff
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that doesn't block the creativity obviously that's what i bring to the world you know it's worth a ramp up
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As long as y 'all get the creativity.
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It's like this thing I always play from Don to where I say, while I'm screaming, I say, play off the grit.
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Oh, I love that.
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Now play off the grit.
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No fucking chuckling or nothing or nothing.
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No kind of way.
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All right, play off the grit.
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That's him like
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Brick Rubens is sitting there.
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That's how me and Mike Dean really fell out because I was screaming.
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I was like, man, I'm a grown -ass man you screaming at me even though I didn't know
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that I was really I didn't understand
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that that's what I was doing yeah I feel like you're more passionate than anything else
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but people could misunderstand yeah when they scream at in front of 20 people it's a misunderstanding for sure
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but I'm glad you and Mike Dean are back um you
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and Drake have had a long -standing beefing battle for years now
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Drake is at odds with another Gemini Kendrick Lamar yeah who do you think won that rap battle.
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Well one thing is like with Kendrick I was like man why you you killed my nemesis where's the movies
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if it ain't no
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Drake yeah for me it's like
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or at least took them down for a little bit
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you know on Superhero films like maybe it's like one of the characters Wolverine
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or something just goes away for a couple films
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and stuff I'm like damn man it's like it was really challenging for me to make father stretch my hands
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and different things and make I work you know like top five song ever created in life.
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I'm like, he doing the drums, bringing Metro on.
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So Kendrick killed
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Drake, he's dead.
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Yeah, for now.
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You can't ever count out Steph Curry and so that man might hit 200 points in one song or something.
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You know what it was, it's like Kendrick, like look at the Tyler, the creator pre -style that he did, like I'm that guy, right?
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We have to, you know, Drake added something to the algorithm, to our frequency.
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He advanced us, future advances, and our Kendrick has now advanced the frequency.
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So you have to, you know, it's like when Twister came out, there was rappers that didn't learn, right?
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But then Jay -Z learned.
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He did his That's Your Bitch, he could do it
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if you don't really learn as just a professional rapper as a sport what Kendrick is doing
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you might you might be wiped yeah you might be you might be wiped out you know
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because Kendrick's on that timing you know and like
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that Kendrick says fuck the big three nigga it's just big me you know what it's interesting
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because even future different people we just let that pass and it was interesting because just as men,
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just as kings, how will we let that idea pass?
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You know, I'm the greatest that ever existed, and other people, you know, they shouldn't feel that way because I'm here.
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Yeah.
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But, you know, every man, you know, is going to feel that they're the number one in the game, but there's different techniques.
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Like, if you rap against Kendrick, you will lose this man does this specifically you know on street fighter
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you get like a chun lee you get a certain kick yeah
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and no matter what you can't beat that thing it's like
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if you rap like
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if you rap against kendrick lamar like joe button said never rap against kendrick lamar
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if you rap against kendrick lamar it's really it's a difficult task
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but perhaps it's something yeah you know i'm a psycho genius
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so you know it could be yeah yeah
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there you there you have it do not rap against Kendrick
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Lamar unless you're a psycho genius unless you're a psycho genius like yay who's your big three
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Dylon Dylon Dylon yeah yeah yeah that's it yeah man easy slides I ain't take them shits off since I got them
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what I'm I wore them to sleep I woke up the next day just didn't give a fuck no more
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but then when you get the money when you got money you go in
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and like try to prove you got money you know what I'm saying you gotta like I remember
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when I lost my when I when I lost all that
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Adidas money I was like damn I gotta start dressing like a millionaire now
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which actually means more jewelry
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when you a billionaire you can just like sue on a bunny
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you know what I got like I used to pull up with the cars and blah blah.
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Nigga we still got it.
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We ain't going nowhere you know.
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Nigga gotta keep doing it don't matter like a nigga is never gonna sell his chain.
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When you sell your chain you sold your glasses.
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Nigga sell their children before they sell their chains.
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Take my son, that nigga ain't do shit.
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That shit can't. When did it start?
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I should look like that today.
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I woke up in the room.
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I was like, you know, I came out last year.
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I'm going in like that might be my boy.
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He just broke it down to Matt Williams.
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He came and he's the head designer.
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It looked like he got me to do.
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Why didn't he look like that was him?
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My niggas don't got these, see?
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This is all I have left in the house.
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I said, I'm just bring them.
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I know you got people that make them work, fix them up and shit.
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What'd you say to you?
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I'm like a fan.
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The belt will never leave.
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I'm had a belt in the shower.
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You know how you sign something and be like, I'm never taking this off.
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Yeah.
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They say, we're researching belts.
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Let's see.
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Niggas be getting back.
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This is the gay version of the triple dip set down the damn job in Japan.
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I'm talking about million years, gotta wear that jewelry, I still gotta wear all that jewelry.
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Pull it up, I still gotta wear all of it, every piece of it, bro.
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Yeah, this shit done got serious with this.
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You can never redo this again, I'm sorry.
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I don't know what you do.
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I remember the story.
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This is what I want to say.
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They was going to kill me for the Ace of the Izzel.
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I stayed in Jersey for about three months.
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I was like, gee, you know them, right?
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It's like, man, because Jimmy was screaming pretty loud on the phone, man.
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What's up?
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This our what?
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Fifth interview?
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Fourth, fifth interview?
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Yeah, fourth, fifth.
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This one's the best one.
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Exactly.
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We got to this.
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I had to go get in the lab.
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It's God level.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “THE DOWNLOAD: JUSTIN LABOY + YE”. This video has 436 sentences and 4047 words to shadow. The speech runs for 26:57. The speaker talks at a natural 150 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 83% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| bully noun | /ˈbʊli/ | A person who is intentionally physically or emotionally cruel to others, especially to those whom they perceive as being vulnerable or of less power or… |
| scream verb | /skɹiːm/ | To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to screech, to shriek. |
| bipolar adjective | /baɪˈpoʊ.lɚ/ | Involving or having both extremes or poles at the same time. |
| tune noun | /tjuːn/ | A melody. |
| medication noun | /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/ | A medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient. |
| automobile noun | /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/ | A type of motor vehicle designed to move on the ground under its own stored power and intended to carry a driver, a small number of additional passengers, and… |
| belt noun | /ˈbɛlt/ | A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing. |
| diamond noun | /ˈdaɪ.ə.mənd/ | A glimmering glass-like mineral that is an allotrope of carbon in which each atom is surrounded by four others in the form of a tetrahedron. |
| frequency noun | /ˈfɹiːkwənsi/ | The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence and time period. |
| genius noun | /ˈd͡ʒin.jəs/ | Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art… |
| vocal adjective | /ˈvoʊ̯.kəl/ | Of, pertaining to, or resembling the human voice or speech. |
| grandma noun | /ˈɡɹænmɑː/ | Grandmother. |
| headline noun | /ˈhɛd.laɪn/ | The heading or title of a magazine or newspaper article. |
| autism noun | /ˈɔːtɪzəm/ | Autism spectrum disorder, a condition characterized by impairment in social communication and interaction, as well as a need or strong preference for… |
| rapper noun | /ˈɹæpɚ/ | The knocker of a door. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| play off verb | To portray (something) (as unimportant); to dismiss or make light of (a factor in a situation, or one's embarrassment about it); to pretend not to be… | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| hands down adverb | without much effort; easily | |
| blow up verb | To explode or be destroyed by explosion. | |
| close down verb | /kləʊzˈdaʊn/ | To stop trading as a business. |
| count out verb | To exclude; to dismiss from participation or eligibility. | |
| fall out verb | To come out of something by falling. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- How do you feel about being called crazy?
- You couldn't even message on a song, you imagine?
- My niggas don't got these, see?
- What'd you say to you?
- You know what I'm saying?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've seen · you've been · you've been had |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | being called · you've been had · being canceled |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | one who really · people who hated · people who hate |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 142 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, ain't, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: seventh /ˈsɛvənθ/, eighth /eɪtθ/, algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: medication /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/, musician /mjuˈzɪʃən/, passion /ˈpæʃən/, trash /tɹæʃ/, selfish /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: medication /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/, automobile /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/, creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/, legendary /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənˌdɛɹ.i/, cancellation /kænsəˈleɪʃən/
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 bully, scream, bipolar.
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.