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I started becoming a hater, I was telling everyone, I was thinking everyone's shit at music.
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I think I'm better than everyone.
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But now I'm back, I'm not thinking like that again.
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Like I'm not, now I'm even in the sport.
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I'm not, I'm not really, I don't think I'm competitive.
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But then, then I was going to do a song with somebody.
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I'll be in the studio with them.
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But it's not like a, I don't know what it is, but it's true.
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Like it's just in the back of your mind, cool.
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Like I can't let my man step on my toes.
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I gotta show up and be my best.
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Yeah.
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Oh man.
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Fresh off the Apple Music Live.
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And I'm honored to have him today because he don't really like to talk to us mere mortals.
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You know what I'm saying?
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It's the Central Sea sitting in the room.
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What's going on, man?
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I'm good, man.
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How are you?
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Good.
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Good to have you.
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Yeah, it's good to be here.
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I'm, the reason I said that too is because I love the fact that you don't do too much talking.
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I mean, you're on social media, you're having a good time living your life with your friends and being dope, but you don't really do a lot of sit down.
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So I really do appreciate.
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Yeah, I can't sit still.
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So having a convo like this is tough.
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It's not even, yeah, not because I can't sit still, but I can't live.
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I find it a bit awkward talking about me.
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Right, right, right.
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But I noticed in your music, a lot of your music, man, it is about you and obviously your accomplishments, you're a rapper.
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I hear so much about your family, your friends, the people you love and your motivation,
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which I find very appealing and dope.
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You know what I'm saying?
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I wanna start there because even at your Apple Music Live show, you open up in the car with your friends
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And one of my favorite records off the album that I play the most is Limitless.
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You know, because I feel like, look man, you know, everybody can talk slick, everybody can get money, everybody can, you know, talk to the girls and do all that shit.
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But when somebody's really willing to be like, yo, I recognize the hardships other people are going through.
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I recognize the shit I come from and I want to make sure that I share that story with everyone.
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I think that's powerful, man.
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Yeah, it's important.
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It's important to us.
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It was hard to make.
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It was hard to make that song to make
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that song that's what the album was missing it was one of the last songs
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that was added to the to the album
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but yeah i think like as as i grow
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or just like yeah grow away from
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that i try not to i don't know it's just not
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in the forefront of my right on my head in it we live in a different life yeah
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so it was hard to kind of channel that i had a few songs like
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that were a bit mellow
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but you couldn't hear the pain the same way like you used to maybe with some of my older stuff.
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But I had to proper channel it a bit and and yeah get back in that headspace I guess.
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2022 2023 was really what should exploded for you right
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that was the would you say that was the time right or you would say before that?
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For me as soon as that like I've just been in the same headspace from 2020, June 2020 when Day In A Life dropped.
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That was my first...
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Yeah that was the first project.
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Yeah.
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It's just been the same.
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I feel like it's hard for me to even
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be in the.. understand the difference from then till now because I've just been in the same mode from then.
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It's even like me when looking at other artists
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because I reference Dirk when thinking about this yeah because
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because i've seen Dirk from i wonder what year
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but this ain't what they want that's right and like from
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and i became a fan of Dirk from then
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so in my eyes he was always Dirk i'm not really
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looking at the no i'm just a fan i'm not looking at his views like
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when he's dropping i'm just liking the song i'm not looking
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at oh this song's got more views than the last one
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and this one's got the less views than whatever
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but then somebody said something to me one time it was like yeah like Dirk's just broke through
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and that was only like
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when he done the song with Drake I was like how
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like I've been listening to Dirk for like six years
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and he's been in my head he's just the same Dirk
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I'm not looking at him like oh he's getting he's growing I'm not even watching it like
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that I'm just appreciating the music and I think it's the same for me
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that I'm just in my own head
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so I don't know music became my job in 2020 and it's just been that ever since But you're right, there is different turning points,
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but I don't see them.
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Rob Markman- Probably not even, it's not why you're doing it.
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Once again, it goes back to the original thing.
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It's not why you're doing it.
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You're doing it because you have something to say and you have a group, a community that you're trying to rep for and a family
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that you're trying to take care of with a skill that you've worked on.
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You know what I'm saying?
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You're not like, yo, I gotta get to this point and then I gotta to get to this point, right?
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Like, yeah.
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There's just one point.
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There's two points probably.
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We've made the first point, which is we have changed our life.
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And then the next point is just, all I'm doing is just staying alive and working while I'm alive, isn't it?
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But I think it's that,
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and then it's also, we do have a bit of a problem with like celebrating or like acknowledging accomplishments.
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So there's no timestamps to anything.
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As soon as something great happens, it's just another day in the office really.
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Rob Markman, I told, for the audience, I had told Central C
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that he's the first UK rapper to really break in the North American hip hop scene and radio scene for that matter.
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I mean Skepta obviously had a wave and collabs, but I don't think he had, and that's my boy,
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that band for band went to a whole other level on
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the radio out here like it was playing everywhere every hour all day you know what i'm saying like that's
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and that's you know that's something you should celebrate right
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because uh because
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because even in hip-hop right like you know i live here
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in new york we um it took new york a
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while to understand the slang of the south like
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when the migos came around people was like i don't know what they saying
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and i remember like uk rappers you know would come out gigs
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or you know Skepta or whoever would cut through we'd be playing their records out here
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and people be like yo I don't I don't understand what they saying.
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You be like yo they speaking English bro you can't
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but it's the way that the English is put together
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and the different slang that's different you know what I'm saying but the fact that you broke through
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and people can understand what you're saying opens the door for that communication to start taking place.
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Well you think I make it easier to understand?
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Well the fact that your song was playing on the radio people can hear your cadence
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and your flow yeah it starts to open the door for
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other MCs yeah for sure what do you think the difference
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is in the in the in the in the way the language is spoken
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or no in in in the way
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that it's like now more easily easily I think the difference
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becomes people are now open-minded yeah it's like they try the new let's try
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that they try the new entree at the hip-hop restaurant
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and they're like yo I didn't even oh yo this shit is pretty good yo y'all should check for this
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and I think more people start to check for it yeah yeah I think it's a few things as well
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and I think that the fact that have you seen top boy yeah
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that too that's a good point people watching top boy I
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remember before before I blew up as well it's not a
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good thing that's supercell shit was fired too yeah people rated that over here.
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I haven't even seen that part.
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That's great.
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Rob Markman Off this new Can't Rush Greatness.
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Like I said, I love Limitless, GBP, with the 21 Savage joint.
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That's GPP.
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No, the Skepta joint, 10.
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Rob Markman Yeah, yeah.
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Rob Markman You performed that joint on the Apple Music Live.
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Talk about the stage set up and the creativity around the visual we saw, Apple Music live, you know,
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your thought process going into a show that size.
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Because I mean, that was monumental, right?
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You say you guys don't really stop and smell the roses, but I hope you walked out there and was like, oh shit, like O2, UK.
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You know what?
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I was actually mad emotional at the O2, you know?
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Not during the show, not before the show or during it.
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Or maybe actually near the end, like when there's the end bit and the confetti comes
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out and like even someone says I thought you was gonna cry you know
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and I was like I think I was you know slightly
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but yeah because all my family was in there and then I can't lie
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then like when I've come backstage I don't know yeah it was weird you know
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because I don't know like I don't I'm bad at emotions in it like sometimes I'm supposed to cry
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but I laugh
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like my body just laughs or like yeah like my brain's just a bit mush up but like there was some,
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I was emotional innit?
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But the creative behind it, I don't know, I think what I always try and do,
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I don't always get it right and I'm still not so proud of that show creatively.
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I think there's something that a man could do maybe a bit more simplistically, innit?
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There's a few references to some people's shows at the moment that I like, innit?
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And they're all pretty simple.
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but ours was a bit complicated.
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But what I want to do is when people come and see me in real life at a show, I want them to see what they see on the internet, innit?
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Whether it's music videos or like my Instagram, which is all pretty consistent, innit?
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Anytime you really see me, it's the same kind of thing.
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All my videos are kind of similar or whatever.
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So, yeah, I just wanted to paint that picture on stage as best as I could.
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That's what I was trying to do.
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I feel like you got it though, especially the way, I mean, the tone is set from the intro.
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The intro's sick.
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The intro and the outro.
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Perfect.
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Yeah, the intro, and I don't know if you saw the outro, nobody really caught onto it as much as I wanted them to,
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but so the whole show's actually, we started, the creative started, I just knew the aesthetic,
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I wanted the house, the whole stage is kind of like house
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and you're seeing different like things happening whatever whatever
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but then it just like a few days before the show started um the tour started we had a
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and i had a it felt like a great idea um to do
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that intro because i knew i always was gonna have the yaris on stage
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but i didn't know how I was really gonna introduce it.
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So we filmed the intro and as I'm planning it all, me and my brother and Luty's scripting the intro,
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we thought it could be funny if the outro comes out at the end and the whole thing was a dream.
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So in the beginning, it's like supposed to be before
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when music wasn't my life and I've smoked the Zoot and I've I've got super high, I've fell asleep, I've had a dream of the whole show,
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and then the outro pops back up, and I'm asleep in the car, my bedroom wakes me up.
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And I was like, fucking hell, I was just having a mad dream about performing this and that.
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And yeah, I thought that was a cool concept.
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Not really caught onto it that much, innit? But like...
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Well, we got Apple Music Live on the service, now they can go back and watch.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, go watch it.
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Check for it competitive.
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I must be in it.
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I don't see it.
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I don't really, I don't see it, but I must be.
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But I don't know who you're with.
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I don't know who I'm competing with.
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But I have to assume that when you first started to hear rappers that you were like, nah, I can do that.
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And I want, like, I have to assume that there were people
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that you came up and just when you was a little dude like rapping who thought they was better than you.
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Nah.
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Nah, you haven't had to...
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Not really.
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Nah, coming up, I just appreciated everything.
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I just listened and I thought, yeah, I want to do that as well.
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I never thought...
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I gotta be better than this guy.
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Nah, I didn't for a long time.
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So I started rapping when I was like 14.
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Nah, I started rapping young.
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I actually released something when I was like 14.
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And then I didn't pop off until I was 20, 22.
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But for the longest amount of time, I was just making music.
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I had so much faith that I wasn't watching anything.
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And I was just cool.
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I appreciated everybody's music and this and that.
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And I was just a bit, I don't know.
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I don't know what the turning point was though in my head.
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I lost faith in myself.
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I started getting insecure in my own craft because it wasn't going anywhere in it slightly.
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I had some sort of little emotion but I wasn't happy with it.
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Then I remember a switch started happening.
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Maybe I weren't happy with my life so I'd be in certain environments
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that I didn't really want to be in
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and I'm just looking at I'm going on my phone now and I clocked myself.
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I became a hater but it's mad because I I grew up for my whole life up until, I don't know, maybe like 18.
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I never knew no feeling of jealousy, hate.
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Like I was actually, I don't know.
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Even now, I've probably gone back to my natural state and I have no hate.
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I'm not, I don't- No jealousy, no- No, I don't really feel them feelings there.
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But I remember in that time, and that's how you know you're just a product of your environment, innit?
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Because when I'm there and I'm looking, I don't want to be in this house, I'm scrolling my phone i'm looking at these rappers now
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that i used to rate i'm looking at them i think these are shit man like the same people
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that i used to think were hard i said these are
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shit i'm better i must be better than them i said
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this guy's not even the truth like i'm starting i'm starting clocking
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how it is to be a hater and i became
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that um but give thanks man got out of that mindset still but I understand how it can be,
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innit, when you're somewhere you don't want to be.
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That's right.
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And so I think that's why I don't petty anybody's opinion either.
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I grew up on the other side of that stick as well.
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I saw people being jealous.
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People was jealous all the time, innit, before I even started making music.
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I don't know, it's just natural to me.
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It's nothing for people to have an opinion on me like outside of my circle.
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As long as my people like rate me, my mum has some like respect for man or I've got respect within my family or whatever,
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that's all that matters to me and everything else is whatever.
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I think people gravitate to that, that confidence.
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Yeah.
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You know that means you come from a loving place, a real place and you know a healthy place too.
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Yeah.
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But even that self reflection you shared with us, I think is super healthy.
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Right?
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Acknowledging that you were stuck, not quite happy with yourself. That created negative vibes.
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Fully hating.
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I started becoming a hater.
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I was telling everyone, I was thinking everyone's shit at music.
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I think I'm better than everyone.
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But now I'm not thinking like that again.
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Now I'm even in the sport, I don't think I'm competitive, but then I was going to do a song with somebody,
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I'll be in the studio with them.
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But it's not like a, I don't know what it is, but it's true.
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It's just in the back of your mind, cool, I can't let my man step on my toes.
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Rob Markman So I got to show up and be my best.
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Rob Markman Yeah, so I guess, yeah, because people say, some people say your best verses are,
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my best verses are when I'm rapping on somebody else's song and it might be true, that is when I do rap a little bit different.
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When I'm just by myself, I'm just...
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Rob Markman- You and Dave Cook, boy.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It's a good feeling.
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Rob Markman- He's a beast too.
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So I'm sure.
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But I mean, I'm sure he's, that's your friend.
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Probably outside the game, you guys have done what?
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Five, like six, seven records together at this point.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Rob Markman- You know what I'm saying?
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You got the EP project, but then collabs outside of that.
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Yeah.
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So I gotta assume you guys love working together.
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Yes.
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I don't really work with any, I haven't really worked with many people in it.
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So yeah, he's somebody that I've worked with much more than anybody else. And yeah, it's good.
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It gets something different out of my...
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He pulls the best out of you.
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Yeah.
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Like when I'm writing on my notes, I'm writing a little bit more different.
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I'm taking into consideration or like, even it's good as well.
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Like he'll say something, and then man can like run off the back of what he's just said.
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For me it's easier to write like that as well.
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Rob Markman That's fine.
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Which one of y'all favorite records?
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Rob Markman Well I can't say Sprint or Sprint is obviously sick innit.
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Rob Markman Why not?
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Because it's popular?
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Rob Markman No I think it's actually a good song as well.
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Rob Markman No it is, that's what I'm saying.
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It's popular because it's good.
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Rob Markman It's not one of those like...
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Rob Markman It is and that's what surprised me.
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I've said it before anyway but I didn't think that song was going to go.
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Rob Markman Why?
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Because it's a good song.
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I've never seen, I don't know.
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Well, because it's bars.
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Like it's bars, it's...
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Yeah, not because it's a good song, innit?
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I thought because it's too lyrical.
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Like it's like very, like I just writ it to rap.
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All of my other songs that I've gone, I write them with the agenda to go.
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That one day I was just barring.
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When I'm listening back to it, there was nothing in it that I thought was catchy.
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But what is catchy is that it's good music as well, the instrumental is good.
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And then, yeah, I think it's just, we rapped well.
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But it's rare that a song pops off for it being good and not for it being a gimmick or it being,
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having some sort of like mad catchy thing on TikTok or something.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It was just actually a rap song.
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It was dope.
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Central C's his name.
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We're getting some time with him today.
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You got your J.
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Cole collab, HYB, fire on mic, delete later.
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Is there a story behind that, how that came together?
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They reached out, you knew y'all just happened to be in the same...
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I was supporting Andre's tour, which was cool.
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Then I went home and then, but I had met my boy Harley who engineers,
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he was part of their team.
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He's part of their team.
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I've taken him back to London and we've just started working.
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And then, if I remember correctly, I think just to get inspired and that, because I was just working at home anyway, we said, yeah, let's just,
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Jake's carrying on touring, let's just jump back on the road.
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I weren't supporting the tour, but I just jumped back on the road and then just carry on, just working remotely and whatever, whatever.
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And then J.
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Cole must have been supporting.
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I met him there.
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Rob Markman Oh yeah, because him and Drake was doing a couple of shows together.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And J.C.O had already, I see a video online of him listening to Sprinter, so I knew he was cool.
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And yeah, when I met him, I was just talking to him.
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Coolest dude, right?
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Sickest guy still.
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So I was just talking to him about some fuck shit.
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And then, I don't know, he just sent me the songs too.
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And then that was it.
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Rob Markman Yo, isn't it cool?
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I have to imagine you as a kid who loves his hip hop shit and watched all these guys, right?
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And you meet them and they're just cool as fuck.
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Drake's cool as fuck.
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Cole's cool as fuck.
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Kendrick, they're cool.
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They're just regular cool dudes.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah.
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No, it's sick still.
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It's weird because I forget that I was even watching them when I was a youth.
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Right.
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Before that first project dropped, you say you was what, 17 on the first project?
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18 on first project well i don't want to say that my first project my first project was in 2021 and i was 22.
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22 so prior to that you deciding to be in music
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and make this your profession this is where i'm going what was the pressure from the family at
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that time like what was what was like the, you know, was it support?
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Was it like, yo, what the fuck are you doing?
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Yeah, my mom and my dad are splitting it and they're both so different.
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They're both raised proper different and yeah, my dad, he's on whatever, support anything I'm doing, right or wrong.
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And he's Guyanese, yeah?
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Yeah, my dad's Guyanese and my mom's English and my mom, yeah, she weren't rating it.
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Rightfully so though.
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It's not...
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It's not guaranteed.
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It's a liability, innit?
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Yeah, yeah.
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It's dangerous out here.
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Not even, I don't even think on adapting, but it's just like, there's not even no great examples, many examples of like, I don't know,
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maybe it just seemed unachievable.
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Like it was far fetched for me.
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I'm literally 13, 14 dropping music.
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I left school when I was 16.
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I left my mum's when I was 14.
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Me and my mum didn't speak for a good few years.
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And then there was no sign of me doing anything traditional.
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So my mum didn't really rate it.
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But I appreciate that she did it, innit?
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It's only she...
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Rob Markman, she want what's best for you.
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Yeah.
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Rob Markman, she wants something guaranteed that her baby's gonna be safe too.
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Yeah, yeah.
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My mom's mad.
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Like when, so I left my house, I was like 14.
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I think I tried to go back and I was like 16 and she was like,
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she ripped me like a, Like I say, cool, if you want to come back to the house, you've got to do this, this, this, this, this, this.
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And the rules were so, my mum's strict, so then, but one of them was get a job, innit?
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You can get a job when you're 16, legally, in the UK.
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So then I'm like, cool, whatever.
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I went to the sneaker store in Westfield, in my area.
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But I told my mum, print me one CV.
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and she said, how do you think you're going to get a job with one CV?
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I said, I'm going to go Westfield, I'm going to give it to this one store.
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I said, you need more than that.
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Like, because obviously that's back in the, I don't know if they still do that now, but probably- Drop the resume off.
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Yeah, you'll probably give it to every store.
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Yeah.
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But I only wanted to work in one place.
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And I went in there and I think, because I've shopped in there, I think I knew they kind of rated me.
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So I knew I could give them, I knew I'd get a job in it and I did.
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So I got that job, that was one of the, I only had it for a month and then by the time I quit
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that job my mum made me leave the house again.
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But, oh nah, she gave me a bit of leeway what she was doing.
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My little brothers were still going to school and they leave the house at like 7.30am.
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Now I've got no job, yeah, or maybe this was before I found the job, I can't remember but I just remember, this is how strict my mum was my mum was.
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I've got nothing to do the whole day, whatever.
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I have to leave my house and I've got no key.
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I have to leave my house at 7.30am when they go to school.
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Because you couldn't sit in the house?
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Yeah, but I've got nowhere to go.
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So I just have to do whatever I'm doing.
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I go to my breadjet, I'll go to the mall and I'll just sleep in the mall for a bit.
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Then by the time one of my guys wake up, I link them.
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Or I'll wake up my guy and I'll just sleep on his floor.
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Rob Markman- And then figure out what the day look like.
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Rob Markman- Yeah, but obviously them times there, I wonder, I probably wasn't rating my mom that much for it.
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I was really thinking, that's, you know, it's all good, isn't it?
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It's all character building and it's all for the right, she's got the right idea in it.
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Rob Markman- In 2014, you was calling yourself Central C?
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Or you was Oakley at the time?
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Rob Markman- No, I was Central C.
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Rob Markman- Where did the name come from?
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I think I see an interview here of Tiny Tempo saying how he got his name in it.
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And it was something like he just made it up or something.
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But he said there was the alliteration, the T.
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Oh, sounded good together.
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Yeah.
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And then I knew I had a next name that I won't even put out there.
438
But it was something with my government last name in it.
439
My surname is Caesar.
440
So I had like Caesar or something.
441
I must have been like 12 or something, because I was Central C by 2014.
442
But I just, yeah, I knew I wanted the something C, so I just go into the dictionary and just put all the words like capital C,
443
Central C, something C, this stuff.
444
Then I think I asked my mom.
445
I don't know if she chose Central C, but I was maybe asked one or two people.
446
She had no idea that this, and then she wanted to kick you out the crib and all this type of shit.
447
She done gave you the rap name.
448
It's mad, isn't it?
449
I'm glad this all worked out.
450
Yeah man, she is too.
451
You guys are great right now, right?
452
She's with me now.
453
She's on tour with me, which is great.
454
Oh, that's beautiful.
455
Good for you, man.
456
Yeah man, we're good still.
457
That's a blessing, man.
458
Yeah, biggest blessing still.
459
Biggest blessing.
460
We're all here, everyone's here.
461
My brothers are here, my brethren are here.
462
That's the main, obviously, it's hard.
463
The shows are great meeting the fans are cool but being able to travel the world with man's people,
464
that's what's more, I don't know which one's more surreal but probably even,
465
probably that, they're both surreal innit but I feel that more,
466
we're all here, we're all getting inspired and and working still.
467
There was times we were just sleeping on the floor.
468
That's a blessing, bro.
469
It's a blessing.
470
That's it.
471
It's a beautiful blessing.
472
It's healthy.
473
And you know what I'm saying?
474
You'll be able to put that magic in the music.
475
You'll be able to figure that out and tell that story the right way.
476
Whereas, you know, the fans will love you for it, man.
477
Yeah.
478
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
479
I look forward to it.
480
Central C, man it's been a pleasure talking to you bro.
481
I really love meeting dope artists who want to take care of hip hop.
482
You know what I'm saying?
483
No thank you bro.
484
And yeah, flowers to you as well still.
485
That's love.
486
Yeah, that's it.
487
When I see you, I said it feels like I've met you already.
488
I just watched everything.
489
The legendary interviews.
490
Good or bad, right?
491
Yeah.
492
The good and the bad.
493
I get crazy sometimes, bro.
494
Yeah, I know.
495
I remember even thinking ...
496
You know, it's mad.
497
That's how delusional I was though.
498
Before I even blew, before I even became successful in the thing, I'm thinking, yeah, how am I going to act when I'm on the radio of E-Rail?
499
I said, I don't know if I'll even rate him.
500
He's moving a bit too mad on certain things.
501
I said, nah, I like him.
502
Yeah, I've thought about all of this stuff.
503
But it's good to meet you, bro.
504
Rob Markman, Listen man, I just want, I have a, I feel like I, listen, even yourself, but that's up to you to decide how you take the challenge.
505
But I think that we have been given an opportunity to make sure
506
that this music and this kind of art expression thing that kids from the street, you know what I mean,
507
come from neighborhoods that people ain't paying attention to get to like tell their fucking story
508
and make a gang of money and potentially change their family's life
509
so i feel like when people come along
510
and they acting like the shit is some throwaway shit i'm offended hey central c you can't rush greatness
511
which is a gem for everybody watching this conversation
512
because bro is taking his time he's putting great music together i want to play don't know anymore
513
and i want to play that uh because i feel like you put
514
that at the end of the project for a purpose and a reason.
515
Do you rate Meet Mill? Of course.
516
Yeah, I rate Meet Mill.
517
He told me that, I see him, that's the little things that make man like cool.
518
This is a bit proud.
519
When I see him, the album just dropped as well.
520
Someone could say, oh, the album's cold, you know?
521
It's like, how much do I know that you listen to the album.
522
He's like, bro, that don't know anymore.
523
He's like, I can't remember what he said, but he's like, you're saying what we're living or something.
524
He said something.
525
I'm like, yeah, love, bro.
526
So yeah, that's an important song still.
527
Rob Markman- How hard you talked about Limitless being tough to record, finding the pain and finding the...
528
Similarly on this song, you had to dig for this.
529
Yeah, so much to like we had to change some lyrics, change one, two lyrics, some feelings might have hurt.
530
But yeah, no, you're right still, yeah.
531
If it was cool though, to write, writing it was cool.
532
I recorded it in a shit studio.
533
I think it's so emotionally like revoking, it's so emotional, revoking so much emotion.
534
Like I didn't even bother re-recording I think I should have
535
because the recording wasn't that great and even my voice wasn't that great.
536
I think that, well, I think that gives it something.
537
It's the real emotion.
538
Like if I went to go and re-record it, it would not have been the same, innit?
539
The imperfections are always what makes the magic, in my opinion.
540
Nah, I hear you.
541
I hear that as well, still.
542
I've been recording on my phone recently and I like how it sounds like that.
543
Yeah man, the flaws are good still.
544
Keep the flaws.
545
Do you rate Sexy Red? Of course. Of course.
546
One thing I know about Sexy Red is she's funny as fuck and she's better than people give her credit for.
547
Like I saw her perform and I was like, oh.
548
I liked her off Pound Town because it sounded like a freestyle.
549
I was like, oh no, this is fire.
550
And then she kind of kept doubling down on that.
551
And I was like, where's this going?
552
Then I saw her live and I was like.
553
Why?
554
What made you think that when she was live?
555
The care that she put into the live show.
556
That showed me, oh, this isn't by accident.
557
Was it her show?
558
No, it was her show.
559
Her show, yeah.
560
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
561
We booked her out here for a summer jam in New York and I saw just the whole stage.
562
She's the coldest.
563
Yeah.
564
Even I see her in Live, in Miami.
565
It's not a show, but she's just doing three songs like the way she had it, that she had all her brethren's there, that it reminded me of me,
566
but all of that I know is fought through for her, or maybe it's even not, and that makes it even cooler, but either way, either way it's safe.
567
Well, there's certain things that I feel like she thinks through, and then there's certain shit where she's just, it's lifestyle.
568
It's just how she's living, isn't it?
569
It's how she's living, it's how she's talking, it's her.
570
She's giving you her, and it's not contrived, I guess is what I'm saying.
571
It's not like a made up persona.
572
That's really that person who knows who she is and is comfortable with who she is.
573
And even with the collabs, like even her collabing with you, even some, you know, the Bruno Mars of the world or, you know, I heard a song with her and a country artist.
574
Like the fact that she's moving around in all these spaces, I think is is dope.
575
And then, you know, like I said earlier, I'm patient.
576
I want to see how where artists take this shit as they mature in the public eye
577
and as they mature as human beings right?
578
Because where she started, where she come from, she's been able to see the world and I would love to see that, how that forms her artistry.
579
She's rare.
580
She's rare still.
581
I like her a lot.
582
Well, how did you guys connect for this collaboration?
583
Quite a lot.
584
Big up Drake, because on the Drake tour as well.
585
Just met, well, that's how I met her, innit?
586
That's where we made the link and then there and I just sent her the song.
587
I had the song, sent her the song and then yeah, the rest was it.
588
Rob Markman- And it?
589
Rob Markman- Yeah.
590
Drake connected a good few dots, so thanks to him.
591
Rob Markman- You've collabed with Ashake, you got the Lil Baby, also Young Ads.
592
Rob Markman- Yeah.
593
Rob Markman- And you also bring them out on your show too, right?
594
yeah yeah yeah we brought everyone out of the o2
595
and i felt a bit bad for everyone on the rest
596
of the for the rest of the europe tour we didn't bring anyone that i had collabed out with
597
if i remember correctly
598
but then o2 i just brought out all the wild cards
599
in it it was last minute though in my in my fate
600
and in if it makes it sound any better i wasn't planning to just spoil london
601
and disregard everywhere else it was just last minute i realized london is hometown though so it's a little different.
602
Yeah, I just realized, shit, wait, hold on, I'm doing an O2, I can't just be me, hold on, let me just pick up the phone and just start calling everyone. So yeah.
603
Rob Markman You do a lot of that work yourself, connecting with people.
604
Yeah, I try to do it, ooh, innit?
605
I think it should only be me.
606
If it's anybody else, just forget it, man.
607
It's not, yeah.
608
Rob Markman It's not real, like it feels fake.
609
If you got management reaching out.
610
Yeah, there's some people that I'd be faithful though.
611
Some people I need a feature by any means. But no, I'm joking.
612
But yeah, maybe actually though.
613
Like Adele, I don't know how I'm going to shout her.
614
But it's going to happen.
615
Adele's cool as fuck.
616
You met her?
617
I see her.
618
Nah, I haven't met her like that.
619
Cool as fuck, bro.
620
Yeah, I can imagine.
621
Still, she's never done a feature in her life, you know?
622
Not one feature.
623
I didn't even think about that from the beginning of her career.
624
Do you know how much integrity that must have took for her?
625
Like imagine how many people was hitting her that were her idols and she's just saying, nah, I'm all right.
626
I'm not doing features however she's doing it, but she's just stayed.
627
She's just on her own thing whole time, which is mad.
628
So I don't think she's going to do one with me.
629
Rob Markman- I just sample her, chop that shit up, make that shit a drill beat and then run over.
630
Yeah, it's something.
631
I'll tell you anything.
632
Why not?
633
She can send me a voice note, I'll just put a voice like that.
634
As it says, his debut studio album Can't Rush Greatness became his second number one on the UK Albums chart.
635
It also debuted at number nine on the Billboard 200 becoming the first top 10 UK rap album in America.
636
Yeah.
637
You heard that before?
638
Yeah.
639
Sounds good, innit?
640
My fellow, my manager, he's the one who sets them kind of goals
641
and it's good because I won't set them goals innit.
642
But you need to at the same time, think about some of these stuff.
643
So that's, I'm happy for him that we done that innit.
644
I'm glad that we done that.
645
But yeah, obviously it's good though.
646
But now the next one drops and the next one drops.
647
That's the part where it's good that you're in the mindset that you're in.
648
Because you don't want to chase charts bro.
649
You don't want that.
650
You don't, but yeah, you don't want to.
651
But you want to make quality shit that- You have to as well.
652
I understand that you have to nowadays, kind of.
653
Obviously perception is everything, isn't it?
654
So you got to take that into, you got to keep that in the front of your mind all the time.
655
all it takes is one, two certain numbers to drop on whatever it is.
656
And then, yeah.
657
There you go.
658
His name is Central C, man.
659
Thank you for your time today.
660
Thank you so much.
661
Thank you.
662
Keep going, man.
663
I hope to see you again.
664
Yeah.
665
You know what I'm saying?
666
Are we, is there, like, how do you, with an album, how do you, how are you thinking about, like, the next project?
667
Like, is your brain even there?
668
Yeah.
669
You thinking about the next project?
670
I was already thinking, obviously thinking kind of like what we're going to do before we even drop the project.
671
But I don't know, there's so many ways we can take it and it's up for debate in our head.
672
It's all in the air, we don't know.
673
We never really know, innit?
674
Either way we always keep the options open.
675
Might try or something don't really work, just go all the way left.
676
I don't know, but we're going to do something, I hope.
677
Yeah, there it goes.
678
It's Apple Music 1, the Ebro Show.
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Лексика и советы по произношению к этому уроку
Этот урок разговорной практики уровня B2 построен на видео «Central Cee: Apple Music Live and Can't Rush Greatness». В этом видео 678 предложений и 6907 слов для шедоуинга. Речь длится 38:19. Говорящий говорит быстро, около 180 слов в минуту, поэтому звуки часто сливаются и сокращаются. 83% слов входят в 3000 самых частых слов английского языка; остальные стоит разобрать перед занятием.
Ключевая лексика этого видео
Самые сложные слова из видео (15), с произношением и значением:
| Слово | Произношение | Значение |
|---|---|---|
| blessing существительное | /ˈblɛs.ɪŋ/ | благослове́ние, ми́лость |
| dope существительное | [doʊp] | сма́зка |
| rap глагол | /ɹæp/ | стуча́ть |
| rat существительное | /ɹæt/ | кры́са, пасю́к |
| emotion существительное | /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ | эмо́ция, чу́вство |
| catchy прилагательное | /ˈkæt͡ʃi/ | привя́зчивый, запомина́ющийся |
| greatness существительное | /ˈɡɹeɪtnəs/ | вели́чие |
| revoke глагол | /ɹɪˈvoʊk/ | отменя́ть, отмени́ть |
| sling существительное | /ˈslɪŋ/ | праща́ |
| surreal прилагательное | /səˈɹiː(.ə)l/ | сюрреалисти́чный |
| flaw существительное | /flɔ/ | тре́щина, щель |
| accomplishment существительное | /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/ | достиже́ние |
| jealousy существительное | /ˈd͡ʒɛl.ə.si/ | ре́вность, за́висть |
| mindset существительное | /ˈmaɪn(d)ˌsɛt/ | склад ума́, о́браз мы́слей |
| toe существительное | /təʊ/ | па́лец, па́лец ноги́ |
Фразовые глаголы, которые вы услышите
| Слово | Произношение | Значение |
|---|---|---|
| come up глагол | поднима́ться, подня́ться | |
| go back глагол | возвраща́ться, возврати́ться | |
| show up глагол | объявля́ться, объяви́ться | |
| wake up глагол | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | просыпа́ться, просну́ться |
| blow up глагол | взрыва́ть, взорва́ть | |
| come along глагол | сопровожда́ть, составля́ть компа́нию | |
| come around глагол | /kʌ.məˈɹaʊnd/ | переду́мать |
| come out глагол | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | выходи́ть, вы́йти |
Фразы, которые стоит повторять
Короткие законченные фразы из видео, которые пригодятся в повседневном разговоре:
- You know what I'm saying?
- Probably outside the game, you guys have done what?
- Because you couldn't sit in the house?
- I was really thinking, that's, you know, it's all good, isn't it?
- Just met, well, that's how I met her, innit?
Грамматика в этом видео
Конструкции, которые говорящий использует чаще всего, с точными словами из видео:
| Конструкция | В видео |
|---|---|
| «Used to» used to + глагол — прошлая привычка или состояние, которых больше нет | used to maybe · used to rate · used to think |
| Present Perfect Continuous have/has been + -ing — действие началось раньше и продолжается | I've been listening · I've been recording |
| Present Perfect have/has + причастие прошедшего времени — прошлое действие, важное сейчас | I've just been · It's just been · i've seen |
| Пассивный залог be + причастие прошедшего времени — важно, что происходит, а не кто это делает | was added · is put · is spoken |
Произношение, на которое стоит обратить внимание
Говорящий использует 288 сокращённых и редуцированных форм, например I'm, don't, I've. Произносите их коротко, так, как слышите.
- Звуки «th»: brethren /ˈbɹɛðɹən/, aesthetic /ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/, faithful /ˈfeɪθ.fl̩/
- Звуки «sh» и «zh»: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, accomplishment /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/, alliteration /əˌlɪtəˈɹeɪʃən/, imperfection /ɪmpɚˈfɛkʃən/, delusional /dɪˈluːʒənəl/
- Длинные слова — следите за ударением: accomplishment /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/, alliteration /əˌlɪtəˈɹeɪʃən/, creatively /kɹiˈeɪtɪvli/, imperfection /ɪmpɚˈfɛkʃən/, monumental /ˌmɑnjəˈmɛntəl/
Звуки, трудные для русскоязычных:
- /h/ — лёгкий выдох, а не русское «х»: headspace /ˈhɛdspeɪs/, hardship /ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/, hometown /ˈhoʊmˌtaʊn/
- Звонкие согласные в конце слова — не оглушайте их: collab /kəˈlæb/, acknowledge /əkˈnɑ.lɪd͡ʒ/, contrived /kənˈtɹaɪvd/, offend /əˈfɛnd/, backstage /bækˈsteɪd͡ʒ/
- /ŋ/ в конце слова — носовой звук без «г»: blessing /ˈblɛs.ɪŋ/, sling /ˈslɪŋ/, joking /ˈd͡ʒoʊkɪŋ/
Как заниматься с этим видео
- Прослушайте всё видео один раз молча и выпишите незнакомые слова.
- Начните со скорости 0,75×, повторяйте предложение за предложением и вернитесь к обычной скорости, когда станет легко.
- Запишите себя и сравните с оригиналом, обращая внимание на такие слова, как blessing, dope, rap.
Что такое техника Shadowing?
Shadowing — это научно обоснованная техника изучения языка, изначально разработанная для подготовки профессиональных переводчиков и популяризированная полиглотом доктором Александром Аргуэльесом. Метод прост, но эффективен: вы слушаете аудио на английском от носителей языка и немедленно повторяете вслух — как тень, следующая за говорящим с задержкой в 1–2 секунды. В отличие от пассивного прослушивания или грамматических упражнений, Shadowing заставляет мозг и мышцы рта одновременно обрабатывать и воспроизводить реальные речевые паттерны. Исследования показывают, что это значительно улучшает точность произношения, интонацию, ритм, связную речь, понимание на слух и беглость речи — что делает его одним из самых эффективных методов для подготовки к IELTS Speaking и реального общения на английском.