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(metal banging)

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(audience members yelling)

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- Raise the roof.

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(audience cheering)

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- What\'s happenin\', LA? (audience cheering)

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♪ All praises due ♪

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♪ To the North side ♪

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♪ By the slight of hand ♪

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♪ And the slide of touch ♪

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♪ I\'m Missus He miser ♪

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♪ I\'m too much ♪

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♪ By the slight of hand ♪

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♪ And the slide of touch ♪

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♪ I\'m Missus He Miser ♪

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♪ I\'m too much ♪

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♪ I\'m a black magic woman woman ♪

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- Just the total disrespect to women.

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That shit is not cool.

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- You have to understand.

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You\'re a commodity, so sell yourself,

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market yourself, promote yourself.

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- Oh shit, they done fucked up.

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They done let a bitch like me know like what\'s going on.

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♪ Hip hop ♪

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♪ Hip hop ♪

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♪ Is more than just music to me ♪

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♪ And I feel that you feel ♪

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♪ What I feel eventually ♪

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♪ And I flow like I flow ♪

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♪ Sing on beat so y\'all can know ♪

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♪ I\'m real ♪

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♪ I don\'t just sing it ♪

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♪ Yes I live it ♪

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Yo, what\'s up, y\'all?

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This is Leschea representin\' the station.

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It\'s my job to just come out and be like,

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I\'m Leschea, and this is what I\'m about,

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and when I get accepted for that, and what I\'m doin\',

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you know what I\'m sayin\', I\'ll take it from there.

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♪ When on Fulton Street ♪

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♪ And I\'ve been rollin\' here and there ♪

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As a woman, I wanna be accepted

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and respected for

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doin\' something that\'s different.

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♪ So far ♪

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♪ T-Love\'s a scientifical breakthrough ♪

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♪ Archeological discovery MC ♪

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♪ Imitate ♪

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♪ Excavate the style ♪

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♪ Digging like fleas ♪

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Or they say, you know you need a man in your group,

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\'cause then they\'ll listen to you more.

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Get out of here.

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It\'s like, get out of here.

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I wanna be standing on my own two.

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Return of the B-Girl, you know what I\'m saying?

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By myself.

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A B-girl could scratch and do everything

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she needed to do by herself.

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Like a...

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And that...

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And you know, she\'s self-maintained.

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She didn\'t need a man to kind of help her.

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You know, she\'s self-maintained.

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(hip-hip music playing)

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- When I do it, I don\'t try to act like a man

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or do my moves like a man,

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I do \'em how I do \'em.

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♪ Us women ♪

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♪ And women like a life guard ♪

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We\'re not tryin\' to compete against men,

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we\'re just tryin\' to build our own.

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You know, it\'s not about us versus them,

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it\'s about us helping ourselves,

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\'cause we shouldn\'t expect them to do our shit for us.

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(record scratching)

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- My name\'s DJ Symphony.

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(hip-hop music playing)

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I don\'t spend hours a day practicing to be pretty,

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or to be cute, on the turntables.

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I practice to be a DJ.

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I practice skills.

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I don\'t sit there puttin\' makeup on, you know.

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I\'m not there to be looked at, I\'m there to be listened to.

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Like I\'d be DJ\'ing at a party,

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and these girls would come up to me,

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oh, can we speak to the DJ?

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And I\'d be like, I am the DJ.

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- It doesn\'t bother me when they say,

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oh, that\'s Click\'s wife, because, you know, like I said,

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I am his wife.

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If it was me rapping, they\'d probably be saying,

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oh that\'s Lisa\'s husband.

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When we have company, you\'re not supposed to act worse

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than how you act when we don\'t have company.

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I\'m the mommy, I have to be taking care of everybody.

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I mean, that\'s just me.

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You know, I always have to be,

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you know, Anthony clean your face over here.

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You know, get up, you\'re getting\' dirty.

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You know, Tony fix your hair. (laughing)

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You know, or something.

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\'Cause if you\'re a mother,

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if that\'s what people call being a mother, being on check,

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well then my ass is on check.

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\'Kay?

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Because there ain\'t no way I\'m not gonna

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take care of my kids or my husband.

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- Well I\'m a strong black woman who means what she says,

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and

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that carries the weight of the 60\'s

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movement within her.

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♪ Check it ♪

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♪ I\'m wondering if your mind is able to weather ♪

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♪ And any lyrical endeavor ♪

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♪ Well let it be known ♪

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♪ Why MC\'s heads are separate ♪

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♪ Stand \'em ♪

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♪ Hook \'em up ♪

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♪ Get \'em across the label ♪

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♪ Just after me and that lyrical king ♪

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♪ At your listening table ♪

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♪ You see this a ♪

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♪ Specialty ♪

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♪ A recipe ♪

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♪ Every way yella could see. ♪

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♪ Now this be ♪

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♪ MED USA ♪

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♪ You cannot sway ♪

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When I\'m kickin\', especially for an audience,

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it\'s comin\' straight from soul.

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It\'s almost like, I just open my mouth,

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and the gods pull it out of me.

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And just throw it at \'em, you know.

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♪ And my new champion ♪

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♪ Before I get away ♪

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♪ And you ♪

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♪ I aint mad you a hoe ♪

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♪ I\'m mad because you\'re my baby\'s ♪

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♪ How to be a hoe ♪

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♪ When I aint at home ♪

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♪ Takin\' that video turn it on ♪

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♪ Why you tryin\' to clone bitches ♪

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♪ I\'m tryin\' to raise queens ♪

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♪ There\'s about to be some switches ♪

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♪ Up in here ♪

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♪ After we get these samples clear ♪

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♪ I\'m exactly what you fear ♪

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♪ M just MC game ♪

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♪ I\'m the true instant surveyor ♪

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♪ Medusa rhymes as freaky as a man ♪

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(audience cheers)

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- Hip-hop, you know, almost hates women.

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That\'s what you would think,

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if you didn\'t know a lot about hip-hop,

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and you didn\'t know the history,

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and you just turned on any rap video,

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you would think that that\'s, you know,

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that they hated women.

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- I don\'t really think we have an image.

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We\'re just like bodies.

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You know, we\'re just bodies on TV, who they talkin\' about.

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(laughs)

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You don\'t be havin\' know face, no ideas,

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no realism to it.

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- We\'ve always had negative information thrown at us.

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And it\'s like, I think to deal with it,

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we just kind of, you know, put it to the back,

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and ignore it.

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You know, we just pretend like it\'s not there.

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Or aww they\'re not talkin\' about me.

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You know, it\'s like, they\'re not talkin\' about me,

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\'cause I\'m not a hoe.

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But it\'s like, no they don\'t know you.

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And so they are talkin\' about you.

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And their talkin\' about your friends,

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your sister, your mother.

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♪ I got two ♪

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- You know, these girls growin\' to think that

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the only way they can get attention, is to be like that.

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Is to be a stripper, or to be a hoe.

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Or you know, to shake they ass in somebody\'s face.

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And I\'ve seen it, even in young adults,

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you know, at clubs.

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Sisters are really lookin\' for Mister Goodbar,

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you know what I\'m sayin\'? (laughs)

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- It\'s like McDonald\'s is cheap, because it\'s McDonald\'s.

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You know, there\'s...

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They\'re all over the country,

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it\'s over how many they is served.

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And you know, that\'s supposed to be McDonald\'s.

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You know, you\'re not supposed to be just

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giving yourself up for nothin\'.

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- A sister could pass by a group of brothers in front of me,

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and next to nothin\', and they\'ll be like,

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hey, hey baby, come here, you know,

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let me talk to you for a minute.

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And be disrespectful with their approach.

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And if they don\'t go for it, then they call names,

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and all that shit.

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But I make walk by, in a goddess gown,

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and my fro forked out,

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and just really in my goddess stature.

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And they\'re like, how you doin\' sister.

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It\'s a whole \'nother respect.

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♪ You\'ve got the 40 ounce in your hand ♪

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♪ You said you wanna be my man ♪

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♪ And we were swingin\' to a slow jam ♪

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♪ Swingin\' to a slow jam ♪

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I grew up on hip-hop.

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Not just the music, but everything.

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The lifestyle, I mean I was lovin\' break dancin\'.

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I wasn\'t break dancin\' though.

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But you know, just the poppin\', and the graffiti,

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and shell toes, you know what I\'m sayin\'?

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All that.

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The music, definitely fascinated me.

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♪ Uh ♪

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♪ Uh ♪

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♪ Yo ♪

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♪ Now let\'s take a song ♪

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♪ The same ol\' beats there\'s nothin\' wrong ♪

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♪ A lot of records sold ♪

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That\'s why today, even though that I\'m singin\' right now,

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professionally as a solo artist,

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I still feel,

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and consider myself to be hip-hop.

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Hip-hop is a lifestyle, and that\'s very important.

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And I try to bring that message to people.

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\'Cause when I say, I\'m a hip-hop artist,

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they be like, oh word, you rhyme?

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And I\'m like, nah I sing.

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And they\'s like, I don\'t get it.

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You don\'t gotta rhyme to be hip-hop,

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you know what I\'m sayin\'?

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It\'s hip-hop.

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It\'s how I dress, how I talk, I eat, sleep,

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everything about me is about the show you this hip-hop, so.

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That\'s why I had to take that route.

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(hip-hop music playing)

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And you know I grew up in Beth Starvins in Brooklyn.

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Not like, you know, no serious grimy

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neighborhood.

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It was pretty basic.

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You know, double dutch outside, and play Skully,

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and you know, freeze tag.

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Just like, you know, majority of the neighborhoods.

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♪ And I can\'t wait to hear some more ♪

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♪ Of song ♪

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♪ When no more hip-hop beats now that\'s their wrong ♪

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I got involved about three years ago,

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when I went on the road, with Master Ace.

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- I\'m tryin\' to like have this policy,

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when I come out with my artist,

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to like let them be in for front, and not try to--

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- Well I know is for about nine years,

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and we always like remain cool.

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But you know I use to rhyme back in the days of,

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I thought I could rhyme. (laughs)

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and I was like, yo I\'m sayin\', put me on.

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So he was like, um

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well let me hear your stuff, whatever.

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I was rhymin\' for him or whatever.

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He was like,

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I don\'t think you should put your future

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into rhymin\' or whatever.

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So couple of years after that, and he was like,

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yo I\'m about to go in this tour.

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And I\'m, you know, formulatin\' this INC group whatever.

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And I want you to come on the road with me.

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So I was like, ohh finally you wanna put me on?

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You know what I\'m sayin\'?

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After all this time.

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He was like, you know I want you to come with me

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and everything, but it\'s one condition.

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I was like, what\'s that?

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And he was like, you gotta sing, you can\'t rhyme.

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I was like,

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sing?

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♪ Just music to me ♪

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♪ And I feel that you feel ♪

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♪ What I feel ♪

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After we finished Ace\'s album, I was doin\' some demos,

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to try to get me a deal.

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And we had did this song called, Creepin\'.

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And Ace did a little rap on the song.

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And we was like passin\' it out to different labels.

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And we, you know, haven\'t heard too much of a response,

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after, you know, a couple of weeks, or a couple of months,

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or whatever it was.

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And

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my A and R, Alice and Gabriel, that works at Warner,

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you know, one day she had this tape in her car,

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and she\'s driving, going to work or whatever,

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and she puts the tape in, and she\'s listenin\' to this song,

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and she\'s like, yeah.

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She\'s feelin\' it or whatever.

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But the tape had no name, no number,

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nothin\' on this tape.

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Blank tape.

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You know, she was feelin\' me,

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but she didn\'t know who the fuck I was.

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And then they lettin\' the song play,

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and Ace starts rhymin\' on it.

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So this is guy is like, that\'s Ace.

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He said, I know Ace\'s voice, and that\'s Master Ace rhymin\'.

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I don\'t know who the girls is, but that\'s Master Ace.

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And she says, find Master Ace, find him.

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So they find him, and you know, that\'s how I got my break.

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Word up.

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And that is truly faith right there.

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That is a true blessin\'.

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♪ I dream of a place ♪

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You know, as far as payin\' your dues, (laughs)

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I\'ve definitely done that, you know what I\'m, sayin\'?

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Goin\' on the road, and

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doin\' mad shows, for no dough.

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You know what I\'m sayin\'?

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And bills to pay, and

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gettin\' booed, and I mean.

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But it comes with the territory, you know what I\'m sayin\'?

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I just strived to, you know, for it to be better.

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And it\'s better now, it\'s a lot better.

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I know I\'ve still got a lot of rocky roads to go down,

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but um...

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And there\'s still a whole lot more dues to pay.

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But you know, it\'s all a part of growing, that\'s all.

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♪ Another rollin\' here and there ♪

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♪ It seems I couldn\'t find you anywhere ♪

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♪ But there you are ♪

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♪ So close but and yet so far ♪

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- Take a male group into an office, an A and R office,

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and you say, yo I got this group.

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I want you to hear.

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Okay, give me the tape,

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let me hear him. - What do they look like?

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- You take a female group and you say,

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I got this female group.

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They say, give me a picture.

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- Whatever, sex sales.

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That\'s no secret.

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- You know, if you\'re a consumer,

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and you wanna buy somethin\'.

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You\'re forced, you know, to buy either a A B and C.

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So it\'s like, you know, you can listen to yourself

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bein\' a bitch, or a hoe, or a trick, or all three,

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or just not listen to anything.

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- What has been is the most derogatory shit you could say,

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that has been selling.

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But little do they know,

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that what needs to be,

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and what is coming in the future, will sell also.

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You know what I mean?

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Because it\'s a frame of mind that we need so badly,

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that souls are searching for,

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that they would eat that up to.

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You know what I\'m sayin\'?

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But their stuck in the past, and what has sold.

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So they\'re gonna keep tryin\' to mimic it

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as much as they possibly can,

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in order to keep them dollars comin\'.

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- You know I would play the beats, and people would say,

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is that hers?

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You know, she really doin\' the beats?

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You know, even after I play them.

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You know, it was kind of hard to believe,

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you know, hard to accept a female producer,

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just on the scene with phat beats.

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- I don\'t know, it\'s just somethin\' about

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solo female hip-hop artists

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that people are not grasping to, in numbers.

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- So I\'ve kicked many a people a tape,

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and it might have been too much for them,

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you know, something that they probably felt it,

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and understood it, but they didn\'t feel

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like anyone would else would grasp it.

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Or that\'s not what was happening in the rotation,

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at that time, and they didn\'t feel like it could fit,

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or it was marketable, or what have you.

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- But it\'s all a business,

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you know what I\'m sayin\'?

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I mean,

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I sell records, or whatever.

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They help me to sell records.

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They promote me properly, marketing me properly.

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I do what I need to do as an artist, as far as perform,

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and record to satisfaction.

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Everybody do they part, as a whole, we gonna win.

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- Who are you marketing to?

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- [Crowd] Wu-Tang, Wu-Tang,

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- Then these people will eat and feed,

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off of what you given them back to that, you know.

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So how could you make something marketable, and what not,

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and make something unmarketable?

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You know what I\'m sayin\'?

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Just put it out there, and see what happens with it.

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- You know how are you gonna...

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How are you gonna sell somethin\' that\'s ours?

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See, that\'s I how I be feelin\' like.

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How are you gonna make me pay all this money

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for somethin\' that\'s my culture?

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- You know, I find that if I\'m in a worker\'s position,

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you could do more love for the culture that way.

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You know what I mean?

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Like you can do more.

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You can, you know, hook this kid up with that kid here,

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or do that, you know.

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It\'s gonna be the people, who like me I think,

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who keep hip-hop live, like the culture.

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(hip-hop music playing)

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- I started breaking around three years ago,

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so that would be 94.

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I think, maybe a little bit before that,

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or around that time.

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And I...

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\'Cause I, you know, I was like I wanted to devote myself,

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to have a skill, you know, one of the elements.

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\'Cause you know, I can write.

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You know, I mess around with aerosol, but I wasn\'t...

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I wanted...

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I really was interested in the dance,

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and I, you now, I felt like, you know what,

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until I really get down with one of these elements,

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you know, I can\'t really consider myself hi-hop, you know.

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And I just said, you know, so I just threw myself into it,

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and I was just practicing all the time.

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And it was just like, became a love for me, you know.

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And it kinda, it started as more of a hobby,

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and then it grew to somethin\' I was really, you know,

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I really liked.

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And I knew I was gonna be with it

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for as long as my body would let me.

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(hip-hop music playing)

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You know, I\'ve been on my own since I was 16.

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I just, you know, I\'m like, you know,

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I\'m just kind of like a nomad type person.

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I just kind of flow, ebb and flow, you know,

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get into other things.

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But um.

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Nah, I didn\'t...

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I don\'t...

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I didn\'t see myself like this when I was little.

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I don\'t even really remember.

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I think I wanted to be a school teacher, you know.

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And I still wanna be a teacher kind of, you know.

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I like that.

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I like the idea of, you know, teaching and helping,

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and yet, learning from them, me learning.

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You know, I like that.

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I think that\'s kind of cool.

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(hip-hop music playing)

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You know, before I get into break, you know,

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I was doin\' drugs.

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I was drinking, and I was doin\', you know,

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I was living that, quote unquote hip-hop thing,

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where you know, you just party and have fun.

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And you know, I had to really take myself by the reigns,

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and say, you know, this isn\'t cool.

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This isn\'t right.

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You know, you have another path out there,

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you need to be on.

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And I had to, you know, I had to change myself 180 really.

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I didn\'t change, necessarily, who I was,

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but I changed, you know, my habits, and stuff.

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And I think that\'s why I\'m benefiting from this dance now,

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because, you know, I put a lot into changing myself,

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so I can get with the dance.

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(hip-hop music playing)

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you know, really before dancers even came into this spot,

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you know, the B-Boys, and the B-Girls who were there,

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and the DJ\'s use to play beats for them, you know,

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to break to, to dance to.

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And they were never in the background

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like people think now, you know.

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\'cause, you know, when you think about it,

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it doesn\'t really make much sense

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to sit and watching an MC.

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It\'s not a visual.

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It\'s, you know, it\'s for your ears.

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But the dancing is the visual presence, you know,

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within hip-hops.

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Rap music straight up, got packaged.

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They left everything else behind.

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They know that they can\'t really do nothin\' with the dance.

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They can\'t really market the dance.

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It\'s not marketable.

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It already hit its biggest peak.

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All you can do with the dance is market gear.

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But everybody\'s gonna wear that anyways.

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Every time we break and stuff, and we\'re just like,

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out there, and I was wonderin\' man, how come nobody...

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No more people want us in their videos, you know?

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If I was a dope MC, I\'d be like,

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yo I\'m gonna get some really dope B-Boys and B-Girls,

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and I\'m gonna get a really sick ass graffiti backdrop.

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I\'m gonna do this shit up right.

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\'Cause that to me, is street level respect.

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That...

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Then when I put my presentation out there,

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people are gonna know what I\'m about.

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People are gonna know what I\'m about, what I respect.

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But when I watch these other rappers, it\'s like,

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and I see all they have is these...

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You know, their clothes, their big ass Mercedez,

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and then their like 10, a gang of women around them.

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It\'s like...

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I\'m like, yo what do they respect?

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You know, is this...

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Oh, this is all they\'re down for, you know?

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(hip-hop music playing)

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I think it\'s intimidating to be around men a lot,

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and to be in a circle, and to...

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It\'s really intimidating the first couple of times,

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when you go out in the circle.

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I use to be like, you know, what...

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The minute I practice, and I do good at the minute,

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I\'m out with the circle.

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It\'s like my feet and my head wouldn\'t work together.

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It\'s like there was a missing link.

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But, I think that\'s really the real reasons.

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I...

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You know once more females start,

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it will purge a flow in that direction.

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\'Cause, you know, if you and me are friends,

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we\'re kickin\' it, and you\'re dancing,

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and like I got a little time on my hands or whatever,

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I see what you\'re doin\', and I like it.

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I might start too.

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And then we can practice together.

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(hip-hop music playing)

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I just, I really wanna see more women,

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you know, within hip-hop.

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I just wish there was more women.

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Even so I can just be friends with them.

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You know what I mean?

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\'Cause sometimes it\'s just lonely, \'cause you don\'t...

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There\'s not enough women out there that are really,

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you know, using your brains, and putting a positive force,

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to really hang out with.

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You know, hip-hop with women is like,

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yo I\'m tired of rolling with all guys.

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It\'s like gettin\' really...

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Its always been a factor in it that\'s,

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you know, made my wanna get out.

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If there was any fact that made me wanna get out,

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it\'s because like, you know,

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it\'s human nature to wanna be with your own, you know.

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You\'ve got to, so.

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Just keep it goin\' you know.

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- Asian\'s representin\'.

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Do a little dream to the fullest.

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Yeah.

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To all the dreams make some noise.

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(crowd cheering)

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Let me hear you say, ho!

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- [Crowd] Ho!

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- Whenever I start freakin\' out about stuff,

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I gotta just remember, you know,

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I\'m only one person, whatever.

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I gotta live life too.

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I gotta have fun, and you know,

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we really enjoy what we\'re doing.

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I\'m really happy, you know, I\'m not gonna say I\'m like,

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you know completely depressed about

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the state of affairs with hip-hop, or the world.

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I\'m happy.

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I\'m doin\' what I wanna do.

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I\'m livin\' right by myself,

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and I think that\'s why I\'m happy inside.

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I\'m not like compromising what I believe in necessarily

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to make my money, or you know, I\'m not...

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I\'m not doing anything foul to get where,

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you know, I\'m getting.

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And I think I have peace with myself.

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And you know, I think, you know,

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I question a lot of people out there, you know,

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do you have that same peace?

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Because if you don\'t, you gotta look inside,

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and figure out what you\'re doin\' wrong by yourself,

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and to others.

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(slow hip-hop music playing)

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- I grew up in Wilmington, kind of, you know, rough area,

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with gangs, and stuff like that.

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Good, you cleaned in here.

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(hip-hop music playing)

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I use to listen to rap a lot.

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I use to break dance a little,

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back there when I was young.

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I can\'t do it anymore. (laughs)

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Look out from there Alissa.

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When he asked me to go out with him, and stuff,

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I mean I didn\'t say, okay this guy I\'m gonna marry,

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I just thought, you know, it was gonna be like

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just a short term relationship, but boyfriend, you know.

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♪ Check it out ♪

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♪ I\'m Click the Supah Latin ♪

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Months went by, then a year went by, and two years went by,

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and I got pregnant with my first son Anthony.

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♪ Draw that y\'all ♪

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♪ That y\'all ♪

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♪ That and what at ♪

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♪ It\'s like that ♪

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I didn\'t even think I was gonna have kids.

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I didn\'t want kids.

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Well that\'s what I thought. (laughs)

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You know?

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Just, you know, the mentality that you\'re growing up

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in a certain place.

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Everybody, it\'s like the same thing, every day.

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And that\'s what I seen.

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And you know, I had friends that got pregnant, and stuff,

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and I was like, that\'s not me.

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But, I guess then you meet the right person,

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it\'s totally different.

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♪ Jump in jump in ♪

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♪ Yeah yeah ♪

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♪ Get up ♪

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♪ Jump in ♪

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♪ Go ♪

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Tony\'s, as a rapper and a producer, he\'s phat. (laughs)

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He don\'t talk about...

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He doesn\'t exploit women.

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He doesn\'t talk about sex, or drugs, or gangster rap.

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♪ Everybody hand up ♪

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♪ Jump one up ♪

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♪ For my people ♪

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♪ Yo ♪

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♪ This is for my people we hand it ♪

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♪ If this party hand it ♪

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Tony took the company car, and his cousin wrecked it,

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and he got fired.

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And so he was out of a job.

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And when we got our tax check, it was like 900 dollars.

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And that was the only money we had.

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And we sacrificed, and instead of saving it,

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we bought our first piece of equipment, and we we\'re broke.

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My family, use to be so skeptical.

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They use to say Lisa you better tell Tony to get a job,

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because he aint gonna make it.

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He aint gonna make it, this and that.

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And my dad use to tell Tony, man guys like you,

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come a dime a dozen, and you could find \'em

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on every street corner.

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You know how many times I go to...

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Because my dad\'s been in jail a lot.

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He goes, and every black guy in there,

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is sittin\' there rappin\',

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and you even got some Mexicans in there.

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And you get some white boys that think they can rap.

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He goes, what makes you think you\'re so special,

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that somebody\'s gonna, you know, sign you one day?

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Once in a while I use to have my doubts,

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just because things use to get so hard.

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But I\'ve always supported Tony.

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I\'ve never told him to stop.

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I mean, actually one time, a long time ago,

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we got into an argument, and we were fighting and stuff.

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And he was like, if you don\'t want me to rap,

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tell me right now, and I won\'t ever do it again.

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And I was like, no I\'m not gonna tell you that.

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I mean, I\'m not gonna tell you not to do it,

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and then later on, you\'re gonna be blaming me.

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You know, I mean, I couldn\'t do that.

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I knew that he liked doing it.

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I couldn\'t tell him to stop doing it.

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(hip-hop music playing)

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He\'s had people come over, and you know,

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I need to talk to him or whatever and.

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I\'ll, you know, call him out of the studio, or something.

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And they\'ll be like, damn Click, you whipped, your whipped.

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It\'s not that he\'s whipped, because I\'m gonna be here,

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when they aint here.

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And I\'ve been here all these years, when they weren\'t here.

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I mean, they haven\'t struggled with Tony.

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I\'ve seen me and Tony as one.

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We\'re one.

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He\'s one half, and I\'m the other half.

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And we work together,

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and a lot of people just don\'t understand that.

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(TV talking in background)

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Oh you messed up that time, huh?

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- Come on man!

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Be a man!

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- I do.

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- Watch Alex, Alissa watch out.

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- When we go on tour, he wants everybody to go.

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He wants to take the kids, all,

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he don\'t wanna leave any of them behind.

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He wants all of them to see that.

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He wants all of them to be around him, and what he does.

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And he won\'t admit it,

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but he wants all of them to do what he\'s doing. (laughs)

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He says Alissa\'s gonna be a producer.

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You know, like her daddy.

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- Me.

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♪ Back y\'all ♪

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- Anthony raps with him.

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He\'s on a song on the album.

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Joseph, the youngest one, he sees that,

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and he wants to get on stage.

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Everything we could take them to, we do.

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I don\'t believe in

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having kids, and you know,

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not having a mom, or not having a dad.

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Because I went through that.

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You know, my mom\'s mother raised me, my grandma.

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And my mom had me at a young age,

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so I was always with my grandma.

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And my dad was always in jail.

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I mean I love my mom and dad,

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I\'m not tryin\' to disrespect \'em, or anything like that.

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- He got one of the circles,

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and did a real good headstand that day.

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- I think a lot of fathers out there,

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are, should I say, just men who father children,

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but don\'t do the fathering after they\'re born.

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I mean they really need to realize that kids,

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especially boys, well the girls too,

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I mean they need a very strong male role model

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in their life.

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I mean, they need need to be taught how to be men,

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and how to be women, and how to be responsible,

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and how to, you know, take care of their business,

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and do what they gotta do.

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- I\'ll see you guys later on.

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Bye.

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Alissa bye bye.

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- How \'bout me?

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- Dad?

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- How about me? - Anthony, come here.

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We\'re a family, and we\'re gonna stay together,

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and we gotta do, what we have to do,

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to make it stay together.

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Keep things together.

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♪ See we came to bring hip-hop back around ♪

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♪ So I can get down ♪ ♪ So we can get down ♪

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♪ Yeah it\'s like that y\'all ♪

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♪ That y\'all ♪

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♪ That y\'all ♪ ♪ That y\'all ♪

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♪ Battle it out ♪

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♪ It\'s like that y\'all ♪

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♪ I said a one two three ♪ ♪ What ♪

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♪ Listen to me ♪ ♪ Uh-Huh ♪

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♪ I got more style than your whole company ♪

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♪ \'Cause way before he was even three ♪

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♪ I was listenin\' to no one else ♪

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♪ But BBP ♪

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♪ So what dada ding ♪

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♪ What dada la ding ♪ ♪ Hey ♪

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♪ This is for your fake sucker crews that can\'t hang ♪

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♪ You want the money and the fame ♪

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♪ But don\'t be wanna play dudes up in this rap game ♪

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♪ So this for you ♪

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(crowd cheering)

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- Turntableism is more concentrated on the music aspect of

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DJing.

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Turntables not just a turn table, it\'s an instrument.

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And, like a guitar player, is a guitarist.

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Or a piano player is a piano player.

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A turntableist is someone that takes the turntable,

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and makes it into an instrument.

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(hip-hop music playing)

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(record scratching)

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(slow hip-hop music playing)

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When I started DJing it was just a hobby.

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And then my friend Fill A Beat Junkie, the West coat champ,

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the one that was up there supporting me,

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that was DJ RipMaddock.

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He was the one who first got me into hip-hop.

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He sat me down, and he was like, you know,

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you really like DJing don\'t you?

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I was like, yeah.

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He was like, well let me tell you more about it,

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and he really broke it down, like the history of hip-hop.

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And it was just so interesting.

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And it just made me appreciate hip-hop even more.

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(record scratching)

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Before I use to be really shy.

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I just to be real scared, you know in front of big crowds,

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but now,

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I\'d say, I\'m more comfortable in front of

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a thousand people, than I am in front of five.

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I just feel like there\'s so many people,

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it doesn\'t matter anymore. (laughs)

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and that adrenaline, kind of guess,

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pretty much works for me.

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(slow hip-hop music playing)

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(crowd cheering)

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Role call.

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This is Jeff.

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Habit.

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Chops.

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Basically, all the beat junkies are like my older brothers.

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And they like...

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They treat me just like their little sister.

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There\'s always that support group.

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And then, they\'ll also tell me when I\'m not doing so great.

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So I respect that, their honesty,

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and they\'re not looking at me just as a female,

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but as a fellow DJ.

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And they\'ll be honest with me.

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\'Cause most people will say, oh yeah, you did great.

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You did good.

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They\'re really honest with me.

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And they\'ll tell me when something\'s not right,

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or when I need to practice more.

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So I appreciate their honesty.

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Definitely it\'s harder to get respect from men,

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\'cause women are always gonna root for other women.

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You know, there\'s always that respect,

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and that mutual feeling, that you know,

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it\'s a hard world out there,

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especially in DJing,

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where there\'s not that many girls in DJing.

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(hip-hop music playing)

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I remember I had to do this report for high school,

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and I interviewed Crazy Legs over the phone.

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And he was telling me how back in the days,

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there were girls, there were B-Girls takin\' out B-Boys.

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And I thought that was cool.

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And he was like, yeah there were more female MCs.

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There were more B-Girls, and female graf artists,

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and it use to be a good mix.

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And I was like, wow, it must have been great back then.

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You\'ll never hear me use a female dis,

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or dis another DJ for his gender,

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or

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use body tricks,

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like you know, my breasts,

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or something real stupid like that.

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And to me, entering a DJ battle,

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you\'re competing to see who\'s the better turntablist.

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And that\'s the level I wanna keep it up.

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You know, I don\'t want people like judging me.

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Oh yeah, she\'s okay for a girl.

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You know, I want people to say, you know, she\'s good,

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just good, you know.

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(hip-hop music playing)

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It\'s cool, you know, seeing another female DJ.

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You know, most of the time, like guys will come to me,

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oh yeah, you gotta take her out.

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You know, she aint nothin\', you could take her out.

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And to me, I don\'t see it that way.

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When I see another female DJ, it\'s like wow, you know.

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Maybe we could hook up or something, you know.

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We could practice.

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And it kind of sucks that, people see that, and they say...

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Like, they look at it as competition, for me.

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You know, I just don\'t see it that way.

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- [Announcer] Y\'all about to get wicked with DJ Symphony.

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(crowd cheering)

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(hip-hop music playing)

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- You know, you had like Mercedes ladies.

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You had Lady Pig doin\' her art.

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You had, you know Lexus always tellin\' me about

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this female named, Head Spin Janet,

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who\'s dope, was really dope head spins.

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You know, you did have these women,

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but they weren\'t in mass.

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- Everybody was just puttin\' it down in their neighborhoods.

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You know, at the block parties, and stuff.

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So, you know, it wasn\'t unusual if a female

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really got on the mic, and just did her thing.

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- In the early part of rap, they were the voice.

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You know, like they...

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Like with a lot of the dis records.

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Like, you know, when Salt N\' Pepper came back,

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you know, what the answer to the show.

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And when Roxanne Shanté came back with Roxanne,

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and then with the Real Roxanne.

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You know, they were just sayin\' that look,

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yo we are not gonna be treated this way.

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You know, and you can\'t...

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We\'re not just gonna sit here, while you dis us.

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- But once Latifah came out, you know,

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she really opened a lot of female\'s eyes, to really,

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you know, come out, and try to, you know,

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get their stuff out there as well.

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- Latifah was gonna be a star.

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\'Cause she had a vision, and she knew, you know,

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how she wanted to use rap to make her vision happen.

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♪ Oohh ♪

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♪ Ladies first ♪

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♪ The ladies first ♪

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The same thing I think with MC Lyte.

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♪ I took the hip-hop maniac ♪

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♪ The uptown braniac ♪

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♪ And full effect MC Lyte is back ♪

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- I\'ve been living off of hip-hop since

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89.

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The last job that I\'ve had

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was at an insurance company in 89.

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And I\'ve been living off of hip-hop,

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since then.

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- Hi, T-Love.

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(laughing)

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- [Male] Hi.

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(laughing)

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- Rapper extraordinaire. - Writer.

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- A rap editor, writer.

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And B-Girl. - Yes.

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- Original, last one left.

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Down since 78 and 79.

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or about that. - Shit.

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♪ Nobody knows my name ♪

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♪ So game be tight ♪

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♪ Player red makin\' checks before I hit the mic ♪

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♪ Not just a rap editor ♪

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♪ Rapper ectera ♪

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♪ Be on the move ♪

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♪ Job chameleon ♪

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I started rapping when I was nine years old.

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And like I said before,

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I\'m not really ashamed to say I\'m 28.

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\'Cause I think I look young for my age.

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And it kind of let\'s these

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little young mother fuckers knows,

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that you didn\'t see me, but yet I was rhymin\' on K Day.

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Constantly, up there.

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I have tapes of it, proof.

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There\'s a lot of people who speak upon

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how long they\'ve been down, but there\'s kind of no proof.

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I have my little diaries, my mom use to buy me,

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and I use to write about the dudes that I liked,

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and write a little rhyme about it. (laughs)

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And then, when I heard the Sequence,

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which they did that song,

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♪ Ring ding dong ♪

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I was like, oh momma, look, see.

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See.

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Girl\'s gonna be rappin\' momma, I wanna rap.

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You know, I told her, like by 10 years old,

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I\'m just wantin\' to do this.

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And she said, do me a favor, go to school,

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and get your education, and do well.

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And I promise you, I\'ll pay you...

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Pay for your studio, do whatever you need to do.

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So, from 10 years old, that was my struggle.

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♪ She keeps the weather flash as much ♪

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♪ Down here in Texas some people don\'t like to hear your ♪

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I was not nothin\' but a South central hooch.

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You know.

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Ex-Cripet.

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Slingin\', all that shit, and then you know,

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I kind of built myself up.

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You know, started as an MC.

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Okay, can I just do that one more time,

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so I just feel good about it? - Yeah.

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- Okay, cool.

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And then we can go to the next rhymin\', I\'ll be--

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I really love hip-hop, you know.

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Like I really love that shit, like that\'s like,

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I really love that shit.

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I don\'t know, it\'s just 24 seven, I can\'t help it.

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It carry...

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It like kind of follows me around, and it makes me broke.

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(laughs)

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It keeps my ass fucking broke.

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But I can\'t help it, \'cause I love this shit.

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♪ Microphone ♪

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♪ Aint in the mood for sellin\' it out ♪

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♪ What\'s my name ♪

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♪ Come on spell it now ♪

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You know, when you dream about being a rapper,

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then you start dreamin\' about the videos,

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and you start dreamin\' about the deal.

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Okay?

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Well that happened too.

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Nice deal, you know. (laughs)

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Big deal, Ervin Prop got paid, it\'s like,

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that\'s why I sit back, and I laugh at people,

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\'cause, whatever.

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I\'ve been paid a gang of money

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for some vocal skills, whatever.

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And that don\'t matter, \'cause you still don\'t know who I am.

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So it doesn\'t matter, got it, cames, gone, alright, next.

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And that\'s what that whole nobody knows my name was about.

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Because when I got dropped, everybody played it off,

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like they did not know my name.

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Like niggers who was jockin\', girls who was jockin\',

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everybody who wanted to be around T-Love, Ervin Prop,

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you know BJ, Free Style Fellowship,

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it\'s like fools was just jockin\'.

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As soon as you get dropped, it\'s like, you go to the club,

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when people are just like tryin\' to play it off,

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like they don\'t see you, so that they don\'t...

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You know, so they don\'t speak.

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The whole thing, and just what most people,

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not just in the industry, but in general, you know,

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is to make themselves feel good by putting you down.

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That right there,

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has made me mad from the time I was little.

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That little piece of thing that I see rise up

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in human nature, you know,

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\'cause I think that\'s fucked up, you know.

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And I\'ve been on the other side.

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You know, I was over weight.

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I was that fat little pudgy girl, you know,

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or that dark girl, or whoever.

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Everything, bald headed girl, alright, whatever,

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no hair, okay, I been all those, you know.

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I\'m just floating like this.

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There\'s no drama in my life.

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Like I keep the drama minimum.

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You know, anybody who knows me,

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I be tryin\' to keep the drama minimum.

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- [Male] Cool, best part-- - Yeah, yeah, well we will.

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- Because like my mom said, people can only do to you,

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what you let them, you know.

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You don\'t have to kiss nobody\'s fuckin\' ass.

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And I\'m saying fuck, and I hope you can blimp it,

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but that\'s when I...

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That\'s what I feel when I say that, you know.

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Because these people really expect you to kiss their ass.

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You know, fuck you.

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Why?

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You aint payin\' my rent.

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You aint doin\' shit for me, you know.

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There\'s gonna come a day. (laughs)

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When I\'m gonna have to get them big ass chips,

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and I still wanna be able to say that somethin\'s mine.

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♪ Place nobody knows ♪

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Poetry\'s like here, the culture is like here,

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and the culture is like in your rhymes.

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It\'s in the books you read.

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It\'s in what you choose to do with your time.

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I know so many kids, who are not even a rapper.

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They\'re not even DJ\'s.

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So what they doin\' there?

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They appreciate their shit.

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And they\'ve been livin\' now, its been 12 years of them,

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followin\' around all the DJs, and the rappers, or whatever,

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like they\'re B-Boys, they\'re B-Girls, they...

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It\'s like there\'s people who don\'t even...

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It\'s all a state of bein\'.

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You know, it\'s all about what\'d you do this morning.

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And hip-hop is dying,

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and not because of the kids in it,

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like who are tryin\' to keep it live, but because of the fact

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that the industry is killing it.

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And you can very...

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It\'s easier to kill somethin\' that\'s broke,

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than it is somethin\' that\'s strong.

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I mean think of a lion, if he broke his leg,

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he\'s dead in the jungle.

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And I just think that, it\'s just stakes that\'s high,

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and you can\'t really expect too many people

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who kind of wanna live like me.

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I wouldn\'t want anybody to live like me.

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(exhales)

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Sorry.

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- [Female] You okay?

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(exhales)

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- I\'ve just been through a lot of shit, you know?

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Been through a lot of shit for this.

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And I\'m not even mad, you know.

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I just feel it.

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Like that\'s that hip-hop shit, you know.

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\'Cause I love that shit so much, you know.

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And I just have been though, like a gang and shit,

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and as a, you know, female, or just whatever.

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And so,

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um

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I would say that um,

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if people wanna go out and make their money,

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and people have to, you know.

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Like I said, \'cause you wouldn\'t really wanna live like me.

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\'Cause I\'ve given, pretty much, everything to this culture.

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And it...

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And after so doin\' it for so long, it\'s like damn,

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you still haven\'t really got anything back.

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But it\'s cool though.

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You know, \'cause like I said,

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I would rather people go be paid, you know.

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Don\'t even do it like me, shit, I\'ve been the hard head.

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But if I had to do it all over again,

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I would do it the same way.

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(hip-hop music playing)

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- [Male] Yeah Medusa, baby girl!

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♪ In the house ♪

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♪ Our house ♪

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- I\'m a storyteller.

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I like to kick a story, you know.

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So, I might write some things that start out as a poem,

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or start out as a story, or a dream,

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and I turn around and hear a fresh beat,

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and start kickin\' that too.

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♪ You know what book my booka rhymes hangin\' up you see \'em ♪

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♪ They heard the words I preach now they wanna see \'em ♪

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♪ Now that I\'m steppin\' my Amazon ♪

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You know I try not to listen to a lot of hip-hop,

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as far as MCs, because I don\'t wanna be influenced

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by how they kick their rhymes.

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I\'d rather sit back and write my stories,

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and my poetry, and see if that...

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If a rhythm, you know, will bring that out of me, you know.

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♪ Count what\'s the name of this ♪

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My first exposure to hip-hop culture was

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seein\' the Poppin\' Dominoes on Soul Train.

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That just blew my mind, you know. (laughs)

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I was like, I wanna move like that, you know.

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And I use to just, kind of rehearse, and you know,

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your little moon walk on, so.

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I could go back to the school, and you know. (laughs)

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Show \'em what I\'ve learned from Soul Train that night.

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And on a MC level, I think, Sugar Hill Gang,

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but Sugar Hill Gang was like

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the first MC record that I heard.

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You know, and I was amazed,

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\'cause I always wrote like poetry and short stories.

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And these brothers came with like, you know, full dialogue,

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and a little story to a beat, and rhymin\'.

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And I was like, oh wow.

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I gotta do that.

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♪ Hold this once in a while I owned it once ♪

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♪ Hit me on the hip ♪

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♪ That\'s the spot ♪

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♪ Here\'s my dicks ♪

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♪ Do this with that ♪

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♪ All tricks for the West Coast creapin\' up with this ♪

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West Coast I hear, it\'s about jazz.

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It\'s about old funk.

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It\'s about it...

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Music

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bein\' taken by a generation

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that was not taught music,

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and was not learnin\' and writing music.

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So our way of expressing,

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writing music,

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is to copy

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what we\'ve learned,

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and what we\'ve been enhanced with, you know.

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♪ All the MCs always tryin\' to trip ♪

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♪ See when a queen steps to a microphone ♪

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♪ All I want from you is silence ♪

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♪ Shit yah ♪

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♪ Hard for me to try and kick my skits ♪

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♪ When other MCs always tryin\' to trip ♪

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♪ See when a queen steps to the microphone ♪

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♪ All I want from you is silence ♪

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And a Nigerian friend of mine

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Rasheed,

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said you know, he told me one day, you know Medusa,

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\'cause we were talkin\' about Medusa,

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and we were talkin\' about how they always show, you know,

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this white figure with the snakes comin\' out the head,

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and the tongue, and the whole bit, you know.

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And the snake body.

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And he was like, Medusa was a sister.

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You know, she was a sister, and she had many other sisters,

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and they all had powers.

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I was like, right, you know. (laughs)

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It\'s like so.

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So I did a little reading on it, on her,

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and

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she was a sister, you know.

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And it wasn\'t like in...

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And I mean, the information varies.

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You know, one said that she had like a thousands of braids.

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The other said that she had dreadlocks.

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But they were all like kind of old wives tales, you know.

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Little griot stories that they would tell by the fire.

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And it wasn\'t snakes, it was locks,

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but if that was something that was not of your nature,

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or your culture, well how else would you describe

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something like that, you know?

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Yeah, so that\'s where Medusa came from.

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And besides that, you know,

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when I\'m in it, as an MC,

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I\'ll turn whack MCs to stone.

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Straight up.

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♪ You thought you had styles ♪

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♪ I\'m about to spank that ass like you my child ♪

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♪ Now you best become correct and concrete ♪

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♪ Nigger you aint shit between the sheets ♪

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♪ Or the lyrical sheens ♪

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♪ You never take the time to talk rhyme ♪

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♪ And back to Chicago you will find a style ♪

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♪ To come on back with ♪

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♪ Nigger you aint got the gift ♪

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♪ Ignore the issues of correct shit ♪

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♪ You think you can compare to me ♪

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♪ I\'m the producer ♪

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♪ The lyrical seducer ♪

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♪ Nigger you tryin\' to come back ♪

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I like battling, that\'s healthy.

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You know, that\'s a healthy form of,

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you know, of an outlet.

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You know, emotional outlet,

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♪ You can\'t get gold if you fight the microphone ♪

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♪ Since you Medusa ♪

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♪ I\'m turnin\' you to stone ♪

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♪ And we will fuck baby if it\'s nice and tight ♪

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♪ I nibble on your ear like the Tyson fight ♪

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(crowd cheering)

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You know, it\'s better than fightin\',

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and it\'s better than shootin\', and stabbin\' each other.

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♪ Niger you best of run for cover ♪

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♪ \'Cause I\'m about to dismiss your ass ♪

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♪ Like a used momma ♪

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You know, \'cause back in the day, you know,

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that\'s what it was all about.

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You would battle for a name.

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You know what I mean?

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If two MCs had the same name, you battled for it.

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You know what I mean?

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MCs didn\'t go for that shit.

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You know, you come across another Medusa, no, no.

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I\'m Medusa, let\'s battle it.

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You know, we just gonna have to do this on stage.

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- I think I wanna.

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- You wanna? - I don\'t think so.

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(crowd cheering)

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I won\'t consider it a competition,

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because nobody can do it the way I do it.

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You know what I mean?

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And all the MCs that are out there doin\' like each other,

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you know, aint nothin\' MC with me. (laughs)

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You have no originality, you know. (laughs)

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♪ Friction one life\'s like to this ♪

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♪ There is no one ♪

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♪ Everyone else will get dismissed ♪

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Miguel Underhale, I did that.

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And it was funny, because he came over one day,

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when I was livin\' in Silver Lake.

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And he says, you know Medusa, look,

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I\'ve been contracted to do this wall on Hollywood Boulevard.

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So we went out in the alley, and you know,

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took some pictures, and I was like, okay cool.

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And then we lost contact.

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I was at a club that I do, Nappey At Da Roots,

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up at Black To Jupiter.

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And someone walked in and said,

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you know you got a picture on Hollywood Boulevard?

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And I was like, what are you talking about, you know.

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I never...

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I mean this was like three, four months later,

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so it had completely slipped my mind.

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I wasn\'t trippin\' off it, you know.

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And then someone else, you know, stopped me in the street,

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and said, is that a picture of you on Hollywood Boulevard?

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And I was like, what is it?

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I have got to see this Hollywood Boulevard.

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What are they talkin\' about?

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And I went up there, and saw that picture.

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It was such a likeness of me, it was just indeniable.

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It was an honor, you know.

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It was an honor.

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And you wouldn\'t see that, you know,

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just a strong black woman\'s face, with an Afro,

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on Hollywood Boulevard.

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You know?

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I\'m sure everybody\'s roded by it and was like,

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what is that?

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Damn, who is that?

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You know.

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And that makes me feel good.

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And not necessarily that it\'s me,

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but just such a strong figure

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bein\' represented on Hollywood Boulevard.

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If it wasn\'t me, I\'d ride by it and go, oh yeah, you know.

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(laughs)

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(hip-hop music playing)

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♪ Sorrow boys and a glock ♪

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♪ And I\'m like click ♪

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♪ Sir ♪

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♪ One at a time by my dick ♪

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♪ And they ♪

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When people see my shows,

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they see all

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of what we are,

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from that point up.

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You know.

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I go through different eras, in my performances.

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One minute I\'m a griot, the next minute I\'m funkin\' you,

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and another minute I\'m straight old school hip-hop.

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You know.

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I definitely want them to feel that my music

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is bringing

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generations together, you know.

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Because when I perform, I know when I put...

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When I perform, and when I put things together,

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I\'m thinking about my mother.

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Would my mother like this?

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You know.

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I\'m thinking, would my younger brother dig this?

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You know.

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I\'m thinking, you know, can a child listen to this?

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You know.

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And I can still be hard, at thinking those things, you know.

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Some people think that when you deal with that

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aspect of hip-hop, that you\'ve gotta be soft.

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Or you talkin\' that spiritual, that conscience shit,

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I don\'t know, I don\'t think it\'s gonna come off as strong,

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when really it\'s just in your attitude, you know,

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in your presentation, you know.

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Like I got one called, Peep the Mind Blend.

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Started from a dream experience that I had about,

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what the future could be, you know.

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And I decided to kick in my lyrics, \'cause I started out,

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you know, lyrics, a powerful gift from the gods,

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I\'ve always felt.

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And they taught me, only drop knowledge,

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if you\'ve been there yourself.

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Well seein\' as I be, and see all of this story,

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I\'m droppin\' it on ya.

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Now I don\'t know when,

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whether it had been in the future or past,

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my mind moves so chronically fast,

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it\'s fascinating.

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So I\'ll start with words of a familiar holding text.

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In the beginning, it was clear to me,

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they tried to side step the revolutionary energies,

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but look at me, proud black woman, ever ready to step.

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Have, and will fight to the death.

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Infiltrating forbidden territory was the main objective.

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They didn\'t even matter to me that I was pregnant,

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\'cause I was on a mission,

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to free every strong intelligent black man,

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from the new maximum security prison,

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lost angels, city block.

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I mean it\'s just like this whole...

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She goes on this montage in the beginning,

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and then it flips into the other character.

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Where she\'s like, I\'m first name Medusa,

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wait no, sin.

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Let me start from the beginning when,

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it was the third street sweep this week.

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Caught us by surprise.

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But who could think, with so many babies to hide.

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So many mothers commitin\' suicide.

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Why when they found the bodies,

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you\'d think a sister\'s corpse was some kind of prize.

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Evil was at an all time high.

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I gotta go.

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You know, so it\'s like, it\'s acting, it\'s story telling,

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and it\'s ridin\' your beat.

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Every thing...

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Every situation, and every rhythm,

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brings out something different in you.

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I could be preaching one minute,

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and never really fluctuate my tone, and I could like,

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be kickin\' somethin\' another minute, and be singin\',

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and scattin\' in it,

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and my flow would be completely different.

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You know what I\'m sayin\'?

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So I feel like when people do that,

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they have allowed the spirit of that rhythm and beat,

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to take them on their journey.

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And instead of forcing something to fit a rhythm.

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You know what I\'m sayin\'?

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So I ride the rhythm that\'s given to me,

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and I travel where the spirits take me through it.

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You know what I\'m sayin\'?

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(crowd cheering)

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I don\'t believe you get me.

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\'Cause that it what Medusa\'s about, you know.

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Bringin\' the generations together,

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giving you all the facets of music,

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from the point that I\'m from on,

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and showing you that there is some things...

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That there is something to look forward to.

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♪ Don\'t hate me ♪

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♪ For bein\' all that ♪

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♪ Don\'t be mad babe ♪

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♪ Cling on to this ♪

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♪ Man I\'ll prime your over time job ♪

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♪ One ♪

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♪ Man ♪

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♪ Says now don\'t hate me ♪

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♪ For bein\' all that ♪

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♪ Don\'t be mad babe ♪

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♪ \'Cause I\'m workin\' this ♪

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♪ And I\'ll rob him over time love ♪

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♪ One man ♪

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♪ Says now ♪

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(hip-hop music playing)

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(audience cheering)

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- My brother will still get up on the mic,

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and say, yeah DJ Symphony, the hardest female DJ.

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I don\'t wanna be known that way, I just wanna be...

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I\'d rather have someone come up to me, and say,

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you\'re a good DJ.

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Than have someone come up to me, and say,

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oh you\'re the hardest female in the world.

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(hip-hop music playing)

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- You know, I just like stuff basic.

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If you\'ve got talent, it\'s gonna shine regardless.

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(hip-hop music playing)

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- Everything is sacrifices.

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It\'s all, you know, it\'s all benefit us,

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everything that we\'ve done.

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Every sacrifice we\'ve made, I mean,

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its always worked for us, and not against us.

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Thanks to God.

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(hip-hop music playing)

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- Shit, put out a record out, let me know you out there.

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I wanna hear from you.

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Let\'s do a song together.

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Let\'s start a company together.

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Let\'s do some shit.

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Like, let\'s fuck some shit up.

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(hip-hop music playing)

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- I know that I\'m at a certain age, that you know,

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I don\'t...

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I can\'t act trashy.

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I can\'t act all crazy,

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because I got other smaller women looking at me,

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going, you know, either lookin\' at me for support,

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or guidance, or whatever.

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You know, well I gotta be responsible.

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(hip-hop music playing)

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- It\'s really, you know, everybody picks their own destiny.

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And they expect, when they step into something new,

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that there\'s some wave is gonna come pick \'em up,

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and show them the way.

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You got to find it, you know.

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(hip-hop music playing)

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(hip-hop music playing)

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(hip-hop music playing)