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Latto, Ludacris & DJ Khaled share advice to new and upcoming rappers to succeed with longevity, their thoughts on the new season of ‘Rhythm + Flow’ and more!

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00:00This here is Rhythm and Flow, season two.

00:03Let's go.

00:06♪ I'm top two and I ain't two, I made it all the way so easy way nigga I can't lose. ♪

00:10With like shows like this, you know, obviously Lotto, you won the rap game.

00:14What's like the importance for shows like this to exist in like the digital space now

00:17where it's a lot different to break artists compared to say, even 10, 20 years ago?

00:22I think it gives people like an insight look on like what really goes into

00:29becoming an artist.

00:30Like I think social media gives this perception that, false perception that you kind of just

00:36like blow up overnight.

00:37And some people are lucky enough to do that.

00:40But I think a lot of times I can, I think all three of us can attest that, you know,

00:46this is blood, sweat and tears.

00:47It's a lot of being put on the spot and having to, you know, sit down and come up with a plan.

00:54Was there like certain things that each of you guys took that you can incorporate into

00:57your own artistry that maybe you learned from like an artist?

00:59Hell yeah.

01:00I said, as soon as I started doing this, I was like, it's so good for me being in the

01:04game, humbly speaking, for so long to get that hunger and energy of when you are trying

01:11to prove to the world that you are that motherfucker.

01:16And I was loving every minute of it, just from that perspective of putting myself in

01:20a room full of people that just had so much to prove.

01:24You know, some artists in hip hop or any genre think that, you know, it doesn't take

01:29a long time and you might win overnight.

01:31And some like you might win overnight, you know what I'm saying?

01:33But even the ones that win overnight, it's still going to take as long as the person

01:38that started from nothing.

01:39Because when you win overnight, you win so big on top and now you got to find a way to

01:45keep going and be there because you might be going down now, you know what I'm saying?

01:50And I want to remind artists that, you know, don't try to skip the steps, you know what

01:54I'm saying?

01:55Enjoy it.

01:56Enjoy every moment of it.

01:57You authentic.

01:58You live it.

01:59You breathe it.

02:00You have a real great fighting chance of actually winning this goddamn thing.

02:03So let's go.

02:04And we got to make sure that, you know, we tell the young artists, man, make that music

02:09that will play forever.

02:10You might not be able to make that record today, but your process will be able to, and

02:15you'll enjoy it more.

02:16And then you sit back and you brought up Quincy Jones, right?

02:20I always look at that blueprint with Quincy, like, man, like, it doesn't matter how old

02:25you are.

02:26I heard Busta the other day on his acceptance speech, you know, they always try to put a

02:30time capsule on hip hop, you know what I'm saying?

02:33Busta was saying, well, I'm going to be the James Brown.

02:35I'm going to be, you know, we're going to do this like forever.

02:38Like, there's no reason why we, it don't matter who you are.

02:43You can do this forever as long as you love it and you put out that great work because

02:47you make that right music becomes timeless.

02:50Not even just in music, in anything you do.

02:51What separated Dre TL from, say, J Tosh?

02:54Man, I keep saying, it was very, it was very close call.

02:59It was a lot of times that we were, we had some heated debates and discussions and it

03:04was a very close margin.

03:06But at the end of the day, I kept saying, for me, he just kept surprising me in areas

03:12where I thought that he would only reach a certain amount of expectations for me.

03:17Because to me, if your trajectory is starting a certain way, but you continue to ascend,

03:22that lets me know, I don't know how far you can get past someone that I'm looking at that's

03:26already good or considered great.

03:29You might go into another stratosphere of greatness.

03:31And that's all, I just saw him ascend the entire show.

03:34I didn't come all this way to go back home.

03:40Season two, Rhythm and Flow.

03:42Let's go.

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