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00:00Blast and they're tragic and never know a story so many shots you would've thought that they was casting
00:03And brains flying everywhere like how they did Fred Hanna
00:05If I ask your man, I tell a man I am hungry
00:08And this man holds a loaf of bread right in front of me
00:11So I can see it and I keep asking him, I'm begging him
00:14Just please give me a slice of a loaf of bread
00:17I am hungry
00:17Then it is known by every psychologist
00:20That the next step in the progression is
00:22I am going to knock him upside the head and take the bread from him
00:25Sometimes I talk to ghosts, we real close
00:27I'm a host, delivering quotes, anecdotes
00:29To unexpected, you know, this old
00:30Never been diagnosed, but kidnapped from the ivory coast
00:33Survival of the fittest made it off the motherfucking boat
00:35To revolt anyway and breaking bread, I get you toast
00:38Colors, motor, showing folks under pressure
00:39And they fold, like toes, then they get you nose
00:42Or the growths, when lies cannot flow
00:43Propaganda, yeah, coax, who is this?
00:46Subwise surface chasing drain on a bright glass ceiling
00:48Monsters in my mind and in my wallet pockets
00:50Dope kids in the street lights, trying to see them
00:53Up the flag, pledge allegiance to the bag
00:55And my love surface chasing drain on a bright glass
00:59hey what's up what's up guys welcome to hip hop nation tv man told y'all i'll be back again
01:04so today i got reina simone from usa halam new york so yeah that's what's up oh she's
01:13on she's on okay we'll just put it in
01:35hi reina are you good are you doing
01:40uh-oh can you see me yeah
01:43perfect what's going on i'm all good i'm all good than you
01:50we're good i can't complain much love much love much love welcome to hip hop nation tv south
01:58africa what's up south africa tapped in how you guys doing oh we're good we're good okay okay
02:05you knew that side say that one more time it's breaking up a little bit oh and how are you
02:11that
02:11side one more time oh i was saying how how are you that side oh everything's going well hold on
02:19let me
02:19see maybe it's my connection yeah yeah yeah all right i think we should be good it's coming a
02:25little bit in and out but it's all it's also storming over here going crazy over here so
02:30yeah yeah i was saying earlier welcome to hip hop nation tv south africa oh thank you all for having
02:36me i appreciate it for sure for sure for sure um can you please just tell us about yourself
02:43um so just in general i um i started playing the piano when i was three years old um i
02:49have a
02:50significant love for music um and then i started doing i started getting into production work around
02:56that high school um and then i realized the impact that i could have with putting lyrics to that
03:03production work of course those are my two loves so once i mixed them together that became really powerful
03:08for me and um i just started releasing music last year i just gained the courage to really start
03:14putting things out but yeah i've been i've been doing it for a minute for sure for sure for sure
03:20because i mean you mentioned um was it was it was it was it was it in third grade when
03:26you started
03:27right when you started writing or something it was yeah yep so i i got a really really inspired in
03:33third grade though actually i went to a predominantly white institution there were a lot of racial issues
03:38going on um and i was coming to grasp a lot of things something to do with identity and um
03:44i really
03:44started expressing myself through lyricism probably in the third grade yep yeah yeah plus i think i
03:52remember you mentioned something about um the the incidents the incident that you you saw about
03:58trade trayvon martin um oh you did you did a lot of research huh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i
04:07tried i tried
04:08um what what what what what what would be your thoughts on on on police brutality um
04:17how do you think um could it could be addressed i think that there are a lot of ways that
04:22that it
04:22needs to be addressed and um i'm glad you asked me that question because i'm i'm kind of sick of
04:27of
04:28interviews where it's very surface level stuff that's a very important question um i think law
04:33enforcement is quite literally just the enforcement of the law and so we got to look at the law itself
04:38um and the law itself is is not made for anybody of color um essentially and so i think it's
04:45it's truly
04:46if we want to get deep with it i'm somebody who doesn't believe that police are necessary period
04:51um to be entirely real with you but um with that being said because it's the structure that we live
04:58by in society i think it's just policing the police um and i think it's okay if civilians need to
05:03do that
05:04too but um it's interesting it's a lot different in the u.s than it is in south africa but
05:09it's so
05:10similar in the same ways in terms of the ways in which they use bias and and um things of
05:15that sort to
05:16to you know make sure that we feel that we're living under an impressive nation
05:22yeah yeah yeah i mean considering plus i mean you you you were like you said you were one of
05:28four
05:29students at um at your school right what did you did you have like a challenge like um
05:37um in identity like in terms of like um being black and then because like you know that like
05:46some kids when they when they are in institutions we you know it's predominantly white then before that
05:53they have to behave in that manner mm-hmm no i i definitely think that there was there was always
06:00a culture shock whenever i was going from home to school um just because the culture was very different
06:05and i was one of four black students um so there was definitely a lot of culture shock going to
06:11and
06:12from but what was frustrating to me was that it was most unfortunate that in order for my to get
06:18a
06:18certain level of education i had to be one of four black students and so that's always bothered me too
06:23it's like if you can acknowledge the need for charter and private schools that means that you can
06:28acknowledge the fact the public school system isn't necessarily living up to everything it's supposed to be
06:33um and with that being said why is it that we're allowing the public school system to be in the
06:39predicament that it's in knowing that the majority of of children are within the public school system
06:44especially when you look demographically at um at us and and where where we are a lot of us are
06:51in the
06:51private the public school system excuse me um so just saying that variation and realizing that access to
06:57access access to education excuse me and higher education was equated to to whiteness was something
07:03that that definitely had to come to grips with i know that was a long answer yeah yeah but but
07:12but
07:12but like it had it had a lot of content that's that's what i love about you um i mean
07:17considering also
07:18like you you grew up in harlem right um like it's a like from from what i've heard it's a
07:25it's a it's
07:26a place where like it's very artistic and i mean there's also it also has that history of having the
07:32malcolm x's and you know all those political people absolutely do you think also that also had an influence
07:40on on your music too i'm sure 100 and when i speak about you know that culture shock i'm sure
07:46that
07:47given that i was going quite literally from a place like harlem into these white spaces um
07:53that had a lot to do with the culture shock that i was experiencing too because that is what i
07:57grew
07:57up around um you know black for mobility at its core just growing up in harlem and um harlem of
08:07course
08:08let alone the the renaissance harlem is is home to a lot of amazing talent a lot of great art
08:13um you
08:14know they're trying to gentrify harlem now but um harlem is still it's still a great community of
08:21strong black leaders and faces for sure and i got to show jersey love too i spent a lot of
08:28time in
08:28with new jersey as well oh by the way that said it's your mom's side right or what oh look
08:35at that look
08:36at that
08:39am i right yeah or am i right exactly okay okay but but before i go there right because because
08:46you
08:46mentioned that um with your father uh you wanted to to buy beats but then he refused because he felt
08:56like
08:56because you you know how to compose for yourself and things like that and you wouldn't do that um
09:03considering like we come from a stereotype like there's black people no matter which country like
09:07you know like there's a stereotype like there's no there's no father to to groom there's no black
09:14father to groom us as children and things like that um how was it like for you i mean as
09:20a girl child
09:21um having your father around um yeah to give you that determination for sure i think stereotypes aside
09:30that should be the standard that that we look for and abide by um my father has always been very
09:36instrumental to um me for sure i'm we're definitely very close and um yeah that's all i'll say based upon
09:47that i think it's easy to divide a lot of the stereotypes that come with it but my father was
09:52very very passionate about um just making sure that that his daughters had all the skills necessary to
09:59be able to actively impact the world around them and uh one of those skills was music and one of
10:05those
10:05schools the skills for me was was music production um he always felt like you know the more the most
10:10skills you can have have them if it doesn't hurt just have them if you have access to the skill
10:16just
10:16hone in on it so that was definitely an important lesson good so so so so will we be maybe
10:24possibly
10:25hearing a couple of beats that you'll be making for artists of course of course of course who would you
10:34like maybe um love love to produce for uh maybe let's say artists that you look up to with uh
10:41south
10:41africa wise definitely definitely youngster cpt i'm gonna have to have to oh i mean i wish this
10:49of course here to you yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah he's a dope artist it's gonna be a movie it's
10:56gonna be a
10:56movie without a doubt yeah plus considering like okay um with with with with your mom's side i mean i
11:06mean
11:06you mentioned like um your your your mother bought you a machine i can't remember and then you also
11:14mentioned like your grandmother also um had an influence on on your life and experiences um what what
11:24what would you say are the other valuable lessons that that that you took um that that that you would
11:31apply
11:31as as a as a black woman um in this era so what are the lessons what are the lessons
11:38that i've learned
11:38that i would take and apply as a black woman in this era is that that you've learned for that
11:43that
11:43maybe you've learned from them um i think all of them i'm very proud of the way that i've that
11:49i was
11:50raised in the lineage that i come from i'm very big on on um communication with my ancestors and just
11:56the lineage in general in terms of where i'm coming from where i've come from and a lot of what
11:59i do is
12:00um with the intent that i know that all of my ancestors and my family is walking into every room
12:06that i'm in with me whether they're physically there or not um so with that being said i i genuinely
12:13think think all of the lessons that i've been taught i think that's important
12:18all right i mean considering also like um your your your music as as a female artist is
12:26different from from other female artists within the mainstream and everything um how how are you
12:34able to to to to to maintain like being being unique and um what what what would be your advice
12:40to other
12:41young girls um i think i think it's just about being free and your creative expression um which i always
12:52i always try to do i want exactly what i hear in my head to be placed out into the
12:57world um even if
12:58that means you got to do it yourself sometimes but um you know it's just about being in touch with
13:04with
13:04your creative energy and and not necessarily silencing it or shifting it to appease any one demographic
13:13in other words just be free just be free and and just you know speak loudly and um understand your
13:21audience
13:23well that's amazing so um plus i mean on on your birthday i don't know if it was last year
13:30or the
13:30year before um you did a freestyle and then like in 24 hours it was it was like 1.5
13:38million right
13:38yeah like how was that happened last year how was that how was that experience like i mean because i
13:45mean not everyone can can can do something like that
13:50no that was a great experience um that's actually what what made me start really releasing music i
13:56really wasn't releasing music before then i was doing freestyles everywhere just to do it i've always
14:01done freestyles just for fun you know um and i hope people keep that in mind too that there's a
14:05lot to come
14:06but i've always done freestyles for fun um with that being said that that that was one of the freestyles
14:13that
14:13done at howard university that again i was just doing for fun and ended up actually taking on a
14:17life of its own but when i realized that there was a market for that and um there was an
14:22audience that
14:22wanted to hear that sort of content i definitely jumped on it i just started putting everything
14:26else out and uh now we're here oh so so at howard university were were you what were you studying
14:37for music or was it something else
14:39so i graduated from howard university um amidst the pandemic i was studying political science and
14:45philosophy i actually never studied music at howard university but i was very very involved in the music
14:50scene at howard university
14:53well okay this that explains the whole um political aspects and the whole social to some degree although
15:01i'm not gonna lie i was like that before but um that's just something i've always been passionate
15:06about but i um and howard i figured i was already doing music so i wanted to make sure that
15:13i was having
15:14my my ducks in line i wanted to make i don't believe in backup plans per se but i believe
15:18in in primary
15:20plans and which you have two that are just as good as the first one um and so that was
15:25going to be my
15:26my other option if i ended up going away from music definitely law and government
15:34right plus you plus you mentioned that that you you're working on your project um
15:40is it old soul new conscience right um what what would you say um inspired that
15:50the title or the project in general yes the title also the project
15:56um i i definitely think that there are a lot of sounds that sound old soul and there are a
16:02lot of
16:02lyrics to sound new conscious and so i'm sort of bringing it together but um you know you'll you'll
16:07hear different things that that might remind you of of old school music things that might make you feel nostalgic
16:12but it's still very much so new school um and so i really wanted to to bring that dynamic there
16:19too
16:22cool cool cool so so um if i'm not mistaken because i i saw i saw like some of your
16:29tracks like um
16:29i think it was a man and then subway surfers and um what was the other track i forgot the
16:37other track
16:38that i saw are they also part of part of the the new project or is it like was it
16:43like singles that are
16:44old so it's new music and a few old records um subway surface isn't on there amen is on there
16:50though
16:52all right so what inspired you to to to write such songs say it again what what inspired you to
17:00to
17:00to write such songs um subway surface and amen in particular yeah yeah um so subway surface
17:11subway surface was interestingly enough i actually took an andre 3000 flow and flipped it
17:18for the first verse i just wanted to see if i could do it just to see if i could
17:21do it i love andre 3000
17:22but um that was a very expressive song just on what was going on at the time that was um
17:28winter of last
17:30year sometime around june or so um and so that record i'm discussing things like um like the capital riot
17:38which took place in the states um and things of that sort just how it would have been treated differently
17:44if it was a group of black individuals doing the same actions um and so that was really my expressing
17:53myself in that way on subway surfers and then amen is a little bit different amen is essentially my
18:01my trying to add balance to the world of drill which i love i'm a fan of i'm a fan
18:07of drill music heavily
18:09um and i don't think it should be diluted at all which i think people are trying to do i
18:13do not think
18:14it should be like diluted um but i do think that there needs to be balance and so with that
18:19being
18:19said if we're going to speak about um things that are going on in our neighborhoods from the
18:26perspective of the killer i want to make sure that we're also speaking about it from this perspective
18:31of those surrounding the killer that are feeling the repercussions of the killing
18:35um so i'm very passionate about that one too just because i feel like that that balance was
18:39necessary if you turn on the radio right now you would think that every single black person is a
18:44killer because that's what's presented to us in that way um but of course that's not the case if that
18:50was the case there'd be a lot a lot of these rappers wouldn't be out here they'd be in jail
18:55so you know
18:56obviously that's not the case but it's it's all right sometimes to um you know not speak about that all
19:03the
19:03sound cool cool so do you think maybe um maybe there's a there's like a lack of balance within
19:12um mainstream media i absolutely think there's a lack of balance and um of the artists
19:19or the fault of our people necessarily at all but i do think that there's a reason as to why
19:24people find it so entertaining to see um young black children boasting about killing one another
19:32i think that that's that's something that they already see us as so it's not a shock to them
19:38um to them it's quite literally just further entertainment and so of course that's something
19:43that frustrates me as well
19:46cool so i'm not sure is it the same over there with the african drill scene
19:51in terms of in terms of the industry are you hello yeah can you hear me
19:59were you saying it's the same in terms of the music industry or what i was asking you is it
20:06the same over there in terms of you all's industry yeah it's also the same this side i mean like
20:11the
20:11mainstream like there's also a lot of music that's not um positive at all you know um i don't i
20:21feel i
20:22personally feel like there's no balance at all because um right now as we speak um i have an artist
20:29that i'm managing right so he was he was actually one of his singles while he was addressing the
20:36political issues um within within our country because you know we come from a history of racism but even
20:45though it's it's it's it's no longer there but there's that there's those elements of institutional
20:52racism so it's it's being hidden you know what i'm saying and you know like even a couple of weeks
20:58ago um
21:00there was a university and in western cape um an incident of a white boy urinating on a black boy
21:10students belongings so you know he was urinating on his desk laptop and everything like that so even
21:18to to the the the manner which it was dealt with like the university it took a long time for
21:27them to
21:27deal with it so yeah i i think i i think um as black people whether here in africa in
21:37the diaspora i think
21:38we are all dealing with the same elite i think they all benefit um uh in in in our fall
21:51because um
21:54because if you look at like um our resources right um they they are owned by the same people that
22:05own um
22:06that are in control of your banks in your country so things like that so it's not just only about
22:15like like this this elite is also so it's also so greedy that they even also betray their own
22:21so it's not just a black thing i think it's also like a rich versus poor thing you know so
22:29yeah
22:31yeah so that that's that's how i feel about it but unfortunately also there are also people amongst us
22:39our lead our own leaders black leaders also who are on the side of those people so hence i'm saying
22:46it's
22:46not just a a black versus white thing you know what i'm saying yeah often oftentimes it's a socioeconomic
22:53factor as well um it's just that you know socioeconomics often correspond with demographics but 100 percent
23:05yeah yeah that that's how i feel because because i because i because i i could i could see that
23:10um
23:11um that similarity with your side because i was reading um who was this leader but he was i think
23:20he was an author for for for a book called black power so i don't know if it was close
23:26i can't remember
23:27if it was close to martin luther king or something like that so there was a there was a particular
23:33chapter when he spoke about institutional racism and i said whoa that's that's a bit similar to what
23:40what's going on this side no very very similar um you know i've definitely realized over time that
23:46that we share a united struggle interestingly enough um and it's interesting the majority of the world
23:54shares a united struggle stemming from the minority of the world but that's another story
23:59yeah but um most definitely no i agree with you for sure for sure for sure so so um with
24:08with your
24:08project are you planning on doing any events maybe within within your neighborhood say that one more
24:17time it's breaking up again oh i was i was asking are you gonna be performing in any events anytime
24:24soon
24:25of course we got a lot lined up um definitely hitting over there this summer too so it's looking forward
24:30to seeing everybody over there wait you're coming this side yeah i'm coming over there i'm gonna be in
24:37sawedo i don't know when yet but i'm gonna be over there oh that's gonna be tough i'm looking forward
24:43yeah yeah you should you should send the flyer when they die oh i definitely will i definitely will
24:49yeah yeah yeah yeah i grew up there i was born there so it oh yeah yeah okay yeah i
24:58grew up there man
24:59so yeah that's my paternal side so i'll be looking forward to seeing no i'm excited too i'm excited it's
25:07gonna be good i promise for sure for sure so many if um for any person that that's looking trying
25:16to
25:17search for your music and also search for you um can you please give us your social media handles
25:23of course so everything is under rsh on the beat and um that's for social handles all my music is
25:45i was just curious to find out like having the all right say that one more time yeah i was
25:53just
25:53curious to find out like you you have the the same name simone are you like possibly related to to
26:01to
26:01miss nina simone i'm not related to nina simone but my parents are definitely fans of nina simone
26:09oh that's that's somebody who's definitely influenced me as well well i guess that that
26:15explains the whole rich music that you have yeah no yeah i got a lot of love for nina simone
26:23for sure for sure for sure um okay before you leave us just my request could you is it possible
26:31if you
26:31could give us like in april of what's coming on on your new project no you gotta you gotta listen
26:37to
26:37the tape i can't give it away june 21st though yeah i was saying like maybe like just a small
26:44sample
26:45just just i can't i can't i can't give anything away can't give anything away but june 21st there's a
26:52lot
26:52coming on on on this month this month now yep oh june 21st oh okay yeah i'll be looking forward
27:02to that
27:03one awesome and thank you guys in the comments i've been i've been reading thank you all in the comments
27:10too but thank you so much for having me i'm glad we got to speak and um let's do it
27:15again soon yeah we
27:17should we should do that again soon um yeah i'll be looking forward to that as well me too all
27:24right
27:24awesome peace peace all right be well i appreciate you all be careful for sure for sure man you know
27:33me
27:34so good peace uh what a wonderful shout out to rain at the moon guys
27:52shout out to the circle man shout out shout out to the club so um much love to everyone that's
27:59watching
28:00guys thank you for watching um you're watching so before i leave you then i just found some couple
28:09of his friends
28:28talking to me in a dream and everything some things i've seen will make believe reality may believe
28:32Retreat, enemies fiend to intervene, when I proceed I lead one
28:34Put ahead of the other for balance, give me a bean, carry by the team
28:37I know it's strange, but I see people lose their mind for all that dream
28:39I wish my flow had me makin' deposits at the bank like a stream
28:42But shit the prophet never makes a profit, just like Abraham
28:44Can always tell this game, false prophets lean on all the weak
28:47I'm not American, I'm in a strange African, laughin' in tongues
28:50Misunderstood by masses, Sunday masses, pacified the mindset of the black assassin
28:54Turn the other cheeks, see blood and lashes, oppressors get away with the tatters
28:57Used to demonize every single non-European practice
28:59And masters, takin' new approaches, the billionaires in these classes
29:01And where the white Trump trash is infuriated cause they made a rash
29:04And white on white clashing, but only speak on black on black actions
29:06Ain't mind your business, white folks killin' each other
29:08So now, we ain't have to killin', live long enough
29:11And the hero turns to the villain
29:12Too ignorant to understand, bein' exploited by the MAGA
29:15Stormed the Capitol building and they made it right past them
29:17Knowin' that for a group of blacks, they would've been blastin'
29:19They tragic, man, for more stories, so many shots through the thought
29:21That they was castin', they brains flyin' everywhere
29:23Like how they did Fred Hampton, nappin'
29:25They try to act like that shit never happen
29:26Mad a white woman was shot on federal land trespassin'
29:29Not mad a black woman was killed in her sleep
29:31Then had a boyfriend arrested
29:32Exactly where I keep my western, I was projectin'
29:35And yeah, you know that that's some savagery
29:37Take me from my land and make me pay to track my ancestry
29:39Henrietta lacks my DNA to make a ban on
29:41I just got a chill
29:43Smokin' on like conspiracy theorist, John Hannon
29:45I'm high as fuck, it got me halfway to insanity
29:48Subway surface, chasing dreams
29:49Tryna break glass ceiling
29:50Losers in my mind and in my body, if I can sit
29:53Stoke kids in the street, they ain't tryin' to see him
29:55I'm never fucked a bag, played your leg, I took a bag in my
29:57Hardware surface, chasing dreams
29:59Tryna break glass ceiling
30:00Losers in my mind and in my body, if I can sit
30:03Stoke kids in the street, they ain't tryin' to see him
30:05I'm never fucked a bag, played your leg, I took a bag in my
30:07Niggas
30:08They forced vasectomy, sterilization of black destiny
30:10Mississippi appendectomy, that's why I'm scared when they inject me
30:13Syphilis experiment, James Sins with my uterus
30:15Let us bleed out, police shootin' us, say you know what they do to us
30:17So we don't trust the government, Cohen's a pro, a bunch of shit
30:20Traumatized from medical malpractices, so we go without it
30:23Niggas sick from COVID, scarred us with trauma, now we actin' on our own
30:25She's scared to take the shot, just me and God and wishin' hope
30:27Got me paranoid, cause my grandma said she love me, askin' all of the time
30:30The words slip, I go, teeth shinin' all up on her gums
30:33Yeah, that's my baby, that's the one
30:34Woodrow queen, use it for fun
30:35She know I'm about to make it rain, she feel it in her knee and butt
30:38My self is chasing dreams, tryna break glass ceiling
30:40Mohs is in my mind and in my wallet pocket
30:42Sins, dope kids in the street, that's mae trying to see your mirror
30:45Fuck the bag, pledge allegiance to the flag in my knick chum
30:48Swen ch равно, Vai surfer chasing dreams, tryna break glass ceiling
30:50Mohs is in my mind and in my wallet pocket
30:52Sins, dope kids in the street, that's mae trying to see your mirror
30:55Fuck the bag, pledge allegiance to the flag in my knick essentially
33:19Yeah, for sure, King.
33:21Yeah, man, this is Hip Hop Nation TV in South Africa.
33:25Yeah, dog.
33:26I'm from Johannesburg, the South Side.
33:29Hey, hey, hey, okay.
33:31Yeah, yeah, yeah, everyone knows me as a clip take, and then, but my original name is Pira, so yeah,
33:38I'm also an artist myself, you know what I'm saying?
33:41For sure, for sure.
33:42Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I felt like, you know, there wasn't enough platforms that were created at least to push
33:51us as independent artists.
33:54So I felt like, you know what, let me do this.
33:59For sure, for sure, for sure.
34:01Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because it was...
34:02Man, I appreciate that.
34:05Yeah, yeah, yeah, because now I'm also an artist.
34:08And the thing that's crazy is that I'm literally, like, performing tomorrow here in Melville.
34:13Have you ever been to Melville before?
34:15Yeah, yeah, I heard about Melville.
34:17I was interviewing DJ Sush.
34:22I'm telling you, like, no, my ancestors are working overtime, because yesterday and Curve Dancer, like, she's here in the
34:31live, she can vouch for me.
34:33Literally yesterday, I was on a live with Switch, and I was talking about the same thing, which is what
34:38you were talking about.
34:40Yeah, I was live with Sush, DJ Sush, and then...
34:43Oh, okay, DJ Sush.
34:46Yeah, so, yeah.
34:49Yeah, I get it, the mix-up.
34:51Yeah, but he's a 10-turbelist, and then I think he said something about doing an event in Melville also
34:58as well.
34:59So, yeah.
35:00So, yeah, I must admit, we have a lot of work to do.
35:06Definitely, definitely.
35:07But, like, yo, the thing that you're doing, like, right now with providing a platform for people is really important,
35:14because for the longest time now, I've been trying to find places to, like, speak to at least, like, just
35:20get a chance to be like, okay, shop, I rap.
35:23Not even to rap, just to be like, okay, shop, I rap, where can I do that, you know?
35:28And these platforms are very important, very helpful, and very beneficial to both where now, because now you're finding new
35:35talent and me, because I have a chance to do what I do, which is, like, to speak.
35:40And to actually spit, which is what all of us rappers are trying to do at the end of the
35:44day.
35:45Yeah, dog.
35:46Dog, please make sure, Mova, yeah, please make sure you follow this handle.
35:55Share your shit on my inbox, you know what I'm saying?
35:59Because that's what I'm doing.
36:00I'm just putting stuff on the platform, and then even on my Facebook, I'm putting it there on the Facebook
36:08page, you know what I'm saying?
36:09Word, word, word.
36:10So that everyone can have access, you know what I'm saying?
36:12Hopefully, you guys will be able to network with the people that have the right resources, you know what I'm
36:18saying?
36:19For sure, for sure, for sure.
36:21Yo, this is actually crazy, like, the venue that I'm going to be performing at right now, they're doing an
36:26amazing job of, like, providing platforms for artists, so maybe when you can also, like, listen.
36:34Tell them specifically now, now, I want you to tell them.
36:37All right, cool, cool, cool, cool.
36:39So listen up, listen up, my beautiful people.
36:42Tomorrow, I'm going to be, yeah, yeah, yeah.
36:46Tomorrow, Frank Zulu III is going to be performing at Ruby Soho, which is the venue right next to Hell's
36:53Kitchen on 7th in Melville.
36:56Basically, this is a platform for you to put yourself on because I swear to God, this platform literally asks
37:04you to put, like, to send your email and, like, to send them an email and for you to put
37:11yourself on.
37:12And they provide the stage, they provide the media push as much as they can because they're also still a
37:18small platform.
37:19And they make the posters for you.
37:22They do everything that a large venue would do for Blackie for you.
37:27But the thing that's better is the fact that instead of having a 15-minute slot like what Blackie would
37:33have, they give you a whole 30 minutes for you to just express yourself.
37:38You, as an underground artist, have more time to express yourself than Blackie, who's there for 15 minutes to do,
37:45yeah, yeah, yeah, one track, one track out.
37:48Come on!
37:50Don't sleep on that one.
37:52Yeah!
37:53Manit, Machi, thank you, thank you, thank you for hitting me up.
37:59Definitely, definitely.
38:00Because I actually am following you guys.
38:03And when I saw it live, I'm like, hip-hop nation!
38:07No ways.
38:09No ways.
38:09I have to see what's going on.
38:12Yeah, man, yeah, man.
38:13You should check other interviews, man.
38:16We had Rusty Chokes.
38:17We had Golden Shuffle last year, you know what I'm saying?
38:21We had Abolique's Eye.
38:23Yo, man.
38:24Yeah.
38:25Like, it's for everyone here, Joe.
38:27I don't care whether it's big cats or cats that we don't even know.
38:32It's just as long as we have niggas that love this shit.
38:36Word, word, word.
38:37Okay, with that being said, I wanted to ask you, how does one get the opportunity to be interviewed by
38:44you?
38:46Hit me up.
38:47Hit me up.
38:48DM me.
38:49We shall know we're going to talk.
38:50Okay, okay, okay.
38:51We know we're going to talk.
38:53For sure, for sure.
38:54Thank you, homie.
38:55We're going to talk.
38:56You know, homie.
38:57That's why I said, send me that ish, dog.
39:02Send me that ish.
39:03So what am I sending?
39:04Am I sending a bio or am I sending links to music and what?
39:08All right.
39:09So cool, homie.
39:10So cool, homie.
39:11Okay.
39:13We'll talk.
39:13Okay, okay, okay.
39:15Finish, finish, finish.
39:17Please, please, dog.
39:19I'm sure when you're in a blank, shy, okay.
39:22All right, dog.
39:24Sure.
39:25Peace.
39:29Yo, guys.
39:31Seems like everyone wants to...
39:33I don't know, guys.
39:35All right, please.
39:36I'm on.
39:38Okay, yeah, okay.
39:40Do I have any other requests?
39:43Okay, no.
39:44Okay, guys.
39:45Yo, all the hip-hop heads, you know what to do.
39:49If you want me to interview you, just send me a message, guys.
39:55So, yeah.
39:56And we'll get back to you.
39:58Guys, please also follow the T-Man show.
40:05I'm going to repeat it again.
40:06Please follow the T-Man show, hosted by Timbala Mandela.
40:12He's a great guy, man.
40:15That's one of my best friends who inspired me to do this.
40:20Please follow his podcast as well.
40:23He has a passion for talented people like you guys.
40:29So, please do hit him up.
40:31That's what's up.
40:32So, shout out to you guys.
40:34Because you guys are the reason why we do this.
40:37This is the reason why we enjoy doing this.
40:41Because of you guys.
40:43Stay strong.
40:45Keep making music.
40:46Or, I don't know, whatever talent that you're doing, keep pushing, guys.
40:52Much love.
40:53I'm out.
40:56Stay like that.
40:56And that's fast.
40:57I want to tell all of my boys put down their guns.
40:59But I won't be the reason that they catch them lacking when they run.
41:01So, I do everything in my power to make sure that they good.
41:04Went off to Howard thinking I was going to come back and save the hood.
41:06But bad blood didn't turn the city code.
41:08They keep that iron low before they old enough to grow.
41:10And hurt my soul.
41:11Yeah, always ready to go.
41:12And how you expect me to blame my inner?
41:14When you told me that my face looks better on Kylie Jenner.
41:17And you call me a thug cause it ain't correct to call me nigga.
41:19Bring a black on black crown to justify white triggers.
41:21The label's gonna give me more if I tell you that I'ma kill ya.
41:24Capitalism off my body, yeah, I'm worth a couple figures.
41:27I talk to the shooting stars.
41:29I pray to God that they won't fall.
41:32Standing tall against it.
41:34I talk to the shooting stars.
41:39I pray to God that they won't fall.
41:42Standing tall against it.
41:45He said if I could touch the...
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