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I can't.
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You know what I'm saying.
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Hey, hey, marlon, a lot of people don't know that Y'all have 7th and 8th grade basketball lockdown way back then.
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Welcome, my good people.
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Welcome to the CJ Moneyway Show.
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And I'm with your host, cj Moneyway, let's get it.
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What's up, my good people?
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Welcome to the CJ Moneyway Show.
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I'm about to talk to my man, marlon Underwood, founder of MLE Entertainment.
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Hey, you can check out his song on the pop charts.
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Hey, I got my man, marlon, in the house.
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Check him out.
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It was like, you know, wonderful people I was meeting along the way.
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You know what I'm saying.
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That's the answer.
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You know what I'm saying.
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Yeah, it's the people that I was, you know, because they were giving me something.
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It's like there was a part of my journey where they were giving me something that I needed to go to the next level, that I meet this person in my life and then they, you know, help me get to the next level.
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After that.
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It's like these people, just because my dad died.
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That's when my coach took over.
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You know my wrestling coach.
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Remember Coach Smith?
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Yeah, yeah, coach Smith.
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So, like, when my dad died, I was like 14.
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You know, I didn't have a father for many.
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You know, I used to have a father all the years and then all of a sudden, at 14, I don't have a father.
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I had a good father too, and now he's gone and my big brother gone.
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You know, right over me I'm like man.
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So through the journey I was running across people who were feeling that boy, you, you know, taking those steps Like brothers at the congregation and stuff like that, and my coaches and you know they kind of like became.
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You know my father and stuff like that.
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You know I can't.
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You know what I'm saying.
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Hey, marlon man, a lot of people don't know that Y'all had a 7th and 8th grade.
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Y'all had a 7th and 8th grade man.
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I used to be looking up at you and be like what's up, man, and you always was my dude bro.
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We always showed me love man.
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We always bonded man.
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We always had a good relationship.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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You know what I'm saying.
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I don't think we ever had any arguments or any kind of quarrels.
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You know what I'm saying.
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It wasn't you paying me, you paying me with something.
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You know how we criticism.
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I'd be like man, you're right, bro.
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Vice versa.
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You know what I'm saying.
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That's what a good friendship is all about, man, especially good relationships when you're able to just you know what I'm saying accept things you know and learn from what you know, the experience, and then move on.
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Man, yeah, you know what I'm saying, the ego in the way and all that kind of stuff, those things will, like, get you a long way when you, you know, come to the state of understand that way For sure, you know, like you look at it, we graduated in 92, man, that's like 31 years ago.
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And to still be able to you know what I'm saying conversation, still be able, you know, although you know we don't talk all the time and things of this nature, but when we do see each other, like you say, you know it's love, you know what I'm saying Whatever, whatever, because it was never no animosity or nothing like that, and so like, with what you're doing right now with the my Life Entertainment.
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You wrote a book, you know, you did videos and, you know, did music with some stars.
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You know, I can't think of an old girl's name, but the chick that did the hook, oh, you talking about Johnny Blaze, oh, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, man, she's like a niece, okay, she talks all the time, gina, we always talking to her.
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Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
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She hot man, and you know I say that rocking the video and she playing the song.
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So when you get to that type of status in life you know what I'm saying and I think we kind of touched on it yesterday, we talked about it a little bit Is that you know sometimes in life, man, people that you want to enjoy your success, you know, or the route that you're going.
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I want to know, have you experienced this as well, like people that you want to love you and enjoy what you're doing?
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They ain't there, they're not there.
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Exactly, exactly.
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That's my whole point.
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I have a hard time dealing with it, but I deal with it.
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You know what I'm saying, I deal with it.
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It's what it is.
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You know what I'm saying.
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That's a tough one.
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That's a good question.
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Bro, you be throwing some arrows at me.
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You come that's part of the journey, man to make it difficult when it's like you know what you want, who you want there, you know what I'm saying, you want to help, and then it's like man, it's like the reality of who they really are came out.
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Yeah, like I was tricked all the whole time I was duped.
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You know what I'm saying, because you know real love is consistent.
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Real love don't really.
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Real love don't change, it's really consistent.
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You know what I'm saying.
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So it's like you know, when you see that, like man, wow, that was even better.
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Yeah, it's hurtful.
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You know what I'm saying at times, but then, marlon man, I come to realize that a lot of times when we're in situations like that and when you're doing stuff like that because I know the Bible says this you know that we don't fight against flesh and blood, you see what I'm saying but we fight against principalities of wickedness in higher places, and so sometimes it's not even them that's really hating on you.
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It's what's in you that they're actually hating on.
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You know what I'm saying.
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It's the God in you.
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It's what's in you that they actually hating on.
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You know what I'm saying.
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It's the God in you.
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It's the way that God is moving you.
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And so a lot of times when we're moving in a different direction than what somebody else is moving, they can't understand it.
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And so it's not that they don't like what you're doing.
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They can't understand why God using you to do it.
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That's true.
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That's exactly what it is.
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You said it correctly.
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You know so.
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And a lot of times we tend to harden our heart towards the people who we feel like wasn't there for us when we needed the support, who wasn't there for us when we needed a helping hand.
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And so I've learned that God moved you first.
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It wasn't to disown the people first, it wasn't to disown the people.
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It wasn't to disown the people who didn't help you along the way, because we gotta go back and get them.
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Gotta go back and get them.
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But if we harden our hearts towards them, then we'll be reluctant To go back and get them.
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You see what I'm saying.
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And so sometimes we gotta let Some things go, no matter how bad it hurts, back and get them.
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You see what I'm saying.
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And so sometimes we gotta let some things go, no matter how bad it hurts.
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And I'm pretty sure and that was one of my points that I was trying to get to and I'm pretty sure that when people see Marlon sitting here on the yacht I ain't never been on the yacht, bro, it's alright, you're gonna be there, you're gonna be on the yacht.
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Hey, nah, you didn't.
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If you're gone again, then yeah, let me know.
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But, like I said.
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You know, it's not that, it's just that sometimes when people See you where you are, people start hating.
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Yeah, I don't know why I didn't like that man, I don't know why we like that.
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And you know one thing about me, you see, you know me.
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Hey, bro, you are people start hey or something, or get nice shoes on or whatever.
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I always was like that's cool, I like that.
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I'm always praising the uplifting of my brothers around me, man, especially when I've seen them.
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Like when you was playing basketball.
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I was like, man, I seen you out there, boy, you the dumbest I've ever seen.
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Because you was like, hey, look, I done seen you dunk.
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I can't get no sense.
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Hey, marlon, man, a lot of people don't know that Y'all had a 7th, 8th grade basketball lockdown back then.
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Y'all did, yeah, we used to do our thing a little bit.
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You know, I got a son.
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He playing right now, he in the 7th grade too.
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The funny thing is he's in the 7th grade and he playing right now.
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So you know, I go around and I look at a lot of their.
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You know a lot of games and stuff.
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They're playing them, little AAU leagues and all this stuff.
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Man, I be looking at him and I tell him I say, boy, I say when we was y'all age, we would smoke y'all.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Like y'all would not have had a chance, bro.
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You know, like not at all.
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I always say age and pressure will always overcome you.
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That's it, hey, hey, man, and you know we're going to win.
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We're going to win with this.
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Oh yeah, you got to.
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You know what I'm saying, like my old man used to tell me all the time.
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He said you know, they can take a lot of things away from you.
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You know, like, they can take your money, they can take your house, they, they can take your money, they can take your house, they can take your job.
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But one thing they can't take away they can't take away what you put upstairs.
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They can't take away your mind, unless you let them.
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You know what I'm saying.
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Unless you let people break you down, you know.
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That's why we go through a lot of things like mental health you know what I'm saying or whatever.
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We let a lot of things break us down, and you know anxiety and depression, and that mainly comes from things that you're going through, you know.
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And so we let a lot of things get to us and then it take us to dark places.
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You know what I'm saying.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, like you see, society today, man, hey, straight up, man, it gotta be dark.
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You know, some of these things people out here doing Marlon man, that's dark man.
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You know, that's demonic.
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You know what I'm saying.
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Like I don't get it, but that's another person's path.
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You know what I'm saying Because, like somebody like me and you, we may see, we see things differently.
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Like y'all might see, where there ain't no hope.
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I see where you know what I'm saying.
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It tells me that hope is the substance of all things.
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You know what I'm saying.
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Like, if I ain't got nothing else, I got hope that this situation don't get better.
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I just gotta move.
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Just move my spot.
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We're going to lock up in here, man.
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Oh, it's all good bro.
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We're going to lock up in here.
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Get up and wrap.
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Just give me a second, bro.
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I'm on live with C.
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You got Gina right here.
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We're leaving the what's up, gina.
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Hey, how you doing.
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Congratulations on the business, thank you.
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Yeah, you know I always brag about his projects.
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I always brag about your topics and everything, how you move it.
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It's like you know what I'm saying?
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Oh, man, you're helping a lot of people.
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Man, you don't even know it.
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You know what I'm saying.
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You're helping a lot of people, bro, in the conversation I wish I could be.
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You know, I ain't gonna say this.
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I'm gonna say it like this.
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I should be doing it as well.
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Man, same thing, bro.
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I'm gonna say it like that.
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But you know, you are man, you know what I'm saying like you're just doing it in a different way, a different way.
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Yeah, I like, I like the way I like.
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Yeah, I like that.
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Yeah, I like putting things in that way, that form.
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Yeah, I mean, like you just said, you know my life, entertainment, it was about my life, and so you know the best way that we, probably the best way that we, can help people sometimes man is being transparent, and so a lot of times, being transparent mean that I can, I can openly express my experiences with people, like you say, because it could be some people going through the same things that I'm going through and or or that I went through and don't know how to get out of it.
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I feel like they can't make it Like we said.
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You know, we was talking about hope and so they feel like life is hopeless.
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But I'm a prime example.
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Like hey, you can come from the dirt, bro, you know what I'm saying and keep on moving.
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You know if you believe in what you believe in, bro, and I know for a fact that God has brought me to wherever I'm at today Because, like you say back in the beginning, hey, it's a blessing still to be here at 50 years old.
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Hey, doing the things that we did, coming up, I know, I know, I know From the G, you know, and we was living in them days with Gleason, I know, I know, huh, that's the Russian roulette.
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Man, dude, like me and my guy was talking about you know what I'm saying Me and my one guy was talking about like people and God doing some of the same things that we did.
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You know what I'm saying.
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Like they died doing the same things.
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Man, you know, we come up in that time where Gleason was jumping off, man, so I know, I see that on that dude, I got some stories, dude, hey, you know what I'm saying.
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Like, hey, brother, that's where we at with it.
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You know what I'm saying.
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So it's a blessing to still be here, man, you know what I'm saying To be able to share our stories with people you know and have the fortitude not to hold back.
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Not to hold back, yeah, give it up there, give it all.
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Yeah.
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Because even with expressing yourself like that, you're going to catch some scrutiny, because everybody's not.
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You know what I'm saying.
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Everybody got different minds.
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They can't believe that you did that.
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They can't believe you did everything.
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I know, I know, but life is life.
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You know what I'm saying.
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Like ain't nobody perfect, ain't nobody perfect.
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And even some of y'all that want to debate and question why somebody did this, you can't believe.
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Hey, don't worry about somebody else's sin, worry about your own, because I know what the Bible says.
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It says that we all have sin and have fallen short of the glory of God.
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You know what I'm saying.
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So don't act like you know.
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A sin is a sin, so don't act like you.
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Perfect and this person is imperfect.
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You know what I'm saying.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the wrong attitude.
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You're right, bro.
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Life is life.
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We've all fallen short, bro.
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You know what I'm saying.
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So that's facts.
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That's facts.
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I like how you put that.
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That is so true, and and and.
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You can't do that.
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You can't, man.
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You can't do that man.
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That's a no-no man.
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That's like bad energy you bring around you.
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Man, I don't even want to be around nothing like that man.
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That's kind of bad man.
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And that's what we get to.
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When we get older, you know, and you start getting wiser, like when you start making, like right now, you know you videos, You're moving around with different people.
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You know what I'm saying, and so when you start moving in a different way, there's certain things I just ain't got time for.
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That's true, bro.
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That's true.
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I just don't have time for it.
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But I be trying to make time for the real man.
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You know what I'm saying.
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That's why I'm like with you, man.
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I love getting on your show man and support you, man.
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I know the type of person you is, man, and I know what you're standing for and I think it's a good thing.