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https://www.fliptop.com.ph FlipTop presents: FlipSides - Monique @ Baraks, Metro Manila, Philippines. July 23, 2018. FlipTop Behind the Scenes. -FLIPSIDES MONIQUE-

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hi I'm Monique of seven shots during the
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time that I was in elementary school I
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would just listen to whatever's on the
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radio it just so happened that during
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that time hip-hop is what was the thing
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everything from salt and pepper - like
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mob deep that I can turn to on the radio
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- pox and the biggie
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Florin hills my influence x-factor that
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was heavy
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levy funky of life he too was someone
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that handled every element of his music
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when I arrived it was master plan and
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SBC on the radio provide early local
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influences
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being born and raised in Pasadena I
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didn't really have hip-hop music in my
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community per se but the ones that were
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on the radio at the time was anywhere
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from salt and pepper and MC Lyte on
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mainstream television I would have mob
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deep I didn't find it odd listening to
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what I was listening to male dominated
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because I had so much male energy around
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me I had a big brother I had a lot of
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male cousins a lot of homeboys more than
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homegirls my parents definitely didn't
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understand my choice of music in the
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record store days my brother and I would
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pick out albums and there would be like
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a little joke like let's listen to what
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Mooney picked out versus what Brian
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picked out and then my parents would
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stay like which one is more acceptable
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or decent in their eyes and of course my
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music was never chosen but I still had a
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soft side regardless of how inclined I
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was to hip-hop I still listen to the
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mariah's and Whitney's being immersed in
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both worlds like the Divas and then the
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street guys maybe that's also what drew
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me later on to my style and how I would
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make music I suppose I started to write
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it started as poetry and just little
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girl antics at school I joined choir and
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then eventually when I discovered
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someone like Lauryn Hill that's when I
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really decided to try and emulate what
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she was doing I would record a lot of
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demos over industry beats back in the
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day you could buy single cassettes that
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had like the instrumental on there using
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the double tape decks I would record
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some demos and try to freestyle some of
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it was written anyone that would listen
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I would let them listen I would have
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either the Walkman or a boombox I would
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hit up a party and get on the mic even
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if I wasn't asked like I was
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that girl warning raid there came here
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the first time 95 left came back in 2001
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from there I met through common friends
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certain people in the industry here
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I had to group babe precious and
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yourself and this defunct before it was
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ever anything group we were being
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somewhat ventur'd by Joker
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we were planning to put out an album
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they had the beat and everything we were
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starting to spit on it but that didn't
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really work out but because of Joker
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that's how I met seven shots
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I knew of seven shots it seems so large
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and everything I really admired what
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they were doing
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Mickey probably after a couple years
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that I knew him he let me know that the
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female member of their group was going
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to be leaving and going to the States
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and that they had an open audition for
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singers so I did audition for seven
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shots management at the time which was
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Rada of cool a whole panel that I had
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perform in front of and there were girls
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that were probably much better singers
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than I host I remember hearing even at
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an audition directly before me and I'm
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like man she's gonna get it
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but for some reason maybe because I had
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an idea about their type of music and
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probably even the homey thread something
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in there they chose me when I joined
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seven shots
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I was never intended to be a rapper for
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seven shots it just so happened that I
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felt like I could and when we had our
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first gig all together I decided to go
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ahead and drop a verse that's when
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Mickey probably hair you were like okay
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you can try and do both so Kim
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fortunately was able to come back that
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was when we decided I'll focus more on
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the rapping because Kim got it nobody
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can sing like him recording the album
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was very overwhelming it was my first
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time recording for one in a professional
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studio and layering and overdubbing at
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the same time I was very young and
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hadn't fully grown into my voice I
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suppose like sounded like a little girl
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I think compared to the rest of the
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group it was something that I had to try
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and adjust to so we kind of had to go
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through an interval actually between
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finishing the album and actually
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releasing it because for one I got
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pregnant I was performing probably until
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I was around seven months the group not
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upon my request we ended up having a
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little bit of a hiatus and then probably
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three months or two months after I gave
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birth that's when love and hate was
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released love and hate it wasn't a
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concept first you just happened to write
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about those things not many people will
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know this song but I think maybe it's
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alright is one of my favorite tracks on
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the album I think everyone was able to
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showcase their strengths the most in
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that song when we started performing
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again it was a whirlwind we would have
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gigs almost every night or it was always
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something going on for us
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out-of-town gigs were always fun some of
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the most memorable bonding times for all
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of us I have a soft spot for my girl Kim
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because I was so overwhelmed being the
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youngest member and she was like
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everyone's mommy like she was the one
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that would fix all that music she would
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coach me on the side if I was feeling
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insecure went there were a lot together
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and we stuck with each other through a
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lot
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whether it be change of management and
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maybe just having to grow up and having
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babies and getting into serious
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relationships settling down a lot of the
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guys had to get day jobs and stuff like
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that so it was more of a challenge to
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come together for a gig until eventually
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we decided to just take a breather
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I love step shots they are my family I
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really appreciate everything that we
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went through nothing can take away from
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that experience that I had the van
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the back of my head I always felt like I
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didn't want to make my own music not
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because of anything to do with seven
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shots but just because I knew there was
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something else that I had to explore I
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became a music student with the hopes of
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completing an album that I had done all
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by myself mind you it wasn't just what I
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thought I had signed up for like we had
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to score or Orchestra and study all
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sorts of music history and Asian music
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and it was a lot I must have produced
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tons and tons of beats a couple of my
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beats made it onto LJ's solo albums and
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beats that I gave away to some artists I
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kind of prided myself or coming up with
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hooks for different artists one of my
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standouts of course is with people's
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future a track called this girl that
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lady
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rather to
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I guessed it on lg's solo albums as well
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I worked with artists from the women's
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business hip hop group my female part
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that drives me to be two guys Aphrodite
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no he's about the end only to kiss up
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inadvertently I did one of my dream
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collabo I was asked to do a track before
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his master plan
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yo this is what we benefit' for you and
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we got my girl mone let's do it
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next thing you know I find out bamboos
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on it
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so all of my solo efforts were under
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lockdown entertainment and I think I had
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completed at least six solid tracks
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change success is a battle but not away
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at this judgment about me the next man
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who's on the
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in Moscow Leo's the only reason why I
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did not continue is just having so much
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on my plate too much of anything is bad
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so I just lost my footing so much of
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anything as bad it was but I never
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thought it was energy became pop that I
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lose
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the local scene I believe it's thriving
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I see a lot of like our homies from back
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in the day and new cats breaking ground
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with new audiences even my children's
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ages are in tune with some of the
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artists that we kind of came up with I
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think I see growth because during our
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time there was a big segregation between
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hip-hop genre and other genres and I
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guess now it has evolved because people
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have come to realize that hip-hop is the
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one genre that can be spliced with any
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other genre and create a marriage and
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everything so I think there's growth in
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the acceptance of the music I know it's
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still not easy there's still a lot more
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support that is needed no I don't want
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to retire forever I think that now that
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my children are older I'm getting their
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second wind is almost underway I would
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love to work with a lot of local artists
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I would love to be reintegrated and also
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in bounce ideas back and forth between
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those that are active and doing their
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thing whether or not it will be rapping
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maybe to start with I do want to get my
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feet wet with singing first because it
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was something that I was supposed to
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explore back in the day I will pressure
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myself and I'm just saying you can
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expect at least a couple singles if not
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an album I definitely want to make any
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music
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